001Good evening. Can we please have a motion to convene into public uh public hearing? >> I'll move to convene. >> Second. I'll second >> at 7 p.m. Roll call. Iron Jimenez I. Cavayto >> I. >> Strength >> I. >> Steinfeld >> I. >> Palace >> I. >> Gonzalez I. Motion carried. >> Thank you. Can we please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible and liberty, with justice for all. Okay. Good evening everyone. My name is Elizabeth Jimenez. I'm the Bowwin Si School District 100 uh school board president. To my left is Dr. Mary Havis, our superintendent. Um to your right you will find our uh Juny uh parents leisa to do
002any interpretation if anybody needs it. Dr. Mary. Uh, can we have roll call to establish quorum, please? Himenez >> here. Steinfeld >> here. >> Gonzalez here. Cabayo >> here. >> Dren >> here. Palace >> here. >> Thank you. Um for those of you that may have not come before to a meeting, today we're having two separate meetings. We're having the public um hearing and then we have a regular open meeting. Okay. Um the public hearing a notice is hereby given by the board of education of Berwin South School District 100 in the county of Cook the state of Illinois that the tentative budget for set school district for the fiscal year beginning July 1st 2025 will be on the on file and conveniently available for public inspection at 3401 South Anderson Avenue, Burwin, Illinois 6042
003and the first day of August 2025. Notice is hereby further given that a public hearing is hearing and final budget will be held at 7:00 p.m. on the 17th day of September. So today is when we're having the final meeting uh here at Heritage Middle School, 6850 West 31st Street, Berwin, Illinois by the Board of Education, Bowwin South School District 100 in the county of Cook, state of Illinois. If we have any public comments for the public hearing, uh you can come to the podium. Please state your name. Oh, my name is Kathy Poly. Um, Superintendent Havis, members of the board, and ladies and gentlemen, my name is Kathy Poly, and this is my 17th year as a reading specialist at Piper Elementary. I have come here today to speak up about a very important
004issue for our students. An issue very dear to my heart. A year ago last summer, I read a book that not only changed me but verified what I and many of my colleagues already saw was happening to our students. The book impressed me so much that upon my return to school, I gifted it to Superintendent Havis, who graciously accepted it and along with Mrs. Piper Simpson agreed to meet with me to discuss it. You have most likely heard of this book, The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Height, and it has had a tremendous positive impact around the world. Since my meetings with Superintendent Havis and Mrs. Piper Simpson, I have given a presentation to the Piper staff, as well as an introduction and overview of the book to the Piper parents. This past summer, I participated
005in a book study of the anxious generation to take a deeper dive into the book. I would gladly share my Google presentation with the board if they wish to see it. I cannot possibly sum up the book for you in this short time, but it is worth a read to make sure that we are leading the way in providing our students with the best possible education that we can give them. The fact is District 100 is a datadriven district. When the opportunity for onetoone technology presented itself, Berwin South School District did what they believed was right for our students. They wanted to make sure that they had the same access to the best education as every other child had. But when you know better, you do better. And now we know better. Jonathan Height's book
006has 65 pages of citations to support his research. This is not just one man's opinion. The world is listening and responding to this research. Many states and countries have already banned smartphones in schools. Illinois BA Illinois ban took will take effect in 2026 but in a wise move district 100 began the ban this school year. When you read Height's book you will understand that when he is talking about smartphones he also means devices. The data shows that these devices as well as the way they gify the learning have literally rewired our children's brains and not for the better. With that in mind, it is important to note that some countries such as Sweden and Finland have begun to take away devices and gone back to paper, pencils, and books. As I've stated, I am a
007reading specialist, and therefore, I think you should read the findings for yourself. Just as I did a year ago with Superintendent Havis, I would like to gift each one of you with the Anxious Generation book. I understand that there may be a rule against accepting gifts. If that is the case, you can pay me $1 for each book. I would love to have a discussion with you about the 65 pages of data that backs up the 295 pages of findings in this book. Even if we do not meet, I guarantee that it will either change your thinking or support what you already know. Time is of the essence and we cannot afford to wait to act. Our children are too important to keep them waiting. Let's be the leading district when it comes to changing
008our course of action with devices. I will leave you with one more thought. It's how I have ended all of my presentations. Jonathan Height writes in his book that many tech executives send their children to schools that prohibit digital devices, phones, laptops, tablets. What have they known or what do they know about these devices that they didn't tell us? That is the most powerful data that we have. Thank you for your time. And I really am going to give you each a book as soon as my head gets up here. So I think there's seven board members. Yes. Thank you for the Thank you for the books. Anyone else uh for public comments? I apologize for my coughing. Um, can we have a motion to adjurnn to public hearings and reconvene into open session? Cavay
009also moved. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. B 709. Can we have roll call? Cavon Cavayto >> I >> Dren >> I >> Steinfeld >> I >> Jimenez >> I >> Palace >> I >> Gonzalez >> I sorry butler absent with notice motion carried >> thank you so much okay um as many of us know something tragic happened in our neighbor neighborhood yesterday. Um, and I'm going to read something. We are heartbro heartbroken by the tragic act of violence that took the life of Lincoln Middle School's assistant principal, Neris Ali. On behalf of the entire district 100 community, we extend our deepest condolences to the students, the staff, families, friends, and loved ones who are grieving this unimaginable loss. We are saddened by this act of violence which strikes at the heart of what schools
010represents. Safe, nurturing places where students and educators come together to learn, grow, and thrive. The loss of a respected and beloved educator leaves a deep void that will be felt across our community. At District 100, we stand in solidarity with our neighbors in district 98. During this time of great sorrow, we hold close the students and the staff of Lincoln Middle School and all who knew and love their assistant principal and are keeping them in our thoughts and hearts. The incident reminds us the importance of addressing the both mental health and domestic violence in the impact they can have on our students, families and community. As a stu as educators and community members remain committed to fostering safe, caring and supportive environments for every student and adult in our schools. We also want to thank
011our social workers that were able to support North Berwin students and staff today in their time of grieving. So, can we have a moment of silence, please? Thank you. Superintendent's report. Thank you everyone for being here tonight. Um we are going to start our superintendence report with a presentation from Emerson. Um we have our principal and assistant principal as well as members of our school improvement team from Emerson who will be sharing the spotlight, Jean Suki, Maria Escobedo, an Andrea Samoya Samayoa, Jen Ortiz, and Heidi Koreah. We're glad that you are all here this evening and look forward to hearing about Emerson. All right. Good evening, members of the board, staff, and families. I am Jean Suki, the proud principal of Emerson, and I am so happy to in introduce Mrs. Maria Escobedo, our assistant
012principal, Mrs. Andrea Samayoa, our literacy coach, Mrs. Heidi Koreah and Miss Jen Ortiz who share our math core leader position at Emerson. Tonight we are excited to share with you our kickoff to the year, share our school improvement goals for this year and our plan to achieve those goals and to also take time to honor two staff members who continue to have an immense impact on our school. All right, we had an amazing kickoff um to our school year. Our back to school picnic, our school supply drop off, and our curricul curriculum night were well attended by our by by our community. You will see by the smiles Whoops. Thank you. by the smiles of our families and Tigers um celebrating the back to school. We appreciate and are thankful for our amazing PTA and
013the city of Berwin who celebrated with us the first day of school. This year we welcome five new team members. We have um received such positive um feedback from parents about them. Um we are so excited and so happy that they are part of our Emerson family. Em Emerson is a very special place and we could not do it without the amazing staff and community partners that we have. We also want to take the opportunity to publicly thank um our custodians and our maintenance staff. This summer we had the we have a new HVAC system and um they did everything they could. They went above and beyond expectations to make sure the school was clean and ready for when we started school. Um students are have shown so much joy and they're just so happy
014to be back. Um teachers have been focusing as on establishing classrooms classroom routines and also respon using responsive classroom practices to make sure that all students feel welcome, safe um not only in their classrooms but in our school in general. >> To begin, I would like to share with you the published AR data from two years ago. as this is our most recent data as our school report card was is not published by the state of Illinois at this time. So two years ago just a little snapshot we focused on improving student discourse in math and literacy and used the Kagan strategy of talking chips to support our work. Our goal in math was to have 37% of our students meeting and exceeding and our goal in literacy was 40%. As you can see during
015the 2324 school year, we did fall short of our goal. Um but from this we developed a strong plan for last school year. Our subgroup data for our EL students made posit positive shifts moving forward. At Emerson, we not only look at students in the green and achieving students, but we celebrate our students that moved from red to orange and orange to yellow. In looking at our access exits, our students exiting access increased by uh from eight students in 2023 to 10 students in 2024. This past school year, we continued our work on discourse and also incorporated a vocabulary focus using Freyer's four square model as our teachers succeeded in implementing our amplify literacy curriculum for the first time. I am happy to report that our preliminary data from last school year is showing great
016growth and I cannot wait to share when this data is published on our school report card in October. At Emerson, we share success and take on challenges as a team. Collective advocacy and having positive intent for all has contributes contributed to our successful start of this year. I am so happy to have this amazing team with me here tonight that will share a little bit more about our focus of our school improvement plan for this 2526 school year. To start for math this year, our goal is that 40% of our students in third through fifth grade will meet and exceed on our AR assessment. Um we will be focusing on numbers and operations and operations and algebraic thinking for our indicators and we have some specific work examples that um Miss Ortiz and Miss Korea
017will share with you now. Thank you. Good evening. The last two years, Emerson has had a strong focus on discourse. We collaborated with the principal team, math coaches, and SIP members to successfully implement the strategy talking chips. We strategically used a rubric that focused on tier three vocabulary and conceptualized understanding. All teachers, no matter the subject area they taught, engage in various walkthroughs that later consisted in reflections during our SIP meeting. The conversations many teachers had has led us to our plans that we see this school year. I'm excited to share that this year I have a new math co-leader, Jennifer Ortiz, our third grade dual language teacher. Her input throughout the years helped get Emerson ready to write in math. Our plan this year will consist in the rigorous work of modeling math skills.
018Our students and teachers will model, assess, and reflect in the implementation of CER, claim, evidence, and reasoning. Teachers will then during PLC's evaluate the strategy and review where is needed to asssure our students continue to use their discourse skills. All home room teachers, as you can see on this slide, fifth grade example, will give a formative and summitative assessment per unit. are dual language classrooms in K through 2nd. Assessments will be given in the language that they are taught in which is Spanish. Formative assessments will then prompt teachers to next steps such as helping students with concept misunderstandings, develop concrete representation or abstract thinking and much more. The goal will be to support our students to successfully grow in the summit of assessment that will be graded using specific item rubrics as you can see
019in this slide. Good evening. Um, thank you so much Heidi. I'm really excited to be part of this partnership this year. As a classroom teacher, I'm ready to dive in and be part of the math core and really find ways in helping improve our modeling skills with our PDs and embed math discourse into CER for students to complete extended responses within the school year. Um here we're able to see another student work example. And as mentioned, we focused on discourse a lot last year. And we really our focus for this year is to really push students out of I agree within an extended response and really help transfer the developed skills within CER into their writing for their extended response. And then right here, as mentioned, I am a third grade teacher. So I really
020get that baseline within their student samples and see this is one of our first formative assessments that we did. And although a lot of students were able to show their extended response by giving the response, we really want to be able to show Can you show the next slide? Oh no, the fifth grader. >> Oh, sorry. >> Oh, within this one. Oh, sorry. um so that they can be able to give that extended response and really go into detail as to how they responded to the question. Thank you so much um Miss Korea and Miss Ortiz for sharing a little bit about um all of the work that we have already started. We've been we've had a very busy week of math PLC's. I also just want to give a shout out to um coach
021Bethany. Bethany Wit is an amazing partner and she is our math coach at Emerson and she has also been um so helpful in guiding this work for literacy. Our goal at Emerson is that 45% of our students will meet and exceed AR. Mrs. Samayora will now share our schoolwide focus and strategy to help achieve these goals. Sorry. Good evening. Um, I would like to begin by sharing some of the progress we've made towards our literacy goal. All staff have now received professional development on CER, so claim, evidence, and reasoning, and how it can be applied across all content areas, not just literacy. This has been a big emphasis at Emerson because we believe that all teachers are writing teachers. Um and that's why we've included special teachers and support staff in this uh professional development.
022Um so that we can all have that common language. Um and our goal is to make CER consistent and AC and aligned across all domains. Um we've also continued this work during our PLC's. teachers have been using rubrics and examples of student samples um to practice evaluating writing and this has led to a lot of great conversations and a better understanding of how to use the rubrics in a more efficient way. Um we're planning to bring in student work samples into our future meetings so that our con conversations can be rooted in real examples from our classrooms. Um as for our next steps, we want to continue to build on this momentum. Um we want to continue those conversations on of how to incorporate CER not only into literacy but into all uh subject areas
023and professional development will continue um both during our building meetings and our PLC's. Um we want to strengthen teacher practice and engage in collaboration again not just in from grade level to grade level but across all content areas. Um we will also be bringing those student samples into PLC's and moni monitor student progress data closely and finally we'll share these um the summitive data with our teaching and learning team so that our progress can guide the next phase of our work and then this is just an example of our staff buyin during our most recent professional development. Um, our teachers shared their takeaways and ideas of how to incorporate the strategy into their daily practices in all subject areas. Thank you. >> Thank you so much, Mrs. Amayoa, for your updates and all of your
024efforts in leading this work at Emerson. We look forward to updating all stakeholders as we progress through this school year and are excited to share our promising most recent report card data with our families and community in October. Are there any items um that that have been shared that you would like any clarification on before we start our staff recognition component? >> Uh yes, thank you for that presentation. Um, I think it's great how you included those student samples. It's really nice to see authentic student work, um, and the rubrics that you'll be using. I just wanted to read into the record the question that I asked ahead of time, um, which was, according to the state report card, only about 14% of EL students at Emerson met proficiency in English language arts. So, I'm
025wondering how this conversation went with the school improvement plan team. what is the rationale for not focusing on this subgroup? And the response I got is that my question would be addressed in tonight's presentation. >> Um >> yes, and so I know that we did share our um our EL data that we did have students grow in each of the levels. Um and so we do work closely. Our EL um staff member does meet as part of our PLC team to provide strategies and training for teachers on best practices. Um and so it is definitely a subgroup that we are very aware of consider in all that we do um to strengthen that subgroup. >> Okay. So, but that doesn't answer the question, right? Like, so is the rationale for not having a goal for
026the subgroup that you have an EL teacher working in your PLC? >> So, we monitor our EL subgroup data closely. Um, and our goals this year in our school improvement plan are around math and literacy. And so, under our math and literacy umbrella, we do focus on that subgroup. how >> I so I can share with you PLC documents. I'm happy to provide those for you. Um I'm happy to provide some of the examples that we have been going through during our PLC time if that's something that you would like to share with you. I can share that with you. >> Uh Madame President, I don't know if that's necessary to see PLC documents. I don't think that would be Okay, sure. So, if there's something else that you think that um I can share
027with you, I can definitely get back to the team >> and you can let me know that and I can communicate with um Principal Suki. >> No problem. Any other clarifications? All right, we are going to move on to our staff recognition. Tonight, we are thrilled to recognize the outstanding efforts of Mrs. Samayoa and Miss Flores for their exceptional contributions to both our students and school community. Mrs. Samayoa and Miss Flores took the initiative to create a club grounded in the portrait of a graduate qualities established by district 100. This club has become a powerful platform for students to embrace leadership, collaboration, and show a commitment to our school community. By giving students the tools and support to lead, they have created an environment where students feel empowered to take charge of their own education
028and contribute positively to the community. And here's just a real cute photo of our first group from the end of last year. In addition, Mrs. Samayoa and Miss Flores have been instrumental in engaging fifth grade students in meaningful school activities such as supporting with our steam night, family literacy night, and even the iPad deployment for kindergarteners, which is a task in itself. This hands-on involvement has not only enriched the learning experiences for our younger students, but it has also provided fifth graders with invaluable leadership opportunities. By actively listening to student feedback, they have fostered a culture of collaboration and improvement, and they ensure that students voices are heard and acted upon at Emerson. Both of these Emerson Tigers have made a lasting impact, inspiring our students to become proactive leaders and responsible citizens. Their dedication
029and their commitment to our students and school are truly commendable, and we congratulate them this evening. So, come on up. [Applause] Oh yeah. Oh, picture. >> Um, thank you so much for your support. We had a wonderful kickoff at Emerson and we are excited to share um just all of the good things that continue this way uh during our school year. Thank you everyone. >> Yes, we can pause for a minute for pictures. So, please feel free to ad Congratulations. >> Yes, congratulations and thank you all for being here tonight. We are excited to see how much our school improvement teams have grown at each of our schools. Um it truly is a partnership in our buildings to um develop and monitor the school improvement goals and and Emerson was certainly gave us examples of
030that this evening. So thank you so much and congratulations on all of your work. All right. Um we are moving on um to our facilities update. Um so I just wanted to share some things since Emerson's here. We will also share about how we're doing um finishing up the summer project at Emerson. Um so the exterior brick work is complete. They had to do some washing um after some of the masonry work to make sure the bricks matched. Um we're still waiting for parts on a few UN events that need to be adjusted and once we have those then the programming will follow. Um, the programming will help us better control the temperatures in the classrooms, which I know can be a little challenging at the moment, but once the the programming gets done, that
031should um be that that should make sure that the temperatures are are able to be controlled. We're hoping for that to be next week. Um, we had a construction meeting today. Um, so that timeline is there. And roofing, um, we're still addressing some minor points, um, but full completion on the Emerson roof should be done soon. So, we are getting close to celebrating another successful summer project at uh one of our schools. Um the education center um is continuing. You if you've gone by, you see that we have more walls and actually some of the interior brick work is starting. Um, currently they're installing concrete masonry units at the elevator walls and stairwells, installing electrical, um, and continuously, um, working with our construction team on regular facilities checks at the building as it is continuing
032to grow. Um, as we've mentioned, we're continuing to work on that long range facilities plan with our architects, which will include um options for consideration for the board as we begin to think about what will come next for the current Lever building. Um, so that will be part of the long range facilities plan um that we expect to be done in the next few months that we will be looking for feedback from the board. Um, and then also, uh, we're continuing to work with the architect on the life safety bond so that we can complete our Piper UNI event project next summer, our last one, um, to get our UNI events and air conditioning in our buildings as well as much needed roof work at Kmenski. Um, so that is our facilities update. Any questions?
033Okay. Um we did have two FOYAs this month um that were submitted. Um notable in the dashboard is to um take a peek at our current attendance as or current uh enrollment numbers as compared to last year. Um districtwide we're down about 108 students um from this time last year. Um so we you know we do still continue to get some kids registering but um that's what our enrollment numbers look like as of now. and I will turn it over to Jenny for the financial report. >> Thanks, Mary. >> Sorry to interrupt, Miss Hosty. Um, do we have a slide for the attendance or >> It's in board book. >> It's in the dashboard and board book. >> So, okay. Thank you. Okay, thanks. Um, our bank balance as of today is 59.2 million. Our
034revenue for the month to date is um only 1.5 million which is extremely low um especially for this time of year. As you know Cook County has not released its tax bills so we have not received any revenue from taxes. Along with that which I'll talk about in the middle minute is your um statemandated categoricals. While the state has said yes, we will fund statemandated categoricals, they have not as of yet. Um, so we are relying on EBF right now. Um, our cash flow short is up above and it's in board book. Your revenue for the month to date for August was only 2.8 million. Our year-to- date revenue in September is only 3.8 8 million. That's usually our revenue for one month. Um, that's very, very low. Our expenses for the month to date
035are 5.8 million. Our year to date is 9.9 million. Um, and our overall fund balance is 58.4 million. Uh, on the next one, you'll see our grant snapshot. I take that back. Not only is our funding coming from evidence-based funding, but it's only coming from our state preschool grant. Um, those three lines that you see there next to Amanda Thompson. Um, none of our grants are available right now in Fris. They were all available to write the grant, submit the grant. The state accepted the grants. Um, but none of them have come over and you can't do any expenditure reports. Um, so we're kind of at a standstill with that. So, I am closely monitoring our revenue and our expenditures daily to make sure that everything um stays where we are. On the next slide,
036you'll see the budget that you have on the agenda to approve tonight for the FY26. Um the both the state really long form and the short form are in board book. This is what I call the short form. It's the easier one to understand than going through the very large one of 32 Excel pages. Um, at the end of this one though, could you go to the end RJ of the second page right there? So, the budget that you'll see that's here is a deficit budget of 4.9 million. That is your revenues compared to your your direct revenues compared to your direct expenditures. However, when you upload this into the state format, the state does, and we reviewed this in the finance committee tonight, the state does acknowledge that we have a balanced budget. Because
037we have a fund balance, we're able to cover that deficit. Also, in finance committee tonight, we reviewed um we reviewed three different options, four different options. One of the options we looked at for bonds was restructuring our current structure for savings. Um that would bring us around $300,000 in savings to our bonds. The other three we looked at was as Mary had mentioned looked at doing life safety bonds. One is for the Piper Univvent project and the other is to fund the Kmenky roof. The Piper Univvent project is roughly $1.5 million and the Kmenky roof for a full roof is a million dollars. Um so what we're looking for is 2.5 in life safety bonds. Mary, we met with our architect. Um the architect then draws up the proposal and it has to be approved
038by ISBY by the state before we can move forward with seeking funding for that. And that's the end of my report. >> All right. Thank you. And that concludes the superintendent's report. >> Thank you. Thank you everyone. Can you hear me? >> Do you want to try m Oh, here. Just use mine because mine is working. >> This one's working. And that was Summers. >> This one's working. Try this. >> Thank you. >> Can you hear me? Now you can hear me. I can even hear myself. Thank you. Uh, president's report finance. >> Uh, a lot of what Jenny said. We looked at the bond restructuring and we looked at the tentative uh, 2026 budget. >> Thank you. policy. >> Uh in policy, we didn't have any uh anything new to look over. We were
039just looking at things we have to like review and monitor. So, it's just standard. So, nothing to report there. >> Thank you. Uh we do not have a legisl legis legislative report as of right now. Uh correspondence. >> There was two um correspondences. >> Thank you. um and bore self-evaluation workshop we were able to meet last September 11th as a board um and we went over the expect a board expectations and board protocols do we have any comments anybody wants to comment on that >> yeah I will comment I think um it's always good for the health of the board for all of us to sort of align and on the things that we'd like to to set goals on or to to improve improve upon, especially having a new member now, too. And I
040I thought it was a very productive evening, um helped bring a little bit of clarity to some of the things that might have been a little murky for me, at least on the board, but um uh overall, I thought it was a a really um successful and and uh productive endeavor. >> Anyone else? >> No, I agree. I think uh having Lori Grant from IESB uh ASB uh uh help us and support us with this. I think we it was pretty productive. So I was very happy with that. Um so public comments uh individuals appearing before the board are expected to follow the guidelines outlined the board policy to 230. Seeing none uh action items on the consent agenda. Items may be removed from the consent agenda and the request of any one member. Items
041not removed may be adopted by the general consent without debate. Removed items may be t taken up either immediately after the consent agenda or placed later on the agenda at the discretion of the board. I'd like to pull out the budget which is what number D. Thank you. Okay. Um so can we have a motion to approve the consent agenda with the exception of item D? I'll motion >> second. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Now, our discussion could be do we want to discuss the D uh the budget for discussion right now or do we want to put it in for um next board meeting >> which I don't know if we can. >> I think we there was a motion. So, first you have to make a >> Oh, thank you. >> Yes. Roll
042call. >> I Gonzalez I. Steinfeld >> I. >> Butler absent with notice. Palace >> I. >> Drenth >> I. >> Cavayto >> I. >> Himenez. >> I. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. Now uh that discussion is whether we want to discuss the item D which is budget or do we want to put it in for a future board meeting which my question to you Mary can we do that? >> Uh I it has to be approved by the end of September. So we would have to reconvene as a full board to make the budget adoption. >> Okay. Do we want to discuss? >> My intent to pull it out was just to um comment on it and so discuss it tonight. >> Sounds good. Thank you. >> I didn't mean to make Miss Hosty
043nervous or sweaty. Sorry. Um thank you for recognizing me. Um I wanted to pull it out because um I think it's important to talk about it. The consent agenda is for like non-controversial things, right? Now, I'm not saying this budget is controversial. I think it's a beautiful budget. Um, but I do want to highlight, you know, that it looks like a deficit budget, but, you know, it's actually we're fine because of our fund balance. Fund balance. Um, I looked at all this last weekend. Um, so I think it's beautiful. I think it's um a little disappointing that nobody came to the public hearing to talk about it. Um, because this impacts everybody whether we have children or not in the schools, right? Um, and I know that we have community members who care, right, who
044care about our schools and, uh, who want to make sure that we have the best for our kids. Um, I love this community. I, you know, this is a good budget. I just wanted to highlight, you know, the great work that our D100 administration is doing. Thank you, um, Dr. Havis. Um, and that was all I wanted to say. Well, I'm I appreciate that you brought it back for that particular purpose because that was the question that I also had and um um Jenny was able to help me understand why we're why does it look like we are under deficit but we're not. So, she was able to explain that to me. So, thank you for bringing that up. Um and I agree. I think uh Dr. Heav has done a and Jenny have done
045a really good job with our budget at least since I began we were not where we are today. So therefore it's huge. We I'm very proud of that. Um so can we have a motion? Anybody has comments? >> Uh just sitting on the finance committee um and I made this comment today uh during the committee meeting. Um it's great to see how fiscally responsible uh Dr. Havis and Jenny Hosty are and they really do think about every possible scenario and you know try to get everything all the all the ducks in a row which can be very difficult um with the number of schools that we have contractors you know all the all the projects that are going on. So, thank you all for your excellent leadership and fiscal responsibility, which I know can be
046it can be very difficult. Um, but you all do it beautifully. So, thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Anyone else have any comments? >> Well, thank you for pulling it off the agenda to hear all these wonderful comments. >> Okay. Thank you. So, can we have a motion to approve item D from the consent agenda? >> I will move um approval of the of item D, the budget for the next school year. >> Second. >> I will second. >> Roll call. I J Himenez. >> Steinfeld. >> I. >> Tren >> I. >> Palace. >> I. >> Gonzalez. I Butler absent with notice. Cavayto >> I. Motion carried. >> Thank you so much. Uh public comments, individuals appearing before the board are expected to follow the guidelines outlined in board policy 2 to30. Seeing
047none, any board member comments. >> I'd just like to thank you, Elizabeth, for your words earlier in the evening. Um yesterday was terrible. Um I'm sure that I'm not alone that many people are reaching out because no one knows which middle school is which. having a daughter in middle school and that nobody knew if it was what had happened right away. >> Um so thankfully it was not at one of our schools but >> too close shouldn't happen anywhere period. Unfortunately it is happening everywhere all the time and so um thank you for those words and it's a very tough time to have kids in a school or go to a school or I guess just be in this country. So >> yes, thank you Mary for that too. I would like to follow up
048those comments um and echo what Miss Steinfeld said. Um we're living in a really hard time right now. It's really hard to be a kid. Um as you know, I'm a teacher also in Shamberg. It's really hard to be a teacher right now. Um and I I wanted to thank our teachers and staff and everybody who works in our buildings um for everything that you do cuz it's really it's really hard right now. Um it's heartbreaking. Uh every day I wake up to a new horror, so I have to disassociate myself um just to get through the day. Um so I wanted to say thank you and thank you to the social workers who were able to go over to D98 and help over there. I want to make sure we're taking care of our
049social workers, too. Um and like I said, I I really love this community. I've been here for over 30 years. Um, and I've seen it change and I've seen the demographics change and now, um, you know, now we're a vibrant Latino community, um, with other cultures woven in as well. And, um, it's just heartbreaking that our families and our community is living in fear um, and that we're being persecuted. And our schools are so important right now and everything that you all do is so important right now. So, thank you. I would like to yeah I would agree with all of that. Um I also want to extend thanks to Miss Poly for coming forward tonight to you know inform the board about something that clearly uh has you know made an impact on her.
050Um it just shows the commitment of the staff here about the well-being of all of our students. And um I for one am going to you know um encourage all my fellow board members to you know read the book or at least reach out to Miss Fa and see you know what other information she may have and and um you know take take her words to heart. >> Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Um I guess I do want to say yes, our communities are hurting right now. I'm a local president where I work and many of my staff members, my members are very concerned with eyes being near our schools. I know they have been sight seen through by our schools and I work in Westmont so they are all over and our communities our
051parents are afraid to some of them are afraid to send the students to school. So, I know that we have a protocol and a process on how to follow that, but I just want to know that all of you are okay and that you are being taken care of and that you are at the same time supporting other staff members and supporting our students and families and I know that you are. So, I want to thank you for all of that you do because like uh board member Cavayto mentioned, we are living in very hard times right now and maybe some more communities more than others, but it's still tragic. So, thank you for everything that you do. Anyone else? No. Okay. Can we have a motion to adjurnn? A motion >> second. >> I'll
052second >> at 7:50. Roll call. >> I Jimenez I >> Steinfeld >> I. >> Gonzalez I. >> Uh, Drenth >> I. >> Palace >> I. >> Calo >> I. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you everyone for being here and have a good rest of your day.