001have a roll call please Mr Cerrone here Mr Gatewood president Miss Johnson Dr Maria president Mr Mr President Miss simulton present miss Ben Smith president please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all 4.1 public comment on behalf of the Board of Education I would like to thank the public for attending tonight's meeting we value the feedback we receive from our residents encourage everyone to take an active interest in their public school system residents interested in speaking to the board this evening are asked to have completed a comment card and presented it to the secretary to the board when the secretary calls your name I ask that you come to the
002microphone state your name for the public record and provide your feedback please note that comments are limited to five minutes per person and that no discussion of personnel matters Staffing stating staff names or responses to questions are permitted the board does not participate in discussion during public comment follow up to your questions or concerns will be addressed by Administration through the contact information provided on the comment card thank you Rochelle kernick good evening my name is my reason for wanting to speak tonight is just to phone um uh the reason to speak to you is just to thank the board for the opportunity as one of the people who was on the committee to uh interview superintendent candidates I felt like the process was very transparent it was well communicated I felt like it was
003a really Pleasant process I thought you all did a fantastic job our team did a great job uh Ravel did a fantastic job as the committee chair and I really felt like the board did a fantastic job of presenting wonderful candidates and also making sure that everyone was really aware of the the availability of um you know anyone who wanted to to be involved so truly transparent and well well managed process thank you very much thank you thank you okay for our 5.1 action items Circles of influence we are going to postpone the conversation to a future board meeting date and so we will now move on to our action item 6.1 action item new superintendent contract can I have a motion yes I make a motion to approve the new superintendent contract as presented
004second but before we go to a vote I wanted to Echo uh what was just stated during public comment because hiring a superintendent is something that we as a board took very seriously as one of our primary responsibilities of the school board and so we were we embarked Upon A A RFP in order to find the the search committee that we felt was was right for us once we engaged that search committee we appreciated them or having after our initial joint planning session we appreciated how they engage the community in order to create not only focus groups but an online survey in order to create the new superintendent profile once we had that profile we worked with that consultant to start and conduct the Nationwide search for our new superintendent the board then worked together
005with that consultant in order to make sure that we had some very robust interview questions and then that search firm actually I think they got 20 plus candidates and Nero 29. 29 School exec connect they they got 29 candidates and narrowed it down for us to seven candidates from there uh the board interviewed all seven of those candidates and then we had to narrow it down to three finalists from there we then worked with our consultant School exact connect to have two different forms uh one for the administration and one for the community to ensure that we received all of their feedback and then after we received their feedback we did the board then had second interviews that we went through with those final three candidates and then we had to go through more extremely
006robust discussion about those three candidates and then we narrowed it down to our final candidate we also was received references for our final candidate which all of us actually called to check on just to make sure that you know we were making the best decision not only for our students for our staff Administration and the community and so we're are very very excited to have a unanimate well unanimous Vote or a unanimous decision for the candidate that we're presenting tonight if if I could add one piece I was actually on the decision process last for our last superintendent hire and I was a no vote and part of the reason I was a no vote was because of the process and so I want to Echo what I've heard so far tonight on the process
007so thank you for your words Eugene appreciate those tremendously thank you any of our other board members want to make any comments well we're going through a thorough background check as well um that was one of the things that we were very completed yeah okay great I know that was something um new to me but I appreciate that so I just want to make sure the community knows um process was robust strong I made I made some calls too I think all of us did oh yeah calls to some of the references and um I will say that to say that the feedback was glowing is probably an understatement um one of one of the people that I call him happens to be a friend of mine and she's you know you would think I
008would get the inside scoop and apparently the inside scoop was glowing um so yes that was that was great very good so tonight we're going to introduce our new superintendent and um well yeah we're going to vote and then after after we vote then I am going I want to make a comment on behalf of the board appreciate that go ahead Miss simulton aye Mr Gatewood aye Mr cloaker aye Mr aye Dr Maria aye and Mr Wrong aye motion passes 6-0 oh [Applause] I just want to say a few words about andelieve Calgary um Dr andaleb Calgary is equally an educational systems and cultural change agent with a focus on fiscal responsibility he's a strategic thinker and leads from a lens that students don't fail systems fail Dr Calgary is a relationship Builder which leads
009to trust among students staff and community he communicates a Clear Vision and is the messenger to lead a systems and cultural transformation of transparency and opportunity and a climate of inclusion he's an experienced and proven educational leader and the board looks forward to the progress that he will make toward the vision of our students and District as the new superintendent of community Unit School District 308 welcome Dr Kel Gotti no no pressure or anything 6.2 action item District administrator contract can I have a motion please make a motion to approve of the district administrator contract as presented second Miss venmuth aye Dr Maria aye Mr Mr I Mr Gatewood aye Mr cloger aye motion passes 6-0 action item 6.3 building administrator contract can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the building
010administrator contract as presented second motion passes 6-0 action item 6.4 Personnel report can have a motion please make a motion to approve the Personnel report as presented second Dr Maria aye Miss venmuth aye Mr Cerrone aye Ms simultan aye Mr Gatewood aye Mr cloger aye motion passes 6-0 and pictures yes pictures board all right and Dr Calgary you want to come over this way or where do you want to go well let's let's stand over here [Music] perfect thank you Karen said I have to give you a hug sorry [Music] I'm sorry thank you thank you thank you hello [Music] why did you say thank you [Applause] [Music] um [Music] my life foreign [Music] family [Music] all right come on this is it this is how it starts I think you say 308 yeah [Applause]
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012foreign you don't have to go home but you gotta leave here no I'm just kidding no we're getting ready to go into a closed session and so Dr galgotti thank you so much welcome and um all of your amazing friends and your network of people thank you to all of those who were on the interview committees who came out to support we really appreciate it and um we wish you good night thank you thank you good night thank you take care everybody bye-bye okay don't do we do personal report did we do the personnel make motion to enter closed session under statutes five ilcs 120 2C 16 self-evaluation practices and procedures or professional ethics when meeting with a representative of a Statewide Association of which the public body is a member second Mr Cerrone aye
013Mr Gatewood aye Ms simultan aye Mr pluger aye Dr Maria aye Miss menma aye motion passes 6-0 we are now in closed session all right Laura Martinez 7.2 will now lead us in um board training and self-evaluation yeah that's fine