001e e e yes yes I am all right at 6:30 um Julie would you call the role please car Caston and here Mr Espinosa here charell Fuller here Jenny hagstrom here Terry pavich here Don Runner here and ran Hashim here thank you all right having the quum let's stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right um before we start tonight's meeting I wanted to address um you know some recent events uh good evening um before we begin our meeting tonight I'd like to address something that has impacted our community this morning we learned that a dgs teacher was arrested and detained by law enforcement the teacher was arraigned
002this morning and charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse and assault of a current dgs student the teacher who was also a coach was immediately placed on a administrative leave and is no longer permitted on school grounds in coordination with local law enforcement we have communicated this terrible news to our entire Community we appreciate the close partnership with Downers Grove chief of police Mike Dev the Downers Grove Police Department the village of Downers Grove the DuPage County Children's Advocacy Center and Bob Berlin the DuPage County State's Attorney's office we continue full cooperation with law enforcement as this is an H ongoing investigation we are heartbroken for the victim and also for the hundreds of students staff and family who trusted this teacher and feel betrayed by this terrible situation our top Focus now is to support
003the victim and their family and to ensure the well-being and safety of all of our students we will also be contacting those families whose students have had Direct contact with with the teacher and Coach we will continue to address this situation with urgency and transparency we are committed to protecting our students and ensuring that they feel safe here at District 99 we encourage anyone to come forward to the police or the school about anything that seems dangerous or unusual if you are uncomfortable reaching out directly you can use the safe to help system on our websites to anonymously let the police and our Administration know of your concerns I want all of you to know that we take all reports seriously and we're here to help thank you very much now before we get into
004tonight's meeting um I kind of wanted to outline uh the structure of tonight's meeting just based on our unusual circumstances for tonight um we do have a public hearing tonight so we will have to go through that public hearing process um after the approval of our minutes we will next move to the first reception of visitors to address any action item that is on tonight's agenda okay um our action items tonight include the items displayed on the screen here if you wish to address any of those items please submit a slip to the board secretary Miss nidek for the first reception of visitors after the reports from the superintendent there will be a public hearing for up to 30 minutes on the honorable dismissal of teachers okay there will be up to 30 minutes under
005our regular guidelines and following our normal protocols for the reception of visitors to address the board on the single topic of The Honorable dismissal of teachers at the end of the meeting after all action is taken there will be a final reception of visitors where members of the public May comment on any topic pertaining to the district per our board policy 2.23 Z in the first and last reception of visitors a maximum of 30 minutes will be allotted for each reception of visitors with a maximum of 20 minutes on any one topic unless everyone who wish to speak has already spoken any need to recess due to the public not complying with the guidelines will be included in the total time allowed so our first item is approval of minutes um can I get a
006motion from the Board of Education to approve the minutes of the February 4 2025 business meeting the February 2020 or 24th 2025 Clos meeting the March 3rd 2025 Workshop meeting and the March 3rd 2025 closed meeting so moved second Terry moves Ken seconds kry pavich hi hen Dawson hi Chris espanosa hi Cheryl Fuller hi Jenny hagstrom hi Cara Caston hi and D Runner I motion carries so then we're going to go to our first reception of visitors on public comment for any of the items on our agenda tonight Julie do we have any reception of visitors no not the first session correct then I'm going to turn it over to item five to Hank all right and I will invite Jeff to come forward for uh walking our team through the Staffing and curriculum overview
007hi good evening and uh get things going today reviewing our annual Staffing curriculum overview for the year and I just want to always acknowledge that uh this is a very intricate process very complex I want to recognize the work of both uh district and building staff who uh do a lot to help pull together all the data that's used uh for these recommendations that we're bringing to you tonight um first off just talking about our certified Staffing uh FTE allocations we had uh sectioning FTE that year uh is at 31.3 which is also shown on the chart which has been shared with you and then as far as our non- sectioning FTE which is uh sectioning that's not tied to classroom requests and things uh so those are like our social worker psychology positions like
008that uh overall throughout the district and the list of positions you also see on the chart that's displayed right now uh that ft recommendation this coming year is 103 total um so that brings our Total Staffing uh increase this year of uh that we're looking at as a 1.5 over last year um so just kind of keep that in mind and then what I'll do next is I'm going to turn that over to uh Gina for uh section two here which is going to talk some about program impact and Staffing allocations thank you so each year as we look at course requests and teacher recommendations obviously our building administrators our principles specifically our associate principal for curriculum instruction and District admin make decisions about what courses we will be running and in some cases what
009courses we will not be able to run so I've provided the board with a report summarizing the recommendations of those courses that have enrollment of less than 20 for which we are not advocating to run sections for I'm happy to say that there's actually a decrease in the number of courses when compared to last year so there's 16 courses for next next year that had an enrollment of less than 20 that we are recommending for cancellation whereas the number was 19 at this time last year also provided the board with courses from both schools in which the enrollment is less than 20 but we are recommending running the section offering the course and there's a variety of different reasons why each course was decided upon but there's also a decrease in the number of those
010courses um so we're looking at 30 for next year and last year at this time it was 41 there are some courses as noted in the memo that are not listed that have enrollments of less than 20 and those would be courses that often times by law we have to run with fewer than 20 students they are specifically English language learner courses El courses special education courses and in some case interventions type courses so this report basically shows decrease in both the number of courses that we're recommending for next year to be canceled and the number that we're recommending with enrollments of less than 20 with that I'm going to turn it over to our associate principles for curriculum instruction Keith Pals from Downers North and Jake Giblin from Downer South who will provide some
011high level key points about the section process this year good evening everybody my name is Keith Pals I'm the associate principal for curriculum instruction at North high before I begin today I would really like to thank a couple key people and at the school building that really help everything uh get going here specifically the North High Department chairs and some of the key staff members in the Cs department and our building Administration for their collaboration throughout this process as the board is aware our sectioning process is student driven based on course requests and our team's collaboration is key to this success this year we received over 18,000 requests from 2011 students leading to 409 course offerings in nine different departments there's a lot going on so I just definitely want to make sure that it's
012not just us that's part of this process in our core departments English math social studies and science we're offering 99 courses total AP courses remain uh as very popular with 12884 different requests for uh within that group of departments we're looking to uh continue cons uh a successful implementation of our math 3 lab intervention and we started that this year it's been going very well and we're expanding eel support in science with a dedicated biology and a dedicated Earth and space science course for eel students in english four our offerings uh we saw growth in interest in three specific courses film studies journalistic expression in media literacy and Humanities and in social studies despite a move of our AP Psychology course from a half year to a full year we're seeing an increase of an
013entire section and so that we can serve 20 more students in that particular course our elective courses CTE PE dver at and health World Language and the Fine Arts are showing shifts in their Trends as well so CTE saw a drastic increase in interest in the internship program while they also saw a drop in the cwt program or the Cooperative work training requests I spoke to Brian Vite our department chair there um he's already having conversations focused on revitalizing the cwt course offering for next year um and he shared with me that there's going to be a more concentrated effort to put together a profile of our work-based learning students and he plans are working with counselors and other department chairs to inform stakeholders including potential students that the cwt and internship classes that provide
014career experience that is regardless of postsecondary um plans Fine Arts I'm excited to share with the board that AP music theory will be coming back to North High next year uh while a AP art history is going to take a pause and this is um as we shared last year that seems to be coming into a more cyclical nature of every other year uh World Language is is experiencing an increased focused in EL support with an increase of 60% requests for our El specific course requests however our French section numbers continue to decrease which is following the trend that we've spoken about over the last couple of years PE I did also want to highlight is offering 30 different courses specifically in PE what I want to talk about here is the leadership opportunities for
015students within that department courses like our Sports officiating course or also our PE leaders and lifeguard leaders program offer students opportunities to learn and to lead within the school day finally our special services department is expanding their number of multi- needs classrooms from three to four classrooms next year to better serve those students and this department also collaborates with English math social social studies and science to offer 21 different uh co-taught courses and those are courses in which um teachers collaborate with their peers to serve our special education students so thank you good evening I'm Jake Giblin I'm the associate principal for curriculum at donard Grove South um in addition to the department chairs and everyone who works tirelessly with this um I want to also point out we have data processor of both schools
016uh Barb rustic Katie Conquest who do amazing work and do a lot for us in the background that allows us to have some of these highlevel conversations because they take care of all the hard dirty work in the background for us and we can't do this without them so thank you to them as well um a couple trends for us um we we at South we saw a a an increase in particular in our Fine Arts sections um our digital photography in particular grew by 84 requests we had 143 last year we're up to 227 this year they're doing a really good job of of promoting that and getting kids interested in photography um we within the CTE Department as well uh Keith mentioned those opportunities for internship we had a dip this year we
017had 19 students involved in that internship program next year there are 92 requests for the same program uh to get students into the community working with our business partners and getting real Hands-On experiences um for their time while they're in the in the high school setting um we're excited because we're seeing uh stem growth we had 105 uh student requests increase in our science programs this year um so uh while AP um overall is about the same we we had uh an exciting thing in that our AP Psychology which has gone from a half year to a full year still retained four full courses kids are still wanting a an enriching experience in a what I would call a more challenging and more depth program that is going to be coming to them next year
018and we're excited about that um one of the trends that has definitely been part of South over the last few years is our increase in our El and bilingual programs two years ago we had 214 student requests for those specific courses last year was 368 this year we're up to 432 we've more than doubled in just the last two school years alone and one of the other things that uh is is generating more and more student opportunities we have um our incoming class this year 82% of our incoming ninth graders have chosen to take a full schedule of cour work that is increasing the number of kids who are getting more classes more educational experiences that is in contrast to this year's which was 57% it is a sharp increase in one we look to
019continue over the next few years thank you invite Scott wazer to come up and he's going to share with you a little bit about our special services and seat trip yeah c s needs good evening Scott I'm here to talk a little bit about special services so we um we've seen a increase at North High for next year for at a 2.1 uh FTE which the majority of that is coming um from expanding our multi program from um three classrooms to four classrooms so that's where we're seeing the largest increase there um at South High we're going to see an increase of 0.5 FTE and that's falling in uh our coocha classes um which is always a good thing to include our students in inclusive environment so we're excited about that um and then at
020t99 we're going to um have a decrease of 1.0 teachers um due to just our student enrollment um and then also with um I know it's up on the screen up there for psychologists um we're sharing our psychologist at t99 with north um which we've done in the past with related services like speech and that um and so it's going to be a 6 FTE at t99 and a 04 FTE at uh North and then CS we're not seeing any change the here so any questions thank you thank you thank you thanks and uh kind of rounding off our presentation around Staffing today um you have for your approval this evening a list of all the staff who are being recommended for renewal for next year who are currently non-tenured and those will you be
021continuing on the tenure track some will be approved for tenure for next year um and then some others will continue to be non-tenured but that's uh there for you to approve those renewals um and then as mentioned in the memo uh the list of those who are acquiring tenure going into next year will be presented at the next board meeting the next uh Workshop meeting in April um and then also uh for your approval tonight was the resolution I believe that was mentioned earlier we do have I believe six staff members who are affected with uh honorable dismissals the cause for those dismissals is those are uh all part-time teachers who we've had a reduction in our FTE in the areas that they work so that's why they're being honorably dismissed and then we also
022have a teacher is working a leave of absence who's also being honorably dismissed as well obviously teacher coming back so those are the reasons why we have those those situations but these are staff who in many cases like I said there's reduced FTE for some of those part-time positions they are welcome to reapply and some cases are offered those positions straight out um if they're interested in that reduced FTE that's available for their role um and then just kind of round out again so as I mentioned uh last year our staffing total was 42.8 um and this year is expected to be four 44.3 and again that's an overall increase of 1.5 FTE is said we have increased enrollment this year at South and some other shifting needs and so that's how we have arrived
023where we are thank you for your time and effort I know that's not an easy process to put together no as you heard everyone acknowledge it's it's many many hands doing you know trying to make light work out of it and a huge undertaking so thank you any questions thank you to all of you thank you thank you all right our next agenda item is the establishment of the board organizational meeting following uh elections in April and the recommendation is that we hold that re that organizational meeting on May 5th so returning board members will remember this is uh a night in multiple acts where the current board will come be seated then we'll transition to the incoming board and then organize for officers that evening um so uh we're recommending that the the board
024set that night uh for that that gives us enough time uh for all the results to come in before we we go through that organizational meeting uh any concerns with that being the date all right the next item is Travis's for North High garage roof replacement thank you good evening uh with the assistance of white uh we received eight different bids for our North garage roof replacement uh the low bidder Tori came in at $166,400 if you remember when we presented earlier in the fall we projected that to be at about $175,000 so it's a good thing uh always when it comes in under uh under budget we do have $10,000 that we have allotted for contingency surprises um within that so um everything looks to be in a good working order again uh the
025bids ranged from about $232,000 to this um 166,000 white has done the followup to make sure that they fully understand the scope of the work and so that's our recommendation tonight for to accept that bid uh this as Travis said is an action item this evening any questions for Travis at this point this is the garage north of the stadium yes thank you all right uh the next item is Travis's as well the 10-year safety survey report is back from earlier this year it is so this is um this is a recap of of what was presented in November all of this information is the same so just a an explanation of every 10 years that we do uh we are required uh by the state to go through a a survey uh to identify
026any areas of need that we need to address um so we have gone through that uh we've reviewed those this was all done again in the summer and the fall thinkk if you can give me the next slide so along with this um here are the next steps that are are related to it one is to authorize Whit and company to access iwis and submit the the report for us um once they receive that report we'll we'll get that we approve what they have uh submitted um and then we go through everything after that moment time where we know ISB has to approve the the work uh once we have that approved then we need to go through the process of getting the work all the bids uh that are needed in order to get
027that work completed um and then we would obviously report annually on the progress of those those things next slide please so you can see they're they're broken down into three different categories of work category a is urgent that has to be done in the first two years one to two years um and then when you look at next category B that has to be done within the first five years after it's been approved category C is recommended it is not something that we have to do next slide please so you can see the breakdown um of what that total looks like so we're just under $360,000 uh for both North and South for category a category B is just over 3.6 million category C uh we are just over 1. 4 million so you can
028see the total if we were to do everything in category C uh would be just under 5.4 million doll and again just that reminder a one to two years B within the first five years and C is uh recommended you have to have those done you have to have a and b done before you can go on to uh anything in the category C next slide please so this is a recap all of this is what you guys saw in the fall so I don't want to belabor this are there any questions on any of the the different categories or the work that is there you want to the next slide again this is you you can see there's some uh consistency across our buildings all of these have uh the same next slide please
029there's more work at North to be done uh one of the things that we um came across was the structural steel uh deterioration the summer um for the pool so we need to address uh that then our recommended again some of the consistencies between a lot of uh different odds and ends things that that we need to have done so our next steps uh tonight we're asking you to approve the application uh for the 10year safety survey report again that does not mean that you're approving the work that means you're approving the application for that to be submitted to isby um and then once we get that they'll they'll make the determination white uh will submit that for us and then uh we'll com we'll create a plan for getting the approved work uh completed
030in a in a timely manner to meet the health Life Safety any questions for Travis could you just like briefly because I think the funding of fund 90 is new and different and interesting could you just like quickly give an overview of like how we propose funding this work yes so if you remember so earlier just as of the these last uh these last months um we used some of our fund 90 balance for some of the other work with our our Paving uh at both schools as well as our uh energy conservation with some Led uh work at both of our schools uh so in total we had um uh about $839,000 in fund 90 that were approved of work and that we're working on last last meeting we did the paving and and
031p uh approvals so those will uh for sure get done this summer um so that leaves us with about $615,000 in our fund 90 which we can get going on uh all of these projects uh with that uh the other part is we'll have to talk about uh bonds to get the additional work uh that needs to be done because it will come out of fund that okay thanks you're welcome any other question questions for Travis no thanks Travis thank you all right the next item on the agenda tonight is CMG Staffing uh board as you're aware tonight will begin the process to potentially enter into a contract with SSC services for education to partner with District 99 to provide staff and oversee our custodial maintenance and grounds CMG uh group for management Supply purchases
032coordination of work training and provide additional Services as needed this proposal should not be seen as an indication that we are not satisfied with the service that are we are being provided by our dedicated CMG staff and administrative team leading this department I see this as an opportunity for both the district and CMG employees to enter into a model that will provide opportunities for efficiencies additional training and resources career advancement Pathways for our staff and cost savings to the district over the past decade we have periodically considered pursuing this path and each time we investigated this we made the decision not to change our staffing model over the past several years in meeting with representatives of the CMG group we've indicated that our salary and benefits have outpaced market trends and moving in this direction
033could be a possibility at the same time our team members have consistently raise concerns about lack of sufficient training opportunities and career advancement we we've seen many other school districts go down the path of Outsourcing CMG Services by issuing an RFP or bid and then selecting the lowest responsible bidder in some of these cases districts have ended up with buyers remorse this is frequently due to the district releasing their entire staff and the incoming company bringing in their own team and not providing an equitable pathway for current employees to remain in the distri in their District we instead have gone through a different process one focused on ensuring the ability to maintain our talented and dedicated staff in the past two years we have discussed possible arrangements with many potential Partners but none of them
034offered what SSC is offering our team and our district in agreement to hire on all current CMG staff and the administrators responsible for the CMG team at their current rate of pay and with similar benefits to move over to the S to move over to SS C our team will not be required to interview our staff cannot be released by SSC without cause while the proposed 5-year contract is in effect and that five-year contract um can be extended up to 10 years which is the maximum allowable by law as also required by state law a comparable benefits package will be offered to our employees who choose to join SSC and we will also be offering compensation options for acred sick and personal leave I do not want to minimize that a change like this does
035come with risks both to the district and to our CMG employees our employees would be moving from a school district employer to a corporate partner several of our CMG staff have shared that they selected District 99 because we are not a corporate entity there are real considerations for our CMG staff is their retirement benefit changes from the imrf public pension system and moving to a 401K retirement program has implications both the District 99 administrative team and SSC are dedicated to making sure that each of our employees knows everything they need to know to make an informed decision before signing on with ssse we are in the process of gathering questions from our team the questions will be answered before a board would be asked to approve a contract also the members of the SSC team
036will be on site after spring break to meet with our CMG employees to answer their questions we have great trust in SSC as a potential partner they are under the Compass Group the parent company of Chartwells that provides our food service we have seen from our experience and strong partnership with Chartwells a relationship where we have provided highly qualified and dedicated team that is an integral part of our schools the Chartwell staff are treated with respect both by their company and our school Community District 99 is a spotlight partner for Chartwells and other schools from around the world have visit our schools to see how our amazing Food Service team operates over the past two years we've had conversations with the Compass Group in ssse regarding the possibility of expanding our partnership it wasn't until
037two weeks ago that we arrived at a point where all of the parts of this agreement looked like a potential match this included confirming their pricing structure as part of a Cooperative purchasing agreement we shared this information last week with Mike and Michelle the administrators responsible for the CMG team in District 99 and the next day an executive member of the SSC team executive team came out to meet with Mike and Michelle and let them know how much they want them to join the SSS team continue leading the district CMG department and answering their questions after that meeting we shared this potential change with the entire CMG team and then the next day our staff in our community we have communicated this potential change as quickly as we could so that we can continue to
038gather questions and concerns provide answers and make sure this continues to be an appropriate pathway for the district this will be discussed tonight and for the next two board meetings before we intend to ask the board to take action on this proposal and the contract there will be opportunities to address the board through the established reception of visitors protocols at each board meeting and under similar protocols in a public hearing on the night of April 21st the board and I are also accessible via email I was present at North High last Friday for one of my regularly scheduled dropin sessions to gather and answer questions I will be in both buildings this week for the human resource dropin sessions as well as I indicated earlier SSC will be on site the week after spring break
039to meet with our teams and we will gather and answer questions that come our way from our staff this information will all be shared with the board as well I understand that any change of this magnitude can be and will be difficult however I would not be considering it if I did not believe it had the real potential to to provide the best outcome for our district Travis will now review some of the key points in this potential thirdparty agreement with SSC so as Hank uh just talked about uh we went into all of this with several commitments that we wanted to make sure uh were non-negotiables right so first is that all of our CMG staff would have a position um they would not have to go through any interview process that would transfer
040right over uh again be at their current pay rate and similar benefits uh we also talked about not being able to be released uh during that time frame without cause fiveyear contract uh with the potential to extend that up to 10 years with onee uh increments as we were to look because we don't want to lock ourselves in that 10 years is the maximum amount of time that you can have but we didn't want to commit to that 10 years because if things did not go well um we wanted to be able to make a change um in that and then another key point that we want to make sure um that I want to reinforce that Hank talked about is is that support throughout the the process um providing opportunities to ask questions providing
041opportunities for us to get the answers that are that are needed um because we want to make an informed decision everyone should have that uh that benefit so we want to make sure and do that also as well um providing ongoing professional development opportunities career advancement is something that um is a a big value uh when we look at the the process for our staff uh when you look at um the the potential that they have over what we have there is a real opportunity for uh for growth and advancement one of the things two that we talked about with that growth and and enhancement is what does that look like in our direct area because we know a lot of our staff uh live in the area and then if they were to move
042on uh with the company they would not want to move um or they could have that choice obviously but we wanted to see what was in that uh short throw and there are opportunities for our staff uh to do that uh some of the key changes obviously the management Supply purchases and coordination of all of C G uh would be handled by a third party and then um additional training and and viable chancef for career advancement as I as I talked about Mo on to the next slide please so to reinforce kind of the the next steps um we're continuing our conversations and our work uh to make sure that that third- party uh service agreement complies with all of our policies complies with all state laws uh making sure that uh all all of
043those things are in place at our next board meeting on April 7th we would have further uh discussions uh provide progress updates uh review anything uh to make sure that that again we are in line with all of the the state laws and as Hank talked about on April 21st we would have a a public hearing much like we're going to have tonight uh during the meeting as well as a final review and recommendation uh to the board so that July 1st would be the target uh date to start that um so that is obviously a number of months uh from now but there's a lot that would need to be done between now and then to get ready uh questions for either Travis or I uh from board members on what's been presented at
044this point uh Hank and I were at dgn on Friday after this had been announced um and spent a little over three hours talking to several of you in this room and one of the comments that came up um was unused sick days in imrf um and I think that's something that we need to explore we need to get some answers on and investigate I I it's my understanding we don't have an answer on on how that's going to be addressed as of yet but you're working with SSC is to to it's not necessarily don't have an answer the answer is not the same for the entire group right so we're working with TRS all right here imrf for those that are moving towards that retirement p pathway we have a few of our employees
045there as to how those days would work for them but then how that conversion works for moving over to ssse or compensation works for that we we want to make sure that we have all of those things detailed and we'll have that by the time that we meet with our staff on April 7th to detail what what choices that they have depending on you know their their future Pathways and the number of days that they have okay Terry I have several things that I'm I'm a little unhappy about and that is our one is our relationship with our CMG staff and our students and teachers that yeah tell the truth tell the truth all about moneyy let's bring it back to order okay I didn't say that for this I I said it because I've
046been on the board a long time as you all know and we've been through this before and one of the main reasons that we rejected having it outsourced before was because of that Rel reltionship you know sometimes uh students are in crisis or whatever and sometimes our CMG staff is that person that sees that and can take care of that and I I don't know that if we bring in a third party to do this that they're going to be able to develop those relationships that are already out there and to to break that and then the trust that our teachers have and other staff members have for this staff it it's hard you can't replace that my other questions are is um when of one of the staff is sick who comes in to
047replace that person is it somebody maybe from hensdale I don't know who the other schools are that are in this area but they don't know how we do things because our culture is our culture Terry I I'll address that question yeah it it is it's like anytime you have a sub there would be a pool of Subs that they would have trained up and ready to to come in and they would make sure that they were familiar with our team and our buildings and our facilities to be able to step in when when when called just like what we do with substitute teachers or any of those kind of substitute roles uh but uh it would be up to SSC to have that pool of people on call and prepared to step in on demand
048when we needed them right but it's not the same well it's not the same anytime we have a subt well we have we have a probably a list of Subs that we use would work the same way it would work the same way it would be a list of Subs that were trained those subs would be the first call that that's what I'm saying I don't know well Terry they would be they would be um then I also have um why aren't we giving our staff development we do but we we don't have the there you go there you go hey guys let's let's keep order okay I I guess I'm I'm questioning you know if it's if it's important to our CMG staff to get staff development we should treat them like we do
049our teachers and our and our other they need to have development just same I have a problem Terry we we do but but CMG is not our Core Business as an educational ins understand that but our Core Business you're not the business our our Core Business also is to take care of our building excuse me excuse me excuse me I'm sorry I appreciate your passion and enthusiasm in the in the audience okay and tonight we're going to conduct our meeting and we're going to allow your comments when we get to our public comments okay so let's just allow a discussion to happen without any further interruptions please okay thank you but also our core responsibility is to our facilities and and to make sure that they're clean to our standards or that they're maintained to
050our standards because if they're unsafe for any reason that's not our business that we're taking care of I agree Terry and we believe that this offers us that opportunity yes but I'm just saying that I wouldn't be bringing it to you if I didn't believe that those things were true okay and um I know that imrf is is is a fully funded um retirement it is a well funded retirement public pension yes right right and so I also know how how it works with the 401K because I I have one I'm using one because I'm retired but um I I I think that a lot of our staff our our our CMG staff wants to stay in the imrf and because it is fully funded and it is it's it's not fully funded but it's
051it's strongly it it's much more than the uh TRS yes and so in that regard I I would hate to see people who are on the cusp or or even close to miss out on that because they won't get the the years in that they need in order to get their full benefit I definitely think those are considerations that we can talk through in the next few weeks especially with or in the next month with SSE of our employees that would be on the cusp of either vesting or retiring and what that would look like to get people across that hump um to make sure that their imrf benefits are protected yes well that and then the last thing I just want to say is is I I respect Chartwell a mely because they have
052changed our food service product that we are uh giving to our students and faculty and staff immensely and um especially being in the food M World um that meant a lot to me to get that taken care of um I think this that's why we believe this has similar potential benefits for both our staff our students and our buildings the Chartwells is a case study for how this can be effective in our schools moving forward I it's just going to be very difficult for me to stand behind this this project to well we'll continue to report back with we will continue to report back over the next two meetings with questions and concerns that you and our staff have and then in a month after you have all that information we can see where the
053board stands at that point but like I said it's going to be very difficult for you to change my mind okay I will Terry I will you to know where I stand Terry my Terry my job is not to change your mind my job is to answer your questions and to make sure that you're well informed and then it is your job to vote with your hearts and your mind and to make the best decision you can my job is not to ever convince a board I'm directed by the board to bring you viable options that offer the district good service efficiencies provide resources to be directed most closely to students and to student work the board has directed me to bring you those options as they become available I have worked with the team
054here very carefully over a very long time to bring you a viable option for you to consider that I am doing my job that you have asked me to do in preparing this and bringing it to you the board has directed me to bring this to you that is what I am doing how you decide to vote and move forward is ultimately up to you as a board my job is to bring you those options and that is what I have done appreciate that we're aware of our duty so um I I just had a question what else uh was brought to you did you say you spoke with uh people had concerns you spent about three hours did I get that correct what else what were the concerns I know we'll probably hear more
055of it tonight but I wanted to hear uh from you guys what else was was top concerns feel like I addressed a lot of them in in my opening statement sure but um I I heard a loss of connection to the district that um even though they you know our individuals of CMG staff would maintain their current positions because they would no longer be employed by District 99 they felt as though there would be a disconnect there and wouldn't feel necessarily a part of the team if you will um lots of concerns about imrf right I heard a lot a lot of um staff Express the fact that um they either moved and took a you know potentially a pay cut to join our staff in order to join d99 be part of this family
056and be part of the imrf program um and have had other opportunities to advance their careers through other paths that did not offer imrf so I think imrf is a big hurdle here um and that's kind of why I was bringing that up with Travis um to try and work through any of those issues to see if if there is a fit here between CMG staff to to bridge that gap on the imrf those are the those are the primary concerns I heard okay okay I have a handful of questions first off there have been a number of instances over the past you said decade or so where you've come to the board with a similar resolution and it is not not a not a similar resol well there is no resolution Chris with discussing
057in closed session when we talk about employment of personnel groups we have brought ideas and proposals to the board over a long period of time before I was here since I've been here this is something that has been considered with this group before yes and it has not come to anything to this point correct because all of the other proposals to this point have Evol involved fully releasing our staff outside company comes in and they decide if they're going to hire people or not and it hasn't been with a company that I felt like was already invested in our schools and our community I think that those are the two biggest differences in this proposal in comparison to other ones that we've seen in the past which is why we've brought it to this point
058to discuss with the board is that the compass group with their investment chart wells in their investment in our schools and our community as Terry mentioned has demonstrated an ability to improve the experience in our schools for that same re reason I believe that there is potential for ssse to do the same there obviously is a period of disruption As you move through that change for both our individual employees and the district as a whole but you know I can look at Chartwells as the example of you can come out of that on the other side with a far better product for everybody involved I recognize that I just have some concerns with the precedent it sets to have a partnership that the issue with the last slide where it says can't be fired without
059cause I think raises some major concerns as well I recognize that our employees currently are at an at will B yeah that's more Chris that's more protection than our employees have now yeah right but but we don't know what what cause constitutes like we we don't have the finer details yet and and cause is a yeah cause is a legal def like they would have to demonstrate that they were not performing up to the expectations of that position to be released it's not just like because because it's with cause what are the conditions of the position that we have any of that information yet and if they're not being held to the same standard that we have or if their standard is different like that puts a lot of stress on the employees to perform
060in ways that they're either unprepared for overprepared for right uh I also think that this seems like a very rushed process and I recognize that you brought it to us to talk about and to discuss all these things uh but I don't think that there was enough time to take into consideration of CMG staff opinions on the matter prior to releasing a wider statement to to the district as a whole I think what should have happened Chris there hold hold on there are legal requirements I recogniz for so in We Are by required by law if we are going to move at the end of this school year which is July 1 which is when we typically would enter into any major movement with any employee group that we need to inform our staff 90
061days in advance of that wa let me let me finish please um we had been working all along as you know we brought a proposal to you last year the board directed us to continue to look at that and come back in close session to come back if we reached a spot with the proposal this year we reached that point we are now at the Timeline where everything lines up to have those conversations to go into place for July 1 that's why the timeline is working the way it is uh this would be the same timeline any District would follow if they were working through a Cooperative purchasing agreement which is what we're doing if we went to bid then it would be a very different process it could be much shorter than this this
062is the longest duration of process that provides opportunity for the board to review for the public to review for our staff to review and to get their questions answered and to work through this this may seem like a quick process but it is a long process in comparison to how school districts go about making a change like this can we let Chris finish this comment and I recognize that you've been putting a lot of work into coming up with the finer details ahead of time and the information that we've been provided the public has been provided comes after a lot of work my major concern is the the the conversations with CMG staff individually should have happened prior to coming to us with like this is what we want to do moving forward like they
063their input needed to be taken into consideration first and I recognize that you don't do that with with other teaching situations right with curriculum I get it but in this particular instance I think as we've seen with such public displays yeah it's this is incredibly important to them and their livelihoods and I think getting their information getting their their feedback ahead of time before we come up with before there was they were not included in the at an earlier point that I felt was important and and I you can disagree with me all you want but that is what I feel it should have been done Chris the opportunity to share that with me was well before tonight's meeting that you felt that way okay um this the way we've organized this structure has given
064the staff the opportunity here that we're planning to do this has given the staff the opportunity to be here tonight has given the staff the opportunity to stop and ask us questions multiple times has given the staff the opportunity to meet with SSC and interview them as well on the process in I will tell you look at any school district in the area that has moved this way they release a bid they accept that bid and they move forward employees don't have the opportunity to provide input and to understand the impact of that we have gone well beyond the industry standard for considering this as an option we have put ourselves in front of our staff as we should we are here to answer their questions we are bringing in the the company to sit
065down with our staff and have this conversation 6 weeks of an interview process of our staff being able to interview this team of us continuing to be able to interview that team is not the way that the industry works this is not the way things work out there and we have gone through a process to First vet them very carefully over a long period of time to get to this point where our own staff can vet them so that we can come back to you with an informed recommendation next month if we choose to move that way but that's why we have done this process in a way that is very public that is very transparent that W within the week of us knowing that it was a possibility we met with our staff and
066they were informed of that like that is as timely as it can possibly get there is no District that I am aware of that goes to their staff in advance and says would you like for us to Outsource you that's just not a conversation or a model that happens this is the most thoughtful proactive way that we can go about this process and I think I have brought you a respectful process that youve authorized me to move forward with and consider so that's why we are here tonight that is why this has all been shared with the board or with with our staff before tonight this is why we've outlined for them all of their opportunities to be here and address the board once again if the board chooses not to move forward with this
067I I we're completely happy with the model that we have now we think that this is a viable model that offers us other advantages and that's why we're here offering you that um okay any other comments from any other board members any questions read you through yeah okay um so I just I I prepared a statement because I I want to I want it to be clear as to why we're here okay and why we're having this this discussion so one of the primary functions of the board of education is to adopt a budget and to manage the finances of District 99 in that regard we are charged with responsibility of balancing fiscal policy while also ensuring that our children are served to the highest standard possible in an environment where d99 faces some uncertainties
068from federal and state funding that task becomes comes even more difficult in that light the board has charged Dr the and and his administrative team with looking for ways to find Financial opportunities for the Board of Education to consider d99 for many years has explored the concept of potentially Outsourcing our CMG staff many other school districts in the area have previously done the same but up until now d99 has never moved forward with this concept because of would have meant losing our CMG staff and bringing in a whole new set of individuals who have no prior experience in our district the only reason that this opportunity is being explored and I say explored now is because I'm sorry explored now is that SSC has agreed to take all CMG staff at their current compensation levels
069and that they may not fire any of our CMG staff without cause for the duration of our contractual relationship with SSC this is the only way that this board was comfortable with ever moving forward with exploring this idea okay that is because because this administrative team and the board highly value all of you in this room we know the expertise that all of you possess the familiarity that all of you have with our buildings and the relationships that you built with our teachers staff our students and our community in short we know and I know the importance and value of d99 to you and what you mean to all of us I want to be clear about this process going forward the board has not made a final decision okay to date all we have
070done is authorized Dr thieling and his administrative team to explore a possibility of moving our CMG staff to a contract with SSC over the next few weeks that process will be explored to determine whether SSC would be a good fit for d99 and whether it would be a good fit for our CMG staff it's my opinion that going through this exercise is a positive and healthy step in determining whether or not this is the right move not only for d99 but our students and all of our CMG staff who are here tonight I promise to keep an open mind when making a final decision on whether or not to approve a contract with SSC so I welcome your input I welcome your comments and I understand and respect your passion for this topic thank you
071any other questions all right uh the next item is an item that returns tonight from last uh week this is the DuPage West cook intergo Al agreement this was discussed at our last board meeting if you remember this is a cooperative for cooperatives and this is changing the board structure of that to an oversight committee every one of the 92 member school districts needs to agree to this uh in order to move forward our process and that would take place tonight with the board approving the resolution as an action item um are there any questions on this one returning no all right so this an action item this evening administrative restructuring and related board policies once again another uh one that came back from last week we've already discussed this in in detail or last
072uh board meeting we've already discussed this in detail uh I have received no follow-up questions from any board members are there anything any items that you would like for me to address on this this evening this is also up for approval this even evening Freedom of Information request we have received them and we have fulfilled them and you can find them on our website under Foya okay next item item number six um so the next agenda item is a public hearing on the proposed reduction and force of teachers this hearing is held in line with section 24-12 of the Illinois school code which provides for the hearing when the number of teachers to be reduced due to economic necessity is greater than five or 150% of the average number of teachers honorably dismissed in the
073preceding 3 years whichever is more while the reductions contemplated later in this evening's agenda are not based on economic necessity we are holding the hearing with the intent of giving both the teaching staff and the public notice of layoffs and the opportunity to express their views to be clear the reductions in force contemplated later in this evening's agenda will not impact education programming and are not based on economic necessity rather these reductions are based on course selections for the upcoming school year so I now open up the hearing would anyone any member of the public like to speak on this topic hearing none then I will um can I get a motion to close the public hearing so moved second Terry moves Chris seconds thank you Terry pavic I CHR Bosa hi charell Fuller hi
074Jenny hagstrom hi car Caston hi and Dawson I don rener I motion carries the public hearing has been closed okay item number seven is the consent agenda before the bo 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 from the Board of Education to approve the consent agenda as presented which includes a Personnel report 2025 26 fifth year full-time renewals 2025 26 fourth year full-time renewals 2025 26 third year full-time renewals 2025 26 non 10e full-time renewals 2025 26 non 10e part-time renewals appointment certified appointment classified appointment Administration B Personnel report retirement certified resignation classified resignation certified C February Financial Pages d approval of board policies 3.51 3.52 3.68 and
0753.70 with effective dates noted e Illinois High School Association ihsa membership July 1st 2025 through June 30th of 2026 and F acceptance of donation Wolfpack basketball program so moved second Terry moves Ken seconds thank you Terry papich hi Ken Dawson hi Mr Espinosa hi Charelle Fuller I Jenny hagstrom I heric Caston I don rener I motion carries thank you for the donation from the Wolfpack basketball program very nice uh item number eight recommendations for Action can I get a motion from the Board of Education to adopt the resolution authorizing notice of honorable dismissal of non-tenured teachers other than final year probationary teachers and that the president and secretary be authorized to sign the same so moved second Chris moves Jenny seconds thank you Chris Espinosa hi Jenny hagstrom hi Terry pavich hi haric haston I
076Ken Dawson I charl fuller I and Don rener I motion carries Item B can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve White's recommendation to award the contract for the North High garage roof replacement to t r i Construction LLC located in alip Illinois for the base bid in the amount of $166,400 to approve the application for approval of 10year safety survey reports for North High School South High School and transition Center 99 so moved Terry moves Ken seconds thank you Terry pavisic hi Ken Dawson hi CHR espanosa hi charl Fuller hi Jenny hagstrom hi Eric Caston I don Runner I motion carries item D can I get a motion for the board of Education to adopt the resolution of the Board of Education of Community High School District 99 approving proposed
077amendments to the dup page West cook intergovernmental agreement so moved second Chris moves Jenny seconds thank you Chris janosa I Jenny hagstrom I Terry pavich hi Cara Caston I Ken Dawson I charl fuller I and Don Runner I motion carries um item number nine old business um remind me that um we need to um select um is it two board members for the parent teacher advisory committee please um so please get back to me if you're interested on that um within the next couple of days if you can we'll send a reminder out with what it was and the dates okay we'll send that out tomorrow to the board and then you could let Don know okay any other items of the old business Hank uh none for old business any items of new business
078no new business either Julie um let's open up the reception of visitors for public comment for um items of and I'll read first before we do so this is the second reception of visitors which is intended for audience members to address the board on any topic pertaining to Community High School District 99 comments will be limited to 3 minutes to provide all visitors an equal opportunity to address the board individuals needing more time should submit their thoughts and writing to the board secretary visitors addressing the board need to submit a common slip to the board secretary and will be invited to the microphone prior to addressing the board audience members should State their full name the proceedings may be tape recorded for the purposes of producing accurate meeting minutes the board's presiding officer reserves the
079right to modify these protocols if circumstances warrant audience observ observation of these Pro protocols is greatly appreciated Julie I have the list okay thank you okay uh our first uh speaker is Monica Vander [Applause] excuse me hi my name is Monica bandide I currently serve as Executive Administrative Assistant to the supervisor of buildings and grounds which to be clear is a support staff position so before I share my thoughts I also want to make it clear that I am speaking on my own behalf and as an individual the first time I set foot at South as an employee I started at South first um my last name was immediately recognized by a CTE teacher named Mr Meisner because I did not attend dgn or dgs it was apparent to me that something was special about
080this District I say this because my dad graduated dgs in 1989 it struck me as a remarkable or it struck me as remarkable that Dale Vander might's woodworking teacher remembered him 30 years later I think it should come to no shock to the board that I do not believe Outsourcing CMG is the best options um it's my opinion that Outsourcing to a corporate partner ships away the fundamental core values of these District 999 employees um since they will no longer be District 99 employees and that's really the heart of this issue for me CMG each and every day inspires those same emotions that Mr Meisner did on my first day on the job job which turned out to be so much more than a job it turned out for me to be a fulfilling career
081choice and CMG turned out to be a family a work family that I potentially may be forced out of I never thought I would have to consider another position in this District once I land in my current role because I love coming to work every day to serve alongside my CMG family thank you our next speaker is Frank Ross hi uh I'm Frank Ross I'm a Community member I have two children that'll attend uh dgs and I'm here to speak against the privation privatization of the CMG Department um and I'm really hoping that a lot of mins aren't made up about this uh vote next month and then you'll hear me in good faith uh I was proud to be a member of this community a few years ago when there was a ballot mandate
082passed to raise our taxes with those tax dollars going to the schools and I was also very proud to have the names cast in rener and uh uh Dawson on a sign in my front lawn when you guys are running against people who are more interested in Banning books than ensuring children's educations this is to say I never wanted to come to one of these meetings because I thought we were in good hands now uh I'm speaking as a son of a custodian not any of these guys but my dad was a custodian uh I'm here to speak for the good jobs that are in that school building and are being threatened by turning CMG duties over to a corporation uh please don't do it this is a community that wants those good jobs and
083benefits left intact a community that is more interested in people than profits I understand we're being sold on the idea that no one will lose their jobs and that the school will save money but both those things can't be true and that's just a fact a corporation has to make more money year after year after year after year and they will do that by turning the CMG jobs into understaffed minimum wage jobs with poor no benefits this community doesn't want [Music] that we've said we want those jobs in that building and have no interest in short-term savings and in the shadow of the Jumbotron even entertaining the idea of saving money at the cost of 60 plus CMG employees who keep everything running smoothly it's an insult give these people the respect they deserve this
084SSC chart Wells company is offering to take over a system that is working well and turn it into a money-making Venture for their stockholders this community's investment is in the school and the CMG jobs are part of that thanks [Applause] [Music] our next speaker is Jerry Kilik thank you for pronouncing my name correctly I did the best I could Jerry I did good my name is Jer kuk I live in D Grove for over 29 years I am also employee of CMG for over 18 years i' would like to VI voice my opin opinion about propos our Outsourcing CMG this 99 will be never received the kind of compassion and and care what they receiving from the employee of District of CMG right now the contractor won really care we don't guarantee you we don't
085guarantee we're going to sign in with the new company so you might have a whole Brown new staff who doesn't know the building who just don't care uh I got a call in on the weekend nights for different kind of type of emergency you're not going to get this from the contractor uh I can talk forever and some people can prove that I can talk forever but time running out and oh I almost forgot I want to thank you teachers supports staff and Community for up here thank you well I almost forgot I grow up in the communist country so when the elective official never listen uh to the public and what is right I hope this not this situation in District 99 thank you Bor [Music] our next speaker is Donald glass uh hello
086uh Donald glass uh 20 plus year resident of doners Grove and yeah I'm cmg2 um others here are going to talk about what being outsourced means to them I've only been here a year and a half uh my questions relate more to the dollars and sense of this the black and white numbers of this um because it's not clear to me how this is working um the the board uh charges the superintendent with finding savings and then the superintendent finds savings well how much savings are we talking about how long have we been looking for savings what else has been looked at for finding savings besides CMG they've been looking at CMG for 10 years what else has been looked at in those 10 years what is the actual dollar amount of savings that we're
087talking about uh which apparently no one's ready to talk about this evening and maybe it won't come up until the final meeting but again you know how much money is being saved they tried to um offer a buyout to employees at the end of last year they were looking for a certain dollar amount of savings which they didn't get well what were those dollars about uh so it's very unclear to me you know what the impetus for this is uh if if the concern is that uh CMG as a department is overpaid uh you know are we punishing current employees for the decisions of previous board members um you know it the dollars and cents of it are clear to me our next speaker is Hannah [Applause] green good evening my name is Hannah green
088first I would like to say thank you to all of our CMG staff that supports me and all my colleagues at dgn we could not do our job without you guys so thank you now I'd like to address the District 99 School Board I come to you as a current District 99 dgn employee a District 99 taxpaying resident a District 99 parent for the last 14 years and a District 99 dgs graduate I have been a part of the District 99 family since I entered the doors of dgs as a student in 1986 while I understand there comes a time where spending and costs need to be reduced it can come at a high price not only financially in the long term when the anti anticipated outcome is not achieved but also personally in the
089short term lives are affected families are affected dreams are affected and specifically for me and my co-workers our dgn family is affected and devastated to have our cgn family possibly outsourced during my time at dgn our CMG team supervised by Michelle Canon and Nicole robach have excelled their work through the building remodel plan event setups and daily maintenance of our amazing building they have added in the security of our building during the school day and after hours they and their team succeed at everything they do and oversee as current employees of District 99 I would also like to know what other options have been considered for possible cost cutting to prevent the result of Outsourcing in regards to federal state funding decreasing being provided is one of the reasons in impacting this proposal I would
090like to know how this directly affects the expenses for our CMG Department are they currently receiving grants and assistance from state and federal funding in regards to school building safety what are the long-term effects for outsourcing that could affect our daily Building Safety and Security as non d99 employees are given full access to our buildings every school day while faculty staff and students are in the building School Board you are presented with a decision to make on this proposal I ask that you each examine it carefully of how this can impact the future of the district not only financially but as a whole what is being offered might sign like an incredible transitional package for an employee that has just begun their career with d99 but for those who have vested their time service and
091a passion for doing their job for d99 we would suffer a huge loss you each represent our community and our district and our responsible for your decision to protect the Safety and Security of our d99 family which includes our CMG Department as a part of us our current CMG family is our backbone for the daily operations of our district 99 buildings thank you our next speaker is Quenton Brown thank you appreciate you in the world we're living in today every second every minute every hour and every day is a challenge the ones before me that paved the way for us to be in this moment that includes the ones that's been in District 99 for 10 20 30 plus years devotional relationships are often discussed yet rarely understood and taken for granted conditions have changed
092from the beginning to time leading up to the existence we stand here stand right here today physically psychologically socially environmentally and most importantly in my favorite spiritually 511 Mr Maguire first and foremost said we want to acknowledge and recognize your hard work and dedication to District 99 to see and to hear that didn't feel good to us everybody's inar everybody was upset we're not only a great CMG team but we're a family a big family yes we may disagree on things cuz families fight we all do but it never stops us from doing what needs to be done including helping others which is important most importantly taking care of our kids for District 99 and having the opportunity to earn the trust of the community plus teachers and coaches and security there's no school without
093a maintenance crew there's no school without custodial there's no school without grounds and most importantly there's no school there's no place to call home for work without Michelle Nicole and Monica they have dominated in a role that most people wouldn't believe a woman can do no matter what's throw my boss's way or my co-workers we show up for the kids because we represent this community Mr Maguire also said this decision is not a reflection of our performance the white gy is a reflection of our performance the locker rooms outside the lunchroom classrooms hallways is all reflections of our work and that's why the community enjoys us taking care of their kids prepping them up and also giving them that [Applause] positivity all sweat tears and sacri even blood is nothing to sneeze at but to
094be taken with gratitude respect and honor vacation sick time PTO and imrf is well deserved when anyone retires with the blessing that awaits them for hard work and dedication it should never be tampered with District 9/ CMG walks through those doors and we show up to work and give the best that we have in our hearts thank you for the privilege of representing District 99 for South and North God bless all of you uh Jeffrey uh Tes is up next good evening uh first and foremost I'd like to thank the board and everyone here who showed up for CMG tonight my name is Jeffrey TW a maintenance mechanic at North High School I've been with the district for 3 years now in that time I've truly learned what it means to trust care belong prepare
095and evolve not just to a job but to the district and Community as a whole I timly love working for d99 and especially being part of the CMG team it brings me great pride to know that our department keeps the school safe clean and operational on a daily basis this is possible because of the dedication of our department with this being said it makes my two-hour commute to and from work work worth every Mile in CMG we are a family we feel this way because of relationships we've established not only with each other but the Administration staff and Community as well voting on separating our employment would not only devastate our department it would shy away from the core values that have been enlisted in us as being a part of the d99 family belong
096prepare evolve care and Trust I plead you consider what you hear from the testimonials tonight that you do not cash your vote in favor of the change and keep CMG part of the district 99's family thank you our final slip for the night is Bobby [Applause] dado Mr Z props are not allowed for the presentation to the board you have three minutes thank you um the schools my name is is Bobby Zeto thank you a school's job is to keep the students safe we heard a lot about that and thank you for all the staff the second job is to educate students so what we've seen last week dgn has 17 students with two FS we saw dgs has 107 students with two fs and the reason for that was the demographic of families in
097Downers Grove South that was odd uh year-over-year in literature and the ability to read at grade level Downers Grove South students have dropped 10% this is unacceptable what is the reason for this so that's what I brought in here students do not receive books maybe if you're in an AP class you get a book but if you don't you're expected to have a social studies class where the teachers can get any secondary source they can get a Google article that tells you that using continents is racist that Christians are racist against Asians and that Jihad is good the chair is here I had a meeting with him and principal lip that told me this is what they can teach at dgs so that's a big problem so the question is what is the board and
098how is DJs going to help um improve that 10% loss and the ability to read my second point my second point is an audit at dgs on pornography I didn't used to think pornography could be an issue at dgs and then my son received a the book twice the main character was showering you couldn't see the nipple but up you could and then the next couple Pages you knew she was nude from the back and then from the waist up full frontal my son is not old enough to see this and the school gives him this book so let's do an audit on is there is there more is there more pornography he's given a book in literature with the fword and the MF word on every page we discussed this in pipeline um thank
099you uh doctor I really appreciate and I had emailed you I look forward to more feedback on that so to have a hearing the book would say MF MF MF son of a b my a in the book on multiple Pages 137 pages each page had at least the F or the MF word so these types of books should be removed from the school the school would have a lot more cohesion and that's it I thank you for your time thank you all thank you okay item number 12 Communications and announcements um Jenny do you have a report on lend yeah sort of um we will have another meeting on Friday which will be more up to date the last meeting that we had at the end of February we had a guest speaker from
100the aasa which is a national superintendent Association um and she sort of gave a high level overview of what's going on in Washington and you know how districts you know how it's going to affect districts and what we can be looking for and being mindful of um as we process some of the changes and the legislation that's being proposed um going through both the federal system and then you know more locally our our state session which is quite busy so um that was pretty much the whole meeting um and we will have our regular land of business meeting on Friday so I'll have more to report then all right thanks all right Chris can I get a report or an update on sassin uh nothing new to report we haven't had a meeting since the
101uh last one okay yeah we're working on Staffing models just like we are here and Facilities just like we are here so good Terry do you have anything to report on the Education Foundation no we are not meeting till Wednesday so okay um Ken anything to report on Ias B no nothing report okay Charelle any report on the downers growth plan commission nothing for me okay all right um in upcoming board meetings we have uh our next meeting will be April 7th 2025 um for Workshop meeting here at the ASC at 6:30 p.m. uh followed by April 21st 2025 we will have a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. at the ASC followed by our regular business meeting here again at 6:35 p.m. on May 1st 2025 we plan to have a special meeting with an
102action item at 6:30 p.m. then on May 5th 2025 we will have a workshop meeting at 6:30 pm. and then immediately on that same night we'll have a May 5th 2025 board organizational meeting where we will install the new members after the election at 700 p.m. at ASC item number 14 uh we'll be going into close session can I get a motion from the board of educ to go into close session for a collective negotiating matters between the district and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees and B the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the district or legal counsel for the district
103including hearing testimony on a compl lodged against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting or a volunteer of the district or against legal counsel for the district to determine its validity so moved second Terry moves Charelle seconds thank you very much Terry pavich I Charelle Fuller I Jenny hagstrom hi caric Caston hi hen Dawson hi Mr Bosa hi and Don rener I motion carries you know I often say this but this actually means something tonight um the only action that the board will be taking when we come out of Clos session will be to adjourn so there there's not much that you'll see if you if you stay around so my first board meeting yes thank you for coming well thanks for coming thank
104you all hey don don don don don don let me say something before they leave I just want to thank all of you people for coming out here I think it's awesome to be part of a community where you can actually show up and your opinion and your passion is heard and felt and uh it's just great to be part of donal's Grove and and d99 and our family what it stands for so a lot so thank you thank you for coming support y thank you thank you thank you very all right uh shortly once we once