001uh that would be for some uh students with special needs uh do you know specifically dr pittman chain of lakes transportation is there is that the medical fragile one student okay okay yeah when we can't provide the driver we have to outsource what are the driver screen they are screened and they have they we have an agreement with them yeah they do a criminal background yeah yeah they have to follow the same guidelines that we do there's also there's a couple of there's another always transportation is another one it's on the first page there too we try not to use them if we can avoid it at all costs but it's much more expensive to do than our own drivers but we're short sometimes why are we paying libertyville school district what are we paying
002for let me look here that would be for sharing uh right that's also special libertyville that's slick but i thought we felt that switch to uh i'll research that i thought that switched because that could be wrong yeah i know i know i think it's for a shared uh special service that we do and i will i will research that and find out and then i had another question yeah there's a megan carroll and there's megan l carol are they same same yeah same i'm not sure uh they must have been put in as two different vendors but there's a couple others look at that yep yeah on their end they get the check and it's okay on our end it shows us two different vendors in our system so when she prints a report
003so yeah that'll be it libertyville's hearing yeah okay okay uh item b is our exhibit 789 just this is our annual citizens advisory council information we did have roughly 35 candidates oh 27 okay we opened it up to all parents and this is the list we got for this year so the uh on exhibit nine are the objectives it's a pretty light list of objectives right now but it will it will get longer as the year goes so we'll as we have some administrator meetings we'll talk about uh objectives to add but these are the things that are on there for now so that's really just a four-year information but we do like to get the board to approve the members for that year all right anybody any questions on the cac members can i
004please have a motion to approve the system advisory council members for motion second doug and joe all in favor any opposed ice habit okay then uh my next and last item is just an update as we start school i'm going to update you on a few things board we will open up with three days of institute we do have an opening day breakfast with all staff on the monday the 22nd 8 a.m i know that you all have jobs and but if you're available and you'd like to come we definitely would invite you to that i'll have about two hours with the staff that morning before we send them off and we'll be doing just some fun stuff that morning i do encourage you if you have an opportunity for the back to school bash
005on the 26th the friday night that first week 5 30 to 7 it's a great community event we do have a district table set up where we give away a lot of big hollow swag gear as a board member if you would like to attend and give out things that nights it's just a it's a fun night great community night so i encourage you if you're available um i want to give you a couple updates on uh one being the covid update um this i'm in the process of finalizing some return to school plans just to make things very clear for parents and and students and teachers staff regarding what what we're going to be doing around covert related issues i we don't have anything formal yet because the cdc is possibly coming out with
006some guidance this week that and i didn't want to put anything out and then have to change it and all in all it looks like uh you know i think it's going to be basically back to school as normal but uh i will be getting you something soon and we'll get it out to all the community soon but it won't be anything like last year we're not doing uh you know at this point masks will be you know optional for kids if they want to wear them and staff if they want to wear them and things like that testing we'll have available if people want it we're not going to do contact tracing we're not going to quarantine uh students uh unless they do test positive with covet if there's a positive covet test then
007they they have to be out five days there's things like that but uh there won't be a lot of exclusion from school so we're working on that um um excused yes yeah uh staffing update uh we are i think good with certified staff three principals are right there do we have any certified staff positions we are trying to hire right now i think we are we are good which is where that's a great spot to be in right now with all the shortages that are out there so um we have a couple pair of professional positions we're looking for elementary facilities uh our facilities crew joe got to meet them the other day i took him out to lunch and joe was at the same place we were eating lunch so we got to meet
008our facilities crew [Laughter] and they this group has been working really hard this summer the buildings look great i think by the time school starts the buildings will look as good as they've looked in years so and we have we're fully staffed there in the facilities group food service is fully staffed bus drivers we are we are down a couple drivers right now we had two resigned last week we have four that are training as we speak it just takes a little time to get them trained so we have four people that want to be drivers we have to take through the whole process so it'll be by the end by about the end of september before we get them fully tested and ready to drive a bus until then we will use our backup
009drivers that are in-house we have guys on the facility team that are certified so we have added back a bus route that we took away last year to alleviate some of the uh capacity issues so we um we are doing that but so we're a little we're a little tight with drivers and but everybody is right now and i think uh jackie is doing a really good job trying to make sure things are going to work there [Music] facility readiness for the school year like i told you uh the buildings the cleaning is doing is i think we're just about done waxing all the floors and cleaning all the rooms we have some projects have been happening on campus classroom construction over at elementary and primary we did some internal classroom construction it's a little
010bit behind schedule um i think we're going to be okay but we're the things that are out of our control like the doors are on back order some of the cabinetry is going to be a little late so we're going to be close but these aren't rooms this the room that we added at primary isn't essential for day one we can put them somewhere else i have to talk to mrs janice about it once we get closer but they will be done but it's it's probably possibly a little delayed uh primary playground we uh we did add a little fence around an area over here if you saw that or not just because we have kids running around out there and i wanted to keep him off the road so it's not completely fenced in
011but it's close over here we improved that the elementary and primary playground we we have some i'm telling you this because uh we we added the middle school playground and it's brand new and primary elementary playground we had said we're going to do some repairs to it those repairs that equipment's delayed so they told us the equipment won't arrive until september to repair all the parts to that so if you make complaints about the uh condition of the primary elementary playground sets just let them know that the the repair is planned and we're just back the parts are all back ordered so uh we thought that we ordered that in january and still not in um middle school playground be finished hopefully this week or next with the mulch area and we'll have mulch all
012three playgrounds will be re-mulched here soon as well if you haven't been out to the outdoor learning area at the middle school you should check it out looks great so it's going to be a nice addition um all the concrete and blacktop repairs are done and we are still in the process of fixing the maintenance shed after we got hit by a truck last winter so um other than that you know i think we're gonna be ready with all with everything going on uh we're gonna be ready and just uh really tickled that we are we have a full staff right now so a lot of school districts are scrambling and i feel really good about the fact that we're we're well staffed so that is it for my update any questions how'd the retreat
013go oh the retreat was uh the retreat was great um that was my next item here so we spent uh two days together and uh primarily working on how to uh work uh well together as a team and doug attended as a board member spent the whole time with us i asked doug if he would mind giving a little update on what he thought as a board member and vivian joined us for dinner as well so i mean i don't think i didn't know what to expect i wanted to learn more about the administration team how they work or can work together or do work together and it was very it was enlightening i feel very good it's a very good one and probably one of the better best administration teams we have going forward
014this year and i'm just happy i am satisfied it went and it worked went very well yeah it was time very well spent for us i can tell you that i think that everybody around the table agreed we had almost all the administrators there and we went through one full day training with called the trust edge by put on by the school board association they came up and did that for us and uh um it got pretty intense very personal kind of got emotional at times uh but it was good so everybody was pretty vulnerable and and we had some great conversation we had uh you know josh was new to the team and we had brian summers was new to the team he was there and we had you know a couple other people
015that are in new positions so um yeah it was just a very very good uh time uh i guess i'm gonna do any of you want to add to that the four of you that were there well said that's it for my report thank you lieutenant budget all right uh exhibit 10 and 11 uh or your tentative budget and i if if i will answer as many questions as you like now i just want to emphasize to you this is very tentative and we do this every year in august we have to do it i had it on display at the end of last week for the public 30 days ahead of time in september we will do a full approval of the budget i'll have a finance committee meeting coming up as well where
016we will finalize the budget so this one has some unknowns in it and i will tell you it it ended up a lot better than i or better than i anticipated in the education fund i was very nervous because we are doing a lot this year we have a couple bit pretty big projects going on and uh we were i was worried about where this budget is going to end up uh it's still going to be tight but we have strong fund balances across most funds and you'll see a lot of red i'm looking at page two of the budget and line 22 on the spreadsheet is is where that's a line that you'll really want to pay attention to that's that shows you uh red shows you deficit budget for each each fund black
017is positive budget surplus predicted for the fund you'll see it's red all the way across the bottom there and i'm not as concerned right right now about the education fund i think it in a 19 million dollar budget there's you know i my goal is to not is to be between 90 95 of that uh when we finish the year which will put us close to break even and uh um one thing that is the unknown here is that we don't the health insurance we're still doing open enrollment right now so i just the health insurance complete guess so um with all the new employees and uh that came we don't know who's taking it who's not taking it so by september i will know so that number will be firmed up in the o
018m and the transportation fund uh there's some revenues that i was not sure of uh and i will know more information in the coming days so like i said this this one i don't want you to get too alarmed with yet if i have reason to be alarmed i'll let you know in september for sure the uh i will say this i am very thankful on friday i finally found out because i was working on this up until we released the board agenda because i didn't know how much the state was going to be uh give i don't know what the state funding was going to look like they didn't tell us until friday morning and we got a we got a nice bump from the state that helped us a lot so the evidence-based
019uh funding formula uh increased 700 over 700 000 so that's significant for us and uh i was very concerned about the ad fund because we we are we've got 260 000 in projects that are just kind of one-year projects and uh that i paid for out of the edge fund which would be the outdoor learning area and the uh this playground area that's right out of the ed fund next year those won't even be in here so um so i feel we're very good about where we're at in the ad fund if we finish the year in the black there so i will get this more fine-tuned in the coming weeks and then with the finance committee and uh the board in september all right anybody have any questions on the tentative budget can i
020please have a motion to approve the tentative budget for school year 22 23 on first reading ocean second joan yes anybody have any questions on the employment report could i please have a motion to approve the july 22 employment report with the additions motion second joan vivian yes yes yes uh the parents do the handbook anybody have any questions nope can i please have a motion to approve the parent student handbook for 22-23 motion doug and gary all in favor aye aye any opposed eyes have it resignations accepted we accepted a resignation for sophia manzoukis bilingual teacher we accepted a resignation of michael schneider middle school health teacher we accepted a resignation of melanie simko per paraprofessional she accepted a resignation of william reyes transportation driver that's it no foia requests anybody any questions questions
021on the monthly reports for the board the next regularly scheduled board meet will take place monday september 12 2022 with closed session beginning at 6 00 pm can i please have a motion to adjourn motion second john lauren all in favor aye aye any opposed i save it goodnight