001your order Julie can you uh call the roll please Kara Caston here Mr Espinoza here Jenny here here Don Renner here Jan hunchi here and Nala mocha here thank you uh we have a quorum let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right uh first item of business tonight is the approval of minutes of the July 17 2023 business meeting the July 17 2023 closed meeting and the August 7 2023 Workshop meeting with action items can I get a motion to approve those minutes please so moved second okay move Chris seconds thank you very much Terry pavisich aye Christopher Spinoza hi Jenny hagstrom aye
002Kara Caston aye Ken Dawson hi I'm Don Renner aye motion carries item number four reception of visitors Julie do we have any visitors second reception okay uh Hank will turn it over to item number five student perspectives and I will turn over the students who wants to go first hopefully flip a coin go ahead hello board members the first day of school the upperclassmen came in from 8 20 to 11 10 today allowing for 15-minute periods for a quick introduction to the course and to quickly meet your classmates and receive seating assignments the day went off without a hitch for me personally and I had ample time to get a general feel of the class while the shortened periods allowed for a nice segue from the summer schedule I was also able to participate in
003the senior Sunrise tradition which allowed for seniors to see everyone before class and carry on this tradition as we after we left at 11 10 the freshmen then came into the school the positively North leaders allowed for the freshmen to be able to have upperclassmen to Aid them and finding where they need to go around the building further fall activities are now in full swing I've been in tennis season and our first football game is on Friday at Saint Francis our first home game is against reviso West on September 15th and it's also our senior night our fall activities fair is coming up on the 8th allowing for students both new and old to see what our school has to offer I will personally be running the model un and Debate Club tables and last
004year we were able to get so many new members just from this Fair it's a great way for students to find their people with similar interests to them with clubs ranging from the speech team to the board game club all in all our school year had an excellent start and we are very excited for everything to come this year thank you thank you all right hi board members so today was also our first day of school and seniors also participated in the senior sunrise this morning so we woke up at like 4 30 to get there and it went well we took lots of pictures I also participated in that and then we went all the way till 11 23 too and everyone seemed excited and ready for the new school year and get to
005know their teachers and new classmates and then right after 11 20 was also a freshman came in and our Mad Dash leaders and directors got to introduce the freshman and had them for around like 30 minutes and just to answer any questions they had and those I was a director so I would go into the classrooms just to see what's going on they were awkward at some points but at other points they were they were answering and asking valuable questions that will help them and then we also had a lot of leaders around the school helping these freshmen and directing them to classes so they're not lost along the way and then our first football game is also this Friday so we're we're gonna wear our shirts and support the team too yeah thank you
006both all right a couple of things for you before we get into the actual reports uh although first day of students was today Staff first days back were last week Wednesday Thursday Friday I feel like I've gotten a lot of positive feedback from our staff that they were productive and that they were well received over the couple of days so you can see some of our board members hanging out with our masses you gotta guess who is inside of there [Music] and then uh after the welcoming message first we had the first day back we had uh Awards receptions to recognize years of service then welcome message from the administration and then a keynote speaker from Devin Hughes a lot of our Focus this year coming back was just strategies for like adult SEL for
007you know how can we focus on what is key and important helping people know the value use within the Strategic plan and the work that we have for the course of this year and how they can best help contribute to that work so that's really what we focused on the opening days and then a couple of few fun pictures of first day of school from uh Jill and Lauren here as our students arrived back today so up and running all right along with today a long awaited day was t99 and the work done there so Travis and Jim also grabbed some pictures for you and they're going to walk you through an update over at t99 and I believe some of the other summer stuff right yeah yep so I'll go ahead and start us
008off good evening it's great to to be with you first off um we're gonna we are going to provide some updated t99 pictures I know that we showed you some pictures last month or two weeks ago actually and so we'll have some updated information for you an update on our budget uh update on some of our summer capital projects and then future involvement of future building improvements that that are going to be needed so if you can go to the next one so first off um a big thank you so a big thank you to a lot of internal um and external Partners so white and company did a great job of keeping us updated it was a great day today to see uh we were ready right and so that was that was our
009goal we talked about that two weeks ago and everything that we talked about came to fruition so that was really neat but um so white and Company and then Angus Evans was actually the superintendent of the of the project and he did a great job of of being on site of answering questions of jumping in when things were needed and he just he did an excellent job other things you know the DuPage Roe came they've been great to work with uh gave us occupancy which is always uh you know that's needed in order for our school to happen um and then just there's a there's a ton of subcontractors that were uh involved with this as well and I got to tell you uh you know we were there uh more I was there more
010near the end as we were going through and so as as the painter is touching up things and we're moving things around and I said excuse me he goes no no this is your house right and so it was just just the respect that they showed and and really the the willingness to engage with the staff and uh that were there it was just it was just really neat to see so if you can hit it one more time so and thanks internally to our t99 staff uh they they did a great job they were anxious and wanted to get in and we had to tell them not yet right so they were able to fully get in on Friday um so it was all hands on deck and it was just really neat to
011see everyone come together and and work and and say hey what what's needed there were you could hear that all the way up and down the hallways what do we need to do what does that look like we had some uh some support staff that came in and worked extra uh in order to make it happen so that we were we were ready to go this morning and we were still this morning buttoning things up and getting ready and so when the buses pulled up and kids were dropped off uh it was neat to see just everyone working together next so here are some pictures so we have some uh for the interior the existing you can see on the left there that's uh it shows the flooring that was done so two classrooms we
012had to have some Plumbing reworked so the floors had to be pulled up and they re- finished those and we put down new flooring and then the kitchen you can see that countertop there that's brand new so the the existing kitchen got new countertops in it and it looks great our CMG staff did a phenomenal job of getting that space clean as you can imagine it was a construction site right and so there were multiple times that they needed to go through and clean and and they did a great job next we have some uh interior pictures um so we have the the picture of the the two kitchens uh the two sides of the kitchen right so we have the the blue and the purple I I know we showed that last time but
013this is it put together right so things are actually in the drawers and then the cabinets and and they're ready to to go if you quit one more time so that gives you the the kind of the view of that with the island there um and it is absolutely gorgeous right and so they they've done a great job of uh of working through that go ahead and click the next one so this gives uh the so the kitchen is over here to the to the right um then this this Grand room here uh has a lot to offer it's really cool that's that's painted uh on that wall and it and it gives a great visual there uh for the the students um and then this is a great space for Community to occur right
014they can come in they can do uh crafts there's also opportunity for you know kids to engage um in and get out of the the classrooms and work in that area click it one more time so then the hallway going down so again we were over in this area you're walking down uh close near to the end on the right this is a it's going to be a workout room but you can see the the design and it's it's a multi-sensory uh room that they'll they'll be able to to utilize so we were still moving things in this morning uh into that room and we'll get it fully uh operational we have a treadmill to put together and I think a uh I think a stationary bike or something along those lines that we still
015need to get put together and get in that space click one more time um so this is showing again with a classroom setup uh what's really neat so this is this is that uh it's an interactive clear touch is what it's called board and so we have these in in other buildings as well our staff went through training our tech department did a great job of getting everything set up uh got the the training set up and and going for our staff and it's it's just a really neat space there's all of the furniture is you can move it uh it's very accessible just a great space you can see the lighting the windows are awesome they let in a ton of light and that's I mean there's a ton on research on best spaces
016and and these these spaces certainly do Elevate the the learning of our of our kids um and then one couple more of uh exterior I have three more slides of exterior pictures so we were talking it uh two weeks ago about wanting to get the Circle Drive done Circle Drive got done uh it's amazing how they installed these uh they're they're quick uh they did a great job um so the whole Circle Drive was done um and then you can if you click one more to the next slide you can see our signage so this is on the old uh existing building right and so we put the new siding so it all ties in together and then that's a new uh sign again for easily to identify the building as you're driving by and
017then one more so you can see that the space in the front uh is is just a great for students to to come for the beginning of the day and the end of the day and we actually got uh as a as a bus was pulling up this morning and students were arriving it was just neat to see our t99 staff were lined up down that hallway as kids came in uh the to see the relationships and then uh happily greeting each other and and talking and it was just a it was a really neat data to see all of that all of that occur so I'm going to hand it over to now that I got to have fun talking about all the the the the pretty pictures and everything that that we've done
018up to that point uh Jim's going to take it from here and talk about the budget and some future items okay great thank you welcome well worth this far into it and we're still on your budget and that is great news uh we were concerned right from the start that we had a number and we couldn't go over it so I'm proud to say that we are concluding there's no really unforeseen thing that would come up that would be astronomical charge we do have some contingency funds left we'll be using that towards some mature fixtures and equipment as needed as we put everything into the spaces things will pop up and we'll order those so all in all uh it was a great project and you know even with some overtime this past weekend we're
019still in pretty good shape with some funds left coming future events for uh the building improvements that we just had ribbon cutting open house slated for October 23rd 2023 more to come on that for details also the renovation of t99 programs we featured in the November issue of Downers Grove magazine coming up so I thought I'd give you just a quick recap of the summer capital projects that we had a couple of these are still going on at North the softball field upgrades currently going on got a couple weeks left so that's uh continuing it started late it won't impact PE and or Sports so that's good news the roof two Replacements are done the pool scoreboard started today and I know that I said at a previous board meeting done by today but we're
020a couple weeks out so North will get theirs installed this week South we'll get theirs installed next week head south the music Suite flooring and chairs they're in Dawn completed uh student parking lot completed and obviously the scoreboard for next week Life Safety this is phase one uh at north of Life Safety uh galvanized pipe replacement about six hundred thousand dollars worth of work next year next summer is about 2.2 million so uh the big ones next year uh so it went well it's completed at North all of these projects came in under budget so another good news to report to you tonight if you have a study on all the good pictures what is that I call it the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic yeah actually it's the roof at 299 the
021existing building so this was uh unscheduled to be done for next summer in capital but with the rains and the weather that we've had these past few months we got some leaks we had to do some repairs and we were seriously thinking about being aggressive and getting this done prior to next summer so we have to be creative in how we fund it so we're looking into that we're going to get back to you but as you can see we need some repairs and it's a complete tear off it's about 10 000 square feet so not looking the greatest but we're holding that not a cheap uh not a cheap business either no it's not so thanks thanks for your ongoing support a lot of great things have happened this summer for our building and
022grounds and and getting everything up to up to speed and projects as you heard Jim say that's a lot of hard work that goes into when things come in under budget uh and a lot of dialogue with our our contractors so great job with everyone that's been involved with that and just thanks for your ongoing support questions on anything that we covered how have uh teachers and staff responded to the updates of t99 in it was it was neat to see I got to be there when they first walked in right and just the the awe the the the joy uh of seeing that that space and even in in the existing when again upon coming in and seeing some of the things that have been done there uh just really happy with the the
023progress um they would have liked to have been in a day earlier right and but they I'm telling you they we said we just need to stay out of their way and we'll get you in and it'll be great and they did and and it was because they were in the existing building on Thursday and we just said you just can't go over to the new side and I they adhered to that so it was great yeah really good response I want to congratulate both of you and your teams for your fantastic work um for the t99 project and the summer Capital Improvement projects all to be completed under budget is fantastic and you really need to be complimented for that and I think the whole Downers Grove Community can be proud of that that
024is a fantastic accomplishment so thank you a lot of people's efforts with that right and it's and it is it's really neat to see when when the projects come together right all of our CMG custodial maintenance group right our Tech they they all as you know when when a project happens those two are more integrated now than they have ever been and um everyone's working really well together and having conversations and and planning and and doing that and uh Jim and Kristen have done a great job of of making sure hey we're staying on track uh me and Kristen has spreadsheets all over the place of all the the things you think about we fully had a kitchen right all of the appliances all of the silverware all of the utensils everything that was all
025ordered documented everything right and so she has a spreadsheet she knows where it came from who ordered it when it came in who said that it came in all of that stuff so um a lot of that that detail work is really important have done a great job with that I would just say t99 is a special place um the work that goes on there is fantastic um the fact that we're committing these kind of resources to this program and the facilities I think um demonstrates the community what kind of priority that we place on this program and I think it's really important to reflect on that mm-hmm all right thank you Jim and Travis thank you thank you all right a couple of just procedural items that happen every year at this time of
026year uh by board policy and state law we have a couple of teams that come in front of the board just for your review and your approval the first is the concussion oversight team this is provided to the board in advance but uh we identify a team of the athletic directors associate principals nurses athletic trainers and outside doctor Consultants Scott Works closely with his team to make sure that we're following all of our procedures and this team is up for approval this evening any questions on this one similarly we have a d crisis de-escalation and physical management oversight team this team is also headed up by Scott he gets the best teams and is primarily uh associated with special education with this but you can see the team that's there that has oversight over this
027any questions on this item this is also up for Action later on this evening now both are important teams and we need them yep probably the same team that each year or is the changes to the team for the most part it's the same team yeah yeah all right I got a quick question the concussion oversight team yes are they on site at all of the football games soccer games where where are they some of the members are on site uh especially the athletic trainers we can't possibly be on site at everything especially some of our under level events that are off-site in those cases if a Coach ever has a concern we just call 9-1-1 at that point and are the doctors at events you know like football games or they just strictly Consultants
028they're at some of the events but mostly I believe are remotely consultant yeah and this is concussion but what about oversight just for General emergency we have so many competitive top athletes at most of our high schools competing in a variety of sports take cross-country for example if they cross the finish line and given all they can and fall out who's there to help you know as that type of thing that may be on the soccer field two people are going up the head of ball and have a concussion so on all the sports not just football yeah if that's on site then we have our athletic training team on site like I said if it's a practice or something and somebody isn't here because there's you know uh isn't somebody then we would call
0299-1-1 in those cases but most of the time uh our trainers are here and they have radios and administrators are here as well so we respond to wherever that was on site at that point and the EMTs are on uh like football games they're they're usual games yeah you know some of the big events where there's a lot of people too in case someone in the crowd needs if we have large crowds like graduation or football games you know we'll have uh emergency Personnel on site yeah there are okay great all right any other questions on these two items all right uh Gina has Grant allocations these come up every year at this time as well so I'll just highlight a couple of things Title One you can see a substantial increase from our initial
030allocation last year it turned out our initial allocation was almost half of what it usually is but we did get a second allocation so actually last year we ended up with 312 000. but still 446 000 for an initial allocation is incredible just a reminder to the board that only South High School is a title one school so funds for Title One need to be spent for South High School um also wanted to point out that last year not when I brought this to the board because we don't find out usually until November December we were able to get the Immigrant education grant and that's that 11 600 we don't always get that Grant and that's really exciting when we do so I was very happy about that I'm hoping that we will get it
031again but again won't know until later in the school year also notice that ctei those funds are for Career and Technical education we have been held harmless at the 96 236 we are expecting an additional education this year um so we're we're hopeful in our CT funds we also saw an increase last year of 10 000 to our title IV funds title four funds are used for to provide enrichment to students we use it for a variety of things including our seal of by literacy testing our AVID program at North High School plays the membership fees and some professional development and we use it for some other supplies particularly for our biomedical classes and we were very excited to get additional funds this coming year as well so just a quick summary if you have
032any questions why the significant jump in title one that is a great question I'm sorry last year when we had the initial 191 000 on our initial allocation I was contacting people and double checking lists to make sure that I didn't misread because we usually get about 300 and 300 to 400 000 um on our initial one year we did end with about four hundred thousand dollars but this year there's a formula that they use and most of my colleagues are also seeing an increase so it's a combination of census data and our free reduced lunch numbers okay and can you remind us once again why only down in South is eligible for title one so North are substantially lower than they are at South High School and that's the reason it's South High okay
033it's Title One funds any other questions for Gina no all right um this is an action item to accept these this evening all right uh recognizing uh certificate in excellence in financial reporting we have received this oh boy every year since I think 1999 so it's a long-standing testament to the work that our finance department does this is uh Jury has been involved in this for several years this was the last year of Mark's work on it but we received this and I meant to put up the picture of jury pinning it on there if you go outside there's a plaque out there that has our little pin on it so but thank you to jury for her long-standing work in this and uh just a testament to the work that our team does here
034yeah congratulations thank you thank you thank you and now I'll turn it over to Drury for the fun in the year-end financial report okay well first I'd like to introduce Tammy who a new member of our team she joined in July foreign okay well I have just a few financial highlights for last fiscal year we ended the year with a solid operating fund balance there of a little over seven million dollars this equals as you can see a little over seven percent of our revenues the reason why that percentage is important is because we have a board policy that states we need to keep our operating fund balances at three percent or higher any questions on just this overall fund balance page jury for the benefit of the board members can you explain when you
035show a negative number in the educational funner o m fund what that truly means and the difference between cash accounting versus fund accounting hey sure we use the based upon modified accrual accounting basis which means that we defer our property taxes that we receive in June until the next year so we have much more cash on hand June 30th but we operate with just the revenues that we count for that year that makes sense and then as far as having a negative like the operations and maintenance fund balance is slightly negative that just means that our revenues um were well we started the year with a negative balance on that and um as we saw last year like in November when we were starting on the work to work on the levy we saw that
036that fund balance looked like it would continue being negative and so we put more Levy into that fund for this coming year and so you'll see what the budget that now we anticipate that that fund balance will be higher than what it is now so there's still plenty of cash in that fund it's just that we're deferring all the tax revenues until like July yeah yeah and then the negative in the working cash Plus 14.99 right it's not a negative balance but we did transfer the funds to pay for t99 yes [Music] all right any other questions on that one sorry it's working cash potential source of funds for what Jim was referring to as far as how we're potentially going to fund the roof replacement oh well yes but we also have some other
037ideas okay yes waiting in anticipation for that everyone who finance was so much fun yeah Finance is really fun I know okay so for our revenues um you'll see that the third line down interest it came in quite a bit higher than what we had anticipated due to the higher rates and so that was a a nice benefit for us because we had some expenses that came in a little bit higher than what we had anticipated so it helped offset those those expenses um we also continued to receive federal Esser funds this past year those totaled about five hundred thousand dollars next year we expect just to receive about 200 000 in user funds uh that will be the last of our allocation then the other area of revenues to take a look at would
038be the state aid so the revenue in in that line item came in a little bit higher than what we had projected and it was basically due to the reimbursement that we received from the state for our transportation costs those costs are from the prior year do you have any questions on the revenues not bad inflation what is the our students are buying more so um well actually we switched over to a different program a couple of years ago and so our food service management company um pays us kind of like a fee kind of a commission at the end of the year as and it's related to the sales and so the more sales the more Revenue that we receive from them and we're actually planning to use the revenue over the next two
039years from Food Services to fund the upgrades at South for their servery well it also says that we're um supplying things that our students and faculty want to eat so that's a really good thing all right any other questions on revenues okay a few highlights on our expenses so overall our salaries and benefits came in very close to our projections that's about 80 percent of our budget and a good portion of those salaries and benefits are tied to collective bargaining agreements so we have a pretty good idea of what those will be for the remaining expenses all came in pretty much as we had projected except for the cost of Transportation Services those were about five hundred thousand higher than what we had originally projected so overall the the revenues and expenditures came in very
040close to what we had originally projected last year and as Travis mentioned a team it takes a team to be able to come in this close to budget it's it's a lot of people working to make this happen all right questions on expenditures all right so that's where we ended up last year and now it's real forecast where we're going hmm Okay so I'll just mention a few of the highlights like I did for the year-end report so where we are projecting as you can see that our operating revenues and expenditures are pretty closely matched and then you'll see the the transfer line item that we have there with that then it it's our expenses are a little bit higher than our revenues debt transfer is is a transaction that we make every year the
041amount varies from year to year and it's just to make our lease payments and the lease payments are for our tech devices so as you can see we project that we're going to end the year with the operating fund balance of just under seven percent so we're still right where we'd like to be as you can see though the education fund we're projecting a slight you know deficit ending fund balance but again that's not cash that's just overall ending fund balance and it's so early in the year I mean that could change just like it did last year too any questions on the fund balance page revenues oh okay well you'll see on the replacement text line item that we're projecting a much lower amount for this coming year the state has informed us that
042the replacement taxes should come in probably about 25 percent lower than what they were last year this is an area that it fluctuates from year to year who knows maybe part way into the year will be surprised and it will go back up but we're just going with the production of the state for right now we do expect to see an increase in state aid that's for the most part tied to Transportation costs as I'd mentioned in the previous report our transportation costs last year were higher than what we expected those costs have been turned over to the state and so therefore we anticipate that our our reimbursement will go up this year and on the federal aid we as you see there's a significant decrease there that's partly due to Esser funding it's also
043due to some other federal aid that we've received as genus mentioned sometimes though we find out two or three months into the year and there's additional Federal funding but right now we're just projecting the low amount does that include the grant the grants that we talked about earlier yes so even with the increases in the grants you're still projecting that kind of reduction right last year we had additional Ida funding that we don't anticipate to receive next year so it's there's a number of federal sources that we receive funding from and they do fluctuate from year to year the transportation costs is that the vehicles and repairs and parts what's the it's for our busing the actual the no we paid for a student so we contract out for services okay okay yeah any other
044questions on the revenues all right so the overall big takeaway is trees expansions oh we didn't do expenditures let's not spend anymore just take it home but I missed half okay well once again our salaries and benefits are the you know it's 80 percent of our budget and we you know anticipate that these will stay right within our Revenue stream um as you will see there's a projected increase in purchase services and tuition by a significant amount um and both of those are related to for the most part special services costs that's tuition when we pay for one of our students to go attend a different school yes [Music] we project a increase in the number of students that we'll be attending outpaced facilities this next year remember that's very individual and specific you know
045a single student with higher needs could swing that number drastically from year to year whether it's their somebody's coming with greater needs or greater outplacement needs could cause that to to go higher or if a student leaves us and that comes back it could change drastically or sometimes mid-year we have a student's needs change or get adapted and we could have a swing mid-year one way or another so that's one of our most volatile lines year to year so the only other line item I would like to point out is the capital outlay it looks kind of odd to see a decrease there one reason for the decreases we had a one-time real estate purchase last year for the expansion at t99 and then the other reason there's a decrease is because we started some
046of our projects started it all has to do with timing some of the projects started in the spring and we paid for some of those projects before June 30th so we had the expenses in last year's budget thus reducing this year's budget so that's that's um the tentative budget for next year we don't anticipate any large changes between now and September but we might find out some more information from the state and we would make those small changes at that time so now I'll bring it home sure so juries presented a realistic conservative budget that's balanced and expenses and expenditures and revenues as she said they'll continue to look at this for the next week it's already on public display on our website uh board members can provide any feedback over the next month as
047well and then we will bring the final budget for approval next month at our board meeting there will be an opportunity for public comment before we ask the board for a final approval I miss anything I would just say that um you know it's it's extremely important that last year last year's board when they adopted the 2022 Levy living up to the statutory maximum under p-tel is allowing us to meet our accelerating expenditures so I would caution the Board of Education that as we get to next year's Levy and we're con continuing to be in this inflationary environment we have to take that into consideration when we look at our levies so it's really important yeah our maximum Levy amount although five percent is higher than we typically are at it's still lower than what
048CPI and inflation was all right see we can have fun with Finance oh I'll have fun all the time all right Freedom of Information requests uh we received them as we typically do we responded to them as we always do and they are listed on our website item number seven the consent agenda there is before you open up one corrected document uh in your board packet under the finance report it's just a labeling uh item on on on one of the summary pages so the numbers haven't changed just a description changed um so bottom line we're the same we just want to make sure that we labeled one of the line items correctly thank you Dr thaley before the board votes on the consent agenda is there any agenda item a board member would like
049to pull out of the consent agenda for further discussion okay hearing none I need a motion for the Board of Education to approve the consent agenda as presented which includes a Personnel report appointment certified appointments classified transfer position classified B June Treasures report in June July Financial Pages C 20 23 24 concussion oversight team and D 2023 24 crisis de-escalation and physical management oversight team so moved second Terry first Chris second thank you Carrie pavesich aye Christian Espinoza aye Jenny hagstrom aye Cara Kasten aye Ken Dawson aye and Don Renner hi motion carries anime is this for you Dr Kelly or oh these are actually action items okay so item number eight um I'm gonna need a motion for the Board of Education to approve the 2023-24 grant allocations as presented so moved second Terry
050Terry first Jenny second thank you Terry pavesich aye Jenny hagstrom aye Cara Caston aye Ken Dawson aye Mr Espinosa hi I'm Don Renner hi motion carries and the second item of action uh B I need a motion for the Board of Education to accept the tentative budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year and establish 6 30 PM September 18 2023 for the public hearing to be held at the administrative service center 6301 Springside Avenue in Downers Grove Illinois so moved second Chris first Ken second thank you benosa aye Ken Dawson aye Jenny hagstrom aye Terry pavasich aye Eric Aston hi I'm Don Renner aye motion carries item number nine old business on the whole business okay and item number ten any new business no new business item number 11 reception of visitors all right inviting Yvette
051Kirby would you like me read the instructions first oh yes sorry you can come on up but you've got to read the instructions sorry about this this is the second reception of visitors which is intended for audience members to address the board on any topic pertaining to Community High School District 99 comments will be limited to three minutes to provide all visitors an equal opportunity to address the board individuals needing more time should submit their thoughts and writing to the board's secretary visitors addressing the board need to submit a comment slip to the board secretary and will be invited to the microphone prior to addressing the board audience members should State their full name the proceedings may be tape recorded for the purpose of producing accurate meeting minutes the board's presiding officer reserves the right
052to modify these protocols if circumstances warrant audience observation of these protocols is appreciated thank you sorry about that okay I'm trying to be as quick as possible hi my name is Yvette Kirby and I've been an educator for 28 years in the same school district I have also had three female student athletes attend dgn since 2015 when we moved here from the Northwest side of the city it's our third daughter Kirsten Kirby is 16 a current Junior a straight A student with no discipline issues ever she has played Club volleyball since she was 10 for the same Volleyball Club New Wave here in Darien this summer Kirsten was asked by coach Bostic to play in his Summer League and she was first invited to play in the JV league for her first game then for
053the next game she was invited to play for his varsity League she also attended all three summer volleyball camps following covid which was really really hard on her as she is a very social student she has done everything that he has asked of his players she played Club volleyball she attended various volleyball camps and played exceptionally well at Nationals in Florida having 20 Aces in one set she played his summer league but then was cut with several other girls rather than placing them on the JB team that he clearly has in place on the school website and in the current yearbook which I brought um I spoke with an ihsa administrator about the Title IX violation that I have observed occurring the past two years he in fact agreed that dgn is in clear violation
054I called Miss Kavanaugh on August 9th to discuss this with her and to invite Mr mint as well in a meeting she returned my call we chatted for nearly an hour she repeatedly told me I needed to follow the proper chain of command which I believed I was in fact doing by calling the athletic director's office to meet in person she then told me to put my Title IX concerns in writing which I did in an email and she told me that they would be forwarded to the building level and then onto the district level if necessary I've never heard back from either of the two offices and it's now August 21st Miss Kavanaugh then attempted to help me understand by sending me incorrect links to sexual harassment rather than Title IX links that she
055had stated in her email I believe she was purposely leading me astray with Title IX by stating sports are equal but not affording the opportunities so the 730 females compared to the 770 males in the district that she sent me in her email my daughter Kirsten has played on the sophomore team last year but also played with her entire sophomore team for JV games they were in fact playing on a team specifically meant for juniors that cannot make varsity team and are not allowed to play Down on the sophomore level again this would be lying to the community it appears on the website and in the yearbook that we have a JV team when we in fact do not we use our sophomore level team to play at the JV level these are taxpayer dollars
056are they being correctly allocated are the coaches being paid for love exist your time is expired feel free to reach out with me and we can follow thank you I'll add the last paragraph in an email I appreciate it we have no other reception visitor soaps okay item number 12. um report on land activities Jenny no activity yet our first meeting will be at the end of September okay uh Dr thiely report on sassa yeah um I was not at their meeting last week because it was at the same time as our opening day a couple of things enrollment is down a little bit right now but that is typical at the start of the school year and then they they add numbers as time goes on uh they're looking at their Staffing patterns to
057make sure they're appropriate and then the biggest thing is that they're beginning their work on their executive director search Terry a report on the Education Foundation yeah uh our meeting is Wednesday so I I really don't have anything except um the um us meeting now at South High we need to make sure that either the door is unlocked or that someone knows we're coming yep there was a mix up in the summer it was not communicated we waited a half an hour outside to get in I apologize to the foundation for that mix-up I know I'm just up and running here during the school year I don't anticipate that that would be will happen again well um and you know the room needs to be available for us too sorry but I'm just I'm just
058throwing it out there so I can report on the iasb uh nothing specifically gearing up for the annual conference in November to list the speakers is out there there's some really great workshops when you have a chance take a look and looking forward to it networking with board members from around the state it should be very excellent networking opportunity yes yes it is okay um item 13 upcoming board meetings next board meeting will be September 11 2023 here at the ASC for the workshop at 6 30 followed by September 18th the regular business meeting again here at the ASC at 6 30 p.m I'll have to remind board members that's the unusual back-to-back weeks with board meetings because of Labor Day yeah mm-hmm you have no closed session we're canceling it down and I decided
059we're good oh we're canceling yeah you get to cancel it I know you're disappointed oh we're weeping over here on this side of the table we're blocked as a tournament so I just need a motion to adjourn so moved Terry first Chris second all in favor aye aye aye motion carries for adjourned thank you everybody look at your service we're off and running