001e e e okay it's 6:30 Julie will you call the role please certainly Cara Caston here Ken Dawson here Chris Espinosa here cherelle Fuller here Jenny Hegstrom here Terry pavisic here Don Runner here and Jason Trio here thank you all right having a quum let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Al 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 [Applause] all all right Hank I'll turn the first item over item number three for recognition all right uh last Friday was school board members day in Illinois today is our first uh meeting after that so we get an opportunity to publicly recognize our board members uh a reminder for the community they are volunteer positions uh thank
002you all for all that you do to represent the students and staff and Community uh as you sit on the board here uh as a token of our apprec appreciation we gave you calories because we need spend them wisely uh but uh thank you all for all that you do thank you thank [Applause] you all right item number four um can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve the minutes of the October 2st 2024 business meeting the October 21st 2024 closed meeting and the November 4th 2024 Workshop meeting so moved second Terry moves Ken seconds thank you very much Terry pavisic hi Ken Dawson hi CHR Espinosa I charl fuller Jenny hagstrom hi car Kon I and Don Runner I motion carries item number five Julie do we have any slips
003we do not sir all right thank you Hank I'll turn for item number six please yep we go got experience I'll hand the remote the clicker here over to Gina all right good evening good evening so one of our indicators and measures we're going to talk about tonight uh in doing so I have Jake Giblin who is our associate principal for in curriculum and instruction at South and Keith Pals who is North counterpart and we're going to share with you some data regarding Capstone experience so as I said um Capstone experience is part of our indicators and measures and that's about really having students engage in experiences sometimes courses sometimes individualized experiences that we could would consider as Capstone and really to provide them with an opportunity to hone in on areas that really interest
004them and This falls in the indicator that's um involving student engagement in post-secondary planning so why is it important for students to participate or engage in Capstone experiences and so obviously we believe that these experiences which are rigorous specialized experiences as I said oftentimes focused on a particular area that of their own interest um these experiences go in depth they provide skills and learning that align to whatever their passions may be and their own goals as a student by taking these experiences students have an opportunity not only to challenge themselves but really to see what it is like in that particular area in some cases it may affirm a student's desire to go into a particular area or study a particular area in other cases it may actually do the opposite which is also valuable
005for students um as they really try to determine what interests them and you may recall each year that we did report on Capstone experience um but with that I'm going to turn it over to Jake so previously when we had talked about Capstone experiences we focused on kind of three things um either AP or dual credit courses um maybe the highest level course in a pathway so even though it was not maybe AP or dual credit depending on the the the study uh just the highest level there and then anything that was honors or grade weighted and so when we use those criteria um the next slide will show you kind of the data we would typically produce this is the most recent version um and what you're going to see is for the district
006just the total number of enrollments um in a particular year throughout the district um and the percentage of students enrolled in Capstone courses in that particular year um so you'll see that we've got the unique students and the total enrollments but it is year byye um in terms of how we're tracking it with that keid will present what we're going to look at now so after uh reviewing our why and thinking about this um we've added two more criteria to the Capstone courses and that would be the career-based work experiences or the individual student experiences depending on all of the different things our students do um so for the work-based experiences it may be an internship it may be something that they do at tcd at the technical center of the page and for the
007leadership uh leadership experience it would be my individual student experience example so we have some snowall snowball uh leaders over the weekend that might fall into that category we had some students go over to Europe this summer for an International Leadership uh group um so those would fall um in those two categories so we're also going to change a beep the way we're the way we're looking at the data um there as well so where is the data that Jake shared um was focused on the entire school year and that took into account all students in all grades taking these courses we're now going to be looking directly at cohort data by graduation year so doing so is going to help us align the information with the goal so that we can identify students we
008may want to support because again the goal is all students will engage in a Capstone experience um or be supported doing so so we want to make sure we can identify all those individual students uh right now just for um everybody this is Baseline data as we start to look into and dive into this goal so in summary we've expanded what we consider a Capstone experience which is the new criteria and the new methodology is doing it by class or you know the class of 2025 so they may have taken a Capstone sophomore year or junior year or senior at some point in the four years that they are with us okay so this is our Baseline data as we move forward certainly class of 2025 is an estimate based on what we know right
009now so you have like a thousand students unique students am I reading that right so how does that translate to 95% of total graduates so 1,58 is 94% of our graduating class potential graduating class this year that's our estimate obviously so we usually have in our senior class okay oh both school okay both schools yeah both schol so so it'll be over 1100 I don't I'd have to pull up the exact number I see sorry I wasn't thinking I know that's all right bad math any other what um so a student who traveled abroad this summer to Europe what would that be a Capstone of like what international studies is it history is it so that's uh I think a little bit of both because it was also an opportunity to build some leadership knowledge
010as well and to um experience that with others from around from but leadership in and of itself is not really a course right that's no that's correct some of this is based on the idea that we're trying to look for um classes or uh things that students can participate in that would prepare them for um either College obviously with AP courses and type of courses they take but also for um leadership experiences that would translate to job and career Readiness as well and so some of that was when we were trying to think through what are some experiences that could um give someone uh maybe not direct uh in a particular field but General experience that would translate into the workforce that's where some of those came in in our discussions but you're right it
011is not like a specific um line of coursework it is about the experience itself and at this time again it says estimate for a reason right those are not factored in that 94% is based on coursework right now and you felt that the old methodology just wasn't capturing the full amount experiences it wasn't capturing all of the experiences and especially after we receive feedback from our district leadership team which is composed primarily of our department chairs and getting feedback from them on what courses they believe really apply also in the old methodology it was two go back real quick so they had to meet two of the following so it had to be an AP or dual credit course it had to be the highest level in a pathway it had to be an honors
012level or grade weighted in some cases uh we have AP or dual credit courses that are not um well dual credit courses that are not honors weighted and certainly in some cases that are not part of a pathway so by definition to look at courses it also changes only one of the following so even though we added the career-based work experience which is factored in there for the most part although there may be some that we don't know about yet individual experiences so we have an internship class those students we know are engaging in an internship right they're doing it through school there may be and there often times are experiences that students have that they've arranged outside of school even internships paid internships primarily that we don't usually get that knowledge directly from the
013student unless we're asking those questions when they're like meeting with their counselors or filling out surveys so also it wasn't just adding the courses it was changing it from two of the criteria to one of the criteria and I think doing it by class makes sense did the student engage in a Capstone experience as opposed to the percent of students that engaged in a given one academic school year um how do we assess success here because by changing this criteria it looks like we're knocking it out of the park um should we be expanding this to the number of kids who are doing two or more Capstone arrangements or is this are we happy with this and this is this is commensurate with what's happening in our district and we should all be padding ourselves
014on the back I mean certainly it wouldn't be bad for students to engage in more than one Capstone course especially when you consider some courses fit together okay so for example we have financial accounting and we have managerial accounting Stu either one of them is a Capstone managerial is at the honors level financial accounting is a dual credit course so they both meet the criteria would a student who especially is considering going to school to learn accounting that probably would be great to take both so certainly there are going to be money to fit that criteria um especially as as some of the students work pth um in the pathways for the diploma endorsement they have to take multiple courses in order to even get that endorsement so that also factors into here too and
015in some cases too we have for example AP microeconomics and AP macroeconomics under this new criteria taking one would qualify but many students take both we even have personal economics which is not a Capstone but it isn't because it's not the highest level in that pathway so those are just a few examples okay to well I'm just saying like you know I don't think we're ever going to get to 100% that's probably an unattainable goal we can support students we can explain what the rationale is for engaging in Capstone experiences and we can offer students that so that's part is the supporting part but whether or not 100% of students are actually going to engage that's a different okay that's clearly so all we can do is look at where we're at today and where
016we were in 2023 and use this new methodology going forward and that'll be our Baseline for comparing how we're doing in the future years and encourage and we're certainly getting information out to students so for example in our academic planning guide which we publish every year um which is accessible to families we put down for each Capstone course if they were Capstone so you know it will say for example you know AP C ulous Capstone course so that families are aware of it and students um just food for thought um you know if next year it's 96% 95% that just tells me that we're doing a really good job with getting students to take at least one of these Capstone courses um I guess I would be interested to know how many students are you
017know doing multiple and is that percentage staying static or are we getting more kids to do multiple Capstone courses that might be an interesting data point sure just to and there may be some more fluctuation there potentially absolutely uh just curious um on the um Capstone enrollment by year under the old methodology there was a spike in 2021 any reason why that occurred in 2021 then we kind of regressed in 22 and 23 and then we're back kind of to where we were in 2021 just curious yeah I don't know of any particular reason I can't think of a particular course that escalated substantially or set of we certainly have increased our dual credit over the years so uh if we were to go back about 5 years we were at about I want to
018say 350 maybe 370 students and we're well over 500 so some of that could could pair up with the Dual credit cuz we have definitely I didn't know if it was maybe an expansion of Capstone courses maybe that year okay the the old criteria was pretty much the old criteria for a very long time um that's not to say we didn't add some courses along the way certainly we did but I can't think of any one particular course that would impact 21 okay I mean you're in the beginning of Co there right so you had a year where there was a semester with no failures yep and no failing assignments because we went virtual in 2020 but and we but we were already pass course enrollments and everything at that well that that's yeah just
019a group different group of students yeah I mean that's that's also the disadvantage of the old uh methodology it's a different group every year and we're just looking at that year in school MH as opposed to look looking at the class of and what they're doing over the four years okay are there any additional requirements now that these career-based work experiences and individual student experiences are now Capstone like do you do an independent project do you I don't know like to be now in this Capstone category is there something that comes along with that so we'll look at each individually each experien individually I don't anticipate having hundreds of them by you know or impacting you know that many student students um but we'll look at each on an individual basis to determine whether or
020not it pairs up with what students would be getting out of some of those courses okay any other questions thanks thank you thank you both thank you thank you thanks the next one too it's all me oh sorry I'm so used to you having the clicker no you have the clicker all right so last week we or last time we met we talked about school report card and we looked at two areas we looked at our Summit of designation and we looked at graduation rates and one of the reasons we looked at graduation rates is because that is 50% of our rating so tonight we're going to look at two other areas not quite 50 % but important areas that make up some of the academic measures of the school port card and we're specifically
021going to look at 9th grade on track and our SAT data we'll also look tonight at our data relative to growth from PSAT to SAT but PSAT data is not on our school report card so we're going to look at some school report card things but we're also going to look at some growth between the assessments so these are the two areas we're looking at uh for ninth grade on track that is 8.33% of our rating and that's an area I've reported out to the board pretty much annually for a very long time it's an area that is really a focus area for us because we know that it's very very important that students get a great start and it directly impacts your graduation rate look at students that are not on track after 9th
022grade there's definitely a correlation sure many of them get back on track but we want students to get off to a great start and so that's an area we focused on for a while and then as I said we'll look at sat sat between the ELA and the math composes 15% of our rating so tonight we're looking at just under a quarter of our rating so nth grade on track in order for a nth grader to be considered on track they must earn a minimum of five credits that does not count summer school so during the school year they have to earn five credits and they cannot fail more than one of what we would consider core classes so that would be English Math Science Social Studies and if the student has a reading class
023not all of our students have a reading class but we do have some students and that does also count this is a criteria that's set by the state so as we look at at how our students are doing in terms of ninth grade on track you can see um that in so last year so 2024 the 23 24 school year our rate was 96.3% so 96.3% of our freshmen were considered by the state on track compared to 88.2% which is the average of the state um which means that we're a little bit higher than the previous year different group of students of course um but we are also and this is where I think it's more important we're about we're 1% higher than our average of The Last 5 Years obviously 2020 was The Big
024Year where there was limited failures um and so that impacted our rating even if you were to go to for example 2018 and 19 um we hovered just under 95% we were at 94.6 on 2019 and in 2018 we were 95.1 so we're higher if you were to exclude 2020 but I wanted to keep it there because the state actually did provide that data on the report card that year unlike sat which I'll talk about in just a minute so for nth grade on track we are higher than our average and0 2 higher than the previous year so now we'll look at SAT scores we're going to look first at meets and exceeds and that is what the state looks at the state does not look necessarily look at average scores they look on at
025whether or not the student met exceeded standards and as we've explained in the past Illinois uses higher bar than the college board so you can see that our scores this is in the evidence-based reading and writing which counts for the ELA um evidence-based reading and writing we are down a little bit 2.3% um the state also went down and we're slightly below the average again different class of students taking it every year but we're down a little bit from previous years and this is the where I was stating that I skipped a year still gave you five years but that's because of um not having those test scores so this is mostly what Juniors and seniors we're looking at here Juniors Juniors okay there could be some seniors that's true so if a the way
026it works is if a student doesn't test junior year for particular reason they depending on the reason that they didn't test they're required them to test senior year okay we usually have a really small number of seniors testing and that is because it is a graduation requirement so then they have to test senior year there are some reasons for absence junior year where they don't have to test senior year but it's limited so this slide here Compares um the Dage High School Districts these are the high school districts not unit districts um in the state or in the area I'm sorry in the county um one of the things that I appreciate about looking at it this way is we also look at the state and where dup page rates in terms of the state
027so the blue bar is District 99 as you can see um again evidence-based reading and writing this is for ELA you can see the county went down as well so we went from 45.7% in 23 to 43.4 the county went from 37.4 to 34.2 and then you can see how do you explain that like what's what what's the discussion amongst the professionals as to why we see a countywide and district and Statewide reduction there could be a lot of reasons again it's a different class every year we also went digital which they changed the test and we went digital the College Board would say that the scores are still accurate scores and representative of of what students are able to do um but there was a change in the test whether or not that accounts
028for it whether or not there's proximate cause I can't I can't say for sure um but that is one factor to consider is it interesting to you that the state average didn't drop that much while the DuPage while DuPage dropped a lot more than Statewide very interesting yeah any because if you were to argue explation it's a different group of kids yeah it's a different group of kids every year yeah but it's that's a big subset that you'll see cohort here in a second how many how many students or I mean how many schools is that to cage county is it like five so those are the districts so each district has a different number of schools of course so obviously we have two schools Lake Park is one although two campuses Fenton is one
029uh 94 is one 88 is two schools glenart is four schools Hinsdale is two schools and the state is obviously the state so um so this is again evidence-based reading and writing the dup page High School Districts as you can see they're colorcoded couple things to note um about this is that um you can see where we lie we're in kind of that bluish purple color um in terms of evidence you're writing and most years we have been second or fighting for second uh among the high school districts and 2024 is pretty comparable with what the other years were in terms of us neck and neck fighting for second place out of the high school districts D paage really dropped in 24 I mean they it's a different group of kids each year kids and
030slightly different test yeah I mean that's really different delivery of the test frightening yeah but remember not who knows what this year does it's a different this year is going to be the Act Right it so it's going to it's not we will not have any longitudinal data like apples and oranges right but one thing to point out again the the College Board would say your College and Career ready with a 480 on the evidence-based reading and writing section to meet you have to be at 530 for Illinois so that's 50 points higher which means you're already falling in that like upper third of all test takers Nationwide which are not all states that require that use the SAT as their accountability measure okay so not that that accounts for everything but when you consider
031it that way um but you're absolutely right we will we will lose our longitudinal data mhm which is really sad it'll take us a couple years to bounce back because they are doing you know act secure 9 our freshman will take then preac secure sophomores and then act Juniors so we will and all three grades will do it this year so in roughly three years we'll have we'll be back to longitudinal data and don't you think external factors too like the way the colleges are treating a lot of colleges yeah at first like we're not even looking at it now it's starting to come back and like it just I how is that sturing yeah everything goes in a c i feel like there are so many variables it's yeah and I think it e
032and flows a little bit with that too how many students in April of their junior year know exactly where they're going to go they might be going between three four schools at that point April or more for some and remember this isn't their best score this is the score on that one test day that's true right which is the state test day is the way to go which actually be a little bit different this year since she brought up act because they're testing Windows um a twoe windows so same idea for math um you can see that in 2024 44.5% of our students met um which is obviously down from the previous year state is not down as much as um as we are but they're down a little bit more than they actually were
033for the evidence-based reading and writing um and that average of 47.9% I mean that's really because of the one year that we peaked um yeah 19 yeah was a strong year or an easy test one of the two one of the two I'm going to say smart kid yeah absolutely um so this is again comparing but this is for math of course for the DuPage High School Districts um and you can see as I said we went down the high school districts also declined yeah and then the state went think some of it is don't you think some of it is students are are getting um back into the swing of test taking and all of that after after covid because perhaps with with Co they didn't have to worry about testing as much not
034as much yeah well and I think years years so the change in colleges is I mean that you look the first bar there is when the you know majority of colleges were requiring a standardized test as part of their admissions process all of the years following 21 through 24 are where that changed after covid I mean it it is got to be a huge jury though all of those cohorts drop as well it's not like we took a dip and nobody else did right the state took that same drop the county took the drop we took the drop that societally e either something's changing in the test or something's changing in how society's responding to the test that's not just our little group by itself own and then the same idea here for math in
035comparing it to the other high school districts we're in that kind of bluish purplish color um and as you can see um you know pretty much um for the most part second among the high school districts consistently yeah with a little bit of fighting for second place the one year 2019 is the time everyone does everyone take the test at the same time so the way the state used to do it there was a day where you had the this is your date um when it went digital and and moving forward even with act there's more windows where we have this year we have we get to select now it's a different test this year it's act as you know was pointed out but we get to select which days but it's still okay like
036a few weeks mhm a couple weeks so it's not a huge variable yeah all right so now so what I just showed you is all data you can get from the school report card you could look on the other District school report card and you could see that data what I'm shifting to now is not on the school report card so I just want to make that clear because um so much of the time I'm talking about school report card data so what we're going to talk about now is looking at how our students are doing their growth from test to test okay and in doing that we Purp Pur L are looking at the cohort of students who have been in District 99 for all three tests in other words as freshman they took
037PSAT 89 as sophomores they took psat1 and as Juniors they took sat so is it every single student not necessarily we're looking for those that have been our students for those three years okay so what this uh shows is the average score for the evidence-based reading and writing of those students for the class of 2025 so when they were freshmen took the test what was their average score so an evidence based reading and writing it was 4 79.4 The Benchmark the expectation to be moving towards College and Career Readiness is 410 so we were above by 69.4 Matt same idea 4774 the benchmark's higher that's higher for each of the tests by the way for math you'll see that and our students average 27.4 higher than the College Board Benchmark psat1 is taking sophomore year
038you notice that the scores increase our average score for evidencebased reading and writing was 500. 5 The Benchmark is 430 it also obviously increases as the number of points you can receive on the test increase and 49.4 was the average over the college K Benchmark same idea with math 4935 480 is The Benchmark and our students average 13 Point 13 and 1 12 points above that benchmark so this is looking at again class of 2025 when they were 11th graders taking the SAT if we were to use the College Board benchmarks okay remember the state benchmarks are higher we know that this is using the College Board data um our average score was 5343 The Benchmark is 480 and um that means that our average is above by 54 points and when you look at
039what the average grow should be 70.9% of our students met or exceeded that growth out of that group of students at cohort of students for math 535.148 and about 50% of our students a little bit over that men met that Benchmark you notice that the College Board Benchmark and the state Benchmark for math are very very similar we also look at the growth between tests so PSAT 89 to 10 about 87% of our students met that growth so what the expectation is for growth between n9th grade and 10th grade tests 87% met that on average and for math the average was 82.7% and then looking at the 10th grade test so growth between sophomore year testing and junior year testing and they're both at the same time of year by the way so again the
040average score was 5.5 we saw that before for the evidence-based reading and writing 81% of our students met the expected growth math a little bit lower at 4935 the average being 535 for sat put us about 88% so our students are definitely growing on average certainly there are subgroups that we look at there are certain groups of students that are not necessarily all meeting it but we're looking at over 80% of our students meeting it in uh evidence-based reading and writing and math the expected growth between tests the expected growth is the difference of the College Board Benchmark from the 10th grade PSAT to the 11th grade sat yes but we literally go almost score by score so let's say a student 400 they should grow just I'm making this up now I don't have
041the concordance tables in front of me but like 450 so then all the 400s did they make 450 if they had 410 what should they be 460 you know and we go not necessarily student by student but range by range if that makes sense what the range should be and determine did they meet or not meet and then that 81% for the evidence-based reading and writing and the 88.1% for math is a number students that met so even though we have just like roughly a little over 50% meeting The Benchmark for math you're saying those students who are falling below benmark are still moving up yes they're still growing at a rate that is expected yes and so the College Board gives for each score what the expected range is and those students are meeting
042or falling within the range exactly so isn't it just surprising that that's not higher for the score that actually matters the SAT compared to the practice ones the percentage does that does that surprise you even if I think that our students by and large take all three test series I'm not sure I understood the question what am I if I look at the act the percent that met exceeded for the actual sat compared to the pre-tests the percentages are the lowest isn't that right my question is like if that's the test that actually matters yeah just curious yeah but again I think that goes back to what percentage of students have the opportunity and finances to take it multiple times and how many people you know is that the one that you've had tutoring but
043you know I just M I think there's a lot of external factors that really muddy and it's not necessarily their highest score for some students that might be the first time they take it right exactly for other students it's not it's their second maybe even third time they take it was this it'll be a class that had the opportunity to take that review course that we offered yeah okay and we are offering uh act review as well well we're transitioning obviously to act because the test is changing um but um but during resource it's a little bit different than the class was last year but we will be offering review and we're focusing um much of that review on math which is the area where we seem to need to focus which makes sense based
044on the scores now again it's a different test so we'll have Baseline data next year that's the challenge of all of this right if if we had been using sat consistently for a decade we'd be able to show you class by class are they making expected growth are we improving that Trend or going the other way like all of those things but by changing the test multiple times and format of the test multiple time it just it makes it really difficult for us to tell you based on standardized test data what does this mean about student performance I mean you could look at the numbers you can see what they are we could try to guess what caused those things to change but it's really hard to use that as an academic measure the state
045even recognizes that it's when you look at our house and what it's buil out built out of it very small portion of that are these scores right um and by the state changing it to a new test this year that test going digital the following year Illinois has put itself in this same kind of cycle data even without the external factors of what colleges and universities are doing around standardized testing it just it's a really hard way for us to rate ourselves year over-year which is why I commend the board for challenging us to put together our own indicators and measures of things that we value that we can track year over-year to see if we're making growth in the areas that are important to the board any other questions for Gina thanks Gina we
046we ask questions as we go along all right now we're going to shift gears to talk about uh things that support the learning so that that can happen where we talk about our facilities and planning and capital planning and um one of the things that's important to note is that we've had a lot of conversations to get to this point right now with the information that I'm going to provide uh to you and um had had a lot of different conversations at the building level about what are what are your needs in the building and they've done a really good job of of saying hey here's here are things that we want to tackle that uh they have a ongoing list and this is not everything that's on the list right this is uh things
047that they've prioritized in looking at as well as um having some conversations uh with specifically with jeree and talking about okay what's our what's our process what what have we gone through what have we done in the past and one of the things that that we're shifting a little bit is that we're obviously presenting possible projects tonight right but then we're going to be looking at the financial projections in January to say how much of that is feasible now now that we know what what our projections are we have a better understanding of what our financial picture looks like what does that look like um in the intermediate we're going to be doing work on Gathering bids that we need to uh so that if we can move forward with the different projects we're able
048to say okay let's go uh we're ready to we're ready to run with that obviously any bids that uh we need to have approval we'll be bringing to the board uh for for such so that is a a different process than than what we have done in the past um some other things that that we've talked about that are are different um is related to how how we've had this structured we've talked about it as capital uh in the totality what we're talking about is both facility and capital planning so facility improvements so I'm going to go and break this down um by building and uh different areas so when we talk about facility maintenance and improvements at each building we're looking at those five things in the building budget that is going to go
049towards improvements and maintenance uh in total between both buildings it's just over $252,000 and the funding source tried to lay that out for each of these things so you understand where that's coming from uh we're looking at the fiscal year 26 budget is where that funding source is going to come from this is nothing new uh what we did was we had this in our Capital list where really this is a purchase service or repairs type of things that's not really capital in looking at it but we want to make sure and include that when we look at the numbers because that's what you guys have seen for a good number of years then when we move on um and we'll talk specifically about capital projects um we do have two drivered vehicles that we
050need to replace uh we have already gone through and secured some quotes for these we think that 60,000 is going to be that ballpark um currently right now we're looking at our uh sourcewell has some Cooperative purchasing uh incentives there and so we're looking at that Avenue as well as some fleet pricing so we've we've submitted um an application to get Fleet pricing we're waiting to hear back on that and then we'll be able to see what those prices look like uh once we have that but that is definitely something we have two older driver head vehicles that we're um that we need to replace we've been uh having a lot of repairs and even yet this year uh we continue to have those so we'll be uh planning for that and again that's going
051to come from the fiscal year 26 Budget moving on to specifically at North the total estimated for these projects is uh just over $35,000 again this would come from the fiscal year 26 budget and these are the different things that they have identified that say hey these are the things the projects the bigger ticket prices that that we want to go and that we want to tackle I want to specifically talk about the garage rooftop uh replacement that's something that has been needing to be addressed for some time but we are also uh going to submit as we're going to talk about next uh the school uh maintenance Grant from ISB so 50,000 of that um will be if you will come off of that it will apply to that so our cost in that
052project would be $125,000 so um that's that's a grant that we're going to apply for and we'll apply for it every year that we can that is uh it's a pretty straightforward application process and as long as the state has those funds available we're going to go after those go after those funds where is that at what is where is that the garage it's um by the tennis courts yes right right next to the tennis field building to the side okay yep yep and and we're working with white on that on that project um they're they've helped with the the different application uh aspects and the the age and and what needs to be done uh with that specific rooftop replacement so then when we move to South uh we have uh $250,000 is what
053we're looking at for these three projects again fiscal year 26 budget um these are more furniture flooring uh specifics when you're looking at Aesthetics and and functionality those divider walls much like what we did in here um they they are not working as well uh this will provide a lot more flexibility in those in those spaces as well moving on this is something that we talked about last year um and we actually had uh in our conversation um we had an estimated cost of $600,000 when we actually again working through those um The Cooperative purchasing agreements uh I worked and got three different bids um for these these different projects when I got the first one I was like wait a minute that's I I knew it was going to be I thought it was
054going to be higher but I didn't think it would be this much higher but that is that's the number uh when we look at it so we're we're confident in that um so we if you remember working uh cash Bond proceeds for athletic improvements we had $600,000 uh set aside for this work you can see that it's at least double that uh you can notice the range because there are that is for to have the floor uh and the surface look exactly like it does right now um but also there are variances in whether you can go over top of it or whether you have to start from scratch and and take it off in demo so you can see there's a a range of of prices that are there so what we are doing
055this is not in uh when we look at that number it is very off from what we had and what we were planning so what we're looking at doing is uh pushing this back delaying it to Summer of 26 uh and then utilizing our fiscal year 27 budget numbers for that knowing that we need to budget for and plan for uh plan for that project is it going to be okay to do that well we can make it we can make it work for a another year is there any repairs that you can do in the meantime or there's nothing else that we need to to do at this point because isn't it basically pitted is it is what its problem is it it is old it's 20 they're 20 to 25 years old um
056so yes they are they are BN and and 04 I believe because my daughter there you go yeah there you go um it is it is not we don't feel like it's a a safety hazard in in looking at well that's what I was more concerned about no but it it definitely um it it needs to be addressed and and one of the things I'll I'll say that from um the other the other work if you if we go back to the the beginning one of the things that we had um in this was you can see Fieldhouse painting so we are going to do some work in those spaces to get ready for that so we have Fieldhouse painting that we're going to do in both of those spaces as well as you'll you'll
057see we're going to work on some lighting uh projects as well so then moving on one of the things that we are uh we are looking at doing um one of the charges that that we heard loud and clear last year was how can we save on our electricity what does that look like so we've been doing a lot of work in and um investigating that to see some options uh so we had um we had some different work done by we work with nania energy um and they did some estimations on some solar work um at both you can see at both the ASC and at t99 part of our challenges are in our buildings we've had the roofs looked at and structurally um we can't just use our our rooftops um so we
058look to say okay where can we use them um we have a newer roof here um as you know we just had a new addition put on at t99 as well as we replaced the other roof if you remember so we looked at that we have uh both of those projects come in at those figures you can also see that we would have some rebates from ComEd uh totaling just over $47,000 and then that following year we would see some federal investment tax credit uh at just under $187,000 those have paybacks of five and six years so when you look at that um they that is they are 100% um there's no additional electricity or delivery charges that would go in and out of these buildings um so they would be 100% sufficient with the
059uh with the array that would be placed on top of the roofs um as well as we would have some additional incentives that I've I've noted there we also looked at some different LED uh lighting our pool at North is in dire needs of of getting new Lighting in there uh the bulbs that are are in there and as we go through and and we go to replace them um they they don't make those and as we're going through it is precarious to even get a light bulb changed uh the way that the deck is laid out and where the lights are placed um we need we need to have those lights uh lights replaced and then you can see at both schools um Fieldhouse LED lighting and Stadium LED lighting are things that we're
060looking at as potential projects uh in total you're looking at just over a million dollars for that um we are working on we have not received yet but a study on that lighting and seeing what the the payback is in those areas that those are large consumption areas uh that the lights are on a lot and so we expect that that the turn uh turnaround and payback is going to be pretty quick on those on those spaces so you'll notice the funding source we shifted gears here this is from the fire prevention and safety funds that's from fund 90 we have funds currently in in fund 90 that we can utilize uh for this project as well as I'm going to talk about Paving uh next and so that is something again that we're working
061with white on uh in the process that we need to go through um Jer was talking with some colleagues and this is something that is um out there as a as an availability we we studied it we had lots of conversations and this is something that we want to tackle and try and go after as uh something to get these Pro these types of projects um done so that is something that we would utilize white and they would have uh paperwork that they would have to fill out and and we would get submitted additionally in the same vein uh we have some Paving work that needs to be done uh pavers in the in the actual stadium and the Gated area as well as the walkway that's between uh the stadium and the other turfield
062uh those need to be addressed uh there's some safety concerns there as well as our B bus parking lot uh needs to be milled and resurfaced at South as well as the seal coating thank you seal coating the uh visitor parking lot so we're looking at those things this is a different uh process that you have to do uh we do have to if we go after this path we do have to have a public hearing so we're investigating this further um and if we do that that would be something that we would want want to bring to the December 16th board meeting for a hearing uh to be able to move forward at least to work on these projects and see what that looks like um again remember anytime that we go out for
063bid we can always deny them we can say you know what we thought we were looking at these as potential it's not something that we are uh going to be taking on but this is these are two Avenues uh that we feel strongly that this would provide us with a great opportunity of the fund 90 do we have money in that fund yes how much do we have in there I'll defer to jury on that around 1.5 million okay so that would cover um not everything but it'll cover a majority we believe it would cover it all it would it would cover these two things those those energy conservation and the paving okay all right yep sorry just why why does Paving require a public meeting it it is something that they that's in isb's
064uh rules that that's something that you need to do for any of the other areas there's other things that you can use fun 90 funds for but for pavings specifically um I I not exactly sure the exact why but that's what they have in their rules so when we look at the overall of of all of the different uh areas that we we talked about those are the totals um in some for the different areas um one of the things I I laid out a timeline of of what this uh this kind of looks like so right now obviously uh presenting to you guys we're still investigating and solidifying that the funding to pay for these uh projects um we're going to continue to uh go through and prepare any Associated bids that we would
065need to um and get those going and bring those if that is something after we look at the financial projections in in January we say yes this is something that we can afford and that we can do and we would bring those to the board for approval you can see I also noted on there the December 16th uh public hearing and this uh school code is is stated there um in January is where we would submit that recommended work statement to is and that's what what white would help us uh with doing and then we would uh bring forward and and look at all of the different projects uh and make decisions based off off of our financial projections you can see last month if you remember we presented on the 10-year Health Life Safety
066um we can wait and delay that and that's what we're planning on doing so we'll look at bringing that back in April if that time frame changes based off of what we what we learn it's not going to be any earlier than that but we may be able to delay it a little bit more we we feel very confident that April is gives us plenty of time to get that paperwork submitted and get that approved uh so that we can move forward with those projects um as well any questions about um any of the different projects or the the funding Travis can you go back one slot I can so I just want to highlight for the board the work that Travis and jury have done to try to get as many of the board's
067goals accomplished to take care of as many safety projects as we can and to uh work on long-term paybacks on some of these electrical items uh that you know we'll pay year over-year after they're in place and to find a way to fit it into our budget without you know having an impact on our taxpayers um it's been a lot of research and creative working and and looking at a variety of different just budgets and purchasing options for us to get to this point and to bring this plan so uh a lot of time and effort by Travis and jury to get to this point very good work thank you thank you thank you J all right all right I need your magic finger again all right Travis mentioned the school maintenance project Grant application
068we I know every year I've been here we do this I don't know how long Jer we've done it for a very long time I'll turn it over to Jer to give you the highlights sure um as Travis mentioned we identified the project of the garage at North the roof I should say um um on the garage at North High to have it replaced and so um this Grant application requires board approval first before we can actually submit it just so that ISB knows that the board has committed at least $50,000 to the project so that's all this is it's just a formality just to seek board approval for us to submit the application and go forward with that project sounds good action item this evening any questions for questions pretty straightforward it is all
069right the next one is Drees as well uh tonight this is a typical we in November we bring the tentative tax levy to the board to review and then we'll come back in December and seek final approval to submit the request to the county in December um right now we have tentative figures on on the uh eav property values um in our area the assessors range it from 8 to 9% increase on eav for existing property new construction right now we don't have all three of the Assessor's new construction figures we have two of the three and it's around 31,000 or 3 31 million right now um but we went ahead and just um increase it up to 50 million just so that we aren't leaving anything on the table um do you have a
070slide in there showing the proposed extension I do not okay I think it's in the board packet it's in the board packet so as you can just see on this slide that the overall increase uh in the extension is 4.24% that includes The Debt Service it's a small decrease in debt service for next year um so we're under the 5% marking where if we had it at 5% or higher we would have to have a hearing uh we do not anticipated to be over 5% at all uh last year new construction came in at about a half of percent that's kind of what we are predicting for again this year so we'll be well below 5 per. does anybody have any questions would you like to discuss any parts of the proposed Levy I think
071we kind of rehashed all of this out previously so it's not one of the most exciting well and this is like the first installment of the lovey talk as remember right yeah this is like the opening for a and eventually the county will tell us how much we get this is the the guess and check model that the state of Illinois uses yes go high go go high because eventually it'll come in at the correct number yeah we'll bring it back in December and then finally we'll bring it back in April for the final figures all right uh this one is for the board um prepared a couple of slides uh for the resolutions Constitutional Amendment that Ken will represent you at this week at the uh joint conference so every year we have uh
072the delegate assembly at the um joint conference and obviously it'll be this Saturday uh every district will have a representative and I'm honored to be our representative again which should be awesome and basically we adopt different position statements that reflect the issues which are most pertinent um in the Board of Education around the state as you can see you go to the next slide as you can see um there are six different resolutions which are being recommended to be adopted the first one dual language Prov Ides additional flexibility and allows alternative qualifications such as a seal of Biol Literacy for students to meet the World Language graduation requirement so if you're already fluent in two languages you may be able to opt out of having to take a course so make that easier the other
073one ebf authorized charter school funding is um uh funding based method where each school district is um basically analyze according to what their needs are so as it is currently the charter schools don't necess have not in the past necessarily been given an equitable portion of the funding and this will make it more equal so that their unique needs can be assessed and taken into the consideration tax Tiff accountability allows that the tax bodies most impacted by tiffs in the specific communities have a voice in approval of the tis you have anything to say about tis oh no I I think most it depends upon the municipality but many are supported uh because it's good for the local communities and economy and then um at the end the those properties that that increment comes back
074on as new construction and so we're able to capture those funds okay cool cool then fourth face law centralized Agency for EHR review which is the employment history review it streamlines the process and allows for accurate completion of the reviews and a centralized database uh so it's just improving the processes Health Care coverage provides a central Management Service will which will allow more health insurance options for employees while decreasing the cost for school district as we know across the state the resources that some school districts are less than others so this gives them uh more options to sure that all the employees have you know good options to get good coverage and then last polling p is uh if um right now like our high school was closed for the election day and we did
075have polling here but if your school is not affected by the election day polling and polling is not there and the students are ured to be safe we're it would be a lot o the school district to make the decision whether they honor that as an official designated state holiday or not so it'll be interesting um there also you you know quite a bit about the um election of the officials I didn't I thought you did I ASB yeah oh yeah yeah with those yeah yeah um so they'll have the election on the officials as well I guess yeah which they do every year so and then there there're always interesting um uh potential things that come up which are you know may be not advised to approve one of them which I bring to
076your attention is a cell phone usage and one of the um districts is recommended that there be a state mandated cell phone policy so the recommendation of of the committee is not to do that and allow that to be um you know customized to each district so so it should be an interesting time and that is about it you got anything else to add Hank it just be if any of the board members felt like uh Ken should go against the ISB resolutions Committee in so these are the ones that they're recommending that are adopted so giving Ken direction if you feel any differently than what the resolution committee recommends here and then the next group are the ones that the resolutions committee is recommending you do not adopt so the the default always is
077to go in and support the resolutions committee they've spent a lot of time looking into these and making these recommendations to you however on occasion local school boards feel differently than the resolutions committee does so if you feel any differently on these it would be your opportunity to kind of do a straw poll and direct Ken differently than what the resolutions committee is recommended so does the number two the charter school one take funding then away from there are a lot of charter schools in Illinois like no it's not taking funding away it's just making sure that they receive an equ equitable consideration for it yeah but don't you think that that is part of it is they're only giving a certain percentage to Charter Schools where are they going to get that money from
078money that they give to Public Schools I've got kind of a problem with that yeah I'm not a fan of that I mean I really do I I think public schools are sometimes are having a hard enough time meeting their their own uh needs and I'm not sure p uh charter schools are where we really need to put money Terry I I I would just have you read the the resolution I haven't I so because I'm not sure that that's a proper representation of the resolution oh okay all right well because there is a current funding formula for charter schools and what this is recommending that it would be done is it just go to the evidence-based funding model which is what everyone else is on um that their structure would mirror what our structure
079exactly so I don't I don't think it's necessarily pulling funds away from our other public school districts okay all right that's fine then I'm and then you have you have the packet that we received I think two board meetings which goes into it probably I just I'm sorry I didn't read it that's okay that's all right we all have busy lives and also remember this isn't any policy changes going to happen this is what your Professional Organization as the school board will work towards accomplishing like this is not state law this is just what is your organization interested in pursuing cool all right so that's the do adopt the Do Not adopt list good that's good uh and anything that the board has reviewed that you'd like Ken to go in opposition of what the
080resolutions committee has recommended no all right okay that's it for that so uh if you have other individual things you can always talk to can in advance of him going in Saturday morning and voting um Freedom of Information request as always we have received them we respond to them they are listed on our website and can be found just by searching fo you on our website all right consent agenda before the board votes on the consent agenda is there any agenda item a board member would like to pull out of the consent agenda for further discussion hearing none uh can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve the consent agenda as presented which includes a Personnel report appointment certified leave of absence certified appointment ointment classified B Personnel report retirement certified
081resignation classified C October Financial Pages d student trip e resolution of statement of completion for health Life Safety Amendment amendment number nine and F acceptance of donation District 99 Education Foundation so moved so I go Chris moves and Ken seconds thank you Chris Espinosa hi Ken Dawson hi cherelle Fuller hi Jenny hagstrom hi Terry pavich hi Cara Caston hi and Don rener hi motion carries a huge thank foundation in that batch of Grant approvals there is a total of $1,970 in Grant approvals for about 10 different projects across uh a so South north and t99 so thank you to the app Foundation yeah thank you on to uh recommendation for Action uh can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve the school maintenance project Grant application as presented so moved second
082Terry moves Charelle second thank you Terry pavich I Charelle Fuller I Jenny hagstrom I Cara Caston I Ken Dawson I Chris Espinosa I I motion carries Item B can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve the tentative 2024 tax levy in the amount of2 12,600 or I'm sorry 112 mil 67,341 as presented so moved second Terry moves Chris Su thank you very much Terry pavage hi Chris Espinosa hi Char Fuller hi Denny hagstrom hi Cara Caston hi Ken Dawson hi and Don Runner hi motion carries Hank any old or new business none Julie for second of visitors are there any slips no sir thank you um Jenny do you have anything to report on lend I do um we had a meeting on October 25th um Bill Foster was a guest
083at that meeting um and he spoke about some of the federal issues that were impacting school districts um specifically the possibility of eliminating the US Department of Education and um why he thought that was a bad idea um he wanted to note that we use federal funds to effect change um some of that dates back to the Civil Rights era and that the Department of Education is still to some extent the enforcer of the Civil Rights Act in education settings uh they also provide a lot of special education funding um representative Foster also tries to advocate for schools near National laborator districts including like argon and firmalab areas there can be Financial stress that is placed on schools and school districts in those areas um due to different appropriation measures uh so Federal funding can
084assist with those schools infrastructure improvements as well as all School infrastructure improvements even smaller things like air conditioning um which can help to attract teachers um to a certain Community or district and uh improve productivity both students and teachers um so he you know just wanted to reiterate also that federal funds promote initiatives for safe schools and anti-bullying and mental health initiatives uh stem funding for girls and under representative minorities and AI um and then we kind of shifted into the regular meeting uh we discussed some Title One and title 3 funds and bus driver qualifications um there's been I guess kind of a kind of a trend of school districts supporting bus drivers and getting their CDL licenses for employment to you know work for the schools and then one result is that districts
085are seeing those employees leave for other jobs where they can use those CDL licenses um for example city bus drivers or other things so there was talk of exploring kind of a school bus driver specific license um so that schools wouldn't be paying for people to get their CDL licenses and then leave the district for other employment um and then we discuss the upcoming breakfast which will be Saturday at the conference um that will be kind of that will take the place of the November meeting and there's no December meeting so we will resume in January of 2025 thank you Jenny Chris any update on it sasset not for my end I think our next meeting is uh somewhere in January yeah and we're really working on facility studies for sassin yeah because the will
086be the focus of that conversation I believe Terry any update from uh Foundation no we're meeting Wednesday okay can all skip you CU I think we got an update from you and we're all looking forward to the uh conference this weekend great networking opportunity for all of us and lots of workshops and panels and hopefully we'll bring even more best practices back to our district yes um Charelle any update from the downers grow plan commission I did not make the November 4th meeting however they do there's two new planning Commissioners RL and Lincoln who been welcomed to the commission and then um I'll follow up with um any information from the pet on November 4 okay thank you for the public uh the next upcoming board meetings I'm sorry Hank did you want to we're
087recommending canceling the December 2nd uh board meeting like uh the agenda items that we have for December we can sufficiently cover those on the December 16th meeting and we know four board members and for the public that December 2nd meeting is the Monday night following the Thanksgiving recess um so we feel like it just better in everybody's world to skip that one uh I think we had one agenda item that was non-pressing we'll just move that to the 16th and have one meeting in December that's fine okay so then the next uh board meeting will be the December 16th 2024 regular business meeting here at the ASC at 6:30 p.m. uh with that I think that concludes our agenda can I get a motion to adjourn so moved second Chris moves Ken seconds all in
088favor I I all we are adjourned thank you very much thank you all thank you all for your service