001good evening it's called to order roll call mrs maria mike davenport here christopher espinoza here you're all four here carrie pepper here nancy kupka here we have a quorum let's stand for the pledge of allegiance oh i'm sorry ladies i'm sorry where's our flag okay flag's over there behind the corner i pledge allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice in perspective i'll invite ed forward thank you please yeah just tell me when to go oh hello my name is envy bandera and i'm a student at tv1 and the reason why i chose to do tb1 is because i thought it'd be interesting to learn about film and yeah and so the things we learned this year was first lesson was laws and
002worth ethics which is like copyright news values basically what to publish our second lesson was learning equipment which was the new equipment that we have this year which is flash drives hard drives sd cards handling with cables and computers arthur listen was learning about camera filming basics which was angle high-end different shots our fourth lesson was including using adobe premiere pro and the basic editing skills which is just adding shortening footage and giving the final project in you can go to the next slide please i'm faith nelson and i'm a senior i'm really involved in school i'm on the speech team and i also write for the newspaper here which is why i kind of took the class because it was a more on the multimedia side of the newspaper miss long i had her
003for english last year and we made a podcast and a video and she's like should really try out the tv class because i really enjoyed the times that even at home i got to create a creative video and i also got to make a podcast so this year it is a new class and it's new because like mr schwartz said it was offered at north and students would have to travel to north to take the class but now that it's here and we have a designated classroom and equipment for it it's a lot more accessible and people want to take the class more because they don't see that roadblock so we have this new classroom with a great space it's got brand new desks and chairs and the desks also flip up and move over
004so that we can kind of clear out the room if we want to film in there we also have all this equipment we've got cameras tripods we've got the hard drives and the flash drives and computers that have all the editing program that we need to use for these projects that we all are assigned to individually so we all have the opportunity to use equipment personally assigned to us meaning we can take it out of the classroom as well if we want to film whether it be for another club and film stuff on our own time we also have the opportunity to create and publish the content that we make blueprint is a place that we can freelance all this stuff i know that my videos have gone up on there people that aren't even
005a part of the blueprint staff have gotten the opportunity to publish and those videos do pretty well too we do different projects and they all kind of get grouped together so you can see all of the work that everyone in that class made we also make them profiles for their freelance work if that is something students want to do more so it really kind of gets them into the atmosphere of what blueprint is which hopefully encourages people to take that class as well and it's a great segue and it's also fun if you don't want that kind of pressure as well students are also given more choice independence and responsibilities we have assignment structure where this is the assignment and you have to do this but there are endless opportunities to be creative in what
006you create we did something where we had to follow the day in the life of a mustang here and everyone took a different route some people did their friends some people did different people that work here some people did more general groups of people someone did a specific person and just got to watch their daily routine which is really cool and it definitely provides creativity with some structure with the independents these um because we were able to check out our equipment between the cameras and the tripods and the sd cards we are given the trust and opportunity to prove that we are responsible enough to use this equipment that i know is very expensive and also something that can be broken or lost very easily and being able to take that with us and work
007on these projects in our own time definitely gives us a sense of independence and responsibility you can go to the next slide my name is marquise thompson and i chose to take the tv1 class because i um want to have a career in a multimedia field i am also an internship student with mr rios at the um at the school to work on projects or video projects that the school gives us for the projects we've done so far we've done a project called southside stories where we are supposed to basically make a video about the most majority of the clubs or anything else that that relates to the school and for the another project that we did it's 90 seconds news where we're supposed to make our own news broadcast based off something that that's
008around us like something at school or um in our um in the town that we live in or anything else that we found interesting if you click on the first link hmm sorry we weren't wired for sound up here one spiked all right yeah yeah or the other one has sound coming out of it i'm gonna go on to the other one give it a shot walk to been so those were just two examples of some of the projects that we've worked on one highlighting a student at south and then the other talking about recycling if you didn't hear the video we work on those in class out of class it's all up to the student that wants to do it and the tv class has been a great way to both express creativity and
009highlight other groups of students and students here at south that's all we have thank you sorry i didn't realize we'd have sound i will make sure yeah great job wait don't run away yet come back come back first of all i will make sure that the board receives your videos so that they can see them with sound and we'll make sure in the updates that go out to the community about tonight's board meeting will include those links as well so that the the public can see them uh board member questions or comments i i just wanted to congratulate you because i this was like watching the news i mean it was watching the news but you know what i mean a professional news station now i know you're a senior are any of you interested
010in broadcasting or communications or i think he said somewhere it's a great way news isn't your route we're working on a creative project right now so you kind of get best of both worlds in that you're gonna say something no i mean the world needs great journalists we've lost a lot i think over the last few years so kudos to you and how great that we've got this at south now and that you don't have to travel to the north side of town yeah make the class so terrific and thank you for highlighting the new dig so well thank you questions no but thank you it was very impressive all right [Applause] all right scarlett is at snowball tonight so she left jade to cover the student board member reporter [Music] wonderful passing through on
011all our own missions this week the fall play laughingstock will be performed thursday friday and saturday we will then be looking forward to the winter play frozen on the athletic side of the house both girls and louis cross country jeans heart sexuals this weekend i turned the ticket to the state league the football team finished off their season this weekend [Music] finally we would like to give a quick congratulations all of us nice job jade thank you thank you [Music] which was impressive and my last brief also came to an end with more than 50 clubs groups and athletic teams pledging to walk to raise awareness for the american cancer society which i think speaks volumes to the culture we have at school also we have the winter one act plays coming up in the
012next following weeks on november 18th 19th and 20th also in the fine arts departments at north congratulations to the 38 students who earned all district honors from ilmea which is the illinois music education association two we have two band concerts this week one tomorrow and one on the fourth uh the ensembles have worked very hard the last couple weeks to put this on so we are very proud of them and then moving on to sports uh football had a tough loss at our homecoming game a couple weeks ago but we are proud of them regardless because it was a great season our girls varsity volleyball team is going to sectionals tonight they are playing tonight i am very excited to see the outcome once the board meeting is over um both our girls cross country
013team and our boys cross country team did so well at sectionals this past weekend they qualified for state as a team and we are very excited to see how that goes next weekend our girls swimming sectional is at south on saturday which is very exciting we are also very happy for them and supporting them and similar to scarlet our winter sports are starting up this week so we are very excited to see where that takes us and we wish them the best of luck and same as scarlett i want to say congratulations to all the national merit students that we're honoring tonight you have worked very hard for this and we are proud of you thank you thank you um we're going to bring up the principles here in a second but i'm going to
014skip to this and then come back so just a quick report that isn't in the agenda or informational item is we are in the process of strategic planning we have multiple sessions available so for parents guardians on november 9th or 10th you can go to either school whatever is free on your calendar if you wish to come and provide us feedback on the future of district 99 from the family perspective and then we have one on november 11th that's for anybody in the community so up and coming now i'm going to ask ed to come forward and courtney to recognize our national merit students uh board members we're going to come out there and students that would like a fist bump as they cross the stage we can offer a fiscal making a microphone adjustment
015thank you for your patience uh the spaces are new to us we're still figuring out all the ins and outs of making the tech work so we're trying to feed you with the sound and also feed the live stream at home so as we work through that and we're excited to finally in person for the first time in two years honor students in person i know you're going to see that many of them couldn't make it tonight that's a busy night i know north high's got an important volleyball game going and at south i both north and south students are doing snowball training we've got two plays rehearsing one in the studio theater and one in the theater lab so it's a busy place tonight so but we want to make sure we take time
016to congratulate deserving students welcome to south high school for our friends from the north side if you don't know me my name is ed schwartz and it's my privilege to serve as principal of south high school our school board in district 99 is made up of seven elected volunteers who represent the voices and opinions of our community they are charged with upholding the mission of our school district and they put into place systems of opportunities for our students to excel unlike dr demant and me they do not get to see on a daily basis the wonderful accomplishments of our students this evening is their opportunity to recognize some of our most exceptional students specifically we're here to recognize the students are being honored as part of the national merit scholarship program as we proceed through
017the recognition program we would ask that the students from the specific school come forward and position themselves on the walkway to my right then as dr dementor i announce each student's names please proceed to receive your certificate from a member of the board of education it looks like we're missing quite a few i was going to say hold your applause till all have come forward but i think they're deserving of their each individual applause so we will recognize each student individually as we call their name the national merit competition begins in the fall of a student's junior year when they take the preliminary sat exam which is a qualifying exam for national merit recognition in the fall of their senior year students are informed of their status as a national merit seminar finalist or commended
018scholar or one of two other recognitions national achievement scholar or national hispanic recognition program scholar of more than 1.6 million entrants approximately 50 000 with the highest psat nmsqt selection index score qualify for this recognition beginning will we we ask the south high students earning commended staff status to please come forward commended scholars are those students who scored in the top 3 percent of all students who took the psat in the fall of their junior year these students are among 34 000 students nationwide who achieve this level this year south high has two students earning that distinction renee kowalski and clarissa segal congratulations renee and clarissa good evening i'm courtney dement the principal at north high school and i would like to reiterate my congratulations to these amazing students and thank them for their contributions
019to both north high school and district 99. well the sixth north high students who were identified as national merit commended scholars please come forward the students from north high who have earned commended status are jessica cagney anika canamidi nathan nutt go ahead yup madeline risky caitlyn stockey and megan thompson [Applause] will the south high students who were identified as national merit semi-finalists please come forward national merit semi-finalists are those students who scored in the top 1 of all the students who took the psat last fall they are among only 16 000 out of the 1.6 million who took the test to achieve at this level semi-finalists are now eligible to move forward in the competition for national merit scholarships national merit finalists are selected from these semi-finalists and will be announced sometime in early 2022
020south high is proud to recognize the national merit semi-finalists in the class of 2022 lika davis brendan gibbons dean gominas alex johnson tim newman shivan patel ashley reynolds olivia roti amelia swerb and luca variety congratulations to all the south high semi-finalists [Applause] and will the north high students who are identified as national merit semi-finalists please come forward awesome north's high national merit semi-finalists are madeline from juliana gomian alexander krejcha helen larkin elisenda lee pillow andrew maron madison smith and ian staggerman and again please join us in recognizing these incredibly impressive academic scholars on behalf of the entire board of education we extend our congratulations to all of these deserving students you represent the academic excellence in district 99 and we are very proud of you thank you to our honorees for their attendance this evening
021and again congratulations um if our all of our students we would love to take a photo of you out in the lobby so if you could follow back there where you came in we would love to take a picture and parents feel free to come take a picture also and in a moment the board of education will continue with their regular business meeting again more than welcome to stay but we know how busy our students are so you may want to use this break to exit thank you all very much okay congratulations to all so nice to see so many did i hand the wrong one off would you like to fist bump us all again i thought i got him sorry about that congratulations congratulations returning to in-person learning uh nothing really new to
022report we did update our dashboard today with staff cases from october we had four positive staff cases in the entire month of october these are our student case numbers over the last month and a reminder that information is updated on the website each monday we have no new guidance or anything else that's moved forward we continue to be back you heard from jade we had a wonderful homecoming event every one of these weeks where we progress and it looks more and more like normal are greatly appreciated although we know that this year is far from normal all right proposed bell schedule for the s for the next school year 22 23 school year uh just a quick update on this as well kind of where we're at we moved into november as of today last
023week we finished we closed the surveys on the feedback i've shared the raw responses with the board our core committee met today we're working on putting together a presentation for the board and the public of what some of the key solve fors were that came out of that feedback and what some of them confusion or misconceptions might be that we're going to use to build out our faq further there was nothing in that feedback that said at this point stop so we'll continue to move forward with the work remember this is over the course of this year we'll be working on this and providing updates to the board the next step in november is seeking approval of the structure of the schedule so that the committees have a structure to work inside of for the
024remainder of this school year that might change over the course of the year as we do the work but we need an approved starting point to work from so we'll be updating the board over the next couple of weeks as we prepare for that meeting we'll ask for approval of that structure in november and then it'll be a continual update throughout the course of the year as we make progress on what it actually looks like when students return next year under this new schedule a reminder i know the board knows this but for the public that we're doing this this fashion to be very transparent open and for allow dialogue along the process rather than just coming to the public in the spring and saying oh here's your schedule for next year um we just
025want to make sure that people have an opportunity to understand it to ask questions and for us to provide feedback over the course of the year so any questions on where we're at in that process all right so expect more in a couple of weeks all right some great news on college and career pathway endorsements i'm going to turn this over to gina to talk about this she's been leading the way with the team on a lot of great work here thank you dr seedly i'm pleased to announce that we were we just found out a week ago that we were approved to offer students three more pathway endorsements which is really exciting the board may recall that we did issue the endorsement last year for human and public services which is what education falls
026under to seven downers north students and 12 down or south students this year we're expanding it to three more pathways that include information technology manufacturing engineering technology and trades and finance and business services and students need to take a series of courses they need to complete a number of activities and have experiences involving adult mentorship and working alongside and training and we are very pleased that we'll be able to offer this this really is a testament to the work of our cte department chairs pat fardy and melissa damewood have really put this in place and have set us up well to award these four diploma endorsements this year to the class of 2022. right and this closely aligns with board goals for post-secondary endorsements while students are in school so things like ap dual credit
027and pathway endorsements thank you gina yeah you know i four kids and all in college and one graduated from college now um this kind of stuff is just when their with kids are when our kids are going out and competing for scholarships i mean absolutely this is so so great you know it's something you know it's a way to set yourself apart from those other students that are coming in from other schools that you know maybe didn't have this but had maybe a similar gpa that sort of thing these are the kinds of things that really make a difference and you know obviously from an educational standpoint but from a financial standpoint too for our our community so thank you for the good work and for many of our students this isn't even about a
028scholarship or college admission sure many this is a pathway right into the world right and no college debt and getting getting right to it right and uh creates some nice pathways that way you know every student has a different pathway and this is one of the many that we can kind of endorse and offer up while they're here at school yeah i did have a question about this so can you pull the microphone closer oh closer i was thinking i can't hear people because they're too close okay um but the endorsements is it certification i'm i just wanted to make clear of i know we have the ap the dual credit and i know this is a good thing but i just want to understand the path when it comes to the career is it
029giving you almost a certification of your skill set so essentially these endorsements can open up scholarship opportunities for students but it also appears on their actual college or excuse me high school transcript so when they're applying to college or even college essays if they're on the pathway this is a way for them to really set themselves apart from from other students and dual credit and ap classes are part of the sequence of classes that students would need to take to qualify so for example the 19 students that we awarded it to last year all took our introduction to teaching course which gives them six college credits so for the student regarding the endorsement who hasn't decided to go to college or want to take a different path but they're interested in ite or so this
030is something too that they can use to get into the workforce to say that i have completed some extra courses towards something i'm interested in because i'm interested in doing this particular work absolutely it appears on their high school transcript okay well i wouldn't thank you gina because yeah thank you this is a something i've wanted for many many years not just for our students but for all students who find them themselves in that situation where they need to go to work after high school and they're going to go out prepared and qualified to get good jobs that will be gainful employment for them so thank all you job well done gina and team thank you all right uh chris asked us to add before uh this month as we head into the joint annual
031conference isb resolutions board members have been provided the packet of um resolutions and i'll turn it over to chris yes all right so uh the two resolutions that were brought to you can you move here the two resolutions that were brought to uh the board's attention or that are being brought to the board's attention tonight are uh resolution to the student safety and protection plan and resolution 15 the child safeguard storage uh plan um so i don't know have all of you read through the too 15 is on page 15. all right so uh you may just read through the yeah so yeah okay so uh resolution 2 is the student safety and protection plan and it allows so it allows for the ability to can carry a concealed firearm on district property provided for
032district employees district employees provided that the employee has a valid illinois firearm i'd firearm owner's identification card um a concealed carry license yes and has completed all additional trainings and certifications set forth by the respective school board um and the and what's the uh number two yeah the the resolutions committee recommendation on on the resolution was what uh so the resolutions committee recommends that we do adopt this policy right so never mind i could i could tell you this came up this came up uh this is almost identical to what i saw a couple years ago yeah that's the second or third time yeah and we talked about it before and i'm not sure why the resolutions committee you know has changed their position on it but i i certainly haven't i think that law
033enforcement in our schools is best left in the hands of law enforcement officers and and and trained personnel and i don't think that just because you have a license to carry a gun means that you have been trained properly and and and all of the all of the the necessary things that our officers get trained in you know that's their career that's what they do we want our we want teachers focused on educating um so i think that it's a it's a false sense of security i think the idea that um from you know arming people in the school um you know there there obviously are some people that feel that somehow that's making their schools safer and i don't i don't know that there was any data presented um evidence presented uh to support
034that presumption and i would i would suggest that it it could possibly have the opposite effect so if i do empathize with smaller districts having the need you know you know wanting to have a a safety officer in the school not having the funds to pay for that or not having the personnel you know available in the community to hire to do that i certainly see that as a problem that that should be addressed however i don't think that this is the path to addressing that that that problem thought they were on a different path with this and i understand rural schools it's very different but we're in a very different kind of community here i i just think guns by people other than law enforcement don't belong in school i think um and i've
035said it oh i'm sorry no no yeah okay i i think i even said it last time it's a difficult position for me because i am not in a district where i don't have the funding or the opportunity to feel safer and i think the argument that keeps coming up is around the school district that does not have the means and looks like they've seeking out sros now i think that's the right letter yes that's correct and they haven't been able to get that so it's very difficult for me to make a decision for um a school district that feels that way however this would affect all school districts so we don't have the opportunity to pick and choose and that's the part that you know is unfortunate but i i definitely don't feel good
036about a school district that can that doesn't feel safe or safe as they can feel because where are we completely safe today i would feel better if there was a resolution that um you know the state the isb or other agencies within the government can put money towards these districts that don't have the uh the resources to to have this person on staff say i would i would be more inclined to say let's back that right not this and um so i think i think that would be more important than than this i think they said they had some funding they just can't get the people wrong did i read that incorrectly i think it's a little bit of vote i mean historically it's been both that they haven't had enough funding and they don't
037have enough staff available and it's a long response for police time because police might be in the next county years okay yeah okay yeah this particular scenario is money but for some it's both to rural schools are underfunded yeah they are just i mean they don't have they've got a they've got a problem with having enough teachers you know a big time problem right now yeah and and so there's i think that there's just all kinds of fallout from that problem this is obviously you know one of those one of those consequences and the solution you know i just i don't see where this is going to solve the problem i mean i think it gives them a false sense of of security to be honest with you i think it'll make the situation worse
038it could because if you have um i'm not going to say unqualified people but people whose livelihood is not with law enforcement or any of those agents with putting the responsibility of that in their hands i think that's totally wrong yeah i think the implication with this is that just because they have all the certification to carry a firearm properly that they're going to be equipped to handle these situations which doesn't carry over necessarily um so i think this sort of turns a bad idea yeah i don't know we need to agree with this go ahead i'm sorry do we need to vote on this for you do we need to vote does anybody having a i mean i'm strongly opposed to this as well for all the reasons already stated including i think to
039what you alluded to that this would provide maybe a snap get measure but it's not a it's not it's not going to fix a problem and it could potentially harm more people than so is there anybody who feels they'd like to offer a different perspective otherwise it sounds like we're opposed do you have what you need chris no no no it'll be clear we're telling him to vote against against this advance it looks like it's unanimous i i suggest that and i don't know how they decide on this but come back with this stronger argument for a solution other than this what else could you know we think through another solution other than this because i think since i've been on the board this is the third time i think it's the third time yeah
040yeah i wonder how we can put our heads together to come up with something else that may do the stick that's why any sense i'm not familiar with mercer county is that in southern illinois i think yes it's a downstate school district yes oh were they the ones that give us blast i'm not sure who brought it forward last time it was downstate before no yeah okay number 15 yes okay and then uh so resolution 15 the child safe gun storage um is so this is uh for foid card members who have minors in the in the house under the age of 14 14 15. what are the age of accessible to a minor under the age of 14. um will be uh what do you call it required where's the wording here yes okay
041so uh requiring gun owners uh to store uh to store firearms whether they're loaded or unloaded in a secure locked container of the person that is under the age of 18 and is likely to gain access to the weapon without profession so if i understood this one correctly it was talking about how people store their guns at home okay yeah yes it's a bridge too far yeah yeah the the committee recommends that we do not adopt i actually disagree that it's a bridge too far because i mean truth be told the enforcement about how somebody stores their gun at it at home is not something a school board can do right but i think we can be supportive of the fact that this changes that that this would change the requirement from 14 to 18
042correct and if we don't take a strong stance on this who are the protection of students who will yeah i remember i wish i i should have pulled out my um uh the rationale from you know previously because this came up before as well and if if i recall correctly previous resolution committee rationale two felt like this was this is not following the history of of what isb has done in terms of what we what we support that we we stay in this lane and that this is this is branching us off into other other places where maybe we shouldn't go and we should stick to you know stick to our lane so i meaning start talking about health i mean i don't i mean see i see the rationale behind it but should the
043isb iasb be the you know one of the vehicles to to moving that along i don't know that we should it's a resolution not legislation right no i understand so yeah i mean i i what we're going to spend our money lobbying for example i agree with the do not adopt this and nancy sounds like maybe you're saying possibly i would like to adopt it i doubt that maybe we do a straw poll on this one i think we should support it i think we should support adoption of it not not the resolution is to not support it correct correct right yeah i think we should support it because i think we should send a support to legislators who would would put this up in front of for safety i agree with nancy i i
044i kind of think that it does at first glance seem like we're getting in an area that isn't ours but in reality when a child has access to a gun and it's not properly stored that's how they get into schools exactly so i kind of uh how do you even enforce that i know it it feels funny like it's out of our territory but i definitely you know can see how their thinking goes on us nancy so i understand what you're saying you're saying support us putting regulations around people's guns in their homes right right which would be an opposition of the resolution tell me again the resolution is stated is saying this has gone too far that the resolution committee recognizes the importance of protecting students that has concerns over the specifics of proposed
045resolution were the same as they were when the language was presented previous year they ultimately felt that the resolution went too far and that it was not the place of the local school board or iascb to determine the actions people take within their homes so if you're supporting of the rev if you're supporting the resolution you're saying that's correct we should not support this i don't support this resolution i think we should support victor we should support what could ultimately be stricter legislation around gun control or exactly the reason joanna stated ultimately these are going to end up in our schools so you're saying they're recommended we do not adopt you say adopt i say you're done so we need to give chris some some direction on this so we'll just too struggle so i
046see adapt i say don't adopt don't adopt don't adopt joanna i say adopt don't adopt don't all right okay so you have your your unofficial not action but straw poll you know which direction that board members are leaning all right you guys see the um the uh the motion school member school board member compensation champagne thinks that we should get paid oh okay you know they've been trying to get us to be paid for yeah of course yeah um i agree with the rationale on that do not adopt but i did think you know i don't know if you saw the number four there about board member child care reimbursement i thought yeah i thought that was good that's a good idea yeah um you know because you know what that might encourage younger right
047um yes young children and yeah younger you would you might volunteer volunteer to do this if you if but you don't have a means to have your children taken care of why did any board member have another resolution that they were not happy with the iasb recommendation and wanted to suggest an alternative sorry i didn't yeah was there any other resolution that any board member said oh i don't like the i don't like the resolution as it stands and i think we should oppose or support the opposite was there anything else anybody wanted to call out no okay all right so chris is that is that good that works okay that should do we don't have any slips for receptions of visitors did we have anybody who wanted to so we wanted to turn in
048a slip no okay so we're going to move into closed session i need a motion for the board of education to go into closed session for the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the district or legal counsel for the district including hearing testimony and a complaint lodged against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting or volunteer of the district or against legal counsel for the district to determine its validity not done sorry somebody that breath didn't give it away right litigation when an action against affecting or on behalf of the district has been filed and is pending before here you moved so
049moved second yes chris seconded thank you jerry carrey what i i i sorry christopher espinoza hi thank you you're all for aye denny hagstrom aye dude of oscars drexler aye mike davenport aye nancy kupka aye we'll move into closed session no action to follow we'll only come back out to adjourn thank you very much for attending