001[ __ ] here um i'd like to make a motion to amend today's agenda on the closed session portion to add a student disciplinary matter a second agenda you have to be first because he brought the motion right i brought the motion board member of thief brought the motion was seconded by board member a thief yes bulk yes yes nolan yep rabe yes gorman yes so now we need to vote on the agenda itself no you just heard it you've all right please join us in uh reciting the pledge of allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and i'd like justice thank everyone for coming out tonight and those at home watching and uh for those at home listening later um i'm gonna go with uh
002you would you like to recognize anyone thank you guys so we have some members of our community to come out thank you for joining us tonight our cda leadership is here thank you for being with us and we have some administration with various reports comment sheryl mcclure i'm sorry i didn't hear you my name is cheryl mcclure and i started seesaw daycare center back in 1982. that's 40 years ago in february in uh your superintendent bill hecker and the burlington business council encouraged me to move the operation over here this was a perfect place everybody was very happy about us being here bill hecker really thought it was important for him for you to use the building to serve the community we had i'm i can't tell you how many children we've had through here
003but anyway what bothers me the most right now is the way that you are closing us down um i think we've been blindsided and i think we've been bullied here um just last last year about this time the fire the state fire marshal came here and we had a violation and it to the building and it needed to be repaired um becky who is my director i'm i'm retired now from seesaw but becky um informed dan your maintenance man of the issue and it needed to be done he did not respond and finally after several weeks now this is a violation that the state fire marshal has issued and you being the landlord you it's your responsibility to do that we were told by todd and dan your maintenance man that they were not going
004to repair it that would be up to us okay that is just fine uh in order for us to stay open we had to do that and we wanted some assurance that i mean we're going to put money into your building we want to make sure that we're here we were assured by todd and by dan that we had at least three years and probably five more years we decided well it's worth it we'll pay for it cost us a couple thousand dollars to get it repaired and that's fine fire marshal came in everything's clear we're good to go okay that was just last that was last year at this time six less than six months later becky goes into todd's office this is your last year this is it we were blindsided we were
005in my we were bullied we were told we had three to five more years and now you're telling us we're out and shame on you you increased our rent by 50 how did you how why would you do that to somebody like this we're not here to hurt anybody we've not been making millions of dollars even everybody thinks that we have we haven't we've just been taking care of the kids why this just happened last week i feel not me being bullied the kids are being bullied your parking lot is an l-shape there's one section right there that's been a playground for two three four five year olds there's tricycles out there i'm sure you've seen them the kids go out there 9 30 10 o'clock they know when they get to go outside they
006can't tell time but they know when it's their turn they have their snack they do their circle time and then what time is it's time to go outside last monday it was time for them to go outside yeah teacher had to say sorry kids we can't go there why not well i have a picture right here your maintenance guy parked in our playground two-year-olds three-year-olds four-year-olds is that not a bullying here i am i'm mr important you guys you're just two and three you don't need to drive you don't need to do on the tricycle what the heck you try to tell some kids some little kids they got tears in there i can't go out are you kidding me the other thing you have stooped to facebook i can't believe it you went to
007facebook you put all of the blame on this closing onto us well we told them that they should start looking oh todd has told us so many times i'm sorry we've been looking around you know what i have found look around burlington excuse me could you wrap up your comments is there another building could i just finish just uh come on it's been 40 years can't this is the first time well shame on you guys bullies bullies bullies do you want to see this picture this is the picture this is your picture of your maintenance guy he is on our playground two-year-old playground they don't need to play them shame on you guys shame on you 40 years i've not tried to hurt anybody all i wanted to do is take care of little kids
008make sure they are safe and what are you going to do here these classrooms when you've got five rooms you're going to have what apart offices for all these years you are kidding me that's more important than these children that are here in your community to have another office you already took our gym and now you're going to take all of the classrooms that's not fair to the children of this community there is no place for us to go no place sure i can go into elgin i can go into kelp i am i i have lived in this area for 50 years serving the people shame on you sure bullies sure always cheryl shame on you if you would like to talk you can call them tomorrow you can call me i can't hear
009you i'm hard of hearing you have said if you would like to if you would like to talk and discuss more with us you can call us tomorrow and i don't understand why yes i've been retired for a little while for 10 years i haven't been right here if you would like to talk you can call me tomorrow a lot of people have emailed you they've called you the last few days and you don't return their calls i have not i've received one email at the end of last week i responded to i responded to it today yeah that's who i responded to and you have not responded i did today oh you did yeah well maybe okay my name is becky mcclure um cheryl covered obviously a lot of what i was thinking to
010say as well um i joined cheryl in 1996 when she was asked by the district and the community to move the center here and that's when i joined her so i've been part of csun for 26 years we were also asked to do before and after care at lilly lake which we did we were asked by the district to open another center in plato center which we did those were all because the district and the community had a need and came to us and asked us and believe me we were thrilled to do it we were happy to have the opportunity but the district has come to us over the years when they when they had a need for child care i know things have changed um you made the decision plato wasn't necessary anymore
011he tore down that's your decision maybe in hindsight that would have been a great building for offices but um you know i don't know so now you've decided you need our side for the offices and that's your decision that's your job i know it's a very hard job i wouldn't want to have to make those decisions so i understand all of that um there's just a couple things i'd like to set the record straight on i i don't think it's professional to go onto facebook to respond to parents who are upset they're upset there there is a serious child care crisis in illinois so the fact that that i may not be here then is causing them tremendous amount of stress so they're angry and i told you that that would be the case so
012to to respond to them on facebook i just i don't think that was appropriate have i known for several months of course i have and i've been looking very hard was i blindsided yes i absolutely was um but again it's your decision i guess what i'm what i'm saying is i'm just tired of it being thrown towards the fact that it's my responsibility and my fault like i feel like that's the take that parents are getting is that i should have been looking harder i should have been looking longer you know i need to find something for your community for child care and the thing is you all live here i'm assuming you know what's around it's a clearly a very difficult task there isn't really you know there's not another building that we can
013just pick up and just go to so i just don't want the responsibility thrown back to me that says she should do this she needs to keep looking she's had plenty of time i don't know why she's not looking i don't know why she hasn't figured it out it's not up to me and i'm fine with your decision it's your decision you have that right i am one person i don't have the resources the funds or anything to buy land build a building whatever this community needs for child care that's not like i don't have that ability so i just want you to be aware of that and kind of own your decision you made the decision to make it into offices and that's fine if that's your decision just when parents are complaining explain
014to them why you need the offices and why that's more important than child care let them see why you're making these decisions they trusted you they want you to make decisions on their behalf they voted you all in so they need to understand why right now they're feeling like they don't matter because there is a there is a major crisis there are no child care facilities available there are no spots available so they want to make sense of why suddenly the district has decided that offices are more and more important than child care and again that's up to you guys to convey that message to the parents and help them understand and then also help them figure out a plan with your with the village or whatever it is they're your children also they're coming
015to you in a couple years so i feel like that's a community problem that you're going to have so whoever's responsibility is if it's the board if it's the village i don't know but maybe work together with the parents and try and figure something out because it's not it's not fair to all the families in your community now that they they don't know what they're going to do um and the other the only other last thing about posting on facebook um please have the facts first if you had wanted to know anything you could certainly call me i'm right here you can call me anytime we had decided that i would be the one handling things with my staff and my parents the district decided to tell everyone without my knowledge because of a form
016that someone saw someone could have called me and asked me about that form and i'll tell you the maybe you care i don't know or don't care but if you do that's a form we've used for probably 15 years it asks parents what their plans are for the summer so i have to ask you to wrap it up i will i'm about done it asks families what their plans are for the summer if they're not going to be here in the summer it asks if they will be returning in the fall that's what the form says so i don't know how the district operates but in our business it's crucial that we know our numbers for the fall and especially if i'm trying to relocate to a new facility why would i not need to
017know who's coming in the fall so to to blast that on facebook like like that was a reason for you then to go back on your word of course i need to know who's coming for the fall how do i relocate if i have no idea who's coming for the fall so it was a very there's nothing wrong with that question that's my business i need to know that um and and the other part of that was something about deposit and i have not collected one single deposit for the fall and if anyone had also wanted to know that you certainly could have called and asked but i have not collected a single deposit and i don't know why you think i have again you could ask so before you go posting things i just
018would appreciate a phone call just get the facts straight because i will not post things on facebook i'm not going to go that route i just i and i'm happy to talk like you know you said you're happy to talk talks i'm happy to answer any questions you might have so that's it in the end i thoroughly enjoyed my time we're very grateful we had the opportunity you know it's been a great 25 years i just i know there's gonna be issues coming up in the next five months as we're moving out um again just before you blast stuff or talk bad about us or push the blame on us um think about that and maybe talk to us and just have a little bit of of respect also for our families and my staff
019and and parents so that's it thank you hi my name is don conklin and i'm here to talk about the proposed boundary shift that would move three out of four of my children from hbt to prairie view in the fall i'd like to begin with a little bit of history with myself in the community and hbt i have lived in woodbridge north for four and a half years i moved here before my oldest child started school to ensure that he would receive the best education in the area and had planned to be in this house so that we could stay long-term i had switched elementary schools in my youth and that had not worked out well for me so i had wanted my children to grow up without having to move because of this experience
020we had also planned on becoming foster parents so adding security and stability to children that we had not even met yet was high on my husband's and my list of priorities we viewed hundreds of homes and none met my expectations we found our current home and bid on it the first day it was on the market over the years we have made this house and community our home we have planted gardens and made friends sooner family went from three to six people we never imagined our next step would be to adopt three children so quickly in our fostering journey but we were less afraid of this change because we felt that we had everything we needed a home with the yard we made for our children a neighborhood where it was safe to play and
021a school that i knew would welcome them in our years here my family started to grow deep roots my adopted children have learned what stability and trust meant in the time with us they are learning how to care for what they have and that we own our house and they do not need to lose everything and be evicted they have never had a permanent home before and they are just now realizing that we are here for them no matter what and this is not easy for them because they have seen how unsafe this world can be i have been volunteering at hbt through the pto for four years and i am currently the hbt pto president i have happily volunteered hundreds of hours helping out the school not only for my children but also for
022all of the children attending hbt i love that they recognize me in the halls even with my mask on they ask me what the next event is going to be and they always want to hear about the book fear i love nurturing their love for books it's so rewarding for me to see it was much more difficult for me to help through the pandemic but with the help of three other very dedicated ptor pto members we managed to do everything ourselves from home while working and supporting our children through remote learning all of this work was done with the plan the purpose of this plan was to help support a great learning environment for my family and my community moving our kids from one school to another full school does not solve the problem of
023handling the increased numbers from the growing communities nearby it is unfair to uproot established areas to fit in new growth we are here with a purpose and we deserve to stay other accommodations need to be made for these new communities who will need more than 108 seats that they are taking from the older established communities these new areas need to be built with a permanent purpose and a permanent solution and it should be found for these school boundaries not a temporary one thank you went to action reports second to discuss and improve the concentration kind of looking at the big disparity kind of between the revenues i was kind of i did the research to try to see what what's going on there and it's due to our taxes that we follow 21 our percentage
024we received was this year and this year's budget at this point we've only received 48 so that makes up the big chunk of the difference in revenues um then also with the fy 22 revenues a lot of revenues look higher than last year but last year's numbers are low because of complications that were still athletics were short in season we didn't have interest rates all that so kind of a bad year to compare to but that one kind of threw me off a little bit next the state board of education discovered that they made a coding error you probably saw it on the news that cps got 87 million overpayment well that money was part of the evidence-based funding calculations that went back to when they first implemented it back in so that money that
025was in that formula was not distributed to then all the other schools so the outcome of that is 34 736 dollars that's coming back to us so um that money because it's part of evidence-based funding we're just going to put it in the o m fund to go towards our capital projects finishers impact base came in at nine hundred and 291 dollars um 37 new home starts no transition fees came in this month so right now our budget for the impact these was a million um we surpassed that we're at 1.2 million right now so that money is going into our capital projects fund and then the bills payable reports for both northern cain and central are normally questions all right talk yes dan pill yes nolan yes renee rabe yeah a thief yes gorman
026in motion second discuss and improve changes to the high school graduation so moved second so last month we talked a little bit about the schedule change at the high school um and relevant to the graduation changes they would need for um what we would have for our requirements credits to 20 credits is the recommendation for making the board of education uh the shift of roughly three credits noting that in the schedule change students still have the opportunity the flexibility to take seven courses so the opportunity for the number of courses students can take stays there it does allow for a lot of flexibility for different student groups some students may choose to do six credits plus keep the academic advisory other students may choose to take seven credits as they currently do it also gives
027the flexibility for courses that we have in our career pathways uh courses in dual credit where they go to elgin community college with academic advisory being offered at both the first period and the last period it does provide for them to be able to exit the school early the double block go to ecc traffic later and then not have to lose some time in terms of their coursework um with the schedule change we are asking tonight credit shift from five to twenty yeah i i don't have a question i just know that this was an issue that i was concerned about and uh so um you know i i did some research into it because there was a concern that i had and that other parents had about whether this would make us less competitive
028um and what i found was that uh there are other schools that are you know uh highly competitive in terms of sending their kids to you know elite schools university of illinois other places that that have lesser requirements and um the assurances that i've had received from from the administration that this is not meant to reduce the number of opportunities that kids have to take a variety of classes whether it's ap or pathways it it made it more assuring to me that reducing the requirements isn't going to make us less competitive because other schools that have extremely uh good placement rates at you know very good schools have lower requirements than 23.5 and yet it's the ability to be able to take more if you want that is important not necessarily where our baseline minimum
029is so uh thanks to the feedback that i got from the administration my concerns were uh assuaged good well stating understanding the difference between twenty three and after twenty af is the opportunity other questions yes gorman yes next week second to discuss and improve the 15 affiliation agreement thank you so um memo is included in the board packet so annually we have to renew our affiliation agreements in this board package there's 15 and there's one new one anderson humane the others are renewals and this allows our students to have their externship hours the contracts remain the same changes second nolan yes sorry ray thief yes bulk yes hand pill yes gorman yes next motion second to discuss an approved overnight trip central high school ffa springfield 14th this is an annual trip that our ffa
030attends the state convention that's approval [ __ ] we used to do some of these team building type trips um of course hit and kind of we stopped that but now we're moving back for pre-pandemic activities and so this would be um for an overnight trip to attend the purdue women's basketball in building great yes beef yes yes amphi yes nolan yes gorman second um so the district consolidate plan is an annual grant that gets completed the grant covers all of our grants federal government cattle one time battle three which are ela requires that we put down how we utilize dollars and other programs that we implement to make a goal to see the entire packet as part of sophia mills memo as well he's attached actually excited to plan um just i know peace be granted
031brought else any questions a faith yes bulk yes anvil yes nolan yes raid yes gorman yes we've got information items first we'll discuss the enrollment and boundary shift our enrollment report is included in the board packet and as you can see um here we're at 300 343 additional students from last year inside the court packet you should have a memo for me which lays out the students that are in the boundaries of south street woodbridge in waterford which is the recommendation from administration to make that shift for next year within the memo i do stress what the need is harvey thomas as you're aware is a very heavy populated school currently is our largest elementary school at this point in time it also has the largest potential for new growth within here in the memory
032i talk about approximately 84 students coming out of the town homes off of nassau road and that's just an estimate what we use basically there is point eight coming out of all of the new homes so that's kind of our reference uh roughly less than one student per home could be higher than that but that's what we've been generally using as well as um off of the mcdonald's subdivision another 65 to 80 students are projected for a total of 150 to 164 new students we did a five-year analysis uh pvs pretty much landlocked and they're built out as much as they can be so we're not seeing growth coming into preview so to stabilize prairie view we believe it's in the best interest at this time to make the shift of those three subdivisions that
033are closest to preview uh for our transportation purposes when we talk to our transportation facilities uh they thought those were the three areas that would be a natural move into prairie view they were there prior to us making the boundary shift years ago um it is 108 students that's with the projection of kindergarten students for next year basically we took the average of each of those subdivisions and laid in an average amount we think would be kindergarten students so we have 108 students otherwise it's 91 students at this time that will be shifted we did take a look at the fourth graders to see how many of those students would shift not just you know next year but then they're going to shift again to perennials middle school recognizing that is challenging a lot of
034those fourth graders had siblings that were attached to them so it is going to be our recommendation uh that we move the fourth graders as well for next year i think we could work with parents on an individual basis to try to either cluster those kids together or figure out what we can do to try to alleviate some of that stress but because there were so many families that were linked together with siblings with that fourth grade group we felt it was best just to go ahead and shift those families uh recognizing it's never easy um to make an undershift it's probably one of the most difficult things we do but given uh the position that harvey thomas will be in and given the position of the losing of the loss in enrollment at preview
035we think this is the time to go ahead and make that shift so our recommendation is to make that move any questions i think one thing that um we talked about at the border treat was the duration of time that these boundaries have been in place which i think for context is as challenging as any of these decisions are i think we said it was eight or nine years that this has been in place which in any district is a really long period of time and so i think just to highlight the the amount of growth that our district has had we've been able to maintain through necessarily creative means i think especially with hbt um that uh you know i think for lack of a description probably held on as long as we could
036especially knowing still what's coming before we are able to have a new school allocation whatever that's going to look like five years from now this is not something that we have in a year um and so just based on you know how referendums work right like that's kind of how it goes so if this again gives us the years without needing to put new mobiles and it again hopefully minimizes we can extend to at least five years right whenever a new school whatever that's going to look like is in there then obviously we know we're going to have to shift again to some extent but if that gives us the longest period of time with the minimal amount of disruption to the fewest number of families that kind of plugs the hole um you know
037i i really don't see there as being any other option i mean my girls have friends who aren't going to be in school with them next year as a result of that you know right so it's going to affect my kids it's going to affect their friends you know um but you know it's going to be tough but i don't think we have a choice i would agree i think that um if we're trying to look where we're heading we know ct is the next place we have some challenges uh but our current position is right now harvey thomas in trying to shift some families out and get pv more stabilized and equalizing the three buildings across the way it will open hbt a little smaller than it is today um with the numbers as
038you saw my mom all but it does allow for that growth that we're anticipating as you can see from uh dana's report we definitely have new housing and it's basically in harvey thomas's back door next we can discuss capital projects our director paulo is here hello um it's that fun time start talking about summer construction which we've kind of already started uh country trails and prairie holes we started those cafeteria expansions already um country trails has foundation and we're still starting the masonry walls so trying to get a jump on that we talked about i spoke about that a couple months ago to to just have time to be able to get all that work done by the end of the summer we needed to start right away it's worked out well kids have adapted
039staff has adapted to working around the construction area we haven't had any issues and that's allowing us the time prairie knowles we ran into a couple utility issues that we were able to address and work with those providers and work around those so as of right now we're right on schedule we want to be with those two projects um we're working currently on bids with our architect and construction manager on bids for the c new ct entryway try to alleviate some traffic flow and kind of remodify how traffic comes in we've gone back and forth a few times with the engineer on designs some of their thoughts don't necessarily align with our thoughts so there's been a kind of a delay in that communication process and getting that final design done but i think we're
040there so we're hoping to bring that and then we also just got the new design for the prairie view parking lot edition expansion on we just got those today um so we'll hopefully bring those bids um to the board we're hoping in may that's the plan um we're working on um generators for the three elementary so lilly lake we dana got the grant for so we're working on that one um generators are 18 month to 24 month lead time so we're looking at the possibility of purchasing the the equipment through a co-op one of the purchasing co-ops and then if we have to bid out the labor piece so then we would do that work during the summer to prep the buildings for those in my perfect world along with lowly lake will do prairie
041view and hbt at the same time so have them all prepped and ready to go for generators when they when they arrive the district office reconfiguration we're working with our engineers and architects on what the probability and and things are of moving walls relocating things kind of working on some design things with that space over there looking at the mechanical systems plumbing trying to evaluate where all that is what we're going to have to put money into if there's any code pieces that we may have to pick up on so we're working with our engineers and our architects and what the capabilities are based on what our future needs are so that's an ongoing process too then the other thing that's out there is the new o m transportation building that probably won't come to
042the board until uh probably june that'll be a project that will be taking place at the end of the summer and then we'll be working on that the following winter that'll be the new home where we'll be vacating uh central middle school and transportation will be moving into that new building um and that'll be a project that'll be at the end of the summer and going into next school year those are the big things on the docket uh any questions thanks dude awesome thank you thank you all right director versus here with some athletics and activities updates all right i'll try to keep it short and sweet so as we know this has probably been the worst spring that we could ever imagine with the weather and uh you know we we get a nice
043weekend last week of playing and we wake up to snow today but we're we're uh pushing through it uh girl soccer's kind of uh you know the record doesn't say they're three and five but that was all precon you know conference they're playing 3-8 teams because we like to non-conference games we like to play up so they won uh saturday against a two-way school easily and they won off friday as well so they're on the right track girls softball you know fields have been rough you know they didn't have a lot of games going in uh they played three conference games they've had you know numerous cancel but they went to larkin this past weekend won the tournament uh first time they won that they scored 51 runs in three games and they won the
044championship 18 to four so you know they're they're rolling we just need mother nature to help us out there as well um you know baseball's off to a good start they're you know five and four overall you know two and one in conference but you know like i said they like to play bigger school so you know st charles the east you know and and some of those other big schools there where we got wins with them uh boys and girls track you know there's going to be plenty of accolades coming out of those groups they just won the geneva invite this past weekend with eight teams a lot of them are larger schools as well the girls finished second um plenty of state indoor qualifiers that uh did had a nice showing down state
045as well so you know we're going to keep our eyes open there because i know we're going to go downstate with a lot of athletes in boys and girls track from the activity side i'm going to pass around these two so we'll start there we had our fox valley art art expo this past week and these two pictures that are coming around the these girl these uh two students were honorable mention and the field there it's it's amazing you know just the talent from all 10 schools and you know i know honorable mention hey to get any accolades is phenomenal no those were just the pictures that were in the powerpoint so i figured oh let me bring those in so you guys can see those um some other things activity-wise that's coming up prom
046friday night uh it's probably our largest problem we've had in my 10 years here which is great uh you know we're gonna bust the stu the students from here over to the q center and then back so we're excited and it's going to be a great venue it's our first time going to the q center but with our size it's the only one in the area that can house us so you know and we're going to see how this one goes but they're looking to kind of stay there because we don't anticipate our problem numbers getting smaller so and it and we feel pretty good about trying to stay a little more local than a lot of school districts they're busting down you know field museum and those things there's just a lot of other
047intangibles that go into going that far you know from home so that's prom april 9th uh this is more of a music fine arts uh on april 9th we went to lakes high school for the ihsa organizational contest so our wind ensemble our jazz lab band and corel all received high ratings of superior performance so those awards are coming for them which is amazing and outstanding which we know that our music department does a great job but with that it was a nice spearhead into vocal velocity which is up and coming and then our last sequence of concerts which starts the first week in may so may 3rd we have our win symphony may 4th we have course in corral may 5th we have jazz band may 6th we're doing our first theater night it's
048run through all of the kids that participate in the plays are kind of doing their improv they want to have a theater night just like bands we're like hey we think it's great and then we're going to close it all off on may 7th with our percussion uh performances and those the ticket information is going to get sent out this week you know for those events so we have not gotten the results yet from wise we're hoping to get those in but you know we should have those very soon that's our last group we're hoping to get those before the uh academic night because i know they get their honors recognized there so fingers crossed we're not really sure where the delay is at there but overall i mean we're moving along and it's going
049to be made before we know it thank you thank you thank you next week i received a foil from w.o months and abc by requesting information on books that have been challenged in district libraries this was a foyer that went off across the chicago land um we did have one book that was challenged it's a children's book called smokey it was published in 1962 and has some characters of native american and that book does remain on our show that wraps up the next meeting with the emotional second to second hulk yes and pill yes nolan yes rabe yes gorman thank you again for coming out five to seven minutes [Laughter]