001the meeting to order welcome everyone we'll start off with our roll call vote or i'm sorry lisa schumacher here tyson search here we have a quorum thank you if you join me in standing for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all right thank you like to welcome our visitors here this evening thank you for joining us on such a rainy nasty evening out there so and also everyone at home tuning in on youtube channel so thank you for your participation do we have any public comments this evening all right come on up if you would just state your name and you have three minutes if you were
002all 10 year olds i would be able to talk without a sprint amber haven a culture has been formed between board and staff that's created divides it's promoted the terms us and them rather than we however as we move forward and my hope is that it can be a collaborative effort we hope to leave the past behind us teachers don't want to be divided and we don't feel like the board would like that either last night at the retirement party at sunset overlook some of us observed that the board members president spoke to very few of the teachers and staff in attendance instead members of the board stood in a huddle and spoke among themselves staff members did not approach the board members to talk either the separation and divide between board and staff was
003evident teachers love to welcome people into our community and tell them that this is the best district around that they should move here and live here for the schools when looking for a house we would love to say use tammy mitchell hines she's on school board she's got our backs or if you're looking for a great venue or medium limo you know check out sugar springs or all about you use corey pharmacy great people great need insurance check out searches awesome family feeling connected to and supported by all of you guys would be a wonderful collaboration on both ends everyone in this room knows what happened to mr ackerman wasn't transparent and it didn't feel right but the teachers still haven't given up on building a relationship with the board we are here for it
004we want your collaboration but we want to make sure that the members of the board practice the values we instill in our kids and expect in our community a couple of months ago when i sat alongside all of you at this table and spoke with mrs huells about the good things happening at the middle school it felt as though it was the first time you'd heard most or all of these positive things the community needs you to show interest in the people teaching their children to show support when making decisions that affect their kids to know what's happening within the school walls i've brainstormed some ideas that could help mend the divide take a day off from your own job and invest a small amount of time to come into our schools stand in the
005halls between passing periods come on in for lunch duty get your substitute license and choose one of our schools to sub for today get to know us you have the opportunity to make small positive changes that will trickle down and show big support to the teachers you can redirect complaints in the grocery store by stating i hear you and i can help you but can you please email the board so we can discuss and follow proper procedures to resolve this you can speak with the teachers speak with the building administration and get to the root of a situation before making a decision that negatively and directly impacts a human life doing one some or all of these things could help bring our community back together a select few shouldn't be the only ones heard from
006the community every resident of columbia and every parent of a cusd 4 student has an equal and as important voice as their neighbor i stand here asking you to acknowledge what has divided some of us and to use your positions and actions to bring us back together the amber any other comments all right you know i believe correspondence is making this way around which brings us on to the consent agenda mr gray if you like to walk us through that please yeah you've got your um finances uh in is part of the reports i want to just call out that julie has been very diligent in trying to make sure everything gets um as we finish this budget we're going to talk about the budget hearing as we get the actual budget presented to you
007next month or presented today and then approved hopefully next month um we i think we've got everything paid for except for payroll and so there will be some little things coming in but what the budget you'll see tonight will be almost accurate except for we still have two more payrolls that'll need to be added on when we approve it next month so um it's just it's a monumental task i want to thank her for that as far as the personnel and things we've got a mr john heeg in the audience he's going to be the new math for seventh grade welcome we look forward to having you part of our family and i believe columbia roots and you graduated from columbia is that right fantastic 2012 always makes me feel old and start hearing when
008they graduate but that's okay um we have a few vacancies still listing our focus right now has been for staffing for next year um we'll talk more about cte we are starting to get some emails and people coming commenting as we've said more and more that we need we've got two our two cte people have now resigned and so if we don't find people for this program we can't staff the program you can get people that are in the workforce get a provisional certificate and those are where we're kind of hitting the bushes and we've gotten some phone calls um and so i'm i'm always optimistic but i just want you to be aware that that's a hard to fill position and we are trying very very hard to find someone of quality for that
009we are also um having issues with a sign language interpreter it's another hard to fill position it's kind of like i'm reliving the nurse situation where our our contract wasn't high enough as far their hourly rate seems like sign language interpreters can make more money doing their interpreting versus working in the school and so we're probably going to have to go to a purchase service for that um we've interviewed a couple of people and it's just our price point isn't there so next year when we do the negotiations that's something that we'll need to discuss and uh we are still looking for a guidance person or a social worker at the elementaries at the eagle view buildings but those are the three positions that we're still trying to fill i think everything else is staffed
010so without further ado the administration would recommend that you approve the consent agenda as presented questions discussions harry now i'd entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented i'll make them go ahead tyson i'll make the motion all right text me the motion i'll second tammy second roll call please adam humpkin is absent tammy hines yes andrea corey yes greg meyer yes scott middleton lisa schumacher yes tyson search yes perfect unanimous motion passes item seven is our communications reports and presentations start off with the enrollment report which i believe is in the packet yeah i think we changed one person yeah perfect and our administrative reports uh start with our building report from parkville parkview excuse me welcome all right thank you uh i'm just gonna go through some uh some positive things
011happening at parkview here we've had in april students participated in a week-long coin war between grade levels just try to put a little competition into it uh students were to bring in spare change and we weren't really sure what to expect but uh students donate over 2130 dollars worth of coins in one week so um we were blown away by that we ended up donating the money to help the shelter animals at helping strays and the donations will help care for and find homes for animals at the shelter also we had we finally finished up our fundraiser rewards we had students that sold four boxes or more of chocolate this has been going on all year they got their limo ride and lunch so we had 91 students that sold four boxes or more at
012parkview and 40 at eagleview so in one day we had 131 students riding a limo and getting pizza for lunch so they took a little tour around columbia and then stopped off at the city park 130 some students in one limo must be a stretch hummer and we could fit 20 at a time um we had miss king was riding the whole time with the kids and just busting them back and forth so it was it was a success and i really enjoyed it so um today we finished up the wax museum fourth graders um researched a famous person in history memorized the speech with important facts and dressed as their historical person parents and students were able to visit the wax museum and click the button to hear the wax character come alive so
013if you've ever been to the wax museum it's a pretty cool experience and the kids really love it and it's pretty amazing to see all of the students be able to stand up and speak in front of adults people they don't know and all the students it's really a cool thing to see my memory popped up of my 21 year old doing the wax museum today on facebook it was just awesome that's awesome yeah um second grade students finished their ames web benchmark testing i think last week uh just talking to a few teachers it sounds like we had some big big gains this year from the start of the year to the end so that's that's i mean that's what you're you're excited about seeing is just seeing those students improve throughout the year
014third and fourth grade students finished up their map benchmark testing also and all those results are going to be sent home to parents tomorrow mrs vollmer's students have been taking orders from staff for coffee and muffins so they have the coffee crew is what they're calling the coffee crew provides students with opportunities for life skills life skills are best learned by doing the program provides students with the opportunities for personal growth social skills functional academics and so much more some recent skills they have implemented include counting mixed amounts of coins following multi-step directions communication skills taking turns and safety cleanliness in the kitchen this has been a big hit with parkview staff as i look forward to the weekly deliveries of coffee and muffins i'm i'm one of those people so it's pretty cool you
015get to fill out your uh the menu they come pick it up and then usually on fridays they make their their way around to make all their deliveries and you you pay them and they take it and they take it back and count it and um it's kind of lifted everybody's spirits around school it's really a cool cool thing to see um some negative news field day uh with all the rain we got today we're going to cancel field day tomorrow now we're going to reschedule for uh monday next week so i'll be sending an email out to parents here once the board meeting gets over with and give them that news also one more thing dear day next wednesday third grader is going to participate in deer day which is drop everything and read
016students will have one special person visit and share with them their love for reading with nice weather the hope is students are going to be able to go outside and read with their special person all right i'm going to veer away from parkview for just a minute and talk some cea stuff with you um cea has a new executive board that took over on may 1st it's a nice mixture of veteran cea leaders and who know the ropes and some new voices in there to be heard i think they're going to lead ca into great things in the future and i personally cannot wait to see kind of what they accomplish uh we also are we're we also worked on some new bylaws it turns out our bylaws have not been overhauled in quite some
017time so we've always tweaked language here and there but um but a complete overhaul has long been overdue so uh new practices of electronic voting and virtual meetings it was time so a very proud of carly atwell tammy fultz myself who kind of took uh took those bylaws and made them brought them into the 22nd 20 the 20 to the 2020s um the other thing is um mentor teachers i currently see usd4 teachers who mentor new teachers do not receive any compensation however mentoring a new teacher is kind of a huge responsibility it's very time consuming and it's that mentor's teacher job to be sure that the teacher has success and this weighs heavily on that mentor teacher's shoulders as a profession we don't like to fail we don't like to be told that we
018didn't accomplish the task so being a mentor teacher carries that same need to succeed during the past legislative session our legislators passed a budget that consisted of several increases one of which increased the educator mentoring amount to 7.5 million dollars since our budget since our mentor teachers currently decide do not receive any compensation and the budget with the budget increase earmarked some dollars for them i wanted to possibly suggest and remind you that the board can add stipend positions to our contract the during that's not in the negotiation window and the one thing that will have to be negotiated would be the compensation part but as negotiation chairperson for this current contract i can tell you i can get my team together this summer and we could discuss stipending um adding a stipend for mentor
019teachers so that this program could be in place for the ball [Music] thank you perfect and our assistant superintendent report sure um so i'm gonna jump on a couple of things that carla and mr dugan talked about um so our e end of the year benchmark testing um i have seen some preliminary results some um different graphs that have been going around i'm working on kind of compiling it all together we have a few students in a couple of buildings that are still finishing up taking those assessments um but i am blown away by the amount of growth that our students have done over the this year um i think when you see and i'll have that information for you at the next meeting but to see the growth that our students made from the
020start of this year till now is unbelievable and i think that is directly related to one our students being excited to be back in school we're not in hybrid we're not on remote learning um they're back in school where they love to be and they thrive um and they've put in the work but it also is the dedication of our teachers because there was a lot of gaps that were there when our students went through this pandemic and so they have worked exceptionally hard to get those up so i am very excited to have that data and do a lot of celebrating of the teachers but also with the teachers at the start of next year and then to continue to see that growth of what we can get um another thing like carla had
021mentioned about the new teacher so i'm looking forward to spending the summer revamping our new teacher mentor program um you know i i came in in the the start of this last year and was given the information and being brand new and the new mentor meeting was happening three weeks after i started in the position i kind of just went with what we had um but i have been fortunate enough to be part of a consortium at the state level for the state of illinois that is working with new teachers and so we have developed quite a bit of programming for those teachers utilizing being able to collaborate through online meetings and different things and having on-demand meetings but also in person in different kind of cohorts throughout the state so i'm really excited to
022roll that into part of our program like mr grody pointed out earlier with the cte we've been spending a lot of time this is a program that has continued to build our students from the program went and competed at skillsusa and placed first and are now going to atlanta to compete at the national level and that speaks again to our students dedication but also our program and so that is something that we are passionate about doing we have you know done the traditional when you have job posting or job openings you post the positions right um didn't get a whole lot we were all getting nervous um so we've been reaching out to community colleges around looking for people been reaching out to members of the chamber of commerce that have businesses in the trades
023that might have people that are recently retired or looking to retire that might be interested so um that is something that we're passionate about trying to do um and i will say that the staff has joined on board trying to get those positions filled we've had several teachers contact us asking for more information about how can we get this out does this look right can we get this poster say amber's one of them that's been really pushing and trying to help us get that out there and that's again what it takes is a collaborative effort by the community to be able to continue to support that so looking forward to that um i kind of wanted to highlight this month our girls on the run program um eagle or a parkview and middle school both
024had a girls on the run program that has been running this spring um and the girls meet twice a week they do a lot of learning about themselves about empowering themselves making positive choices it's a phenomenal program and then they also get the exercise in there they train for a 5k and the 5k was just held this last saturday in forest park it was phenomenal um to be a part of it to see the excitement even the girls who in practice were like we gotta run today um and we saw all kinds of things were so excited once they got to that race and do it and again that's another program that's not possible without our staff and our teachers that give up their time to do those programs um and so i was fortunate
025enough that middle school adopted me this year and let me join that with them and get to see it firsthand with them so i appreciate that and then the last thing i just want to point out was i think i don't know if everyone knows but on sunday night this week scott horner and scott germain are being inducted into the st louis metropolitan football coaches hall of fame and so there is they are being recognized at a banquet this sunday night um and it's a you know kind of a huge huge accomplishment for them and and also a nod to the program and getting colombia's name out there so i just wanted to congratulate both of those gentlemen on on this honor that they're getting that's all i have great thank you very much all
026right now to the big dog report i don't know about the big dog but uh i've got a uh good news this morning um we got an email from the regional office of education stating that the shield testers are saying we need to return all of our supplies and materials for the shield testing that was the program that allowed us to collect spit and check for covid in my mind that is the last nail in the coffin of covid because the state's basically saying that next year we're going to start the school year without having to be tested or anything so um i'm i'm thrilled about that this is my end of my second year here in columbia and in many ways it feels like it was my first year i went down and i
027i walked around and it took me a while before i realized that the sheet of paper that had their name on it the little red dot i needed to push to get the kid to talk to me but i did that at the wax museum and i am incredibly impressed with what they were able to do and so it's just it's neat to be able to see those things and although i've been here two years we're just getting back into a lot of um that stuff and so it's good uh we are gearing up and starting to make reservations for the joint annual convention that is the weekend before thanksgiving for board members um it's in chicago it is probably the best pd for you all with that said i am also looking at the
028school board governance recognition it's an application that you need to do and what i'd like to do is work with the board president i haven't talked to you yet about this but i'm throwing it out there so that we'll both be committed it's going through and doing an application no no pressure at all but it's an application that would um do kind of a self-evaluation of the board and it'll get us back into the visioning and missioning that we started and then kind of covered his he hit us and we we moved away from and what not um i think miss haven brings up some really good points about the collaboration and that is the culture that we want to have and i see it i see a glass that's more than half full so
029um it has to do with all the wonderful things and and whatnot but it's really now that the excuse of covid is behind us watching and seeing everything's just really refreshing and so with that um make sure that you tell miss kimberly if you're going to be able to attend in chicago because we need to get our reservations soon thank you very much we've gone to our items for action the first one is the approval of the hmh intro math curriculum yeah and alyssa can answer any questions or concerns but she went through a process with the kindergarten through eighth grade math teachers and the recommendation is to improve the hmh into math series do you have anything you want to add to that no i just if you have any questions because i think
030a lot of it was hopefully you could see the process we went through and and how seriously the committee took this and really wanted to do what's best for our kids questions comments concerns would it be like to make a motion to approve the hms info maths curriculum i said intro before the old glasses help a lot any opposed any abstentions perfect next item of reaction is our approval to extend the terms of the misvic property casualty pool this is a yearly action item and every year we extend for three years with the understanding that we could go out to bid in after one year we're not locked into the three years but we'd have to notify them before december and quite honestly we'd also have to go out to bid before december in order
031to change that so my recommendation is that we stay with the ms vic property casualty pool a little inside information we had a committee scott myself mr grody and that was a year ago yeah we did look at this pretty extensively and we did send out their bids and i think consensus was pretty clear that this vic was it was our way so i don't uh nothing i think has changed since that time so yeah but this has been looked at pretty heavily so i just want to pay that know that anybody like to make any discussion i'm sorry we'd like to make a motion to approve to extend the term of the misfit property casualty pool i'll make that motion thanks scott their second second protection second uh roll call please tammy hines yes
032andrea corey yes craig meyer yes scott middlecam hi lisa schumacher yes tyson search all right good morning passing down and seeing we did that now it's time to appoint our misfit property and casualty pool board members and um the administration would recommend that we continue that the superintendent chris grody is the ms vic property casualty pool board member representing columbia usd4 i would i would recommend that we um also add alyssa alyssa smith smith as the alternate great answer any discussion do you give that a listen sure [Laughter] we put you on the spot i know i know a feeling maybe like to make a motion to approve mr grody for our miss vic pool board member and alyssa as our alternate i'll make that motion thank you andrew your second second lisa seconds all
033in favor aye all right ain't opposed any abstentions mr carey next item is the approval to extend the terms of the misfit employee benefits pool yeah the missouri um mississippi valley mississippi valley insurance consortium that's what it is thank you uh they do you should know that yeah us educators and are in acronyms you it it gets confusing um anyway but ms vic does our employee benefits as well we do both our property casualty and our employees staying with them on one side the recommendation is to stay with them with the employees that's the one that we really looked at and any cost savings wouldn't be guaranteed over long terms and really when you change people's employee health benefits you want to see a substantial savings we've had very minimal increases in our insurance coming
034from other districts where we've seen larger ones i'd say we stay with mizvik there are discussions comments would anybody like to make a motion to extend the term of the misfit employee benefit pool i'll make that motion thank you scott wait a second i'll second okay seconds roll call please andrea corey yes greg meyer yes scott middle camp lisa schumacher yes tyson search tammy hines yes and we're down to the point a misfit employee benefits pool board member and again the recommendation would be for the superintendent chris brody to be the board member with alyssa smith assistant superintendent as the alternative alternate alternate that too that yeah alternate is the term discussions comments questions maybe you like to make that motion i'll make that motion thank you andrew give her a second one second lisa
035seconds all in favor aye aye aye aye aye any opposed any abstentions perfect our next item is this episode public hearing date and time to attend the 2021-2022 school budget yeah and what we've normally done is had it at the regularly scheduled board meeting uh the next month however upon looking at it a budget needs to be on display for 30 days counting today and counting the june 16th which is the regularly scheduled board meeting that's 29 days so we can either have the board meeting on friday we could have the board meeting on the 16th and then have a special board meeting on friday or we could do move it all to next week thursday which would be the fourth thursday this is why when you do the original budget we always have that
036one month off without the amended budget we just i don't know why we missed it but i apologize last year we had our um may meeting on a wednesday to give us that extra day so um anyway so what is the flavor of the board we need to change our board meeting next month or we can keep the board meeting and have a special board meeting for the hearing understand also you're going to be i'm out next week the week after the week after oh you're out the week of the 20th yes and well that kind of sums up what we're not doing not having it a week later right so well we could also i mean we can do that we can do the um and we can do the uh budget hearing a
037week later if we wanted to as i was kind of thinking we proceeded with our board members scheduled and we have a special board meeting i think we could muddle through i know we could have without chris kimberly maybe but i think we could handle that so the the the the hearing in the budget would be on the fourth thursday 23rd of june i believe so and our regular schedule board meetings on the 16th we could do that that way we keep everything moving smoothly and so special board meeting june [Music] 23rd 23rd so the recommendation would be to have the um the public hearing and the budget hearing for the amended budget on june 23rd at 7 00 p.m and followed by him not followed by anything just be the right way board regular
038schedule board meeting the week before per okay yeah i mean we i'd say we move at all but without chris right exactly and kim gone you have any other ideas are we good with that one all right you need to vote on that budget hearing then so that we can get that posted would it be like to make a motion to conduct a budget hearing on june 23rd 7 27 p.m at 7 p.m thank you yeah all right motion second that scott second and roll call please greg yes scott middleton hi mr schumacher yes tyson search tammy hines andrea corey yes that works out we will miss you guys though i just want to know won't be the same without you all right next item is the approval for the first reading of press issue
039109. yeah and the way that this works is that these press issues come from the illinois association of school boards they have a committee of um school district leadership and lawyers that kind of put together the policies and whatnot and then they send them out to the all the schools in illinois we approve the first reading and then between the first reading and the second reading before they're adopted we take questions concerns or any issues that are brought up i say that because with this first reading i got an email from our cespa which is the non-certified education association and they were wondering about policy specifically 580 which is court duty and it talks about how they will reimburse for jury duty licensed employees and our paraprofessionals are wondering what does that mean and one
040of the questions in that policy if you look at it it needs to know are we going to treat our extra our esp employees our aides and our non-certified people the same way we treat our certified i would think that from my experience here we have and we will but those are some of the things that get brought up when you look at these policies and so um i i say that we approve these with the knowledge that you know those are the things that we will change and make modifications to when we are finally approve it next month does that make sense this will be at the board meeting next month yes ma'am so what we're doing is we're approving the first reading and then between now and next month everybody's got a month
041to really dive into these policies and look at them uh scott middle camp and adam hemkin are the two board members that sit on the subcommittee that review them and and go over the the details but really what happens is uh you know alyssa and i will review them and we'll kind of answer the questions and we'll touch base with scott and adam and make sure we're on the same page but if so if you get anybody contacting you regarding any of the policies then forward them on to scott or adam and then you'll have the recommendations at the next meeting yes ma'am okay here's a point of clarification we are we can make our own rules we can amend the rules and they will survive and what happens basically is our press is kept
042at the association level in any changes so when a new press policy comes down our changes are incorporated into the new one so we don't overwrite them so yeah we've we've done that in the past well just i guess the last go round we did yeah right so exactly all right perfect any further discussion all right without entertaining a motion to approve the first reading press issue 109. i'll make that motion everybody scott wait a second at least a second thank you thank you right that concludes our action items we're on to discussions uh the facility study is first um i will say that we've sent out uh i got packets of informations from the architects um mr reeves is sent them out to the departments and so what they have are questions and the
043questions um include you know how many classes you need for graduation and it talks about programmatic stuff and then there's actual pictures in there of various like kitchens for our home act department you know or shop departments and and science labs and things of that nature it's for the teachers to then give comments on and as we start reviewing the high school um needs assessment so what we're at right now is that we've got surveys for every department math english fine arts at our high school for the teachers to look at and answer questions as to what they would want with a dream school you know what it gives them the opportunity to be able to state also you know what is it that our school right now is lacking that they would really like
044to see and so that's going to be a information gathering and hopefully in the summer we'll be able to share that with the board as far as where we are with that um but we are moving forward with the facilities i've not heard anything regarding our discussions with the cities and i know that we sent letters we wrote a letter the city wrote a letter talking about route three ultimately we would love to see a third lane on route 3 between bottom uh avenue all the way up to sandbank because of the stuff that's going at 11 south it really a third lane there and all the way to sandbank would make a lot of sense a turn in and a right in right out of the high school parking lot off of three would
045also be something that we're pining for we believe that that would help the transportation at that location enough that um expanding the school because we are we're at the point where we're probably going to expand that school so um would that be a stoplight in between the middle school and mcdonald's no so what it would be is it you could only go right in so it would not be a stop light it would just be a pull in and a pull out kind of like if on on route three there's one at main street coming out of home off of main street and staying in the right lane yeah but there's a light there yeah i know there's a light but yeah i'm thinking of down in waterloo there's a uh when you turn right
046there's a a right in right out just uh past the by a gas station in waterloo on route three um yeah gateway fs thank you has a right in right out which is what we'd be looking at where there's no light but it pulls in and out um that's the example we're looking at when i dot doesn't really like write in writes outs but there is one so it's possible and for our school safety i think that that's important so but those are the two issues that we're moving forward on it's not going at the speed i would like but it's moving forward excellent thank you for that our next item is individual board member comments does anybody have anything this evening i attended the middle school the sixth seventh and eighth grade choir concert
047last week i do want to give a shout out to sarah mcginthy she did a great job with the students even though they had technical difficulties but she got through it and it was it was a very good concert and i did speak to her at the retirement thing yesterday so and she did say that it would be something that could get accomplished over the summer changing out the the boards i guess it is it's yeah what what has happened is is we've have um when they do the plays or a lot of the concerts people come with their own sound board and so when we did the upgrades at the middle school i i we need to just purchase a sound a sound boy well and then what will happen the sound board it's
048it's there's actual issues okay she thinks middle school is you know it's getting some updates technology's changed a lot since well she said it might be like the wiring in the ceilings that needs to be replaced and things like that so it could be a big project that we might want to look at sooner than later maybe somebody don't put them on their wish list their dream list we had some work done on it with um um so i'll reach out to iron iron studios iron iron man studios because they did some work on it we one of their fathers is a middle school and so we had some work done on it so i'll reach out and find out what didn't get done and get that fixed perfect anyone else all right board president's
049prerogative um last month i kind of had a little speech or a little education session on why the board can't make or it's not appropriate for the board to make comments on public or reactive public comments again we're we're a body our individual opinions don't really matter it's only as a group that we can take action and do things this this month i'd like to kind of expand on that a little bit and explain how that we have to conduct the business of the district so most of our discussions in fact almost all our discussions have to be in public so we can't just get together and have these conversations and come up with secret evil plans and and do things like that everything we have to do and has to be out in the
050open in fact when i became president i added the section you i saw with individual board member comments because we need a place where we can bring things up that aren't on the agenda or or on not everybody's mind and really share and collaborate so everything we do has to be in public if more than two board members are present we can't discuss school business whatsoever now we can all get together and have dinner or whatever but school businesses is off limits when it when it does that way we have a lot to do with our due diligence i mean we're running a 24 20 24 million dollar organization here and it does take a lot of due diligence to do our job and perform our our duties correctly um that's why one thing we
051do is if you notice a lot of the comments we have a committee for this or a committee of that we take couple board members we bring in outside people we try to get together and spend the time to really dig into issues and make sure that we come up with the right decision the the matter or the business of the board is absolutely everybody's business in this community however as a 24 million dollar company organization whatever you want to call it we also have people and these these people are employees as much as everybody has a right to know the district's business they don't have the right and these people have a right to privacy so we respect people's privacy and that's why we're unable to comment on certain things these things are handled
052in executive session just like individual students employees legal matters they're kept confidential because of the sensitive nature of the issue i love transparency i would like to sit here and tell you every reason for every decision we ever make um but it's just not possible and and i'm sorry for that um where else was i going with that so anyway um like i said you know i know we have some controversial decisions that we have to make i know they're not popular um there are we do listen i think one of the the strengths of this board is we do listen to the community i get stopped a lot at dinner grocery store pulling up my gas whatever and i have a lot of conversations with people i listen to all points of view you
053know and i appreciate amber coming out and speaking tonight that that really means a lot and uh i'll take you up on that invitation i'll go to the middle school and spend a day with you guys so careful what you wish for i'll do it um but yeah it's we there's no one here that is against any teacher or anything else we want the best for the district plain and simple you know and and uh unfortunately when we do have decisions to make we're not going to make everybody happy we understand that we're doing the best we can nobody up here is paid there's a lot of mechanisms in place that we can't make money off our decisions we can't you know there's there's our board policies are very strict and everybody abides by them
054so there's very nice arrangements already set up to ensure that we do the right thing we absolutely support the teachers we appreciate what you guys do i have a lot of admiration and i honestly i don't think i could do the job so i take my hats off to all the teachers and we very much want to support the teachers administration and the entire district and that's why we're here but but you're right there's been a rift and i would like nothing more than to find a way to bridge that and get everybody together because we're on the same page we're on the same team we all want to have the same goals sorry my little soapbox on that so but again i appreciate you coming out of amber and speaking it was an excellent
055speech i appreciate that one other thing too is they brought up the uh middle school play which i understand we had buckets due to a real leaky roof that's absolutely so yes yeah exactly so uh again another committee a couple board members we got together and we're looking at things and and a resolution for the roof so as you know we have the facilities study coming up so we're anticipating an expense there we'd like to address this roof issue sooner than later there's no reason that a school like this is going to have a leaky roof so we've got to find the best way to do it we've met with some contractors and we're going to send it out for some bids for basically is it a rehabilitation that would you call it a resurfacing
056yeah or resurfacing instead of replacing the roof and as long as the installation is dry enough you can every 20 years you can resurface a roof correct which would save a ton of money for the district and accomplish our goals so we're looking at that we're going to get some biz again i just want to be upfront with everybody and let you know what's going on kind of behind the scenes that we can um and that is pretty much it for me so so i appreciate every indulge me for for that so we would be going into executive session and then our last item is we will be going into executive session for the purposes of appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employee of the public body or legal counsel for
057the 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 and to discuss student disciplinary cases pursuant to five ilsc 2c9 there will be no action out of the executive session everybody's welcome to return when we do free adjournment um probably be very uneventful but uh you're always welcome to join us so with that i'd entertain a motion to adjourn into executive session excuse me i'll make that motion thanks scott have a motion second second at least a second roll call please tammy hines yes andrea corey yes craig meyer yes scott middle pam all right lisa schumacher yes tyson search yes all right we are adjourned into executive session thank you all right we are back in
058in regular session we have no action items as a result of our executive session and with that i would entertain a motion to adjourn so moved scott thank you do i hear a second second at least a second all in favor aye aye any opposed no extensions that concludes our main evening thank you very much you