001gorman here having the emotion second to approve tonight's agenda so moved second nolan yes yes rape yes bulk bob hill yes gorman yes please join us as we recite the pledge of allegiance i pledge of the allegiance states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right thanks for everybody who came out tonight and those uh watching remotely and attending remotely i guess we have camera issues when our audio is working any more details on that or is that good um again i apologize for their camera issue it was working earlier today but thank you for joining us via audio and we also have visitors joining us tonight we have cara gravitt vice president of our cea thank you for being
002here we have uh numerous administrators um some that will be presenting on the handbook and then we have some new hires that'll be coming for the board tonight i'd like to introduce them uh to you first is our new athletic director mr ted jusky if you want to well you're pretty tall dude i think i think so and then i'm pleased to announce that we're um have a new assistant principal a preview on mr edgar pereira he's coming to us and then um we have matthew woolworld who's coming to us as our communications director with experience both in education and in news media anchoring and producing see how long that lasts nice wow that was because i got a [ __ ] record show that happened at 603 pm and i think on that we're going to
003roll right into the public we actually have um connie collins who's joined us tonight from from the community but tonight right now all i want to speak about is the um trans quote unquote gender agenda um i'm having a real problem with it i think it's a political ideology that's being pushed on our children i know when i say that people get nervous but if you look at the facts biden issued 17 equity executive orders in 2021 alone he just issued another one june 15th of this year saying he's taking new and additional steps to advance lgbtqi and equity so those are the facts this is a political agenda that's being pushed on our children in 2020 150 000 people are identified as quote unquote transgender after this administration took office in 2022 there's now
0041.4 million people who identify as quote unquote transgender that is an 833 percent increase you can't tell me it's not because this agenda is being pushed in our schools in our institutions in our businesses in our culture in our media and our children do not need to be exposed to this it's harmful to them and i say no i say no transgender quote-unquote is not is who's driving this whole agenda the rest of it the rest of the people that are supposedly in this group don't have are not being addressed at all it's just this segment of the population but it's being forced on our kids it's being taught to our kids it's being taught as like a normal part this is part of the real world now you have people have discourse you have
005to be able to do this you want to incorporate it throughout the whole curriculum from math to reading to science to all of it so now joey who yesterday was joanne is gonna teach your kid how to diagram a sentence it's wrong and i say no so i'm gonna end with two quotes from two people who are a lot smarter than i will ever be the first one is douglas murray who wrote a terrific book called war of the west treat people as individuals and reject those who would try to reduce them to membership of a group they belong to solely by accident of birth the second a little bit more edgy from thomas sowell schools exist for the education of children schools do not exist to provide iron-clad jobs for teachers billions of dollars
006in union dues for teachers unions monopolies for education bureaucracies a guarantee market for graduates of teacher colleges or a captive audience for indoctrinators thank you for your time thanks scotty thank god we'll move on to action reports uh motion second to discuss and approve the consent agenda so moved second in your board packet you have your revenue and expenditure reports you can see that our revenues are currently um for the month of may at 52.28 compared to 56.30 percent 37 a year ago last may expenditures are 66.48 compared to 67.01 a year ago in may no impact fees or transition fees were received this month since last board meeting and then the bills payable for june um is typical for both northern kane and central there's a bigger volume because we're closing out the year
007all the secretaries are cleaning up all the opo's that they have um ordering stuff for next year so that way they can have it here before the teachers start in the school year and then there's also some bond and interest payments in there questions for dan all right yes nolan yes gorman yes next emotion second required to discuss and approve the proposed changes to the middle school handbook are there any questions i know that was presented last month to you my only question is with uh not really a question just to comment i'll comment the information reports that um the dress code is based on section 716 i believe the war policy um with additional verbage in all the handbooks so um so yeah i would like to uh i'll just bring it up address
008the board policy yeah just because i'd like to address support policy and so yeah anybody else agrees we may have to change this anyway but you know so okay talk about it then ready rabe yes fog yeah dan phil yes nolan yes yes gorman yes we need a motion second to discuss and approve the depositories so moved a second so this is an annual thing that we have to approve our primary banks that we use or other financial things currently we use old second bank in the illinois funds i always put pma securities on there in case we want to you know shift some money from one to the other depending on interest rates and stuff like that so these are the three that we typically use everything's unchanged falk i like this version yes
009nolan yes yes gorman yes earning motion second to discuss and improve individuals to serve as treasurer for the district activity funds second you can take fall so this one is another annual one that we do every year typically we have pam israelson and the high school secretary be the two treasurers this year we're changing it a little bit because all of the deposits bankrupt everything now comes to the business office before it was 100 on them now we've transitioned it into ours because it's part of our um our accounting system and everything now um so we i recommend that myself be the treasurer for this as well with everything else since i'm already properly bonded um but then leaving pam and amy rodriguez as the administrative assistants to coordinate all the paperwork and stuff behind
010the scenes sounds good to appoint a committee chair uh additional member to serve on the audit committee so moved thank you second good another additional annual thing that we do every year um last year dr nolan and president gorman were the ones that served on our thing um we need one member basically to answer the phone calls from the auditors it's usually a five minute call and it'll be for both central and northern kane um doesn't take long i don't know how long it was but probably three minutes so because things because things went well so there was nothing to talk about in a good way yes so we start august 8th so usually august 8th 9 10 is when they'll want to talk to somebody for a few minutes so it's like a good
011jay and mark thing to do don't you think i think folks should do it yeah he would love that right folk sure i would love that no idea i'll do it okay here we go yes will you watch your mouth in all right next we need a motion in a second to discuss and approve uh dana fluge and dr mongan to prepare the tentative budget for 2022 to 2023 school year so much um once again annual thing it's a team effort with everybody um administrators are um people below us and our payroll and our hr finance departments um do a lot of the legwork with us um but we're recommending dr mangan and myself to prepare the budget short straws i'll i'll do it i'll i'll help i haven't done anything yet i'll do it
012no i don't good why are you repeating him again falk yeah and phil yes nolan yes canara yes rabe yes gorman yes makes motion and second are needed to approve the designation of interest and some of the operating funds to prevent interest monies in these funds from becoming principal second so this is a annual resolution that will allow us to keep the interest from becoming principal in the education fund the operation maintenance fund uh transportation and working cash funds this kind of just gives us the flexibility to transfer the money wherever we need to down the road hey okay yes nolan yep yes right yes well yes gorman yes next motion second needed to discuss and approve the resolution to allow payment of the salaries of buildings and grounds department personnel and utilities to be
013paid out of the o m fund second um annual uh annual resolution again for um currently the salaries and the benefits and the utility bills are to come out of the ed fund on the state budget this resolution allows us to move it into o m fund which is where we've always had it it makes more sense to put it in there because it belongs to that group so this resolution will allow us to do that nolan yes yes rape yes bulk yes hand hill yes gorman yes motion and discuss and approve any contracts that produce over a thousand dollars of revenue to the district second so this is my last annual thing for the board meeting today so basically the the vendors on here don't change because people like the people that they do
014fundraising with so attached you'll see all the ones that we typically do um doesn't mean we always make that thousand dollar mark but we always throw them on here for approval sometimes the student pictures don't get quite to the thousand dollar revenue might be eight hundred dollars but we always throw them out and these are the traditional ones that are here and there's no no intentions to find a new vendor at this time yes nolan yes gorman yes next we need a motion second to discuss and approve the prairie view grade school parking lot edition second director peloway is with us we wanted to share with the board a little bit about the bid process even though we were a little late to the game getting that bid out we still had uh three competent
015contractors uh solicit bids and uh schroeder asphalt and paving uh won the combined bid by the lowest responsible bidder um works out well in their project year and their scope of work they're super busy but it's a small job that they can kind of squeeze in and pair up with some other stuff so it was a good opportunity and it did come in under budget so and they've done paving work for us in the past that we've been happy with it's it could start any time now once it's approved they're ready to roll they're going to start the earth work and start digging it's intended to be completed before school starts so we're adding roughly 33 parking stalls we lost less than 20 when we added the mobiles so we'll be garnishing a few extra
016parking stalls we were able to kind of push out the front corner of that parking lot that's kind of flat anyways so we didn't have to do any extra detention or drainage work worked out well with cane county so everybody was happy that's why we were able to kind of really push this through so we maximize what we could with that space and are you adding going towards nessler or is torx nessler rape yes bulk yeah sorry downhill yes nolan yes yes gorman yes all right we need a second uh motion and second to discuss and approve the overnight trip um for the central boys track team so moved second this trip actually um occurred in may i informed the board of of both uh this overnight trip and the middle school one at the
017main meeting but it wasn't didn't make the agenda because of the timing [ __ ] yep and pill yes nolan yep yes rabe yes gorman yes and we need motion second to discuss and improve the overnight trip for the three members of the middle school track team to go to state so moved second hand hill yes nolan yes last action item abortion second to approve the contract for prom at the 2023 center so you have a memo in front of you um for the rental of the q center and that's because um any contract that would exceed 25 dollars has to come in front of the board so um the prompt is fully funded through the student activity accounts so they raise they raise dollars and stuff to cover the cost of it all right it lasted
018a lot longer before getting there than i thought we would i think it's a great option well the q setters went very well right it's the biggest space in king county isn't it isn't it the biggest formal space in king county i believe it is yeah that's why um cows always had their you know heather i think of a thousand people in that room all seated it's a big room that's great nolan yes canara yes rabe yes walk yeah yes gorman yes it does beat chs prime of 97 at bill olivia oh yes good times classy information items we have a proposed changes to elementary parent school handbooks you might want to raise that up a little bit there oh yeah good evening board so as you heard from the middle school last month you
019guys received a memo in your board packet i'm here presenting elementary you know we work collaboratively across all three i won't go through each of these but i would update or highlight we did a bunch of language to change some of our covid policies that we had to make them relevant again to next year's standards we added some language on the mtss program we're very excited that that program's rolling through and then we added with the law changes of the board policy uh and administrative procedures in conjunction with title ix did you guys have any questions about any of those changes thank you so much happy belated father's day to all the dads to you maybe you'll get a good night's sleep tonight next we have a proposed changes to the high school handbook i'm
020not as tall as grady and so we also work collaboratively across the whole elementary middle school and high school work together and there are a lot of the same changes that you heard presented by the middle school a couple of additional things we obviously have some personnel changes that will need updating we also have one of our major ones was student parking we changed it to junior and senior only i know that that's sometimes brought up some issues with parents saying well it says sophomores too but we don't have enough parking to offer to our sophomores so we wanted to make sure that that language was cleaned up we also removed all of our covet language we did have to update all of our times as far as tardy policy attendance policy in conjunction with
021what we are doing for our time change for the school day for our seniors all the way through freshmen and then we also changed summative assessments instead of saying final exams we now are seeing summative assessments because it's all encompassing and so we have some people that do projects and other alternative assignments we don't have a final exam schedule so then it allows everybody a little bit more broad language there as a result of our bio schedule change we also changed our credits so that has been updated in the handbook i know this came up in the middle school i'm talking about honors since our senior awards were changed we now use the cumulative magnitude and summa [ __ ] laude so that has changed and been updated instead of reading as honors and high honors and
022then we had an update to our athletic and activity sites that has also been updated in addition to that we had a lot of language cleanup to match all of the changes that were in the board policy from this most recent change so you'll see multiple things in here that's just a matter of matching up their language to make sure that that's consistent with the board policy questions for me uh clarification i guess on the you know you don't have a change on it but the middle school actually discussed the dress code and so i'm wondering why the need for the fingertip rule um just because all everybody's doing that so everybody's different so i made everybody's body's different everybody's fingers knuckles yeah somebody's got super long stretch yes so ours is also now consistent
023with board policy um so you'll see the language is consistent there well it's consistent but then it includes additional verbiage because that's not important the additional verbiage was removed in our handbook and in addition to that we also made sure that we indicated where it said small bags i know the backpacks came up as well making sure that those are in the lockers we added an additional small bag instead of saying purse um so then that's uh allows um anybody who's carrying a bag as long as it fits in that size so there was just a couple of things and we worked with the middle school and they made those updates as well made the updates after last month yes for action okay sorry and the medical excuses for uh excuses from pe here um
024that's on page for board it's on page 223. um in order to be excused from participation a student must present an appropriate excuse from his or her parent guardian or from a licensed a person licensed under the medical practice act and then it says that it's required from the physician but the first sentence says either or it's it's over two days and that is consistent with the board language yeah there were a few things that we thought were clarified a little bit more but we wanted to make sure that it was consistent with board policy what's the question there i would just hear so many people say i don't need a letter from my doctor because it says parent or medical professional under the um the medical whatever act so i just wondering if there's
025an open window there for a parent to say well according to board policy it says it's me or the medical professional um yeah it should be a medical professional so we'll take a look at that before because it says one thing in one sentence and the next sentence says something different because that's how i would read it open door we'll take it back come back next month yep okay anything else for me okay thank you all right next we have a capital project update director apollo give some details on the summer projects so my monthly update um the big ones country trails and prairie knolls cafeteria projects are going very well those are ahead of schedule everything's working out very well there you just approved the pv parking lot so that'll be starting in the
026next uh any day now probably by the end of the week country trails the uh lot entry we're gonna modify the entry into that parking lot also to try to alleviate some of the traffic flow from highland woods so we work with the city of elgin on the plan and we're going to have our contractors that are working through the country trails and prairie knolls paving and concrete work do that work for us we've also done some uh air handler replacement up updates and upgrades at the high school and at prairie view some equipment that's failed or older we took this opportunity we worked with dana to kind of make sure we had the funding to do this and got some of that older dilapidated equipment replaced so that work has already taken place a
027lot of the other basic updates we do flooring painting we're redoing the flooring and painting in the teachers lounges at hpt and pv trying to get those updated and get those in good shape we've addressed some bathrooms some epoxy floors trying to look at some of those areas that are kind of aged starting to age get those updated looking at some playground equipment some new painting and epoxy opportunities were brought up by our painter so we looked at those opportunities at prairie view and hpt those older playgrounds to kind of update those and just kind of give them a facelift um and then our seal coating will be moving forward with seal coating this month again keeping up with those new lots that we've done over the years it's you know every every couple years
028we need to put a highlight on that and then we can do some restriping and and things like that and then we've uh some of our 10-year health site life safety items some doors some bathroom fixtures some odds and ends of stuff that were on in the red in that package if you remember those we're starting to chunk off some of those this summer also i'm sure there's other things but um like that's a pretty good parking lot oh yeah um so we were working with uh um dr mongan and dr hogg we started looking at the nestler road and the traffic at pkms in the mornings and afternoons so we kind of brainstormed some opportunities to look at rerouting traffic differently um we haven't talked to pam porto yet so she might be surprised
029if she's listening to this to kind of reroute traffic on that site to alleviate some of that traffic congestion on nestler we think we have a pretty good plan with some signage some striping and some communication to families but i think that'll this will kind of help alleviate some of that traffic will that be using some of the best parking that garage yeah northern northern space well that parking lot trying to bring in the traffic all the way around the building to alleviate some of that stress that we have in terms of backup in the morning yeah kind of for the elementary school playgrounds is that something you know obviously when i look at hpt my kids have one more year it's not going to affect them but given that you know i think we
030have some pretty small equipment there for the size of kids that we have for k5 schools that's something i know for some schools they've tried to do fundraisers at the pto level and and you know how does a district go about reassessing when it is time to tear half of it down and spend two hundred thousand dollars and put some equipment it can last another 15 years so we've we've worked pretty well with the ptos country trails right before grady started as grady started working with the ptos to subsidize those the district takes care of a lot of the maintenance and the updating and wood chips and repairing parts and doing all those things and then the ptos have taken kind of the ownership and so we've been working with prairie view and hbt's ptos
031on some of the opportunities uh that they would have to update with some of the grants and some things so we're very active with it just to be clear it is driven by the pto the full replacement with the exception of prairie view and country trials because we did not have ec there prior if you remember the program was completely at howard b thomas for those who got lots of small stuff yeah yeah so that that's kind of where that conversation about having we're talking pre-k through fifth grade so having that you know multiple level of equipment and all those playgrounds is is important so and then you want to address the change order for country trails cafeteria oh so um so ironically as we're getting ready to tear down the wall in country trails
032cafeteria i just was doing a walk through with the construction management company and i had a epiphany that it sure seemed like with two spaces it was a lot like prairie view and hbt's cafeteria so i can we put a halt to kind of what we're doing not really anything crazy but put a halt i started talking to to dr mongan and we got grady involved then we started talking about what would be the opportunity to have two spaces instead of one giant one so we played through what the pros and cons kind of how traffic flow what that would look like what we could do to make sure we had vision and all that stuff and i think we came up with a with a pretty good plan to have that kind of same
033separation where you could still utilize both spaces at the same time you could utilize one space or the other just created a lot of flexibility um with not a whole lot of of change to the original scope the additional changes obviously you'll be adding windows and doors which we took all of that and literally just moved it out so we'll that'll be an additional expense and all that project won't be finalized then until probably christmas break so it it kind of seemed like a good opportunity and as we brainstormed through you know the flexibility it gave us and and greatly thought you know it would work well within their school day allow them to do different things we could have do the why care and all that stuff so it just seemed like a good
034opportunity now i think that's it all right thanks all right next we received it for you um yes we received a foia from nancy holstein who works with um cannon copiers they requested the lease agreements that we that we have for our copiers in the district we were able to provide them on all the lease information we currently use ricoh copiers but we're not we're not tied to any one manufacturer so we respond to the foil i'm sure they're looking for business all right a lot of annual things but that wraps up open sessions doing a motion second to adjourn the post session so move second canary yes rape yes bulk yes yes nolan yes corbin yes thanks again for coming out