001before her budget hearing before our board meeting so welcome everyone um I'll call the meeting order here 7 pm and Kimberly if you do a roll call please here Andrea Corey here Greg Meyer here Scott Middleton here here hi thank you have a quorum we'd all rise and say pledge allegiance pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America as justice for all thank you all right welcome visitors both of you are all three of you I'm sorry I'll press sometimes on the visitor so didn't mean to leave you out there so be welcome all right so we'll start off with our public hearing yeah the uh budget's been on display for the last 30 days per Illinois code there are three funds in the red meaning that the expenditures are more than
002the revenues which does not mean that we're going to be it's dipping into the savings we do have fun balances there that are doing for that uh fund 60 which is capital projects we levied for seven hundred thousand dollars um but we're going to spend 1.2 million on the new Middle School roof we're redoing the roof at the middle school for 1.2 million and so that's where we're going to get a deficit in that I will say that we did the Eagle View roof two years ago last year we did the high school roof two years ago I believe but with roofs and Tuck pointings those are big things for all of our buildings there's no capital projects other than what we're looking at for the high school but we'll have to Bound for that
003anyway um and so that being in a deficit is just we're going to pay down some of that that money imrf is only 37 000 in the deficit um as we said is the Auditors we were extremely strong in that fund uh having a death deficit of 37 000 the Auditors will say we're really strong in that fund still next year um so that's not an issue and in the education fund we're 474 000 in the red however I want to remind everyone that last year we were projecting seven hundred thousand dollars in the red and the year before that I think it was 800 000 and we've been in the black both of those years so this is a worst case scenario um it's kind of hard to judge with the covid monies coming
004in and out and things of that nature but I believe that this is will most likely be in the black in the education fund um but if we do with this worst case scenario of the 25 million dollar 284 800 projected Revenue we're going to be just about 1.2 million which is 4 percent which is not much and again that's the worst case scenario I believe that will not be under we will be in the red in our capital projects but that's because we know that we're doing that Middle School roof and um it's more money well spent so questions concerns comments on any of the budgets anyone okay now it's time for public comments and questions anyone have anything from the public hearing none will move along and that will conclude our budget hearing
005for this year I entertain the emotion to adjourn make that motion thanks Scott I have a motion for the birthday boy do I hear a second oh I'm sorry I didn't even say it out loud thank you Adam oh roll call please yes correct Meyer yes Scott Middle Camp all right Lisa Schumacher yes question search fairly painless so we went and we'll Now call the regular meeting to order they can do another roll call please make sure nobody snuck out Adam Hampton Tammy Hein here Andrea Corey you're here Greg Meyer here he's got little Camp here Lisa Schumacher yeah Tyson search here oh good so that's a quorum welcome again visitors it's been a long time hope you guys been doing well I'm hearing public comments before do I have any now well you guys
006are lively bunch all right we'll go right into our consent agenda it's great if you walk us through that and so you've got your minutes and your finances um all of those are as per usual we have the resignations on on the list that I emailed out last week we need to add Kristen Schaefer our district payroll bookkeeper is going back to the city so I just want that duly noted and for employment of educational support Personnel we're also adding Dave Jackson onto the list he was a late addition um but he's on the agenda as well so our vacancies are still Cooks at Eagle View paraprofessionals at CMS although I think Dave filled that one didn't he yeah so the paraprofessor at CMS is gone um and then we do still have a bookkeeper
007position for payroll um that said the administration recommends the board approve the consent agenda as presented that change done on the expenditures that I talked about yesterday yeah no yeah I'm sorry that's actually in this pile Lisa Schumacher pointed out to me that we had the roof project in the fund 20 and in fund 60 and it's going to be coming out of fund 60 which is where it's budgeted so um the purchase order for fun20 isn't has been removed thank you for that with that with that change Administration recommends the board approved the consent agenda okay perfect any questions comments concerns I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented animated second thank you Rocco please yes go on to item six is our communication report and presentations and enrollment report is
008in your packet I'll go to the administrative reports I think we have a building reports start with hello welcome um I met you all a long time ago when you hired me but I married the principal at Eagle View um with me tonight is Mrs Amy Freeze and we are going to just share just how the years gotten started so as a reminder Eagle View Is pre-k through first grade so we're the ones that lay the foundation get everybody ready to learn and that's what we've been focusing on for this last month it's been a wonderful start to the year we have already completed our fall benchmarking we've already implemented lots of student Support Services as you know we've expanded to where we can have a full-time school counselor and that's been fantastic um he's
009we call him Mr Josh is Joshua kerth um he's right along playing with the kids at recess having lunch with everybody and it's just been really great we've been implementing the PBIS as you know as a district initiative and so with the little ones we started off with more of a community like whole class initiative with that and now we're starting to grow into learning about like individual behaviors and how we impacted each other on the community so we'll have some pictures that we can share with you Amy's going to talk a little bit more about some specific pieces and I'll chime in here and there awesome again my name is Amy Fraser think I've met pretty much everybody have you last a couple times and I teach Early Childhood the first set of pictures
010a lot of it is with the Pre-K classes and including my class as well we discussed apples you know as a fall theme we've cut we cut apples sold in the Stars seeds we learned parts we made applesauce apple pies my class didn't really care for a lot of the apple pie stuff but I thought they look beautiful they were great they were out of biscuits so they weren't even five material but anyway we learned a lot and the kids loved it you know you can see all the Hands-On stuff one student in the front right there is looking at the Apple with the magnifying glass which is awesome discovering the parts that way so you know we're learning the rules you know beginning of the year is about all about learning rules following directions
011playing well with others and now we're on to doing some fun learning with that um kindergarten day or with the kindergarten on the next slide sorry one um can you go back to slide one just real quick the top left corner sorry I organized slides they're kind of like thematically so we have our experiential learning here and that continues into our music curriculum they've been exploring World music through like Latin America and Caribbean country so they were doing some hand drumming in other pieces like that okay now we'll jump into connection and when you were talking about music Mrs Hughes also told me that she's teaching The Kindergartners the four voices which is like Whispering talking singing and calling um in a proper healthy way as well as feeling and finding the study beat that's
012what she's doing with kindergarten and so along with that with the music for first grade she's exploring steady beat no study beat rhythms and loud and soft um and reviewing experiencing the basics of music so did you know yesterday was Talk Like a Pirate Day did you all observe oh yeah we did an Eagle View actually might have been day four now um so yeah if you had driven by Eagle View at any point you saw some pirate treasure hunting going on um it had to do with literacy so it was really great the integration of that right so yes and the first great or kindergarten I'll go to kindergarten I don't know if that's on this line kindergarten's on the left but we have some others coming up okay so um kindergarten had Grandparents
013Day um recently I think that's on the next slide maybe um that was a huge success and that was awesome to get parents back in the building you know obviously since covid there's been minimal amounts so grandparents I think they loved it and they enjoyed it um they did things like having Donuts they read stories with them they danced to music they did arts and crafts and I also think a couple of kindergarten classrooms said parent night yep Mrs Royce and Mrs uh Turner they both hosted a family night and I was able to stay for that too that was really fun so the hallway was just lined with various um you know their games their chess Checkers some steam or stem kind of activities to do some literacy centers and so it was just
014a great time for people to come with their families and learn together in the classroom awesome and then first grade I know they did some quill riding which I think was was back on one of these slides which you know they in the top right they were using the doing the quill riding and then what else do they do with it so it came out of they were um the story that they were reading was Curious George at school and so Mrs Worsham this is from her class she started talking about what school was like during different time periods and obviously they've been working really hard on nice handwriting with their pencils and she's like well check this out so they did some quill riding and it was a hit I think they have a
015newfound appreciation for pencils and then first grade coming up for first grade um the teachers are organizing a community helpers day um that's actually coming up this Monday where um like the EMS police and fire come to um Eagleview and they station outside and there's groups and you rotate from one to the next I know last year the big hit was the Drone from I guess the fire I think it was the fire station they had this drone that went off that was the big hit and of course the um the police chief stop or not the police chief but police Hopkins is a dog but so anyway those were the big hits from last year and it's nice too because field trips I mean everybody can have one field trip a year and this
016is nice because we can bring community members in they can learn about them and it's kind of like a fun field trip day so that's coming up um I have two more to get me no uh we can go to the next slide real quick I mentioned PBIS earlier so this is a nice view of our Eagle block at um Eagleview so you'll see different Eagle bucks in different places our children don't really have the concept of money just yet but we're really working on 10 frames and so one of our teachers um Kelly search customized this and so these will be the eagle bucks that they will use and um like I said earlier we've been doing classified incentives and so Mr kirth Mr Josh is up in the top right and officer roach
017was around too so we went around once they had all met their class goal and we had they had a choice of extra recess and popsicles and you can see what they chose some of them kind of they were very intelligent they're like can we have our popsicles outside we're like that's great Synergy I love it so um it's been a wonderful treat and it was a really good bonding time also especially for our new SRO officer roach to come in and to get to know the kids in that kind of capacity all right can we go one more yep and I think is that the last one for us yeah okay so do you have your last piece yes um and in PE the kids are working on following directions and their motor skills
018um catching and throwing and I didn't want to leave anybody out so speech and that's a big component of like my classroom as well the speech ladies in our building are fabulous I have a lot of children with um that are non-verbal and so we have talking devices and they the speech therapists are awesome showing us how to use the communication devices in the classrooms and throughout the day and they're also working great with the parents and showing them how to use those um that's great and then speech is also doing um Mrs miesner is also doing a group thing with Mrs Dill in her room so they do like if we're talking about apples the speech will have a center and some of the kids come to her for some apple speech and then
019they go to the physical therapist in the room and the occupational therapist in the room so they're doing group group themed work to incorporate their physical therapy and occupational therapy because sometimes that isn't as much fun sometimes so if you're doing it in a theme basis it makes it more enjoyable for the kids to wrap it up I think I mean obviously I'm biased but Eagleview is the best place for a kid to start their learning Journeys um I have never worked in a building that's more collaborative and has everybody on board with supporting their kids in whatever way possible we always talk in the district it's not your kids or my kids it's our kids and that's something that we very much live and breathe every day so it's been a fabulous start and
020I look forward to talking to you at the end of the year to talk about how much they've grown this year thank you thank you to our assistant superintendo um so what currently what we're kind of working on and focusing on is next Friday September 30th is our first half day so remember last year we had the earliest out on Wednesdays for plcs we decided to restructure that time an hour of time is really hard to get any quality professional development or professional learning done during that time so we restructured those so this coming Friday is our first one and so the teachers will have time for meetings with their teams and then in the afternoon they will also then work on some more PBIS training by building wise and so like Eric was saying
021their Eagle bucks are a little different the way things are rolled out are a little bit different in every building so it's just some additional time for the administrators and the teachers to work together the PBIS team to kind of lead them through that so we're excited about our first half day we have a book study currently going on so we're doing um Gary Brooks who I don't know if you've seen or not he's a principal in Kentucky um but he's also a social media YouTube comedian star kind of thing he was in Edwardsville this summer and several of the teachers went to see him um put on kind of a motivational but really kind of getting to the heart of some bigger educational topics um and so we're doing a book study on his
022book right now and I'm excited we have 41 people participating in that book study currently we're on week two right now so it's been great it's a lot of interacting commenting but just getting to see what you what each other thinks and all that um I want to give a shout out to all of our k-4 teachers and the Middle School Math teachers we've started implementing our new math curriculum we've had some hurdles with shipping as like we got semester two books in and not semester one and so um I cannot be more thankful to those teachers for being flexible for um you know we've gotten like the digital resources and they're doing what they need to do um but also change is hard right and any time anything is new but a new curriculum
023especially when it's math is incredibly difficult and I cannot say enough about how positive the teachers are with working through this they hit us uh roadblock they'll email me or they'll talk with each other on their teams they're reaching out in other ways it's just been fantastic and then a couple of other I have a couple pictures for you to shout out a couple other things so the top left corner is our dramatic playroom at Eagleview you which is so awesome this is a vital component our kindergarten teachers are required to do the kids assessment which is an Illinois required kindergarten State assessment and a lot of that data has to come from watching kids play and interact and how they are building those foundational social skills um so Sarah chudd one of our kindergarten
024teachers helped kind of set up but she also went through and made like videos of here's what you could do with these different stations and there's a restaurant and a doctor's office and there's all kinds of things um but it's awesome all of the classrooms are utilized in this room our first grade I was over there the other day and this is actually one of our first grade classrooms utilizing it um and the teacher was making notes of social emotional growth and watching the students interact um because right we're responsible for educating that whole child not just with math and reading and all of that kind of stuff um the bottom right corner is a picture of we have an ell student this year in at Parkview and she speaks very little English she can
025speak in her native language and listen to it but she cannot read her native language so it's presented some challenges um and so I cannot say enough about Megan Boyles as her teacher Michelle Gillum who is our school psychologist has been helping us out in Kim Lintz and Mr Dugan we've met together as a team we've been trying things out um Megan and I touch base all the time and I'm like okay let's try this and we'll try it and she'll email me and she'll either be like yeah that was great or she's like didn't work I'm like okay back to the drawing board and we just she just keeps trying and going um but I walked into the room the other day to watch this little girl and help her out with morning work
026time and she was actually helping the little girl next to her because one of her strengths is math and she knows her math facts and they were doing a multiplication worksheet um and so one of the other little girls in the class was struggling with her math fact worksheet and our ell student who again has very little English communication but they were partnering and working together and she was showing her and drawing pictures for her it was just it melted my heart as a an educator to walk in and see that happening um the top picture is Tracy Hayes and Sarah Stumpf from our two secretaries from the Middle School um so all of our secretaries are amazing and do so much um these two have willingly taken on my crazy ideas I'll come up
027with trying to problem solve something whether it's with our ASAP system or things going on in Skyward and I'll think I'll have it figured out and I'll run over to them and I'm like okay from a secretary standpoint does this work what do you think and they'll try it and same thing they'll give me feedback we'll go back or they'll email me with suggestions um so I cannot say enough about how much I appreciate those two helping me with my craziness and the bottom picture is a picture from the high school um and so our PBIS team at the high school has really taken to getting the kids involved in different activities but so on Fridays they have a rotation and depends on the grade level but they are either doing Foursquare a rock paper
028scissor competition trivia or what am I missing a jumping thing um but so they have these competitions on Friday they're great the classrooms are earning points the home rooms are earning points um in competitions but they also on Mondays do PBIS and they um are working on doing a positive act so like I don't know if you've heard the talk about filling people's buckets right and like doing a positive act and so the homerooms on Monday were deciding what positive act they were going to do um and getting the kids involved but so all month they earn reward or earn points so they get them for these games they get them for positive referrals there's a name tag activity that they created and then at the end of the month there will be winners but
029there will be an assembly where there will be the four square champions from each grade level will take on each other so bringing in that competition that High School enjoys and thrives on but totally weaving through the concepts of PBIS and that's all we have 12 members on that High School PBIS team that have come up with all this they're organizing it it's just been amazing I've been over there I was like oh I don't know if these high school kids are gonna jump these cones and play a rock paper scissor and like I was downstairs in the hallway and the hallway upstairs I thought was gonna come through the floor like they were just all in um and so I think that goes to those teachers and all of The Home Room teachers though
030really getting their kids excited and hyped up and and all that so a ton of fantastic things going on in our district right now and I know I talked a lot so I'm going to turn it up all right just it's wonderful to hear everything that's going on in the buildings to be honest I've not been in the buildings as much as I've wanted to be um Staffing at the district office and everything that goes with that change has kind of pulled my focus I appreciate everyone that stepped up the flexibility and the understandings that's been given during this time Kim and Kristen have been excellent the time that they've been here sadly Kristen is going back to the city I will miss her as she transitions back to the city I do want you
031to know that Julie's agreed to continue the contractual services that we need from her as while we find Kristen's replacement change is never easy but it's it happens that we're going to make it through so um that said uh we did have an item that's been tabled the topographical survey that's off the agenda it's not coming back until it might need to come back we kind of have done as much as we can without a topographical survey and what we're doing is now we're looking at the building because before you really need to know what topographically needs to happen with the parking lots and everything you need to know how much you need to expand and so an inside look to see what we moved to might call for a topographical survey later but we're
032not going to do it at this time and we'll talk more about the programmatic piece when we're at that action step we will have closed session today uh to discuss legal issues and student discipline however there's no action afterwards so that's pretty much my report short and sweet I've been really just focused on the district office sure all right items seven is items per action we'll start off with the approval of the 2022-2023 school budget yeah I think I went over everything at the hearing Administration recommends the board approved the budget for the 22-23 school year as presented any questions all right I thought I'd entertain a motion to approve the budget as presented I'll make the motion Thank you Lisa try your second I'll second how many seconds a roll call please Andrea Corey
033yes Greg Meyer yes it's got little pants is a Schumacher yes Tyson search Adam hunt Adam yes Tammy yes perfect motion carries unanimously all right Item B is approval of the administrator and teacher salary and benefit reports this is one of those yearly reports that we will post on the website once you have approved it um it's been put together it is accurate Administration recommends the board approves the administrator and teacher salary and benefits report nope any questions or comments we had a chance to look that over so I would entertain a motion to approve I'll make the motion Tammy makes a motion or a second oh second Adam seconds uh roll call please Craig Meyer yes hi this is Schumacher yes Tyson search Adam hemken yes Tammy Himes yes Henry Corey yes all right
034item C is always a fun one this time of year as we appoint our ISB iasb delegate yeah um at the Joint conference that they have in November one of you uh typically the secretary uh goes and represents the board at the next month we will be discussing various um resolutions that the Illinois Association School Board is considering you guys will come to a consensus and then you need a representative to make that vote at the Joint conference Administration believes that it's always worked out with the secretary doing well and since Tammy Hines is going to the conference she is the secretary Administration recommends the board approved Tammy Hines the board secretary as the board representative we're gonna be like to volunteer Tammy for her I assume you're okay with that I'm fine before somebody
035points finger you right all right we have a motion do I hear a second I'll second you Lisa all in favor all right any opposed perfectly all right and D is approval of the project authorization with FGM Architects for the expansion of the Columbia High School yeah and you guys had that in your packet um Adam did have two things that needed to be uh looked into so 3.22 where it's fees and expenses of Consultants not included in this proposal uh we asked who that would be and they said really just brick partnership which is our mechanical engineering Consultants that we may need we also asked if um we would be involved in the conversations before we agreed to service them and they said yeah we would be involved in the conversations before that and
036then the second one was 3.5 um we're you know this proposal is based on uh 60 days and six months and so the timeline was kind of a question and they said they'll have the deliverables by the end of the school year so we should know what we need by the January board meeting I would think with those two clarifications um and the end of the calendar year yes okay that's cool here yeah right you said school year yeah yeah okay that's why January would be presentation perfect thank you for picking up no I just I mean yeah six months so we didn't know if it's new math or not that's awesome there is no curriculum exactly yeah okay anyway [Music] Administration recommends that we approve the project authorization with FGM architects and the changes
037Adam came up with very been Incorporated they were they were yeah and so they're they were fine you were fine they did not revise the language in their proposal but they just clarified but we do have been writing the clarifications and writings all right I mean discussion comments concerns well they may like to make it I think before we go so just for everyone's awareness so that I don't know if we're going to talk more about that so it's basically just that first step of them helping us put the put the concepts and the drawings and and you know having an architect an engineer and some other trained professionals give us an idea of what's feasible what's not feasible and I call it a concept a phase or a concept drawing um that'll help us
038Benchmark where we want to go from there so that's that's really the reason for this portion it's not a commitment to do any construction or anything like that it's it's really just expansion of the discovery phase so and this goes hand in hand with our ongoing discussion of our preparing for the future and what are our best options so with them said this is just an more exploratory thing taking the next step but and it says rendering so do they draw what it's going to look like yeah so they'll have they'll have I guess images of you know what the all what options they think are feasible based on what we tell them is our is our you know the general desires or the the requirement and this will have space allocations and then things
039like what will work with existing space and how you know what what how many people would different rooms accommodate you know that type of detailed information that we'll need to really be able to say does this does US meet our you know our needs if we grow this much versus you know two times that much and what kind of timelines and how it would fit within the space of our property okay well they also put the floor plan together as we can get in there yeah that shouldn't that should all be part of it from uh from a high level yeah the preliminary plans we have was that distributed to the board or just us just a committee okay all right so yeah yeah well that's a good idea um they did have some preliminary
040plans where they're suggested where we could expand build move parking lots that sort of thing so Adam's actually done a great job and him and Chris actually walked the property and looked at a lot of the elevations and said Yep this will work this won't work go back and they have uh has some really creative ideas as well to save us some money and improve the space and and uh again we had a committee myself Adam and Chris were have been working quite a bit on this and uh I want to thank Adam it's going to do that later but go ahead and do that now but he's really done a great job in in revising all this and even the preliminary plans kind of rearranging and say this will work this won't work and
041making some good really really good suggestions that uh it's very rewarding to to see progress and not just rubber stamp but we're actually a working group that I don't think it's making a difference so thank you you're welcome yeah and that's part of the reason we're at this phase now like Chris said we went away from the topographical you know uh project and this isn't going to be that far different as far as the cost of what the what those Maps were going to cost versus this so this gives us a better idea do we need to put top of the entire thing or only a portion of the property you know what all do we need so this will this definitely helps us better Define exactly what we need to ask for so we're
042not not buying something we don't need and not missing something we do need so do we know any more about the right turn yeah it's just not going to happen it's not okay okay and I don't know if it um we're looking at other solutions for that um but that's all going to come out and I think I mean that's as we're doing all of this we're looking at the the footprint of this but then how did we are there ways that we can structure the the traffic and whatnot to make that better so so I wouldn't anticipate a traffic study after this phase yeah yeah just to kind of nail down exactly you know instead of kind of speculating and testing it does it work by trial and error if we're going to plan
043for growth with in an area that's already congested during our high traffic times beginning and end of the day I think I think we will end up there with getting a traffic study to see if some areas being One Direction if we need to widen some things you know different Alternatives I I would anticipate that after the space Miss Smith and I um had had a meeting with Douglas param and Chris from the uh the city and looked over those plans a little bit we discussed the traffic and so the school's working with the city as well to try and make sure that what gets done is best for everyone thank you good conversation anyone else I'd be like to make a motion to approve the project authorization with FGM architects I'll go ahead and
044make the motion thank you Adam second place in seconds a rocker please search yes Adam pumpkin yes Tammy Hines Andrew and Corey yes yes most cares you man absolutely item e is our approval or the resolution resolution excuse me for Signature powers for the safety deposit box access yeah and so we have an activity fund account and so we need to change out our building principles in um two of the buildings to make sure that Ms Benny and uh Miss Miller are on the activity funds accounts um we also while we were doing that we're going to add um Miss Smith to the what I call the big account and also for the safety deposit of the box um and then uh there's some other accounts that we need to get me added to uh
045that are really just uh electronic accounts where rev track when you when you make a deposit for to get your kids lunch money it goes into this account and then it gets transferred over so we have a couple of accounts there that I need to be added to and so this resolution would allow those things to happen and I can go to Commerce Bank make sure that all those people are on the signatory sheets so the recommendation Administration recommends the board approve the resolution for signatory Powers at safe deposit access as presented I'll make the motion a couple seconds well moving right along all right roll call please Adam pumpkin yes Tammy Hines yes Andrea Corey yes Craig Meyer yes Scott Middleton hi Lisa Schumacher yes Tyson search yes okay letter F is the adoption
046of the teacher's retirement system or the state of Illinois supplemental Savings Plan yeah last year the state of Illinois started a supplemental Savings Plan it's another it's a for for Education we do 403 B's instead of 401ks and so the teacher retirement system has a 403 b that teachers can put into they're looking at mainly the tier two employees and letting them put other money aside for themselves this is a state mandated thing I believe this is also Ms Schumacher's second question I thought that uh the name Kristen Schaefer was on the teacher retire when you said the teacher report I was I was the car and I wasn't looking at the agenda and so I thought she was up but she was clearly talking about this one and uh what we're going to do
047is the resolution will give me the the authorized officer and on the sheet of paper that you have in your board packet it does have Kristen Schaefer as one of the people that they would cut the TRS would work with that name will change when we have an employee that we hire for that but what you're really approving is that um I am the authorized agent and that I would authorize my district office staff to be able to do that so if that makes sense what I'm saying is Administration recommends the board approved the teacher retirement system of the state of Illinois supplemental savings plan with the superintendent Chris Grody as the authorized officer which goes along with the resolution that you have and then thank Andrea do I have a second I'll second I
048broke up please yes Andrea Corey yes Greg Myers yes Scott Middle Camp aye Mr Schumacher yes Tyson search yes I do want to jump in real quick and say that uh Miss Smith did get TRS to come down and talk to our employees when is that going to be December 16th and I can't imagine them not mentioning the supplemental Savings Plan and they when they meet with the employee employees but I think that uh that's going to be a really nice event for get an update of what's going on so thank you for that Perfect all right item G is the approval of our school Improvement plans for 2022-2023. yeah I'm going to turn this one over to Miss Smith to talk more about than me so in your packet you'll see the first one
049is the list of our district-wide goals and they really um revolve around five big themes so culture and climate of our district PBIS the new math curriculum professional development and student growth so as we set up the professional development and make decisions this year in the district these are our guiding principles that we're using so these were then provided to the building administrators and each building then had 18 and they were asked to as a team review these goals and then set a few that they wanted to focus on in their building and so then what you have in your packet are the building goals for each building but you'll see that they all connect back to one of these five district overarching roles questions I have one yes so and this is just I
050guess the every word has a meaning um so two of the different goals it actually starts with to create a climate and I guess that leads me to think that that climate doesn't currently exist or are we building or expanding or advancing the world so it kind of depends some of it in there are components that I would say don't necessarily exist and then there are parts that we need to revamp and change um especially like that very first one with the culture and climate um kovid was hard on everyone um there's been a lot going on right in the district that's been hard on students on staff on administrators um and so we're kind of wanting to almost like scratch and start new so that's kind of where part of that create came from
051so not to say that there's never been empathy or inclusion in the district um but some of those areas we kind of want to start fresh and start over again kind of with a clean slate okay so that that one I actually sure could make that assumption but the third one is kind of the same on the third bullet where it says monthly activities will help create a culture of inclusion empathy and professionalism um are you on a specific building on Parkview sorry okay the third bullet so that one definitely implies that we don't have a culture of inclusion empathy and professionalism sure um and I don't know if that was like I said that was written by that committee um so I don't know if they're thinking like clean slate we're going to start
052fresh with with what that is um but yeah I'm sure they were just taking the wording from the first one on the district plan and going with it from there it's not not an objection just yeah sure well I love this I think this is great and I love the specifics especially on Eagle View so way to go on that I would love to see at the end of the year where each School feels like they ended up and I know we started this several years ago and we never really ended up coming together because of covid um but I think this is way more specific than what we had before and so it's exciting to see hey these these are I like the ones that are more detailed of course rather than the more
053general ones but the very they're it's exciting I think it's even exciting for the the liens and for the teachers to have these goals that they can now see in in writing and go for I think that's really awesome so it just really helps because I mean there's so much you could do and you can't like do everything right so it really helps narrow our focus and make sure not only that we're honoring our District's growth and development but also keeping our eyes on the prize in the building as well not that those are the only things we focus on but those are kind of our guiding our guideposts along the way helps me tremendously as a new principal I love it any other discussion anybody like to make a motion to approve the school
054Improvement plan as presented congratulations for a second thank you Tammy all in favor any opposed potentials aren't perfect She carries right that concludes our action items now we're on to discussion items revert back to the facility study we kind of touched base I just really quickly uh double board that I will email uh the plans out to you all and if you've got questions concerns comments call me or um Mr Myers or Mr hempkin good enough individual board member comments if we have anything we'd like to share this evening um I do um I just wanted to let everybody know here and and whoever's watching that um at the end of my term in April I'm going to retire from the board so it seems like a long way off and it really isn't because
055when it comes to as as folks here now when it comes to getting signatures and getting on the ballot and doing those kinds of things that's that's right around the corner so um but I just want to get that out there and let everybody know that uh I'll be hanging it up I said retiring at home and they said from work I'm like no not yet yeah okay you'll be 15. 15 years completed was it 15th I don't know if it's 15 or I'm not sure because I started 16 because they're four-year terms no I started in mid of it I started in the middle of a tournament oh well then yeah so I think it it yeah it's up there it's a long time it's a long time I didn't catch Karen but you're
056pretty close yeah my my oldest my oldest was was in school and and she's turning 30 next month so she's I'm sure she's loving me telling that but our turning 30 uh um yeah December 5th so well thanks for your service thank you for your service wow after April anyone else I was going to say something about the math curriculum but Alyssa already answered that during her but I do like your high energy I love it I love your high energy I love it absolutely I've worked very prerogative um a couple things actually so number one I I do want to let everybody know how proud I am of this board um you guys all work together you take your job seriously you do your homework you go through all this packet I mean everybody
057really cares I think we really mesh well together and we we all come from a a diverse background and really feeding off each other and I'm just I'm just really proud of all of you guys so I just wanted to put that out Scott thank you all for your service sure you definitely will be missed and next year when it comes time because I mean your your knowledge has been just fantastic and I thank you for your service and the administration is to grow to you have and Mrs Smith you guys have done a great job I know there's been a lot of challenges with employment and curveballs thrown your way and you guys just stay in the trenches and hammered out and thank you for all that you guys do so one thing I
058don't think anybody mentioned also is we were able to with the with the running of the district um on everybody's part we're able to reduce our tax burden on the citizens by 60 cents is that correct so everybody notices when we raise taxes but when we lower taxes it's kind of a quiet deal so nobody says that word well this didn't happen very often so right again another reason why I'm proud of the board and administration and everybody in the district for making that happen so it's uh there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes we're all paid very well as everybody knows getting no pay at all but uh I mean it's our our work is is paying off and and it's really it's a good moment so proud of everybody so anyway
059enough of my soapbox so that's it for me we do have an executive session this evening and we're gonna go into the executive session for the purpose of appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employee of the public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony on a complaint Lodge against the employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity five ilcs 1202 C1 and with that I would entertain a motion to enter executive session so moved thanks Scott or a second okay Andrea beat you to it roll call please yes Andrew Corey yes Craig Meyer yes Scott Middle Camp all right who's the Schumacher yes Tyson search yeah perfect Mr Brody said there's uh we do have a couple items
060to discuss in the executive session but there's no action items you guys are more than welcome to come back in and watch us adjourn but uh fully understand if you don't want to as well so thank you time is 8 55 we are back in regular session uh we just completed our executive session there's no action items as a result so with that I'd entertain a motion to adjourn I'll make the motion hey Tyson to our second second every second all right perfect all right all in favor aye any post all right thank you very much for joining us have a great day