001she just want okay it is now 6:04 we are out of closed executive session we will reconvene the regular meeting of the Board of Education with a pledge to American I pledge Ali to flag of the United States of America and to the rep for stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice Mr Booker Mr Diesel here Mr Herrera here Mrs H here M mayal here Mr zicker here before we start the regular meeting of a board 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 members of the board would like to amend or move at this time hearing none do I have a motion as a second to approve the agenda of the regular meeting of the board
002of education on March 17th 2025 as presented I'll make the motion second Mr D and Mr Herrera any discussion we call please Mr geler hi Mr Herrera hi Mr ziker hi Mrs H hi M mayal hi okay we will now have a public hearing regarding District 100's budget for 25 5 26 school year the budget is being amended to account for additional grant funding received from the state and federal grants in addition to individual internal movement of funds funds within buildings and departments to align their overall budget lines to expenses do any board members have any questions or comments okay at this time does any member of the public have any written or oral comments they would like to address regarding the District 100 budg for 2025 26 hearing none at this time all persons
003desired to be heard have been given an opportunity to present oral and written testimony with respect to District 100's budget for 2025 26 do I have a motion in a second to adjourn the public meeting some second right that was Miss help and Mr Herrera any discussion we'll call please Mrs help hi Mr Herrera hi Mr Meer hi Mr ziker hi Miss mayel hi this concludes our public hearing of District 100's budget for 2025 we will now have our district celebration starting with the 2025 those who Excel award um we'd like to extend special congratulations tonight to Michael skola on receiving the award of special recognition in the school administrator category from the Illinois State Board of Education Mr Lola is the principal at Everest high school and we are very excited for him winning
004this award congratulations thank you and you're a real agenda hog tonight because next time agenda um we would like to recognize the 2025 Golden Apple excellence and Leadership once again a big congratulations to Micha skola principal of Everest high school he is a fin for the Golden Apple principal of the Year award so M do a great job out of Everest High School um we really appreciate his leadership out there and the care and um emotion that he puts into his work um that is a very um taxing position um emotionally and he does a great job not only um with the principal aspects of that job but just really putting his whole heart and soul into it so we really appreciate you mik thank you I say anything or are you good I just
005appreciate the um the chance to do something like this um not all districts not all School boards and superintendents act projects like this and and I think we are giving attention to a group of students that otherwise just get kind of lost between the cracks and in the back of the classrooms so I just really appreciate um the opportunity to be able to do a project like thanks Mike we do have a couple tokens of appreciation here for you if you want mine you got to go take a picture thank you m apprciate you want a picture of me I think he should be yeah I'm sorry is the board [Laughter] yay all right last but not least Dr sh all right we have our board shoutouts uh we have Robin Barry Vicky Dale Teresa
006Roar Evelyn tamburo Anthony Taylor and William Ward uh and come on up uh to be recognized we are appreciating our amazing custodians we want to express our deepest gratitude to our incredible custodial team your hard work dedication and kindness never goes unnoticed every day you help create a clean safe and welcoming environment for our students and staff and we truly appreciate all that you do thank you for your continuous efforts and for always going the extra mile you make a difference in our school every single day yay thank you do we have Julia Tapia here Jan gonna do a picture here oh good yes I was G but our other shout out I was GNA say but she's not here we love it we love it thank you congratulations I just wanted to say really
007quick because I know they're out there is that I go to a lot of schools that don't have local custodial staffs like we do they Outsource it we we've made a very very intelligent decision by hiring the people we do you Julie Tapia is not here this evening she also has a shout out however for being a math teacher uh it's hard work she has a full classroom of students who may or may not always love math but she brings her aame each and every day our math scores have skyrocketed and Julie is to thank for that so thank you also to Julie Tapia all right next up we have our student council reports do we have anyone here from beler high school come on up Janine I'll get the podium for you and you
008can give your remarks what's your name my name is Mark barg all right Mark thanks for joining us tonight right so my name is Mark Vargas I'm senior class president and some things that our school has done so BHS has recently celebrated uh school counselor week school social worker week school resource officer appreciation day and World Wildlife day with pencils for our third quarter giveaway and then VHS has also on track to meet one of its school's goals which is uh non-classroom discipline incidents we've gone down by 30% since the past quarter and then academically all departments are implementing uh ACT prep so soft the sophomore freshman and Juni are like in their classes they're being they're getting vocabulary review practice prop lessons and proper rest and how to manage anxiety and overall tests and
009BHS is excited for our students to Showcase their greatness on April thank you for being here mark thank you do we have anyone here from North High School this evening anyone hiding out there okay all right we'll move on to committee reports um starting with ed services on March 5th I don't have anything to add or highlight from the minutes anyone else who is there or does anyone have any questions all right hearing none um parent advisory committee on March 5th U minutes from the meeting are provided for a review no items were brought forward from the committee for discussion or vote um Business Services committee met on March 11th um Mr Herrera do you have anything to highlight or add nothing new just a number of items that show up in consent and then
010roll call all right any questions for Mr Herrera or Mrs Armstrong very good next up is public comments at this time members of the public and 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 Quorum identify oneself limit comments to three minutes and conduct on themselves in accordance with board policy 830 visitors to and conduct unschool property anyone here for public comment this [Applause] evening all right hearing none we will move along to consent agenda are there any items on the consent agenda any members of the board would like to take out for separate consideration all right hearing none do I have a motion
011and a second to approve consent agenda items 2 through 17 as presented make a motion I second any discussion before we vote I would like to acknowledge the following donation 17 used Samsung G Galaxy tablets with protective cases from AZ Towing William and Laura Wishard for the beler high school FCS program thank you for that donation roll call please Mr jeler hi Mr Herrera hi Mr Zer hi Mrs H hi Miss May hi okay next up on the agenda is our roll call agenda item um first up we have action to approve the 2025 206 administrative contract for the ptss seal administrator do I have a motion in a second to approve this contract for Jennifer sakur as presented so move second Mr Herrera without any discussion roll call please Mr Herrera hi Mrs H
012hi Mr Diesel hi Mr ziker hi Miss Mayville hi next Miss sakur is here this evening uh we are very excited to have her joining us in this role uh she's a veteran staff member for us it served previously as an administrator and we really believe that this is going to be a critically important role she's the right person to lead for it and we're looking forward to having her serve the district in this capacity anything you wanted to add sakora no I just I'm really excited and I appreciate the opportunity to be an administrator again for the district I've had several roles in the district over the last 18 years um and I think this is really important work for all kids at all levels so I'm just excited to dive in and join
013the te again we're excited to have you thank you all right next up administrative salaries do I have a motion and a second to approve the administrative salar for the 25 26 school year as to so move second right and Miss how any discussion R call please Mr Herrera hi Mrs H hi Mr G Meer hi Mr Zer i m Mayville I next uh do I have a motion and a second to approve the District 100 artificial intelligence AI document as presented so move second all right Mr Herrero and Miss H discussion do you have any comments uh Dr question well I just want to uh share my thanks to the board for approving the um work to move forward to create the committee and create the document I want to appreciate U all of
014our committee members and really the purpose of this document is to outline the principles that we'll use as we work to integrate AI into our system so we did take some time to look at the policies that we have in place as a school board and feel like we are in a good spot um with those I mean things are going to change certainly over time um but the point was to identify the guiding principles and then um uh with your approval we're going to start looking then at some systems uh with the committee and uh we'll work to adopt a a platform that our our staff and students can start using then um to so thank you again for the support do you anticipate this being sort of a standing committee obviously this as
015you noted this is an area that just changes very rapidly so I assume this committee is going to keep meeting and and keep keep bringing us changes as needed that is the intention is yeah we anticipate that there will be a pulse to keep tabs on and and we'll work to do that and bring you updates as need yes excent all right any questions or discussion call please Mr Herrera hi Mrs H hi Mr Diesel Meer hi Mr ziker hi M May hi I I really would like to thank the committee that worked on this um that do a lot of work and they did a very nice job so please extend our thanks to the members of your committee and I would follow up on that and say that Dr Carson's does an excellent
016job uh leading that work and that this really puts us in a place that's ahead of a lot of where other districts are at this time regarding getting our heads around Ai and the really important work that needs to be done in that area so thank you all right next agenda item do I have a motion in a second to approve the Bessa a for trades market value rate as presented so move second discussion yeah for me it doesn't have anything to do with the price I mean when we talked about this before I voted no because I thought unlike the custodians which I think we're better doing in in-house than Outsourcing I think this one economically is much it's much more fiscally responsible to Outsource instead of buy in-house so I'm not voting no
017for the the raise or anything like that I just feel disingenuous voting no for one and then if I did something different here so that's why any further discussion all right roll call please Mr Herrera hi Mr Diesel Meer hi Mrs help hi Mr ziker no and Miss Mayo hi pass okay next up District 100's budget Amendment do I have a motion and a second to approve District 100's budget amendment for July 2nd 2024 through June 30th 2025 as presented so move [Laughter] second any discussion all right roll call please Mr Herrera hi Mrs H hi Mr D hi Mr Zer hi M may hition pass 5 next item do I have a motion and a second to approve badier North High School's track RFP as presented so move second all right Mr Herrera Mr
018any discussion anything to add yeah for me I'm on the track this has been a big deal for me for quite a while now I'm going to make this quick because I don't want I've already talked about this too probably too much before anyway um I'll vote for it because I think the kids need it and we should have done this a long time ago um I think the fact that we waited cost our taxpayers a sizable sizable amount of money um we can debate the reasons why and why not but I don't think that's really going to much prod it's not productive now I think what's done is done and need to move forward and approve it but I also think this is a case where I think we need to look at how
019this happened this time to make sure it doesn't repeat before because I literally think this costs us hundreds of thousands of dollars or more by waiting now instead of doing it four or five years ago would you would have been much more fiscally responsible in my opinion any further discussion I would say it's uh definitely necessary um for safety reasons on the track for for our student athletes and those that are visiting the track as well so yes it's been in the making for a while definitely needed uh if you ask me uh and so yeah this is something certainly I would support as well can I have one more thing sure to address Mr Z's issue as well part of the discussion at Business Services on this item was the inclusion of a maintenance
020uh project so we will start getting getting on a maintenance routine with this new installation so that we don't encounter these problems moving forward and developing that part of the needs assessment so we can get everything on a rotation and this will definitely be part of that process as it was included in the bid too great all right roll call please Mr Herrera hi Mr Diesel Meer hi Mrs H hi Mr ziker Excuse me I and Miss maville hi do I have a motion and a second to approve the open gate security detection tennis court what tennis court oh I did over the support sorry sorry belad north um do I have a motion in a second to approve beler North High School tennis court RFP has presented so moved all right Mr her and
021discussion B call please Mr Herrera I Mrs H hi Mr ziker hi Mr d i and miss m all next item do I have a motion and a second to approve the open gate security detection as presented so move second and discussion Dr sh did you just want to explain briefly what this yes yes uh essentially this is a weapons detection system uh or a metal detector that we would look at being able to move throughout the district uh on an as needs basis uh it's a mobile uh product it's a uh through which students or staff members could pass uh that we would utilize for example if we had larger football games or events or perhaps if there was a concern at one of our sites uh we are not looking to establish um
022a metal detector system at uh that students or staff would pass through on an everyday basis this would be used and moved throughout the district as need be uh we are suggesting an investment in two of them again so if we did need them we would be able to use them as efficiently as possible moving people through both uh both lanes uh we will pay some attention to um how well these systems are used uh and determine if this is something that we want to look at uh doing more of or if this is going to fulfill the need that we have uh obviously uh student safety staff safety is our number one priority in the district we think this is another proactive measure we can take uh to address any safety uh issues that
023we might have on our sites and uh help us keep our campuses safer just I'm sorry oh no that's it I'm I'm just curious um why I I agree with you on the safety part I mean I think that's our number one priority I mean I as much as I lament about academic progress and stuff like that I believe this is even Trump's ad by more than a little but um is there a reason we don't want to look at permanent ones I mean I know a lot of schools around the area have permanent ones and they're um I wish we didn't need them I wish we never had to talk about stuff like this I'm realistic enough to know the times have changed and deterrence is uh an effective weapon in my opinion so
024I mean is there I don't I I just don't know the rationale or maybe we are thinking about it and we're looking into I don't know well so uh we had a really healthy discussion about this at Business Services as well our uh our safety coordinator Mr sckell really uh helped with Mr Fry to put this proposal together uh we feel like this is the first step that needs to take place and then we can evaluate the effectiveness of this how well does this work at our sites how uh effective is it when we need to respond in a particular situation should it be something that we find effective and noninvasive uh I think that this is something we could look at exploring further but we really felt like it was important uh to Pilot
025it to see how it worked to see how it was to integrate it um if we were looking at doing something on a permanent basis uh again there's a lot of additional Logistics that need to be navigated this will help us navigate any of those Logistics additionally there's additional staff that would need to be uh moved or added to uh to work through that again that's probably something we can navigate but we feel like this is the first step uh to determine if this is something we'd look to do at a larger level or a larger scale level moving forward and I will personally say from the perspective of safety and law enforcement I think metal detectors give the appearance and feeling of safety without really making anything much safer um when you have metal
026detectors it sort of corals everyone at one point which is obviously a very inviting target for anyone who would wish to do harm um you have the amount of time it would take to get you know our 1500 kids at a high school in and out of the buildings um you know we've all been in airport security lines and seen how that goes um if someone is intent on getting a weapon into a building they will get a weapon into the building um that's not the politically correct thing to say but it's flat out true um I would be strongly opposed to the district spending money on metal detectors at every school I don't think it would keep our kids safer I think it could lead to um more attractive targets frankly I'm fine with
027having these metal detectors because I realize that sometimes we do get um you know rumors Bubble Up on social media and um and if if we have these two metal detectors we're spending money on that can make people feel a little better and if it can make our kids feel a little safer um on a day after there's been a threat I'm just fine with that but um I I would be adamantly opposed to metal detectors being installed at all our schools anything further on this um just to just to reiterate what you just said um this open gate security detection system can be moved around from building to building to Stadium to Stadium um in my opinion it will work as a deterrence um and it will in my opinion help alleviate concerns when
028the rumors are spotting up when there are different threats to our students in our schools and our teachers this is an excellent opportunity to bring this type of equipment to those buildings to keep everybody to give everybody a peace of mind if you will for that matter so yeah all right roll call please Mrs how hi Mr Herrera hi Mr D hi Mr ziker hi Miss Mayo hi next up do I have a motion and a second to approve the transportation bid as presented so move it was me member Herrera and member do we have any discussion um well thank you Mrs Armstrong for going out and um conducting the RFP uh I know sometimes it can be difficult to find enough vendors to participate in this the RFP if you will but uh I
029think we got a great um solution that came back um before us and I guess you know at the end of the this term not only is it the lowest bid but I think maybe by the end of their term um they'll have the majority of the school buses up with AC is that correct yes yeah and so I do realize um we had a heck of a time getting this agenda all together and the attachments kept falling off the one attachment that is not on here is where I did the cost analysis uh between the two bids so over the threeyear difference the first student bid was $66,900 um with the first Year's savings alone uh falling at 42 $2,000 so um the first bid uh first year versus third year of the competing
030bids were um just off first year meeting the third year of the other side so um it was very costeffective we did put a lot of um effort in really defining uh what we wanted in this bid and things that we saw um could be improvements um and so first student really did uh step up to that challenge um I Lidell Cass who is their uh regional manager is here today uh with us but um he even made a comment that he's never seen Vader put out such a comprehensive RFP for busing um so it took a lot of effort uh to get those together um the one highlight I really did want to highlight is they are providing in their bid as well a $5,000 uh scholarship for our students so um that was
031a big plus that we uh gained in this as well as well as additional training additional options and um community involv which they are already immensely involved in our community having local events for our families and the community as a whole supporting our pets as far as our kids as far as our families um they kind of do it all and become a real staple of our community so I am uh pleased to be able to to make that recommendation to move forward with them again and and I would just uh again give some kudos to Mrs Armstrong uh and her team that worked really hard to put together that RFP uh that is going to make a difference as uh Mr Herrera highlighted for example having air conditioning in all of our buses which
032we know has been an ongoing need and concern that we've had uh and also really asking for that additional Community Support uh first student did an excellent job of responding uh but a big part of that also is due to Mrs Armstrong and her team putting out a really comprehensive R RFP which is no uh small task so uh I thought really outstanding work on there thank you any further discussion full call please Mr Herrera hi Mrs H hi Mr ziker hi Mr J Meer hi and Miss Mayo hi carries 5 Z next on the agenda so I have a motion and a second to approve the resolution providing for the issue of not to exceed $21 million General obligation school bond series 2025a and not to exceed 5 million taxable General obligation refunding school
033bond series 2025b of the district for the purpose of altering and reconstructing school buildings and purchasing and installing equipment therein for fire prevention and safety energy conservation and school security purposes and refunding certain outstanding bonds of the district providing for the levy of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the principal and interest on sub bonds and authorizing the proposed sales that bonds to the purchaser thereof as presented so move second all right Mr Herrera Mr D any discussion or comment from staff I think oh go ahead no I think on this one I I'm gonna vote for it some that um I said I would before and I know I haven't changed my mind on that I mean I think this stuff is is needed I would say is that when we first started
034I don't Le how to speak I apologize we first started talking about these things months ago uh I think the environment's changed dramatically at least in the short term on um what funding issues may or may not be in the future what some of our tax pays may or may not be in the future so even though I'm supportive of this one and and I will though yes I do think we need to really take a hard second look at how things may project out in the future before we commit ourselves Beyond this I mean I'm fine with doing this I just get nervous about mortgaging our future generations for things that times things have changed lately and they may they may change back I just think we need to take a a prudent look
035at after after we do this as we move forward we need to look at based on a new circumstances what do we think will happen and make a educated guess on that that's it any further discussion roll call please Mr Herrera hi Mr dieser hi Mrs H hi Mr ziker hi Miss Mayo hi Mr Carri is 5 Z next agenda item do I have a motion and a second to approve the resolution authorizing and directing the execution of an escrow agreement in connection with the issue of not to exceed $5 million taxable General obligation refunding School bonds series 2025b of the district as presented so move Mr Herrera second miss any discussion what call please Mr Herrera hi Mrs H hi Mr ziker hi Mr d i and Miss Mayo I motion carries 5 Z
036do I have a motion and a second to approve the non Reemployment resolution of end ofe fulltime and part-time temporary teachers effective the end of the 2024 25 school year as presented make a motion all right Mr second Mr fera any discussion Dr 80 this is our standard um item that we do every year it's a standard resolution to do at the end of the year for any U uh any year positions uh that uh people we not new that type of thing so it's it's standard it's the big March Okay resolution and often times these people will be rehired once we have our enrollment numbers later on okay very good any further discussion roll call please Mr d i Mr Herrera I Mrs h i Mr ziker I miss Mayo I motion carries 5
037do I have a motion and a second to approve the non-renewal first second or third year probationary teacher affected the end of the 2024 25 school year as presented s second Miss H Mr Herrera any discussion call please this is help I Mr Herrera hi Mr Diesel Meer hi Mr zicker hi Miss Mayo hi motion carries 5 do I have a motion and a second to approve resolution for educational support Personnel reduction in force effective the end of the 2425 school year as presented so move second Mr Herrera and Miss H any discussion roll call please Mr Herrera hi Mrs H hi Mr ziker I Mr D Meer I and Miss Mayo I motion carries 5 Z do I have a motion and a second to appoint a Performance Contractor for District 100 so move
038going to need a specific Performance Contractor in your motion all right um and then we'll go to discussion right yes okay um motion to approve Nexus as a Performance Contractor do I have a second Mr discussion yeah I did did we want Mr Winters to speak a little bit to you want to talk to us a little bit about what this is and why it's a good thing sure this approach uh by hiring a a company like Nexus we have about 110 different projects rolled into this $3 million and some are very significant and you think about Perry Perry you're you're pretty much taking it from the top down to the bottom all do each track uh multiple issues uh we have three buildings that are are going to get complete in replacement what all
039that means is yes can we on buying the supplies but is it is the um Logistics of it how do you how do you keep a school open while you're doing all these projects there in lies the the the hard part of doing their the project this approach brings us um a a company that has hundreds of relationships um throughout our the tri state area they can leverage all of their uh Supply demands they can leverage their contractors to to get uh the best price more importantly they're going to give us guaranteed Energy savings they're going to stand behind uh their price you're not going to see a you know let's say that the price of for goes up and their cost goes up significantly they're not going to come to us and say well
040we didn't see that the supplies uh supply chain tightened up it is also um it allows us to do our jobs our day jobs uh this is a really wide scope of project I mean we're we're Ching everything from HB to GRS to some windows there's just a cler of things playgrounds some of these items are we are going to manage but this is a fantastic approach this is not only going to save us time but you think about it we have about two months worth of time for the summer to do a lot of the girthy work with then on Logistics money money is huge and we also need licensed people to make sure that our jobs are being done according to spec that when the HVAC is put in somebody's right behind and
041making sure that we're getting what we paid for we've heard multiple times before that we've had projects here that didn't measure up or we had problems two three years down the line who was watching the ball this is how we get there this is how we ensure that we get what we paid for and our students and our staff get the buildings that they they deserve anybody have any questions yeah my only question would be I mean this is going to cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars which I'm not against I'm not going to vote against I just would suggest that as we go along with this it would be nice to get some sort of concrete examples as we go along where there was Financial benefit of doing this I mean like like
042better purchases or we got a better deals and stuff like that I think it's important that we reinforce you know critically what you've said now as we go along so that that's and regardless if we were done done a different approach let's say just do the uh the build approach you still would have had to have hired a company to come in and make sure that a project a construction company to come in and ensure that this project is on time and and on and on budget so regardless we still would have had to have hired some method of getting these projects done this this this one here saves us the most money and the guarantee Energy savings energy is something that's huge for us I like Mr Z's idea of bringing specifics back just
043you know quick little updates at board meetings or send them out the board update I think that's good I think it's good for the public to hear why this is a wise use of money and we look forward to that and that's already been a discussion that Dr FR and I already had great any further discussion on this I just want to provide some detail um in terms of why I'm making this recommendation if you will um both helpful for both vendors that participated in this in this process and present it to us um really in my opinion um the the fee structure the pricing structure was I would I would say easier to follow easier to um calculate the costs uh with uh Nexus solution not as direct forward that I could uh um
044gather from M McKenry um just a little bit of feedback from that you know um just a little bit you know digging through the numbers a little bit more with McKenry to get to the fee structure um if that process might be a little bit easier for the folks that are working kry that might be a little bit of feedback for them for future if you will uh but I think overall um the fee structure was easier set out for for Lexus solutions for us to to really figure out the cost structure on this and so I think that's really in my opinion kind of how we got to this solution in addition to other reasons of course that uh Mr Winters pointed out um and Others May point out as well but uh I
045think that's you know something to be noted for in terms of how at least I derive to my decision so thank you Mr hura it was not um an easy choice for me honestly both companies were very professional and um gave great presentations answered our questions well um and unfortunately we had to choose one um but I want to thank both companies I know an awful lot of time of work goes into these proposals um it takes time and energy to be here tonight we do appreciate that um and um wish you continued success as well anything further roll call please Mr Herrera hi Mr Diesel hi Mrs H hi Mr Zer hi Miss Mayo hi motion carries Z okay upcoming upcoming contract renewals and reports anything Dr said nothing to highlight all right I'm
046going to turn meeting over to you for administration all right I'm going to very quickly walk through some of the highlights and the superintendent comments uh we have had a very busy uh month as we uh are looking uh already to the end of the year and actually starting to plan for next year uh I will start with calonia are we up there m Hadley all right at calonia we hosted uh Dr Seuss's Cafe celebrating re Across America week uh with special dress up days uh families were invited to join their children to read Dr Seuss books uh lots of reading cross America activities at many of our elementaries uh always a really fantastic day uh to engage with our families and our students around uh the joys of reading we had a breakout room
047at Central Middle School uh this was thanks to a grant from the D100 foundation for excellence and education a fantastic organization uh and our 7eventh grade ELA students at Central use problem solving uh and reading skills to break out uh or do an escape room activity uh really rewarding lots of fun and big thanks to the foundation that helped to make that happen our buck Thunder team placed second in the State uh just really uh such a fantastic opportunity uh for our students to work with Special Olympics our staff sta uh supported that uh just couldn't be prouder of this group of of kids and the work that they did uh fantastic work uh at the sister city Student Art Show uh one of our students was recognized representing badier High School uh in that
048art show she created a mixed media piece following the theme of friendship going Beyond borders uh and at Seth Witman we had uh leprechaun traps an annual tradition I think at Seth Witman where our second graders had a lot of fun uh using engineering and design processes uh to to uh build those leprechaun traps uh lots of fantastic things happening across the district and those are just a couple of highlights any questions on that all right um strategic plan updates I'm in a very very quickly uh click into this month's presentation and highlight a couple of the things happening in these goal areas uh goal one Dr Carson anything you want to highlight I think it's up note that we're in assessment season and so um all the work we've been doing all year to
049improve our two performance is uh this is the time for them to show it so we're very excited for that opportunity and uh I want to point out to a student from BHS point out that our high school team I worked with the ACT task force and uh they've worked to incorporate um some bell ringer activities and um they're calling it their hype uh approaches to help get everyone ready to take take test and do their best so we're very excited to see our kid shine here over the next few weeks I've heard I've heard some feedback on that and I know I I gripe a lot about a lot of things sometime but I have heard we're really making an active effort recently to address some of those things I think it's very encouraging
050to see thank you Mr zer uh goal two Dr Johnson anything you want to highlight we had our conscious discipline consultant out uh earlier um this month and they went to all six of our elementary buildings um and just had a lot of positive feedback for the efforts that we've made to support students understanding student behavior um and they were able to provide some great like next steps so um it was very individualized for each building um but it was um a great three days uh the other thing I wanted to highlight was I just pulled it up really quick we had started with um Daybreak um which is our virtual teletherapy that any secondary student um can participate in um at no cost to the family we had received a grant for that we
051had started that about mid January so we're 2 months in and we currently have 26 students um actively participating in counseling outside of school hours at no cost to those families um which is a great start uh goal three is our family and Community Partnerships our family and Community Partnerships action plan uh recommended moving forward with a partnership with Donovan group to do a communication audit we are really uh excited about the work on that uh audit that has begun uh they've completed an audit of our website uh have met with our um key communicators and uh are going to be uh working with us to develop uh a plan to move forward with our Communications in a uh in the most um effective way possible so we're really excited about uh that and the
052feedback that we've already acquired uh also continuing to look to expand our Alumni network uh if you are a D100 alumni go on Facebook uh look us up join that Facebook group uh there is also a monthly newsletter that is going out to that alumni group and golf four Dr ad just a couple quick things uh we are still maintaining uh a fill rate well ahead of where we were last year we had a really rough February a lot of uh a lot of viruses going around a lot of sickness uh but we survived it and so far in the month of March we're we're uh trending way back up again so real happy with that our subpool is as large as it's been uh since I've been here anyway uh somewhere in the neighborhood
053of 212 with another 34 in the onboarding process so really happy about that too and goal five Mrs Armstrong um well a lot of projects going on for sure and the tech side as well as as you saw tonight lots of things happening in the facility plan um very excited that the single audit came back with no findings um so that does you know reiterate how we are spending our money and that we're doing that well thank you all for approving the budget amendments which was on the agenda if you didn't uh take a real look it I was excited to say part of that Grant and part of what we're getting out there for was over $2.1 Million worth of additional funding that we got through uh grant funding with increases uh Megan does
054very well with getting that carryover money going um finding new grants uh but we've all been kind of searching and finding so um I think we're doing a lot of good work a lot of processes uh technolog is kicking off the student information system uh interviews for that RFP so we are just hitting the ground running every day that is that brings me to the end of our strategic plan updates any questions from the board and that's it for our admin reports tonight one one last quick thing because I know people are waited with baited breath and don't want to miss this the first one on there the policy and Personnel committee meeting is canceled for the 20th so all those that you were dying to go to that you have a repri thank you
055Mr ziker that is correct that's all right next month we'll get you just a just a quick comment um that all that hard work looking for that additional funding and in Grants that's probably going to become much more important several members of the board have observed the the environment is changing rapidly and uh there's a lot of uncertainty so that that work is extremely important we'll be so going forward okay and I know how timec consuming that is so thank you all right I think that brings us to the end of our agenda here I'm looking for a motion to adjourn so move second all right all those in favor say I I all those opposed same sign meeting adjourn