001a thief here Falk Hemphill yes Nolan yes pepis yes vote Yes Gorman oh listen to something back there uh so uh I like to make a request a motion in a second to elect a secretary Pro Tem I nominate Jay oh so moved for a second yeah so moved in a second yeah very good uh roll call Mandy to make uh Jay Secretary proton yes and Phil yes Pappas yes vote Yes Nolan yes I need a motion in a second to approve the consent agenda so move second yes Pappas yes vote Yes a thief yes Nolan yes please join me in reciting the uh joining some reciting Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice uh we'd like to
002uh first thing I want to say is uh we are excited to have uh Dr mongan here at the first uh meeting here in superintendent so this is I I hopefully it's exciting it's exciting for me to be able to leave this meeting with her in her first one uh with a couple of our board members out so we do want to say uh congratulations and welcome to Dr Montgomery very much looking forward to uh moving forward together uh we welcome our administrators our community members that are here tonight um to you thank you for coming out over the summer I know that's always a fun event to try to come out in the evenings we appreciate that I also wanted to welcome anybody out there that's listening to us via YouTube for the board
003meeting and um I think primarily we have some new employees I'm going to introduce actually Eric assana who's the new principal but I want to hold off on our APS until next month that I'd like them all to come for them Erica Snyder's here she is our new building principal for Laya lake so we're excited to have her entries cocobeck is changing her position from assistant principal at Country tells to uh principal at Country Trails and then we have Patrick pogorski in the back um it will be in the new Central High School principal so we're excited to have them on board and to move forward with this so excellent welcome everyone uh we'll move on to public comment uh Gene Meyer is this on I have green lights on yep okay Gene Meyer five-year
004resident I believe that God gave me an agonizing transgender adolescence for such a time as this I hope you can hear the love and compassion in my voice for these precious young people so like me and this is a repeat for those that haven't heard my testimony I was called the sexless sixth grader in 1971 going through severe emotional distress over puberty leading to insomnia nausea social anxiety hair loss I dressed and walked Like a Boy by mid high school I had gotten over it and now I'm so thankful I did not grow up in a time that would have affirmed my confusion leading to irreversible changes with hormones and surgery making me a lifetime patient for Health Care having attended the last five board meetings it becomes apparent that meeting the needs of the
005LBGTQ students trumps academics as the Biden and pritzker Administration are pushing this new religion perhaps the board thinks they have to do it a moral person should never cave into wrong no matter who dictates nor the repercussions of refusal and yet I admit I've been weak many times myself perhaps no one on this board is an LBGTQ activist but just follows the herd I ask that you consider taking a path of resisting this agenda that sterilizes our young people before they can drink drive or go to war and without parental involvement this is Criminal here are the words of a former LGBT activist who works at an LGBT Center quote I started to realize that what I had been doing at my job at the LGBT Center it was grooming Kay Yang told Fox News
006I had to really face myself and what I had done and I really think that all people but especially children should be taught to love and respect their body and grow to accept the body that they were born in and whether that's male or female and I'm very concerned that this ideology is grooming young girls to believe they don't need sex-based rights anymore and grooming them to promote this ideology because that's what happened to me she said end quote I believe that each one of you board members is here because you would put the needs of the young people before your own you have made a grave error though in pushing this agenda it's not too late to change course like this amazing courageous Young d-transitioner lbgt Center staff person finally if these thoughts don't
007change your encouraging or going along with this agenda consider the possibility of a lawsuit I'm not threatening it as is the Tavistock clinic in the UK from up to a thousand families who are suing them who say they were not properly informed of the consequences blockers to help make gender transitions Tavistock has treated nineteen thousand children since 1989. that miners have been misdiagnosed leading them to be prescribed quote life-changing and irreversible effects in July 2022 the English national health system announced it would close the Tavistock gender Clinic because of safety concerns please change course be courageous and stand in the way of harming other people's children thank you so much and and you guys smile at me and touch me on the shoulder thank you I appreciate it uh next we have Moises hi so
008thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak here in front of you I don't speak in front of everybody very often so please be patient with me we sometimes probably I can make mistakes or things like that but be patient so yeah I am here in order to try to protect uh to protect my kids so because this agenda like the lady was saying LG TV agenda is I think it's a serious thing that is going to be affecting our kids so it's a different Doctrine that our faith and our training is in our house so this is a many of the of the things this agenda is having is against of our faith our customs and our Traditions so I want to make sure that my kids are going to be non-indoctrinated to
009follow up this There's No Agenda and I am concerned about their safety like like you were mentioning about this um hormones blockers and all those kind of medicines or surgeries that are going to be the kids are going to be pushing the kids are like uh like a little like a little dog you can you can meet you can form form them so that's why this agenda is taken advantage of that of our kids because they know that at that age they are forming still they are in the process of forming if I know that something is going to be dangerous for my kids I won't allow them to do it because this is something that can affect your Healthy their lives in my my kid wants to eat chocolate all day I won't eat
010chocolate all day just because he wants or because he thinks he's gonna be healthy for him for him so I'm gonna let him know that there are other things like vegetables like meat which are needed for the body to grow healthy so that's why I am very concerned and I would like to I know that the governor and everything has signed bills to don't block any topic or dumb block any book but I'm very concerned about those kind of topics or books be promoted on the school because in the National education I don't remember the name of the of the National Education System but I was reading that one a little bit and it is promoting to challenge the kids to change different to change their mind to challenge themselves to try a different to
011be a different person to be a different what they are is what they are promoting so the one of the of the major things of the human beings is to know who they are and where they are coming from if we if we make more confusion in our kids about who they are and who they are coming from so everybody is going to be doing whatever they want with them because they are going to be destroying whatever they have like a basis or solid and it's gonna be like easy to to move like uh if if somebody already made them to to change what is what is a fact what is a biology biological fact selecting anything is going to be possible for them to to tell them to tell them and they are going
012to be obeying because they think that because of that and see their their little kids they don't have the conscience to be to be thinking whether it's going to be good for them in the future and what is going to be bad so that's why I am very concerned about my little kids and my young kids so I would like to know if there is a path or a way to avoid this kind of things in my my kids even if I like like the lady was saying if there is a way to to block or challenge this plan for this agenda could be great but I I uh but I need to know how to protect my kids because so that's why I'm here I am a father and I am and I am
013taken the decisions to for them because I according to my to my to my faith I am giving them the the best I can to choose the correct path on life what I think is going to be the more healthy for them to grow once they are adults they can make decisions but when they are when they are kids so I think as a parent I I have the responsibility to show them what is the the what is going to be the correct for them because nobody is going to be loving them more than their parents I don't I don't think that the state or the government is going to be loving more than the parents our kids so that's why and that's all thank you thank you I already had a motion I said
014consent agenda but it should have been agenda first so she wanted to consented in again perfect uh a motion and second are required to discuss and approve the consent agenda so move second so in your board packet you have your revenue and expenditure reports um revenues are currently at 100.1.101.90 compared to 100.3 um 07 a year ago expenditures are at 99.99 compared to 96.92 a year ago um these are still pre-audited numbers so they are going to change because there's always a couple journal entries that we do and then um over the next week and two I will kind of scrub the counts just one more time before we do the audit to make sure that everything is in the right buckets before it gets to the audit um level but just so you know
015that these aren't the actual June that will be on the audit in Northern Keynes report their expenditures exceeded the revenues by 91 576 dollars for the year which reduces their fund balance down to 428 177 last year they had um 500 and then we reduced it down to that it's mostly timing of the bills being paid from the prior year and just kind of is always going to have this little ebb and flow when we first took over a couple years ago that was closer to almost 800 000 so we've knocked that down and trying to spend it when it when the money comes in so we're doing a much better job with that this month no impact fees or transition fees were received since the last board meeting so the total impact fees for
016this year are going to come under budget for three 312 000 and then transition fees are going to come under about forty thousand dollars um in your packet you also have bills payable reports for the final June so every year we do one more big payout for any last June stuff that we get from the June 20th board meeting to the end of June we try to get our insurance bills and stuff like that they come at the very end of the month so or at the end of June so we try to squeeze all of that in for the June so you have June and then you'll have July's bills Northern Kane we were able to get everything in for June for the year because it belonged to that year so there were actually
017no bills for July and then we're going to start our audit on August 7th so we're going to start working on that too along with the budget my phone call was uneventful on Friday oh I had mine so it was done okay just so you know um a motion a second required to discuss and approve the cross-country overnight trip that will be held September 8th and 9th 23. Dr Nolan you take a vote on the content oh I'm sure who knew I'd mess it up the first time sure let's vote okay thank you um Hemphill yes Pappas yes vote Yes a thief yes Nolan yes how about now a motion in a second are required to discuss and approve the cross-country overnight trip that will be held September 8th and 9th of uh 2023. so
018moved athletic director Jeske basically offering a cross-country uh trip for Mr Vince Neil who is the head coach as a premier meet that they offer um so it's one that definitely Vince would like to have his students participating it also prepares them for the state meet this is third year in a row maybe they've done this yeah experienced it will sometimes with the kids as well excellent and Pappas yes vote Yes a thief yes Hemphill yes Nolan yes uh Motion in a second required to discuss and approve the proposed revisions discussed last month to the elementary school handbook trees Coco back is here principal at Country Trails in case there's any questions that you might have after reviewing them I think we anybody have any questions after what we talked about last month no Pappas
019yes vote Yes a thief yes Hempfield yes Nolan yes a motion a second required to discuss and approve the proposed revisions discussed last month in the Middle School handbook second again Matt newquist principal at Prairie knows this year in the event that you might have some questions for him anybody yeah we're good go for it vote Yes a thief yes hemp Phil yes Pappas yes Nolan yes uh a motion and second are required to discuss and approve the proposed revisions discussed last month to the high school handbook so moved second again uh principal pogorski's here in the event that you might have some questions regarding that from last month and I'll just ask to clarify presumably there were no changes recommended between last month and this month for all three levels all right Mandy a
020thief yes info yes Pappas yes vote Yes Nolan yes uh Motion in a second required to discuss and approve the Nia executive board ballot so moved second if you recall last month um we've brought this forward there's only one person running for it as a district administrator or one uh in terms of report members so it's really you guys to decide if you would like to make action for the vote that they're requesting on ad years I don't think there's any reason to not do what they're requesting right I agree I agree yeah Hemphill yes Pappas yes vote Yes a thief yes Nolan yes uh a motion and second are required to discuss and approve that tentative Northern Kane Regional Vocational system efe budget so moved second a Dana flug Andrew who is efe director
021or here to kind of walk you through the budget and take any questions that you might have before you approve it so tonight we're presenting to you the fy2410 at a budget I'm asking you to formally approve this tentative budget public notice will go on the newspaper tomorrow and then I'll be on display for 30 days we'll have it here at the district office too if anybody wants to look at it and then I just wanted to kind of point out joint annual budgets which is what Northern Kane is technically considered at the state they have to have their budgets approved by September 1st um normal school regular school districts don't have to have theirs till October so because of the September 1st deadline we have to do theirs a month earlier than ours so
022we do their tentative in July and they're Final in August and then next month you'll have our tentative and then our final the following so I just want to kind of point that out why we're doing theirs and not ours um northern Kane County Regional Vocational system efe 110 is another name for it it consists of four different schools so u46 D300 d301 and d303 we kind of combine all of our assets together so we don't all have to have every program out there within like every school we just kind of figure out who's got what and then that's how they basically the collaborative efforts to get them to share more resources and give more opportunities for our kids um this next slide kind of shows you the flow of funds so the State Board
023of Education gets all the money and then it flows to the Kane County Educational Service region which then flows to the northern Kane County educate Regional Vocational system and then that flows into the four school districts that are part of that um so this slide kind of shows you all the programs we have offered between all the different schools um their CTE programs um basically we were enhancing and trying to strengthen the current programs here we have there's been no new ones added and no none of them have been removed since last year are we and our students going to have access to any more of them this year yeah well not this year but the future industry we have education starting pre-teaching interest okay so new this year we do have summer internship opportunities
024that we took advantage of and were able to get up these pictures are actual pictures of our students doing these opportunities out in the field they're mainly for the summer between Junior and Senior year after they've completed two courses of program of that study to qualify for these internships approximately 52 people participated last year and this year we got up to 90. so the enrollment's grown in that and then really District 300 301 and u-46 were the only three that participated in those numbers correct we had quite a few this year are going from 52 to 90 was a great move these are all paid internships for students so we just had two more students start this morning uh for at Alta a heavy equipment operator in South Elgin for the automotive program uh some
025of the big highlights we had this year one of our students from 301 was in the welding program they were a two-week internship at Elgin sweeper at the kind of the beginning of week two decided to go in and say well what would it take for me to be here the rest of the summer kind of on his own to advocate for himself and the the supervisor said well you want to stay for the rest of Summer he said well yeah can it happen uh the supervisor went into the HR office and asked if they could do it and they extended the student with a paid position from uh June 19th all the way through August 11th so he has a paid spot there uh they've really been impressed with our students overall throughout the
026entire region and looking at I mean these are three students that will more than likely have a paid job when they graduate here next week so a lot of good opportunities overall their health care uh I know Dr Nolan you're always looking at our health care side of things we were able to start a program this summer for pharmacy technicians so we had 10 students right now that piloted the program we got all 10 of them licensed as pharmacy technicians and they completed 40 hours of training along with 24 hours of Hands-On work at Advocate Sherman this year in that program and we already have another three or four hospitals that are looking to do the same thing next summer so more expansion they're coming in front like the hospital Farm they were in the
027hospital pharmacy yeah so they did the 40 hours of training with a pharmacy technician and with a pharmacist during the day and then throughout different hours throughout the three week time they did four hour shifts in the pharmacy so getting an opportunity to do all that so once again paid internships for those opportunities there so overall great great opportunity for students overall with those things in mind um here we have our regional programs that are offered the main goal is to continue to expand and try to get new opportunities the Allied Health Care last year said it was in the fall of 24 but u-46 still has to postpone it so it will be they're shooting for the fall of 25 now but the one right below at the educator one will be coming out
028this fall um or fall of 24 so that one is definitely coming and then we also have the Dual credit agreements with ECC that are going to start this fall of 23. and that educator one actually we have 12 students from 301 that will start this fall as Juniors as uh there may be some seniors in there so I think mostly juniors in that program it's meant to be a two two years program so we have right now dual credit for uh education101 at ECC and then looking for AP Psychology to be second class in that uh college track so looking to get them experience also in the classroom so they will go and spend time in uh Elementary classrooms to getting those hours there I mean as a regional program we also had two
029students that attended Eastern Illinois University this summer for a minority teacher program they spent three weeks at Eastern Illinois and they earned three college credit hours along with 30 hours of observation work down there uh with elementary students so lots of great opportunities overall for our students um primary Grant sources we have our Perkins a CTE incentive Grant and then our CTE education pathway Grant we also have a new one um it's called we call the stamp Grant and it stands for something long that will come up on another slide that's a scaling manufacturing Grant so Perkins is a Federal grant we get it every year it's based on the number of students enrolled within the school districts combined with a number of like poverty within that District the other two are state grants so
030the CTE incentive Grant is an annual grant that one we get every year that's based on a number of programs being offered and the number of students that complete one or more of those programs and then the education pathway was a four-year Grant and we are in our second year we're gonna afford this event last year this is our last year of this grant so it was a set time frame so we're working on that one spending that one down nine flies so this is the revenue expenditure report or the slides so our unaudited beginning from balance that I reported earlier the 428 000 177 is where we're going to start um you'll see all the revenues for those four grants and then the expenditures are going to equal those because we try to spend
031what we get in it doesn't always work perfectly and that's why the adjust bounce will adjust a little bit but based on that the stamp Grant is um it was a one-year Grant a total of thirty four thousand dollars so we received sixty one hundred dollars but we spent um 3 400 so there's where the differences so revenues were only gonna we already have um some of that in our fund balance that was in the revenue part so that's why you see a slight difference in the projected ending balance then we saw an increase in the ctei funds from last year to this year about 170 000 or more this year as the state gave us uh we had a budget line increase from the state of Illinois we expect to see that continue on
032the next year now that it's in the written into the budget that way so this slide shows you exactly what he was talking about you have fy23 and you have fi 24 comparative so you can see that it was the 100 roughly 60 169 000 increase um and it just kind of flowed through all of the different buckets this slide shows you the actual budget um the kind of the account numbers broken down a little bit more detail um you'll see that you have the guidance the Improvement to instruction your general Administration just go back to the slide before sure so with 303 not sharing any of their CTE at this point partnering with other school districts so that does not impact they can they get that money for their own students even without students
033coming from area yes okay just clarify thank you yeah this is just the breakdown a little bit more this is kind of my working working budget that shows you all the different breakdowns this line shows you the Perkins grants the Perkins Grant also had an increase about 66 000 this was the Federal grant that we get every year and you can see last year to this year and it's just reallocated throughout the different categories and then this is the detail working budget of it all so you can see where it's being spent a little bit more the salaries and benefits and then the payments to the schools at the bottom the education pathway Grant this was the one that was started as the four-year Grant so there were 91 and now it looks like we
034got a cut but this is just the last of the grant that we have left to spend so we just keep spending that down every year and then the detail same thing just different all the different buckets that it falls into forty four thousand dollars and then the stamp Grant which stands for scaling transformative Advanced manufacturing pathways this was the third you reached for that one they reached real far for that one I just called the staff Branch but I'm like okay I gotta put that on the slide because I'll never remember that but it has to do with the welding that Terry store was talking about earlier welding Advanced manufacturing classes so working with uh the summer we had uh certain students go out and do internships for that paid for part of that
035and then we also had students that participated with ECC in a summer camp so trying to increase the the visibility of our manufacturing programs as we have many businesses throughout the region that are are really looking for these skilled employees and that's all I have any questions Hempfield yes Pappas yes both yes a thief yes Nolan yes uh next emotion and second are required to discuss and approve the resolution for check signers second so in the board packet um is a sample resolution because we didn't have the current ones up to date um they're still working on them but we will get them and get them for signatures we have most of them there's just one more account that needs to come through but in order to update check signers there's a governmental Municipal public
036Bond banking resolution that usually just gets approved by the board and then they'll need two signatures on those forms we are removing Dr Stern Pam israelson Chris test Tony from all of the checking accounts we're updating Dr Morgan was on most of them she was not on a couple so we were adding her to the few that she wasn't changing her title from a deputy superintendent to superintendent and then we're adding Patrick pagorski to replace Chris test Tony for the high school impressed and the checking accounts that testimony was on so any questions no no pepis yes vote Yes a thief yes Hemphill yes Nolan yes motion and second required to discuss and approve the contract for a prom venue for school years 24 and 25. uh director Jesse did you want to say anything
037about that or uh same weekend how early does the Q Center do contracts for that kind of thing that you do is come to find it out we did not have a contract for next year already so what's prompt was and it remember I don't say in scramble mode but looking at venues that would work with the best interest of our school district we were able to secure Pinstripes for the next two years and then that gives us the ability to explore this Center and plan ahead and be a little more proactive than reactive if you will and the rest I forgot for Pinstripes was we did not want to land on a Friday night just to get something on Saturday to get students out earlier we didn't have half days we know how that
038would work they just wouldn't be attending so we tried to find something on a Saturday okay what is that is that is problem full access to the whole space or is there a special events as you can see in the contract I believe it will be the whole Space they're even giving us the contract yet because we're still working on that we're going to say we're proving that location just like I believe that would give us access to the bowling areas in different places within that venue okay that's awesome yeah sorry about that good catch any questions we did not get a motion or a second for that one oh sorry oh I said it though I just went right into Ted you want to talk yes yes a thief yes uh Hemphill yes Nolan
039yes a next emotion a second are required to discuss and approve the bid for concrete work for the high school edition so moved second so we went over these beds last month no these are these are new things came out uh this this month's they're coming to you and we talked about responsible bitter concrete bit was Ed Fogerty and you can see in your packet there actually were uh four different individuals who put in for the bid process thank you Dan uh we have Ed ferdy uh with many assists general contract and Eagle Concrete and Abby Paving but the lowest responsible bitter was at poverty so that is the recommendation that uh food moved forward with that bid so just to clarify we're doing it it's two two different bid packages for the Edition we
040wanted to get the earthwork the underground and concrete done first work through the permitting through Kane County get that situated get that started and then we'll have a bid package coming out probably next month for all the interior build out and the rest of it correct is this Ed Fogerty one that we've used consistently we haven't used them shells mcnuts very familiar with them and they're an excellent contract okay yep questions vote Yes a thief yes Hemphill yes Pappas yes Nolan yes a next emotion a second uh are required to discuss and approve the bid for excavation and site utility work for the high school edition same thing just part of that same preliminary bid package to get all that underground stuff done as soon as possible correct um yep oh yeah yeah they've done
041a lot of work in the district a thief yes and Phil yes Pappas yes vote Yes Nolan Dan you're up next yes sorry that's it for uh action items for information items director Polly will provide an update on construction and maintenance projects um so obviously that project's the the big one that we're working on trying to get out of the ground so to speak um working on the remodel that we're doing here on the other end of the building that's ongoing and we're attacked and that diligently to try to meet Dr magnet's deadline of ASAP we're trying to accommodate that um also in the process we've replaced a couple we've started a preliminary part of the HVAC updated Lilly Lake a couple classrooms there that had some equipment that's failed over the winter we wanted
042to make sure we adjust that so we added a couple rooftop units to address the knee over there and our staffs work in diligently to get buildings cleaned and waxed and Furniture taken care of we were lucky enough to get quite a few college and and high school seniors to work with us this year I think we're up to nine students working with us which is a great help most of them are working outside but we have some student painters in the high school which Mr podgorski has taken full advantage of um over there at the at the high school um and then we're gonna have it moving that crew down to Lilly Lake and working on getting some updates and some things done down at Lilly Lake and I think that's yep yeah we'll
043be working on yeah some flooring updates on the mobile units we're trying to be conservative but trying to make those you know nice spaces for those kids and staff so yeah update in some of the flooring and the mobile units and the dress and roof issues and stuff like that about the doors going into the classroom yep those are an ongoing maintenance item we've replaced an updated Hardware in a lot of those and yeah any other questions Dr manga no that's it free thank you next we have our Freedom of Information Act requests so we've had quite a few frame information access this month we've got five of them one is local Labs same one that consistently keeps sending us information unfortunately it comes from events SV which we are not sure exactly who they
044belong to so basically we say it's not from a secure email we have we asked them to submit with us a proper email we've yet to hear back from them so we continue to respond to them in that fashion uh second one is from Mr Davis uh looking for pension information as well as salary information benefit information for uh staff members that are IMF employees making less than 75 000 uh we denied that request due to it being unduly burdensome um it was just going to require us a lot of information we track over 75 but we don't generally track under 75 000 in terms of having a document to get to give out uh the third one was from Central Education Association cea looking for any and all contracts invoices and expenses related to
045the district's use of Embark and Otis we were able to comply with that request in part we were not able to give them all the contracts and those types of things so three years for the Embark and Otis so that was submitted to the cea um the fourth one again was Central Education Association looking for all invoices from our Law Firm regarding grievances on the internal substitution and course approvals again we were able to give it to them in part many of the things that we deal with from our legal opinion is not something that we can give we give out to other individuals is confidential so what we were able to give to them we were we did give to them otherwise the rest was redacted based on the foia laws that are established
046and the last one was NBC Chicago looking for judgment settlement agreements Insurance and financial costs for foia request challenges we've not had any foil foia request challenges in the last 10 years so we basically complied with saying we had no employer request challenges any questions that concludes our Open Session thank you all for coming have a wonderful night thanks guys [Music] and so move second yeah there you go we don't have Mandy it wasn't on my thing it wasn't your thing oh because Jeffrey just knows it is