001a long meeting ahead too so let's just buckle down all right i called to order the svu community unit school district 308 board of education meeting can i have a roll call please mr bauman here mrs doyle here mrs connor here mr lightfoot present miss morgan here mrs moyer here mrs swanson here please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] [Applause] no public comment tonight so we can go right to 5.1 board member comments uh let's start with ruth uh i don't have any comments heather um i just want to give a shout out to our transportation people our transportation department they've worked really hard they've had a lot of schedule changes i know that there have been
002some thoughts and comments and worries um on social media related to late buses and different things but um you know they're they're doing such a great job i hope we can all continue to extend some grace during constant changes and everything so i just wanted to extend my appreciation to to um to our transportation people um and i think that's it [Laughter] it was amazing i mean i mean it was coming it was due 10. only 15 was years was a good job i have committee reports go ahead [Music] this is my last full board meeting and as you all know me it is no surprise i have something to say and i will do so in less than four minutes if i had to sum up all the things i believe and have learned
003over the last four years it's this public education matters as you reflect on what i have to say please ask yourself these questions does education play an important role in your life how did it prepare you with knowledge did it perhaps provide you with long-standing relationships friendships a sense of community a greater understanding of the world around you if you answered yes to any or all of these questions then you know how important public education is and you know that schools give us so much more than an academic education yes public schools are paid for by all of us in the community and the state with our tax money which can be contentious since we pay sometimes for things that we don't use or we might not even like but we still come together and
004say even if you're not a swimmer we have a pool where you can swim even if you're not a science olympiad we will pay for your transportation to go to the state competition even if you're not a future tradesman we will pay for the facility for you to learn carpentry skills and even if you're not in need of daily nursing care we will pay for a nurse to care for you at school we know that education has an impact on every one of us individually and collectively and it's a different education for every person it's truly amazing the number of things that we cover in that education we learn science so that we can decide to do what what we're going to do when the pandemic comes we learn finances so that we can understand
005budgeting we learn social and emotional skills so that when we don't get what we want exactly we can handle it maturely we learn music so that we can sing at karaoke night or when the curtain goes up we learn visual arts so that we can doodle and imagine and capture images that change the world we learn math so that we know the probabilities involved getting a traffic ticket risking the lives of your entire staff and the chance that students will choose life instead of harm and last of all we learned history and civics so that we know that it is crucial for us to participate in a democracy and to vote in all elections in the past schools took on the burdens of family life for years while parents had to work long hours or
006got divorced or tried to cope with the many tricky aspects of raising children schools offered more comfort counseling attention food and assistance than was ever recognized perhaps by some in the community during this year of the pandemic the shift was the other way around families had to offer more tech help tutoring counseling medical help and socialization than they were given credit for for this i would like to thank all the folks at home that held and are still holding up the fabric of a public education for our students i hope that when the teachers and administrators return to five days a week they do not abdicate their responsibility to get students to the highest levels possible public education matters and we can deliver it to all of our students with both kindness and a firm
007commitment it matters that we both say and think this now and always it is not perfect but i have taught in five school districts and lived in more than eight and i have known many many of our students here and at other places and i know that we're doing very honorable and strong work so thank you my sincere appreciation for the thread you weave and what you do for the tapestry of our district i think it's beautiful and i hope it keeps strong for many years to come and i didn't cry so there you go but i just wanted to say that public education does matter you tony um the only comment i'm going to make is that again as tony mentioned this is the last full board meeting for four of our board members
008and i want to again express my gratitude for your time and service this year especially but in all of your years of service hopefully you don't become strangers and public education absolutely matters and i think that that's the one commonality no matter what else we disagree on i think everybody at this table agrees that public education matters um and so i appreciate everybody giving their time to support that well i'll make a comment then since i didn't realize we wouldn't be really commenting at the next meeting but it makes sense we will we will one and tony had a nice thing so full because the new incoming members will have their swearing in or whatever at the end of their i will yield my time back to the chairwoman and i will hold my coverage
009for another two weeks although you have a formality you know but marking yourself present mr lightfoot i have to tell you i have read robert's rules of order many many times recently and i have noted that an answer of present is actually the correct answer according to parliamentary procedure there is no allowance to mark yourself here that is a practice we have taken on in our policies but it is not technically speaking there so i applaud your correctness so going forward we should all we should also present all [Laughter] no and if we addressed all of robert's rules you would never get through the meeting well this is just this is true we could start with page one um all right anything else all right item 5.2 board committee reports matt you want to go
010you want me to do it you got it fantastic i wrote a post-it note because we met almost a month ago um i was smart about that um on march 22nd we had a meeting with val for policy and legislative we had a presentation on the rights and responsibilities the one big change in the code that we noted that parents especially of junior high parents might want to be aware of is that there is now going forward an addition of a junior high cell phone policy which means that at all five junior highs uh cell phones may only be used before 8 to 10 a.m or after 3 10 p.m so according to this policy there will not be cell phones at lunch which is going to start some of these little guys twitching after
011the year they've had so be ready for that because that's coming next year we did some bus safety protocols we're gonna need the ice cream line if you're gonna take away their phones um so dawn came in and did a a presentation on what they did and one of our members and i it's been so long i can't remember but one of our members suggested putting up a qr code or creating a text kind of as if you see something say something to kind of put on the buses um and it i don't want to say it fell on deaf ears but i'm just repeating it so it would be a little louder i actually think that's a great idea because i think a lot of times um people in the community don't know where
012to call unless they have a kitten so if they see a bus and i know we have cameras and stuff but so and then uh dr hildebrand came in gave us a quick sped update on policy 7 colon 230 which is on [Music] i want to say i saw it somewhere tonight information maybe no no no no i don't see them you're not all right and then 240 is on for an action item and 8 30 is on for information and those refer to um board member qualifications and community relations and we didn't really have any big changes done ancient history there you go i was going to make a joke about if a month ago as agent like what are what are we but then i decided not to that was not my quality
013of a joke um okay item 5.3 all right good evening board so i'm going to echo what mrs swanson said and last friday night oswego east high school and ohs played their annual football game and i'd like to say congratulations to the oswego east wolves on winning the game 14 to seven it's the first time they've won the game in their history so congratulations to all the students athletes and uh the coaching staff in the fourth quarter in the fourth quarter that is correct that's a fun game very very much so uh last week was national assistant principals week i wanted to take a moment to thank all of our assistant principals for their dedication and leadership to our school district we've got a very talented group of 308 aps and i thought it was
014appropriate to acknowledge them this evening and i'm also very excited to announce that a team of freshman students uh jensen coonrad uh ethan ashcroft and gavin roman have been selected as one of ten national finalists in the 11th annual samsung solve for tomorrow competition and are eligible for the grand prize of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars in classroom technology for the school the ob team was one out of 75 teams in the united states to be selected as a semi-finalist in this year's competition and the only school from the state of illinois for having reached the semifinal level the team received fifteen thousand dollars in samsung technology and classroom resource price package for ob and now as a national finalist they've been awarded sixty five thousand dollars in samsung prize package and are invited
015to present their project virtually two lives judges there will also be two community choice winners who receive an additional fifteen thousand dollars for their school so to help oe win one of the community choice awards please vote for their product the product name is the vizwiz which applies stem principles to assist individuals who are blind or have visual impairments in navigating their environment without making contact with objects around them this is a one-of-a-kind inexpensive smart backpack design that uses the principles of neural plasticity to help the visually impaired to fluidly sense their surroundings and voting is permitted once a day until monday may 3rd and to find out more information on how to vote please visit our website or social media page so congratulations to the students that i just mentioned who are being chosen
016as national finalists in this competition very very exciting so i think that deserves a big round of applause for our kids dr sparling i want to just pick you back up i've spoken with one of the parents of one of the team members and this these team members are 15. yes they are freshman freshman in high school but this isn't the first time this some members of this group have won money i think um they might qualify as our large they definitely qualify as our largest student donors to the district just through the the work and creativity and time that they're putting into this which is huge but they're over i want to say they're they're close to 100 dollars that they have earned over the last three years for our school district starting at
017age 11 12 13 which if that can tell us anything about what we can do to support our schools and what we can do to help kids learn and get things that they need if they can do it i'm pretty sure we can find some ways to help out some more is that voting link being shared how it's social media yes it's on the website it's been shared on social media facebook twitter it's so cool it's awesome so please please vote because we can help you win another fifteen thousand dollars in samsung technology it's a big deal it affects if the technology comes back to the school it's uh for all the kids so that's a great thousand dollars of technologies by all means yeah yeah that concludes my report this evening thank you thank
018you item six consent agenda any questions you have a motion to approve i make a motion to approve all items under consent including 6.1 minutes from the board of education meeting on march 15 2021 open and closed session and 6.2 to acknowledge the foia requests received by the district second mrs doyle i miss morgan hi mr lightfoot aye mrs moyer aye mrs croner i'm mrs swanson aye mr baumann aye motion passes seven zero item seven information item seven point one is information on one policy are there any questions on the information that's been provided this evening anyone else nope that's the only informational item tonight our action items 8.1 any questions have a motion i make a motion to approve the following board policies section 2 school board 2 colon 4 zero and two colon
019two two zero second mrs doyle i mrs swanson mrs moyer aye mr lightfoot aye mr bowman aye mrs croner aye ms morgan aye motion passes seven zero item eight point two do you have a motion i'm sorry didn't even have a question make a motion to approve the personnel report as presented miss morgan aye mrs doyle aye mrs moyer aye mrs corner aye mr bauman aye mr lightfoot aye mrs swanson aye motion passes seven zero can i have a motion to adjourn i make a motion to adjourn second it is all in favor please note matt does not want to adjourn in seven