001behind us. 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, with liberty and justice for all. Uh, anybody have anything to add to the agenda? Can I please have a motion to approve the agenda? Motion second. Tiffany Vivian. All in favor? I. Any oppose? Eyes have it. Our track and field state qualifiers. Congratulations. Come on up. All right. Come on up, track and field. I'm going to have uh Mr. Walters uh introduce everybody. And we just want to congratulate you all. you uh represented Big Hollow very well and I know a couple of the our relay I know one relay team was really really close actually both relay teams were really close to meddling so let's have you guys
002line up here and I'll have uh Mr. Walters. Okay. Start with our only eighth grade to qualify this year was Zamir Ayes. Qualifying the long jump. [Applause] We had our seventh grade girls 4x1 team real qualify of Ava Scaleri. Julia Morales, Julia Miles, Ari Smith is not here. She's absent. They'll set our boys 4x1 team qualify of Logan Lissfeld, Dean Clemens, Kenneth Leonard, and Bradley Cruz. Bradley cannot make it tonight. Jaclyn also qualified in the hurdles as an individual. And absent today, he's done in Costa Rica on the school trip is Jack Wallace qualified in 1600. Does anybody have one state finals memory you want to share? Was it scary? Was it fun? Both. Scary. How many people would you say were there? 3,000. That's awesome. I bet I bet there was at least 3,000,
003actually. Yes. Jump in there. Congratulations, guys. Thanks for all your hard work. You guys are more than welcome to stay, but feel free to leave any at any time. Uh the board member code of conduct review Joe I will be sufficiently informed about and prepared to act on specific issues before the board and remain reasonably knowledgeable about local state national global education issues. All right. Thank you. Anybody questions on the consent agenda? Okay. Please have a motion to approve the consent agenda. Motion. Second. Doug and Tiffany Person. Yes. Yes. Yes. Johnson, yes. Peter, yes. Lions, yes. Bennett, yes. Superintendent report, Mr. Gold. Okay. Uh, just a few items. One, I want to give you a quick update on some legislative issues. They uh just finished up in at the end of May. Um, few items.
004One, evidence-based funding did go through. So they they've uh put $300 million towards uh through tier funding for schools. We are still in the lowest tier, which means we uh we get the way the evidence-based funding works, we get a higher percentage of that. So that's good news for us. Um but the uh I want to and I'll talk a little bit more about this when I get our end of the year financials done but um once the end of June happens but there's uh what's called the mandated categoricals which is um specialed transportation regular transportation um specialed costs for uh private or for for sending students uh to outplacements. they get we get some reimbursement for that. Those categoricals um this year they've they've taken a significant hit. Um so what's happening is the
005state is um the evidence-based funding model is is what everybody uh pays attention to and they're continuing to put money towards that which which does help us but on the other end of it they're cutting us on those other categoricals. So we're getting a le less percentage of uh return on that and we've really seen it in our budget. Um so they're so what's happened is uh some of the wealthier districts uh that don't get much for evidence evidence-based funding they when that was put in place in you know eight or nine years ago the those districts supported evidence-based funding because they didn't they didn't need the state funding like other districts do. But now they're feeling the pinch because not only are they not getting evidence-based funding, they're getting hit with the lower re
006reimbursements on the categoricals. We're getting the evidence-based funding, we're getting hit on the lower reimbursement for categorical grants. It kind of balances each other out. Uh some districts are just getting hit and not getting the evidence based funding. So it's just kind of it's become an issue in the state. And um so when you see that the state is putting out $300 million towards public schools, it's a it's a good headline. It's good and we're we're really glad they're doing it, but I just know that we're getting cut in other areas. It's really starting to impact us a little bit. So um so that that's that was the budget part. Um pensions, um they have not there's an issue with tier 2 pensions that they started to address. They didn't really do much with it
007yet, but um our tier 2 employees I I believe the year is like 200 2012. Anybody hired after 2012 is in tier 2 and they're under a different pension system. And uh the the long story short is their pension system does not meet the qualifications for social security uh for for bypassing social security. So no teachers or administrators get social security. But the only way you can do that is if your pension system has a greater benefit than social security. It's the only way the federal government allows that. Well, tier one, they the benefit's better than social security. But tier two, it's not. And uh so there's going to be a severe penalty at some point unless they fix it. And uh they didn't fix it in this legislation, but they did add a fund.
008They put $75 million in to a fund that's going to help eventually fix it. So, uh, but just so you know, that that change is coming. Right now, they tier two, I mean, they just they strip down a lot of the benefits. They have to work till they're 67. Uh, they uh there's they don't get there's just a there's it gets into a lot of a lot of the weeds on this, but they they're basically their benefit is not as strong as if they had just paid into Social Security. And uh so the state's going to have to fix it. And we this is the first year where there are now more tier 2 employees than there are tier one. So uh so that that they they now have a bigger lobby uh to fix
009that. So it did not get fixed. Um, couple of good things. one one one good thing not a big deal but we've been getting a lot of foyer requests that are AI generated and they just keep coming and uh we they they're asking for a lot of information and we're constantly filling these foyer requests and they did give us the Gibson legislation that basically says if we get a request that we suspect is AI generated we can ask for a verbal reaffirmation that this is real and uh because they have real email addresses, they have, you know, but somebody's back there just sending out these things and making us get all this information, send it their way. It's usually financial stuff. Um I think we had one recently. They wanted every every purchase order, every
010transa transaction back to 2007, stuff like that. So we we were able just to take Skyward and just run reports, but silly stuff like that. But um the uh couple of not so good surprises uh that came out of this. Um there's some language about immigration. Uh it's become a really political issue and they're trying so there's some this did not get approved but there's a lot of there's a lot of talk about this and it's going to come up again but about trying to restrict not only immigration enforcement in schools but actually uh police officers coming law enforcement coming into schools unless there's a defined emergency. So that's that that's out there. It did not get approved, but I just want to keep an eye on that. Um then there's one more here about
011there was a this actually came from the Illinois State Board of Education which was disappointing and uh and I'm on the ISA board and we had state board members in our meeting talking about this and we talked about it for quite a while and we did not agree, but they're trying to limit they they wanted to eliminate suspensions for students in kindergarten through second grade and uh they wanted to eliminate completely and suspensions and expulsions. Um, so we fought it pretty hard. Uh, because at that age, you know, we don't want to suspend kids, but there's sometimes we don't have any other choices. Um, and, uh, so we fought it pretty hard. It it didn't it did not get they didn't get anything approved, but it's still out there. It's like that we think they're
012still going to come after it. Um, one bill that they were that they were going to we thought it was going to pass, which was fine with me, was they we couldn't suspend kindergarten to second grade without superintendent approval. In our district, that's fine. It'd be fine. But if you think about Pallet time, you know, how a big district like that, every one of those would have to run through the superintendent before they could do anything. That would slow things down. So, uh, it did not get through, but just so you know, there's a push out there to try to do that. trying to eliminate our ability to do that. Um, and I think that's really Oh, there was a the governor tried to push something through to eliminate cell phone usage. That didn't nothing
013happened with that. There was a lot of push back in the state around that. They just wanted to let the school districts control it themselves is what they wanted. But, um, so nothing happened with it. I don't see anything happening with that in the future either. So, any questions on anything you might have read legislatively that scared you or Okay, the next item I have is reification training simulation. We did this last week. Uh we had representatives from Grant, Fox Lake, Gavin, and Lake Villa along with big hollow staff and uh we ran a s reunification simulation would be like if we had a a bad incident where we had to take we couldn't use our buses and parents had to come pick up their kids whether here or somewhere else, we are all using
014the same reunification plan. And uh so Jason Gloy, our safety coordinator, um has built He's gone through the trainings for this and we have like to-go kits that are four big boxes on wheels that we would just take with us. It's got everything in it that we need to run one of these reunifications. Um and then so what we did was training last week. I would say I it didn't I thought it I don't think it went great, but everybody that talked to me said that thought it went well. So I don't know. We probably had a hundred over 100 people here. And um um the reason I feel like it didn't go great on my end was because we we chose to like we didn't even Jason and I didn't tell our staff anything
015that they would be doing with the training. We wanted to be a surprise. So I mean they knew we were having the training, but we gave them their job assignments literally the right in front of everybody. So they had about 10 minutes to kind of figure out what they had to do. And then we ran we had people simulated as parents and students. We redid ran them through the whole drill and it went fine but it felt felt a little uh I'm a little OCD and it felt a little unorganized and uh I was a little anxious about it but um you know it went fine. I think I would have done things a little differently if we do it again but um yeah it was a good eye opener for us though as to
016how like there's a lot to it. So, um, item C is something I'll ask for approval on. It's the, uh, the intergovernmental agreement with Fox Lake for the, uh, uh, the TIFF development that we talked about a couple months ago. And, uh, I think the qu a couple questions were asked. Uh, one was about the interest acring on delayed payments in case they delayed payments. And the statute doesn't require that, so it's not in there. And then um uh if the tiff expires the uh somebody asked this question and I haven't noted here. If tiff expires the formally hidden incre incremental value is added to the taxable EAV of the district all at once. So um so that is added to the district all at once. Those and I you know I've talked with our
017attorney about it. he feels like this is a very uh um beneficial tiff for a school than he than he typically sees. So he was really surprised to see that they were as generous as they were for us on this. He said that doesn't happen in most cases. Fox Lake had or Grant High School has approved their on their end and this the village has approved it. So they're just waiting our approval tonight. So, if you have any questions, I can try to answer them. But I I don't have a lot of experience with TIFFs, but I've tried to get involved with this as much as I can. And everything I've read, I think we're we're in pretty good shape. So, they're going to make us whole for every student that we have that live
018in the in the TIFF is what really what it comes down to is we will get an audit and at the audit it tells us what our costs per pupil were for that school year. And if we had 10 kids in that tiff district that went to Big Hollow that year and our cost per pupil is 14,000, we're going to get 140,000. And we're going to prorrate it. Like so if one of those students is only here half the year, we'll get half of that for that student. So we'll prorrate it. We'll send them a bill. They got to pay us. So it's about it really it's making us whole. So anybody any questions? seem clearer than last time. What's that? It's clearer than last time. That's good. That's good. All right. Can I please
019have a motion to approve the IGA concerning school payments from the village of Pox Lake 12 South redevelopment project area? Motion. Second. General Vivian Strenesca. Yes. Peter, yes. Venttor, yes. Johnson, yes. Lions, yes. Person, yes. Bennett, yes. Then next item is just the board meeting dates for next year, second Monday. Uh we have one Tuesday because of a holiday. See them there. Um item C is another adoption I got to have ask you for. It's just our budget calendar. Just shows you that we have to have the budget on file 30 days before its final approval. So I'll bring a uh Thursday, August 7th, I'll have it in the papers in the late Daily Herald. And then Monday, August 11th, a board meeting. We'll have a tenative budget for you. And then then uh it's
020on file from August 7th to September 8th and then September 8th will be the final budget hearing. So all right. Anybody have any questions on the budget calendar? Okay. Please have a motion to approve the 2526 budget calendar. Motion. Second. Doug and Tiffany. Person. Yes. Ventures. Yes. Bennett. Yes. Mr. Nesco. Yes. Johnson. Yes. Keer. Yes. Lions. Yes. And the last item is just to up I try to update you every year on our insurance. Uh this is workman's comp and property casualty insurance. Uh we decreased a little bit this year down to 238,000. Um and that's just an annual cost. So I don't need any approval or anything. Justformational. That's it. All right. Anybody questions on Savas on second? No. Okay. Please have a motion to approve the adoption of SAS as ELA curriculum resource
021for students in grades 6 through 8. Second. Ash and Vivian. Bennett. Yes. Peter, yes. Johnson, yes. Lions, yes. Person, yes. Yes. Yes. Anybody have any questions on the board policy update? Please have a motion to approve the recent border policy update on second reading. Motion second. Vivian and Doug. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Eyes have it. All playing construction. This is just miscellaneous concrete repairs throughout the campus. We just try to keep up on this every summer. All right. Questions? Please have a motion to approve the quote of upland construction for concrete repairs. Motion second. Tiffany and Vivian. Yes. Peter, yes. Lions, yes. Patterson, yes. Bennett, yes. Sernesca, yes. Johnson, yes. Anybody any questions on the 25th employment report with additions? No. I please have a motion to approve the May 2025 employment report
022with additions. Second. Ash and Doug. Bennett. Yes. Peterson. Yes. Mr. Nesco. Yes. Enters. Yes. Johnson. Yes. Peter. Yes. Lions. Yes. Uh we accept a resignation from Stephanie Boone, lunch monitor. We accept a resation from Adrien Merchant, transportation driver. We accept the resignation from AJ Estroski Middle School PE health teacher. Do we have any public comments? No. Anyway, any questions on the PO requests? No. The monthly reports for the board. The next regularly scheduled board meeting will take place on Monday, July 14th with close session beginning at 6 p.m. and open session immediately after close session. I do need a motion to move to close session for the purpose of employment, employment compensation, discipline, performance, dismissal, litigation, negotiations, and property. Motion second. Joe and Tiffany. All in favor? Any oppose? I