001uh all right time is 701 we'll call the meeting to order welcome everyone we will start with our roll call please we have a quorum thank you very much next item is our pledge of allegiance be all withstand 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 thank you mark welcome to the public especially individual welcome to you justin thank you for joining us and thank you for everybody that's joining us through youtube this evening do you have any public comments no all right easy enough we'll go on to the correspondence and that's probably getting passed around is there a correspondence no no all right makes that easy next time is our consent
002agenda if everybody's had a chance to look at the minutes and items on the consent agenda a couple things of note for the personnel um we did get a late resignation from francis esselmeyer who is a bus monitor so that's going to be a vacancy that we need as a bus monitor um we also got two extracurricular assignments tim barbie and doug van hoss to be the um the track coaches other than that i don't think that there's any changes really to the um consent agenda so the administration recommends the board approve the consent agenda is presented i have a question about the financials okay um was your credit card charged twice for that place it's got double charge in the report here at the convention i don't know but i can look into that
003there was a credit on the on the uh expense items for it's a double charge i think oh yeah it was double charged correctly two items i believe yeah okay that was from the chicago trip any other questions comments concerns restaurant but that's the only one i saw i saw two of them they were in the original packet duplicate payment hardware columbia there was a 67.96 page number is on page seven okay yeah it's a duplicate payment for ace hardware and then i thought they were i ordered nothing from ace well not exactly anything against ace oh there was a credit yeah 67.96 a for duplicate payment so the credit maybe the duplicate payment was the month before i saw two other difficult payments as well well when you find them okay let me know
004and i'll get julie to run those down mine's page two kim okay page two you said yeah page two okay okay any other comments questions concerns with that i'd make a motion to accept the consent agenda as i stated i'll make a motion yes perfect on to our communication reports and presentations like the enrollment report is in the packet any questions on that run right into our administrative reports our building report i think our special education director is joining us this evening welcome thank you um so this year i feel like it's going very well um i think part of that um is last year even though we were part-time and not in full-time huge effort was made to get our kids in early as soon as possible which kudos to teachers who said we
005want our kids in we'll figure it out we brought two kids in at a time we did this we did that but with that being said they got them in pretty quick and i think this year it was kind of like the kids were just like oh we've already been doing this we're all good you know so i think that helped this uh this year just transition pretty easily for our kiddos um you know talking to other directors i all i have to say is i we are blessed in this district there are so many school districts who cannot fully fund or staff their their buildings missing school sites missing speech and language pathologists happy to report we're we're all covered so that knock on wood that no one leaves us but we're doing good
006um so grateful for that um the other thing that i'm excited about this year that we've had to cancel for the last two years is our ace olympics that doesn't happen until april but i don't know if you don't know what that is it is our version of special olympics for our students and also students in four other districts so we have about 125 in the past student athletes who come and the really cool part is we get our gen ed athletes involved um and they just it's just such a cool cool event so i will keep you updated um when that is going to be set for sure but it's typically at the end of april love for you guys to come by and see it it's just really i mean our gen ed
007kids get as much out of it as our other kiddos would you agree with that absolutely yeah it's pretty cool i've hated to cancel it for the last two years but i think we're gonna make it roll um this year we should be able to do that so um so i had invited chelsea to kind of highlight our high school program and it was kind of cool timing because i was reading over the school improvement plan and a lot of our goals is to make kids independent help kids be lifelong learners help students get jobs and learn how to have jobs possibly college she does all that at our high school level which is kind of good timing so i'd love her to highlight a couple of our things that we do there okay i'm
008chelsea adair i like she said i'm the high school transition teacher and co-op teacher i do teach a lot of cross-categorical classes so therefore a lot of my students are self-contained as well and some of them are resource students so with that we do a lot of community skills training um we go out into the community quite a bit this year last year we weren't able to do any of that so i did see um a little regression in my students because they weren't able to go in the community and get that authentic experience like they had in the past so now we're reteaching some of those skills and adding on to what we do know and we're able to go in the community and get those authentic experiences the community responds really well to
009us coming in there into different shops restaurants all of that the kids love it as well we've also partnered with a lot of agencies in our community such as hss human support service out of waterloo there the students go in and they do work in a pays lab which stands for practical assessment exploration program they're learning lots of vocational and life skills um they're doing task boxes to learn those skills that they need for independent living we also partner with the ymca where they get to go in and work with a program called teamwork at the ymca they're there learning just new hobbies interacting with peers and then we also partner with mers goodwill columbia school district actually has a contract with merge goodwill where they'll hire three of our students after they've gone through
010a job training program they'll hire them and pay them i believe it's eleven dollars an hour and we currently have one student participating in that next investor we're going to have two students participating and what they do is they sign a contract with us i do a lot of the training on top of some of the work that merch goodwill does is as well and then we get them hired on as custodial positions they could work anywhere in our district but right now the only interest is custodial if there was anyone else interested we could also train for other positions anywhere in our school district we've also just finalized a contract with mac medical and we're going to have two students employed at mac medical getting paid through the mers goodwill program but we also
011receive outcomes through a division of rehabilitation services um whereas where we get some of our funding for our step program um that's about all we got going on working for us over the summer yes through the custodial program yes we had three working this summer and they were all getting paid through moore's goodwill yeah and so that was nice our custodians really enjoyed it because a we had kids learning job training skills b they were getting assistance unloading the rooms and everything like that and then with the doors program we get clicks for how many kids we have working and so then next year we get the same amount of funding and so it's a it really is a neat program that that that you can build on it and i really appreciate everything you've
012done for building that program so thank you thank you can that be expanded like with local businesses yes it can yes i'm looking to partner with any local businesses that are interested in having any students so um and my co-op work experience class is where they get the training from me how to get a job and maintain a job um and then once we go from there we do on-the-job training if needed we're able to send out job coaches to drain them to train them on the position and hopefully fade out that support to where they're working independently but yes we're looking to work with anyone in the community for those positions what type of hours would they be available um we do block off two hours during their uh school schedule if that allows
013some classes can't be arranged so we can't allow that but we do require that they have a minimum of 10 hours per week so they're able to work any monday through sunday 10 hours per week but it does have to uh kind of coincide with what they're doing in school like they can't work too many hours where it's interrupting their school learning interesting questions good job awesome thank you very much for that all right our next item is our assistant superintendent's report so um we're still doing the power standard review and helping that to build our curriculum maps so hopefully i'll be able to start bringing you kind of some rough draft versions of where we're at with that um but i am excited we have started now um the math curriculum review committee and
014so we are currently looking at what our math teachers are using in the classroom and do we want to continue with what we're doing and just make some improvements or do we want to find some new things bring in some new resources so we started the committee meeting yesterday had plenty of volunteers so it's 13 teachers from across the district in k 8 and then we have an additional high school teacher that is represented so that she can make sure that she feels like it's coinciding with what's going on through the high school and so yesterday we started building what we thought as school employees and teachers were kind of those must-haves so we can start building those rubrics and then today we sent out a parent survey um and i just checked before i
015came in we already have 127 responses to that parent survey so um i'm thrilled we're going to start over break i'm going to kind of desegregate that information and then share that out with the committee again when we meet again in january and build our rubrics and start evaluating some different things i know everyone was in agreement that we need to figure out some differentiating and some ways to challenge our higher students and we do a lot of great things for those struggling students in our classes but needing to challenge our higher students is something that we really want to look at and start working at and so that's definitely one of those key components on the rubric that we're going to start working on so kind of our timeline as we work through this
016i said we started before we left for break now and then by may i'll be able to bring to the board meeting for you what the recommendation is from the committee to kind of get your blessing as far as curriculum wise for us to continue on with next year and then that will allow us to start immediately providing professional development for the teachers so that they're ready to roll as soon as school starts in august any questions about that sounds great though that's exciting i'll say and then the other thing i wanted to add in kind of personal is i just wanted to thank you guys and appreciate the support and the understanding for me kind of missing out um on you know our last couple of board meetings i i greatly appreciate that sugar
017can tell you i was worried and thinking about you guys a lot and and that um but i appreciate your understanding and support so thank you guys thank you not to the big dog report um i did send out a letter home today regarding this tick-tock nonsense tick-tock challenge um the nation is expecting possible threats at schools um we didn't get hit too hard with the devious licks and i think a lot of students understood the seriousness of following social media so i'm really optimistic however we did meet with the police today in our administrative teams to go over our plans make sure everything's up to date even though it's supposed to be children making these threats we're going to take anything that gets said seriously and um and deal with it accordingly at this
018time we still don't have any threats you know it's just i wanted people to know that you know should we have to close the school down or you know the concern is is if you're looking you might have to send kids home early you know as you're as you're exploring this and and so it's um it's just an unfortunate situation that's i guess part of having that social media account so that's the first thing the second thing is the covet update test to stay is doing very very well i will say that we are currently struggling with a if you are a close contact you can test to stay and be at school however if you're at home even if the family has multiple levels and keeps the kids away from the sick individual like
019let's say that i was sick and my brother you know i'm sick so i'm staying in my bedroom my brother's on another floor not near me at all it's still a household person and so you can't test to stay you have to quarantine them or isolate them from schools that's not the standard that the health department has but it is the terms that the health department wants the schools to use and so that's been somewhat of frustration i just want to explain that if there is someone sick at your house you can't test to stay at this point in time um i did attend a webinar with i'm going to say it wrong but i believe it's pronounced ziki she's the idph director and she sounded like mid-january changes were happening which part of my
020brain said well that's right getting ready for the primaries however it's also after the cold and flu season and um and whatnot and so she seemed like mid-january might be some changes they want to see how it goes through the holiday seasons she did reference a few times the boss and and when she was referring to the boss she was talking about the governor who is in from her stance is calling a lot of the shock shots so uh politics will probably change things but right now we are still dealing with the covid situation that brings me to the lawsuit judge rayleen grishall is hearing the case in sangamon county it got moved to sangamon county when all the other school districts got added judge raylene grishau is hearing the case they had a status
021report a status meeting either today or tomorrow there's been a bunch of emails going through on filing of appearances and whatnot as i said before lawyers move at their own speed and state lawyers move at the speed of sludge it is still moving um but ever so slowly no offense to lawyers um those are really the key things i was hoping to be able to say you know we'll have a nice quick meeting and we'll do happy holidays but there are some personnel things i want to talk about so i do have to have a closed session today there's no action coming out of closed session but there is just some things i want to make sure you're up to date on with personnel that has occurred today so other than that happy holidays because
022our next meeting will be actually next year so any questions uh to add on to your start with this tick tock uh challenge or whatever it is a felony to call in a threat class iii felony and the district attorney says that he will prosecute to the extent that he can because it is a serious situation right so we need to convey that to our children i think that would help too so it was a very serious matter perfect any other questions comments move on for items for action the first one is to approve the public posting notice to sell our school buses we discussed this last year i did not get official permission i do not believe to sell the school buses i now have a gov deals account um and i've got a
023webinar set up with my sales rep on how to upload the the buses uh mr um lake is getting me the sheet of information about the buses and i'm gonna go out there probably tomorrow and take some pictures so that i can upload those next week but i i need your permission to actually sell those buses on gov deals and so my recommendation is that you allow me to sell the two buses as we discussed previously and i did a little research myself on there's three basic forms that public entities use to sell buses and assets this gov deals public surplus and purple wave the purp wave is open to everybody the public surplus and gov deals are only for municipalities gov deals is averages 22 percent higher than public surplus does and has a
024longer contract concentration in our area so my recommendation to chris was to perform the gov deals basically i think the prices we were going to get was a thousand dollars for one and nothing nothing so the small bus average selling price is 8 on there so versus nothing however we do have a possible head gasket issue so that has a duramax 6.6 liter diesel in it which are known for bad head studs so they put arp head studs we do that in our buses so there's going to be a repair so that might not be the average we might get a little bit less but i think it's worth worth going that was still the bus that we were going to get zero for correct right right so i i my prediction is going gonna
025at least get half of that so i would think it's gonna get around four um the others are um really it's it's a great engine in it but without air conditioning the market is there's there's a lot of them but i think we'll do much better than a thousand personally so but i think this is the most fair way to do it it's it gives us the most attention of the most most uh advertising on them so so would anybody like to make a motion to list our buses for sale on gov deals i'll do that thank you tyson for a second okay i'm sorry another discussion like i went right into the motions so okay perfect all right emotion in a second um this isn't to spend money so we can just do a
026ina i've seen so all in favor any opposed any extensions matter carries all right next is our approval of the early graduation for students and this is a yearly action item we've got four that will that have made the the standards for being able to graduate and so the recommendation is for the board to approve the four students listed for early graduation permanent recommendation all right perfect motion two approved or second second tax in seconds all in favor aye any opposed and abstentions perfect question carries all right item c is approved by our holder horticultural production and management course for proposed 2022-2023 yeah this would be open to juniors and seniors it does come with swic credit so it would be a dual credit class the recommendation is that we approve it as presented so
027that we can see if we get enough students to sign up we do believe that we'll have at least one section of it based on kind of our ag program and what um the students are talking about so questions on that one right now entertain a motion to approve i'll make you that motion scott beat you up he did it all right let's go make them emotional here a second second thank you lisa all in favor all right any opposed any extensions perfect margin carries will be listed in our curriculum thank you all right item d is the proof of our intergovernment mental cooperation agreement with southwestern illinois college involving the running start program and the dual credit courses for the 2022-2023 school year yeah and this is one of those yearly things i like
028that we're doing it nice and early this year um we just approved a class that would get sweet credit this is the second part of that the recommendation is that we approve our partnership with swic we're in our governmental agreement do we have any um students that are participating in the running start right now we do yeah good this might be the first year maybe last year was the first year for someone i don't know good all right anybody like to make a motion to approve or answer any other questions i'll make the motion thank you save me thank you all right i made a motion do i hear a second a second 10 seconds all in favor all right all right any opposed any extensions all right i know when the emotion passes item
029e is our approval for the school improvement plan yeah um yearly you usually have a school improvement plan where we look at um our test scores we set a goal for the next one we look at a lot of our our initiatives we weren't going to do it this year because we need to kind of reboot and restart with the state testing the state test was not given during the year of covid the 2020 year and in 2021 they gave it but they said don't look at the data so for the last two years we really haven't had any of the metrics that we normally have our goals linked with and so i thought well we haven't you know there's no way for us to come up with a goal because we're not using the
030data however we do get a grant for our middle school because of our iep students that were identified many many years back as soon as they start looking at the data again we will no longer qualify for these funds but we do currently and i want my funds from the state when i can get them and so i need to submit an approved plan and so what i did was uh working with alissa there was um last year's plan that you approved and then alyssa can talk about any minor changes that she made but really i don't think there were anything the key thing is i need this to submit to the state for the middle school grant that i've got um next year you'll see an a more deeply thought through school improvement plan
031this is i'm just gonna be honest with you more of a procedural bureaucratic step so what's the amount of twenty thousand dollars enough to approve the to the plan to actually write one any questions discussions concerns that entertain a motion to approve the school improvement plan as presented i'll make a motion to approve the school improvement plan thank you andrea second go ahead lisa a second at least a second all in favor aye any opposed any extension motion passes f is the approval for the 2021 tax levy yeah last month we discussed the um the fact that we are extending um for an amount of money more than what we got last year every year you ask for that more money um and it's a 4.95 in the extension uh there's been absolutely no comments
032concerns or anything from the community um me and miss lambert spent many a day talking about tax levies but uh that aside there's been no nobody saying that we shouldn't be doing this or that there's any problems with this so the administration recommends the board that approves the the tax levy and i will then have it filed with the county before the end of the month any questions comments but then entertain a motion to approve the 2021 tax levy i'll make the motion thank you tammy go here a second one second right second thank you very much this is a money one so would you need a roll call vote please [Music] all right item g is the approval for the first reading of the board press policy issue 108. uh there's just so many
033comments that come to mind there's 59 policies that got updated i've never in my this is my 15th year as a superintendent i've never seen this thick of a press policy update um a lot of it has to do with legal changes and whatnot there are some curricular ones in here that we'll be in deeper discussions with um 660 is the curricular content in seven three fifteen are um high school restrictions with publications those are the two that we really need to answer questions for the other ones are just kind of cursory to a certain extent but um please take a look at them if you've got any questions comments or concerns you can notify mr hempkin or mr middle camp because they are the committee members and we will be getting together before the
034next board meeting to uh review the policies but this is the first reading so with it being with there be so many did barney have any issues with them or did he not review him no i'm sure he's reviewed them but he's not they didn't call anything out right when they when they do these policy reviews they have i mean party might even be on one of the committees that that does that they will typically get school lawyers to uh assist with the writing of the policies through iasb so we just need to approve the first reading so administration recommends the first reading of these policies as presented questions comments i fell asleep reading it three times this one does have money involved indirectly so i think we'll probably do it the first first reading
035you can just do oh you can't hide anything second bringing you perfect all right all in favor hi perfect pay extensions all right awesome scott appreciate it let's all right items uh four is our discussion items i've really had no updates for the facility study um we are going to be having the architects work one programmatic surveys working with mrs smith this culture as we as we look as to what our facilities need i'm still engaging in conversations with the city that's pretty much all you got there's been no change since last month now all right item b is our individual member comments for the board members do they have anything they want to say it's a lively bunch tonight i was going to ask um have you gotten any phone calls or anything from
036parents since they announced the schools across the river that are going to optional mask starting in january i'm not um no i've got no no phone calls about that but yeah i guess in january the missouri is going to go with some mask optionals yeah they just listed i think four on the news last night but there's a couple school boards meeting tonight to vote on it okay we are still in that predicament where if we went masked optional we would end up with a um we'd have to change our minds before there was no accreditation it would just be a due process dragging of the feed so any other comments all right for president's prerogative um i would like to acknowledge kelly landgraf she uh um her sixth grade class raised over two thousand
037dollars on behalf of the school and uh so i think they donated to the columbia caring for community organizations so and they did it through caroling which means a bunch of families got to hear the kids singing which is always good very cool i love the community involvement so it's nice they can get back out again it is it really is starting to feel more normal perfect all right and that's all i have um a squirty alluded to we do have an executive session there's no action plan for executive session so we just need a motion to enter injected session i'll make that motion thank you scott enjoy your second one we want an executive session there for me thank you tyson all in favor aye opposed i think so all right perfect all right
038we're going to go into executive session i appreciate your involvement participating all right welcome back we just concluded our executive session there's no action to be taken as a result of our session and that concludes our meeting this evening and we would like to make a motion turn i'll make the motion tammy thank you second second at least a second it's all in favor all right any opposed perfect all right thank you for attending have a great night [Music] you