001e e e all right I'm going to call the meeting to order Julie will you uh call the role please certainly Cara Caston here Ken Dawson here Chris Espinosa here shro Fuller here Jenny hagstrom here Terry pavich here Don Runner here re rahan Hashim here and Jason tro here thank you all right having a quum let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right uh let's turn it over for uh tonight's student perspectives yep all right here right I'll give you the clicker since they whole good evening everyone um we are really excited to kick off student perspectives um with a presentation tonight um
002that revolves around things I never got to do in high school um and so once again we are so absolutely amazingly lucky to work in a district like this that supports um students who travel all around the world and that's what we get to hear about tonight so I'm going to introduce my kinds um who is our staff member he's our science department chair and he got to take 20 students um 19 from North and one from South um over to Europe this summer and they got to attend the Global Leadership Summit and um he's going to talk about that and a little and the students are going to come up and talk a little bit about their wonderful experiences they had this summer so uh please welcome Mike H um I'm going to lift
003this out here just so we'll put it back down later um first of all uh I want to thank you for your support of travel and District 99 and for having us here tonight I think this is a Unique Travel experience for students because of this Global Leadership Summit and that's why I asked Dr D if she would allow us to come present to you tonight we know that kids travel to Spain Peru travel all over the world right but this was something different that I hadn't seen I've taken students to Costa r four times um but on this trip um we're going to tell you a little bit about the difference why this was a little different trip um as you can see we went visited four countries in Europe in 10 days uh
004we started in Berlin Berlin Germany ended up at car or went to Carlo very Czech Republic then to Vienna Austria and Budapest Hungary along the way we stopped in Dresden Germany uh which was actually bombed during World War II by the Brits and the English and or the Brits and the Americans um and it was just fascinating to see um that and how it's rebuilt from that era compared to other things around there that are still uh in progress we also got to visit the United Nations uh in Vienna an hour and a half tour there and what they're doing with their uh initiatives around sustainability um we everything we did was based on water and Humanity you'll see that in just a second we got to walk a pipeline we walked from one town
005to another Through The Vineyards uh and the pipelines underground there that pipeline runs water right from the Alps down to Vienna and they don't treat it with any chlorine they don't they really don't treat it with anything they're they're amazed that we treat ours with chlorine um so those conversations that we had so what was NE neat about this we spent three days in Berlin Germany at a conference center at this Global Leadership Summit that is run by EF Tours um and as you can see the rules are are different here when the students walked in they were greeted by many flags of all the nations by the EF people welcoming into this conference Hall what the students did here was they talked about water and Society water and its impact on society they were
006given a problem to solve in their rooms around the idea of water and they had to work with teams at tables uh in different rooms over the three days and come up with a product if you think Shark Tank right the idea that they had to come up with a product that they got to present in their rooms the winning table in each room then got to go to the larger conference and present to you'll see here in a second and present to these 800 students there were 800 students there 300 adults at this conference and so you talk about a a real authentic audience it it was there for this so they got to present on stage there um and they got to give the impact of water on site let me just check
007my notes here cuz a couple things at this conference whoops I don't did I do that at this conference the keynote speakers of of were two big ones one was Molly kawaha Molly was the featured speaker Molly has written a book called the uh the scale of hope she was President Obama's climate adviser in the white house so the students got to meet and hear from her another guy is Gunter paully Gunter is an entrepreneur and um Economist and he actually built a solar panel boat that actually has traveled around the globe now uh the first one took a long long time the second version of that now has made it I think it was 98 days or something a solar powered vessel that can travel around and so he talked about the nature of
008that and he wrote a book called The Blue economy um the students got to do oops sorry the students got to do design thinking as you see there they had to know about empathize these were the steps that they took as they designed their products they had to understand the nature of their um audience they had their purchaser their consumer and they went through all these steps as they did their design thing and the students will talk about that in a second uh the teamwork you can see them here um in the teams the upper left is Ben uh that's sitting down that was his team from around the country there were 28 countries represented and 30 States and so our students were split up among all these people in the different rooms so they
009got to meet people uh Aqua guard you can see down there that's the students presenting in their classroom one of our students that's in the middle of the leftand corner was going to be here tonight he couldn't make it Matt Matt was on one of the teams that were selected to go up on the big stage the winning group that Coral cuff that's right there that uh presentation got to go in the Nobel Prize museum for a year now so it's on display at the Nobel Prize Museum so that was what the students were shooting for okay we'll let the students talk cuz they're the important ones here and what their experiences were at this uh Global Summit and on the tour this is Mega uh I'll let Mega introduce herself hi I'm you're good
010it should be good hi I'm Mega can I turn it off no might slow hi I'm Mega I'm a junior at dgn and the EF tour Leadership Summit was an incred inredible experience for me it pushed me to step out of my comfort zone and it introduced me to the design thinking process the summit showed me that there isn't only one correct way or right way to solve a problem or find a solution and one of the most valuable parts of the trip for me was during the summit when we were presenting our prototypes my group chose me to be one of the key speakers and I believe that experiences like this are important for stud students because it exposes us to new environments and new cultures these experiences help students grow in ways that
011go beyond the classroom and help prepare us to become better and more creative leaders in the future thank you hi everyone my name is Leela I am a senior at ders Grove North um and at this past EF Summit we were all really thrown into this really new and unusual kind of um scenario area we were working with kids from all around the globe who were all complete strangers to us and as you might expect it was kind of a daunting environment you know it was never really something we'd experienced before and I was admittedly a little nervous going into it but walking um well looking back and I can say that this was really my favorite part of the entire experience I met some really amazing people and I think I learned a lot
012about myself along the way for one I learned that I really do enjoy these kinds of things I like working with other people and problem solving especially about things that are really important to the world again um as Mr Hines touched on this Summit was about water sustainability which with in our world right now is a really important topic and something that really needs to be talked about and to feel that we are kind of part of that change that we are part of something that is important to this world is just really meaningful and I think that was very important to me during this trip um in addition I love to travel and we got to see some really incredible cities in this whole trip this particular picture up here is from Carlo which
013is a city in the Czech Republic this was one of my favorite cities that we visited um this particular picture was taken right after we had gone on this tour of these under underground water Springs um Carlo very is a city that's kind of surrounded or not surrounded by but kind of run on water everything around there is kind of like sorry I'm braing my words everything around there is kind of based around water and these Springs are really integral to the entire city as a whole and overall I just think that this trip was really incredible and something I'm very grateful to have gone on hi my name is Tanya and I'm a junior at Downers Grove South and the the leader Leadership Summit was a a huge eye opener for me as I
014got to meet a lot of different people from around the world you can read your sheet she had more than that on her sheet I sent this over before her slide was should have been updated so go ahead T the summit has taught me how I can apply my leadership skills to different situations such as collaborating with my peers I truly got to learn about many different cultures and the impact water has on them which was a summit's theme this year apart from the educational aspect of this trip I was able to form connections with people from different parts of the world and within my own group I believe travel is definitely important for students because it gives them the opportunity to explore different cultures while learning more about themselves along the way this trip
015has definitely left a huge impact on me I want to give Tanya credit too because she was the only South she didn't know anybody on the trip she came to our first meeting and and she they it was to build those Partnerships Ryan couldn't make it Ryan has a um had a actually was not in school today cuz he was not feeling well um so Ryan here got to meet one of our featured speaker that young man in the middle um is from the California area the the the where our boys are gathered around him um and one of the student leaders of the of the trip and then rayon I thought someone would familiar one I just want to point this out we were in uh right here by the Brandenburg gate the night
016before for the Euro Cup Final and so all the Hooligans from Britain were out having their pep rally um and that one in the middle that doesn't have a shirt on was not one of our students he was he was a British soccer fan so it's definitely fun to celebrate with those um for me the EF trip was a big eye opener in the sense that it helped me see through other people's lenses kind of um coming into the trip I was curious about the conference and like you know what how it's going to be and stuff like that to be honest I wasn't going on that trip for that main reason but it turned out in my opinion to be the best part of the trip by far you know there were a lot
017of interesting people I got to me whether they were from the States or other countries collaborating with them also helped me learn new ways to work together on a single goal now looking back I have friends in California Atlanta New York and even Poland um so this type of networking and being able to meet different types of people is something a high school student normally doesn't get the chance to do right so it's an experience that's an important life skill not to mention only did we be not only did we get to be educationally immersed in a lot of knowledgeable speakers and cool activities EF did an incredible job hosting us but I think the main takeaway from this trip is um the people that we meet and the experiences that we had with them
018you know it's an important thing that I don't think a classroom setting could teach us overall right so yeah that's my experience and just you know to finish up um that was actually we ended up in Budapest um just some more and there's dresen we got to go to the Berlin Wall um that's dresen again and then um I just want to thank the d99 board of education for your continued support of travel I think if we're going to build students who are part of the global Network um what's better way than to get them out into the globe to to meet this so thank you for your support thank you students and parents for letting your students go um and thank you for allowing us to present this [Applause] evening really quickly um I
019know some of you may have some questions but I do want thank Mike and all of the adults who traveled with our students I have traveled with students before and it is kind of stressful um and so to all of our staff who take the time to do this because it's a lot of time um and it's a lot of patience and a lot of just knowing how to navigate through different difficult sometimes situations um and I just commend Mike for always wanting to do that with our students um and all of our staff members who do travel with our kids it's it's an incredible experience um and it is really cool to see how our our goals as a dist really Foster all of this travel and Foster this interest in uh students and
020we want them to explore all of these different things so thank you again for supporting our students and our staff to um take these amazing trips so thank you yeah I I was going to say I totally appreciate that I had the thank you Mike and for doing things like this I had the opportunity to talk with a younger student in a um restaurant recently and they talked about um he talked about the importance of learning going to different places and experience in that and the how it broadens your um educational Horizon so it's super important for our children to witness things like this so thank you so much for you know taking the lead on this and making it happen and I fail to recognize the two chaperons with is were Kate Troyer um
021who teaches AP environmental science at North and at South High School and Alexis Domina um who teaches math and and is in the El program and so having those two along with that wealth of knowledge that they have was fantastic to have them I forgot to say how do I I become a shoer own name on the list bring six students I'd like to also commend Mike I've had many conversations with you and I know the passion that you really have about doing this so my hats off to you for what an incredible opportunity that you students had and a question for the students you met uh kids or students from all over the world which um students had the biggest impact on you and from what countries let me just real quick we also
022were paired up with another Travel Group from California that had five boys and one girl and you know my passion so forgive me for just a second um we got off the plane we walked out our five girls walked over to that one girl and introduced themselves without any push from us whatsoever and they welcomed her into our group so it was the California group was part sorry that I just like I was just I was I got goosebumps right now thinking about how they welcome that girl into our room so great Annette Annette yeah we welcomed anet soorry but now you can answer like if there was something else or I kind of answered for you I'm sorry yeah yeah sorry um well uh overall in my group I think that everyone really made
023an impact on me I personally I really loved my group we got along really well we're still all in contact now so I still talk to them regularly um but the majority of my group was from the us uh but there was one girl from Greece so her perspective and just how water was a part of her life was really different she grew up in this very small um Coastal Farm like farming town which was obviously very different than Downers Grove being close to like a very big city so I thought it was really interesting to see like the differences um both just in like our overall lives and then especially in how water affected Our Lives since that was so Central to the overall conference cool that's awesome awesome for me there was a
02413-year-old boy from Greece in my group and he was just he was really funny and he brought a lot of like light when when we were making our prototypes it was we didn't have that much time to brainstorm and like build and all so it was a very stressful and we only made our like prototype in 30 minutes and like did the whole script and all that and I think he just brought a lot of like positivity and joy for a group great great for me my group was like we had like a really big group and it was a like eight people in my group and one of the things that stood out to me was how inclusive they were and how like open they were to like any ideas coming from any member
025and we we all try to somehow like um put all their ideas together to like form a good product fantastic for me it was um this uh there's a kid from Poland and his ideas were absolutely phenomenal even though he couldn't speak English that well and couldn't like communicate with us that well he would always you know when he had an idea he would take out a piece of paper draw it out for us somehow make us understand it but I think almost a lot of the ideas that we had were really focused around his kind of First Impressions on like the issue and stuff like that and I thought it was phenomenal the way he handled the the idea making process so thank you what students are eligible to travel on this type of
026program do you have to be a certain you know student that's progressed in science Andor math courses or is it just anyone who's interested the H the history of my welcoming kids is any student in d99 that's interested in traveling and um we try to plan it out well enough in advance that it lowers the economic impact on families because it really is a big F Financial um decision for families um but we open it up to anybody that I have over the past I'll take anybody that would like to go it doesn't have to be science um it really is across the board um and so that's that's how I look at it the Freshman too like inome well I I've got to if we think further ahead about what travel is going I
027got to lean on Gina zardi for this is what does that look like for a nth grader to try to travel you'd have to tap into them when they are in eighth grade and there's no mechanism for doing that yet I just don't I don't see I don't know if a ninth grader might be ready to handle this um our bus broke down at the border of Germany in the Czech Republic on the way there for 3 hours in 92 degree heat um and don't get me wrong but I've never taught freshman in my life so I don't know like if I want freshman in that situation these guys however were fantastic they were like they were perfect we made it to the next rest stop and uh we got through that situation but uh
028I don't know what that mechanism looks like when I retire my goal is to build a travel Foundation where maybe we give scholarships to students like we build a foundation of travel because a lot of these students travel and like they always like they're always around the globe if we get students who haven't traveled to see the world then you make a difference in a person's life I think even more than this that's that would be a goal for me I would support that y there go living near the Great Lakes uh we certainly are close to an abundancy of water um traveling with a group from Cali California that they may have a very different perspective on water and usage did you have any conversations from from that perspective I know there's a lot
029of talk in the media right now about states in the western um portion of our country who want to purchase water from you know states that border the the Great Lakes did that come up in any of your conversations our Focus was primarily on um well I I I kind of use the Great Lakes as an examp examples so one of the examples that we used was um the Chicago River right and um on how not like Great Lakes but like you know channels through the Great Lakes but we use that example as um the way how it's Chicago's Waste Management kind of thing or it used to be at least um so we use that example as an idea to like you know try to solve that issue so our our main thing was
030trying to figure out issues that we could solve so we kind of used these great lakes or Chicago Riv for example as as an issue we could solve but you know um our group ended up using I think an example of again is a kid from Poland that he brought up uh a lake at his home with um issues with bacteria so that's the issue that we chose to solve yeah that's the way the students designed their products was they came up with one person's problem in their particular area and then the product was designed to solve that student's problem um me the one that won was a band that goes on your ankle that if you get close to coral reefs in the ocean it's geolocated so it starts to vibrate um and then
031it tells you you're close to those and what NE is in the teenage brain the first part of that that fell on The Cutting Room floor that they didn't present at the big one that's not going to be in the Nobel Prize Museum it's um and if you get too close it'll have some rockets on it that will shoot you away from because they're unencumbered by some of the baggies that we as adults bring with that and so they had open thinking that way it was fascinating to watch that design process zap you at the bottom of the ocean there and did you have the people the California were from San Diego so they had some a little bit of water back now sure and did you did you have any did you have any
032uh control over the groups that you were assigned to or was it just random random okay interesting thank you for sharing tonight appreciate it job [Applause] all right students you're welcome to stay for the entirety of the board meeting there's a story about a girl from Canada all right student board members Jason or Ron who wants to go first took a sample from it and then tested how much looks like Jason you're up cuz Terry's got Ran's cornered over there sounds good yeah all right so um it's been 3 weeks since I believe I last saw you and a lot has happened in the 3 weeks so to start off talking about more like uh the sports and the activities that are going on we had a fall Sports spectacular at um the large stadium
033and it was honestly amazing I think it was a huge hit it was amazing to be able to see the community there and all the parents and the students just coming together and um basically what it was it was all the fall Sports uh just showcasing like what they're about and it was honestly just amazing basically our whole school coming together and next activities um a lot of activities have started up I know speech team has started up Deca had 87 members at their most recent meeting applications have begun for the principal student advisory Council everything is starting to kick off and it's amazing to see like what's been happening in the last 3 weeks additionally uh through the access periods we're beginning to be able to introduce the like what you're going to be
034able to do on Choice days so if you need to go see a teacher or you need some extra help on those Choice days you're going to be able to sign up and I think that's amazing to be able to reach students like that and that's basically it yeah than you um so uh for in the last few weeks it looks like you know most classes are started up and running in full swing you know workload from what I've heard from students is steadily increasing but most teachers are very helpful and giving ample time to complete work um we recently had a activities fair and at North and showcasing a lot of the cool clubs we have to offer and it was cool to see everyone finding their own Niche and clubs and meeting new
035people picking up interest is important and I'm glad North is setting up opportunities um to find the vast amount of clubs that there are um we had our first home football game of course on Friday and um dgn won against DJs in a decisive manner um everyone bring that up yes thank you put that in um everyone had a good time you know the the creative themes um the school spirit was at alltime High um from a senior perspective college applications are looming a lot of students are looking for college recommendations and trying to figure out a steady timeline to complete their essays from the students I've talked to a lot are conf kind of confused on the recommendation and transcript process and how to do them but I think that with the upcoming um
036counsel lessons and access those concerns will be uh sorted freshmen have seen to settle in well most of them have found their way around school and start to be more comfortable in the new environment and fall play auditions take uh take place towards the end of the month lots of excitement about that as well as two home football games uh Glen Bard West and oprf back to back yeah thank you all right thank you can ask you both a question that it's the same how's the whole transition to school Ls going you personally and just for what you've heard I for me uh I think it's a better than navian from what I've uh just us it's easier to organize and stuff like that especially because um I can like look at all like I
037can immediately connect to Common App and then look at everything in one list so which is nice um yeah that's just my I think the exact same thing yeah it was introduced to Spire consols like a little bit at the end of last year and we ALS also had um an assembly during one of our access classes where all the seniors got in the auditorium and we got taught it again and I think it's just a lot more smoother than audience so they more integrated in the full of your work school yeah so with common app you can just press a button and then it'll automatically transfer over all the colleges you were looking at on common app which is I think is really nice and useful I thank you all right any other questions
038thank you gentlemen okay Hank I'll turn it over to you for item number four and I will turn it over to Gina to come on up as our title N9 coordinator all right well good evening good evening we invited Amy Dickerson who I work closely with from franic um to speak tonight about some of the changes to Title 9 and share those changes with you and address any questions you have about them so thank you Amy great well thank you Gina um and thank you everyone for having me here tonight um so I'm Amy Dickerson from franic um I've got the great pleasure of working with your um title N9 team here um and so really appreciate that that opportunity to do so and that opportunity to talk with you this evening um if I'll
039move my little slides here um so as Gina said there have been some updates to Title 9 so I'm going to be spending a little bit of time tonight providing you um with an overview of of what those those updates are are um Title 9 generally is the federal statute that governs the process that school districts have to follow in um responding to reports or complaints of discrimination based on sex including sexual harassment um back in 2020 um for those of you who may have um been on the board at that time you may recall that the board's policies specifically policy 2265 which is your board policy that governs Title 9 um was updated in response to amendments to the regulations to Title 9 at that time um so four years ago and at that
040time um the regulations really were revised to narrow the definition in some ways as to what constitutes sexual harassment under Title 9 UM in a way that was defined differently than how we Define sexual harassment under our state laws and title 7 and it also for the first time put in place very specific procedures that school districts have to follow when responding to reports of sexual harassment as it's defined under Title 9 so that in turn um resulted in reports or complaints of sexual harassment that may have been um some would be F falling under your Title Nine policy and some um would be falling under your other policies that also apply to harass assment but outside of the federal Title Nine context in April of 2024 so just um last spring the Department of
041Education revised the regulations and issued amended regulations um that did go into effect on August 1st and these regulations um in many ways really broaden the definition now of sexual harassment to more closely mirror how we Define sexual harassment under our state laws and under title 7 and in turn updated um the procedures and the procedural steps that school districts have to take when responding to those types of reports so I'm going to provide um just an overview summary of what those are and what they really mean for the school district and school districts throughout Illinois and what you can expect to see in the coming year so when we do talk about Title 9 I have this statute up here it's a very broad uh prohibition against um any it protects students employees from
042experiencing any discrimination based on sex in any school that receives Federal funding there were no changes to this statute um what changed were the implementing regulations and so that's what we're we're talking about um So within that broad definition um and prohibition against experiencing discrimination or harassment based on sex um a number of um issues fall within that umbrella so um many people especially those outside of the education context when they think of title n they think of um gender equity in athletics which was largely the focus of Title 9 when it was um inact initially enacted um but really Title 9 expands um and and really spands the the scope of protecting students employees from experiencing any discrimination based on sex in any aspect of a school district's programmer activities including the ious aspects
043that I have up here one of the main focuses of the regulations that were put in place back in 2020 and then have been recently amended are really on School District's obligations and the steps that they have to take when responding to reports of sex-based discriminate discrimination and especially sex-based harassment or sexual assault so that's one aspect of um of title n's you know farther reach so some of the main changes of the new regulations one is that they now explicitly provide protections for students employees from experiencing discrimination or harassment based on gender identity sexual orientation sex stereotypes sex characteristics pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions and marital status now your board policies as the board policies of districts throughout the state of Illinois already provide protections for student employees when it comes to um protections
044against experiencing harassment or discrimination based on these protected characteristics and that's because both our state laws provide those protections especially the Illinois human rights act as well as us being under our federal 7th circuit jurisdiction already has interpreted Title 9 to provide these protections but this is the first time that the federal government has actually explicitly provided these Protections in the regulations another big change that I alluded to earlier is that the way we Define what constitutes a hostile environment based on sex in a school district has broadened um and so I'll talk in a moment about what how that is broadened but in turn um while that is broadened to really um have the effect of probably any reporter complaint that um does have an allegation of what would otherwise constitute harassment based on
045sex would likely now fall within Title 9 and under title line scope but in turn the process that school districts have to follow when responding to a report or complaint of sexual harassment um those specific procedural steps that were in the prior regulations a lot of those are no longer there so um there's still a process that school districts have to follow but a lot of the very sort of procedurally heavy steps that were in the prior regulations are not in the the current process um as well as um there are some new training requirements so while in the prior regulations we did have to train all of our administrators who are implementing our Title Nine policies under the regulations now that training has to be done on an annual basis and all employees have
046to be trained as well so your administrators who are charged with implementing your Title Nine policies and procedures have already undergone that training um and then your employees will be going will undergo that as well and then you will see that on an annual basis so what I have here is really the Crux of what a school district's obligation is under Title 9 so when a recipient of federal funding a school that receives Federal funding has any knowledge of conduct that could reasonably constitute sex discrimination in its program or activity that's what triggers its obligations to respond under Title 9 to follow its policy and its grievance procedures um and really what this means in the K through2 context is that when any K through2 employee has knowledge of an allegation or report of conduct
047that if true would constitute sexual harassment as we defined it under Title 9 that that's what triggers its obligations to respond and those obligations are to respond promptly and effectively and largely what that means is really governed then by the title 9 rules the new amendments and really then what's going to be outlined in your board policy that you'll um be reviewing and updating so what do I mean when I say sex-based harassment under Title 9 um we still really Define it in one of three ways so um first any conduct that would be considered to be unwelcome conduct that would be both subjectively offensive as well as objectively offensive that is so severe or perv Ive that it has the effect of denying or limiting someone's ability to access your program is what we
048consider to be hostile environment sexual harassment it's so severe pervasive that it creates a hostile environment in the school Community the definition that I went through is that new definition that really again mirrors how we Define sexual harassment under title 7 and under our state laws it used to be um for context under the prior rules that only conduct um that was severe and pervasive and objectively offensive um would be considered to be what we call Title n sexual harassment um so it would have had to have met all three of those elements to trigger your title 9 policy if you had a report that was alleging severe or pervasive harassment that would have fallen under another policy but again now we have a more broader a broader policy quid proquo conduct is conduct that
049might be it's this it's this for that if there's any sort of um educational or employment benefit that is conditioned on someone engaging in some sort of sexual romantic act that's considered to be quidd proquo conduct so just one report of that type of conduct would trigger your title n policies as well as any just one report um of conduct that would be considered sexual assault domestic violence Dating Violence or stalking would also trigger your title 9 policy and fall under Title 9 upon receiving a report of conduct that if true would constitute sex-based harassment under Title 9 one of the first steps that's required under the new title n rules and in turn your policies and procedures is that the title n coordinator or someone who the title N9 coordinator designates must meet with
050the complainant the person who's alleged to have been experiencing the harassment or discrimination and have what we what we call an initial supportive measures meeting they meet with them to offer supportive measures let them know that you've received this report um discuss what supports the school district can provide let them know about the grievance procedures that the school has explain to them the process for filing a complaint and let them know that there's also an opportunity to resolve the complaint or the report informally if that's something that's particularly available for that type of report so I think that's helpful um to especially call out um in terms of you know understanding that that's the first step there really is a um great importance under the rules on providing supportive measures um for the parties um
051and that is a a first step that that does have to to happen when there's a report that's made I have here just an overview of what the response is that's required under the new title 9 rules and under the policy and procedures um that the district will be rolling out when a complaint is filed so very briefly when a complaint um is actually filed under your title n grievance procedures either because um a complaintant has filed that complaint or because the the school district the Title Nine coordinator has has signed that um based on the the allegations um what is required to take place generally is that the parties must receive notice of what those allegations are as well as making sure that all the parties have been offered supportive measures there's there's uh
052the title line coordinators required to assign an investigator to investigate that complaint under the new rules that same person could be serving as both the investigator and the decision maker um the investigation process really just has to entail um you know what you would what would be required to conduct a thorough and prompt investigation which typically would con include conducting interviews with the parties any Witnesses Gathering any information at the conclusion of that investigation the rules do require that the parties um have access to the evidence the relevant evidence that's been gathered or to be provided with an accurate summary of a description of what that what the the evidence is that's been gathered under the prior rules there were more specific steps that had to be taken um with very with longer time frames
053that had to be applied during the invest at the end of the investigation's um steps and some along the way so now under the new rules what I just described is is what has to um to take place for the investigation and then it can proceed to the determination stage as long as the parties have had that opportunity to um understand and respond review and respond to the evidence that's been gathered and then with a determination um a written determination does have to be issued that just explains what the relevant um or what the decision is and the rationale for that decision so again under the prior rules there used to be a process where the parties had to um be offered the opportunity to provide written examination questions through the decision maker um that
054no longer is a requirement the decision maker just has they have to have the opportunity to ask questions of the parties um if they have any and then they could proceed with making the determination and then there's the appeal process um so there's certainly when you go ahead and take a look at your updated procedure and your polic policy you'll see more specific steps but generally that is um you know is the process and some of the changes that you'll see so um in terms of what to expect going forward I believe you already are um in the process of updating your board policy 2265 and related policies as well that are affected by these changes um the your administrative procedure will be updated as well um as I explained your staff have already um
055been trained under the new rules those that are helping to support and to implement the um the policies and then your employees will be as well and then it will really just be about implementing those those policies and procedures so I'm happy to take any questions that you have I got one question does the formal complaint have to be made by the victim or can a complaint be made by say a third party another student who witnesses it because in at the High School level many times the victim will be too scared or ashamed or whatever to bring the complaint themselves initially yeah absolutely and we see that a lot so initially the report can be made by anyone um so any any report that comes in whether it's made by a friend um a
056teacher or the the person experiencing themselves or a parent um that would be as as long as it's a report of conduct that if true would constitute harassment as it's defined under Title 9 that would trigger the school district's then obligations to respond um by first having that initial supportive measures meeting with the person who is actually experiencing the harassment and then explain to them the process should they want to actually file a complaint um talk with them what that process would entail and then it goes from there cool thank you yeah thank you any other questions all right thank you am for being here thank you for me thank you so much oh yeah sorry all right uh our next topic for this evening is the annual climate survey uh as the board knows
057from our prior conversations each fall we've been using the five essential survey for our state mandated climate survey um however that survey as I've shared with the board in the past is a difficult one for us as it's designed for small elementary schools in an urban setting so for the past several months um a group of us have been looking at uh the different climate surveys that are out there Jill Browning's done a ton of work at looking at the different ones that are out there and researching them so that the entire leadership team could evaluate uh the different options that are out there it's really five Essentials or two others uh we've already decided five Essentials is not a match for us so after reviewing the two others uh this comprehensive School climate inventory
058survey is the one that has risen to the top between those two tools um I've shared information with the board on that decision and how we got there um at this point uh Jill and I are just waiting for this conversation with you to make sure that there weren't any concerns that we needed to address before moving forward and as soon as then ISB opens their window that we can declare a survey this is the one that we would like to declare uh for the next year so with that being said are there any questions I can answer two questions sure could I just ask a little bit about between two and what kind of LED you to sort of go yeah let me pull up my notes real quick then well you do that
059the second question was right isn't whatever survey we choose going to be used for those um strategic measures that is this going to be the source this will be the source of the data for the Strategic measures yeah um so really what uh the leadership team so this is administrators and chairs across the district felt that this survey was more easy to discern the data that uh the questions were direct and appropriate for the students that we had that it was very userfriendly uh that's a term that comes back many times uh and that the categories and responses that they feed back to us are more in lined with the things we see in our strategic plan and our values and reflect the district more okay thank you did I get both your questions yeah
060the second one you answer while you were looking it up I knew that one off the top of my head all right any others all right my last question and so because they meet the criteria of the organization we don't have to do five this replaces this replaces five Essentials yes yeah so the state mandates a climate survey and then offers like a I guess a group of survey tools that we can utilize but we cannot create our own surveys correct uh the five Essentials it comes at no cost from the state this one comes at a cost of chill what was it ,000 $2,000 per school um so this one is at a a slight cost right uh but the data we believe will be much stronger uh if we want to just go
061with five Essentials we don't have to do anything with the state it just rolls out and moves forward um there's supposed to be in August but now we're in September there's a a window of time in which is being provides us the opportunity to declare one of these other two surveys um and then once we go through that process then we'll start interacting with that company and that data uh rather than the five Essentials data but this will be the primary source for measuring our success on the Strategic plan yeah around school climate yes okay around school climate yeah that that one indicator that one measure that's on there so this year will be the Baseline data and then from there we'll look at what based on we don't know what that'll say yet but
062based on what that says we'll design strategies for trying to improve and this is the survey that's referenced in the school report card it is yep okay so instead of five Essentials being on the Illinois school report card the csci data will be there instead are there other neighboring districts that have switched to this as well yeah there have been ones that have ebbed and flow through it so I believe nutrier uses this one yes and there was another uh District 87 yeah Plumb guards used it uh for a while so um it seems as though school districts have flipped back and forth between this one and the other one in five Essentials as they've worked through looking at the different ones that are there okay other questions I think it's great that you found
063a a tool that more accurately reflects kind of what we're trying to learn so kudos to you y thank you Jill thank you Jill all right so we'll start moving forward with that and then really we don't see anything more with it until that survey goes out and the spring I think is when that window goes so uh we kind of just sit and wait for that window all right uh budget update um Tre and I and the entire administrative team have been working closely on the the budget since we last met and there's been a few variables that came forward if you remember when we last met uh we talked about proposing a budget that's about $300,000 uh in the red and we told you we were coming together the next week as an
064administrative team to try to identify reductions to get that closer to a balanced budget we did that we met we have made $200,000 in reductions across the administrative team uh we believe in this conservative budget that was a really realistic spot of us being able to hit a balanced budget by the end of the year that I think same day we met or maybe the couple days before we met uh Illinois released the corporate personal property replacement tax figures which the last time we met we were projecting a 14% decrease um the numbers came in from the state at a 32.6% decrease which is a about a $400,000 impact on us a $400,000 reduction in revenue for us so right now we're kind of staring at a $500,000 deficit in a proposed budget that we
065would bring you in at the next board meeting is the superintendent I'm recommending that the board adopts that budget with the $500,000 in uh in the red uh for a couple of reasons one we were really close to a balanced budget until the state dropped you know a poison pill on us at the last minute through fluctuations that could happen with the budget between interest rates and out placements and expenditures and transport there's a whole bunch of variables in here with uh literally a few students uh not outplaced or a few students with different Transportation over the course of the year we can make up that half a million dollars right and just smart uh choices that we make this is a budget this is a guess this is a plan right this isn't uh
066for sure what we will be seeing will happen next August I feel like you're hearing about how we have a wonderful smooth start to the school year to definitively bring you a plan that would reduce half a million dollars and I could guarantee you that would happen would start with things like hiring freezes would be like elimination of travel for professional development elimination of like food at different events where we traditionally have provided food to our sta like those are the easy things that you immediately just start cutting the impact on our climate as a school district would be significant if we entered into those types of changes at this point of the school year it's unfortunate that the state doesn't release these numbers in a timely enough fashion that we can incorporate them into
067our budget when we first start developing it um it is my recommendation that the board trust the administration enter into a budget in the red that we are efficient that we are careful in our expenditures that we look for efficiencies everywhere that we can and try to eliminate that deficit uh by the time we're sitting here in August um but with the board knowing that our plan is if things don't break the way we expect them to and the worst case scenarios happen things like interests and expenditures and out placements and transportation and insurance that we would end up in a potentially uh a half a million dollar deficit that would still leave us well above our thresholds in board policy for deficit reduction we wouldn't be hitting that 3% uh we'd be well off
068of it um but we feel like that is the responsible way to approach uh this last minute change that in revenues that was dropped on us by the state so with that I'll take questions or concerns and I'll kind of just get a straw poll of where the board is feeling with that recommendation so that Jer and I know um if we need to really uh start implementing some more drastic Cuts here over the next couple of weeks uh I'll start um so $500,000 is a lot of money um but I think I have full faith and confidence in Hank and in his administrative team especially jeree um I think they've demonstrated that uh they're extremely responsible um with uh the fiscal aspects of the administration of our district um over the last year they've
069come to the board with several different ideas about how to uh responsibly uh cut our costs I I have full faith and credit that they would do the same thing over this fiscal year um to touch on a couple points that Hank raised uh first we're going into a negotiation with our teachers and the upcoming summer we'll be starting that negotiation this fall um to do anything that Hank was referring refering to about you know implementing a hiring freeze or placing limitations on expenditures or travel would send a pretty terrible message in my opinion to to the teachers that would uh potentially jeopardize um how those negotiations would be handled um so I'm not in favor of doing that um second um even if we do uh end up in the red this year to
070this extent and and we have ended up the red in past years uh maybe not to this extent but even if we do as Hank pointed out we're still not going to be anywhere near uh broaching the cash reserves that we are mandated by board policy to maintain so even if we do have a year where we have uh you know a $500,000 shortfall um we're not going to be in any way shape or form leaving ourselves in jeopardy with amount of cash reserves that we have in place so um while $500,000 remains a a lot of money um it represents you know less than a half percent of our budget roughly um so I I feel pretty confident that our administrative team knowing where we are uh is going to do everything that they
071can to uh make certain that we we end roughly flat if you will so um I'm in favor of of pressing on with the original budget and not making any material adjustments to you know our our proposed budgets that we had previously reviewed um yeah pretty much in alignment with that can you give us a sense of where the $200,000 in reductions fell like kind of in what category technology um decided to postpone some more projects and then um Lisa took a a look at our outplaced students and we saw some Savings in there because we've had some students that moved out of the district so we identified that okay that's two I know a lot of the costs the high costs were some util you know the electricity and you know oh heating so
072I just no but I mean some of that may or may not come in true exactly where we think it's going to come in Wonder the areas that we potentially have areas for savings or increased Revenue include electricity if you know we're we're making some changes to try to contain those costs transportation we have a whole team across the district that's looking at especially special Transportation uh and efficiencies there and have already made some massive changes that should impact us there we're looking subbing and sub costs that could impact things uh and then revenues uh it it's just hit or miss we're projecting very conservatively on interest rates but if those don't fluctuate as quickly as we think they are that could make up the difference almost entirely there but it's it's we have to
073guess conservatively I mean so these are the things where just a few things swinging there could make up that half a million very quickly but we need to bring you like worst case scenario as we build a budget right right oh I think you and Don both that this given what we know today this is the worst case scenario of the half a million dollar yeah this is a conservatively built budget yes I mean I won't say worst case you know a building burns down or something like that that would be a much worst case scenario but but in inside of normal budgeting parameters this is a conservative budget I think given what we know yeah so since we've been here in in the past in those years does it make sense or do you
074provide more frequent updates so that the board and the community is just up to date on where is that something we'll update quarterly that's about how it takes a little bit for you know a coun come in to be able to so Dre will keep the quarterly although if we see something that's drastically fluctuating one way or the other we will definitely bring that to your attention sooner than there I also like the thought of U the perimeter things right of course everything's important but looking at it from a standpoint of not taking away things from who the staff is extremely important for me yeah absolutely do you have an idea of the last time um a budget has gotten either this far in the deficit or or farther uh yeah the year before I
075started so 10 years ago we had a budget reduction plan oh right M but we've also had a budget deficit probably three four years ago or so yeah during the ending is always something different than what you present at this time of the year because there's so many unknowns but yes a little fluctu in almost any one of them would pretty much cover it so if you take a look at last year we had a balance budget we spent an additional $250,000 in activity buses right and then we ended up with a deficit of 23,000 right so through over the course of the year we like had we not made that purchase we would have been ahead by $225,000 right so you can see those fluctuations can happen uh within that ballpark easily over the
076course of with uh open enrollment coming up do you anticipate any we're still working through the insurance uh process uh but yeah we'll be bringing you insurance rates in November so we'll have a better idea of of those the health insurance rates and that those impact one half of the budget right it's just from January until right June of next year but yeah we're working through those that process with the insurance committee right now yeah it's why we have the policy that we do so that when we do have fluctuations like this we don't have to cut Services yes and I think that's important and I think U we've maintained well above our mandated policy cash reserves that adopting a budget of this nature is not going to um diminish that that ability to maintain
077that type of Reserve so I I feel comfortable moving forward with with a budget like this does anybody feel opposed to that we've heard multiple kind of Thumbs Up I want to give the board board members an opportunity if somebody felt the opposite of that they had time and space to provide me that feedback all right well jury and I will work with the team and with Tammy on getting this finalized and uh presented uh at the next board meeting and then there'll be a public hearing at that meeting and then ultimately we'll ask the board to approve that budget that's final finalized and presented so thank you for your feedback all right I'm going to uh turn the remote over to Lisa and Ryan here hello everybody it's been a while um so summer
078school we had actually more students than we've had in about 10 years um except the co summer Co summer we kind of spiked up you know around 600 students uh we had 329 students in person this summer and 55 students with online credit recovery most of the increase is around enrichment courses so driver's ed we were up 21 students this summer uh we had the AI Inspire class um with us this summer with 28 kids um also AP chem prep um over more than doubled this summer um mostly because of the shifting with kids being encouraged if you met or exceeds that you were pushed into that higher course um that Megan Mars and Mike hints really um and Karen Eder um really did a big push with our kids um trying to make sure
079that they were ready for AP Kem um also we had more elel students participate this summer um and also uh with our Bridge students so for online credit recover we had 55 students taking about 28.5 credits um at the bottom you can kind of see that the more courses a student is enrolled in the less likely is they're going to complete those courses so we are trying to encourage kids to take them during the school year sometimes a student will take um an online Credit Recovery course uh for a variety of reasons either they arrived at us at our school in April um or they just could not um keep up we're really happy to note that uh eight students were able to graduate um this summer um after making up those credits over the
080summer so this is our grade distribution it is really consistent with the school year um over the summer we have a slight increase days especially this summer uh because kids are enrolled in enrichment courses so um you know driver's ed um or uh doing um our APM or our uh Bridge classes that those uh that shows a little bit of increase also it takes a little bit of the distribution out of the rest of mostly B's C's and D's uh because audit passs are incomplete is what falls under our um online courses uh we did have a couple of students audit um this summer which is unusual um they felt like they weren't going to be ready for the next Math course even though they passed the math course um they decided to audit just
081to sharpen their skills um that is the first time I've seen that in a while um which is uh great that the the chose to work with a student to come with us um if that student had earned higher than a D they would have been able to uh or those students had earned higher than the D they could have done um a sort of a grade replacement um but if the great St is the same we choose to do it as audit um rather than having it on their transcript twice and then uh reason for attendance so you can see most of the summer um School uh kids are coming to us for credit recovery um enrichment um I just kind of broke out with the classes there this is the first time enrichment
082has surpassed uh driver's education also it's usually a pretty tight race for repeat for an improved grade um uh we've already been in touch with AI Inspire they um have asked to come back we were excited um with how it went the first time it wasn't just d99 students 22 of them were d99 students we had a couple of students from d58 um a student from NE Central Hinsdale Central and I can't remember the other school um but we did have a sixth grader from d58 and his seventh or eighth grade sister um they had a great um opportunity to come they're really in they had just moved here from another state I believe and so they saw this is a great way to kind of get involved um so another great thing was that
083we were able to negotiate um a free and reduced lunch scholarship for every 10 d99 students so we were able to have two students um to attend for free um that wouldn't have been able to um do it otherwise so um that was exciting thank you good evening everybody um I just have two slides here um to really represent our extended school year program uh for those of you that don't know extended school year we often just refer to as esy but it's for our special education students largely in our multi- needs program um that is the purpose of summer school is to maintain those skills that they've earned during the year and not have any regression occur um this was actually our highest year um of our in-person um instruction as you can see
084a little bit of a historical perspective there i' like to put that on there because prior to covid um our students did attend if they chose to to attend um esy through sassad our special education Cooperative but we always had pretty low numbers um students who attended sassad programs obviously attended but then District 99 students also had the opportunity um and we had relatively low numbers for that I think largely because um they were not the students actual teachers right um that they would be going to for summer school opportunities um so you can sort of see there um just how we um Grew From the virtual that we offered during the summer of covid um and then this last year was our fourth year um offering it in person at District 99 and this
085was our first summer that we housed it at the transition Center because of the larger footprint um and we were able to house everybody Under One Roof and it was um our best summer yet so that just gives you an indication of what the summer what those numbers look like since um 2019 so we topped out at 93 students this summer we utilized all eight classrooms at uh the transition Center but what was great is you know we have access to both of those kitchens over there um and just a lot of other opportunities that make it a little bit more difficult to do in each of the buildings um what I think is PR pretty cool stat here is 85% of our staff that are involved in our esy program are our own staff
086um and that's not typical of a lot of esy programs um teachers want their Break um uh we purposely uh do our esy program right after school in June so we can give folks that break um all of July and the beginning of August um to encourage our staff to continue on with our students this year um we did had have to utilize one sassad um member for our OT o occupational therapist but then we also had we have several d99 substitutes that are special ed certified who came on as teachers for us who frequent actually the transition program during the school year we had a student teacher that actually started as a par educator in District 99 um in special ed decided he wanted to become a specialed teacher then did his student teaching
087at doners Grove South and then um worked with me um during esy as a teacher um and a couple other pair professionals that are are working through to their um special ed certif certification and then two regular Ed teachers one social studies teacher at at North and one science teacher at South both decided to spend their Summers with us um in parac capacities which was awesome um for them themselves to get a different perspective but also for our students um that was really fun to see um and so we topped out at 93 this year and I can only imagine if the trend continues we be above that this year wow fabulous any questions Lisa how many students do you normally have at t99 during the school year during the school year um this year
088we have 71 so and how did the building handle 93 it was it was tight it was tight um but um we were able to uh utilize different different Furniture sort of configurations in some of the classrooms um where we were able to take some students who previously during our normal school year students that are in wheelchairs or have other sort of larger um physical space needs um we we just configured those spaces differently within different parts of the building um to not confine them but it just opened up other parts of that building um we also utilized our Open Spaces especially in the that new what we call the blue kitchen on the new side um because it's rather large for a lot of Swing spaces for larger things that we wanted to do
089that required some more space But at the end of the day a large part of what our focus is during esy is are those community experiences so we are trying to get out and utilize those vehicles and get out in the community as much as possible it's nice out the students don't want to be inside either um and so it's not as if everybody maybe in a typical summer school setting is coming into one classroom and sitting for three hours that's that's not at all the experience there's a lot of moving around um but I would say um that 93 is is a is a nice number for that building so we'll see um but I think too that a nice experience for our multi- needed students is as they experience the programs at North
090and South South then they get to come and have an experience at the transition program every summer because that's where they're going to likely be coming um when they're done in their respective high schools so it's just I think people were like oh maybe maybe that's why we went from 82 to 93 you know oh it's going to be at at the place that I'm going to be in a couple years um and it's obviously as everybody has seen here a beautiful facility so but um I I I've been the person who's been the administrator overseeing it the last four years and it's it's been the smoothest best run esy since even with the number of 93 so I was very happy with how it turned out very good yeah this is fantastic yeah I
091had uh Hank and I took a tour of it uh is it earlier this spring I think spring um and I think it's great that you have the ability to have all the students in one place at the same time and like even just walking around when it was like almost freshly uh renovated fantastic space I'm I'm thankful that you had the opportunity to give these students the educational experience there and I think it's such an invaluable resource to our students and then the students that come from other districts so thank you so much for everything you do absolutely thank you and we do have um two students that are tuition based with us at t99 this year for this school year can I just ask Ryan I thought I read in here you said
092something about this was our first summer with busing we did I read that correctly related to summer school we offered maybe confusing something um we offer busing every summer um yeah um I would say though um when we're at South for summer school the bus routes for some of our kids like it's like 20 minutes shorter um than when we're at North and so I like Lisa we I had far fewer kids missing the buses turning the buses back all that kind of stuff because kids that live at at 3 or 55 and like Beyond 83rd Street instead of having to catch the bus for like 620 for an 8:00 start they were able to get it at like 6:47 or 651 and and so that was a huge difference for us um I didn't
093realize that that was the reason until I like compared the bus at like a week into summer school I'm like why aren't we having more kids miss buses um and it was timing I think so you mentioned two kids that are students that are um tuition based M tell me about that yeah so um other school districts around in the area um frankly don't have the transition program that we have um and so um they find that sometimes their students might need more of a structured program like we would provide that their District doesn't have and so just like we send students to like let's say a SD program for for their school day they send their student to us at transition for their transition experience and then pay tuition for their student to attend
094with us since they are not part of the District 99 Community anything else thanks Ryan thanks Lisa yeah I was gonna say all right uh I've started bringing this to the board each year and especially in the year when we're watching the budget this is an important thing board to review and take a look at one of the goals that the board set for me last year was being active and involved in both local and national conferences and trying to uh both learn and share uh what we're doing here in District 99 so uh this a little a couple fewer experiences than last year knowing that we were adding into a tighter budget this year um the ones that don't have a dollar amount really come at no cost uh to be part of um
095and are either conferences or leadership experiences so like DuPage superintendent collaborative that's uh a monthly uh group of superintendents in DuPage and I co-lead that group um then a couple of board of directors uh the board knows I've been on iasa I was just named I Illinois High School District organization uh board of directors as well uh there's two of them there iasa which is the Illinois superintendent conference and aasa which is uh the National Conference uh for superintendant uh Rob and I have been asked to to present at the Ia annual conference so we'll be presenting on our morale work with the staff and with the administration at that conference and then I'll be taking the show on the road for a tabletop conversation at the aasa uh conference um The Joint annual conference
096is the conference I attend with the board each year as part of our professional development as a team and then I also go each summer to a board of directors meeting for iasa and that's at no cost to the district um so the key one that's on the table where I'm not presenting or attending with the board is the suburban school superintendent conference that is an expensive conference um this is the conference that is just uh Suburban schools right and you have to be nominated by the group to be in the group and accept it in and then you have to attend two of every three conferences to maintain your membership I have attended the last two uh so if the board would like as a cost savings measure for me not to attend that
097conference uh we could reduce my travel budget by two $2,000 by doing that however this is the conference where uh it really is the peers that are most similar to us uh that I'm in the room with so that would be the tradeoff uh that has been a a very good conference for us and for me uh over the years but I'm I'm happy in a year where it's tighter if the board feels like Hank reduced this budget that's the one that I would kind of jettison from the list um so with that I'll I'll open up to questions or conversation and kind of get your direction as to whether you would like this slate or you would like this slate minus the suburban school superintendent conference I think this slate is fine yes I
098do too I don't I don't think taking out the suburban school superintendent conference is going to be that big of an advantage to our budget I think it's important for you to be um out there in our conference and uh getting feedback from other schools that are similar to us and keeping us in the loop I just think it's important so that that's just my opinion but yeah I think the return on investment for you going to a conference like that is greater as a value to the district um even you know let's say you run into another school in a similar situation as ours and you find some new way to save us money as a as a result of it so uh $22,000 for a conference that's very valuable to you um I
099think is a good investment for us yeah I I think those of you that are on the board during uh the book challenges this was the conference I was at when those came in and I was able to like pick the brains of all the superintendant that were there that charted the path forward and how you know we should manage that and follow our policies and procedures and so I mean it's it's very tangible and that's a group that I reach out to throughout the year as well so I appreciate the board's support of me attending that I I do feel that it has brought value back to the district and being part of that group but you know I did want to at least bring it to the floor here all right so that's
100the plan for the year okay Julie do we have any uh slips for uh visitors no sir we do not okay then item number six can I get a motion from the board uh to go into close session for Collective negotiating matters between the district and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees so moved shell moved second Ken seconds very much shelle Fuller hi Ken Dawson I Chris Espinosa I Jenny hagstrom I Terry pavich I Cara Caston I and Don rener I motion carries and for the members of the public the board will be going to close session as we come out of close session the only action the board will be taking when it comes out of Clos session is to adjourn thank you
101all right we'll take a quick break and I just want to say thank you to North for