001Olivas here L okay please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag United States America rep stands Nation God indivisible Justice for [Music] okay let's see um okay so you would have had to have signed up before 7 o'clock to speak we ask that you respect the three minute time limit we ask that you respect the confidentiality of our students and staff please keep your comments appropriate um Hector monello hello members of the Board of Education my purpose today is to talk about a personal matter in which your assistance would be valuable starting May I have been attempting to take an extra Spanish class with doubts and questions many of you would wonder as to why I would need to take this course or why it would be necessary while entering
002College my purpose is to become an example an inspiration a hope for many Hispanic students in the community in the current world we live in many Hispanic students are seen as less dealing with stereotypes and Futures being established just by our conditions we're seen as poor with no Futures having to live for the rest of our lives working every day for eight hours until we're 65 with deaths and bills constantly we are put down and forced to give up hopes into becoming anyone in this world I want to change that by not just going into college but by becoming a lawyer with this I can successfully help and Aid more Hispanics into teaching and educating them about the rights we have to help Against Racism in a rigged system and bring more peace towards the
003Court justice system by taking an additional class it being added to my transcript and successfully submitting it into my dream schools I can show them about the goals I have set for myself learning more about Spanish and this language while also becoming more fluent in order to completely understand why I'm doing this unfortunately Sora is currently preventing me from reaching my goals since May I have been asking and they have denied me sometimes I ask school is a place in which opportunities are created and made to further improve one's future and so I ask you would you like to help my future by assisting me in taking this class or would you simply let my goals go down thank you [Applause] mono here today for to ask for your help uh I'm the mother of
004Hector mono or monteano and uh he goes to Easter high school and he's uh asking to take a third Spanish class Spanish honors we've uh tried before to talk to the the superintendant but she's let us know that we haven't turned in the necessary materials on time and uh yeah we've also talked with the principle of the high school and she's told us the same so we're here to try and uh help Hector join this class so that he can progress in his studies uh just like we try to help those students who uh aren't uh meeting their full potential we also need to help students that are trying to meet their full potential but can't [Applause] lots of teachers have helped or supported help in his decision to take this class and uh to
005help him with his uh with his path in the future and uh his abilities with the language so we're here as parents uh doing our part to help him the teachers are doing their part and now it's uh your part as members of the Board of Education to help uh the Next Generation to do the best that they can in our society uh with all the horrible things going on in the world and the bad decisions being made um we we hope that you can help us thank you graas Mr interpreter can you talk louder because we can't I can't hear you sure sure sure maybe use a microphone thank you y hello my name is C man monano the father of Hector monteano V and I'm here you got to talk louder man I
006can't he what you're saying my name is soo manano the father of Hector manano vaha I'm here to ask you uh to help him take this extra class for Spanish so that he can help uh so that it can help his abilities uh to as a bilingual student uh [Music] assistant okay so in his school he wants to take a second or he wants to take an ex Spanish class and uh his school is offering uh [Music] uh okay so his brothers have taken uh classes for Spanish before uh of the AP uh variety and they've gotten fives however uh Hector had never taken the AP course and he took the test and got a four this might not sound like uh of matter of big importance but we have to remember what isora stands
007for and it's to reach your full potential okay uh uh okay so my son still has a lot to learn when it comes to Spanish a his future requires knowing Spanish unfortunately Hector uh hasn't received that help so we're asking you to please help Hector to not just uh reach his goals but to also uh help him continue to grow we know that uh we know that the work that we're uh putting into the school is a lot [Music] so okay a lot of Hector's teachers are are in support of him taking this class and uh are in support of him uh learning Spanish so I'm hoping that uh all of you also see uh the importance of uh this this matter thank [Applause] you Melinda Thomas Andy [Music] you Melinda Thomas 256 cockins Drive
008Sugar Grove I first want to start on a positive note I hope all of you enjoy your break at least your break from us over the next few weeks and that you were able to spend time with family and friends this holiday season I also hope that you had the opportunity to attend the prism concert and the art display last week they were spectacular now for my bigger subject this evening I know that what I am about to say will not be popular with the board but I feel that in order to do your jobs responsibly you need as much information as possible to that end I'd like to speak about the building projects in this District last year we opened the resilience Center and we're currently preparing to build a new CTE building spending
009millions of dollars on both we truly appreciate the efforts you are taking to create great learning opportunities for our students but I'm concerned that staff are not being consulted on what we feel would be the best use of those resources this new building sounds great but what we really need is a freshman center I have not done a survey of the entire high school and so I don't feel I can speak for everyone however for several years I have spoken to dozens of people administrators teachers and support staff all of whom share this opinion admin ad istrators at the building and District level have consistently told me that the biggest problem with resolving discipline issues is that there are simply too many students in a single building to really manage a freshman center would shift
010over a thousand students to another building permanently there are numerous benefits to this idea a freshman center would allow us to establish expectations and programs with our freshmen that we could then follow through with as they transition to the high school in addition a study from researchers at Duke University found that freshman Academy participants had fewer absences were less likely to drop out of school and were less likely to receive an out of school suspension furthermore students who participated in it were more positively oriented toward preparing for and applying to college all of these are things that we have been trying to build at the same time a freshman center would give the staff at the Maine High School a manageable size so that we could address things like tardies disrespect and skipping classes and
011raise expectations not just for Behavior but our students potential it would also open up space at the high school that could be used for many of the programs that are planned for the new CTE building it could house classes that the wreck is currently unable to accommodate well because there are no traditional classrooms there this would resolve some of the current busing and attendance issues related to the wreck as well I know that this idea throws a wrench in a lot of plans I also know that any Endeavor this large requires longterm planning but although there are plans being developed for the new facility we have not yet Broken Ground so the time for me to speak is now before it's too late I cannot watch so much money being spent without at least sharing
012my thoughts about what we should have instead I urge you to get input from our staff not just a few but all of our staff regarding what we feel would best serve our students thank you Alicia Paulie I haven't been here for a while I'm a little under the weather so but I will try to speak loudly um I have a couple of things Hector is my student he is fabulous so I encourage you to take under advisement his request he he is a born leader and he will make eora proud um I also had the honor of working in a small learning community in a freshman center um I'm sorry I just having a hard time breathing um I'm okay don't worry um and it is a fabulous construct and I know Dr Nell
013you spent some time with slc's as well and in thinking about a freshman center um and and small learning communities you know putting that on the docket taking a look at it I I can tell you that those were the hey days as a teacher we were loss all disciplines we had our own uh counselor and we we managed those kids and brought them along and it was it was a very successful time for our school it would be very interesting to look at that cohort and those coh cohorts and see where they are today because many of them work in our district now many of them have gone to travel the world and do wonderful things and I can't help but think that it was the established rules and ideas and learning and open
014thinking that was created in those slc's that enabled those students to do that lastly and speaking about money I want you to imagine walking into a classroom that is degrees all day going to the bathroom where it is 53 degrees and then trying to wash your hands in ice cold water that's what it's like on the third floor of the old building at East High School now I cannot tell you how diligently the Administration has worked with us to make a good to make good of a situation that is not good they have worked with us um buildings and grounds has done a great job Brad has done a great job Dr I mean um Miss Mitchell she has listened to our concern and they're doing all that they can do but our building needs
015renovation we are the we I'm not going to say we're the only but I think we if there are any other buildings out there we are one of the few where our HVAC system has not been replaced that boiler is a cool thing it's like a zombie apocalypse down there I don't know if you guys have ever been there um it's very very cool but it's not it's old it's old and it's not doing its job and it can't be healthy it can't be healthy to be in a room that's 89 degrees constantly or to be 53 constantly we call it teaching in our coats that's what we do um and again I I don't I don't want this to sound like I'm blaming somebody or I'm throwing anybody under the bus I just don't
016know if you guys know what it's like to teach like that and whatever you can do and take under advisement I really appreciate it thanks for your time [Applause] okay we have yeah okay Stacy Foster good evening um as stated my name is Stacy Foster and I am the very proud mom of one Mr Christian Christian Bor Bo Christian is a six-year-old student in SLC program at Gates elementary and I tell you he lives up to his name when I look back three years ago on his diagnosis of autism until now I am in true gratitude and complete astonishment of where God has brought him from now he barely spoke three words to non-stop chatter most of it Babble but the other 50% is very very authorative shall I say he's a great kid his
017personality um will put sunshine to shame to shame and a heart that I can only pray to have one day and a singing voice that even the great Michael Jackson couldn't beat I say all that to say this we all have a little one in our life that we love truly and dearly and if we could move the heavens for we would Christian safety along with other children at Gates elementary is a huge concern for mine and many other parents as you all know as of this of November 22nd of 2024 we received um notification that there was uh the principal of the school had assaulted a child um as any parent would be I was overwhelmed with emotion and I was scared to be honest and anxious um after about a week or two
018of trying to constantly get a hold of her um I finally got through and during that conversation that her and I had it was about 3 hours long I truly went in there trying to put everything aside and just really wanted to hear her heart because sometimes things happen I have a six-year-old who has meltdowns they kick they fight they scream they bite they do all that so I I understand if they're dealing with 13 14 kids with the same problem it can be overwhelming so you know you want to give people Grace so I went in there with an open heart to hear you know just what she was looking to do going forward to ease those concerns as a parent because clearly after two weeks of um two months of believe you're not
019going anywhere you're going to be here so please just as a parent please tell me what I need to hear to give me that security because my child cannot tell me when something is wrong after three hours of a conversation there was no accountability none I ask very specific questions what are you going to do going forward how can you ensure his safety and why on Earth did you have any reason to put your hand on a child unless to it unless it was to save his life or stop him from causing the fatality to another child again no answer no accountability and I'm standing here before you today because you all are in this position and in this seat for a reason and I'm not asking you to do anything because I say to
020do it I'm just asking you to use the authority that you have and really look into this and figure out exactly what is going on and if you Rev tapes or you go through all of that information and you find up my child will be okay in the situation then let her stay if not please do what you need to do okay have a wonderful night okay all righty on to oh on to Communications from the superintendent but before we're going to go to that I just wanted to give the audience a few updates on where we are at with the superintendent search so um recently the board met with our new search firm and we discuss dates and times and timelines and uh so we will have a survey that will open up on
021our on the district portal and it will be open from December 19th through January 12th so if you can't get to a meeting I encourage you to go in dep itely fill out the survey but if you can get to a meeting uh we are going to have several focus groups so on January 88th the focus groups are going to be uh for the community for our secondary staff and for parents and then on January 9th it will be our Elementary staff our student groups our classified and support staff in an open for so that uh those will all take place at East High but between the survey online or the survey in public uh the focus groups in public you will definitely have a chance to assess uh what you would like the board
022to know what we would like in a superintendent so uh please uh try to attend at least one of these venues thank you and Dr Nell all right good evening Board of Education and community members um we are going to start this evening with our student board member uh report so welcome to the podium good evening members of the board faculty and guests I'm excited to share updates on recent events initiatives and achievements recently at EAS high school that have been going on first I can personally say that our posadas event was a tremendous success it was heartwarming to see students families and staff all come together to cele celebrate this yearly tradition I had the privilege of volunteering at this event and can truly say that the energy and Community Spirit was truly inspiring
023and it reaffirmed the importance of cultural celebrations in a building in inclusivity at our school it's also great to see that the Freshman Class council is taking the initiative with the hot coco and study program for finals potentially expanding this to other grade levels would be great to see and creating a support environment for all students and fostering coll collaboration and motivation during these final cramming sessions another big event that has gone on through Easter AA recently is the annual prism concert this concert was open to the public and was attended by over 2,000 people in all District 131 middle schoolers this concert is very important for the music program as it excites prospective band students in order to build a successful program I had the opportunity to play in this concert and I can
024say it was really fun I had the opportunity to play a drum solo along with the percussion Ensemble and a part of the big finale with every Fine Arts member and for the student board member we want to start doing a student shout out to be build that peer-to-peer support this month I'd like to highlight Paul Perez a senior and our current salatan for his remarkable achievements Paul is the 18yearold with a 4.8 GPA and a leader in both academics and extracurriculars he is a Lita kohart 20 scholar and spent the five weeks at summer attending Princeton and Yale universities Lita is a National community-based Organization that empowers high achieving underrepresented students with resources and mentorship excelling in college and Beyond Paul is currently working on a community impact project focused on improving College guidance
025for Easter or students Paul planned this community outreach through the summer program with Lita and is implement ing the project during the school year Paul was also selected as the questbridge prep scholar which around 30% acceptance rate and a semifinalist for the Coca-Cola scholarship which boast one of the lowest acceptance rates Nationwide to put that into comparison Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia Brown raged between a six and 9% acceptance rate however however the finalist for this Coca-Cola scholarship over a 100,000 that apply 1% are accepted if Paul moves past the finalist stage he is in the running for $20,000 for college Paul is also a Gates scholarship semi-finalist showcasing his dedication and resilience in pursuing higher education the gate scholarship is also a scholarship that has less than a 1% exception rate and pays for all
026of University tuition his accomplishments serve as a shining example of what our students can achieve and I hope his story inspires others to aim and support one another in their Pursuits thank you for your continued dedication to make Easter a a thriving environment for all students I look forward to sharing some more updates throughout the rest of this year and the year to come thank you thank you so much and we get to brag on you too so um we're going to take our turn and give you your accolades because you're quite accomplished as well um okay so um the first item is um Andy do you have the presentation did Lisa send it to you for the vision 2030 and I'm G to go really uh quickly through this presentation um re basically I'm
027going to give you the summarized version and I'll entertain any questions and again this was included in the board packet um and you this is action item for tonight but essentially Vision 2030 is very much um similar to Vision 2020 um that was done about 10 years ago and this is a uh collaborative effort that was led by all of the um different and various organizations representing education across the state of Illinois the Illinois Association of school administrators Illinois Association of school boards ISB Illinois principal's Association Illinois Association of school business officials and the Illinois Association of Regional School superintendents all work together to lead this effort um Statewide and they took we took all of last year to do so um basically this is a blueprint that we share with our legislation across the
028state to help guide some of their thinking surrounding new um laws and new policies that are going to impact what's happening in our schools and um each day and these areas can be broken down Andy you can go to the next slide go one more one more I just named all those sorry um these are some of the goals that you had in the packet but we'll go forward because I want to this is a um kind of a look back at Vision 2020 but you can uh go ahead go forward one more okay so future focused is one of the three areas that we hope to impact policy and legislation across the state it was made up again of three areas future focused um areas were um among the first and that actually I
029was invited to serve on this Committee of Educators that went down to Springfield and Bloomington and worked for a year to put this plan together on behalf of these organizations and in this particular um group that met and these uh particular tenants it's really focused on the direction of making sure that our students are ready for um to be successful not only Across the Nation but internationally and so a lot of the things that go into this portion really talk about things like early college in particular um graduation requirements and changes to that increases in requirements for World language learning increases in requirement for Career Technical Pathways that all students knowing that all students will hopefully be very successful and have a career that they want them to be exposed earlier and then with all
030of these decisions and all of these tenants that are represented in this document understand that that also drives the funding and the use of funding and how schools are funded next slide you can go one more the the second area is really about shared accountability and so all of um when you think about school districts and you think about from a public um perception and marketing PP perception you'll see that accountability is really big so what went into this section with um many of our colleagues was really thinking um Beyond just annual standardized testing but what other ways could we hold um students families and Educators accountable how could we think outside of the traditional way that we've done in the past around just testing a kid and in a label on a school or
031a district how could we be broader than that how could we celebrate and measure other areas of success as we look to identify um locations across the state that students are actually successfully learning and matriculating and so that section was really dedicated to what most of us know to be um the label of schools the label of districts and the performance of young people next two slides and last but certainly not least in the vision 2030 was predictable funding and looking at funding models and so again um this is applicable to everyone across the state as taxpayers but certainly as those who are directly in charge of school districts because funding models have definitely um ran the Continuum and one of the most recent um funding models that legislators really pay particularly close attention to
032was really born out of vision 2020 which really looked at equity and funding across the state and I know our district in particular has benefited tremendously from the tiered funding model and being able to help us to um catch up with some of those concerns and so in this section was um lots of evidence and requests from all these organizations to continue to fund our schools in ways that will allow us to do what's in encapsulated in the first two areas which is future focused education and learning and shared accountability because both of those those are going to require funding models that are going to support all schools and all communities and so that in a nutshell um are the three major tenants that all of these organizations got together and created um this draft
033and right now we're at the point of going to Local School boards to ask for individual um School boards to sign on and endorse this via resolution and for the vision 2020 there were 75% of Illinois's 852 School District that supported this and so we are hoping with vision 2030 to exceed that and certainly Easter Roar wants to be listed as one of those are there any questions about the vision 2030 resolution that's before you this evening sounds like a good idea I might I have one um under the predictable funding ideals yes I guess a different slide that's what's being projected but um it talks about pension reform um in tier two and then also the school facility sales tax absolutely I'm curious on what that is this facility sales tax and I can
034speak to both of those because those are definite um hot button issues and again when we talk here in East Aurora sometimes we think that those are just gerain to our concerns but things like pension reform and things like the um the tax um for to fund schools the additional percentage that is being violate around um is something that affects all districts All Counties across the state and so what I can tell you is there are things and there are ask that are embedded in this that talk certainly there is you will not find a school district nor will you find a in the an administrative organization certainly not iasbo certainly not iasb that wants to have pension reform push pension responsibility back onto our local school district so let me say that and that's
035the most clear and concise way that I can share that that is not something that was asked for in this plan and that is not something that would be supported by these entities and it is that is a perfect example of why we need to be proactive and get ahead of this kind of um request if you will or our framework that we want to sh Show um that we're unified around so that as legislators look at things like that they understand that we are a force that does not want to do things like that the second thing that you mentioned was um with regards to I believe sales tax I'm sorry the sales tax yes sales tax right and that actually is something that has been talked about even locally with us at a
036county level we've looked at what that means iasbo has looked at it the superintendent organizations have looked at it and what I think we've talked about is this should be a Statewide if this is going to be something that is is is going to be impacted it shouldn't fall to then local school districts to say well okay we I guess we want to do it or we don't want to do it and and it's that constant weighing back and forth in order for a county to do it you have to have a certain percentage or a certain amount of points to be able to implement that and so with this we are looking at that as if that's something that's going to roll out and it's going to fall in line with the Equitable funding
037models that are already out there that were born out of vision 2020 that we definitely want to have the state um have a stake in in that particular uh funding component not that a local school district would have to be the ones to to implement that and do that yes so both of those are in there and can you advance one of those slides um and so you can see that there is a breakdown and summation of some of that so they talk about pension reform with tier two because that piece of pension reform we know it's it's going to be something that is um necessary particularly with the high level of um teacher vacancies that exist that we've got to do something in Illinois because the tier two is certainly not as attractive to
038Future Educators as it is tier one and so looking at that reform I acknowledging that we definitely need to address that but certainly not something that the school districts want to have pushed into their cfers to deal with so you can see that each of these it is it is broken down school facilities tax um talking about um all school districts and and and deserving to have this option and again to use that for Capital Improvement projects would be more along the lines of some of those Capital funds that the federal government and state have made available for other projects that we've taken advantage of when we redid East High when we did the stadium all of all of that funding but also um being able to do that with an equitable model and still
039honoring the the structure that's in place so um those were all things that were talked about and we were giving some guidance to our politicians and legislators around how we would like for them to fund these things that they would not be um things that we would have we know we have to address them they are a priority but we don't want to do those in isolation as individual school districts and so I think that was something that we were all on the same page no matter which of the I organizations we belong to um we were on the same page so that is a part of that's an ex a perfect example of what we were asking um for in this in this framework any other questions those were two really Salient ones okay
040action item Madam president okay motion to approve the resolution for I sa Vision second secretary call Ro Aro yes Johnson yes gpie yes Schubert yes sentes yes Olivas yes okay um the second item we have Miss Christine Torres who is here from Crow which is our external auditing um entity that audits us annually and she has some good news yay well good news for Dr Engle Department no good news for us all go ahead tonight um I'm excited to be here to present the 2024 audit results for the fiscal year ended June 30th 2024 we'll go through highlevel audit results as well as talk through some required Communications to the board and then we will wrap things up for this year's audit uh at a high level for the financial statements you have the best
041opinion that you can have you have an unmodified opinion on your financial statements so all of the information within the financial statements is materially correct it's included and well supported by everything that was provided through Finance so that is uh really where we want to be the second part of the audit that we do is on your federal funding over all of the federal money that you receive throughout the fiscal year and this was a really big year for federal money Esser funding really took the cake with yes with how many dollars came through how many grants were followed and folded into that the number of transactions the amount of rules that came along with that Sr funding um as we go through the process uh this the federal government identifies what grants we have
042to test obviously Esser being the largest took the cake this year um your idea cluster also was another Grant cluster that has multiple grants and multiple things within it as well that was up for audit this year so we did have both of those very large grants that audited and I'm happy to say that as we went through all of the federal testing there were no issues identified with how the money was spent with any non-compliance with policies and procedures not being followed with transactions not being supported and with Federal guidelines not being followed so congratulations to you with just the volume of transactions that came through Finance in order to get that done this year so very very good news as we continue to work through on the financial side we did have um
043two findings this year we had the sea preparation which we took on as part of the audit um and some additional journal entries to get to the year-end balances this is a very common finding in Illinois uh mainly because the way that the finance presents to you during the year is all on a cash basis and only once a year do we move to the acral basis for the financial statement so most districts hire their Auditors to help with these year-end entries however that being said I do have to say your finance department did more this year than they did last year so we had less entries that we did as part of the audit and finance did take over a number of those so we're continuing to work with them um as they grow
044in their role maybe have a little lesser lesser funds this year to manage to take on a few more of those uh and then the second one resulted in some journal entries that as we went through the audit we had corrections to as we went through that process I am happy to say though last year you did have a finding over Student Activity funds and what we do here is each of the different District or schools have a Student Activity fund where they manage the money they uh go through the approval process usually through the principal's office they write the checks they collect the cash they are in charge of receipts um this is the first year since I think 2005 you do not have a finding over Student Activity funds um all of your
045schools did an excellent job with putting in place following the controls getting the approvals when they needed to getting um all of the receipts deposited timely and with um pre-written receipts so uh we test a number of schools every year not every school every year but we are on a three-year rotation so uh what we do is we do check up on some of the schools we tested last year with exceptions but we had only very very very minor exceptions at the beginning of the year right before Finance got out there to give them the updates and the training so that is a really hard finding to get rid of so my fingers are crossed TR that everyone continues for another year and this stays the trend um but to get rid of that finding
046along with the Sesser money it was a really good year in finance some of the required Communications uh the significant accounting policies are all outlined in the footnotes of your financial statements so definitely recommend taking a look through all of that it outlines how everything is uh explained and recorded within the financial statements for the first year in a while we had no big counting standards to implement this year uh counting 100 would only be implemented if you had a change an error or a correction which there was none in your financial statements so no change or no items to implement for gasby 100 some areas that we spend some additional time on uh throughout the year when we're looking at the audit is some of your estimates uh useful lives of capital assets we
047take a look at how those are recorded how they're depreciated making sure they make sense as well as some assumptions around the pension and post-retirement obligations making sure we understand how the state is calculating those uh the reports that they're putting out as well as your internal oped plan as well and we had no issues with any of Management's judgments or accounting estimates in those two areas as we had talked about we had a few corrected misstatements in order to bring the financial statements to their final position here at the full acral basis but we did not have any uncorrect Ed misstatements those would be items that we would find that we would pass on making an adjustment for in the financial statements that we would bring to your attention so nothing along those lines
048and then finally um if there was anything additional that was very different from this audit compared to other audits uh we would bring those to your attention so for example any significant or unusual transactions uh really a lot of construction a lot of eser money but nothing that was really out of the ordinary that you didn't have policies and procedures in place to address no significant difficulties or disagreements uh we didn't consult with anyone outside of our normal audit process in order to get the audit done and no significant related party findings or Independence items as we went through the audit so uh really a good year uh in getting the audit done and finished and to the point where we are now so just want to say thank you and see if there's any
049questions or anything I could answer question any question right I'd like um our two accountants that join the finance team and Dr Engle could you stand Judy and Channing aopa yes kudos to the uh finance department and thank you so much as always Christine yeah that was a that was the last year of that much money that moved so that's great thanks thank you yes thank you good okay so motion to accept the 2023 2024 independent Financial audit second secretary call roll yeses yes Johnson yeses yes sorry Olivas yeso yes um and then one we have one um other action item um we have um tonight we just are making a small adjustment to a a article in the contract and um essentially we are just changing a couple of grade levels so it's our
050um article and the contract for the section for support staff and in that section it identifies that support staff will receive a toileting stiping for those support staff members that are involved with toileting for students grades 2 through 12th grade plus however after having several meetings over the last couple years with our if leadership we would like we've proposed an agreement to the board that we would extend that to our prek through um prek kinder and first grade colleagues as well that are in that are in the support staff that are doing diapering and toileting as well so we wanted to make sure that that particular article section two now says prek through 12th grade Plus for all of those individuals that are directly responsible for toileting to add them and to do that retroactively
051to July one of this year if the board approves this and um the board president has a copy of the slight adjustment so we didn't need to do an or a TA because truly it is a verbiage adjustment or as Becky called it a side agreement side agreement actually no this one was a long overdue so yeah motion to approve the if 20.5 additional compensation rate number two Amendment some move second secretary call the roll Schubert yes gespi yes Johnson yes Olivas yes aroo yes sentes yes yeah might as well okay and then um before we go to the consensus which is Alisa Moralis um item on the agenda I know that the board of education does not respond um to public comment but I did want to just speak to um those two points
052and remind the Board of Education um of some agreements so I know that it is in the minutes for the buildings and grounds committee that the Architects have already been directed to begin the East Aurora High School HVAC project which will take three years um definitely be heavily involved the next three Summers and I do believe um that only time that came up in staff meetings would probably be the calendar committee because I know that there is a strong uh wish to kind of tweak the calendar just slightly but again every year we've been doing great things the board of education has done 18 buildings with new HVAC and in fact yes e High School is the last school but there's already been Direction given to the Architects to work on for the next three
053years the HVAC so that's already in the plans and in the works it is in the minutes of the buildings and grounds um committee meeting um and then the other thing is with the move as a part of the move to open the Career and Technical education center which is about the students future and it's critically important um in doing so I know I personally went with the Architects on a field trip that I shared at the with the buildings and grounds committee and our Architects as we went around and actually talk to the teachers in those programs that will be moving over to the new stem campus Career Technical education center um we talked about what would be needed and I know we've talked with building Administration to do with that space and so
054we've kind of talk to the board and we know that the space that will be gained back at the high school will allow us to do some things that have taken away over the years due to due to the increased enrollment have taken away from the original Freshman Academy like being able to have a true gym being able to have a true cafeteria being able to have some of those things that would allow that space to really be realized with a science lab or to you know for for freshman so a part of that them moving out would then free up an entire win which we've already been in conversations with cig and Clark with regard to the renovation project also we have the board has done a great job of Hiring Our additional social
055workers counselors Deans to be able to run truly run houses so that students can remain in those small learning communities even at the higher grades as they go through with all of the children of one family having the common Deans counselors social workers working together but right now we don't have office spaces to house different and so that is all something that came up as a part of what will happen with the space when all of our CTE colleagues move into their new own new space and so that has been something that's been brought up as well at the buildings and grounds so I just wanted to remind the Board of Education and the community of that and that those are things that we are you're already on top of so that's great news so
056thanks that concludes my report with the exception of Lisa's dates okay no just said thank you yeah okay so uh we needed to have a consensus to pick a date that after our search firm goes through all the data as to what you know what are the characteristics we need for a superintendent uh the Board needs to have a meeting about that so the search firm gave us three dates the 16th 21st and 22nd uh they did say that they could do the 16th but they would prefer to be more at the end if they've got a lot of data to uh to Crunch so hopefully they will have a lot of data to crunch but um but they were they were saying they could accommodate the 16th but you know if we could work
057on the 21st or 22nd that may be better for them January or February January January I am not available the 22nd so the 21st would work and you're not available okay so it looks like the you're not you're both not available to 20 second J 27th you said 22nd 21st what have yall decide okay week days how about the 21st okay seems like how about the 21st for everybody 21st works for me also okay you're okay for the 21st so okay we don't know forgot to bring my phone tonight first time ever but I will just make that work okay so let's do the 21st then you can communicate with them the 21st at 6 p.m at 6 PM yep okay so that is decided upon so motion to approve the following consent agenda is
058listed second any questions secretary call a rooll sees yes yes Olivas yes gasby yes Johnson yes Schubert okay so finance and Personnel uh the next time we will meet is uh January 13 2025 on to you h a 15 13 13 okay at 5:30 here at the service center yes okay and to curriculum and programs Mr plantes good evening the curriculum and programs Comm met this evening at 6: pm. we will have the minutes available at the next uh board meeting in January um the next curriculum committee meeting will meet on January 27th here at 6 PM we do have one action item and that has to do with School links proposal um the current uh School links um proposal that we currently have is expiring at the end of the year and we are
059looking to extend it for another three years um and the amounts are listed on there I don't know if anybody has any questions before we go into the motion or the action item all right uh 7 point b.1 motion to approve the school links proposal for year 2025 2026 2027 for a total of 198,000 375 so move second secretary call the rooll Schubert yes Olivas yes Gillespie yes Johnson yeses yes yes and that concludes my report okay and then we have buildings and grounds with Mr schuber uh just start next meeting is January 13th uh 6: pm here at the administrative Center there are no action items okay motion to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing pending litigation student discipline and the appointment employment performance compensation and dismissal of a specific of
060a specific employee some move second secretary call roll Olivas yes seent Schubert yes gpie aroo Johnson yes okay and we will have action e e e yeah yes Oliva yes Schubert yes Johnson yes Gillespie yes all right okay on to reading the resolutions [Music] BR 612 is first okay all right okay be it resolv that this board of education after having considered the evidence presented by the hearing officer hereby upholds a recommendation for alternative placement at the Illinois Virtual Academy for student number 54627 612 of the EAS War extension campus effect of December 17 2024 through December 16 2026 upon return to the district uh to District 131 said students shall return to an alternative placement at the EAS or extension campus for the 2026 2027 school year be it further resolved that a copy
061of this resolution be sent to the parents of said student and duly recorded in the official minutes of this board of education School District 131 dated uh this 16th day of December 2024 okay motion to approve the resolution for student number 5461 127 612 secretary call the rooll Aro yes Johnson yes gespi yes schuber yes sentes Olivas yes okay be it resolved that this board of education hereby upholds the recommendation for alternative placement of student number 4900 63984 at the Illinois virtual High School for the remainder of the 2024 2025 school year to include summer school 2025 effective December 17 2024 upon return to District 131 said student shall return to an alternative placement at the EAS or extension camp campus for the 2025 2026 school year be it further resolved that a copy of
062this resolution be sent to the parents of said student and duly recorded in the official minutes of this board of education School District 131 dated this 16th day of December 20124 okay motion to approve the resolution for student number 3984 so move second secretary call the rooll Shubert yes Olivas yes GES yes Johnson sentes Aro yes motion to approve the following Personnel report is listed so move secretary call the RO Olivas yes sentes Schubert yes gespi yes aroo yes Johnson yes motion to adjourn so second secretary caller rooll Schubert yes gaspie yes Johnson Aro yes Olivas yes okay we are done for the year