001awesome i'd like to call this meeting to order could you do a roll call vote for me please kim karen anderson here tammy hi here john wall here greg myers here lisa schumacher here great we have a quorum on to item two public comments um do we have anything any anything from those folks here nothing at this point uh item number three correspondence did we have board correspondence did you see anything that wasn't anything i don't think no board correspondence awesome on to the consent agenda items four and five do you want to address that yes mr gruden really quickly we had some resignations we had kaylee hentas um and then three additional ones that got added to the agenda that included rebecca fields who's a cook brooks demesian for the head basketball boys basketball
002coach in stipend and jason mathema head boys soccer coach for the stipend for the employments we've got jeremy bleckley who's the recommendation for the assistant principal at the high school that'd be a two-year contract he comes from chester he's been there since 2007 started there as a teacher got moved up to a dean of students moved to assistant principal and the athletic director so really he's moving from an assistant principal here it was a nice process they did two rounds of interviews there was some tough decisions but uh that's who the committee decided on and so that's our recommendation um excited to have him on board kimberly luntz who is lintz i'm sorry is the reading going to be the reading specialist for parkview that's taking over the resignation for the reading specialist that left
003she is a fifth grade special education teacher so you'll see in the vacancies we've got a special education teacher posted that's replacing her we've got the eagle view custodian who's uh retiring still posted and then we've got the three resignations the cook and the two stipend head coaches positions being posted we'll do the paraprofessional as needed over the summer when we get a better look at the numbers and whatnot we also have our summer workers and we're asking for the same number that we normally get um student custodians painters groundskeepers and whatnot i don't think that there were any questions or anything on this and so the recommendation is to approve it as presented and is there any questions on the consent agenda from the board like a copy of the resume to us sure
004yeah not today but right yeah i can get that to you any other questions on the consent agenda seeing none and entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented some move a motion by karen anderson second bye second by greg o'connor roll call vote for me please kim karen anderson yes tammy hi yes yes yes great motion carries on to item six communications reports and presentations administrative reports enrollment is in your packet next item on the agenda miss hughes hi thanks for having me first of all we are excited that grades have improved tremendously given the return to school full day and compared to the end of first semester we have reduced the number of failing grades by 50 we meaning students teachers and the hours i think that they're in the school
005building have contributed to success so we feel really good about the trend and we're still working hard to help remaining students who who need who need some assistance as the semester ends i'm excited that cms is has filled out paperwork to get two new courses next year the first is called cultures which it's funny that prof is here tonight because she used to teach that and also a new technology class that would be taught by mr schlichting that's for more discussion later we uh we at cms are planning extensively for spring testing we have map at the end of april iar in the middle of may and we're also including the isa the science test and our plans we want to thank pta who's offered chs parkview and cms's upcoming kona ice truck has been
006a really big hit for students and i want to thank genie rice and our cms student council who's also playing the donut day after iar testing is over kevin shibey the ema public safety director visited cms and other buildings recently to review safety protocol for we at cms we looked at fire and tornado and i really appreciated his time and input regarding our procedures we're also looking forward to some student recognition in may miss lang gang's going to lead the movement of multiple soaring eagle awards to end the year and we're also looking forward to the eighth grade end of year awards that are celebrations scheduled for may 27th and then all schools eagleview parkview cms and chs is doing it a little differently but we've all started communicating with families regarding the possibility of
007attending our summer learning program which is scheduled to begin on june 7th to end on june 24th and we've agreed on a monday through thursday approach from 9am to noon so we started we've called parents we're also sending a letter and then i want to thank april becker our transportation director who's already working a little bit on busing so we're hopeful that we'll have some students in the building to help build some skills that they've been lacking possibly due to remote learning in order to pandemic so we're excited about our summer plans great thank you you're welcome dr castellis gave now i'll just expand a little bit on the curriculum that she was she mentioned so you have seen two proposals cultures is uh bringing back cultures was there before i started um some of
008you may have had kids who've gone through that it's always been in sixth grade um it went away because we couldn't staff it and it wasn't something that we needed to hire additional staff to do but it resurfaced because we do have somebody that can fill that role in addition we have always struggled in the sixth grade with the class sizes in various hours because they don't take electives in the same manner as seventh and eighth graders do and so you will find that some periods throughout the day the class sizes in sixth grade are not ideal and in particular um the music class the choir class the class size can be 70 plus and we're looking to maybe minimize that so we're hopeful that adding that back into the schedule with somebody who's eager
009to take that on will be a will be a benefit in many different areas we won't need to hire additional staff it shouldn't cost anything in terms of you know materials per se however what will be different is that we are actually going to work on an actual curriculum document instead of just an outline that frequently i'm sure prophate could sometimes tell you that we're kind of left to flounder a little bit so put a little bit more structure in that and we have ms huels and the teacher amanda hellman willing to work on doing that to get that ready so that's one that we're asking for your approval on and the second one is the digital technology class and basically what that is is it won't require additional staffing either it is not it
010is using the same population and just putting them in a different class so what we have found over the years it's been a problem we've discussed and i'm very pleased that they came up with a solution because we were trying to figure it out for years so if you have a student who has an iep or they are an rti they have to give up one of their elective slots in order to generally take study hall support and so when they do that often times they are out of the wheel of electives and they miss technology and so then what happens is when they come to seventh grade maybe they're interested and that's the one they pick but they've missed fifth and sixth foundations and it's really difficult for them to catch up and so
011the teacher is trying to differentiate to make that happen but when the rest of the kids can type and they know how to do word documents to jump into coding and other things becomes quite the challenge and then what they found looking at the data is that many of those students this year not many a a good percentage elected to withdraw from the class because they felt overwhelmed and joined into a study hall kind of environment and hopefully what this would allow is them to get those skills still that are critical for their success and then if they want to jump in later they can do so so those are two recommendations that we have i think that would benefit the students there at cms so um angie touched on the summer school so we're
012excited about having that roll out and i think that's about it great thank you dr castelli on to item four as a superintendent's report mr grody um we did have a foia request that was the smart procure you know what they do that quarterly and so it was just that time again um but as far as my report goes this year is coming to an end thinking back to the beginning of the year it feels like it's you know almost like a dog here it's been seven years packed into this wine um most of our action items tonight are actually for next year getting ready for next year and really looking ahead at next year um we're going to be using the assert funds we've already wrote the granted the esser funds the extra emergency
013funds for the covet is what's paying for the summer school to catch kids up and everything like that and so um that's some good news but as we uh finish this year i want to remind everybody you know we've got prom where we've got a court and we've got other end of the year celebrations occurring to the best of our ability and i say to the best of our ability because um i really appreciate those that are stepping up and providing opportunities for our students outside of the school day because we can only do what we can do we have to follow the rules and the regs um we're held to those rules as a public body and like it or not we have to follow them the quarantine is the the big one um
014there's nothing that an administrator you get a pit in your stomach when you find out you've got a a positive kid and you've got to go to the seating charts and find that and make all of these phone calls because it's it's just it's so frustrating to have a healthy kid stay home but it's what we are forced to do um you're quarantined for 14 days you are quarantined for 14 days you can return to school per the idph after 10 days if you've had no symptoms you're still supposed to be quarantined for those 14 days which means after school events you can't return to until 14 days later and trust me we've had conversations with john wagner and it's just it's frustrating especially like for band you've got a child that can return to
015school after 10 days you can sit in a band room and he could take his mask off and play his instrument but he's not going to be able to attend the uh the concert two days later which is more separate in a larger space it's just why and and the answer is because those are the rules and we have to follow them um and we advocate for the kids but it's it's also we have rules that we have to follow and it's frustrating after spring break we had an uptick we had some kids that were positive and it caused us a lot of quarantines we're going to have prom or there's being problems being held we aren't having it but proms are being held other events are being held we've got the end of the
016year festivities going on and i just want to encourage all parents to be extremely diligent if there's any thoughts that someone in your household is sick please keep your child home because if your child comes to school and they are sick and there is a positive test there is a lot of families that get affected by that and so um just be diligent with those um self-certifications and make sure we're doing what's what's what's best for all the kids involved um we're gonna get through this year i know that remote learning will only be offered for those that have medical needs next year the state has pretty much laid that down regarding quarantine i'd like to tell you that it'll be over however i can't tell you that it'll be over um yeah all the
017administration really hopes so too just like the parents do um that's going to be the hard one to to get past and you know i have spoken with our legislatures about it and whatnot it's just it's um i don't know how to fix it so if anybody knows a solution i'd be willing to help them work on it over the summer because i do not want to have to quarantine kids it's just it's frustrating so um but that's the report this year is almost over and next year is about to start all right thank you i have a question do we have summer school for other classes or grades besides middle school oh yeah okay all grades it's more credit recovery at the high school level okay and then we've always done the extended school
018year for the uh special ed students which we will continue to have but this is really for the um the other students that there might have been a gap and they're going to be using the assessments to pinpoint exactly who those are beautiful i have a question also um what's our status on teachers being vaccinated do we know a percentage of teachers that are vaccinated have they all been offered they've all been offered okay and i believe at this point um i don't think there's lines like there used to be i don't know but i don't i don't i don't know who's been vaccinated who's not been vaccinated there's no scarlet v that i make them wear or anything it's just two months ago i had to send that very teacher home and said i'm
019sorry your your daughter's sick you have to go home and i got to this week say hooray you that teacher's vaccinated i don't have to send that teacher home anymore so that's my next question so thank you right it might seem like a very small deal but it was such a win that i didn't have to ask that teacher to leave campus thanks any other questions for mr grote seeing none let's move on to item seven items for action the first one is the approval of the consolidated district plan yeah and you had a copy of that uh document basically whenever you do your grants there's all these physical federal requirements and everything and they've taken all the requirements from all the different grants and put it into this one consolidated district plan um we
020killed several trees printing that out for you but the recommendation is to approve it as you can see it's it's very similar to what it was last year um questions concerns comments the recommendations any questions on the consolidated district plan from the board seeing none i'd entertain a motion to accept the consolidated district plan as presented so move a motion by karen anderson a second bye second by john long can you do a roll call vote for me please kim yes yes greg meyer yes yes yes great motion carries it's on to the item b approval summer tuck pointing project yeah and this project includes tuck pointing of the middle school eagle view park view it's going to power wash the middle school and put a sealant on there so the black substance that grows
021on that beautiful white brick does not grow back we are also going to be power washing it with the recommendation the eagle view masonry there's we had i believe four bidders the facility committee mr myers and mr o'connor reviewed the big specs reviewed the bids talked about it with the architects and uh the recommendation is that we give it to the lowest bidder which was the james g stat tuck pointing company they are the company that did the high school last summer and they did a great job we worked well with them we liked them um they were the lowest bidder and we're recommending that we do all the alternates questions concerns comments but i thank you for providing the tabulation to all of us that was great so thank you for the committee that
022did all of that yeah it looks like we had five betters which is it was it's um you know when we've gone out to bid for a lot of things it's been difficult to get bid so it's good to see that many we went early um i can't remember it was mr myers or mr o'connor that kind of said you know you go early and uh they haven't lined up their summer work yet you get more bids and i agreed with that and so we benefit from it what's amazing is the difference between the bids yeah exactly it's mind-boggling so any other questions about uh the tuck pointing project saying that i'd entertain a motion that we accept james g stat pointing with all alternates as being the lowest and best bid i like that
023motion motion by greg meyer second bye second by lisa schumacher roll cover for me please kim jong mon yes greg meyer yes stop middle camp yes greg o'connor lisa schumacher yes karen anderson yes tammy hines yes on to item c approval of non-re-employment of non-tenured teachers this is one of those um no administrator likes to say but we had four teachers molly bartels vicky bradley charlotte romano and taylor zimmer who were our remote instructors they were our remote teachers they did a fabulous job they're good teachers uh we don't have a position for them next year because we're not doing the remote instruction uh i will say publicly that that if we have a position they would definitely be strong contenders for a job i think that they were great educators but this is just
024an honorable dismissal because those positions are no longer so they were hired to fill those roles and they did admirably at it so any questions from the board on this item seeing none i'd entertain a motion to approve the honorable dismissals as presented i'll make the motion motion by tammy hines second bye second by lisa schumacher roll call vote for me please kim greg meyer yes scott middle camp yes greg o'connor hi lisa schumacher yes karen anderson yes tammy hines yes sean long great motion carries on to item d approval of non-tenured teaching staff for 2021 2022 this is one of those yearly things you've got a list of the first year teachers the second year teachers of the third year the second year third year fourth year fifth year teachers the the tenured teachers
025will be chelsea chelsea adair jessica m amanda bedard michelle it's michelle irkey um we congratulate them and welcome them with tenure to our district um and then there's just the update for who's still in that pipeline as they move toward that we asked the board to prove that any questions on our non-tenured teachers seeing none i'd entertain a motion to approve the non-tender teaching staff for 2021 and 2022 as presented so move motion by karen anderson second bye second by john long roll call vote for him police kim scott middleton yes greg o'connor aye lisa schumacher yes karen anderson yes tammy hines yes john long yes greg meyer yes on to item e for our annual ihsa membership fee this is another one of those yearly um duties and my experience for the last 13
026years as a superintendent i've always recommended that we approve us being a member of ihsa and that ihsa has waived the membership fees this year due to covid and the lack of post season play ihsa is hurt financially this is the first year in the last 13 that they are asking for us to be members and pay our association dues at sixteen hundred dollars i can tell you that um you know if you think about it for at least 14 years you're paying one year out of that it allows us to compete and have our kids compete in a lot of those extracurriculars and i mean a lot of you know it's not just the athletics the band competitions all of the other clubs are also ihsa sponsored event that your membership gets you so
027um the recommendation is to approve it with the understanding that there will be a fee this year that's don't want to say new but it's something that they've always been able to wave in the past and we look forward to postseason games resuming any questions from the board on the ihsa annual membership seeing none had entertained a motion to accept the recommendation for the annual membership fee of sixteen hundred twenty-five dollars for the ihsa absolute motion by greg o'connor second bye second by karen anderson roll call vote for me please kim greg o'connor hi lisa schumacher yes karen anderson yes timmy hines yes john long yes greg meyer yes scott little pants yes motion carries on to item f uh the new course that we just talked about a few minutes ago cultures yeah we've
028talked about it extensively it's for the sixth grade the recommendation is that we approve it as presented questions concerns on it any questions from the board seeing i actually have one so when we get into culture i think it's a great idea but now we're also in the realm these days of politics which keeps encroaching into the school are we keeping politics out of this it's not about in the past it's been more along the lines so it's if you think about it kind of like a preliminary to our foreign language if you look at 6.60 which is the policy regarding curriculum it does contain various things related to cultures if you want to see what the state and what you guys approved in january of last year we're going to sit down and obviously
029write that but in the past it had it was not about that it's it's literally about the cultures of the world and how language is it you know used and it's yeah i think the overall purpose of the course will be to keep the interest for spanish and germany yes that's really the overall it's just you know yeah appreciate it it's not it's not designed to be related to what yeah that's what i want to hear it was probably maybe 10 years ago i would say i think it's important to learn as i know we've had it yeah i think it's important to teach different cultures in different communities but it is one of those items that could easily drop into a political thing we met with german teachers and spanish teachers we're excited about
030what that might do to promote the numbers especially in german but also spanish thank you any other questions about cultures seeing none i'd entertain a motion to approve the addition of the cultures course at cms as presented motioned by lisa schumacher second bye i'll second second by tammy hines roll call vote from the police kim please subscribe yes john mall yes greg meyer yes scott milken yes greg o'connor hi on to the next item on the agenda item g approval of a new course at columbia middle school digital technology again this was one of those courses that we were talking about we just talked about and the recommendation is to approve it as presented any questions about digital technology from the board it too will not have any politics seeing no questions i'd entertain a
031motion to uh approve the edition of the digital technology course at cms so motion by john long second by a second second by greg meyer roll 12 vote for me please karen anderson yes tammy hi yes john long greg meyer jeff scott middle camp yes greg o'connor hi and on lisa the next item we are we need to find some time to schedule a special meeting so uh both counties needed some time to certify the election uh they needed to tabulate the um yeah absentee ballots mail-in votes and uh so we need to schedule a meeting at some point after on or after the 20th after the 20th yes preferably the week of the 26th so tuesday night the 27th is the pta membership meeting member meeting so um preferably not on the 27th so
032how's the evening of the 28th look for everybody or the 29th i'm getting a hand signal uh the 29th i'll be heading forward the evening of the 28th wednesday the 28th is that good for everybody here good good um do we want to do this at customary seven o'clock or do we want to do six great it'll be short it'll be short so second bit seven doesn't matter seven good okay let's do it at seven so seven o'clock on uh wednesday april 28th will be that um that meeting and we have anything else i know we're working on a time for we're going to have the illinois association of school boards to come in and do um roles and responsibility training for the board members that will be in closed session will be kind of
033a strategic planning type of thing i also was on the phone today with barney mundorf and calvin davis through the roe is setting up a um uh a new member training for um it's going to be at redbud so it's going to be an in-person training that would qualify for some of your needs so i'm going to get that information from kel and i'll forward it on to everybody um but everybody's starting to get new boards is barney going to be one of the presenters he's presenting yeah that'd be good ias iasb has several new board sessions as well that might just be overlapping information but always good to engage in those and there's a whole this one course is being taught several times the meeting that they do it's very exciting it's very good
034it was very very good and it's a smaller group so a little bit more personable and kind of hands-on than the big ones so do we have anything for executive sessions no sure no so that was a placeholder show there's nothing for executive session today uh nothing for board president's variety on to item 11 adjournment um and entertain a motion to adjourn some who motioned by karen anderson second bye second by greg o'connor we do need to roll call vote since we're still meeting this way yes john mall yes greg meyer yep scott middle camp yes thank you everybody thanks for joining you