001please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance IED Al United States of America the stand One Nation God indivisible andice okay so we have several speakers tonight so we would have asked that you would have signed up before 7 o'clock to speak we ask that you respect the three minute time limit we also ask that you respect the confidentiality of our students and staff uh the speak first speaker is um Javier solerno oh I can start okay yeah you can start yeah um I'm I'm here tonight uh representing some parents uh they are going to stand uh behind me so they you know that I'm um talking uh for them uh and myself too uh good evening on behalf of uh all on behalf of parents um and community members of District 131 we would like
002to congratulate Dr norell on her recent appointment as superintendent of school district 233 we are truly grateful for her dedication and the support she has provided to our students and families during her tenure at School District 131 Dr norel we wish you the very best in your new role and we are confident that you leadership will continue to make a positive impact we are um PES lead activos uh active parent leaders a group of parents committed to creating a positive change in Aurora since 2014 we recognize the importance of community involvement in the success of our children's education we are a group primarily Latino parents that would like to be part of the community task force within or Children's School District 131 we respectfully request that the school board prioritize transparency and include parents and
003community members and in the hiring process of the new superintendent we believe that is extremely important to be transparent and have a clear line of communication between administrators and community members especially we recommend the formation of a hiring committee that includes parents as as well as um organizations uh or the organization of public forums um candidate interviews where our voices can be heard and considered our group is energized and full of ideas to support the district's needs alongside Educators School leaders and administrators we strongly believe that building strong partnership between parents and schools is a key to fostering positive learning environments providing social and emotional support and ensuring the academic s success of all students thank you for your time and consideration we look forward to working together to create a brighter future for our
004children thank [Applause] you okay Michelle Taylor the FR um I do have um I do have a handout which is just basically what I'm going to say so I can uh if you want to uh good evening um members of the board I'm proud to share with you that I have been a teacher in District 131 for 11 years I have worked both as a special education resource teacher a sheltered fourth grade teacher and I'm currently teaching in the fourth grade dual language program I would like to share with you my experiences and perspectives regarding the impact that the Dual language program has had on the amount of instructional minutes received in the inter intermediate grades in the 2021 22 school year and in the 2023 24 school year students receive 345 minutes a week
005or approximately 60 M minutes per day of math instruction this school year we have 50 minutes per day or 225 minutes of math instruction two of days of which are 100 minutes in Spanish our current curriculum I ready recommends 45 to 60 minutes per lesson this does not include personalizing instruction and differentiating instruction for our diverse Learners it does however require at minimum 5 to eight minutes of transition time to mixed language groups losing approximately 20 minutes of instruction and adding in the transition time brings our instructional minutes down to anywhere between 40 and 45 minutes a day additionally our language arts instructional mints have been cut um our time was cut from 30 minutes to 15 minutes to instruct students in writing this is an extremely inefficient time to support our Learners our instructional
006minutes do not include transition times from specials or time for brain breaks to help the kids stay engaged as we look at adopting new language arts curriculum we must consider the amount of instructional time recommended in each program for students in their first language our students test scor support the need for sufficient instructional time in their first language to help bridge learning gaps and skill deficits finally we are currently required to assess students using the fontas and panel reading uh assessment if we take approximately 45 to 50 minutes your first and second language it could potentially take a grade level team of 50 combined students up to 2,500 minutes to assess there are 1,600 55 minutes a day in a full instructional week the only time we have to complete these assessments is during small
007group instruction and win time we do this fall winter and spring we have lost weeks of instructional time for these one-on-one assessments thank you for your thoughtful consideration as we continue to explore new curriculum models scheduling and the diverse needs of our Learners thank you thank you Joy Carl good evening um Board of Education my name's Joy Caro and I am here representing the special education in the SLC or structured Learning Classroom program at Gates elementary school at our school 177% of our student body is serviced through special education and a majority of those students 73% of them are in our SLC program Gates has housed the SLC program for many years and within the past three years we have served all K through five SLC grades for the district in our building as the
008program grows we are now serving around 60 students and our needs have grown as well our students have complex needs in the areas of communication sensory daily functioning and behavior and social emotion just to name a few our program has faced challenges in regards to safety as many of our students have difficulty following safety rules in the school environment some can be aggressive and some have even um are known to alope the building last year the district recognized that we needed more support for our students and staff and they hired the assistant principal for special programs who has been housed at our building at Gates since August of this year Miss kayn Wilson Miss Wilson has been an important part of our program since the beginning of the school year she has created much needed
009and NE necessary procedures and protocols relationships with parents students and staff she assists and guides in teams crisis situations assists with IP paperwork and meetings and supports our students and our team in so many ways with kin as our administrator our team students and families have been supported to a to a degree that has not been possible in the past however certified staff were notified in the staff meeting today that she has been pulled from Gates permanently no explanation was given and no one has been identified to take her place place other non-certified staff still have not been officially notified and it seems as if the decision was made last week as Miss Wilson has not or has been absent from our building since last Friday as an SLC team we are concerned that the
010decision like this will negatively affect our students our team and our families as well as our program as a whole Miss Wilson has a wealth of knowledge about special education and specifically the students whom we serve not only is she an asset to our program but her support is needed as we navigate the complex and challenging issues that arise on a daily basis within the SLC program we're asking this decision for Miss Wilson to be removed from gates to be reconsidered as her support is very much needed to run the program safely and efficiently thank you for your time and attention Robert London as Miss Carlo just stated um I'm a a parent my kids go to Gates elementary again I just found out as well about Miss Wilson's um resignation I want to bill
011for that as well to come back because she is a big supporter for the school as a whole now the circumstances as to why she was removed I don't know but I think it has something to do with my son that was involved with something involving the current principal who I was told was going to be removed but it's now back I I don't even know this principle I don't know what she looked like I don't know her name but I've never had a conversation with her but she was involved in something about two months ago with my son where my son was dragged across the pavement and he had a scar on his back and she was on leave for that I was told she was gone that sucked I don't want to see
012anyone out of a job however I didn't get a call or nothing from her I got a call from Miss Wilson that day and the days that follow and I want her back she was good supporting with me my kids anytime there was something going on she'd call me straight from home you know um as far as the current principle that is still there now brought back whatever I haven't even got an apology for what she did to my son so I don't like that and I know you know as Gates and other schools Waldo and them when the administration comes here and talks to you guys about stuff they got to you know be good with their words you know in fear of backlash I'm just a parent I don't care about the backlash
013I'm just telling you straight into fact that I I want my kids to be safe at a school that I trust and I trusted more of Miss Wilson around so I didn't have no speech plann for this I came this is my first board meeting happy to see you guys but I will be back for [Applause] more Shelly Doyle hello good evening everyone I had written a couple of notes Here which I will adher to slightly um I'm here to um also express my um deep concern um for the um removal of our special education um assistant principal kayin Wilson uh I want to take you back very briefly to the end of last year um last year for our SLC program was EXT extremely um challenging the whole year was very challenging um there
014were many safety concerns both for uh students and for staff alike um we were um offered to give a wish list and we were um our concerns were heard um by the district and we were extremely grateful uh to find that um kayn Wilson had been assigned as the Director of or let's say the um special programs director particularly overseeing our building the three staff in the SLC that remained certified staff we lost many staff at the end of last year were extremely relieved and as soon as we met with kayin and within the first week we were extremely impressed by her ability to run the ship and you know I likened it to her I said you know we're already moving and you are fixing it as we go that's one amazing skill because
015week on week the um improvements to the program were tangible they were noted by both families and uh staff alike the camaraderie in our team is phenomenal and that's down to her she is a leader she is a compassionate person who goes above and beyond even after the school day she advocates for her students her team with a passion that I haven't seen for a long time and it is so refreshing um she is knowledgeable she is um able to communicate in a variety of settings with a variety of different levels of people and is exceptional at communicating with parents and goes out of her way to support the whole family as best as she can and as a mother of an autistic child myself having that support and that um heartfelt support someone genuinely
016cares about you and your family and what's best for your kids it is it's change it's completely life-changing for that family and she has done that over and over over again for our families in the short time that she's been there I'm not I'm not sure um your time is up okay I hope I've said um um enough to make my point thank you so much um on to Communications from the superintendent but at this point I'm going to jump in here before Dr Nell does and I'm going to talk about you know our search Pro uh process and you know um Dr Nell um leaving and things like that so first of all I always like to dispel any rumors so Dr Nell um found a position back where she she did go go
017home to her you know to a school district that she was very familiar with and you know um a community that she actually raised her child in so you know that was the ideal position for her and um you know we are we are now going to enter into the search phase of her position which I do want to dispel a rumor that's out there we are not we did not pay her out of her contract she has resigned and now we will move to the so paying her out of her contract is zero so there's many wild rumors around the community and I just want to want to set that um set that straight she you know she has resigned and we will be working on a search that search will consist of uh
018look we you know we are we will be most likely hiring a search firm tonight and that search will consist of a lot of community meetings a lot of and meetings with our staff and all of the stakeholder groups um the search firm will run those meeting so it's it's done very independently and they do this all the time so they gather facts about the district and then they they weigh it by by these meetings there will also be an online survey portal that parents and staff members and everybody else can go to and Phil out what they feel their needs are in a superintendent once the search firm does that they gather all these facts and they come back with a profile of what the community is looking for from there they go ahead
019and they look for for the you know for people who fit that profile so to speak so the board has definitely heard issues about dual language about Safety and Security about climate and culture and obviously recently about our special education so that being said I encourage everybody when these groups start that we all take an active role in them and come out and and right you know come in and give people you know what you are really looking for in a superintendent you know and um but that would be key to to our search like I said once this group is um the survey is done the board then will will start interviewing candidates but we have uh we have looked at search firms that were large enough to be able to come out and
020really do do these surveys because that's what the board finds very important there are a lot of search firms out there but obviously you know the board was looking for somebody that that could go out and do a lot of group meetings so that being said you do have the voice and you should use your voice and you should come to those meetings so um that's where we're at in the search process but you know from time to time we will keep you updated and um probably look to get going with it this you know closely right after the holidays so um you know thank I want to thank everybody and I hope everybody participates so thank you okay Dr Nell you are on okay um I believe we're starting this evening with a our
021student board member report is our student board member here oh yeah there he is there he is hi um and so this will be your first report right last time was the other student board members so the floor is yours all right hello and good afternoon board members before I begin I would like to thank you all for your dedication and hard work for eora and for allowing me to voice the opinions of both students and teachers in addressing concerns and improving our overall School environment I've been a part of this community for over 10 years through siblings attending a variety of events from sporting events to concerts to band activities and I think it's truly inspiring to see how resilient we are as a school I'm also honored to represent East Aurora on the
022city level through the Aurora youth Council and I could probably say that we're definitely among the best schools in the area that said I believe there are some issues we need to address recently there have been policies being developed to handle disrespect particularly in situations where students talk back to Deans I understand the school is actively working on defining what constitutes disrespect and imple implementing ways to address it additionally regarding fight Outburst I want to acknowledge the progress being made for example last year at this time there were 21 fights while this year we've only had 12 the closer engagement between students and Deans as well as new ideas like a check-in checkout policy demonstrate that the solutions that are being explored and implemented are definitely making an impact regarding the new block schedule while
023some students have expressed frustration with scheduling challenges I recognize that these concerns may only affect specific groups of students teachers may also be going through an adjustment period it's important to note that many students according to surveys have expressed liking the schedule that also mirrors college classes and and helps prepare students for secondary institutions although Easter AA has one of the highest graduation rates in the area we should continue focusing on academic performance including addressing treny and test scores that said statistically treny rates are improving this year compared to last and interventions are being implemented to continue this trend supporting students in the classroom to complete their work and helping them stay on the right track remains a key area for growth on a brighter note the student newspaper is back introducing clubs for students
024to join and highlighting student events I believe School culture is moving in the right direction with events like T Gates becoming successful the Implement implementation of the student section and the rec center which helps students explore career interests if they don't plan on pursuing a secondary education additionally events like noi Latina have been fantastic in allowing students to express their culture especially since our school is predominantly Latino however it's disappointing that for the first first time in a while we won't have either the jazz band or the Latin jazz band which impacts our strong music program while Easter AA is making strides in fostering school spirit and offering students more opportunities there are still challenges we can work together to address by continuing to collaborate we can ensure a more supportive and successful environment for
025all students thank you all for listening and I look forward to working with you all throughout the school year thank [Applause] you our next report will be our community relations report and Marissa yanowski is going to just share a summary and highlights for all of the hard work that went into pulling off a fabulous parent University last weekend so I'll turn it over to you thank you thank you so much on Saturday November 9th we hosted our fifth annual parent University and more than 200 parents came to easther Ora high school to learn how they can help with their child's educational Journey parents were able to listen to and be inspired by our remarkable presenters including jacen kamacho Ruiz is an author entrepreneur and pilot and Dr Mario Gusman a renowned professor of psychology in
026addition parents enjoyed breakfast who doesn't enjoy that lunch learned about community services and received autograph books from our guest authors which were a gift from our district to them parents also got a teacher with a special message for their children I love it it says give it your all it's got us uh it's a great message um and in addition to winning raffle prizes and so much more they there was just so much that took place and I got to tell you um that there aren't many districts that Host this type of event for the parents and I truly truly appreciate how much this District cares about parent engagement um if it wasn't for our board our superintendent leadership team events like these wouldn't exist for our school district and I can tell you a
027lot of parents were really grateful in telling me how much they appreciate what we do for them so that they can be involved with their child's education I wanted to thank a couple of people um for their work behind the scenes Melissa Diaz and Marissa Martinez and Jalisa Martinez for organizing and bringing this event to life we'd also like to thank AJ kawash Nick Curry from the building and grounds team Andy Allen and Karina Montgomery from Information Technology and all of their staff as well as the principal building leaders and volunteers for everything you do behind the scenes to make this a special day for our parents nobody gets to see that hard work and what it takes so we really appreciate that so now I'll leave you with some pictures from that day that
028Andy will bring up for us [Music] [Applause] okay um well the next item on the agenda is in honor of um Friday was actually the official day although technically it's an entire month celebration um where it is National Schoolboard uh appreciation day was Friday and November is National School Board appreciation month and um of course we want to we have a few items just small tokens of our appreciation as a district and Community to say thank you to our board members um but first I would just like to give an even special thank you um to our Board of Education as I made the very um difficult and very Bittersweet decision to um leave the district um at the end of this year to take another opportunity um and I just want to say you
029know this is my last board appreciation with this board of education um and some of you have been here for all seven years since the very beginning some of you actually were the vard members that chose to take a chance on an assistant soup who had no prior um superintendent experience and for that I will always be eternally grateful so I just want to say that and I'm GNA stop talking about that before I get too emotional um so I just want to say thank you for the work that you do like you do so much and I don't know that most people know because a lot of you have experience on other boards but this is a completely voluntary job like you do hours and hours and go through all this material and spend
030countless hours and because we're such a large District we have these meetings twice a month backed up with committee me meetings and all of you are committee members and that's hours of reading and asking questions so people may not know when you get to this point the reason that our board meetings go pretty smoothly is because you've already done your due diligence you've already read volumes and volumes of materials thank you to the executive cabinet who always want to give you volumes of material to read um and so I think it is uh certainly I can't say it's a thankless job because every time we're able to put young people in front of you every time we're able to have staff that give feedback on the things that you have put in place um it's
031an opportunity for you to get thanks um and I just want to say that we recognize that it is a lot of work and you do it very well well if you just look at the success that we've been able to have the last seven years we have not been Meed down with adult issues only we've really worked at how we could remove barriers for staff and for students so that we could have success and so that was not possible without a highly highly functional Schoolboard and so for that no matter when you join the board I just take want to take a few minutes to um say um kudos to you and to thank you and and I think it's even um more special for me to share this uh board member appreciation because
032as all of you know I was board approved by another Board of Education so no one can say that I'm just saying this because I'm kissing up to my bosses at this point I still celebrate each of the people that you are and um I can do that and now people will listen because they'll know that it must Truly Come From The Heart so thank you thank you to all of you and with that we have a little something special to give you just a small token Lisa you ready all right and they have names so you don't get the wrong ones that would be not good well since you're handing this out I just want to say thank you a lot has happened under your leadership um you know from facility upgrades to you
033know a lot of the schools to commendable or even higher um and when you when you sit back and reflect I mean a a lot in those six seven years you know you've you've made a difference um you've made a difference and I know that you know a lot of the families are happy and so I want to thank you as a parent um for all the work that you've done thank [Music] youone has one okay so if everyone would just join me in a round of applause for the hard hardest working [Applause] thank you thank you thank you let's keep this band together to the community thank you all right um District updates so um wanted to just put something on the agenda to remind everyone because of the we share the Fieldhouse um
034with the National Guard we were not able to have laspadas the first weekend as we normally would um and so now were going to move to try to book it in advance three more years there was just a year Gap that we kind of got off sequence so we thought it is such a wonderful event we wanted to formalize it and place it on the agenda so it is December 15 so please mark your calendars it starts roughly around noon 12:30 and um let me just say this about Las padus we are we heard loud and clear feedback from parents and our schools that they really loved you know the pandemic took a little something away because we had to prioritize health and safety and so now we're going to move back to letting the
035schools go back to when I first got here and it was each school had their theme and each school got to create whatever dishes they wanted to celebrate and and all of that but we're still going to honor the ability of each school to create what they want we're just asking that each school um have a um way to kind of order from a professional vendor for whatever it is that they want we're still kind of shying away as we still deal with the not just um Coit but other things that we want to make sure that we're being healthy and safe um and so we definitely want to honor each school's choice but we're not going to just bring things from all the homes across the D we're going to we're going to let
036people bring things but it has to be something that the school um is ordering and we are not um doing donations from families this is our opportunity to say thank you and give back to our families and so the schools will have a budget to take care of these items so I just want to say that too publicly each school can pick their theme they can work with parently aison they can work with their parents and make it a real posadas but we're going to help with that we don't want to push that financial burden on to families or our staff um as they were trying to kind of get together to figure out what to do so um and then lastly I would just like to say I shared a little bit in the
037curriculum um committee meeting but the end of the first quarter was exceptional and the reason that it was exceptional was because once again we did a lot of lifting and when I say we I mean like all 1800 staff because we lifted and launched a new student Management program and it is we are not anywhere near um where we need to be figuring this out so thank you to parents who were understanding of us saying grades what grades we can't do those yet we're just taking attendance that's what that's what we said we were do Where's Becky it was just going to take attendance isn't that what we promised um and so you know it's teachers are still trying to figure out parents are still trying to figure out how to use this it will
038be a better system it is definitely a better system on the enduser side but you know that's a big lift and so um I think we're moving more rapidly than we did with Infinite Campus if that gives you any um consolation but that was huge first quarter also the high school launching block scheduling um shout out to everybody that works there that was a huge lift it was like and we're still we're still lifting they're still building as they're flying this plane and so I want to say that was big first quarter launching the resilience education center we launched another campus for the high school and that was really big and it has taken off tremendously we've heard positive things from kids from staff who love the digs now they love their place now that
039we've worked out all of those little nuances and they've gotten everything there so again Kudos all to all the vision of the board all the support of the board um and I think um but we had a lot to do like there was a lot that had to happen this first quarter and we survived it and we are well on our way into second quarter and actually into ending the first semester um we are celebrating we're going to come back next time and talk about the state report cart but there were some schools you heard cow herd earlier shout out to Cowart raised their scores up two designations at the state um and we're going to talk about Johnson I can't say this enough we happen to have a school in our district that is
040in the top 1% of the schools in the state of Illinois like so we're gonna come back and give you real numbers but Kudos as we on as this data becomes um more rapidly available we're going to share that with you right Dr um Engle so um so that's forthcoming so that's it those are my updates and again uh I can't say it enough a heartfelt thank you to this board of education so that concludes my report okay all [Applause] righty okay all right so motion to approve the consent agenda is listed second any questions secretary call the roll Schubert yes GES Johnson yes sees Aro yes Olivas yes yes [Music] okay all right and then uh okay so the finance and Personnel that is actually with me so we met on November 4th and
041I think we're thinking about not having our December second meeting because there is not much of an agenda so we will not have the December 2nd Finance meeting but anyways uh we did meet on November 4th and basically all of the items that we we for the most part covered um we had actually voted on except a couple uh one-on ones in an overload that coward School needs so uh we we only have those two items but the other ones had been all voted and discussed at the last meeting so motion to approve one special education Overload at Waldo middle school so moved second any questions secretary you call the role Schubert yes gpie yes Johnson yes Olivas yes Aro yes sees yes yes okay motion to approve one special education Overload at card so
042moved second any questions secretary col roll Gillespie yes sefes yes Johnson yes Shubert yes L yes aroo aroo yes Olivas yes okay on to curriculum and programs with Juan good evening everyone the uh curriculum and programs committee met this evening here at 6 PM I will give a summary of that meeting at the next uh board meeting on December 2nd um we do have two action items on the agenda here um I can we just went over these items this evening um and I didn't know if Miss Martinez or Dr nurel wanted to go over the family activities pilot and the counseling plan yes just really briefly in summary um and I said this earlier we spent first quarter really getting our courses up and running and making sure that those classes that are completely
043booked um were outfit it with what they needed um because this was a new building and so um now that is well underway we feel our teachers and our students have what they need for the students who are attaining credit hours we have moved into one of the original purposes of the resilience education center which was to provide counseling supports for families as well as activities outside of the regular school day for All Families birth to three our Jump Start program our prek program all the way up through 8th grade and so what you um what we talked about is really wanting to be able to offer um a Day of Discovery for our parents and our community to be able to take sign up up for classes so if the board approves the first
044proposal tonight that is just to do a December 14th Discovery day we have definitely gotten feedback for what our spaces would um how our spaces would impact um the community the parents how our spaces would be great for Mommy and Me classes and for classes after school with our students um but this is an opportunity to see how many parents sign up and then once they sign up and experience a class it's an opportunity for them to give us feedback what we plan to do if you approve the pilot tonight which is our Discovery day then we'll come back to the board and talk about the feedback from our parents and then if you're okay with what we come back to you with in our data we would then pitch here's what we want to
045do for the next six weeks for the winter program here's what we want to do for the spring six week program so that is what your approval tonight is it's really to approve us to post to hire and to have a December 14th Discovery day for our families to experience what activities might be like and that will be in dance and yoga and art um in in theater Productions and on our learning stairs so those are the that's what you're um they're going to be able to sign up for the classes just to take a sample class and give us feedback the other piece of that is to give us permission to post to find out how many of our current clinicians would like to work Monday through Thursday day in any capacity let's say
046you're a clinician you can only give one day but you'd be willing to do it Monday through Thursday every day school is open we'd like to be able to hire our own clinicians after work hours to be able to provide counseling services to students at the wreck and then that would sort of serve as a pilot because if we do have an abundance of individuals willing to work we could replicate that at other sites and so we're asking tonight because we can't post to find out who would be interested until you give approval so that those are the two approvals for tonight and then we will certainly come back in January with our data and then talk about next steps so just one comment onto that so I'm all for that idea I think that's
047absolutely what that Center was was built for I just would like to extend it a little bit further you know you can think about that tonight we can vote on which you certainly propose but I want to extend that a little bit further in that say there that there is some parent that the social workers are trying to chase down trying to chase down but they can never get that parent really to come in during the day I'd like to extend that that that social worker has the opportunity to be paid the stien in the evenings to come even if they didn't sign up to be a part of this program to work you know Monday through Thursday that they just have a chance to you know book a room you know say it's that
048social worker that doesn't say they're really part of the program but we have these parents that you know they've been trying to chase down because I know that happens with our staff a lot I know they're always you know they have sometimes a hard time connecting because people work and they just can't get in so I would like you to consider that but you know um because I wasn't really a part of the curriculum meeting but I think that that could help I think we kind of mentioned that in that at the meeting okay because I wasn't here yeah yes I think we mentioned that giving staff an opportunity yeah to be a part of that and and that they get this would be above and beyond this would be the people that aren't necessarily
049on the list but maybe they just want to book the room you know they a social worker that could potentially yes so we would bring that back I would want to be able to protect the cost because otherwise it would be an Open Door like an open door so we would just want to be able to protect the cost and I also would like to have a conversation with the um because when I share this before I brought it to you I brought it up in our if monthly meeting so I can take that back to them and they are really good at flushing out like because they consider all different types so not just a social worker but maybe there's a you know the psyches like well you're paying a social worker so I
050will bring that back and then I will we'll work it out and bring it back to the board okay I also think it's a great idea especially with counseling could we also look at doing it online I mean at night make it easier and that's saying book the room but I think she means open it up to anyway at night right we'll basically open it up to people who want to come and have those one-on-one meetings with our social workers because a lot of our parents do work during the day and that's why it's hard to connect these services to our to our parents you know and and I really think we got to look at the bigger picture with social work because yeah there's a lot of complaints out in the district about the
051climate and the culture but sometimes sometimes people get grumpy at work just because you know they don't feel they're they're being heard or they're getting or they're tired so you know I think it's just a matter of opening it up and trying to get our get our students some more help you know after covid kids have just had a much harder time adjusting to school and that's not just our school district but but our parents a lot of times do not have very flexible schedules you know they can't just leave work in the middle of the day so I kind of want you guys to explore this in a more broad sense you know what I mean oh yeah we can bring it back we'll bring it back to the curriculum committee next month but
052by all means you know let's you know try to start the program immed this is the this is the counseling part this look at the big picture you know and get try to get some more more Avenues in there to help our families so well this is a good step to to start with and then from there we can expand and find alternative ways to kind of just that'd be great open it up so yeah if anybody no more questions we'll start with the first action item 7 point b.1 motion to to approve the resilience education center interim counseling plan so move second any questions secretary Colo sentes yes Aro yes Olivas yes gespi yes yes Johnson yes Schubert yes all right on to the next action item 7 pointb point2 motion to approve the
053resiliance education center family activities pilot some move second any questions secretary Colo gespi yes Schubert yes Johnson yes sentes yes aroo yes L yes right yes our next uh curriculum meeting will be on December 16th here at the administrative Center at 6m and that concludes my report okay on to buildings and grounds with Mr Schubert okay so we had our meeting on November 4th um I'm just going to give a a summary of that meeting our next meeting is still in the works in terms of organization and time is that correct okay so more to come on that that'll be published um shortly uh we did discuss the East High School HVAC um that's being phased over three years um that's going to be a great Improvement to East High um removing some old boilers
054and replacing them with u kind of state-of-the-art hydronic system sys uh that's going to take place over the next three years uh we did discuss the Career Technical Center um the district did report that they are continuing work with Administration conferring with teachers on really how that building is going to be utilized um and really kind of fulfill the goals that were uh set forth by the Board of Education um a meeting was held with the Architects the district attorneys and representatives of the city to look at traffic in that area specifically around Indian Trail and Mitchell Road uh the committee did um have some discussion on that uh and supported further research being conducted by the district um uh just to ensure that we're um being mindful of the surrounding neighbors and um ensuring
055a safe intersection at that location uh we also discussed uh out at the magnet academy there was some contractor work on a retaining wall and stairway system um there was some difficulty and Drilling and digging um the contractor um did come back to the district and ask for a substantial change order um the compu however the communication was not ideal back to the district um you know on the project delays and the associated escalation of the the fees so uh the committee did um decline any further payment of those fees um and the committee confirmed the district is conducting we weekly project checks to to ensure that the communication lines remain open um on all of our projects uh we did discuss the cloud software patch management system and a remote management system the current
056company raised fees so the district uh took the the opportunity to really look around and find other vendors um so a less expensive package uh that provided um also remote access was found so um that is on our agenda for uh board consideration for approval this evening uh and then the building of grounds group has been very busy in October uh we had over 400 work orders that were submitted um and so that's quite a few four orders um with uh most of them being completed within seven days so that's outstanding so kudos to the building and grounds team um who keep our buildings the way they are so uh with that there is one action item if there's no questions get right into that that is 8b1 need a motion to approve the three-year
057agreement for CA Cloud man I hope I said that right uh software patch management system with Remote Management for All District 131 workstations in the amount of $1,579 and12 [Music] second I have a quick question what what is it for it is a um it's a software management system for security purposes okay no no it's it's just it it runs um software on all of our district computers Okay Okay C [Music] yes okay okay any other questions secretary col roll La yes Schubert yes Olivas yes gespi yes Johnson yes sees yes Aro yes okay motion to go into an executive session for the purpose of discussing workman's compensation independent contractors and the appointment employment performance compensation and dismissal of a specific employee plus property acquisition second sentes Schubert yes leie yes aroo Johnson yes L
058yes e e e I know I know I'm y this we are so we have from executive session some secretary col roll sentes yes aroo yes Olivas yes Schubert yes Johnson yes gaspi yes yes okay and motion to approve the superintendent search agreement for bwp so moved second secretary Colo aroo yes L yes Johnson yes gaspie yes Schubert yes sentes Olivas yes okay all righty and on to our expulsion so Bruce okay uh the first be it resolve that this board of education after having considered the evidence presented by the hearing officer hereby upholds the recommendation in Le of expulsion for alternate placement at Illinois virtual school for student number 7868 of Easter or High School effective November 19 2024 for the remainder of 25 school year to include summer school 2025 should student fail
059to attend the alternative educational setting the expulsion will be immediately enacted for the remainder of the expulsion term without further action by the Board of Education be it further resolved that a copy of 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 this 18th day of November 2024 okay motion to approve the resolution for student number 6951 127 second secretary callar roll L yes Shubert yes yes gesp yes Johnson yeses Aro yes be a resolve that this board of education after hearing having considered the evidence presented by the hearing officer hereby upholds the recommendation in Lou of expulsion for alternate placement at Illinois virtual school for student number 1888 of Easter or High School effective November 19 2024
060for the remainder of the 2024 2025 school year to include summer school of 2025 should student fail to attend the alternative educational setting the expulsion will be immediately enacted for the remainder of the expulsion term without further action by the Board of Education be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to the parents of said student unduly recorded in the official minutes of this board of education School District 131 dated this 18 day of November 2024 okay motion to approve the resolution for student number 18808 s second secretary col roll OAS yes sentes yes Schubert yes gespi yes ARO ARO yes Johnson yes yes be resolve that this board of education after having considered the evidence presented by the hearing officer hereby upholds a recommendation in Le of expulsion for alternative
061placement of at Illinois V virtual school for student number 50214 7170 of Easter or High School effective November 19 2024 for the remainder of the 2024 2025 school year to include summer school of 2025 should student fail to attend the alternative educational setting the expulsion will be immediately enacted for the remainder of the expulsion term without further action by the Board of Education be it further resolved that a copy of 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 this 18th day of November 2024 okay motion to approve the resolution for student number 5021 47170 second secretary Colo sentes yes Aro yes Olivas yes Schubert yes Johnson yes Gillespie yes L yes be resolve that this board of
062education after having considered the evidence presented by the hearing officer hereby upholds a recommendation for expulsion of student number 389 361 361 of EAS or extension campus effective November 19 2024 for the remainder of the 2024 2025 school year to include summer school 2025 and the 2025 2026 school year to include summer school of 2026 at the completion of the expulsion period student number 389 361 361 we returned to the extension campus for the 2026 2027 school year on November 19 2026 be it further resolve that a copy of this resolution be sent to the parents of said student and duly recorded in the official minutes of the sport of Education School dist District 131 dated this 18 day of November 2024 motion to approve the resolution for student 389 361 361 so move second
063secretary col Aro yes L yes Johnson yes gespi yes Schubert yes sentes Olivas yes okay motion to adjourn so move secretary Colo L yes Johnson gespi yes Schubert yes sees Olivas yes oh supposed to put those down