001to get started. Welcome everybody. We'll call the role. Julie, >> sure. Cara Castton >> here. >> Ken Dawson >> here. >> Mr. Espinosa >> here. >> April Fein >> here. >> And Michael Riskey >> here. >> Thank you. 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. >> Some students. >> Y. >> All right. Well, good evening everyone. Um, as always, it is really wonderful to start a board meeting even in the middle of summer, um, with student recognitions. And so, we have a number of recognitions um, today. We wanted to wait and recognize a few students so that they could be here um, for that recognition. And then we had some recognitions
002um, for sports that came in after school was out. So, it is a perfect way to kind of kick off getting back into the school year. So, um, first up, I believe is No, it's okay. Just want to make sure. Yes. All right. Um, if I'll have Eric Lanchu come on up. He's going to be up here twice this evening. Um, but first is for your book. Um, and I'll let him talk about this recognition. >> Hi, good evening. Uh, I'm here to recognize Kate Peterson. Kate, if you want to come up and join. Kate, the last four years has been a huge asset to both our yearbook and our newspaper. I had the pleasure of teaching Kate these last couple years in uh Omega in our newspaper class. And what she brought to the
003class every day was second to none. um not only was she recognized within our school and in our community with some of the stories she wrote, but then also as you could see up here, the IHSA also uh acknowledged her great work with some of the awards that she won when she competed against other uh writers and other journalists in the state of Illinois. Um we're going to be very sad to see Kate leave because she brought so much to our program. um she has a lot of great things to look forward to and uh Kate, we want to wish you the best of luck with everything and it's going to be sad to see her go because of everything that she brought to our program. So, thank you Kate and good luck. You might
004recognize Kate. Um Kate is becoming a regular at our board meetings. She's been here a couple of times to talk about DECA and be recognized for DECA as well. So, Kate, congratulations. Um, next up we have our All State Theater students to be recognized and I would like to introduce Ariel Moses, our theater sponsor. So, Ariel, come on up. >> Uh, hi everyone. Good evening. Uh, I'm Ariel Moses, the auditorium uh, manager at North. Uh, I'd like to recognize uh, both Ruby and Tess. Ruby and Tess, you want to join me up here? Um, so, uh, as far as theater goes, uh, one of the highest recognitions you can have in the state of Illinois is being a part of the All State Theater Company. So every year at the Illinois High School Theater Festival,
005um they basically audition kids from all over the state and the auditions literally happen in the summer of the year before. Um and kids get to audition to be a part of this all-state company and they work as as one group, a cast, a crew, a pit uh to put on a production. Um so the 2025 All-State show was the prom and both Ruby and Tess were part of the scenery crew for that show. um at North uh Ruby Konopaki is um one of our uh top scenery students. Um she actively works in building sets, painting sets um and has also branched out a little bit outside of her comfort zone. Uh most recently she's a part of the ensemble and company for our varsity play which is the complete works of William Shakespeare a
006bridged. Um but uh as Ruby is wants to be um she isn't just in the company, she's also the props supervisor on the production. She's also the paint supervisor on the show. Um, and that kind of work ethic is, I think, one of the main reasons why she was selected to be a part of the All-State company. Um, she was a part of the the scenery crew. She was able to build and paint a lot of the sets for the prom and then she was also placed in charge of labeling a lot of the set pieces. So, once they transferred the show from up north down to U of I, they had to follow all of Ruby's labeling of all the set pieces and figured out where things went. Um, Ruby was a part of
007the run crew for the show. Um, and she was, I think, was instrumental in uh, both of these fine students, I should say, were instrumental in the putting on of the prom. Um, outside of theater, Ruby does have a life outside of theater, believe it or not, even though she makes it everything she does, um, she's an avid baker and despite being allergic to almost everything in a cake, she is quite good at it. So, uh, Ruby, um, we are so so proud of you and your contributions not only to DGN Theater, but to the Allstate show. The prom was Ruby's second all-state production that she's been a part of. Tesla also um is a very avid um scenic student and has basically been our master carpenter in productions at North and has moved up
008to being the assistant technical director. Tess was the assistant technical director for our musical which is all shook up and is also the assistant technical director on the complete works of William Shakespeare. um for the prom, Tess was not only um a part of the build crew and helped build the sets and help paint the sets, but Tess also did a lot of the rigging. And that show had a lot of video walls, it had a lot of flown scenery. Um and Tess worked with like a rigging professional and learned a lot about like stage rigging and was able to uh be a part of the rigging and fly crew for the show. Um both of these students are are avid theater artists. They are basically involved in every single show we do at North.
009Um we are so so incredibly proud of them. I'm privileged to be able to be their their teacher and mentor. Um, and I can't wait to see the theater that they create this year. So, thank you so much. Thank you, too. I can attest that their work is already in production. I've seen the auditorium, so we are very much looking forward to the varsity play. So, thank you guys for being here. Um, all right. Next up, we have uh Brady Shawer with baseball and we have Drew Heims here tonight. Kyle, our head coach, could not be here, but Drew is here to talk a little bit about Brady. >> All right. I have the uh pleasure of talking about Brady Shelmoser. Um it was we we've had uh the fortunate over the last few years
010we've had a lot of success at North with baseball. Uh we've had a lot of talent uh a lot of great baseball players come through. We've had draft picks come through. We have had a lot of D1 players come through. >> Um and it was a couple years ago we had a loaded team. Vick's brother was actually on that team. Uh, and we're told that there's this sophomore that we just can't keep at the sophomore level anymore. Um, he was hitting like five or 600 batting average. Um, and it did no good for him to just beat up on other sophomores. So, uh, we had to bring him up and sure enough, he came up and he was kind of the the young guy amongst, uh, some of the older guys and he fit in
011great. Um, was a great teammate. Um, fast forward to the next year, we won a sectional championship. Brady was a huge part of that, but you started to see his growth going from the younger sophomore, now he's starting to grow. We get to that sectional championship, and he he's a huge part of that. Um, coming into this season, uh, if you were to look in the conference, expectations on the outside world were not very high for us. We knew that we had great kids, we had great chemistry. Um, but the outsiders didn't really look at it that way. Um, because of Brady, uh, we had the success that we had. He we would not have been able to do the things that we did. We won 30 games this year. Uh, played for a sectional
012championship again. Um, we would not have done it w without this young man, his leadership, him as a teammate. Um, I know Kyle Brisco is the head coach, but I'm excited to be here today because, um, I had high expectations for Brady all along, all the way back to the sophomore year. Um, and I feel like a proud dad, proud coach almost, to see how far he's come. Um, it's been great. He's going to go down right now as the all-time winningest player at DGN. Um, he is one of few, uh, varsity, uh, excuse me, 100 varsity hits. I think there's 10. There might be like 10 in the history. He's going to be one of those. Um, two-time allconerence. Um, what am I missing? There's a lot. There's a lot. So, um, so I
013just want to say, uh, we, you know, we, as a coach and as a coaching staff, um, this is one of the the the young, you know, young men that you feel extremely fortunate and grateful to have in your program. So, thank you for everything. >> Thank you, dear. Congratulations, Brady. And last, but certainly not least, um I would like to once again call Eric Lanchoot up here as the head coach for our girls softball team um to honor our three students. So, come on up. So, not to repeat some of the things that Coach Heim said, but um we had a lot of success and have had a lot of success. Um you know, really since I've I've been here, this is my 14th year associated with the softball program, 12 years as the
014varsity coach. Um and we've really had some great uh players come through our our program. Um and this year was, you know, no exception. We had, as you can see, three all state players. Um, we had several allconerence members. We won this year. We won 25 games. We won conference. We won a tough conference this year. The last two years we've made it to the sectional championship. Lost both years to Merist. Um, so, you know, we've had a lot of success as a team and these girls have have experienced a lot of success, too. So, I'm going to start with our second t our second team all stator and the first one is Victoria Czech. Vic standing right next to me here. Uh Vic just finished her sophomore year and she's had two outstanding years
015as a Trojan. Um I look forward to see uh what Vic does these next couple years uh in as as a softball player. Uh I also had Vic in class which was a pleasure to have her in class because she's a very good student. Um and Vic plays some of the best shortstop you will see on a softball diamond. Uh Vic puts the bat on the ball. Vic hits for power. She can run. when you talk about five tool players, when you know for for baseball and softball, when you talk about five tool players, Vic really is a five tool player. Um I think that she has a lot to look forward to in these next couple years. Um I definitely anticipate Vic playing uh at the next level. Obviously, like I said, only being
016a sophomore, she doesn't really, you know, have to go down that road just yet. Um but it was because of Vic and her both defense and offensive abilities that led us to the team success that we had this year. So, Vic, congratulations and thank you. Uh, next I'll talk about Ashlin. Ashlin Durkin is not here. Um, you know, all of these girls just literally got back from California and Ohio and wherever they were, uh, playing. Um, so actually Ashlin is still out of state, I believe, so she's not here. But, um, you know, for those of you of you that have read anything about our softball program the last couple years, um, Ashlin has been our kind of lockdown shutdown pitcher. Um, Ashlin in the fall will be playing at Florida Atlantic University, so she's
017still playing big-time softball next year. Um, it was because of her that we again had the success that we did. Uh, Ashlin's been our number one pitcher for two or three years. Um she was always the one that wanted the ball in big games whether it was Maris or Lockport or any of these big teams that we played. Ashlin always wanted the ball. She's a competitor. Um and she was recognized as an all allconerence player uh an all area player and then obviously an all-state player and it was very welld deserved because Ashland is probably one of the best uh pitchers in the state of Illinois and obviously competing at the high division one level next year. She'll have her chance to prove herself even more. So, congrats to Ashlin. And then next we have
018Sam Lenhare. Uh Sam has been a three, she's a senior. Sam just graduated. She was a three-year varsity starter for us. Uh Sam played infield, Sam played outfield. Uh Sam really could play anywhere. Um she uh is solid in the infield, solid in the outfield, a great left-handed bat. um you know was in the middle of our lineup on a competitive team was in the middle of our lineup for three years. Uh Sam over overcame an injury and and that was you know something as a coach that I I really >> like to see the past year is how Sam um you know had this injury and really worked hard um you know physically, emotionally to get back to where she wanted to be as a competitive athlete. Um, and Sam also will be playing
019at the division one level next year. Uh, having her chance to show that she belongs there as she does. Um, and we will be sad to see Sam go because I know the program is not going to be the same without Sam in our lineup every day. And we wish both of you guys the best of luck. And thank you for being such a huge asset to our program. Thank you. >> Thank you, Eric. And thank you all for coming again tonight. I know it's the middle of your summer, but we really appreciate you being here and are just really, really excited to be able to recognize these amazing accomplishments. So, thank you all for being here tonight. Thank you. And thank you board for letting us recognize our kids. So, thanks. >> We're going
020to take a quick recess so that the board can step outside. Yes. Because it's a nice evening, even though it's steamy. And we'll go out and take some quick pictures with our students and uh the board. And then we'll return back to the board meeting. You're all welcome to stay for the whole meeting if you'd like to, but if you have other things to do on a wonderful summer evening, you can feel free to escape after after pictures. So, thank you all for being here. It's on 16. >> All right. So, we jump right back in. >> Yep. Jump right back in. Thank you. >> Okay. So, now I need a motion for the board of education to approve the minutes of the June 16, 2025 monthly business meeting and the June 16, 2025 close
021meeting. >> So moved. Second. >> Chris and I'm sorry. Thank you very much. Chris Espinosa. >> Hi. >> Michael Riskey. >> Hi. >> Ken Dawson. >> Hi. >> April Fein. >> Hi. >> And Cara Casten. >> Hi. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Okay. We have no visitors. >> No visitors. >> Well, no visitor slips. >> No visitor slips. >> Anyone wishing to address the board? >> No one wishing to address the board. >> All right. It's me. Yep. Yep. All right. Good evening, everybody. We have a few quick reports for you this evening. Uh the pro the yearly progress report, we changed our format this year because we're building around the strategic indicators. Uh we used to not have indicators, so everything was very narrativebased. So this year, you've received updates throughout the
022course of the year. uh the administrative team and I worked on uh taking each of the strategic directions and providing an overall statement for it. These can be found on our website under the about us page. There's a strategic plan tab and each of the strategic directions is listed below. Underneath there, you'll see a progress update for each of the strategic directions. And if our data also has correlating state data, we provided direct links to that information as well. So, it's kind of one-stop shopping. Our goal was for each of the indicators to give a one to two sentence overview statement with a link to the board presentation that was provided earlier in the year. so that for the rest of the year if the board or the public or anybody wants to go in
023and see how our progress was during the 2425 school year, uh these can all be found on there. So, there's one here for growth of student ownership in agency. This has been provided to the board in advance of tonight so you don't have to all read through it. Mike found one of my typos. We corrected that tonight. Um so, thank you, Mike, for close reading. >> Uh so, there's one of these for each one, equitable and supportive environment. There's one for post-secondary planning. There is one report left on that uh that uh Scott and the team will bring you in August and that will be the last report for last year. Uh we will update this tab or this uh this summary recap uh once Scott and the team uh present that to you next
024month. And then there is a final one for recruitment retention and support of high quality staff. Since the board had an opportunity to re read this all in advance, are there any questions or comments uh regarding those? All right. Thank you. If anything comes out of it or you'd like to see anything different, please just let me know. Uh we're kind of figuring this out as we go along as we enter into this new way of reporting out on the strategic plan. All right. Uh board protocols. Um we met in close session with IASA and the board uh in June or I'm sorry uh IASB and the board uh in June which is our kind of annual board workshop on working on our protocols and practices and governance uh is allowed under the open meetings
025act. uh we came together, discussed our board protocols which is a public document kind of worked through that and these and then Cara and I were tasked with a couple of side quests coming out of that meeting. So these are the recommended updates in the protocols. Uh one is around board member and superintendent communication just being really clear about how our communication rhythm and cadence is going to be with each other each board member and myself. Um there's a couple of options up there. If there's something else you would like, let me know. And I if we've all been operate, well, all of the turning members have been operating in a certain way over the years. I'd still like to just clarify like let me know how it is that you want to communicate in
026the upcoming year. We could change it at any time, right? But then we're uh just clear as to what the expectations are. Um, we do I do commonly communicate to all of you like I received a question about this and I let you know what what was asked, but I'll be more clear in the future of saying I received a question from a board member so you know that it was one of your peers that asked that question. I won't disclose which board member asked that question, but just so it's clear if the questions coming from the general public or another board member when I send those to you. And then uh finally, if a member of the community uh comes to you to talk about an issue, it's always our protocols to help direct
027them through the chain of command, but also give me a heads up uh that somebody came to you about that topic because that will help me correlate if we're hearing the same kind of issues from multiple people. Uh that might change how we respond to that or how aggressively we investigate uh that concern. and maybe not it might mod might accelerate the rate in which it moves through the chain of command. So um always direct them through as we've talked about chain of command lowest possible person in the organization most direct person directly related to that in the organization to talk to but give me a heads up that you redirected somebody that way. Um so this is written in the board protocols that was shared with you as a draft. Uh this is kind
028of the first reading of that this month. This will come back in August for adoption and approval. If you have any other suggestions, questions about that, this is Cara and I our project to work on. So feel free to reach out to the two of us. Uh if there's anything you'd like changed or modified beyond this. Cara, anything else I'm missing? >> No, you covered it. >> Questions for the two of us? All right. That'll be back next month. I'll turn this next one over to Scott. Scott, do you want the clicker or you? >> No, we just we have so we have two slides. Um you have a memo that's a lot more detailed. Um but we decided to present you with our highlights of kind of our findings and then kind of some
029recommendations for um our next review. So board policy 6.50 has us is required every three years to look at our our wellness program which really entails our nutrition and our physical education. um new this year um Isby gave some resources um one of them that we chose to use is a questionnaire. So we kind of went through that um to answer some of those questions and then kind of formulate our our um report for you. Um obviously some of the highlights I mean I think you're well aware that you know Chartwells has done an excellent job for us um moving away from the you know school lunch program and providing our students with uh nutritional meals and and different opportunities that they offer our students um and our programming and our physical education and um
030health and drivers ed department is outstanding and um you know always rises to the challenge to provide a a good wellness program for our students. So um so that's kind of some of the highlights we have from it. Um like I said we used the questionnaire that went through extensive questions. One of them the reason why we did highlight um some of the data that you saw in the larger report but we do have a little bit here um talking about PE exemptions and low income. They did ask a lot of questions around that. Um and uh you know one of the if for the next slide Hank that we talk about our future focus which is hard to like think like three years out but we are in three years we will um bring
031together a larger team um to look at our wellness program um so that'll give a little bit more voices and we're going to start a little earlier. Um the guide from ISBY was really helpful um to use which kind of gave us the thought of let's use that earlier. Um and then obviously looking at data trends is always important just like our indicator and measures that Hank was Hank was speaking about. Um just looking at the data and just looking at that exemption rate and our low income and you know um how they're uh being serviced and supported in the school. So um so that's part of the review for the school wellness. Um I don't know if there's any questions on on it for me. So we'll talk about it in three years. It's
032a good job. >> All right. Uh, end of year financial report. I'll turn this one over to Jere. >> Okay. Good evening. >> All right. Tonight we'll just take a look at some of the highlights that we've summarized for the year-end report for last fiscal year 2425. We'll start off looking at the revenues. Um overall on the revenues as you can see we were slightly over what we had projected at 101%. Um we received some uh additional information last year before the budget relative to the replacement taxes. So we made an adjustment. Um otherwise we probably would have come in under budget um because we we had projected a higher amount there. But with the last minute information, we did make that adjustment. Um, as typical in in most years, we we receive 100% of
033our property taxes that we expect. Um, as I noted with replacement taxes, we received close to what we budgeted. However, it was $700,000 less than it was the previous year. So, it was a pretty big cut. Um, our interest earnings is really what saved us there. We came in about $650,000 more than what we had projected. Our local revenues, which is food service and just other general local revenues, which can be athletic admissions, play admissions, uh general fees for students. And that that came came in just slightly over budget. And then with both our state and federal aid, it both ex slightly exceeded our expectations uh for the year. Any questions on our revenues for last year? >> Why do you think the interest came in so high? >> Well, we projected lower. We went
034very conservative. We met with PMA who we used for investments and at the time of the budget, you know, we hadn't had the election. There was a lot unknown. So, we just had a conservative figure in there for interest. >> Okay. And here's a a summary of our expenditures for the year. As you can see, we came in really just right at budget at 99%. What that means really is that we were able to contain our cost overall in our operating funds throughout the year. Um salaries and benefits are the largest expense there and uh we held those tight to what we had expected at the beginning of the year. Our purchase services came in just slightly under um budget and and that's related to our transportation services which came in about a million dollars
035less than what we had projected. We um as we'd mentioned earlier uh in other meetings, we uh changed our provider to first student for some of our special transportation needs and doing so we were able to save about a million dollars. Um as as far as supplies, we're you know right on target. Capital projects came in just slightly under uh what we had expected. However, our tuition uh for special education, especially outplacement, it came in over budget. We had uh a few more students outplaced more than what we had anticipated for the year. Any questions on the expenditures? >> Coming in at 99% is awesome. >> Yeah, that takes the team. >> Yeah, the team really did a fantastic job in that regard. That is fantastic. >> Well, the key difference here when we were
036sitting here a year ago, if you remember, we were talking $600,000 in the red 500 right around when the CPPRT cut came in, right? >> And uh Jury and the team got to work, especially on transportation, a couple other areas like copy, paper, electricity, those kinds of things. But you can see that that work was real and it's real impact. Um, >> and instead of uh I won't do the spoiler, but we didn't end up in the red like we thought we were going to. >> I'll turn that over to Jere to spike the push. >> Right. So, this provides the summary of how we ended the year. Um, and last year when we put the budget together, we had projected um our total operating fund ending balance would be right around $7 million. As
037you can see, it's right around $9 million. So, we are our our overall financial position is stronger than what we had expected last year at this time. And for those who are new on the board, you'll see the line working cash and you'll see there's a transfer of $5 million out there. That was planned. So, we borrowed $5 million for the athletic, the fields, and the scoreboards. uh in field houses and such. So that was that was expected. So overall um we we are in in a stronger position than we were well than we thought we were a year ago which helps us for the next year to start off the next year. >> Yeah. I I appreciate I couldn't contain myself looking at these slides but um Um uh no, I appreciate uh all
038the work that goes because I know the wealth of detail that's behind this and everything. So um and I'm kind of jealous that you get to do that. Uh but um but even the one >> Yeah. Not even not even uh looking at the transfer. I mean just to impress what how great a position we're in just um revenues and Cara's going to check the math. I'm sure when I say that, you know, $2 and half million dollars greater than expenditure. So um I mean that's uh we're we're lucky to be in the community that we are, right? Um, and uh I appreciate being the the stewards that we are of their dollars. So, I appreciate all your your efforts and uh it's uh it's good to see. >> Yeah. >> All right. Job well
039done team. >> And now the next year. >> Okay. So, we'll take a a a quick summary view of of the tenative budget that we put together that um I believe we started in March. Is that right, Tammy? I think we started working on it in March. Um so, we'll start with the revenues and some of the highlights here. Our property taxes, as you can see, they're going up just slightly over 4%. that's just reflecting the local growth and you know inflationary increases. Um our replacement taxes unfortunately we've received word from the state that they are we expect those uh taxes to also decrease again this year. Um our interest income well we're not going with a conservative number. We're going with more of a realistic what we think is a realistic figure this year.
040um based upon the favorable interest rates that we have. As far as local revenues, which is the food service and the other local revenues, um we're showing the 25% looks high, but it's it's all relative to the amount of of money that we have there. So, we just are expecting this area to have some uh areas of growth. And then as far as state and federal aid, you'll see a decrease in both of those areas. That's based upon the information that we have right now. >> Questions on revenues? >> Questions? Yeah, >> Dre, this uh reflects us getting our full expected less than last year funding, but full expected funding regardless of what we heard in the grant funding. >> Correct. >> Previously, >> that includes all federal aid that we currently have. It's just
041at a lower level. >> Correct. So, what you you've heard of in the news of different funds being held back and then being released, this reflects all of those funds being released to us, but anticipating at a lower amount than what they were last year. So, I just know that's an item that's been in the news and I just want to be clear, we're budgeting as if all of the money allocated by Congress will be released and sent to us at some point over the course of this fiscal year. And on the state aid line, it's it looks better than what really it is because our categorical payments, we expect those to be decreased by a significant amount. However, Travis has secured state funding. Uh >> thank you, Travis. >> Right. Uh in the amount
042of 300,000. So, so it, you know, that just helped offset the amount that we were, we expect to have a a decre. >> Andrew, for those new to the board, the categorical funds cover. >> Yes. Uh, that's transportation and special education. >> Thank you. >> What is other local revenues? >> Uh, it's it's a it's a a long list of things. It's just everything local. So, other than property taxes. So, it's going to be athletic admissions, play admissions, uh, athletic fees, e- rate, um, donations, it it's a long list, general fees, just like registration fees. All right, any other questions on revenues? All right, let's move over to expenditures. All right. On the expenditures, as you can see, as a combined total, we're kind of anticipating a little over a 6% increase in our expenditures.
043Um, one of two of the drivers are the the salaries and the benefits. That's our largest expense there. Um, our salaries are basically tied to the collective bargaining agreements. Um and then our benefits, we're just seeing an increase like everyone on health insurance costs on purchase services. The drivers of increasing that line item are um the transportation and then our commercial insurance policies. We saw a pretty large increase in our commercial insurance policies this year. Uh for supplies, it's that that's basically uh tied to technology purchases and software. Uh that's a big chunk of what our uh expenses are in that line item. Otherwise, it's just the standard classroom supplies and some basic operating supplies. Capital projects, that's just all tied to whatever we have planned for the year. Um that's just putting if you
044want to maybe talk about the various projects that we have going on this summer. >> Yeah. So we in the earlier in the spring we talked about all of the the different capital projects that we have going on. So that comes down to some of our if you remember we worked on our fund 90 so that we could do our our lighting and all of that uh for our LED replacements uh for our um field houses and then the pool at North. took care of our paver work um over at North all of our paving work. I don't know if you've driven by South, but all of that is that is done. Some and then some other classroom renovation things um updates. So, those are the the majority of those of those funds and and
045what we're um looking at expanding. Um, we also have some uh LED for our our stadium lighting that we're looking at using and that's part of that offset is that $300,000 that we were able to get from the the state as well. So, we do have um also fieldhouse flooring. So, we have that uh part of that cost is associated in this fiscal year um with the remaining part of that to come in in the next fiscal year. So, not even what we're talking about now, but the next one. So yes, we are we're looking out ahead and trying to secure um some things uh financially being um savvy I will say and also trying to to look ahead and and project but it's really hard with changing costs you know when you when you
046look out further than this this upcoming year. Okay. And then the last item is our tuition, which is tuition for our students who are outplaced in other school facilities along with our students who attend TCD. Um we it's basically flat here. Um and um that's really because we've had a decrease in the number of students who are going to be attending TCD this next school year. And so that little bit of savings is helping offset the special education increases. >> And that isn't us choosing to send less kids to TCD. It's just them self- selecting uh their their path here with us. >> Any questions on the expenditures? >> Can I just ask so we you talked about um on the revenue side, you know, the federal funding, the state funding. So we've sort of
047talked about that. I guess you know just thinking about the sort of federal picture like tariffs things like that or anything else reflected here in some of the stuff happening at the federal level like purchase services or supplies are we seeing any increases yet or predict that or this is more just based on looking back at >> Phil's not here. So Phil and his team, so the tech team went ahead and ordered Chromebooks back >> okay before February. >> Okay. Early >> again when we're talking about financially savvy. That's >> nice. >> So we were not hit with anything there. And otherwise it's just pretty much standard. >> Yeah. >> Supplies. Yeah. That was a good question. >> And his team already has everything I think for the firewall. Yes. >> Yeah, that's right. So,
048that was the other big purchase for technology. >> Agreed. >> Yeah. >> All right. Any other expenditure questions? >> Uh reflected in the uh capital projects includes the the grant that we got from uh for the um >> at work. >> Yes. Okay. Yeah. The uh the EV um infrastructure >> infrastructure. Okay. the EV infrastructure, then the the LED replacement for our stadiums got >> are in there. What's not in there is the the additional the other grant of $500,000 for our solar which will be here and at T99. We're waiting to see um until we get more official word uh from that because we don't have any local funds that we have to go towards those projects. Um, but I will tell you that's something that we're talking about with timing because there is
049some there are some changes in lines of uh when we want to make sure and have that ready and planned by. Uh, so we'll be having internal conversations and we'll give you updates on on what that looks like. >> Right. And the electric cars were part of that for the driver's ed program. >> That's part of the capital. Okay. >> Funding for that. So >> awesome. >> Yeah. Yeah, that's why you saw that increase in revenues and then it comes right back out here, >> right? Yeah. Sorry. In and out type of a thing, but >> better than just out. >> Yeah. >> Better in than out. Just >> Yeah. >> All right. >> So then this is our snapshot that shows our beginning balances for our operating funds, which we just looked at at
050the year- end report. Um, and then our total revenues versus expenditures. You'll see they're pretty pretty much closely aligned there. Uh the one item I forgot to mention here is um because it's not listed on the expenditure page, but it is there's a transfer that we make out of our educational fund every year for our operating leases and those leases are uh for technology equipment. So, it's the Chromebooks and then the various print devices in the buildings. There's just a a rotating cycle of replacing the print devices in the buildings and we just pay for those with um a lease agreement we have with Windrust. Um so as you can see then we're anticipating ending next year going down slightly from 9 million down to 7.8 million. This was this is a plan decrease for
051the year and then starting next year we expect it to either be the same or go up. Our plan is hopefully to to increase the fund balance but then by year two the next following year out then it definitely will we'll be replenishing fund balance based upon our collective bargaining agreement with the teachers. we know what those expected expenditures will be in a couple of years. And so that was just part of the plan. for our new board members that weren't here when we ratified that contract. Uh part of the planning you I think you were all present at the board meeting where we ratified it, but part of uh the planning in that contract was the board is paying more upfront to recognize a larger savings down the road as we have more and
052more retirees in the in the pipeline. So we knew that we would be in a deficit spend for teacher salaries in this first year, but then we are either neutral or favorable for the remaining four years of the teachers contract. So um the great work that Dur and the team did last year have actually made it so that this year we can absorb that hit and we're still in a better position than we expected to be at this point. uh a year ago. So, uh it's good good work all around. This is kind of an an intentional spend out of our savings so that we can build that up in the remaining four years of the teachers contract. So, uh I know it always looks bad to see a red number in a year, but
053it's a it's a planned red number, right? Um and the work was done to prepare for it in advance by the team over the course of this last year. Um, so, uh, what else, Jeremy? >> Well, that's I think that's it. >> Tonight, the board votes to put it on display and to have a public hearing in August. >> September >> or in September, too. Uh, not August, in September. Uh, between now and then, as we learn more about the financial picture, especially state funding and those different things, as you saw last year, these numbers could adjust. Unfortunately, the state's budget cycle doesn't always match up with ours. Um, so, uh, these numbers will likely adjust and shift over the next 6 to 8 weeks in advance of approving the the final budget, but this
054is the tenative one on display at this point. >> How' I do, Jury? I miss anything? >> All right. Any other questions on it? >> No. Thanks for all the the great work on this. I just want to say too that we're so grateful. This is a great example of how hard the administration works to be cost-effective and efficient how we run things always, but we see in years like this and going into this next school year how important that is. So, you know, you're great state funding other things. So, we're in a really great position despite articles every single day about the Department of Education and state funding and federal funding. like we're in a really good So, thank you because it's we know it's a lot of work and you've doing it every
055year consistently and we're very grateful to be in this position. >> Yeah, thank you both and and Tammy in the back there too. >> Yeah, I think compared to where we were last year at this time, um we were a little uneasy about what it looked like in the future, but I really appreciate everything you guys have done to get us back on track and I think set an example for um years to come. and I think other districts as well. So, thank you. >> All right, I'm going to turn the next one over to Travis. >> So, this is a a great segue into this next because we're talking about future planning and this impacts our our finances, right? So, um I want to invite Seth Crackle up from Nania. He's going to present
056uh in a couple slides and and give you kind of what the market is with um our energy. Um, but as as we move forward, um, I I will say that we have done a really good job as a district to try to reduce our costs when it comes to our energy, not just our our rates, but also our consumption, and we're continuing to do that. Um, one of the biggest challenges, um, with our current infrastructure, um, is not so much on our rate side, which we're going to, it's really important, but also on like the the supply side, what we're being charged related to that. So, that's why the solar projects are are really an important component and us just looking at bringing down our energy consumption. Right. So, just briefly looking at our
057LED um for our our stadium lighting, uh one district saved 68% on what they spent on their electricity with their lighting by making that change. I'm not promising a 68% savings, but that that's something that's out there, right? So, we're we're continuing to look for ways uh that are along those lines, but we've been working with uh Nania for since 2009. uh they help us in securing uh rates that we can budget for. Right? So that is a really important part. There are still other variables that we can't control in the energy market um that affect us, but they help and and if we have questions, they've been great advisors um and helping us uh through that process. Um our current contracts both for our natural gas and our electricity expire this coming June. So,
058um, again, we're not we're not talking about tomorrow, but we are looking forward to that because it's important that, um, and what you'll hear is the market changes pretty quickly and we want to be able to, uh, jump at when a when the prime opportunity presents itself, uh, that we can do that. So, that's why we're we're bringing this to you now. Um, so, and we're really working to mitigate the the rising increase in in costs that are associated with with both of these. So, I will let uh I'll turn this over to Seth. He can introduce himself and he's gonna go through a couple of the uh updates and reviews. >> Yeah. Thank you, Travis. Can you guys hear me? Okay. >> Uh well, so like you said, I'm really here to go over
059where you guys are at currently for both electricity and natural gas. Uh go over what the market has been doing. Uh and then, you know, talk about we'll show you some rate options, where the renewal rate options are right now for the future. Uh and some of our recommendations. Uh if you guys have any questions, do do not wait. Just jump in. You're not interrupting at all. Uh but I am going to do my best. You guys have a a long agenda tonight, so I'm going to do my best to to be as as as quick and as brief as possible. So we will start with um electricity first. You know, it is the the bigger expense for the uh for the district. Um so just kind of quick kind of taking stock housekeeping here.
060Your current rate is 5.7 cents uh kilowatt hour for uh it goes by several different names, but essentially it's a fixed all-in rate. It means that you have locked or fixed all of the components that you can for electricity supply. Um your current supplier is BP. Um you know, the same as the as the oil company, you know, the gas stations. I'm sure you recognize it. Uh and like Travis said, you know, that that agreement is good or your current rate is good through um next June. Uh you know, you guys use just shy of 12 million kilowatt hours a year. Um and then that that dollar figure you see on the the right hand side, you know, that is just for that supply component, right? That's that 5.7 cents times your almost 12 million
061kilowatt hours. It does not include, you know, the KMED charges, taxes, fees, that sort of thing. there's nothing you can do unfortunately to fix or lock uh those costs. So go ahead. Uh so in terms of what's been going on in the market, that blue vertical line shows approximately where you guys locked in last time. Um and and now keep in mind this uh graph is just showing what's known as the energy component. You know the cost of the you know producing the electricity itself. Uh so once again a fair amount of volatility. you know, rates kind of went up after you guys locked and they've, you know, bounced around uh um since then and they're actually currently for that energy component right around the same um uh same level as where you guys locked
062last time. However, uh you know, kind of a little bit of foreshadowing here, you know, uh one of the other components of electricity supply, um that's called capacity. You can really think of it as a as like a grid reliability cost. you know, this is what's helping reserve that excess capacity for the times that are anticipated to be the highest usage that usually coincide with, you know, extreme weather events, you know, the hottest and coldest times of the year. Um, the cost for that component uh just went up starting, you know, last month, June 1st, 2025, it went up, you know, almost 10x what it had been the last several years. You know, it went from a fraction of a cent to uh well over 2 cents per kilowatt hour. Uh and so that's the
063perfect segue into into this slide. Uh and to boil it down like what is really going on with capacity? It's it's essentially, you know, think back to Econ 101. It's a supply demand problem. This is not unique to us in Illinois or even in KMED in Illinois. This is nationwide. you know, our uh our our growth and demand for electricity and our projected future use of electricity is going up way faster than you know, we're adding new generation to to meet those those new future higher demands for electricity. Uh and largely this is due to the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and the data centers that that power that AI. Um so in terms of this graph you know this is showing this isn't really your rate right but this is showing the commed rate
064to compare so essentially the commed supply rate and and you can see that huge spike you know when that number got added in to their supply rate um the difference from essentially May to June. Uh you can go on to the next slide at this point. All right so that gets us to renewal rates um and you can kind yeah you can see it here. So you once again we're just over, you know, 5.7 cents per kilowatt hour. And the I'm going to show you actually two sets of um renewal rates here tonight. And I'll get into the why in a second. Um but first I wanted you to see the applesto apples comparison. You know, this is a this is the exact same product that you guys have right now where you know it
065just says fixed there in that product type column. That means every component um of electricity is fixed. So, I mean, this is roughly three cents uh higher than where you guys locked a few years ago. The lion share of that is due to that increase in capacity cost. Um, you know, I mean, it's almost a 40% 35 to 40% increase over where you guys lack locked last time, excuse me. Uh, once again, just mostly due to that huge increase in capacity. So if you want to go to the next slide, uh this is actually what we're recommending u for the the future for your next electricity agreement. Uh and this is really what a lot of other districts in KMED are doing, you know, that have had fully fixed rates in the past. A a
066lot of them, most of them are electing to um switch to what's known as passing through capacity and transmission. Uh so everything but that. So the energy um the ancillaries the losses uh those are all still totally and completely fixed. Um but the reason that we're recommending so you still have to pay that capacity component. I should say that as well right it's not included in that rate. That's why these look significantly lower. Uh but when you pass it through all you do then is pay on every you know every month on the invoice you pay that you know true market rate with no premium no markup put on this on there by the supplier. Um, and the reason that we're recommending switching to this is because that huge increase that we just experienced in
067terms of capacity, it it kind of changed the game a little bit in terms of how suppliers are treating um a fully fixed rate. So, in the past, there would be minor, you know, increases or decreases in a component like capacity, and if you had a fully fixed rate, you still just paid that fully fixed rate. Uh however, they've always had language in there that um you know, covered them in the case of something like this happening. And so this, you know, everybody's been kind of anticipating. We weren't sure when it was going to happen in terms of increase inc increase in capacity. Um and so the suppliers were generally claiming like a change in law. Um they were, you know, referring back to their contracts to say that, you know, we didn't know about
068this cost at the time you locked in. If you locked in for, you know, a three-year agreement, they only knew about it for maybe two years. they didn't know about it for the last year. And so they are reserving the right to, you know, pass through that additional cost on on top of what you know you locked to where that that new um capacity component came in at. And um you know due to that really in our opinion it just doesn't really make sense to continue to pay that premium to lock it if it isn't going to be a 100% true lock. um as well. In addition to that, it actually gives you a little bit more flexibility to kind of change your usage behavior like Travis is talking about and then actually get an
069added benefit of you know when you're using less in terms of um you know your your your usage whatever that might be you know you're then going to pay a lower capacity cost for that. So that's really the um the thought process behind switching from a fully fixed rate to passing through u capacity and transmission. So that takes us to natural gas. Uh your current rates just a little over 50 cents a uh much like you know I was saying everything was fixed for the electricity. It's uh it's very similar here for the natural gas. So, you have what's known as a 100% swing uh which protects you against any, you know, big variations in weather. You know, if you're if it's a really really cold uh January like we had this past year, you
070know, it protects you from using more than your historical usage profile and you still just pay um you know, that that exact fixed rate. Uh so, current supplier is Constellation expires right around the same time next year in 26. Um, you know, and once again, that just shy of $200,000 for your uh 394,000 therms is uh does not include the Nyore charges taxes fees. Uh, in terms of the market here, it's been a lot less volatile than the electricity side. Uh, I mean, we saw things um, you know, go up earlier this year and, uh, thankfully they've come back down. I mean, it doesn't totally show here because, you know, this chart's from earlier in the month, but um you know, we're right now renewal rates for this winter actually back down as low as
071they have been since the end of last year. So, you know, I consider that to be a really good thing. Uh in terms of what's going to happen in the future, you know, hard to say. uh you know it does look like we're trying to increase our exports of liqufied natural gas but there's also currently a lot of incentives to uh produce more as well. So uh I think that takes us to rates. Um so this is a slightly different equation. Uh I consider this good news. I mean I know we're still almost a year out but uh there's you know currently there's renewal rates for natural gas you know exact same product that you guys have right now that are are just below uh where you guys are currently locked. So this is kind
072of one of those rare situations where you you know you you can uh lock it in and you know pay no more into the future as far as you guys are are comfortable um you know locking that term and I think this is our last slide. Yeah. All right. Perfect. Didn't talk forever. >> Uh do you guys have anything I can help to to clear up or any questions you guys have for me? >> So more of maybe a question for you. So the bigger expense is the electricity versus the natural gas for the district. Could you just maybe just explain just generally like do we have as much flexibility on both sides of >> changing behavior and things like that? Like just a little bit on where those you know energy needs are drawn
073from primarily. >> Yeah. So there's several there's several things that we do with our behaviors. One is obviously with when we're trying to reduce our consumption, right? With with improving our efficiency. Um, we we also are active in a couple different things. So, we're part of a a load reduction program. Um, so we actually get notifications. Um, and if during a certain time we can use less uh energy during that time, we'll get additional money back. Also known as demand response. >> Demand response. And I should say, I was trying to be as brief as possible, but the the payments that you guys get for participating in demand response are directly correlated with the cost of capacity. So with the cost of capacity going way up, that means the the payments that you could potentially
074receive for participating demand response, they went up just the same. So, >> so and the other thing that that piggybacks off of that, we get uh again with our adviserss, we get email notifications like this week. They they give, hey, if they were going to pull because our capacity is based off of basically they they look and say, when is when is it likely that you're going to kind of have your highest capacity and and then they pull they pull from that. So we we actually during those times that we get hey this might be a time when they're they're looking at that more heavily we actually try to reduce our consumption during that time as well. So we are active during um normal operating hours to reduce some of those but not affect our
075our education that's going on. So it's a fine line and a and a balance that we do there. Um, but we also last time that we met with uh with Becky with Nania, we talked about what are some of the what are some of the things that we can do for like our startup of our systems, our closed down of our systems, right? So, we're constantly looking at um how we're operating our current systems. >> I do all right on that. >> You did great. >> Yeah, I didn't feel need to jump in at all. >> And yeah, I'm not Becky. So, my esteemed colleague, I'm I'm here in her absence this evening. >> Um, the last agreement, was it a three-year one? The one that's expiring right now that's going to expire in June
076of 26. Is that okay? Okay. Is that kind of looking at the numbers that kind of seems to be like the sweet spot? Like, is that where, like you said, other districts are going to uh this uh the the paying the capacity, the pass through with the capacity. is uh are a lot of them doing three-year contracts or what's the general uh >> I would say most are doing two or three. >> Two or three. Okay. >> Um yeah. Uh >> I mean it depends, right? That's not everybody, but I would say in terms of most what other most other districts are doing is more like a two or three year agreement. Uh where that sweet spot is at kind of changes like all the time and with the market. Um >> yeah, I mean
077unfortunately answering question didn't totally ask, but it looks like the cost for electricity is just going to keep going up. Um so you know maybe maybe maybe not so much for natural gas. Maybe we can that that will provide a little bit of relief over the next couple years to kind of balance against what looks to be an everinccreasing uh electricity rate. >> You mentioned the AI kind of generation piece part of the spike. I mean is the kind of increase in extreme weather events like this incredibly hot summer. Is that a big factor as well or is it really more? >> Uh I mean it it is and the unpredictability of it especially um but yeah I mean uh as if we talk about just heat right I mean as um we have more
078of those like that heat dome that was over us in June which was you know kind of unprecedented in the past uh you know so you know the entire middle of the country was using way more electricity than than they usually do in June. >> Uh and that certainly presents you know some problems. Um, I mean we were fine through that thankfully. You know, I think the operators at the grid did a really great job of managing uh and I you know there was there were we didn't actually most people didn't get called on demand response then but it was it was looking like it was going to be really close. >> Um so I mean I'd say yes. It's fair to say that uh more extreme weather events certainly drive price volatility when it
079comes to energy in general. So it it makes it harder to predict into the future too, you know, just exactly what's going to happen. And really, that's one of the biggest benefits of of being able to lock in your rate and budget for it is that if you do have one of those extreme events, that usually just temporarily shoots prices really, really, really high. And so when you're locked in ahead of time, you're also protected from that. So kind of what we're what we're looking at as we move forward, those those rates are no longer like what was on there, right? They change daily. I I don't know if it's more frequently than daily. >> Oh, no. Yeah. I mean, so uh energy, both electricity and natural gas traded on the futures market, much like
080a stock, uh but it's traded a month at a time. And um I should have mentioned this before, maybe I didn't. We talked a lot about capacity. So, the most recent capacity auction for the next capacity year, that's um June 26 to May 27. We just got the results of that um mid last week, actually after the rates that came in that are in the board packet right now. And uh fortunately, it went up again. Uh so, not the 10x almost increase that we saw before, but it, you know, it did go up another 22%. you know, it went from $270 a megawatt day to like $328 or something like that. So, >> um, yes, things are constantly changing. Uh, and and especially on the electricity side, it looks like that volatility is going to
081remain. From my from my previous experience of of entering in these types of agreements, a lot of times between the time that we get the quote and the time that the board meeting happens, it they've changed, right? And so, it's it's really hard to to lock those in. So, what we're doing is we're we're seeking at this next board meeting kind of that pre-approval uh for us to look at the futures, work with uh NIA and figure out what is what's the best uh timing for that and be able to pull the trigger so we can lock that in. Um and then we would obviously bring the board and say, "Hey, here's here's where we're at. Here's what we did." Um it does look like it's a shorter duration for that agreement around that 2
082to three, but that could change um as as we look at it. So that's why the ask would be for up to 48 months that we would be able to have that flexibility to be able to do that but doing it in in a way that we are trying again to mitigate those extra costs as as much as we can. So that's really the ask as a result of that that we would come back next month uh to the board and ask for that. Any additional questions that you guys have >> is sorry up to 48 months would be four years. >> Yes. Okay. Even though it's typically two to three. Okay. >> Yep. >> And they could be different for the for the uh energy and natural gas, right? So it doesn't they're they're
083with different entities. So >> duration of the contracts could be different. >> Yeah. You guys did the same last time, I believe, but you could you could split them up. I mean, certainly some districts do that as a way to kind of hedge their bets a little bit. You know, you go long with one and short with the other. Um it there's a lot of different schools of thought and >> yeah it's playing whatever fits what you're doing you know the best >> for sure >> awesome thank you guys >> thank you >> all right uh e-learning plan uh Jeff's going to take this one right well uh we are up for renew for our e-learning plan which uh of course is the you know the learning plan that's used for what formerly and popularly
084were known as snow days. Um as you can see up here the summary of our plan and uh we also like we're at that fiveyear period. So I think Scott had a three-year renewal. This is our five-year renewal for this plan here. So these odd numbers always work out. Um but again summary of our plan up there students are checking synchronously. We're moving forward right now the same plan we had last year. Um, so there's no real changes. Obviously, that's this is just the requirement, rinse and repeat. Um, we are required to have a a public hearing because of the e-learning uh laws and rules around that. So that'll be at the next board meeting. Um, a couple of the other required pieces associated with that as well are uh notification to the public about
085the hearing. So that's going to be in the daily herald for up to 10 days. So that'll start by August 8th. and then as well as notification also 10 days prior to the board meeting for our staff and for our um families as well. So that's going to be in a forthcoming email from uh Hank uh also by August 8th. So we have everything in line for that. Once uh that comes with the hearing and if you approve the the uh plan then we submit our paperwork to the ROE and ISBY and uh we're good for another five years then. So any questions? Yeah, pretty straightforward. >> It's Yeah, it's the same plan we've been using and uh actually we've had a couple of e-learning days over the last few years and I have heard
086no concerns from uh families regarding it. Um so seems to be working. We made a couple of tweaks this year and those were wellreceived and they're reflected. >> You have like two or three a year. Is that how many we >> No, it maybe one. Uh it's rare that we get >> really >> it's usually one or two. Uh I think the most that we've had maybe three in the last a year with three >> had a bunch of those ice the when we had the three years ago I think. Yeah. Cold and icy. >> We had a year year or two we had none too. >> Yeah. Right. >> It was the polar vortex year which was seemed like every Monday the polar vortex came through. >> So all right this one will be
087back uh next month. Next month. All right. Freedom of Information requests. We receive them, we fill them, we list them on our website. You can find them there. Consent agenda. >> Okay. So, 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? Okay. Seeing none, um asking for a motion for the board of education to approve the consent agenda as presented, which includes A personnel report, appointment certified, contract adjustment certified, appointment classified, B personnel report, resignation certified, resignation classified, C. Personnel report, termination classified, D. June financial pages, E. Review of closed session minutes and verbatim recordings. F commercial insurance policies. G acceptance of donation Chicago Bears football club and H acceptance of donation DGM Booster Club. >>
088So the action item is call time for a motion. Oh sorry. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Chris. So moved. >> Mike second. >> Thank you. >> Chris Espinosa. >> I. >> Michael Riskey. >> I. >> And Dawson. Hi, >> April Fein. >> Hi. >> And Cara Castton. >> Hi. Thank you. >> Thank you for those donations from both Chicago Bears and the Boosters Club. >> Okay. Next action item is a motion for the board of education to accept the tenative budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year and establish 6:30 p.m. September 22nd, 2025 for the public hearing to be held at the administrative center 6301 AB, Downer's Grove, Illinois. >> So moved. Second. >> Thank you, Chris. Thank you. Michael Riskey >> I. >> Chris Espinosa. >> I. >> April Fan. I >>
089Ken Dawson. >> Hi, >> Cara Castton. I thank you very much. >> Have no slips. >> No visitors, but no slips. >> No, no visitors requesting to speak. I didn't clarify that. Thank you. >> What? >> Okay. So, next up are updates on our respective committees. So, I have a lend update. Um, Lend uh sent a very uh very informative update. um to members on the status of releasing federal funding for education. Um the total amount of federal funds for Illinois fiscal year 2026 totals 240 million. Um just want to point out Governor Prrisker is one of the 16 governors urging for release of the funds. Um as Hank mentioned, 20% were recently released TBD um if and when the remaining funds are released, but we're hopeful. um the impact on Illinois um with these
090federal funds, academic support, student well-being, equity focused programs, and staffing stability. Um additionally, they talk about how as we've seen in the news, the DOE has been downsized. Um and this does put more burden on schools to monitor equity, civil rights, and IDA, which is the special education funding. um as we've already talked about some of the tariffs on tech um and goods purchased by schools. Um but we've obviously done a great job of advanced ordering to head that off. Um the update from lend also included the um 370 million state budget that was approved for fiscal year 2026, but may some of that may be called in to cover any federal um funds that don't come in. So again, just to reiterate, federal funding, very small portion, 4% of the D99's budget, right? So,
091and as we've talked about tonight already, we're always looking for ways to operate more efficiently and effectively so that we can manage these flexible funds that we can't always count on. Um, and we have our next our actually first full lend meeting of the year is September 19th. So, that was really the big summer update. Was there anything else here? >> Uh Gan and I attended uh because I co- I chair the mandates committee. We met actually here today with the committee to talk about legislative priorities for the upcoming year. I had a really good meeting. Um, a reminder that like our our big bill that was sponsored by our own representative Tara Costa Howard uh here uh that went all the way through and became a major priority for Governor Pritsker this year and
092has been a major priority for this district and this board for a very long time uh you know started uh here last year right in that meeting. So um it's been >> dual credit dual credit. Oh sorry dual credit yeah that dual credit bill. So um that I heard today is being referred to as the Hank bill. So getting getting credit for that. So uh but it it was a good team effort by all of the uh education advocates across the state. Uh led by lend of course. Um so uh we're really active here in DuPage at trying to make things better for our kids at the state level. Uh like I said, really productive meeting today and we'll see when we have that first meeting in September what uh is determined to be their
093kind of legislative agenda for the upcoming year. >> Great. >> Chris, do you want to update us on SASID? Uh we haven't had a meeting since May 28th, but we've got one next Wednesday um when they present the budget for a public hearing and then we'll approve the budget um pending no major complaints and um it should have been available to all the board members, but if you need a copy of it, I can send it over. Um so I'll have more at the next meeting. >> Okay, great. Um April or District um 99 Education Foundation. Yeah, we had uh we've had one very brief meeting this summer. Um a lot of folks on summer holiday. Um but uh kind of exciting because the new year, the new school year is when a lot of
094the requests for grants come in from teachers. Um and it's also when we're going to start ramping up fundraising. Um I didn't realize this, but the majority of the money that the um education foundation collects is in the during registration. So during student registration when parents log on they they're doing it online and they're saying okay I'm signing up my kid for school this year and also yes I would like to make a donation. Um the interface the web interface is kind of clunky so we're working on updating that making it a little bit more u user friendly and um so that's a big push for the fall. Um the other thing that we talked about is our angel funds are becoming slightly depleted. Um, so we kind of brainstormed and we're going to actually
095start a fundraising committee to try to work on that. So hopefully we'll have some kind of bigger fundraising events this year. So more to come on that. >> Great. Thanks. >> Ken, do you have an ISB update? >> Uh, as as you guys know, we have the annual conference in November. So believe we're all signed up, ready to go on that. That will be very exciting. There's also in September on a Saturday a one-day event for new school board members and it's going to be from 9 to 3 at Hotel Aista in Neapville. So that would be a fantastic opportunity for you and >> already signed up. >> Oh, fantastic. And our other new board members and uh that's about it. >> All right. Just a room. >> Reminder, our next meeting is August 18th,
096um 6:30 p.m. at the administrative center, service center here. >> It's also the first day of school. >> Oh, the first day of school. >> So, we should have our students here to tell you how the first day. >> Yeah. >> So, I need a motion to adjourn the meeting. >> So, moved. >> Second. >> Let's move and second. Thank you. All in favor? I say >> all right newbie will say we're journed. >> Okay, we're ajourned. Well done. >> Great job, Carol.