001Sorry to interrupt. >> I know it's good to see everybody, but uh it is now 6:30. Let's go ahead and call the roll. >> Eric Casten here. Katie Courtney >> here. Ken Dawson >> here. >> April Fein here. Don Runner >> here. >> Michael Riskey >> here. Ryan Enright >> here >> and Ryan Roina Papava Gonzalez here. Thank you. >> Having a quorum. Let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. First order of business is approval of minutes. Um, I get a motion from the board of education to approve the minutes of the July 28, 2025 monthly business meeting. >> So moved. >> Second.
002>> Mike seconds. >> Thank you. Cara Casten >> I. >> Thank you. Michael Riskey. >> I >> Katie Courtourtney. >> I >> Ken Dawson >> here. I >> thank you. April Fine. I and Don Rener. >> Hi. It's been a while, so I guess. >> All right. Motion carries. Uh Julie, item four. Do we have any visitors? >> No, sir. >> Okay. On to item number five and student perspectives. >> All right. Uh we'll welcome Ryan and Roina to the board. So, they've had part of one whole day of school today, but we'll invite them to kind of report out on how the first day went, what they're looking forward to this year. Uh, who wants to go first? >> I can go first. >> Um, well, with the scanning, I think that's the biggest
003change this year for sure. Um, something we're all going to have to get used to, but it went very smoothly. Again, this first day was only scanning into the building. So, tomorrow that's going to be a little different. It's going to be every class. Um, but when I got there, it was very, very smooth. I just took my phone out, scanned into the building, and it went perfectly. I didn't have to wait or anything. Um, all the state I could see all the stations ready, all my classrooms, all the teachers knew what to do. Um, it looks like everyone's prepared to take this step forward. Um, I think having both the digital and the physical ID is going to be really great just to make it more accessible to students and just a little easier,
004not um, again just more accessible. Um, but yeah, um, we'll see how it goes tomorrow. I think it'll go well, but I'm excited. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. So, one thing I just had to welcome all the freshman today and told them all about the Mustang and she was student. on stage. >> Thank you. >> Nice job. >> Wow. Great job. >> Well, hi everyone. Um, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Ryan. Um, I'm so excited to be here and I just want to say thank you for having me and choosing me for this position, Dr. Nette. Um, today went really well. Um, we did scanning into the building. Um, like Roina um said, I think it went really um smoothly. There was no um hiccups in the line. I
005went through the main entrance of down from north. Um, and it went very fast. I know when that light cycle changes, it can get a little backed up, but it was not more than 30 45 seconds. Um, other than that, I think there's a very positive outlook on the phone policy in classrooms. Um, and teachers and administration really has a thorough outlook on what they're expecting and they're all kind of expecting the same thing in classrooms, which I think is really beneficial for um, that being the same from classroom to classroom to classroom. Um, so I did see those foam pouches on on the walls. Um, and we've we actually been producing this video with Dr. dement um for this everyday branding of attendance and kind of um showing freshman and newer students our phone
006policy and attendance policy and trying to make that better this year. So, I know that's a goal among our school district and I'm happy to represent students and our school. Thank you. >> I'll shout out to Ryan, too. Um he produced the whole video and basically told everybody what to do. So, [Applause] All right, great video. >> Thank you. >> That was nice. >> All right, I'm going to turn it over to Scott for an update on indicators and measures and our four-year plan update. >> Well, thank you. So, I'm um excited and honored to have uh Stephanie and Kristen and Dan present uh to you on the four-year plan. Um, and I'm and I'm super always thrilled on teacher Palace at both schools of the dedication and passion uh that they have to serve
007our students and our families. So, um, I'm going to have them introduce themselves and then I think Stephanie's gonna um, lead lead the way in the charge. So, Stephanie's going to start a thing. >> Sorry, Shorty at the mic >> and then Hank's going to control the clicker. Just tell them >> tell me when to go. >> Okay, great. Um, hi, my name is Stephanie Andrews. I am entering my fourth year as department chair of uh the counseling and student support services department. Very excited to be here. Um if you want to go ahead and click. Okay. So um as you all know one of our uh four-year plan strategic indicator is to make sure that we have increased student engagement in a post-secondary planning. And when we all think about post-secondary planning, we definitely
008know that depending on how you grew up or how you were raised or if you have kids yourself and all of that, you kind of maybe thought it was supposed to be one way or another way and there was the right way or the wrong way, the good way, the bad way. Um, but we definitely have to make sure we open our eyes and it's no longer just one single path for all all of one size does not fit all. Um, and so I know that we have talked about, you're going to hear a little bit more from my partner about the D99, the PACE framework, and we're just really excited because we have so many resources and and avenues to share with our students to help them just think about things. It doesn't have
009to be just the the one alley, one path only. And, you know, we want them all to be happy and successful and productive citizens. So, that's that's one of our our main goals. Next. Next. And of course, absolutely none of this could be done. And I I'm pretty sure I speak on behalf of Kristen that none of us none of this could be accomplished without our amazing team. That is everybody up there who consists of our CS and um counselor, so social worker, psychologist. Those are the first three that everybody just kind of rips off and forgets that you know we have student success coordinators. The smaller the numbers, people tend to kind of forget. but every single individual up there. And I definitely want to shout out to our administrative assistants. I know that
010they work so hard behind the scenes and they're they're multitasking with everything. And so everybody on there, Dr. Lewick for sure at um North and I know Sarah and is she doctor? >> Is she doctor? >> Oh, Miss Corrington at South. I couldn't remember if she was a doctor or not. Um, but anyway, so we are we are very happy with our our team and we could not and would not be able to do any of it without all of these folks up on the screen. Okay, thanks. >> So, I'm Kristen Borman. I'm uh the other department chair at Downers Grove South and I'm just really happy to be here tonight. I was talking to Scott about this earlier and I just always am excited to um have an opportunity to talk about the things
011that we do in our district. As I was reflecting on the PACE framework and looking at that last slide, I was thinking about the fact that this is actually going to be my 19th year in this district. Um 25th year in education and I've been in a couple of different roles within our department over time. So when I think about all of that and then um just the you know the large amount of um knowledge that I've even gained in this role over the last now this will be my fifth year in this in this position. The framework that PACE provides really does a beautiful job of bringing all of the things together so that we can support our students especially with that post-secary planning with career and college but also that social emotional piece
012that we do as well along the way to make sure that there are the things that are in place for them so they can really focus and um really identify the things that are important to them. So the PACE framework was developed around 2015 through the Illinois State Board of Education. I think that we had both Sarah and Aaron actually do a presentation here a couple of years ago to talk about that a little bit. Um but just to refresh our memories when you look at the framework which we have up here. Um Illinois State Board of Education gave provided a template and then asked all of the districts to create this template and really individualize it so that it's personalized for each district. So the framework you see here is what is personalized for
013our district. And um I kind of get super passionate about this piece just because when I look at this I know that being here for a longer period of time. Both buildings have been doing this work long before this was developed. So when we were going to conferences I was hearing about this in this role knowing that this was something that was really kind of you know a charge that ISBY was asking us to do. I also knew that this is going to be something that we're very familiar with. It's exciting work. we were have both sides of town have meetings um many times a year every year to talk about these specific things and and now we were able to put it into this framework for our district. Um there's a lot of ways
014that we look at this. There are three components that um are in the PACE framework that ISBY asks us to look at really and then from that we branch into many different things. There's the post-secary education exploration which we're really doing especially at those younger ages. So freshman, sophomore year, we're really trying to find those students, get them in, do, you know, a variety of ways to really identify those things. And then we move on to that career exploration and development, which is that second phase kind of we're doing after we're really identifying some of the interests they have. Um, you know, just looking at what those capstone moments, right? Like seeing are there classes that they can start to take that really capture their interests and where can that take them further? And then
015as we get closer to planning towards the end of school, looking at that financial aid and literacy and talking with families and students about how that's possible, how can we do that? Um, we disseminate this information in all kinds of ways throughout the building. Um, you know, some of the ways we do that, we have access, of course, as we know, we've really grown to love this period and I feel like every year we just find better ways to use it and it just, you know, it's something I'm really proud of, especially in our department. So, our counselors push into those um access periods and they deliver um grade level presentations for all grade levels talking about these three areas that I talked about specifically by grade. Um we have our school link system which
016is exciting. It formerly was Naviance and then the district, thank you very much, um approved us using school links and it's a wonderful platform. We're able to reach students um further as a parent in the district. I've used it with my own children and it's really really intuitive. It's a nice way, right, to find more information out about career and college planning. And then we also do individual counseling appointments. And in this district, we're unique in that we see every single students individually throughout the year. So, some districts, every district does it different. Some will see students in groups or do it online or have the students do it and then they'll just kind of work with them as they need. But here we we see every student um individually as we get close to
017that uh part of the year to to talk about course selection. And then we also reach out to families as needed with questions and things like that in the process. Um Dan Mustari who is here today is one of our college and career counselors. Uh very passionate and does all of this work and was excited to come here tonight to talk about it. So he's going to review this in the next few slides. >> Hi everyone. I am Dan Mustari. I am a secondyear college and career counselor at South. Thank you Kristen and everyone else here. Um if you can go to the next slide please. So, I am excited to talk about some of the active stuff we do in the counseling department um to prepare our kids for life after high school. Um
018it is a four-year process and there are multiple steps along the way. A couple things I just want to highlight. Um beyond just working with students, we do uh pride ourselves in working in our work with parents. Um that begins for this year. Uh next week in in South we have curriculum night. So parents will come in and before they have the opportunity to meet with teachers, they'll have the chance to uh see a presentation from counselors by grade 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, I'll be talking to 12th grade parents, myself about the college application process and answering all the many questions they'll have about that uh to the best of my ability and connecting them with resources. Uh but beyond that, letting them know about the different programming we're going to have throughout the year
019for those who are interested in the trades, for those who are interested in learning more about COOD, uh getting a certificate in a specific field from COOD, uh or even in the military, we have that stuff going on throughout the school year, uh in the building, uh and and after after school as well with parents. That's uh something we do in conjunction with North. We all work together in our college and career departments to make sure our parents uh know what's going on and and um yeah connecting them with the resources they need to help their kids too. Um in terms of our one-on-one with students, as Kristen said, we we do uh see every student uh senior year especially, we want to see them early uh with beautiful students like Roina here and let
020them know like here here's what we're going to do throughout this year. Uh check in with them where they're at. uh and then let them know that we're going to be here each step along the way. Um but we're also in access classrooms as Kristen mentioned. Uh each school year we have a different or every uh year we have different programming uh for freshmen. We get them onboarded onto school links. Uh show them uh the different tools that are available for research and college and careers. Um, but also talk to them about the uh programming, sorry, the uh how to how to plan four years of their of their high school career, getting courses that will prepare them either for college like AP courses or through our CTE department, learning about the different programs they
021can get involved in as early as freshman year that'll get get them set on a path potentially for a career if it's a subject they're interested in. Um and then culminating senior year at the end of the year uh with a senior survey where we get to hear feedback about how we did as a department getting them prepared uh for life after high school. Uh and then uh also get hearing what their final decisions are where can we send your final transcripts. Uh and then you know hearing about the opportunities that people have in the armed forces or in a trade at Cood. uh getting all that data collected so we could see what was successful, what was not uh and we can better better serve kids going forward. On the next slide, please. So
022here's a couple data points we have. Uh last year as a district, nth grade, we had 92% of our freshmen onboarded onto school links. That was the measure that we decided on as a district. We want to see how many kids we can get onboarded onto school links. So 92% of freshmen were able to get on to School Links and complete the onboarding process. Uh and then the the year-end survey that I mentioned for seniors, 73% uh completed it. That's a number that we're excited about improving on. Uh we're going to work together uh in both schools throughout the year and and so you know look at different ways we can do that. Whether it be shortening the survey, looking at the timing, we'll all work together to improve that number. And >> and can
023I just jump in too just to give some clarification? Hey, can you go back one slide for me? So, um, the four-year plan is something that we have ensured that 100% of our students have. And so, we wanted to dig deeper as a CS department and not just tell you every year while we're at 100%. Um, and so we worked all last year, especially system that Kristen mentioned with school links of trying to look at what do we believe is our some of the essential pieces that would really set students up, you know, for success. And that's where we on the next slide um where we decided um to to share with you that we will share every year with you about the onboarding uh for our nth grade class and then the the percentage
024for our um you know grade 12 for our senior exit survey. So those are the measurements that we are obviously looking to get to 100% with because otherwise we're just coming up here every year telling you 100% of our students have a four-year plan. Um and so we felt it was important to dig a little deeper and share a little bit more uh insight with the board. So um so that's kind of gives a little rationale to that um of how we're presenting the data to you each year. >> That's a quick question. So is the 92% that's because freshmen on board in the spring of 8th grade. Is that why we already >> No, it's an it's an actual and and Dan can speak to it too, but it's an assessment within school links
025that's literally called onboarding and it's it's through school links. And so the ninth grade class um does that. So the my the rationale that we talked about and that um that we're going to keep working on is that it's done through um access sometimes where if students are absent, you know, we're trying to track them down to get them to, you know, finish the assessment um they could finish it at any time. So that's our goal of we really believe the onboarding is the key to really understanding school links the pace all our kind of the way we're going to process you know the rest of you know from 9th grade to 12th grade. So that's the one that we're going to you know keep improving on to get to 100% and then the senior
026like Dan was sharing we are going to bring we had a survey committee that developed the senior survey a few years ago. we were a little too ambitious and created a pretty long survey. And so our group um at the end of last school year um just this last school year asked could we bring our team back together, review the obviously the results, but also we felt like the survey was a little too long and so we were losing some of our seniors not wanting to spend the time finishing it. So we felt if we could still be a little more precise, we'll still get the information we want, make it a little shorter. Um and then that number will keep working on um you know getting to that 100%. So >> can I ask
027a question? Um can you tell me more about school links? What is that? That's is that >> Dan would you like to share a little bit about school links? >> Sure. So it's a program uh they replace Navian. That was a previous program. Uh it's a college and career readiness program. So we use it in multiple different ways. Uh the research part is crucial for us especially sophomore and junior year. We're really digging into the uh the research piece into careers into colleges where they get to see real data uh about what careers are in demand um what the they can view scatter grants from different colleges to see where they are and what schools would be target for them or reach for them. It gives us so much different functionality in terms of how
028can they can search these things. Um it also does like the onboarding assessment. uh it's just a little quick survey that they have to do in order to move forward on school links where at the end of it it's just personality type questions and it shows them okay you're this personality type and you match with the celebrity and you might be good at this people who who who match that are good at this and then going forward um beyond the research piece the real work is done senior year in the college application piece that's how we transmit our transcripts uh and our our letters recommendation it works in conjunction with common app for regular applications where We send that data um to the colleges >> and does the school link system assist students who are
029not collegebound going into the trades >> in the career research piece. There's also uh real-time stuff where they are showing uh uh different internships that are available different job openings in the community. They find all that data and present it to students based on your zip code >> and students are encouraged to interact with this platform. Yes, it's every year. Like for sophomores, we dig in deeper into the the career exploration piece. We show them how to go in and after taking that survey, uh here's how you can look at a career cluster if if you're uh maybe best suited for something in uh health services. Here are 30 different health services careers that are out there, and here's information about those careers. Here's the degree you would need if you wanted to, or here
030are certifications that are available. Maybe you don't want to be an RN. You can be a CNA or you can be a synographer. You know, there's different options out there that there there's a lot of different data there for the kids to dig into. >> It sounds like a really cool platform. >> It's great. Yeah, we love it. >> Any other questions? >> Go ahead, sir. I was I was curious uh as far as well first of all I'm very happy to see that South and North are working collaboratively. I think that is really really important um to identify resources and to also utilize network contact opportunities. So that is fantastic. Is there a minimum number of times each student must meet with uh faculty? Is it once per semester or once per year >>
031like meeting with the counselor, right? >> Yeah. So, I I think we can answer that. I think that uh the baseline would be each student is meeting with their counselor at least once a year. Um, and that might be if nothing if there's everything is great. And we do have students like this that are, you know, really independent and um, you know, want to work with their counselors, but they're also feeling like they they've got this or they're advocating for themselves. They're talking with their teachers on their own. They're doing those things. We're still identifying those students and um, we pull a report so that we make sure we have all of the students accounted for. And then we take attendance um, at certain times of the year. So at some at one point we'll
032reach out to all of our freshmen. we'll have them come in and we'll talk about course selection and that's when we're meeting with them and um if we miss someone we know this because we take attendance and we know when that student is there and then we reach out actively to you know follow up with them. So it at least once a year a meeting with each grade level like that and it's usually roughly around between November and the end of January that those are happening. Um it does take about two months because we reach out to every single student. um north and south do this the same way, you know, where we're really actively finding ways to do that and then we're talking with them. But in addition to that, we have many students
033that want to see us for different reasons in addition to that. And when Steph and I work with our counseling staff and we're um kind of like shadowing or observing or or part of those meetings at times just to kind of learn more every year and stay active in the process, we know that our counselors are always encouraging students. If you have questions, if you want to follow up, if if something's going on, you know, you you want to you you want to follow up with a question, let me know. Or if a student seems indecisive or unsure, they'll make notes and they'll reach out to that student later just to kind of circle back and say, "Hey, how are things going?" you know, the student may say it's fine, but um there's all those
034kinds of contacts happening uh when needed. Um and you know, if for some reason we miss a student, which can happen, not that we miss seeing the student that one time, but additionally if they need that assistance, then we're always um you know, reaching out to teachers, reaching out to families, hoping that everyone trying to make as accessible as possible so people can let us know if if they want a student to be seen or they're concerned or the student's not advocating for themselves, but we still need to see them. And that's once a year for a oneon-one meeting. >> Correct. There's a lot of other kind of group settings. >> You can go back like to the third slide with the bubbles. >> We presented to the board, but we made it small this
035time. So, just to reference it, but the bubble on the top right, what we did is we looked at all the different um interventions that are happening with Catal. And I know it's small and you really can't read it, but because we presented it on a bigger slide before um we were just kind of referencing it. Um, but those are many of the things that we're doing in terms of like our C++ is doing academic context throughout the year. You can I think it's the green so you can see how big that bubble is and that's kind of the scope of a lot of what our our team is doing. Um, and and so each of those bubbles kind of res represents some of the many interventions that our CS is doing. We do threat
036assessments. We have personal like just even like social worker or mental health contacts one-on-one. um we have group contacts, things like that. Um there's even a parent bubble in there of how many times really that's kind of representing our communication with families. Um so it like like our team is saying it's it's you know counselors are meeting about obviously academic coursework and that's like our guarantee but it's really happening. Students are accessing CS many many times um you know throughout the year for many different reasons. So, >> and the in the access lessons the um at North we have senior access lessons twice once once each semester we do the same thing with our juniors and then for 9th grade and 10th grade they meet with them in access lessons just in the fall but
037then as Kristen said we have the onetoone once we start planning the course selection to ensure that they're you know getting every kind of information they need to help the students choose courses that are going to be interesting to them and help um pursue their passions. >> Yeah. And we do the same thing at South. I think the more we the more you think about this, when you think about all the context we make, it is true. We do it in many different ways. Um we have Erica's Lighthouse and we have Alyssa's mission, which are two tools that we use to reach out to all of our freshmen in both buildings and we do presentations in every single class with students and um one to two days usually uh just to educate them on mental
038health um supports in place, how they can access help if they would like. We give them a survey at that time so people can identify if they need additional support and we follow up with them that same day. So there are lots of ways that we do reach out with students more than once a year. Um but for that counseling individual piece we do reach out with them at least once if not more. Correct. >> I know we have uh at both high schools we have career days where we have professionals come in from a variety of fields to talk to our young students. I'm curious number one uh how successful we've been in attracting local plumbers, electricians, attorneys, architects, lawyers, local businesses to step up that are part of the larger D99 family and
039D99 community to come in. Those are just such great opportunities and I know those professionals love to share and you know tell our young uh promising students what it would be like to get into their field. >> Yeah, it's great. So last year in our building we worked our department uh college and career worked in conjunction with the CTE department. They were really excited about this about u especially with the way things are changing and maybe not colleges for everybody but getting kids involved or getting kids in front of real world professionals who can tell them about what's going on. This year something that we talked about is uh reaching out to every department in our building and saying we want you to be a part of this too. Are there certain careers or or
040certain individuals that you think would be uh good for our kids to talk to? uh let us know so we can be in contact with them and invite them into our building. Um and we also I also want to be in touch with the uh with the chamber. I mean that there's so many resources here in in the neighborhood where I'm I'm willing to guess they want to help kids and they want to see you know what talent is out there that can maybe help them as well. >> And also feel free to reach out to your board as well. Okay. We have many contacts and are some of us are very accomplished professionals in our own right and uh would love to share one. >> Yeah, we'll be sending out a survey to people
041in our building, but I will extend that to the board. >> Great. >> Thank you. Um, I just want to say that, um, having had a daughter who just went through this and is on her way in a week and a half to go to college, um, when I when I graduated high school, I applied to one college. That was it. I knew where I was going to go. It was simple. And that was pretty common and routine in my generation. And with Common App, um, the possibilities are endless. Uh we went and saw colleges in four different time zones. >> Um and it's it's it's wonderful and it opens up a lot of opportunities, but it can also be really overwhelming. But I felt that she was really prepared because of all of you
042and the time that you take um to educate our students and care about them and mentor them along along the way and provide guidance and answer their questions. I felt like she was able to do most of the work on her own as I think it should be. You know, I think mom and dad are there to help guide and answer questions but not make the decision. And I felt you gave her the tools to be successful in that regard and I think all of you should give yourself a pat on the back in that regard. >> Thank you. Any other questions? I do want to point out one thing related to indicators and measures. So this was the last one we had to report out on last year. So we'll update our website to
043reflect these metrics. Also uh when we wrote all of these indicators and met me measures, we looked for um metrics that would most closely reflect the language in the strategic plan which would this one does exactly reflects what the expectation in the strategic plan is. it is already being met at 100% at least for the last year. Uh my recommendation for the board is we keep it the same way this year. So you get to see that this wasn't a one-year fluke, right? And that next year if we're at 100% again that we start to dialogue, this might be the first indicator where you say, "Okay, this one's established that it's happening with fidelity. What is the next thing underneath it like what the team has presented today of like is it going to be
044onboarding? Is it going to be exit survey? Is it going to be what? Right? And we put out there for the story we started here. We've demonstrated this is happening with fidelity. So then the board chose for for the team to take the next level underneath this to look at this next thing and we could bring you some options related to that as well when we get there. So just like forecasting down the road how this might look and work. >> Thank you team. >> Thank you guys. >> All right. The next couple are Scots concussion oversight team. >> Yeah. So we um each year we establish a team um and then we meet uh during the school year um to talk about our concussion protocol. So this is representing our team. Um I believe
045it's in the consent, right? to to approve that. Um I don't know if there's any questions you have about that. Um it's a wonderful team to work with and and support our families and students that obviously are going through concussions and you know obviously prevention as well. So >> questions >> for our new board members. This is an annual process of presenting to the this to you and getting it approved. >> Next one. Crisis deescalation. >> So we have a crisis deescalation team um oversight team. So there's our team members. Um this is another one of those that you'll approve and in and that um I will tell you that Isby did make some changes to our um crisis deescalation protocols. Um they had before where we would write a school uh plan. Um they've
046since uh discontinued that. um we're still having our team meet and we're still going to go through the um process that ISBY established even though they're not asking us to submit a plan in that. So this team reviews the the criteria that was established by ISBY a few years ago. Um so another team that meets to we meet uh and talk about um really our crisis and deescalation. It's really focused really heavily um on special education and just really looking at if there's ever a physical management. Our team is trained. Sassid is providing our training uh for that. Um and so we're excited for that partnership. Um and so we have a number of staff that are certified in the CPI which is the the language around the actual training. So I don't know if
047there's any questions regarding that. >> All right. Thank you, Scott. Uh, next one is returning with electricity and the natural gas bid process. Travis. >> Yeah. So, this is, if you remember last meeting, uh, we did a presentation on the market and and where we're at. I'm happy to report that we're trending in the right way. Um so since our last meeting uh I've been provided some new updates on some um some different suppliers and what they have said that they can supply and and the associated cost. So on the electricity side alone it's about a a 210 of a cent drop which uh might not seem like a lot but when you look at how many therms we use it's about $24,000. Right? So that's from the numbers that were shared last meeting. uh
048not as much, but there's savings as well on the natural gas side. Um it's about um just under two cents of a drop, and it's about $5,500 savings. So, we're looking at close to about a a $30,000 difference from the numbers that were presented to you uh last um last at our last board meeting. So, I will say, you know, that that was shared with me last Monday. um and they really stay for a day, right? And that's when you have to lock them in. So that's why we're asking uh for that up to a four-year commitment that we would go into for uh for electricity and natural gas, not necessarily being the same amount of time for each. we would look at the market and see what makes the most sense uh with that.
049But we're just asking for approval later in this meeting uh to be able to sign that agreement when we when we uh think that the market is the best, right? Which is you're playing the futures, right? So, but uh we're confident with uh Nania that they will provide us the the right direction. So, just to be clear, the action item tonight is going to ask you to authorize the administration with the assistance of our outside consultant to identify the best time to lock into that that contract. So, you're pretty much turning it over to the team and saying when you guys find the best time, lock and move forward and then of course we'll update you as to what that outcome is. Any questions for Travis? All right, hearing none. Uh the next item is
050the health life safety update. >> Yeah. So uh it was just a little bit less than a year ago. Uh we well actually over a year ago we started this work right where we started doing the health life safety uh survey. Uh white company started that last summer. Um and you can see these are the things the steps that we've completed uh that are part of the process that you have to go through every 10 years uh for your health life safety survey. So this is every every district is on a a 10-year plan, if you will. Um they obviously hit at different times uh but our process uh is is here and now. So we have done all of this work up to this point. Um, and I know that's uh some of some
051of you were here during that and some were not. So, I'm going to give kind of a a brief overview uh moving forward. So, if you can go to the next slide. Uh, the next things that we need to do is to request Whiten Company um to prepare and proceed with all of the necessary bidding documents that are tied to uh this work. So, that's that's what we're reviewing tonight for approval um at our next board meeting. And then part of that process is we report annually to the ROE on our progress on that. Uh if you can go to the next slide. So just a reminder there are three different categories that are associated with health life safety work. Category A that's what's deemed as urgent. You have one to two years to complete
052that. Um and you must complete all of category A work before you can move on to category B work. Category B work has to be completed within five years um to start that and then category C is recommended. So you don't have to complete things that are in category C but it's recommended for uh you to get that that work done. So if you can go to the next slide. So after uh we got the results back from ISBY um this is what was not approved by ISBY. So there's uh roughly $334,000 uh that have not been approved. You can see the majority of that was in category B. A lot of that was due, if you remember, we had a lot of work uh with glass that has um metal inside of it for
053reinforcement. Uh and we are looking to change that to safety glass. uh that is no longer it used to be approved quite a bit or all the time by ISBY and they are no longer approving that type of work. So we're going to have to look to see make a determination is that work that we want to get done um and then find other sources of of money for that. Um again this is uh by them not approving it doesn't mean that we have one to two years we have to complete this work because they didn't approve it. Right? So, this is again kind of it's not even on the suggested. They're saying you don't have to do it because it it wasn't uh approved in that way. So, we're looking at that. Uh we
054will look and see what that uh what that looks like and and when and if we're going to tackle that work, but again, the majority of it was related to the to the glass. You can go to the next one. So, this is what was approved by uh Isby. And I will I will note that uh in looking at this in our submission, this also includes a 10% contingency for the project as well as 10% for architecture and engineering fees. Um so those are already in these numbers. So this is this is kind of like a cost not to exceed unless something really happens uh that that we're looking at. But again, these are estimates put together by Whiten Company based off of last summer. And remember when they did this, that was kind of
055last fall. So it it the costs are going to go up, right? So that's why we still need to go through the bidding process. Um this is the estimate with again about 20% padded uh in there. So you can see category A uh we have just under or just over $356,000 worth of work uh that we have in there. We have that in our health life safety funds that we can go ahead and tackle that work. Category B just over four and a half million dollars. Category C uh just under $200,000 for the the total just over $5 million when we're looking at at both schools. And obviously there's a difference between the schools. I will say the largest contributing factor to uh North being higher is the work that needs to be done with
056the pool. uh that is going to be substantial with the structure work uh that we identified through our scoreboard and through our other health life safety funds when we were we were uh down under in that area and we know that we need to tackle that work. >> Next it just drives that's zero to five years broke category B >> category B is yes in the first five years. >> Five years. Okay. >> Okay. We are confident that we can get A and B done this next summer. So, that's that's part of our our plan in tackling it. Um, and we've talked uh and I'll I'll hit on that later in this, but we we feel like we can get all of this done in this next summer uh in in tackling that work. >>
057Again, that's A and B. >> Okay. >> Travis. Yes, sir. Can you can you just uh touch on for the uh newer board members like what it means to classify as life safety project and how that is impacted by um how it impacts our uh leving process. >> Yes. So the health life safety is uh follows with the school code um and the current codes that are in place and I will say that they changed in 2024. Uh so that's another contributing factor to the the things that have been identified. Um, so that's when White walked through our building and went room by room. They they left no stone unturned and they went through and they determined, hey, here is the work that needs to be done uh for uh the safety and the and
058the functioning long term of your your district. So that is they they are broken down into different categories. Um it is a whole uh menu of items if you will that uh Isby has put together that architects are are very familiar with and understand and so they're looking for those things in your building. does that are are we good in those areas or do we need to um identify and make sure that we get that taken care of in these next 10 years if you will right it's five years uh that you have to get that done uh because of of category A and B um but if you were slower on on A again you have to get A done before you you move on to to B. So, how that affects our our
059levy that comes out of our fund 90 um which is I'm sorry not fun is it fund 90 fund 90 uh our health life safety um it's also referred to as fire prevention fund but it's our health life safety uh fund and that is something that we can levy for. So, I'm going to at the end jury's going to talk a little bit about that and the in the process and what that means. Um but that is something that we need to coordinate if we're going to be able to get all of this work done this summer. Um, if you remember, I said we had enough in category A uh enough in our fund 90 uh for category A work. We don't have enough to get all of category B work uh done. So, we
060would need to if that's something we want to tackle, we need to um uh get moving on that and Jury will talk a little bit more about that. >> Does that help? >> Thanks. >> Yep. >> Thank you. >> Um so, when we look at the estimated cost by category, this is work that we've determined we can do on our own. Okay. So, we we we feel confident uh that we can do about uh $70,000 worth of the uh of that work uh on our own without the need to uh utilize Whiten Company services. Um so, again, that $70,000 includes that 20% markup. So, actually that will come in lower uh than that. Uh some of that work we would need to go out to bid for. We would run that bidding. Uh but some
061of that we don't need to go out to bid for. We can we can take care of on our own. You can go to the next slide please. So this is our work to be bid. Again that's just under $5 million um in looking at that. Again those are our estimates uh when we look at that and that is what we are asking white and company to design um and to assist with that work uh to be completed. Next slide please. So kind of our our next steps on the architectural and engineering services. We are uh going to seek board approval at the next meeting uh to accept the the architectural engineering services proposal. And really what that does um they uh conduct site visits to better thoroughly understand and develop what is that architecture
062and and engineering side look like uh to be able to prepare for the bidding process. So sometimes they have to have you have to have an electrical engineer on site, right? And they're determining what is the best uh thing or a structural engineer for the pool. We're going to need a lot of uh different things along those lines. So they'll conduct those needed site visits. They're they will prepare those design documents uh again with those updated codes um handle our permitting through the ROE um and then assist with the bidding process. That's what the architectural and engineering services. So that's kind of the the pre-work uh to that. Um if you can go to the next slide please. So the proposal is in line. We have a greater agreement with White uh that was renewed
063in um in 2022. So the proposal is in line with that agreement. Um the cost of that is uh 8.75% of the cost of the work. So again that's not to exceed uh not less than I'm sorry $393,000. So that's going to depend upon what is that what do the bids come in at. Um but that is uh where that number comes in. And again that cost is included in the ISV approved amounts of that 10 of that 10%. Any questions on that before I move on to the next one? Make sense? Okay. You can go to the next one. So then this is kind of after we we have uh the engineering done. Um so I am going to seek a uh board approval again at our next meeting to utilize White's construction uh
064management services and really that's for preconstruction and bidding. There's a lot of work that needs to be done with that. So if you remember on the previous uh architectural and engineering they would assist with bidding. This is they are doing the bidding. they're they're running the bidding. Um they are reaching out to their contacts uh to make sure that we're getting a good number of bids that are out there. Um and that always helps when you talk about bidding. The more that you have that are are bidding, the better for uh the district. Um and then to manage the the construction. Um regular meetings when we've done utilize their construction management services, which we did last summer. Um we not this summer, the summer before uh we we met frequently and got updates. Hey, is
065there any everything going well? How are we doing on timing? All of those different pieces as well as um anything that that came up maybe that that wasn't foreseen. And that's where that 10% of that contingency comes into play. And then there's a lot at the end too after you get all of the work done, closing it out, uh making sure all of the documentation is there. um everything has been paid. Uh all of that is being closely closely watched. So again, that's kind of the after and through all the way to the end is what we're seeking board approval for there. Next slide, please. So the cost structure of that um is broken down into three different pieces that I explained before. Uh pre-construction is 1% of the cost of the work and again
066with that estimated that's where that is. Um 3% is the construction management and general conditions and general requirements. That is a flat rate. Um that that is not a percentage of the total cost of work. Uh so the total estimated cost there is uh just under $416,000. Um that could go up or down depending upon the actual cost of the work. Um, and this is something that we would need to budget and talk about because that is not part of the ISBY pre-approved amount, but that is the the cost of doing just under $5 million worth of of work and and um making sure that everything is done uh very well and watched. Any questions on the construction management side of things? >> Can you use fun funds from the life safety fund for those
067expenses? >> I don't believe that you can. >> I don't think we can. I think because of the the uh the ISBY approval includes the architectural and engineering um this would be something that we would need to take out of our our regular on and M. Okay. >> So then after this obviously that that planning and bond issuance and I'm going to turn it over to Jere just to to walk through kind of our our next steps related to that as well. >> Sure. So, we've been working on this, like Travis said, for about a year. Um, I did a preliminary meeting with the bond underwriter at the beginning of the summer just to try to find out what the timeline would be for issuing these bonds. Um, we're going to start early this fall,
068well, probably right in September after the board approval to meet with the underwriter to come up with some different options that he's already shared with me as to the timing of when we'd actually issue the bonds and which levy year it would they would hit. Um he has some uh some options that he just put forth to me last week given the market right now. Um suggesting that we may want to issue bonds earlier rather instead of waiting till the spring possibly issue the bonds this fall. Uh so what we plan to do Travis Hank and myself is meet after probably in October to start looking at a timeline and then bring it back to the board at the October board meeting. And to answer your question earlier about the levy, so for the newer
069board members, so we're able to issue these bonds without going to a referendum through the new, it was 2024, I think the new law came about. So we're able to do this without taking it for a referendum >> and we're able to levy for those bonds and it's doesn't hit our tax cap. Correct. >> Correct. Right. Right. And what the underwriter is going to do is look at when other bond issuances are falling off and how to place them, how to letter the payments out and everything. And and we're going to bring that back to the board once we have that information. A $5 million issuance is really relatively small. We're we're uh recommending that we're so aggressive on this because prices aren't going to go down, right? So, we really feel like since we
070can tackle this, uh that it would be best financially to go ahead and get it done. Um and then we can uh obviously there's going to be other work that we're going to need to do in these next 10 years. Uh but we can then say, okay, we are we're done with that uh that work and and it will it will help us quite a bit. And what we talked about too, and I see you have it on this slide, is that if we go ahead and issue the bonds, you know, late fall or something, we're going to have the funds available to start the work in the late spring. >> Yeah. So, that does help with our overall timeline where we can get going. Um, and honestly, as soon as we uh if we
071get board approval for this, um, Whiten Company's going to start working on bids. Um again timing of everything HVAC equipment uh takes a while uh to get and we have some of that in our uh in the needed work. So we need to make sure that again thinking ahead um that we get going on on the process. >> But we're not taking action tonight on this. >> No. >> This would be at the next board meeting. >> Okay. >> All right. Any other questions? If board members have any other questions that come up between now and and our next time we meet and discuss and ask for approval on this, please let us know. Or if there's any gaps you need us to close or other information we have to provide, just let us know.
072I know half of our board uh wasn't here for the first half of the discussion around life safety bonds. So uh feel free reach out if you have questions or anything that that we need to do uh to help close any knowledge gaps. Happy to do that. All right, the next one is an opportunity that that just showed up kind of in the last week. So, uh I'll turn this one over to Travis to talk about where we're at here. >> So, a couple years ago, uh we purchased uh four used activity buses. Um and we knew that that wasn't going to meet the whole need of of our uh transportation needs. Again, every district uh in the state of Illinois, if they have after school activities, is feeling the pinch of um of getting
073students there on time. Uh because uh there aren't as many bus drivers. Um and so we we definitely feel that pinch. Um and I will say the most that we feel that pinch is in the spring. Um but we are looking ahead so that we have a smoother spring, better experience for our our kids. um and with some additional flexibility for um our coaches and adviserss throughout the year. So, we have um found uh another opportunity uh that we would like to present to you. Um and we're looking for action because used buses don't sit on the on the lot very long. Um but we're we have uh six that we've um six out of the the potential options that we're looking at. Uh that's what we would like to purchase. Um, so we're asking
074at a cost not to exceed $400,000 for those six. I will say it's likely going to come under that number, well under that number, but we wanted to pad that because there are some that are more expensive and some that are less. Um, we have tried to coordinate with the uh company for uh Luke to go out, our garage mechanic who does a fantastic job for us to go and get his eyes on them and and look through. So that is uh we have not been able to do that yet. Uh so that is going to depend the final cost is going to depend upon which ones that he feels are are best. Uh we have the option opportunity to get two of the larger activity buses um and four that would replicate what we
075bought last year which still are 14 passenger but it's not 14 high schoolers, right? So we're really more along the lines of 11. Um, and that's true across all buses. When they say 72 passengers can fit into a school bus, that's three to a seat. >> Um, so that's not happening. Um, especially not at the high school level, right? So, um, so we're we want to look at and and consider two of those of the larger, which are more expensive. Um, but we're so but we need to get our eyes on what those look like. So, it could be six of the smaller um or a mix of of any of those things. So, we need to get our eyes on it, but we're looking to get approval for that so that if if he
076gives the go-ahad and we can get that uh done and get those purchased and uh get them into our fleet. >> Okay. So, question, >> is the need equivalent for the buses at the two schools? Like, would it be three and three or does some one school need more buses or >> We would have to we would need to look at that because they're not even right now. Oh, >> the fleets are not even. So, um, we we need to have further discussions on that as to what that would look like. >> I have a couple more questions. Who drives the buses and do they need a special license to do this? >> So, our our coaches and advisers uh drive those. Um, we have to provide additional training uh that goes along with those.
077you do not need a CDL uh for that, but there is a bus permit um that our our staff needs to attain and we have a file of those and and go through that that process. >> And so right now, if those coaches and students are not in a a bus that we own, how are they getting to their practice? We're we're utilizing first student, >> okay, >> for a lot of those and it's mainly for um competitions that we have for those um not as much for after school, but that does also give us some flexibility if we're off-campus uh to be able to provide that maybe where we're not right now. >> And there are, you know, obviously aside from the purchase price, there's ongoing maintenance costs. So I'm guessing this has been
078J probably ran the numbers. I'm guessing this has been um kind of run the pros and cons. >> Yeah. >> And and and honestly when we look at it like long term um we would rather invest in something that we have that gives us more flexibility where when we're talking with first student we're kind of it's it's dependent upon what they can provide, right? So control we we feel like that's it's worth it. >> And long range it is less expensive per route. They they pay for themselves over time. It's generally at least $500 a bus to take athletes to an event >> per per one. >> Yeah. Sometimes it's even more. >> Okay. >> Depends how long >> the event is. So, yes. >> Um, where will these buses live >> on on our
079uh school property? Uh, and we have to reconfigure our parking a little bit. Um some places we have a little bit more already carved out but um but yes we they would be around the general area of where they are right now if you know where those are. Yeah. >> Based on the buses we have now. What would you say the projected life of a bus would be in that capacity? >> It it all depends on a myriad of different things. I will say um again uh we have a lot of confidence in Luke with the maintenance that he's doing on those um and and we don't have a uh a set replacement schedule that I'm aware of. Um where we say, hey, after this amount of years we we're going to sunset this bus
080or a certain number of miles. Um but we he does really monitor those closely as far as safety and he will actually um uh per the route depending upon where they're going he'll say these are these are to be used locally and these are the ones that we'll we'll go through and he does he does a a pre-insspection if they're if they're going a good distance away he does a pre-insspection before they go um and and really does a great job for us um in that. So, um I would say it's probably going to last longer than most because of the the work that's that's put in >> and and just to confirm. So, they have not been inspected yet, right? That's they're still pending. Okay. Inspection by by the mechan Okay. >> To determine
081which ones may be worthwhile. Okay. >> And and honestly, that's why of of up to six, right? >> So, if we if we get there and we're like, you know what, four of these are good. Those are the four that we're going to we're going to look at buying. We're not going to purchase six just to have six. Um, but we we feel like that would be very helpful and we feel like from what we're seeing at least online that that is a a great option and we think that's feasible. >> I forget in the memo, did you mention the reason why we found these buses at this time? So these buses are just coming off of a of a lease and so we Luke is the one who located them and they only come
082off leases generally like once a year or something and so we just thought it was a great opportunity to take a look at these now because otherwise it could be another year from now. Also, the last time we met, we talked about this as a tight budget year. >> So, I'm going to have Jere share a little bit about some recent news that helps kind of soften the blow of an additional expense like this. >> So, the purchase of the activity buses is not in the uh tenative budget. So, it looks like that would be an additional $400,000 expense. It just so happens that last week we heard from the state they released the replacement tax amount that we should be receiving. And it just so happens it's just around $400,000 more than what we
083had been told the week before that. So everybody received their estimate last week from the state. So, um, therefore, the $400,000 or up to for these buses would can be covered through the additional taxes. >> So, it wouldn't be a greater deficit spend than what we presented the last time. It's kind of a wash from the budget we brought you the last time, >> which is still in the red and planned to be in the red, right? Uh but this additional purchase based on what we just learned last week, we'd be able to kind of keep our budget similar to what we brought you before and still be able to offer this these resources to the schools. >> Any other questions? >> Great work. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate a team. >> It does for
084sure. >> All right. Next one is e-learning plan for emergency days. This is followed by a public hearing for anybody that would like to comment on the e-learning plan. Uh this was brought last week for introduction and discussion. Uh it is uh the exact same plan we have in place right now and that we've been using for the last couple of years. Uh as Jeff presented last year, it's the structure of students attend synchronously. We check in, we take attendance, make sure kids are okay, make sure that they have the work that they need to do, offer them any help that they need. We have a couple of work times throughout the day for students to to kind of get their work done on an e-learning day. Uh, and then if a student is unable
085to attend, a parent can call them out uh just like they would call them out for any regular school day. Jeeoff, anything I'm missing in there? Uh no, just uh that covers the plan. Um as far as the procedure for getting our plan approved, this is uh the last step before we submit to ISBY. Uh we've run the ad in the Daily Herald for the requisite number of days. We gave notice to families and staff for the requisite number of days in advance of your of the hearing and then your pending vote this evening. So we're in it's all teed up, ready to go. >> Any questions? So, after we finish the superintendent reports, we'll open up Don will open up a public hearing for anybody that would like to make a comment to the
086board on this before the board is asked to take action later on this evening. All right. Uh the last one for uh for me is freedom of information requests. Um we have received them. Uh when we receive them, we fill them. We post them on our website. We also all received as a staff uh training from the board's attorney on the opening day on all of our requirements that every staff member has around FOYA documents. Uh so we've all been trained on it as well. >> Okay. I'm going to open up a hearing uh to discuss the board's um e-learning plan for emergency days. Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to address the board on District 99's e-learning plan for emergency days? >> Hearing none. Uh, can I get a motion to close
087the public hearing? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Moves and Mike seconds. >> Thank you. Cara Castton. >> I. >> Michael Riskey. >> I. >> Katie Courtourtney. >> Hi. >> Ken Dawson. >> Hi. >> April Fein. >> Hi. >> And Don Runner. >> I. Motion carries. The public hearing is closed. Moving on to item eight on the consent agenda before the board votes on the consent agenda. >> Is there any agenda item a board member would like to pull out of the consent agenda for further discussion? Hearing none. Can I get a motion for the board of education to approve the consent agenda as presented, which includes A, personnel report, appointment certified, appointment classified, B, personnel report, resignation certified, resignation classified, C, July treasures report and financial pages. D 202526 concuss concussion oversight team. E,
088202526, crisis deescalation and physical management oversight team. Item F, intergovernmental agreement with district 58. And item G, acceptance of donation from the Ruckus Films LLC. >> So moved. >> Second. >> April moves. Ken Second. >> Thank you. >> April Fein. >> Hi. >> Ken Dawson. >> I. >> Michael Riskey. >> I. >> Cara Casten. >> Hi. >> Katie Courtourtney. >> I. >> And Don Rener. >> I. Motion carries. >> On to our action items. Uh item A. Can I get a motion from the board of education to approve the district's e-learning plan as presented? So moved. >> So good. >> Moves 10 seconds. >> Thank you. >> Cara Casten. >> I. >> Pen Dawson. >> I. >> April Fein. >> I. >> Michael Riskey. >> I. >> Katie Courtourtney. >> I. >> And Don Rener.
089>> I. Motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Item B. Can I get a motion from the board of education to approve the administration entering into supply agreements effective June 2026 for electricity and natural gas for terms not to exceed 48 months? >> So moved. >> Second. Mike moves. Katie seconds. >> Thank you. >> Michael Riskey. >> Hi. >> Katie Courtourtney. >> I. >> Ken Dawson. >> Hi. >> April Fein. >> Hi. >> Cara Casten. >> I. >> And Don Rener. >> I. Motion carries. Thank you. >> Item C. Can I get a motion from the board of education to approve the purchase of up to six 14 passenger activity buses at a cost not to exceed $400,000 for six buses? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Cara moves. Katie seconds. >> Thank you. >> Cara
090Casten. >> Hi. >> Katie Courtourtney. >> I >> Ken Dawson. >> Hi. >> April Fein. >> I. >> Michael Riskey. >> I. >> And Don Rener. >> I. Motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Item 10, old business. >> Old business is uh second reading and approval of the board protocol document. Uh this was presented by Karen and I uh at the last board meeting. Uh since then uh I I haven't received anything very easy. Uh so it's as presented is in there. The key changes uh are about some of the onboarding practices with new board members and then moving forward uh each board member reaching out and letting me know what's your normal kind of communication flow and interaction would like to be. Is it as needed? Would you like a standing time? You know,
091uh however it is that that you best want to check in. I just need each of you to let me know so that then we can follow up with whatever that structure is going to be for this school year. Uh you're not locking into it for life either. If at any point you'd like to change that structure, you just got to let me know and we can adjust. So uh Cara, anything else I'm missing on there? >> All right. Can I get a motion from the board of education to approve the board protocols as presented? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Katy moves. 10 seconds. Thank you, >> Kitty Courtney. >> Hi, >> Ken Dawson. >> Hi, >> April Fein. >> Hi, >> Michael Riskkey. >> Hi, >> Eric Castton. >> Hi, >> and Don
092Runner. >> I motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Uh, item 11, new business. >> No new business. >> Item 12, Julie, do we have any other visitors? >> No, sir. >> Okay, moving on to communications. Um, can I get a report on Let's do Lend first. So I joined the executive committee of lend this year. Uh we had our first meeting a week ago to talk about kind of priorities for the year. We're meeting again in another week or two and we don't have our first all group meeting until mid September, right? September 19th. >> I don't have anything else to add. >> Gina and I both serve on the mandate committee and we had a meeting uh this this uh this month I don't know recently. uh and similarly working on legislative agenda and
093topics of major concern this year. I would say in the upcoming veto session, pay attention for a lot of discussion around tier 2 uh at the state level and what funding might mean for that. Uh there's a few other leftover kind of legislative items from the spring that might uh pop back up. And then um as we know more on what the long-term legislative agenda is for the year, we'll I'm sure Cara or I will report. >> Uh I' I'd like to commend Cara for taking on a leadership role at Wend. I think it's really important that District 99 be represented on that executive committee board. I've previously served I think Nancy Kepka served previously to that. >> So D99 has always had a very strong voice on lend and uh Cara is continuing that
094tradition. So, thank you very much. >> Um, we'll skip Sassid because Chris is not here. >> I can report on. Uh, where we're at right now is really same thing here. Yearly budget, getting that presented and approved. A lot of focus right now on long-term facilities. Uh, our lease ends uh in one of our buildings in three years. And then we also have some challenges in kind of how SASID SASID really uses uh school locations across the county. So we cannot lease classroom space in a variety of different schools uh in our member school districts. So we're trying to figure out a long-term plan for facilities uh and try to make that fit within the overall budget. Um as you can imagine that's a pretty complex uh puzzle. So, uh, over the upcoming year or
095so, this will be something that both Chris and I, uh, will be updating you on as, as it progresses. We're very early in trying to figure out, you know, what our needs are and what our options are. Uh, it's also very complex in the fact, uh, you know, some of you are new and even those of you that are veterans, the way that Sasset is mapped across the state or across the state, across the county is really the middle of the county. None of those districts are Sassid districts. So, it's really weird that it's up north kind of east and or east and west are where those districts are. So, trying to find if it's like a single central location or is it more geographical are some of the issues that we'll be talking through
096uh over this school year as well. So, uh it isn't a SASID's a topic where you generally get some updates of like things are going fine. Uh here's what they're focusing on right now as a board and uh member boards. There's going to have to be a little more involvement and coming back to boards as we look at like long-term lease options and those kinds of things as we look at facility planning for a cooperative much like the conversations that we had tonight for our own district. So, uh a lot to come on that in the the coming year. >> Thanks, Dr. Um Katie and or April any report on the foundation? >> Um I wasn't at the last meetings. Was it discussed? >> Yeah, we talked about it last time. We haven't had a
097meeting. >> There's been no change. We have a meeting on Wednesday. >> Okay. >> Also about the foundation. The foundation had presented at the institute day uh which was very well received by the teachers and uh further opened the line of communication for where they should go if they want to apply for a grant. Um it was really exciting and I think uh hopefully it will bring more people to the foundation as members and let the let people know you know all the great work that the foundation is doing. So I think it's a a new day for the D99 Education Foundation and the these two ladies are a big part of it and looking forward to a great year. >> It was a really nice presentation by one Mrs. Awesome. I heard a lot
098of really good feedback on on her presentation and the excitement and teachers really really heard her. >> Yeah. Last year we received more in learning grants than I think that they had maybe ever given. So uh really strong support from the education foundation. We appreciate that greatly. >> Ken, any updates on ISB? Yeah, is ISB has a really exciting fall lined up in September. We have the uh super Saturday for the new board members and we're looking forward to you guys attending that and bringing back useful information. One of the topics is seven things I wish I knew before I joined the board. So I'm very curious as to what they are and >> hope that you will bring them back to share with us. >> So that's exciting in September. Then October, October 29th
099is our DUP page division dinner meeting which is held at the Carile Hotel. There's always a good speaker. It's great opportunity to network with other boards in the page area. So last year was very well ret attended by us board members and hopefully it will be again. And then in November the big joint annual conference where we network with boards members from across the state of Illinois get a chance to learn best practices and share all of our best practices and accomplishments with our peers around the state. So it's a very exciting fall. Thanks, K. Um, upcoming board meeting meetings. Our next board meeting will be September 8th here at the ASC. We'll have a workshop meeting at 6:30 p.m. Followed later that month on September 22nd for our monthly business meeting again here in
100the ASC at 6:30 p.m. >> All right. Uh, can I get a motion to adjourn? >> So moved. >> Second. >> That's just all in favor. >> All in favor? I >> that was Karen Ken, correct? >> I'm sorry. >> Carol was the one who moved