001thank you [Music] we have a quorum let's stand for the pledge i pledge allegiance [Music] see i was looking at that one okay i believe we're going to start with the student perspective south high school good evening everyone i think you got it mike good evening everyone great to see everyone we're happy to be here tonight to bring you some student perspectives and they're a little bit left over from last spring so last year we all know what kind of year and helter skelter was but we have our group interpretation in the state finals qualify for the state finals for the first time in more than 25 years so yes [Music] and doing so in the digital way in the virtual world makes that accomplishment even greater so i thought it's only appropriate to let
002them be recognized here in front of you and to share a little bit about their experience girls excellent hi i'm gwen royal i'm a senior at downers grove south i'm one of the vice presidents of the masking gable club i'm in choir and editor-in-chief of the blueprint hi i'm sammy bacara i am in choir and theater and speech and i'm also one of the vice presidents of our masking gabble club hi i'm catherine havawissa i'm a junior i'm in theater speech i'm on the tennis team and in the band so what we're going to talk about is group interpretation it's a 30-minute play but it's highly artistic and it teaches students how to utilize the abstract there are strict rules and we must follow and it's truly unlike any other play that we do at
003school it's really like the experience of a lifetime i love it so much basically in group interpretation there are still characters but most of it is ensemble working to create a show with just our bodies for example during rgi last season we did the witches and we had to create the look of a house just in our zoom screen so we had to use our arms to make like the roof and like surround our main characters so the whole point is to create a story in a setting using our bodies so last year we were the sectional champions um for years our school has been trying to make it to state and last year not only did we make it to state we were in the top three and we won it was a phenomenal
004experience we worked our tails off for weeks to be the best gi we could and it really paid off it was probably one of my proudest moments here at dj or there at dgs [Music] while we were sitting in the zoo meeting where they're announcing the sectional top three um the whole cast we are on facetime together just so we can be together in case it didn't go the way we wanted and so we never really actually thought that we would do that well because we nev we didn't expect the competition like what the competition was going to be like this year and um it was so fun to be able to hear our names get called us first all together on the phone and i couldn't even imagine what it would have been like
005if we were actually like all together in person but it was so fun um like sammy said we were all on facetime and actually they only call the top three so the second we heard the third school called and it wasn't south we kind of all just went like oh well good job guys it was fun second place they called we were like whatever i think somebody actually left the zoom call but then we heard we heard djs called for first place we all got excited and the second the award ceremony was over we all ran on to our own zoom to all talk with our coach as well so uh we came in fifth at state but we came in first for zoom gi's which was super cool all the other gi's that came
006ahead of us were in person um it was so cool i mean we went to mr blum who was our director and he was like i think that you won basically we had some members of our cast who actually like got their uh their state t-shirts that had number one zoom gi in the state on the back of it it was super fun yeah and that day we were actually all together in a different cast member's backyard so we had like a little party just to celebrate what we had done and it was fun because we were hanging out together we had the zoom of like the whole state like ceremony on in the garage and we all went on together and we were just watching the awards together and then they didn't actually announce
007like anything below third third so we got to see our name on screen and we were like oh we got fifth and then we like realized that we were the top zoom gi and it was super fun just being like surrounded by all our best friends and experiencing that together being fifth and state was definitely cool but what they do at these state tournaments is you have the main round where everybody goes and then the top ones for each round make it to the final round so the night before if any of you have had the pleasure of meeting mr chris blum the director of this he has a flair for the theatrics so we get this very ominous email saying we need to meet and it's really late we get on this zoom call
008and he's just talking and the sad tone like yeah it was really good we worked together and all of a sudden he goes we made it to state finals and the second we heard that we started planning a get together in a cast member's backyard to watch the final round together so it was really cool just to make it to the final round so like mr schwartz was saying it was a lot different this year because it was on zoom so although the majority of our rehearsals and our performances weren't together it was probably one of the tightest knit cats casts that i've ever been a part of i cannot wait for it to happen in person this year i can't wait but it's gonna like to see what it's gonna look like in person
009it's gonna be great yeah and it's safe to say that it was really hard putting on a show over zoom but it was really entirely worth it all of us now we all have like this shared experience that will never like break us apart because it was so different from anything else that happened last year and we were all extremely positive even though there were some like ups and downs where some of us just didn't want to be there that day because it was a heart particularly hard day it was still amazing to experience and there were just hours spent figuring out how to make one scene work or what costume would show up best on camera because we weren't really allowed to do like costumes um but in the end the production was amazing
010and now i have relationships with the cast it's just so valuable and this year the cast is basically going to be the same with a couple editions so it's going to be fun just to be able to do it all over again yeah working online was definitely tough i think we can all agree that everything online seemed kind of optional but it was really cool to be with people that wanted to be there to audition you had to reach out to the coach and it's everybody that was happy to be working online just happy to be performing something all um do you guys have any questions i had i had one so did when you what you what you competed with did you do it live and you what or did you film it and
011get to kind of like unzoom and kind of edit it a little bit and then submit it because it's so hard to do it i can't even imagine it so we were allowed to break up scenes so we recorded three separate chunks of the 30 minute play but we weren't really allowed to edit it we could crop the beginning and the end but we weren't allowed to like add sound or move videos around it was pretty much raw footage but we didn't do it live some schools did it live we chose not to take that route because it was working pretty well for us and we want to keep as much distance as possible so we would come into the school and record in like individual classrooms so we all had like the same background
012and the same like wifi and everything and then we'd do that do it like that that is really cool so much you know we we're still living with so many negative things right from last year it's just so awesome to hear you know just your the smiles on your faces i can see them through the mass you know the excitement and i mean it just whenever i hear if somebody comes to me and says last year was a lost year i just want to send them to you you know um because it wasn't there were great things that happened and you're you're you're just here to share one of those things so congratulations well done yeah congratulations [Applause] okay moving on to student board members questions and comments oh yes i don't remember who went
013first last time i don't remember who went first either hello way down there you guys can fight it out yeah i'll go first so a lot has gone on at south since i've last updated the board since then school has started and everything's back in full swing the drama department is working hard to put on four productions before the end of the first semester the freshman play which this year is called the masked freshman will be performed this friday at 7 pm the fall play this year is laughing stock the winter play will be the rose and the rhine and the children's play is schoolhouse rock i know i personally can't wait to see these productions and all the hard work that the cast and the crew put in especially those girls they're really close
014friends of mine this past saturday was the inauguration event at south and from what i've heard and went well the community loved seeing the new additions to south and the students and faculty members love showing off the school the pe department will be putting on a few events in the next couple weeks the first is actually taking place tomorrow and it's going to be a blood drive so any mustang who is 16 or older is eligible to donate and help save lives and the second which i know jade will also talk about is our young hearts for life heart screenings this organization provides free heart screenings for students and helps identify students who are at risk for sudden cardiac death and they've done really great you're recommended to do it every two years so north
015and south bring them in every two years they just screen all the students who parent whose parents have allowed them to the sports are going on our girls and boys golf team are doing really well both cross-country teams are performing really well all their meets and they're placing in the top five and individuals in the top ten the swim and dive team for the girls has been killing it and it's been really nice to have somewhat normal high school experience again i know everyone's been really excited to be back in the building okay hi uh here at north since i've last been here we've also been up to a lot of things including rfl plays as well we we recently had the revenge of the space pandas which was a really great play performed by
016our theater and i know i know a lot of people enjoyed it especially the little ones it was their target audience and i'm so glad that it went so well in the next couple of weeks they are working on their next play it's called flight spirit and it's going to be at the end of september and beginning of october which i'm very excited about to go watch and go support on the other side of our fine arts we also have our trojan marching band they've been killing it at half times but they've also been killing it at the university of illinois which they went to a couple weeks ago to perform there i heard it started drizzling but that couldn't stop them they had a great time and i'm so glad our sports have also
017been doing so well like like south has we're undefeated in the stands and on the field which is very nice all our teams have been doing great and the energy being brought back to the building back to the stands has been great seeing all the familiar faces and being able to uh wear your themes for that game and being able to wear the trojan wear and your spirit wear and wear purple and isn't something that i think a lot of us have missed in this past year being able to share that with others and i'm so glad that we have that back in other news we also have our coffee shop it's brand new it's open i went this morning it's very nice i do recommend that people go and try it out it is
018unnamed still but we will soon be naming it since we soon have our inauguration here at north i know south was last week weekend and ours is on september 25th we'll be having a ceremony at 9am which is very exciting and i do recommend that anyone in the community who wants to go see it and want to come see our new spaces be free be welcome to come and explore the new north which is very exciting like scarlett touched on we will be also hosting the young hearts for life this october 7th all students whose parents authorize it will be allowed to test for that and ecg testing like scarlet said is recommended every two years i had it two years ago and i think that anyone who has the opportunity to do it should
019do it because this organization up to date has diagnosed almost 3 000 students with heart abnormalities and saved their lives probably so i really recommend that any person who is eligible to do it should do it um something that speaks more to the culture of our school our positivity north clips are making a comeback this year which is very exciting so any student who has been doing exceptional and being a leader and being kind to others can get nominated by their teachers to receive this special honor and i think that speaks so much to our students because we have this culture we're all so kind together even after these hard times so i'm really glad that i get to go to a school like this and in terms for our future leaders nhs applications are
020open for our current juniors and i'm so excited that even when i graduate i know we're going to be leaving some great leaders here at north and at south so that's really it for north end moment thank you thank you thank you okay we'll move on to uh before we move on to the reception visitors i just wanted to uh say that if you if you have not if for those people who went to the south um ribbon ceremony it was just so lovely it was just a lovely morning it was just so well done and thank you to all all the members of administration and staff put that together and then north will be a week from this saturday nine o'clock here but very it was just lovely to walk around and see the
021new space and it was just just well planned out and thank you very much to everybody who participated in that okay we're going to move on to reception visitors unless you had something else no i have nothing else to report tonight this is an opportunity for audience members to address the board on any topic pertaining to community high school district 99 is there anybody who'd like to address the board hearing none uh we're going to have we need a motion we're going to go into closed session there wasn't anything online oh we don't have online upcoming meetings just to point them out we have a policy committee meeting this week uh 8 am at the asc then next week the board meeting is a little odd because we passed a resolution to have the budget
022hearing at the asc but because of the rise in the delta variant in covit we've decided to move to a larger space for the larger board meeting so we'll have just the board a couple of administrators julie of course and anybody who wishes to address the board about the budget at the asc at 6 30. once we're done with that presentation and any reception of visitors regarding the budget hearing we will then wrap up there take a short recess to move over to south and then i would imagine somewhere around 7 or 7 15 we'll pick up the board meeting like we traditionally would have a board meeting at south high and go on from there so anybody who wishes to come and address the see the budget presentation address the board strictly about the
023budget should go to the asc at 6 30. anybody who wishes to see the traditional board meeting or participate in that in any way should go directly to south and be there for that portion of the meeting and this is because of how we how we advertised for the meeting how we passed that we passed the road past the resolution yeah yeah to have the budget hearing at the asc so since that's a board action and it's already been posted in the newspapers and and everything else we're gonna just host that there we will stream that live over to the south auditorium so anybody who wants to actually just see that portion of the meeting will be able to just go to south and see it it'd only be if you wanted to participate in
024any way for your three minutes of public comment regarding the budget then that would be go to the afc at 6 30 and then move with us over to south if they wanted to okay we can't stay at the asc because we can't maintain right but so when did we have that when did we pass that resolution at the last board meeting so we should we should have passed the resolution to then have ins having it south instead yeah we had remember we were intending to move back to the afc because like right now they had to stop set building behind us so that we could have a board right moving to a large location disrupts what our students are doing so right we wanted to try to move back to the asc where we
025wouldn't disrupt student activities but just to keep everybody safe we're now kind of carving our so we'll be in a variety of different traveling locations for as long as we feel like we need to keep distance do we so there wouldn't be an like if if if we didn't get a lot of people showing up we still have to walk over to south uh yeah because we'll have to advertise that that's what what we're gonna do that you know we need to announce it 48 hours in advance so there's just no way to tell hopefully it won't be confusing for people so that's why i wanted to make sure tonight we addressed it we'll make sure it's posted clear uh under the board agendas you know that i just that's why i want to take
026some time this evening and point that out excellent thank you that's all i had okay um then i'm going to ask for a motion to go into closed session we will be coming out of closed session only to adjourn there will be no action taken so now i need a motion for 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 on a complaint lodged against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting or a volunteer of the district or against legal counsel for the district to determine its validity so moved i
027think i heard mike and terry mark and terry yes yes mike davenport hi terry paversich i joanna vazquez drexler aye christopher espinoza aye sharel fuller aye jenny heggstrom aye nancy kupko aye thank you very much we're going to a journey to close or we're going to go into closed see you session you