001mike davenport i am here christopher espinoza here cheryl fuller here jenny hagstrom here terry pavich here joanna vazquez drexler i'm here too nancy kufka here scarlett o'hara here and jade toledano here thank you let's stand for the of the united pledge of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all oops i'm sorry am i getting you good evening we're going to deviate a little bit from our usual agenda we're going to start out because we have some important recognitions tonight all right we have several individuals that have received awards recently in the district as a whole received one as well first i'd like to recognize even though he doesn't want me to i'm going to recognize south high principal ed schwartz for receiving
002illinois directors of student activities principles recognition award for the 21-22 school year this award recognizes amazing dynamic creative leaders who play an active role in promoting the culture and climate of their school community and who participate support and are committed to student activities that is obviously a steadfast supportive students very deserving of this recognition is the only principal i have ever seen that could imagine they can manage an entire student section at a football game by himself and that's evidence of his connection that he has with students so congratulations ed [Applause] uh every year the uh the next awards are the inspira distinguished service awards every year the illinois chapter of the national school public relations association recognizes those in the school community who support and improve communication in schools across the state this increases
003support for public education overall communication professionals nationwide review and judge these nominations district 99 is proud that inspira has recognized five members of our district 99 community and all five have received awards of excellence the highest level of distinction we'll be recognizing four of these recipients tonight the first two are jaden scarlett uh just our district 99 student board of education members they received an award of excellence in the team category both of them have been engaged respectful and brave during the time that they have served on the board when they speak the adults listen carefully jade and scarlet have done a tremendous job in providing a voice for their fellow students and the community has gained insight into what students want and need most of all which is to be heard so thank you
004both [Applause] [Music] so they're sending us a second one so you two will have to arm wrestle over this one you know i think they want to take your picture so your members of the students we'll do pictures at the end here oh okay we have a lot of pictures we got a lot of pictures to take yeah yeah all right uh the next one is terry pavisic who has also received an award of excellence in the board of education member category terry is passionate about students and cares deeply for her downer downers grove community she shows her support by attending events and volunteering throughout the year terry also has championship championed installing a garden at the t-99 center and serves on the district 99 education foundation we share our deep gratitude for terry's selfless
005and dedicated service for 20 years [Applause] thank you and our final inspiro award winner is principal ed schwartz he was also received an award of excellence in the administrator category ed's a strong welcoming leader who excels in interpersonal relationships ed realized that in order to develop relationships more broadly across the community he needed to adjust his communication strategies and he began issuing monthly video messages and has created nearly 60 of them since becoming principal in 2014 his efforts have created a more positive and connected school culture and community and as ed retires he will be greatly missed [Applause] i'm done with the individual i have the honor of the next recognition and that is from the illinois association of school administrators dupage region our own superintendent of distinction hank thiele hank was honored at an
006awards luncheon in springfield where state superintendent dr carmen ayala was a featured speaker the iasa executive director dr brent clark said my quote superintendents across illinois navigated immense challenges this school year so it is really it really is an honor to stand out and be recognized by your peers for outstanding leadership and elevating student success congratulations [Applause] [Music] all right and then our final award is for the entire district 99 has been named one of five school districts nationwide is a green ribbon school by the u.s department of education the recognition honors district 99 for its innovative efforts to reduce environmental impact and utility costs as well as to improve health and wellness and ensure sustainability around education this national recognition is due to the hard work and commitment of our people across the entire
007district we've been practicing energy conservation for many many years and it's an incredible honor to be recognized at this national level especially a huge thanks to jim colaje and kristen kocharski from our facility teams for pursuing this prestigious designation and especially to all of those in our academic departments who play a key role in delivering environmental and sustainability education every single day so a big round of applause for all of those across the district that make this a green school district [Applause] all right that's it for recognition well it's gonna be hard to follow that but follow what we must so um we need a motion for the board of education to approve the minutes of the april 18th 2022 business meeting the may 2nd 2022 workshop meeting with action item and the may 4th
0082022 parent-teacher advisory committee meeting so move second joanne and mike thank you joanna vazquez drexler aye mike davenport aye christopher espinoza aye shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye terry pavasic aye and nancy kupka aye the minutes are approved next we'll move on to the first reception of visitors the meeting agenda includes two opportunities from comments from the audience the first reception of visitors is intended for audience members to address the board about any agenda item on which the board will vote the second reception of visitors is intended for finance 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
009mrs nydia visitors addressing the board need to submit should submit need to submit a comment slip to the board secretary and will be invited to the microphone by dr thiele prior to addressing the board audience members should state their full name these proceedings are being tape recorded and are being streamed live and we are also tape recording for the purpose of producing accurate meeting minutes i reserve the right to modify these protocols if circumstances warrant and audience observation of these protocols is appreciated thank you we have no comment slips for the first reception of visitors then we'll move on to recommendations and reports of the superintendent all right uh the the first thing on the agenda is first recognizing uh jaden scarlett once again for all of your wonderful work over the last year this
010has definitely been a different year for school board members but what the public doesn't i mean they've seen you bravely sit up here and represent your peers for the last year but they haven't seen is the work you've done behind the scenes to leave a legacy of student board members participation expectations just kind of how it works and uh the very direct and outward participation you've had with your peers over the the whole year so that you could represent them accurately so i for one is the superintendent appreciate all of your hard work and perspective this year it has been a difficult year to be a leader but i appreciate all that you have done and we have a small little token of things [Applause] so i think the board echoes dr thiele's sentiments and
011we wish you both well in your future endeavors i don't think anybody has a doubt in their heart that you both will not just exceed whatever you choose to do thank you so thank you for all of your hard work know that we are so appreciative to you and just wish you only the best in life yeah you're here [Applause] all right at this point ed and courtney will come forward and introduce our two new student board before we do that i want to piggyback on some comments about jaden scarlett because as someone who's been here for all of our student board rep since we began this is the first time the two of them have worked so closely together together they developed a website as a form of communication with the students in both
012campuses and had constant back and forth communication with students so they were truly representing their student body so i just want to kudos to them and most people don't know about that the students do but the general public doesn't so great job in taking everything to the next level thank you thank you thank you and now to introduce our newest board member reps miss lip my replacement at south high and i spent the morning together interviewing the seven eight candidates we had more applicants this year than the last two years combined so i think jaden scarlett's representation also put the word out there a little bit more that this was a role to be had so i'm excited to introduce caitlin vincent class of 2023 who will represent southam next year and i'm going to
013let caitlyn go for a few seconds tell you about some of the things she's involved in a little bit about her hello i'm caitlin vincent some of the things i'm involved in at south are different service clubs like nhs key club as well as a south high special club called life of a mustang where we really work in to build more school spirit throughout the school i'm also a member of the varsity girls basketball team and i'm excited to work with you all in the future thank you [Music] [Applause] and i would also like to echo what ed said thank you to both jaden scarlett um you've brought a lot of awesome things to our buildings and to make sure that students are represented and represented well um and and i really appreciate the fact
014that jade you have personally um made it a point to talk to me and include a lot of different perspectives in our conversations so thank you very much and i wish you good luck for next year to both of you thank you thank you um i would like to introduce luca palauskas she is going to be our our board rep for the 23 uh 22-23 school year so i'll have luca come on up introduce herself and talk a little bit about what she does at north high hello so my name is luca paulowska and you applaud at the end of the house so a few things that i am a part of is national honor society french honor society and i am also on varsity track and field for the last three years and i'm
015looking forward to doing it for another year and i am very excited to be a part of this great group awesome welcome [Applause] all right welcome both all right uh strategic plan this was discussed at length at the last meeting between the last meeting and this one we've gotten a variety of feedback that i've shared with the board a couple of small tweaks along the way so this document is in uh presented in board docs and has both the structure and components as well as kind of the document that we'll be building in all of our tasks goals and outcomes for next school year if there are any questions i'll take them now if not this is an action item later on this evening all right let the record show dr kupka has been asking
016for one of those since i walked through the door so we can check that one off the list after tonight hopefully well for one strategic strategic [Laughter] there are so many things like this i know all right uh inboard docs is the recommended board of education meeting calendar for next year um it features a single board meeting in july i think it falls this second week on the 11th the second week of july and then everything after that follows our pretty traditional first and third unless there's a holiday that moves it for that month any questions on that one all right thank you julie for pulling all of that together all right i'll turn this one over to scott we had our parent-teacher advisory committee meeting uh this year as we always do and then
017scott reports back after this meeting to the board yeah so thank you i want to thank jenny and joanna for being there we had a low turnout we had one parent that stayed with us the whole time and we had two people on the phone uh um for a little bit to make a comparison a year ago we had over 60 people with us so we are looking to go back to in person next year and we hope that will bring more people with us but we did review the consolidated district plan the path program and we looked at our oversight team for special education which is our crisis de-escalation team so the one feedback that we did get um talked about they really appreciated the district looking at the interventions to get through covet
018and things like that which kind of came out of uh genus consolidated district uh plan so yeah that's our update i don't know if joanna or jenny have any other thoughts i don't think i mean the team did a great job presenting uh they did for the you know one parent that was with us [Laughter] that's uh yeah definitely i mean they appreciated the information you know that we presented and um you know like i said our team they did a fabulous job presenting to one parent um very professional we appreciate that one parent all right um textbook recommendations for next year rob yeah we have four textbooks recommended for next year uh one in math for pre-calculus and then three in science for ap biology ap chemistry ap environmental science just a reminder it's
019a really robust process that this goes through it starts at the teacher level it's vetted through the department chairs they do part of a readability study and they do comparison between different textbook options and then that lands with gina and our apis who then look at all of that information and then ultimately decide on whether that's something that they want to recommend going forward so these four made it through the gauntlet and that's what we're recommending all right any questions for rob and those are posts those are available for people i'm sorry i didn't hear you those are available for the public if they wish to review them yes oh all of our materials all right uh english department novels uh this has gone uh we don't have a slide for that one this one
020uh information is in the box for this this is an action item later on this evening um mark and jury work through mostly i think dree heads up this jury and melinda yes so you can see that's 140 different titles 100 14 000 total number of books that go out for bid uh and then the lowest responsible bid was in the total amount of a hundred and eleven thousand six hundred sixty dollars and twenty cents and this is up for action later on this evening it's the same process we followed for several years so any questions on that one all right the next one was discussed with the board and closed session last month as the board is aware our attendance at t99 continues to grow which is a wonderful challenge to be presented to
021us we used some of the interest income from the master facility plan bond sales to expand existing space inside of t99 last summer however we still have enrollment growing we're out of space inside of that building and we are also can't bring any more staff on because we have nowhere for them to park omega across vernard has graciously for years allowed our staff to park there but we need to expand and we need to expand parking in order to have enough spaces there to have staff show up to serve the needs of students so mark mark and jim have been working uh with the neighbor to the north of uh the t-99 property what's the address there mark 4226 bernard 4226 bernard uh you can see there's an action item uh up for this evening
022to enter into an agreement to acquire that property uh for a cost of four hundred thousand dollars and then a lease agreement to allow the resident to stay who's a north high grad to stay in in uh at that property until he purchases a new home and then up to a certain date marches to the end of march 23 and uh that's when we would need to start construction and we have a pretty safe plan of rebuilding our building so uh mark and jim have done a whole bunch of work on this and i appreciate their work uh getting to this point i know we discussed it with the board in closed but are there any uh final questions regarding this before action this evening another just the other key thing is that it does
023require rezoning and our contract protects us against that if it's not approved for a change in zoning we can resend the deal that was my one question if we had have we had um conversations with any preliminary conversations with the village or the planning commission preliminary but and we've met with nothing guaranteed no they of course not but um there's there nobody's throwing up any uh red flags village is uh going i think has already reached out to jim to start the process for them okay so i've had several conversations with dave fieldman just so we know who on his team is working with our team to work through that process so staff isn't offering any opposition to this not to this point you know that's important generally the key like yeah procedures around why
024they can zone or not zone or is it just a decision based on what the village wants to have there's a whole process to go through in their zoning committee commission okay the the property we own right now is zone b3 correct it's um it is correct b3 right so that's what we're looking for so this is adjacent too so and it's it's not like it's going to be an island in the middle of something yeah if we were trying to like the next house down the block we were trying to do this with that might be an issue so how is the neighbor uh that wanted the property is he okay with us not any input but we do have to have and we'll have a community meeting that's one of the first steps
025and so we'll find out the answer to some of these kind of concerns in some ways i think they'd like to see this house not be there anymore because oh it's an eyesore i can't i don't want to say that publicly but you said that i didn't you saw it okay but once once the board takes action then then we'll go over and knock on the door and and visit with the neighbors right so i think ultimately there'll be a public hearing um i think there's three different meetings and hearings for approval yep two with the plan commission one with the village council all right any other questions all right up for action later on this evening all right uh foia requests we've received as we have been rate lately several and have responded to
026many and have many pending they're available up on our website yep all right consent agenda and action items okay we're moving into the consent agenda but we have two changes to the consent agenda yes so in the personnel report since publishing thursday evening we have two additional hires so you'll see in your packet that there's an updated one uh that those ads are belford hernandez and carrie noyland alfred awesome very good not that it's not great carries right and then mark you had something you wanted to i do i have an update on the the treasure surety bonds we put this initial memo together a couple days ago actually on the 12th and thinking they'd be the same form as pass but there was a different form that they look for now it's a little
027more conservative so we're going to be having a higher bond than what you we originally had calculated so it's up by two million dollars in terms of the overall bonding that we have for all of our cash and investments on that did anybody have anything they wanted to remove from the consent agenda for additional discussion no hearing none we need a motion for the board of education to approve the consent agenda is presented which includes the personnel report appointment certified the personnel report resignation certified retirements classified resignations classified the personnel report salary and benefits wages wage increase classified the financial pages the 2021-2022 final school calendar the 2022-2023 board of education meeting calendar treasury surety bonds the discipline improvement plan and the approval of template agreement to permit enrollment of non-district students in d 99
028transition program on a tuition basis so moved second mike and terry thank you mike davenport aye terry pavich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye christopher espinoza aye shirelle fuller aye jenny heggstrom aye and nancy kupka aye the consent agenda and carries we'll now move on to our action items was there anything you wanted to say more about the strategic plan uh no okay we need a motion for the board of education to approve the strategic plan as presented so move to second mike and chris thank you mike davenport aye christopher espinoza aye charles fuller aye jenny heggstrom aye terry pavich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye nancy kufka aye the motion carries next we need a motion for the board of education to approve the textbook recommendations for 2022-2023 as presented so moved second terry and chris
029thank you terry pavisic aye christopher espinoza hi hi thank you shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye joanna vazquez drexler aye mike davenport aye and nancy kopkov aye the motion carries next we need a motion for the board of education to approve the lowest responsible bid of one hundred eleven thousand six hundred sixty dollars and twenty cents from book pal to provide novels for the 2022-2023 school year so move second joanna and terry thank you joanna vazquez drexler aye terry pavich aye mike davenport aye christopher espinoza aye shirelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye and nancy krepka aye aye motion carries and finally we need a motion for the board of education to approve the purchase of the property known as 4226 venard road donors grove illinois and to authorize the board president me to sign the
030real estate purchase and sale agreement and exhibits so moved second chris and mike mike okay mike mike was first mike was first yes thank you mike davenport aye christopher espinoza aye sherelle fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye terry pavicich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye aye nancy kupka aye the motion carries and thank you for all the work done on that purchase yeah yeah dude it'll be okay uh moving on to the second reading and approval of policies so these came before the board at our last meeting yep and uh since then i haven't received any questions sure have i no i have anything so uh they are presented for the board's approval this evening i move the board of education to prove the policies as presented mike and cherelle yes thank you mike davenport aye sharel
031fuller aye jenny hagstrom aye terry pavicich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye christopher espinoza aye and nancy kupka aye they're approved and it was a lot of work so thank you guys you're welcome yeah there were a lot of them yes there were a lot of reviews when i got done they were gone visitors which is intended for audience members to address the board on any topic pertaining to community high school district 99 again 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 in writing to the board secretary mrs nydak visitors addressing the board need to submit comments oh should deficits need to submit a comment slip to the board secretary and will be invited to the microphone prior to
032addressing the board audience members should state their full name these proceedings are being tape recorded for the purpose of producing accurate meeting minutes and they are being streamed the board's presiding officer which is me reserves the right to modify these pro protocols as circumstances warrant audience observation of these protocols is appreciated we have one comment slip on noel manley i'll go to evening my name is noel manley and i'm a resident of darien illinois united states is a country filled with systemic love and kindness and district 99 is a community filled with systemic love and kindness last year i attended a zoo meeting hosted by our congressman sean caston on the topic of federal housing policy congressman casten invited federal housing expert and author richard rothstein to present mr rothstein spoke for better part of
033an hour and shared many insights on education and suburban america specifically he noted the following in his presentation one all single single-family zoning ordinances in the country must be overturned and eliminated this will give way to allowing people and organizations to build any type of housing on any piece of land and therefore make housing equitable in the united states two good schools are not measured by academic rigor or academic excellence the only measure of a good school is equity if a school does not prioritize equity in his opinion is not a good school it's important to note that the good congressman did not challenge any of mr osteen's assertions or assumptions i took the opportunity to again review the 27 thousand dollar district 99 2020 equity audit report on pages 42 and 40 through 45
034the report outlines a clear and consistent pre-covered downward trend in math and reading scores for the period 2015 through 2019 for all demographic groups so it appears that mr rossi may be correct by default academic excellence does not define a good school so where is the equity dividend this district like so many districts around the country have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity education whether it's in equity consultants equity directors equity videos etc or is the equity dividend what is the efficacy of this investment absolutely nothing we looked at the way we looked at the events of this past weekend violence in buffalo new york laguna woods california and milwaukee not to mention what happens here in chicago these events occurred several weeks after the brooklyn subway shooting and several other and several
035months after the driver ran over a dozen people at the holiday parade in waukesha wisconsin and then two weeks after a student was attacked at lions township high school now district 99 is not responsible for any heinous acts but this district is participating in a nationwide equity trend that does not appear to be bringing people together so this tremendous investment in time effort and taxpayer money when can we expect an equity dividend to kick in thank you all right that was our only comment slope okay we'll move on to communications and announcements jenny any update on lund no we have a meeting uh this coming friday right now uh sassy joanna nothing we have our meeting on wednesday terry education foundation we are meeting wednesday but from the last meeting i wanted to remind you
036again about september 10th to put that on your calendars for um it's probably going to be a food truck rally at north and so that should be really good and um we're working on maybe doing a battle of the bands kind of thing which would be interesting and fun and let's just send a message up upstairs that we're going to have great weather yes because it is outdoors so let's just keep start with this friday yes yeah yeah absolutely absolutely and uh anyway there will be more to come next month yes we're trying to determine how many because we want to uh do some things by the football field yeah and our soccer field whatever you want to call it um then maybe include some of our clubs and that as maybe uh drink participants
037so that they would make a little money and it's this is going to be more for the community not a fundraiser per se we want to just show our thanks and appreciation to our community so it should be a really fun event you are going to have to purchase the food from the food trucks but that's your decision on which one so we're trying to also have many different price ranges so that you know kids and adults can all get their food so it should be fun and especially with the music there'll be different bands hopefully we're we're working on the details but we just wanted to make sure that everybody puts that on their calendar for september 10th because it will be here before we know it and school will be started it'll be
038a kick off for school also we'll have quite a few celebrations over the next two years since next year is our 99th year in district 99 huh yeah yeah after that is our 100th school year so so that sometime next year we have founders day the 100th year you know 100th anniversary of the founding of the district so yeah lots of lots of momentous occasions over the next couple of years yes yes and i i just i personally just want to say welcome to our uh new board members and um i know the uh gal from south has left already but we welcome you and and you'll be able to participate in these things too put them on yourself it'll be fun it'll be fun okay uh illinois association school boards chris anything nothing okay
039with that we have two more meetings our next meeting june 6 will be a work workshop meeting with the action item that will be here at 6 30 in the asc and on june 20th we'll have the 2022 business meet excuse me june 20th 2022 while the business business meeting at 6 30 pm again here at the asc do we have anything else uh there's just a small reception at the end to honor jaden scarlett that's it and that's it so please join us out there and i need a motion to adjourn so moved terry and shirelle those are you all those in favor all right all those opposed we are adjourned thank you thank you everybody thank you thank you our next meeting you