001here Olivas here Guerrero here here Johnson here Schubert absent okay please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance United States of America and to the Republic God liberty and justice for all okay public comments hello can okay okay let's see Angela Aiden 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 thank you hello and thank you for having me here today my name is Ang Aiden and I am an Outreach and harm reduction coordinator in Kanan DuPage counties for live for L 398 that is the number of Overdose deaths in Illinois in 2022 the 23 stats haven't come out yet this was a 5.1% in
002increase from 2021 90 of those people our County Lo our country lost were from C County 83% of those deaths were from opioids an average of 22 adolescents from 14 to 18 of age died in the US each week in 22 from drug overdoses raising the death rate for this group to 5.2 per per 100,000 driven by Fentanyl and counterfeit pills House Bill 3924 Elman Law requires I'm sorry uh requires Health courses for high school students in each School District to educate them on the dangers of Fentanyl and Fentanyl contamination through instruction study and discussion state law 105 ICS 5 27-13 point2 C requires boards to age appropriately educate students uh about drug and substance use prevention and relationships between drugs alcohol and violence the group of amazing people I work with live for Lali
003is a nonprofit organization that focuses on reducing harm and stigma for people who use substances we provide supplies resources peer support advocacy and education for them their loved ones and their communities we would love to come and your school district to educate your staff and students about societal stigma against people use substances respectful language to utilize signs of an opioid overdo do and how to respond to an overdose we provide free and elone for every anyone who like some as well as resources for people who need help navigating their path to recovery plus allowing us to come in assist with complying to all the new laws for schools in Illinois it live for L we live by the motto every overdose is preventable we believe that providing these resources to as many communities as possible
004we can eventually get that number down to zero thank you for your time and for hearing out who we are and what we do thank you okay Lynn beraki good evening thank you all for the opportunity to address you come on uh come here on behalf of scouting America and all of our units in East Aurora schools that would be pack 310 pack 391 pack 313 pack 306 pack 304 and Troop One the truth is that these units no longer exist we have 10 units in total throughout Aurora currently ranging from Explorer posts at Aurora fire and police to troop 1894 G which is Aurora's first troop for girls but we have not had any of these units units that existed within d131 boundaries and were in many ways supported by them for the last
00510 years My Hope in addressing you is to suggest that scouting America is for every youth in Aurora especially the 12,800 youth in District 131 we want to be able to help you ensure that the kids that call this place home come out of the educational system every bit equipped to be the citizens and Leaders of Tomorrow I apologize if that sounds a little grandiose but I can guarantee that the board the city council the principles First Responders Business Leaders that are making Aurora great today are not going to be around forever d131 is preparing those citizens and leaders but scouting gives them an edge over their peers by increasing their chances of Success Through the skills confidence and character gained through our movement and that actually extends to adult volunteers as well I will
006provide a copy for everyone here of our recent Harris poll which is on scouting's impact which I hope you will review and which will make clear the value of our programs in closing I want to ask you to help us open the door to d131 we've reached out to principles and parently aison but they don't always have the bandwidth to engage with us as a result we have largely been unable to extend the invitation to the Youth of our community with presentations and information on how to join we need Advocates at every level and I would like someone at each school to respond when we reach out so we can give scouting to everyone I want to ask if this is going to be the board that closes the opportunity Gap to bring scouting back
007to District 131 thank you all righty thank you okay on to Communications from the superintendent Dr nuro good evening I'm going to work with Andy and do a very brief presentation from back here one of the things that as we transition to our new our new year in education um is that we want to make sure that our community and all of our constituents um are aware how to really access and utilize our website um and we actually have a really nice website and over the past two years we've been working with the office of civil rights um to make sure that our website in this district is fully accessible as deemed by our federal government and so um I know it's been a long process and kudos to both Andy and Lisa Morales as
008well as our PR department um for really working with the attorneys in the Chicago office for the office of civil rights to make sure that we're up and running um in the process of doing that um as Lisa talked about as they would make one upgrade they would say oh yeah that's good but how about these two other fixes and so um we finally finished everything in January of 2024 having gone through that um it is definitely been an improvement we didn't think that at first because we were kind of like ours is great but we learned so much in the process about accessibility for everyone to be able to go on the site um with various needs and so having gone through that we have an appre the changes but we want to make
009sure that one of the changes that impacts board meetings that everyone is able to still navigate because it is different and so we felt it valuable um in an effort to continue our full transparency to make sure that all of our constituents understood how to navigate as far as looking and utilizing our board resources so here is our homepage which is just simply d131.org and if you want to follow along for our board meeting obviously those are you are here spend your time to actually come out and be here you probably want to be able to look at some of the documents that may remain particularly after action has taken place so this is for um anyone at any time I'm not going in through any of my special rights behind the scene in board
010docs you just simply go three clicks to get to any meeting and their documents for that current year so you'd go into our district then you would simply go down to Board of Education one one click once you're on the board of education page if you're looking for items regarding a board meeting and board packet details you just simply clicked for the current school year board packet that's two clicks and then taada you have all of the meetings that have been in that particular year and you have access to the agenda and the minutes now let me just pick June this is the first meeting that I see we'll go to our June 3D meeting meeting as you see special note the board's committee meetings are also here so on June 3rd as a first
011Monday we have finance and Personnel in buildings and grounds format is still the same you see all of the meetings there and then you see the regular board meeting so any of these meetings you can not only click to read the meeting minutes this was an upgrade that we worked on with the office of civil rights and what you can see is differently than we used to just have a whole packet with all the things all the documents and we'd throw it into a scanner as a PDF and then we'd upload it but sometimes it wasn't as readable because it wasn't an original format and so working with Andy and Lisa Morales we actually had to raise a platform in board dos to be able to make it original so that individuals could manipulate their
012views based upon their needs for viewing and so it became much more accessible for any individual and so what you'll see in this is just straight minutes which again minutes are a a summary of all the actions that took place who started those actions who agreed with those actions and what happened when you're looking for documents you want to come out of there and you want to then go to the agenda documents that occurred as a result of the actions on the minutes you can find here so list of bills and the Personnel report are most often in the consent agenda so you can read who authorized the motion to approve the consent agenda and who seconded it and then if you want to see the documents you go to the agenda and any documents
013that were approved or that were live are in a separate document portal here so if you click on this one this is an example of the Personnel report now you don't see it PDF you see it again in real time where you could make adjustments depending upon your viewing needs and so this is how you look at documents so you are are at any point in time I believe just whoops I closed out too much three clicks thank you Andy away from any document for any meeting whether it be a curriculum committee meeting or whether it be a full-fledged board meeting are there any questions Board of Education okay thank you it was the board's request to do this um brief report but I think it speaks volumes as we move into the new year
014so that we have full transparency and accountability to all of our constituents okay our second item for this evening is just a quick announcement for the summer school graduation um summer school graduation is tomorrow night um July 16th at 6 pm at the cremy auditorium at Aurora University and we are super excited I didn't even know the latest until tonight TW 32 28 32 no 32 32 wow well done I think uh our associate principal representing East High is here tonight so well done well done um so we're happy to celebrate those individuals for our second year at our new location the other thing I want to remind the board really briefly about is that we have our um board workshop with the iasb the Illinois Association of school boards on July 29th at 6
015pm here at the district office that will be a closed session um the the working of that will be a Clos session format okay the next item and my last item for the evening is the um motion and action item for the document that we talked about I know uh Mr L there were a question and I did get back to you but it was kind of late so I just wanted to reiterate some of those points that you brought up and in 2018 in the summer we actually spent slightly more six years ago to have this process done and I did also list for the board all three entities that are the large entities that are known for this work um that we actually looked at when considering how to move forward so I
016think I answered those questions but if there are no more questions I will turn it over to our board president Miss Johnson yeah I just wanted to ask so I do appreciate you getting back to me and my uh and very quickly quickly enough um I guess I do have a question I've been through way too many strategic plans and many hours um did we get a report on the last one you know the four pillars and the Seven worthy targets like where w at because I know sometimes just uh expedite it we do a refresh you know and not go through a whole new one yes so a part of the process that we engaged in with our um previous strategic plan was really to um have a district leadership team as well as
017other continuous planning team so like each of our schools had a school leadership uh team has a has a school leadership team and they come to the board curriculum committee meetings to kind of report out on the logistics around their goals and some of the work action steps and adult practices um and student achievement that they've been able to uh um have with those particular um different groups continuous planning groups and so we do that on a regular basis at a school level and at a district level and so we actually contacted that entity that took us through the full-fledged plan previously to be able to ask but they are no longer in the business really of doing that same kind of work and having that same kind of school partnership but let me say
018this there's a couple of things that I felt like um were needed Beyond a refresh and that was although every single member of our district that's internal um and even some of our parents external as it relates to the district leadership team they we have some participant parent participants of our parent groups um are able to um give their input through our different methodologies one of the things that this particular group is going to be able to do is Garner a much broader stakeholder input and when I met with Becky and she's not here she's a world traveler right now so I believe Mr Scott is leading the union this week that according to my communication but um we've had a conversation about the process of really making sure that the larger group of our
019stakeholders has their voice um so as we go through a part of this one of the phases is really reevaluating what we have now and we don't need to reinvent the wheel if if we don't need something new but I will say that in this initial phase for Readiness they will take into consideration everything we've done thus far what they will help it us do is to lead us through the data with where we've gone in the last five years and then take input from stakeholders that was the major value of this organization is that they were able to cast the net and any staff member or parent group that wanted to weigh in that they would be able to weigh in on what we're doing if we did a traditional refresh it would just
020be those who were in the room and we had great stakeholder Representatives last time but I feel like as a part of our um focus on culture and climate to be able to let every single member um have some kind of input and feel like they're their voice was specifically at the table that was intriguing to me and so that was a part of this process that we didn't even have last time um the other piece that I think um is is noteworthy is that one of the things we lost when we lost American institutes for research and working with schools the way they previously did was that our principles had coaches that worked with them in their slts so they weren't just left to like okay good you got the process thumbs up go
021do it and get it done but we lost that because they got out of the the game so to speak so this particular entity has the ability in phase three which is why phase three suggests that it could be between 18 and 20 weeks if they're going to be be able to work with us for five months to follow up to make sure that once we leave it at the board table that the schools aren't necessarily able to operationalize it because they're supposed to be living and breathing plans and they're supposed to be embedded as a part of what the schools are doing we certainly would um welcome that expertise uh for them to help us after the whole plan creation and those months to actually making sure that it is being lived in each
022of our locations and so we lost that when again American institutes for research got out of the game so we're kind of without the original group and we feel like the support of this group would be a welcome addition in addition to us just going in the room and doing the Strategic plan because it sounds good but trying to get everybody's voice and then helping people live the voice on the back end is going to make people feel like it's worthwhile did I leave anything out Mr Scott from what we talked about as far as strategic planning and inviting the voice of everybody through the CC okay and it is paid for by title two correct one of the titles it was title two probably it's either Title One or title two it's in my
023memo I'm sorry did do you remember no okay but we it is pay yes we do pay for it else yes sorry exactly so yeah I have a comment uh so um some of us on the board were were here when we did that strategic planning uh exercise and came up with the Strategic plan for the district and you know just reflecting back on that time you know quite a few people are no longer with the district whether they're talking about board members or people at you know in different positions uh throughout the district you know they're they're no longer around and now we have a lot of a lot of new people and gives them an opportunity uh to give their input they might come up with different ideas right so so I think
024it's a good idea to to Let's he let's let's let's look at the um the data let's have discussions and see what we come up with right yeah absolutely yeah and um when you talk about the title dollars title one part of what we have when we have our comprehensive schools is that they want to see that there's planning that's aligned to the district strategic plan and so those funds are eligible right for those same purposes because we do have schools in status okay all righty so motion to approve the Catalyst for educational change strategic plan proposal in the amount of $153,800 second any questions secretary call the rooll perero yes Johnson yes sentes yes aroo yes L yes Olivas yes okay motion to approve the following consent agenda is listed so move second any
025questions secretary callor rooll L yes Olivas yes barrero yes Johnson yes sentes yes Aro yes okay we don't have any biographies tonight um we have we have one right oh okay the candidate's not here this evening oh she's not here this evening okay so no we don't all righty okay so moving right along to finance personnel with Dan okay good evening uh we met on July 1st and our next meeting is going to be Monday August 5th 530 here and so at our last meeting um we had uh we covered uh quite a few things and uh we had the donations um we always like it when we get donations from uh different supporters of the district and those were approved tonight under con consent agenda uh also um we had a u proposal for
026three full-time employees to support uh the gates U through the students with IEPs and so that was approved at the last meeting and uh also um we we just reviewed our press policies and so those are being those are on hold and will be approved at the at the next meeting to give you time to review those and we do have two action items and uh one is the uh three-year contract uh renewal uh with the thirdparty administrator for workman comp uh Canon Cochran Management Services and uh this is for $30,000 and we're pretty staff is satisfied with working with them and wants to continue to do so and uh the the fees are are are modest for the per for services they provide and the second action item is we went out to bid
027for PE uniforms and so we have a low responsible bidder uh BSN Sports uh this is a three-year contract uh with a escalator for for CPI and for $6,000 to take care of the U as as needed at the different uh uh middle schools um for PE so if if there's no any any questions on these okay okay so we have two action items uh we did we did uh also review the budget timeline so that'll be coming up um okay action item 6B one motion to approve the PE uniform bid with BSN Sports LLC in the amount of 12,387 some move second any question questions secretary col the rooll sentes yes Aro yes Olivas yes Johnson yes perero yes yes motion carries next uh we have 6b2 a motion to approve Canon Cochran Management
028Services Inc uh as District 131 third party administrator for work compensation claims in the amount of 30,000 doll annually so moved second any questions secretary col Aro yes yes Johnson yes Guero yes sentes yes Olivas yes motion carries that concludes our report thank you okay on the curriculum and programs with Mr santes good evening everyone the programs and curriculum committee met this evening here at 6m the meeting minutes and summary will be available at the next uh regular board meeting on August 5th we do have um three action items though for the board to review so just to give a quick summary the first one has to do with our back to school Fair um and that action item has to do with um supplying backpacks to every student who attends the fair um on
029August 10th so they they do want to place that order tomorrow so we can get the backpacks in time by August 10th um the second um action item has to do with the lunch block uh proposals at the high school and four additional FTE uh reading positions are required um for a total amount of 200,000 and the third action item has to do with Teen Mental Health and career certification for CPR and fire extinguisher training um does anybody have any questions before we move on to the action items all right first action item 7 point b.1 motion to approve the purchase of back to school Fair backpacks and Supply kits in the amount of $75,900 so move second any questions secretary col roll Baro yes Johnson yes Olivas yes Aro yes sentes yes yes all
030right the second action item 7 point b.2 motion to approve the four FTE reading positions for the lunch block proposal at East High School in the amount of 200,000 so move second any questions secretary goo sentes yes Johnson yes perero yes Olivas yes Aro yes L yes and the third action item 7.b point3 motion to approve the purchase of services from matter in the amount of 67,000 and the Aurora fire science museum in the amount of 108,000 so move second any questions secretary call the rooll Guero yes sentes yes Johnson yes L yes Aro yes Olivas yes and that concludes my report okay so on to buildings and grounds so Mr shubber is not here tonight so our next meeting will be Monday August 5th here at the administrative Center at 6 o'clock uh we
031did meet and um on July 1 and we talked about all of our numerous summer projects which all seemed to be on time and moving along quite well um we talked about the custodial bid results which we decided to only go with one year because we really didn't have a large enough pool and we're going to work on getting a bigger bigger pool when it comes to bidding so we'll be approving that tonight um lawn here we only had one bidder so we ended up um going ahead and uh uh just we're we're not going to accept that bid so we rejected it and we're going to be hiring um two additional employees to work with our work with our lawn care and other you know filling in with other uh janitorial positions with absenteeism
032and things like that um we do have a circuit purchase for for the technology department and that will be paid with with our eate money um The Jump Start program will be relocating to Johnson School this year so we talked about how that's all going to work out at Johnson school but it will be moved there from our current location which basically right now doesn't have a good place for it but Johnson does so anyways and then we had a a long um update on the career center and where our plan stood with that and uh it showed all the different layouts of how the how the career center is going to look so it's actually a if the Public's interested it's actually a good update and then we had our work summary um so
033we seem to be moving along on all of those things so we do have three action items so motion to approve the purch purchase of the GG circuit management hardware and Software System to manage gaming computers at the resilience education center from GG circuit in the amount of $ 27,000 $227,400 so moved second any questions secretary callor roll barrero yes Johnson yes Olivas yes Aro sentes yes yes okay and motion to reject the bid submitted for long care services so moov second any questions secretary call roll Guerrero yes sentes yes Johnson yes L yes Aro yes Olivas yes motion to award a one-year contract for custodial supplies for warehouse direct as specified in bid tabulations some move second any questions secretary call rooll sentes yes Aro yes Olivas yes Baro yes L yes Johnson abstain
034motion to go into executive session for the purpose of of discussing the appointment employment performance compensation and dismissal of a specific employee so moves second secretary Colo barrero yes Johnson yes sentes Aro yes Olivas yes okay we should not have action e e e