001foreign okay calling me to order it in at 7 pm right on time start with roll call please Andrea Corey here Greg Meyer here Scott Middle Camp is not here Lisa Schumacher Tyson search we have a forum everybody would stand with me and recite the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice awesome thank you all right welcome all our visitors and guests good to see you here tonight do we have any public comments which I'm in we'll move right on to our correspondence I think that's being passed around currently any correspondence all right go on to our consent agenda yes um Amy free seventh grade girls basketball coaches resigning I believe it's like 26 years she was a coach very
002very it's just amazing to think of do you know 26 years is a long time and so we're you're going to miss her but we've got that resignation we've also got a resignation that was a late edition from Christa shellhorn chess English she's going to do that mid-year so we're going to add that as far as the postings as well um you'll see that we're looking to hire a cook and a paraprofessional um other than that we've got a golf Varsity golf is going to be Nate Lang Yang and uh then we've got the vacancies seventh grade girls basketball JV golf coach and uh high school English with all of those things I would recommend the board approve it as presented any discussions questions concerns with that would maybe like a motion to approve the
003consent agenda as presented I'll make a motion to approve the consent thank you Andrew do I have a second I'll second Tyson seconds all right perfect roll call please yes Andrew Corey yes Greg Meyer yes yes sure that business go into items seven which is our communication reports and presentation I believe FGM Architects is here I've got Jen Carlson here uh everybody say hi to Chad Carlson she's with FGM Architects they have um her and and two of her contemporaries sat with Brian and I for a couple of days as we interviewed a bunch of people at the high school discussed the high school looked at things and they put together a spreadsheet to which she's going to review over the course of two days to talk to them about what their needs are as
004far as the spaces they're currently using how their growth could happen if that space was used a little differently or planned a little differently what is it if they could think of something that could make their lives I'll use the word easier for lack of a better term um and how can we also then facilitate the growth within the high school building while accommodating those needs that they're currently looking for so what we put together is something that we call a program right and what it does is it it's a document that is the evidence of all of the information that was gathered during those two days of sitting with each department and we do that so that we have a documentation of every piece of evidence that was presented to us it doesn't mean
005that right now it's the plan on how we move forward with any projects at the high school it's just so that we can use it as a tool to figure out what the best plan is for work at the high school does that make sense okay so you have a copy of it I believe everyone should see the spreadsheet in front of you and you can make notes on that as you as well and then we also put it up here and the reason I wanted to show it live is to show you a little bit about how it works and so we start with this as a tool and we will always use this as a tool as we move forward with any projects at the high school if that makes sense we will
006always start with this document and make sure that it is live and it's what the information is that you guys want to see okay um there I'm gonna sorry I'm gonna show you there's two different columns there's a gray column and a yellow column that you'll see on your sheets the gray column is your existing what we call existing program now right the existing square footage of the high school as it is today and then the yellow column is all of the information that we've gathered over those two days so what the potential could be at the high school still not necessarily what we'll end up with it's just what the potential could be okay um a couple of things that it factors in is it's broken up this first page there's two tabs here
007we can stay on this first tab for just one moment this tab here talks about what we call this sort of large key departments within the high school okay so there's an administrative sort of Department um we call Core academic classes supplemental areas food service and building support okay and so this is just a summary of what will be the next tab to show you what your current square footage is in those areas and after our speaking and studying with your departments what we should be getting to depending on what number of students we're trying to house okay that's really the the key feature here right there's this talk about growth within the district which is great but what kind of number are we trying to service within the high school right I'm not a
008demographer so I can't give you a magic number on what that number will be right but what we can do is use this tool to then figure out what number we want this to be right and you may say Jen we're never going to service a building over 800 students right if you may say we're never going to service a building over 700 students right and so then that number is what we can change to figure out what these Department numbers need to change okay we can also reverse engineer it and you can say we're sorely lacking in our academic Department right something like that so our square footage in that department needs to grow by X okay that could be the scenario and so then these numbers can increase and then in real time
009it'll change this number to how many students you're servicing right it could be that our core academics well I'm going to make hypothetic we need a new you know science lab we need one new math lab you know we need one new English classroom one new social studies classroom we need one of each Jen right so then we would go through and change these numbers so then see how many students that service is does that make sense tool okay great do you mind going to the next tab okay so there's a reason I printed it out because it gets so tiny tiny here and we're not I'll be here forever if we talk about every single row um so I'm going to go over the Departments again and then any of those that you want
010to go back to just raise your hand and we can talk about it further okay um so the first Department of course is your administration's spaces so we met with everyone in administration talked about what their needs are right and so they've documented what you currently have and then we document what what we can do to help support those needs okay do you mind scrolling yeah there we go counseling is a part of administration and then we also call the health office your nurse's office is a part of that administrative core as well and then some other faculty spaces like additional faculty restrooms that sort of thing they're lacking within the high school tutoring and meeting rooms Etc so it comes to hear of your current square footage is just around 4200 and really we
011need a need of 6300 right to service 920 some I forget what the exact number was on that page 900 and 42. thank you 42 students right so that's what that number tells you to support 942 students this is really the area of square footage we need for an administrative Department okay do you mind scrolling up okay core classrooms includes English social studies World languages math Etc right within it um some study halls um keeping scrolling it's a big it's kind of a big department Extended Learning areas et cetera so you currently have 16 000 square feet we haven't changed this number yet and I want to say yet because we want to talk later about how do we best serve 800 students 900 students right it's not my job to tell you how to
012educate your students right so what I what we need to do is work as a team to say yeah Jen we're really going to bump up the number of English classrooms we have a number of social studies classrooms we have if that's really the number of kiddos we're looking to keep here right and so then this number starts to change okay I'm going to also point out there's little red numbers in your column next to you those are called teaching stations okay I'm sure that's pretty self-explanatory so that means that a need of a teaching station is added when you add an English classroom right so then it goes from 18 to 19 teaching station but instead of complicated document but once you actually read it read about it it actually makes some sense okay
013if you want to anybody have any questions so far I don't want to talk too fast or nope okay you can do you mind scrolling it thank you uh special education uh some of the needs that we heard about is really the need for a life skills learning lab okay the current one currently doesn't meet Ada accessibility as well which is also something that we should address but it's really talking about getting a space for laundry an actual bedroom a serviceable kitchen those sorts of things it's the largest jump in square footage from what you currently have to this yellow program okay that's where the Delta really is in that everything else is actually servicing it well it's that learning lab that is the big jump uh we call these supplemental areas information Commons that's
014a new lingo for Library um we talked about how what do you see the future of a library media center being how do you want to use it those sorts of things um how do you want your students to use it and so then that's how we came up with that number right of 5200. now you may say we're not really ever going to need 5200 square feet within our library because we're not going to put another office in there we're not going to put casual seating right you so then these numbers can start to come down and then it'll change the number of 942 students okay uh Fine Arts that's your art classrooms Digital Arts Etc in there um you have a lot of outliers in your arts program which is great but it
015also means then that the use of those rooms becomes inefficient right but that's just what always happens in our classrooms right you can't always use an art classroom as a math classroom right you can't you get it right you can't use a Ceramics classroom as an English classroom right so the square footage of Fine Arts classrooms always throw it off because they're inefficient uses of high school buildings even though they're great programs does that make sense okay music um expanding choir expanding the music room and some of their needs require were about practice rooms Ensemble rooms some of these we have to take a like typical quantity tube so if a music teacher says we really need an ensemble room right right or practice rooms or something like that what we do is when we
016say okay we're at 900 students typically a school of 900 students has two practice rooms right or it has one practice room whatever it may be right does that make sense so we start with what's typical of Illinois high schools of that size but you may say we really only ever need one of those right so then these numbers can start to flex that's how this is a tool that we use okay you want to keep okay uh oh failing consumer Sciences uh very popular classes it's currently all in one room almost your sewing room your cooking class Etc is all happening in the same room and it's kind of bursting at the seams it really needs to be expanded so that you can service those kids and use those classes more efficiently because right
017now you can't have a sewing class the same time you have a cooking class but it's happening in the same room and kids that are sewing things need to leave their materials out but they can't be left out because a class is coming in to cook right so we really need to talk about how you want to see a consumer science department growing right so it actually has a pretty big leap okay business classrooms about the same you have computer labs now they use and they're really servicing that department well it didn't really have much growth to it you could surface more that's basically what that means with what you're currently doing you can service more students okay then we have physical education and Athletics this is a big section do you mind scrolling up
018just the time okay um some of the things that we talked about is the need for a competition gym auxiliary spaces within that gym possibly a walking Track on top of that gem right using the existing gymnasium as well we will kind of call an auxiliary gem so we still having that one but also having a competition gym renovating existing locker rooms adding to those locker rooms for PE and all of your other sports um Sports needs so all of that is within this physical education so it also has a very large lead and this is typical of what we see of a school a high school of 942 students within a physical education department and then so it's come it comes up big to get a competition gym okay Performing Arts this one takes
019a huge leap because this room doesn't exist okay this is your definition of an auditorium right um so how would you use that that was the questions we went over right what kind of programs would you put on what else could you use it for during the day right those are the things that we talked about what how many seats would you like it to have right to come to a square footage of or just over 13 000 square feet square feet okay sorry this is kind of long-winded but I want to make sure that you guys understand soup Food Service your cafeteria in your existing kitchen how do we service 900 800 whatever the number needs to be students within that cafeteria and kitchen the answer is you wouldn't be able to right it's
020already packed in there so we would of course to service that many students how do we expand those two areas so then that's the jump that you see in square footage there to service them properly and that's multiple that's not one lunch hour that's still multiple lunch hours okay so that comes to some Grand totals at the bottom your current square footage uh do you want to do the difference between net and gross some of you may and may not know the difference do you want me to explain it real fast so you just understand what the two numbers are it's super easy net square footage is your usable square footage it's everything surface to surface of the walls okay and not the counters those sorts of things right but a building has a gross
021square footage so that includes the square footage of your mechanical room the ductwork that takes up its space the thickness of all of your walls right so we always have to show them as nut and gross okay so your current growth square footage is just around 103 000. and with this program we're at 217 000 square feet which is a big number right the Delta is approximately 114 000 square feet indifference right I don't want that to be big bad spooky by any means because it doesn't mean that we're necessarily building 114 000 square feet okay what it means is is that that's the data from meeting with everyone that it said that it needed to be but if you say okay really in a schematic plan we need five English classrooms four social studies
022classrooms whatever it may be this number will come down or up or whatever it may be also we're not building it all brand new we're renovating some square footage as well within that hundred and three thousand square feet right it's not necessarily that we're just all building it off to the side okay so that's how we come up with these numbers we want to use this document as a tool to start a schematic plan on what is the best result High School okay there is a test fit which is what we call a floor plan that was also put with this we always work on both documents at the same time one it looks like a floor plan and one looks like a site plan that you have it's to show you that if this
023was as of today what we were trying to build okay how do I get that to fit on your current site kind of a worst case scenario right how do I get that to actually fit okay um how do we get that to fit we always want to have both documents this and the floor plan and site plan so when this number adjusts we'll want those boxes on that other one to adjust okay so we always work on them in tandem so at this moment if you were to try to get an additional 114 000 square feet to fit on this site how in the world would you do it the test of it is there to show you how it's possible okay it doesn't mean that we need to do it it just means
024that you could do it and the test fit right now is not it's not it's an innovation right it doesn't show renovation nor does it necessarily show you where the labs would be or where the band room would be or anything those are more Granger designs the thing that you do like in a schematic design package once you've decided okay you know we really need to service 850 students whatever the number may be right that's really what we're going to service then I can tell you okay we need five of these classrooms six of these classrooms four of these classrooms right this is a tool from the information that was received from us meeting with each department okay but we also want to make sure that if it is worst case scenario is that even
025possible right just as in the square footage that you have on site how do you even do that right and the answer is yeah it is but is that really what we're building probably not right we also want to talk about priorities right you may say really no what what what the priorities are of the district are these three things we need to make sure these three things happen right and these others are just really great things if we can get them to happen right so then we focus on those two or three priorities right and how do we get those to work and then we make sure that our Renovations and everything kind of work around it okay it's a lot of information I know we want to make sure that you guys do
026understand it that it's a tool that we can continue to use so the next steps would be really trying to to come with a firm number of what we expect our our total population to be um and then also to start going through and saying programmatically what are some of these things that we would you know take the the love to haves and start saying well we really need these things because I mean you just we've got to come at this problem from multiple places one is how do we financially make sure we're making the best decision we don't want to build a building that's going to be right empty rooms it's it's um But ultimately right now with the dreams of what the teachers have said they'd love to see we'd be able to
027make it fit on that site yeah losing a bit of parking [Music] parameters of also doing this and where we could and couldn't put roads and that sort of thing on the site we've been doing that over the last year already how to get circulation to work properly where should your queuing happen right for pickup and drop off those sorts of things and those sorts of things are ingrained in that what I call floor plan right on where we talked about okay we currently you know dismissed from this front door right and and you know people Park here those sorts of things those are all factored in on how we place things on that side don't come out too far so far enough those sorts of Goldilocks approaches to it to make sure that we're
028not completely interrupting your ability to assert you know even get out of the building right and then at the end of the day so the days that we were there it was interesting to see schools through Architects eyes because you know when they start talking about 68 uh uh occupancy and whatnot I'm like what do you mean 68 they're like well your Auditorium is not going to be manned all the and so a school has a Target occupancy of what how the spaces are used and everything like that it was interesting to to do um I will say it was also fascinating to watch the teachers come in and like our um you brought up our foods and and consumer ed teacher you know and she's laying things out on the on the on on
029the ovens yeah you know Fabrics that she needs to have Cuts she's rolling out on the ovens or the stoves which is not a practice we want kids to be doing is putting combustible items on top of our stoves but that's the space that she has and using it really she is and and it's amazing the number of of adults like even the cooks well it's no big deal we just walk across the commons and down that hallway a little bit to get all of our dry goods to break back and when I get to here that's what's fine that's why I like to be the problem solver hey I'm back to sort of you guys have a lot of outlier classes and that's not a bad thing right it means that you are you
030know providing a lot of you know um different types of classes to your student body and that's great but then that also means that your building becomes less efficient when you do that right because you could have a building that could be used for seven periods a day if it is only going to be used for five right or something because that class doesn't happen seven times a day right into the computer lab that's with the business department you know and so it's that whole that travel that inconvenience but it's it's what makes it work for them right they're doing a great job of scheduling them and some happen in the fall when some happen in the spring right and so you end up with classes that are outliers that aren't just uh you know
031an English classroom seven periods a day you know those things are easy to program right um so you have a lot of outliers which also means that it it fools you when you look at the gray and that you could service 739 students in your current building right when you see that there we're like there's no way that's a big fat LIE there's no way we could service 739 students in that building because there are also things that a program like this don't help with but a floor plan does which is the fact that like your stairwells need to be expanded if you're going to have that many 739 students in there the number of bathrooms the number of bathrooms that you have would need to be expanded just for 739 students right this is
032about departments teaching stations how do you know how do I get a curriculum out to students that sort of sort of thing and then a floor plan is used to show you then how do I make that work with stairwells bathrooms etc etc it's a lot of info but I hope it makes sense questions comments that you have a note on the first two pages says 800 students may be the max question mark is that we are giving you that number you're saying so you probably shouldn't go over there a few times when we came for those truly anticipating 800 students right um and so we've written it down it's just a note yeah it was kind of The Benchmark right uh you know of our enrollment has remained over the last 10 years relatively
033flat however they keep talking about those new houses that are coming in and and so we're trying to plan for a future that's not exactly clear and so but those will be our next puzzles to solve exactly yeah some of the next steps we're going to go from here is that we would like to come down to that number is it 800 right you know we want to we want a number right um that we're working towards and we kind of do that together right I don't decide that for you I don't tell you how many students you want to serve in that building right um I can tell you how many you can serve in that building um and so we come up with a number it's only ever we're never going to put
034any more than 800 kids in that building right whatever it may be at that point if we're past 800 we know we need to build something else some you know somewhere else right those sorts of conversations it only will ever be 800 or it'll may only be every 700 that sort of right um that's where you guys to decide what number you guys would want to service in that building um for the future of it and then I'm the one who can help you come up with a plan of action to get there so but you're confident with the space allocation of this renovation that we could service 942 yeah worst case scenario the fit with an addition and renovation of 946 students on that do we need to move some road we need to
035ship like there you have a greenhouse and a storage room we'd have to I just you know it's interesting because we'll we'll start having the discussions one of the things like the Ag Department currently has their classroom down by the science Wing they would like something that's a little bit more closer to the CTE Wing so that when you know they've got floors that handle potting soil a little better and moving the greenhouse back to that triangle behind where the CTE Wing is just there's a lot of pieces that could start falling into place but yeah we talked about the location of the greenhouse the current location of it anyways right and then it's maybe not in as best location as it is and we could move it right as he mentioned that would have
036been helped the fact that we need to put a road there right so we could start to when we talk about each of the Departments and I can collect the data and we can figure out how to get a road map there to get you what would really work okay if you're curious a little bit about myself this is coming on year 13 in educational design for myself um High Schools elementary schools District departments you name it so it's fun to be back sort of at this stage yeah so if you have any other questions about that I'm more than happy to answer them sometime all right thank you very much when as Mr Grody alluded to our enrollment has been planted over the last 10 years but on the Committees that we've been having
037is we're kind of looking at the reasons for that because we have had growth in Colombia so why isn't the high school growing and some community members suggesting that our high school is not attractive enough and we don't have the facilities to keep them here so people are opting to go to private school and instead of our high school so that's one thing we need to to solve and make sure that we have the best offerings we can for our community so just a little side note on that any other discussion no no perfect move on to our enrollment report it's all in your packet I think we're up three students from last month so we're growing it's weird there you go there's that growth we're talking about to our administrative reports our billing reports
038Mr Dugan if you could be yeah um we've got our slides up here Mrs bunting fourth grade teacher is going to start us off here so recently the fourth grade took a steam field trip to Skate City in Belleville all of fourth grade students went we went on two separate days actually um but when we were there we participated in a hour-long steam program that discussed different types of energy which is the unit we just finished up in science so discussed kinetic energy and how it relates kind of to our daily lives they used a lot of hockey references in there we've got a lot of boys that play hockey and a fourth grade teacher who loves hockey so um so lots of relations there and then they got to do some catapult building and
039test the different types of energy the kinetic energy and such um with some of the and then we did lots of math measuring and fractions and all kinds of things and then afterwards um we did a bunch of skating and it was it was quite interesting to see out of the I don't know how many kids are in fourth grade 130 some odd kids in fourth graders um there was four classes that went the day that I went and at the beginning you could see some of them have these like Walker Things the white like PVC pipe things they were like fighting over them because they wanted because skating's not something that a lot of them do it's just not a past time for them uh but by the end of it they were cruising
040around they're like crazy so we play lots of games the um guy that was there who ran it did lots of fun games with the kids that some of them required them to fall which was helpful anyway um but we had a really good time so it was great the kids had a good time it was fun to to get out and about again a few bumps and bruises I mean a few yeah I mean we might have had Brews contests the next day but so it's nice to have uh some field trips back because that's something we haven't done in a while at Parkview even pre-covered we really hadn't been doing them and we heard parents kind of grumbling about trying to get them back and I think I think we can try to
041visit that as long as it has educational value I think Chris did did it fit in real great with the Next Gen Science that we use in fourth grade so yeah next one I'll try to make this quick the chocolate bar fundraiser that picture right below that that's about 724 boxes of chocolate there's 60 chocolate bars in a box each one's a dollar it's now becoming our our thing now because it's doing very well um last year we sold 812 boxes of chocolate in two weeks and this year we topped that with 864 boxes with less kids so our kiddos are really motivated I'm sure some of you bought some chocolate bars so we earned over twenty three thousand dollars for the school in two weeks so it's been a really successful fundraiser and the
042kids get to do activities for every box of chocolate they sell there's a cash and Candy Scramble there's a jump for George where they jump try to get dollar bills there's um the top right Corners are Silly String battle with the principal and the teachers the very the big one is the bottom left with the the stretch Hummer limo ride around town and then they get a pizza party at the park so that's the one that they'll kind of like really want to do so that's a big one and then we have uh fidget packs the bottom right hand corner is six and then nine boxes or more is the um the big five pound chocolate bars so if a kid sells nine boxes of chocolate they get all of those things so it's it's
043uh it's a lot of fun and they also get these little coops they just they love they're obsessed with so so it it helps us uh yeah so we use the money for our PBS store um student incentives and then I'm I'm hoping that we can use some of that money for resurfacing our playgrounds so uh character education is one of our main pushes at Parkview and there's lots of things that we do the Mrs Wilmore Mrs delicious cat room does what they call Coffee crew every week and um the best part of Friday right the kids in the class um they distribute the menus they collect the orders then they themselves um make the orders and deliver them they have the cutest little aprons and they come around to your class and and bring
044you whatever you've ordered for the week so um something fun there PBIS store um is something that we do monthly and the students earn their Eagle books most of the teachers have stores too but the kids will save up for the Eagle Box Store because lots of the times there's things in that Eagle Box Store that the teachers don't have so more physical items than um a lot of yeah than experiences the students order on a menu um a week at a time like menus were due today but they don't shop until next week so that way they can kind of get so um Veterans Day was something else that we did with character education we made our honor wall the students will bring in the names of any former or past military members uh
045their loved ones of theirs they write them on a star every grade level has its own color and then they place them on the honor wall all throughout the weeks while those are due during a morning announcements Mr Dugan will talk about each branch of the military play their fight song and then to culminate it all we meet around the memorial at city park and say the Pledge of Allegiance in the morning that's kind of fun and lastly on there is our warm up your heart so during the month of November December we did a hat scarf and glove drive for our character word which was generosity and all the items that were brought in were donated to Project Compassion which Services um homeless in the area so they had just done a code drive
046so this went really well with that and then they were all distributed that Square One art are a wonderful art teacher Mrs obergfell has her students participate in this they study an artist and they whatever artist they choose their artworks inspired by that artist and they take that art they turn into square one art which then they take their art piece and put it on um like throw blankets mugs greeting cards keychains and then parents can purchase these items usually comes a little bit before Christmas time and the picture in the middle there is Mrs oberfeld shows one student from each class that was considered the the top art piece from their class and then we also just finished up our Scholastic Book Fair at the end of November and into December here it's a
047big big time for students they love the book fair um Mrs gudeman our librarian did a fantastic job she decorated our library Harry Potter theme which I'm a big fan of that um and she said that they had over seventeen thousand dollars in sales for both schools for one week so she uses money from that for uh Scholastic News magazines for the classrooms ordering new books for the library and also for the teachers classrooms um uh we also have terrific kids so trivia kids is something a perfume that is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club uh Dr Jody Hensler Johnson and Aquinas member Dr Nathan Williamson spearhead the um monthly character right character awards and they come in each month so the teacher will nominate somebody in their classroom who has shown um that type of
048character so September was respect October's responsibility November is generosity so all of those kids emphasize some type of character like that and they were nominated by the teachers to earn that award um we have we're currently in kindness so that's not up there because we finish the month and then the teacher nominates somebody who had shown kindness all month we still have self-control caring honesty patience and lastly cooperation in May because everybody needs to cooperate then do you need me to talk about uh okay playground if you want to or is that a difference well I kind of talked about it uh with the candy money um my office is right over here and I can see this Playground Second grade playground we call it uh but Eagle zones there and some other third grade
049uses as well um the the P gravel has been there for I've talked to that forever yeah um I talked to Mr long Groff and he had said that uh he thinks 22 years ago was the last time it was replenished with pea gravel P gravel's not ADA Compliant which I don't think anybody's calling us on it so um I I just feel like I would like to do I would like to put a different surface in there the port and play surface would be fantastic but I think the material alone for that size of a playground is like ninety thousand dollars just for the material I don't have that kind of funds uh in my candy chocolate bars yeah right exactly I probably retire we could maybe put half of that in um so
050for me the next best thing would be rubber mulch it's easier on floors and easier on the kids so with that we would have to remove a big chunk of that pea gravel that's out there because we have spots that it's supposed to be six inches or six and a half inches deep for uh you know Falls and things like that and there's spots out there that are maybe an inch or two inches and then there's spots that are maybe six inches so it's it needs something so I went out and got bids on removal of the pea gravel preparation for the mulch how much the mulch costs and then installation of the mulch so I don't know if you guys saw those we're gonna it's it's within the budget he's doing it with his
051activity fund um The District's going to put us some money toward the mulch and you've got the rest going from your uh candy sales so you are going to see the um improved fall surface for that playground indeed hopefully before the summer I mean my my goal would be to do both playgrounds without the playground down by the blacktop is ginormous and right now I don't have the funds for that so I was hoping to do maybe this smaller playground first and then work towards the bigger one we eat that elephant one bite at a time we'll fix what we can and then move on so how much is the littler playground how much uh how much does the whole thing cost to redo it so there's there's three different quotes uh the first one
052I got was from a playground company and they quoted everything including the mulch was seventy three thousand dollars um which was way more than I anticipated I kind of thought the amount of money that I had made that I would be able to do this no problem and I couldn't do that so I reached out to smaller businesses that were like Landscaping businesses that would have the Machinery to remove it and possibly just put the mulch back in and um to do that I got a couple quotes that are around the 25 000 range to do that so I I felt like that was a lot a lot better and then uh the mulching company that's the third yeah right uh the the mulch company which was half of what the other company was uh
053was seventeen thousand dollars for the mulch for a 9 000 square foot area so the 25 plus plus 17 so yeah 42. so it's still it's still more than I thought it would cost for rubber mulch but um I think we can make it work with the amount of money that we have it'll be a nice upgrade so what do you think about doing this um well uh at all three these quotes could do it over Christmas um uh I talked to the two lower bids and they they said that they could start over Christmas break which would be great they think they could have it done before the time the kids come back to school in January I would like to either we do it now or it's over the summer I don't want
054anything out here during the school year right all right any other questions oh the rubber mulch is ADA Compliant yes I thought so we just want to make sure yeah thank you sir yeah right now I mean that's different right and all the two are assistant superintendent reports a couple of exciting things um so here's a picture we found out we have several um Illinois State Scholars at the high school so the Illinois State Scholars are picked from their class ranking and they call six semester junior year um then they look at standardized test scores and typically these are students that are in the top 10 of students in the state of Illinois um so to see this many of our students is very exciting um and we were thrilled to get that news um
055and then just a couple of shout outs this month um so the top left are high school yearbook was actually chosen as the 2022 National level yearbook program of Excellence um so joustin's that uh we get our yearbook through selects two yearbooks um and it's you know Nationwide it's not just in the state but they slept two yearbooks each year and so this year our high school yearbook was chosen for that award um so I wanted to give out a shout out not only to our yearbook staff but also to Jessica Packard she's our high school teacher that is in charge of it is the sponsor for the yearbook um and so that's a lot of work that she and the kids both put into that and to get that National recognition I think is
056really awesome um the picture in the middle is Jen from she is one of our custodians here at Parkview and I think everyone would agree that Jen is always going above and beyond to do what she can to help um if she sees somebody doing something um she is you know one of the first people to volunteer to offer to lend a hand and this is an excellent picture of her because she always has that smile on her face no matter what she's doing a couple of times I've come across and I'm like Jen that is another job I would want to be doing and she just smiles and does it and moves on um so you know we're really lucky to have her the far picture on the right is a picture of um
057Crystal so this was from the first grade music concert the other night and she does a fantastic job with our um in the music program and help building it up but especially with those younger ones it's been a while since you've seen one of our kindergartener first grade performances um it blew my mind last year when I went and saw my very first kindergarten performance because oh my God like I'm like oh it's kindergarten they'll be cute it'll be fine but once she gets these kiddos to do I mean there's solos and there's Duets and there's a whole I mean it's she just does a phenomenal job you can't brag about her enough but I also really appreciate um you know when Crystal comes with an issue or whatever we're having a discussion about a
058problem that might be going on department-wise or a vision of where we're going um Crystal always has suggestions of it and not just you know sometimes it's easy for any of us to just sometimes focus on the negative that christelle is always looking for those positives and has a suggestion to uh what we might want to try so I appreciate that the on the bottom and I know it's hard to read and I didn't really clip it there to put it on there but um I wanted to give a shout out to Dawn um at the middle school principal so the Middle School staff had all of the students take a connection survey um and then it asked what students you know did they have other students that they were connected to investigating that um
059but one of the questions on there was about staff members that you feel connection to at school that you could talk to that you could relate to anything like that um and when that came back 94 of the students said that they felt connected to at least one staff member in the book which I think is great and that's something to celebrate um but Don immediately said well this means though that there's six percent of kids that didn't she immediately jumped on who those six found out who those kids were that fell into that category um set up meetings with them some of them said well I didn't pick anybody because if I have a problem I just talked to my mom and dad which is a great thing to hear but some of them
060just said well I don't have to have somebody and she has um got some other staff members to recruit in with her to help those students find someone to make a connection so that her goal is that when they retake this kind of survey in the spring that this result will be that 100 of the students feel like they are connected to an adult in the building um so like I said I know the whole staff pitched in to get this done but I think you know Don really has a great vision of where she wants to see our Middle School go and it is quickly taking actions for that the other thing is um kind of you know we're wrapping up first semester so um finals are going on at the high school and
061with eighth grade um our staff is still smiling they are still um putting in the grind and the grit to get to these last couple of days um so you know I think that's phenomenal it says a lot this is a really hard time of the year um it's dark and cold and rainy out a lot um and so our staff is doing an amazing job with that um and then we are finishing up Benchmark testing I was hoping to have comparative parts to kind of talk to you about tonight but because of sickness we've had a lot of kiddos that are still doing makeups so I'll have those scores for you in January that we'll be able to look at our comparisons of where we're at kind of the preliminary data um obviously math
062was the first one I jumped to because we have a new Mac curriculum and so I'm excited to say what I've seen so far in those math scores um and then RTI we have an RTI meeting last week so we're going to be firming up and kind of solidifying some of our RTI practices and procedures in the district and just really unite our entire District so that we're making sure that we're providing that continuum pre-k through 12 services for our arcades okay any questions all right Brody it's all you um it's it's a I've got just a few things too exactly the first thing uh Greg Myers was at the um conference that we went to in Chicago and he came back with this super eval system and so it's a online system that for
063evaluating superintendents and we looked at it we met with them um over the Internet anyway you're going to be getting an email at your Columbia 4 email address that's going to allow you into the system I'm filling out the self-evaluation and when I submitted it it'll then come to you and come January you start my evaluation process and so it's going to be online and it should be rather productive I'm excited about it because it might be something we use for our Administration next year all of them uh it seems like it's a nice easy and yet still poignant tool that can get you focused on your goals so that's that another when you say you will be receiving are you talking to the board the teacher the boards the board will be getting an
064email and it'll be at your columbia4.org so if you're use your other one more at least go to your columbia4.org one to to find this thing the second thing is our district office as we know has new bookkeepers and we've been looking at new Financial software this has been something that we've been doing for a couple of reasons one uh our current system we have to remote in Trent's not really thrilled with the technology it's kind of antiquated the newer systems are all web-based so that's one two uh TRS teachers retirement system has moved over to this Gemini program last year which is every month after you do payroll you've got to upload the amounts and everything into the into the state reporting and uh our current program is somewhat fighting with it Jesse's been
065doing a great job fighting back but uh it just it's it's it's we're working on it but it is an older system our current systems used by US and um I think we're the only one in the state they've said that there's two others that use our our sub program I've asked for the list of those two others especially when our payroll person left because I was looking for someone that knew how to work this program and I've yet to see that list so it's just it's not what the surrounding schools are using and it's always good to have those twos um it's a good opportunity for us to update what we have clean house the data a little bit you know all your account codes would get transferred over your payrolls get transferred over
066and it would give us a fresh start um so anyway I've I've been looking into that we're down to uh one program that I I really like and I it would be what most people around here are kind of using SDS is the tool that a lot of the places use sadly that program is no longer available they were bought by link but link is a very nice program and um talking to the fellow superintendents around here in five years when they completely drop SDS most of them would probably switch over to the to the same company um so that's kind of where we are on the financial side of of things and lastly we do have executive session today to update the Board of Ed regarding Personnel issues and to um answer any questions
067you might have about my evaluation but there'll be no action following those are my three key points perfect any questions all right moving on to our items for Action first is the approval of the tax lady for the year 2022. in fact I won't go through that bid on display um zero questions or comments so the administration will recommend the board approved the tax levy as presented we'll submit it to the County after you guys approve it and um and then they'll go through the calculations to figure out what the tax rate would be and doing all that build stuff so questions comments concerns would anyone like to make a motion to approve the tax levy for the year in 2022. Thank you Lisa to our second I'm sorry that's perfect roll call please yes
068Andrew Corey yes Craig Meyer yes Lisa Schumacher yes Tyson search yes Adam hamkin yes commercial encourage unanimously Item B is the approval of early graduates yeah we've got 13 students that have met the criteria in December for early graduates they will or are allowed to return for the ceremony at the end of the year they're also allowed to attend senior prom so they're not missing out on any of those things but uh with your approval which we're recommending they will be for all intents and purposes done with their High School except for the things they come back for and we like to make a motion for the cutout early program I'm sorry early graduation program I'll make them thank you second your seconds okay all in favor aye aye any opposed any extensions Jim Carrey's
069item C is approval of a new course at Columbia High School before beginning band this is one of those things where um I think we've said it time and time again our faculty and staff try to meet the needs of our of our students and they bring things to us that they feel could meet those needs this first one's for beginning band and this would be focused for students that have left band for whatever reason and um feel like they'd like to maybe go back into it there's no way once you quit band you kind of fall behind and there's no getting back in this would open up that door for allowing them to go in it would be a Singleton Singletons are the names of classes that really will only make one section of
070you know and all the kids will have to attend that one section in whatever period it ends up being they have to fit into that section so it does make it a little bit more difficult for scheduling however for the band and any student that might want to go back in it would take 10 students for that class to make which means that you know we get eight kids that sign up for it we probably wouldn't have the class 10 would get us the class um with that said Administration recommends that you approve the new course at the Columbia High School beginning band and I guess you know there's the note on here that adding that wood possibly hurt the creation of the master schedule I guess that's been looked into now or is that
071what Mr Reeves is no what it is is that whenever you do your schedule you got to take care of your Singletons first okay and so um there might be whenever you add a Singleton there's going to be a conflict with possibly other Singletons because we've got enough Singletons that you can't just have a Singleton every period and then they you know we've got multiple Singletons in the period And so then you got to look at it and say well beginning band makes the AG Horticulture class that we added made I better not have those at the same time because they got the same kids in it and so it's just a it's a you know you can have them at the same time if they're not the same kids but if they are the
072same kids then you got to move them around and so um our your computer software can only do so much when it comes to scheduling high school but it is a it's a it's an ordeal it's a pain so even though Mr Reeves wrote that on there he's still okay with doing it oh yeah okay yeah it's just it's it's you might end up with some student having to decide between this Singleton and this Singleton and you know if that's the worst thing that happens out of this it's good to have choices yeah one of the other objectives of that is for students who want to switch instruments right that's looking at the middle school band right now there are certain instrumental groups or you know that are more heavily populated than others drums are
073usually a heavily populated area so if they wanted to switch over that would be took out of that is it also gives them the opportunity as for incoming freshmen to switch instruments if they wanted to learn another one yeah I think that would be great for them to be balance the high school band a bit any other comments questions whether we like to make a motion to approve the course as presented Tyson thank you 20 seconds all in favor aye any opposed any extensions all right promotional courage unansport item D is the approval of a new course at Columbia High School the vocal Jazz Ensemble and vocal Jazz Ensemble would give those students that um want to focus on vocal Jazz it is a competition that our choir program puts in so this would be
074a good class to be able to highlight those skills it is a Singleton all those things are involved that we take 10 to make for the class but with that said Administration recommends the board approve the course vocal Jazz into the course catalog so both of these wouldn't require any additional faculty there's just the right and the choir teachers would pick up an additional responsibility yeah right and their comments suggestions maybe like to make a motion to prove this class Thank you Lisa for a second I'll second all right and seconds all in favor aye aye any opposed inter potentials curious the last item for Action is the approval the first reading of the board policy press issue 110. so this is just a reading this is the first reading it is um large they
075seem to be doing large press updates twice a year um it's really mostly of no consequence there's one question in there that needs to be answered and the answer is amendment no we do not force people to get tested that are unvaccinated um other than that it's the first reading so the administration recommends that the board approved the first reading of these policies maybe I like to make that motion thank you a second okay I think we need a roll call in this one if I remember right Andrea Corey yes Greg Meyer yes Lisa Schumacher yes Tyson search Adam hemken yes Tammy yes please that concludes our items for action next item is our discussion items to the facility study we kind of went over that and we're going to rehash it again any questions
076on the facilities I would like to remind everybody that Mr hemkin and Mr Myers are the two on the subcommittee for facilities so as you're looking over these pictures drawings comments questions direct them to them call me if you want to but he knows a lot more than I do so perfect all right individual Award winner comments and we have anything sorry I didn't actually just wanted to say I attended all I guess all of the Christmas not not high school and the middle school concerts for man and choir and they were outstanding so I just wanted to extend an additional thanks to everybody that helped put that on that's it's a lot of work for a lot of people even Beyond just the music the primary music teachers and staff so I know that
077the facilities folks the administrators everybody it takes a lot so thanks to everybody put that on I know it's really important to the kiddos I know a lot of Grandparents were extremely happy that day watching as well as parents but just all the work that goes in just wanted to extend the thanks for the extracurriculars and then all the all the sports that are wrapping up it's just you know it's all that extra stuff that kovid cut out and made more difficult than you know that I just I can't Express how much it means to the kids and to to the to the parents just everything extra that the folks are doing um there is the Core Curriculum but those extra things are just as I said extra so people don't get paid enough for
078all that they do so thank you anyone else um I just want to let you know that I did complete my um School Board packet to rerun for election in April San Antonio first thing to go best of luck thanks anyone else uh board president Progressive we Chris alluded to earlier uh several board members and staff attended the school board election or the School Board conference in Chicago and uh we actually the classes were actually very good this year and I learned quite a bit one of the my takeaways was the Super Val we're required to evaluate the superintendent at the beginning of the year and right now I think last year the first one I've ever participated in um and it's just that written thing which is so Antiquated and outdated and uh the
079funny thing is I didn't learn that from a class or or an advertisement or anything else it was a Pleasant's round table and almost everybody at this table uses the superval and everybody was just raving about it so it's like okay if you guys are actually using it it works this is worth looking into so it's kind of fun we have got some good ideas one thing I did learn is how fortunate we are in this District I mean a lot of these districts have a lot of problems and you know I shook my head most of the time going I'm glad I'm not there you know we we have a a wonderful districts students teachers staff and community and uh we're just very fortunate and it's it's an eye-opener to go to something like
080that and really realize it so uh so I'm very proud of our district and our and all our people so next thing we'll go into our executive session for the purpose of appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employee a specific employee of the public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity five ilcs 120-2c1 anybody like to make a motion to adjourning to Executive session your main motion doing your second roll call please yes yes yes Perfect all right we are going to Executive session as Mr Grote alluded there is no action to be taken just a discussion item you're all more than welcome to
081hang out and rejoin us and watch us dismiss but uh can't blame you if you don't really want to want to spend the time so I think all right we are back in Open session we just uh concluded our discussion from executive session there's no action as a result of the discussion that took place and if no further business I'll entertain a motion to adjourn nice mix motion do our second at least a second it's all in favor any opposed interceptions all right that concludes our meeting that's