0012021 open and closed session second mrs moyer aye mr lightfoot aye mrs croner aye mr bowman aye mrs swanson aye mrs dorel aye ms morgan aye motion passes 7-0 item 4.1 well good evening board as i thought about this evening i found myself reflecting back on the past four years we've done some very good work together and this board has dealt with the toughest issues in education that a board of education could deal with as matt mentioned the other day we redrew the boundaries we had to make very important budget decisions to mitigate a deficit we conducted two referendums we worked on the idea of a county-wide sales tax and we are currently still working through a global pandemic and to deal with all the complexities that the seventh largest school district in the state
002with deals with on a daily weekly and annual basis uh you've done it you've done a wonderful job with all this going on you've maintained your focus on our student mission of educating students to reach their highest potential most people don't know or most people don't realize the amount of time these volunteer board members put in they use they spend hours and hours going through reports they attend school district functions they uh school building functions they attend two board advisory committee meetings a month and two board meetings a month and as mrs doyle just said that takes a tremendous amount of time and time away from their families so thank you for everything that you've done for the past four and eight years um heather when we walked out of the building the other day
003you know we were walking out last monday night and we talked about the uh how fast time goes by and you talked about how your little ones were so small and the little ones aren't so little anymore and the old adage you know the older we get the faster times seems to go by is so very true and i want to thank you for your service to school district 308 it's been an honor uh working with you and getting to know you over the past four years so thank you tony i've known you for nine years now going back to the days when you were a teacher here in sd-308 being a teacher yourself you brought the uh that lens to our discussion and i want you to know that you added tremendous value to
004the conversations that happened at this table and i've thoroughly enjoyed getting to know you better over the past four years and i wish you the best in your next adventures thank you you're welcome and brent i've known you for nine years now and it goes back to the day i interviewed with the board of education nine years ago you sat on the board that hired me initially in the into the school district you know you serve two terms here as a board member and your experience and your passion and your dedication for school finance has been invaluable for the discussions that we've had over the past four years in regards to mitigating our deficit it's been an honor and pleasure to get to know you and your family over the over the past nine years
005and i thank you for your service to school district 308 as well thank you thank you and matt i've known you for eight years and uh you know you've served two consecutive terms on the board of education um you were president when i was chosen to be the next superintendent of 308 you and i had the opportunity to have a lot of discussions we spent a lot of time together we talked about education and how we were going to you know work together for the betterment of our students here in district 308 and i want to thank you for those conversations and your leadership uh because that was i was a brand new superintendent i hadn't done this i hadn't done this job before and those conversations uh were were very much appreciated i've enjoyed
006uh getting to know you over the last eight years and and your family and uh thank you for uh everything that you've done for 308. so ladies and gentlemen can i get a big round of applause for outgoing board members we don't get a golden key to the district yes it's in the mail okay so that brings us to 5.1 we've got a few people that have a few words to say i think we do all right eugene gatewood [Music] we have a face with cameras that would be great yeah that's good that's why you keep me around all right [Music] that i will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of member of the board of education board of education of the second community unit school district number 308 in accordance with the constitution
007of the united states the constitution of the state of illinois and the laws of the state of illinois to the best of my village i further affirm that i shall respect taxpayer interests by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets i shall encourage and respect the true expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees i shall recognize that a school board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a school board i shall recognize and that decisions can be made only by the majority of a school or meeting i shall abide by uh yes i shall abide by majority decisions of the school
008board while retaining the rights to seek changes in such decisions for ethical and constructive channels as part of the board of education i shall accept the responsibility for my role in the equitable and quality of education of every student in the school district as part [Music] district i shall foster with board extensive participation of the community formulate goals define outcomes and set the course for oswego community unit school district 308 i shall foster the board extensive participation of the community goals define outcomes and the sudden course of our studio community's unit school district reality i shall assist in establishing a structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework i shall assist in establishing a structure an environment designed to ensure all
009students have the i shall strive to ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children they will find sustainable i shall strive to ensure this assessment in all conditions of our children and violence i shall serve as education's key advocate on behalf of students in our community school or schools to advance the vision for oswego community unit school district 308 i shall serve as educational [Music] and i shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision the board has created fostering excellence for every student in areas of academic skills knowledge citizenship and personal to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision the board has created fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills knowledge citizenship
010and personal development yes [Music] um but there's a little bit of um descent into how to say the next phrase is google gives us one explanation and our attorney gives us yet another let's go we're gonna go with their google if you want to see i'm gonna try i'm gonna trust you over google so take that responsibility with great seriousness i would say make a motion to adjourn sign you die and google would say synodia so there you go we will if i could please have a motion to adjourn in the synodia of your choice i make a motion to adjourn signing diet second oh you are on that all in favor aye [Music] carpe next diem [Music] tony tony she's gone yeah [Music] appreciate you saying that thanks very [Music] much [Music] [Laughter] thank
011you sir thank you congratulations [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] goodbye i already forgot how to pronounce that thing is this yours yeah [Applause] board members newly sworn in if you could please pick a chair any chair because we're gonna play rearrange the chairs thank you i worked really hard on that for about 30 seconds thank you i thought about that and you missed a really good joke but that's okay we could have music and make it musical chairs however there's one for every person i'm just talking [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] may i have a root a roll call vote of the newly established board of education mrs storial present mr gatewood president mrs johnson president mrs krohner present dr moreno present mrs simonton present mrs swanson presents brenton this one's new all right where are
012we at i recommend to appoint superintendent of schools dr john sparlin as president pro tempore to preside over the election of the board of education president can i have a motion please actually i make the motion yes i just did it awesome may i have a second second [Music] all in favor aye aye well thank you mrs doyle nominations are now in order for the office of president any member of the board may nominate any member of the board including themselves and nominations do not require a second nominations are now open for the office of president of the board of education i nominate dr donna moreno for president dr donna mourinho is nominated are there any other nominations for the office of president are there any other nominations for the office of president are there
013any other nominations for the office of president if there are no further nominations the nominations for president are now closed dr moreno being the only candidate nominated for the office of president the chair hereby declares you elected by acclimation and i ask that ursula record that into the minutes congratulations president dr donna marino what's up i'm fogging up my reading glasses now so bear with um right now we're going to take nominations um are now in order for the office of vice president are there any nominations for vice president i'll nominate ruth croner ruth crawner is nominated for vice president i would like to nominate latonya simultan latonya simultan is nominated for vice president are there any nominations for vice president one more time are there any other nominations for vice president okay if there
014are no further nominations the nominations for the office of vice president are closed since we have more than one member who has been nominated for the office of vice president i'm going to ask you to vote by a show of hands for either ruth croner or latonya simultan you may only vote for one member and to be declared vice president one member must receive receive at least four votes board members who wish to appoint ruth croner for pre for vice president please raise your hand we have three votes for ruth croner board members who wish to appoint latonya simultan for vice president please raise your hand and we have four votes for latonya simultan congratulations latonya simultan for receiving the majority of votes and you are now elected the position of vice president i've never
015been on this side of the table it's super fun nominations are now in order for office of secretary are there any nominations for secretary i'll nominate ruth coroner who does a fantastic job right now are there any other nominations for secretary there any nominations for secretary and then i say if there are no further nominations the nominations for the office of secretary are closed captioning not available okay 9.4 the board of education will establish regular board meeting dates time and place can i have a motion to establish the board meeting dates time and place i make a motion hold on to establish a regular board of education meeting dates and times for the 2021-22 as discussed and presented second mrs croner hi mrs johnson hi dr marino aye mr gatewood aye mrs swanson aye mrs
016doyle aye mrs simonton i motion motion passes now we will hear public comments 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 board this evening are asked to have completed a comment card and presented it to the secretary to the board when the secretary calls your name i ask that you come to the 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 discussion during public comment follow-up
017to your questions or concerns will be addressed by administration through the contact information provided on the comment card thank you jared ploger thank you board uh i came up here unscripted so that should probably worry everybody but uh jared plogger2776 la jolla court aurora um i thought somebody from the general public should say thank you to the outgoing board thank you board members heather and matt i see that you stuck around and i think that's apropos heather i can't thank you enough for what you've done up there um you've just been a wonderful person a wonderful board member and uh appreciate everything that you've done i appreciate your ear and everything and and matt um i remember the first time that you ran and uh being a uh a citizen who really tried to understand
018what was going on with my uh my sons and their education i knew right away that you were someone i supported and uh we we didn't always agree but uh i always appreciated you up there thank you really appreciate that um and now we we're here on a historic night and we need to move forward and um i i think the message that that uh i i wanted to bring tonight from also from uh i'm hoping a very large segment of the community is um this is this is brand new and we're going to move forward um we need to build on this this is such a positive and celebratory evening i i can't hardly contain myself between my emotions with with those that i'm connected with and and just seeing this this is just
019such a positive thing and and uh we certainly need to move forward better than uh we're moving forward with wolf road don't get me started on that um that's my poor attempt of humor um but um uh um i i i want to remind us that we are all here to support and we want to see our board of education succeed what's what's the alternative right i mean the alternative right is that that our most prized possession our greatest resource here um does poorly and that's not what anyone wants to see right and we want to see all of our students succeed and that's what i think tonight's about right is is that promise to see all of our students succeed and and i can't hardly contain myself with the excitement and and this is
020a historic evening uh for for the communities uh involved in our school district and uh i'm excited and i wanted to say thank you to the new board members because you voted you ran you you engaged with the community uh and and you showed a commitment and uh unfortunately that's not something that that the majority of us always do and and thank you thank you for for doing that thank you for getting involved and um and appreciate everything uh that's being done here tonight and then i'm excited i'm excited for this transition and excited for for for the community and that's all i wanted to say thank you thank queue you up always good evening good evening my name is kiwana boris i reside at 2529 lambert drive in aurora illinois i sit before you
021representing two organizations twofold one is parents for education and global success which is a recognized organization by district 308 and the second organization is in double acp of dupage county we represent oversea kendall will kane and northwest cook want to thank the outgoing members tony brent and matt for your hours of service and dedication but i'm here to celebrate with our district i want you to know that the naacp of of dupage county would like this opportunity to recognize the historical event of the election of two african-american candidates latonya simonton eugene gatewood along with a woman of jewish descent and jan johnson who on the when we interviewed when we interviewed you you said you were open-minded and willing to grow and learn we celebrate you the constituents of oswego voted with their ballot for
022educational equity and diversity representation when we look at our current board it represents our community but we have more work to do we have good work to do good trouble we believe we believe that the school board this school board for the next four years will be solution oriented bridge builders engage in courageous conversations implement strategy with action that focuses on our children with accountability to ensure that district is a place where all students can thrive we will hold you accountable and we look forward to partnering with you thank you 11.1 a motion to return i make a motion to adjourn second we are adjourned