001mrone Mr G present Dr Mar here present present present please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic stands one nation under God indivisible withy and justice for all this evening we've got some very exciting news board and I'm going to invite our executive director of communications to lead us through that Teresa Kamas yeah yeah please go to the middle okay tonight our board of education is proud to acknowledge the award-winning efforts of our students who received State and or national recognition for their school related skill related and athletic related activities this evening we are super excited and proud to recognize our ASO high school girls softball team who placed third at the ihsa State Softball [Applause] Championship we all followed
002Along on your success and your uh this team's path to the state started with their first Regional win since 1987 then continued with the school's first ever sectional Championship followed by a super sectional Championship win which earned them their trip to the ihsa finals in addition to finishing their season in third place in state many of the girls also received individual achievement awards along the way um we had a chance to see you guys play in Peoria and we were all super proud of you so as we invite you up um please come and be congratulated by our Board of Education and then just stay up here so we can take a big picture at the end okay all right students jayen Anthony sophomore [Applause] Ella bowling senior Kaa Chavez [Applause] Jr auriella Garza J
003Kaylee L Chappelle senior Rea l vixon Jr Rihanna Martinez Jr Marissa Moffett senior others that aren't with us this evening Savannah Paige sophomore Maddie lurman Jr Abby Schwab Jr Bella Lyall Jor Kayla Morana senior Maddie Hernandez senior Sabrina Zamora Jr Natalie mulner Jr and Mary Gibney senior so congratulations to all of [Applause] you and behind this fantastic team we want to acknowledge some of their coaches and staff PA Paul Nel come on up for us Paul Nel Tiffany Murphy Annie scuzzi trainer Brian Corin student trainer Abby mud singer Haley Morland and Nick [Applause] shaelin what of you girls want to grab our trophy here and hold on to it we're going to slide this table out of the way okay everybody crowd on up here we'll do a big group photo are there any administrators
004or anyone else that like to join in the photo [Laughter] tonight everybody stay where you are we're going to let parents come on up take a photo come on up mine up all right congratulations again girls thank you [Applause] you thank you let [Applause] go so there is no public comment tonight so we will move to 6.1 we'll invite our superintendent to give his superintendent report Dr katti good evening board it is truly an honor to be here um we are right in the middle of summer but yet school starts in just a month away oh my gosh um our students start back on August 15th um we're excited uh plans are right underway our teams from operations transportations our schools offices lead ERS have been working tirelessly this summer to prepare for the upcoming
005year if you have any questions at all please don't hesitate to reach out uh contact your school's office or uh direct you to our district office uh we're happy to be a resource during the summer months um as we gear up for the new year you know this is a time of incredible um investment and preparing our Staffing Resources uh we've got a number of uh new staff that we want to welcome and I've ask Dr zmy to our assistant superintendent for human resources to take some leadership and um uh guiding us and facilitating some introductions as you know it's been a really important priority of ours to really prepare the system to really level up in terms of the supports and and energy we bring to our staff and our community and our students
006well good evening board thank you Dr katti uh school and District leadership provides vast opportunities for positive impact and the influence on lives of many especially our young people schools though are Dynamic organizations which require Dynamic leadership tonight we are going to uh Rew welcome our folks from our June 24th Board of Education meeting tonight and then also preview for you the folks who are on the board agenda for recommendation I've asked each Cabinet member to uh who represent their Department to share just something briefly about the folks with them um tonight so these leaders will be integral to our system which is deeply committed to our six core values and foundational practices of high quality instruction rightful presence and the formation of quality teams by embracing these principles we strive to Foster an environment
007of excellence and education in education the folks who we have already approved on June 24th as well as the folks tonight uh we feel very strongly about I'll turn it over to Dr canade in our schools Department to introduce first Scott older Dr King Kade so I am actually going to introduce um John Francis first and then move to um Mr older so John Francis is currently the principal at bed narik and he um was recently recommended as the executive director of schools um John W sincerely missed from bed narc um is an exciting addition um to our team with both the experience he has within um Junior highs and within our district so with that I'm going to turn the floor over to John to uh do our next announcement and [Music] congratulations thank
008you everybody hello oh we're live all right thank you everybody I am super excited for the opportunity I have to to lead from the executive director of schools position uh behind me is Scott oldacre uh he is going to be the recommended candidate to take my spot and Lead bed narc moving forward he has a wealth of experience all sitting in planfield School District 202 uh eight years he was a a junior high math teacher at Heritage Grove Middle scho School uh he then moved to a different building uh was a dean of students for two years and then got promoted to the assistant principal of curriculum and instruction uh both of those positions were at Ivor Jones Middle School in 202 um throughout this process you know what I recognized from Scott right away
009is just his humbleness to lead um he is he is a servant leader wanting to to build teams around him um and just work for kids work for people work for a community um he has the skills uh to be aware of perspectives when he makes decisions uh a lot of experience with restorative practices with uh differentiation of instruction with building teams to support tier one mtss um and really just that mtss process through and through um so I present you Scott older as the recommended candidate for [Applause] berar so in addition to Scott from our schools team uh we would also like to introduce a recommended candidate of Robert hug III um as the assistant principal of Hunt Club um so um Mr hog is highly recommended um as that uh assistant principal candidate
010um throughout our process of interviews he showed extreme passion for students excitement to grow and learn within our district and is passionate about supporting teachers while using dat to inform decisions um the committee really really appreciated his drive and feels that it would be um centered and reflective in his leadership at hun Club so we would like to welcome him to [Applause] sd308 from the June 24th board meeting I'd like to officially welcome Maria Lopez she is is the director recently um a board approved director of the multilingual Learners program she was recently the principal in Elin school district for six years and has a multitude of unit and supporting Unit School Districts um throughout the process uh the interviewing process she was exemplary in her interviewing and her background is exactly what we need
011for the continuous Improvement of the multilingual program welcome Maria [Applause] I'm also welcoming from the June 24th uh board meeting yamilet Sosa is the assistant director of multilingual Learners she has served as a bilingual uh director for an Elementary District and also served in a b multilingual program administrator for a unit School District um her abilities are to collaborate and her um strength is really in helping the continuous improvement process as well so welcome [Applause] yamilet so in addition um to wonderful additions to our multilingual team we also have some additions to our schools team um so we previously uh introduced Mr Francis as our executive dor of schools with us tonight we also have maresa Mitchell who is our executive director of secondary schools so Marisha currently um is leaving a position of chief
012of accountability and continuous Improvement um some of the strengths that she demonstrated through her um interview process was um significant educational leadership through throughout the K12 system um both at elementary junior high and most recently at High School in our current position um a systems and team thinking and school Improvement and then um most connected to our schools team principal coaching so welcome Marisha so rounding out the schools team um with us tonight is Andrea Parker so Andrea um also has recently moved into the position most uh uh from asgo high school she served as the assistant principal of student services um so Andrea will be serving as the director of research accountability and data um throughout the process um Andrea's use of data relationship building within not only o but also across our district
013and really focused on on leadership and the mtss process um had her stand out uh through the process and we're very excited to see her join our [Applause] team so for tonight's in the special education department want to welcome Christine Carson as a recommended candidate for Murphy Jor High Assistant principal for special education also want to introduce you to Nicole panunzi as the Director of special education she has she was the assistant director of special education for Easter rural School District as well as School District 89 and West 40 Regional Office of Education welcome Nicole [Applause] also a recommendation and welcome to Sarah fiser assistant director who we've recommended for special education she comes to us from Prairie Point as the assistant principal there and previous to that she was a program administrator for the
014District Welcome Sarah Shante tret gamble we welcome her as a program administrator she has a long history in social work and has a multitude of leadership roles including mtss and educational leadership welcome Shante and finally we welcome Jessica peser also as a program administrator she has served as an instructional coach and she began her uh career in special education 20 years ago in a multitude of roles at the elementary level welcome Jessica so one of our building administrators that we are recommending uh tonight is Mark prosize um he is being recommended for the dean of students at OS um through the process uh strong ability to balance safety restorative practice and support of all students um what really stood out to the team was his student centered approach so um Mark welcome and thank you
015for joining us [Applause] tonight all right good evening everyone so very excited to introduce Toya prior she is coming to us from um PL sorry excuse me sd30 204 oh my goodness um as a principal um she is currently not here yet her daughter has an incredible internship and so she's probably speeding so I'm going to talk slow um but we just had such an incredible opportunity to learn so much about her and her experiences she has over 21 years of experience in education she has a background for serving English Learners um as a Elementary educator Middle School educator she has even taught in Korea um she also has experiences with teaching in Savannah Georgia um and she has a military background um and so we're grateful for all of the experiences that we know
016she's going to bring to our students um to share with them the world that she has seen and lift and amplify their voices so thank you for Toya Brer she is the executive director of climate and culture thank you okay and I am so very we are so very fortunate to welcome Miss lesan Mosley as our new director of Transportation lesan began her career as an assistant director of Transportation at neille 203 for 5 years and went on to be the director of Transportation with De Moine Iowa school district for four years Miss Mosley has also been a bus driver union rep and been on several panels in school transportation Expos through the interview process her strengths consisted of leadership strong decision-making abilities Personnel Improvement safety and operations management her experiences prove invaluable and will
017be a tremendous asset to our district congratulations Miss Mosley [Applause] I would also like to introduce our director of Grants Julie frankino she's not here today she was approved on J June 24th and she's coming from the city of Aurora as their Grant right righty Julie began her career as a case manager at wabansi Community College throughout the interview process her strengths in education and Grant writings stood out making her well suited for the grant director position [Applause] uh thank you uh Team for those Reflections um I want to remind and just uh Elevate for the board these are really these Investments are really aligned to the Strategic road map that really started through the listening that um I was you know charged with doing last year um and listening to the voices of the
018community these are investments that are directly aligned to the needs of students and serving our staff and our leaders in school buildings to ensure that we are providing the worldclass education that our students deserve so I just want to really highlight that um in addition just to one last remark that um this is spread the the good news of this district is spreading and we are also joined this evening by two talented individuals who are working on their superintendent licenses and who've asked to join um me in this work and they're working um they'll be doing some direct investments in District in this District um through some co-leadership work so I want to welcome uh Dr Ronda Dawson who's here with us this evening you could stand so everybody can see and then um and
019also Dr Vin Vincent isgo over here so when you're wondering why they're here they're here with support and for our district and now I'm going to invite um our board members to share some additional important shout outs about the good news happening in our district great good evening we are excited to welcome lacrosse to our district providing another option for our students to stay active and involved the Lacrosse Club is being offered for boys and girls at asigo high school today was the first day of the of the camp there's still time to join if you're interested just visit ohos sport camps.com to sign up also the district is offering athletic physicals to all Junior High and high school athletes at a flat rate of $30 this Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to noon at asigo
020East High School proceeds will benefit the athletic training program at the two high schools visit the district website for more information that would be me two great learning opportunities are quickly approaching parent University will begin on this Saturday this new free program provides learning sessions to empower caregivers teach them about various topics and skills and connect them to Community Resources so they are the best equipped to support their students education Journey registration is required visit the district website to sign up today the program will run from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at plank Junior High meals and child care are provided and hopefully I will see many of you there Saturday um also beginning on July 22nd all 1 through 8th grade school district or 308 students May participate in free steam camps offered at
021Wolf's Crossing and bed naric presented by Ready Set code participants can pick the two courses that interest them visit our district website or Facebook page for more information and finally but wait there's more um start strong 24 uh we are so appreciative of the Kanas and Community cares as they once again collect donations and fill backpacks with school supplies for District 308 students those who can help with purchasing Don purchasing donation and or packing backpacks can find information on the link on our District's Facebook page registration for assistance can also be found there we appreciate this great Community effort so just so everyone is aware the date for the backpack and school supply pickup is July 27th it will be at Old Trower and you do need to register before and as I said the
022information can be found at the schools on the school's Facebook page congratulations to and my apologies to Phoenix it's either Goldstein or Goldstein from Migo High School I apologize Phoenix placed third at the national skills USA competition held in Atlanta earning a bronze medal in restaurant service Kristen gurii also attended and participated in the National culinary arts competition both students were state champions in their respective categories good uh several of our alumni are making headlines and this one this one's app propo that I got this one oh and I mean this in a great way so OE Al baseball pitcher Noah Schultz from our uh from my neighborhood played in the MLB Futures game uh as part of the American League Squad drafted with the 26 overall pick in the 20,000 or 2022 uh MLB
023MLB draft by the Chicago White Sox let me tell you something I was there yesterday it's been work this year Noah please we need help on the South Side the better that is an understatement Noah anyways sorry Schultz you can tell I'm a die hard white sock fan and Schultz is in his second Minor League season he is currently ranked the number 18 Prospect in all of baseball the number one left-handed pitching Prospect yes when he gets there white sock hold on to him and the number two Prospect in the Chicago White Socks farm system by MLB pipeline his career rear minor league stats include a two uh 253 ER and 113 strikeouts across 81.2 innings in 24 games all starts yes white sock you know how to draft yes now please keep congratulations Noah
024we are excited to watch your career grow and I can only hope that I watch you pitch so many victories on the South Side in coming years [Applause] I don't know how to follow that but some more alumni news another excellent headliner OS Alum Janelle Rogers secured a fourth place finish for Ball State in the NCAA outdoor track and field championships he hethlon for the second year in a row she earned first team All American next week she'll compete in the US Olympic track and field team trials she is one of only three Collegiate athletes with an automatic qualifying standard based on based on her High School the heathan the women's version of the multisport decathlon for men is a track and field event in which each competitor takes part in the same prescribed seven
025events 100 meter hurdles high jump shot put 200 meter dash long jump Javelin and 800 met run I got tired just reading all of those so best of luck Janelle we are so proud of you and another fantastic story our asgo East Alum Ray J Dennis was signed to the LA Clippers over the past three years with Boise State Toledo and Baylor he has been known as one of the country's most consistent reliable floor generals he will battle now for an open two-way slot throughout the summer league and training camp we are so proud of Ray J and we look forward to seeing his NBA career take off I know a lot of you probably saw him play his career here at asigo East Eugene and I have known him ever since he was really
026little like and so we we we we we knew him when so we wish him much success you can catch his games on E ESPN and ESPN plus and all those other places over the summer so cheer him on one more me again I'm going to do a redo um so the equity and engagement department is thrilled to announce the Toya prior as our executive director of climate and culture please stand as I shared before she was a principal in School District 204 she brings a wealth of experience in educational leadership and classroom experience from various places and she's going to add such a dynamic perspective to our department with her background and special education which I did mention before and U multilingual Learners so please just give another round of applause for our also
027military Queen here miss Toya prior thank you so much thank you Dr kelgan I think I I can speak for the board when I say that this District um we task Dr katti with coming in and helping to change our culture and our climate and one of the things that we see here represented tonight is the fact that people want to be here in this District on this team and so we used to be known as a place where people came just to get their training and then they were off to um what what they might have thought were greener pastures but here we are today we're so excited about the fact that people want to come to a place where we're creating great systems for those strong people that we are hiring and as
028um Dr zmy always says we want to retain and reward and hire good people and I think today you've seen that that's exactly what we're doing so thank you all for and we look forward to all the work that's going to be done and what you're going to produce in this District so thank you hey uh president similton can I can I just Echo something add to that do you mind not at all as an educator um in in another large district and and with with my wife and an educator a neighboring large District it is it is very you know education is very small Community yes yes and trust me there's like what do they call that six degrees to Kevin Bacon it's usually two degrees and you probably can sit here and have
029a conversation about people you each know and it's nice for me to start Fielding questions from Educators outside of the district who are like hey wait a minute how come they're heading your way so that's been nice um I'm sure some of you if you come and talk to me we'll have conversations about people we both know and and that it'll be fun but yeah it's been reassuring I just wanted to add that piece and I'm apologize thank you no thank you okay we're moving on to agenda item 6.3 is there one 6.2 where are we board comments 7.1 minutes from the previous meeting are you sure wait because we haven't done 6.2 board member comments we have Haven had board member com 6.2 I just wanted to give a a shout out to our
030grounds people and maintenance people that are working hard over the summer um I live in the Fox Chase area and I often walk P past Fox Chase Elementary School the sidewalks are coming along nice the parking lot's coming along nice so so um while everyone's home and getting some rest and soaking in the sun I know there's lots of hard work being done at those buildings and on our ground so thank you to those departments for their hard work I totally agree Dr Mario our Hunt Club sidewalks are looking very fresh and I know it sounds silly to say but it sure is nice to start your school year uh with those new sidewalks I just want to reiterate that um I'm so incredibly proud of our district um this board brought for and approved
031to Lacrosse to come to our district it's a very hot sport right now I mean that um liter literally and figuratively it was very warm this morning for the first practice and the coaches had water balloons so that the kids could cool down with water balloons um uh Mr arson is here um he was out there this morning and they did great it is truly a community sport um head coach from Aurora University the women's head coach from Aurora University is is there and she is helping us Christina fried and then Coach Pat um who has our boys lacrosse coach and Coach Miller Our Girls High School uh coach they all three were out there working and running the field this morning with those students and um last week the park district also um working
032with the school district did a camp and we had a four-year-old uh lacrosse player that was practicing so I don't future Panther I don't know 2060 I don't know I didn't even want to no but it's so exciting to see these beginning uh beginnings of a new sport fresh in our district and I totally encourage there's three more days of Camp it's going to get cooler as the week goes on um to please still sign up for the camp and you don't need a stick they provide them just come and try it it is it's really a lot of fun so I just wanted to thank the board for bringing um a new sport to the district thank you so and I just want to recognize really quick as we head into at least what
033what for four well not really four of us at least two of us is our second full year second full school year um I just want to acknowledge take a minute and acknowledge everyone and and and thank everyone on on the board the staff and the community for all the support that we've gotten um we know that we have a long way to go to get a lot of things done um as far as uh education wise and Community wise but uh I just want to recognize all the hardwork effort that's gone in in the past year uh we we did get a lot accomplished um starting from hiring Dr katti and and all the way down to the end so I just wanted to say thank you to the community to everyone for all
034the support that we've gotten and uh onto the next year next year all right moving on to oh I got one sorry uh and I'm sorry I apologizing in advance I'm going to be the the somber one and so like I said sorry in advance but um um it I I I think it's appropo to and I'll explain why and I'll try and get there as quick as I can but uh I think it's aopo to mention um the tension that that we feel right now um the things that are going on and um my brief time off the board and I'm sorry in advance for all of you I'm being this sincerely like I hope I'm not bringing up things that are going to fill anyone with trauma but I remember my time off
035the board I I took my youngest son to a board meeting as a non-board member um and literally I remember witnessing uh someone attempt to start a a revolution at one of the board meetings that that um some of you all were at and uh one of the things that I noticed as I sat in the crowd and and attempted to um educate and teach my own son about governance and procedures and all of those things were that there were there were elected officials sitting in the crowd silent quiet and um while it you know I know that tensions are high and I know um you know what what's going on and and all of those things I also realized something else we didn't just arrive here all of a sudden and we as Educators
036many times teach our students please say something please speak up right and so as elected officials I think it's incumbent upon us to be part of the solution in not part of the problem um we need to realize when we talk about heightened rhetoric how long that's actually been now and we need to also realize just how much of our young people's lives that has consumed at this point we as adults I've heard many times talking about returning to a normal tell that to someone who's young and you're talking about history to them you're not talking about something that they have witnessed a great deal whatever that noise is that you're talking about so um I challenge myself I challenge all adults um that um our kids are watching and at the end of the
037day we do this work because we care about the future we want all of our students all of our kids to Excel and have a better life um and so I apologize for being the somber one but at the same time I I felt it had to be mentioned and reminded that they're watching they're absorbing and they see and they feel so and I think just to State the obvious that violence isn't the answer um we can talk we can work it out we can disagree but violence is never in the answer thank you all right we're moving on to 7.1 the consent agenda can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda please make a motion to approve all items under consent including 8.1 minutes from the Board of Education meeting on June
03824th 2024 and June 27 2024 open and close session and 8.2 to acknowledge the foiler requests received by the district second are there any questions on the consent agenda um actually yeah it's actually 7.1 and 7.2 so I it it reads 8.1 8.2 but it's over here so you want me to reread that again yeah let me reread it again sorry it's sorry on the on the motion it says 8.1 8.2 but it's actually 7.1 7.2 so I'll make a motion to approve all items under consent including 7.1 minutes from the Board of Education meeting on June 24th 2024 and June 27th 2024 open and close session in 7.2 to acknowledge the foer requests received by the district sorry about that second okay any questions Mr gate hi Mar hi hi s i Mr i
039m i motion passes 70 action item 8.1 approval of District administrator contracts can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the district administrator contracts as presented second Mr hi Mr hi hi mrone hi Miss Simon hi Dr Mario I Miss Johnson I motion passes 70 action item 8.2 approval of building administrator contracts can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the building administrator contracts as presented second Mr Gatewood hi Dr Maria hi M Johnson hi Mr R I miss Simon I Mr I miss ven I motion passes 70 action item 8.3 approval of personnel report can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the Personnel report as discussed second Miss men hi Dr Maria hi s hi Mr I Miss Johnson hi Mr hi Mr g
040i motion passes okay congratulations in light of the weather warnings if people want to leave I think we should we would love for you to stay you're welcome to stay but we understand and uh be safe on your travels yes okay so um we're going to proceed board um we've got 9.1 financial statements any questions regarding 9 taking a no we're not taking a break J Jen Johnson oh where you go she's got oh you all right uh Bor are there any questions about 9.1 financial statements I had a couple of questions us they're they're probably for rapael so since he's not here this evening Miss missil I don't think she's gonna know um the I just had a question um obviously there was some work done with lauderbach and aan um about pecard procedures
041and which is good news and I just wondered kind of where we are at at with that it's something that was determined when Dr K when he was doing his Clubhouse tours yes Mary Joe and I have might have bent his ear about this and I just wondered where we are with it and have we made some good progress we have made good we have made good progress um we're still in the preliminary stages of it where it needs to be talked through with administrators and cabinet before it goes to the board but we do have a presentation ready oh awesome wonderful and then um out are we Outsourcing tech for meetings did I see just want to discuss that I'm not familiar I I don't what what part of it so the community Forum
042the board Forum one of the uh superintendent advisory groups it just I wondered it said for professional development as well and I just looked like it was to an outside tech company so I was just wondering what that was about was that innovate K12 it may have been the resources it's it's a they provide research based work so when you saw the student ambassador yeah you know so it's you know what VP consulting services are that's Victor Simon's Consulting work so he presented so he does he's a actually Dr K you want to speak to me sure he did some professional learning for our uh building admin at our last admin Retreat on five Essentials um and based on the positive response from our building admin um we will be doing some coaching um opportunities
043throughout the next few weeks because five Essentials were just recently made available to our building admin um so he is a current uh local Illinois superintendent with um a significant experience working with five Essentials um so that you'll see him once more we're working currently on a uh again one more contract to help support our building admin in that data and working in conjunction Junction with uh Mrs Parker who awesome and then just my last question I noticed that we took or we a lot of people were involved in Avid this year what what what is that about and what it happens to be on the bill pay but what is the what is the thought behind that yes yes yep so with our um strategic road map one of our foundational practices is in
044high quality instruction um and in equity and rifle presence so um historically have sent uh teams through title one uh funds to the Avid conference um but we had additional uh desires to build out that connection to high quality really from K12 uh perspective so we were able to use some of our Esser funds um to support not only just teams at our title one uh schools but teams across the district so through the direction of our uh Avid leaders of Ali Anderson and uh Drew munsinger and then also some of our building leaders we we were able to send teams from different buildings so it wasn't just one or two people but actually teams from multiple bu buildings were able to go down and participate in different um not only sessions but different themes
045based on the identified needs from the building Dr Wall did I miss anything um so I will say the the best part about the conference was the opportunity to collaborate so um there were different lanes that we all went into whether it was District building um and then Educators and then so that was for the first half of the day and the second half they actually gave us our own room in the conference center it was over 80 of us and so we spent um most of the time really um aligning and having conversations about the eight priorities the three foundational practices and and having them start to have conversations around school Improvement as it pertains to Avid um another thing that we're doing um with Avid is is having this alignment and conversation around
046avot Ron Clark because we also were able to engage in that and cultivating genius because these are strategies that we know are are going to be beneficial especially so from the equity and engagement piece we know Avid academics I know Kristen will be able to speak to that through and through with the College and Career aspect um but another big takeaway that um I don't think that many of them were expecting was this emphasis on student teacher relationships which um highlighted a lot of the work that our that our babies are already doing so um people were excited to see that connection and so we are going to be strategically working to make alignments on those strategies and tools so that we can start embedding that work districtwide it was uh when the pictures posted
047all across the district it was interesting you say collaboration because a lot of people that would not normally be together had the opportunity to be together and so I love that you were able to collaborate across buildings levels grades all everything so just wondered yeah and appreciate Dr katti the fact that we have task you with develop um staff development as one of our areas of focus and it's important that we are starting to bring back that development that was so needed for our teachers in order for them to be excellent and our students to be excellent so going to that conference we s we we wholeheartedly support it because it's something that had not been happening in the past so I'm I'm happy to see it back thank you thank you board next we
048have uh student information system support Dr Kade um so as we talked about last year um we did onboard a new student information system uh Power School as we worked on phase one throughout this year we are ready to move to phase two which is really in conjunction with our priority areas about building stronger Data Systems the two areas that we saw the greatest challenge not only from the school level but also from the district level was on attendance monitoring and Report creating so the student information team um went across forums called different districts um looked not only in Illinois but out of Illinois and their recommendation is a contract through MBA um it is highly recommended um we have some testimonials from some Illinois districts um in the information that we provided to you
049um what this will do is not only provide some more functionality from our staff and admin but then also our parents um so we are looking for increased monitoring and Reporting with attendance and then also report creation um we wanted to bring this um because the contract size but as you can see from the quote there's a significant decrease in cost um so the larger cost for year one is really implementation and then we will move into a maintenance um so if we um are approved to move forward with this contract we will on board at the beginning of August and then move to providing our staff admin and parents the updates related to The increased functionality and from your understanding this is a unique plugin correct within the power school suep correct so this
050is within power school when we were trying to address some of the missing gaps what emerged from your analysis was that there was a plug-in that could align right with power school um and having worked with P School in Prior districts um and in fact there was a meeting last week with somebody that um Power School is such a um you could call almost like a monopoly on kind of the tech Market in its own way that it's hard to find products that can align with it and so when we can find Solutions there's not much programming you can do to fix a system to be unique to you you really have to find plugins or you have to find extensions of the service so so thank you questions for Dr K Kade it's coming
051tonight for information who's going to feel the these enhancements the most is this like secretarial staff is it I would I would anticipate um it'll be secretarial and admin okay um the functionality for teachers um other staff and parents are ease of use um so what we've seen is uh through email through attendance reporting so it will hopefully um just streamline the experience for um teachers and parents but then in terms of the speed of which or ease of which we're able to not only kind of change and alter and verify attend but then also pull data um in our tier system is really based on chronic absentee and chronic treny so it'll uh those two groups both the secretaries and the admin are really who uh bear a lot of those responsibilities at the
052building level okay thank you I have a couple of questions I'm the broken record always but why we didn't go out for three bids for this so it is unique it's not a it's a it's it's a Tech solution um so um like this past year our first in essence plug-in uh was through PCSB that's actually where your like report card for um our students come from so we started with what we um considered phase one which was our Baseline implementation phase two then we're going on to reports and additional functionality so when they again went across forums uh contacted multiple companies this was the one that um had the most ease of use the most longevity with districts that are power school users um and came the highest highly recommended um so they met
053with um this company uh watched videos uh called districts so this was the the recommendation and then I I understand The Upfront cost what I didn't understand is what we're going to pay annually so that is listed kind of um underneath and is it like um why I keep getting kied out so moving forward in terms of year two so the recurring cost for the attendance monitoring would just be the $5,250 cost and then for the um report Creator it would be the $88,500 cost so those two costs together are going to be our annual significant decrease in cost okay yep and then this but this could eventually phase out if this doesn't something else becomes better or I mean we will continue to monitor but this this particular um uh company and set of
054plugins have been the long one of the longer standings that we have seen thank you Dr K all right thank you Dr Kade um next I know uh you're bringing to us Dr Kade um an update regarding the school Improvement planning process uh we're also joined this evening by uh yes so we are joined this evening um by both um uh principal Phil Murray from longbach and principal Toya Jones from Boulder Hill um so last year yes thank you so much for being here with us so um based on our school year 23 data um Boulder Hill was identified as a uh tier three targeted School based on their children with disabilities um data and then Long Beach was identified as a comprehensive school um also based on their children with disabilities data um throughout
055the last school year um both of the schools have been working um not only amongst themselves and with um Illinois uh state board of education but also with dedicated teams within their building uh to create a school Improvement team and a school Improvement plan so we were given um Title One School Improvement funds just for planning but now for school year 2425 we're moving M into year one implementation so the state has awarded us additional funds um so through the work from their teams and additional um uh Phil and Long Beach were able to uh receive a comprehensive needs assessment through the services of air um both Boulder Hill and Long Beach have written School Improvement plans um to not only address um School Improvement within their building but then specifically within children with disabilities
056so what we are doing in order to access these funds for direct supports for our students are bringing for you for information tonight the school Improvement plans written by their teams and then we would be looking to uh bring those plans back for action on August 5th and then as I mentioned both Phil and toy are here if you have any specific questions related to their plans the only thing that was left blank on that was the program administrator and the district rep did we hire someone just recently that will fill those roles so we have been um hiring program administrators um administr forra okay and yes that's was H this evening all right so yes I had a feeling looking at the agenda but I didn't want to make any assumptions just because that's
057obviously really important assigning accountability to any type of plans is especially School Improvement is really important absolutely and throughout the year um we have had Representatives um both from the district level and the school level on focus on uh special ed in addition to members of the school staff as they um really just spent their time um looking at their data um going through needs assessments going through self- evaluations and writing their plans thank you can you come to can can we give her a mic thanks sorry we just want to make sure we hear from you Toya did we did work with the the program administrator that was with our building and our team so we did have have some of that representation uh it's just we need to transition to a new person
058since that program administrator has moved on to a different location wonderful thank you Mrs Jones okay all right moving on to 10.1 action item approval of bills for payment can I have a motion please make a motion to authorize the payment of bills in the amount of 4,734 2675 as presented second Miss iio hi mrone hi Miss Simon hi Mr Gatewood hi Miss Johnson I Mr fer I motion passes 70 action item 10.2 approval of resolution authorizing Franc Law Firm can I have a motion please wait oh sorry is that something else on the yeah agenda it's not the right oh I don't have it I don't have it oh hold on let me look let me look here for the yeah it's approve the resolution authorizing intervention by Franc Law Firm on behalf of
059the district with the property tax appeal board I don't know oh there's just additional language that's not on the agenda that's fine I need thank you did you did you ask for the motion you no I don't think we okay did we did we you moot did you motion you already read it okay and you second it okay no no that's fine I just want to make sure I was job pays me the same the whole motion well the that I mean that's all I had on this paper but now I'm reading it off the off you so read the motion you want to read it again no no I can do it uh just yeah I'll make a motion to approve the resolution authorizing intervention by franic law firm on behalf of the district
060with the property tax appeal Board second Dr Mar i m Johnson I Mr hi Mr Mr Gatewood I Miss V I miss I motion passes 70 action item 11.1 we don't need that now yay um can I have a um action item 11.2 no no where are we oh yeah yeah you want me to make that motion can I have a motion to adjourn make a motion to adjourn all in favor