001Danielle will be attending virtually um and remotely for an excused reason. Can I hear roll call, please? >> Dogen >> here. >> Gorman >> here. >> Hurst >> here. >> Murpha. >> Papis >> here. Ward, >> she's coming. >> Oh, she coming on. >> Was >> here. >> Give her a second. >> Daniel, are you there? She's logged in, but her mic sign, but I don't see her yet. >> We'll see if she pops in. We'll go ahead and do the if you can all just join me for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stand indivisible with liberty and justice for all. At this time we'll move to the approval of the agenda. Can I have a motion and a second? >> So
002moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> And now we'll start our budget hearing. >> Um each of you have a hard bound copy of the budget that was posted in the board book as well. If you don't want the extra the actual paper, we'll take them back. We'll use them internally. But um they are provided there for you. Um the there were minor changes made to the budget even though there looked like there was a lot net net amount did not change that much from the tenative budget. Um a lot of them are routine adjustments just as we start the school year and we get our contract changes and stuff like that um up to date. On the revenue side, the only change that we had was for the education fund for um $170,000
003difference um for an increase for a Medicaid claim, annual claim reimbursement that we got from FY23's claim. Um so we were already over budget, so we made that adjustment to make us more in line. And then on the expenditure side, there were multiple pages of just um salary adjustments or um we have mentors now. A lot of people shifted over the the since the tenative budget. Um some FTEEs changed. There were some account reclasses. So just shifting from one bucket to a different bucket um depending on um where it made more sense to have some of those cleanup accounts and then some more curriculum things were the only things. So total change for the education fund was $331,000 increase on the expenditure side. Um but with that 170,000 um on the revenue side, it only
004netted to $161,000 change. Um there's no changes made to the M fund at all transportation fund. The only changes there uh when we did the estimate, we had no routes picked at that time. So we didn't know who had what routes and how long the routes were going to be until they were fully um made. So um transportation salaries are more actuals. So that actually went down um from the tenative budget for from 200 or $228,000 change. And then with that um because those routes were also estimates, IMR was also an estimate. So we actually estimated a little bit too low in the tenative. Um so IMRF fund changed uh $14,000 in the final. So overall net of all these fund changes for the expense per side was 117,000. Um I did update the presentation
005pages. Not very much of it changed. So I was not going to go through them one by one, but it was minimal changes. All the funds will still end in positive fund balance at the end of the year. That's all I really have for tenative final. And now we move on to public comment on the budget. Public comment on the budget. We will start with Gene Meyer and it's green. I just had a couple comments. Is this is on? Right. Okay. Right. So, um, passing a budget, and I'm assuming that's what you're going to do, means it has to be funded. Um, so whatever changes are what's going on, um, spend our money wisely, I would ask. Um, the state of Illinois has the honor of having the highest property taxes now in the 50
006states. And it's not an honor, it's a shame. And so we all need to do our share to fight this because it hurts the children. The new record high for firsttime home buyers is 38 years old. That's awful. These kids that are in school are going to have to wait, the average of them that long to get a new home. And so it's like between a rock and a hard place, huh? But um that's not the America we want to give these children. So yeah, please be wise. >> Thank you. >> And now PK. >> Good evening. I'm PK Parak. Can you hear me? Is okay. All right. Um, so, uh, the budget would be easier to review if there was a column included to show the variance between the proposed budget for this year
007versus the actual expense from the prior year. I made this comment last time also. Um, and that way we could easily spot material changes um, and then know kind of what questions we might want to ask or understand more about. Um, as it is, there's only a column that compares last year's actuals to last year's budget, which doesn't tell us anything about the proposed budget. Um, that said, I did review the budget, um, the cover memo and, uh, the slide presentation, and there were a few questions that, um, I think would be helpful for the public to understand, but, I could not discern the answers to those questions from the materials. Uh, but my sense is probably you know the answers. Um, and if you feel so inclined, if you could answer those questions uh
008during tonight's meeting, I think that would be helpful for the public at large to understand um what we're doing in the budget. So, the first question is that um uh later on the agenda for the regular meeting, there's a proposal to purchase new middle school math and science textbooks. And uh since that was obviously formulated in the past month during the review period um you know uh are the changes the business managers walked us through are they inclusive of the proposed costs for um the new curriculum? So that's the first question. The second question is um if you could clarify if the new CA contract salary so salaries going into effect for the 2526 school year the ones you approved last month uh and uh the administrator salary increases which I think probably matched that
009um you know are those uh reflected in the budget? My sense is yes. But when I looked at the teacher salary increases um in the proposed budget versus the actual from last year and kind of look for is it around 5% or a little bit higher because maybe people are moving up the steps, right? Um what I saw was that elementary classroom salaries are increasing less than 5% only 4.3% in the proposed budget versus last year's actual uh whereas middle school and high school classroom salaries are increasing a lot more than 5%. the high school's increasing nearly 10%. And the middle school uh teacher salaries are increasing more than 13%. So it's really hard to figure out, you know, um is this reflecting the salary increase? Is it migration across the steps? Are there um
010staffing distribution changes going on? Um you know, how how are things kind of reconciling into the numbers that are they're in the budget? Uh and then uh my last question is that um uh Central 301 has had uh increasing studenttoteer ratio uh over the past few years and and recently has become the highest among uh all districts in King County in terms of average class size. The budget presentation indicates um that expense assumptions reflect additional FTEES, but it doesn't really say um how many or what categories of FTES are those teachers, counselors, support staff, administrators, you know, other types of resources and uh and so uh you know my last question is to to what extent is the headcount increasing in which roles and does it kind of help to address that core issue that
011we have which is um bringing down the average class size. >> Thank you. Any [Music] other questions on the budget? At this time then we will close the budget hearing and we will move on to public open forum. Um welcome and thank you to everybody that's in attendance tonight and those that are attending from home online. We'll start with public comment. Our first one public comment for our board meeting is uh Jean Meyer. I'm a resident. Silence in the face of evil is worse than evil itself. It matters what we teach and role model to the children of this district and also to adults. At the League of Women Voters District 301 school board candidate forum early this year, my question was asked, should teachers be allowed to teach their own values in the classroom?
012Every candidate, three are now sitting on this board, said yes, every teacher does bring their values to the classroom, and it's a good thing. But whose values do we teach? I'll bet there are District 301 teachers who are teaching our students to celebrate the cold-blooded murder of an innocent man. What happened to the belief that a man is innocent until proven guilty and is given the right of a trial by jury of his peers by our beloved Constitution? Who would have thought that even though a liberal Supreme Court said the Ten Commandments could no longer hang in the walls of the school, lest the children see them, read them, and follow them, that we would abandon the sixth commandment in our Bibles, thou shalt not murder. The Old Testament command is repeated by Christ and
013Paul in the New Testament who said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." Jesus rewards this as love your enemy and pray for those that hate you. And so I pray for a chance, and you guys aren't my enemies. And so I pray for a chance to show those who hate me and my message a chance to do something to help them. Perhaps an angry gay-haired woman might fall and need a gentle hand up. Perhaps their papers calling me a liar would fly away in the wind and I could pick them up, returning them with a gentle smile, and then tell them that they should not be so hatefully angry. Teachers must teach no values in this nation deeply divided, at least not in the government schools. They must simply teach academics. It's sad, but it's true.
014In the words of Nancy Zetler, the District 300 board president after hearing of Charlie Kirk's murder, cold-blooded murder, the first thing I thought, she said when I heard this today was karma. Then she quotes author Casim, who stated of the murder, why have sympathy for those that never extended it? Teachers, politicians, the media, some of them are celebrating this murder. We don't want this for our country and it matters to this school board. What I'm saying condemn this behavior everywhere and to the staff of this school district in the name of tolerance and empathy those that have completely turned from God and the principles that made this country great. a growing segment of our population which feeds on itself and grows particularly on the vulnerable children they are allowed to indoctrinate. They are the ultimate
015of intolerance and hatred. They celebrate not only the murder of someone sharing opposing viewpoints to theirs, a viewpoint that most Americans actually still hold. an innocent young man's murder, but they also apparently consider the sacrifice of the destroyed lives of the cold-blooded murderers. These are young men and their families of the recent shooters who were taught in schools, by media, by social media to kill and silence innocent blood. A sacrifice they are willing to give for their own evil agenda. Two men really died, gave their lives last week. I call on this board to care about what our most valuable resource in this country. Our precious children care about what they're taught. Academics, not indoctrination. Ending with the challenge, silence in the face of evil is worse than evil itself. Thank you. and Mike Meyer.
016>> Okay, thanks. >> Our next will be >> PK. U Thank you. I have a couple suggestions um uh on the the regular reporting and um maybe a few things the board could do in terms of communication uh with the community. Um in in my comments on the budget hearing, I mentioned like having a frame of reference, right? So being able to compare the proposed budget versus the most logical thing which is last year's actual expenses. And so along those same lines, um, thinking about frames of reference in the current reporting, an example would be the enrollment report which is attached as FYI in the back. Um, it's got the, you know, total numbers in terms of kids by building by by grade. But, um, really I think the the things to understand from the
017report are, um, how are we doing in terms of the utilization of the functional capacity, right? How much over or under, you know, how much room do we have or how much room do we not have? uh relative to that. So having some sort of utilization metric uh on on each building I think might be helpful right and seeing how that's trending over time and then uh similarly just like you know we're concerned about class size so you know what's the what's the number of teachers and then what's the teacher to student ratio uh in each grade right by each building and are we starting to push a boundary that's going to trigger us to move into a different tier in the union contract or to provide aids or you know are we pushing a
018boundary where we're worried about quality of instruction, right? So having that frame of reference and a metric that gives the insight into the functional utilization uh and in the class sizes for example. Um another example would be in the revenue and expense uh summary reports. Um you know we usually don't talk about those in this meeting. They're just thereformationally but um you know we haven't yet you haven't you haven't yet approved the budget. So the comparison that's there, right, there's a column on the right that says what's the remaining budget for this fiscal year, right? But that's counting down from last year's budget. Last year's budget minus this year's actuals minus uh this year's incumbrances, right? So the remaining total is not actually the real realistic total because it's it's going off of last year's
019budget, not the proposed budget um that's been out there. So it should either be kind of the proposed budget in the interim and then updated to the actual final budget once that's approved or it should just not be there because it's kind of uh misleading right in terms of how much money is remaining. Uh but kind of thinking about those frames of reference and and and what conclusions people can draw uh on communication. Uh I know I followed up a few times with a few of you on the on the CA contract and will be published and and I'll wait until it's ready to be published. Um but given that it is taking some time to do it, that does afford you time to think about how you want to communicate it, what you want
020to communicate about it, right? Um my my sense is that um although there was not uniform agreement on the outcome, right? uh it does accomplish a number of things that are good for the community and it would be great if the board or the district communicated kind of what those intents were uh and what the implications are uh of the new agreement right so if it's going to help us to you know it's going to be easier to hire or reduce attrition which has been a problem in recent years or if it's going to narrow the gap uh in in the in the grid relative to the surrounding districts we compete with those would be good things to highlight right in an official communication to say this is why we did what we did. Um
021and then um the other thing I think it would be good to do I did mention this to Kyle um briefly when when I had a chance to speak with him in between meetings but um you know although we're going to go through a process to hire a new superintendent and hopefully that person will be identified by the winter and they'll have some time to think about what they want to do uh prior to the beginning of the next school year. there are still things that we should try and accomplish during this school year with the superintendent and staff that we have. And so I think it'll be constructive, particularly it's the fall. It's a good time to um put forward the kind of the annual this school year's goals for the district. What are
022the key initiatives or things that we want to accomplish uh in the district to have that come from the board, be approved by the board to be visible to the public, be a piece of information for the new candidates coming in to know that this is the starting point, right? Um to go from but I think that that would be um really a positive thing to do. will provide clarity and um uh and I think uh um you know you get more public engagement and more people know what's going on. >> Thank you PK. >> Thank you. >> Okay, now we're going to move on to action reports. The first of which is our consent agenda. In our consent agenda, um we have our both our regular session minutes and executive session minutes from August
02318th. our treasures report, our payment of our bills, um payment of bills to North County, North Kane County Regional Vocational System, our personnel report, our agreement between Central 301 and Atrium Health, and the approval of a donation to CHS student council activity fund. Can I get a motion and a second, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Any questions? Okay, please. >> Mva >> Papis, >> yes. >> Warden, >> yes. >> Gorman, >> yes. >> Hurst, >> yes. >> Wson, >> yes. >> Motion passes. And the next is the approval of the central CUSD number 301 finan uh final fiscal year 26 budget. Motion a second. >> So moved. >> I'll second. >> And then for discussion >> um for PK's questions that he asked. Is that something that we can easily discuss
024and answer right now for him? Um if I can recapture uh exactly what he said he was asking >> the cost of the books the cost of books if they're included >> the curriculum it was included in the budget um the CA salary changes and the admin salaries were also included in there um and then this third point was about teacher ratio student teacher ratio that I would not have that but when we do the budget we literally go through payroll and go through every single person so they know where people are in what school and then we use their actual salaries and their benefits and it's a spreadsheet that we track all of their um salaries and benefits for every person. So if there's a hole for an FTE that we may not have
025filled yet. We we have a new hireer in there and we kind of pick a bachelor's you know level three or whatever as a holder for that salary. >> So you forecast every open position in the budget. >> Correct. Okay. >> At this time. Correct. Is that due to the vacancies? >> Um I I don't know for a fact, but everyone got the same raise. U there were a lot of lane changes. There were a lot of other pieces of the contract like you said, not so much people changing. Um, but there could have been more special ed staff maybe at the high school level, the middle school level that would give them a bigger bump because there are actually more FTEES in those positions versus the elementary ships. Um, I would I don't know
026that off the top of my head of exactly where those FTEEs are. So, um, but everything was accounted for in those amounts. >> Thank you very much. Appreciate that. >> Roll call vote, please. Tapus. >> Yes. >> Ward, >> yes. >> Dogen, >> yes. >> Gorman, >> yes. >> Hurst, >> yes. >> MVA, >> yes. >> Wson, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> The next is approval of the FFA chapter overnight convention trip. Um, a motion a second, please. >> Motion. >> Second. And any discussion, questions? Roll call, please. >> Hurst, >> yes. >> Mva, >> yes. >> Papis, >> yes. >> Ward, >> yes. >> Dogen, >> yes. >> Gorman, >> yes. >> Watson, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> And the next is the approval of cross country overnight trip. Uh motion and
027second, please. >> So moved. >> Second. Hurst, >> yes. >> MVA, >> yes. >> Papis, >> yes. >> Ward, >> yes. >> Dogen, >> yes. >> Orman, >> yes. >> Was >> yes. And appro the approval of authorization to conduct auction for electricity service and execute agreement within approved parameters. Motion second, please. >> So moved. >> Second. Any discussion? >> Ward, >> yes. >> Dogen, >> yes. >> Gorman, >> yes. >> Hurst, >> yes. >> Murva, >> yes. >> Papis, >> yes. >> Wson, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> And the middle school textbook recommendation. >> Um, >> so Steve Books is going to just share what these are about. Um there's no the action is just a um a voice vote that these are going to go on display. We'll vote on them in
028the next board meeting in October. >> So it's kind of informationational but we got to get them. >> We've never voted to display. So there are two different uh uh adoptions that are being proposed. Uh both of these started in a pilot scenario last year and because of the timeline uh teachers had and were able to work through curriculum material in sixth, seventh and eighth grade for both your math and I'll stay with math for a second. We'll be talking about science. It is the same adoption pilot method. um comparisons are made to multiple curriculums. Uh in your packet you should have the uh memo that is stating why the rationale was selected for our math textbook from McGra Hill. We are going with uh suggesting reveal math both for courses middle school course one,
029middle school course two, middle school course three that replaces uh or equates to sixth grade, seventh grade and eighth grade math. This is not the eighth grade math one course that is offered to our kids that are at that honors level. So just to make sure you're understanding which three courses I am specifically talking about, you can see that uh um within the uh packet it lists the the three different textbooks in detail. Um but the uh main reason for going with this is the faculty did like the deeper knowledge and learning. Um specifically the challenging uh word problems uh that really mirrored what was supposed to happen uh that aligns with um truth thought processes that happens in a mathematical reasoning state. um not just wrote mathematical questions of you know mathematical processing just
030numbers that type but bringing that together. So that is one of the main interactions that they saw. They also like the uh guided practice and other flexibility that would support our diverse learners that are included in our clientele. So that's the kind of points I wanted to highlight for you. Um I can tell you this also aligns. If you remember previously we have purchased uh integrated math one, two and three which is also a McGraill um product. So this does also align but that was not part of the expectation. They are when they do their uh evaluation they evaluate for the quality of the product with the curriculum that they're teaching. It just so happens that it is the same vendor this time and it does align very well. So that's specifically Matt. These books
031will be on display of course for the 30 days and then next meeting I'll come back for the official uh vote on that. Um, one change that is, uh, not hap well that we're not going to be doing is, um, we're not going to be buying hard coverver books uh, in kind of our past practice. As textbook companies have evolved, they're pushing further and further away from that. Uh, this these print, so for example, you'll see two books that are green, two books that are kind of a purplish, and two that are blue. These are by grade level. Um these are the textbooks uh that the students if they went page by page this would be the material they would get but we are going with the digital option and then when we need the
032necessary print out so let's say you get to page 13 and there's something that is just critical we have the license to print out that specific document. We will continue to do the teachers choice and their preference is not to hand out these books that will not be used uh over and over because the textbook company has changed to a workbook model versus the hard cover. U the teachers did not think the value of spending an additional 70 plus thousand dollar just to hand them this paper copy which would not be used page for page. Uh so that is why we are not pursuing the additional cost um of another $70,000 just to hand them a book that is kind of a personalized you write notes and and that type of stuff uh in that
033capacity. Hopefully that gives you a little background on that side of it. The full access to the digital textbook and workbook and everything is online. Students will have that e access all the time. with the ability to print it out if needed, right? >> Yep. >> And our teachers will have the ability if they want to preload and and design, they can print before students come in class. Okay. >> As well. So, yes, the students can print, but also the teacher can integrate uh put their creative, you know, ability on too. We're using uh uh kind of for, >> you know, the the teaching model of of building thinking classrooms. uh teachers are are getting kids up out of the desk a lot more in math. They're they're they're really it's not a sit and
034get environment and so they like the fact of they're going to have the liberty of being able to manipulate the core foundational material and make it work in their classroom. >> Are they using the same textbooks these for compact math as well? Uh compacted uh no. >> Okay, >> that's uh so there compacted math uh sixth grade and half of seventh grade is taught in sixth grade. Half of um well seventh all half of sixth grade or seventh grade and then all of eighth grade is taught in seventh grade. The core material, yes, okay, >> comes out of it, but it is not >> per se >> they only do the two and they're done and right >> that kind of stuff. But the foundation curriculum yes >> is okay >> because our original curriculum
035is the same. >> So it's just a matter of that's an accelerated not deeper program where the kids are going through it faster so that they get to integrate it one >> in their eighth grade year and don't miss out on that content material. So the foundation content, yes, is distributed in here, but it is not per se you're going to do two two and a half of these or that type of thing. If that makes sense. And some of the units as they're structured, sometimes it's parts and pieces of of different areas of them. >> Hopefully that makes sense. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I kind of know this answer, but the first page says 387 units per year equals 42 grand for the level one or for sixth grade. But I know it's a
036sixyear access fee for 42,000. There's no way we pay $132,000 annually for six years. >> The $132,000 covers the sixyear for that number of licenses per year. Yes. So like the sixth grade class um it's going to take 387 license seat licenses because everything textbooks is going by seat license for the kids to have access. Um next year we have 30 we'll have 387 again and as normal procedures let's say there's 402 we have to purchase more from the district level or from as a district somewhere to cover that cost because we're buying per seat >> and that's the same for all courses those seat license are at that we we don't estimate that was a number pulled at the time of the proposal um if if a kid walks in tomorrow the number goes
037is up, we have to buy one more seat. Um, we don't want to overwrite our contracts where we're guaranteeing a certain amount and our numbers are going the wrong direction. So, that's where that starts. Uh, the other thing that's built into here, of course, there is some professional development that is there to support our math teachers to really learn what the online tools and resources are available specific to this content and this vendor. Any other questions specific to math? And if anyone wants to see these, I'm happy to pass them around. Other than that, they will be out on public display. >> Can I move on to science? >> Yeah. So, in science, uh, science the, uh, teachers Oh, and I wanted to give credit actually one more minute because it's appropriate to give credit
038to the teachers that did the pilot. So within the math medical area, uh Mrs. Reed, uh Reninger, and uh is it strike? They uh did a great job. So uh the three of them, it takes time, it takes effort. I just want to acknowledge the effort by our teachers, uh and really dissecting and going into that pilot of math and finding out which one was going to work. So a big shout out to Megan, Veronica, and Brenda in the science area. Uh again a review of three different curriculums piloting um the science areas. The final one came down to TCI. It looks like a lot of material sitting in front of me. So I want to explain that in the science room the textbooks for this vendor. They break them into three different separate topic
039content books per grade level. So you'll be able to see in your packet, it'll talk about, for example, the sixth grade, space, planet Earth, weather, and climate. Each one of those topics is going to have their own resource to be able to focus that content area because that's how this vendor proceeded to to display that in the print technology. Okay, it's still coming with an online resource like every other vendor that's out there um and has interactive components built into it. uh these are also uh aligned to the national nextgen uh science standards which our past material didn't have. So this is a real positive that we're able to move forward with that uh alignment assisting our teachers on being able to uh align to those standards. So you will see three different textbooks for
040each grade level because that's what matches our current curriculum. So our our material is just being kind of upgraded to the next gen uh nextgen uh science standards and I need to uh give credit to Sheila, Lisa and Jill who were the majority you know workers doing this type of review across those levels and that was uh a a big thing. The other thing we are trying to push for um academically they want to do meaning teachers want to do more hands-on labs in the science realm. So part of the review of the curricular material for the science curriculums when they were doing it was what type of lab activities are included and embedded within this curriculum. Uh and that is one of the reasons why they went this direction. So just I want to
041make sure that's clear as well. Some of the expenditures that come along with these textbooks uh are lab uh consumable costs and those we do not order um six years in advance. You know, you'll see that this is a again another six-year uh total. We buy one year at a time for consumable cost uh both storage reasons wise and the number of students within the the course to make sure that it is uh accurate. So, These are the nine textbooks for science. Do you have any questions on science? >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you very much. We'll come back in October and next vote on. >> And the next thing we have is our facilities update presentation. >> I get like a round of applause or something. >> Nice. Thank you. Awesome.
042Perfect. >> That's how good it is. Usually we >> Oh, I need to get fired up. Um >> yeah. >> Um thank you for the time as usual. My my honor to do this monthly. Um first thing I want to talk about uh CT mobile project. Um I talked last month that had some slight delays, but September 4th we were able to finally get those students in there. Um that's been working out really well. We've been following out with uh with Terresa Koko, the principal there. Teachers have done a great job making that transition. and they did a great job working with us to make sure those students had what they needed to start the year. Um so again, kudos to them for for doing that and working with us. Um but we got that
043up and running. Turned out to be a really great space. Got things cleaned up. Um now we just have some outside work to take care of, but I think that's going to work out really well. Um another update, um track project is still out there. Um working with Ericson Engineering or getting drawings. We should have hopefully drawings here towards the latter part of September um with a plan to bring information to the board in October um and then possibly if we decide to move forward get that out to bid in October. That's kind of the timeline we're working with. Um PKMS lockers is still a thing we're looking into. Um we don't need them immediately, but it's just something that's out there. We're kind of keeping our options open, working with uh Mr. Newquist on
044space. We've talked about for years kind of some of the ancillary room spaces that we haven't been utilizing. Um looking at taking out some walls, modifying some spaces to make that usable to kind of address that population, but lockers are on hold at this point. Just reviewing our options and kind of seeing what we have moving forward. um facilities committee. Um we're have a meeting set up for the end of September. Um originally in talking with Kyle, we were going to have the architects present this month. We kind of had some further conversation, decided we invite them to the facilities committee meeting to kind of talk some background of kind of what their plan is, share some of the things we've been talking about for the last year in that group, and then they'll present
045in October. So that's kind of the the architect um plan moving forward. That's the only updates I have. Is there any other questions or anything that I can answer? >> Awesome. Appreciate >> I got it before. >> Thank you, Dan. >> And next up, we have the communications presentation by Matt. Have you got presents? >> Uh good evening. Uh I only ask next time that I go before him so that I can you can save the good applause for him. Um my name is Matt Rodald. the director of communications here at Central 301 and have been here for the last 3 years or so. And uh with the start of a new school year and the incredible response to our day one 301 campaign, I just wanted to take a couple minutes to update you
046on the current state of communications here in our district. Uh some of the things that we've been uh working on, where we've been, and what we're focusing on moving forward. Uh, one of the biggest reasons Central 301 has continued to lead in this space of social media is because of our streamlined voice. Um, while some districts allow each building or leadership group to kind of manage their own separate social media presence, we've made the conscious decision for the last several years now of keeping our message centralized and strategic and that approach continues to pay off. We've uh built credibility and consistency and we've also built trust by doing so that way. and other districts around the area have started to model their strategy after ours. And of course, it comes from presenting a unified message
047through a single voice in a district that continues to grow louder and broader every single day. Um, with the social media momentum, we had quite the record month for August. Um, it's our largest month of social media growth in our district's history. Instagram is the biggest monthly follower increase ever, more than 240 plus followers. uh Facebook, the largest jump we've seen in a single month in more than five years. And we've had consistent gains across X, YouTube, and Threads as well. And for those of you that don't know what Threads is, that's like the Instagram version of Twitter, so to speak. Um from June 1st to August 1st, kind of a dead period typically in social media, and we take our foot off the gas naturally. Uh we still added 110 new followers off across
048all platforms. And while that may seem like kind of a low number, usually we don't see anything at all. So that's 168% increase uh compared to the same time last year. So and then that set ourselves on the path of the record month of August. Um it's reflecting the rhythm that keeps family engaged, keeps families engaged, I should say, without really overwhelming them with too much information. This week we'll test it because it's homecoming. Um but uh you know the one thing that I think that we've long believed is that our families turn to social media first uh for information now. That's kind of where they're going. And so our singular unified outlet is really what they want and that's what we're really delivering with this as well. Um let's talk about day one 301.
049I'm sure you guys saw the social media posts the day the first day of school posts that that lingered around that hashtag and our back to school campaign that captured excitement of the first day through a whole bunch of signs uh some student focused uh information as well as the building visits and I want to give thanks to our principles and our admin our cabinet and all the building leadership for helping with us uh because uh to be blunt I can't be in eight places at once. Um, we had more than 60 families that shared photos with the hashtag that they held up their little sign. And uh, that's just on our comment thread alone. There were several more uh, that I found outside of our own uh, sphere, so to speak. Uh, when you
050search the hashtag, uh, posts like this drew about 3,500 uh, impressions. Those are basically views. It just crossed your feed, so to speak. Thousands of likes and comments all over those posts uh, really to start the year. and it's really and easy to say our most engaging back to school campaign that we've had yet and really amplified all the pride that we had across the district. Um some of the things that we've done over the course of the last seven to eight months when you look back some of the record setting start that we mentioned but the digital strategy we've had overall is talking about some of the great things that we've had like our perfect ACT scores. Uh we took that and was able to gather some news coverage out of that. Two stories,
051two students, thousands of impressions. The Daily Herald, Shaw Local, WBBM News Radio 780, Fox 32, and Yahoo. They all covered it. Our homegrown series that you probably saw back in January and February, uh they were a hit as well. 10 episodes featuring alumni that are now working in our district, averaging about 3,200 impressions per post. And all those videos were put on YouTube as well. And each one uh when you average them out average more than 300 YouTube videos of 300 YouTube views per episode. Coming up next month you will see what we've done the last couple of years is this fresh this fall campaign. This year it'll be the new crew in 25. It's our first year staff profile series when you see them on kind of a baseball card and we put their
052picture up and we say hello and the things that they like to do when they're not in the classroom. Uh last year when we did this about 17 profiles, averaged about 200 impressions. Right now we're looking at about 11 maybe a dozen. We'll get some scragglers that come in and that's really the right around right amount of uh of profiles. You don't want too many otherwise it just goes on and on. So it's a good number for us uh to go forward. Uh moving to email real quick in terms of our communication. Um our Friday focus newsletter we've had a 66% open rate. corner office has been uh those superintendent updates that we've had on Fridays as well 65% open rate. Um the staff communications within the corner office those are separate emails um that
053they get. So the community gets one, the staff gets one. The staff communication open rate is 74%. And we exceed industry standards in terms of the open rate but when you think about it that's still one in three families that don't even bother to open emails that we send them every day. And those uh those numbers I can trace back for the last four years on a variety of topics. So every time we send something, we know that we're going to reach twothirds of our audience, so to speak, via email. It's very different with apps. It's very different with text. We don't have complete data on that. We do know that we reach more people, so to speak, but don't know if they're actually reading the information we send them. So that's something to keep
054in mind. But either way, it just underscores again why social media has become a very important tool for reach and engagement and creating an echo chamber where we give information directly and information on social media as well. Uh we had some fun over the summer. Uh Dylan Tony was an intern of mine through the Northern King County uh vocational system. Of course, uh we pulled up a large collection of historical documents, athletic records as well. And the reason we want to do that is because we want to be able to use some flashback campaigns. We have throwback Thursday, but it's kind of hit or miss sometimes with that. Uh feel free to send some things in. I know that we have uh a post that you can go ahead and just post your stuff to
055it. Uh but some milestone storytelling, just the simple things like August 20th was the third year, third time we've only had the first day of school in 40 years. Does it mean anything? No, it's just interesting when you look at it. And that's kind of the fun part of social media as well. When we look ahead to what we're doing, of course, throughout the course of the school year, um you guys may have seen it already. the 301 budget blueprint. I want to thank Dana uh for her help with uh breaking that down uh this the school finance setup and keeping it kind of in a clear jargon-free uh format for people to read. You will see that uh the next one is tomorrow, tomorrow uh as we roll it out each uh every other
056week on Tuesdays. Um you've seen our superintendent search uh website that we've had or web page I should say. We've had information there. Uh we have some more coming and that will ramp up in the next few days here as we talk about our community forum that will be next Tuesday and as well as the district survey that's going to be pushed out next week as well. People can look for more information there. Our digital bulletin board, we've gotten more aggressive with that as well and little by little because we want to make sure that it's kind of in a rhythm so that people understand that there are community groups out there that are supporting what we do here at Central 301. We've been starting to do weekly reminders on social media of that and
057also to go with Friday focus as well. We will continue to sustain our social media growth as we continue to uh try and build that up as well. And also our board memo is something that we're going to work on as well here. A new monthly message for our from our board of education that will be included in the every edition of in the loop. So hopefully it will get rolled out next month for the month of October. And what it's going to do is highlight priorities, share some perspectives, and also the ability to connect directly, uh, with the community here at large. So, uh, that's all I have and any questions you guys might want to throw my way, be happy to answer. I do want to say that I have seen a lot
058more um than in years past this year with things on social media and it's good to see it's nice to see some of the postings of you know middle schools and elementary schools because oftentimes it felt like it was just highlighting you know high schools. So it's nice that the other schools are getting highlighted as well. I would like maybe to see over the summertime like summer camps and what kids are doing within our summer camps. I think that would be great to see um over the summer to maybe keep uh parents and people engaged. >> The uh important thing for me is that my mom taught middle school for 30 years. So I'm very in tune to the middle school clock. Uh I have a fifth grader and third grader myself. I have a
059niece in high school. So I see all levels of schools. So I'm not just favoring one. Although sometimes the content can feel that way. Um I like making sure that I get to as many schools as I can. Uh but also it's a it's to a point that I want to thank all of our administration, our our principles as well because there are times when they send me things uh that I don't have access to or because I can't be in two places at once. And I always encourage our teachers to connect with our building leaders and also uh to connect with me to say, "Hey, I have something that might be good content for social media." Uh we've uh extended that over the course of the last couple of years and uh we'll continue
060to do that because uh sometimes they're the best eyes and they give us the best content too. Matt, I just wanted to say um as Morgan said, the um the I I see an improvement in both the quantity and the volume and the quality of um everything that you and your team are putting out. I just think it's really well done. So, thank you. >> Thank you. I think the one thing we need to be careful sometimes is volume too much because everyone tends to be a little overwhelmed with this. So, that's a strategy that we try and work with. Yeah, it's it's a fun balancing act, too. It's a challenge. Um what it is is essentially programming a social media channel. that's not always easy to do and to try and keep some variety
061with it as as well because that way you're not having some person go to one page. We like to get them to as many different pages as possible. So that's that's the reason we try and do it that way. >> Okay. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you all. >> All right. Now we will move on to business with a policy committee update. Um, and here's Scott. Would you like to share any information from the committee the committee meeting? >> Uh, Scott, I guess I can take this one. Feel free to fill in the blanks. I'm sure I'll have some. So, the Thursday after our last board meeting, um, Scott and I met with the, um, policy committee. Um, if I am getting any of the nomenclature wrong, um, Kyle and Tim, please correct
062me. But um historically our district has used u model ISB um policies as our basis um and we've been storing those online in kind of a Google drive for everybody to access. We're moving to a service that ISB has called Press Plus which um will not only host our policies but also um kind of keep track of and capture our specific customizations that we make as a district. So we talked about that process with ISB staff. We started talking about some of the customization options that we have and we'll be following up over the next few months um with that process to get um that manual fully online in that press plus format. >> Anything I missed, guys? >> No. >> So, we should be getting our our initial draft of all the policies both
063done within the next couple of weeks. Um in which case then we will reconvene. um we will we will look at all the stuff and then we'll reconvene with them to make any adjustments and changes to to those policies. Um they will then also make sure that we we are staying updated on all the policy changes that have come about and with the goal that by January February time we'll be able to meet again board ready to vote on and get that policy up. They will then get everything posted. It will take them a little bit of time to get everything posted onto their their service, but um >> it'll be a much easier seamless process. >> Yeah, I think I think the amount of staff time on our end that we'll save is fantastic.
064And then um you know, it is a subscription for us, but I think there's real value there in um helping them keep us up to date, them helping us keep us up to date. >> Thank you. >> The next is our DT update. I apologize. I was unfortunately not able to attend, but um Kyle De or Jeff, would you like to give an update? >> Yeah, similar agendas on both. Uh first was like what went well with school beginning back to school, what didn't. Um a lot of positive stuff. Uh high school definitely like new cell phone policy. Um, CT Mobile was they had to wait, but they did a great job moving in like Dan said, September 4th. Um, teachers were excellent and they're glad to be in there. Um, so that actually was
065a positive even though it was kind of a negative to begin with. So, um, and they kind of like the slow start, you know, first week was three days, four days, and then we went to a full week of of school, I guess. Is it this week? But yeah, so this is kind of a slow start, but it was kind of welcomed by staff and students. Um, we went on to talk about the superintendent search. Uh, we got the focus groups on Monday and Tuesday. kind of talked about times and online times to accommodate staff early in the morning and in the afternoon. So, it's like I think there's three for them, but uh it just gives them the option to attend whatever best fits their schedules. And the community one we decided to do
066in person just because a lot of community members in the next meeting liked in person. I think it'd be good just to have them see in person the the firm that we hired, you know. So, and again, they the survey is open for a week, so they can fill that out. They don't have to attend, but it, you know, hopefully we'll get a good turnout, you know, more than 20 people hopefully. So, um we'll see what attendance looks like. Um they touched on the uh schedule discussion and it's not a major discussion. It's more of like what kids what opportunities can we give them throughout the day. Not massively changing the schedule. Let's start at 6:00 a.m., let's end at 5:00 pm. Nothing like that. we all know it's contractually, you know, there's stipulations there.
067So, it's just early discussions with that. Um, so yeah, that was DT, I think. Anything else? >> And then we sat around for a little bit, had a beer or two, and then went into the community. >> Uh, community advisory team, like I said, similar agenda. Um, both Uh both meetings we talked about the strategy of the strategic plan last time we met in May. It's not forgotten. It's just kind of we're going to revamp it a little bit. Um Kyle's going to go over it, tweak it, and so it'll come back in the fall to us. So um if you guys are wondering what happened with that, that's was that's what's going on with that. Um I got to switch. No wonder I went into that. Sorry. Um, same thing back to school. What
068went well? Uh, community member liked what PKMS did. Um, they didn't so much like the drop off for supplies. Uh, talked about doing a drop off for supplies at night, maybe just having administration there rather than teachers. So, um, just some discussions with different things. Um, one thing that did go well, I guess Country Trails had their device pickups at PK, so it was a lot easier and a smoother. There just more room. I guess I wasn't there, so I don't know, but somebody liked it. Um, so they talked about possibly doing that and maybe have other um things at different schools, not their home schools, just something that's more accommodating for all the kids. And then on that note, bookf fair is doing that also because a lot of the schools are just so
069cramped when you have the entire school going and parking someplace. So it's possible we might look into something like that. We two's talked about superintendent search. Um and that's really about it. >> Sure. positive feedback on communication just that was out there and um the challenges sometimes with with looking at at the various social media that can be there and knowing what information is accurate versus not. Um but they appreciate the fact that the district does have consistent communication they have a messaging um we've talked about kind of within the communication department in which is Matt I guess one u but Matt and I talked about do we need to be better about helping people here is the district Facebook page. Here is the district um you know where you can find some of these
070different things particularly to new families. We had a new family who came in at one of the schools and they thought some of the other um social media things that were out there were the districts just because of how their name some of the nomenclature and realized it wasn't when they talked to the principal and they didn't realize the district had a Facebook page and this was a brand new like a new kindergarten family right so it was just trying to make sure that we're making getting out information in a way that people can find where the data is that they need to make decisions for their kids. >> And now we'll move on to discussion of the parking lot at CHS. >> Start this one. >> Yeah. Who wants who wants to open that?
071>> I I can start. There's been a lot of obviously questions. I mean, it was a question that I had raised earlier this summer about the lack of availability for parking, whether it's for staff or students, primarily for students. I know a vast majority of the student class or the junior class was unable to receive parking passes. I think there's maybe a different way that long term we can look at whether it's a lottery or if it's a qualification process from academic extracurricular but I know there was some um some work that Dan had done with a previous ed engineer for the west property when you pull in off of Plato Road. I uh took some of that information I got from Dan and I know you had looked at it kind of in this
072spring with your professional background and I kind of shopped it around um some of our customers from my job from the um construction side and worst case scenario we're looking at I mean if we were to remove the retaining wall and some of the sidewalk and just um do it with paving it was kind of a like a grand plan um we potentially could do this lot worst case scenario under 750 1.2 seems to be like nobody could get to that number. Um, even if all of the storm water and everything was required by the county, there's a lot of school of thought that given the location of the school that the county would be immunable even if we did trigger some of the storm water runoff. There's um pavement protocols. There's pvious pavement options
073that we can offset storm water that way. If we were um there was concern around some of the soil borings depending on staying away from a certain area undercuts could get expensive. Borings in my experience Andy you can speak to it is is not necessarily representative. It's a 4 inch hole that they would go out and it's not necessarily um some of the recommendations that I had had is if if we get to that point as part of the the engineering process, we go out and dig a couple test holes and actually test the area and you would then have more information to be able to take back and potentially petition the county for the lack of need of how um much offset. It's a very simple number. storm water runoff is a very simple
074engineering calculation. So I think that it's if this is something that the the board or the community really feels strongly about and I think there's options there that um we potentially could look at it maybe from a different angle. I would I would say, you know, I I know that our consultants in Ericson have been um looking at this in detail and they're an excellent firm and um I um I trust their recommendations. Um what I feel like I personally need as one of the seven of us up here is um a handle on what this project would really be. Um what our professionals in the district um see the project as as a cost and why. um compare that with the information that um Chad shared and um open a dialogue amongst ourselves um
075in the community what we want to do about this. Um you know a month ago we heard that this was a really serious concern. Um I did not receive a single email from the community this past month about parking. Maybe maybe staff did. Maybe some of you guys did. I did not. We did not have a comment tonight. So, for me, I'm just trying to figure out what the community wants and what it will take to do this. So, um we can make the best decisions possible um for for for all those folks. So, >> from a number standpoint, I forgot there was um 126 spaces was kind of what we had looked at. Um there's the potential to go 140 145. So if we were 750,000 for, you know, 146 spaces, you'd be right
076around 5,000 hours of space potentially. >> Yeah. So I I'm I'm just wonder, you know, I I don't know if we necessarily have to go full engineering bid it out, you know, in case something comes back as something we're not willing to support, then we'll have spent all that money for nothing. But, >> you know, is there a way that um Ericson can do a little bit more engineering and we can get SMC, our construction manager, involved to do some costing? um and help us with that information so we can continue this dialogue. >> And if we get favorable feedback at that point, the community still wants to go forward, there still is a fail safe. Just just because you bid it doesn't mean you have to award. >> So if if if it goes
077out for public bid at that phase, if we decide to >> keep moving and bids come back more than you know that we're comfortable spending or what the architectural engineering estimate was that it was an exercise. At least at that point, it becomes a a a detailed feedback and and I think it's based on to Andy's point what the community feels strongly about. I mean, if the community is okay with only one class, I mean, >> but it just it it seems like there's a lot of heartburn within the community. I have not gotten emails, but I have probably probably half a dozen people in the last four weeks bring it up to me in person social settings asking what the plan is. Is is there a plan? Is it part of a master plan?
078I know I that there was some thought that that money spent on a potential expansion of parking lot or whatever given the master plan and I think I mean I think some of that is is valid. Um I think we have to be realistic about what the the mind is on that. And if we're four or five years away from a shovel in the ground from a past referendum and a potential school and if you advertise a $700,000 lot over five years and you're parking x amount of people a year and does that get more people off the road on a Friday night now's allowing parking on the north side of the road and I think there's a safety factor that plays into it too from a community standpoint for people that come and engage.
079I don't necessarily think a new grand high school plan was necessarily answered when you're talking previously a lot of money potentially spent to fix a parking lot problem. I think the only other thing I wanted to add to the discussion, I know there's a lot of discussion in the community or at least on social media about um you know, let's just put in gravel and I completely want to back up Dan and our consultants on that take. >> Um you have the exact same requirements for storm water management with a gravel parking lot as you do for paving. Um and really it's only about 15% of the cost of building a lot that's actually that 3 in of asphalt. So you're doing it all anyway to save that little bit of money um in exchange
080for all the maintenance Dan and his crew have to do to keep that plow keep a gravel lot plow just um >> plus you have the safety factor you lose you lose them control you cannot paint lines in a gravel parking lot and then gravel parking lots don't take ice control the same way that >> so I I appreciate I appreciate the community's desire to keep it reasonable and you know be willing to accept more modest, but I think it's one of the things that it's one of those things that if we're going to do it, we we should do it well and do it. >> Yeah, I agree. >> If lot was put out, would we have to where would the entrance to this be? >> So, there's two options that potentially was looked
081at by Ericson and Andy and I both kind of talked about both of them. One would be the existing entrance you would pull in and then the new lot would be to the right similar to where the job trailers were for the addition. Would there have to be road expansion for the left then >> would there have to be road expansion turn lanes traffic control >> in that in that scenario? No. And it we're thinking and at least what we've heard from staff and I would tend to concur that >> in that case since we'd be putting a parking lot across that um that fairly busy traffic that we might want to make that a staff lot rather than a student lot. Um, from a safety perspective, >> you'd flip-flop the assignment of the lots
082and have staff. The other scenario would be is it would incur turn lane road alteration and you would move the entrance that's existing now to the west down towards the tree line and that essentially would make that all one big area. So what we now know is the road as you pull in would be part of one giant lot. Yeah, it's um >> that scenario was very costly. >> Yeah, there's there are pros and cons. That scenario um I think it gives you an arguably safer long-term result, but um the amount of time um the permitting involved, the costs of um pushing all of those improvements to Plato Road that were just done. >> Yeah. >> Um you know, west a few hundred feet to make that happen. Um in my mind, I I have
083a tough time with that. So, I would tend my personally I would tend to lean towards the um the first options, but in at this point I'm just um suggesting to all of us that we may want to um get a little bit more information >> um about this. Um not saying we vote on it, not saying we tell the community we're doing it, but we continue to find out more. >> So, what more are we looking for? Because it seems like Dan has found out a lot. So, is it That's bad information. We want new information or like what what else are we looking for, I guess? >> So, I think I think it would be helpful for us to have a drawing from the engineer that shows the general layout that shows us
084if the storm water is going to be underground or above ground because that affects pricing. And I think having um some sort of cost estimate from our construction professionals um to tell us what it is rather than an engineers estimate because no offense to our engineers, but a construction professional have better numbers. Um I think if we just had those two pieces of information, um that would give us the tools, Jeff, to >> and there's a lot of from an engineering standpoint >> and some of that may exist. >> Then Eric did there was like, well, if this is the case, then you're looking at this cost. Well, then there is the possibility because we have X Y and Z result. this it was just kind of a like this is what you're looking at
085based on the information we have but there is more information to go get to hone in on what the actual cost would be. There was some of um um we're not entirely sure what the county would require us to do. We're assuming based on protocol triggers, but there's variances that can be obtained especially from storm water. There's storm water offsets that the county may have. We may be able to generate another storm water offset in some in some future projects. Sometimes you can bank those offsets from an engineering standpoint. We don't necessarily have to go dig the retention now as opposed to if we have a part of the master plan, part of the track project, if there's depressions, if there's grading, um storm water, storm water does not necessarily have to happen right there.
086So we could to Andy's point drill down on that and right now basically have an engineer's estimate based on some money we spent on porings are not entirely representative. I have personally seen porings that show that the property is good and you get out there with equipment and it's very bad soils and or vice versa that they stick a 4 inch hole in the ground and that that sample is bad and you move 10 feet and the rest of the property is fine. >> So, um there's alternatives you can actually and then if we get to that point you can then start having owners reps, like you said, actually put it out to the community. It's not an official bid, but it goes out to the construction community. They can actually give you budget feedback
087and then they can give you attendees and um alternates. At that point, I would be comfortable to actually have a report then that we would know this is exactly on this option. this is what it would cost based on our estimate >> and then if we choose to go forward and put it out for bid it would be a a more factual communication to to to the community because we've heard 1.2 I had a couple guys look at it said 565 to 710 depending on your alternatives and 10 15% for engineering there's alternates that I mean so it's like we're from 1.2 to 550 >> and probably somewhere in between. So if you're 750 800 that's 4 500,000 less than engineers >> sure what they estimate >> napkin estimate basically is kind of where we're
088at. >> Yeah. My my my guess is um a little more due diligence um short of putting together full bid documents and paying for that is going to get us better answers that we can talk >> push this you know either to better decide what we're going to do. >> So those estimates aren't going to cost us anything from these companies from the construction companies. >> There would be some cost, but I think it'd be >> I would I would expect SMC to want to be compensated for that, but I I know from my other projects I work on with them, they're pretty reasonable. >> Yeah. >> When you say reasonable, what are we what are we talking about for cost? >> I would be surprised if they charge more than two or $3,000 for
089a parking lot estimate. >> I was five or less >> because what they what they do MC's listening. um they will they will call trades with Ericson's preliminary drawings and say what would this be if you bid it today >> and they'll tabulate that and give you a >> and companies like seem to currently have projects going on with they have accurate today unit pricing for and the nice thing is short side of the unknown the undercuts the below the grass situation with the soil unit pricing for gravel excavation haul retention bonds asphalt finder there's no secrets there I mean it's the variance in which one contractor to the other is buying raw building materials like asphalt gravel or or haul off it's a less than 2% variance I mean it's who would who would
090be driving who who would be we be making these spots for is this our junior senior class >> it would be additional students >> basically junior >> right now what's what's our head count on the senior 388. >> What's it? What's the junior class? >> 4 something like 415 >> junior class. >> It's the last page in the >> 423. >> They're 423, >> but the next three years are over four. >> The senior class. >> The demand the demand appears and I guess we'll talk about this in a few minutes. The demand would appear to be going up based on >> especially because all the growth in elementary school. So I mean in years when those kids come to high school 10 years >> I'm I'm just looking at like the immediate next like
091one to three years how many how many students would benefit from us putting in this park >> however many spots >> which potentially some of the feedback that I've gotten in person from from the community is the lack of um students that have extracurricular activities participate in sports clubs and stuff there is no players bus therefor or they're junior in high school and they cannot drive to school and they have after school or before school responsibilities. This potentially could cover vast majority of the people that are missing out. There's what 20 juniors I think that obtained a permit. Is that something >> about about 20ish? >> So if you had so you got 20 juniors that are parking you had another 140 that's 160. Now you're potentially 45% of the entire junior class is driving
092plus the entire senior class. >> Well, as our dual credits expands, that's going to diminish those numbers. Don't forget because then well, I guess more juniors and seniors will get those because they get first dips. >> So >> the burden is that before and after after school activities is the feedback that I'm getting and sports and stuff and then the transportation afterwards. And then it depends on how you award the spaces. If they're based off academics, if they're based off extracurriculars, I mean, it's all we could have 140 spots if they go up to academics. I mean, maybe only half of the sports kids are both, you know, who knows? You mean all the different scenarios? >> And I don't know if that's necessarily I mean, a board decision. >> No, more for you guys.
093>> I think our future superintendent, but I mean there's a lot of heartburn on this lottery system on how it's handed out. >> I think it's a great job. at the high school superintendent. >> Write that down. >> I'm just kidding. >> After July, >> Tim's first decision. >> Yeah. >> Parking at the high schools is always a tough one. It's just um >> we're not the only district. >> No. >> My previous district, we had 75 parking spots for >> classes over a thousand kids. >> Stevenson's charging daily five bucks a day or something. What's interesting is is I went to Kalin High School and Kalin very much like Central is a very rural school. Multiple towns feed into that very large school district. One thing that um they had because we had a
094parking shortfall when I was in high school is they had players buses. There was players transportation after sports not to individual houses but they went to individual neighborhoods and or towns. So instead of having people to drive 20 minutes to pick up their child, they may only have to drive to the other side of the community or is there some >> we do have that. >> Um but then you have the rural kids. Then there's people that are like, "Okay, well that's great. By the time I drive to town to pick up the player transportation, I I might as well drive to school." So this goes back into our discussion as were this like hybrid, similar to what you had said, Tim, your first night here was It's rural, but then it's it's not. And
095it's there's a vast majority of this school district students that don't live in a subdivision and they don't have access to that stuff. So driving for them is much different than somebody car pooling. Car pooling when you live in the country and your neighbor's a mile away. It's not necessarily as available as it is to students that say you're under 18. Caring just needs one. And I think the key point too is community input. >> Yeah. >> Um you guys both said it a bunch. It you know I think it comes around I mean because I got an email this summer about parking and and I think it comes around every summer for parents that realize oh my kid is now a junior and now I have an issue trying to figure this out. But
096so for community for our community when you're thinking about this because we don't have a referendum passed right now. We don't have any plans for in the next couple years having new schools. But community members, if you have a student that's going to be a junior or in this situation in the next coming years, we'd like to hear from you and and we'd like you to start thinking about it now. Um so that we can kind of make that decision because yes, every junior parent could come and talk to us and that would be enough for us to listen and say, "Hey, we got to do something about it." But it would be nice to hear from the community because even if it's $500,000 or 750, that's a lot of money. Yeah. And you know,
097we want to hear from the community on like, yes, we want that money spent on the parking situation or, hey, we we'd rather put that money towards something else that's more important to us. So, community input on things like this are are massive for us. >> The more the more we can hear from the community, the better prepared we can be, the better prepared staff can be to get something ready if we're going to do it. So, we respond. >> Thank you guys. >> I mean, is this m to our communication theme? Is this one of those questions we put out on our social media, Facebook to try and foster some community engagement outside of this venue on that topic or any other topics? >> And I sent you that uh screenshot. >> Uh one
098of the other I work in nine different districts and I speak for uh Broadway from the teachers all the way up to the school boards. One of the ones I was with the other night does a read it here. It's a it's a program where a board member and usually a superintendent will go to a school of choosing. They call it a board listening post and once a month a board member, a superintendent go sits for an hour, half hour, whatever time they allow to uh each school in the community can just come and talk face to face. I think that's something that we should be adopting as It's gonna be next >> next >> put it out there so we can discuss we can start in agreement >> under future agenda around >> I
099was looking right at you when I said superintendent like this >> oh my gosh Gosh. All right. Any more questions, comments, or discussion on the parking lot for CHS? >> Okay. We'll move to our next um exciting actually real exciting item is the update on our superintendent search. >> So, Jeff already talked about most of this, but just and you all have have have seen this. I shared this document with you all, but just as a reminder um for the community, there is a uh at 700 p.m. on Tuesday, September 23rd, so next Tuesday at Central High School in the auditorium, there'll be an open forum for the community with the search firm there. Um and they will be taking there'll be some questions they're asking on what are you interested in seeing with the
100new superintendent. um as they create their profile of that for that position. Uh there will also be uh a survey that will go out that will go out on the 22nd in the morning. Um that'll be available all week for people to fill out information. Again, that goes directly to the search firm. They'll compile all of that information and put that in to develop the the profile of the the new superintendent. Um so the board will have a special meeting next Monday the 22nd. It'll be a closed meeting. Um just meeting and talking about in regards to to this and um they'll be discussing and looking at at potential candidates not as an interview forum but just to get names and look at are these the types of things that are that are coming forward
101so far. So that will be next Monday for the board. for the community. Again, I would encourage you if you have an interest in doing that, number one, fill out the survey which will come out. Um, and then number two, 7 PM at Central High School Tuesday, September 23rd. >> All right. Now, to have business discussion, I just have our information only section. This is just things that are okay. Yeah, the FOYA report. Um, our public act 97-256 requirements, which is the administrator and teacher salary benefits. Um, our public act 97-0609 requirements, which is the posting of of IMRF compensation packages, and our enrollment report. So, I do want to just comment on the enrollment report. You you this is we, as everyone is aware of, we have a new system uh student information system
102here. This is the report right now. We're going to be updating how this is presented based on looking at um this is obviously a point in time right of when this when this information is pulled. We also want to compare it and look at it compared to the RSP that was done the firm that did the projections last year. So we'll be putting that into kind of a different format looking at this um and also looking at actuals over time so that you can kind of see where things are at. Interestingly enough, the elementary schools are um actually down a little bit. The middle schools are actually up a little bit. The high schools trending kind of flat even though it's it's it is larger, but the it's really the middle school we're seeing kind
103of those increases. Um but we want to have some data showing it's not something we're going to look at every month because it's you don't need to be looking at it that often, right? But usually every trimester or so. But we will pull some new data or we'll pull this data out, put it in comparison to RSP's estimates and then compare to past so that we can kind of look at that across across the board. So >> that's that's fantastic. Um I one thing that I think would be really as I reviewed this and kind of looked at um those deltas and those changes and kind of flipped back through some old things, I think it'd be really helpful for us to understand um which of the increases are specifically due to new enrollments in
104the district versus you know just age groups coming through um from grade to grade because that helps us know where the growth is really happening. I think we've always understood it to be in the lower grades, but um you know, I'm curious, is there what's going on that makes it seem like we seem to have more older kids coming into the district now? Um you know, one thought I had is um is it because housing is expensive and you have older families buying more expensive homes who would more likely have older kids? Are we going to know that? Who knows? But it would just to have the new new enrollment information, I think, would be really informative. And next is agenda items for our next regular meeting which is October 20th, 2025. >> Just like
105to give everybody an update. I can do it next month. Um I went to the IASB Super Saturday session for new board members on Saturday in Neapville. It was fantastic. Um a lot of good conversations. There are almost 200 people there, all new board members like five of us are, and um just got to share stories, some great speakers. So um I'll scan in the handouts and maybe we can make distribute those for next month and I can um tell you a little bit more about um some of the takeaways that I had, but it was great. >> Thank you, Angie, for helping me with that. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. the uh program I was just talking about. I'd like to add that also to name it something else the boarding post >> put down
106for just the agenda item. >> We have a good communications department that's really good at coming up with names of 50 names. >> I'll run that by the communications department. Outstanding. >> All right. Any other >> just architects will be coming um speaking on on the 20th. Can't see what else. We have the possible audit, um, enrollment report, architects, the book approval, and superintendent facilities. >> September 30th. >> September 30th. Yes. >> Everything else. All right. So, I think that concludes our meeting. I need a motion and a second to adjurnn. >> So, move. >> Second. >> And All in favor? >> I