001good evening call to order please mike davenport here christopher espinoza here shirelle fuller here jenny hagstrom here terry pavisage here joanna vazquez drexler i'm here nancy kupka here luka plauskas here and caitlyn vincent here thank you we have a quarter let's stand for the pledge 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 we'll start with the approval of minutes we need a motion for the board of education to approve the minutes of the july 11 2022 business meeting and the august first 2022 workshop meeting with action items so move to approve minutes second that was joanna yeah do we have a second foul seconds thank you do i know oscar's drexler aye
002jenny heggstrom aye terry pavich aye mike davenport abstain christopher espinoza aye and nancy cupca aye the minutes are approved we'll move on to the first reception of visitors do we have any to be clear tonight we'll have the first reception of visitors the public hearing on the emergency days and the second no both item or all three are for items not on the agenda okay moving on welcome to our brand new student board members and this is your opportunity to ask us if you'd like to report anything or if you just had some questions or you just want to say hello because it's your first meeting we'll start out by welcoming yeah let's welcome him okay we're so glad you're here i know we recognize them at the beginning so they haven't had much of
003a school year yet they've had one day but we can hear how the first day went so um i can start um our first day was really fun as a senior we got to do senior sunrise on the turf even though that meant waking up at five in the morning it was still really fun to be with all the seniors wearing our south um senior shirts the first day it was super short we only went to like half day but it was good to be back in the building get to see all the teachers again and see all of our friends so i'm excited to see how the black schedule will work this week since today was a regular day but it was a good start to the year great thanks kaitlyn um i agree
004with caitlin about how it was definitely a shorter day and we didn't get to say experience a whole full day or even the hybrid schedule that we will see later this week we also had a senior sunrise we did wake up at 5am as well it was worth watching it because we were all able to experience it at the same time and stay as a group and watch each person smile together and see our last year and obviously as our school year is going to go on i think that together we are going to create an environment that is always positive and cheerful all right great welcome both welcome welcome welcome welcome on board okay we'll move on to the recommendations and reports of the superintendent uh before i get into my uh into my
005scheduled reports i do have one thing to add or just to pull out and that's the fact that uh district 99 was recognized in the last month or so here as the first i think it's in the nation not just in illinois to earn a tle endorsement so trusted learning environment from cosin which is the organization of school networking so it's the professional organization for information technology in schools our team went through a pretty rigorous process over the last year to demonstrate that we're following best practices in data security and privacy so we went through the the process and are the first i believe in the i know at least in illinois but i think actually in the country uh to receive this this endorsement so i just want to share that with the board
006and the public uh that another uh set of high marks for a branch of our organization fun well done thank you very good thank you very good [Applause] all right uh we have a few items uh this evening that come back on a regular basis to the board uh the first is our concussion oversight team per board policy uh the board needs to review and then approve our oversight team each year this is very similar to what we have each year with our athletic directors associate principals nurses and athletic trainers at both campuses so this shows up as an action item any questions from board members all right our next item similar to the concussion team the board also starting last year needed to approve our crisis de-escalation and physical management oversight team scott oversees
007this entire team and you can see this is primarily members of our special education staff that make up this team or those that are serving in that department scott can ask answer any questions if you have them scott how often would you guess we do any sort of physical management most of them are um we have to report to the state every time it happens that the the majority of them are from our out placements okay students that are in a therapeutic setting um but they're still our students so we report that um in the in the buildings it's not very often so i'd say less than like one or two a year terrific thank you but our team is trained in a crisis management so we have a group of special ed teachers and
008uh deans and our campus security and all that are trained so [Music] very good any other questions for scott all right okay moving on thank you grant allocation uh this is uh gina's report and this comes to you each uh year at this time so just a couple of things about the grant allocations i know i reported before that we were going to see a decrease in title one funding as you can see i give the five-year history so you can see that slightly down for title two and four more so for four we've held steady or slightly increased on our cte funding which is good and we have an increase which i was very pleased to see in our el funding specifically um almost you know six seven thousand dollar increase which is really
009incredible but we are seeing an increase in el students and i'm hopeful because we even have more students this year we're looking at over 300 el students right now when we only had about 220 around that last year so we're seeing an increase every year so that i'm hopeful that that number will continue to increase since we're getting more yale students and we can serve them does our does our casarta um look ahead ever to ever look at that component i didn't think so it would have been helpful if it had but might be too specific for too hard to too hard to project yeah and the number will change as the year goes on especially here in the beginning of the year we tend to get quite a few i usually look at the
010number right after labor day to get a better sense than even the number we have right now because we'll have some that sure may not end up coming and some that but we've had increased last several years in our el population so i was very pleased to see that increase in title 3 funding any questions nope thank you all right certificate for excellence in financial reporting um boy what year is this running 27th third year running yes we have received uh from the association of school business officials international the certificate of excellence in financial reporting so mark's streak continues this year yeah now we have jury uh there that will pick up the mantle and carry it forward do we have any sense for like how many how many schools get that recognition every year
011how many districts i don't know it's a national thing so and actually international so i've never gotten an account from them and just to be clear it doesn't mean that we're in great financial shape it just means process we're reporting in a way that can be compared to any other school that's in the program across the nation or the state you know they're using the correct basis of accounting and you you know before when i came here we were on a cash basis whatever was in account at the end of the month was our balance but it doesn't mean all those payables in the drawer so anyways um this has more to do with transparency and and being able to compare to other schools yeah and actually getting a true measure of where your fund
012balance is i think it's a significant accomplishment just the same it goes to our commitment to being transparent and and forthright with the community so thank you well done thank you thank you thank you all right 2022-23 tentative budget all right uh this one i will turn over to mark and jury all right so if we flip to the first fund balance there we go i know i'm blocking blocking out some of this here the key thing is as we go we're going to hit this at a pretty high level this is is still very temporary we're we've actually just got more information on friday from the illinois department of revenue um it's not reflected in this but it will make it a much better picture actually there we would have been very con conservative
013and reduced it by i think it was seven percent from what we got last year thinking we have a hard time always getting the snow we're out of department of revenue and they're sent over a an estimate which their estimates when they do send them usually are within half a percent so that's pretty solid numbers um they actually increased it by seven and a half percent so that's a half a million dollar yeah number that's a big sweeper so that's going to help us make one of our goals is to try and get off of the leases for the chromebooks and that that was something we in the temporary one that you're saying now it's not reflected in there because we just barely had enough to have revenues and expenses match each other and stay
014balanced and there's a lot of unknowns because of what's happening in the economy we're you know ordering things become more difficult and prices change for a lot of things that we buy certainly we've reflected as much as we can from contracts that we have or just information that we have but it's it's a very tentative budget and so there'll be things like that corporate personal property replacement tax figure that will be in the we'll obviously make that change over the next 30 days but we'll make small changes and we'll report it in september when we present the final it for being the final budget so it's a tentative budget it's an important term but it does have some really before we got the news from the department of revenue um we were balanced in terms
015of the operating revenues and expenditures which is you know we're 150 000 actually on the positive side of revenues over the expenditure side so we we we're in a balanced position some of the things that we're going to do are one-two big one-time things and the key thing here is is the t-99 property one way or another we have to come up with what could be up to almost four million dollars for renovation and expansion of that facility or we're going to have to be putting kids out in tuition basis and that's very expensive and it's against our wish to keep every child in our own community and have them in our own schools and not sending them outside of downs grover or any of our towns so it's it's a it's a primary issue
016that we're we're trying to address and then actually we we have a 3.9 million dollar transfer proposed from working cash to do the majority of that work and that we are still working on tentative numbers we don't know exactly where we'll be it could be as high as 4.9 million so we're we're going to try and get ourselves in a position where we can come up with another million i think we can do it in our operations if we if we know going in we're going to go have to get there i think we can make changes to to get it it'll be cutting back some other capital stuff but um we think we can make it either way so the the that's a key thing really that the 3.9 million dollars is reflected in
017here so the part of the drop we go from last year when we had 9.4 million dollars to this year 5.1 million dollars in our reserves the good news is the actual revenues and expense for ongoing regular operations um are balanced basically and we have this new news on on this other grant that are the replacement taxes that will help us take care of some of the things internally um i'm going to let jerry roll through the the revenues and expenditures and any comments she has i know hopefully you've had a chance to look at it and read the report there were two uh things we put in there just to see if you really read it there were misspellings so let's see if you can find them they refer to if we're here instead
018of get in touch with us so a little spelling issues it's like where's waldo numbers sometimes the english is difficult well i would uh just point out on the revenues that really the only change that's noteworthy is some of our grant funding is decreasing so title one is one and the other would be from the cares act obviously we'll still receive some this year but not as much as we did this past year and then on the expenditures i would highlight three areas one we see a pretty good increase in supplies um not so much on this it that's for the all the funds combined but if you look in your report the education fund supply line item is taking a pretty big jump and that's due to we bought new textbooks this year and
019some additional software another line item to look at would be the tuition you can see that there it's a pretty big jump that's due to additional uh special ed students they're going to be outplaced this year and then we also have i think about 40 more students attending tcd this year is that right yeah yes over 40 action yeah okay a lot more yeah and then the last item would be transportation our transportation projected costs are going up by 750 000 and that's primarily due to the increase in in the contracts for both special education and regular ed transportation okay so i think the last exhibit is non-operating funds which we have two funds that are not part of our annual or operating funds uh only because the transactions are so large and so seldom
020or tied to particular one particular event that it doesn't help to really do comparisons and it muddies up the operating expenses if you get a issue a bond and now you've got a million dollars more but if it's if it's for a capital project it doesn't stay in there it goes to a capital project fund which is also offline so anyways that's that's why we just show this as a separate background the key thing here is that we've been paying this from operating funds rather than this is half a million last year it was more than a million we're paying down a lot of interior loans and and we've issued debt service extension base certificates to to pay out more paying those down rather than increase our tax rate we try to find a way
021to do it internally um and we're slowly getting all those paid off but we're doing it from operating funds instead of issuing more more debt um and so that's the that's really the key takeaway these are the transactions they'll be 4.9 million dollars we think in capital projects that's the t-99 facility we're allowing for that much right now and it's going to come from the 4.9 3.9 is going to come out of operating funds and then another a million like i said is in our capital project funds we still have on uh get my debt service funds 4.9 million in total but we have a million from the master facility plan that's our mostly interest actually of interest earnings but also partly actual bond proceeds from the 136 million renovation that we're doing so that's
022those are the transactions going through this part of the budget so i know you're going to allocate some of the leftover monies for from the um 136 million people we're down to 1.1 million and we've we we're planning on using most or all of that on renovation renovation some of the classes that weren't touched right and that's why we're trying to push that that project we also the t99 is something that we have to do and it's it's very difficult now to even project what the costs are going to be for the materials for that because that market is it's crazy right now so so so what you're saying is that that 1.1 is staying for the renovations in the older classrooms it's not shifting over any more right shifting over the team yeah it's
023shifting over to tinania yeah and we're gonna do those later actually that one we'll bring this in more detail at the next board meeting because we didn't want to like mingle that budget with the overall budget but um fundamentally what's left in the master facility bonds or master facility plan funds outside of interest is about four hundred thousand thousand of the original bond which is the amount that we had talked about shifting for classroom improvements we hadn't talked about using the interest funds at this point yet okay yeah so there's about 700 in interest and 400 in regional bonds so that's the 1.1 okay no thank you thank you so at the next meeting we'll bring a full report of the master facility plan the full closed out budget of that and then a recommendation
024for what we do to fund in full the t99 project this is kind of the overall of how that fits into the larger budget we just wanted to be careful that you know we didn't confuse the two budgets as we brought them forward for first review right now i guess i have a quick question for scott some of those um in this slide before um tuition money are those students going to be coming back when we get the t99 project complete it's a good question we have it projected right now that uh some will yes so that will help us we kind of factored that in because you know we could save you know a couple million maybe um on that yeah now they definitely we have a number of students that they'll they'll go
025through like nine through twelfth grade and then they'll go to the transition program from on our placement okay so back into our community okay okay yeah the i mean we're spoiling we're spoiling the big reveal for september but oh no that's all right no no you're fine terry i i've just been silly but i know about it um no but it is a key piece of the t99 expansion project that that tuition line reduces and over time the expansion of t99 is a cost offset right long term it should save the district money to invest in that expansion at this point right it's just yeah it's an upfront cost and a long-term savings right yeah that's what i thought so that was the big reveal wow sorry i thought i'd clear there was going to
026be confetti and everything but oh that's it i love confetti all right uh any questions from mark or jury no thank you the budget will be put on display for the next month or might already be on display on display wednesday of this week this week for uh the next month then september 19th is the board meeting where we'll be looking for approval so we have to have 30 days and we will have 30 days for people in the community to question that or ask us about it maybe suggest changes is that going to give you time to do the changes that you got on friday oh yeah yeah yeah that's that's a nice change that's a good one yeah historically they've been very um good with projecting their their transfers to us okay so
027it's it's it was really good news because it's a solid support that we've had actually it's coming back we've had over three million dollars in the past but then they cut it to where it was about yeah you know yeah one million dollars and now they've finally been putting it back into the replacement tax for schools they've been using it for other things and um now we're back on the good list i guess well let's stay on that goodwill i appreciated the conservative outlook on it to begin with just just to be sure yeah so it's good news so public hearing in september and then we'll come to the board for approval of the final budget all right e-learning e-learning days this is uh just to be 100 clear this is for snow days right
028this is only for those days that are emergency days in which some kind of an emergency situation would require us to close school we're limited to up to five of these per year for those emergency circumstances where we three years ago went into our first plan we had one snow day that first year then we had kovid and then last year we had two days from that we believe out of those three days that we experienced over those three years we feel that synchronous check-in at the start of each class period is a better model obviously we learned a lot over the time that we were remote and all of that and recognized that this is a much better way to run those remote days so it'll it'll be synchronous check-in attendance will be taken
029by the teacher at the start of each class as always parents can contact the attendance office to submit an excusal for that whole day we also announced to parents this last week that now through the parent access that parents can actually go in through their portal and submit absences that way also in advance so nice feature to help upgrade for families so they could take advantage of that on a snow day as well so um public hearing later tonight for public comment on this single item if anybody wishes to address the board on it uh but this is uh action item later this evening rob did i miss anything that's it hey oh i got it my wife and i were talking about this earlier tonight too how the kids may not like it because
030they don't get the snow day but it sure is helpful at the end of the year to help you know to basically you can have more confidence that the last day of schools actually the last day that you're planning is actually going to be the last day and we're not going to add a couple more into the following week or something this this makes that possible and they'll get to enjoy their summer which yeah it's usually more enjoyable kind of days so yeah all right so we'll have a public hearing and then an action item later on this evening okay freedom of information freedom of information requests we've received them we have filled them they're all available and listed on the website uh for public review all right we're going to move on to the
031public hearing we will now open the public hearing on the e-learning plan for emergency days comments will be limited to three minutes per person do we have anybody i don't have anybody with a slip but this is an unusual one so if there was anybody in the audience that would like to come up and address e-learning days hearing not okay uh so now we need a motion for the board of education to close the public hearing on the e-learning plan for emergency data so seconded first thank you very much terry pavisage aye mike davenport aye christopher espinoza aye sharel fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye joanna vazquez drexler aye nancy kupka aye the public hearing is closed now we'll move on to the consent agenda i need a motion for the board of education to approve
032the consent agenda as presented which includes can you have in your packets an updated personnel report we had one additional hire since this was posted okay oh so that's uh rachel walker but you can see uh it's in the updated in your packet okay thank you thank you good news we we need a motion for the board of ed to approve the consent agenda as presented which includes the personnel report appointment certified transfer position classified appointments classified the personnel report resignation certified resignations classified retirements administration salary adjustment network systems manager financial pages 2022 23 concussion oversight team and the 2022-23 crisis de-escalation and physical management oversight team so moved second terry and joanna thank you very much terry pavicich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye mike davenport aye christopher espinoza aye shirelle fuller aye jenny heggstrom
033aye and nancy kupka aye the consent agenda carries next we'll move into the recommendations for action we need a motion for the board of education to approve the 2022-2023 grant allocations as presented so moved second chris terry thank you christopher espinoza hi terry pavicich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye mike davenport aye shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye and nancy kupko aye the motion carries next we need a motion for the board of education to approve the e-learning plan for emergency days is presented so moved second mike and shrill thank you mike davenport aye shirelle fuller aye jenny heggstrom aye gary pavicich aye joanna vazquez drugstore aye aye the motion carries and finally we need a motion for the board of education to accept the tentative budget for the 2022-23 for display purposes and establish 6
03445 pm september 19 2022 for the public hearing to be held at here at the administrative service center 6301 spring site avenue of downers grove illinois second cherry and joanna sorry chris we'll just sorry cherry okay thank you terry favison aye dwyena vazquez drexler aye mike davenport aye christopher espinoza aye shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye and nancy kupka aye the motion carries now we'll move to 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 are 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 secretary mrs nydiak visitors addressing the board need to submit a comment slip to the
035board of 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 are being taped recorded for purpose of producing accurate meeting minutes and we are streaming and i the board's president reserve the right to modify these protocols if circumstances warrant audience observation of these protocols is appreciated all right i have three slips right now first up rich brennan hi i'm rich brennan i'm a downers grove resident i'm going to read some parts of a sad resignation letter from a high school teacher in a nearby school i resigned from my teaching position in 17 years because i cannot in good moral standings teach students well based on current administrative policies based on my 24 years of experience as a high school
036teacher it's my opinion that some of these policies are immoral our school has changed these things in the following recent years homework not scored homework no longer scored as any part of the student's grade because of this an average of 50 percent of my sophomores this year consistently didn't do their homework 80 students know that they will not be marked down so we are essentially encouraging students not to work many students don't do the work unless they get credit for it no due date administration forces teachers not to have a set due date on major assignments and essays projects the students know they can turn it in anytime in two weeks after that and i can't consider it late when it comes to grading this reinforces laziness apathy disrespect about 70 percent of my seniors
037turn in their assignments like this teaches academic failure revisions once i grade their assignments and turn it back to them they have two more weeks to decide to revise when it comes to grading this reinforces the laziness the fact that so many students do not do their homework they don't learn the skills to do well in these soft grading policies this isn't making students college ready college students probably won't get this opportunity and certainly the business world is unforgiving if this is what they come to give the game with when they're learned failures being removed from the high school world instead of teaching discipline and hard work policies at many high schools are reinforcing d standards if a student doesn't turn in a project they still receive 50 credit in some places how does the
038administration see this as morally just giving the students credit for doing nothing i tried to fight for what i thought was right my fight got me a notice of remedy on probation from the administration i argued my case in front of the board of education but the board defended the administration parents i'm writing this to you not the administration i care about your students quality change will not come from the administration or the board or the students even the teachers the teachers are wonderful caring people but they don't have a strong enough communal voice to make these kind of changes parents demand that the policies that are harming your kids be changed in that board level this is the declining academic failure that we've all seen here in d 99 the failure rate the academic
039rate is not going in the right direction we need to have it fixed thank you [Applause] the next slip is from noel manley good evening my name is noel manley and i'm a resident of darien illinois the united states is a country filled with systemic love kindness and fairness and district 99 is a community filled with systemic love kindness and fairness i'm requesting that the board formally vote on opting out of senate bill which makes the national sex education standard available for illinois school districts to implement the current recommendation of not opting in or not opting out creates an ambiguity as to where the district stands on this matter simply stating present is not enough the highly inappropriate and graphic nature of the national sex education standard should be clearly delineated by the board therefore
040i respectfully request the board to formally vote on this matter in order to give the district 99 community a clear understanding as to where the district stands on this matter second regardless of the national sex education standard i call on the district to be transparent and make the current and or any proposed sex education curriculum available for the public for review currently only those parents who have children in this class can view the curriculum note this curriculum issue is has nothing to do with any specific student or employee of the district and therefore should be made available to any taxpayer i find it odd that this information is not available to the public i don't want to speculate on what is in the curriculum however without transparency speculation is all we have is the curriculum
041pushing an agenda does the curriculum go beyond health and discuss inappropriate topics or present graphic material we just don't know so please be transparent and let the public know what is in the curriculum thank you [Applause] next slip is from eileen briner eileen brainer downers grove can you hear me okay yes okay um i'm talking about the goals and tasks i understand that you've already approved them but i'd still like to state my case about the goals and tasks that you've approved a couple weeks ago so in reading through the district goals and tasks i find a lot about feelings and little about academic excellence exceeding expectations rigorous work ethic or competitive spirit you have a goal for students on the path to failing a course and to actively seek out students that are not
042performing at their full potential and work to bring their performance more in line with their ability that's out of a five page document i don't see any goal about encouraging students to do more than expected none of the goals have any metrics in them so at the end of the year success can be proclaimed i'd like to suggest a goal with metrics greatschools.org is a website that ranks schools performance for example hinsdale central has an overall score of 9 out of 10. westmont has a score a score of 10. naperville central is a nine naperville north is a nine downers grove north is an eight downers grove south is a seven i'd like to see a goal of bringing district 99 scores both up to a nine to be incl in line with the surrounding
043schools people looking to move into this area look to the great schools website to compare schools they often choose to buy a home in the higher scoring school districts this means more buyers for homes in these areas and that translates into higher prices for the homes in these areas if scores for district 99 went up it would be a nice return on investment for the taxpayers who pay for all the facilities and all the salaries here the cost per student at d99 is 19 000 per student per year for that price we should at least measure up to our neighboring schools don't you think thank you [Applause] that's the conclusion okay upcoming board meetings on september 12th we will have a workshop meeting 6 30 here at the administrative service center on and and on
044september 19th we'll have a regular business meeting at 6 30 here on the administrative services center um i need a motion to adjourn we need communication communication oh gosh i'm sorry it fell off the it fell off the um thing uh lend do we have any updates no lend updates yet next month duran assassin no sansa and i got a big meeting coming up yeah our meeting coming up uh 99 we are meeting wednesday because we are working on our block party and that is september 10. north high and it's from let's see what is it uh or just eight i can't remember i definitely i don't remember that i'll pull it up for a second here for you maybe it's earlier i thought it was two three to six thirty i got it from
045two to six thirty two to six thirty okay that's that's the time and you're still looking for sponsorship yes we are still looking for sponsorship and uh your name uh if you go on the website it'll tell you where you would depending upon how much you want to donate where you would end up but um uh it'll be fun there's games we've got bands we've got food trucks and um just a lot of uh camaraderie for the for the community so i think it'll be a great time it's it's uh it's a chance for north to to have an event for the foundation and so we're excited about that to show off our facilities there and we just encourage everyone to come because it's a free event you just have to pay for whatever food
046you want to eat that kind of thing so who doesn't like to eat well that's it that's it and there will be a lot of varieties there will only be one food truck for each thing let's say okay so there'll be one for hamburgers maybe in hot dogs and one for ice cream and yes because we don't have to say ice cream twice it's there so so anyway please come it'll be a great event and you'll see your neighbors okay chris anything on online association school boards now we'll talk about the upcoming board meetings i'm sorry you already did so we went past it so then we will move on to adjournment we're going to call for a german do we have an ocean so moved second theory and shrub all those in favor aye
047all those opposed we're adjourned thank you thank you board members you