001okay time is 7 p.m we will call the meeting to order and we'll start with our public hearing and kimberly if you do a roll call please here also like to welcome the visitors here this evening thank you for coming and participating in our meeting that you're here um item three for our agenda is our public hearing for the 2021-2022 school budget all right well this is a tentative budget um that we do every year the budget's conservative worst case scenario um the last few years have been what i call extremely variable you know it's a bit hard to really budget and you've got to just plan for the worst and so historically we've always ended up in a better financial place than what we've budgeted we expect the same this year that said the
002key points are really on page two lines 22. if you go down to line 22 you can see for each of the funds the education the operation maintenance steps service what we're looking at currently in our ed fund it's a deficit of 790 000 i will remind you my first year here we had um projected for a balanced budget this was when i came in at the in july and what we found on that year was that we actually had eight hundred thousand dollars in the black the next year when i did the budget we were 700 000 in the red and we ended up 200 000 in the black so when i say these are variable years and really hard to budget for they're variable years and very hard to budget for so um
003i'm assuming that we'll be in the same place that we are where we'll be better off um if you go to page three actually i interrupt you real quick sure what would cause that much variance in the budget from being that much in the black to what are we dealing with yeah i haven't had a real good chance to dig in and and look at what it is um it could be some nickel and dime things where you know we didn't go on a lot of trips um and whatnot but you also had more expenditures with the teachers that we had last year remote teachers and stuff like that so um i wish i'd get a better answer to that question but i've been wanting to dig into the budget more as far as looking
004at what got spent and why it didn't get spent um and i just haven't had the chance if you go to page three line 81 across it gives you our fund balances so even with that 790 deficit we would look to have 6.9 million still in our head fund and so that is in a very strong place colombia has been managed very well fiscally we plan to keep it that way but this is the the yearly budgets questions comments concerns on this so just for perspective the line 22 that's really only what five percent variation i mean that's it's 790 000 but we're talking about 15 million budget right that you're varying on so there's a lot of yeah you know intangibles in there that and that's why it could add up to be the
005field trips and a lot of other little things um a lot of other little things any other questions comments from the board okay hearing none open up to the public any public comments or questions regarding the budget perfect lively bunch tonight all right with that i would entertain a motion to adjourn from our public budget hearing i'll make promotion thank you lisa i have a motion do i have a second objective okay i'm sorry tyson in your second yeah thank you all right roll call please yes all right that concludes our budget meeting we will now go into our regular school board meeting i'm going to call this meeting to order the time is 704. and kimberly if you do a roll call please i'd like to again welcome our visitors from three minutes ago
006so thank you for sticking with us long process um at this time i'd like to uh we started something last month where we began our meetings with the pledge of allegiance and y'all like to join me 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 thank you all right item number three is our public comments and correspondence i think we have somebody like to speak this evening great if you would just thank you exactly what i was going to ask you didn't you thank you um thanks for letting me speak again have you named all of you um i just wanted to i actually emailed part of what i'm going to say to andrea
007corey and i had our forward to everyone at the report it was the madison sinclair record on september 16 2021 the headline read judge sides with parents and challenge to carlisle school district mass mandate it goes on to say clinton county judge don schaefer granted a temporary restraining order against carlisle school district number one in superintendent anybody over the district's student mass mandate this article is written by ann mayer this bullying is similar to the september 15th order adopted by montgomery county circumstances involving a group of parents who stood tia topless clothes picked number 50 over its mask mandate but shapers only goes further to include all of colossal school districts the schaefer wrote while the children are on school property the defendants are enjoying from requiring any or all of the children who attend
008within the school district to utilize any type of device including a mask for the purposes of allegedly preventing the spread of an infectious disease unless an order of quarantine has issues against any or all of the children from the local county health department as required by the illinois state board of education the judge's order is effective for 30 days until 9am on october 15th it is not just one or two schools there are 60 schools that were placed on probation because they're fighting back against the mass mandate we need to join the fight not sit on the sidelines and be spectators it's not just red bud it's not just carlisle it's 60. in the centralized sentinel todd marver also wrote an article titled carlisle parents win court battle over no mass he wrote judge john
009shaffer ruled that isbe has no legal authority to make any student in the school district where amassed under the law judge schafer said the district does not have the authority to require mass nor is it the district's right to the judge said nothing in the state regulation or law grants schools the authority to mask kids he further stated it is not right to quarantine without due process and mass can't be required without quarantine under the law he said people have the right to constitutional due process the attorney for the parents thomas devore brought a similar case in effingham earlier that day before judge doug darmon and judge jarman issued the same temporary restraining order against teotopoulos fluidists other organizations have questioned isbe's ability to take away school recognition status joining committee on administrative rules jaycar
010voted 10-0 that isve does not have rule-making authority to suspend recognition status the lawyer thomas divorce said the district is following the isbe and not fighting when are we going to stand up to the illinois state board of education thank you for your comments okay we'll move on to our consent i'm sorry anybody else want to speak all right thank you all right move on to our consent agenda mr grody's like to walk us through that yeah um not much personnel i mean you've got your minutes and you've got your financial positions and the reports and whatnot the uh we've got don williamson who's going to be retiring at the end of the 21 22 school year that's this year we've got two employees bus drivers jim reed and randy bears we're thrilled to be
011hiring new bus drivers um and then we've got the extracurricular assignment for uh assistant varsity baseball coach of a derrick rosicky and so the administration recommends the board approve the consent agenda as presented any questions any comments i thought i'd entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented i'll make the motion thank you andrew i'm here a second i'll second thank you tammy can we real call please yes andrea corey yes frank meyer yes yes perfect thank you very much on to item six is our communication reports and like the presentations is the enrollment where's that okay yeah you have the enrollments in your in your package it's just numbers okay any questions on enrollment so i have a question so i looked at them and noticed that i think it was kindergarten
012and like ninth grade were the one the two that grew this year um overall quite a few of them grew a handful or less but what's up do we have any projections for what the next few years look like um yeah i've been talking with the city about that they're assuming in the next 10 years to have like 800 new families and so we have started to have some discussions about that i've looked historically over the last ten and we've held pretty much status quo the last two years we've dropped just in total enrollment um because of i think covid we had some families that you know last year left us to go across the river where they didn't have to wear masks some of those decided that they like it over there and they
013haven't moved back yet um it's over really over the last 10 years you could say that from there to there we've dropped 200 people but really i see it more as a status because most of that dropping was in the last two so then um i've been talking with the city about what um lands have been plotted and what like and things of that nature because we're going to need to start looking at that strategically the city is going to be doing a strategic plan so we're going to try and uh get in with those discussions as well as we as we move forward because 800 new families would put us in a position where we would not be able to house them in our current facilities the good news is is financially um we're
014in a good place for that with our bonds and things of that nature and so strategically we're in a very good place but we've got to decide a lot of big decisions probably in the next year or two yeah that's what i was thinking probably the next year because the bonds are up in three uh yeah in two years we've got most of them coming off so i can i've got a a timeline i'll email the board with some of those details okay i think we've been starting our meetings regarding the exact same subject and kind of trying to get out in front of it and capital investments taking time exactly right exactly but your observations were right on target so any other comments or questions all right go on to our administrative reports our
015building report we'll start off with all right so we have eagle view tonight um i'm gonna have miss greece uh early childhood teacher at ew kind of take the spotlight of everything i would usually say so um she's just gonna kind of give you a glimpse into eagle perfect thank you mr becker my name is mr decker stated i teach early childhood special education and i just wanted to tell you some positives about eagle view and some of the things that we have done thus far our first thing that we always do at the beginning of the year is a boot camp for um the kids at our school and what that is is stations set up throughout our school where the kids go to each station as a class they travel to different stations
016and they learn um how they interact with others they learn the rules behaviors and some of the things that like they go sit outside on the playground and they talk about the rules about you know keeping your hands to yourself and how to play nicely with a friend and this and that um i know one of the stations is set up near my room and it's the bus station where you know you think that'd be pretty simple but they're teaching the kids how to get on a bus appropriately you know how to sit nicely and not be so loud and you can't eat on the bus but one of the things i honestly every year i just love is that i hear the teachers every time say now hey when you get on the bus
017what should you say to the bus driver you know good morning now everybody forgets about the bus driver i mean good morning greet them you know unfortunately sometimes that's lost in our world when you walk down the street people don't say hello or greet you they have their heads down so our teachers are doing it right starting that out at the beginning of the year doing things like that and i just think it's a great skill for all these kids to have and like i said you're teaching them the rules so it's easier for them at that age um one of the other things as well as i teach kids with um some of my children in my classroom are non-verbal so i wanted to give a shout out to our special education department um
018and kristen miesner our speech therapist who applied for a grant to get a communication board for our outdoor playground that is an awesome tool for our non-verbal kids to go up to it and point and communicate with peers and to be included um so when she did that rant she got some money from our pta our parent teacher association and also our special education department paid towards that um that i mean that is just huge in our in our rooms and our in our building and i also wanted to give a shout out to songs for soldiers as well because they also donated some money to another non-verbal student in our program her dad was a veteran and their insurance only covered so much of a talking device and they are very expensive and so
019kristin reached out to um i guess dustin from songs for soldiers and this was on a friday and by monday they have this talking device and these talking devices for an individual student are very expensive so again that's just a shout out to songs for soldiers as well thanking them um kindergarten recently did a treasure hunt outside for pirates day the kids were on the playground with clipboards and their little maps and they had to walk around finding axes by reading the map and then on the x's were words that they had to read so sight words so they incorporated a lot of different techniques there first grade currently is doing an apple chain which is the life cycle of an apple and they got that information and materials from the monroe county agricultural center
020pre-k and ec which is one of mine or we're also doing fall themes we're doing apples camping and leaves and we do a bunch of fun activities and hands-on at our age level as well one of the activities tomorrow in my classroom is that we are making apple pies individual apple pies to culminate our unit on apples and the kids can't get to eat it and then we also put tents up in our reading area for the camping units so kids get to go in there and do some reading and have some fun so it's often a great year everybody is excited we're just excited to be back for kids and have kids in the rooms so that's it thank you and i was just going to share a little bit about um obviously last
021year we dealt with a lot of quarantines exclusions is what you call it when we have to exclude from school uh really excited that being able to move our desks three feet and at lunch seating charts we have had two at equal view exclusions and um the only other ones that we have are from daycares or if kids are quarantined because it's in their house however we have been able to give a lot of options to our families this year i know where i think we're we were ahead of the game and kind of did it before a lot of other schools did working with the health department parents have three options if their kids get excluded so there's a 10-day option so you just complete your 10-day quarantine there's a seven-day option so you
022do your seven days and on day six or seven you can do a pcr which is a lab test as soon as you get the results then you can come back as long as you're not symptomatic and testing negative and then the other one that we've started which does is is a little bit of work but for the building and the parents is called test to stay and that was um something that came out of isbe and idph and um kids can test on day one three five and seven and as long as they remain non-symptomatic and negative on those four days they can they don't miss a single day of school our parents have been amazing with this because they have to go find these tests currently right now by themselves so they're working
023hard to make sure their kids stay in school and keeping us up to date with their test results and where they're at and our teachers are providing exclusion work if they are waiting on test results live teaching google meets packets google classroom assignments whatever kind of the parent is requesting is kind of where our teachers are going some parents request less some parents request more i have teachers teaching live all day i have some parents that say can i just have a packet because grandma's you know have has them for the day so um pretty cool that i think we can work with our families and get kids in the building because we know that's what works best so just thought i would share that if anyone has any questions i feel like i'm starting
024to be the kovita queen on exclusions good all right thank you very much and we're going to move on to our assistant superintendent report mrs smith so two exciting things i think that i kind of wanted to share with you is we had met as an admin team before school started and revamped a little bit of the way we do our plc's so two of the four weeks out of the month teachers are working one week they're working on our tier one data so looking at those different assessments you know i heard a lot of information about you know we do this testing and then what we're losing instruction time to do this testing so trying to make sure that we use that information to make it valuable so we're working on how to look
025at that how we can incorporate it into the classrooms but also how other subjects science social studies the elective courses at the high school how they can help take ownership of sat scores at the high school and the map scores and even the aim scores at the other buildings so kind of working on those things the other rotation that we're doing is we're calling it power standards and this is going to be kind of a longer process throughout the year but what the teachers are currently doing is looking at the illinois state standards or the next generation science standards that they're required to teach and identifying what are the ones that colombia is going to make a non-negotiable for every student to master by the end of that year it doesn't mean we're not going
026to teach all of the standards but these are ones that because they are so essential we're going to make sure that students master those as they move on then once we have those identified those will become our foundations for helping to build our curriculum maps um and so i'm excited that as we kind of go through this process to be able to share with you and so you can kind of see where the different grade levels and subjects are in those power standards that we've identified so we've only had one meeting on it so far because they come to it each month but i'm excited to see how that goes i've had a lot of great feedback been able to get into a lot of those plc's and hear a lot of great conversation that's
027happening with the teachers and i just as a curriculum person coming in can't be more excited at how engaged the teachers have been with doing this process so i'm excited as this project keeps going like i said i'll keep you updated um the other thing is when i came in i had seen a lot of questions about there's not a lot of pd opportunities and so one of the things that we are doing is a monthly pd series so for september it was on differentiated instruction um and so for the first three weeks the teachers are provided with a short video or an article that they can watch or read and then it has some things for them to either go in their classroom and try or reflect on some lessons they answer a reflection
028sheet and then the last week they will we will come together in person and kind of go through what they've been learning what they've been realizing and then help give them some more practical strategies to go back into their classroom and use and so this like i said is our first month and i am excited that we so far we have 24 teachers and it's pretty evenly spread across the district but we have 24 teachers that have completed all three weeks and then i have an additional 18 that have done a few of the weeks so i'm excited to see how many people show up next week for our in-person culmination one but so i said each month will be a different topic that we're going to focus on all right any questions so thank
029you and our big dog the superintendent's recording all right i just want to start off by saying it's so great to hear actual um discussions about learning curriculum education it's a a welcome return to what we're focusing on um i'm going to talk not so much about that and about how we're just trying to keep our doors open and that's really what it comes down to right now is we've got a lot of various and interesting things happening in the state of illinois regarding covid um shield testing for employees has begun tuesday night i sat with the roe and we collected saliva samples i'm a trained saliva collector for shield you'd be amazed at the hour-long videos i watched and the questions i needed to answer to basically give somebody a tube they collect the
030saliva and i have to look at it to make sure it's the right color and it's the right height there's no bubbles and when we send it off fascinating anyway um right now that's being done for the employees we did it on tuesday i think we've got six people uh kelton davis from the roe brought me the supplies today so um tomorrow i'm gonna start off at eagle view and i'm going to chase down the i think six employees find them have them spit in their tubes and we will be compliant then for this first week and every week those employees are going to have to test if they're not vaccinated we are going to have an executive session today closed session at the end of this meeting to discuss the testing requirements to discuss
031some of the state's mandates and really to for me to get a better understanding of where we are with litigation or possible litigation and employee personnel issues so um there'll be no action after the executive session i just need to make sure that as we're moving forward and i'm trying to keep us open we're doing so in a correct way that the board will support um because there's a lot of as you as we brought up in uh the comments today thomas devoer has made some tros and has done some interesting things most recently the the masks have been included as a type of exclusion or quarantine measure and that brings it with the exclusions um i have to say i would be thrilled if we no longer had to worry about quarantining students it's
032been very exciting to see how it's progressed so far in the district is mrs becker says we haven't had many this year um between the high school and middle schools being you know the vaccinated people do not get quarantined or get excluded and then the other one's trying to keep them away and all this other stuff there's been a lot of creative solutions that we've done um 15 minutes of eating lunch and then you have to change your seeds to talk to your friends is you know creative solutions but it is keeping the kids in school and that's really where we're at and so that that line of following the rules and making sure we're that's what we're going to be discussing today um in closed session other than that it's been a good year
033in in as much as last year at this time we were talking about coming back to remote and hybrid you know um we're in we're in session we're in session all day we actually have teachers involved in pd we've got the the normal trainings that are going on at the schools it's it's just it's it's exciting and i want to just make sure that this glass in front of us is seen half full because it's it we're getting there that's it i have a question yes sir in a previous meeting we approved the test to stay program within the school yeah um where are we at with that because i believe the health department was supposed to have a play in that but that way we didn't have the burden on the parents right now
034um we have i've got maybe 50 tests in my office okay and i've got to do the employees next week i'm hoping to send out an email to the parents um basically what happened is the roe set up almost a clinic where the people that don't want to be vaccinated and needed to be tested have to sign up and give permission for their medical records to go through this process otherwise they have to go off and get their own tests through their own medical systems and so we're doing the employees do that so what's going to happen is we will send out an email to all parents and any parent that would want to possibly test to stay for their kid to stay needs to fill out this form um it's a google drive then
035they get uploaded into this point and click system which is the uh the medical thing so i i sit there and i say what's your birthday and i find your your name based on your birth date and then i give you your tube you fill up the tube i scan the tube it goes with your name and we go there um the parents are going to need their students to be in that system for tests to stay i'm assuming a lot of parents will sign up for that i'm hoping a lot of parents will sign up for that just on the safe side um on the other side so let's say that your child you know you didn't sign up for it and your child's now quarantined and you want them tests to stay i'll
036have to take a moment and you'll have to sign them up then and i'll get them entered into the system and we can do that it's just going to take more time but next week we're looking to send out the email what i need to do first though is make sure that the roe can get me enough supplies right now i don't have enough i don't think to do a full one three five and seven for the kids that are testing to stay and the employees and so um i need more supplies and so that's going to just be a process of the supply chain getting in there so logistically i'm not opening it up to the students until we've got that for sure but i'm thinking next week or the week after so it's
037on that it's on the horizon it's yeah by the end of this month if i'm not telling you that we're testing kids in the school's next board meeting i'm wrong we need to correct that fair enough yeah so how are some schools not able to get these tests are we just doing a bang-up job and getting one of the things that was really neat it's um an individual school that's asking isn't leveraging the enough stuff if he comes there and what kelton did was was wonderful because we'd still be waiting for the test a lot of schools aren't getting them but he came in and said i said roe i want to pilot this program and he talked with the people at the state and he got us the tests and so now what he's
038got to do is get enough for every school to be given their allotted amounts but uh but yeah i've got a scanner for the barcode that hooks up to the my computer and can't speak highly enough of what the roe has done for that any other questions all right perfect thank you very much on to our items for action uh first item is the approval of the 2021 to 2022 school budgets yeah we talked about it it is projecting a deficit spending but um as i said it's a variable year and this is the worst case scenario the administration would recommend that you approve the budget as presented any discussion questions concerns may be brave enough to make a motion to approve the budget as presented thank you that was easy all right second i'll
039second tammy roll call please kim andrew and corey yes greg meyer yes yes tyson sir yes adam hampton tammy yes perfect improves unanimously item b is the approval of the administration and teachers salary and benefit reports what you have in front of you is a document that basically outlines the salaries and benefits for teachers and administrators it is what we've agreed to contractually for everyone and so um we will post it as soon as it's approved the administration recommends the board approves the report is presented questions comments concerns my only comment would be so you know some of the teachers that have moved on and left i mean their salaries are still included in here i have to assume that those are no longer part of the budget right that is correct so there's this
040is one year in the rears i believe okay yeah for sure so yep that's it good question another comments questions so there's a few that are not either one or a partial so like a point nine or a point nine eight fte what constitutes being point something or point o something off of it so we've got some some teachers that teach a few classes like at the middle school we've got some teachers that teach three sections of classes and then they're in aid for the rest of the day and so they would be if the middle school's got i think let me do four sections i think they've got eight periods so if they teach four sections they would be a 0.5 fte and so based on the number of sections that they teach is
041the um their full-time equivalent sorry during the year as well or if they have any returning leads or up for any time frame sometimes it affects that okay so that that would that's probably the most likely scenario if it's you know if you've got a specific hundredths of a percent yeah i was just like how do you have how are you point you know point nine something of an fpe for for trs reportings if you hire typically if you hire someone brand new after thanksgiving they don't get a year of service credit for the for the things because they're not a full-time well yeah none of these are that that scenario i've i've known these names to be around for quite a while so i was just wondering how that happens that you're less than
042a tenth of a yeah fte away from being full-time tomorrow if you give me the specific name on the phone i'll explain oh that's okay i just wanted to conceptually understand and if there are if there are absences that would constitute the reduction that's most likely so questions anything else with that i'd entertain a motion to approve the administrator and teachers salary and benefits reports thank you lisa give her a second one second thank you tammy cameron your roll call please yes promotion pass unanimously letter c is the appointer iasb delegate yeah so at the november conference that's when the iasb has their yearly voting on policies resolutions things of that nature we do it every year historically the secretary has served as the board's delegate so next month we will actually be discussing what's
043um what's being voted on what resolutions and what action items are being voted on and so the recommendation is that we stay with the secretary as our delegate and so uh miss hines would be the one that would go to that meeting it's about an hour i think it's on friday or saturday i'd have to get to the schedule but you'd then vote for the board and your role would then be to you know if if the board consensus is that yes we do want to do this then you need to vote yes regardless of your own individual yeah would anybody like to volunteer tammy and make a motion [Laughter] all right we have a motion to volunteer tammy for our isb delegate do i have a second i'll second thank you tyson roll call
044please this is jimbacker yes yes yes rick mike yes i guess i should ask you if you accepted the nomination but i wasn't usually it's the guy that doesn't show up to the meeting oh that was a good idea yeah just saying well how do you say it it's coming teddy didn't even call in either he emailed me so he did tell me he was able to make it all right perfect well thank you for volunteering tammy my pleasure d is approval of the state maintenance grants yeah and this came out a few weeks ago the the state did a maintenance grant and basically it's uh fifty thousand dollars the state will pay you if you do a project that you're spending fifty thousand dollars on and so um talking with curt and looking at
045what we have as far as things that need to be done we came up with this list of electrical work at the high school brick partnership was brought in from our architects and they looked at the our situations they walked around with curt the first item additional kitchen panel so right now the kitchen at the high school the the electrical panel's full it needs an additional panel we're always blowing fuses and things of that nature the energies already the electric's already into the transformer in the building it just needs a another panel added to do that would be an estimate of twenty nine thousand dollars um so we would recommend that we do that one item two is to also put an additional panel to serve the ag lab and the wood shops okay again
046we've got no more room for any more electrical work adding these panels would allow us to bring in other tools and whatnot into those areas the estimated one for that is 41 000. it's farther away from where the main transformer is and so it's really the running of the wire that's so expensive i would recommend we do that one as well those two together bring us over the 50 000 mark and so we would be spending that and um the the state would start to match the dollars at that point anything above that um so add branch circuit class space in the classrooms there's two options on this one the first option was to replace the panels on the first and second floors and so basically what you'd be doing is you'd be moving from
047a 42-pole panel to an 84-pole panel so you'd have a lot more places to put the circuits the downside of the 41 000 um option is that your our capacity remains the same and so if we've got so many units of electricity there we add all these extra units we're still pulling it from the same pipe and so we've got more places to plug in we're we need a better understanding of where we are with capacity the other option is to run new wires along with the new panels for the first and second floor with the running of wires you get an extremely large jump in price as you can see that option is two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars um that one shocked me that one caused a a meeting that i had yesterday
048with the architects i'm like why is it that different that that large of a jump um and and they basically said it's because you're running wires it's running wires all the way down to the east wing and to the west wing okay so it'd be both sides of those teachers wings top and bottom um my recommendation is that we approve option one with the understanding that um later on we can addre address the capacity issues if need be but this would at least allow us to to add more panels and get us over that fifty thousand dollar mark the panels would then be there if we have to run wires later on as we do this in a piecemeal fashion item fours is replacing all the existing luminaries this would be asked about this one
049it's 410 000 to replace all the light basically that's illuminary replace that with something that doesn't have a ballast and is led compliant um looking at about 410 000 at this point in time i don't think that that is worthwhile for us to do at the high school uh and the same with the ele the the bringing power to the west wing the west wing doesn't have an elevator uh brian and i would love to see an elevator on that west wing i was thinking that we would be able to get into health life safety dollars been told by our architects no because we do have an elevator on the other wing we can move a classroom and so my dream of getting an elevator on that side is kind of but still there we
050need a way we need it we just not right now so right now the recommendation would be to go with item one for twenty nine thousand item two for forty one thousand and item one of our item three option one for forty one thousand um and we would pay for basically half of it and the other half would be paid for by the state there are these actual bids or these estimations no these are estimations from the architect so what we would have to do is if this gets approved tonight i will fill out the form it needs to be submitted in by the end of this month into the state to the grant things whenever they do these um maintenance grants they always give it to you last minute and then give you a
051quick turnaround so you've got to be kind of on your toes for them so what we would do is we would write it and then once we get it then we'd have to do the bid specs go out to bid get the prices in um we might not hit the 50 000 cost total you know these might be too high but if we spend if it ends up being eighty thousand dollars we'll spend 40 in the state will spend 40. because it's it's matching if you understand if we can get it to a hundred thousand dollars then we spend 50 and we get 100 000 worth of work if it's 110 we pay 60 they pay 50. does that make sense i see the wheels turning what are you thinking i just run about the
052capacity so do we know what capacity on that one we're just increasing the distribution on the panel obviously more circuits but are we at capacity are we near capacitor do we have any idea we do not have any idea you talk about item three option one that is item three option one yeah yeah the i'm wondering the same thing what's if it's just adding more receptacle points but we're not actually adding any true capacity um but we might not need it either though so that's right that's that was that was going to be my following question what's the actual need i understand there's opportunity to do so but what's the driving the need is we could we could use more outlets we could use more plugs we can use more um with with more and
053more people using technology we're running out of out of space to run more things onto those circuits well but if they're going to be put over the same existing locations you still can't put more you can't put more outlets on the circuit with with the same wire it would be they're going to double the circuits basically double the circuits but but the capacity coming to the box would still be the same and that's where the the the i don't know how to answer that question as far as whether or not we're going to be lower on capacity but if we have the bigger boxes and everything works out great and if not then we're going to need to go out to bid and look at for someone to to do the um the wiring because
054all it would be then is adding the additional wires because we've already got the boxes doing the boxes and the wires now we're we're spending more money than i think we need to when we you know if if the state was saying we're matching it up to a higher amount than 50 000 i i get it but it's not a the cost differential is not there for me because we can do the wires later if that makes sense that's true sure i mean if you'd rather do the 217 000 we could bid that one out too because again those numbers are high architects always it's kind of like a projected budget well that's with the 50 it's costing double what it really should so by the time we get it we're paying what we should
055what we could do is we write the grant for the 217 and then we see what the bids are and we ask for an alternate bid on that it would give us time to do the capacity check as well but you're already over you're already over of a hundred so you're 41 41 or 29 so yeah so so i'm sitting i want to i guess unpack a little bit of what the item five um just trying to look forward a little bit and do a little planning i mean we've already talked about the fact that in a couple of years we our schools are projected to grow in size and you know to me this is an this is an access for those without disability for those with disabilities making it easier instead of someone
056who has a mobility issue having to go down another wing if we want to plan for a future capability if but planning for a future capability when we do do a the most the most economical way to add an elevator to that building would be to do um they make a pre-built elevators and and you can put them in place and it would be at the end of the halls when you drive in and you see the columbia sign on that on that wall right there see that door on that picture you could have a um a staircase and an elevator in a glass box on the outside of that hall on the outside of that building and that would be your access then for that thing so that top window which is rather rough
057and and could use some insulation that would be your second floor entrance way into the high school so that would be the the best way to do that and if we do that um electricity to the elevator wouldn't necessarily need to come from inside the building there might be a pole across the street that we can just tap into as well to make it to get the electricity there for much less than the thirty three thousand so i get what you're saying about planning for the future but um we've already kind of talked about that and said when well when we do add that we might be able to find a better place to add it but also this is a maintenance grant so i'm not sure that's really an improvement not really maintenance so
058i'm not sure that would qualify for the grant i think you might have a little more chance of rejection if we with that option rather so what's the fire alarm statement in there about them oh that would be that in a in a when you do an uh an elevator you need to make sure you've got the fire alarm and uh and it's got to be a talking one and all that other stuff for the for the new codes of more discussion or questions for my own clarity where did we land we we still without item one an item two we're fine with i get that item three are we going to go with option two and then have an alternate bid or do you think option one and then do the wires later if
059we need more capacity so i'll tell you where i'm at on that is these are to me this is an opportunity this wasn't driven by the previously stated need that was brought to the board so spending extra for the sake of spending versus taking an opportunity to do some real cost savings or cost sharing i would not be in favor of option two okay and that's kind of where i landed as well i just wanted to make sure i understood what our discussion was so we're looking at item one item two and option one of item three which would get us real close to the hundred thousand dollar mark which means where's one loan what's that 111 111 the bids will probably come in lower than that though sorry we'd be getting a half off
060sale on it it's on sale the recommendation my recommendation would be to approve those three options as we discussed and i would like to see something actually stating what the the need is with the the deep driving the the recommendation because it's you know we've talked a little bit about it but you know something for the file would be nice i believe these are items that kurt steve came up with that yeah the the kitchen is the big one is as is the um the the ag labs and the wood shop needs um those are the ones that were really feeling it and then the classroom space was just classrooms always need more space but they've not it's not been an issue as it is in the in the in the industrial arts center for
061obvious reasons but everyone else would anybody like to take mr grody's recommendation and make a motion to approve i item ones two and three with option one so i'll make that motion i don't think you get them take a second i'll make the second damn thank you roll call please kim sir yes we always like free money so that's great all right uh letter e is the approval of the 2021 to 2022 dual credit partnership agreement between southern illinois college and columbia c usd 4. as we currently have those classes with students earning the college credit it's my recommendation that we approve it this is just an ongoing thing that we've done yeah after year yeah it allows the dual credits for the swing any questions discussion how many classes or how many of those
062courses do we currently have as a in our partner in our agreement approximately i'm thinking five there's physics german or is german through the other first through slu so political science is that through slick yeah i can get you a list yeah not enough any other discussion or questions that entertain the motion to approve the 2021-2022 dual credit partnership agreement between southern illinois college in columbia cs cusd 4. i'll make the motion all right she beat you out seriously that works all right second a second there you go all right roll call please all right yes all right letter f is the approval of fiscal year 22 authorized representative for the ccsi board of control brian reeves as principal of the high school is um has been the representative my recommendation is that we continue
063with brian reeves as principal the high school to be the representative um and since if he can't make it i would be the alternative i can tell you that he's not missed a meeting so i'm comfortable being the alternate i'll take that in the safe bet yes but we do send kids to ccsi it's a good program so i would so because i come from the government where a world of acronyms i would ask that we don't use acronyms that may not be known to the public so ccsi is career center of southern illinois yes i don't i don't know that if those in the audience are listening would be able to make that connection instinctively so yeah my apologies and if you would have asked me what does ccsi stand for i probably would
064have come up with career center of southern illinois and you're on that page i'm not on that page but yeah career center of southern aka illinois aka back center that's what i would call it the days back back yeah okay i don't know if you would know this but do you know if there's been an increase in the number of kids starting to go out there um i don't think that there's been an increase okay i think we're pretty much pretty level there i know that there's been i've had some discussions with uh various community members they do some neat programs out there they do it's just it's a it's a matter of scheduling and time but yeah and there questions or comments all right with that i'd entertain a motion to mr reeves is
065not here so if somebody would like to volunteer him for to be our authorized representative for fiscal year 22 for the career center of southern illinois board of control thank you lisa for a second oh second major thank you roll call please yes yes before we go out i will say that i got a text message um saying that 13 swift classes i will get you the list of what specifically those 13 entail but uh okay 13. that's that's good yep much better than five yeah yeah i love all them under promise and over deliver you know perfect with that control that concludes our items for action item seven on our agenda is discussion items for individual board member comments or concerns anybody have anything tonight i wanted to ask something last school year we
066did a meet and greet before one of the school board meetings of all the new faculty that we hired um is that by chance something that we could do again certainly just so you can get a face with the name and we can get that on our calendar as a yearly event that's great i don't remember doing that but yeah it was you weren't here ah hence my lack of memory no wonder he didn't do it but we had we had a lot that year so we met down in the library okay by the media center first and then came up here but i don't feel like we had that many as we did the last school year this year yeah how many new hires did we have this year it was um we had
067six certified staff okay so still a number anyone else so what are what are the upcoming school events i know one of the previous board meets we talked about wanting to do what we could to support even having homecoming whether it's outside or whatever we can do to support that um but i'm not on like the high school emails or the grade school i'm on the middle school because of my childhood just what are what are the next upcoming schools homecoming is the big one at the high school homecoming will be um downtown main street the the city has passed that um that's the weekend of the 16th 16th october 16th yes pta is doing a movie night that wasn't set yet though but it's in october 22nd oh did they say october 27th so
068yeah they're trying to do an outside movie night and then they're also doing their christmas craft against the homecoming parade is october 13th okay yeah the parade's earlier in the week so that's on the 13th are they still doing the bonfire and those activities as they have in the past or is it just the parade i don't know this is going to be my first real year of experiencing the um the the things of homecoming last year they did some dress-up club clothes and things of that nature right spirit labs if you haven't seen the reveal video yet it's on social media they did a fantastic job it's a very good video of the homecoming yeah yeah that was neat look get it sent to you it's really cool we'll send you a link to
069the video anyone else thank you last time is the board's friends prerogative um i just like to commend the district i'm i'm very pleased with how things are going um i think we're really on the cutting edge of we're kind of leading um on all these fronts i mean we're taking proactive action in advance we're minimizing our quarantine we're being very good on the three-foot separation you've done a great job in your scheduling and allowing these kids to continue school which is by far the most important thing they we need these kids in the classroom um really proud to you guys at eagleview the items that your guys are doing very uh i mean it just shows that why people move to this area and what we're delivering so it i appreciate you guys coming
070in and sharing all that with us because a lot of people just don't know how good they really have it here so anyway um and again i want to echo mr grody's response or remarks about the roe and i know a lot of schools are unable to get these tests and they're they're in a standstill because they're mandated to do it but they can't get the tests or they're kind of rocked putting in a hard place and and uh we're ahead of that game so everybody's working together and uh i'm i'm just very proud of our entire district so yeah all right and now the last item is executive session so we need to have a motion to journey into executive session i believe for the i'm sorry and for um for the purposes and
071i think we have to read this so we're going to go into executive session for the purposes of appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employees of the public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee of the public body or against the legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity i'll make the motion tammy in a second a second thank you lisa roll call please report yes all right we are going to go into the executive session which unfortunately got to have you guys depart us so we appreciate you coming in i'm sorry we can't all right we are back in regular session we don't have any further items for action and that doesn't entertain that motion to adjourn
072i'll make that one second i'll second in honor scott all so moved yes yes corey yes meyer yes schumacher yes search yes that concludes our meeting that's 845. thank you all for joining [Music] you