Regular Meeting of the Board of Education - October 20, 2025

001Good evening. Uh I think I don't know why I'd be good evening you here, but anyway, I'm Mr. Zimmerman. I am the theater director at Bel North High School. Uh we had a couple of quick changes to our performance for uh today's uh fourth performance, but we are happy to share this anyway. Uh we came straight from the Beler North Halloween carnival. So it will go right back to the North Halloween carnival right after this. Yep. Pumpkin. All right. Um, but today we want to share just a little snippet of our fall show coming up November 7th and 8th at Belier at the Performing Arts Center. Uh, we're doing Peter and the Starcatcher. Um, a prequel of what was Peter Pan before Peter was Peter before there was Peter Pan. Um, and kind of an

002origin story of where all of these characters come from. Uh, today I have three senior students with me. I have Lily Davis uh who will be performing the uh very recognizable role of boxing announcer. Um we have uh soy who will be playing the role of fiddle slank and Adam Lenman who will be playing the role of um a pirate captain that we uh has not his name is Black Stash and if you come see the show you'll understand more um but I will let them take it away as we see a battle between two captains like you've never seen before. All right, >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out tonight for our sto this stormy night for our featured bout. In this corner, we have direct from slow by way of the

003spawn with the clagy roars. It is no mother song. No man's pal. Bill the rat wrestle sl this corner sporting his famous flavor saber since the tender age of 10. The most fearsome pirate on the pike. All hands on deck for the black stash. It's a one round knockout match. Kicking, spitting, and gouging is preferred. Hitting below the belt is not required, though fans tend to like it. >> Now, shake hands and come out rhyming. Take a hype. The trunk is mine. So, kiss me, bomb. >> I'll kiss you, Bill, with me. French toaster, roller coaster, avocado, flipper flop, which I do like soy, which needs a waxy by the way. I mean, God's anointed doublejointed triple pointed belly wy easy peasy battle cry. Me dinner, me savior, me wrinkle pinner, me walk the plank.

004Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? [Music] There he lies, a jumped up cabin boy who doesn't know his place. Now give us the trunk or say you goodbye, you bathtub captain. [Music] And see, >> thank you so much. Like I said, sorry for the last switch there, but uh come check out Peter and the Star Catcher if you want to see more of that. Uh 7th and 8th um Friday and Saturday. Friday and Saturday Saturday at 7:00 and then uh Saturday at 2:00 as well. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Grab a flyer closer on your way out. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. It is now 6:07 and we are out of closed exact session and we will re we reconvene the regular meeting of the board of education

005with the pledge to the American flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Welcome >> Mr. Diesel >> here. Mr. Herrera >> here, >> Mr. Hanky >> here, >> Mrs. Ho >> here, >> Mr. Mueller >> here, >> Mr. Piggy >> here, >> and Mrs. Young >> here. Okay, >> before we start the regular meeting of the board of education, as a reminder, all board members are expected to follow our approved meeting norms and board protocol, are there any items on the agenda any member of the board would like to amend or move? Okay, hearing none. Do I have a motion in a second to approve the agenda of the regular board, the

006regular meeting of the board of education on October 20th, 2025 as presented? >> Second. >> Okay. Member Hul made the motion. Member Piggy seconded the motion to approve the agenda of the of the regular meeting of the board of education on October 20th, 2025 as presented. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. How I >> Mr. Mr. Piggy. >> Hi, >> Mr. Diesel. >> Hi, >> Mr. Hempy. >> Hi, >> Mr. Mueller. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Young. >> Hi, >> Mr. Herrera. >> Hi. >> We will now have our district celebrations and I would like to turn this portion of the meeting over to Dr. Shu. >> Thank you, President Herrera. Uh, we are going to start with principal appreciation week and we have a few of our principles here in the audience with us tonight. This

007week is principal appreciation week and we would like to take a moment to recognize and thank our incredible building leaders. Our principles truly work tirelessly to create welcoming, safe and supportive learning environments for every student every day. They wear so many hats. They are instructable leaders, mentors, problem solvers, cheerleaders, community builders. They do it all with passion and with dedication. On behalf of the board of education and the full administrative team, we extend our sincere gratitude to our principles for their leadership, for their vision, and for their commitment to excellence. Their work makes a lasting impact not only on our schools, but on our entire community. I mean, really, we have some of the best uh I would say uh in the state, if not the world. Uh but I mean, we are so fortunate

008in this school district. I absolutely uh do believe that that our leadership at our buildings is exceptional. Uh and we are so grateful for their leadership and we do have Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Getty and Mr. Fma here with us uh this evening. Uh so we'd like to recognize all of them. We will continue with a rec. Well, should let's Should we take a picture of our principles, Miss Sadly? >> I think we should. Get on up there. >> I think a pyramid would be fantastic. >> I feel like they're very capable of that. >> Yeah, Bowman over there. >> Oh, where's Yes, Dr. Bowman. Get up there. Dr. Bowman is our early childhood principal and she has already been here for a while. Uh so we should definitely include Dr. Bowman in this mix.

009All right. And we're going to keep uh BHS up here because the Illinois Art Education Association is pleased to recognize Belvadier High School as a 2025 school of distinction. Belvadier High School is one of five schools receiving this prestigious award. This recognition celebrates schools with rigorous art, design, and media education programs to earn the school of distinction award, Belvadier High School evidence practices that directly enacted the Illinois professional teaching standards, the Illinois fine arts and media standards, and social emotional learning priorities. um participating in high quality art, design, and media courses develop student creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills in valuable ways. Students in these programs gain social and emotional skills along with college, career, and citizen read citizenship readiness. Research indicates that schools with successful programs like that at Belier High School experience

010increased student attendance, engagement, and academic performance when when compared with schools that don't. The IAEA is proud to honor Belvadier High School for its distinguished art, design, and media education programming and the significant opportunities this program offers students. BHS received the following as part of this recognition. A digital banner, a physical award presented at the IAEA conference, recognition on the IAEA website, and a press release. The recognition extends from 2025 to 2027. And I know we have representatives here from our art department uh and BHS. So come on up and congratulations on Is there anything anyone wanted to say about this award? >> Uh, I mean really it's just we have a great principle in admin to back us up. We can do all the things that we need to do for our kids. It's

011all about um really teaching meaningful art um and letting them express themselves as much as possible so that we're not all, you know, drawing the same shoe, but actually being able to express themselves. And you know, I always tell them like not talking about something doesn't make it go away. So we, you know, talk about big topics and let them express themselves in the art room. So that's what it's all about and we do it with the backing support of our admin. So >> congratulations All right. And District 100 was highlighted in the Illinois Education and Career SE success network's quarterly newsletter. Um, in the 2026 school year, 48% of Belvadier School District 100 students are enrolled in dual credit courses, showcasing the incredible opportunities our students have to earn college credit and prepare for

012future successes. The courses are offered in partnership with Rock Valley Community College and Highland Community College. In the 2025 school year, students earned a record 3,68 early college credits, the highest total in a single year. The District 100 team is also excited to celebrate success in its college and career pathways endorsements. Last year's 13 students earned a pathway endorsement, and the district anticipates more than doubling that number this school year. To encourage students to pursue early childhood college credits and industry credentials to get an early start on working toward their career, D100 offers a special incentive. Any student who earns a pathway endorsement and subsequently obtains a degree, certification, or lensure in the same field will be guaranteed an interview for any D00 position to which they apply. These achievements reflect the hard work of

013students, staff, and community partners in preparing every student for success beyond high school. And uh Mr. Fry uh has done a great deal of work in that capacity. So, thank you and congratulations to Mr. Fry. And we also want to congratulate Michael John's. He is a certified professional supervisor. Illinois ASBO would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Michael John's for successfully completing the training program and passing the comprehensive exam to obtain certification as a certified professional supervisor. Illinois ASBO partners with an association for facilities engineering to provide a comprehensive certification program for the individuals responsible for Illinois public school facilities. Uh District 100 will be served well by Mike's Michael Mr. John's efforts and increased knowledge brought to the district. Congratulations to Mr. John's for this for his personal growth and to D 100

014for supporting continuing education and professional development. Mr. Johns wasn't able to be here tonight, but we are very proud of his accomplishment. And the following people have been nominated by their peers for going above and beyond in D 100. Uh, Elen Jacobson. I think I saw her. Come on up, Elen. Uh, Elen, uh, shout out to our elementary technology coach, Elen Jacobson. She has gone above and beyond to support teachers, putting in countless hours to build assessments so that they are ready to be used in Mastery Connect. Her hard work makes a huge difference, and we're so thankful for everything she does. Thank you, Elen. Bailey Johnson. Is Bailey here? Bailey Johnson from Lincoln. Bailey has done a fantastic job with assisting in giving us visuals to help our students and brainstorming to serve our

015students and staff. She is always willing to assist us, even when she has other needs to take care of throughout the building. She goes above and beyond at times, pushing into classrooms to help and assist in any way she can. Thank you, Bailey. And Jamie Fagan. All right. Uh she's at South Middle School. And Jamie is our new guided study credit recovery teacher at South. She is amazing with students. She works with all of the grades with so many classes. She does a great job communicating with teachers. She's always smiling and she's a joy to work with. We are very lucky to have her here at SMS. >> Yes, you get you get a solo photo opportunity. Everybody wants that. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. All right, >> that's back to you,

016President Herrera. >> Board celebrations. At this time, I would like to invite any board member who have who any board members who have anything or anyone they would like to highlight or give a shout out to. >> I want to give a shout out to the Belvadier South cross country team and the Belvadier Central cross country team who both competed at the state meet this last weekend. Did a great job. Very proud of them. Great to represent. I have a couple people. >> Yeah, go ahead. >> Um, so my daughter's uh teacher, Mrs. Hendrickson, at Lincoln, they needed a chaperon for a field trip they went on a couple weeks ago. It was in the conservation district and I mean, it was organized chaos. You know, the students were act like pioneers and um got

017to play with pioneer toys and do all kind of chores. But I just couldn't get over how patient she was. She was patient, professional, caring, even amongst all that chaos. She was so cool and so calm. So, I got to give her a shout out because it gave me a chance to be actually almost in a classroom and see what these teachers, you know, do each day. I just thought she was beyond professional and beyond patient with those students. So, I just got to shout her out. And one more really quickly, I got to shout out this lady to my right, Joanne, because we talked about the budget the other day for what, two and a half, almost three hours. >> Mhm. >> So, we just talked the budget, other district priorities, and you know,

018she spent three hours with Brian, too. So, she spent almost a work day educating me and this guy. So, thank you for your patience and your guidance that day. I appreciate it. That's all I've got >> crew over here. Okay. >> You've got office hours. I see. >> No, she was really gave me plenty of guidance, a lot of a lot of suggestions, a lot of things to think about. So, she's a real one. She's a good one. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? Um, I have I also have some shout outs to um to the schools that actually uh that the school that put on Hispanic Heritage Day celebrations. Had the chance to go out and I did see the one at uh Washington School. I was able to attend and thank you for

019all those that invited us invited the board to attend. Appreciate that. Um the the great celebration, great activities. Um and even a step further when we have um an administrator who's able to who's biculture and bilingual and be able to speak the language and speak in Spanish to our families that were in attendance there. So that's that's a that's a game changer I would think in our in our in our district. So uh so congratulations to to uh Mr. Vtoos who we this year is brand new to the district, brand new to Washington school. So, uh, shout out to him. Shout out to Washington, uh, with South Middle School who also held, um, activities and I can't remember if there's anything else, but thank you for all the invitations to invit inviting the board members

020for us to attend. We really appreciate that. We'd love to continue to get those invitations to come out and see the activities and be at your school. So, continue to do that and thank you. >> All right. Uh we will now have our student council report starting with Bubbier High School presented by Khloe Hill. She >> Hello, Chloe Hill and I handle public relations at VHS. And now for the reports. Mr. Walsh from Washington Academy reports, Washington Academy recently hosted our annual Hispanic Heritage Fiesta and it was on an incredible success. We are so thankful for the community, organizations, staff, and families who came together to make this event possible. The Fiesta continues to be one of our most meaningful traditions, helping to foster a strong sense of belonging and connection for our students and

021families right from the start of the school year. A second shout out goes to our staff and students for the outstanding work implementing the new benchmark reading curriculum. Classrooms are filled with collaboration, engagement, and enthusiasm as teachers and students dive into the new resource together. We're proud of the dedication and teamwork that continues to drive learning at Washington K. And then Mr. Smith has to report for Mihan Elementary School. As part of our ongoing professional development, we welcome TNT to conduct math walkthroughs and provide targeted professional learning for our staff. The training was highly valuable and was exciting to see teachers applying new strategies in their math lessons as early as the next day. Our students have also shown great success during lunch and recess. The new cafeteria tables have been a big hit and

022the structured activities through playworks have made recess book both fun and engaging. This month we also launched our reading rap initiative. Students are writing summaries of the books they read from the library and each grade level is tracking their progress to encourage a love of reading and inspire interest in new books. We're proud of the meaningful work happening every day at Nihan and look forward to the continued growth and success from our students and staff. And then Mr. Mayor from South Middle School, Hester Park SMS celebrated homecoming 8 weeks at the end of September where BHS students greeted SMS students during the morning of September 25th and then students were able to attend the evening parade. Recently, the SMS staff reviewed our fall map data and communicated scheduling options to families and students. Additionally, SMS

023students and staff will be making the panorama assessment to gather updated survey data on SEAL, social and emotional learning indicators. Finally, our fall sports season is coming to an end and each team has performed exceptionally well in their conferences. Great job, Bucks. And then Mr. Lewis from Belvier High School has to present. BHS celebrated homecoming week with our annual parade, pep assembly, dress up days, and victories in flag football and football over Boland. We celebrated our class of 2029 with freshman appreciation day which included a special assembly, the signing of the commitment to graduate banner, and a raffle at lunch. In October, we also celebrated school custodian appreciation day and world teacher day. Go Bucks. And Mr. Lola from Everest High School has no news this week. Do we have a representative tonight from Badier

024High School, North High School? Okay. We will move on to um our fiscal year and 2025 financial audit presentation with Gorens and Associates. >> Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. Tough spot to be in after the musical and the I and it's happened to me a couple years up here. So, all right. Well, my name's Cory Cowan. I'm with Gors and Associates. Uh we prepared the annual audit for the district. Uh so, wanted to um uh come in and present uh show you some different figures, kind of show you where the year was and also show you kind of uh historically where it's been over the last few years as well. Um, everyone has a copy of the audit report, uh, which is kind of a thicker copy, um, the bound copy, and then what

025just came out tonight would be the, uh, board presentation. Uh, I'll I'll be focusing on the board presentation. If anybody has any questions on the audit, I also have that here as well. So, feel free to ask away as I go here. um to start on the uh the the board presentation the packet uh as well the first page here um what we look at in in the main four main operating funds of the district uh so we we kind of start with everything back all the restricted funds out um and get down to about 73.78 million of total assets of the district uh in those four funds uh the rest of that first page there uh would be kind of the revenues and expenses for the year actual to actual actual to budget uh

026and where those ended up. Um and then at the bottom there would be the financial profile score. So uh which was a 3.55. Uh the deficit spending any type of deficit spending is always going to lower that.35. Uh long-term debt is also going to drop that 0.1. So that's where we're looking at 355. Uh that is financial recognition uh for Isby uh which is the highest category they have um on the score. Uh the next page here uh second page would be the breakdown of some of the revenues and expenditures at least a little bit of a a recap there for the last three fiscal years. Uh so you can see our revenues are at 135.9 million. Uh expenditures were at 143.7. Uh so we did have a deficit year of about 7.7 million in

027those four funds. Um revenues were relatively steady I would say uh fairly flat, right? and which was to be expected. Uh most districts were going to have relatively flat funding. Replacement taxes were down a couple million dollars, $2 million this year. Uh you know, which kind of hurts that that other local revenue there. Uh so overall, uh that 7.7 figure. Uh the next page here, uh a little bit smaller, I apologize, but uh this really gives a a more much more detailed view of all those revenue sources uh within each fund. Uh so you know 109 to 112.6 uh in the ED fund uh 9.2 uh 9.2 to 12.7 operations and maintenance. Uh some of this funding especially in operations and maintenance fund included kind of the last pieces of ESSER uh which is what

028would have been the main federal funding from the co funds uh you know really the the final year of that uh as that as that grant's uh essentially over at this point. Um overall about a 4.5% increase uh 130 to 135.9 million of revenues. The next two pages uh would just give a little more look at revenues again. Uh first one by uh current fiscal year. Uh so you know the vast majority of district uh you know funding uh typically is coming from uh real estate taxes and evidence-based funding. Uh so local and state source there. Uh the rest of it uh a fairly high a large amount of federal sources 13% uh and then other local revenue would be a lot of fees and replacement taxes, interest, investment earnings, things like that. Uh other

029state sources would be items like uh special education, um transportation, uh those those items there. Uh and then a look at where those revenues have been over the last five fiscal years. Uh so you can see uh real estate taxes uh have had a have had a steady uh increase. uh a pretty nice increase this year in FY25. Um other local revenues again those are those are really that that peak and kind of drop again is really all related to replacement taxes. We had a large large few years there and uh that's kind of come back down to to normal. Um federal sources again large chunk of that would be the funding the co funding uh from those from those co years. Uh the next few pages are going to give some more detail on

030expenditures uh by fund and by object. Um you know 125 million to 143 million of total expenditures and all operating funds combined. Uh and then you can kind of see the breakdown. Uh salaries and benefits went up about $10 million in total of that chunk. Uh and then as well as um uh you know kind of see some of the other expenditures there as well. So, uh about a 14% increase in total expenditures for the uh between 24 and 25. And then the next couple pages again are going to be uh expenditures uh for the current year and expenditures for the last 5 years. Uh so salaries and benefits uh you know salaries and benefits really any in any given district across the state are going to fall in that 70 to 75% range of

031total expenditures. Uh it's pretty pretty uh pretty spot-on. uh most every any given district that that's what we're going to see. Um and then a look over the last five years again you can see you know relatively outside of salaries and benefits uh those expenditures are are relatively steady uh when it comes to the last 5 years uh not not too many other increases outside of that. Uh the next page here would be the revenues and expenditures over the last uh 5 years. Um, you know, so again, you know, over the last few years, uh, last couple years, uh, we've been able to stay relatively close. Uh, 22 was was a pretty good year, right, as far as revenues and expenditures go. Uh, when you go back to 21, uh, is really where we got

032kind of kind of close there. So, uh, you can kind of see that flip-flop there, uh, going some expenditures higher or over the revenues this year in FY25. Um, so that's a look at last five. Uh then the operating fund balances. So again, this is where those four main operating funds have ended in June uh since 2016. Uh so you can see, you know, way back in 2016 about 52 million uh peaked at about 89 million last year and about down to 73.7 million this year. So uh you know, we're still over that 2020 2021 figure uh at that 73.7 million at this point. U then the last page here is really just to look at the uh taxes. So um you know as long as uh you know assessed valuations continue to rise uh

033and they they rose pretty uh fairly significantly last year uh real estate taxes should come in uh at a fairly uh decent uh pace. Uh there's only so much obviously you can do here uh with real estate taxes. So really based on that assessed value, uh so you can kind of see that assessed value up at 1.283 uh with a 5.1139 uh tax rate, that will be about a $2.5 million increase uh in FY26 on that levy on that on that current levy. So uh so real estate taxes are still coming in relatively steady uh from a revenue standpoint. So that's the presentation. I don't know if anybody has any questions uh or any comments other the audit report the the presentation I just presented or anything else maybe this is the question for for

034you or Joanne so it looks like our federal funding has increased in the last couple years from like >> that was the esser funding >> that's okay that's all lesser back in there so >> last year alone we had uh in the operating funds we had 6.13 million in ESSER funding that we received revenue. We would had the expenses to offset that. Okay. In the prior year, it was 7.68. Um that was just esser funding. So we had from July 1 of 24 through September 30 of uh 2024 to expend that last part of the ESSER funds. And if you recall, that was a lot of that lastm minute HVAC work that we were trying to get done um to fix South at that point and some of the projects we had going on at

035the other schools. So that was that last push um that those projects were already being done prior to that, but they hadn't reached completion. So we claimed those dollars at the last of that grant. >> Yeah. So that's a source that obviously is attached to the expenditures, right? So as we drop the revenues, obviously expenditures are going to drop with it. So, >> okay. Thank you. The >> the one thing that really jumps out is the salaries and benefits on the graph, five years. If if we didn't have year 2021 and 2022 in there, we would just think it's natural to have a a slope like this. And um so I'm curious to know what 2016 to 2020 was like. And then I'm also curious to know what 26 26 to 2030 are going to

036be like in terms of the slope on that. Um because that is a very significant and I have I have to expect that that has a part of our deficit budget and a part of what we have to reconcile in order to get back in the black on our on our budget. So, I that's kind of a loaded comment there, but what does what does the next few years or what do the next few years look like on a graph like this? >> And that's what we're working on is the forecast model that'll give you a 5-year projection. This year, it's kind of hard to give you that right now because we're getting ready to negotiate our biggest labor contract. So, uh, we have the BEA union contract coming up this spring that will be

037negotiating that. Uh, we also have our maintenance and custodial on that side. So, the other two union groups, uh, Bessa, which not Bessa, BAS, which is our clerical support, and BEST, which is our pair of professionals, we negotiated them last year, and BES, uh, BAS will come up in another year for negotiation. So, um, we're trying to do some foreplay, uh, not for planning, um, on that side. Um, I can pull the data for you if you want to see like a 10-year spread of what those look like. Um, it'd be very easy to kind of show you that trend of what that trend looked like. >> Yeah, I that would be interesting. And I mean, I I realize that the last three years everybody has everybody has experienced a just unprecedented inflation for at

038least from our generation. So, I mean, it's I expect that hopefully things hopefully we can project that things will will normalize again with normal levels of of economic inflation. So, yeah, it would it would be good to see and and I guess and I knew that you wouldn't have all the answers right now. Um, but those are just the things that jump out at me and the the answers that of course we'll all be looking for at some point >> and that is on Dr. Shugs and I's um immediate timeline frame of our next meeting is to talk about what we're doing with this next side um and getting everyone involved in the conversations um and building that timeline for what does next year look like and what does the future side look like. Um

039I do want to point out though that that capital outlay uh you see a big jump there that's at funding that was when we were doing capital projects. So, I don't want you to think that's a a normal. We would see that go back down, except you will see some increase in that as we do some of our projects, but most of those projects are going to be funded out of fund 90 and fund60. So, they wouldn't come into the operational side. This would be anything that M was paying for out of their budgets. >> The other thing that jumped out, what what is the general administration uh category? because that jumped by 350% between 24 and 25. It's in the support services general administration. It jumped from 1.29 to 4.42 from 2024 to 2029.

040Those are going to be the expansion um of our EL programming. Um the special ed services and early childhood are usually reported in our general administration. So, you'll get a report um of a waiver for administrative costs and I will outline in those of what that actual cost was because where we're projecting them to be next year, which of course you're going to see a big jump this year uh when we do this for this year because we added the additional special ed coordinators and the EL coordinators and the career readiness coordinate, you know, those are all falling into that general administration. So then this value that we see in 25 is going to it's going to be consistent 2026 27 there was just a big jump to to sure those support >> right and

041that was um there was also the component that they were not classifying me in general administration it was also classifying me directly in finance which was not really appropriate. So he moved me into the um general administration because I don't just oversee finance and I felt like it was kind of playing on wording. So I moved it where it should be in the reporting side. >> Oh, so there's some other >> Yeah, it's reclassifying things where they really should be so that we're reporting correctly on our AFR. >> Okay. part of that uh Julian would be the um the all the movement of the to the community foundation. >> Oh, that's going to be a large. Okay, >> thank you for that. That would be the >> removing all the uh >> all the scholarships

042that we were doing. We moved that money to the Boone County Community Foundation to administer those. So, we had, you know, um the Pratt, the Mian, the Mung, and the $2.8 8 million in um the miles account that were moved out of our general ledger and into the Boone County Community Foundation for that. >> What was the total on that? >> 2.8 million. >> 2.8. Okay. >> Thank you, Cory. >> Yeah. So, that would obviously >> have a big impact on that number. >> Yep. >> Okay. And then Brian um Mr. Hecky. Um, we do have a little bit of a insight into the salaries and benefits for the 2026 school year. It was presented to us last month. It's going to be around about 108 total. 108 million or so. There's about 88 84

043million in salaries and benefits is 24 25 million. That's just that's not in the information that received. just what >> right what budget was last last >> last month with kind of what >> the budget for 2020 we have a little bit of insight into mix the salary numbers for this coming year but um beyond that >> you know we don't so but just kind of so we we do have some of that >> that's kind of your view backwards your budget was your view forward so when I filled in those yeartoyear comparisons with the budget documents last month that was those were taking their budgeted financials to what we were budgeting in this side. So knowing where we would end for this year, but building out those projections for you for the next 5

044to 10 years is where Cassandra and I are headed to be able to paint you that picture, you know, whatever it looks like at this point and how we're going to navigate that. Look >> forward to it. >> That's one of us. >> So are there any other questions for Corey? All right. Any other questions for Corey or Joanne? >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you for your work. >> All right. Have a good night everybody. >> Thank you. >> We will now have our board committee report starting with the educational services on October 1st. Does anyone have any questions for Dr. Carson, Dr. J Dr. Johnson regarding the minutes from the meeting? Okay, seeing none, we'll move on to business services on October 7th. Mrs. Hul or Mr. Hempky, do you have anything

045you would like to highlight or share from the business services committee minutes? >> We know a lot about solar, >> more than I ever thought I would know. I feel very prepared to make a decision. >> That's awesome. >> You amazing. >> No, we obviously we had some really good discussion. I mean, between the last board meeting and or the yeah, the last board meeting and this last business services meeting, there was a lot of behindthe-scenes work that was done to um help to normalize some of the early information we had received from Solar on Earth to some of the information we received in RFP. And um in the end we felt comfortable that we got normalized information and we were able to look at things from apples to apples and um the the components

046of our electric purchase that are eligible and the components that were ineligible were all accounted for appropriately. And um even though the the savings could have been more with a different vendor, we felt that the risk was higher because it was spread out across multiple, you know, yet to be sanctioned, yet to be completed farms compared to just a couple. In the end, we went with the the recommendation we were going to go with at the last board meeting. So it if there's any questions about it, be happy to have an answer. But hopefully I gave you a little bit of confidence that that we we did our due diligence. Any questions or comments for Mrs. Hal or Mr. Hempky regarding business services? Okay, moving on to possibly sorry, policy and personnel uh committee on

047October 16th. Mrs. Yunk or Mr. Piggy, do you have anything you would like to highlight or share with the from the policy and personnel committee minutes? >> We got an idea as to how the portal works at the high school level. It's used for filtering data for specific classes. So, me and Barbie got a firstand look at how that works and it's a pretty cool tool. So, I'm excited to see that continue to get implemented in this in the high school level. Thank you. Any questions for Mrs. H I'm Mrs. Yunk or Mr. Piggy? Um I noticed the there's one policy about board approval for expenditures. Is is I didn't see is that up is that just a first read right now? >> Yes. >> 4.150. >> Yes. Um, >> so first read, >> but

048did you have any questions? We can certainly respond to any questions. >> Um, yeah, I'm I'm curious as to I Well, the questions are related to what exactly is being changed and why? >> Yeah. >> Mr. Armstrong, do you want to speak to that? >> Explain it better. So um the recommendation for the change is um in the press policy this um mirrors press policy 100%. But in the press policy they can it contains optional language that could be included or not included. Um the optional language is uh prior board approval is needed for all renovations and permanent alterations to building and grounds where the total cost will exceed one or $17,500 including the cost equivalent of staff time. That is optional in the press policy. It was included in our language. Um, the concern

049with having that in there is we have policy 460 that talks about our contracts and how we bring bids and contracts anything above $35,000 to to board. So, this is half of that amount. With the amount of renovations and work that we're doing in the facility master plan, if we were to bring everything at $17,500, that would dramatically uh slow work down because we'd be waiting for committee meeting and then be waiting for a board meeting to approve any of that. Uh the one example I gave is we just planted two memorial trees at our sites. By the time I take the purchase of the two trees, the installation cost, and the time of our our team that prepared the sites, we would have been in excess of that, probably closer to $20,000. Um, and

050that would have delayed that project further. Um, and I was honest with the policy. I did not know this was in the policy, so we have not been following it by any means. And so, um, if the decision is to leave that language in there, um, I just caution that it will slow, especially right now while we're doing all these projects, that any renovation, um, that we're doing, we already know we're bringing $35,000 to the board for any consideration. This would take that amount in half because the majority of the work is going to classify as permanent building changes or renovations. And so, uh, with it being indicated as optional by press, I we were making the recommendation to have it pulled out, um, and keeping it in line with policy 460 where it's everything

051at $35,000 we'll bring forward. I would have I wouldn't have thought that items approved in the master plan, I guess, would have fallen into the category that would have to be approved on a >> on a per incident or per invoice basis like this. I'm so I'm concerned about deleting it for per invoice type things, not master plan type. >> Okay. They're kind of unilaterally they have they would go hand in hand. It's either the policy for uh facility management and building programs or it's not. Um the problem with the facility master plan and how that was approved is that you approve the concepts and the projects that we're doing, but every single project cost when we do the design and we go out to bid for who's going to do that work. Everything over

052$35,000 has to be brought to you. So, this would limit that that if there was a section that we were going to do like changing out um water softeners or doing things like that that wouldn't necessarily meet that 35,000, it may hit this that I would then have to bring to you guys at every uh turn. So, it you can't carve out that it only applies to this versus the master plan because you're still approving every single project individually on the facility master plan. you the board approved us to go down this direction with these projects, but you still have to approve every single project individually. >> Yeah. In other words, the the master plan, we're approving the road map for the first three years, but the individual projects still have to come before the

053board, >> right? >> Yeah. And the the follow-up sentence on that press policy is the policy is not intended to discourage or efforts to improve the appearance or buildings or grounds that are consistent with the designated use of the buildings and grounds. So that is why that is labeled optional in my opinion is they're not trying to belabor that process. Um but uh the other side with our uh 460 policy for purchasing and contracts um it is very clear with the $35,000 threshold of what you're bidding and what you are bringing to approval whether you bid it or you just get quotes. You've got to bring that forward. Uh by removing this that would put that consistent where we're not trying to keep track of different amounts of what has to come to the board.

054It's like I said, I didn't even know this existed until we were reviewing all the policies, which is why we review them every year. But um this year I took every press policy and check word for word on what is press and what isn't. And so at committee we reviewed all the non-press policies. Um and this is the only policy that we were bringing forward that there was a recommendation of change um for any including the non-press policies that we have. Does that answer your question? >> We did talk about this particular thing at committee and there is the the thought process that with a deficit spend we should be transparent and all you know higher ticket items should be brought. Um, I am glad it came up now too because I do think it's

055important for the entire board to be comfortable with this and not just approve it without discussion. I guess >> yeah, there's a feeling that when when we've suddenly had a a first deficit budget pres presented to us and that we would reduce our oversight of expenditures for permanent improvements. Um, but I don't know the impact that it has on administrating the district really because I don't know does that is it a significant burden? >> I know it's a it's an extra burden but is it a significant burden to have to do that for a meantime for >> for >> I mean it will slow the process down. I mean we will not be able to get projects done as quickly uh because it will have to come to committee. it will have to go through

056board for approval. So that's a full month of us doing this. This does not require us to bid it. It doesn't require an RFP. Um and the purchasing contracts is basically anything that isn't budgeted that we didn't budget in the budget has to come for your approval no matter what. So this would be for budgeted money that we've already spent or that we've already allocated to projects or facility upgrades that we would be bringing forward uh for that purpose. And um Miss Yunk actually brought up in the meeting is that she goes, "I know in the grander scheme of it, it see $17,500 seems like a lot of money. It is not in a $140 million budget." And so if we're we spend that on paper in in a month, um you know, and I

057know those are consumable supplies. I'm not trying to minimize it. Um but it would significantly impact us. Like I said, I couldn't have planted two trees um in a memorial without coming to you guys for the committee and the board. Um it's absolutely doable, but it would be an administrative um slowdown as for in my opinion that we would be able to get things done. >> Just to put things in context, we one of the water heaters went out at one of my one of my buildings. We have two water heaters in the building. So for me to wait to change that out because I can't come to you and say I have no hot water. I have hot water. This is kind of a backup. But that water heater was uh almost $19,000. And

058if if we were to take all the projects that meet that 175 threshold, now I'm kind of banking up these projects until board approval. So now I've got eight projects that I have to do now versus along, you know, along the bump way. So Mrs. Armstrong is right. 17,500 doesn't buy much at all. We bought we purchased uh extra clocks for the buildings. That was $15,000 and we didn't buy a lot of clocks. So in the context of slowing things down administratively absolutely but from our end uh it could have a significant impact on the uh uh on the buildings. >> So you're talking purchasing clocks but I mean this says for all renovations or permanent alterations. I I can't imagine a clock is >> but what I'm getting at though is when you talk

059about per alterations that could mean anything. uh you know, let's say that uh somebody's heater went off in their classroom. Could I get by with it? Yeah, absolutely. But it's that constant thing of me having to justify it as an emergency. So now I'm going to go from uh doing projects on a timely basis, but now everything is a emergency to get past S75. And when I look first looked at this policy, it's it contradicts the 35 >> 460, >> right? You know, it just like Donald Trump said, could we do it? Yes. But I don't think in today's world with the with the tariffs and everything else and the price of everything, I just don't think it's realistic for um us to keep things done in a timely manner. and what we could look

060at as an alternative if there isn't there then maybe a clearer definition of what you consider permanent alterations because by is standard or permanent alteration is painting I mean interior painting that's permanent alteration of the walls it's putting in new flooring um so any of those things like we have flooring in cafeterias as part of the master plan things um you know I could probably get smaller room areas done at less than that cost but we would be bringing those things. Um, you know, if if the board wants that oversight, like I said, we can do it. But I would want a much clearer definition of what this board considers permanent alterations and renovations because to me, anything um that we're doing in our buildings, replacing lighting, um, you know, replacing the LED lights, um,

061is very easily over this $17,000. That's a permanent and it's a renovation. So what we want to classify that we would have to we can expand this language if we want to keep this in here. Um I would ask that we clarify that just like we clarified in a prior policy that was in >> and I can never say that word but it was unclear of what um dimminitive value was. I I wanted it defined. So we said anything over $5,000. So now I know what the board thinks dimminitive value is. If we need to look at that type of language, um I would ask I would bring this policy back with asking the board to give me a definition of what they consider >> um renovations and permanent alterations to buildings because everything I

062do in a building that is static, >> I believe that's a renovation or it's a permanent alteration of the building because if I replace one thing with another thing, it's permanent. uh the water heaters, the water softeners, the sinks, the bathroom stalls, all of those things are permanent fixtures and I would classify them into this. So, if I uh want to redo a bathroom uh to like central office, if we redid the bathroom, that wouldn't cost me $35,000, but it would definitely cost me over $17,500. >> So, we can take this back. Uh so, we have a second read next month. We can take it back. being talk at committee level again regarding that I do think it is important to note uh that the consistent number is nice and but also that these are

063items that are already allocated in the budget so this is not new spending that we haven't accounted for these would be things that had already been approved in the budget uh at the at the beginning of the fiscal year >> in the deficit budget and it is a deficit budget >> so I mean I think I mean the clarification could just be something related to disc if it's a discretionary I mean when I'm spending my own money you know I've got my discretionary ability to spend but then I've got the things that I have to spend money on so it's just the discretionary nature of it is subjective and everybody has their own opinion on what is acceptable discretionary spend and what is >> not necessary. So maybe there's some language that can >> we

064will bring come up with some language to >> we will bring it back to policy and personnel and see what language clarifications we can come up with and then bring it back next month. >> Okay, any other questions for and we were still on policy and personnel committee reports um and we kind of dove into a little bit of the first reading of policy for colon 150 which we just discussed. Any other questions, comments around that? Okay. See none. We we'll move on. Any questions, comments regarding first reading of policy colon 130, school district philosophy. Okay, moving on. Any questions regarding policy 2 col 230 public participation at schoolboard meetings and petitions to the school board. Okay. And moving on, uh we did cover just a minute ago first reading of policy 4 col 150

065management, sorry, facility management and building programs. Any further questions on that? >> You don't want to cover it again. Not sure we missed anything. >> All right. At this time, members of the public, employees of district 100 may make public comments. As a reminder, any person appearing before the board is expected to address the board only at the appropriate time and follow the directives of the board president to maintain order and decorum, identify oneself, limit comments to three minutes, and conduct oneself with respect towards others and abide by board policy 8 colon 30 visitors to and conduct on school property. Mr. Zickert, would you like to come up at this time? not used to this. Um, first of all, you know, when we talk about following press policy, if we want to really follow the

066real press policy, I'd be up here five minutes instead of three. That was press policy says five, but a few years ago, our board president decided three was better when only one person was talking all the time. I am encouraged by some of the discussion here. For some of you who were on the board before, remember the 600,000 $600,000 facility study that may remind you of some things we need to keep an eye on from time to time. We talk about deficit spending. I can say I talked about this well over a year ago that we were going to be here. Not sure anybody wanted to listen back then because we were pretty flush with money back then and we never had a deficit in a long time. So those people that build up that

06789 million in the bank, your legacy will be part of when it goes that 89 million keeps going down because anybody that thinks we're going to get more federal money coming in is misinformed. I mean, read the papers idea. Look what the federal government's going to pay out. That's only 8 to 10% of the budget, but 8 to 10% of our budgets $13 million or more. So that's a lot of money. Um when we look at our budget surplus that went down almost 20% this year. Not quite. It was like 18 something was a significant amount of money and probably the largest percentage it's gone down in the last years that I've known which is at least 20. So I think we need to pay attention to that. I also think we need to look

068at prioritization which I spoke about a lot before. We need to prioritize our spending. I mean you're they're right. The teachers contract is the biggest thing coming up. That's by far in a way the biggest contract. The last contract they got I I was on that committee and I think they it was a very fair one. I think people that complain about that I still think it was fair. But I also know that they're going to look at when we talk about that $10 million increase. They're going to want to ask how much of that $10 million was added jobs and how many of it was based on that contract. How much did the contract go up? And when we passed that contract, we were assured that we're okay, that we were going to be

069fiscally responsible passing that back then. So I think what we need to look at is priorities. I prioritize boots on the ground, kids that directly things that are directly affect students, but I think what you guys talk about whether build new things and new projects that I know you talked about today, I'm not advocating for or against it. I'm just saying make sure that that's your priority over something else because typically we've done in the past is we'll cut we'll cut and then we'll start adding stuff back up. We add up with a bigger number we had to start with. Last thing because I know they have a lot of time is academic achievement. I talk a lot about that. I worked at a school in dual language who I know their demographics aren't any

070different than ours. So I I challenge you when the when the embargo wins in a couple in a few days, look at the test scores from Barbara Barbara K through 12 school, compare them to Central and Seth Whitman and look at what can be done with a program. The guy that runs that program lives in the Bel or he lives in Candowick. So I mean we have a local resource we could ask to how to pull off a successful program that scores academically well has high attendance rates, high growth rate and high academic success. So I mean I think those are things instead of getting outside consultants maybe we look at the people around here and utilize that too. Thank you. >> Thank you Mr. Zicker. Is there anyone else that would like to address

071the board at this time? Good evening. My name is Laura Davis and I've worked district for 24 years and I've been at BHS. My husband, he works over at North and we have three boys who are also in the district as well and we love our community. We love the schools and we're very dedicated. So, we've got our, you know, uh, heart and soul here in the district as we're looking at all these different things with numbers and we have our negotiations coming up. Um, in my household, I'm looking at a lot of different numbers as well. Family of five, uh, we are spending minimum $3,000 a month on food. That's 30 days a month. That's a $100 a day. That's $20 a person. That's about six and maybe a half bucks per person to

072eat a meal. So $ 650 per meal if you were to divide it out. Some days you can budget that down. Some days it's higher. And then, you know, you try to make ends meet in between. We're also looking at registration fees for each of our children in the district. Uh that looks at $600 plus for each sport for each child. Uh we're going to add in another 120. That's if they only play one sport, but we want them to grow and to do as much as they can. And that's again coming from someone who's just regular mom working in the district. We're both trying to make ends meet and and that's what we're looking at with just food. Um we're very grateful that the state was able to help us with the breakfast and

073the lunch. They're hungry. There are three hungry boys. So it it takes quite a bit. Um and with those hungry boys, uh two of them did go to state. So I'd like to thank uh you guys and thank the district for supplying them with a meal. So, they were so excited. Um, if you ever just want to see the goodness in kids or the goodness in people, go to a cross country meet. Um, cuz that's where it's at. Everybody's cheering for everyone. It's really a cool thing. And it doesn't matter, you know, if your dad's the coach or you're this or that. It's your time and everybody's pushing as hard as they can. It's a really cool thing. Even when we went to state, the community embraced it. At the end of driveways, they had

074signs saying, "Good luck runners, free water." I mean, it's a a really cool thing. Um, people just cheering for people who are trying hard and, uh, love that. So, so thank you for helping them with it. So, that's what we're looking at this year as well. Um, thank you for listening and taking those things into consideration. So, I appreciate it. >> Thank you, Mrs. Davis. Anyone else? >> Oh, yeah. >> Would like to address the I only need three minutes. Um, first I wanted to share with the board that every month we will have different members of our union who will be attending. Just so that you know that the BEA is more than just my boring face, but we have this month Seth Whitman is here to represent us. And you'll see the red

075shirts out there every month. Um, I wanted to just mention he mentioned the EAV when he was standing up here a minute ago. My t my um estimated value of my house went up 40% this year. So, I want a lot of bang for my buck. Um, but you were asking about the increase and I just wanted to mention that our last contract before this one had a 0% raise, 1% raise, 0% raise, 1% raise, and then with COVID, we got a $1,000 raise. So, this last contract was a lot more generous, 5544, but we needed that. We we'd been plateaued for a while. So, yes, it was plateaued in the budget, but it was plateaued for us as well. Um, and this contract has not given us a deficit. We're ending this year and

076she doesn't have a we don't have a deficit right now. It's for predicting for the next one. So, this this contract with the generous raise, our district is doing fine and we are um keeping our teachers happy with that. We have no desire to put our district into a deficit with the next contract and we will definitely have that in mind when we're going into it. We study this AFR and budget just as much as um anybody else does. Um and I just want to emphasize that the the budget is always a prediction. And I've been here for almost 30 years. We used to have a a CFO who loved to do predictions. Every year is a deficit and never had one. Every year he's a deficit def. It was the the sky is falling.

077I don't think that's happening this year, but I do just want you to keep in mind that a budget is a prediction. It's not a forecast for sure. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Taylor. Anyone else would like to address the board at this time? >> Okay, seeing none. Next on the agenda are agenda items. Are there any items on the consent agenda any members of the board would like to take out first step for consideration? I will take out number three. >> Okay. Number three, personnel report. Anything else? Okay. >> Do we have a motion and a second to approve all consent agenda agenda items not requested to be pulled as presented? >> I move. >> Second. >> Okay. Member Hemi made a motion. Member Hal seconded the motion to approve all consent agenda

078items not requested to be pulled as presented. discussion. Roll call, please. Oh, thank you. At this time, I would like to acknowledge the following donations. Pallet of assorted paper from lineage for Washington Academy students and staff. Saxophone from an anonymous parent donor for Beladier Central Middle School Music Department. $400 from Belvadier Masonic Lodge for Belvadier North High School Scholastic Bowl. Yamaha clarinet valued at $600 from Lisa Wright for Belvadier Central Middle School Music Department. Auto and construction tools and supplies from Belvadier Napa auto parts store from B for Belvadier High School and Belvadier North School auto and construction classes. A 2002 GMC Sierra 1500 from Lori Beach for Badir High School automotive department. and a 2008 Ford Escape from Mike and Stephanie Christopherson for Belvadier High School automotive department. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr.

079Hempy. >> Hi. >> Mrs. H. >> Hi. >> Mr. Domeire. >> Hi. >> Mr. Piggy. >> Hi. >> Mr. Mueller. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Young. >> Hi. >> Mr. Herrera. >> I. Do I have a motion and a second to approve agenda item number three, personnel report as presented? >> I'll make a motion. >> Okay, >> I second. >> Okay, member Dies Meyer made the motion. Member Hempy seconded the motion to approve the consent agenda item number three as presented. Discussion. >> Okay, roll call. >> Mr. Domeer. >> I. >> Mr. Hempky. >> I. Mrs. Young >> abstain. >> Mr. Piggy >> hi. >> Mrs. H. >> Hi. >> Mr. Mueller. >> Hi. >> Mr. Herrera. >> Abstain. >> Okay. Motion passes. [Applause] Okay. Proclamation for Okay. Proclamation for American Education Week, November 17th through

080the 21st, 2025. Do I have a motion and a second to adopt the proclamation for American Education Week, November 17 through the 21st, 2025, as presented? >> I make the motion. >> Second. >> Okay. Member Diesel Meyer made the motion and member Hul seconded the motion to adopt the proclamation for American Education Week November 17th through the 21st, 2025 as presented. discussion. >> This is a wonderful opportunity to recognize public education. I always strongly encourage uh you to take advantage of this opportunity to reach out to uh to the teachers who make a difference in your children's lives as well as everyone else who works in our schools. Uh this is really uh a celebration of the importance of public education in the United States. And I appreciate uh the board's support of this uh

081proclamation. Any further comments, questions? Seeing none. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Domeer, >> I. >> Mrs. H. >> Hi. >> Mr. Piggy. >> Hi. >> Mr. Hamky. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Young. >> Hi. >> Mr. Mueller. >> I. >> Mr. Herrera. >> Hi. >> Motion passes. >> Do I have a motion and a second to approve the 2025 2020 through 2026 schoolards as presented? So moved. You can have it. >> Do Do we have a second? >> Second. Okay. >> All right. Member Peggy made the motion. Member Hal seconded the motion to approve the 2025 to 2026 schoolcards as presented. Discussion. >> Yeah, I I noticed that there were no board members at the Ed services meeting this last month. So were any did any board members who are on that committee did they have

082any questions or about the >> Dr. Johnson? Do you want to speak to that? >> I Yeah, I'm being asked to approve something that I don't even know that my other board members who are on the committee had had a chance to to ask questions about and get get a good >> presentation on. So >> yeah. Yeah, no problem. Um yeah, I can speak to it. Um so our school scorecards are directly aligned to the district scorecard uh which the board had an opportunity to approve um last month. Um so once we identify those two top strategies then the school improvement teams and building administration work on their school scorecard so that their work is personalized to their school but still in direct alignment with the overall um district goals. Um the elementary teams work

083very closely together as do the two middle and then the two high school just to ensure that at each level we're being consistent with um our efforts but yet they're able to personalize their strategies on how to get there because their student populations can look a little bit different. Um, but yes, to your point, we presented it at at ED services. Um, and you know, went through I would say with our strategic plan being in year three, um, we don't tend to get as many questions at at ED services because everybody's like, "Oh, yeah, okay, yep, they're up. This is what they're working on." Um, it's often a continuation of some of the goals that they already have been working on. they're just kind of upping their measurements, um, fine-tuning things because a lot of

084school improvement takes anywhere from 3 to 5 years. Um, so I think on a lot of these it just shows the continuation year over year um, of some of the things that they've been working on. >> So this update happens once a year. >> Yep. So this was your once a year update reflecting on >> correct >> how well you did >> with your goal last year and >> making a tweak. >> Yes. And we spend a great deal of time on this. So we uh meet with administration typically at the end of the school year where we reflect on the data points that we can. Then we have an administrative retreat over the summer where we further dig into what um we're going to have in terms of our district scorecard goals and the

085principles then work from there to in teams at that time uh to work on their school scorecard goals. Then the principles take that back to their uh their school improvement teams where they further refine that language. They meet individually with Dr. Johnson and Dr. Carson and then I meet with Dr. Carson and Dr. Johnson and each individual principal and we go over each one of their scorecard goals uh together uh and we play it back from our five-year goals back to what each individual goal should be. So that's what each percentage is based on uh so that we can accomplish those fiveyear goals. >> Nice. Thank you. >> Absolutely. >> Rep prioritizing your true north for the year and that's exactly right. you don't I don't doubt you do a great job at it. So,

086>> but So, thanks. >> Oh, absolutely. It's Well, and it's Yeah, it is a cycle and part of the process that we go through every year and like I said, our principles do a really wonderful job. >> Yeah. >> Go ahead. >> I didn't ask cuz I didn't doubt what they were. >> I'm glad you did ask because, you know, I appreciate I rely completely on the the people that are at the committee meetings to and I weren't able >> weren't able to make the last the last meeting. I was I was out of town and he was hard at work. >> But I I can just add that u we've had some really good discussions in some of the prior committee meetings and I I think I have a much better understanding of the

087goal setting and and then the strategies that we're implementing to try to move the needle on those goals. Um so I I feel much more comfortable with that. >> Thanks, Jeff. >> Well, and I just want to say too, I appreciate you guys' patience with us. new people who are still trying to learn what all this stuff is. So if we ask a question, it's not we just are trying to learn. >> Oh yeah. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. And we we are happy to talk about especially things like this where we have really built processes in place and I think we have a lot of ownership on our team about the work that's happening uh to support those processes. So these are these are questions we are happy to answer and we'll answer deeper on

088December 15th meeting when Dr. Johnson will dig into all of that. >> That's a good point. And and a lot of our district goals as well as our school scorecards are aligned to what you'll see come out for some of that data. >> It'll be exciting. >> Yeah. And we we rely on dividing and concrete. So when I saw that nobody nobody in there was there. >> Yeah, we failed. >> Not failure. Not failure. Michelle, >> it's good. It's a good question to ask. Absolutely. >> For sure. >> Thank you, Dr. Johnson, for answering those that those questions on the uh school school cards. Any other further questions, comments, discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Piggy, >> I >> Mrs. H. Hi, >> Mr. Mueller. >> Hi, >> Mr. Hky. >> Hi, >> Mrs.

089Young. >> Hi, >> Mr. Domeer. >> I >> Mr. Herrera, >> I motion passes. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the portrait of a graduate research study proposal as presented? >> Can you just give us a little more detail as to what this is? >> Yes, but probably we should do a motion in a second and then discuss into that. >> I move. Okay. >> I'll second. >> All right. >> Okay. Member member member Hempy made the motion. Member Yn seconded the motion to approve the portrait of a graduate research study proposal as presented. Discussion please. >> All right. Absolutely. Uh so Dr. Carson is the mastermind behind this particular research study. You've seen research studies come before you uh in the past including our elementary schedule study uh and our

090early childhood research study, our inclusion research study. This is typically the format we use to bring a question we have to the board uh at the beginning of the process and then we bring it back at the end of the process to approve whatever recommendations uh we are going to make to the board. Uh so the research study proposal in here is really to define our portrait of a graduate. When we did our strategic plan uh we created a portrait of a graduate as well as the portrait of an adult in the system. uh we wanted to really try to say what is it that we are hoping um in terms of graduating our students what would we want them to look like and we had a list of characteristics that is a part of

091that um while we've been working through this strategic plan as Dr. Johnson noted over these past three years, we really haven't drilled into what does that portrait of a graduate really mean to us and how does that align with our strategic plan goals and the work of the district. Um, and so we really wanted to do that and Dr. Carson really wanted to do that uh by empowering student voice. Uh so this is going to be not only a research study that'll look at what is it that we want our student graduates to look like um but to also have that uh led out by our students who are current students right now. Uh so I think it's going to be a very uh powerful next step in operationalizing uh that part of the strategic

092plan that again really looks like what do we want our students who are graduating out of district 100 to look like uh and give those students really um an empowering voice to make that discussion um as as relevant to them uh as well as future forward thinking as possible. uh you can see the details here for that research study proposal. Dr. Carson couldn't be here this evening. I know uh he would be speaking to it much more eloquently than I am because again he is uh really got um I think his heart deeply invested in this uh particular project. We are looking for a board member to serve on this team. If you are interested in doing so, we would love that. Um and you can see uh the charge for the team and the

093work that we're anticipating there in the uh research study as well. other questions. >> I would say his presentation, if you're able to click in, the presentation is a just a nice quick walk through. >> Um, but he does plan on training up our students on um leading some of those focus groups. Excited for that. >> Yeah. And thank you, Dr. Johnson. Yes. The presentation walks through all of it uh in some really nice detail as well. And that's what Dr. Carson shared at the um at the ad services committee meeting. So, and maybe I'm missing where it's at in here. Where is click the blue link that says presentation? >> It's if you if you click on approve the research study proposals. I I'm still learning this this platform as well. >> I know

094it's crazy. >> Um that should bring up where there's more to it. I just I saw the one that said it was gonna be 35,000 to $50,000 is that that's not where >> No, this is cost like what >> there this is no cost. This is a free effort. Uh if there are costs that are associated with it, they would come back to the board. >> Not quick on the do you see Can you pull up the can you pull up the presentation? I think it's a really really cool initiative to get the students involved in painting that vision for what does success look like. >> That's essentially what it is. >> And you are exactly right. Made me forget my motion and everything. >> Like what? >> Not only getting them to, you know,

095put their handprint on it, but also get experience working in committees and >> yeah, >> um just just a lot of good things that could come out of that. So >> yeah, I think really engaged in a leadership opportunity outside of what their uh normal experiences and engagements would be. I I do and I love that. Yeah. What would success look like is exactly what we're trying to get at. >> What was the cross-section of the committee that developed the graduate portrait that we currently have? Because that's a really good one, too. I mean, it's really good. So I'm just wondering is this a broader cross-section of uh >> so the strategic planning group which was about 50 stakeholders from uh M Piggy was a part of that uh Miss Hul were you on that

096team miss Mr. Herrera was there. Uh staff, students, uh community members, all were representative of that. I don't know that we will necessarily move away from some of the terms of language there, but it'll really be about what does that mean to us? So, if this is the description of a portrait of a graduate, how is it that we're going to evidence that? What does that look like? >> Oh, is that what this >> He calls it operationalizing. It is a term he uses. really how does the rubber hit the road. >> Okay, that's cool. Okay, one step further than correct bullet points on a >> correct very very much so. It's not just, you know, value statements, bullets on a piece of paper. It's >> if this is what we want our graduates to

097look like, how are we going to make that happen? Um, and and we might change some of the descriptors, add some, revise some, but the goal is really to make it >> operationalize it, to make it meaningful. Um, yeah. Where does the rubber hit the road? Exactly. >> You might hyper prioritize some. Sometimes it's hard because people are worried if a word is left off. They're like, "Well, you're not doing that." It's like, "Okay, well, we'll leave those, but let's maybe hyper prioritize some." Could be another avenue >> that the group could go. >> Yeah. Awesome. >> Great questions. >> Dr. Carson would be so happy to have uh uh to have you interested and engaged uh in in this I think really meaningful work. >> This is what it's all about. >> Yeah. >>

098It really is. >> All right. Any further questions, comments? >> Is it really going to cost us 35 to 50 grand? >> It is not. That's what I said. >> Where is that? >> I saw that too. >> Thank you. I know. It does say it on that. >> Well, it's under the alternative choices, but >> he's got the alternatives and then he's got total cost of zero because >> there's nothing there. So, door number two, I don't Well, I don't know why it says there, but it is 0. We're committing zero dollars, not 17,500. No dollars are being choic. >> We're doing that for your hourly rate. >> That is accurate. That is >> That's right. It is exactly right. All right. Any further comments? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Hempy. >> Hi,

099>> Mrs. Young. Hi, >> Mr. Piggy. >> Hi, >> Mr. Mueller. >> Hi, >> Mrs. H. >> Hi, >> Mr. Diesel. >> I >> Mr. Herrera. >> Hi. >> Okay, motion passes. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the North Data Center refresh as presented? >> I move. >> Second. >> Okay. Member Hempy made the motion. Member Hal seconded the motion to approve the North Data Center refresh with uh Nanix in the amount of 91,396.17 as presented. Any questions? We have uh Mr. Tyler Bell here to answer any questions if you have any questions around this. >> Just a background. Uh last year we upgraded our southside to Nanix. This will give us some um redundancy on both sides of town. Um and it also stem stem from our idea that VMware

100um has increased their prices. They were bought by Broadcom. Their pricing is going up and it went up significantly this past year. So over the five-year plan, it will be a cost savings. It's just initial upfront is coming out of the technology budget uh this year. >> Any questions for Mr. Bell? Okay. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Hempy. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Hulk. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Young. >> Hi. >> Mr. Miller. >> I. >> Mr. Domeire. >> I. >> Mr. Piggy. >> Hi. >> Mr. Herrera. >> Hi. >> Okay. Motion passes. Do I have a mo do we have a motion and a second to approve the community solar as presented? >> I move. >> I second. >> Okay. Member Hempy made the motion. Member Hal seconded the motion to approve the community

101solar with next amp as presented. Discussion. >> So that was 10% reduction. Is that what we finally came up with? >> It was 10%. Yes. On deliverance supply for So it's it's split. Any meter that meters over 400 kilowatts is not >> eligible for supply but isn't eligible for delivery. And there's four of those meters. The two high schools, the two middle schools are not eligible for the supply side. So there's a big portion that's not eligible, but still it's a big savings. It's 80,000 a year or more of savings. And did the people that brought it to us before in the first time they didn't include that in the >> not in there? Not several months ago. No. >> Yeah. >> But they adjusted their figures subsequently within the last couple weeks. >> That

102was my question. Like what changed between now and the last time we met? Was it just updated figures? Sounds like >> there was some information that was shared with the board kind of at the 11th hour prior to our board meeting. Not enough time to review verify um with our partners on this. Um so that's that's primary my opinion that's primary the reason why we pulled it back a little bit to take it back to committee review verify some information and come back. And to that note, I do want to say that I think we followed our normal protocol which is you know we go to RP and we ask participants to participate in that and if you don't you don't and so we evaluate the the information that is available that was brought forth

103for those participants that did decide to participate in the RFP and then we evaluate that going forward. Um, and so I think that's how we ultimately came to the consensus at, uh, at the last business services committee early this month. So, um, I don't know if I answered that question. >> No, it sounds it makes sense. >> Okay. And I don't know, Brian, if you wanted to add any more to that or >> No, it was just it was just getting the same information from all parties and it it really was to to really understand apples to apples what what it means and they were still offering uh a little greater savings but at what we thought was a little greater risk. No. And thanks to Joanne for for uh just being the the focal

104point, the point of contact. Had to deal with with everything. You did it very professionally and graciously. So, thank you. Um you really helped out. Appreciate it. >> I I do want to comment that we do we did have a a separate attorney with experience review and solar contracts to review the the the next amp uh the contracts that will be coming forth on that. So, you know, there's some recommendations that will be worked on through that, but I think at this point we're just we're working on approving community solar with Nex Amp and then the contracts will will be ironed out later. >> So, if the board goes ahead and approves this um community solar with Nex Amp, then our usual practice is I will start negotiating the contract with um the vendor to

105make sure if there's some edits or changes we want to make. Um the edits that and recommendations that came from the solar attorney as well as the district attorney were very relevantly the same um at most levels. And so they're just things that you know making sure that we know it's a 20-year contract and can we negotiate that down a little bit. So I will start doing some of that negotiation um to work the best deal that we can get and save us um any liability side on that side. So, um, if the board is comfortable with that, we will go ahead and do that based on the vote that's made. >> Any further questions, comments? >> Okay. See none. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Hemi. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Help. >> Hi. >> Mrs.

106Young. >> Hi. >> Mr. Diesel. >> Hi. >> Mr. Mueller. >> Hi. >> Mr. Piggy. >> Hi, >> Mr. Herrera. Hi. >> Motion passes. Okay. Do I have a motion in a second to approve the MOA for high school data analysis project as presented? >> Can I make one comment? I'm sorry. I would like to thank Becky Thompson from NIA Energy for helping us navigate this process we've been going through since June. I would I apologize for breaking >> no chain of thought, but she has traveled to be with us many times to have this conversation and she has really helped us drive through from someone who doesn't do business with the district, is not one of our normal contractors. She has been more than willing to show up and help us understand and learn

107more about community solar. So, I do very much appreciate your contributions and your help navigating this for us. Without you, I would not have been able to make as much sense of it for our board members. So, thank you very much, Miss Thompson. >> Thank you, Mrs. Thompson. And yes, she was one of the partners that we were working with to try to get all this figured out and ironed out. So, yes, your your your your efforts to this was very very >> I forgot you were here because I can't see you, but >> yeah, the podium's in the way. So, I'm sorry for interrupting. >> No, no worries. Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. So, do we have a motion in a second to approve the MOA for high school data analysis project as

108presented? So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Member Piggy made the motion and member Hal seconded the motion to approve the district. >> The MOA for uh I'm sorry. The MOA for high school data analysis project as presented. >> I'll make the motion. >> I'm sorry. It'll >> It's already moved. >> Yeah. So discussion I'm sorry we got the mot so let me let me recclarify that we had some some confusion here. So member Peggy made the motion. Member H seconded the motion to approve the MOA for high school data analysis project as presented. Discussion please. >> I'll just say that this is what Mr. Piggy brought up earlier. The portal that we got to view at policy the other night. It's it is impressive. Well, that's good. I was going to ask what is the

109portal? What is it that So there and there so there is a uh a teacher who developed a spreadsheet that >> and it just takes a bunch of data on all the students and puts it in one location for us to for them to view in the classroom so that they know how to best help their students. As we transition to a new student information system, we are hopeful that we will not require a teacher to essentially build this data portal. Uh but we have a teacher that has built this for the high schools. Uh which helps to uh helps our teachers to be able to understand um how their students are performing uh individually as well as in comparison to other uh subgroups within the high school. It's a data analysis tool. >> So

110I can pull data together and you can see it. >> So our current system doesn't allow us to pull this data. That's one of the reasons I think we're switching to a new system. Correct. >> It's a pretty massive undertaking. They took on pretty much by themselves to get this who we are. It's pretty cool and it's highly it's pretty effective. Yes. >> And I'm assuming it's all good with BEA because we didn't hear anything about it. Correct. >> You're familiar with it when you >> It's pretty cool. We use it every week in our to look at how we feel specific population we're doing in all of our classes for each subject and use it. We may change how we're teaching subjects. It's It's used once a week by every PLT. >> Oh, wow.

111I'm glad you're here to get your endorsement. >> Hope that the new or whatever is supposed to do this for us works. >> So, this this is this is us approving a one-year stipen to give to this teacher who created >> Yeah, that's what I I just wanted to understand what it what it actually was. Yeah. I mean, that's cool. No, we actually there was a teacher at policy that actually opened it up and let us play around in it and see it all. >> Yeah, we should encourage. I mean, we should encourage that. >> Yeah. >> I mean, when our teachers are >> develop tools, they're all >> Exactly. We've got very talented teachers that we need to Yeah. >> Yeah. This is a good one. >> All right. Any further discussion or comments,

112questions? >> Okay. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Piggy. >> Hi. >> Mrs. H. Hi. >> Mr. Dieseler. I >> Mrs. Young. >> Hi, >> Mr. Hempy. >> Hi, >> Mr. Mueller. >> I >> Mr. Herrera. >> I passes. [Applause] >> The following items have been added for discussion or will be coming up for further review and or possible action in the future. Background information has been provided and the board may ask questions and or request clarification at this time. um 20.5 delegate assembly. The resolution being approved at the at the triple I conference has been provided for the board's review and opportunity to discuss each proposal collectively and provide direction on how the votes should be cast on behalf of the board by member piggies. >> So essentially in here are the resolutions. Uh Mr.

113Piggy will be representing the board at the delegate assembly this year and every year there's resolutions that come forward at the delegate assembly uh that get voted on. Um sometimes there's ones that are controversial. Essentially what there are is constitutional amendments which are really just language modifications uh to make uh the board function better uh and uh you know through their own legal reviews and whatnot uh different recommendations that are made. Uh nothing whatsoever controversial here although you can certainly read through it and if you uh wanted to explore it in deeper detail uh you could certainly do so. There is one resolution that came forward this year and that resolution is about school bus safety funding uh and about uh the cost basically of installing seat belts on school buses. Uh that uh the

114request is essentially to extend the amount of time um in which that can be done because it's going to be a cost that will fall onto many school districts. that cost won't fall directly on us uh but it will fall on our bus company and so indirectly we will probably be impacted. Um the recommendation is uh for the resolution to be adopted. Uh what happens what does that mean? that essentially means that uh legislatively it will be advocated for uh that this would be extended. So that's there's not any power to change legislation only the power to as a whole say that uh ISB feels this way on behalf of the boards across the state that this is a cumbersome additional spend while we want to have safety. This is a cost and this is

115how we would propose adopting the legislation to reflect that. Um the board has the opportunity to per to inform Germaine if they have any uh any feedback on how they would like him to vote. Otherwise, Germaine's really on his own to vote on behalf of the board. Uh but presumably he would vote yes for all of these as they are all recommended to be adopted. And again, I don't think there's anything controversial here. Germaine and I had a little bit of an opportunity to talk through that, but we wanted to bring it to all of you to see if there was anything else that we should take into consideration uh as we prepare to send uh Mr. Piggy out to represent the board. Uh Mr. Piggy, anything you wanted to comment on? >> No, I'm

116just I'm actually looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to being out there and representing the district and meeting other delegates across the state and I'm looking forward to being a part of it. >> I think it I think you will enjoy it very much. It's it is a sort of a wild experience. I know you got a couple uh board members who've been there before. So >> any feedback for Mr. Piggy? No. >> So the consensus I feel is to vote yes for all of these things. Not hearing anything else. All right. And if you want to read through them and give them some other advice, you certainly can uh let us know. All right. That brings us to this. Oh, I'm sorry. What What happens next, President Herrera? What happens next is uh

117we're going to talk about our facilities discussion which is uh phase 2 early childhood and CTE center. >> Okay, >> Dr. Shu. >> All right. Uh we spent a great deal of time talking about EC and uh CTE at our board workshop today and also about the possibility of an ECCTE center uh as part of phase 2 um which will come before the board in January. Um, I am looking for only um sort of a general idea on if the board would like more information on this or if the board would prefer we simply move forward with a plan for EC uh or if the board would like to have us not pursue either of those options. I feel like what we heard at our board workshop earlier was strong support for an EC center,

118maybe some questions about a CTE center, but feeling like maybe this is not the best time to look at that. Can you help me know if that's the feedback that I heard or if I should if I should pursue that EC center or if we want to look for more details on ECCTTE center. You >> you you mentioned a referendum. >> Could you talk about how that could look and how that would affect all this? >> Yes. Uh well and so if we decided we wanted to pursue well any really in phase two of um the master facilities plan would have the opportunity to go to referendum and ask the community if they would like to support that funding. We also have the opportunity to utilize existing uh funding through our debt service um our

119DEB bonds uh health and uh safety projects. There's lots of different ways that we could go about funding this. What we did in the original scope of our master facilities plan was looked at $110 million of funding that we could do without impacting the taxpayer in terms of any new increase to the tax rate and we planned out those projects accordingly. That being said, uh we also know that um the cost of phase one increased beyond what we had originally anticipated. And as we look at phase 2 and keeping that within that $110 million, uh there's going to be some real challenges as we try to walk that pathway. In addition to that, there's deferred maintenance projects uh that also need to be addressed that can fall above and beyond and outside of that scope.

120Some of which can be in that operational budget. So, we have lots of options in terms of how as a board uh and as a district we could pursue funding if uh and I would defer that to really uh when we bring in our financial advisors to sort of play that out about the timing and the scope and the the cost of something like that. Um, but yes, that is a referendum would certainly be an option that we could pursue for any or all of the funding of phase 2. >> I don't know if that answered your question. I sort of intentionally was a little vague there because there's a lot of other >> piece that I would want to bring in uh Steel and PMA to speak to. >> Yeah, for sure. And the

121only real new component to that funding mechanism is a new legislation last year that allows you to issue debt to build early expand seats in early childhood or kindergarten without the necessary referendum. So if districts are going to expand offering in that will open up more seats in early childhood or kindergarten classrooms, they don't have to go to referendum if they don't want to and they can just issue debt for that service. Now, that you know, people say you could build a middle school and you could if you're going to trickle up and move some elementary kids into that and do this, but this would be a perfect component where you're looking at building something that is going to impact your early childhood, but it may also impact your kindergarten classrooms when you open spaces

122up. Uh because if we start putting more kids through early childhood, we're going to expect more kind, you know, more kindergarten offerings will be there as well. So, um, this is the the legislation they just passed last year. So, there's lots of things that we would want to have Stifel and PMA come through and talk through all of those options as we move forward if we move forward with one of these ideas. >> And we would absolutely do that. Uh, regardless, uh, as we look to phase two, >> I'd be in favor of continuing to study the concept of a CTA. >> Okay. Um but with the option to to drop uh if we needed to. >> Okay. >> You know, one or or the other of those. >> Okay. So, we can build out

123both. Other thoughts? >> I think I'm I feel more on board with Barbie. We've been talking about EC for a long long time. >> Um I don't think the community will be surprised at all to hear about EC. I do think maybe there would be some surprise element with CTE and I love it. I love the I was part of the board when we approved it originally. It's a great program. Um but I I also we've been talking about EC for so long and I I don't want to stall that either and I don't know that I would have enough information to vote on something by the January timeline. Mhm. Mhm. >> The value proposition for EC is just so evident and um and apparent I think and the value proposition for CTE needs some

124work I believe in order to understand what the value really is and how to maximize it compared to what we have today. >> Yep. >> From my opinion. Y >> whereas EC I would not want to compromise our ability to really be excellent >> in EC and it would be great. I mean so my my initial thought is make sure that we maximize our focus on EC. But I do like the CTE though >> and I agree. I mean, I think the CTE program is wonderful and I >> I don't mean to say anything negative about that because it's a great program and I think it's very needed. >> I just feel like >> Yeah, I'm I'm I'm in agreement with what you said. Um, also, Mrs. H. Um, >> I just I just think

125if you studied both with the ability to drop one and continue to advance one if we felt, you know, strongly about it, and I think we we do on the childhood. >> I 100% agree. I guess I just was I don't want people to waste their time either. So I guess that's kind of where I was coming from. >> So >> time and resources perhaps. I mean >> and I and I understand where you're coming probably evaluating both options. But if I think if we feel strongly that, you know, we're going to try to bite off what we could chew right now, which is probably the early childhood center, right? It's we've been talking about it. we already have it in our phase shoot already but what we've already planned I thought right >> um

126and so it's probably easier to focus on to move through um although again the the CTE >> it's all great >> it would be great but I think if we we expand too much too fast that's you know >> run into some challenges >> yeah what I was kind of thinking is You know what? If you ended up saying, "I can only afford to do one right now, but I'm planning eventually to do two." >> Yeah. >> So, by that way, if you wanted to have us an actual in in one building al together, >> maybe you could have a plan that says, I'll build this part of it now and I'll build this other part of it three years from now or four years from now or something. >> Phase three, >> right? Something

127like that. That's that's kind of what I was thinking. be >> I think that that's something we can definitely uh take a look at doing. I think that that is is sound thinking. I think one of the really nice things about the possibility of CTE again is I think we can generate some community support uh and we have already some some funding to do some of those supports. So, I think we could probably do as we're looking at that EC piece, we can do some of our um sort of to Miss Hul's point, building of that support for for the thinking around a CTE center and see if the community uh is if that's something that they would be behind or not. >> Um but I definitely do agree. I don't want to expend the

128resources of Nexus or of our administration if we really feel like, you know, this is just too much. We're we're dealing with a deficit budget. We're going into negotiations. We got a lot of financial pieces that we're managing as well as increased construction costs. Um I and I would not want to do anything that would potentially compromise uh moving forward with EC. Um so I think that we can we can pursue that. How do you feel out there, Mr. Fry? Um, but I think that that I think that that makes a lot of sense, too. So, I'm very I'm very happy to do that and we'll also try to be forward thinking about what that looks like in the case that we can expand in the future. Does that feel okay? >> Yeah, I I

129think your comment about the the value proposition um needs to be fleshed out a little bit more on the >> in the career side of things. I I think that's true. >> And the burning platform. >> Yeah. Also, I I think those are kind of the two elements that would be really good to >> Yeah. >> to really Yeah. to spend a little more time on >> earning platform value. >> What would the savings look like? And >> you know, >> not only the savings, what will the >> expenses going to look like? >> Yeah. >> The extra expenses. We're already whittling away at our honeypot. So, >> right. >> Are we going to be out of money quicker >> by adding this on? I mean, I I'm not against the EC, but also this

130is going to be a burden on the taxpayer in the end. >> So, >> yes. Well, and I'm I'm hopeful that the investment in early childhood will actually hopefully save us money at the end of the day because we will be able to minimize some of the work we're doing at the other end. I am very hopeful that that is what it will be. There's a lot of research to indicate that, but I absolutely appreciate that we don't want to increase that tax rate or increase the burden on the taxpayer. >> I'd be curious to hear more from the financial advisors. >> Mhm. Absolutely. >> Get their thoughts on it and maybe see what they suggest about funding everything. >> Yes. Well, we will absolutely be doing that, but we did have a meeting if

131you want to go back and listen to it. I forget a year ago maybe. >> No, >> October. It would have been last year. It was a year ago. It was a year ago. and it was really interesting the things they were saying. You can go back and listen >> and as we build phase 2, we will need to bring them back. So, this is helpful information as we build phase 2 and again all those costs that we were looking at uh in October of last year have increased. So, we will bring them back in. >> Well, that's the other thing is if you're going to do it, you better do it because in 10 years from now, it's going to cost 30% more to do it. So, >> yeah, >> but maybe more. Yeah,

132>> more >> maybe less, but more than likely it'll be >> Yeah.% >> the um >> Yeah, Neil, you are so right about that. >> The we'll get more we'll get more um we'll have a better understanding once the financial advisor speak to us about the different options. There are different options that we could look at this again, but also we got to be cognizant of the the taxpayer effect on this and then also, you know, being prudent with their budget as well. So, um, you know, those are things that we'll evaluate and take a look at as we go through this process. But Dr. Shu, do you is do you have the direction that you need for >> I have the direction I need and and that's perfect. I so appreciate it and we

133really wanted to bring it here before we started to do that deep dive into it. Uh, so I really appreciate having the direction. I think it's going to really help us in terms of what our next steps look like. >> All right. All right. Very good. Well, I would like to turn the meeting over to Dr. Sh for administrative reports. >> All right, here we go. Uh, we got superintendent comments first, I think. >> Yes. >> All right. And, uh, homecoming. We had homecoming this month. Uh, BHS and North, they both had such a fantastic uh, homecoming. The games were fantastic. The parades are fantastic. Um, just every single part of it. Um, you know, when you have homecoming week, it's a super exciting time for everybody there. It's also a super stressful time for

134everybody there. Uh, so huge congratulations to our high schools for having another successful homecoming. Both high schools uh did win their uh homecoming games uh which was also always exciting. So, um, we had, as we've already mentioned, um, at South and also at Washington, our, uh, Hispanic Heritage Festivals, um, South uh, hosted their first ever, um, multicultural market and, uh, it was really a fantastic success. Uh, it was outdoors. It was like a beautiful, beautiful night for it. Um, so really a fantastic occasion and huge thanks to the people who coordinated that and made that possible. Um, Jasmine Rodriguez and Julia Hernandez. Um, and lots of support from the community. Uh, Washington Academy has been doing their Hispanic Heritage Fiesta for many years. Uh, and had huge support from the District 100, uh, Foundation for

135Excellence in Education. This is just such such a great event. every year. Every year it falls on my uh Luda conference and I I don't always get to attend. Uh and this was one of the years that I didn't get to be there, but it was it's just so well attended and so appreciated by the families and it's just so worth it to go. I mean, the dancing and the the festivity and the energy. Such great events. Um we rolled out our fresh fruit and vegetable program. This is uh provided by a grant. These kids are just so cute eating their vegetables. uh they get a fresh fruit or vegetable snack during the school day once a week uh or a few days each week um and uh get to discover that new produce and

136build that healthy habits. Um some of those vegetables and fruits are a bigger hit than others, but that such is life, right? Um undefeated uh Central Middle School 7th grade football team. Uh huge congratulations to them on their undefeated season. Um and speaking of amazing seasons, uh as Mrs. Young mentioned earlier, both Central and South Middle School boys and girls cross country teams competed this past weekend at state uh for the first time in school history. Uh really, really exciting. lots of PRs uh and as I understand it a fantastic weekend and their coaches I think are also Mr. Young excited. Yes, Mr. Young uh is not in any way surprising that Mr. Young uh had a successful coaching season. >> And those are my comments. Any questions? >> All right. >> Couple Mr. Youngs

137had successful coaches. >> They a couple Mr. Youngs, >> right? >> A true story. And if you go to Belvadier North High School, you will see some youngs on the walls. Uh they were also successful athletes. So, uh worth taking a look at that as well. Some of them look exactly the same. >> Just trying That's hilarious. Strategic plan update. Uh goal one. Um Dr. Carson is not here. Dr. Johnson, did you want to hop on to goal one there? >> Um I think one of the main things is we're just uh we just wrapped up our school improvement day in October. um students are not in attendance and it's a day for staff to receive just in time training. Um and so a lot of the things with goal one uh relate to some

138of the trainings that they had on that day and it was a successful school improvement day >> and you can keep rolling for goal two. >> Good. Yes. Um I thing I want to point out is uh we did have uh additional youth mental health first aid training in the summer. it was all um staff certified staff members um during the school year it was admin social worker psyches and counselors um so we had that happening um and then also again I as you heard earlier we just we have the career readiness facilitator that's been really uh helping to make connections with our our students and the community and industry partners in that field >> thank you very much >> questions for Dr. Johnson on goal one or goal two. Goal three, uh we did

139have um a part of uh this goal has been to really increase our visibility in the community. Um and uh the positive image of D 100 and we did have the chance to do that at uh the breakfast before business with the chamber. I appreciated uh Mr. Pigy and Mr. Herrera that were able to attend, but I thought that was a nice turnout. I, you know, I always say I'm afraid we're going to throw a party and nobody's going to come. Uh, but we had a really nice turnout uh for that and I think it went really well. Uh, many, many, many members of the cabinet team came as well, which I also really appreciated. Um, we are working on uh rolling out our book study for the anxious generation. And Miss Hadley, when do

140we kick that off? >> Uh, it's November 2nd or 4th. I can't remember. I think it's one of those dates. early November. Board members, if you want to hop on that uh committee uh that book study, you are welcome to do so. But we're really excited about that. I will have my family listening sessions tomorrow night. Uh so uh family listening sessions and staff listening sessions. We do those uh virtually. Uh so it will be an opportunity for me to talk with staff. We also had um our cell phone um follow-up meeting after we received the feedback from our uh students, staff, and families. And uh the meeting went really well and basically we decided we're going to stay the course. Uh so that's no uh major changes recommended by the committee at this time.

141There were several sort of logistical inconveniences and challenges um but nothing that we felt like we should change at this time. We'll be meeting with them again in January. So, um, all things exciting, I think. Any questions on goal three? >> There's, um, interestingly, there's, um, ISBY Kishwalki division meeting Thursday night. Yes. In St. Charles, >> and, uh, they're going to share how their cell phone policy has been going. >> Very nice. >> Meeting. So, I'm going to that. So, I'm interested to find out what their notes, you know. >> Absolutely. Bring that back. I will be very curious. It is definitely uh I mean I feel like there's not a day when there's not an article in the paper about somebody else and their cell phone policies. Uh so we are not alone uh

142in this uh adventure. Um but really I mean some of the data is is really unbelievable in terms of reduced failures, increased student engagement. Uh really really exciting. Um I think it's I think we're going to see some real academic results. uh Panorama uh came back with better engagement from students on that. >> Um students had to do some rating and obviously it didn't say like because you put the cell phone away, you know, but it just asked about um general engagement in class and that um had showed a increase in favorable responses in our middle schools and high schools. >> Good, good, good, good. >> Yeah. I've only heard positives. >> Well, I have not only heard positives, but but Uh, I do feel like certainly when I'm out in the community, I hear

143positives and I think I think I shared with you that the staff love it. >> The families are are mixed but more positive than negative. Uh, and the students hate it. So, that's that's where we're at. >> But even even with the negative feedback from the students, it was a relatively small number of students that uh provided us that feedback. um and a large number of students that didn't which you know I think uh is at least a little bit of a good sign and they're reporting better engagement and uh and they're performing better academically. So I mean that just feels like a win. So uh we're going to get them back. I um we had a community presenter and she said she comes in and presents every year uh into one of the classes

144and she says usually I'm talking to foreheads uh but this year this year they were asking questions and they were engaged. You can feel the difference when those phones are away. So uh it can't be anything but positive for those academics at the end of the day. I'm really confident we're going to see some great results. So, any other questions on goal three? >> That book study, where does that take place? >> It is at the library at Seth Wittman and there will be snacks. >> I'm I am into that book. >> I follow Joanne's lead and I I listen to it. >> Yes, good call. >> It You're right. You used the word scary. Yeah, I can see why you said that. >> It really makes you think. It it does really make you

145think. Uh it it really made me think and I think is part of the reason why we're making some of these changes. We are. So >> Oh yeah, >> it's it's definitely a good read. >> Sure. >> Go for is Dr. 80 uh who is also not able to be here tonight, but he did prepare his slide. Continuing to onboard new subs. Teacher sub rate is at 84% compared to 79% a year ago. Paris sub rate up to 60% up from 44% a year ago. Um, also feeling good about moving our subs into permanent district positions, really using that uh as hiring pool, which I think is really exciting as well. Um, Dr. Ady and Mr. Mandera and I also had the opportunity to present at uh IASA uh the Illinois uh superintendent association um

146on our work as a great place to work uh and got some really fantastic feedback and again more good word out there about what's happening here in Belvadier. Uh teachers reporting uh that uh the sip day went really well. uh 90% um identified knowledge and skills uh that they had felt like they had um gained from the professional development. 94% reported that it was aligned to the district and school improvement plans. Certainly that's our goal. Uh so I think went really really well. Any questions on goal four? >> Yeah. What does um a subfill rate how do you calculate that? How well you look at the number of positions that are open and how many we fill with a sub. So every day basically your building clerical staff is working with your administration to fill

147any holes. So if you have 10 people out of the building and you have nine subs, you got to fill one of those subs, right? So 84% you're filling about two people for every ton of 10. And that's filled by teachers like subbing during their prep periods or pulling interventionists, pulling other people who have other jobs that have to fill those roles. So they are that's how they're calculating that. Uh so 84% of the time there's a sub in that classroom um as opposed to us having to fill with our internal staff which pulls them away um from the work that they they should be and want to be doing during that time. Mhm. >> You go back a couple years ago, that was a really low challenging time. >> Yeah. Yeah. It seems like

148>> especially coming off of CO when there wasn't people that wanted even to return into buildings. >> Yeah. >> Not uncommon with other districts, our our rates were low for a little while there. >> And we saw a huge uptick when we went away from contracted subervices, bringing them back in house. When we decided to to staff our own subs, we saw those numbers increase dramatically when they felt like they were back in the family of being in district 100 and felt valued in that. Uh we got a lot more retirees coming back because they have worked here forever and they didn't want to go through an outside agency. So, um, that was a very good call by the, uh, board to move those back into our district employees versus outsource. >> This is back

149to an more normal rate, >> precoid rate, I would say, right? >> Getting up above those 80% is much more much much more normal. Um, I mean obviously we'd like to have it be higher, but that's that's more what you would anticipate, you know, really from the beginning of time. That's what principles and clerical staff have been doing is filling those unfilled positions. >> And that 60% for Paris is incredible. That is out of you are lucky if you can hit a 50. You're usually in those 40s. >> How do you even build a pool of >> Well, we keep hiring them as par. So that's our problem with the Paris subpool is every time we hire them as subs, we end up hiring them as full-time Paris. So our Paris subpool just keeps >>

150turning over and you run out of people that want to sub. But it is a gate a great segue into district 100 employment is to come into that sub because usually you don't have to stay a sub very long. >> Oh, is that how you actually entice people to be a part of the subpool? >> Mhm. >> Okay. Because I was wondering how do you entice somebody to >> Well, when I I would brag parents that were maybe staying at home for a period of time and they'd say something about maybe working or sometimes they were like a lunchroom supervisor, a new and I'd be like, "Hey, would you like to work here all day?" I mean, there's just a lot of >> Yeah. >> It's a great college student job. >> Oh, really? >>

151Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. especially when they get they get home, you know, miday and we got a couple hard weeks to fill. >> Uh >> we'll we'll take them. >> It seems like it's a hard it'd be a hard thing to increase like uh deliberately. It almost seemed like well we were lucky this year so our subpool increased >> that. But we do have I mean Olivia Ivan is our subcoordinator. I mean, she dedicates real time to to increasing that subole and finding recruiting and incentivizing and >> uh she really does she does a really nice job >> making them feel welcome, giving them, you know, a D 100 mug, you know, whatever you can do to make it enticing. But yeah, especially the pair of professionals, really hard, really hard to find subs. Any other

152questions on goal four? All right. Goal five is Armstrong. >> Okay. Well, I think we've talked about facilities master plan enough tonight. So, that seems to be the ongoing um spec specifically with 5A. Um you know, we are looking at those proposals. Um Tyler and his department have been deploying their Chromebooks out um to pilot uh teachers using Chromebooks versus laptops, which of course will save us money if those work out. Um I don't know if you have feedback on that or not yet. >> Still gathering data. Okay. There's both positives and negatives, but we're working through those negatives to make them positives. >> But yeah, we're working through those those things right now. >> And then the safety audit for emergency readiness is still ongoing right now. So, >> and um for our resources

153financial, you had the audit presented tonight. Uh you had the budget last month. Now is the time I have I transition those two. we go from audit to budget to levy. Um and then that is those are the the massive three months um in my role and then we will start going into all of those timelines of how we can build those projections and really dig into a lot more of those in-depth conversations. Um you know trying to get the estimated assessed values coming in. Um, if you noticed on that that uh audit sheet, you could see the assessed values went up, but what that does is it continues to bring our tax rate down. So, uh, you know, we talk about bringing in more revenue, but we're lowering our tax rate. And so, that

154is the big part that I try to make sure that we share with our constituents is we're not raising your taxes. We don't control this number that's going here, but we are doing our part to try to lower that tax rate, but we still have to generate and capture some of that revenue and that assessed value. Um this year our biggest component will be um uh new construction or new property. Um the only time you can capture that is that first year that it's there. And we have um right now they're reporting significant amounts of new property. Um and that will create new conversations that we'll have as a board hopefully in our um preface conversation next month. um that we'll start talking about what that tenative levy can look like um and really trying

155to capture that new property to take that burden off our current uh taxpayers. So that is where we are right now. Questions on goal five. All right. Early college credit data review. Uh this is our annual report. Mr. Fry, anything you wanted to highlight on that? our AP enrollment increased for the second spring year. Um we have 32 seats uh this year which is up 99 from last year. We also saw um record number of AP exams taken last year were 621 382 tests were returned with the score. We were higher, which is our most ever as a district. >> Nice. >> 51.5% pass rate, which was our best ever, and 1,398 credits earned for most ever earned from AP testing this last year. So, that just shows um how great our AP students are,

156how wonderful our AP teachers are preparing them for the exams. um looking at the I think from the dual credit one earlier. Um it was one of some of the big highlights of the work were just a lot of great data with our early college credit opportunities. >> Yeah, really really nice improvements. >> Any questions for Mr. Fry? >> Fantastic work on that federal grants overview. >> That's me. >> Anything you wanted to highlight? Yeah, if you click in there. Um, so every few years we just make sure that this comes through ED services. Although these are annual typical federal grants that we uh receive, we just want to make sure that we're being um transparent. Um, so it's the second doc that's the district 100 federal grants overview. Um, that's just a really quick

157kind of cheat sheet, I would call it, um, of the grants and then the estimated um, aotment. uh most of them in there pretty close to exactly what we had received this year and then um kind of what we allocate those funds towards. Um and so like I said, it's just kind of a really quick overview. Um, I'd be happy at any time to go in uh to uh depth on any of these if anybody had more curiosity, but I would say for for most of them, it's the uh a similar process each year. Um, similar style of funding. Um, but we just especially with it being a newer board, um, we just try to bring this forward every few years. >> Do you see any changes in the federal grants? like because >> so

158far I've received a little more um than we have in the past um by a little bit. So I'm >> okay >> excited over that. >> Good to know. >> Um I um haven't really received information going one way or another for the future years, but um was happy to not only receive what we've anticipated in the past, but a little bit more. I think if I had to guess, Joanne, you can correct me if I'm wrong. I think some of the consultants that I work with it is we've kind of said with kind of excess er funding might be why we're seeing a little bit more than what I've seen so unspent from other districts. Um but other than that, um I'm pleased with what we've received. And so the allocations for FY26 that

159we're using right now, those are you those were already funded with federal. What we're hearing in the business side and on the legislative side that we're talking through is your title 2, three, and four are your most um at risk right now. So when we're talking about Perkins, that's not u considered risky. Um it's that teacher training, your e services and your support um that really focuses on the side. Those are what are in jeopardy for FY27 and future if they figure out this federal budget and what they're trying to do. IDA will also most likely be impacted by that. Um and that will impact our uh federal nutrition program as well. Um, so you know, I am definitely keeping a very close eye on what's happening. I I don't mean to say this flippantly,

160but I don't really care right now about FY26. I'm trying to see what we're going to do next year because we've got to overcome what we're doing this year. We were pretty much secure in what we were expecting this year. Um, I think FY27 is when we're going to have some of those um harder conversations about what the feds are going to continue to fund. And for 2, three, and four overall, we purposely write those in general for programs that if they had to go like a lot of these, especially three and four, enhance what we're already doing. So, um, that one's a little less risky, I would say, than like title one seems to be one one that's more definitely more secure. But like if you if you look at that one, I mean

161that that's that's 12 FTEES. So whereas the other ones are supporting programs we we already have off in existence. >> They help us expand. Questions on the federal grants overview, annual sales tax update. Okay. Um so every year I just um kind of recap what's happening with our sales tax. That's the community or the county uh schools facility tax that we collect the 1%. Uh for 2025 uh we are uh projecting probably about 4.3 uh the last four months September, October, November and December are estimated. I am very cautious on those as you see in prior prior years that has sometimes dipped down. We are seeing some dip downs. I don't know. Sometimes we think we're going to get a big influx in December as people start spending for the holidays. We're just not seeing

162that spending at the same levels we were before. Um so uh those are the projected numbers that we're seeing. Um what you can see by this is without those estimations we have over the course of the last 10 years we've received $33.47 million. And of that uh with investments and things we have already abated 35 thou or 35 million uh 60,000 of that. So we continue to capitalize on those um uh investments at as those taxes come in. Um I did project another $4 million um abatement for the levy this year. Um, and so I do anticipate that we'll be offsetting much like Stifel and PMA talked about to keep our levy steady um, abating that uh, $4 million off the debt levy again this year. This is just the historical trends of what's pretty

163soon I'm going to have to probably start taking off 14 when we started because it's getting really small as we print it out uh, further. But um, this is just the highlight. You can see the change yearover-year. you won't have that full number uh for 25 until we get the rest of those. So, uh, you did see the influxes of, uh, co monies where percent people were spending money. Uh, those stimulus checks really did nicely for our sales tax and now you're seeing it, um, start to dwindle down back to, uh, kind of more normal numbers. >> Questions for strong. >> We have red ribbon week coming up here. um which will be uh recognized in our buildings. And that's really it for administrative reports unless there's any questions. >> That's all I got. >>

164Dr. Shug, thank you very much. See that there were no questions for Dr. Shug. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? Yeah. >> Yeah. >> All right. Who Who wants to make a motion? >> I heard I second. >> All right. Uh Mr. Mueller made the motion and member Young seconded the motion to adjourn the meeting. All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. >> Okay. Motion passes. Needed adjourned at 8:26.