001All right, 7 o'clock. We'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. Welcome everybody. We'll start off with a roll call, please. >> Norine >> here. >> Adam Hampton >> here. >> Andrea Corey >> here. >> Kelly Moyer >> here. >> Greg Meyer >> here. >> Lisa Schumacher >> here. >> Tyson Search >> here. >> Perfect. Give us a quum. If anybody would stand and we'll recite the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Perfect. Thank you. Welcome visitors. We have a good crowd tonight. Always good to see a bunch of people here. And we'll run into public comments. Anybody have anything they'd like to say
002tonight? All these people no public comments? Not yet. Not yet. There you go. All right. Uh, correspondences. >> Correspondence. I've got three things. Uh, Dr. Gayy and I met with Tara Keys. Tara Keys, you might know, is the um volunteer CMS cross country coach and she was the one that was filling in for Tai while he was doing some family stuff. She had a presentation about the um cross country program and so she shared that presentation with us. I will make a PDF and I'll email it to you. We also got a letter from Stiffel thanking us for the bond sales and having them as our partnership. And then um we'll be talking more about this in the superintendence report, but we've got a letter from IASB saying we are once again active members. So
003if you want to pass those around, but I'll be emailing um the cross country PDF to everyone. >> Perfect. Thank you very much. We'll go right into our consent agenda. Dr. Gro, if you'd be so kind as to walk us through that. Yeah, I've got um the minutes and the finances, the personnel information. There is no uh resignations. We have one employment, Dakota Gruin. Uh we're hiring as our custodian with the high school expansions. We are still needing more custodians, so we're putting him on. We've got no employment of certified personnel. We do have an approved two leaves of absences that need to be added. We got those today. Rita Wallace will be leaving on October 22nd and will be back. She's hoping before her four weeks, but she's asking for four weeks. And then
004Lindseay Roose Rice Rouse is um November 18th and she'll be going through Christmas. We've got Evan Lucas. He's a volunteer assistant coach. He's going to be for freshman basketball. Um it's pretty simple, cut and dry. Right now we don't have much personnel things going on and so administration recommends that you approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Perfect. Any questions, concerns or comments regarding the consent agenda? >> Hearing none. Would anybody like to make a motion to approve as presented? >> Go ahead. I second. >> Fight it. Alice. >> I'll make the motion. >> All right. Thank you, Tyson. Second. >> I'll second. >> Perfect. Thank you. Roll call, please. >> Him? >> Yes. >> Corey? >> Yes. >> Moyer? >> Yes. >> Friedrich? >> Yes. >> Meyer? Yes. >> Schemacher. >> Yes. >> Search.
005>> Yes. >> Perfect. Going to our communications reports and presentations. Our enrollment report. >> The enrollment report was um caught. We had some errors. Thank you, Mrs. Schumacher. Um but you've got another copy at your desk. We just have a couple numbers off there. Um but you can see the numbers haven't changed much. >> Perfect. All right. We'll go into our administration of reports. We'll start off with our building report. Mrs. Miller. Miller, welcome, Miller. >> Uh, we have had an exciting start to the school year. Uh, at the top of our first slide, we have our students that were nominated for the month of Respect by one of their teachers, each uh different grade level. So, we were really excited. These obviously are just students that were nominated, but we have a lot of
006students in our school who were definitely deserving of that um spotlight award. We uh underneath that, our Mrs. Brandenburgger's Crosscat class took a visit uptown to the first responders at EMS and the fire um building as well as the police station. So, we were really um thankful that they let our students come and sit in the cars, get pictures, and learn about our first responders. Below that is a picture that took place today. We had our eighth graders that were really excited to dress up as greasers and soases from the Outsiders. They went to Ronnie's theater who played the movie for them and then they came back and did a portion of their egg drop. So um they were very excited to be able to already go um on that field trip and see the
007the movie come to life from the book that they've been reading. Next to them is nurse Molly who is always spreading kindness and not germs, but she uh did a presentation for all of our students about hygiene. And she also let everybody know that we have um hygiene products in the nurse's office if any of our fifth or eighth grade students need anything from hair brushes to toothbrushes to deodorant, hair ties, all the fun things middle schoolers need throughout the day. To the right of that is some pictures from our Apex event. It's a new fundraiser we did this year. Um it it was focused on leadership and character and if students raised kind of like a jump rope for heart where um it was a collection of money. Um if they raised $30, they
008got to participate in the color games as you see there. Several of them got nice and colorful. They had a lot of fun and in nine short days our school raised uh $300 shy of $20,000. So, we were really excited uh to partner with them. On our next slide, we have uh this eagle, which is amazing. Our new art teacher, Miss Shilanski, um did some realism and large large value um art where 72 of our sixth graders that were in first art were able to have an image. they were supposed to shade. They were not aware of what the image would be whenever it all came together. So, we're really proud of the appear for years to come because we feel like a tremendous school. And then over to the right are some pictures from
009Mrs. STEM classes that started this year. We appreciate you letting us add STEM to the curriculum. And is going to introduce some of our awesome STEM students who are here today to present to you um some of the things that they've been learning. >> Thank you. Thank you. We officially have quarter 1 STEM under our belt. Check. Um on the screen here, you can see some things that we've done in the classroom. The top photo in the center going to the center of the screen and over to the right in an L shape. Those are all from our very first visit from a traveling STEM lab put um sponsored by the Scouting America group and they're going to come each quarter. So our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders will experience the traveling lab every quarter.
010The fifth graders change over each quarter. So every fifth grader will experience the lab as well. In the upper right hand corner, we have one of our guest speakers. I've been trying to um bring the community in as an outreach project. This was a pilot from Southwest Airlines. Southwest Airlines has an adaptive pilot program where the students can track mileage, speed, um elevation and track their their pilot through their journeys. And then at the very bottom, those are our eighth graders. And that was just the other day. You got into the photo folder for that one. Um, we're doing a little bit of novel engineering with the eighth graders and that is where we read a story and then connect the story to some type of engineering. So, we read a book called Two Tall
011Houses and we had a very quick I think they only had seven minutes to build a very quick challenge to see who could make the highest tower in those seven minutes. So, that was really fun. Um, with me here tonight I have two fifth graders, Zaniah Major and Katie Meyer. And I have two seventh graders, Max Cotton and Parker Meyer. And Katie and Zaniah are going to show you the VR headsets that we have uh not just for the STEM lab, but for the entire middle school. Um this is a way, like Mrs. Miller said, that we can bring learning to life. So the things that I have um well, we'll actually do that one when the boys stand up. >> Okay. It's okay. >> Sorry. My fault. I told her to. >> It's okay.
012So, I I loaded >> a second. >> I preloaded a playlist um for you that we've actually used in the classroom, and the girls are going to walk you through how to put on the headsets, and then you'll just get to experience some things that we've done in the class as well. So, girls, you want to come up come up and start passing these out. Or would you like me to pass them out and you start talking? >> I could pass out and you start Miller and I start passing. I'm going to start talking. >> So, how can our board members put these on? >> So, um you lift up you first take out the sticky note and the controller from the VR headset and then you lift up you lift up the gray strap
013and then put it on your head. And if you and if you have bangs, you would want to lift them up because forehead sensors that turn them on. I had I had trouble with that when I got my VR for like two months because I didn't realize that a forehead. >> Thank you. >> Where's your Should we put them on? >> Uh for Before you put them on, um >> first things like charge it in the door. How you like first? >> What's that? >> Uh, you put in >> Sure. Yeah, >> move your veins out of the way though. Lisa can't. >> So, you should be seeing >> if it's blurry. >> Girls, what should they do if it's blurry? >> I mentioned I'm scared of heights. >> Right. >> You should It should
014be >> snug to your face. It should not be blurry. You might need to adjust the headset up or down or closer to your face. And what you're looking at right now is um it's a flight simulator of the Wright Brothers flyer that they took out for four successful flights. Uh these VR headsets were created so that you don't have to move your body. You can stay seated the full time um and just look around at your surroundings. >> Were the Rights Brothers actually this high? >> Well, this is a simulator, so maybe not. It's not very secured in there. >> A money maze. >> Do you see a money maze? >> Oh, no. >> What does your postit say? >> I see it. But like the >> You're wonderful Jay. They all have very
015fun names. >> AB's been working on budgets all day, so he sees money. If you click the little button, you move in closer. >> What's that? >> You're getting ahead over. >> Yeah, I know. I fiddle. >> Oh, we're not connected to the Wi-Fi on this one. >> All right, ladies. What's next on your to list? >> Um, how to how the UV light cleans the headsets. So, um, there's you there's a box and you put the you you put the headsets in the USB box and it cleans them after each use and a circle that comes down. >> All right. So, I don't want to change your screen. As the teacher on the teacher end, you have full control to lock your students into a specific track on the playlist. So, right now, you're
016you're being dropped into >> Oh, dear. a Native American site. And this is an exploratory scene, which means you can use the joystick on the controller to walk around and you can actually get into um the huts and the TPS. And this is an extension of their social studies unit. So, they're actually able to see the artifacts um and things kind of in real time in real life that they learned about in the classroom. You can walk around using the joystick. >> Yeah, you can. You can also teleport. >> And it's really cool that you can go in there. >> I think I'm stuck in the teeth. I can't get out. I got >> I can't get out of >> the turn. I'm concerned about this. starts to feel a little >> nauseous. >> This
017is awesome. >> You just um take it off and just take a couple deep breaths. >> I saw the south end of the horse. I'm >> still on the teepee. >> So, you can only go so far though, huh? >> Yeah. And you got to back up. I'm trying to get up on those cliffs and it won't let me. >> Music going. >> Yeah. Who's got music? >> Yeah. >> Was that yours? >> First the money, now the music. >> So, I did not turn off the individual sounds, which means you're hearing the sounds that come with that track on the playlist. There is also a headphone jack, so students can listen on their headphones or I could turn off the individual and play the sound through the classroom speakers. >> What are you seeing,
018Dr. Gy? >> I am seeing a lot of teepee. >> Yeah, you can go inside then. getting back. >> I was going to say it took >> You got to go backwards to get it out. >> You cannot walk through a horse. >> This is pretty cool. >> Besides, >> there should be some artwork on the sides. There are actual scavenger hunts too that come with this program so that the students walk around and find very specific things. So when you're trying to take them off, you unplug the controller and put the controller inside of the headset like a basket. >> One more time a little bit slower. So they're going to put the headset on what color? >> Orange side down. >> Take out the controller and wrap it up. And then it >>
019very cool. >> So sometimes something can go wrong and before that we did not know whose name was whose. So we had to look at like a specific like thing around the thing and then they would find that. Yeah, >> we're working with Mr. Joe in it to get these numbered and labeled so that it's easier to identify which headset belongs to which student. >> Um girls, oh yeah, go ahead. So, um, this is a cube and basically sometimes you can take a picture and when you move it around it turns into a 3D object and it's really cool because you can see like >> Yeah, you can there's a sensor and it senses these and then it basically places the picture and you can move it around and it changes like that. H >>
020we had a bat >> and a pigeon >> and it showed you its body parts. Um there was one without any feathers. >> So yeah, >> just so trying to integrate this into other content areas as well like the social studies. There's um uh story land so you can actually see some fairy tales. Uh there's Oh gosh, what's the one? Um nope, that one's not going to come to me on the spot. But there there I'm training teachers little by little so that the whole cart of 30 can get pushed into any classroom, math classroom, social studies classroom, science classroom. Girls, you did a wonderful job. Thank you. [Applause] >> All right. Now we have Mr. and Mr. Meyer boys would like to stand up for us. Would you like me to introduce you or
021are you going to introduce yourselves? It's up to you. >> Forward a little bit. >> Nice and loud, guys. >> I'm So, I'm Parker Meyer. I'm in the seventh grade STEM. >> Yeah. My name is Max Khan. Once again, I'm in the seventh grade uh STEM class for seventh hour with Parker Meyer. So, they're here today to talk to you about stop motion animation. And we learned about stopmotion animation as a basic tool uh which now we are integrating into their seventh grade ELA classes using it to summarize their Edgar Allen Poe stories that they just read. >> Go ahead. Stop motion is a form of animation that uses small pictures that progress with frames to then make a video like a slideshow bit faster. We use small increments to make animations more smooth and
022look better by having a higher FPS. But instead of using large increments which make it look more choppy and less with less frames, having more frames in a higher frame rate which makes the stop motion smoother. Now you might be wondering what is a frame rate. First of all, a frame is the picture used in stop motion. A summary of a frame rate is how much frames per second FPS there is in a movie show, etc. We also learned that we're able to show we're able to show pictures made on whiteboards to work as frames. We actually used pictures on whiteboards for our first introduction for stop motion. It's a great way to start with homemade stopmotion videos. We would recommend cloud stop motion. You can use it for free, but you also have some
023limitations. Boys, I'm willing to interrupt you here because Dr. Gy behind you has Parker's example. And this is the very basic broke it down. Let's learn how to do stopotion animation. This is the first thing that they came up with. to show a pizza gear. Maybe once. >> Do you want to do it again? >> Okay. >> Oh, cool. >> And then on the next screen or on the next slide, this is from another eighth grader who's not here tonight, but um similar concept. We did lots of talking about techniques and making the ball look smooshed at the bottom to show movement. Um, and we acted a lot of things out to show what it would look like in the building process. Now, where are we taking it? Stop talking. >> Free versus limited accounts
024and cloud stop motion have many different differences between them though. For example, the free accounts free accounts are okay. They limited access to features like >> like limited storage and limited settings and you can't save it. But with limited accounts, you have more storage. So more animations and you can save your stop motions and have more advanced settings. Breaking down complex concepts into smaller steps. In STEM, we can make complex concepts to more smaller and manageable fragments so that the project we're doing seems a lot e easier and not as stressful like a story does. It breaks it down into multiple chapters or fragments. We're also doing some edgen post stories in language arts. Although it might not seem necessary over STEM. It's very necessary for STEM. We're currently doing a stop motion project about
025some of those stories. For example, the telltale art, the black cat, and the raven. All of those have very dark, serious, and sad themes, mainly because of the amount of homicide, killing, and bad thoughts all betrayed in the story. You might be wondering how this involves death. You can take STEM into multiple other classes. One of those including language arts. You can primarily take in science, technology, and math, which is why the name STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, math. STEM can be used for future goals. For example, when I become an adult, I hope to become a mechanical engineer. >> Great job. Thank you so much. Eagle books are in your future. >> Thank you for giving them the space to to share with you. >> Thanks for bringing them in. >> That was
026great. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. And you guys are welcome to stay, but you do not have to. The whole board meeting is so many things you can do with that. You know, >> it's amazing. >> Education's going to be a lot different. >> Their kids are in school. >> Yeah, that's true. Thank you. >> Awesome. Perfect. Thank you very much. That was great. All right. Tough act to follow, but now it's time for our assistant superintendent report. >> Really tough. Um I can speak from experience. I got to go in when the seventh graders were collaborating and starting to brainstorm that Edgar Alan Poe um motion animation and it's serious business. Like they were brainstorming, collaborating, and it was really amazing to see in the classroom. So excited to see our STEM program continue
027to grow. Um I would like to talk and kind of switch gears to our principles. Um, this past week I had the amazing opportunity to go to a conference with all four of the building principles up in Neapville. Um, as I shared this past summer, we've really been talking about how we can help support our teachers collaborate. Um, and that's what the conference focused on Monday and Tuesday. Um, you can see right there, Mr. Dugan is excited. Thumbs up. We are collaborating together, brainstorming how we can help our teachers do best practices and really focus on student achievement. Um, you can even see Mr. Dugan over there. He was an overachiever. He is doing the poster for our group as well. Um, we just had a really great time. Um, the the far picture on
028the bottom corner, we the third day on Wednesday, we had the experience to go visit another school district up near Neighborville, Hinsdale. Uh I worked with that superintendent before we went up there and they had an amazing day planned for us. They gave us breakfast. They welcomed us. Four of their building principles presented. Um I did invite Chester and Sparta. They they did join us for all three days and we had some co-c collaboration as well. Um that picture is blurry and I wish it wasn't because you would see five administrators that really truly became a team over those three days and it was a great day to be an Eagle. Um, I can't tell you how proud I am of our four building principles. They stuck it out with me. They worked every single
029day with me. And I can't wait for what's in our future. Um, the Oops, sorry. This is the Hinsdale visit. You'll see the the middle picture is Dr. Garcia. He is just as animated as he looks in that picture. He was excited to share the work of their district. He's also retiring this year, so maybe that is also the animation. but he was a wonderful person to get to know. Um, and then the additional pictures are their building principles. Like they took time out of their day to come and talk to us about their success, how they help their teachers collaborate. Um, and like I said, our building principles asked great questions. They have connections and networks, and as we continue to do changing changes in our district, we have somebody um to partner with
030and help us. So, it was it was a great time. Great great time to be an Eagle. I couldn't be more proud. Um, in addition, we just had our October institute day. That was a no student attendance day, but we did have staff here from 8 to 1. Um, I I took another risk. I I had a speaker come for five hours for the whole district. Um, that's a long time to sit. I was a little nervous. Um, she was amazing. I I truly cannot tell you. Building administrators, district administration received feedback from other teachers in the district that they loved the session. It was exactly what we needed. Um, again, administration was sitting together. We were working together, collaborating, as were the rest of the staff members in in the cafeteria at CMS. And
031I don't know, it was a great day to be an Eagle. I have the color wheel in the middle because one of the activities this trauma-informed speaker had us do was do the color personality personality inventory, which was probably my favorite um, part of the session. Dr. Grody and I are different colors in case you were wondering. um we did learn that but it also helped us with with the communication piece right when you know somebody's personality you can understand how to interact with them in situations um and it makes things a whole lot easier so it was a great experience and again staff really seem to enjoy it as well um and I wanted to give you a CT our vocational um at high school we always converted have more ideas Wednesdays. We're going
032to continue them this year, but we're going to add to them with a little bit of improvement. We're going to start those work Wednesdays in January. The focus would be to have two workforce Wednesdays, one with a smaller industry and one in a bigger industry. We want to start to branch out and allow our students to have all different sorts of experiences in these different focused trades. For instance, January might be construction trades. So, we might have a Colombia business come in and then we might try to find someone across the river to come in and meet with our students and talk about their industry and the opportunities that they have as well. The other thing is right now the workforce Wednesdays are 20 minutes. I'm working to extend them to 40 minutes to include
033lunch. We want to get those high schoolers to want to come down, engage, and have a true conversation. And if we're asking for bigger industries to come in, 20 minutes really isn't conducive to leaving their their place of work to come and only spend 20 minutes with our students. Really excited about that. I was talking to Mrs. Badard and Mr. Reeves about that today. They're going to be meeting with the counselors to make some of this CTE magic happen. Um the other thing I wanted to touch base with you about and it's on this slide would be micro internships. Always learning, always growing. When I was at the superintendent conference, there's always a session where other superintendent talk about the different things they're doing at their schools. One of those things um that district 155
034is incorporating into their high school learning are micro internships. We already have our big pathway, but these would be 10-hour micro internships that I would like to embed in every grade level. So the picture up there on the slide is our Agg science courses and you'll see there are courses in 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, and 12th grade. Our goal as a high school right now is to embed a 10-hour micro internship to each grade level. Um that and kind of grow progressively, get bigger, that way students can get a taste when they're a freshman and if they don't really like that pathway, they can alter and have those conversations with their counselors. These would be unpaid. Um it would just so we would provide liability insurance to the the workplace. Students would go
035briefly be there for 10 hours. I'm working maybe to get a credit for students. I'm not sure how that would work, but that's going to be a conversation that I have with high school administration as we continue these conversations. Really excited about the micro internships. um high school administration and myself, we are zooming with district 155 next week um as we continue to get this process started. Really exciting. >> That's all I have. >> Now you top that. >> Yeah, there I' I've given up. So, I'm just going to one of the things I do want to say is that the the the collaboration having the admin team go up to to Neighborville and Hinsdale to to see what other places are doing is so good because everybody brings a little bit to the table.
036You know, Dr. Gayy and I, I'm a green, she's a yellow. We're both firmly green and firmly yellow. >> We are. And that's okay because and it's been fun with the administrative team because you know well of course because you're an orange or it's and and we're having conversations about our differences but those differences and laughing about them is allowing us to be able to say okay well let's try this then I'll go out on this limb if you'll go out on that limb and that collaboration is just making magic happen is I think >> it's making the magic happen good day. Yeah. Um the other part of this is though we we are focusing in then also a lot on careers because like the the STEM class and go in the film industry doing
037stop motion. So, I mean, it's it's just it's cool stuff going on. Um, that said, I'm going to tell you about the boring stuff. Uh, CCSI, that's the um career center of Southern Illinois. They're moving. They are currently located with Pirando. Uh, >> what town are they in? Is it >> I'm sorry. >> Till CCSI, where are they currently located? They're at the Nike base out in the middle past Hecker. >> I think it is Hecker. Yeah. >> Yeah. It's it's it's they're out there. They're going to be possibly moving to Swick. We are partners with CCSI currently. Um if they move to Swick in Redbud, they'd be a lot closer. We don't send many kids to CCSI. Uh Dr. Gayy, uh Mr. Reeves and I will be meeting to discuss kind of all the
038opportunities and what goes on there. And then on November 5th, Dr. Gayy, Mr. Reeves and I are going to their board meeting to talk about what that's going to look like. they are doing a construction project and going to change what it look what it's going to be and what it's going to involve and I don't know all the details so I don't want to say much more other than it's going to be something we're going to need to look at and see what they're doing what the cost difference is going to be and where that's going to take us. Um also I've got a meeting with the city in the next couple of months. I don't know if you're aware, but they changed the SRO rules and regs regarding the abilities for them to
039write tickets. Uh, writing a citation for vaping is no longer technically allowed. And we've been working with the city with how we're going to continue because that program seemed to work well. Anybody that got a ticket for vaping at the school never got caught again for vaping. Um, I'd like to say that that's because they didn't vape anymore. I'm hoping that's the case. I don't know. But uh we will have a new um a new memorandum of understanding or intergovernmental agreement coming to us to consider the new laws and how we're going to be using those SRO's. Um that's really it all I've got. So perfect. All right. Move on to our items for action. The first one we is a hold over from last month. The approval to purchase a skid steer and trailer.
040>> Yeah. And um I put a memo in your in the in the boxes. It's it we're looking at getting a heavy enough skid steer to actually be able to handle the ice, but light enough that it can go on a trailer without our guys having to get a special CDL to pull it. Um that said, there are some you you you mentioned you found a Caterpillar that would have been within a nice price range. >> Yes. and and so um I'm asking permission to buy a skid steer with a you know the normal scoop and with a plow and a trailer to go with it and I will have a committee that will help me find the right price and the right Perfect >> and pretty much what happens with uh on skid steers
041if we have a trailer that's over 10,000 lbs even with a pickup truck it requires a class A CDL to to haul it which our people do not have so it's really important that we stay within we only get a 10,000lb trailer, not a 10,0001. That way all the license will will arrive. Um the deal with skid steers, the bigger the machine, the more efficient they are, but the heavier they are. So we need to like uh pretty much the the lowest maintenance and cheapest parts are going to be the Caterpillars and I've identified either my recommendation be a cat 259, 3, 269, or 279. When you get above that, the weight's going to be excess of 10,000 and we're not going to be able to pull it. So, but these would have enclosed cabs,
042air conditioning, heat. They'd be able to handle the big snow pushers. They'd be able to handle trenchers, anything else we need for the district. So, it's kind of an all-around tool. Um, price-wise, I mean, you're these machines new um or excess of $100,000 easily. I think we would be looking at half of that because we can get something used. We're not going to have it's not going to be used every day. It's not going to be, you know, something that we depend on that that if it goes down that we're just sunk. It's a nice extra tool. So, uh I I I think we should proceed with that. Um but we we're not going to be able to get a package with a trailer and a skid steer. So, the two are going to have
043to be separate. So, questions, concerns, comments? >> I agree that we need that, but are we going to approve a purchase of something when we don't know the amount? I mean, I don't I don't know how we do that. >> My recommendation is to approve up to a $50,000 machine. So, not to exceed 50,000. And then >> for both skidster and trailer, >> just skid steer trailer is going to be another probably 10. >> Okay. >> On top of that, >> if that's if that's a realistic amount, then I kind of have a ballark. >> I I think that's kind of worst case scenario. So, I'm I'm anticipating in the 40s. I'd rather go a little higher to again it all depends on the number of hours and the condition the year things like that
044it's gonna be but when we're when we're buying used we can't wait a month and say hey hold this deal until our next board meeting. So there's kind of um you know we're going to save it quite a bit of money used versus new. So that's kind of the >> I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, but >> So are you looking >> that maybe we should make a recommendation not to spend over $75,000 for both skidster and trailer? >> That'd be more than enough. Yes. >> But if you can get it >> Yeah. >> cheaper than 75. >> Correct. >> But we'll get we'll throw out the 75 so that you're protected in case you find something. So administration recommends the board approve a purchase of a skid steer and trailer not to
045exceed 75,000. >> I would outside accessories. So because we're going to need the snow plow and >> Yeah. >> So administration recommends the board approve the purchase of a skid steer plus accessories and a trailer not to exceed 75,000. >> Will the trailer also be used? >> If the trailer is new, we're going to have to send that for bid. So, if we can locate a used trailer, that's going to be preferable, but it's going to be it has to be within our criteria. So, and that's also I think we need to get a hydraulic trailer. You know, we don't need the ramps and because people always forget to put the sports down the ramps going to bend the trailer and it's going to be a >> So, my request would be to buy a
046new trailer and a used skid loader. >> I would. >> My experience with buying used trailers is you buy a problem. Nobody gets rid of a 5-year-old trailer that's in perfect condition. >> Great point. >> So then the administration recommends the board approve a purchase of a skid steer plus accessories 50,000 not to exceed 50,000. >> We'll go out to bid for a trailer. Will that be I would >> for those watching online the the technicality is is when you buy equipment expensive equipment over a certain price point you're supposed to go out to bid for it. But if you're buying something used because of the nature of the used costs and the selling of it you don't have to go out to bid for that. There's pluses and minuses on both as we pointed
047out. So, in this situation, the machine is going to be buying used because that's the best deal and the trailer will follow the bid specs because we're concerned we'd be buying a problem. >> And I I agree 100%. >> So, but I would probably bump it up to 60 if we're going to go with >> Well, we're going to go with accessories, too. >> Why don't you just stay at the 75 and if you can get it cheaper than the 75, go for it. >> Well, 75 include the trailer, right? So >> what I don't know what a new trailer cost. >> I certainly don't either. I've learned more about Caterpillar and gets Sears in this process. It was not in any of my administrative classes. >> Part of his budget >> kind of like
048this whole group that good to have people call a special meeting a special school board meeting just so that we can vote on the purchase of the trailer. >> I mean >> actually let's I I like that idea. Let's stick with the 75 for the the skid steer, the equipment, the trailer, and the equipment. We can still send the trailer out for bid and as long as everything's under that amount, we're good to go. >> Yeah. Okay. >> So, that work? >> Sounds better. >> Everybody happy with that? >> All right. So, the administration is recommending that the board approve the purchase of a used SID skid steer and accessories along using the used purchasing process but going out for bid for a trailer with the total cost of used skid steer and new trailer
049not to exceed 75,000. Correct. >> And accessories and I'll make the motion. >> I'll second it. >> Perfect. Roll call, please. >> Timkin. Yes. >> Moyer. >> Yes. >> Corey. >> Yes. >> Meyer. >> Yes. >> Friedrich. >> Yes. >> Schumacher. >> Yes. >> Search. >> Yes. >> Perfect. Thank you all. And as you can see, when we make decisions like this, we have to do it in open session. We can't have private conversation. So that's why we had a little conversation and and input and good questions from the board. So that's kind of your board of action here. So just for clarification, everybody listening. All right. Item B is a 2025 teacher administrative salary report. >> This is a much simpler what I need is for the uh board to approve the information that
050includes the salary reports for the teachers and the administrators. It's been looked over. It is correct. Once approved, it will be put online per our statute regulations of needing to post this information. So, right. Any questions, concerns, or comments regarding the posting? Hearing none. Anybody like to make a motion to approve the 2025 teacher administrator salary report? >> I'll make a motion. >> Thank you. Lisa second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Corey, >> yes. >> Schumacher, >> yes. >> Search, >> yes. >> Meer, >> yes. >> Moyer, >> yes. >> Fredick, >> yes. >> All right. Item C is approval of the bids for the phase three of the Columbia High School construction project. And this is as as we've talked about, you know, phase one is that
051administrative offices, the classrooms, the auditorium. Phase two is the gym that's be started construction behind it. And phase three, we've just come back with the bids to be able to do the flooring, some walls, a kitchen cooler, um taking the old choir room and turning that into part of the the um commons area. uh and various other things. That's phase three is tying those those two projects together and making the high school a cohesive unit. They've went out to bids. We're very happy with the bids and Mr. Hempkins got the well-worded recommendation because we've got coner's working as our construction manager. So what we do is we approve the lowest responsible bids, get the contract with them, and as soon as we have the contract with them, based on your board action, we convert those
052over to PKER because then they manage it, manage the contracts for us. So the lawyers have >> approved the NES's motion. So, I'll make a motion to award the phase three bid package including general trades, concrete, masonry, drywall, flooring, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and demolition, and abatement as recommended from Pecker Construction for the total cost of 2,744,614.60, 60 cents and that the resulting phase three contracts for each subcontractor be assigned by the board immediately upon this award to Pecker Construction Company pursuant to their A133 agreement between owner and construction manager as a contractor or as a constructor, sorry, with the district. >> I'll second. Well put. >> Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Moyer, >> yes. >> Corey, >> yes. >> Friedrich, >> yes. >> Meyer, >> yes. search. >> Yes. >> Schumacher. >> Yes. >>
053Perfect. >> So, >> all right. So, that'll throw us right into our facility study, which >> Well, I was just going to add what Dr. Brody stated about some of the stuff that's included. There's there's also an elevator to the west wing um and bathroom renovations, which will be uh which some are long overdue. >> Yes. >> To some of the original bathrooms. So, um including it changed the look and feel. So it'll be the same flooring throughout the entire school. Old school and the new new edition will be consistent flooring and walls will be re the hall all the common areas will be repainted. So you'll have the same look and feel throughout the entire uh high school. It won't that way it's a lot more seamless as well as staining the brick on
054the outside. I was going to say that has been the comment I've heard the most is >> there's been comments about the new brick not looking the same as the old brick and it not looking cohesive. >> Um and part of this uh phase three process will be staining that old brick and the uh construction company has told us we will be amazed at how how well they match. We were concerned that the staining of the old brick would be not close enough or or whatnot. >> Ryan Fuller from Peter said, "You will be amazed that because they've stained brick before and it's >> so when it's all done, it will not look it'll look a lot more >> cohesive than it does now where you can, you know, there's there's a big difference between
055the existing building and the new construction as far as even the the brick look. So, >> and actually we had our bid opening and all the bids came in actually much less than we expected. So, when we do this, we send it out for bid and we say these are the core items that we want. This is our wish list and we able to pretty much do every core item plus the wish list and get it done. That puts the entire high school but project now bid confirmed and said and done under budget. And so as long as we can get it done on time now, which I think we're on >> track. We're on track. So >> not gonna exactly change. So don't don't jinx us. >> I'm not sure how many projects this
056size get done under budget and on time, but we aimed for this one to be one of them. So but uh Mr. Humpkin and Dr. Grody have spent a lot of time on this and holding the feet to the fire and Mr. Reeves has has input his uh his opinions on time timing and delays and that sort of thing which has definitely helped. So it's a project's really moving along and I think it's a great project and great final product as well. >> Anything else? >> So next Thursday the community will see the walls start going up for the gym. So it's a different construction process. They're actually tiltup walls. So they'll be bringing in semis and a crane and literally putting big panels up. So you'll see the wall go up kind of like
057>> three weeks and the shell of the >> in 10 foot wide 30 foot tall sections. They'll just they weld them on as they go and in in a matter of two weeks two to three weeks you'll see all the entire outer perimeter of the new gym building. Given that we are asking everyone that drives on Route Three and veterans on that corner to have patience with our semis that are bringing these huge >> things in and it's traffic's never good there, but >> and thank you to one of our local companies for letting them stage trailers so that we don't have logistics delays with the interstates. So, >> absolutely. That's huge. All right, anything else? All right, we'll go on to our individual board member comments. Anybody have anything they' like to add this
058evening? >> I wanted to follow up on the safety meeting that was done for the tailgating at the football games to see what ever came from. >> Yeah, we were talking about the at our safety meeting, we did bring up um athletic venues and things of that nature. And really, it breaks down into there's two big issues. There are what every school district is dealing with and then with what Colombia is specifically dealing with. And the thing that everybody's looking at is um whether or not younger children can just be dropped off and be at the events unsupervised. We have a lot of kids running around and it's been nice whenever you have a group of kids to have the parents there or an adult there that you can then have them come and grab
059them and have them sit next to versus having to call the parents and have them come and pick them up. Um it's just a logistical issue finding the parents, trying to get a hold of the parents. Cell phones help a little bit better with that. But so younger children unsupervised at high school sporting events, a lot of the districts around here are no longer allowing that. Um, tumblers coming into the sporting event. Uh, we sell concessions are, and when I say we, the band boosters sell concessions. A lot of districts are no longer allowing tumblers to come in. We currently don't allow food to come in, but we do allow you to come in with your own drinks or the adults at least. Um, and a lot of districts are moving away from that with
060the idea that support your boosters, buy your drinks at the concession stands and then the whole tailgating before the event on the property. There's, you know, um, grills, things of that nature, and it's just what's the limits of that. And so, a lot of districts are looking at that. And I don't know, we're going to look more into what's going to be involved with that. Um, and how we can maybe set our expectations or make sure we're clear that you, you know, this area we're not driving around, we're not running around, it's not and how do we supervise that? The CUSD4 specific ones that we need to deal with is um we don't have a fence around the entire facility with the gate that goes over to the middle school. Now, um, taking tickets has
061become much more labor intensive and now we've got people that are sneaking through the woods and coming into the the field or coming up through the park and coming past the the press box and just it's a a fence is is probably going to be needed when we do parking at the press box area. We've talked about that building not being ADA and when they did the construction, we've got it set for a parking lot up there. Well, when we get that parking lot up there, we're going to need to know, you know, what's that going to happen during football games? Is that how's that going to have access and do we need a ticket taker up there? Um, and then there's just the open access. Our our facility is open pretty much 247 and
062we are currently having a lot of issues with people not cleaning up their dog wastes on our field and on our walks. We're also um had to change our lights because people were coming in and turning on the lights at night and doing the soccer games and and then not. And then there's um the penalty kick area of the turf has been replaced more times than not. And it's always the side closest to the door. So you park there, you go out, you do your penalty kicks. They never go to the other side and do the penalty kicks at the far side. And so we wear that out. So those are the CUSD4 specific areas. I think we're going to need to probably start locking down that that facility more. But then when we do
063have events there, it's just it's it's becoming harder and harder to control and maintain because we have access from all the areas and we do allow a lot of freedom. And so we're going to need to look at that. So um I have no specific answers for you now, but those are some of the things that we're going to be looking at for the following years. next year because of football and and maybe the girls soccer team. >> And our next meeting is January 21st. Um and and something that I had suggested at our meeting this past week is that we bring some drafted expectations to break up into committees just to talk about what they think would be valuable to maybe set expectations for athletic events and venues in the upcoming year. >> We've
064also been working with our SRO. He is one of the the leaders in this with this committee of of individuals. >> Okay. >> I think the second question I get all the time is why doesn't the screen ever turn off >> the the >> scoreboard all the time. Why is our very bright >> It's very bright. I mean it's like a landmark when you come into town. >> Um yeah. I don't I I mean it because the idea was it's going to be a billboard for us to start >> right >> to announce things and stuff like that and and >> um if it turns into an issue like the uh I know the the soccer fields down by um >> Bluff Road, they've had issues with their lights being bright and stuff and so
065if if if >> I would encourage that whenever someone brings that to you have them call the district office. >> Okay? Because if it is a bother, we don't want to be a a >> I think it's just a question. I think it's just a question like why is it always on? I don't know if it's necessarily a bother. I don't even know why they would need to turn the lights on to do penalty kicks. You could just see from the board to the whole field. >> To be fair, the pedal the the the lights being turned on and us having to, you know, lock that down more happened before the new scoreboard. >> Oh, okay. >> So, but I don't think the scoreboard's on on the other side, too. I think the the big
066one that faces the field is not on. >> It's just the one facing the road. >> I'm not on the field at night when nobody else is there. So, I don't know what's on the other side. >> She says that because, you know, as a soccer fan, I know you're out there doing the penalty kicks. >> Yep. >> We should probably look at that. Maybe put it on a timer for >> midnight to whatever and save a little energy possibly. >> That's kind of what my thought was. Like that's a lot of energy that's being used all day every day. >> All right, I will look into that. Oh, perfect. Give you some homework. >> I do appreciate that the the side facing the road is no longer just an eagle and that it does
067have information scrolling on it now. So, the intended purpose is now being realized and some >> Yeah, that involved an additional server or something. It it it involved an additional aspect that was not originally we we had to Yeah. >> And I guess while we're on that scoreboard note, the phase three renovation will include new scoreboards for the gym. >> Yeah. >> We had talked previously about we just approved. We will leave the new scoreboards in the old gym and we'll have new ones. We will purchase new ones for the the gym being constructed. tower. >> I think that's kind of dead. Yeah. So, >> yeah, they would have to get they're I they do not want to go through the city zoning with a with a understanding that it that might not happen. So,
068they don't want to put in that effort to and there's nothing we can do without city zoning. So, we just referred them to the city. If they want to go through the zoning and get that, then we'll revisit it if they get the zoning. If they don't, then it's a it's a dead issue. Okay. Anyone else? >> The executive session is just for B. >> Okay. All right. You missed the board president's prerogative. That's my favorite. >> Oh, I'm so sorry. >> That's I don't have anything anyway, so just Okay, >> I'll leave with that. All right. We do have an executive session this evening for the purpose of student disciplinary cases pursuant to 5CS 120C9. With that, would anybody like to make a motion to adjurnn into executive session? >> Motion. >> Thank you.
069Second. I'll second. >> Roll call, please. >> Meyer, >> yes. >> Search, >> yes. >> Schemacher, >> yes. >> Corey, >> yes. >> Moyer, >> yes. >> Fredick, >> yes. >> Hempkin, >> yes. >> All right. For all you in here, we have to excuse ourselves. Unfortunately, we do have one item for action possibly as a result of our executive session. You're more than welcome to come back and hear that, but we understand if you don't want to because I probably wouldn't. So, but thank you for joining us. All right, we are back in open session. It's 8:58 p.m. We do have one item for action regarding our executive session, and that's to consider student discipline. We' like to make a motion regarding student discipline. >> Sure, I'll make a motion. So, >> uh, I
070move that the board expel student number 202501 from Columbia Community Unit School District number four for the period of two years from October 1st, 2025 through and including October 1, 2027 based on the evidence presented at the expulsion hearing and the board's determination that the student engaged in egregious conduct and that the students continued presence at school poses a threat to the safety of other students and staff. and s substantially disrupts the operation of the school. The board further finds that given the severity of the students misconduct, there are no other appropriate disciplinary interventions available and that the presence of the student at school will foster a culture that the students behavior at school is acceptable or tolerated. The board further finds that the students expulsion shall not be held in obeyance because the board
071determined that the student poses a substantial risk of harm or injury to other students. The student during the period of the expulsion is prohibited from attending or being present at any Columbia community unit school district number four school related events with whether or not the event is on or off school property and shall not enter upon any Columbia community unit school district number four properties at any time except with the prior written permission of the superintendent. >> Thank you. All right. I have a motion on the table to hear a second. I'll second. >> Thank you. Roll call, please. >> Andrea Corey, >> yes. >> Kelly Moyer, >> yes. >> Greg Meyer, >> yes. >> Lisa Schumacher, >> yes. >> Tyson Search, yes. Norin Frederick, >> yes. >> Adam Henkin, >> yes. >> All right.
072Motion passes. Last item on the agenda is a motion to adjurnn. We like to make a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> Thank you. Second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Perfect. That concludes our meeting. 9:00 p.m. Thank you very much for joining us.