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003[Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Oh, the [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, [Applause] [Music] oh, oh. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, all [Applause] [Music] the Oh. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] calling to order the regular the schoolboard meeting for May 13th, 2025. Uh, roll call. Leah Canover here. Carlos Aia here. Jessica Rodono here. Adena Hoover here. Kevin Marin here. Lauren Zakiri here. Great. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. So, first off, um we've got um the action item that we discussed at
004our last board meeting, uh suspending policy 2.2 two colon 7 O 7 O's. Um the chair will entertain a motion to temporarily suspend board policy 270 procedures for board vacancies and to appoint Angela Steady to fill the board's vacancy through the April 2027 election. So as you guys rec we talked about this at the last board meeting. Um there is precedent because we were so close to an election and we have a very clear understanding from the community of who who's next up um due to our board resignation that we can um choose to appoint uh the board member as opposed to going through the interview process that we would normally do when we're not in an election cycle. So the board the board expressed interest in that. Um an has said that she would
005love to rejoin the board. Unfortunately, and I think everybody knows this, she's got some um some health concerns that she's going through right now. So, she was unable to um attend this evening. Uh however, we can still seat her and we can still appoint her. Um and when she is able to come to our next meeting, she will do her role of office. So, that is what this is about. So, uh I will entertain a motion. So, moved. Second. Roll call. Dr. Hoover. Yes. Yes. Miss Sakiri. Yes. Mr. Rodono. Yes. Mr. Aia. Yes. Mr. Marin. Yes. Miss Conover. Yes. Okay. Motion passes. So, moving along to recognition. Who's got that? Go for it. I don't know where to stand. So, Oh, right. right right at the podium right here would be perfect. Very loud, so
006I don't know that you need Don't worry. The microphones will catch you also, so you don't have to They can probably hear me down the block. That's Anyway. Okay. Okay. Well, my name is Kesha, y'all. Nice to meet you. Uh, I work for a company called Symmet, but this isn't about us. This is about your amazing superintendent. We just run um a contest every year that is looking for the most innovative superintendent in each of the states that we work in. And your superintendent was selected as the innovative superintendent of the year in Illinois. Uh, which is a pretty big deal. There were 13 uh districts that were not that nominated their superintendent this year. and he was hands down. Our committee was like, "This is the guy. We have to go meet him. Uh
007he's doing amazing work." So, I just want to read a couple things that your staff said. They they were up to some uh some trouble behind the scenes here nominating you, right? And nobody wants to come forward, so it's just anonymous from the staff. Okay. It really was. It was a group effort, multiple people. Um Okay. So they said, "Our superintendent has demonstrated a cutting edge approach to professional learning through the analysis of data and a culture of collaboration. As superintendent, he has fostered a culture of continuous improvement by implementing a variety of effective strategies. He sets clear expectations and goals for both individuals and teams progress, ensuring that staff members understand our district's vision for growth. Through his leadership, collaboration among teachers has flourished. Professional learning communities have become a cornerstone of our district's
008success. And he has prioritized investing in our teachers and our students through ongoing professional development for our staff and offering them with relevant training and learning opportunities to enhance their skills and to stay current. He leads by example. He uh models continuous learning uh in his own life and in his own role. He's actively participating in learning right alongside teachers and administrators. He gives constructive actionable feedback. He's always guiding and listening to others. And under his leadership, this district has become a safe space to try new things where educators are feeling comfortable in trying new approaches and being able to learn from their mistakes um for the benefit of our kiddos. His approach has really resulted in impressive results with staff morale increasing significantly. And I hear that your elementary schools in the district achieved
009a 28 point gain and your junior high uh schools as well saw an impressive 30point increase um in your designation report and that three out of your four schools advanced from commendable to exemplary with just one year under your under your leadership. And so I don't know about you guys, but this isn't like typical everywhere from a lot of the districts that we work in. And you're very lucky to have the superintendent. So thank you for everything that you do and we really appreciate you. Anna brought cake. So afterwards, feel free to have some cake anytime. [Applause] Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, Kesha. And everything starts with the teachers and the students and I very fortunate to be here. I love our community. Our school board's amazing. My administrative team is exceptional. The teachers, the
010support staff, I love them. They're incredible. And most of all, I love our students and how hard they work. They do the work and I'm just here to be a partner in that. Well, let's get a picture. Okay. I love it. You don't get the balloon. I kicked the balloons in that picture% closed. You're super celebratory. You're welcome. Great. Thank you for everything that you do. Picture move it, huh? You're not going to photobomb it. There it is. Oh, you got to get down. Hasn't done it yet. Real smile. You're good. You're not going to roll me over. I love this. My favorite part of my job. [Music] All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. I close my eyes. Who's ever yet? I need real quick. [Music] I was moving out of the way.
011Okay. All right. I think they're I know, Jan. They're working again, right? Just in the interest of catching up on some time, we're gonna go into closed. We're going to do the motion for close, but we're going to grab cake on the way into closed. There you go. Um, okay. So, uh, the chair will entertain a motion to enter close session to discuss personnel issues, student discipline, superintendent evaluation, and collective bargaining. So, moved. Second. Roll call. Dr. Hoover. Yes. Miss Sakuri, yes. Miss Rodono, yes. Mr. Aia, yes. Mr. Marin, yes. Miss Conover, yes. Motion passes. Let's go. Hey. Hey. Oh, okay. closed and we're going to kick this off with the approval of minutes. The chair will entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the April 22nd, 2025 uh regular meeting of the board
012of education as presented. So moved. Second. Voice vote. All in favor? I opposed. I'm going to get that one day. I'll get the vote one right one day. Okay. Okay. The chair will entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the closed session of the April 22nd, 2025 regular meeting of the board of education as presented. So move. All in favor? I I opposed. Anyone second it? No one second. Second. Second. Okay. All in favor? I post. Let's try it again. We got We got another one, right? We're on a roll. Let's play again. Doing great. Okay. Moving along to the public comment portion of the meeting. So, uh, welcome. Public comment is a time for the community to address the board with comments and questions. Each community member addressing the board has 5 minutes.
013Once you've been notified your time is up, kindly step away from the podium. Public comment will be for 30 minutes with no more than each subject lasting 20 minutes. Please understand this is not an engagement time. The board will consider your comments and its decision. And for those comments or questions requiring a follow-up response, the board president or superintendent will follow up. And we have one public comment. Judy Wilson. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Judy Wilson. Uh I live on De Moines Street and this fall I will have lived here in the district 51 years. I'm invested in the community and invested in the school district. I've had four children graduate from district 2011 and now I have a grandson attending. I also served on the school board for 12 years. So, I
014do appreciate everyone's contributions. I noticed the TIFF monies were being discussed tonight and that may be because I had submitted a recent FOYA request inquiring how the last 10 years of TIFF money was spent and on what repairs at Manning. I was shocked to see that nothing had been repaired or any money used for anything at Manning. 1,92,625.86 sitting there in a fund untouched. During both referendums, the board was still sitting on the money and worried with the rest of the public about our children wearing coats in the wintertime at Manning. And there was money that could have fixed, repaired Whichever the choice was, and I'm pretty sure a new boiler wouldn't be a million dollars. You could have brought that amount to the table with a referendum. We have this much to contribute. It's
015a lot easier to for the public to take if you have something to offer instead of saying, "We don't have anything to put on the table, but we need you to do A, B, and C, and D for a referendum." Uh I wanted to comment also on the um um listening session. You have two scheduled for Manning School where there is no live stream and those who can't come, they won't know what was discussed because there's no live stream. Um and these are just some of the reasons that public trust is lost. Thank you. Okay, moving on to the consent agenda. The chair will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Uh, personnel recommendations, Ross Crane, Westmont High School French teacher.8 and academic support.2. Zachary Leenstein, Lessentine, Westmont Junior High School special
016education. Carol Saba, elementary summer school. Robert Llear, elementary summer school. Steven Davis, elementary summer school teachers assistant. Kelly Ivanelli, elementary school, uh, elementary summer school teachers assistant. Rebecca Hamilton, elementary summer school teachers assistant. Sarah Goodpacaster, elementary summer school teachers assistant. And Caleb Seca, temporary summer crew maintenance and grounds. Number two, the approval of the April 2025 expenditure report. Number three, ratification of the April 202 regular payroll. So moved. Second. Roll call. Miss Zakiri? Yes. Miss Rodono? Yes. Mr. Aia? Yes. Mr. Marin? Yes. Miss Conover? Yes. Dr. Hoover? Yes. Could I just take a moment? Zach happens to be here. Would you approach us for a moment? We are very excited. We went through a pretty extensive process and he was our number one candidate for the position far and away. Uh he's got a great
017demeanor, great experience, and I just like him to introduce himself briefly. Yeah. Um I'm Zach Leantine. I didn't want to interrupt. Uh it's a tough last name. It's okay. I'm a former Musinski, so I get it. Just want to say thank you for the opportunity. Um everybody I've spoken to at the district has been great. Um I live in Westmont as well. Um so I'm really really excited to um have an impact on the community um that I live in. So, thank you again. Welcome. Thank you. We're excited to have you, Zach. Okie dokie. Moving right along for information and discussion. Number one, our proposed student handbook revisions reading. Good evening. Uh, my name is Adam Portali. I'm assistant principal and member of the handbook committee. I just wanted to give the board and administration
018update on on where we're at with the handbook. A little background right about this time. Um we would meet as a committee and we would recommend uh amendments and changes to the handbook. Um we would have a committee of students, parents, teachers from all representing the the buildings that we work in. Uh at this time we don't have any recommended changes because we are making some major changes to the handbook. Um we have solicited the IPA's model student handbook which uh I did was presented I believe in your notes over there. A little bit about the model handbook. Um it is um put together by uh lawyers from the Illinois Principles Association and what it has is all the language of the Illinois mandates that are required in our handbooks um and put in a
019user friendly form that uh school districts can use to present to the community for the handbooks. So, uh, what we're doing is we're taking the common language that is, um, used in all of our schools and we're making a district handbook, uh, for easy access, a one-stop shop where, um, all the all the coinciding, um, mandates that we have will be there. All right. And then each school will make uh have smaller handbooks within the larger handbook and uh we will have the necessary um information pertaining to those schools. So uh when parents um and students are looking for the information they'll have uh one area to go to and they can hopefully find it and we will be in compliance with the state uh regularly. Uh the uh model student handbook also is updated
020regularly. um there when there is a a new mandate that may happen anytime throughout the year, we'll be able to make that adjustment uh presented to the board and get it approved uh in real time fashion as well. This will allow us to be in compliance sooner than rather than waiting to the end of the school year to report. So, um our plan is to continue this process um the same way before. Uh right now uh some of our assistant principles and principles are requesting just a little more um quiet time if you will uh after uh students let out so we can meet um and and put together a handbook that we can be proud of that represents uh CUSD 2011. Um and then we will meet with our committee of parents and students
021um to explain our changes, solicit recommendations, and then we'll present uh later this summer. Right. So if I understand Yes. This is going to take our mish mash of six handbooks that are all slightly different that have a lot of overlap and turn it into one handbook with kind of sections within it for each of those school specific items which are the minority. That is the plan. Great. And so as a parent with kids in like four schools Yes. I don't have to memorize four handbooks anymore. believe you do not. That's great. I'm also that align. That's That's awesome. And is there a cost to this? There is. Um the model handbook cost $275 and that was split between five schools uh for $55 a piece per school. A bargain. Yeah. It's it's purchased annually.
022All right. So we will have it for the for the year that we purchased in and then we can decide if we need to make adjustments or if we purchase again later. And if I understand correctly also so we would normally do this once a year. We won't do this once a year update. We'll just update as needed. Like here to the board, right? Yes. Maybe. I mean depending on how many mandates come out and the state requires. Um, I would think that we would still be updating the board around this time every year if there's no not many major changes. Um, but also we will consult with the the committee to see, you know, as we're always evolving and improving our school district, uh, if there's things that we can change. So, any other
023questions? Thank you so much for your time. Thank you, Adam. You have a great night. We've heard you've done some really good work on leading this committee. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'll continue. Yeah. Right. Shannon, wasn't that what you said? I did say that. Uh, moving right along. Our uh Dr. Gibson, our monthly financial statements for April 2025, please. Hold on. [Music] I'm not not that slim yet getting there. All right. Hi. Um hopefully you have a copy of the presentation the uh PowerPoint that the um PDF that was sent in the board packet on board docs. So I I I don't have the display as you do not have the display as you know. So um this is kind of just continuation of the report from last month. Um so if
024you do see it, you'll notice the format looks pretty much the same. I'm just dropping in the information and making a few comments on it. So, um, starting with the, um, this is for the month of April financial report. I have my fancymancy going to it's not going to work here. It's not going to work. All right, starting with our year-to- date revenues as we always do. Um, again, we've got the dials that gives us an indication visually of how we are year-to- date. So, um, I don't really deal with the revenue side with the year-to- date compared to revenues because that's not as meaningful as expenditures that you look at expenditure fund balance on the next one. Um, but our actual year-to- date revenues of about 57%, we're expecting about 63 about this time.
025Um, but again, some of that is due to not having property taxes in, which will be coming in uh in May. So, um then you look at the um local revenues which that's again that's part of the property taxes which that's down as I just said but also you've got state revenues which are um ahead of um where we expected. Um I want to just point out uh in this report that they give um this doesn't include federal revenues. Um and I was thinking about that as I did the report last month. Um, I dug into the details of this program, which I'm really not supposed to do because we don't own it. But, um, I did anyway. And, um, you know, if I had time, could do some modifications to make a federal, you
026know, it's not it's it's not a ton of money, but at least it's good to have that information or at least put those two together. So, but for now, we're really just talking state revenues since you're getting um more of that than you are federal revenues. Um, but fed revenues have been coming in uh on time as well. They're usually better uh more timely than state revenues. um but they are higher than projected through April 2025. Uh just another thing, you know this, but I like to always mention this, the primary uh revenue sources are local property taxes and then state funding and also federal funding. Just those three sources of revenue um just to really make it very very simple. Can I ask just a quick question on are you going to move on
027to expenditures right now or I Yeah, I am. Yeah. Just on revenue real quick, you just said that state and federal revenues are higher than projected through April 2025. through April 2025. But that re revenue revenue all revenue is a little lower than projected. Yes. And that's um obviously because property taxes, right, are lower than projected, right? And is that because of just the timing of when we receive them or or are they coming in lower than than than projected? Yeah. So what we try to do with this model which is a great model by uh Trump company um is at the start of the year back in July we create this model and we try to predict when the dollars are going to come in for the whole year by month right which we
028have some historical information that helps us project that but every year is different. Yeah. And so instead of receiving property tax dollars maybe you got them last year in April. I'm not certain of that but for some reason I did set it up originally but I didn't change it either. Um so yeah they're coming in in May now instead of probably it's a timing thing. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Weren't they late last year also? Yeah, they were, weren't they? They were later. I feel like they were or expected to be later because of some clerk error or something. I know Cook County was, but this is not Cook County. Cook County was horribly late. Yeah, I think I think they were late last year. Yeah. Yeah. There's always Are there argu You have arguments
029at the county level too among different agencies where they bicker about whose fault it is. It's always a problem and we suffer for it. Um, all right. Yeah, expenditures. So, uh, expenditures through April are about, um, I mean, they're they're less than projected. Um, which again, that that's good, but I don't anticipate that to stay the case because we do have, um, you know, again, this is our best estimate of, you know, how things are going to come in throughout the year. So, I still expect that re expenditures are going to catch up with where they should be. So, with the first dial, um, you see we're at about 80% collected versus 83% expected. Um, and then with our salaries and benefits, which uh, oh, by the way, I want to correct something I said
030last last month, and I apologize. Um, salaries and benefits are 75% total of our budget, and I miscalculated. I said 85% last last u month. So, I apologize for that. Um, I I thought something was wrong with my number, but I couldn't fix it in stride. So, I've got a a graphic a um some words for that at the bottom. Um, just wanted to make sure I updated that for you. Um but with salaries and benefits we are spending at 72% but um we projected about 82%. So that gap's a little bit bigger than I would have expected but because we know that we're going to get three payments four payments of um the the summer pays July two payments for a uh July and then two payments for August that are paid out in
031June. Um but um I I think our projection may have been a little bit low on that, but we should have been at 82% but um I'm still expecting that salaries are going to catch up and be uh what they should be by the end of the of the fiscal year. And as you can see the um other benefits are well above uh where we projected. So, that's kind of a red flag we want to look at because that's probably I I know we have in there the um OTMPT, the occupational therapy, physical therapy, as well as the um tuition for outplay students. So, that's something I'll be talking about uh doing some more digging into before the next meeting of the next presentation. Um but again, as I said, salaries and benefits um cover
03275.8% of spending. Salaries at 53%, benefits about 22.4. Um, and just so you know, even though we're near the end of the year and we kind of cut out our regular spending that you expect to buildings would be making on purchases of supplies and uh, services, but we still have to continue paying salaries, benefits as well. We pay for uh, building maintenance and u, you know, uh, grants as well. Um, next just uh, fund balances which is the important thing. You know, I've got the graphic for you again that shows you the trend of fund balances for the fiscal year. Um and um we are at the point now um in May where we will start to get those taxes in as I said in May and you will see that that trend will be
033on the upswing in May and June. Um but monthly monitoring as we're uh uh oh one thing I did also want to mention um looking back in the span of of chart that we're looking at from July 1 of 2023 through the end of this fiscal year. Right. Yeah. will be um an increase of $600,000 over that span. So, we were gaining, you know, although there's been a um um there's been a a pretty good dip uh increase for last year. Uh this year, you know, we may end up a little bit under um but that'll be offset. It'll be $600,000 in total from last year to the end of this year. So, that's um also in the written on the side there. But, uh we try to monitor monthly even though it's a little
034more difficult with school districts. We don't do it as much as we do as they do in the private sector, but it's good for cash flow management, uh, managing our operations and also estimating our year in fund balances. So, that's why we do this and we continue to keep you updated of any trends that are coming down the pike. Um but again I do want to you know just mention that we should expect that these salaries are going to come in and by the end of the month uh we we will see you know how we really are in terms of budget to uh actual and um again looking at fund balance because that's really where the board should focus uh at a high level on a regular basis. So our operating fund is at
035uh at the end of April is at 7.9 million 7.97 million. operating expenditures are averaging about $2.8 million a month. So, um we know that with that 9 point uh 7.9 million um you know that will cover the month of May on on the average, but then we'll get those property taxes coming in in May and that'll give us um a bit of um uh getting us back to where we should be with property tax revenues about $10 million. So, our fund balances will increase um by the end of May. Um looking at the fund balances on a uh on a on a um annual level again operating fund balance um has gone down to 7.97% because we're spending but not getting that revenue in yet from the property taxes but we expect the taxes
036and other revenues to um come in over the final two months. Uh again Jack mentioned ear I think in our finance committee meeting about the 40% goal of uh annual expenditures. Um so that's always available. We need that available to allow for unanticipated expenditures, maintenance of quality services without fiscal strain. Um, and when we look at uh again, I didn't have a chart for everybody to look at, but the projections you can see it it's it's it has this particular one has that percentage at the bottom. So, you can see from one year to the next to the next to the next that um you know where you are with regards to that 40% uh board fund balance. And for the uh FY26 budget that I talked about, it is going to be you'll see
037that it is at 40%. Um uh and then the last couple slides just the recommendations which um you know this we regularly review expenditure patterns, identify potential savings and adjust revenue forecast. Uh this has to be dynamic. Um and these strategies strengthen strengthen the fund balance and support long-term financial objectives. So, we do this on a regular basis to make sure we monitor and keep track of where we are. Uh, and so we can advise you of um our status and you can make the recommendations as you need. We'll make recommendations. You can make the decisions as you need to. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you again for tiff. Are you doing the tip update? stay up there. Uh yeah, the tiff tiff update. So I think we got one a
038little earlier because we did provide the information to a couple of uh community members. Um I don't have a lot to say about it, but um uh I will add that um tiff revenues were um what was it approved in 2013 and we started receiving revenues from the village in 2015. Um, I want to see the um I'm going to fly through these. Yeah. Could we? Because here's the thing. The TIF meeting, just FYI, was two years in one meeting and lasted about 20 minutes. Well, even so, to even go further back, the TIFF committee is what? Fire uh fire, police, village, library, and school board. Correct. I think it's just those five and it only is required to meet once a year. It typically meets in January or February. So, this was asked to
039us a FOYA uh there was a FOYA about the TIFF update and and we realized that we haven't been updating. We've been talking about the TIFF. Um maybe because it pretty significantly underperformed where we expected it to be at for the first decade. Um and the money kind of has dribbled in. Um, but as part of us tightening up our board calendar, um, we talked about at the agenda meeting getting this TIFF update into kind of this meeting, this May meeting as a regularly scheduled cuz by May, the TIF committee should have met and done an update and and responded to last year and and talked about how the TIF has been um, working and operating. And that should be enough time for us to get into it and to be able to talk to
040the tip or be able to speak to what our tip funds are, you know, and and where they sit at each year. And it's set up by by previous boards that the intention was to was to hold on to that money until we had enough to do something major. Um, which the other thing is it's 12 years, but a million dollars has not been sitting there for 12 years. The great bulk of the money came in the last two years. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, we have to have a vision for how we're going to spend money wisely in this district. It was just a few months ago that we had on the ballot uh potentially tearing down Manning and it lost by two community members votes. Imagine if we had invested millions of dollars
041in renovating a building we were about to tear down. Now that we have maybe going in a different direction, it makes more sense at this time to invest the money into that building for renovation. But imagine if we would have spent and we did not have the money for 12 years. The bulk of it came in the last 2 years if we had invested that money and then tearing down the building. That would have been a waste of the taxpayer money. Something like $600,000 just last year alone, right? Yes. Something like that. So So really up until last year we had 600,000. I don't know if you know 400,000. Did they speak of projections in that meeting? Cuz I and I know what that means. It's a projection. It's my They give like a little
042update. They give like a little update on like on like what has happened and what they're kind of in talks to of what they can update. But of course, as we know, dealing with real estate, I know we had that before. You're allowed to say ask why they think it hadn't performed and those kind of things. and it's hard to plan money you don't have yet. So, what might be a good idea is for me to get some direction on what specifics you'd like to be covered in an update. Um although I do I'm aware of what you're talking about and I attended the meeting so I do have some information. I didn't put that together in a you know maybe a comprehensive format that you might want. But let me let me mention this.
043um uh over since 20 uh 2025 2015, excuse me. For about 10 years, you've been receiving money from the the village. Um and that money is um is only let me let me let me get a number here. It's uh it's an average of $91,000 a year that you're receiving. So, if you're talking building renovations for a school building, that ain't no money. Let me just put it like that. So, what we're saying is that um and as you mentioned, the the bulk of it has been received over the last few years. So, the first payment was $1,500 from the village. Um four years later was $26,000. Now, 10 years later, you received 265,000 266 to round it up. So, the averages have been last 5 years have been just have been over $100,000 finally
044and then over $200,000 this last year. So, um, when you're talking about TIFF dollars, uh, and and and I come from a school district when I retired two years ago that had, I think we had five or six TIFFs. So, we were doing this on a regular basis. We were tracking, but we weren't getting money like this. This was like you're in a fortunate situation. Many school districts are not um don't have the situations where they can negotiate with the village and get money and then once you try to be able to actually be successful with that negotiation. Villages are really tight with these tiff dollars. Maybe the closer you get to Chicago, the the more tight they are. I don't know. But um I did attend the fifth meeting and uh the JRB it's
045called a joint review board meeting. So the JRB meetings um it's typically we are there in an advisory capacity. We really don't have any authority to make change. We can bind you know we can we can we can bind together all the taxing bodies and uh and demand that the village do certain things but they're not required to. Politically that's a different situation. not my area of expertise but um yeah the tip dollars are there but yeah accumulating them till you get you know a nice amount of money but planning to incorporate it with some other big work to support it I mean that that's what the plan was it sounded like and that's what we're doing so instead of spending that average of 91,000 a year um instead of saving it and um you
046know putting it in interest earning account interest earning account and get some extra dollars for it that's that's the point with this but yeah I think um you know they're look just looking at there's not wasn't a lot of money to work with. And now you look at it, it's a million to $92,000. Yeah. But that's now after it accumulated. So, um I think you're on the right track. Um and I think these um joint review board meetings are good. Um and and typically they are annual and you're only going to get that. I mean, you can negotiate more than that, but the the law requires only one of them. But what's a good thing to do? We had in in my old school district also um intergovernmental meetings and I know you guys have
047probably a few of those but some of those can be you know doesn't have to be specifically about tiffs but you could have conversations about what the village is doing with that tiff. Probably more information on that to uh maybe an update on or even have the village come to update us on the status of the work being done in that tiff to help uh increase the value of the tiff because the more of the tiff value the more money you're going to get. So maybe we could we could incorporate that into a conversation, things like that. So thank you Fr. that was going to be my question. Okay. Like what what can we do about making decisions about understanding it, making decisions about it because it it seems like you know we're just kind
048of on the receiving end and and just kind of take what happens. But I don't know if we have any role in Well, well, since since you've got I guess maybe you can call this skin in the game, but you got um you know, an act of actively receiving dollars and and what happens in that tiff, you know, affects how much money you get. I think you have a voice, you know, and probably in those smaller meetings that we were talking about having. Yeah. Yeah. I should say we have a voice. I apologize. I'm part of No, no, that's you are. We have a voice, so we should use it. Yeah, I think so. and and Ron and I will talk about this more and I know Jack and we'll we'll start to maybe develop
049that I think in a greater capacity. Yeah. And and I think the point of putting it on this meeting is let's start talking about it every year. We should it has not been something to talk about right for any of the previous years because nothing was happening right essentially. So we should talk about it every single year as a board. It is in our best um it is a best practice. We should talk about how much money has come in, how much we're talking and and what the plan is because and then because we it's like nothing or you have something once a year and then a a question is asked about extend extension of tiffs and things like that. So, and I love the idea I love the idea of someone from the from
050the village, whoever presents at that joint review board meeting um coming and presenting the same to us. So, that we're now that there does seem to be some Mhm. type of movement and yeah, we do have a unique um a unique situation that previous board set up which is wonderful in that we are receiving some of the money. That is not the case in the vast majority of districts. They do not receive any of the money. Well, three years ago that was us. Yeah. So they they they don't, right? So receiving 25% of the portion, you know, so that we could use it and potentially use it for Manning knowing that that was our our oldest location even back then, you know, like is a is a great thing. So let's talk about it every
051year. So thank you. Welcome. [Music] Any other tip questions? Okay. Board meeting topic calendar. So, we talked about this a little bit at our last board meeting and I gave you a print out. I gave everyone a print out and I updated it from today even in board docs. Awesome. Board doc should match this one. So, it's much easier to read than that. So, we talked about this um a little bit at the last board or two board meetings ago when we approved our school board meeting calendar, which we had to approve to get on the books, is looking at our meetings in a little bit more detail. um potentially where are they happening? What committee meetings can we conjoin or make sense? Because I think that the consensus among the board and the community
052is that um conjoining our regular board meetings with our committee meetings has been more successful than than previous years which is wonderful. We've gotten more attendance. Um so that is that is the discussion is um we we added we tweaked um on the board calendar we added some additional kind of note columns um the potential celebrations right so starting to think about when we celebrate things not that I don't love a five and a half hour meeting I do not love a five and a half hour meeting um celebrations we can we we can get a little bit more uh thoughtful on when we celebrate um and spread those celebrations out a little bit more in the year where where it makes sense so that we're celebrating a little bit more often. Um yeah, what
053personnel actions happen? Right. Tonight we um are approving a bunch of contracts. That's a very standard thing to do in the May meeting. So knowing that like hey the May meeting is when we typically approve administrative contracts. So thoughts? I just got to say I love seeing this information this way. Yeah, it look this is super helpful. I don't have any complaints, just appreciation. Yep. Um my question is not a complaint or anything as we I so I love having this so we have something to look at but taking I my well I'll say what my thoughts are for the schoolboard meeting. I just like it here with the numbers that we have for our schoolboard meetings. But now that we can look at this, is there any opportunity? I I too love having our
054committee meetings right before I think it is successful, but having some committee meetings in our buildings in different buildings. So, um I love having these dates. I don't know if there's any room for that um with some of these meetings. I I don't want to make it more haphazard either. I just want to kind of go through the exercise of I think that's where we have our communities in our buildings and it's a little bit open anyway. committee meetings are not so structured but we are um can have it in our different uh schools and tours if we have that we can take an opportunity to say okay um is there any place we can have at least the committee meeting that's tied in with like events school events like we have I thought I
055think we talked about that last time like a little bit more yeah like we well no I think what we talked about is like we'll keep these as like our main ones but we can always add like a couple connected to events I think that's a great easier But I think we keep these ones. There are some other there's more work for us to do within a committee. Can we take that? So I do like that idea of keeping this and we have this and it's set but to get in our buildings a little bit more if there are other committees or town halls or whatever we combine them with events and and get into our buildings that way. So could we maybe add in the other column would it make sense to add um
056large district events? I was just thinking that in that column like STEM night, um, liter fine arts night. Um, and I think I think Edith is thinking about this for next year. Her and the PR team are are working through this kind of thing, what might make sense and starting to think about like what when we cuz yeah, we had a lot of success on STEM night in particular, which is really wonderful. Um yeah, even like we don't even have to touch fine arts night. I know that's a busy day by itself, but like for our um we've had some um like reading nights or like um yeah literacy night. Yeah. So they're not huge events by themselves. They're nice events that the community likes, but if we had something to go along with it.
057Yeah. And I think there's also the potential, and this has come up multiple times in the past, of um, you know, tying that in also with our NHS students as a potential for earning some some service hours to serve as uh some babysitters. Not not babysitters, but uh entertain entertainers of younger children. So getting these uh these dates and and that's a that's also a good right PTO meetings. there's typically NHS students at many of the PTO at least the elementary PTO meetings. Um so but for this this is I don't I don't have any complaints or Okay. And so is it is it fair to assume that where you guys have committee meetings in the column that that committee meeting right now is scheduled on the same date as as the board meeting. Correct.
058Cool. Yes. So, we should probably so we can go through and adjust it. Edith and I kind of went through and marked off like policy always comes out about October. So, it might not end up in October, but that's when it comes out. Her PR meetings based on your conversations with her in these past couple meetings. She added those today. And then the finance and facility and we did share this with Ron. So that it's subject to change based on, you know, Ron might have a different idea when he wants to hold finance me meetings, but we can guess there's probably one in November around the levy. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. And there's typically one, two this time of year. And like I just added to May, so we'll have it on there for next year
059so it comes back up. Nice. Hey, can I mention um I think I can. Okay. Um sorry. Um something just to put on your tickler. Um Shannon. Yes. Um I heard at my uh we were at the school conference last week and uh I heard that the ISBY is going to change or whoever changes the state it's going to change the due date of the audits. Oh, okay. That's a possibility. I heard that from an auditor who so um who um knows he knows his stuff. So it might it might be like they're pushing it into like January, February, something like that. Good to know. Keep an eye out for Mhm. Uh the other thing to think about, uh so we do have a couple of these set at South right now, which are days
060that we know right now are this room is not available. Um just a reminder, Village Hall, we we utilize village hall as a as a courtesy. The village allows us to use it. They don't pay us or we don't pay them to rent this space. And so if they've already got something going on, then we we have to move to South. Whenever we are not at Village Hall, we are unable to live stream. Not to say that we can't um potentially still record, okay? But the ability to live stream is something that exists in this room. So whenever that is something we have to think about if we take our if we take any meetings on the road which I think we which I do think that we should do is get some meetings on
061the road right um we that ability doesn't exist to live stream can I understand a little better why we don't have the ability to I mean it's not because the only place in Westmont from which one can live stream is this building what is the what is this what's the limiting criteria here um I believe I I believe it's the techness that I don't have. But there's No, hold on. Hold on. No, but hold on. Let me finish. People live stream. Yeah. All the time from everywhere on the planet. So, it's not the tech. There are 15-year-olds live streaming right now. Well, look back at you and say it is cuz they're not doing what a 15-year-old is doing. There is a person assigned to this that has a job to do. And I'm not
062going to put that down. But there are different things that are happening with audio with the cameras and how it switches and with our feed of our uh of what we're doing. So I know live stream the way we live stream this meeting but we might have to make adaptations. But to to say we can't live stream doesn't seem accurate to me. What it sound what it seems like is we can't live stream the same way we live stream now. There's an additional expense I think because you have to hire I mean as was just put out there. So yes, you're correct. Technically you could do it. It's more convenient here. Let's say that. And with the village we can use without any cost to the district. We have live streamed from south. Have we
063not? No. No. I think it's the band that you're using but not live recorded but not live streamed. You could have someone standing there with a phone live streaming I guess. Well, but it's it's the I think it's the the bandwidth you're using. We're not using one like um Meat's camera. But I'm just saying that we have what we've done before. The caveat is we've recorded and then download it right away. But um that was our caveat before with doing that. But at the very least we can do that. The village post some but if the village records our meetings which they come out they cannot live stream it with their they just come and record it that they're doing it lives today which essentially is through the village. So we stream and we record
064our meetings through the village AB. So it's not something that we do. What? What? There's something I'm not I'm clearly not understanding. Like you said, you could have someone in the back of the room with a phone webcam. You could have you you you could do it. It wouldn't be as good as the live stream feed from here, but you could do it. So, what what is it that I'm missing? You're not really It'd be an additional expense. You'd have to hire somebody to set up the equipment, actually do the camera work, etc. And I think it's a channel that we use. I I'm I'm saying it's much more than someone holding up a phone. Well, I think we're belitting it now. Okay. But since no one in this room seems to be able to
065know, shouldn't can't we find out? Yeah. Is it worth exploring the option? Let me ask this. Does the board How does the board feel about taking the meetings on the road and getting into having more meetings? I what I said was I I'm not anxious to do that because I think the a statement was made like oh get let people understand, you know, and see the the meetings um from that standpoint. But I was like, as our numbers go, we're the only place person people really experienced in a board meeting. And that the committees where we have more people attending and involved and engaged, that's what it needs to be. And I don't think we have, how we don't have that much engagement with our board meetings. So that's not where the meat is. I
066think we want um attendance where we have higher attendance and we get that's where we need to be on the road. So, not much interest for me for my board me board meetings um committee meetings meetings where we have more. Yeah. And I'm not sure like and I'm one of them. I don't know. I don't feel like there's as much of a like the comm come to the committee meetings like you know that's why we're attaching them to events and other things and we can continue to brainstorm when to do committee meetings based on what the need is for that continued work and the specific committee. Is an event like a a school event the best place to do that or is there some other event that we should connect it to? I think we
067need to just wait. I'm not sure that we need to we certainly don't need to solve the live stream issue tonight. Um I think it's definitely worth asking some questions. I think if we were going to hold a board meeting somewhere else, we'd we would have to find a way for it to be available, but committee meetings I I feel a little bit less we don't record, right? And that's the point too with our committee meetings are not live streamed or recorded anyway. So for me then it's like not we don't really need to even really the solution is to live streaming our committee meetings the committee meetings from the board meetings right which is fair however we also agreed within the last half an hour that coupling our committee meetings with our board meetings
068has been successful. it is for like the main one and then if we need if we need to do more and invite more people because we want to hear more we want more engagement on a particular topic whether that's finance and facilities or PR yeah maybe just schedule one committee meeting separate for each category on the road and I think we don't need to worry about recording it because we don't record them right we don't I think the other success we had though with coupling our committee meetings that we're weighing right now. We've our attendance as a board member. So instead of having all these dates across the board, can I come? I can. And two board members can come. We've had more success with board members attending committee meetings because it's already coupled with
069the date that we like Tuesdays is kind of even the Tuesdays that we don't meet. I'm thinking about the board meetings like am I supposed to be at a board meeting? It's a Tuesday night. So that coupled with it made it easier and made my attendance as a whole made board members attendance better too. So we're weighing that too like we have that with scheduling we can make dates and then you know taking that away having on the move or having it somewhere and then rushing over to the village. Well that's why I think we keep these sort of like foundational ones connected so that all of us can be a little more present for these main ones and then those on the road ones are just separate committee meetings to do work. You're like,
070you've been like, "No, no, no. Even if we have a a remote committee meeting and then we drive here, as long as you don't get caught by the train, you can make it here in 10 15 minutes." I I wonder if if it is worth exploring and having a backup option because we don't have a backup option and that currently stops us from doing things is just having a backup option so that when we have that night that we've got a committee meeting and we have an agenda that's got 10 items on it and we just need to have a quick board meeting. You know, like we can have it at that location and we can record it and we can post it later and we don't have to worry about, you know, we can
071go off into Mhm. the principal's office and have the board. You know, it doesn't have to if it's like if because of the time factor because the other piece that we've been really working on the last couple years is decreasing the number of days, right? We've gotten down to 17 board meetings. I think that we can get even less with continued focus on it. I just heard Elmherst is skipping July entirely. [Music] those crazy people skipping July flat out. Right. So, so that piece of it, so having that backup option. So, when we have a night like I'm just going to keep going to STEM because it's the night. It's the one that's the right. So, we have a night like STEM night where it's like we've got a committee meeting. We want to do
072it at the high school and we have a super light board agenda that we also and we all want to go to STEM night, right? We can hop over into the consumer X space, have our board meeting and record it without needing to bring the without needing to bring all of the stuff or the all the village stuff into it. Record it, be able to post it later so that we are able to still record it and have a backup that's not reliant on someone else. Not that the village has been has been wildly supportive and wildly helpful in all of these ways. However, us having a backup so that we're able to do it and that's not the reason for us not to do that might be and I you know, Carlos, I I'm
073just putting it out there that I think it's more involved. I know I can't give you those specifics, but I know there have been complaints years before even we came here that there the reliability of seeing our meetings um and seeing them on time. So having them um live um in a feed that's reliable and not cut short um has been something that the community asked for this channel what whatever is going on in this building is done more than like say what a 15-year-old could do or what they do with the phone that is a reliable source and then the next complaint that I've heard even as community members when we do record it we have to be better we can always improve but getting that out in a um quick quicker succinct way
074cuz people complain I didn't see what happened at the board meeting the people that are engaged sometimes I'm like people watch us what they do. Um so I think it's just getting getting that and figuring out those ways. So I'm hearing explore a backup option. Let's get some answers. I will ask N tomorrow. Maybe maybe the um PR team maybe it's something our high school uh high school club could help with. Maybe I know that I know that the PR team is really actively trying to engage the the clubs at the high school and the junior high and and at the elementaryaries and in communication. I don't think it's something we need an immediate answer on, but that's what I'm hearing. What do you And then the last part is like if there are any
075other committee meetings or at least on locations with the PR team is working on that we can have attached to other events. So on this document in particular, do you guys want this um feels like this is going to end up to be a little bit more of a living document? Yes. Um it certainly will be. Mhm. Do you want it like pushed to us board members as it's updated? Um, would you like updates in our board meetings? Would you like it posted on our board meeting page on the website? What would I as updated and posted? Do we need to? Yeah, as updated. I mean, we we have a we have a Google Drive, right? Mhm. Yeah. Put it on the Google Drive. send everyone a link. Yeah. When you update it, say, "Hey,
076it's been updated." Yeah. You mean just like for us and then we'll advertise it more for the larger community, right? When Well, I think there's the that's the two questions. There's the how do we know that it's been updated if like as as Edith and the PR team is like this makes right uh this makes sense, right? That's a Google Drive situation. And then the question is what's currently on our on our on the board website is what we approved two meetings ago which was just the these are our meetings, these are the locations and kind of nothing else. I do think that's a different that's PR to work on like communicating it to the public. So not putting this on there as well. No, I think this is for us in our effort. I
077I think Yeah, that seems like a lot to me. And I think that maybe if we do this for a whole year and we get super comfortable and then we go we say, "Oh, we don't have to make changes every week to it." And you know, let's see how this goes. Let's do it. Let's do a lap around the sun first and then and then I love I do love that new popup thing on the website though, like the pop-up message. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Should be doing a lot more of that. Yeah, we could use that feature more often. Next committee meeting, next board meeting. See the agenda here. I do want to see that posting. I've been getting emails about both of these last two committee meetings with the agendas posted on
078green. Thank you guys for doing that work. That is Yes. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay. Any other things on the board meeting topic calendar? Cool. Thank you guys for the work on this and we'll continue to explore it. Um, board portal software. So, Board Docs is doubling in price. Board is doubling in price. So, I'll kind of give a brief rundown. We currently use Board Docs. It's con migrating over to Diligent. Um, they called me the other or like a month ago. It'll happen in September. They'll do all the migration piece to Diligent for us. It'll still be a process. Our means will stay the same. It is doubling in price for the basics. Their quote is in here and how much all the upgrades cost. Um I have a meeting on Thursday to see
079board book which a lot of districts use. Um you can find it randomly if you want to see an example and to see how their pro program works with pricing which we're a member of. it would be um I think it was four grand and I put their proposal in here. Seems like has a few more features. The one that caught my eye is we wanted to convert to press plus um which is better for our admin in regards to um exhibits and administrative procedures. When I inquired about it with board docs diligent, they said, "Oh, we have something like that." Which kind of made me hesitant. It looks like board book has it, but I'm waiting to see the webinar on Thursday. So, yeah, it's going from like 2500 to 5,000. So, I'm thinking
080if we're already gonna have to migrate and make a change, why not look into something else? But that's up to you guys to decide. I put both quotes in here. I'll keep pursuing it. But, it would just be a matter of when we want to approve it because then they our other contract ends in September, so we need to make a decision. So I just are there any other options or these just I think these are the only two I could really find that are popular and then when this one said it worked with ISB that kind of jumped out at me a little more user friendly board works with or board book has ISB pricing I'm hoping to find out more of what that means on Thursday and so diligent is what board docs
081is becoming okay I was I had it the other way I because probably board book looks like I use I use board book with sassid so Jack has it with SAS. Have you used board book also? I've just seen it on other districts. Yeah, I like it. So, it is it is a little bit different. It's a little bit um it was like a little confusingly interactive when I first got out of it, but once you kind of cuz you have like a bunch of different ways that you can like see things on there, but once you kind of get over that. Um so, it sounds like we're going to have to learn a new software anyway either way. And taking a look at So, okay. What do you guys want? What do you guys
082want to do here? Is it something you want me to continue pursuing, I guess, is what I'm asking you or like how far do you want me to go down this rabbit hole? You're looking to see how we can put our things together with it with the policy. And Shannon, you're looking more into the board book part to see what that I guess, but $4,000 was before you figured out the ISB potential like discount or whatever that means. No, that is like when I asked for a price, they said ISB is four grand. That's basically what his email was. What happens to our existing history? That's my question for Thursday. Ask the migration, right? That's wonderful. That's that is one of my questions for Thursday. Like what happens to our existing for the public to
083see past documents? I'll get back to you. Okay. Are you saying you think that's a migration? I would that's what it typically is in these scenarios. You migrate history, right? But maybe, maybe not. Maybe not. What happens when it's when if we if we switch? I'm going to assume the migration is I don't know. My mind tells me that boardbook knows that diligent is the new thing. They know that they know they know they know and they know that migration is going to be an issue. So, I'm sure I'm almost sure of it. So, you can see under here I put the proposals from both so you can look at them and see what differences. It looks like board book might offer a little bit more. Board docs, everything is an upcharge. The reality is
084you guys are the ones that use it much more than we do, right? We use it obviously for our meetings, but you guys are in it very regularly building the meetings. So, yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Yeah, your um preference here weighs heavily. Okay, I'll get back to you after next week. Okie dokie. Student fees. We are recommending no increase in student fees. Okay, sounds good. Done. Sounds good to me. We've talked about this. Okay, moving into our action items portion of the evening. Um, we don't have the architect one, right? We do not have the architect, but we do have the construction manager. Okay. So, the chair will entertain a motion to approve the contract with Nicholas and Associates construction manager as presented. So moved. Second roll call. Mr. Dono, yes. Mr.
085Aia, yes. Mr. Marin, yes. Miss Conover, yes. Dr. Hoover, yes. Missuri, yes. Okay, motion passes. We are going to skip two. We don't have the um contract with the architect ready. So, that will be um we're tableabling it until the next meeting. Um the chair will entertain a motion to approve the student fees for fiscal year 2026 as presented. So moved. Second. Uh, roll call. Mr. Marin? Yes. Miss Steady? Oh, sorry. Oh, Miss Conover. Yes. Dr. Hoover? Yes. Makiri? Yes. Miss Rodono? Yes. Mr. Aia? Yes. Okay. The chair will entertain a motion to approve the 2025 2026 administrator contracts for the following administrators. Tiffany Teresi, Adam Cordalooski, and Sam Cinovich. Um, so moved. Second. Roll call. Miss Conover, yes. Dr. Hoover, yes. Mr. Sakuri, yes. Miss Rodono, yes. Mr. Ravia, yes. Mr. Marin, yes. Uh,
086motion passes. The chair will entertain a motion to approve the multi-year contracts for the following administrators. Carla Braun, Edith Currington, Mike Leinsky, and Amy Quatron. So moved. Second. Roll call. Mr. Marin, yes. Miss Conover, yes. Dr. Hoover, yes. Missuri, yes. Miss Rodono, yes. Mr. Aia, yes. Uh motion passes. The chair will entertain a motion to approve the proposed amendments to the DWC intergovernmental agreement as presented. So moved. Second. Uh roll call. Dr. Hoover. Yes. Missuri? Yes. Mr. Dono? Yes. Mr. Aia? Yes. Mr. Marin? Yes. Miss Steady? Sorry. Oh my gosh. Missover. Yes. He's trying to cross her off ahead of time. Okay. Um, approval of the SASID lease agreement. The chair will entertain a uh a motion to approve the lease agreement between Sassid and Community Unit School District 2011 for the 2025 2026 school
087year as presented. So move second. Uh, roll call. Miss Sakiri? Yes. Miss Rodono? Yes. Mr. Aia? Yes. Dr. Hoover? Yes. Mr. Marin? Yes. Miss Conover? Yes. DWC staff one. And uh finally, the chair will entertain a motion to authorize and direct the treasurer to pay any bills received in May 2025 that have been budgeted for the 2025 fiscal year. So move second acid and uh roll call. Miss Rodono, yes. Miri, yes. Mr. Aia, yes. Mr. Marin, yes. Miss Conover, yes. Dr. Hoover, yes. And then just as a point of clarification, even though we're not changing student fees, we don't vote on it staying that way, removing them. Yeah, we we approved them. They're listed in there. Thought we didn't. Okay. I thought we skipped over. Okay. They're an oversight committee for SAS. Even though they're
088not changing them, we're voting that they that that list is our student fees. Okay. H Did we read that one? Yeah, that was the after the architect. I think we just out of order. Okay. I was waiting for I'm reading off paper. a lot of my paper stuff could be in different order. It could be. Let me see. Student fees was right after architect. Yeah, we skipped architect. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yes. Okay. Go out of order. Moving right along. Superintendence report. So, we have the graduations already next week. It's very proud moment. Uh hope to celebrate all those students who've worked so hard and the teachers and staff and parents and community that supported them. Uh prom went off extremely well. Our kids were so well behaved. We're very proud of them and grateful all
089the people who organized the prom for our students. We can't take that for granted. Our kids in this district, while not perfect, are unbelievably well behaved and that means a lot to us. On Monday the 19th, we have the advanced placement conference that we're hosting for the 10th time. Uh all of the proceeds from that are go to support our district. There's no cost to our district for this event. uh about 65 high schools from around the region pay money to come and learn together and we get great staff development and we have the state superintendent uh Tony Sanders who's the keynote speaker this year we have 20 breakout sessions it's really a magnificent event there's going to be close to 500 people in attendance and it's a great way for our teachers to learn
090uh at no cost to the district and as I say all of the proceeds go back to our students students and teachers at no cost to the district. And I'm sorry, our staff gets professional development hours, right? Our staff gets professional development. They get to connect with teachers from all around the region. We bring in about 20 breakout session guest speakers, all paid for by other school districts who come to this event. And it's really it's a beautiful event for learning and to uh promote our district and strengthen our district and our teachers. Uh, I'm really excited. In June, I hope everybody really will pay attention. We'll have our quality review. The early data is in on student performance and it's outstanding. We couldn't be prouder of the hard work of our admin, our teachers,
091our support staff, and students. We had a spectacular year last year and it looks like we are going to match that achievement and maybe surpass it. Wonderful. It's awesome. Yes. Reports have nothing. I think our concerts went off well. Also, all of our choir and band concerts. Eighth grade dance this weekend. Friday, right? Yeah. Looking for volunteers, I think. Mhm. You want to um spend an evening with some eighth graders. Usually what that um that um what usually happens is sixth seventh grade parents chaperon um and then kind of see what's going to happen when their kids but any parent can chaperone um or dance I think it's quite interesting to go. Is it at the junior high? It's at the junior high. Miller had a great field trip to the zoo. That was just
092today, wasn't it? zoo today uh was kindergarten and uh I think it was yeah there's also a picnic they did also is that we ate lunch there we spent we spent the day she's you're talking about the picnic we did have a family picnic first grade picnic last week a lot of fun stuff happening at Miller they had the kindergarten concert a couple weeks ago yeah a lot of fun field day is coming up also volunteer opportunities there. Anyhs, okay, I'm going to have to get a report from Ang on how we did. Right. Okay. Uh, second. Do we have any public comment for the second portion of the evening? Of course. I'm trying to give myself a It's May, not October. Public comment. Dana Hjack. This is a really quick one. I just wanted
093to make sure that we're recognizing some amazing staff members. Kelly Britick was nominated and won educator of the year from Westmont um Commerce and Christy Parcetic was nominated for educator of the year for DuPage County which is an amazing recognition. They were both recognized at um events and I just want to make sure that that was out there in the public. If you're not watching the district on social media, they've put it out on there. But if you're not following, follow cuz all the fun things that we recognize our staff and our kids with, that's where you're going to find them. So, congrats to Kelly and Christie. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Co-teers also. Yes. Two educators of the year that also happen to be co- teachers to hear. So amazing. Um, okay. Future
094meetings and events. That's not accurate, huh? That's okay. Oh, no, it is. No, it's not. It didn't update. Going to You tell me where I read. right there. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Future meetings and events. We've got our Westmont High School graduation May 20th, 700 p.m. at the high school. The Westmont Junior High School graduation May 22nd, 700 p.m. also at the high school. Last day of school, May 23rd. That is a PLC dismissal. It's here. Um, and our next board meeting, CUSD 2011, regular board meeting, June 17th, more than a month from now, uh, 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall. Yep. Great. The the listening session is, uh, Monday the 19th, where we really are, we held a excellent meeting, I think, prior to the board meeting today. We really try to do our best to
095solicit and listen to solutions and we'd love to hear what path forward Monday at Manning at 6:30. Yes. Awesome. Uh we have no action for a second uh close session. So we are not going into close session. So the chair will entertain a motion to adjourn. Nope. Am I there? Yeah. Yeah. You said, "Oh my gosh." And I was like, "What did I do?" May 13th. What did I skip? Very nervous. The chair will entertain a motion to adjourn the March 18th, 2020. May 13th. That's what I was like. May 13th. May I just said I was nervous. You can do things. 2025 regular meeting of the board of education. So move. Second. All in favor? I I oppos. None. Okay. Great job, Leah.