SD308 Board of Education (1/10/2022)

001unit school district board of education meeting can i have a roll call please mrs doyle here mr gatewood president mrs johnson president dr marino present mrs simonton president mrs swanson presents please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all the board of education will elect an officer for the position of secretary nominations are now in order for office of secretary are there any nominations for secretary i would like to nominate jennifer johnson second i'd like to nominate ali swanson all okay are there any other nominations for secretary no are there any further nominations for secretary are there any further nominations for secretary okay all right um

002if there are no further nominations uh the nominations for the office of secretary are closed um okay so we are going to take a vote all those in um favor of jennifer johnson please raise your hands do you want this no kidding okay all those in favor of ellie swanson please raise your hand stop it i'm sorry you've been here longer okay sorry jennifer johnson received the majority of the votes cast and is elected secretary to the board of education congratulations jennifer [Applause] i think it's fantastic jennifer if you would like to move over to the secretary oh my goodness i've got my whole area she needs some help right do you want do you want help got pretty cozy you sure did 5.1 public hearing concerning the intent of the board of education to

003sell not to exceed 18 million dollars working cash fund bonds for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of the district tonight's meeting will start with a public hearing concerning the board of education of sd 308 kendall kane and will counties illinois proposal to sell working cash fund bonds in an amount not to exceed 18 million dollars to increase the working cash fund of sd 308 we will therefore have two opportunities for public comment tonight the first opportunity will be during the public hearing on the proposed issuance of working cash fund bonds if you wish to make a comment about this proposed bond issuance please make it during the public comment portion of this hearing if you wish to make a comment about some other matter unrelated to the public hearing on the proposal

004to sell working cash fund bonds you may do so during the second opportunity for public comment after the public hearing this is the public hearing convened by the board of education of community unit school district 308 to receive public comments on the proposed issuance of working cash fund bonds not to exceed 18 million for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of sd 308 at this time i would like to ask our administration if they have additional information to share about the proposed issuance of working cash fund bonds being presented tonight no no further information at this time okay we have no comment for this oh no comment no okay um and no written testimony okay thank you so um all persons desiring to be heard have been given an opportunity to present oral

005and written testimony with respect to the proposed issuance of the bonds the board shall not adopt a resolution to sell the bonds for a period of seven days after the final adjournment of the hearing at this time i asked for a motion and second to adjourn the public hearing followed by a roll call vote i make a motion towards during the public hearing mrs simultan aye dr marino aye mr gatewood aye mrs swanson aye mrs dorial aye mrs johnson aye motion passes six zero now we will have public comment on behalf of the board of education i would like to thank the public for attending tonight's meeting we value the feedback we receive from our residents and encourage everyone to take an active interest in their public school system residents interested in speaking to the

006board this evening are asked to have completed a comment card and presented it to the secretary to the board when the secretary calls your name i ask that you come to the microphone state your name for the public record and provide your feedback please note that comments are limited to three minutes per person for a total of 30 minutes no discussion of personnel matters or responses to questions are permitted the board does not participate in discussion during public comment if your questions or concerns require follow-up a member of the administration will reach out through the contact information provided on the comment card thank you jennifer stamp my name is prior to now i can't see any scenarios i called my daughter out of school today for mental people care health each other's health where they

007care about overwhelming hospitals that compromise safety educators is after two years thank you mom the ninja very very quick tonight i uh wanted to start off by thanking the school for getting the children back into school today in person it has done so much good for both my son and my daughter since they've been allowed to come back to this school i just i really appreciate it everything going on yes cases are way up but hospitalizations are way down depths are half of what they were in january but regardless of the point i wanted to say thank you for having kids in and i also wanted to do a special thank you to uh anne marie ryzen who's the special pet coordinator at thompson along with chelsea bailey the social worker over there for the

008work they've done with my son over the last two months so i really appreciate the work they create two great individuals that work for the school district thank you drew nicholson all right um i just wanted to uh come forward and thank the board for all the work that you're continuing to do um i did want to say that i know that there's been a lot of stuff in the news lately about a lawsuit representing some 800 parents against a number of school districts they claim to be the majority i just wanted to say that in my hand here i have a website petition eye in favor of the mass mandate in favor of vaccinations in 36 hours we have almost a thousand signers so people who say that they're the majority may not actually

009be the majority but i do want to thank the lord for all the work that you've been doing and i hope that you will continue to take into account these you know very unique times and remember that there is an opportunity to take an adaptive cause or district if it becomes necessary i know that hospitalizations of vaccinated people are down but it is still a problem and just because you might not die getting exception coed can have a massive impact on your life for a very long time for my thank you we'll move on now to board member comments um does anyone on the board like to make a comment tonight i'd like to start last board meeting some of our members who attended the illinois association of school boards reported out on their experience

010in that in that conference and i too attended the conference and as a part of my responsibilities i am the delegate assembly representative for our board and i my responsibility is to vote on the board's behalf on the resolutions that come before the assembly and i wanted to just kind of briefly share what the experience was um within the assembly and it's um it's an opportunity for our the district members to have voice and to provide direction for the illinois association of school boards and so we do that by debating and drafting resolutions that are important to the education of our students in the state of illinois and so one of the just to give you an example one of the resolutions and before i say that all of the resolutions that we voted on

011are on the school boards on the district's website and you can see how we voted as a block of in of individuals for for our district and so for instance one of the resolutions that came before the board was regarding pre-service teacher education and licensures in literature and so what that amounts to is the fact that we they wanted to know whether or not teachers needed more support and more skills to deliver the type of of of learning that's needed for our students to excel in reading and is one of the one of the things that's happening with not within our district is that we have a spotlight on reading um for for our students and improving those those test scores in reading and it's one of one of our our priorities and our focus

012is um as a as a as a framework and so as an example one of what what they do within the assembly is they allow testimony and so that's anyone within the assembly who's interested in getting up and speaking on behalf or on in support or in opposition to the resolution and one of the students got up and she was a a young teacher she was in the top 10 percent of her class in her in her college and she she spoke about an experience where she had to take the the educational exam that all teachers have to take and she came back to her professor because one of the um one of the questions on the exam had to do with um the initials cvc and she said she had never seen those initials

013she had never in in all of her learning heard or or had been exposed to it and what her professor told her was that it stood for consonant vowel consonant and she was she said to her professor why have i not been exposed to this why do i not know how to teach um and what skills do i need to teach students how to read and so she was obviously in support of that particular resolution as were was the the um the the assembly in its uh totality so it was voted to have a resolution that would then go would be a part of the policies of the illinois association of school boards and then they would then go in support of that with regard to the state of illinois so that's kind of how

014it works and that was just one of 17 resolutions that we voted on that day oh can i just give a shout out to the human library so i don't know if you're all aware but on martin luther king day the human library which is an international organization and they partner with our school district to bring the human library in a virtual form and what that is is it's where people are books and reading is a conversation so you log on individuals then are placed in rooms where they can ask questions of of these books and these books are people who who have lived experiences in all different areas of life and they're interested in sharing their their their lived experience with with uh with the readers and so i would encourage anyone who's interested

015in you know just exploring more about different um individuals who they might have questions about how their lifestyles how they live um you know march 17th monday at 12 noon you can log on she stole my thunder oh i'm sorry that's okay um i just i just want to give a little bit of a personal uh note here so every year for myself i always have a personal theme last year was what's the best that can happen versus what's the worst can happen this year is assuming assume positive intent so as we start to um move forward in bringing our students back today we do know that we are going to have a lot of absences teacher absences bus driver absences support staff and student absence i ask that everybody kind of hop on the

016bandwagon with me and assume positive intent from our principals our teachers our bus drivers our superintendents and assistant superintendents i know that while while most of us were on quote unquote winter break our leadership was working very hard behind the scenes um to make sure that we opened today um although we didn't get the ice rinks all over the entire city of oswego fixed but that's okay um uh but just assume positive intent and and move forward with me if you will about just knowing that everybody is truly doing their best and um i will um share that it really does when you can change your mindset to something it really does make a huge difference so i just wanted to share my little personal testimony there and um you know the opportunity to shut

017down over break and reflect is is very powerful and we're all everyone's doing their best and very proud of all of our teachers and principals today who got through that first day back so thank you yeah i'll just piggyback on on that that i'm very excited that we were we were back today and i uh texted dr sparlin hey how are we doing for staffing and we did great and i'm just really proud of our district our staff and administrators who um who got our kids into schools today so thank you anyone else from the board that might not be the time but i do have a question um that i assume that someone emailed it not just to me but i know the cdc has new guidelines for isolation and quarantine um and if

018i'm not mistaken the idph did something with them on friday although like like i don't mean to put you on the spot and it doesn't have to be right now but like at some point when i don't want to talk about so the announcement was made on friday that idph and isbe will are planning to align with the new cdc guidance that was released the week prior we were told by dr ayala the state superintendent that that information is being developed now and will be shared with schools soon at this point we have an outline of what what that will look like in a shortened time period for a select number of people as they come back asymptomatic and there's different categories again it also changes what fully vaccinated looks like in regards to being

019able to avoid a quarantine or isolation so we are in the process of building that on the back end right now it will have some significant changes especially in settings where students aren't masked like lunchtime some extracurriculars and things so we're working through some of that and planning that right now but we don't have the written state guidance yet we also don't have the new uh state kind of crosswalk that tells us sort of you know who should be excluded and when for all the different scenarios that we go through there's a roughly 80 page set of guidance that was updated last fall and we have not updated that information yet so we are doing as much planning as we can right now but we do have some significant gaps and information from the state

020on exactly what that will look like before we can roll that out district-wide and and i didn't mean to put you on the spot but thank you you're welcome okay board committee reports can we start with policy and legislative committee well we could here's my question well here's my question do you want to talk about it now or do you want to talk about it when we before the consent agenda on board policies you tell me well can you give a little update um we had a lot of policies to go through and val is amazing and we did not get through did we get through half yeah probably close to half uh we're going to meet again so we had to pick up a meeting to get through them all because they all have

021to be done by next meeting so we're meeting again on tuesday there was um just some press updates i mean i'll give you the quick one for um we pulled a couple like for instance um we had to update some committee reports seven colon 20 um we talked a little bit about um signage in the buildings by adding some more that one has to do with um harassment of students you know if you see something say something um and then it was i believe it was actually margaret who noticed was it margaret somebody noticed that on our district website we have a button where you can do something i want to say was margaret darnell from here from oe but we needed to actually add a student one because we had ones for parents and

022teachers and and not so um we have to do that and then we just kind of talked about it going how it was being funneled and it needed to funnel straight to the building level first like if a student put something in the in the button on the website that it should go like right away to the district building so we kind of talked about that um we talked about a lot um five colon let me make sure this one might have got pulled nope that one got pulled hold on um one colon 30. so we updated our our school district mission um and we changed it over to match our strategic plan and i will tell you that there was a pretty big split in the room and while i realized that we all

023voted on our equity statements i also thought it was worthwhile to take some time and and let the members of the committee have the discussion um and the discussion really kind of centered around they were okay with the equity statements with the exception of the word racism right and we kind of had a you know maybe a little bit too long of a conversation about it in regards to you know we we kind of didn't get finished what we needed to finish but i think it was a good discussion i think it was well worth having and i think it reflects our community so you know there are still some members of our community and our board who you know still have a problem with some of the wording but beyond that on 130 um

024that was it i guess oh we wanted to add science where it says student learning improved literacy math but that's for another day um i think that one needs to go to the teaching and learning committee so as we talk about which number is that that was that was all one colon 30. it was the same okay you know i am a science teacher and then for colon 165 was actually added that's a brand new policy so hold on let me make sure that was in here um oh wait did we not put that one on there i don't see 130. um so we had some questions on that one so that must be coming on the next one um we had some questions from maureen on that one that one is a new policy

025that has to do with um grooming behaviors um and it said k through eights and we were questioning on whether or not we could make it k-12 some other committee um where it says parents would be [Music] parents re-provided in a written notice of commencing um actually wrote check with faith which i clearly did not do and then we wondered if adding it to the syllabus covered that and then a maureen question was can we make it k through 12 or or is there some law about making it only k through eight and which section was that um that was four colon 165. that was providing parents information about the sexual grooming content um and then hold on there was a lot there was a lot of policies there was some general updates ken miller

026had some stuff that he updated um our counselor changed our wording back to school counselor i believe oh on personality five colon 250 which is also not on there so i'll skip it um hold on five column 330 is also going on there did i screw this up some of these we might not have finished our changes to i guess that's it i'm gonna assume that that's all of them okay that we went through because we stopped on five colon 100. sounds like it was a very busy meeting it was it was a lot of work oh and then nope also not on there never mind i think the other positive thing that came out of our committee meeting is that we really spoke a lot about using or crossing over with our different committees

027and working together to make sure that all of committees are working towards forward progress so that if we have questions that really don't belong that we're not sure of in policy make sure that we work with the other committee members to get their feedback so that we're not putting a policy forward and then going backwards to say well what does somebody think about it so i thought that was excellent and i think the other thing that is very important is that um this is a five-year review so we're going to be doing a lot of this this year reviewing a lot of policies so you'll get to see a lot of them and teaching and learning and teaching and learning well i'm not going to steal um the stellquist stage tonight but we spoke about

028social emotional learning and where we're at with that and um we really spoke about what we wanted to do uh next month so i'm not gonna really belabor that and i'll let her discuss our sel update sounds good thank you you're up dr spartan all right well good evening and happy new year board i hope that everyone had a nice holiday season and i'd like to welcome everyone back students and staff to the second semester of the 21-22 school year uh tonight my comments are going to start on a sad note um this past weekend we were informed that oe freshman madeline letuca passed away is with deep sadness that school district 308 joins at oswego east family staff members and students to extend our heartfelt sympathies to the family and friends of madeleine we

029are deeply saddened by this tragedy and our support is extended to all individuals and families who knew her the loss of life is difficult but the loss of someone so young is most challenging i ask that we keep her family and friends and our thoughts at this very sad time very difficult time for her family and friends i do have a few items that i would like to share with the board this evening i'd like to start off by saying that i'm very proud of the class of 2022 they had illinois state scholars between our two high schools so congratulations to all the students who received that honor the second item i wanted to highlight is the open interview process that we will we will be continuing in the new year if you recall we

030did this in october and november and we had success in filling many of our open positions we'll continue that process on january 13th so that's this thursday from five to seven door number two at the district administrative center located at 4175 route 71 in oswego so if you like working with kids and if you want a job in district 308 chances are we have a position for you and we look forward to continuing this process to filling our open positions tonight dr pajasic will be providing the board with a presentation on social emotional learning i'm very proud of the work that we'll be sharing this this evening that we're doing on this and our district on this very important topic student learning and student support for student learning are two of the four quadrants outlined

031in our five-year strategic plan and vision 308 these are two areas that have always been important in 308 and i think they are even more so right now diversity and equity inclusion are extremely important components of providing a holistic education to our 308 students and diversity is the intentional appreciation of differences which are expressed in countless forms including race and ethnicity gender and gender identity sexual orientation socioeconomic status language culture national origin just to name a few equity is the practice of intentionally working to ensure that individual or social circumstances are not obstacles to achieving one's potential which is reflected through our board approved equity statements and policies which acknowledge the need to actively remove barriers and create opportunities for the success of all of our students and inclusion is the intentional commitment to be

032a school district where individual differences are welcomed honored and student voices are not only heard but they are listened to we know that students learn best when they feel cared for where they feel supported in an environment where they not only feel safe but in an atmosphere of equity and inclusiveness that provides the opportunity to fulfill our district mission of educating all students to reach their highest potential our community is rich with diversity which is the strength of ours we are working to embrace that diversity in all aspects of our educational program and our co-curricular program so tonight's presentation for dr pajasic will highlight some of the areas that we're that we are seeing to accomplish this goal reaching this goal begins with the board of education making it a goal from having a full-time

033position and a director of dei and family engagement to improving our district equity statements to creating the additional board of equity committee and to the implementation of our student ambassadors to the board of education you have made it a priority in our district and i'm very proud of our efforts to make this a reality my final item that i want to speak to this evening is regards to covet as we all know the positivity rate in our region is at an all-time high and it's important for us to be prepared to change directions if a classroom an individual school or or us as a district needs to go in a different direction it's important that we are committed to keeping it's important to state i should say that we are committed to keeping our schools

034open and doing everything we can to maintain in-person instruction last week we sent information to all staff and parents on the importance of following our mitigation strategies getting tested if you're not feeling well and for parents to not send students to school if they are exhibiting any types of signs of covet as a parent i fully understand that keeping your child home can cause an inconvenience but we all must be vigilant in doing what we can to limit the spread of the virus to keep our kids our staff our school and our community health and safety healthy and safe at this time i want you to know that we do have plans if we need to have any classroom schools or the full district to take an adaptive pause or go on remote so the

035junior high and senior high levels we are completely one to one so if we needed to take an adept applause at any school at this level we would transition to remote to remote and students would follow the normal schedule in our conversations for early childhood through fifth grade we've created three different scenarios that could take place in scenario one we have uh is where we if if we were to have one two or maybe even three buildings that needed to go to remote we have enough devices at the district offices at the district office and for the effective school grades so that students all students could have a device here we would deploy the devices from the district office and the teachers would be able to start teaching remotely immediately scenario two if we had

036in multiple schools at this level that needed an adaptive pause and we did not have enough devices at the district office for the affected schools for all students to have a device we would move to emergency day choice boards for a few days while we group devices and check those devices out for the start of remote learning and then have the teachers follow uh teachers uh teach remotely for the rest of the and students follow the regular schedule in scenario three if we were directed by the governor's office to completely go remote or shut down we would move to emergency day choice boards for the few for the few days while we group the group and issue devices for the start of remote learning and the teachers would follow their and students would follow their

037normal schedule and in this in this scenario we'd be deploying all of our uh all of our devices from the district as well as from the schools during the time we are in a remote status so it's important to note though that i have no have received no indication of any kind of any type of shutdown happening but if that were to happen that would be our course of action i also like to point out that we're currently working on as what with special education in our self-contained special education classrooms would look like and that all this information that i'm speaking to this evening will be located on the district website so what i've just shared with you is what school uh would look like if we had to change at any level as i

038just said in six through 12 for one to one we would instantly go to remote learning and ec through ec through fifth grade we would make those decisions as needed so again if we had one two or three schools uh we have the devices we could instantly deploy those and we could go right into remote learning and if we had more schools that needed to take an adaptive pause we would use choice boards for a few days as we disseminate those devices and continue on with their education and again all this information will be on the website uh within the week and that is my report for this evening thank you i know it was lengthy but i had a lot to say great thank you okay the student ambassador reports thank you first off

039colt and i hope everyone had a wonderful winter break and are very excited to start our second semester on that note our student advisory committee is looking forward to continuing our research for the remainder of this school year emphasizing sexual harassment responsiveness and mental health awareness within our schools last year we discussed and began drafting ideas for short student surveys to continue our research on sexual harassment we also focused on refining our problem statements and research questions about the issue which had centered upon responsiveness to sexual harassment and education needed to recognize it in schools in the next few weeks our student advisory committee plans to work on these objectives further develop our analysis of sexual harassment in schools and extend our work to the topic of mental health among our students thank you anya

040thank you so much for doing that work it's so important and we are just so grateful to have the student input on these important issues so thank you both of you all right item 8.1 is an informational presentation and social emotional learning that will be done by dr pajasik our director of social emotional learning and family engagement so doctors over the last several years but it's something that we've been working on for a very long time so i'm excited to talk about our cats our friends and our future so social social emotional learning um as of the 2003 illinois children's mental health act um and at that time the act required the development and implementation of social emotional learning standards to be created and then implemented by area school districts all of three of those

041goals represent five key areas um and the third is to demonstrate thank you the third is to demonstrate decision making skills and responsible behaviors in a variety of contexts both in school and out of school and beyond school after our students graduate so our district once those standards were adopted by the state of illinois our district adopted them as well and began the work of understanding the standards for social emotional learning and then implementing them in a variety of ways so while the topic of social emotional learning has been something that we've talked the last couple of years about more and more frequently it's actually been a part of our education world since at least 2003. social emotional learning is the process through which children and adults acquire knowledge skills and attitudes in order to

042implement a variety of skills and strategies into their lives so to recognize and manage emotions demonstrate empathy and concern for others establish and maintain and enhance positive relationships handle difficult situations constructively and it's embedded into the classroom in a variety of ways that we will talk about tonight but the most important part is we continue to to grow our work in social emotional learning so that our kids have the opportunity to not only develop these skills but practice it on a daily basis so that they will live those skills outside of our school walls as well as inside of our school walls in the classroom the benefits of social emotional learning have been documented in research over time there was a foundational study in 2011 so they followed a number of different school districts that

043were implementing social emotional learning and they did a meta-analysis of all of that data that was coming out of school districts and then re-did that study again in 2018 at the university of loyola and at university of illinois at chicago and they found consistent themes at both times so in 2011 and 2018 that implementing social emotional learning implicitly and explicitly in schools increases the development of social skills improves student attitudes about self and others and school increases positive behavior in the classroom but also has an 11 percentile point gain on academic achievement so we while we might focus explicitly on relationships on recognizing and managing our emotions understanding stress and how to how to deal with that it translates to improved academic achievement at the same time it reduces risk taking behaviors and and students

044who are at risk of a variety of different behaviors within both the school setting and within the community and the interesting thing is the studies in 2011 and 2018 continued to confirm um that research and the and the benefits of social emotional learning i think one of the other important benefits of social emotional learning is that it supports the overall mental health and wellness of all humans so sometimes we use those two terms interchangeably we will say social emotional learning when we are talking about mental health and and we'll use them interchangeably but they're two very different things in a lot of ways one supports the other so while social emotional learning focuses on direct teaching of specific skills and competencies and those goals that we talked about a couple slides ago those strategies are

045essential protective factors important for mental health and wellness so for example physical education class in standards is not the same thing as as overall physical health and wellness social emotional learning is not the same as mental health and wellness but it supports those skills and strategies and supports that we need in order to maintain a positive mental mental health and wellness it also strengthens the coordination of school-based community and medical supports for mental health concerns and crises when they do arise so while we do not treat mental health disorders or mental illness we have the opportunity to refer to community-based agencies we have the opportunity for students to identify more early when they might be experiencing concerns and know where to go for help and social emotional learning as a part of the climate for

046learning framework that we've talked about at various board meetings and implemented in our district creates a safe and supportive environment that reduces the stigma associated with mental health and i think that's one of the most important things is the more we continue to have the conversation at the student level in the classrooms in the community at the district level it continues to reduce that stigma and more people are able to focus on their own mental health and well-being and i know personally over the last 20 years i've seen a difference in education and the way my students 20 years ago talked about things like stress or anxiety or depression and the way students talk about it now i think they're much more in tune both with themselves and their peers they're more willing to talk

047about it at home or with with school personnel and they have a better um vocabulary and knowledge base with which to do that and i look forward to that continuing to grow as we know mental health is a nationwide concern for for all people right now so our current work in school district 308 we've had a lot of different things happening over the last several years related to social emotional learning our district adopted a climate for learning framework in which we emphasize social emotional learning and we talk about both explicit and implicit integrated or implicit classroom curriculum and instruction for social emotional learning skills so one way that we do that explicitly is we have direct curriculum which is second step at the early childhood through eighth grade and then we've just started implementing the

048beginning steps of the believe in you curriculum at the high school which directly teaches skills and strategies for for all of those five competencies that we talked about earlier the most important piece of social emotional learning instruction is the way that it can be integrated though into the classroom and into the content areas so an example of that could be when you are in english class or when students are reading a novel or a teacher is reading a book aloud and you talk about the emotional world of the character you talk about the decisions that the character is facing the conflicts happening in the story um and then personalize it for kids so talk about you know how would you feel if you were in that character's shoes what would you do if that was

049a friend how would you um how would you have made a decision the same or different from the character in the book we can in a variety of different subjects um also build the skills that tie social emotional learning with college and career readiness so when we teach kids how to set goals um and follow the steps and how to achieve those when we talk to them about their passions and the things that they are interested in all of all of those skills that we might practice in different content areas builds their social emotional learning awareness and and development of those skills we have prevention programming that we implement early childhood through eighth grade in a variety of different areas we implement erin's law fully we have just started implementing the signs of suicide program

050consistently across all five of our junior highs and we completed the first steps of that as of the end of first semester um and it went very well and successfully at all five of our junior highs and then we as a part of our social emotional learning curriculum we have bullying and harassment um prevention built in we do provide a variety of individual and group interventions for students so when they are struggling in various areas of social emotional development or social emotional learning they have the opportunity to receive direct intervention and instruction in those areas family and community partnerships and events are some of the most important i think components of social emotional learning and we're continuing to increase the opportunities for those we've held to several parent university options this year last year we

051had a number of parent coffees in a virtual format and then we have a variety of options for staff professional learning that both builds their knowledge and understanding and skills in social emotional learning also we have some professional development options that allow them to work on their own sel and mental mental health and wellness we started a number of things additional at the start of the school year once we knew what in-person learning would bring us and what some of those challenges will be so we started the year hiring additional staff members at various levels different additional interventionists additional administrators of additional counselors and social workers in order to support our students we are expanding partnerships with outside mental health agencies to provide a variety of support options to students and staff so we have

052a system that allows us to provide personalized referrals for different community agencies based on parent need parent of um things like insurance and availability distance specialization and then we are also starting in a couple of weeks to implement psychoeducational groups in the school run by clinical mental health practitioners at family counseling services and we can also provide individual referrals to family counseling services for students and families that are interested in pursuing that opportunity we are hosting additional family and community communication and events i have been meeting with a couple of different groups so we have two events so far that we're planning for 2022 one will be a mental health symposia um in partnership with us we go plain field wellness and rush pathway hospital and the other will be with nami kdk and family

053services of greater elgin one will be a panel discussion the other will be a direct presentation and narrative opportunity and then amplifying student voice and feedback in a variety of formats is important so we have our student ambassadors who have identified mental health as a priority for our students in our district we also i'm very excited we are starting a student leadership group focused on social emotional learning and mental health and wellness we had over 30 students apply to be a part of that group and we're going through those applications right now but the goal for that will be to build their skills in advocating for mental wellness and social emotional learning in the community as a part of as social emotional learning has been a part of our district for a long time i'm

054thrilled that is it is now a part of our strategic plan and our priorities for the district and in vision 308 so this is what um we anticipate social emotional learning um to look like by 2026 um so the priority is to create a district-wide plan to support behavioral social emotional health of all students and in 2026 that reflects curriculum in place and a variety of ways to measure the effectiveness of that curriculum the sel standards are reinforced daily for academics and there's a full system of intervention and support for both internalizing and externalizing behaviors so we tend sometimes in support to focus on more visible outward behaviors but we also have a large number of students who internalize their social emotional needs so things like anxiety depression stress um some of those areas so

055what that looks like in current progress is we have updated our social emotional learning curriculum resources um for k-8 we implemented the new second step digital elementary in second step middle school which was revised in 2021 we had the original version of that curriculum for almost a decade and we have now updated to the oops to the um newest version and then we have in our explorer mindfulness program we're creating common behavioral expectations at the school level um implementing the the beginnings of the believe in you program at the high school during student support time we're training on reviewing discipline data with a variety of admin groups and then have developed a district restorative practices leadership team those members have been identified and we are scheduled to begin training in february so indicators of success

056a year from now so we're going to build on the work that we're currently doing um that full sel curriculum will be in place early childhood through high school level schools will have us both established but also taught and positively reinforce their common behavior expectations we have a process for reviewing behavioral data regularly that district leadership team for assorted practices will be trained and start to develop and implement a multi-year plan and our social emotional learning intervention resources are being catalogued and then gaps in our resource needs will be identified and addressed social emotional learning also lives in the support for student learning area of envision 308 this is very small but i did highlight for you the aspects of that goal of maintaining safe and nurturing learning environments that relates directly to social emotional

057learning um so i'm gonna jump ahead here so by 2026 we will have all of our staff trained in strategies to support mental and social emotional safety and wellness of students students will have multiple opportunities to learn different skills and strategies to support their own mental and social emotional safety and also that of their peers so um for this year the current progress is the signs of suicide program which i spoke about earlier we will be we have continued to develop and establish relationships with local organizations to identify student education options and then we will be administering the illinois youth survey to eighth graders during second semester that's a state a free survey that is provided by the state of illinois that looks at a variety of different self-reporting features of students so students will

058talk about you know risk they'll be asked about risk-taking behaviors but also things that are important to them how they feel at school have they experienced bullying and harassment what do they do to take care of themselves and we'll be able to use that data to identify um areas of improvement so a year from now we will expand the science of suicide program to the high school level a staff training plan will be created and the first steps of implementation will be in place to provide staff with systematic training in how to identify and respond to student needs in the social emotional learning and mental health area the illinois use survey data will be analyzed for areas of need and that survey is provided every two years so our current eighth graders will take it

059again in tenth grade take it again in 12th grade and we'll be looking for positive growth in what they are reporting and then additional education programs will be identified and selected based in part upon that youth survey data so taking that survey opens up the opportunities for a variety of different programs um in different social emotional learning areas that can be implemented in our schools so that's a lot um and i really appreciate the opportunity to talk with all of you about that tonight so what questions do you have i just have a a quick question i apologize for not asking it before but um have we looked into bringing in um mental health first aid training yes that is actually the training i was referring to so as a part of a grant we

060received back in 2018 which is the um know the signs of mental health grant i was able to receive or allocate some of that funding towards having district staff trained as trainers and use mental health first aid and then implement that with our staff and then long-term goals would be to implement the teen mental health first aid component of that once we have a certain percentage of our staff trained in um the adult version the adult curriculum um which is something they create the organization created two years ago and is a lot of our area districts are finding success yeah it's a fantastic program really glad to hear that we're moving towards that thank you thank you thank you so much for the presentation i had five questions but you answered them all i just

061want to thank you dr pajasec i i wasn't sure that you were presenting i thought mrs douglas was but thank you very much i got a question yeah all right so i have a high schooler yeah so i on slide six you talked about can you go to six for a minute yep one slide seven you talked about a survey for eighth graders and i know that we have our student ambassadors who are also asking questions but a concern for me is i don't i don't i can appreciate that when we talk about it on an adult level we say how good this is going to be for them for the rest of their life but the reality is half of our prob probably a minimum i may be lowballing are during these kinds of

062presentations they're on their phone and on playing games and they're texting and they're snappy chatting and they're doing all the other things that tiki talking and then they do but like so i can appreciate that a lot of our staff and i have talked to a lot of staff are doing it with fidelity yeah i mean and they're really trying to get the kids to buy in and they tell them to put their phones away my concern is that hey you got to get your staff to buy in if you want your kids to buy in and the fact that it's not very interactive for me means that i know my kid's going to zone out like as much as he needs to hear it from somebody other than mom because if i say it

063it's wrong no matter what but somebody else could say the same thing and be right but like i guess what i'm looking for is a way to make it more interactive always so that when we're doing this like maybe at the end of the month like i don't know how you guys feel when you're sitting through the through these presentations what are like you know every other week i mean you'd be honest with us like i like i don't want you to be talked to i want you to be talked with and i want you to i want you to be a part of it and i like you know as a as a mom and a teacher looking in i feel like it's a lot of talking too instead of talking about you guys

064tell me if i'm wrong i mean yeah i would completely agree with that like in our sel days or i mean our student support times and stuff like that every other week it does kind of have that tone of not really as a group in that classroom interacting with each other um i know you know me personally you know i'm not always the most attentive to those things and it's just being a student that's not i appreciate your honesty yeah you know it's it's not saying that it's not interesting it's not needed it's just i don't know maybe the way that it's being given to us i mean like you brought up it's it's it's being told to us not we're not interacting with each other with the teacher it's kind of just okay this

065was given to us and we're supposed to give it to you right i think um in middle school i think i was in sixth or seventh grade and we did get a presentation on how to identify sexual harassment and how to respond to it accordingly to keep yourself and others safe but i do remember you're exactly right it is a lot of talking too and i feel like that leads to people zoning out it leads to people understanding that it's an important issue there are like i would like to say that no student dismisses it as a problem but it's not taken seriously enough especially with the student survey results that we got that so many students were concerned about it and we didn't really get that interactive instruction that we needed to make students

066feel like oh i'm safe in my learning environment so i definitely agree having a more interactive uh teaching process for issues like this is really important especially in that safety aspect right and i like i realized that i just threw this right out of left field for you oh no but like i mean like i spent a lot of my time all day long doing differentiation and how do you get kids engaged and how are we talking to each other and you know again it's a skill and not every teacher has it and i i think a big part of this is training with the staff but i think another big part of this is it has to include the kids i think even this committee would be a fantastic sounding board like you know

067here's what we're planning for seo like how could we make this you know more interactive how could we engage the students more like you have a whole group of kids who like are looking for a way to kind of reach out and engage other kids and i think that if we're really going to do this and we're going to really spend some time on it and do it with a lot of fidelity we have to we have to have their voice in it absolutely yeah i agree with you and i really appreciate the student ambassador survey that was done this fall um dr roller has shared with me some of the results and the topics of conversation revolving around mental health and has asked me to be a more an active part once you move

068into that component i agree also i think it comes down to a lot of teacher conversation support training a lot of our teachers are doing an absolutely fantastic job we also have other teachers who you know even even if they they may implement some of those interactive strategies in their content area um it's it's new and unchartered territory for them to have topics of of this caliber of conversation and i think um you know continuing to support them and help them with that we're in the very baby stages of a direct curriculum at the high school level um until now there's been a dearth of resources so here's my fear with that right so like i 100 percent get that we're in the baby stages but what happens this year when they zone out and

069now next year oh it's that again and by the third year like stick a fork in it you know what i mean like i and again like i realized you're probably talking what 15 not even 15 more days of this like eight or nine probably right but i just there has to be some kind of way to i don't care if it's a kahoot i don't care if it's i don't like i don't care if it's role playing i don't care if it's a conversation i don't care if it's you know a google form but there has to be some way of engaging these kids they're just i mean otherwise we're going to lose them and we're not going to get them back and this you're right this is important and i did find i'm

070sorry one one part of a question this just brought it back up my question was how do you communicate these events the events and the partnerships and i think that the fundamentally what i'm really asking or saying is i want to be sure that the people slash communities who need it most understand and associate these events with support for themselves and their kids and so if there's a way to even include the parents so that the parents understand what's being taught and they can reinforce it with the kids it just may be a way for them to not only attend excuse me attend the events but also to help support us in communicating with them and i just don't know how it's being communicated i see it yeah in email but is that the most

071effective way yeah like i asked him you know hey would you guys talk about science and suicide today and he's like yeah you know we did something yeah like i you know so i i appreciate all the work that has gone into it yeah it's great i just like i need a little bit more i need a little bit more engagement with the kids right and i also need by that same token i need a little bit more engagement with the staff right like i need them to be able to feel comfortable talking about sexual abuse and i realize that they all will not no right or bullying and you know everybody sees bullying a little bit differently everybody sees signs of suicides a little bit differently but like i need it i need it

072i need to know what the kids are thinking and i don't think right now we know what the kids are thinking because i don't think we're asking i think we're just telling them what you know the lesson of the week is and i would agree with you that we have work to do across all instructional areas sel math literacy all those pieces of being more collaborative and giving time for students to reflect that some of the work around expectations for engagement with creating collaborative structures building in time for election for reflection building in times for student voice we do have a lot of professional development to do with some of our staff in order to have them do that so heidi and i will continue to to work on that as you'd see with the

073classroom walkthroughs that are happening again this week that's some of the focus in all the different areas so we have to make sure our staff is is comfortable with giving time to that pieces not only in the areas that they're traditionally comfortable with with curriculum content but then doing it for sel and more difficult conversations um as well so but how are we but how are we as a district taking that information and you know identifying either identifying kids who need help identifying kids who need to be in a group i don't you know what i mean like and i by the same token i want the kids to feel like they can say whatever they want to say because i i want them to be honest about it but by the same token what

074are we doing with it i mean if we're just talking at a bunch of kids for an hour for you know 40 minutes twice a month then are you talking about students that raise concerns and how we're working for small groups because we have started that work just recently with having calming rooms that are being established at each of the high schools and then also bringing in community groups our partnerships where we are doing some group counseling and pieces for students that have either self-identified or identified by staff by office referrals or by other other means but that's not tier one instruction what we've really been talking about today is tier one instruction that's going on with all students there are additional pieces and reports that we could be able to give you around what

075we're doing for small group supports we've had a lot of meetings within the last six weeks before school started sometimes twice a week with high school staff about how to rethink some of our counseling services and student support services to meet needs of more students i get that i just i'm looking for your tier one to be more interactive i guess in a nutshell if i if i had to say it smaller if the kids aren't engaged then they're not they're getting maybe a quarter of what you're saying right it's more of a conversation than a lesson right yeah and again i i don't know how i do it right like i'm i'm not saying you know what i mean like i just i you know i think asking the kids is your first step

076you know i think i just it has to be it has to get more interactive it has to be more than somebody talking to me for 20 minutes about something that you know half the kids in the room are like well this is never going to happen to me because they're teenagers and that's what they think yeah because i think the first thing that has to be done i was reading a study about how the number one priority for students is building strong relationships with their teachers in the classroom so maintaining safe and nurturing learning environments is is crucial right to that building and you know they have that saying now you know students don't care what teachers know until they know that teachers care so this is this is a really important aspect of

077getting students to learn so absolutely thank you for the work that you all are doing yeah thank you i just want to touch on one more thing that came out of our teaching class teaching and learning committee and heidi touched on it in the presentation um and i'm sad that we have to discuss this but um the signs of suicide um you have a very uh interesting role because you interact with a lot of different constituents one of them being parents and community members and that you are working towards some outside or community related meetings or or what have you where you will start to help parents and community members also understand those signs of suicide so we can all be on the lookout to support the students and children in our community so i

078want to thank you for that i think it's incredibly important work and with this pandemic ongoing and not and us needing to collectively figure out how to live with it um sadly we're going to have to continue that work so i thank you for that but i also wanted to highlight it because i know that you're working on bringing those workshops to the community so thank you thank you i just want to share a quick request that i got from a parent today actually that when we do these you know educational forums for parents if they could be recorded for parents who can't be there and that could be part of our you know library of sel so absolutely and one of them um the plan right now is for it to be a hybrid

079event so people could choose to participate either in person or um virtually if they're more comfortable and then we'll record and share that the other will be fully virtual um and we'll use the zoom platform to record perfect thank you okay thank you thank you thank you sorry can i have a motion to approve the consent agenda please i make a motion to approve all items under consent agenda 9.1 minutes of the board of education meeting from december 6 2021 open and closed session and 9.2 to approve the references and legal updates of the following board policies section 2 school board 2 colon 105 section 4 operational services 4 colon for colon 120 section 5 general personnel 5 colon 220 section 6 instruction 6 colon 15 6 colon 20 6 colon 300 and 6 colon

080340 section 7 students 7-10 7-20 7-190 and 7-340 and section 8 community relations 8 colon 70 and eight colon one hundred second mr gatewood aye dr marino aye mrs simonton aye mrs swanson aye mrs doyle aye mrs johnson aye motion passes 6-0 item 10.1 is financial statements are there any questions on this evening's financial statements no but thank you for answering those and sending them out to everybody you're most welcome i appreciate that item uh 10.2 our board of education policies for first read all the policies that are presented this evening have gone through the board's policy committee prior to being brought forward are there any questions regarding to the regarding the policies that have been provided to the board this evening all right so hold on real quick because maureen and i are going

081to tag team here um just so you guys know so two 105 the committees were updated which is what the policy committee asked for um for 110 there wasn't any for 120 there wasn't any um six five yeah that's the one you just asked earlier did we pull that one four one six five it was always there with respect to okay yeah so four one six five was the awareness of sexual grooming right and you guys did change that to k-12 no no k-8 okay is what the law allows okay so the comprehensive health education instruction has to occur from k-12 but a specific law in article 27 article 27 hyphen 13.2 uh allows for students in grades k-8 to be exempted out from their parents but not for students in high school okay so

082that's okay so that was that one and then five 120 we were goods minor changes um that were made same with five one eight five um can we pull five to fifty from here is that i don't know why i'm seeing them in one place but i'm not seeing them in the other so you're saying it should not be in here well so at the committee meeting we talked about and that one talks about leaves and why you take leaves and at the committee meeting we um talked about adding leaves for child military deployment which i realize there's not a lot of us that that category falls into and i don't work here so clearly it's not me but it does happen it recently scared the crap out of me so i just thought and

083i don't know if that was one that we had to talk to the union about if we added days for adelie for like if your child is in the military and he gets deployed you should be able if time allows you should be able to go see him before he goes and that's that is in the law so you don't necessarily have to have it reflected in the statute it would make me feel better though yeah we can certainly pull it and add it yeah so i would like to pull it i also wanted to pull five i don't know if we need to pull five colon 330 but we did fix that one on page first page last paragraph a maximum of three bereavement days and then one place it says two on the

084other it says three so that might just be a typo we need to fix so do i need to pull it to fix that or that's five colon 330. ellie when you say poet are you going to take it back to the policy commander are we going to ask us to make adjustments just to bring it back we can just make an adjustment let's do that yeah all right then let's do that um and then oh my gosh i think the other ones we were okay with correct me if i'm wrong the student which one the rest the i mean that's all of them except for those bottom right the student the student behavior one i think we talked about adding goal to that specifically but that's clearly in another stack of policies which is

085escaping me right now i think otherwise we were good i have for future discussion you did what i did for future discussion in my notes it's not in here yeah okay then we pulled it for that um so the seven one seven one ninety it's not in here because it's on my all right let me reload oh that's weird all right then we're good i'm student oh the other one was the student mask policy which maureen said we have to revisit every year because clearly some of us would like to get rid of the masks and some of us would not so we will revisit that yearly that was my only comment on that one all right yeah that um the first sentence and that says that the board of education has adopted a safety

086plan for the 21 22 school year so the question is i mean that's that gets us through maybe yeah so um so when would we redo that one seniors crossed we won't need this in the fall but i mean we should keep it on our list and i know there's several more policy committee meetings in the spring yeah yeah all right that was it for me morgan did you get a notation of the policies that needed to be updated then so when we bring these back at the next meeting for approval okay all right there you go all right item 10.3 is uh information in regards to enter enter fund loans and transfers dr pesce do you have anything to present on this to this evening or no no um just the information that i

087provided the board um for background on why we're looking at doing the interfund loan transfer we're not actually doing it we're preparing for and asking for permission as we continue to monitor the cash flow are there any questions regarding this item okay item 10.4 is an informational item regarding the issuance of tax anticipation warrants in anticipation of the collection of taxis taxes levied for year 2021 dr patsy do you have anything to add today this evening no very similar we would uh this again is an annual occurrence that we're looking at monitoring cash flow and it would be issuing working cash funds uh working cash bonds and then the the inter interfund loan and transfer would allow us to move those funds into the appropriate funds that are needed so i had a lot of

088support on this and we actually have a guest in the audience so jason from pma uh who also works with bob lewis at pma you couldn't be here tonight but we've had a lot of a lot of conversations a lot of involvement on this so appreciate the board uh taking a look at that and when can we stop doing this hopefully and hopefully in about four years yeah about four years five years wow but uh during that time period we hopefully will see that we will see that number decrease as last year was 25 million and this year you're talking about 20 million correct for the parameter is up to 20 million but as we monitor cash flow we'll monitor how much we really need and only issue what we need but you can't ask

089for 20 and then do it for 25. correct correct and we won't need to well we've been at 25 for the last several years so going down anything is kind of welcome news i think it's i think it's three years where i think i think so um so yeah that's heading in the right direction we've done it might be a little confu we've done it in two issuance so we've done like a 16 million and nine million and this is just up to 25 million all right item 10.5 is an informational item which is a draft pool rental agreement for renting out the pool facility in the future dr petsky yeah so after our last conversation um what i ended up is the the board of education knows we have a a facility rental process

090but since we've had a delta aquatics program that we've run we've never had to build a we never had to build in the rent of the pool facility into our rental agreement so in addition to that there's a lot of questions about transitioning away from a district owned swimming program so what i what i did is i put together a contract to kind of take a look at what we could share with different vendors to say this is what we're looking for it's been taken a look at by maureen as well so she helped me to look at this and and put it together for the board's best interest as well and what this really allows me is the opportunity to go to swim clubs with a contract in hand from the board to say

091this is our expectation for a community run swim program with along with our rental facility agreement so um and uh so i put that out there for the board to review and i guess what i would ask the board is if there's anything that you that we've been talking about that you would like to see reflected in this agreement it's easier to kind of take a look at this and provide me some feedback so i can develop that for you so my only my only question on this was the year number five which is page starts on page the bottom of page three i think um i have a little bit of concern that it's the oehs athletic director especially since we've replaced the oehs athletic director several times over the past five years that

092i know of i think there have been three over the last five maybe i could be wrong i'm pretty sure it's three so i guess yeah we've had so we've had a few athletic directors we didn't replace them they've left for on their own accord well i mean like again like i i'm not saying that we fired anybody okay right i'm just saying that there have been it's been kind of a little bit of a revolving door and this is a this is a pretty big part of that job that doesn't exist over at ohs so i that's a that's a little bit of a concern for me that now we're putting this on one guy but we're not doing it on the other guy because this guy has the pool in his house well

093here's what i would ask we rent out the field house does the ohs athletic director have that as a job responsibility the rental day-to-day operations because that would be the theoretical equivalent they oversee it as part of the school grounds they oversee it if there's any issues or any problems custodial staff and they it's more on the day-to-day are you know if there are problems with the rental or then we can work that out through both the um the athletic director but also with with my position as well so but just a very quick one-line answer does the ohs athletic director serve as the primary day-to-day facility contact for the field house rentals not that i'm aware of okay and that speaks to ali's concern if we're not having that position handle the day-to-day facility

094rental at one high school why would we have the athletic director handle it at the other high school yeah that doesn't answer the question of who's going to do it no no no i just that was my question this is one and i appreciate the fever this is one we can flush out a little bit more and say what would that look like for instance we can ask mr miller right now what what is your interaction with the swim program how does that look and and what concerns would they have from the school perspective with the facility so and that kind of speaks to my other question about this which is the ranging from 35 to 160 per hour yeah i i feel like we're talking about having some kind of standardization for all of

095our rentals i can't remember when we talked about that but because i know that each contract for the field houses for the fields for the pool for the theater for all the different things that we routinely rent out to others do we have kind of a standard boilerplate rental fee for these as well or just for the classrooms and buildings and how do you get such a big range for the pool yeah and how are you ensuring that everybody who's renting facilities is actually paying for facilities and that's for instance if they just use a classroom at a school or a gym at the school it depends on the impact of that usage right and we have that written now so we have that that kind of written out what those fees will be in

096a facility rental request so i guess but not in turn not in terms of the pool like what we do have is what i think what you're referring to lori is class one class one a class b class one is if it's a school sanctioned program which is i'm dealt aquatics right now is our school program so there is no rental fee but there is maintenance and uh maintenance and stuff like that just just in the interest of time i'm i'm just looking for like a quicker answer on like a shorter version it differs so a class 1a is a non-profit no with 70 of our district kids they're charged a lesser amount than a non-profit that is none of our right that's that's getting way into the weeds of what i'm trying to ask

097for i apologize but um i understand what the differences in the categories are that we have the concept being we have that and we have categories that very clearly are fleshed out as you were just starting to demonstrate um do we have that for all of our other types of rentals such as the field house at ohs the pool at this obviously we're talking about the pool now the theater at both of them gets rented out pretty regularly um do we have anything standard for that because i know that that has been an issue in the past where i believe we had one organization renting it for something like 25 a year or something for like the field how for like 20 years or something crazy so that's what i'm trying to address is making

098sure that when i see a range like 35 to 160 per hour that's a pretty big range um can you in about one or two lines kind of share how you got to that range um just uh surrounding districts and what they charge for instance indian prairie charges fifty dollars for non-profit they charge 150 to profits okay so it's it's really it's that so it's not a range it's just two specific dollar amounts and it could be a range in between there for instance the difference between like a class one uh class one a or a category two that's kind of how we're set up with our performing arts centers too now is uh if we have outside community groups using it for profit versus if it's a student sanctioned club or there's there's more

099attendance for students there's a tier of pricing for that so i can definitely share more information with the board on how our fees are structured for the rentals based on the different categories because i would expect that those reflect the the costs associated with running those facilities for those rentals and i think i'd like to see something a little bit more standardized for the pool rather than just i don't know it could be between 35 and 160 dollars that to me i'm gonna look for the 35 um but if i qualify for the 160 i'm gonna try for a hundred and we need to know what it costs us to rent it not just what the category is okay so that's what i would like to see thank you okay i just have two questions

100regarding a back again to the athletic director is this on top of their one percent full-time equivalent 1.0 full-time equivalent so is this okay and then how is that compensated does it self-liquify from the fees that we earn it's it's really more of a coordination like can they have the pool are there other events going on or is there parking it's like a day-to-day is this going to cause a conflict with other things that are happening around the school so that that would kind of be overseeing the athletic director would know everything happening at the school uh and with those events and would also have that insight into the facility the pool as well i almost start to wonder with all of these different types of rentals because as you're saying we have that same

101issue with someone getting the field house say at the other high school i almost wonder if um you're saying i think i'm understanding that what you're saying is that some of those are handled by facilities some of those are handled by an athletic director in this case that's what you're recommending um who else could be possibly responsible and is it going to be to our benefit to maybe um kind of consolidate that a little bit so that we don't have all the different conflicting layers of responsibility if one person says yes and another person says nope for example like yes they can use it there won't be a conflict and someone else is saying whoa whoa whoa that's great that you don't have sports events but we've got you know five dance recitals or something

102like that so is there somebody that consolidates between the groups there's a calendar online yeah which then i think goes to gravel yeah so he monitors the facilities but he doesn't yeah so he monitors checking out the facilities to the different groups and make sure that they go through the process and the insurance is handled and all that so and that would be the same for the aquatics program then um yes yep but again they would rent the facility through it but this is and that's where too it's like to to um there's the rental fees and and whatnot and then there's our expectations of how the program runs if there's if there are issues with how the program is run if it's on a day-to-day if it's a if it's a new owner coming

103in they can walk out some of the expectations that we have they can work that out with the school through the athletic director through the facilities um and then and then through our office coordinating the facilities there's a conversation that can be had there okay that's all my questions tada next thank you dr petsky for putting that together i think it really reflects what we asked you to do good i was going to say what i'll do is i'll i'll take this again and now i'll start approaching i know some of you would mention some contacts that you might have that you would want me to talk with and uh and looking at other other organizations and see where where interest lies in the program great thank you okay so 11.1 um approval of bills

104for payment can i have a motion to approve the bills for payment please i make a motion to authorize the payment of the bills in the amount of 2 million and 80 cents as presented second dr marino aye mrs johnson aye mr gatewood aye mrs swanson aye ms doyle aye mrs simultan aye motion passes 6-0 uh approval of stewart farm lease extension can i have a motion to approve the stewart farm lease extension please i make a motion to approve the steward farm lease extension for a two-year term ending january 29th 2024. second mrs doyle aye mrs swanson aye mrs simonton aye mr gatewood aye mrs johnson aye dr marino aye motion passes 6-0 okay so uh action on uniform grievance procedure complaint can i have a motion to approve the action on the uniform

105grievance procedure complaint please read what's in there or did we amend it right is there i make a motion to authorize dr moreno to prepare a written decision affirming the findings of complaint manager kenneth miller with respect to the november 11 2021 complaint filed by mr wayne harshberger second mrs swanson aye mrs simultan aye dr marino aye mr gatewood aye mr storyal aye mrs johnson aye motion passes 6-0 11.4 student disciplinary case 2021-22-1 can i have a motion for the student disciplinary case 20 21-22-1 please i make a motion to expel student 2021-22-1 and then assign him to attend the alternative goal learning program through the first semester of the 2022-2023 school year pursuant to the board's written findings and decision second mr gatewood aye mrs johnson aye mrs doyle aye mrs swanson aye dr

106marino aye mrs simolton aye motion passes six zero can i have a motion to approve the personnel report please i make a motion to approve the personnel report as presented second mrs johnson aye dr marino aye mr gatewood aye mrs swanson nope mrs doyle aye mrs simultan aye motion passes five one can i have a motion to adjourn i will make a motion to adjourn in one second i just think we need to remind the community that we are accepting applications for the open school board member through january 19th the application can be found on the sd 308 website with that i would like to make a motion to adjourn all in favor motion passes 6-0 we are adjourned tonight