001Johnson yes sentes aroo yes here Olas here L here please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the United States of America indivisible righty nothing all right well I guess we okay so we do not have any public comments tonight so uh we're gonna go on to our board member recognition yes uh Madam president before again like to acknowledge Mr Ken Darby and Mrs Kim Hatchet are here oh okay we should welcome back Mr Darby welcome back Miss Hatchet everybody all the old board members stand up [Applause] thank you um I am going to start off in Lisa Morales if you would join me we first want to recognize our board member Mr Dan barrero for all of his years of service so Dan if you would join us in the front
002can we roast him now yes just give me one second true you don't want to come back up we um as many of you know we had a a board vacancy created because one of our longstanding board members took another opportunity and although we will miss you so very much we um still enjoy the fact that you will continue to serve our families on the East Side in your new role as W one Alderman and so before um you leave us at this uh final opport to recognize you publicly we just want to make sure that everyone knows and I hope Lisa got these years right that we celebrate that not only they may have remembered you on the board from 2017 to 2024 but many may not know that you served previously on the
003board as well in the early 2000s from 2003 to 2007 is that right so that's a grand total of 11 years serving on the EAS aora school board so um we just want to say thank you so very much for everything that you've done you've certainly been a part of all of the success of our students in this district and we have a small token for you and Lisa has this it is an essential piece it's a piece of the puzzle ready to go right in and it says dan barrero Board of Education vice president an essential piece of EA history and success thank you so much for your service now board members you may roast him if you'd like oh you want the let's do the whole board would you guys all stand sure
004keep him in the middle in the front you're on the other side of the table thank thank you thank [Applause] you thank you thank you okay so at this time we will swear in our new member that will replace Mr uh barrero so Mr Schubert will come up and um the odia Gillespie can you come up as well so 11 years day one so theod I will read the old of office and after each section I would ask that to affirm response by saying I do okay so that way you don't have to repeat everything second right is this working okay okay I theoda gpie do solemnly swear that I will Faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the member of the Board of Education of EAS aora School District 131 in accordance with
005the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the state of Illinois and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability I further swear that I shall respect ta taxpayer interests by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets I do I shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees I do I shall recognize that a board of me Board of Education member has no legal Authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by majority vote at a public board meeting I abide by the majority decisions of the board while retaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and
006constructive channels as a board of education member I shall accept the responsibility for my role in the Equitable and quality education of every student in the school district I shall Foster with the board extensive participation of the community formulate goals Define outcomes and set the course for Easter oral School District 131 I do I shall assist in establishing a structure and environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework I do I shall strive to ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law I do I Shall Serve as an education's key Advocate on behalf of students and our schools to advance the vision of Easter or School District 131 I do and
007I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision of the board has created fostering Excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills knowledge citizenship and personal development I do welcome to the Board of [Applause] Education right after this okay all right don't to just leave that yeah no just leave it alone for real [Applause] and before we um I think y theodo you can come and join us join join the heart seat and while you're coming up Mr barrero I'm sorry I forgot did you want to say few words okay I forgot that we talked about that my apologies is this on yes okay um take a few minutes to say some words on one is that um I'm I'm a proud Tom
008Cat and so um after after you leave high school you know it's something that you always take with you and so um you know I had an opportunity to to apply for a vacancy back in I think it was 2002 and I wasn't picked but that didn't deter me so I did it the hard way and I ran for office and got elected I was 39 didn't have any gray hair and then uh ever since then I I got involved with the foundation I got to meet some good people you know like Henry coward uh the first founding chair Tom Weisner just so many good people that served on that board uh Warren Canon um and I learned a lot from them and what I learned the most was that these were um pillars in
009the community that always gave back always thought of giving back and and that's what inspired me being around someone like Mr coward who was elected in 1969 I mean he was a living legend he signed my he signed my diploma you know I had to go back and look say oh my God he sign it was a real signature it wasn't the it wasn't a stamp um got involved with the east or Alumni Association and then I took a break and came back 10 years later a little bit more um older and wiser I think um I hope that that had made a difference and so I I came back because um I saw a need to um the lenda hand and I think that's what makes our community the best is when people get
010involved and make try to you know work hard to make a difference I really enjoyed the working with the staff and my colleagues up here I really I really mean that and I think um you know going forward I'm I'm looking forward to seeing the results of that um strategic plan and see what the the the next uh five years is going to hold for the District 131 so thank you very much he Mr barel thank you for everything uh I first met you in the early 90s when we first got involved in the uh campaigns and you always you're always very kind to me you and your wife and Jessie Vasquez and it was nice serving with you you will be missed I don't know if it's a going to the city though is
011a good thing but I hope you enjoy your time there it's nice and quiet here but thank you again Dan and we're at at Miss Gillespie so many of yall don't know this so I first met met her in 1985 when I was still in high school and I was her first one her first student she had at the tstm program at the Urban League so um it's good seeing you again now we're a different level now but we've come a long way so welcome welcome Miss gby okay well we're ready for a free a little brief recess to have some treats so okay so we'll be back in in a few here they can join please yeah come on everybody have some [Music] treats e e e do that okay so we will reconvene
012the meeting right now um Communications from the superintendent Dr Nell good evening Board of Education and Community Partners um I would like to begin um with a recognition that we are so very uh excited to extend we wanted to wait until our young people were back in school to um share this recognition and so um I'm going to do this in conjunction with our PR um officer who may still be greeting some of our guests um Marissa yanowski but I'll go ahead and get started so this June is the first time back since um the co pandemic that our wonderful East Aurora High School Band program was able to take advant vage of um the competition and that happens annually in Florida and our band directors are so organized that they have really um they've
013done a stellar job always in planning and this year we had an opportunity they were a year ahead of the time to plan out exactly how they would go when they would compete where they would stay and the board of education did such a wonderful job in supporting that effort and making it so that our chaperon were uh better taken care of with this round as well as um opportunities for our kids and our families so that our families who all contributed individually for their student to attend but that it wasn't such an insurmountable amount so thank you to our board of education however there was still um a couple of students who were not able to make even the the reduced amount and so not wanting to have those individuals that did not have
014the full ability to miss out because these were Stellar members of our band Community um we went to our Aurora East Educational Foundation and we shared our um goal and we shared the story of a couple of our students and so without um even blinking and I individuals from that organization as well as a couple of uh board members that are Tom Cats got together and covered the cost and so um I see that Marissa is back she's going to go ahead and do a presentation as a part of our thank you but first we want to share with you the success of the band trip um as Dr n was saying um this summer was really special and 110 Easter or high school band students participated in a field trip where they went to
015Disney World and Universal Studios they marched in a parade at the Magic Kingdom and participated in a Disney run Workshop called soundtrack sessions at the workshop the students got to work with the professional Disney conductor as well as record recording engineer to play and record popular Disney music and learned what it takes to be a professional Disney musician so here's a short clip of them at Disney if we see if that's the right one [Music] go tomat you'll hear you go Tom Cats for sure they look great you're going to see all of them 110 wow [Music] I love the excitement so isn't that amazing they really had a good time it was an incredible experience and uh Brian Lisa was going to be here today that our band director but he's preparing for another
016big performance this Saturday as you mentioned and but he really is thankful and so are the students and for them for the students to be able to go um so we want to acknowledge these donors some of them serve on our board and others serve on the AA East Educational Foundation and ASA Gordon's gonna help me uh pass out some of the certificates first we'll start we have uh Annette Johnson [Applause] picture Dan bariel oh we just missed him oh on up and Dan if you could stay up here too we're gonna take a group picture yes sa Olivas thank you cic this was not your board chair job this was your personal pocket oh you gotta go up here too and then um on in our audience is Kenneth [Applause] Darby Michael [Applause] McHugh
017Carol Rik here know she's here I don't think she's here Mark [Applause] melini Joie Josie [Applause] Geller and Pete Gonzales I don't know if he's here he's not here okay we'll take a picture with yes we'll take a picture and thank you again for everything you do to help our students reach their full potential right go [Applause] Tomcat come over this way and yes we're good okay I got it thank you [Applause] um there was one more part of the presentation I did have visuals but we can't seem to find them um but I can mention it is that okay okay yes so I had some really good pictures um College and Career Readiness um you know as you know is very important to our district and we do everything we can to make sure
018our students have the experiences they need to be motivated and ready after the graduate from high school so we want to talk about some other things that happened this summer ASA Gordon the director of middle and secondary college career Readiness well he helped to organize three very special trips for our students and we wanted to share how grateful our students were for these opportunities um one of the groups went to the fine and applied art summer intensive camp at the University of Illinois orbana champagne um and this weekl long program um each high school student selected a track for the week and stayed in the state of art residence halls and I did have a picture of one of the we had a lot of feedback from the students they so wrote some really incredible
019nice letters um I'll read a little bit of one from one of the students that went to this particular Camp um so they said attending the fine and applied Arts acting camp at University of Illinois in Urbana champagne was an incredible experience the Intensive training sessions were both challenging and rewarding pushing me to explore new acting abilities and then they go on to say I am deeply grateful to District 131 for granting me the opportunity to attend the FAA active acting intensive Camp their support has been a great help in my development and I appreciate their commitment to nurturing young talent and that was just one of a few um the other camp that they attended was a Northern Illinois University Engineering steam Camp another group of students went there in the summer and it
020offered a Continuum of highquality research based steam programming and our students again were really excited and grateful for this trip and this is what one of the students had to say um he said as a rising senior I learned many exciting things about the campus engineering how things work and the extra opportunities available to me my favorite part of this week was engineering with others in this Camp to build a rainwater catching mechanism being being able to combine everyone's great ideas was really enjoyable and seeing the end product put to the test and succeed was a great feeling once again I greatly appreciate this opportunity to attend this Camp provided by the district and then there is another Camp um e are high school students uh that attended they attended the Illinois summer youth Music
021Camp which brought over 1,000 students and 150 faculty and staff together for three weeks of intense music making it was hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana champagne and this is what this one student had to say about his adventure trip I would like to thank the district for giving us an opportunity to visit a camp filled with knowledge about our shared common interests band is an essential part of my life it gives me that sense of self I can't put into words how grateful I am for this trip every part of it was a learning experience and I made some friends thank you so much to the district and to Mr Gordon for giving me the opportunity to really learn about my instrument and the place I want to be after high school
022so that's really touching to me I just love that they're inspired and they know now what they want to do have a better idea and where they want to go so thank you ASA and to all our staff and Leadership for believing and making these very important and inspiring opportunities available to our students thanks thank you and I just want to reiterate and say thank you so much Board of Education um anytime time anyone ask about our Board of Education we always share um that you always say yes to the students and so it makes a huge difference and every time a student has one of these experiences it's life-changing it's life-altering it has generational impact so thank you so much for continuing to support um our students okay at this time I'm going to
023just very briefly go through um and these are just public reminders parent University is upcoming um that's going to be on Saturday November 9th so just letting you know more details to follow we have coming up this week on Friday yes it is Friday the 13th um we are having our family Fall Festival this will be our second annual last year was our inaugural and it was such a tremendous success I can really attest our families had a great time and boy the the time fly by so it will be again this uh Friday September 13th from 4: to 700 p.m at Blackberry Farms and so we are looking forward to a a hugely successful event we have expanded upon what we did last time and we are looking forward to seeing everyone and I
024think the weather is not going to be too cold so we're in luck we also have coming up more immediately this week the upcoming curriculum nights and so this is a reminder to all parents starting with tomorrow night is all of our elementary schools curriculum night the follow by Thursday night is our middle schools are having their curriculum nights and then on the N I'm sorry on the 17th we have East High curriculum night and on the 19th we have our prek curriculum night so please make sure that all of our families and parents come out and attend to learn all of the exciting things that their young people will be engaged in this school year we hope everyone can make it okay I want to um talk about the student registration for um this
025school year um we did uh put out a statement about a week ago because we were really really working so diligently to make sure that we registered all of our students this year unlike um many of our neighbors our neighbors also had um increases in enrollment and registration but our district had 951 just in the month of August that enrolled and registered not returning students new to the district and these young people came from across the US and across the state of Illinois they even came from neighboring districts because I always tell them watch how many we steal from the neighbors because the word is spreading how wonderful um our offerings are here in the district and so we're celebratory that all of our young people are joining us however um our registration team is
026a force of three and four including Paula Cardona so I would just like to publicly say uh Kudos we have gotten our numbers down to um 98 kindergarten through 12th graders out of 951 that still need to be registered um and enrolled 28 of them however are brand new as of this past week that just came um and we have 58 prek so I want to do a public thanks to a couple of groups first thank you to our school administrators and thank you to the entire prek program I'm sorry jump start program let me be specific who took time out of their home visits to call call call and support um registering prek and then all of our parently aison from every school came out for an entire week as well as even our
027building principles Andor assistant principles um gave up time to continue it was definitely a huge effort but I also want to say thank you to Paula Cardona and Andy Allen and our entire um administrative team um and it team for really kicking into high gear and training everyone as to how to pitch in so that we could expedite the enrollment of these young people so that is an update Board of Education on that we um continue to plow through as we get about 30 kids a week so that's great um and then last but certainly not least I want to um share our district campaign because we will be sending this out into our schools um and definitely posting this up around the Community you know this year we talked about our Focus being on
028culture and climate and when we met with our schools and we looked at our school data I think we were on the same page when we talked about what is it that we want to Target prek to 12 and the the disrespect Defiance Behavior was one of the things that continued to come up and continued to resonate and so with that we um got together as a team and tried to really hone in on how we could better equipped our multi-tier system of support which is known as mtss system and so in doing so and to try to really push the message um for how to mitigate behavioral issues disrespect Defiance this is a teachable moment because that's what we do that's what we do we educate young people we don't just punish young people
029but we have to educate our young people and so in doing so I want to give kudos to school leadership Department as well as um curriculum instruction assessment department for really working on this theme and we have um our model that behind this there is going to roll out to schools next week very finite plans for how we're going to engage with students on the mtss system on the behavioral side of things how we're going to first teach how we're going to respond if kids are having challenges and then what interventions additional interventions we're going to be able to uh address and then how are we going to monitor this and how are we going to celebrate with our young people when they actually have changes that we're looking forward to so in EA 131
030we're respect guides us and our why drives us we heard at graduation that both our valid dictorian and our salut toan spoke about what kept them on driving toward success was their why and they individually had different stories we continue to hear that that message resonates but we need to remind even our high school students about their why next [Music] slide we are going to put out different things around the school depending upon the grade level so obviously prek would look very different than East High but teaching young people yes in EA 1331 I am respected but understand that respect takes courage it takes empathy it takes kindness it takes you um in enabling yourself or working with yourself to exercise self-control and of course embracing differences next slide SL and then um we have
031put together almost a mantra for us to use with our students and again this was a the team put this together and they're brilliant so thank you so much um Miss Martinez and school leadership team and they talk about what respect is and what it means so this is written in the first person and we plan to really talk to our kids and teach our kids again to reflect on what respect means and do you have a why and how you use your why to align your actions if you have a why then we know that you're going to be working toward a greater cause and we know that you are going to be motivated and take a sense of ownership around your own success and so we just wanted to share with our Board
032of Education before we begin to blast this around our schools at all grade levels what it is that we are focused on and Andy I don't know I know I cut the presentation shorter than what the principles are going to get so if you could go one more is this the last one oh this is really important I did want to make sure the board and Community knew that every thing that we are going to roll out is of course research based um and we did align all of our plan our mtss plan um to the castle framework and Castle is the collaborative for academic social and emotional learning and so we will work with all of the things that we're going to put in the schools as we begin to use emotions as a
033baseline to be able to um impact hopefully our numbers at the end of this school year will reflect that this resonated with our young people and so I know I've said this before we aggressively went after for the last few years the left side of the multi-tier system of support triangle where we put interventions in place for reading and math but we really did not make it a districtwide focus to do the same for the right and I think I've heard from our teachers and our staff that that you can see all the difference and so this is something that we are trying to do we're going to roll out very tangible very specific but not overwhelming plans for schools coming up next week so we don't want to be overwhelming but we have something
034very manageable so we wanted you to see it first so thank you Board of Education um for indulging us in our new District campaign and that concludes my report okay can can I ask you a question yes so this um registration problem we had have we I mean I know is whatever but have we identified what happened so it doesn't hopefully happen again or how we can fix it yes so what they did is they um they trained principal Andor assistant principal um in each of our buildings um in the evenings to be able to assist so if we ever have this influx during such a short period of time again we have um now the capacity to deploy a greater larger number of team to help us to more quickly um move through the
035process before we kept it very close because our schools do help with our returning students all 12,000 returning students but what they have held pretty sacred here is they man our what we call our gates we have to be careful we have to make sure that people that are admitted um can prove residency um people that are admitted can prove that they are in good standing because we don't want someone who was expelled from another school to then come and enroll in our school um we wouldn't even know that they needed support so those letters of good standing are critically important or a letter from their sending school if they're out of state so those kinds of things our schools were not having to deal with uh because we centralized that here because we wanted
036to make sure that what we were requiring from one family we were requiring from all but if we ever get in the situation again they didn't ask for help this time they just tried to like plow through it themselves and that was the delay and so now we have um redirected and dispatched a whole new team have people that are quite capable for um of expedite so y okay all righty motion to approve the following consent agenda is listed so moved any questions you need a second second secretary callaro yes L yes Johnson yes Gillespie yes Shubert yes sentes yes Olivas yes okay and we do have two introductions tonight yes we do thank first and foremost there goes my microphone thank you uh first we would like to uh reintroduce to the board and
037Community Miss Viv Luna as the Jump Start program supervisor [Applause] I spoke to viie earlier she told me she needed no introduction nor reintroduction but we're going to do it anyways no keep standing please uh Miss Luna comes to this position from the uh bilingual prek teacher position at the Early Childhood Center she has been in the district for 25 years and has served as a prek instructional leader a bilingual prek teacher assistant principal and jumpstart supervisor in these roles she has evaluated program staff supported the implementation of prek curricular resources ensured compliance with Grant requirements and Reporting implemented uh pH curriculum coordinated by monthly parent child interaction groups and supervised and supported parent Educators she has consistently engaged families and communities in supporting their child's family goals and program goals Miss Luna received her
038Bachelor's in early childhood education from National Lewis University a master's in early childhood leadership and advocacy from National Lewis University and a master's in educational leadership from North Central College congratulations and [Applause] welcome thank you so much and uh next we would like to introduce to the board and Community Miss Cynthia Morin as the new division chair of East Aurora High School's uh science industrial technology family and consumer science Miss maren has over 28 [Applause] years thank you for standing I appreciate that uh has over 28 years of experience in education holding various positions including a science teacher department chair of Science and Technology and Associate program dean of math and science she has made significant contributions such as updating science curricula advocating for Hands-On learning and developing professional program uh professional development programs for
039teachers Miss morine holds a Bachelor's of science from the University of Illinois and a master of arts and educational Administration from Governor State University Welcome to [Applause] eora do we have one more yeah we have one more our coordinator for family finance and Personnel so we had our meeting tonight here at the service center and we will meet again on October 7th um I will through the rest of the meeting at the next board meeting but tonight we have several action items um as everybody knows at the beginning of the school year we approve a bunch of overloads so um for the schools so um we do have several overloads to approve um so I'll just get right into them motion to approve the Waldo Middle School overload request three overloads for special education four
040overloads for math so moved secretary Colo Schubert yes sentes yes Johnson yes gespi yes Olivas yes Aro yes L yes okay motion to approve the Simmons Middle School overloads band overload math overloads so mve second secretary callar roll Schubert yes Gillespie yes Johnson yes Olivas yes yes yes motion to approve coward Middle School overloads band overload so moved second secretary colar roll gespi yes sentes yes Johnson yes Schubert yes L yes Aro Olivas yes okay motion to approve East High overloads um to special education overloads one CTE overload eight math overloads five bilingual overloads three physical education overloads two reading overloads a just staff member designated to receive previous overloads so yeah second secretary Colo sentes yes Aro yes Olivas yes Gillespie yes L yes Johnson yes Schubert yes okay motion to approve one FTE
041health assistant at the resilience education center some move second secretary colar roll Gillespie yes Schubert yes Johnson yeses aroas yes okay motion to approve an emergency authorization one-on-one special education teaching assistant for the Gonzalez child Center second secretary call the roll L yes Shubert yes Olivas yes gpie yes Johnson yes sentes yes Aro okay and to curriculum and to curriculum and programs with Juan good evening everyone the curriculum and programs committee met on Tuesday August 20th here at the administrative Center we did have a couple School Improvement plans that were presented uh the first one was from Principal Tanetta Davis and Assistant Principal Paul musler on behalf of odano Elementary and they did share their 2023 2024 summary which included um their daily average attendance of 92% for the year 66 uh% of prek students
042met are exceeded LBI and 50% of students in K through 5 met their projected growth in reading on map and 51% of students k23 met their projected growth in Spanish reading on map and also 55% of students um in K through five met their projected growth in map um math goals that they're going to concentrate on for this school year are to reduce office discipline referrals by 10% um they're also going to work on maintaining a daily average attendance of 95% um along with um implement ing tier two and three students with personalized support um and along with that um 60% of students in K through five will meet or exceed their expected growth um for NWA met the second um report reporting school was from Principal Patricia Wrangle and assistant principal Alexa Garcia and
043they also presented on behalf of Ben ofus steam Academy and uh their summary for 2023 2024 included um 99% of students had one or less office discipline referrals they did maintain a daily average attendance um at the end of a rate of 94.5 so they were really close to that 95% but they just missed it by just a tad bit 75 uh 71% of students in tier two and three reading intervention grew at least two reading levels as meas measured by FNP and 83.4 n% of students from from grades K through two met or exceeded their map math growth Target and combined 68% of students in K through 5 matter exceeded their map Reading growth targets uh goals for the uh current school year are to have um a 95% attendance um along with um
044you know another goal that they're going to work on is office uh discipline referrals and then with regard to attendance they are going to Comm communicate daily with families uh to make sure that um you know students who are absent are making it to school on time um they're also going to work on um well the other goal is to have 70% of students in tier two and three uh reading intervention will grow at least two reading levels uh by winter 2025 and 55% of students in math intervention will exceed NWA map projections along with 65% of students in Reading will exceed the expected growth for both reading and math uh moving on we did have a the director of early learning and educational grants Rosary horn and executive director of curriculum and instruction ulalia
045Valdez who also presented on Creative curriculum and they both mentioned that the lead leadership team met and reviewed the current curriculum for prek and at that point it was determined um by the team that uh the curriculum must meet Grant requirements and to better align with dual language prep um the team also recommended the purchase of creative curriculum and that action was item was already approved at the last board meeting Dr Luis Gonzalez also presented on the parent engagement for 2024 2025 he presented the different parent groups and the multiple parent um engagement events for the year while the main focus for the year will be to focus on building a strong partnership partnership with with parents and the community and to empower parents Educators and students to create a bright future for all Dr
046Amy Engle also presented on the summmer uh staff learning and curriculum work review she mentioned that the district offered 280 sessions of Summer learning and that 186 uh teachers also took part in the summer curriculum writing program and spent a total of 8,577 hours to write on different categories um she also reported on the attendance and enrollment update as as of that point and um the meeting ended uh the next curriculum and programs committee will meet on Monday September 23rd we have no action items and that concludes my report no okay at the buildings and grounds Mr Schubert okay so the building and grounds meeting uh was this evening a summary of that uh will be presented to the board and the community at our next meeting um um board meeting the next building and
047grounds meeting is October 7th at 6: pm here at the service center there are four action items this evening um the first is uh I need a motion for 10 B1 to approve the purchase of mechanical equipment controls and warranties for the Career Technical Center through the train Technologies state of Illinois code 28a Cooperative in the amount of 4,1 $1 24,28 second I have a question on this this is for the new Vocational Center yes yes and we're buying HVAC equipment now just seems I me yeah that's fine I mean yeah go ahead let me okay yes yes we are because again we wanted to include that in our purchase for our Esser dollars yeah we by a certain time and so be able to have fully executed the spending of that through this y
048to meet the requirements for the spend date yep and our Architects have done me or at least preliminary me so we know that what we're getting is what we need obviously okay oh yeah okay thank you just a comment on that I did comment to Mr Blair that the if you look at the building of grounds uh packet that is uploaded um and publicly uploaded um the plans have really developed um over the last few months so things are really getting more defined now so quite exciting yeah and we do use train as our it's it's in the state bidding system so all the prices and everything have already been negotiated and train equipment is used across the district so do we have a first and a second so secretary col the roll Olivas yes
049sentes yes Schubert yes gespi yes aroyo yes Johnson yes yes uh action item 10 B2 I need a motion to approve the purchase of 75 cell phone lockers for District middle schools and the extension campus from lry McDonald company through Omni contract 07-12 in the amount of 165,166 so second any questions secretary call the rooll sentes yes aroo yes Olivas yes Schubert yes Johnson yes gpie yes L yes action item 10 B3 I need a motion to approve the purchase of a desktop Mill to room lathe machine tl-1 dedu and supplemental components through the manufacturing engineering technology and trades me Grant from hos Factory Outlet in the amount of $ 49,3 5.95 so moved second any questions secretary Colo aroyo yes L yes Johnson yes gespi yes Schubert yes sentes Olivas yes action item 10
050B4 I need a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding mou between Easter School District 131 and the service employees International Union SEIU Local 73 so move second any questions secretary call the rooll Shubert yes gespi yes Johnson yes Olivas yes aroo yes sentes yes L yes do we have that bio ready that's it for this okay we do have one one more bio to read for one more yes employee that we were hiring today and it's from a different department I will pass this to uh Mr L Martin and school leadership in this position is for our new coordinator for family and Community engagement which is housed out of uh Miss Martinez's department so I'll pass it to you sounds good um Can Miss Melissa Diaz please stand and remain standing while I read
051um the introduction we would like to reintroduce to the boarding Community Miss Melissa Diaz as the parent and family services coordinator at the administrative Center Miss Diaz comes to us from her position as parent Ean at Simmons Middle School in this position she's gone above and beyond to ensure that parents are connected to Community Resources she's provided support and professional learning to parents in the district and supports at parent events in the district as well she's also served in EA as a bilingual special education teacher assistant where she is was able to provide small group instruction and modify assignments and communicate with parents she has served as a 21st century program site coordinator as well as a District 131 attendance clerical staff member Miss Diaz received an Associates of arts and education from wanzi Community
052College she also earned a bachelor's degree in applied behavior science [Applause] congratulations okay alrighty motion to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing student discipline workers compensation pending litigation and the appointment employment performance compensation compensation and dismissal of a specific employee so move second secretary call the roll Gillespie yes centes yes Johnson yes Schubert L Aro Olivas yes okay and we will have action e e e she exective session some move second secretary col sees yes Aro yes Olivas yes gespi yes L yes Johnson yes Schubert yes okay go ahead resolution yep uh be resolved that this board of education after having considered the evidence presented by the hearing officer hereby upholds a recommendation in Li of expulsion for alternate placement for student number 4839 641 98 of Easter High School effect of
053September 10th 2024 for the remainder of the 2024 2025 school year to include summer school 2025 should the student fail to attend the alternative educational Senate the expulsion will immediately be 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 9th day of September 2024 okay motion to approve the resolution for student number 98 so move second secretary Colo gespi yes Schubert yes Johnson yes sentes yes Aro yes yes Olivas yes okay what's the disposal of the support staff member you don't have to touch it okay don't have to touch it okay all right
054motion to adjourn some move second secretary callar roll Schubert yes gaspie yes Johnson yes sentes Aro Oliva yes L yes [Music]