001place hooter [ __ ] it how's everybody doing Scott low Nancy hey Tara Derek how's it going is everybody okay how's your mom good she's real good um I I was I was shocked she didn't volunteer to do something because you know you know you nurse --iz boy it's hard to keep you down but ya know they were live guys right now just as we set up to start the meeting we'll start here and about another minute or so so we have Rick carrying me is there anybody else on that I don't see I'm here Mike's here Oh Pete's women are women large yeah Joanna's missing just me yeah just joining us the only one right now she could be stuck in traffic Pete what is that background that you have is that a zoom background I
002would love to tell you that it's my house but it's not it's a zoom background I'm not sure where it's from to be honest but this I'll tell you it's beautiful it's a time I was just gonna say okay let's call to order on the roll call please mrs. Naik hey Nancy cupca president Mike damn report here draw fuller yeah necklace here very passage here Rick Pavan odd oh yeah early glue [ __ ] here Ariel Johnson here we have a prob let's uh stand for the Pledge of Allegiance okay we're gonna start out with an approval of the minutes the Board of Education will approve the minutes of the April twentieth twenty twenty business meeting you may fourth 2020 workshop meeting the may 4th closed meeting Advisory Committee within ten days of helps eliminate the I'm
003sorry what'd you just say sure all it was that going and I couldn't understand okay good point housekeeping everybody mute if you're not speaking so again we're gonna ask for a motion to approve the April twentieth twenty twenty business meeting minutes the may 4th workshop meeting minutes the may 4th closed meaning minutes the board's had the minutes for or tender I'm sorry these magnets will be made public until such time as the board approves really I'm so sorry I'm reading the wrong thing the Board of Education will prove the meanings as stated the board members if you had the minutes prior to this meeting for examination the minutes will be made public within 10 days of board approval with the exception of the closed meeting in which case these minutes will not be made public
004until such time as the board approves release do we have a motion Terry just raise your hand you do you motion again Terry motions Mike are you seconding I could okay Jerry passage I Mike Davenport I sure all fuller I bear Nicholas I ripped a venado I am Nancy cupca I then it's our prude now let's talk about the May 14th 2020 Parent Teacher Advisory Committee dan did you wanna I wasn't part of that yeah but only only two of us were present right I don't think we have to approve those minutes I was look I was curious why they were in our our group of things to approve as well but I mean I think the board still has the authority to approve the minutes yes we do and we have to so if
005you don't want to you can abstain that's fine but we had an opportunity to read them and the questions if we will approve them and we have had representatives who also read them would anybody who attended like to comment on the veracity of the minutes they were accurate a good summary so do we have a motion to approve the minutes of the May 14th 2020 parent-teacher advisory committee meeting you have the minutes prior to this meeting for examination and they'll be made public within ten days of board approval so moved Mike hey who was the second I'll second Terry yeah thank you Mike Davenport hi Terry passage I have an ad oh hi Mike I'm sorry I'm sure all fuller hi there Nicholas hi the minutes are passed okay we're gonna move on to the
006reception of visitors and public comments we receive no no visitor comments okay hearing none we are going to move on to the recommendations and reports of the superintendent and I understand dr. athili you're going to start with a special report I want to take a moment here at the beginning of this board meeting to recognize Arielle and Haley for serving as students on the board for the past year they are now officially done with schools congratulations I'd like each of them to just come on a spot here and tell us something that they learned being a student board member this year and then what's next for them moving forward so Ariel we'll start with you all right so what I've learned from being on the board of education is that there is a lot that
007goes on within our school that a lot of people don't think about and I feel like I was able to help at least some of my friends understand like the reasons behind things for like if they didn't understand something I would let them know like if they have a problem they can talk to me and I'll try to like bring it up if they have an issue which they didn't or like I would invite them to the board meeting so I feel like that was something I learned and what's next for me is that I'm going to Eastern Illinois my major is going to be kinesiology and I'm let me write a check there nice job on Eastern that's where I went and look what happened there area no no no thank you oh we
008wish you the best of luck we are sending you a little token of appreciation that will show up in the mail in a little bit in a few weeks here so and then Hayley how about you something you learned and what's next for you something I've learned from being on both the board and the school newspaper is really how to communicate what we talked about in board meetings and like all the information to the student body I wrote a lot about these board meetings throughout the year and I found it really interesting to like get the students informed with the issues so I really learned that and next year I'm going to University of Illinois I'm studying civil environmental engineering and yeah that's about it thank you so much yelling good luck thank you a
009vine and you know I mean gross uh public so you know when you're back in town you have nothing else to do you can always come by and visit us we actually at this board meeting we also then introduce our next set of student board members but with everything that's been going on we're gonna applause on that and then do that in the fall so that'll that'll be coming in September at some point so they carry on early and like I said we wish you the best of luck and thank you for all the time you've slept with us this year it's great to have the student perspective at a board meeting let us know how you do we're really rooting for both of you you're both going to be very you're both gonna do
010so well in life it's so easy to see if there are any letters of recommendations from adults there's a lot of them here I mean I don't consider myself an adult but the rest of them okay parent feedback from the parent teacher Advisory Committee and I guess Scott's gonna yeah I'm gonna turn this over to Scott and then we had a few board members present as well go ahead Scott yeah so we met last Thursday evening we had 17 participants and I think about eight parents we're on a zoom call with us and Mike and Joanna during this as well and we reviewed our behave for special education we reviewed and revised our behavior intervention procedures and then we moved into gina's consolidated district plan she went through the needs assessment and presented that to
011the to the group and offered feedback and then after the meeting we did send out a Google Form to get some additional feedback if there was any I know I usually leave a meeting and think of about ten things so we're just waiting on feedback from that and I'll share that when we get it it was a good night I mean board members that attended want to weigh in on this at all or Gina I don't have anything to add it was just as as reported and I think it was just Johanna and I that were there so yeah I had you know I wasn't sure if it was the appropriate place to ask questions I just was sort of interested because of all this Colvin and are we re not going back to school
012how they would implement doing some of these things you know like testing and doing a bit you know or a functional assessment I had questions like that I just wasn't sure if that was the proper venue to bring it up that yeah yeah I was just gonna say that obviously with a behavior plan it's usually based on you know the environment that you're in and it just obviously geared towards school environment so those are gonna be you know obviously we'll be figuring those out as we go in terms of how to support students and families and we have resources that we do engage families with to help offer some guidance the the actual procedures is really like a legal requirement of the IBA an IEP world that is given to parents on an initial evaluation
013or when they entered the district so we were just kind of updating just to give everyone an example like we had a board policy that had was changed so we needed update pad yeah that's kind of what I thought was so I did yeah it wasn't yeah and that one there wasn't a lot and I know that the questions some nerd around like some of Gina's questions about you know testing and and all that and that's obviously we're working through that right that's gonna be pretty complicated how are you gonna test and keep it safe and sanitary stand absolutely or Dina maybe or maybe you want to share a little bit about me because I'd asked during the meeting we discussed and you know what are we going to do in the future because you
014know we've relied it on we've relied on some of the standardized tests and and and a lot of these data points to kind of help direct us you know in in the right direction and how best to respond and and we're not going to have some of those data points this year so that was you know that was great that was the only question I had had during the meeting and you did a nice job addressing that so there's no doubt we're gonna have to look at different data sets or find ways to get appropriate data and one of the things we also talked a little bit about at the meeting is that there are going to be gaps and we're going to need to put in place interventions that will help students to master
015the content they need to eliminate the gaps it's going to be very targeted and I'll talk about that a little bit when I talk about the consolidated district plan but certainly we are gonna have your different data and think about how we support students differently yeah and once once the school year ends then we're gonna start looking at really three different pathways a return to school because there's got to be a transition period coming back you know from remote learning back to face-to-face instruction will look at enhancing our online remote learning experience it's likely that at some point next year if not to start the school year at some point during the year there'll be a flare-up and Cova and we'll have to return to remote learning for a period of time or if there's
016cases in school we might have to close down for a couple of days to just do a more thorough cleaning there's all kinds of scenarios where we might come back we might be remote or we might be in some combination of a blended version where you have some students returning and some students working virtually so we're beginning to put together plans and protocols and ideas for that we're also collaborating with DuPage County I'm helping to lead the group of high school districts across to page on what the hybrid model might look like and then we're waiting still for isby guidance on those three mile as well so I'd imagine and over the next month we're gonna be trying to figure those things out and all the details inside of those you know it's like figuring
017out school all over again you got a big job but that's that'll really be our focus once we wrap up the school year this week all right any other things on the Parent Teacher by this very committee meaning it's not you usually write up a report of any other comments you get and we just all three could be back Friday notes yep all right Scott as well discipline code revisions and changes to the parent handbook athletic activities handbook a reminder all of the handbooks are an extension the discipline code which is why we bring these to the board every year because by going through the board approval process the student handbooks are an extension of board policy Scott yeah and I just I just wanted to thank Karen Taylor and Kelly's earner for the work
018that they do they're kind of charged with looking through all the pages of the handbook and working with staff in the building to get feedback on changes and things like that and that and you know with our district student handbook now when we do changes throughout the year we bring those to the board during those months so you're approving you know forward for the next school year I was gonna highlight I'm willing to talk about any if you have questions but I was gonna highlight more of the discipline related things in the handbook cuz the other ones were kind of just tweaks and changes that we were so we were doing so on page aide talked about tardiness we're just making a uniform where we had originally from last year we had period one was
019five minutes or less was considered a tardy or I mean I'm sorry 20 minutes or less for period one and and the rest of the two through eight were considered five minutes and we're just making them all 20 minutes to make a uniform which will work for us and then looking at transportation for the bus conduct we just expanded kind of the consequences that could occur so we listed you know detention saturday detention in school out of school in there directly and then under our safety personnel section sixths the school resource officer we are deleting the last part of it that talks about parent consent is not required for searches and that's also falls under the use of breathalyzers we're removing the same statement that said parent consent is not required so we're removing those
020based on some changes in the law obviously the student handbook part of a law does state that if we you know if we put it in our handbook then it helps us as we move forward navigating it but there's also some law so it's kind of treated on an individual basis for that and then section nine which is oh yeah go ahead yeah I was kind of shocked yeah I guess I never really realized that it said parental consent was not required originally because I always watch change so we'd actually it did allow us to do it without having parent consent but with some of the changes with the law speaking to you know how school resource officers engage with our students you know we're taking out that part does it impact like searching lockers
021you know routine Locker searches and things like that or does that mean you have to get parental consent each time or not for lockers lockers we can search in any mini point but the rules change last school year with how really our security personnel are SROs and any police officers interact with students on campus and really require us to first contact a parent if any of those personnel are going to be interviewing students or interacting with them didn't we traditionally do that anyway yeah but it's even more stringent okay okay so was our practice it just wasn't in the okay okay yeah sorry I popped my internet went down for second but I think kinky answered it perfectly are you guys hearing me okay okay and then and then going down to section nine for
022supporting positive behaviors we added kind of based on our initiatives to keep improving kind of with the restorative practice for students the community service piece then we looked at Saturday detentions and we put a statement in there about we can remove a student from the saturday detention and then provide further consequences as appropriate and then teacher detentions we gave a little more flexibility I think we kind of lock teachers into having to have when a teacher issues at detention they're the ones that serve it with the student and they were referencing like the department the you know office so to speak and so we just gave some flexibility that the teachers can have with giving a detention and then in the disappointed workerle we did we gave any referrals to come in from teachers and
023it just gives the deans the ability to put some of those in the file and so I'm not and I'm still going extremely be going in and out for you guys can you hear me okay yeah okay and then obviously you guys have been involved with the path program approving the positions so that's our program that will be in our in-school suspension or intervention room where we're looking to obviously reduce out-of-school suspensions and give interventions we have a curriculum that we're going to be using called why try this was actually something that we introduced at the parent-teacher Advisory Committee last year when we were over at North and we gave a introduction to the parents about the white ride curriculum and our program and they gave feedback and then you guys obviously approved as a
024board the positions to support that so we appreciate it and then the last part was the just adding a reference to the wording so that we can include hemp products in our descriptions under the discipline charts that are on page 43 and 44 so that kind of sums up the other ones the other ones like I said are just kind of tweaking a little bit of of the language and things like that but aren't really student discipline related Scott yeah I noticed it in our in our agenda we've got the athletic activities handbook included in in our reference materials for the meeting but I didn't see where there were any changes to the athletic activities handbook yeah they they haven't actually had changes in that front for a little bit so that's just moving forward
025as is right now but it'll follow the same process that if there's anything that comes up throughout the year there isn't he's changed we'll bring that to the board at that month to approve but right now we're using the same one to go forward okay I think the only change we've made in the last couple of years was clarifying clarifying some of the eligibility pieces I think we provided some different language and some of the key waiver language was updated in the last couple years but other than that it's held pretty true to form the agenda just said that there were revisions and changes to the oh yeah there's no yeah there was no changes to that and then last year when we put it all online in one format rather than you know having
026a district handbook and a district student athletic and activities handbook there was no changes that they had we just basically took what they had and just created it into a kind of a one version type of form so yeah sorry for the confusion on that all right so this is up for approval later on this evening under action moving on to Geno with the title one waiver you're muted Gina there you go I'm sorry it wouldn't let me unmute okay so the board may recall from last year only South High School is a title one school and title one schools if they have a free reduced lunch percentage below 40 percent operate what is called a targeted assistance program which is what we operated for years however we can apply for a waiver that allows
027us because as you can see we are just over 28 percent almost 29% of the population at South high receives free or reduced lunch we can apply for a waiver to be a title 1 school wide program which is what we run right now because the board approved it last year where I'm asking the board to include it again and what that does is it just gives us a lot of flexibility and how we service students greater flexibility in serving all students not just students that are academically at risk for example we can service students in terms of any area related to college and career-readiness we were able to put an AP tutoring program in place this year at South High because we were school-wide so I'm again asking the board to improve the waiver
028for South High School to run a school-wide title one program has any questions about that hearing none thanks do you know we put Gina back to back with the consolidated district plan this came to the this guy is now coming to the board this used to be a bunch of different plans but is now one giant plan and we're bringing it to you in draft form kind of what Gina is up to you with this tonight and this comes back at the June board meeting for formal approval so Gina if you want to provide an overview here sure the consolidated district plan this is actually our second year we submitted last year and as Hank said this is a very comprehensive plan it covers our basically our title grants as well as our al grants
029and our special education ide a grant so title one which I just spoke about a minute ago title two which is professional development title three which is for our ell program our English learners also title 3 which is our immigrant education program grant title 4 which is a relatively new grant as well it's only been I believe this is the third year if I remember correctly and then our special education grant so this large plan encompasses all those grants the purpose is to streamline it because each grant would ask a series of questions and there was some repetition so the idea is to streamline that you answer the question keeping in mind all of the different students whether they're yellow students general education students special education students students with a 504 plan so on and
030so forth so you answer the questions comprehensively but you're doing it in one place and to write a plan that applies to all the grants and applies to all the different funding sources one of the things that is required is a local needs assessment which we completed virtually I had two different groups working on that which was comprised of parents teachers staff members paraprofessionals and administrators and obviously we got feedback from various holder's addressing specific questions and then of course I don't bring it you know the plan to you next month for approval so just to kind of give you a timeline of what this looks like and why we're still in draft form I began writing the plan in April in May continue writing the plan conducted the needs assessment that I spoke of
031shared different highlights for example with the parent-teacher advisory and with various stakeholders reviewed a lot of feedback from various groups and now I'm presenting progress to the Board of Education moving forward obviously need to complete finish the plan I will present it again to the board at that point it will be final and for a vote and then if approved we submit it to the State Board of Education at that point it goes through four levels of review and hopefully will be approved so our local needs assessment we looked at several different data points we looked at the four-year graduation rate we looked at the English language arts SAT data we looked at math SAT data we looked at ninth grade on track which the board may recall me speaking about before essentially and if
032students are on track at the end of ninth grade they graduated their graduation rate within four years is substantially higher the state looks at ninth grade on track of students who earn a minimum of 5 credits their freshman year and cannot fail more than a semester so half a credit in a core subject area in math science social studies or English and then we looked at some attendance currency data one of the other data points which was the first time for this obviously to look at is we looked at what I call disengagement data basically students who are not engaging for us three weeks at that point in remote learning because as I said a little bit earlier we certainly want to make sure that we work on interventions to assist those students so the
033local needs assessment where we read all those things you know I just tried to give you some summary statements here it was determined that there is a need for increased bilingual and English Learner support as we looked at some of those data points we saw that our ESL population is not meeting standards in many areas there we also looked at student attendance data and for the second year in a row and I had some people on this local needs assessment coordinate on last year's which was sort of interesting for the second year in a row we see a spike at 12th grade and so this group this year really honed in on 12th grade so we need to explore ways to improve student attendance increasing supports to specific subgroups in many different areas a lot
034of our teachers talked about the deep equity professional development that we've been doing for a couple of years now and hope and really stressed that that needs to continue and appreciate that several teachers brought up an advisory or what we've been calling an access period seller brought it up when they were looking at the ninth grade on track data and brought it up specifically to ninth grade but then many brought it up in terms of all students increasing support for AP students came out of last year's needs assessment and then also was mentioned about how we can use our school-wide title and programming to support all students embedding SAT strategies in various classes and then as I mentioned earlier about gaps that may exist from remote learning primarily in courses then built for example mathematics
035or world language certainly all courses but focusing on those we have many interventions in place and over the years the board has heard me talk about a lot of these interventions so most are probably familiar I will mention a couple that we have put into place more recently for example the seminar class the board approved that class a few years ago so that's a recent intervention Riis intervention is also a math specialist who assists in some of our math classes working in some cases with the entire class but more often than not working with small groups or individual students and then there is language supports this year we put in what's called the language line and I can tell you the Durham remote learning it has been invaluable I I and used it for hours
036contacting families to make sure that they had the supports that they needed and and also food quite frankly but I wanted to point those out because those are new we also have a bilingual facilitator and we looked at that role a little bit differently and have some of our spanish-speaking homeschool liaison from North assisting at South as well so the other ones are interventions that the board has heard about and if you have questions I certainly will answer those but I wanted to talk a little bit about our new interventions that are come out of this needs assessment still a little bit out of last year's need assessment because we weren't able to do all the things that we wanted to do and then programs that we're putting in place so last year when I
037brought the consolidate district plan to the board I talked about ap tutoring and providing Advanced Placement students with assistance before school after school possibly during the lunch period if we had teachers that could could do that and we did get it off the ground and and running and we had quite a few students participate but as you can see we began in February and then went out on remote learning in March so very short lived but we do plan to continue that next year and actually had I had some teachers asking if we were going to so they were they were pleased with at least the start of that we increased bilingual and ell programming as the board already knows we hired a bilingual Yale teacher for South High School for next year to fill
038that need last year we had planned to hire roll called an interventionist for South High to use title one funds for that we had merged that position with a part-time bilingual position and we were unable to hire to find a candidate to fulfill that need we are hoping for that to be a little bit greater role this year and to actually hire separate from the bilingual programming and I can definitely see that interventionist working with students who may have gaps due to remote learning and then you heard Scott already talk about the path program that path program was mentioned several times by teachers during the local needs assessment and how excited they are to have this intervention in place starting next year so the next steps I'm continuing to gather and analyze the feedback various
039groups have looked at the data at various time so some of that data is still coming in I'm continuing to write and address the questions and better than the plan I'm working on finalizing the summary document that I would present to the board with just the high legs of the plan if I was to print every page of the plan it would be immense and then I will review bring back that final plan to the board in preparation for a vote and then after the board approves we will submit the plan to the Illinois State Board of Education so you don't know if you have any questions or specific questions about the plan or the progress on the plan busbar I mean as you can all see this is a pretty big job that Jena
040has each year to pull all this stuff together and put it together but it's a good review each year of what's working in areas we have for improvement what job does do you have that doesn't isn't a big we only get rid of big jobs [Laughter] program yeah yes that's the program that we brought to the board earlier this year where we have staff dedicated at both buildings for students that have either in school or in lieu of an out-of-school suspension would participate in the path program yeah we're staffing with with school personnel and then we'll provide them with interventions in in school and then will support them for many weeks after the discipline consequences to make sure that they're not drifting backwards okay I recall that now yeah name didn't clear up so many
041so many acronyms it's hard to keep track all right okay now we have a series of calendars the first one is the revision for or an amended calendar for next school year for 2021 and as part of the DGA contract negotiations we added an additional in-service day at the end of the school year so that falls now on May 24th that is the only change that we have made for next year so we're asking that the board adopts that and approves it later on this evening so no major change in that so any questions on that one so the change really is that we have for emergency days instead of five well you still have five but now they start on the 25th and go five days so they go into June now also that
042so that you know so 30 the 31st would be the an emergency day no the 25th 26th 27th 29th you at first I mean there got it all right okay let's hope we don't have to do that well and that all being said we know when right now we're in an unusual time for school calendars so we have no idea what the future holds for how this actually plays out and works I've been on several calls including calls with is be to discuss do they foresee any drastic changes like recommended later start times or those kinds of things they have not made any of those recommendations so because we don't have any other our recommendations for Mia's B or other organizations saying not to start on our regular start day we've decided to leave it
043there and then moving on we have the file and you sprit amended it is a very much a mirror of this year's calendar the only thing that's different or the only thing that's different from the past is that additional in-service day we just talked about on May 23rd in 2022 we did have lots of discussions about did we want to come back later than we have in the past and we looked at some different calendar options knowing that next summer people might want to longer summer because they're not going to get much of one of a traditional summer this year however with the way that winter break falls in DuPage County and and everything else it it became very clear that we would have to majorly rethink how we run the school year to try
044to change the start date in any way so at this point after several meetings and discussing a lot of different options we're recommending that we kind of roll over that traditional calendar for 21 22 we'll keep an eye on it as the school year goes on and at this time next year we'll come back asking for a formal approval of this calendar for the next year Hank I I just have one quick question for you mm-hmm have you had any pushback or anything of starting the academic year on that Friday you know August let's see it says 13th under J first 20 seconds and then having a weekend no our our families actually have responded well to that 13th day students and families come in it's kind of an orientation day they get the lists
045of all the supplies they might need they go through their schedule and then they get to have one more weekend of summer and then we're back running on the Monday I was concerned about that when I first got here and asked a lot of questions about that just kind of that Friday hanging out there but it's actually more appreciated than not okay and is it a full day or is it a half day it's a partial day partial day okay so we bring the freshmen in separate from the rest of the classes that day and do a modified schedule so the freshmen get some time to find find their way through the building and work with the student leaders and get a feel for what's going to happen and then the rest of the students
046come through well actually it's the other way I think this the freshmen come in in the afternoon yeah because then they have like south has mad dash and North has a similar type program for the brush so okay I just didn't just asking yep we had lots of conversations about it but we're recommending right now we we just stay the course okay sounds good all right so that's up for approval was he being as well and then Julia spent a lot of time thinking about our board meetings and where they should fall so she's been working on a board meeting calendar for the next year follows our traditional first Monday board workshops third Monday board meetings and then there's adjustments made for holidays and breaks and those kinds of things throughout the year so thank
047you to Julie for putting putting in all the work to pull that all together Thank You Julie all right and that's it for calendars I'm going to turn it over to Jim to talk about electric and gas contract renewals so every three years or so or a few years we do multi-year contracts for utilities largest of the two is electricity much larger and their gases are smaller but still a substantial cost to the district and it's good thing that we I think did it now the market has been really positive in terms of going to it was so good on the the gas side we decided that it was worth terminating our contract I got that right make sure I didn't flip that around ya know an electricity was so good we we short the
048electricity was going to go one more year and we cut that off and made another started a new three-year agreement and there's a penalty for doing that because they already have arranged the gasoline of the gas the natural gas in the line so we had a penalty there but we still are saving money by making the changes here and then the following two years we'll have about 98 100 thousand dollars of savings in those two years so we wanted to lock in the current low rates even having to to pay a contract amount and a tire in this first year just to switch the contract out but the electricity that the process was really I think well done this year Jim and Kristin is assistant the work with our broker on this and they had
049first day just a closed sealed meeting I'm not meeting but a bid and then followed it up with a live auction and the the preliminary bid that was sealed was just to make sure that everybody had the terms the same terms because there's a lot of little pieces to these electric contracts in terms of the delivery hidden fees inside those contracts so we made sure everybody was on the same page with the sealed bid submission and then allowed them go to a live online auction and got the price down even a little bit further by doing that about a week later so both processes were very good and now puts us in a good position for the next three years especially opening the new buildings with a lot more space in them it'll it'll be
050good to have a lower rate going into that so there's no action on this is informational what we there's there's no legal requirement they have to bid this out it's just something we did to make sure we got the bottom of the price points mark you buried the lede Oh what you buried the most important part of it oh yeah I know oh yeah the biggest thing was which was board goal and district goal is to go green and the electric contra you can't deal with gasoline but with electric we're going to be a hundred percent green and it's built into the contract so we're happy to be able to do that that's right rite of passage but it is it's a great thing to do and we're happy to have been able to work
051it into the side so mark and Jim did a great job of making sure that electric for us moving forward is a hundred percent green energy so I know that that's been a discussion with the board in the community for a while and we're happy to be able to make that change and in doing so also saving the district money so it's a win all the way around so how do we actually do that is that offsetting the costs or you know what you know there is actually a little bit of a additional cost related to that it's it's we're getting it generated from I think it's all Illinois to wind farms and okay electric producers in Illinois it's it's actually the best way to go green in Illinois because putting up solar panels and
052things like that there's a lot of different costs that can involve with that you're putting it on your roof if there's a problem with the roof you've gotta you know move that stuff and actually it doesn't pay for itself at all but to do that it's there's very few states where energy costs are so high that the solar just hasn't caught up with the the cheapness of nuclear and some of these other products production sources we're going all green and it's and so we are we coded green vendors in the state the broker lines it up for us thank you so much sure all right any questions any other questions on energy all right well new technology won't work this as well thanks we the least we're doing is kind of how we we've done
053for the last few years we have a new set of Chromebooks that we give a freshman year we're finding that they are lasting hopeful that all of them will continue to be as strong and rugged but they're lasting for years and so we make it to the point where we just let the kids keep them but we haven't made that chant you know that change yet with something we'll probably look at it one more year and see how they're gonna get a lot of uses this next year and even at the end of this last year we'll see how well that goes but we have a very competitive price on this so we are going to use a lease it's really just to save us on the budgeting side we can we can we paid
054over four years it's very low rate of interest reasonable rate of interest and we also built into the same Lisa authority to go higher up to eight hundred fifteen thousand dollars because we are pushing to get all of the internet support updated when we open the new schools the new you know MFP is complete and now as the buildings are open up and Jim has worked very hard especially in the last couple of weeks to try and coordinate some of these things into the next couple summers this summer in particular but then will we want we and we might even be able to do it out of the budget so I'm gonna take a look at that and see if we can't build this into the budget just pay for that part of it and
055not even touch the other excess money over the four hundred and twenty thousand dollars we need for the Chromebooks but it just gives us out the authority dude can I have a line of already built-in so we can send it off to a bender right away if we want to do some replace the UPS devices which is become a concern for rod and a few other things in the system so we have capacity to do it with this lease we did this before when we upgraded the internet so we've kind of just filed the same same path I'm sorry questions for mark alright so there will be an action on that is an action I done this evening yes next one is master facility plan progress and start with the overall budget report or it
056has been seeing this every month for a while now the number we always point to and look at is contingency so that contingency number estimated at completion right now is at five point four three four million so that includes all of the alternates that the board approved at the last board meeting all of the allowances there in here from the last round of bids and it also it does include the one project that's up for board action to vote on tonight which is the windows at south so that shows you that if all of the alternates were improved that's all of the alternates in the worst case scenario so that doesn't factor in you know the work that we're going to do to try to drop the cost of the alternates in the auditorium work
057at South that we discussed last month so that's kind of the worst-case scenario number right now the number that continues to go up is that on our budget costs that's almost entirely due to increased asbestos removal it's a good thing we're getting it out of the building it's a bad thing cost money so but that's ongoing work that happens with that we are way ahead of schedule in a lot of ways because the buildings have been closed so at South High we have the auditorium I think is almost entirely demolished and they're getting ready to start working on footings for the new auditorium the courtyard has all of the footings in it for the new Learning Commons and the interior of the South ice team edition is cruising along so things are going really well
058there over at North High bleachers are almost back on track here and getting ready to put those into place of the home bleachers and squad rooms underneath the new athletic addition is getting really close it's it's looking great moving along and we have started to put footings in around the southeast corner of the building and have almost completed Jim you can correct me if I'm wrong but I think we're pretty close to the demolition work inside of that southeast corner of the building as well which will become North's steam Edition so making a lot of progress here moving pretty quickly I'd rot if you go to the next slide or the next thing there yeah this is the other thing we've been looking at each month which is again they're in the total value or
059within that GMAX guaranteed contract the contingency is there for you again FF&E we're really starting to buy furniture now because that phase two had a whole bunch of furniture in it and then phase three which is the Commons will have another bundle of furniture in it really phase two has a lot of equipment in it that's outfitting steam areas at both buildings so you know some science labs you have fine arts labs engineering labs there's a lot of equipment that's in phase two that's reflected in that that budget that's starting to be spent down there and then the remaining contractor allowances you can see phase a is close to being wrapped up remember that last amount there is due to some fire alarm and sprinkler work that's going on throughout the entire project phases B
060we're starting to get those allowances back as we're starting to close out phase B and by the end of the summer we should get some of that money back phase C is all of the first level of contingency and those allowances those bids are just being closed up so that number has grown as we've awarded bids but then hopefully we don't spend all of that and that adds to contingency in the future as well we are as we are sitting at about ninety nine percent of all of the bidding complete at this point a little bit of casework on both sides of town and a few other assorted items so that's where we're sitting with the budget right now any questions on this or the work I'd encourage the public to continue to look at
061those facility Fridays we've started to include in those the bi-weekly white progress report so that's the update from the architect and contractor or the Builder and in there are some great images 360 views of the project and the work and the spaces it's a really great way to kind of immerse yourself in the project and and see how much ground they're making up right now it's pretty impressive all right so hearing no other questions I'm bit returning from last month I provided some additional information to the board this was the one alternate that was pulled out which is replacing the existing windows in the steam Commons area itself hi what you can see there in that image is the frames we don't have the glass yet so it's no it's tough to ask the to
062make a call at this point with kind of half of what it looks like but that's the frames that will go into the new windows rot if you'll scroll down it's kind of gonna have that full glass appearance like what you see in the left hand side of that image that's an interior window remember these windows were exterior windows and are becoming interior windows so it's kind of a look and feel to this space the change here as I said last month is an aesthetic change that we're asking for now if you scroll down again Rob you can see there's a longer view of the windows that are being replaced back into that alley at South High that's above the new culinary arts lab and it's heading back towards the Fieldhouse rod if you continue
063scrolling down this gives you an image of the two sides as you're heading across the bridge heading back into the second floor at South High you're standing right now on the the second floor balcony of the Steam Commons looking back at the original building on the right are the new window frames on the left are the older window frames so this is one of the locations where you'd really notice that there's a difference between the old and the new if you scroll down again rod that's what the old window frames look like so what we're proposing here is to replace those frames with the newer frames for the whole entire wing so that's that whole stretch that you see there so that's heading back east the windows that were in the older part of the
064building that weren't in the area that we had to update and then I think rod can you see if there's anything more I think that's the end really we asked the acousticians that's a word I've learned it's for this project if there was any significant difference in the sound quality of protection between the old windows and the new windows there really isn't it is really in the look the cost for this change in the project is 183 thousand of the net 183 thousand there's a portion of it somewhere between thirty and forty thousand dollars that we're going to spend either way because we're going to have to put some kind of film on the first-floor windows and we're gonna have to change some window coverings because now that used to look out to the outside
065now it looks into the inside if that makes any sense because it's looking out into the Commons so we're still gonna have to do some things to the windows so you're probably looking at somewhere around a hundred and forty three thousand and new costs in comparison but the total cost of the project is expected to be a hundred eighty three thousand at the most so later on tonight is an action item it's just there for the board to take a boat what I'm asking for the recommendation out of the court committee was to do that this summer if we don't do it this summer then we're probably putting it off till next summer or not at all so we'll probably come if we don't approve it tonight to be done this summer we'll continue to
066look at it we'll see what it looks like once it's all done we'll continue to look at the budget and then we'll go back to the core team to see if they recommend bringing it back in the future to the board so at this point I'll take any questions I might have Jim help if I have something I can answer I'd like to say Hank you know the going back to that that bridge picture I don't know if we can bring that back up but where you can you pull that off whole Janu yeah so schools uh maybe about that's the one so you know aesthetically here you know you look at this you're gonna know right away something changed and so there's a there's a break in the continuity yeah at North you know
067we're not experiencing anything like this and we did it take any of these windows out of the out of you know we have a commons area at north we have existing windows that are they're looking out into that space and you know and we we did it take those things out of the budget at north and so you know I even think that there's a little bit of an of an equity issue here at play we're you know we're if we don't go ahead with this you know we're we're taking something away from from whom the effect that we did it take away at nor and in fact this was part of the original scheme you know just I think the windows visually are going to make a big difference the windows that are there
068their existing are like 45 years old you know at some point everything has a has a life expectancy so we could expect they'd have to be doing something more to those windows over time and putting in new windows would avoid those future costs and I know that the acoustician is saying that there's a minimal difference and I agree with that however there there will be a difference the new windows will seal up better the new windows will not have an operable feature to them that has to be you know closed up and sealed up these will come as a fixed product whereas existing windows right now those bottom those bottom windows are operable hopper awning windows I believe is that right Jim yeah they're there push out yeah so you know so there there will
069be an improvement I think I think to be fair you know there's not a there's not a sufficient improvement to make that a reason to do this right but it is a it is a fringe benefit to doing it there will be an improvement over what they're just not I'm I'm very much in favor of this and we're and Hank I I think we're looking at the hit on the contingency is a 100 probably 140 something thousand not 183 when we look at the net effect right yeah yeah there is a there's going to have to be improvements made to those windows one way or another like you said we've got a seal on we've got to screw those opening ones shut you know and and then Edie I'm going to ask you to hop
070on here and just comments about some what are the difference of the look that you were mentioning gotta speak up bad can can barely hear you okay how's that that's better the new windows do have metal window frames are divided into three it's not one giant piece of glass I just want to clarify that but it's just those three large pieces it's not divided into nine pieces like the existing windows the other thing you saw the shading of the Mustang on the window and if you've been in the main offices at the itself now we have the gradient that shades out the direct look into that's what hank was alluding to all of those first floor classrooms we would have the frosting coming up from the bottom about half way so that when kids are
071walking in the hall right outside those first-floor windows which used to look outside will now be looking into the hall so that's some of that added cost that has to be done anyhow and if we do that now and then come back and do the windows later that's money down the drain so just wanted to provide some clarity to that and and the difference in how they look I like to see the continuity just you know for the because you're just it's all going to read together you're coming from the Commons into the steam Edition all the all these windows all really ought to be the same and it's you know it's like I get editions I do for you know we do a lot of edition work with our work yet clients you're wanting
072to to switch to a different material or something and there are ways we could do it make it you know palatable and but ideally you know it's it's it's a money thing right and and and so you don't have the money to do it and then you don't but I you know I I'm kind of with Mike I'm not an architect but um I just see that we've invested so much money in this it's like taking Michelangelo and tell him to leave the head off I just kind of would like to see it completed and look the way it's supposed to look we've invested so much money in this if I can if I can add one more thing this is older space it now looks into the new space the Learning Commons in the
073center of the building all of the windows that used to look outside in that space that I'm now going to be looking inside are getting replaced these are the only windows that are we're outside windows and are now inside windows that are not being replaced yeah so that's point if you start in the the large Learning Commons and you follow that curve all the way through out the courtyard all those windows will look like the new windows on the right and then you'll follow new windows all the way until you hit this bridge and then it will be the old windows so it'll be like the tail end of the Commons you'll hit and it'll have this older look to it yeah this is something that I mean quite honestly in retrospect I mean I
074wasn't aware that this had been taken out you know and i i've never would have recommended that it be taken out i understand why it was but you know I'm just I'm putting my architects hat on here this this is something that you know I really don't think that it's something we really should have been even having a discussion about at this point it's I understand why it's happened and I get it but but this is one of those I mean it's almost like us debating brick colors you know it just this should have been should have been part of it it's part of the design and and so and we're fortunate to have enough money in the contingency to be able to put it back in and I think that that's the right thing
075to do so I'm hoping I get a few people to agree with me is there something we're not we would if we didn't do this is there something else we would use that money for well right now the contingency is just there to obviously for the second two phases or the last two phases to make sure that we have anything there in case we run into anything concerning in Phase two I asked about how that was going and with the audit or with the footings all starting to be poured the auditorium being removed itself and the footings starting to be poured there our biggest concerns for the for the builders have been we made it past those kind of milestones I'm not saying that they won't run into something else that eats into the contingency
076this summer but they said that the scariest things were past and then we have next summer worth the building which they'd like first to hold a million aside for that so if you look at if that you're you're just around 3.4 million and with that amount of money we believe we can finish out the rest of the class room and hallway improvements that we have slated in our wish list and that would spot that would spend out the remainder remainder of the contingency at the end of this project right now over with white to get estimates to make sure that that dollar amount would would be sufficient but we believe it will be so we're not preventing some other like something else that is under which I will don't get our wishes yeah everything that's
077so far is it's that 5.4 million includes every wish on the wish list that we have brought to the board to approve including this you know and we have a potential additional cushion in the allowance allowance morass we're going to be getting back yeah you've got quite a bit right now and those allowances is our first level of contingency should anything come up the actual contingency is something that was unforeseen I am totally unexpected my only my thing is is is I think that we need to make the continuity look look at the way it is you know I want to change it to those windows the only thing is is if if we don't and we decide to do it later it's gonna cost us probably twice as much I don't know about twice
078as much Jerry but it there will be an employer cost because you're gonna have to do the window treatments and tinting this summer one way or another so that that space is good for instruction when kids return there's also a slight increase in the cost of installation because right now we don't have to protect porcelain ceramic floor and if we do it next summer we'll have to put some floor protection down I mean it's not a it's not a huge cost right but it is a it is a cost right so we might as well do it now I mean it just makes more sense to me so that's my feeling are we debating this because we talked about putting the windows in before and we decided yeah I'll go back to the history of
079this role at the beginning when we were working on estimates based on square footage of spaces the cost of some of the bigger projects at South were estimated to be higher than they actually came in at so to come in within budget we removed a few things from it and this was one of the things that we removed at the beginning when we were putting the original budget together so it was part of the original design it was removed as part of the early budgeting process to make sure that we within budget now that we're within budget we'd like to add this back Anton we brought it last month as a discussion as part of the alternates there were some concerns amongst board members and we've always said that if there was ever an alternate
080that there was kind of the board was split on we would put it as an action item at the following board meeting so this is the first one where the board was kind of split on an alternate so it's up for discussion here we're just explaining a little bit more than we did last month and then later on in the meeting it's here as an action item to do it this summer if it doesn't get approved then we'll send it back to the core team to reconsider if we do it at a later date and the picture that you're showing as is showing that that's the way currently right now that that's the way it would look obviously there'd be glass on the right side they'll be glass at three glass panes in each one
081of those windows and then after on the other side of the bridge to the left are the original windows that would be left there if we didn't do this alternate with that kind of big pane with the little pain underneath it so is that said the the six pane look in each of those rather than the three pane look and also you'll have the large aluminum frames the frames are not as pronounced on the left side of the bridge or on the the right side of the bridge in the new area thank you yep absolutely all right any other questions unknowns all right thank you for your consideration taking time to understand the request as I said it is recommended by the administration and the core planning team all right for your requests we have
082them and we have fulfilled them and they are stood out on our website all right that's it for the super-intense reports they were ready to vote on the consent agenda is there any item any member of the board would like to before you go to a vote I need to draw attention that once again tonight we have a revised board report from when we first submitted it because we've got some more hires that we added on Malana vasilich the social studies teacher that'll be split between north and south was added on after this was posted on Thursday can I just take a moment and say you have just been such a pleasure to work with I'm so sorry thanks Nancy I've learned so much from you thank you here yes epi we will miss you
083greatly well you're still stuck with me for at least another month so one more month you know we I don't know how we're gonna be meeting in the future but we miss being together two women someday we'll have Pete back for cake I promise to be back I also promise I won't be at a board meeting for you and it won't be cake I'm telling you right now when we take a vote on the consent agenda I move that we accept the consent agenda as read except we haven't read it yet see financial he approval depositories an F approval of South High Schools South High School school-wide title one waiver now Terry you can motion so moved second three campuses hi Mike Davenport I sure Oh fuller hey Dan Nicholas Rick Cavanaugh doh all right
084do Anna Vasquez Drexler hi Nancy cupca hi the consent agenda passes now we move on to the recommendations for actions and the first is the approval of the 2020 we need a motion for the Board of Education approved mr. 2020 2021 student parent handbook which contains the student discipline code and they have activities so moved second Joanna yeah yeah thank you Mike Davenport hi do any of us kiss Trexler hi sure Oh fuller hi Nicholas uh great passage I with avocado all right Nancy koepka hi the motion carries the next is the approval of the Board of Education negotiating team members stipends there is a motion for the Board of Education to approve a stipend of seven 1754 members of the board negotiating team and $2,500 for the chief negotiator is presented [Music] I'll move
085second i'm sorry ii did need an it was Mike and Dan oh my god thank you very much Mike Davenport I and Nicholas I have a session I have an ad oh all right un advise cuz Drexler hi sure all fuller hi Nancy cupca know what the motion carries next we need a motion for the Board of Education who approved the 2020 2021 amended school calendar as presented [Music] so Terry was first as I told Mike was first Terry was second thank you Mike their report I carry passage I have an idol all right you learn about coaster X ler I throw fuller hi Dan Nicholas uh Nancy Kafka hi the motion carries next is the motion for the Board of Education to approve the 2021 2022 school calendar as presented so moved second can
086i discussion no I I thought that this was going to come back to us next year I misunderstood this is the approval of the draft calendar so it's a forum for a year and then it comes back for a group just like we approved next year's just now understood it wasn't it was the wording always confusing at this time of the year and usually we're approving the prior years at this point but we're not because of what's going on with the situation okay Travis ish I do any vodkas Drexler all right Mike Davenport I sure a fuller hi Dan Nicholas I with Cavanaugh dough I'm Nancy Kafka hi motion carries that we need a motion for the Board of Education to approve the 2021 Board of Education meeting calendar is presented so moved Mike and
087Terry with it yeah yeah thank you make it a little quicker Mike Davenport why Jerry passage I have an ad oh all right do you want a glass kiss Drexler I sure all four Nicholas Nancy cupca hi the motion carries next we need a motion for the Board of Education to approve the mass facility plan alternate replacing the existing windows in the steam common area so high so moved second Mike and Joanna thank you Mike Davenport I do in Alaska's Drexler I sure all fuller hi there Nicholas no great passage I recover not all I'm and Nancy Kafka i motion carries next is the approval of the technology lease and that is the motion for the Board of Education to improve the four-year lease with wind Trust Bank and an interest rate of three point
088zero percent up to a maximum least amount of eight hundred and fifteen thousand it authorizes the administration to execute all documents necessary to secure please don't move I'll be second Joanna gets first okay thank you Joanna buzz gives Drexler hi Mike Davenport hi Cheryl fuller Dan Nicholas I carry passage I worked a venado I and Nancy cupca I the motion carries we're moving out of the second reception of visitors for public comment I couldn't hear that we've received no little no it is okay hey stuck in his next video stuck to look really cute report on the legislative education net welcome to page Dan right I will be movement attend the meeting on Friday but I was at the meeting two Fridays ago or the one three Fridays ago there's a lot more questions and
089answers answers that were raised what's going to happen with the upcoming school year I don't remember the individuals name but we had a sleep representative on that call I mean lots of great questions were asked by the by everybody and not a lot of answers were provided and can adults have any answers were provided yesterday I looked through the material they sent out but they weren't in the same situation we've been in for months a lot a lot more questions than answers today yeah we continue with a lot more questions and answers Lambs Didrik did report from blended it's really the governor's show right now that the legislature is working from the sidelines and is looking for ways to become more involved in the decision making process but is waiting for the appropriate time to
090do so you could expect there returning this week and we'll have a very expedited session to approve several bills one of them you could expect would be the budget I in whatever shape that's going to take moving forward in other lens news we did approve if you remember a couple years ago peg moved to our own company and then land and hires ethic OHS is the name of the company as consultants that's how how the arrangement is with with PEG working forward we extended her deal with through ethical for another two years so peg will be around for a little bit otherwise we're meeting pretty regularly I think we have another meeting coming up but we see every Monday and Friday I am in meetings Monday it's with all DuPage superintendents and pegas in those
091meetings and provides us updates and every Friday it is the DuPage County dupay it's the superintendent's in DuPage County that have high schools so that's all the unit districts and the high school districts meet every Friday to discuss what's going on you know in these current times and then we begin working again this week and then next Monday Memorial Day will be working all day with the superintendent's working to come up with plans for whatever comes next so so hopefully somewhere between now and then we get some updated guidance from is B that's been rather slow to arrive and is frustrating a great number of us right now I hear you say you have to do that you have this meeting on Monday a Memorial Day yeah it's it's we just need time to work
092and that we've been working weekends and nights that's this began Mike so this is par for the course but it's the only way we can carve out time and work on what comes next and still get the jobs done that we have during the regular day so like a lot of folks were we're on call for whatever we need to be right now Wow and thank you absolutely the School Association for special education to Page County Joanna do you do I don't because I did not attend their meeting they switched it to Thursday and I just open the notes today and haven't gone through it but I look at something for next time Terri District 99 Education Foundation yes we we approved three more grants grants thank you I'm here for Jerry that looked very
093exciting for both North and South High and we'll be bringing those next month for you to approve and then we'll be passing out some money because some of it will be used right in the summer time to prepare for the fall so those are pretty exciting with PE and special ed and some stem work so you know it's just really exciting to see and we're gonna also be working on sending out an appeals letter and for the fall and get ready for that and you know I think that's about it isn't it is the foundation still raising money for oh yes we have called the we have a couple of pass throughs I believe that the shield one is not taking any money right now I think that they we expend the fund it's there
094yeah that that has brought in about fifteen thousand dollars right at this point we have made and distributed seven thousand face masks they cost about $1 apiece to make but then there's upkeep of machines and maintenance and those kinds of things if we reach a point where we need more money to keep meeting needs then we'll reopen that campaign up that we raise fifteen thousand for that and what like four days I mean there's a very short window we open right now in the provid Relief Fund for families there and in that our administration is identifying families in need and then the foundation is purchasing gift cards for places like jewel all the targets some restaurants and he agree on those kinds of things and then the administration is distributing those cards thank you so
095much Terrell tell them we also thank you yeah that was really a great and a great opportunity because the families are getting gift cards rather than just cash to to spend at local restaurants which are helping them to and to the jewel and Target we're finding that they're good about is selling this a batch at a time a large one so that they can do 25 and $50 increments and then the principles are the ones that are requesting those funds and and passing them out if I remember correctly so and that one I believe is still open for donations so you know if if anyone feels like they would like to donate to that go to our website and there is a link to to donate to that fund yes yeah very easy very easy
096and Foundation has been amazing through all of this you know you look at the face shields and and the a lot of the 3d printers were using there were seed projects from the foundations very they bought the they helped us fund those projects to begin with they've now come full circle this way and then we'd be remiss if we didn't mention Social Fund that although we didn't have many social events at the end of the year that we would have been funding with that the foundation has raised over $10,000 for students in need they can't afford to pay for things like prom or dances or camps or those kinds of things where we'll be able to us once we get those things back up and running we'll be able to help folks afford those things
097as well and those you can donate to at registration you know that's just a link on the on your registration form for the Angel Fund and and I would imagine that the covert fun is going to be on there too and then strictly to the found so that we can give grants to to our teachers in that and that'll all be on registration area however we we are going to make it a little change to registration we finalize that to them started announcing it that we're going to actually issue the fees statements at the beginning of September so rather than July we have a lot of movement that happens with fees at the start of the year with people changing classes and those kinds of things so over the years we have to do a
098bunch of refunds and then rebuild people for things so we're going to wait until everybody settled in their classes to put out these statements and they're not going to be due until October let me give that a shot this year we also know this is a time where people might be a little bit strapped so we think that waiting a little bit we're gonna see how it goes this year and see if it cuts down on our amount of work to start the year and if it gives families a little bit of a break to go and October until they need to start paying any fees and a reminder we do allow people to go on to payment plans and to pay that over the course of the year in whatever amount that they can
099do it some home a little slight tweak and the change therefore this year Oh anything that we can help some of our families because this time has really been a strain on them for a lot of things and why I give our a lot of our families a lot of credit for for doing doing above and beyond not only the first responders but but also just our families in general I mean who would have thought they had to be teachers I mean really it's just incredible to me so thank you parents and and families thank you foundation and finally might you have anything for my ASB I do not okay that we do have to even upcoming board meeting on June 1st we'll have the workshop meeting at 6:30 p.m. probably still remotely and on
100June 15th lever business meeting at CSUN and where the you'll notice that it's not just a a workshop on the first we're gonna have a we want to just at this time of the year get people that were hiring approved so we'll have a personnel report for approval that night mark is also going to come back with some bond things that evening so we don't have many agenda items that night but just to get all of those processes rolling we'll probably have a shorter meeting on June 1st and then a more traditional business meeting on the 15th which is one will say farewell and good luck to people I just I just have one other thing I don't know if Hank wants to jump in on this a little bit but remember our graduating seniors
101we're honoring them on Friday at 8:20 right right here I was going to Gary oh I'm sorry steal your thunder but thunder all you want it's not about me it's about our kids yes absolutely I I just didn't want us to forget about them because you know Friday Friday Eddie the kid wanting to use communities of Downers Grove Wood Ridge Lyle and carrion I think I got everybody there it involves passed resolutions to recognize the class of 2020 on Friday at 8:20 p.m. so that's 20 20 and 24 hour time where for 20 seconds I'd like everybody to go out and make some noise for our graduates so go out and bang a pot in the pan or sing a song or honk Oh horn or just scream because you're tired of looking at all
102or walls of your house in honor of our graduates on Friday that's when that's the night graduation would have been occurring operating Downers Grove would prefer that people don't parade right now so yep just make noise at your own house out in front yard now is there gonna be anything else for our seniors yeah well we're working on what will actually happen with graduation and those kinds of things we have to get whatever plan we're working through approved by DuPage County Health Department so we're looking at what options are out there right now we're looking at their guidance and then we expect in the next week or so to have things announced right now our staff is really working on last week was getting everything to our seniors and that kind of distribution this week
103they're working on all the plans to get everything back to grades nine through eleven and to close out this school year with braids and everything else and then as this week goes on we'll really start focusing on graduation whatever happens we have it slated to happen on the nights and we reschedule for so whatever virtual thing that happens will be released on those that makes that we rescheduled for well the signs were really nice I saw them in some neighbors yards and it was really a nice touch to have that done and then it was also nice to see that young lady from South High in was it people people yeah I mean what a nice nice ending to it eighteen year if you have a chance to hop on Twitter and look at any
104of the feeds from the last week you'll see starting about two weeks ago our administrative team and volunteers out distributing science and students graduates lawns and then last week was really focused on the end of the Year awards so teams and departments showing up at kids houses that were getting department awards and the year-end awards and celebrating each of them virtually a great deal on Twitter it was great to see all of those pictures and that going on I know and Janice really enjoyed the opportunity and their teams to get out and see some kids from some safe social distance and celebrate kids which is really what this year this time of the year is always about and has really been lacking for us because we haven't been able to be around them so it
105was fun to follow that virtually and it was a great way to celebrate our kids over the last couple of weeks and thank you to our staff for doing all of that for them because they they put in a lot of extra work with all of this and we can't say thank you enough so thank you so much and you really want to thank everybody make a contribution to the coab 19 fund through the fire oh yes do we have a we have a motion to just go ahead trail hearing seconds all those in favor have a good day everybody take your distance take care and I have a question for you yeah sure when we're offline