001secretary call the RO Schubert here gaspie Johnson sees here Aro Olivas here L here do we have public comments oh okay thank you so comments this is the regular board baby okay so we don't have any ver of public yeah we do really okay okay I think we're on the wrong the people who had signed up they're not signing up for the public hearing are they yeah signed the wrong wrong board yeah I you don't want to talk on the public hearing you want to talk on the regular regular regular okay all right just for clarification okay so the so the public hearing has no comments so uh discussion on the driver education waer Dr Nell I'm going to um yes Dr Engel is uh Amy Engel is going to share the state requires a
002hearing as we're seeking a waiver as stated in school code the school code states that in order for the school district to receive reimbursement from the state uh the driver's education course offered in schools should consider consist of at least 30 hours of classroom instruction and subject to modifications at least six hours of practice driving in a car having dual operation controls under direct individual instruction the waiver proposal would allow the simulator portion of three hours of driving time to be applied toward the required total number of on the road t driving time of six hours the waiver would remain effective once approved through the 28 29 school year or five years okay any questions okay all right so we can adjourn that portion of the meeting so secretary call the rooll Schubert yes sentes
003yes Gillespie yes johnon yes yes Olivas yes Aro alrighty um okay so now we will begin our regular Board of Education meeting so secretary call the rooll I don't L here Johnson here gespi here Schubert here sentes here Olivas here okay please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Al FL flaged States okay all right so there's all righty 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 and we ask that you respect the confidentiality of our students and staff uh Celia Valdez thank you uh for this opportunity my name is Celia Valdez I live on the 600 block of East Benton Street um I wear a lot of different hats I am a District parent I'm a district uh resident
004I'm a district alumni hence the 2004 shirt it's our 20th year of this year um I'm also a former District staff member and all of that comes into play into this issue that I have um now with communication now we can all agree communication is a big thing it takes a lot of skill a lot of practice um hence my speech class that I'm probably making my former uh Professor cringe right now um so having said that I really want to kind of bring up something that is our motto once a tom cat always the Tom Cat and I really want you guys to think about what that means some of us didn't graduate from here some of us weren't students or product prods of the district but as a member of the community that
005is EAS aora you guys are Tom Cats um and I can tell you that for me once a tom cat always a tom cat is very significant because I'm a second generation Tom Cat my son and my daughter and my stepson are also now third generation Tom Cats so um I don't know if you guys know what Legacy families are I know it doesn't mean have any bearing in the public sector or public education but that means a lot to my family seven of us graduated from this District we are second generation uh or first generation citizens our parents immigrated so it means a lot to me specifically um and having said that we're now planning our 20-y year our 20-year reunion and I can tell you I'm really disappointed with the communication that we've
006had um back in March or April I can pull up the emails I started communicating with uh High School admin about planning our reunion and plan a tour and we also didn't want to take without giving back we wanted to coordinate a community event where we could help our families and also raise funds for uh graduating seniors who didn't have the money for caps and gowns that fell through because of lack of communication or ineffective communication today is the 7th um our reunion is next Saturday the 19th and I just got word today that the day that we wanted for our tour will work out we may or may not have an escort we'll see what happens when we cross that bridge um having been a veteran we need to know I learned that I
007need to know if that bridge is going to be there when I get to it um and I'm also very protective of my name and my name is attached to everything with this reunion and I really don't appreciate that once a tom cat always a tom cat isn't really effective and hasn't gotten me much of anything when it came to this um and I don't like to complain without having a suggest question in place I don't want to present a problem and not offer my perspective as a solution but how about we get the Alumni Association that still exists rolling with the district and actually give meaning and wait to once the Tom cat always a tom cat okay thank you thank you Becky ryro good evening um I'm Becky rro uh Union president um
008I'm here tonight to introduce Oak Park Elementary Oak Park has 45 fabulous staff members with approximately 350 years of combined years of service to this District um they're at about 95 96% union membership go Oak Park um when I asked them to describe their school staff consistent L use the same words they use words like supportive encouraging uh comfortable and friendly and that is certainly been my experience um they've always been able to lend a hand and support to anything that I've asked them to do um Oak Park is also um home to two fabulous veteran uh reps Vicky hire who's here tonight and Christy poosi and it is home to administrators marisel Garcia and this year is K County Administrator of the year and N McMahon um so I just wanted to have an
009opportunity to introduce Oak Park to all of you so thank you okay thank you okay so that concludes our public comments so onto uh election of the vice president so since we don't do this that often I hope I don't botch it okay so I would like to entertain nominations for the office of Vice President I nominate Mr a royal okay second are there any other nominations I would like to self nominate myself sa Olivas okay all righty so any others okay so nominations at this time are closed so secretary call the rooll for the nomination of Vice President Alex Royal for Al Royal yes sees yes Johnson yes Gillespie yes Olivas no aroo yes L yes okay Al righty so alrighty so congratulations Mr ayal [Applause] Al righty uh on to Committee Member assignments
010so um with committee members um let's see when Mr barrero left he was on the curriculum committee so I will be putting um Miss Gillespie onto the curriculum committee everything will then remain the same with that committee on the finance committee uh Mr Schubert has agreed to join us so and the chair will be myself so um so that closes the committee portion so now we are on to Communications for the superintendent Dr nurel good evening Board of Education and community members we are going to start um my report with our um public relations office um we have two very special um celebrations uh this evening and I believe we're going to start with oh and principal Mitchell's going to come up we're going to start with our um National Merit recognition which is huge
011I'll turn it over to Mrs yanowski thank you thank you so much um as you know our school district always has a lot to celebrate our board our leadership teachers staff and students work hard and are committed to everyone reaching their full potential and one of our students reaching their full potential um is e aora High School senior Michael alcal he was recently recognized and named a commended student in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship program for the exceptional academic promise demonstrated by his outstanding performance on the preliminary SAT National Merits Scholarship qualifying test based on a national selection index score of 208 congratulations Michael I'm your outstanding performance you come on [Applause] up congratulations again and his family came out to join us and I can tell they're really really proud so congrats family too
012and then we have a second recognition um we couldn't be prouder any prouder of our Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps the njrc and we would like to recognize them today for being honored with a 2024 25 distinguished unit with honors designation which is awarded annually to schools whose NJ Roc program rank in the TW top 20% in the nation competing units are ranked according to the degree of excellence attained in administration academic performance military proficiency and school support in addition the department of the Navy also recognized our East oral High School n JL TC as a naval honor School congratulations and we're going to be calling them up let's clap let's go this is a big deal so right now we're going to call up some members of the Tom Cat regiment leadership um
013a couple couldn't make it but I still want to mention their names because it's a quite an honor Captain Cadet Leslie Zamora she's also commanding [Applause] officer captain Oh Cadet captain and executive officer Karina Perez Zuniga she's here and if you can just stay up here too because we'll take a group picture Okay Cadet master chief petty officer and Commander Master Chief she's got quite of title Raquel M Martinez [Applause] and now we'd like to and um recognize members of the naval science instructor staff so um first to chief petty officer Albert farmer I don't think he's here today but like to recognize him chief petty officer Gerald good okay chief petty officer Jose Otero Rivera [Applause] petty officer first class William Moore come up they don't want to come okay [Applause] on and if
014you could stay up here with us for a picture and last but not least Commander Michael [Applause] [Laughter] Curley oh and yes and Dr nural has um something else to share as a part of sorry as a part of this recognition this is huge and I just want to say kudos for the work that all of you do um and I also want to continue to brag because I read the official letter that was sent um on behalf of the unit and one of the things just to show how serious this National distinction is is that your unit and I think the letter went to principal Mitchell has um been recognized and given the capacity to recommend students that are eligible eligible Cadets to the US Naval Academy um also the military academy US Military
015Academy and the US Air Force Academy so they are giving you the capacity to recommend Cadets who would be eligible which is tremendous because that would bypass them so that is just a huge honor and that's in and of itself as a great distinction so again Kudos if we could get a picture of you guys with the board too that' be great oh that way by oh you got I'll move out of the way nice you got it got it okay I think we need a little more P here oh great okay I'll with it a little got it all right can everybody see the camera yeah okay ready one two three thank you thank you thank you congratulations okay let me keep going okay under District updates um it is that time of year
016again and we uh you as a board of education need to prepare for the um triple I conference which is iasbo iasa and of course iasb and for the annual conference again this year there will be an ISB delegate assembly where all um 852 school districts in the state of Illinois will discuss very very important legislation and formally um vote to make recommendations on resolutions that they move forward um to the legislators and so again this year we will need to identify as a school board who the iasb delegate rep will be and so tonight if we can identify via consensus um the rep for this year's conference for the delegate assembly you will have uh until the next board meeting or even November 4th to take a look at all of the 10 resolutions
017that were included in your packet um six of which are being recommended for adoption by the committee um res resolutions committee from the ISB and another four that are being re recommended to not adopt so whether or not you as board members individually would like your rep that we're selecting tonight to um follow through with the recommendation from the committee you will have until again we could wait until the November 4th board meeting to be able to give your wishes as a board um United to your rep so the first thing I think that we need to do tonight is to go ahead and determine a rep for the delegate assembly okay any volunteers okay so would you like to volunteer I think you've been nominated I'll volunteer okay yay all right all right you
018have a rep all right okay wonderful so Lisa we can submit that and then we um will come back together so that the board can share their wishes for you representing them in the assembly this year so great thank you um just a general announcement that we are excited again uh this year to offer parent University and that will be Saturday November 9th and it will begin at 9:00 a.m. again it will have child care so parents wanting to take advantage of that would then drop their um kids off at Gates elementary which will be the site once again for our child care and then there will be shuttles over to East High which is where the site of our parent University will be held again this year um I met with the team preliminarily
019end of last week and they already have a fabulous lineup so we are so excited and I believe later this week we will be launching kind of the save the date and the initial registration request but it is going to be an even better event uh again this year armed with lots of feedback from our last previous our previous years um from our parents so stay tuned for more but please mark your calendars with that date um the next three items go together this year's tax levy it is also that season and so we have with us um our bond advisor from Raymond James this is Elizabeth Hennessy who is is going to share a presentation and in her presentation she will address um the possibilities for the 2024 tax levy as well as our
020alternative Bond Levy abatement um and how that will factor into our overall debt and um make uh give the board propose a few different options so that we could put those on display um and then you would then come back and vote at the um future board meeting in November 4th so not tonight but then you would make a re you would um use her information to move forward your recommendation which has to be Dr Engel on display for 20 days at least so I'll turn it over to the very competent lieut tenacy thank you thank you Dr nurel um so tonight we're talking about options for the tax levy and um just along the lines of abatement resolutions those are ways that you reduce the tax levy um the district has done those abatement
021resolutions in the past but there are required abatement resolutions that are uh related to the alternate revenue bonds that the district has outstanding those are standard abatement resolutions those bonds have both the operating fund uh Revenue pledge as well as a tax levy so um investors see them as very uh secure bonds but because the operating revenues are available to pay the bonds we Abate the tax levy so you'll see uh two resolutions uh that are standard that way then the resolution we're talking about tonight is the one that affects the 2024 tax levy and so um I believe you're going to be voting on that on November 4th so let's start with um the slide we always kind of look at how 23 turned out and once again East aora 131 is the lowest
022tax rate in cane County so this includes all the unit districts um that have any overlapping eav in cane County and you can see among all those you are in fact again the very lowest with a tax rate that's under $4 um only district with that so congrats on that apologize that these numbers are small um so here is the levy history and the proposed 24 Levy um with no abatements and let me just remind you last year we did an abatement that kept The Debt Service Levy at 6.5 million earlier this year we also did a refunding bond issue that adjusted the 24 debt portion of the levy to that 6.5 million um so that's already in place for 24 so this abatement would be be a further reduction of that tax levy um
023over the last uh 10 years you've Abad more than $6 million from the tax levies to bring down taxes so this year the Kane County Clerk is estimating a 14.46% increase in the eav which is very large and if you look back at your history of eavs that would be the highest let me just remind you last year when we had this conversation the Cain County Clerk was estimating for 23 in 18.2% increase in eav but it actually turned out to be 7.68% so when we look at these estimates we got to kind of think about what happened last year and what implications that has for us going forward so also this year we have CPI of 3.4% so that's down from the 5% we saw last year and the year before okay and so
024the in red the bottom line on estimated 24 Levy if we Levy the max 3.4% we can under the tax cap I also forgot to mention that the new property this year is 3.5 million again an estimate by K County Clerk but that's one of the higher new property numbers we've seen um so that's always good to to know the economy is growing so with that new property and the 3.4% CPI and the estimate on eav uh without any abatement we're looking at the a decrease in the total tax rate of about 38 cents the increase in revenue is 1,460 okay let's go to the next page so just to review uh option one I'm going to show you three options and we'll look at the impact on the homeowner so option one is full
025Levy no abatement so you'll Levy the max typically just under 5% that easily captures the 3.4% CPI and the 3.5 million new property um in Levy year 23 the district decided to increase taxes by that 4.99% and to baate 9872 and that resulted in close to a flat tax rate of 3.89 so the tax rate was very similar to what it was a year before I will mention all these numbers exclude a small number called the recapture Levy so there's a law that went into effect um a couple years ago that said any uh reductions in collections that you get from tax objections will then be revied the next year um so if there's a difference in the numbers that would be it um an eav in 24 as I mentioned is 14.46% with 3.58
026million of new property and so this chart shows that increase in red as we just saw 1.46 million 3.4% CPI and the tax rate at 3.59% reduction of 38 cents so we'll look at the impact on the homeowner of this option in a minute option two is let's look at an abatement in this case reducing U the levy by 350,000 and this would be done through a Debt Service abatement we're not going to impact the operating side of that Levy because that has implications for you down the road but we 350,000 would come off The Debt Service Levy re resulting in an increase of 1,110 instead of the 1,4 60 in this case that takes your tax rate down even further to 3.49% or a 40c decrease we did one more example where we Abate
02772,000 that results in a net increase of 74832 and a decrease in the tax rate of 43 cents in this option so next we're going to look at the impact of these options on the homeowner but before we do that just going to pull up a few data points for you just because this is a little tricky right we've got this the cook K County Assessor saying 14% increase uh the preliminary King County said residential values up 15% we have the Aurora Township Assessor saying that market values are up 11.92% not 14.4% we have realor.com saying we went from 305,000 to 315,000 which is even a lesser impact and then we have the data point from last year where the K County estimate was 18.9% but the actual increase was only 7.6% so I just
028wanted to kind of give you these data points as you know things to consider as we look at the increase so impact on the home I use increase the home by 11.92% so all those numbers out there I thought the 14% is too high especially in light of the fact that the Cane County Clerk was wrong last year by almost double okay um so we used I used for this analysis the 11.9% increase from the East Aurora Township Assessor at the Aurora Township Assessor so option one no abatement um we see the increased dollars paid by the homeowner um and this is for now a $341,000 home last year it was 305,000 uh this increase in the with no abatements would be $603 C option two if we do a $350,000 abatement the increase goes
029to about half of that $30.99 and if we do the $712,000 abatement um with these assumptions the tax is pretty flat just a65 C increase so those are kind of the three options we wanted to show you tonight and get a feel or a direction for how you would like to proceed as you move towards um November and uh approval of the levy questions do anybody well I think that we should probably probably continue on and support our taxpayers and take option number three I concur okay okay any other I agree with that my only concern is with the Vocational Center you know the increased cost for that and the rec center can we afford it because I agree if we can but can we afford doing that yeah so the um the rec center
030was all Grant dollars so we didn't that didn't impact us at all and this new Vocational Center seems to have some people lining up to participate in it so that is definitely covered already well we're going to issue 40 million in bonds for that right so yeah 20 million cash isn't it oh that's right 20 million in cash 20 million in BS yeah and 20 million in 15 million in bonds 15 million in bonds paid off in 10 years um so we we did make that bond issue lesser but we do in fact using fund balance towards that too so but the district has maintained its rating and as far as the building itself you know we do have a lot of people that want to participate in that building so the cost should be
031rather low so [Music] it you know it definitely works into the district's budget so definitely option option three is the one I I would probably pick no I'm okay with option three I just want to make sure we can afford it um and then you're projecting 11.9% increase you know I do realate closing because it seems like the Market's slowing a bit I know it's very confusing because when you look at the markets and you look at realor.com and Zillow and those guys they say the same thing you're saying but when you go to the a Roy Township Assessor or kinge County they've got those estimates way up so you know I don't think they published them yet though have they so what are the official numbers you use I'm sorry but what are the
032official numbers you use the realtor or the assessor or the clerk or we use the clerk we have live and die by what the clerk says okay so like I said last year he said 18% on the estimate but came in at 7.68% yeah so this year he's saying 14.4% on the estimate I scaled it back to 11.9% so just again this is kind of a guessing game but I'm trying to be reasonable based on past experience and information we have today well you know I think that you know it really state is still remained very hot on the east side there are very few properties for sale and you know people are definitely there bidding wars yeah there definitely bidding wars there was a property that just sold on my street sold way they
033had a bidding more for it they had like 20 people that wanted that house so you know so at the end of the day I I still say we have creative momentum on the east side because of our tax rates people are looking at that and tax rates are really important especially you know when you may not have the credit rating that the bank want you to have so then they they calculate your real estate taxes and everything into your mortgage payments so I always I feel keeping our taxes at a at an economical rate I think that we spur growth and we we help our families and we help people who want to buy houses on the east side when these taxes were super high nobody wanted to build out in the retirement neighborhoods
034that never never you know they have not produced any any children just taxes so you know I think option three continues to to Spur growth and help our families in the community so any other questions or comments or so looks like option three huh okay we have those documents prepared then the statement resolutions for your November 4th meeting C too far thank you so much and with that we're going to I'm gonna pull this back up discussion item so I can get back into my thing oh yeah no you're okay I have one more one more item um and so we have a motion um for number for letter e um so that we can go ahead and post that for the um period that it needs to be public and um that motion will
035you'll reflect with and read that that will be with um number three so perfect okay get back to I need to here okay I got the presentation okay uh let's see so motion to adopt the resolution estimating the 2024 tax levy so move second secretary col roll kesie yes Schubert yes Johnson yes tentes yes aroo yes L yes Olivas yes one more item okay our La my last item um and that is just a very brief uh update we the buildings and grounds committee has uh been taking care of all the logistical component on for the Career and Technical Center um and tonight um because it has been some time and there's some uh we we've moved further along and there's been some uh I would say some rather large improvements in our plans as
036we get ready to move to the point of going to the city council for a final approval so that we will be prepared to go out to bid and then ultimately break ground in the spring um I have cording and Clark that has provided an update on the Career and Technical Center and Steve you're G to kind of walk through the updates so very exciting even I would be happy to go through this as long as I don't have to do what Liz just presented so um so just uh real quick we have some updated renderings of potentially what the Career Technical Center could look like um these obviously are you know going to be in as we as we see the needs of the building um but we have here really the overhead view
037um I don't have a pointer but in the center to the left hand side there you'll see a retention Pond that is required for the water flow throughout the property um that that top view also on the right above the retention Pond you'll see a little green area that is um what we're looking at for the potential for a um Hydroponics Garden so we're excited about that and that would be a rooftop garden uh the obviously the Career Technical Center that main area is where a lot of our um larger uh classrooms will be as well as in in the front side and I'll have another screen for that will be the classrooms so here's just a couple renderings of potentially what the outside would look like this would be what I would call the
038back of the building or the bus entrance so this would be along the north side of the property and a a nice open space for we let kids off on the buses that they can flow into the building again the the uh North Side will the buses are kind of parked on the right but then or on the left I'm sorry but then we also have the opportunity for um really Bays that would have our engineering program uh welding Woods classes uh Aviation you can see a little plane there um and then to the top of which would be the um the top portion of the building would be for our auto mechanics again another view of of what what potentially would be down the north side of the building now this is more on
039the south side with the uh Indian Trail would be to the right another Sky View and then as we enter the building um you know we have it'll be a two floor building which will allow us to have some of the larger classrooms and the um Mechanicals and things will have a twoof floor kind of open system the regular classrooms will be two floors of of basically regular classroom and here's a here's that view on this view on the leftand side that top left in the gray and then that uh pinkest Rose area that is our current ECC along with the the rose area is what we would renovate in the in the ECC as a portion of the building and then you see it's connected um to the new building and then again the
040green are the general classrooms and there's they are really on top of one another there's a set of classrooms on the second floor set of classroom on the first floor the classrooms in pink that are more um equipments uh and Manufacturing construction trades that is really a twostory classroom where you have an open ceiling in a more a larger space um for the two floors and we continue to work between the Architects and uh the building um High School principal Jen Mitchell ASA Gordon um cigan and Clark Dr Nell we kind of have and then a whole bunch of teachers that work in the um manufacturing and all of those different areas we've asked for their input on how what does the wood shop look like now what what could we improve on to make
041sure that we are capturing what is going to be the best space for our students to learn Lear um and then this is just some more renderings of of what the flooring is going to be in each of the of the classrooms I mean this is quite extensive with regards to um you know some of the plans that we are continue to continue to work on to ensure um that we're capturing what needs to be done we will have this is again on the North side we'll have some Bays for the classrooms in order to bring equipment in and out we can open up the bay where the kids can work outside when it's nice weather um and and be able to have that natural light as well there's windows that would also give it
042some natural light in those Manufacturing in those classrooms of as such are there any questions again we're continuing to work at a a springtime groundbreaking um with with the building potentially being open in the fall of 26 okay thank you onward and up thank you that concludes my report okay so I had an item tonight um I wanted to bring up the discussion of the Strate strategic plan with the board so I think you know this this weekend and things like that since the survey came out there's been some you know obviously people are pretty Topsy Turvy on the survey so I um basically was looking at maybe we should hit the pause button go back and revamp and try to figure out you know what we're what our goals are and what we really
043want to accomplish out of this so I'm I'm just looking for any feedback from the board Bo and I'd kind of like a consensus because obviously we have meetings scheduled and um you know we can pretty much all attest to our phone calls and our conversations when it came to the survey itself so any comments or anybody want to throw their no objections no objections okay so all right well I guess I will call call a consensus so I guess I'll start with Jud yeah I mean I'd love the idea of the Strategic plan I think the survey that went out from the district I much would like to see that go from our vendor because I got some complaints that people were nervous about answering it so um yeah and I as as I
044mentioned in our committee Zoom call I'd like to see the board maybe look at vision and Mission talking louder okay sorry um yeah I'd be okay with okay putting a pause on it and I would like to see the survey go out from the vendor not from the board I think it' be better answered we get better responses or honest people might be nervous to answer to the board okay all right Mr Le I agree okay yeah I think we just wanted to um say that we all agree I agree okay I'm fine with it obviously yeah yeah yes no objections okay so we will table that for the time being great okay all right uh on to motion to approve the consent agenda is listed so moved second somebody second oh okay right could
045hear that okay secretary call rooll willas yes sentes yes Schubert yes gaspie yes Aro yes Johnson yes CL yes okay all [Music] righty all right on to finance and Personnel so uh we met this evening um so everybody will get their updates at the following board meeting our next board meeting is November 4th and basically uh we have a few action items here as far as press policies so this would have been the second time that they've that they've come so we just we just need a motion so motion to approve the following resolutions to the iasb Press policies policy um 2.26 Board of Education uniform grievance procedure policy 2.26 5 Board of Education title grievance procedures policy 1C 510 General personnel and staff development policy uh 720 students bullying harassment of students prohibited and
046policy 7185 students in teen Dating Violence prohibited so moved second any questions secretary call the roll you yes L yes Johnson yes Gillespie yes Olivas yes Schubert yes sentes yes okay and to curriculum and programs Mr sentus good evening everyone the curriculum and programs committee met on Monday September 23rd here at the administrative Center we did have two schools who presented their school Improvement plans the first one was Johnson Elementary and that was presented by principal iness Sam and assistant principal Courtney Bell they mentioned um data or summary data for the 2023 2024 school year and at that point 51% of students met or exceeded in nwaa Reading while 72% of students met or exceeded in nwea map math they also had an excellent attendance rate at the end of the school year with 96.2%
047exceeding their goal from the previous year and um goals for the current school year are to maintain that 96 % attendance rate 80% of students at a level three in nwaa map for math will increase by one level and also to have 60% of students will meet or exceed in um their expected growth in map Reading Simmons Middle School um also presented their school Improvement plan and it was presented by principal Michelle Patterson and assistant principal Nelson grandal for the 2023 2024 summary 58 um .3% of students met nwea map projected growth in Reading while 67.9% met nwaa map projected growth in math and 56.4% of el students met their reading goal goals for the current school year are to have um 70% or more of SMS students will increase or will meet their projected
048growth targets as measured by nwaa map in math and 60 % or more of students will meet their projected growth rates as measured by nwea map and reading we also had a presentation for the elementary literacy curricular resource pilot presentation and that was done by ulia Valdez um she mentioned that the current curriculum is being phased out by the Publishers and that the curriculum and the instruction team recommended this specific one jelit Martinez also presented on the MTS s behavior um District campaign the comprehensive framework is designed to support students academic behavior and Social Development and uh the campaign will have a three- tier approach Dr um Amy angle also presented on the driver education simulator waiver and um that here and already took place this evening and we're gonna um it is up for
049Action shortly she also mentioned that the 311 liter partnered with d131 to participate in a international reading tournament and students will have the ability to participate and can show case their reading and earn prizes um Megan McAn Terry um also presented on the Satchel pulse seal memo Satchel pulse is a universal screener for social emotional learning and it's a valuable tool to identify students who may be struggling with their social emotional well-being and uh last on the agenda was the attendance and enrollment as of September 20th we had 12, 263 students enrolled and the average attendance at that time was 91.5 s and on to the motion so unless anybody has any questions we'll move on to the motion for the driver Zed uh motion to approve the driver education waiver be uh for behind
050the wheel time from the 2024 2025 through 2028 2029 school years so mov second secretary Callo Schubert yes gespi yes Johnson yes Olivas yes Aro yes sees yes yes all right the next curriculum and committee uh program will meet on Monday October 21st here at 6m at the administrative Center and that concludes my report okay on the buildings and grounds Mr sh uh there is no report tonight we had our meeting earlier this evening uh so we'll be meeting November 4th um at 6: pm at right here at the administrative Center and the report from tonight's meeting will be uh shared at our next board meeting okay motion to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing pending litigation workers compensation student discipline and the appointment employment performance compensation and dismissal of a specific
051employee so move second secretary Colo Olivas yes sentes yes Schubert yes gespi yes aroo yes Johnson yes yes okay and we will have action e e e I can take conven from executive session some move second secretary call the rooll gesp yes sentes yes Johnson yes Schubert yes L yes aroo yes Olivas yes motion to approve the resignation of a support staff employee some move second secretary Colo Gillespie yes Schubert yes Johnson yes sentes Aro L yes Olivas yes okay okay Mr Schubert read the resolution uh be it resolve that this board of education after having considered the evidence presented by the hearing officer hereby upholds the recommendation for expulsion of student number 18171 of EAS High School effect of October 8th 2024 for the remainder of the 24 2024 2025 school year to include
052summer school 2025 as well as the 2025 2026 school year to include the summer of 2026 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 7th day of October 2024 okay motion to approve the resolution for student 98171 some move secretary call the rooll Olivas yes sentes yes Schubert yes gespi yes aroo aroo yes Johnson yes L yes okay motion to adjourn second secretary Colo okay aroo yes L yes Johnson yes Gillespie yes Schubert sees Olivas yes okay yeah yeah