001Dr Maria present Mr ploger present Miss simultan president miss president please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States for all okay we'll start with 6.1 student recognition well thank you Mrs Hamilton item 6.1 is student recognitions I'm going to ask the board to please join me to the left over here as we receive those who we are recognizing this evening this evening the board of education is proud to acknowledge and recognize the award-winning efforts and accomplishments of our students both in the classroom as well as those who participate in extracurricular and athletic sports during the Spring season our first group of students to be recognized are students from Oswego East High School who competed at the business Professionals of America National Conference BPA has a strong history as a student organization that
002contributes to the preparation of global professionals through the advancement of leadership citizenship academic and Technical now skilled excuse me skills for students students as we call your name if you could come forward here pick up your certificate and then head over to be congratulated by our Board of Education and our superintendent Dr sparlin Tyler Becker Jr National Merit scholar in seventh place in business law and ethics [Applause] Aaron bathra freshman seventh place and computer animation team Jensen coonrad Junior first place in business law and ethics sixth place administrative support concept 7th place computer animation team president's volunteer service award with 250 hours including a letter from the president in the National torch award they are coached by Miss Stacy Sager and Bobby Kaminsky so congratulations we'll ask you to stay for a photo his return
003don't move if there's any parents that want to take a picture you can come up closer if you'd like to take pictures sorry congratulations to those students the next group we're going to recognize this evening are from Oswego High School they competed at the skills USA State leadership and skills conference this is a conference that brings together more than 2 000 Career and Technical education students who compete Hands-On in over 100 different trade Technical and Leadership fields at this time students please come pick up your certificate and head over to be congratulated will Hatfield senior first place gold medal in Nationals qualified and restaurant services Jack Walcott sophomore first place gold medal and National qualified in cabinet making [Applause] Daniel Overstreet Jr Second Place Silver medal and cabinet making Colin Barker senior third place bronze
004medal and cabinet making Caitlin phelp freshman third place bronze medal and baking and pastry art first skillsusa coaches are Kevin patterman and Tom Dwyer at this time any building administrators present yep head on over we'll do a quick photo foreign congratulations [Applause] our next group of students are the boys and girls track and field athletes from Oswego High School in Oswego East High School the following students competed at the Illinois High School Association state championship and were named All State athletes students as your name is called please come forward to be congratulated by the Board of Education and Dr sparlin Haley sariaga Jr from Oswego East 8th Place in pole vault Felicia Booker senior from Oswego High School sixth place and 400 meter Alex test senior from Oswego East 8th Place in 1600 meter thank
005you and Parker and old senior from Oswego East 4th Place and 3200 meter any building administrators or coaches present could you join us for the student photo please [Applause] we'd like to acknowledge some additional students unable to attend tonight's meeting but we would like to acknowledge their accomplishments Lauren Sullivan Jr at Oswego High School for being named the veils graphic designer of the Year valve stands for the valley education for employment system and ensures that Career and Technical education programs and services are provided to Regional youth throughout an integrated delivery system congratulate Lauren and Kelly killing him Junior from Oswego East for placing first in the 14th Congressional high school art competition hosted by congresswoman Lauren Underwood her piece is now displayed for one year in the U.S Capitol at Washington D.C now we have
006several staff members to acknowledge this evening as your name is called please pick up your certificate here and head on over for congratulations we'd like to welcome Dave Jeffers Brokaw Early Learning Center custodian Mr Dave as he's known at Brokaw finished third place in the Cintas custodian of the year 2003 contest he was nominated for consideration based on being a role model for the students at Brokaw as well as for the amount of work he put in after broca suffered a fire that destroyed one of its therapy rooms and severely impacted an inclusive classroom congratulations Mr Dave Stephanie San Roman Oswego High School band teacher Stephanie has been named as one of 30 music teachers from across the country in the 2023 music teachers of Excellence by the Country Music Association CMA Foundation this program
007recognizes Educators who are having the greatest impact on their students using the power of music as an Avenue for change congratulations Stephanie and Mr Kevin schoenbach Oswego High School associate band director [Applause] Kevin has been announced as one of 212 quarter finalists for the music educator award that's presented by the recording Academy and Grammy Museum a total of 212 quarter finalists at up over 2 000 nominations from 197 cities were announced as quarter finalists congratulations Kevin thank you there's any administrators that would like to join our faculty up front we'll do one final photo after something all right thank you [Applause] all right let's give one final round of applause for all of our students and faculty here this evening congratulations is okay item 7.1 is our monthly report of progress from our strategic plan
008in Vision 308 presenting this evening on English Learners is Renee Sartor I don't mind a little louder no good evening so tonight I'd like to talk briefly about the English learner department and how we've contributed to the envisioned 308 goals for this year so our goals for 2026 as we look forward to continuing with Envision 308 is to have a continuous cohesive services for English Learners from Early Childhood up to high school and a plan for continual Improvement and a way to monitor the effectiveness of the different programs for the English learners so for this year one of the indicators of success that we were looking at was to strengthen the Core Curriculum and instruction across the grade levels and monitor their effectiveness so this year core teams in dual language and English learner Services
009worked on bridging instruction and programming from lower to the upper levels there was extensive representation and input on the new language arts and social studies committees that includes the piloting of new materials by the Dual language and English learner teachers a second indicator was to develop common expectations and a way to monitor instruction of English Learners in the various program models so towards this goal kindergarten through 8th grade English learner teachers refined common expectations for instruction and piloted intervention programs at Junior High teachers piloted and they'll expand to other schools and El strategies course which is going to Target language specific goals for the students and dual language teams develop specific look fors for best practices and conducted walkthroughs another indicator of success was to implement a system of assessment that aligns with the goals
010of the El programs specifically monitoring both English and Spanish proficiency kindergarten through 8th grade English learner teachers piloted various assessments and provided feedback as we developed criteria for monitoring the progress of yells during the year and this work will continue over the summer dual language continues to refine the assessment practices looking at available resources taking into consideration the adaption of a new language arts curriculum at elementary and Junior High and students in fifth and 8th grade dual language participated in Spanish language proficiency testing this spring so this year also we continued professional development for administrators and staff of both special education and English learners preschool through 12th grade we looked at the problem solving for English Learners including how to differentiate instruction and provide interventions the English learner and special education departments have shared expertise
011with staff and administrators throughout the year to enhance the knowledge of best practices and problem solving for those duly identified students a final indicator we had for this year was to continue to tailor professional development of the district initiatives such as the literacy and math Frameworks and the new K-8 language arts on social studies curriculum for the teachers of dual language and English learners so during this school year for this during school Improvement days and teacher Institute days we held specific sessions for those teachers and we offered Choice Boards of professional development activities to English learner and dual language teachers looking towards next year are indicators of success that we want to look towards implementing would be to expand professional development on the intersection between English Learners and special education to include additional administrators and
012special education groups and English Learners staff from Early Childhood through High School we will refine and expand the systems to monitor instruction for English Learners and dual language Learners through the implementation of common instructional expectations assessments observations and walkthroughs will continue to provide professional development choices that are tailored to English Learners and dual language administrators and staff and lastly we'll monitor the growth in the Dual language program to determine if additional space or resources are needed our work in the district that we do in the English learner Department connects to the overall District work in the area of Finance we utilize title III Grant funds to provide supplemental materials programs and services to the students and families of English learners our contribution to Student Learning is that students improve their overall academic performance through developing
013their English language proficiency and some do this while also developing Spanish language proficiency additionally our work supports the language acquisition of students to make the academic content comprehensible to them within the framework set forth by the district and the other level departments we assist in Community Partnerships by Bridging the cultural linguistic and knowledge gaps that exist between our multilingual families and the Community Partners we also work with the district departments and schools in partnership with the bilingual parent advisory committee so those have been the contributions this year from the English learner Department thank you so much for that report Renee uh board do you have any questions in regards to the English learner's annual report okay you no you go first no I I I'll admit uh this was crazy um and I'm sorry I
014didn't get this in advance but it's not really too much of a question but I see that there's about 2200 English Learners coming in for 2023 um representing what about 13 of our population and then if you add former El students we're probably looking at a good quarter of our population for at some point English Learners so I mean it's something that we just Community should know and this is something that we need to keep an eye on and do better for our students okay um thank you for all all the information great information lots of great work happening um I have one question and then just one comment that is um for for everyone so my first question is I noticed in the report that there was a jump in students exiting the program
015year over year from four to eight percent uh is that where is that in the trend is that typical is it eight percent more usually the trend is four percent or kind of where is or is it somewhere else I would say eight percent is closer to the trend so that drop and that's been since I've been here were two years of covid where not every student even took the test or attended School regularly or were remote or not remote so that's why you see that that higher amount of students that have exited okay yeah that makes sense thank you my other comment or just this is mostly to my fellow board members is that I was reviewing the plan um or I was reviewing the updates in the presentations um prior to the board
016meeting and one thing that kept happening to me was I was like oh but did it work did it have an impact was it effective and so I don't know if there's this is something we can decide as a board kind so that we can have direction to our Administration but for example I was thinking um what is the way that you monitor you know what is the way that you monitor Effectiveness because you talk about monitoring Effectiveness what was the outcome of the piloted intervention I don't know exactly what what that was uh what was the result of the walkthroughs was the PD effective you know um and how do you know if that PD was effective so I think there's some direction we give to our Administration so that they might be able
017to give us some other more tangible kind of outcomes of what the impact of all the great work that is happening I think that would speak to that work and then also give us an opportunity to you know give you feedback on what um on current practices and what we might look to in the future certainly so thank you and I think one of the things that we're talking about potentially is making sure that directions are clear um as we're leaving the board meeting that there's no confusion so I I agree yeah I'm not asking for those yeah those those things I'm just speaking as a comment I'm sorry to interrupt no no but yeah okay so if we were asking for those things I would say I'm not asking for those things it's just
018a comment head go ahead I had three quick questions so um I noticed that the K through 12 or K-2 had larger numbers and I know that's because we're waiting for them to exit access so I'm not I'm not surprised they're larger numbers but um I noticed that they are larger numbers than they've they're very significant so my question is is this also a reflection of the increase in El students that we have moving into the district yeah definitely so right as students enter as kindergarten for second grade students at those younger grades it does take several years for them to exit out of the process so as students more and more are entering you'll see that cluster in the lower grade level so my second question is I get this question all the time
019so I apologize but I'm going to ask it just because we I filled it a lot do you have any kind of like minimum like hey we need to have this discussion about potentially another language in the district that could fit under dual language is there a minimum threshold where we would start to have that discussion yeah and to that I would say it's not so much a a number of students it's it's several factors first of all if we're looking at another language let's say Russian just to throw out a language um we would look at what are the trends of the students coming in are we seeing that that's a trend that's going to increase and and keep growing not that it's a one or two year influx let's say um also we
020would want to see that there's at least let's say 20 students at one particular grade level uh you know at those lower grade levels to begin thinking of uh actual dual language as opposed to just having a bilingual assistance for the students and I'm assuming that would be per school right 20 per like in a school in a school like you wouldn't want to like if I had wanted a homestead and three at Hunt Club in Fort Long Beach and again yeah I'm talking very minimum hopefully yeah we would look at where they clustered again if they're spread out thin and and there's you know not a lot of students at different buildings because that's a whole so there's a lot to consider besides just the actual numbers so last one I promise uh where
021are we at with DL Junior High when it comes to collaboration for staff and curriculum development we get a lot of those we get a lot of feedback when it comes to Junior High and where we're at a deal so uh this year we've had our eldl coordinator who works there and she's been working with the staff at the junior high as both a coach and a mentor and to also help them bridge and work with the curriculum that they have and bring those strategies to their classrooms we also work with our English learner tosa that assists with bringing the curriculum and helping it be developed at the junior high level as well as in the elementary also the Dual language English learner coordinator at the junior high has worked closely like with our dual
022language core team and is looking at the same set of of criteria to use as best practices that they're using at the elementary to be able to bridge those same practices to the junior high and working on those same criteria for walk-throughs and observations and and using how they can monitor the program at Junior High and I don't expect an answer to this question more of a comment but one thing that you know as we we talk about um inclusion uh I I hope and I'm sure we are but I hope that we're also checking in with with those teachers at the junior high to make sure that they're feeling like the culture is welcoming and they have they have staff and they're not isolated so and thank you for answering my questions appreciate it
023thank you I was just going to explain that tosa is teacher on special assignment we try not to just put acronyms out and not explain them I appreciate that yeah thank you that one I knew that's okay I didn't I didn't know exactly what I meant by new the essence okay we'll move on to 8.1 public comment so 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 of Education 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
024the microphone 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 or responses to questions are permitted the board does not participate in discussions 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 Lisa haranda I'm sure I set this name hi thank you and I'm Lisa Rhoda thank you very much for this opportunity to speak I'm this is in response to the presentation on January 23 2023 regarding the plans for social emotional learning for Community Unit School District 308 presented by Dr Paul and Dr Kincaid thank you for the time and effort put into this plan we especially appreciated
025how students voices were implemented it sounds like 308 is headed in a good direction it was asked how Eating Disorders was addressed in the nutrition curriculum at the high school level following that presentation the response given that the committee did not address eating disorders for this presentation but student services at the high schools will be contacted is what brings me here today to share why it is important and how it does impact the educational environment the honest answer was appreciated it shows where we are now and where we must be vigilant to achieve since some time had slaps between the presentation and today what were the findings when eating disorders was addressed with student services you may have found as evidence shows that contacting student services at the high school levels is a starting point
026but more must be done conversations and training must be had in all grade levels and among all staff they play a critical role in supporting the needs of individuals affected with eating disorders including the language we use in the information presented in order to truly address social emotional learning Health needs Health Nutrition and fitness we must work in collaboration with registered dietitians specializing in eating disorders to bring Eating Disorders awareness into the conversation at all levels and also have evidence-based body image curriculum to assure that we are helping kids this vicious disease is prevalent among all genders ability levels athletic abilities age socioeconomic status and rates over 28.8 people in America will experience an eating disorder which equals about one in nine individuals according to the National Alliance for eating disorders 70 percent of people
027living with eating disorders do not receive treatment despite the statistics hospitalizations for individuals living with eating disorders has more than doubled since the covid-19 pandemic and good treatment is expensive and often comes with a distance but it does not compare what can happen without treatment according to the National Alliance for eating disorders Eating Disorders has the second highest mortality rate second only to opiate use disorder every 52 minutes in the United States someone will lose their life due to an eating disorder Studies have shown that Eating Disorders are prevalent among adolescents and kids starting as young as five to six years old given the severity of the disease we must be careful in displaying stereotypical images of thin celebrities to portray what Eating Disorders look like in fact displaying these images for some challenges people
028who have eaten disorders or who are susceptible to having one to use that image as a Target and even strive for a Slimmer figure having students use BMI calculators having to enter their weight and track their cleric intake daily often produce inaccurate calculations aboard a growing adolescent actually needs and do not take into account activity levels and information that is indirectly entered additionally lessons focusing on calorie counting suggesting to lose one to two pounds a week if weight loss is desired labeling food good or bad only leads to rigid rules around food instead of teaching students to respect their bodies and to learn to have a healthy relationship around food exercise and to learn balance for life this is where it's critical for registered dietitians to be involved in how schools teach nutrition and weight
029management although the intent is good the current practices have significant data to prove that they are ineffective and even harmful so yes please do continue to speak with student services at the high school level to say that they are an incredible team incredible team is an understatement please continue the conversation at all grade levels and within the community please ensure that they are equipped with the tools and training needed although schools may not have the magic cure we can have important conversations with individuals trained in the field to ensure that we are providing the most accurate evidence-based information for all to be healthy no one should ever have to go through an eating disorder those who are affected by an eating disorder need to know that they are not alone and they deserve the right
030information and support if you or someone you know are experiencing easy disorders please reach out until someone helps you there is help and hope and you are worth it thank you thank you thank you Lindsey Robertson foreign my name is Lindsay Robertson thank you so much for having me here um I was previously a dedicated substitute for Fox Chase in 21 22 and then a TA for Fox Chase in 22-23 my daughter Charlie is seven and currently attends Churchill in the cross cap program and 22 the district made the decision to come behind LSP and ISP programs moving the children at Fox Chase to Churchill and vice versa the plan was to have K through third at Fox Chase and fourth through fifth at Churchill the plan was allegedly not discussed with board members it
031wasn't discussed with parents or teachers prior to a decision being made and was made based on data pre-covered the children like my daughter who had already formed friend groups with general education children were ripped from those friendships and forced to start over those children were forced to meet new friends with new teachers and staff and will then be forced to start all over again my daughter alone will move three times in her Elementary career if the plan stays it's hard enough for typical general education children to transition school to make friends let alone special education kids please think about how hard that transition is on a special education child please think about the message you're sending to that child it says the district doesn't care about my needs or my feelings of belonging and a
032sense of inclusion the district does not care how this affects me as a person and student per the idea location and placement are different special education children should be included in the general education or general enrollment numbers they should not have to move schools around the general population because they are part of the general population simply put this is discrimination now those same district officials have made the decision again allegedly without the board's input or the input with from parents staff or teachers in the schools affected to involuntarily reallocate teachers assistance many of whom have had to resign because it's not financially feasible or because they apply to work at certain schools based on the application descriptions which conveniently leave out the information about possibility of having to move this involuntary reallocation which is in
033breach of the Union contract section that states a voluntary transfers must be asked first before involuntary transfers are notified leaves the district short staffed especially the special special education department where there are usually multiple Tas per classroom there will now be less my daughter had a choking incident this year and had there not been the amount of support there was in her classroom it could have been fatal while certain District officials have been trying to make special education students more independent this is actually unhealthy and damaging what happens when District officials are focused on Fading supports denying more one-on-ones and not employing enough Tas this often leads to bad outcomes for students it pre-determines what is going to happen prior to the support being put in place the adults are too focused on Fading those
034supports rather than helping the child we are so focused on an arbitrary timeline created by officials instead of letting what the child needs dictate the program there's too much focus on Independence rather than on building a child's sense of autonomy these decisions say that our special education children are thought of last and aren't a priority to the district which is disheartening why is our motto together we Empower support and motivate our students to thrive along with their unique educational Journey when we're not practicing it I'm imploring the district to think about our special education kids there is currently a petition for change along with several cases where districts who tried similar plans lost one here in Chicago was ruled in favor of the parents by the seventh circuit because they knew the importance of adequately
035including our special education kids behind every child with a diagnosis who got what they needed despite the system working against them is a parent who spent countless hours researching advocating and finding other options when the system fails us we have to become the system currently the parents are that system and we shouldn't have to be thank you for allowing me to seek and thank you Jared for sincerely responding to my email I really appreciate the time you took to listen to a parent and former employee of the district it's what the community needs more of from our board members and District officials thank you thank you Jennifer Snyder thank you hello board members thank you for giving me the opportunity to formally address you my name is Jennifer and up until May 26th I was
036the lead lunch lady at Old Post I was removed from the school as a result of getting involved in school matters I'm not ashamed to tell you that I called 9-1-1 because of a student having a violent outburst my son's class had been dealing with these violent outbursts all year and I only had enough upon evacuating the teacher sent my son to me and his friends followed they showed up crying visibly upset and one of them had been injured these outbursts were always violent and the students were always a witness to this and often injured before the class could be evacuated I watched my son become a very angry resentful and fearful child we put him in therapy to help him cope he has been traumatized that may seem like an exaggeration but I promise
037it is not when that student comes up in conversation my son becomes angry and chokes back Tears by Nature my kid rarely cries that's what these outbursts have done to him prior to this incident we spoke to Mike mitchenson and Michael Swanson they insisted they were working on it they promised us that the well-being of their students was their top priority we asked that our sun be moved to another class that was ignored we asked that the student be monitored at all times that was ignored Mike mitchenson offered to build a relationship with our son as a way to help him cope would you like to know how many times Mike met up with our son to engage in creating that Bond zero in January the same student experiencing these challenges walked away from recess
038and the school didn't notice the student walked to Fruitful Yield where he asked someone to call his mom when his mom called the school to ask where her son was she was told that they were just about to call her read between those lines they had no idea where her child was they were frantically doing what they needed to do to cover their own butts and they were definitely not just about to call her nobody in my son's class thrived this year not the students struggling not their classmates and not their teacher who took time off in order to protect her own mental health their class finished the year behind the other classes as a result of losing so much instruction time Old Post completely failed them I've done my research I know that little
039can be done because the children experiencing these struggles are protected by idea until policies change schools across the U.S are stuck experiencing the same however other districts are trying the administration is being supportive and proactive the students at Old Post do not have that regardless of what you're being told districts have enacted policies that require the schools to document every evacuation and loss of instruction time for all students further the schools require the principal to communicate evacuations to the parents within 24 hours these are steps forward and the minimum that parents deserve I urge the board to come together to work on this issue and consider requiring the same documentation and communication I loved my job I prided myself on building strong bonds with the students I am devastated that I will be there next
040year as a group recruited care about them greatly I would have jumped to help any of them without hesitation I cannot fathom an administrator not doing the same students saw me as a safe space and someone that was there to protect them they did not see this in Mike mitchenson or Michael Swanson I was sternly told by them that I scared the students that fateful morning I asked my son if he felt scared when he saw the cops show up he said no I felt relieved that someone was finally going to protect us granted there were many other students at the school that may have felt differently but to the students that were already scared and had been scared so many times before they saw safety I hope that you begin to discuss doing more
041to help all students cope with these incidents as they are becoming common all students deserve to be safe in school we have to acknowledge that there is a problem and that we must make changes in order to do right by our students I want you to know that I loved my stop my job and those kids so much it was the best damn lunch lady and those kids would agree I've cried a lot but my kids safety comes first thank you for listening thank you so I have one last public comment from a student Sophie it's a car it's her name she states the state of the bathrooms and locker rooms is an issue for many students including myself and she's she says they're worried about it we are saying that the locker rooms are
042very messy in both the boys in the girls rooms a lot of students have previously said that the lockers and the stall doors can't fully close due to not being well maintained due to this many feel uncomfortable due to the lack of privacy people who change in the Coach's Locker Room complain that it is very dirty even even saying there is an unhealthy amount of bugs mainly ants in fact many of the bathrooms are unhygienic there is an issue because of how unhygienic the bathrooms and locker rooms are it can result in the spreading of diseases and viruses such as E coli influenza the common cold Etc there is also a problem with people smoking vaping in the bathrooms people going to the bathrooms to smoke and or vape is also an issue because it
043can release harmful Vapors which can make the bathrooms difficult to breathe in also if students seeing other students smoking and vaping they may start to vape as well unfortunately there isn't much we can do about the smoking vaping issue other than trying to discourage smoking and vaping and maybe implementing smoke alarms however there are many ways to take care of the other issues with the school bathrooms for example we can use some of the school's budget to fix the doors and lockers as well as implementing more things to improve the cleanliness of the bathrooms and locker rooms one thing we can do is to have exterminators come in to get rid of the bugs we could also have the bathrooms cleaned by janitors on a daily basis we should also try to fix or get
044new lockers and bathroom stalls thank you for your time Sophia ithacar okay we'll move on to 9.1 superintendent report well good evening board it's good to see you everyone uh tonight is my final board meeting as your superintendent and the the phrase is the phrase that uh the older we get time seems to move faster or um time goes by fast when you're having fun I have certainly found to be true I've had the opportunity to say our see you laters at the uh when I was honored at the retirement dinner on May 27th I appreciate all the kind words that everyone said about me it was something that was very appreciated appreciated and something I know all of our retirees will truly cherish so I've said I've sincerely enjoyed the past 11 years and
045308 I will carry the memories and those friendships with me forever I look forward to meeting at my successor and I wish you all the very best and Mrs Hamilton that is my final report [Applause] I was here when you were you're hired on for the first time and here I am again and so and so thank you for all your dedication to um and greatly appreciated I've appreciate all the conversations and my learning thank you Jared I appreciate it it has been a wonderful Journey okay 9.2 student ambassador reports so I'll also echoing that thanks thank you Dr sparlin for everything you've done for us so in the last few weeks of school the ssac met a few times to disaggregate data we focused mostly on staff student interactions in student student interactions we
046all agreed that us as students additionally need to take accountability for our successes but also our failures and we recognize that there is a generational gap between us as students and teachers and other Administration we talked about respect and how we can go about receiving help and asking for that help one of the big things that we also talked about was implicit bias and where we can see that in our schools and I'd like to share with you just a few of the like major ones we found those were favoritism uh a lot of people witnessed that it happened but couldn't like name specific ones microaggressions genders treated differently not understanding cultural backgrounds and dis and teachers discouraging students from challenging class work and other courses so those were like some of the big pieces
047of data that we found in next school year we hope to look into them more yeah um and just building off of these staff student interaction piece the ssac also looked a lot into um why there's uh the relationship gaps as well between students and teachers a lot of that comes with confidence that students help with their teachers um and that can come from a variety of things whether that be a cultural how they're raised maybe just their own environmental factors or their own self-image but it's also a big problem because it talks a little bit about how students feel these relationships impact their academics several students know that there are things like tone the way teachers talk to you the effort they put in to talk to you the way they look at you
048or where you're seated in the classroom those are the things that determine if a teacher likes you and oftentimes those things can determine if you'll do well in a class or not because oftentimes those implicit bias factors come in and suddenly you're not being treated the same as another student this can impair one's learning in the classroom the f effort they put into the classroom or their learning in general a couple of things that we wanted to focus on next year action wise because we spent a lot of this school year doing a lot of research and pushing out surveys is doing one-on-one dialogues with teachers and students we've done our fair share of surveys and we want to get some more personal feedback as of now we want to use evaluation tools early in
049the year probably two to three weeks in the first semester on how students feel the course is going for them the ssac and several students outside of it noted that we do get course evaluations at the end of the year and by the time that happens no improvements can be made to your own learning and you can't verify if it's being implemented in the next year because you would have already passed out of the course by putting in or mandating evaluations throughout the year these improvements are seen by the students and change has to be made getting to know students learning cycles and having consistency about things like late policies homework these are the things that can build a structured environment the action for the fall that we want to take the most important one
050is building a survey for the teachers and this gets a little bit tricky but the big biggest reason we wanted to do this is because we've gotten a lot of insight from students about how they feel they have to build these relationships relationships in order to succeed they feel forced to try to get on the good side of the teacher in order to get an A in the class and this shouldn't be required you're receiving education and the effort you put in should be how well you engage in the classroom not getting on a teacher's good side but at the same time we've never gotten the teacher's perspective on how they feel about the students how their judgment about a student is impaired by what other teachers say about a student in particular and we
051wanted to look into that a couple of the questions we wanted to ask is how do you build a supportive environment for all of your students not why or if they do because they'll all say like of course we do and then we'll never know how they do it what prevents you from being vulnerable with students communication but from students to teachers and vice versa has been a really big aspect of this year how do how does your narrative impact your ability to have relationships with students who have a different narrative than you whether that be ethnic racial cultural religious or otherwise we definitely wanted to touch into these things in order to bridge some of those gaps that seem a little bit spread apart right now that was a lot of talking but I
052guess those are a couple of the things that we wanted to work on for next year action based with all the research that we've accumulated over the past year thank you very much just I love the evolution yeah beautiful but a Capstone yeah appreciate it so 9.3 board committee reports we have a policy report and a legislative report and those reports have been posted to board docs so what does our board do our board members have any questions for those two committees I mean I do have a policy question but I think I'll wait until we make the motion to talk okay um we'll move on then to 9.4 board member comments and um our vice president has going to speak on behalf of the board for comments for Dr sparlin so as Dr sparlin
053just mentioned this is his last meeting and I know we had a chance to express our gratitude at the retirement celebration but I thought it was apropos for us to appreciate you publicly and so uh Dr Sparling you really spent decades serving the students and staff with compassion your love for students and your commitment to staff is evident in every single interaction you have led SD 308 through times during times of uncertainty and it was your passion for people they gave so many the reassurance of what was possible your tireless efforts your long days and nights and your thoughtful gestures of appreciation let others know just how much you cared not just about their success but their well-being your support for students expanded beyond the classroom especially due to your love for sports you have
054serve SD 308 in a variety of roles and with many hats all with the purpose of empowering supporting motivating all students to thrive along their unique educational Journeys Dr sparlin thank you for your Decades of servant leadership and on behalf of the entire Community Union School District 308 we wish you well in your next chapter thank you [Applause] um thank you so much for that Mr Gaywood thank you anyone else with bored comments for tonight all right we'll move on to 10.1 the consent agenda are there any questions on the consent agenda not can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda please uh make a motion to prove all items under consent including 8.1 minutes from the May 8 2023 Board of Education meeting open and closed session minutes from the May 22nd
0552023 special closed Board of Education meeting 8.2 to acknowledge the foia hold on a second let me start over because it says 10 sorry I'm scratch that I make a motion to approve all items under consent including 10.1 minutes from the May 8th 2023 Board of Education meeting open and closed session minutes from the May 22nd 2023 special closed Board of Education meeting 10.2 to acknowledge the foia requests received by the district and 10.3 to acknowledge the gifts and or donations received by the district second um real quick I do have a comment on the 10.3 since it's been motion has been seconded I just want to take a moment to say thank you to the businesses in the community that support our schools in the ways that are highlighted in 10.3 I hope people
056look at the list and I hope they support our partners who help our schools Mr Gatewood aye Ms Johnson aye Mr Plover aye motion passes 7-0 item 11.1 is information on financial statements does the board have any questions on what we've presented this evening item 11.2 is information from conversations held with the school Day committee Mrs dalquist will present what the committee came up with thank you uh School Day committee has done an incredible amount of work and it is not finished most of the work will be still continuing when we meet back in fact we felt it was so important that we already have a date on the books for September 12th but this uh highly committed group of people met frequently uh this year some of this work was actually had been going
057on three four years ago as we attempted to do some of these things for quite some time there has been interest uh in trying to find out a way to have our elementary school day end earlier especially in the winter months our students go home in the dark and our teachers report that the end of the day is very tiring for a lot of our students so that was something that we looked at we also tried to address the long lunch periods at Junior High those of you who have ever supervised a junior high lunchroom you know that a lot of additional downtime is sometimes not a great thing so that is something that we tried to look at and then we also tried to look at how a later start might affect high school
058students and looked at some of the brain research there I wish I could tell you that we were super successful um but it was a very difficult job for those of you who don't know most of our buses run three routes they do a high school route and a junior high and an elementary and because we use the same bus drivers to do that you have to have enough time to drop off students go back out into the community pick up kids come back to the next level of school those pieces and really takes about 40 to 50 minutes of time in between arrival and 40 minutes at dismissal it's a little bit faster at that time so we redid no exaggeration probably close to 50 different iterations of schedule changes if all levels could
059go at eight o'clock we would be done that is the prime time that every single level would like but as I said you've got to have a level before that and a level after that and there wasn't easily found a way to meet all of those pieces so as we went through and talked about all the different ways that we might do this we only came up with one acceptable piece which is a very very slight small schedule change for the proposal for next year so right now as it stands and we went back and forth we did staff surveys to everyone our Union leadership was really helpful in all of this is to leave High School alone with student and staff day being the same shorten the Junior High student Day by five minutes
060and that's to decrease all passing periods and you might say well faith we have more than five passing periods why wouldn't it be shorter than that we are going to then give those other three minutes back to student support time which our administrators are really excited about that and then that leaves that we have a five minute shorter day to then be able to shorten Elementary Day by five minutes but I want to point out to everyone that the teacher day would not be changing at all so our elementaries right now there's no one to supervise students right away so students come in but you can imagine in kindergarten in November when they come in with their snow suits and their mittens and they're all those things it takes a while to get instruction going
061so by having our teachers available earlier than that we'll actually be letting in students and be able to start instruction a few minutes earlier again a whole lot of work for not a whole lot of change but we would be then coming back to the board for this proposal in July but then continuing the work on what we need to do next year there's still a great interest in shortening Junior High lunch and figuring out how to do that and with the current contractual supervisions the administration did not see how to do that right away we do have a junior high that's going to be piloting some things so hopefully we'll have some more ideas on what to do with that and then we would still really love to be able to figure out a
062way to have Elementary start we looked at flipping different levels but could not come to consensus on that a lot of studies out there that show that high school should start later so obviously with that there wasn't a lot of give on uh there is a high school I think would be overjoyed it's starting at the 7 45 or 8 o'clock time then you would need to have Elementary start that much earlier or have Junior High start that much earlier and looking at whether we want elementary to start at 7 15 or 7 10 in the morning and what those pieces look like we also thought when we looked at whether we could change high school there are some things that if we started that work early in the fall that would impact Athletics would
063impact other of those things that by February and March some of that motion for the next school year for some of those after school competitions was already in motion so that's why we're starting earlier weren't a regular as a Committee Member but I was on the phone a lot with Mike de Armand and we wrote different schedules and looked at different ways to do that so he was on consult a lot I think it's incredibly important to have all the people that are that the changes affect in the room and make sure that everybody's represented there and I just want to put an exclamation point on what Mrs similton said there's so much research out there for both high school students and elementary students and I the sports thing is a whole nother animal in
064and of itself but I you know I do hope that we dig into that because it affects outcomes and achievement so um I look forward to the next iteration of what this looks like do we have supports in mind for junior high or or or some I know you said there's a pilot but is there just something to give them because 41 minutes for I don't even 41 minutes to eat lunch and I mean I've seen my my two boys when they were in junior high it does not take them 41 minutes to eat I don't care how much food I put in front of them I think I take them 41 minutes to eat that food so I'm just curious like is there something and that is one of the things that Shannon looters
065and I have been looking through as we look at contractual language in those pieces what are some of our supervisions and how we can support and have more staff there and we're optimistic that with what we're planning in the fall we'd be able to make more permanent changes well I appreciate that you know the one thing that I would say to that is um yeah and I think it was to your point right that it's it's idle time and so listen I'm happy that there's more staff there to help commiserate if you will for nothing else but the the real problem is it's idle time uh and so I don't I'm not saying I have a solution but I mean to me that's that's the piece here is you bring you're bringing in huge amount
066of students and right here you go right so I I appreciate the work I don't want to sound non-appreciative and we agree with you that it needs to be addressed um so this is me personally but I don't know if anybody else would agree but if if we were to have ideal brain research based start times um I would be interested to know what would the financial considerations be because it seems like we're going off of zero Financial considerations so if we were to run multiple um buses or not have a bus driver do three routes and only have them do two I would I mean I don't know how that control actually works um but I I would like to know um so we can determine if that's something that needs to bring pre-prioritized
067we did entertain and have our director of Transportation price out on what that would look like to try to have only two um each of our bus drivers I have approximately two routes the price was quite sizable but really why we rejected that is you would need that many more bus drivers to to you know to do some of those pieces and then they wouldn't have as much work to do because their hours would be even less than that I I I totally get that um so yeah I could see how feasibility and you know Financial restraints but uh yeah it's just something they would I wouldn't mind just knowing more about the numbers uh because we did look at that at um how costly or how um practical it would be to entertain an
068idea like that do do we know and any large unit district that's pulled this off and if if so do we do we know how they did it to combine bus routes by levels I believe to figure to figure out how to do yeah to figure out how to send our students to school at the optimal times so I don't know yeah that's the only way to do it sure but I mean you know I mean I mean so obviously districts that are K-8 or just high school it's a lot easier to do that but I believe and I don't know if it's still this year but I know in the past uh Naperville 203 did decide to spend the money to have less routes and have like Elementary and Junior High at the same
069time so that it would just have that many more pieces to do that that was quite a sizable amount back when I was in the know on how much that was costing there aren't a whole lot of K-12 districts that have done the flip of having Elementary you know start at those early pieces we weren't aware of anybody locally that had done that switch that's K-12 but then we've worked the schedules it's doable it's just how palatable is it for the change and what the impact of either junior high or High School athletics is to be that much later I tend to agree with Dominic I would at least like to see what it looks like I think it's a great Point Dominic and equally I would like us for to to help with the
070education process of all of this which is hey if what do those districts look like that have been able to do it to your point um you know this is how Illinois is the Unicorn right the K-8 the 9 through 12 and the unit district so what does that look like sure you wanted to see samples of the schedules that we made or just to see what other districts well I'm not going to speak Dominic's going to be able to articulate what he wants more but for me a Mayan to add to what he wants I just want to know which large unit districts have pulled this off because I think also understanding listen let's look at their their ebf rating right I mean if they're funded above 100 that tells us something right away
071if that's who's pulling it off I have a feeling it's a it's a large number because you probably have minimum hours right you know in the OTA and then they're not working those holidays there's it's going to be sizable but I still would I would I'd be interested okay okay but isn't there also an element of we used to run less routes and we did this before so I understand there's a bus driver shortage on many levels I understand it but you know do we see our contract that was ratified does that help are we going to see a trend in you know having more bus drivers I I think we need to be prepared to do what is best for student outcomes so that it might take us a year to do an exercise
072like this so having that information in our pocket and able to understand what those implications are you know is there are there grants we can go for are there I mean I know that seems to be what we always say is there a grant you know that requires time and you know and then with time to write those I I understand all that but I think um being able to be equipped with that information and understanding the different levers of the budget and how they can be changed is very helpful for the board to be able to make and help with those decisions no I go ahead I I didn't I didn't pose this but um I'm maybe making having you take a um you know a trip down memory lane was there there I'm
073pretty sure there was a time when one of the big savings was to kind of go to the scheduling with the transportation where it was is that something during your time or I I remember three tier rods the whole time I've been here three tour routes all the time right I just remember there was something with the consolidation but maybe it wasn't that okay so is the board asking for a presentation on or what are we asking for because I want her to be clear when she walks away what it is that we want from her well can I ask one other question in between I I assume you've looked at these already but have you looked at doing something in between like maybe flip high school and Junior High we've looked at you know
074starting with Junior High and then going Elementary and all the different orders all the different iterations we went through and went uh took surveys back to all staff all of those pieces I wouldn't mind just a just a report from the you know from the committee in our Wednesday updates or whatever um you know after their third meeting or second meeting or whatever just you know a financial implications yeah yeah something to answer your question you can help me out here Dr Sparrow and I think what he's referring to and I could be wrong but I think what you're referring to the point was I think there was a time where we had students who were being bussed who actually were within a certain amount and we we drew that back if I remember correctly
075right like we had students who were within that within that walking threshold and I think we we kind of Drew that back a bit if I remember correctly sometimes the reason for the transportation being provided within that 1.5 miles is due to certain construction and then when that construction goes away the transportation goes away as well right yeah so I think I think that might be what you're referring to because there were some reductions due to due to a long time ago yeah agreed yeah and the one what I read you're probably right though there was a time where we had we had more bus stops and we reduced the distance so we reduce the number of stops kids walk to the near another bus stop not a good one but you know what I
076mean exactly exercise it would be helpful to have some data-based research behind if if these were if this was the scenario if we were to flip High School in elementary here's the financial implication here's the data behind that being driven towards what is best for student outcomes and then the reality comes into play we can't afford that but I think it's incredibly important to know what that looks like yeah so as Faith said she had like 50 iterations of what they went through so I'm sure most of what you're asking for she already has so I'm sure she can put something together it wasn't data driven it wasn't data driven based on optimal up start times and end times for we did look into brain research around the high school piece especially of what time
077of day definitely Brain Research in your adolescent 10 o'clock would be a wonderful time to start school as far as brain health but if you go that late into the day that also affects students ability to work be part of Athletics you know do all of those but like 7 15 to 10 there's like a week ahead towards the other way but then Elementary too like you know as an elementary parent well no longer but kids being in school until almost four o'clock is there's not near as much extensive research on what the optimal time to end for elementary is but definitely that peak time eight o'clock in the morning again is a really great start time as far as brain health for the elementary age child and obviously there's a wide difference between a
078kindergartner and a fifth grader yes um on you know where that piece is but the committee did look into those pieces as well I think you hinted at this but the other piece that I probably would want to see in there is the re the the reality or the realistic ability to recruit the staff that would be needed in order to do that feasibility even yeah labor markets type this is a great committee though yeah I'd like to reiterate all the work that you and the committee did because a lot of time and effort went into like Faith said a lot of time and effort went into this very small change but I think it's weighing in some real really really great foundational work for when it comes next okay so just I want to
079check in on the timing of that report because the proposal right now is to come back you know to our July board meeting to see about the five-minute change are you wanting to see all of those pieces in a report no I think we can okay yeah I just wanted to clarify thank you you got a lot going on is the five so we had all of the administrators uh and the significant um piece of the all of the almost all the committee members are oea members uh any new membership and we debated about that because certainly our Elementary staff that really were asking for this are like five minutes really that wasn't you know the piece of that and we debated that quite a bit and decided that yes that our Elementary staff was
080asking for this so much and that we wanted to have less downtime at transition for junior high in between periods and can build some that we decided that it was worth it because we did talk about really we're going to go to a board report and to do all of these things for a five-minute change but that's where we landed so yeah so it was worth it for me yeah thank you all right item 11.3 is an update in regards to the Montgomery request for a partial tax abatement and Dr petsky's going to lead us through his presentation I brought a guest with me today so I've got Brittany thies from whitlaw Brittany there's a lot of property work so a lot of tax work works with me on the levy and a lot of
081financial projections so I appreciate all the time and effort that she puts in working in the business office and so now we have uh we have our village of Montgomery development abatement update as you recall I presented something back on April 11th I just wanted to follow up with the board on where we are in that process also if I could point out we have an audience member so Kate coxsworth she's an industrial broker with jll so she's been working very closely with the developers people interested in the uh the property as well as the village Montgomery and putting some of these land incentives together so nice to have you all right um just for a little bit of project background because it's been a little while so especially for Amy and Mary Jo so
082the village of Montgomery's economic development office has been working on a series of projects that include Parcels of currently undeveloped land I'll show you where that is in just a minute so taxing by bodies that have been invited to consider this abatement are the village of Montgomery the wabanzi Community College Kendall County and the school district and I'll Define I'll talk about real quickly what an abatement is here in a few minutes and basically there's companies and developers who are seeking incentives to choose specific sites and property for their developments so the property that we're talking about is if you take Route 30 out to Orchard Road and down by Galena road kind of where the old Caterpillar plant was there is some vacant land that you can see here and there's a proposal to
083put some facilities in there this is an industrial property development which we haven't seen for a while usually we're looking at residential so drive down Route 30 and you'll see a lot of houses and homes and residential so this is industrial property proposals so real quick just uh let you know again what a property tax abatement is property tax abatement is just a way to support and promote the expansion of existing businesses to a new location and the incentive is if they pay a property tax bill we give them a portion of that property tax bill so they can use it to invest in the property development so anything to add onto that one good I did a really terrible job explaining that one last time so uh property of a abatement what I did
084want to show is that current property we called the county office and got the parcel numbers that are looking at being developed so here you can see the property acreage you can see what their current assess values are and based on those eavs or the assessed values the district received tax receipts on each one of those Parcels it comes out to about 6443 thousand dollars per year is what we get in tax revenue so I'll come back to that number in just a minute as we look at the investment and the property development all right so since April 11th the village of Montgomery has provided an estimated property tax analysis so I'll share that with you tonight and just reiterate that that's an estimate what the village has at this time Kendall County has provided
085some comparable abatement agreements that were significantly shorter in time as well as lower percentages if you recall for this abatement they were asking for about a 10-year abatement and wanted to entertain the idea of a 75 percent abatement for five years and a 50 abatement for the last five years so um and one of the things I think is important to point out here too the agreements that we had they're not only significantly shorter and lower percentages but they were also a lower investment so this is a much higher investment uh 40 million dollars versus 400 million dollars so um also uh those agreements included some limitations on property tax challenges what they call or refer to as a clawback Kendall County Board voted to send their request to the committee to hold that was
086back in March about March 17th they took action at the board level gave it to the committee as a whole and there's been no further public action on that um the village of Montgomery did take action they voted to negotiate an incentive agreement for 10 years with a property tax abatement of 75 for the first five years and then a 50 abatement for the second five years so again if we collect a hundred dollars the first the first year they're asking for 75 dollars back to invest in the property in the business or the last five years they're asking for half of that back as well and I'll point out I do have a summary slide that Brittany and I were working on um that will highlight what what that abatement could look like um
087so that was the village of Montgomery also waubonsie Community College held a meeting on May 17th with uh with no further public comment they did have some questions they had some questions answered but there was no other discussion after that so this is a very tiny slide that basically shows this is the assessment uh data that the village of Montgomery provided for us and what it illustrates is across the top is every taxing body and I think one of the reason you're not seeing we're not seeing a lot of action from the other taxing bodies is their their taxing rates are so much lower than ours so for example um I can't even read it myself you know we've got the county at point six percent where the school district's at 6.3 percent oh hey
088thank you technology people look at there I can I can see so um much better so across the top you see all of the uh all of the taxing bodies so say the school district there 6.3 percent Oswego fire 0.6 the county point six the junior college 4.4 um Fox Valley Park District 0.4 so one of the reasons we're not seeing a lot of action is because people are waiting to see um the the person who values the most from the property taxes what are they going to do or what are they willing to do so scroll over to the left side again and going down horizontally then what we see are the two Big Blocks there's a phase one at the top and then below the line at the bottom lot two is kind
089of the northern site or a second phase so at the top there what you'll see is uh the land in question and what the eav is on that um and then you see the building so building a phase one building B phase two and the additional building and I think it's important to point out here that the assessments we see the value is only on the buildings it doesn't include the value of the property and other things like that so you can now see um the average value per square foot that data again was provided by the village of Montgomery using some comparable comparable development uh back from like 1994 1998 when they saw those happening so one of the questions the district has is is that a current assessment or are those values accurate
090but based on what we've got here you can see the average value per square foot you can then see the estimated eav and then the years that those developments would be taking place and then you can see based on our tax rate and the new eavs how much tax dollars the district would receive and the yellow line below that then is kind of showing so that uh the one 504 thousand dollars if we were to Abate 50 of that it would be 252 thousand dollars or if we do about 75 percent of that you can kind of see what those figures calculate at the bottom so um I think what I'll do is I'll flip to the summary page to kind of give you some highlights but this is kind of the data that that
091we use to make those calculations yeah go ahead on a couple of the assumptions that went into Brittany could you use the microphone please thank you Dr petsky hit on a couple of the assumptions that went into these calculations he took data from the village and took it to the next level just for comparisons there are a couple of assumptions that you need to be aware of not because we would suggest other assumptions you have to have some factors to use to work from you acknowledge the fact that the assessed value that's being used to calculate the abatement amount is based on averages in the property tax Arena when we're looking at the assessed value of a property it's supposed to be set at one third of the fair market value when Township assessors and
092the board of review property tax appeal board are setting the assessed value they're looking at the cost approach the income approach and the sales comparison approach so they would be adjusting for factors like age size location like you alluded to at the age through this process the district and the other taxing bodies are in a unique position to have more information about the cost of this particular project in a way that you wouldn't necessarily have access to that when you are at the property tax appeal or complaint stage I caution when looking at these numbers not because of any of the preparers of the spreadsheet but just because there have been a number of transitions over the last couple of months that mean we've had different pieces coming from different parties and I think we're
093still looking to narrow down what the district's estimates would be these calculations assume the district continues to have a flat tax rate so that's one of the factors when you're using a spreadsheet you have to have inputs to use we didn't artificially come up with something different and like Dr pesky mentioned the abatement is calculated on the building The Improv Improvement alone as opposed to the land value you'll see in this spreadsheet that I believe it was upper 3 million 3.1 million assessed value for the land that is different than what you saw in that prior spreadsheet where the taxes were calculated for this property we've also seen information that the land acquisition was in the 16 million dollar range so we're seeing it move in the right direction in these calculations but there's still
094a lot of movement that could happen and we just want to caution the board when looking at these numbers that is for purposes of you having some numbers in front of you but with those factors in mind so are there any additional I'm sorry I don't ask premature questions but any So based on this spreadsheet are you saying that the numbers based on these assumptions can change but are there are all of the assumptions listed within this spreadsheet and we just understand that the percentages or anything else or it may shift based on this but there's nothing missing on here for us to not consider the request from The Village at this point and from the developer is for a 10-year abatement by the first five years at 75 the second set of five years
095at 50 there's some discussion of whether though that 10 years is going to be a flat 10 years or whether it's going to be staggered that is the certain component of what the request is and for the board Dr Patsy will get into it but whether you're prepared to State a position tonight whether you need more information the spreadsheet is one set of calculations of what that could mean for the district so kind of like Britney said it depends on the appraisal are they using the cost method are they using the income method the sales method how are they looking at that and that would change some of the numbers here so this is based on the uh this is based on the cost um method Brittany and I worked a long time to take
096all that spreadsheet data and kind of come up with an easy potential summary what this could look like so this is probably the most important slide here that I want you to kind of see So currently the district's annual tax receipts as I said earlier was six thousand four hundred forty four dollars in undeveloped land so over a 10-year period we would be looking at getting sixty four thousand dollars well the proposed tax receipts based on the village Montgomery estimates that they provided over 10 years would increase that to 20 million dollars or an average of about two million dollars a year so at a proposed 10-year abatement five years at 75 percent in five years at 50 percent the district would collect that 20 million we would give back 12 million that would be
097the abatement to the developer and the district would realize 7.9 million dollars in improved Revenue to the district over 10 years so the note at the bottom there just those calculations uh presume a maximum of 10 years of abatement and not separate 10-year timelines for each one of those phases any questions on that one staggered over 10 years versus being they're doing like a 2024 development and then a 2029 so it would be a 10-year developer but this is a 10 10 years from 2024 and not in that 2029 and adding extra years onto the abatement somebody don't know what they're asking for um well right now what they're asking for is they're asking for us to consider a 10-year abatement as well at oh go find out okay hi there hi hello hello I'm
098Kate nice to meet you guys um a couple things to talk about so this is um I deal with Industrial in the entire Chicago Market I would not consider Montgomery Illinois um what we call kind of a central node or something that people are jumping at to go to develop um for that reason we are focused mostly on what's called a bill to suit so these are sites that we know the maximum far meaning the maximum building size that we can build on a 200 Acre Site we are going to the market to try to attract the best companies to come relocate to Montgomery Illinois and why I think that's important is that everyone knows that the economy is kind of dipping a little bit um it's critical in our opinion to be able to
099have some incentives in place to attract the best companies to relocate here and we're competing with a lot of other sites across both the state of Illinois and also Indiana and Wisconsin that might have some better tax incentives than we have here in Illinois that's our primary focus and I just want everybody the other part is that the abatement doesn't go to the developer we have nothing to do with it this is going to be passed directly onto the tenant so we're we're aligned in trying to get the goal of getting you know a Fortune 100 a fortune 200 to get some sort of replacement for a caterpillar that went away that's what we're trying to do here the other piece of it is that we the southern Hundred Acres we are pretty confident we
100know who that's going to be and then there's a couple other buildings that we're still talking through right now some of them could have a higher dollar amount as far as the build goal goes one of the which is a cold storage facility which is a much higher dollar per square foot development transaction so that's something that's going to impact you guys as well so this is not like we're not building strip malls basically right like we're looking for like warehouses and so forth where where have you got it kind of the benefit right and the benefit is that doesn't add a lot of load to the school district it doesn't add a lot of seats to the classroom it adds a huge diversification of your tax basis right these are not residential homes this
101is you know Industrial yeah and the reason I ask is you know I'd be very leery to say okay I'm going to put a strip mall here and give I don't know a pizza place now an upper Edge on pizza places that's just an example nothing against pizza places um you know a disadvantage so that would be my problem with this but if you're telling me this is distribution warehouse type thing then that that puts it different look on things for me and the build a suit aspect I think is important too there's you know two main kind of abatement or incentive packages is more beneficial to the developer and you can do abatement which is more beneficial to the actual company that you guys are going to have in your in your community part
102of your activities and kind of build you know we've talked to the Community College a lot about some sort of program to help students and and interact with the community more than just a traditional kind of speculative industrial building where you we don't know who's going to go in there we have we're asking for a little bit of time so that we can go out and find the best for you guys and for us um so that's why we kind of wanted that phased approach as well because if we kick it off you know we're planning to start moving dirt this summer so this is not 10 years in the future this is like we want it we're ready to go and we would like we would like to do that well I don't I
103don't know if um latonya's question was answered the staggered on the on the abatement part had some talks with the village of Montgomery and as they mentioned they are the ones that have really they've drafted an ordinance and and we're reviewing it with their attorneys um the southern Hundred Acres had a three a three very distinct phase build and so we had asked originally that that abatement starts by phase so that they can capture the most of the 10 years because if they build a 500 000 square foot building in July that's done by 2024 and they don't start their second phase until 2027. does that cut is it the same 10-year clock because they haven't actually built that building so that's why we asked for a little bit of leeway there um but I
104believe that how the village kind of took this they gave us until 2026 to start so anything from now until 2026 we get a little flexibility the time clock the time starts when the building is complete but outside of 2026 because if you guys are counting on revenue and you're asking us to help you get more Revenue we want to make sure that we do that now instead of 10 years from now so who makes the final decision on the on the abatement agreement is is that basically one by the village is it run by whoever's moving into the location or so you've got you've got two different proposals out here of abatement agreements yes yes I would assume that overall there ends up just being one abatement agreement that everybody abides by I so
105you can do it two ways I think Kendall County typically from my experience wants to do one ordinance that is similar because from Simply from an administrative perspective it's a lot to try to do different levels at different taxing bodies I'm sure you guys have a lot of taxing bodies so um that's the first piece and the second piece is we do have the ability and that is totally within jurisdiction I'll let you answer that but that you can have different agreements with different taxing budgets no thanks so in my estimation all abatement regardless of when they start will be done by 2036. okay so how did you by any chance work on and it might not be an abatement so I need correction on that first but in D300 with the Sears campus did
106you work on that yeah okay so there were some issues with that and I'm not totally sure and it was abatement if you know but with the payout to the district what does that look like and then such as Sears when they then left Illinois and they are now not around what does that look like let's say that happens in year eight of the 10 years what how do we rely on this income I guess is what I'm asking just if you're okay with it that Dr pesky moved on to a side where I think that it's built okay thank you and if it turns out that we don't he I do want to briefly note that I had an opportunity to speak with Kate outside and that was the first that we knew that
107that I knew that there was an ordinance even being drafted yet so I think there's some communication that we are trying to adjust through through some of the transitions at the county and at the village we have seen a number of recent abatement agreements from the county and that's what Dr petsky spoke to earlier those had these claw back protections yeah that you'll get to and that we think are important so that you're not encouraging investment in properties that are significantly larger than anything else that you have which also makes them more challenging to repurpose later yes so I'll let you move on to the next part and all right so just wanted to point out again just real quickly the community and District benefits you know based on the estimates that were shared by
108the village of Montgomery the proposed projection projects show promising indicators of development related investments in the community um increase in eav investments in infrastructure and utilities there's a large capital outlay for the the facilities there's some anticipated job creation and potential future site development that's that build the suit area that we were talking about and uh for us that additional industrial eav resulting in tax revenue for the school district and the other taxing bodies that's not dependent on the residential building that we see a lot of so I I'm assuming um a lot of work has been done in the consideration for the 75 and 50. um does it is it in line with uh what you would expect given you know the the issues facing you know this particular location anything along those lines
109or um it's kind of counting on counting on you to well you know I think a lot of the conversations we're having kind of what I'm hearing the board saying is like who who's the ultimate Authority and the ultimate Authority in this is the village of Montgomery so they're the ones who are going to decide the businesses that they bring in and how they bring those businesses in and they as I said earlier I can see why they were in favor of the uh the abatement at 75 for five years and 50 for the remaining five years it's a large investment um but that's again that's missing some of the details um in the application process so here I'll read through my administrative recommendation um based on the value to the community and the tax
110revenue scenarios that we just showed you you know going from 64 000 to 7.9 million with the abatements in that scenario that were provided by The Village Montgomery uh School District administration understands why the village Montgomery publicly supported the 10-year abatement and what we would recommend is that Administration recommends support for the commercial development but we also make sure that that support is contingent upon the final abatement agreement something for the board to take action on and that includes a school district as a party containing some adequate protections things like clawbacks that we were talking about Visions described and that actually comes from the question was asked where does that come from that's uh through the account the County's abatement application um so Kendall County has that in there including limitations on tax challenges which
111would require additional discussions regarding minimum assessed values that's kind of what happened with the Sears property is they they challenged the value of the taxes and was lowered and the school district actually went to Springfield to argue against the lowering of that assessment so that's something that we want to be proactive in so we recommend that we the administration recommends that we continue to focus on those protections even if the Board of Education expresses support for different abatement durations so the 10-year timeline as well as different percentages but I think it's important to note again the village of Montgomery did vote on a 10-year 75 some 50 percent but that just gave them the ability to then negotiate the terms and the draft proposal that's what we'd be looking at as well okay now that
112I understand this a little better um so I mean maybe this is for Kate I mean the the you know the last couple bullet points here those are pretty standard uh this isn't going to be something that um hinders anything um I don't think so when Brittany and I were talking about this we had mentioned that the the framework for the draft Proposal with the tax considerations and those other contingencies that's that's something that is addressed in the Kendall County application and something that we would expect to see but with all of those kinds of eyes dotted T's cross applications filled out and whatnot um would the board be interested in that type of arrangement a 10-year abatement at those percentages to attract the businesses to our area but we do bring up those protections
113specifically tonight because in some of the conversations it has become less clear whether that is in fact a deal breaker for the developer and we don't know that and that might be why you were directing the question to Kate their conditions and protections that we regularly recommend be included in these agreements their standard in the Kindle County application and they are in the other agreements that Kendall County has entered into and shared in the background you talked about whether these are standard amounts that are being requested I believe it was an earlier slide that talks about the recent abatement agreements that were shared with us that were three years in length for the abatements that were being provided one of them had an additional three years beyond that time where the property tax assessment protections
114continued that's not to say that the board wouldn't still decide to support 10 years given the different magnitude of the project but we share that just because that is the body of information in recent agreements in Kendall County okay yeah I mean the scale on this is much different right so yes to say Dr petsky Brittany Kate I think we thank you so much for the work that you've done in this uh Dr Patsy you and I have had a lot of conversations for quite some time on this and the board you've asked a lot of great questions a lot of the questions that he and I had talked about earlier so Dr petsky what uh ultimately are you looking for from the board at this point in time I think just one to provide
115an update so we could kind of go on the record to say that um the village is asking us to consider the same as them uh 10-year 75 percent for five year abatement and a last five years at 50 abatement and what I'm curious about is if there are other questions or information that the board would like to have for my office or from the village of Montgomery or from the developer one of the things that Brittany and I were talking about wanting to provide is again kind of that framework or draft proposal for the board to act on but is there anything else like Dr sparlin said I think some good questions were asked today is there anything else um you know is the board comfortable expressing uh a position on that abatement at
116this point or is there more information that's needed I'm comfortable expressing a stance with with the provisions that you've had but my question I guess is more procedural it's it's under information so are we really I don't see on this agenda where we have this listed as a voting yeah you know this is not an action item but if we were to bring if we were to bring this back for Action what other questions would the board have what other information would you be interested in having and are are you are you comfortable expressing an opinion about it just that your Provisions are in there one other question yeah the the second provision gives seems to give us Liberty to discuss different percentages um and if I recall the initial iteration of this I think
117it may have been a 50 50 percentage is there a reason why it shifted or is it you know I Kate gave some pretty clear I mean of course I know we're trying to attract uh people but I'm also thinking about the best interest of the district so yeah and that's where Brittany was saying this is kind of evolved over time we've been asked to look at several several different iterations and different percentages and it's kind of settling on that 10-year time frame because of the investment one of the concerns was the reason it's longer than the other projects is it's it's uh that type of investment is going to take a longer period of time but then then the percentages are kind of settling in at that 75 percent for the first five years
118and then 50 for the last that's where like I said the village showed support for that they want to start negotiating that and putting some terms together the district wants to bring forward some of the contingencies that we've been talking about making sure that um if we do take any action we're very clear what we're entering into um yeah I'm comfortable exactly as it is I'm assuming and I'm not assuming I know that um Montgomery this is probably if not their top priority one of their top two right so they've done um I would have to I would assume if they could work out a better deal they would but right that's interesting you know and um the economic benefit not just to the district but to the entire Community is uh it's substantial you
119know relatively speaking so I would say and there's really also I'm uncomfortable I have one thing that's kind of lurking in my mind that I think is a separate topic but related but something I think we want to we I think we should keep in mind is once we have tenants in place and um they're in our community how can they work with us in the by edu with in the education of our students do you know I'm thinking of logistics and internships and things like that for students I know that's probably not parts of those discussions but as we bring in Industry I think it's important to yes think about all these Financial contributions but also think about what they might offer or how we can work in partnership with with them to enhance
120the educational experience of our students all right are there any other questions all right uh yeah I like uh like Dominic kind of inferred this is uh this is a great Patrick project for the village of Montgomery so we'll be following them we'll be having a conversation with them tomorrow and uh and and the presentation today and the update just kind of keeping the board informed on where they are with that and uh seeing what else we might need you with Dr Pepsi I don't know if you answered this question but what does the village of Montgomery have a timeline that they're working on right now um not not that I'm aware of I think they were kind of waiting for us to kind of present more information to the board to kind of get
121a indication of our comfort level like I said we're the biggest taxing body so a lot of the dollars fall to us they just want to make sure that we're supportive of that and uh um I think we are supportive what I'm hearing but we're also hearing that we want some contingencies to make sure that um that there isn't uh there isn't a early withdrawal from that as well so we're also waiting to see where all of these pieces to forward Kendall County as far as we are aware has not taken any action or stated a public position we know that different administrators throughout transition have been have been actively watching we don't know what has gone on behind behind the scenes but we have not seen public action from them or move on to
122the Community College so that would be other pieces once we're able to see what statements they have to make thank you hopefully they're just waiting for us yeah yeah probably all right thank you very much thank you item 11.4 is renewal of our intergovernmental agreement with valleys are there any questions on what the administration's presented so 11.4 is the intergovernmental agreement with us we go fire department oh I'm sorry so I apologize if there's any confusion um so this is a renewal of our current IGA um Oswego fire provides Emergency Management Services at our sophomore and varsity football games all of our home games at both OE and oh the language of the IGA has remained the same the only thing that has changed is the hourly rate we have had the same hourly rate
123for the last two years it's a one-year IGA with the ability to renew for an additional year so for the last two school years we've had the rate of 54 dollars so this is the first time that we have seen it increase the new increase will be sixty dollars an hour for school year 24. are there any questions for Dr Kincaid so this will come for Action at our next board can I have a motion please make a motion to authorize the payment of bills in the amount of three million nine hundred ninety five thousand nine hundred sixty four dollars and nineteen cents as presented second Mr Cerrone aye Mr Gatewood aye Miss Johnson aye Mr ploger aye Miss venmuth aye Dr Maria aye Ms simultan aye motion passes seven zero action item 12.2 adoption
124of all sections of the press policy manual would like to have to make the motion first can I have a motion please make a motion to adopt the SD 308 press policy manual with any changes as discussed second I have a question about this one yeah so did we remove out of here the portion that talked about tax abatement if we were to if there if Kendall County were to pass a sales tax we had a pal a policy that stated it would go towards abatement of property taxes did we remove that from this it is law law supersedes our school board policy so there was a press said there was no reason for us to have it in our policy and we aligned with press so hold on you're saying that according to the
125state of Illinois we cannot have that in our policy no that's not what I said okay that's why I'm asking so you said it's law so I'm trying to clarify that like us putting out our policy would not affect that positively or negatively because it's automatic so automatically it's going to go towards tax abatement I'm saying us having a policy policy and tax abatement in our policy manual is not going to change whatever the law determines so are you referring to the one percent county-wide sales tax correct yeah so uh so okay so let me ask this does the law dictate what we do with the money that comes in from the sales tax So currently it doesn't so that's why we have the policy right so currently the policy that you're referring to is
1264.25 right it is unique to our district I understand several years ago um in terms of what um board member Johnson is talking about is the ability to pursue this tax abatement um we did not only talk to press but also our board attorney who recommended that we could remove it in terms of what you're referring to the spending of then if this were to go through the law allows us to potentially pursue the opportunities the policy even as it's written it's a recommendation for potentially how to spend the money it is not a um like we must spend according to now we are able to leave the policy in the manual that would need to be part of the recommendation but we are not required to have the policy in uh yeah and and
127I know that like I know we're not required to have the policy in there but I'm also aware of the historical piece behind this when this came up and and this whether want to have this discussion or not I'm just going to reiterate there are definitely people who pay attention to the fact that policy's in there and I think it sets the opposite precedent where people are going to take some of these policies more seriously when it comes to this issue listen I have no problem with having the conversation if this ever comes to fruition but I think it needs to happen then so but the policy didn't even direct us to do something that said we could and so I think that I at least where we landed and please correct me if I'm
128wrong Dr Kincaid was we didn't want people to believe that because it wasn't a policy this is the way it would be done because it was just a suggestion we weren't using policy appropriately if you will so and and honestly there were a couple of those instances so we didn't want people to say oh well it's in our policy manual it has to happen when you say it has to happen what do you mean it has to happen that we have to spend it in this particular way well I think that and I I will speak if you feel this is in line with we should be having those discussions every time it come up not fall through a policy manual um and then all the policy manual is going to say it might you
129you you can use it in this way again I I I have to pull historical context here and I I we had this discussion and and we wanted to make this abundantly clear this was the route that things would be taken to take this off Hey listen I you know I spend my life hoping I'm wrong but you're leaving the door open for for potentially something that could come down the road I definitely I agree with you we did have that discussion I'm not I'm not saying that you're incorrect in that I'm just saying from a legal perspective or a policy perspective it was kind of I don't I don't use the word throwaway but it's like it didn't matter here they're there I don't have any in front of me so what happened was
130um when the when the decision was made to send this to the Kendall County board or I'm sorry the Kendall the Kendall County voters sorry on whether to pass a sales tax or not there were many in the community that were skeptical of this because um they felt like it was just another way for the school district to spend money and of course we know the conversations we've had when it comes to um uh increasing the levy and and other pieces right so the what did Garner support from some people inside our community not saying it garnered any support outside of our community but inside our community was the fact that we wanted to show we were serious by putting in policy that the revenues that would come from that sales tax would directly help
131and go towards helping property tax relief so property tax abatement um we knew we didn't have to do that at the time but we did that because it was a way to try and show that we were serious and it was solidified in there I have no problems with if this ever came to fruition that we would you know have a discussion as a board if it happened during my time but whatever board right but the the problem is that what was told to the community is this is how serious we are about it and now I think to to take it away it it it's going to I guarantee it's going to leave a bad taste in some people's mouth see I'm I don't this isn't coming up for for a vote um so
132if it were to come up for a vote how would that look I mean would that language be able to be put into the ballot the language on the ballot you cannot put the language on the ballot no and then can the board at that time decide to completely change that anyhow um so this isn't something that but but here's here yeah you're right but here's what the message is at that point as well we can just we can just put it on take it off as we please see and this is where I disagree because I would say that that's what the voters wanted and so they wanted to see that we were serious so we put it in the policy but do you which doesn't have a lot of um of eyes on
133it if you will but putting it on our policy manual didn't make or break that the way that we spent the money it just said we will discuss it and it could be used in this potential way so what I am worried about and we saw this a lot throughout our policy manual is that we misused what policy is policy making policy approvals and then you know using that then to have discussions and say oh well if this is our policy that is a procedure that's a best practice I don't even know what the right words are but I just don't want people to think because it was in our manual it changed the way that things were done we we get I get that it was serious I was part of that like I
134I wanted to know whether that money was going but it being in the policy manual didn't make us any more serious or not serious that's all I'm trying to say from an education standpoint I I get it I'm gonna disagree um I'm sorry but I think it definitely sent a clear message and it definitely was heck I just talked to somebody a few weeks ago that it matters so I'm not going to tell anybody else how to vote by any stretch the imagination but um I guarantee that it will draw attention oh I just want to I want to be did it read I mean I'm not saying I don't believe Jen but did it absolutely read that um it can be used that way or or is it or did it say it will
135be or shale how it read policy 425 States the goal of the board is to use 100 of all revenue received from that tax to pay principal and interest of outstanding Capital purpose bonds with an equivalent amount abated from the bond and interest Levy and extension says that it has to go into your capital project fund it does not go any deeper than that in saying how it should be used so it was a goal statement in a policy so it was a so it was a can a can I can be used that way so and to Jared's point we wanted to say this is really important This is Our intention of using it but nothing about putting it on the policy made it it made it anybody do anything differently I just want
136to make sure as a policy making board that's one of our main roles that we truly understand what policy is procedure is what process is and we found in this exercise that we just went through for a year that we've misused policy and so it could give community members if they were to read it the um under maybe false understanding of what was in there if it's a law it's a law and we have to follow the law yeah whatever and a goal is a goal sorry I think I think what I'm hearing is that Jared is 100 right but what we can do I don't know what precipitated the need to put that in the in the policy back then but what I can say is whatever the whatever the situation was I think
137what we can do now is that we can make decisions that gives the confidence to the community that we're going to be as I'll use the words fiscally as fiscally responsible as we can with not only uh how we use the money as well as paying down the additional debt and I understand you're saying this was an indicator to them that we were serious and so I would say what other indicators can we give that we're serious without misusing policy and I to clarify since this policy was adopted the law itself has been amended and they've expanded what you can use that money for if you were to get that sales tax revenue you you could uh seek a resolution saying it would also be could be used for school resource officers and mental health
138purposes in the schools so there are so so that's expanded so that's actually backing my argument up which is if you if you if you start changing this stuff like I I guarantee people are going to change they're going to pay attention and I I understand like that the policy piece but you know and I listen I'm like 99 of the time I'm like Hey listen what's what's pressed telling us all that but you know I'm sorry there's a historical piece here and Hey listen I I hope I'm wrong right so and I I think either the same goal or another goal um or that board at that time um I don't I don't I I don't know I I you're I just it seems like um a can in policy um you know we
139worked very hard as a team as a multi-disciplinary team to make sure that the use policy appropriately procedure appropriately assign accountability for you know where those things belong I think there is a leap of faith I'm not going to just disagree with Jared and I think the other indicators of that are transparency in our finances continuing to dig in our bill pays and in our financial statements and to ask for you know representations of where we're spending what money and how um I think that this board particularly the veteran members on this board have worked very hard to do that you've been a part of that you know asking for financial statements that reflect and connect the dots better and you know hopefully tying or goals to finances something we've been trying to do for
140a long time those are the best indicators of are we putting our money where our mouth is a policy that says can is just a policy that says can you know so I honestly we can put it back in but I just want to be very crystal clear that it doesn't have any legal effects on it or I don't even know that legal is the right word as much of it it doesn't tell the board they have to do something so is there a detriment to putting it back in Sergey and again Jared has you have a passion for this one I'm just I listen Hey listen I hope I'm wrong like right like if I if I if I'm if I'm in uh if I'm in the the lesser of the camps I I
141hope um 100 wrong and there's no ramifications but but I will say I mean it it clearly it clearly states in policy that that's your goal then you're sending a very clear message to your community and that's what the community needed at the time I'll say one last thing if we put that in there as our goal and then we look at the financial report and look at our debt service yep and we see that we have exceeded the schedule and we've refinanced and we've paid down our debt significantly and we look at that schedule and that's the indicator of for how what we're doing by and we're not even thinking about that goal whether that goal is there or not people are looking at the goal but look at our debt service and look
142at how fast we've paid it down that's the indicator of success for that occur according to that goal but the policy a goal doesn't belong I thought the goal was to beat the money right yes that's different so so we're getting people coming in from DuPage County they're spending the money in Kendall County and we're going to get Southern to Kelvin Northern LaSalle yes go ahead yeah you get what I'm saying so it's so it was actually kind of to try to reduce the tax burden on Kendall County um taxpayers um okay but so okay let's just make sure if we we're back again no no we we're vote we've yeah we're voting we can we're voting and stuff right I know we there's a motion on the table Yeah there could be not too
143complicated but if you wanted to make a motion to add policy 425 back in and see where that motion goes that would be a secondary motion that you could then vote on and then go back to the then you'd know you're voting with or without it you know my I'm gonna let somebody else decide on that because my only concern is that that's not the only thing that we're overlooking so if somebody else wants to do that I'll obviously support it and go along with it with all due respect there was a committee that looked through every the most comprehensive review line by line of the policy manual I know your job is to review it and approve it but I want to just make this statement we have multiple reasons that that that our
144team worked very hard and around the clock to get this policy manual built so that it could be approved by July 1st uh Faith law goes into effect on July 1st we have to make those decisions tonight so whether we put it in or not is not the most important thing on the table tonight yeah there's a lot more to yes yes so I'm calm for both Ursula Miss venmuth we're just voting on the original motion yeah voting to approve all sections remember we already approved the student section 7 student services discussion or vote are we in discussion or vote okay but miss but miss winma aye Dr Maria aye Mr Cerrone aye Ms simultan aye Mr Gatewood aye Ms Johnson aye Mr ploger no motion passes 6-1 action item 12.3 approval of resolution for
145release of land cash funds can I have a motion please I make a motion to approve the resolution to request the Kendall County Land cash funds second Mr Cerrone aye Mr Gatewood aye Miss manmuth aye Mr ploger aye Miss Johnson aye Dr Maria aye Ms simultan aye motion passes 7-0 action item 12.4 approval of intergovernmental agreement with p-a-s-e-c can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the intergovernmental agreement with Plano area special education cooperative second I Miss aye Mr Cerrone aye Ms simultan aye Mr Gatewood aye Ms Johnson aye Mr ploger aye motion passes 7-0 action item 12.5 approval of new mass communication tools can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the five-year contract with catapult K-12 as the district's provider for website content management system Emergency Management
146mass communications and branded District app second Mr Cerrone aye Mr Gatewood aye Ms simultan aye Mr pluger aye Miss Johnson no Dr Maria aye Miss venmuth aye motion passes 6-1 action item 12.6 approval of building administrator contracts can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the building administrator contracts as presented second Miss simulton aye Miss aye Mr poger aye Dr Maria aye Ms Johnson um I'm abstain Mr Cerrone aye Mr Gatewood aye motion passes six with One X extension 12.7 action item approval of District administrator contracts make a motion to approve the district administrator contract as presented second Mr pluger hi Miss Johnson abstain Mr Cerrone aye Mr Gatewood aye Miss venmuth aye Dr Maria aye Ms simultan I motion pass is six with one abstention 12.8 action item approval or Personnel
147report can I have a motion please I'll make a motion to approve the Personnel report as presented thank you Miss simulton aye Mr ploaker aye Mr Gatewood aye Ms Johnson aye Mr Cerrone aye Miss venmuth aye Dr Maria aye motion passes 7-0 action item 13.1 kind of have a motion to adjourn I make a motion to adjourn second all in favor