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June 2025 Regular Meeting of the D128 School Board with Audio Description

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YouTube / D128 Video
Date
2025-06-25
Location
Lake County, IL
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4,393 words · about 25 min
Collected
2026-06-05

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001fade into board members seated at a table. Good evening everybody. I'd like to call the regular board of education meeting to order on uh June 23rd. A warm June 23rd, 2025. Um first thing we do is the pledge of allegiance and the flag's right over here. Everyone stands for the pledge of 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. Everyone returns to their seats. Jim Batson. Okay. Can we have a roll call, please? Carol. Nina Austin here. Jim Batson here. Raul Deshmuk here. Doug Leagal. Lisa Hessel here. Middleish Cotwall here. West Poland here. Okay, we have a quorum. We notice uh Doug Wiggle's out. Um but uh we'll look forward to him returning next

002month. Um going to review the agenda real quickly. Uh under communications, we'll have some student recognition. Got quite a few students here. Um invitation for public comment. Um I don't believe we'll have we have options for a teacher union and a ESP uh union report. Um but I don't believe anyone's going to be here for that. We'll see. Give them the opportunity. uh foyer requests uh superintendent report. Then we have a consent vote agenda. These are things are reviewed earlier in the month during our uh uh committee meetings. We have a few action items. Uh review of close session meetings. This happens every uh every six months approximately. We have um payment of our member dues to approve employment of employees. some educational turf requests. Um uh uh approving an audit engagement for the the

003district. Um some student activity funds transfers. Just some some standard things. Um approval authorization of oh I'll let uh Dan explain these. It's some financial things here. Um adoption of the 26 uh FY26 budget which is always exciting. And then we have some uh board policies for a first reading and an operational expenditure report. Um have an opportunity for board comments and events. Not too sure who It's the summer so there's not a lot going on. I don't really have anything from the IASB. Uh anything from Seedall. Okay, we'll have a little quick seedall report and then that should do it. So let's get into the agenda. Uh, first on the agenda is student recognition. Very exciting student recognition. Rayal Bin approaches the podium. So, good evening everyone. Um, it's uh it's my pleasure uh

004today to introduce our uh state championship from Libertyville High School, the 2025 uh baseball team. uh a little over a week ago uh captured the championship at the 4A uh level and they are here today and we're going to be able to meet them and our coaches as well. Um and it's just been wonderful uh since that time since that happened. Um all this really transpired after school ended. So really all this has happened uh the championship happened three weeks after the school year ended. So, uh, it was wonderful to see, uh, so many people that were able to go to the playoffs throughout the entire playoff run. Um, and then just this past Saturday, uh, we had sort of a a ceremony at the Libertyville Stadium, uh, to recognize the team and their wonderful

005accomplishments. Um, I always say that every varsity season starts with many, many goals and one dream, and it's, uh, extremely rare sometimes for that dream to be realized, but, in this case, it was. And so, uh, no further introduction needed, but I'd like to bring Matt Thompson on up to talk about our state championship baseball team. [Applause] All right, thank you uh, so much for having us here. Um, it's been quite a whirlwind. Um, still kind of hard to believe every day you wake up and you watch another video of the same event from a different angle. Uh, you're like, "Wow, that really happened." Uh, and then, you know, the trophyy's sitting on my island, you know, for a couple days and then it's been traveling around. Uh, some cool stories. I know, uh, one

006of our early players took it home, uh, and his grandpa got to see it and they got to hang out with the trophy for a little bit. So, uh, it's kind of got like the Stanley Cup appeal to it. Um, it was at Sports 11 today. It'll be kind of roaming roaming around tomorrow, too. And, um, but, you know, really just I can't thank uh, the players enough. you know, if you came to the rally, I had a lot of thank yous, but um really it's just about them. Um they're the guys that uh we as a coaching staff are rooting for every single time they're out on the field. Um and you just you dream of it for them. Um and to see the joy in their face, um faces and and and how

007much happiness it brought them. Um and it's something they're never going to forget. They they'll have this uh nothing can take it away from them. Um and so the coaching staff, we're really proud of them. Um, and you know, excited that that we got to celebrate and bring it bring home the the first state title uh for LHS. So, that's that's all I got for today. [Music] Oh, sure. Okay. Uh, so coaches, why don't you guys come on up? Um, I'll introduce uh the ones that are here and then uh the rest of our coaching staff as well. So, uh we have Dan Goris, our pitching coach. Yeah. Coach Carluchi, Tom Carluchi, uh volunteer coach. And we have Pat Kelly, jack of all trades, coaching all over the place. Um, and want to honor the

008other coaches that that really make it possible as well. So, our JV coaches are uh Jimmy Aie and Dan Harrington. And then our frost soft and our frost coaches are Josh Alers, uh, Nick Bon, and Matt Friello, who couldn't be here tonight. So, those guys also do a great job. So, round of applause for them. All right. So, I'm gonna call each player up. I know there's a few that couldn't make it tonight. Um, so I'm going to call them up and give them their certificate here. So, Thomas Munich, come on up. Uh, his brother is not here tonight. That's Brady Munich. So, take that one. [Applause] [Laughter] Harrison Clarkson could not be here. He actually moved the day after the the championship. He's out in New York. So, we'll give it to him when

009he's comes back in July. So, you want to hold on. Uh, Nick Farmez, [Applause] Anthony Fry, [Applause] Dudson Graves, our regrets, [Applause] Matthew Hara. [Applause] Uh, Nico Harper, continue. [Applause] Carson Holmes. [Applause] Uh Josh Joshua Hol is not here tonight and I think it's with special recognition to to honor him because today he shipped out for the Air Force Academy. So he's [Applause] Mr. Cole Aqua. [Applause] [Music] Chase, [Applause] Michael Joey Morell, [Applause] Axel Mcnite, [Applause] Cody Roarbach, [Applause] Quinn Chambo, [Applause] [Music] Zachary Syler, [Applause] Johnny, [Applause] EJ Street, Harren. [Applause] Mason, [Applause] Steven Street, [Applause] Trevor Wallace, [Applause] Ryan Wilberty, everybody and Brock Williams couldn't be here tonight and hopefully everybody got theirs. All right, good deal. Okay, we're going to attempt to take a picture with everybody. Students receive certificates and takes pictures

010with school board members for about the next 30 seconds. just go here and then like we'll just get down like this awkward. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Students receive certificates and takes pictures with school board members for about the next 30 seconds. Put this down. Unless you're my size. All right, everybody up here. I got them trained. They look at this one. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations everybody. Great job. [Applause] That's so cool. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Um before we move on, I have a couple people I also want to recognize. Um during this past year, uh we've been led, the district has been led by co-intim superintendents, uh Ray Lechner and, uh Becky Nelson here. Is Ray on the line? He hasn't joined yet. Okay. So, if he joins us, that that's great.

011Um but I wanted to publicly thank these two individuals. It's, you know, people think about interim superintendents in a in a situation where you're in need of a new superintendent. You got to go through the recruiting process and whatnot. It makes sense that you have somebody you need somebody in here that's qualified to to to carry on that role. But these two individuals went so far beyond just um carrying on that role. uh they they actually helped our district, helped us in many ways to heal, helped us through the process of uh recruiting for what we feel is going to be a fabulous superintendent coming up here in July uh one um and helped in that transition uh for uh uh Dr. Schaefer to to come on board and really be prepared to take over

012the leadership of this district. Uh I can't thank these two folks enough. Becky is one of us. She's a a local um lives in the area and uh it's just such been such a pleasure to work with uh Ray Lechner and and uh Becky Nelson. We have I'd give Ray his, but uh he's uh tied up elsewhere, but we'll make sure we get that to him. But have a little something for uh for the two of them. [Applause] It's truly been an honor and a pleasure to serve and um we come to the end of this with the feeling that knowing that you are in really good hands and really excited for the future. So, thank you for everything and pass me the Kleenex, please. Thank you. Uh next up, invitation for public comment. We

013have nobody that's signed in. Is there anyone that wishes to address the board briefly? Come on up. Gwen Jansen approaches the podium. Hi, good evening. Um, thank you again for the opportunity to speak. I I know you're all aware of my concerns um that I've raised regarding the aquatics facility use at VHS. I just want to take a moment to make one thing perfectly clear. Um, and that's that what I say really doesn't matter in case you didn't know. Um, what I want really also doesn't matter. I'm just a parent. I'm just a community member and I'm not elected to the board. I didn't swear an oath of fiduciary duty to the district 128 taxpayers and I didn't swear an oath to serve the best interest of the D128 students. So, I really don't expect

014you to make decisions based on what I say and I I don't expect you to make decisions based on what any um non-district feeder program says or wants um or what benefits them really. I I just hope that you look to determine what's in the best interest of our district finances, our athletic programming, and equity of opportunity to support our students. Please take the time to talk to and gather feedback from the people who do matter in this, the people who know what our students and buildings need. Talk to Mr. Dan Stanley about the state of our facilities and finances and what we can and should be doing to protect our valuable but aging aquatics facility. No one wants to end up in another situation where a sudden catastrophe like the recent HVAC disaster above

015the pool forces an expensive project that affects our facility use and diverts funds that are earmarked for other projects. Talk to Mr. Jim Partardon, the head of aquatics at VHS. No one has a better grasp of what our VHS aquatics programming and facilities need. Loop in our two athletic directors, Mr. Woods at LHS and Mr. Cooper here at VHS starting next week and uh Dr. Young and of course Dr. Schaefer when he takes up his position next week. In other words, don't take my word for it. Please just seek to find a way to uphold your oath and serve our schools and our students equitably. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Pause for the public. Okay, we will Jim Batson move on. Um, and as mentioned before, I don't believe we have a teacher union

016report tonight. Nobody. And uh, anybody from the uh, education support professionals? No. In attendance? Why? No. Okay. Just to make sure they have the opportunity. Um, we had some foyer requests uh, there in your board packet to uh, to observe. Um, we do have a uh, coming up next then a superintendent report. Becky Nelson. Earlier this month, I received a letter of thanks from Dan Lee, assistant executive director of the IHSA related to the 2025 boys tennis finals that were hosted in part here at Vernon Hills High School. This is a quote from him. Your district's contributions to the tournament are greatly appreciated. So, please share our gratitude with your building administrators, athletic department, and buildings and grounds department for their efforts in running the tournament. We are so grateful that your school could assist

017us in enriching the educational experience through intercolastic competition. So, thank you to everyone at VHS for helping make the state tennis tournament a success. Also, congratulations to our Special Olympic athletes who competed at the Illinois State Summer Games at Illinois State University last week. Five athletes competed in track and botchi. They brought home one gold and one silver in track and a bronze in botchi before the heat caused cancellation of the rest of the events. Congratulations to Elizabeth Karsten, Abby Noaki, Richie Aaron, Chase Miller, and Max Zinder. And of course, a huge thanks to our dedicated coaches Andy Compton, Corey Atwell, and Melena Chiote who reported that they could not be more proud of these amazing athletes. And finally, Rey and I would like to thank you for the opportunity of serving District 128 this

018year with appreciation to Mary Todder for the idea, to Chat GPT for some words, and to John Denver for the tune. Our time has come. The year flew by. With every step we reached the sky. Together we have grown in every way. You gave your hearts. You gave your time. Each school, each child, for every time. This year has meant the world to us always. So goodbye, dear board and friends. Our time comes to an end. We'll miss you. So, thank you for the opportunity to serve District 128 and we look forward to the next chapter of this district with Dr. Schaefer. Thank you all. [Applause] Jim Vatson. Okay, thank you for that. Um, momentary pause. I was forewarned there was going to be a surprise there. So that's wonderful. Um, moving on. Consent vote

019agenda. We things that were reviewed earlier. Can we have a first of all, anyone feel the the need to pull anything out of the consent vote agenda? Okay. Just wanted to give that opportunity. Uh, can we have a motion and a second, please? I move to approve the consent vote agenda. One second. Okay. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Austin, I. Batson, I. Deshmuk, I. Hessel, I. Cotwell, I. Poland, I. Motion passes. Moving on. For action items, we have a semianual uh review of close session minutes. And basically what this does is every 6 months we have to confirm that the close session minutes should remain closed and um are kept on file for that uh uh the coming six months and then we do this all over again. Um uh so I need a motion

020and a second to um that the conf that the need for confidentially confidentiality still exists for all current closed session minutes and those listed below and shall remain in the closed file. Go to also moved and second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Batson I. Desmuk I. Hessel I. Cotwall I Poland I Austin I Okay, motion passes. Next on the agenda um actually this should be I'm thinking committee uh chairs. These are coming out of the PNP. So this would be I think why don't you roll this? Yeah, I'm just going to roll because what with um Yeah. Okay, let's go. uh ISB member dues um annual dues for the uh Illinois Association of School Boards. Do I have a motion, please? Poland. I move to approve the 2025 2026 IASB member dues in the amount

021of $10,727. Desmuk second. Okay. Any questions, comments? Roll call, please. Deshmuk. I. Heli. Cotwell. I. Poland. I. Austin. I. Batson. I. Motion passes. Next on the agenda, employment of employees. These are a handful of uh new employees to to approve that were not part of the um uh discussion earlier in the month, so did not appear on the consent agenda. So, can I have a motion, please, to uh approve these? Poland, I move to hire the approve the second. Okay. Uh any questions, comments? Okay. Roll call, please. Okay. Hessel I Cotwall I Poland I Austin I Batson I Desmuk I Okay, motion passes. Uh educational tour requests. We have three additional uh tour requests that came in uh following the uh committee meetings. Uh we have a volleyball trip for LHS and a couple VHS

022a band and a choir uh trip coming up uh to approve. So, can we have a motion, please? Austin second. Okay. Any questions or comments? Okay. Roll call, please. [Laughter] Cotwell. I Poland. I Austin. I Batson. Hi. Dashmuk. Hi. Hustle. Hi. Motion passes. And next on the agenda is the audit engagement for the FY25. So, um, Dan, do you just a super brief overview? This was discussed earlier in the month. Yeah, does it was discussed at committee. Uh, this is with Miller Cooper, uh, to perform our audit for fiscal year 25, which will be over in seven days. Uh, and so there's the basic fee. Uh, then we have to do a single audit because of the amount of federal revenue we receive and then um other other reporting requirements that we have to do

023uh to engage with them. So, the total would be 62,500. Okay. Hustle. I move to approve the fiscal year 25 auditing engagement with Miller Cooper in the amount of $62,500. Pull second. Any questions or comments? Okay. Roll call, please. Poland. I. Austin. I. Batson. Hi. Dashmuk. I. Hessel. Hi. Cotwall. I. Motion passes. We have a um uh transfer of student activities. Um um uh I'll let Dan explain briefly what this is all about. Yes. So we have a a plethora of student activity accounts throughout the district between both buildings. Um you would think that if you want to just move money from one to another, it would be pretty easy. However, there's Illinois administrative code that uh asks for the board to approve those and so you've got those included. It's really just old funds

024that have been sitting there for a long time, transferring them into the most uh next next kind uh of fund. Okay. Motion to approve the transfer of funds from the unused accounts to the accounts of current clubs as listed. One second. Okay. Any questions or comments? Okay. Thank you. Roll call, please. Austin, I. Batson. I. Deshmuk. I. Hessel. I. Cotwell. I. Poland. I motion passes. Uh the next one I'll let Dan do a brief overview of this one as well. Yeah, this one we did not have the at the FNF uh I just missed it. Um but what this is is um in our board policy um that we require uh to review and approve the list of deposiitories, investment managers, dealers, brokers that we work with. And so we really work with three. Liberty

025Bill Bank and Trust is our main bank um for our checking accounts and other things. Uh, Pimema Financial Network does some investing for us and Fifth Third Securities does the bulk of our long-term investing. And so those are the companies we've been using. Those are the ones we would like to keep using. And this happens every year. We have to reaffirm this uh this list. Okay. Can we have a motion, please? Poland. I move to approve the list of authorized depositories, investment managers, dealers, and brokers for Community High School District 128. Go to second. Okay. Any questions, comments? Roll call, please. Pause for note takingaking. Pause for roll call. Excuse me. Batson I. Deshmuk I. Hessel. I. Cotwell. I. Poland. I. Austin. I. Motion passes. Uh, and now the big one, the FY26 budget. Uh

026Dan, you any snippets of uh wisdom here that we want to just that this this is a culmination of uh really more than six months worth of work throughout our system from student starting really with students signing up for classes and then culminating into figuring out what are the final costs for everything. And so we believe we have everything in here. The total budget is 119 million. Um the operating budget is 109. So we have about 9.6 6 million in there um for capital projects, which is the rest of the cafeteria and plus a few other uh potential projects coming up this fiscal year that we might have to do depending on our life safety report uh with LHS and stuff like that. So, that's more of a placeholder, but that's really what makes up

027the budget. And there's more information in there of what changed. There weren't a lot of changes from the tenative budget. Um more minor things as we're just trying to double check all of our numbers. Can we start with a motion in a second? Hassel, I move to adopt the fiscal year 26 budget as presented. Poll second. Any questions or comments? I know this has been going on a long time and you know the next cycle the the newer board members will have uh far more uh involvement with the uh the next budget. But uh so let's move on with this and let's have a roll call. Deshmuk I Hessel I Cotwall I Poland I Austin I Batson I Okay, motion passes. Couple discussion items. Actually, if I Bill mind with that just a reminder, every

028board member has to sign the budget cover sheet. Um so it's not just a few people. All everybody has to sign when you're done. So just please remember to do that. Everybody that voted. We have one absent. Sorry. Everybody that voted. Okay. So we don't have to go find Doug later. Yeah. Okay. Um board policy first reading. Uh we have a list of policies. Uh this was briefly discussed, but it's it's basically the first reading. These will come up again for a second reading and adoption next month, but just as a um an official acknowledgement of the first reading of these uh um policy adjustments. Most of them were minor as uh you may recall. So just uh going through that uh that process. Nina Austin, can I ask a question? Um, could you just

029explain kind of give me some information on the state of Tennessee versus Cardona and why that was went reversed from 24 to 21. Brian Kelly. So, um, yeah. So there was in um the title nine regulations that um regulate how we uh conduct a title 9 harassment um investigation um with the um pre uh so the previous administration um approved the new regulations that we follow and our policies were based off of those title N regulations on um assigning a title N coordinator to who does the investigation and how the process works. um in the previous process. So, but what what we now are reverting back to um the process there is a um the process takes a lot longer to conduct the title N investigation. Um in that anyone that is involved in the

030investigation has to be notified. Um in writing, there are certain people that are the only ones that could be an investigator. I'm the title N coordinator overseeing the investigation and you have investigators. They then have to report their findings to um normally like the principal. The principal then will make a decision on that. Um and then the superintendent is really the appellet. So everyone has specific roles. Um and sometimes um that may take a while because of the communication that has to go between anyone that's involved in the investigation. So the previous administration um put together a title n regulations to um decrease some of that paperwork, but there was other things in that law that kind of were all together. And so when the Tennessee decision came down, it basically reversed for us. It

031reversed um our policy on how we investigate matters and all of our policies um that are listed are kind of all tied in together. Um, and so that's why there were a lot of um, although they were minor changes, was a big change in how things are run because there's legal references and cross references to every single policy and then ways they were named. So I I can give you more information and send you like I I think some of the legal lees of that decision and how that affects if you want to. You don't have to. I was just kind of curious, but that's kind of how it affects us that um a lot of those changes change the language that we have to use, but really it affects our um how we investigate

032um like a title N investigation. Yeah. So, it's basically it's fair to say that we reverted back to previous we reverted back to a training that we all went through on how to in in do investigations. We then were retrained when the new ones just went into effect a year and a half ago and now we're reverting backing back. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And we'll actually have to give um some refreshers to a lot of our administration, you know, on those steps again when the school year starts. Yeah. And as part of this process, these will come up again at the committee meeting uh next month and then they'll come up for the the final which is all on the same night just Yeah. which is actually all on the same night. Yeah. tax money. Nina

033Austin, um if I could also just if you could give a little bit more information about the um C235 access to electronics update to address AI. Brian Kelly. Sure. Um, so one of the things that it does say in the um um in this update is looking at what your district, the school district has in place for guidelines for um students and staff. So, uh this past year we convened a um so uh Dr. Tom Clennis and I um Temple Murphy um we convened a group of students and staff and really started diving into uh uh artificial intelligence and the use of it in um ethical and responsible use of that in our district. Um, one of the things that we found we found was that we were kind of waiting on some more guidance

034from the state or from, you know, committees that were being put together, but their recommendations were going to be slow coming and maybe not until this next year. So, our group convened and we put together um our own uh AI use guidelines for both students and staff, which we then presented to the board. um you know this uh past year and really that um the AI they're used in a manner that is um to assist um with both academic for the students and professional work. Um and it's our duty I think to promote its ethical and responsible use. You can't just turn your head and say AI is going to go away or we have to ignore it. And so we really put together um guidelines that we shared with the board and then we

035share with our students and staff. This coming year we'll have to um kind of look at those again but we will share that again with our students and our staff on um you know using those tools um properly. Yeah. A number of states have produced some guidance be it you know policies and or just guideline documents or whatnot. Illinois is not in the forefront of that. Not because of, you know, they're not trying to be. It's just they're being more methodical, I believe, is is correct is what's happening. But many districts are doing very similar things with, you know, some guide guidance documents that we have internally here at each district. It's just it would be nice to know have some kind of more consistent. Yeah. And I I believe and we we we you

036know obviously used a lot of guidance that came out um at other levels. Um one of the things that we have tried to do I think in both this you know these guidelines and also um previous guidelines on the you know proper use of electronic networks we don't try to pigeon ourselves into you know certain um software certain hardware we really try to you know um allow if things grow over time and change otherwise we'll be updating our guidelines all the time And I think that we have done a good job um over the years our staff of putting in guidelines um really that will stand the test of time but we will have to as AI progresses we'll have to keep looking at those. Um but it was a um you know team of

037teachers um staff students that you know I think were on both sides of the fence with AI. somes that were, you know, they were, you know, at the forefront and really wanted and some that were pushing back and had issues with maybe how students had used AI and were coming different lens, but really the group came together and I think put together, you know, a good set of guidelines for our students and staff. Dr. um Gillingham and Dr. Kentus gave a really informative presentation at the May 2024 PMP. Um, so you can go into board docs and um, watch and check out the slide deck. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? Okay. We'll see these again next month. Uh, and then for uh, discussion, we have a operational funds expenditure report. There's some standard

038report we get. This is a new thing for this school year. Uh, so the state, it's not a standard. It's not what I thought it was. Yeah. the state passed a a new law uh that requires us to uh do this analysis based on kind of the state's guidance of figuring out basically um if you if a school district has more than 250% fund balance. Basically, you have to generate a plan to how are you going to get under two and a half times your annual expenditures. And so that's that's what that is. Um and so we put the numbers into the calculation. We are not anywhere close to two and a half times and so there's nothing we have to do. However, we still have to present this written report to you. You don't

039have to prove anything. You don't have to do anything. This just has to be presented at a board meeting and it is now so presented. Thank you for that clarification. Anyone else need clarifying because I sure did. Okay. Um thank you. Uh moving on for information, board comments and events. Anyone have anything interesting? It's I know it's summertime so there's not as many things going on. Uh ISB report we really have uh uh with the exception of the executive the lakes executive committee did meet um over this past month and we're doing some planning for the meetings the division meetings for next next year coming up the fall and the spring meeting. More to come on that. Seall Nina Austin. Um well I had my first um governance meeting um a few weeks ago. So

040I just kind of wanted to go over a couple items. Um Seed Doll's interim co-s superintendents Dr. G Hackett and Dr. Tim Thomas will continue to work with Seed Doll in this shared role in 2526 school year and then the interim co- business officers will also stay on for another year and the cooperative will be beginning the process of seeking a new permanent superintendent and chief school business officer in this coming months. Um, seedall has been reporting each month and at the quarterly governing board meetings on the targeted areas of focus of its continuous improvement plan and their efforts were result have resulted in many positives including a new website more consistent and clear communication with staff and member districts works towards work towards more transpar transparent financial collaboration with member districts and an increased

041positive culture across the district. Um lastly, um Cara Benjamin actually shared in a recent spring board meeting that over the past two years, Seedall had identifi identified significant concerns related to cooperatives finances and long-term financial health. While this information is not new to our community per se, the fiscal year 26 budget includes a 17% increase in tuition costs and a 9% increase in operations and maintenance funds and a 4.4% 4% decrease in major medical insurance costs. With member district participation, the cooperative will continue to identify ways to sustain sustainable to identify ways to sustainable financial pack practices this summer and in the coming year which will likely result in recommendations or changes to the joint articles of agreement in the coming year. Thank you. Thank you for that uh for the report and for the

042the work you do on behalf of of our district to for seedall. That's very important. What's the timeline for the search on the perman? Oh, they're going to start the search. Yeah, they're starting right away. So, the interim will be for this school year 2526 and then Got it. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Uh we see a list of uh future agenda items there um coming up in our July meetings. And again, just as a reminder, our July meetings are all combined on one night. So, we'll have our two committee meetings followed by the regular board meeting uh which will happen on July 28th. So, anything else uh for the good of the order? Okay. I need a motion to adjurnn. Hessle. So moved. Austin second. Just need a voice vote, right? All

043in favor? I I Any opposed? No. Okay. Meeting adjourned. Fade to district 128 logo. Fade to black. End of meeting.

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