001please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right we do have items to add to the agenda uh can i please have a motion to add to the employment report the hiring of vicki stewart sabrina fortuneski and the stipend for data retrieval for dr king motion second vivian and gary peter yes salinger yes bennett yes lion yes patterson yeah yes all right next item our accomplishment recognition our april student of the month kendall michael first grader [Applause] how are you doing kendall come on up here so congratulations you hold that i'm gonna give you this to put on your desk at home okay all right so i really don't have a guest okay right
002here let me give you a couple things about shoots everybody okay all right kendall you had a few teachers that recommended you i'm going to read and read a couple comments here okay i have had kendall in my safe center since day one she is so polite well-behaved kind and a huge helper she helps me every day in the safe center she has seriously been an asset to me this school year i can always count on kimmel to do the right thing she offers to help other students all day long i tell her every day that she is going to be a great teacher one day on top of all these great things i mentioned about kendall i think the one thing that stands out most is when she tells me that she sees me
003work so hard and thanks me for it she's definitely not your typical six-year-old at times her beautiful character really stands out amongst her peers here's another one at the beginning of the school year kendall was personally selected by mrs janice to assist her with making of the personal arrival procedures and to and how to find each classroom in the bill kendall was able to follow directions and immediately learn her role in these videos afterwards she sought out miss janice and volunteered to help with many other videos that needed to be created kendall then assisted me with the making of the primary building mask safety video and pbs videos for hallway and bathroom expectations throughout the year kendall continues to ask me if i need any help with any more videos or anything else it goes
004on and on here and i'll give these to your parents as well congratulations thank you for all that you're doing for your school you should be very proud of yourself and your parents should be very proud of you [Applause] okay all right thank you thank you and next we have our may student of mine is an 8th grader namely stacy you come on up [Applause] step up and she shared some great things about you she actually told me she'd speak tonight but mostly the whole thing yes so my initial reason for nominating emily stacy was to focus on her role as choir president over the past four years but after sitting down and thinking about her many many accomplishments um this is going to be a little bit longer so emily stacy has taken the
005choir president leadership role to an entirely new level she's been dedicated and loyal a loyal choir member at bhms who was nominated by your peers year after year to lead our group emily was not afraid to stand up in front of our choir and encourage everyone's participation all while making sure the students have the required materials to have efficient and accurate dependence and let our vocal warm-ups emily is someone whose students are not afraid to talk to students tend to feel really comfortable sharing their feelings and struggles with her she always listens and then takes the next step to ensure they get the health attention i will forever be grateful for incredible leadership so in addition to these amazing skills emily is a very talented singer and actress she is shown on our stage multiple
006times to she's participated in our local lens level and has gone into organizational concepts and representative school so within this past year we've had some students understandably so not necessarily participate um as much as they would in all of our activities but not emily she has done the ball play that's the past year the spring play speech enacting through all the semesters audition choir who's theater choir she's prepared solo on her own and sent the video into she's an njhs officer and then just because she would have some kind of cheerleading or softball um attire a wonderful um person um that's awesome i would say from everything that mrs d stated there you keep describing a model big hollow student so thank you so much being a center of attention but we're gonna call her
007up anyway cindy roller come on up cindy [Applause] there you go okay so mrs roller is an exceptional educator who absolutely loves her students this is visible at all times whether it's rolling along on a scooter side by side with students allowing students productive breaks when needed or maintaining a sense of humor in her interactions with her students she cares deeply about each and every one of her students and they look up to her while taking direction and working hard to meet her expectations cindy is a positive and contributing staff member at the elementary school and we appreciate her thoughtful ideas and suggestions she's an excellent decision maker and leads her classroom with compassion mrs roller is definitely a role model at big hollow she's in regular contact with the parents of her students and
008stays in connection with our staff at big hollow elementary to work in the best interests of her students we're fortunate to have mrs roller on our staff as she is a team player and dedicated to her students and their families she's very deserving of being employee of the month [Applause] and for those of you that here for that recognition don't feel like you have to stay for the whole board meeting you're welcome to go at any time thank you thank you all right item seven board member code of conduct review doug do you want to read this one sure i will abide by the majority decisions on the board while retaining the right to seek changes all right excuse me oh yeah excuse me i will encourage and request respect free expression of opinion by
009my fellow board members and will participate in board discussions in an open honest and respectful manner honoring differences of opinion or perspective all right thank you does anybody have any questions on the consent agenda can i please have a motion to approve the consent agenda motion second yes patterson yes bennett yes uh do we have any public comment yeah mr gold superintendent's report okay first on the agenda just in conversation with the board um about our directions with this pin with the pandemic response i want to give you an update on a few items first the illinois state board of education passed a resolution recently it's not the resolution doesn't take effect yet uh until the state it's a resolution to support the state superintendent um in promoting uh all students to be in-person learning
010in august which we were planning on anyway what i want to make you just aware of is first of all one what's stated in there find this clarification right here okay so once the state superintendent makes the declaration it it will take effect and uh school districts would only be required to provide remote learning students who meet both the following criteria listen and this is different so we'll have we will be required to provide remote learning for students who are not eligible for the vaccine and are under quarantine order by the public health department uh or the illinois health department by the uh and our by public health local public health department or the illinois department of public health so um so that would be most of our population the situation i'm thinking of is
011the students that in third grade was seated next to a student who maybe was sick with covid and now that student has to be quarantined because they are not old enough to be eligible for a vaccine and they're under quarantine order so because they'd have their quarantine so um those students we are we have to provide remote learning for but if a family just chooses not to send their kids to school because they don't feel safe that's not a situation where we have to provide remote learning at this point so under the declaration so that's that's the clarity that they have there um so we have some issues to work out there this summer with uh union leadership and things like that to talk about uh you know how we're going to handle these different
012situations another thing that's that's kind of coming down the pike i think is is a modified uh quarantine rules so um as of now the way they're what they're stating is that and find this one uh they're pushing schools to to consider registering for a screening system uh to screen test students for coven and uh i can't say that i'm very excited about that it takes a lot of uh it's gonna take a lot of manpower to to do that you would have to screen students that are not vaccinated so we are we're looking at at least getting set up for for screening possibilities and we'd always screen parents or students of families that agree to it as well and what we're finding at least in local districts that have tested this out a little
013bit is that not many families are agreeing to the screening so um so there's that obstacle as well if we have a screening system in place uh there is some modified quarantine rules so uh that's this is i'm speaking to you tonight not having the full uh guidance from izb yet we're kind of waiting on that i'm just kind of i'm taking some pieces of information that's out there but they're supposed to give us some back-to-school guidance soon i don't know what that means though hopefully by the end of this month but um but some of the modified guidance that i think that's going to be considered is that instead of drawing a six foot circle around a student that has covid we would only have to draw a three foot circle around that student
014and quarantine students within three feet in in the classroom setting uh that will be that will be very helpful if that's the case one of my concerns for when we open up is if we're still under the six foot guidance is the number of students that we're going to have to quarantine if they have the vaccine they don't need to be quarantined but we're only going to you know ages 12 and up you're talking 7th and 8th grade some students will have it but but if you have a screening system in place there's a possibility they're going to give us a reduced quarantine to three feet so there's some things we're working through and trying to consider with all that like i said there's not a lot of answers right now but um i want
015you to be aware that uh we are there's a lot of things under consideration with testing with uh the remote learning being to the primary and the quarantine those three things so uh i'm open for questions that you have concerns you might have and i can give you whatever answers i know yeah uh two questions so with screening do you mean um like with the safe center what you were doing with the little tickets like self-evaluation sorry i should have clarified no i mean we would uh do a covid's test once at least once per week okay so a screening test we would uh we qualify for a the shield test through the university of illinois since we're in uh what's what's called um oh i've lost it i've lost it now we're in the
016uh first level um of funding and uh we we qualify for the testing for free and then you said if parents refuse to do that that is there a percentage that they would not qualify us for this reduced um oh i don't know that answer it's a good question i don't know okay i know that a local high school district not grant high school but another local high school district told they put out the screening for their students this spring and then the entire school they had about 30 or 40 families that agreed to screen so i don't know if our numbers would be that low if it was that low we would still go we would do it i mean but would we still be unable to operate under that threat i would hope
017so yeah if we're offering it i hope so because then also didn't it at the end of the year didn't they already reduce our lives like are restricting two three feet so now they're putting it back to six feet well so the the the reduction that happened at the end of the year is a uh a test pilot so i i still think there's a good chance that that what they're what they're trying to do is gather data to show that three feet is sufficient yeah and i'm hopeful that by august that's the answer we'll get right now we don't have that answer right now it's still at six unless you're unless you're screening the students with covet tests every week that's what it is today so but i i i really haven't pushed anything
018out to parents yet because i really think this is all going to change oh yeah and i don't i don't want to do anything right now i just don't want to it look like we just don't know what we're doing so so i'm holding off but i'm giving you i figured this is our june board meeting i will see you again until july and i'm giving you what i know now which is just kind of some speculation but that's where we're at so i i know you're early in the thoughts on the remote question but have you thought when it comes to middle school where if one kid is in let's say fifth grade where they're not eligible for vaccines yet it has to be quarantined how you would handle all the classes and all
019the teachers that they would be supposedly involved in i mean i could see it being easier on primary elementary or to one teacher but is the goal then the kid has to get remote learning from the same teachers they have or would you have like somebody who just works with them for the entire day remotely over zoom those are the issues we thought we'll have to do it's gonna i don't have an answer for that yet because of uh there's some negotiated bargaining issues going on there so i do have a meeting with our attorney on next monday morning he was out this week so to start i want to talk to him about some of those issues and then union leadership and i are going to sit down and meet as well so but
020yeah that's all part of that i have my own personal feelings on how we should handle that and it's best for students and and uh but i also know if this becomes a large number of students it's going to be quite a disruption too so it's does the legal requirements require zoom-like sessions for them or is it enough to give remote work from their individual teachers they haven't defined it yeah they haven't defined it that's why that's why i wanted to meet with our legal counsel before we move forward with uh union negotiations on this so yeah is the shield testing that like opt-in or act gary they did say that to your question it is defined as five hours per day of remote but it is not defined on how you give the remote
021so it's not five hours a week it's five hours a day doesn't have to find it five hours a day of teachers assign work yeah versus teachers sit visually with them that's what has not been defined yep okay any other questions about that there'll be more to come in july i sure hope there will be more to come in july because july and august we've got to make a lot of important decisions on that all right item b dr king's going to talk about the multi-tier system sports handbook update this is some work that she has been leading through the district this whole year it's been important work and uh she's gonna give you an update all right thank you thank you for having me i am not gonna go over that large packet or
022the calendar i have spared you that i have written just a very brief paragraph and then i'll open it to any questions that you have but we've been working really diligent to systemize systematize all of our assessments and our review processes and one of the things that we were challenged with early on this year was to look at all the assessment instruments that we give and then have a recall for what we do with them and how we use that information to place students in interventions or enrichments and so i want to say that body of work that you have in front of you it would not be possible without the support of mr gold our all the administrators in our school psychiat psychologists um they really helped contribute to that work um and the
023implementation while we've already started it in the coaching and the training to start digging through that doing one-on-one conversations it is going to be ongoing because that information is as you can see very in-depth and the breadth and scope of the work is pretty substantial and so one of the ways we're going to operationalize the tactical aspects of rolling this out is through that mtss calendar and so sitting with the elementary and primary principles we were able to come up with a calendar that would allow me to be both in the middle school and do that job but also continue the work that we're gonna it is required for mtss to support the grade levels and so those meetings will be where i can sit with the teams whether it's the isst or the glt
024or the blt um we will all will be a part of all those conversations to ensure that this implementation is successful because part of this implementation also includes otis um and that work and our pd plan that dr hetrovitz and dr pittman have been working to ensure it encompasses all of that work and then the final piece that i do want to say that it's not in the handbook but another way we're going to operationalize this work you're seeing it in some of the accelerated conversations because that's part of the mtss process but it's also what you're going to see at the middle school we're going to have what we call a zero hour and the zero hour will be essentially for students who need some additional support and they may be in an elective
025that precludes them from having that intervention and instead of asking a parent to choose do i have my student get an intervention for a tier two or tier three um and that could be for math or it could be for ela that they don't have to choose anymore so they can still have both in the same way students may have access to really engaging epic courses which i will be probably following up with each of you at some point with the help of mr gold to try to find ways that we can make epic epic but that's we want to use epic as a way to also operationalize that handbook that you have in front of you is really to create incentives for students who are receiving interventions to want to be in an experience
026that is epic enough to work hard to get out of those interventions um so what questions can i answer for you is there a blessing for zero hour yes ma'am is it on everybody's schedule is it an optional um it's there's like so literally the students who would be invited to zero hour it's only five percent of the student body and of the five percent it's only students who would also be in a specific elective that would preclude them already from this so it's a very small number so instead of adding it to the schedules of those few students we will have personal conversations with their families because part of this process you'll see there's parent communication really in-depth ongoing parent and so that would be part of that like we would like to invite
027you to our 7 a.m um zero hour to receive this intervention so they don't have to miss x y or z particularly band chorus thank you our students and vana chorus have had conflict with that's a time where we also provide interventions to students so a student that's in banner course like dr king said would have to make a decision and now we've taken that away from them by offering that zero hour is this a stipend for the teachers to teach zero hour good question so actually we were able to um create uh using the grant one of the i think the esser one of the estra grants um our reading and our math specialists and so that when i was doing interviews that was just a non-starter so your you will start at 7
028a.m um to do this piece and we will find a way to probably work around there like a schedule like work within their schedule so it's not pain additional we were very intentional about that language with them if if it does require if dr king's seen the need for them to be here longer than we we would to compensate them for that uh that hour do that because they have to work a longer day and by zero hour it's only 30 minutes because even our most intense tier three interventions um in tiered it goes like tier one is eighty percent of your student body tier two fifteen percent and tier three is five percent it the the most extensive intervention that we have may be five days a week for 30 minutes but that's if
029we titrate it like a doctor would titrate a medication to the highest degree and we're not going to start there so really hopefully students will only be in those interventions five days a week for maybe 20 minutes but they'll have support of their teacher before they get ready to go back to their classes that document is huge in the packet it's a huge document we we put it in the package just so you had it and so it's on board record but i just wanted it's really strong work and uh that a lot of our administrators had their hands in and uh um dr king's led the effort and it's i just want you i wanted you to know it's it's just super super strong work and i'm excited to see how it's going to
030be implemented can i ask you another question about the multilingual learners why is there a separate uh form for them yeah it's great for those of you yeah and so um that was really the uh contribution and the expertise of dr hutcherwitz and so she's the el director and one of the things we want to ensure that we're not doing so mtss so multi-tiered system of support system isn't we don't necessarily assume a student just because they're learning another language that they would need to be in a tier two or tier three intervention so language acquisition needs to be taken into consideration so before we even move into that phase we have to ensure that this isn't an aspect related to their language acquisition and if it isn't then we would move back into those
031tier two and tier three and if it is we want to ensure that we're providing the support the student needs to become more proficient in the in the english language how many new immigrants that's big i would receive like yearly yeah like new to the country is there a large person new to the country students sorry i can't answer that it depends um in the past i would say three years we've seen a lot more newcomers um we're seeing a lot more students in the middle school specifically that need language support i can get the percentage for you i don't have that off the top of my head but it's every year it's more and more that we're seeing that are coming um either as newcomers like i said with very little english language proficiency
032um and i would say it used to be middle school had the smallest number i think one year we had only 13 students who were learning english and we've got upwards of 50 some um now that we look at the fourth graders coming up to fifth okay thank you we've heard about mtss before does this codify what you guys have been doing or does this enhance it what's what's different from with this because this is very well done and very thorough but i i couldn't remember how it compares to what we've heard before yeah so great question so this universalizes the system uh pre-k through eight so what we had in the different buildings and i i think the principles would concur we had different not only acronyms used so some of the meetings were
033called care and some of the meetings were called alst so sometimes a family would say uh vicki my st my daughter was in care but now they're in alst it's a new program and i would know it's actually the same program it's and part of mtss so one it's as simple as changing so the language is universal um and then there is quite a big overhaul to the district approved tier 2 intervention so that teacher there's a list of if the student is if the data suggests that the student needs support in fluency or comprehension or phonological development there's an intervention we've approved that addresses that because there's evidence and research to support it um so for example the student is el low income there may be a specific intervention that we want them to
034be using with that particular student that is different than maybe other students because the evidence suggests it so one we've universalized the tier two and tier three like they're now district approved in the same way they're and this is true of all districts um sometimes there is these feelings that we have about well i feel like there may be something and so i'm going to do x y or z well we need to have evidence whether the evidence is looking at seo and qualitative data that can also be quantified or if the information is based upon an assessment that is more quantitative we need to actually ensure that we're making decisions based upon the evidence and not necessarily feelings feelings are important they can sometimes confirm what our gut says but i would say sometimes
035we tend to over diagnose versus correctly diagnosed um and so we've universalized that process so i've the list that we have for students who should be placed in tier two and tier three i've already given that to all of the principals so this summer we can start to say day one students are going to be placed in interventions based upon the criteria that's in that handbook and then i would say it was a complete overhaul for the middle school they had a they have a very strong sel mtss program but they were they didn't have necessarily the supports for the academic side and so i was just talking to one of the math teachers this morning and discussed she's very excited that there's now district approved tier 2 and tier 3 math interventions that they
036can go to and that are approved that they'll get trained in because dr hector bits has a whole pd plan and so does dr bittman first bet to ensure that everyone has the support they need to support our students so i know that was a long way to answer but it we we kind of overhauled everything um and that's a that's really why we want to ensure that i can help support the rollout and it's going to be a very patient and deliberate process so that by 202 22 23 not only will we have we want to believe that we have we can stay with confidence the staff understands our mtss process but families will be able to see its product and otis by 2023 as well so you'll start to see you'll see those
037assessments that i've shown you before in otis but then you'll start to see that tied to their standard the grading process within on that that's parent side in the progress monitoring so and otis is the data warehouse that we've shared with you for the reminder yeah no it's all right thank you is this document in spanish or another language not yet it's right now it's still liquid cement so we're meeting with all of the principals i have a meeting with um carrie harris she's someone that through the mtss um the illinois mtss framework that actually dr pittman connected me with to ensure that we've got like the legal language in there that it's the process is valid and reliable we're meeting with each principal and their team um we have another meeting tomorrow with vinnie
038and sunny and we met with lynnean last week we want to ensure that we've crossed all of our teas and dotted our eyes um before we do start like and when i say mass production we will make a hard copy for staff in august because they have activities we're going to do with them like scavenger hunts in the book but then we're not going to make more copies after that but it will be translated and dr pittman is working with me but she's actually kind of spearheading me having access to a modified it'll be a full version and then a version that's like very brief um kind of like a cliff notes that's just easier like for families because this needs to go live on the website as well and that was part of so
039it looks like a big part of this is the parent involvement um well this this might be new to a lot of our parents how to find out about about the what on the website may not be the best way to give them the heads up that this is coming i totally agree so we have a plan for that and on our rollout so families already are experiencing mtss when their students are in tier two or three they may not they're going to get a lot more information than they have in the past at middle school like i said for academics you haven't heard anything because there hasn't been but families who would be in that tier two tier three for interventions would be receiving every other week we have a plan to they need
040a progress monitor send a communication home to families and that's true for all of the district but dr pittman has already in the works a plan for a parent university and so this will be something that we provide as a way to have ongoing like because we want to ensure that our wraparound services are really supportive and so we that's on our roadmap sounds good thank you thank you very much transformational work for us so it's really good all right item c these are gonna finish there's a few uh smaller items item c board meeting dates for next year i've gotten listed in exhibit 11. just a few things that i want to chat with more about or just uh we need to chat together about is uh do we want to continue um starting
041the open session as soon as closed session is finished we usually do that through the summer we've done it now for through the pandemic as well we've got to discuss live streaming you can see we finally do have all the equipment installed in here for sound and live streaming it can be used for other things as well so um and then uh choosing whether we want to continue the board meetings in here or the library so just it's really those are bored decisions however you guys you all feel that you want to do it i'll start um i'm good with having the open meeting start right after the full session as long as we can keep having our student presentations come fall i think that was probably my favorite part of the board meeting so
042i would really like to keep that and then i'd also like to keep meetings in here if this is the place where people can see so they don't have to come i think it's the best mode of transparency we can offer so those are my family you know technology in here for doing this here we have the camera mounted up there i don't think i agree but i think we're not transparent we can't livestream we still have the option to add the live streaming to the library correct yeah yeah we could we could do it we could do live streaming down there we'd have to move move some things but we can do it i mean i've never done it there so i'm indifferent but yeah we used to do it in here it is
043very impersonal sorry um and i see your point too about the live streaming um but i do like it in the library better it's pretty cold in here and the summer is probably better in here because the library is pretty warm and i kind of i like this is behind the technologies here we're spread out for all along but i think following up meetings shortly after cold session is fine streaming is good and i i like all the meetings in here so first of all it seems like we're all good with just continuing open session right after close done uh i i feel like i'm hearing live streaming is still okay and then now it's just really a question of whether to have them here or the library so yeah i think there's going to
044be times that we have to go to the library whether it's middle school play yeah fan concerts i mean how many times we've been here for band concerts different art shows um big pto events the pizza we were here once during the pizza party so i mean i think there's going to be times we have to move it over there and i think that's fine but i don't think i don't i to me i don't think it'd be the best way spending our money to move all of the it stuff that we just installed here into the library because is it more comfortable yes i would agree it is more comfortable but i i could i don't have any problems talking in here and compared to over there i don't think and maybe as the
045year goes on we can come together a little closer to communicate the microphones help the microphones now oh is this the same as the library yeah yeah i could we could probably put you two at a table at this point but the microphones do help our conversations now if we were speaking to them so right well the microphones were purchased before we well they were purchased without us knowing that they were being purchased so i think the fact that they were um installed and purchased yes it seems better to have it here but the technology committee and you were at the meeting talked about uh wanting to get but i'm saying as a group we you know we didn't talk about staying here permanently because originally we moved here for the pandemic because okay i
046remember being the committee give me direction to just pull the trigger and buy the stuff as well not for those the projector and everything yeah projection and sound was our issue so i was trying to fix the issue but um i yeah i did hold off i did hold off for quite a while on it and then when we did order it it was all in back order because if everything's back order right now but yeah the sound is not hard to move the camera we'd have to take down but so what would be the uh the effort level for those few days where if we were here but had to move to the library to actually have to move the camera last minute it seems like we want to have a place where we
047could be full time and not have to keep switching we're going to have to move anyway for special events that's what kevin just said so how many events are in here i think when you did the calendar for next year yeah i think we're okay so i don't know i just don't think we should spend the money to move the stuff if you guys feel that way then we'll spend the money move the stuff but it's a i guess it'd be up to i'm good with leaving it here it's a meeting we can have more people in here we don't we don't have to have parents staying in those meetings that are packed there's stand up around the entire perimeter of the building we've got staff sitting behind the library desk i do agree it's
048cozier but i think that this is maybe a little more practical that's my opinion a few meetings i've ever gone to in the library we're always always hacked yeah yeah but i think they're packed too because of the presentations because then everyone leaves and then it's right and we're going to have those same presentations in the fall and it's not like covid or any of this is going anywhere we just heard that so we're going to need the space to have the people do a straw poll for now to see what we think this is anything that has to be board approval or anything it's just i need some guidance on it but straw poll just see where he went we can continue with that and we can always make the decision to change at
049any time uh i probably would keep the camera there that camera there is it's wired up there but we just have purchased a different camera for down in the other room the sound system can be tied in but if you want to straw pull it now for just to continue with doing what we're doing or to try to the library the next meeting whatever you guys decide it's fine all right who says to continue what we're doing who says to move the library or the third option try it would you say try it next one oh no i was just saying uh i mean we either continue to do it or we try it start next month going the other way i should i should have map type in what am i missing as far
050as uh what else what other uh yeah the uh the sound system like all of this it can't move right so like we would have to buy would start afresh so the we could use the mic statement to tie into a different oh you can't use them we would have to start fresh okay all right all right so where are we i mean i guess it stays here if we have to i mean okay all right stay here for now then um item d is an adoption of the budget calendar that's just uh something i do each year so you kind of know the process we're going through with posting in the paper uh you'll get the tentative budget on the august board meeting and then it's gonna be on display in the office from
051august 5th to september 13th and september 13th we do the final budget so i just need you to a motion to approve that budget calendar my only question is when is the finance committee going to meet about this uh it will be early july i'm trying i'm i've got uh i'm working on the budget right now and i'm waiting on uh there's a big esser grant that's coming out july 1st i got to get the final details in that before i can really finish it do you want to meet anytime sooner i'm not on the committee but okay i just wanted them to yeah no yeah it'll definitely be before it'll be before the budget's posted august 5th so be in july can i please have a motion to adopt the 2021-2022 budget calendar a
052second yuri and ashley ballinger yes senate yes patterson yes lions yes peter yes clasha yes the item e is follow-up discussion from 8th grade graduation ceremony we had at the actually called graduation event at the theater um i have not done a formal poll i just informally to talk to parents that night and afterwards and just trying to get feedback overwhelmingly i hear that you know it's something we can there are things we could have done we can do to improve what what the event was that night but um i'm hearing that people would like us to continue doing that just want to get your thoughts and uh because i'd like to book the venue as soon as i can if we continue doing that kevin you're an eighth grade parent my gran my parents
053who are 80 years old were extraordinarily happy that it was at the movie theater and they did not have to sit in the bleachers for three hours so um they said that they'd be happy to come to brodies but the parents i talked to they all loved it they thought it was a very i mean we talk about being a family at big hollow a lot and i think that the movie theater allows us to do that um and especially the last few years these kids have had whether the littler kids that had big brothers that were graduating or sisters or and then they had little sisters they got to see each other and hang out and run around and 8th graders got to be cool and walk around and um i think that uh
054some things i saw i think gavin had theirs the day after ours which was bad yeah um they did some different things like set up a stage uh and gave their kids gowns i think that we should definitely do that in the future i think all kids should have gowns um i talked to miss meek about this a little bit i don't i think that a lot of the things we did this year with the kids and give them the free t-shirts and the signs and i think that this should be part of graduating i don't think we should be charging families yeah and hats and signs and t-shirts and i think that the kids should just get that's their graduation package here you go um started an hour later maybe yeah that was one
055of the things for sure it was a long night because we opened the doors pretty early um and then i think i mean i think for the board members that they could all go and be it like gavin set their stage up underneath the screen and then let the kids walk across and shake at this it was only the superintendent out there at that time but yeah shake the superintendent's hand maybe it'll be different for next year um all right greeks that area up front would be shaded and uh i think when they set it up those pictures that was it was not that was yeah yeah we set some stuff up on the front and the shade and have that would be uh we can do a i think we do a better job
056that had you had a plan there if it had rained what would have happened no we would have just uh had the events that this the movie still would have played at eight o'clock but yeah i would have definitely put a damper on a lot of other things a year before it was rainy and cold so this was the second year of the year the first year it was rainy and cold people still got out of their cars i mean the kids honestly don't care i think it would be much better yeah yeah it's obviously much nicer if it's a nice day out but the parents don't get to talk for the most part the parents didn't get out of their cars two years ago but that was the height of the yeah covet scare
057too so that could have been a reason why but um well yeah no remember they had to stay in their car because of it yeah yeah they had to stay on your car okay yeah i think it went it was it was pretty nice it was a little chilly but otherwise it's nice to see people yeah the kids got to run around yeah okay i guess what would your recommendation be i would recommend we keep it there yeah i would recommend keep it there and it's not like we don't have to limit families yeah we don't have to say no more to parents or whatever you don't get four tickets and you can have as many i mean we limited it this year to three cars three cars still 200 spots yeah behind us yep
058so yeah we didn't have any problems putting people in there and i just wanted to get your feeling as you're hearing from community what you're hearing and so we will we'll continue having it there i'll i'll call and i think he's willing to do it so he really enjoys at night for us so all right item f is this the insurance update i give you this every year with this year of a significant increase in our workman's comp and our uh liability insurance and put both documents in there the workman's comp because we've had some claims last couple years uh has gone up both of them together have gone up a total of about forty thousand dollars so uh we're working with scott going up more significantly than the other property casualty we haven't had
059any serious claims to raise that just the market but the workman's comp went up significantly uh do we know what the increase was from last year yes i'm sorry and the total increase was 40 000 with both of them combined okay how many claims did we have excuse me how many claims did we have workman's cop a number of claims i would have to get that for you uh we had two or three two out of the top of my head i think three large claims in the last three years so that's prior to that we had very few claims uh but we had three that ended up being large uh medical claims so that's what impacted it all the s our scores used to be really good so our rates barely went up barely
060at all and then and now we've we've had three large claims two or three large claims that have put us in a bad bad state with the insurance company and have we fixed all those issues that caused the workplace we've done as much as we can to fix them yes what is pollution liability actually pollution liability is what saved us a few years ago when we had the mold issue at the primary elementary that that was covered under pollution liability that strangely enough didn't impact our rate though i don't know because it was uh click has a special fund for stuff like that so it didn't impact a rate but because we had the pollution liability we recovered for a chunk of that not all of it but a good chunk so for the medical
061claims they had this year um i i have i get reported back to 2011 12 to see our claim history because they track over time how much we've paid in and how much they've paid out so it'll be on there for a while but if we have a few good years we should see us you know steady drop but anticipate this increase for next year too or the same same level yes i would anticipate that at least yeah and that's it for my report kevin all right does anybody have any questions on the amended point of report can i please have a motion to approve the main employment report as amended in executive session second lauren and doug yes anybody you have any questions on the extracurricular assignments besides me and there are a lot
062of vacancies there and we'll just we'll work on filling those how do we fill them what was that i'm sorry how do we fill them how do we fill them um we have posted online right now oh okay yeah they're all close to anybody to apply yeah now one thing we could do though i'm gonna make a note of that we can uh promote that uh in our updates through email to parents because that word will get out quicker if we do that i think you'd probably get a lot of parent interest because they probably don't go through the employment yep site is there a requirement for the parents to know about um there'll be a if it's an iesa sport there'll be a uh um training they'll have to do that's an online training
063but that'd be it is it gonna be on first come first serve no we'll we'll uh we'll apply an interview yeah all right everybody else have questions can i please have a motion to approve the extracurricular assignments for 2021-2022 motion second vivian and lauren peter yes yes paterson yes bennett yes lions yes ballinger yes anybody have any questions on the hazardous plus conditions can i please have a motion to approve the certification of hazardous bus conditions motion second doug and lauren and that can be a voice pope uh all in favor's emotion is red say aye aye any opposed eyes have it anybody have any questions on the gavin or governmental agreement this is a continued agreement we've had with gavin with uh we share a food service director okay can i please have a
064motion to approve the gavin big hollow intergovernmental agreement for shared management employee costs of the food service program motion a second cash and vivienne planet yes peter yes lions yes patterson yes plusha yes ballinger yes anybody have a question on the contract for busing with saint pete again this is a continued agreement we have we bust a few of their students to the school each morning and back all right can i please have a motion to approve the renewal of the transportation agreement with saint p catholic school second gary and ashley schallinger yes bennett yes peter yes lions yes patterson yes yes anybody any questions on the admin assignments can i please have a motion to approve the administrative assignments for 2021-2022 motion second doug and ash all in favor aye aye opposed nice have
065it anybody any questions on the treasurer same treasure that we currently have she's doing a good job so we're gonna continue forward can i please have a motion to approve the appointment of a treasurer for the 2021-2022 school year in the corresponding school treasurer's bond ocean second and gary peter yes ballinger yes lions yes bennett yes patterson yes yes all right can i please have a motion on second reading the adoption of the amplified science curriculum for grades five through eight motion second astronomy bennett yes ballinger yes peterson yeah yes peter yes lions yes the next item resignations we accepted a resignation from scott whipple middle school principal we accepted a resignation from norma velasquez food service worker we accepted a resignation from maria rosanic our clarissa middle school pair up we accepted a resignation
066from loranda parker a middle school lunch monitor we accepted a resignation from ashley austin elementary ell teacher we accepted a resignation from stephanie mallinger third grade teacher we accepted resignation from megan paul fifth through eighth grade special ed teacher and we accepted a resignation from howard hill bus driver anybody have any questions on the employer requests anybody any questions you do not need to move into closed session can i ask for something for now yeah the next regularly scheduled for me will take place on monday july 12 2021 with closed session beginning at 6 00 p.m in open session beginning immediately after closed session ends yeah can we get a report on how many um meeting attendees we have online each month yeah thank you you can do that all right that's that okay please
067have a motion to adjourn motion vivian and lauren all in favor aye aye any opposed eyes have it