001e testing testing 1 2 3 testing 1 2 3 e e e into order sure you want to make the mission statement mission statement okay we are here today for Creek mon Board of Education regular meeting for Tuesday May of 21st 2024 at 6:30 p.m. meeting has been called to order and roll call please Madam Secretary sure Mr alre here Mr gyos here M rup is here Mr swales here miss s stumbris here Dr Hall president Brown here okay let us stand for the Pledge of Allegiance L by board member Alex gagos and our mission statement read by our secretary Mrs Cheryl rup 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 and
002our mission is to empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new future thank you both for member Mr guyos and Mrs R okay got a public comment here written and I have one that is emailed so the first one here that I have in person is end of the year close out oh by our own cmea board president Mary Brad oh good evening administrators ladies and gentlemen of the board and all of our honored guests I wanted to take this time on behalf of myself as an individual to say thank you and on behalf of the cmea association to thank you for all of your hard work dedication and commitment and for working with us collaboratively over the years um we have not always seen I Tai nor should we always
003C Tai but we've all worked together to do what is best for the children and families of this district and to make this the best district there is we have great staff great administrators and loving caring people who put our children first above them Beyond themselves all the time it's been an honor and a pleasure these past 20 years to work in this district and as my last official Duty I'd like to introduce our new cmea president Christine quinland and yes she has my number on speed dial she had this thank you all have a good night thank you wow anybody would like to comment on Mar's I would like to say something something okay sorry I'm late just but Mary um you um have done great things you have fought for your I hope
004they know how much you fight for them I hope they know how much you care for them students staff and I and I believe that you're going to be greatly missed not that the next person won't do good but you are going to be missed um I'm proud of the work you've done I know you I mean I'm sure you are but I think that at the end of the day big shoes to feel and I thank you for all the battles and even battles when I wasn't on the board and I apologize for anything I've ever done to hurt you or wrong you or in inappropriately but you've always been somebody who fought for your people and I really admire that well said Thank You D all right you were you were president when
005I came on the board in 2017 um you were always involved even when you weren't president and then you Faithfully came back again when they needed you you're here so many hours I I don't know how you do it after teaching all day and then doing all this so I admire everything you do appreciate it and I know everybody else appreciates it too so get some well-deserved rest you're here yeah thank you anybody else go somewhere fun not Chicago I'll say a few things under the superintendent update well thank you thank you board member okay I do have an email public comment and I'm going to ask one of my board members Jamie if you would like to read this I am very challenged with these small world uh words see I already said that
006okay or or Jer I'm kind of I'm like I get I get set up usually I ask for bigger font but that is really small this email is from John I hope I'm saying this right Puda PUD good afternoon I see the school board is pushing to build new schools and would like to tear down the existing schools I also see that there is a strategic plan Planning Group that has been meeting for future strategic planning per the 201u site members will meet more than one time next month to finalize analyzing critical factors such as student performance and growth educator quality Community engagement and facilities and operations questions that I would like answered does the strategic planning include discussions as who exactly will pay for any changes if implemented and what the cost would be
007does the school board try to inform the community about any legislation that is in process so that new money might be provided to the district to reduce the school taxing amount from the previous property tax bill as seen below $7,300 of our current tax bill goes toward 201u I have lived here for over 30 years and have not seen anything about legislative support other than school board question on voting ballots has the school board reached out to any of the state senators Representatives or Governor asking for specific legislation could you please provide so that I could ask our Representatives help along the same lines I see that house bill 4866 was supposed to supply more funding to some schools would this help our district were we as a community asked to contact our representatives for
008that support back in 2019 the voters rejected the referendum for a $65 million Bond did I miss something how was that new High School South wi addition paid for was bond fund was renegotiated and the line extended the cr21 portion of our property taxes have greatly increased over the years excluding the supposedly home value increasing the 2011 school taxing body in 2017 was $5,300 the 2011 school taxing body in 2023 was $ 6861 the school taxing body in 2024 was $ 77323 note that this is not our Total Property Tax Bill only the cre 2011 portion of the property tax bill back in LGC government Information Services stated that cre Illinois in Will County paid three times the national average for property taxes I understand that the state of Illinois needs to pay more towards
009education and the community should be pushing for this so our property taxes can be reduced as a school district should as a school district should be the leaders for getting the community involved in order to force our legislators to help if legislation is being introduced we could help support how about this for an ongoing student project how about weekly articles in the videt paper since it's a local paper we as taxpayers did not supply you in open checkbook in order to spend as you see fit to add facilities that we pay for with our tax and no direct engagement the 2011 U portion of the bill is excessive and completely out of line thanks John Puda thank you so much Jamie appreciate it if there's any replies to be made the superintendent would do it
010as necessary okay thank you any other public ritten comments or emails anything okay thank you thanks again again Jamie at you save my eyes all righty next up board updates any board updates okay I'm trying to solidify some dates again for a couple different things I'm talking to our iasb rep on some things not only for some training for us in July at one of our our only meeting going to have some double duties on that particular date in July so look for some updates for me coming soon hide off the press on a couple couple couple three or four things okay hopefully next day or so all right if there's no other board went to I did I did attend the distinguished Scholars uh banquet um with Lamont and um he asked me to
011speak MH and I was not prepared and uh he gave me like 10 minutes to uh prepare something but the way I when I'm at uh an event I pay attention to what's going on and so and when things were going on I should have been preparing my little speech but I didn't and so I kind of uh crashed and burned up on uh stage he said you did well I'm really glad that nobody else was there to see me we was there you just to see us yeah so uh I'm really glad that uh I got to be a part of that um it was uh a great honor uh those kids are super talented and um and they're all headed towards uh straightfor success so I was really uh proud to be there
012thank you very commendable and I can again say one thing about this board there's a lot of events going on throughout this district and and I try to make as many events as possible but when I can't make it I can rest assure that one of us as board members will try to fill the Gap so I really appreciate all you guys do really do thank you all right administrative updates superintendent I have three this evening um the first one was just to um give awareness in the community of mon in particular we are going to be having um some safety drills over at our old MEC building um we are going to be having all of our responders in all of our communities come together to practice at that building between 8:00 am and
013400 PM so the community can expect to see a lot of um First Responders out there they're going to take care of traffic controls and those things such as that um The Village has also alerted members within the community as well to alert them so they weren't uh concerned about that but we're really excited about this this is actually the focus is going to be on telecommunication the real purpose of this is to really make sure that our responders have good communication between the various agencies for example fired to police and so forth um as they prepare for this um so again it will be between 8 and 4: um if there's any member of our staff that would like to come and take a look uh we are invited to come between 1200 and
01412:30 um to take a look to see how that plays out um and then our next step in moving forward to this would be starting to do some tabletop exercises next year so we're really excited to be able to use the building one last time for uh a cause that will be helpful for um the district what day is it that is tomorrow tomorrow okay yeah um the next item I'm going to have uh Mr surma give a little bit of an update on Tiff uh I know that that's been a conversation that uh we are um anxiously awaiting for Mr serman can you give an update please I can um if you recall and this is concerns University Parks Tiff five that is dissolving at the end of this year if you recall back
015on March 26th University Park tabled a motion to dissolve that resolution uh there was a reason for that we're in agreement that that should have been done that way uh in the meantime our legal council myself and the legal council of University Park have had discussions on creating the resolution and that so that resolution has been created um we shared it with our bond councel to make sure that they are in agreement with it they added a couple things in there uh and so we're all in agreement on the resolution question is is when is that going to be passed um last week um I received a couple emails from John ISO our legal councel who's handling this uh stating that they didn't know if they could get it done on the 28th which is
016their meeting of May but for sure they'll get it done in June but then we got notification that they may be able to get it done on the 28th today I sent an email to their legal counsel John Murphy um who has said to me that he was meeting today with University Park um to see if they can get it on the agenda agenda I haven't heard yet he said he would follow up with me I haven't heard yet today if it's going to get on the agenda for the 28th or not but he has promised it will get done in June um so that is the update on it I don't know if anyone has any questions about it but just kind of give you what the update is on that's just part of
017the process because the next one is filing with the county right it is so once they approve the resolution then it'll be filed and and their their legal counsel will take care of that we've already had those conversations to so you're telling us before your last date you're going to have that resol that's what I heard you know you tried to push it you tried to push it out I didn't hear ju lie so that means you taking careas not let him get away with yeah I have been told that I won't be able to leave unless I get this taking care July 1 July two we're working hard on this and and we're working with up on this John ISO is handling in and working hard on it so that's our goal is to
018get it done um you know I would love to get it done by the 28th of May you know and that and that's again what I'm pushing for but again they have promised that they will get get it done you know in June and I'll make sure that okay these tickets that I have in my back pocket to fly overseas you and your wife they're going to remain in my back pocket till we see that okay know than say okay and I have one very last uh good news um I wanted to talk about Mary brg a little bit more so um some information I found out is uh Mary Bragg started her career different than education back then she worked in the office as a Firestone Tire and then to target as a comparison
019shopper her dream of becoming a teacher eventually found her back at school where she enrolled at Governor State University to earn her bachelor's degree in education in ' 04 and later her master's degree in Administration in 09 Mary has spent her career teaching science at the middle school starting in 8th grade and now finally in seventh on top of teaching Mary also wore a variety of other hats she helped run the district's mentoring program been a grievance chair and an AR for cm mea later on she became the cmea president twice Mary's become an active member of cmea region 26 where she became a vice chair and eventually the region 26 chairperson she represents 12 Local Union um our area at both the state and the national levels for iea Nea and gives our Union
020a voice at State and National legislation working to improve conditions and education across the country after serving in our district for 20 years Mary has finally decided to take on her next great adventure retirement when asked what she intends to do with her spare time she smiles and says she's trying to visit every National Park in America there Mary can feed her passion for the open classroom the national park tonight we want to recognize Miss Mary brag for her dedication and the services for the creep Monon School District we will miss seeing you at every board meeting yeah on behalf of the Board of Education the school district we want to thank you for serving as an educator and a board president thank you so much Mary so oh Mary you're not done you got
021sure I'll take the big one well the big one you yeah cuz you oh okay is the biggest plan we can [Laughter] find oh wow hey Sheryl Cheryl can you stay up can we get a picture with every other four members don't run all the colors go together up there they do she finally [Music] got that's why I wor oh wow look at that that's not right [Music] very nice yeah got it your fing slow catch of the joke the best part all right we also with the farewell of in this role for Mary we also want to make sure we welcome Christine quinin to the team to the team as the president so give her a hand as well that was [Laughter] good and we do have cookies back there for the audience so
022grab your cookies anyway thank you all I'll a few yes Mr Brown yeah actually our superintendent did something like Mr hollyfield said you know their speech and like two minutes before I supposed to speak so I have nothing BR Mary you temp yeah I like to use the word extemporaneous you know kind of to spare the moment but a lot of my colleagues had already spoken some words that I would have spoken on your behalf and probably you've been here for 20 years and I've known you for more than half of your career here and it's always the the same that say that says something like the good alwayss the bad we have buted heads on a few things but I can tell you if there's anybody I want on my side to fight for
023me it will be you you fight for your team you fight what's best for the district for the kids and I think I spoke to you a couple years ago maybe five six seven years ago and hug you and ask for your forgiveness and we've been hugging ever since okay so Mary I wish you well with all your future endeavors your new chapter in your life that you are about to write I think you leaving your duties as a president of the teachers union in good hands with Christine we spoke uh what a couple about a week ago we sat at the table both you and and Christine and it was very cor I feel good that the union relationship and the administrative relationship is is going to be great and it's because on how
024you conducted yourself over the many years so invite me to the forest to see the open classroom with you okay and so I'm ready enjoy if there's anything I can do for you ask Dr Hall thank you thank you guys oh on me all righty next up on the agenda is the consent agenda and first I would like to ask if there's any anything someone want to pull out of the agenda and vote on it separately please state it now if not I would like a motion to approve the consent agenda as is so moved second second I hear a second second second by Alex any discussion hearing none roll call please Madam sec SEC AR sure Mr gagos I miss s sters i Mr sish hi M rup is and I Mr alook I
025Dr Hall I president Brown I motion Carri next up under action report is business I will like a motion to approve the resolution debating the working cash fund of Creek mon community Unit School District number 201 U Will County Illinois in the amount of million dollars so moved second Nelson second by Alex any questions comments hearing none roll call please Madam Secretary Mr Alber I Mr gyos I M rups and I Mr swales hi Miss sight stumbris I Dr Hall I president Brown I motion carry okay I would like a motion to approve the resolution appointing Jason I always get his name chopped upsk Jason O over oversky I think I said it did I say that right no no okay all right we got to get a right say what we're okra like okra
026like the okra okra good enough Jason all right H so Jason and as the school treasury of cre mon School District 2011 you moved second moved by Cheryl second by Alex uh any comments statements anything looking forward to it yeah keep the money tight hear no other further comments or concerns roll call please Madam Secretary right Miss site sters I Mr swales i m rson i Mr gyos I Mr alre I Dr Hall I president Brown I motion Carri like a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the donation s of other disposition or surplus of surplus property limit to student desk student teers teachers desk teachers cheers and half moon tables at Creed Elementary Boro Elementary ketta Scott Magnet School mon Elementary and tala Elementary so moved moved by Alex second second by Nelson roll
027call please or any questions first concerns if not roll call please Mr gyos I Mr Al i m rson i Mr swales I miss site stumbras I Dr Hall I president Brown I motion carry like a motion to approve the established to establish a date for the 2024 amended budget public hearing on July 11th 202 June June June June 11 correction 2024 so moved move by Alex second second by Nelson any questions or comments hearing none roll call please Mr alre I Mr gigos I miss rup and I Mr swales I miss site stus I Dr Hall I president Brown I motion carry like a motion to approve the contract for burn and Jones Construction to renovate the creek won Middle School Upper Deck in the main gymnasium in the amount of $68,000 mov second
028bill was second by Alex M any questions or comments hearing none roll call please Madam Secretary Mr swales hi Miss site stum I Mr alre I Mr ggos i m rson i Dr Hall I president Brown I motion carry and the last action item under business is I would like a motion to approve the contract from be construction to demolish and renovate the creek mon middle school locker rooms in the amount of8 $84,700 moved second second by Alex you moved okay move by Bill and second by Alex will this and will this and the prior item be completed by this summer before school starts yes yes okay sorry I jumped in there for comments and questions before you offered up no that's all right you you read my mind okay any other questions or comments
029I guess I do have a question this is what we talked about for um as far as last week right I'm just trying to yes the lockers okay with the presentation right with okay okay no other further comments roll call please Madam Secretary in your rating all right Mr Al hi Mr gyos I M rups and I Mr swales hi Mite stus I Dr Hall I president Brown I motion carry now on the Personnel in culture that's Bravo 8 Bravo I would like a motion to approve the insurance committee's recommendation for 2025 2024 to 2025 employee health insurance rates so moved second second by Alex any comments questions or concerns all St holders are on board yes okay yes okay good to know so we had two PR this questions asked by board member Nelson
030and we had two clothes in answers that's good maybe I should phrase my questions I know they just don't phrase open no open all right you guys really try to get home and cut your grass huh all right do we have any old business to share we need to take we need to vote we have to take the vote we have to take the vote on insurance you see I'm trying to get home cut1 thank you sure so on 8v1 uh Mr Alber hi Miss s stumber hi Mr swales hi M rups and I Mr gigos hi Dr Hall I president Brown hi motion Carri sorry about that thank you guys having my back there all right now are is there any o business hearing done is there any new business uh there was something
031in I think one of the F FYI from uh ukara something about uh a conference in DC or something like that for our students yeah what can you tell me more about that like I I can tell you a little bit and then miss per can help out for the rest so um so we have educator Rising students those are students that are becoming going to uh become teachers and so forth we are we have a program at at the high school that you know supports that they go to all the events the exhibitions and so forth so um our school district was uh asked to be on um um on the panel um for the uh trip at at the DC and this is the first time ever so I asked Lamont I said
032what was the uh what was the criteria for that he says our our district has done everything uh is um going to all the exhibits doing everything they needed to do so we were asked to them presented that so we were uh really excited about that um Miss Perkins is there anything I missed that you can give more details to so our students this is the first time the state of Illinois has sent delegates asks for our students to be part across students across the nation that are going to school to be teachers and so as part of the pipeline they bring the group of students together to have conversations with their uh peers Across the Nation so they'll sit in panels five of our students um of the seven seven of them are going
033to compete and five of them will be part of this National panel to give their voice and agency about um going to school for Education this is the very first time that the state has sent any delegates to this that sounds awesome that's were there other schools from the state that represented or was it just they they did not tell us who we beat out okay but um we're we're representing the state of Illinois that is awesome wow and we also have 17 of those um young students working for us for summer school that is the most that we've been able to employ so 17 of them will be joining us for summer school and have a mentor um to help them through the summer um program that's awesome do they get paid like more
034than the board MERS they they they get paid yes even after the state of Illinois took away our funding for that we we found a way wow that's that's that is that is a very good feat yeah good question Alex thank you superintendent for sharing that and assistant superintendent for clarification okay any other old business that was that was new bus was new business that was new business any other new business okay we do have a reason to go into close session and that is the for the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees going have a motion to do so for the reason stated oh number 11 I missed one okay also litigation litigation when an action against affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has has been filed
035and is pending before a court or administrative Tri tribul or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent in which case the basics for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed session meeting that's five Illinois compile statute 1202 Charlie with a C1 now can I have a motion to go into close session for those reasons stated so moved second move by Alex second by Dr Hall roll call please M secretary sure Mr gigos I Mr Alber i m rubson i Mr swales I miss s stbr i Dr Hull I president Brown I we are in close session for uh for about 29 minutes and then and no further action shall be taken after that so thank you public for joining us have a good evening
036and if you have time to cut your grass please do so before the rain come in