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Crete Monee School District 201u COTW Meeting 9/12/2023

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2023-09-13
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Will County, IL
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5,564 words · about 31 min
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2026-06-06

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001go good evening everyone like to call this meeting to order this is the committee as a whole meeting for September the 12th 2023 it is 18:30 or 6:30 p.m. can we call can we have a roll call please sure U Mr alre here Mr G here Mr swales here miss Z stumbris here R is here Dr Hall here president Brown here thank you Madam Secretary can we stand for pledge of allegiance led by Mr guy hagos and followed by our mission statement read by Dr Hall I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God individual with liberty and justice for all this is yours may no it's it's m don't give me more than what I need Eric okay no public

002comments the mission statement mission statement oh I said follow take my job from me Miss statement Empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new future thank you thank you Dr Hall public comments any hearing none go right into board any board updates anybody want to share with us what they've been doing Jamie and I attended the First Responders um meeting this morning 6:30 at high school um brings together representatives from all the buildings plus representatives from each of our uh police departments and fire department uh from CRE was there so um anyway it was a very good update just a couple couple things I'd highlight every room is every classroom is going to have a go bag evacu evacuation kit um this will include um you know supplies like first aid

003items that type of thing but also like a flip chart that they can it's colorcoded so you could from a distance see you could explain to somebody what the emergency is so you know and uh so I thought that was pretty cool um and good we're seeing that and then on the Evolve weapons detection system looks like we're still waiting on the Grant and to come through and hopefully have that installed next semester up at the high school so Jamie any I missed or no no okay thank you thank you so much both board members for attending that event uh I did see uh what was pretty much conducted at that event there was a lot going on a lot participants there and so early in the morning before the sun came out so you

004guys it's kudos to both of you for attending that and the GO bags the Evac kit I think that's a really really a good thing you know in light of what's going on you hear all the earthquakes and flooding and fires just just one thing after another so to be prepared in this Capac and it standardizes everything it all communication with First Responders uh will be improved and consistent so right I I see it was a joint effort I see that so that's really good really good good anybody else updates board updates yeah so um the last time that I was at a uh speed meeting they uh what was waiting for us was a like a little magnet and it was actually a calendar uh that had all the special days on it like

005uh early dismissal or or no school like Institute day and it was very compact uh it it looked really nice um and I was just wondering do we have uh something that we give our students like a calender uh to put on the fridge or anything like that I don't believe in okay uh well I I forgot it in my truck uh I can show you guys after the meeting but it looks really like Nifty I don't know how much it costs um so I don't know what uh what that would be like but it looks really like nice and professional it has their logo and everything um it was just something that uh came up and and I was like oh this looks really useful uh it's always useful to know what is going

006on at the school as far as early dismissal or uh you know uh and I and I think uh the calendar is very important to plan ahead uh for our students and and parents and stuff like that so uh let's take a look at it after our meeting tonight I'd like to see it yeah yeah okay we can pass it along to miss Perkins to investigate for next year excellent thank you excellent anyone else any board updates okay well I just want to say kudos to all of the board members for being visible in the community unities I've seen everyone out in the communities and one event after another so it says volumes and I heard at least from one person my wife who attended the University Park parade the after marching portion of it

007she said it was really really great over at the Town Center for kids she had my little granddaughter and also just a couple days ago and Moni that I had to I had to leave after the March as well but she attended the event after she said that was a hit I said wow you know coming from her says a lot so again thank you all of my colleagues for getting out and participating and I do I don't want to put you on the spot bill but I actually talked to you you know months ago about the possibility of engaging with the with the ad foundation with Dr Hunt so I talked to him about it he said he'll love to have you as a face of the board to participate if you could so

008I'm already doing the insurance committee you're an insurance committee yeah okay yeah I'm already on that committee all right so if anyone that feels as if they want to be a face for the ad committee let me know okay okay to represent the board in some capacity so and they I don't know if he was going to talk about the event they having yeah I don't I don't know if I want to be a face but I know Alex is running the 5K and I'm walking it and I'm been pushed so yes the fund runs this weekend yeah to support our our staff wow i' I've signed up as well so you have two of us so looking forward today I might take my dog so so I know you have a lot on your

009plate Alex but but consider just again it's uh I don't think it's it's so demanding where you have to be at a meeting every day or whatever but I think just for the Education Foundation yes as a face as a face for that I've been to uh I've been to a meeting once before so uh uh yeah I could I could go I forget what day it is but I could I could get the you and I talk offline on this okay appreciate it thank you so at this point we're going to turn it over to our superintendent for administrative updates great thank you um you might have noticed we've got some furry friends in our audience so I wanted to um to acknowledge them I'd like to introduce our healing pause program uh Mr

010Dave Hall I'm going to have you come up to the podium along with the new team we do have a new um four-legged member of our our team so I'm going to let you introduce the new team and give us some highlights of the program for this year absolutely thank you very much um first of all I'd like to thank the support Dr kagal and the board for this program and the impact that has had on our students um is really amazing so weome we're really we're really excited about the program and we're we're going to grow it right so that's the goal here um we know that this is about social emotional learning it's about learning learning about empathy and uh building relationships with students I mean they that's the plain and simple fact

011of why we have these dogs in the school um the program as you know has been around since uh 2018 was kind of like the beginning we want to grow it and make it bigger um and the goal is to have a dog in every school and we want to make sure that we're doing it right right we don't want just uh bring your dog to work kind of thing we want to make sure the program's right we're doing all the things necessary to make sure that it's that it's done right and and then we stay current with our uh we're very the dogs are very they're very high train they're very highly trained and and they're they're vetted uh so that we have titles and certifications and so we're we're really excited about growing

012the program um and so so some of the dogs um Snickers is our new one from the Middle School that so that's uh Snickers and miss gardo miss gardo is a social worker uh that works at the Middle School uh Snickers along with um biscuit here come from Bard County Florida where the sheriff uh Sheriff Wayne Ivy I kind of discussed that in our First Responders our Sheriff uh Sheriff Wayne Ivy um has a whole program where he re um he rescues the dogs um I believe Snickers and I don't mean Miss I'll speak for Miss gardo I guess but Snickers was found on the streets he was just wandering around um they bring the dogs into the pound they vet the dogs to see if they have because really therapy dog is making sure

013that we have the right temperament with the dogs so they vet the dogs and make sure they have the right temperament and then the the other benefit of it is they actually have inmates that are in jail train the dogs so it gives something for the inmates to kind of rehabilitate a lot of them end up being dog rumors or vet Texs from the program um and they work with the University of Florida as well Central Florida like for vet veterinary care and those kinds of things so it's really where we get these dogs is I'm proud of that too CU that's kind of like a win-win win and then they give the dogs to um um police departments and I believe we're the first school district uh they're starting to grow the the program

014down there with other school districts but we're one of the first ones even their own County uh I I was talking to people from their own County who were asking me about our program so that's that's Snickers and Miss gardo are the social worker is I believe there's been a big impact at our Middle School H you know that's Miss papis with and they're kind of veterans in this uh um Miss papis is the uh assistant principal at tala and uh Bella has been part of our program too from the beginning so uh we're excited about the program there uh biscuit and I are kind of been around for a little bit uh we've been around the students since um I I got biscuit back in December of uh 2020 during covid um and then

015when when students and staff came back from covid and in February of 2021 uh biscuit was there greeting them and me and biscuit so we're really excited the program I want you know guys understand though this program is not just for our school Community obviously there's a lot of benefits for it I do want to offer and I've done in the First Responders meeting we want this to make this a community effort as well um so I doc uh we're doing some things to kind of expand the program one of the things I offer uh uh stickers uh Mardo and I and biscuit we through our through certification in Bard County we actually have another law enforcement certification for we can work with students um in law enforcement situation so when they bring a student

016in to question them about you know unfortunately like abuse or anything like that these dogs could work in that capacity where we would go in um I know like cre uh Creek police department has a dog as well from Bard County uh but we also want to offer those dogs out for that or anything in the in the community as far as like you know I I pray there's never a traumatic event that happens uh but these dogs would be available uh to go out into the community and do the things so we want to make sure we operate as a team and we were're able to deploy what needed you know within our schools I know last year we were deployed we had some things at the high school uh we had the teacher

017passed away and then we had a student that was that was uh um shot and killed and so we we we were able to deploy the dogs and had the impact with that so these are um this year too uh so we want to obviously when I go the program I have a committee that I've developed um and we're currently we're working with a vet on Western Avenue VCA uh and not that we're we're not asking for any kind of veterinary services or anything that we're just looking for a committee of people that can make sure these dogs have the right you know not not being a vet myself to make sure that these dogs have the right kind of um um shots that they're medically taken care of and so that that's with this

018committee that's where the committee looks at those things they're willing to keep all our dog records to make sure that all the shots are up to date all our certifications and all that are up to date so again we want to make sure this is done right um we also with our First Responders I talked to I was at their first responder meeting with the fire departments and what we really want to do is again kind of push another push out uh we're trying to do October is fire prevention month and so the idea is we're going to get the picture with the dogs on fire trucks and then have a uh I have to talk to the principales about what grade they feel like is best um and we'll do a coloring contest with

019the dogs and again not not the fire department are you know the idea is for safety is that we don't want students young students to be traumatized by the equipment that firemen would have coming into a situation so we kind of want to build that um and then we also were thinking about doing something um next uh semester with the police department as well along with that we do want to grow the program uh come my committee will meet uh coming in like February or March uh I have Bard county has offered me any kind of dogs that I want last time I was there they really push blood hounds that they have they have a their Sheriff down there loves uh he has a big old blood hound named juny um and they really

020want they really like their blood hounds down there so that last time I was therey they're like you want blood hounds and I'm like well I have to find the right Handler that would want the blood hounds but no so that that's that's the future so we want we want to grow the program we want to do it right we want to make sure there's there's some a dog at every school and I I don't know if you guys want to share any stories or anything but I think there's a lot of impact um we we are keeping deployments every time these dogs are brought out into the school um to make sure that we're keeping data and what on how that that is going so uh again I appreciate I I don't want to

021talk I could talk all night I'm one of those people uh but I do I do appreciate your support with this and and um if you for whatever reason if you would like us to deploy your a dog somewhere or if there's a situation that's going on please feel free to do that because again we just don't we want it for the schools obviously uh but we also want it for our communities as well thank you thank and I think Miss pepis has a big announcement right oh yeah going to be on Tracy ABC weather forecast tomor morning at 5:15 she's going to be nicew be anxious to see that your alarms hey you guys out to the school to it's possible to see these dogs in action every so she gets to see Snickers

022but it's been really cool I work we put email BL out before sixth grade open number and then being at curriculum night sorry being at curriculum night um just the amount of parents again coming in looking for Snickers me my kid has talked about him every day I can't wait to meet him so that was really awesome awesome to see that not just the kids are loving them but our parents are too so I appreciate the opportunity to have Snickers these two are friends yeah they're friends they've been playing we thought they would get tired out but I guess not um thank you for the opportunity as Dave said the program is amazing and if you guys want to know more about it or come talk to us we'd love to tell you it it

023was an awesome nday experience down there in Bard County and seeing the good things they're doing but I don't come in anytime see them in action my kids are crazy Snickers just celebrated his first birthday on Saturday he he's caught up he just celebrated his birthday on Saturday we did celebrate at the middle school on Friday and it was amazing and he probably got at least hundred written messages from kids but we had a banner the kids went crazy so it's awesome I Mary's shaking her head to see the kids and the staff he gave Miss brag some love the other day when she was the little stress so it's really cool so come out and see them in action it's it's been amazing so thank you for the opportunity I will say last year

024when we had the incident with the student Mr Hall was there and the dogs were there and it would make it made a difference to the kids and the staff after because we were there early in the morning trying to uh be you know console staff members or students it was pretty it was pretty great so we are you know we are keeping qualitative data like um quantity of times are going out but a lot of the stuff we can't talk like we can talk about but the impact that really that they have on students um it's just you like I said you got to see it I was a Nayer at first but when you see these dogs in action what they do with students it is really kind of heart-wrenching like the way

025they they work there's also a lot of research on the what the dogs do like physically with you but as along with your mental like state so um I do want to mention this too and then I'll be done like I said I can talk all night about this stuff but um I actually this is how cutting edged we are uh I have a lot of schools contact me on how you do this and what's your program like and how how do we get started on this um I since I've been back in August so you know I'm 11mth employee since I back I would say weekly I'm getting an email from another school asking the process of how we do that so my my other vision and that maybe that's kind of a little

026bit down the line I think it's Dr kagal is we like to be like start a Will County cortum kind of Consortium of these therapy dogs where we can meet we can train we can kind of but we would be the leading force in that so I I that's my fut futuristic if I could say in the future that's like we're cutting edge with this with as many schools as contact me about it it's really amazing so thank you sir thank you excellent excellent I don't know if any of board members want to further comment Dr Cogan allow them anybody else I just want to say thank you again uh good job excellent job I think we may me need to put a spot on our agenda for the dogs to have a turn to

027say something to next time okay so I just want to make sure so we got who's biscuit biscuit okay who's snicker snicker and Bella and Bella that's the one just turned one oh she turned okay well I'm sorry she must be the oldest all right but good job all of you good job thank you back to you Dr cogins um we just wanted to bring to your attention we had a board policy 6190 that we just needed to make a slight amend amendment to um it was brought to our attention that there needed to be some corrections for that um um for the extracurricular uh activities um instead of 20 hours a week it should be 25 hours of week of schoolwork um that needs to be listed there and students have to have a

028passing credit to continue working with that so we just wanted to bring that to your attention um we'll bring that to next month's or next week's meeting for your action if there's any questions on that okay and then we'll move on to personnel and culture Dr Eric will be up so try following that act there I know right I gotta all the dogs I figured I'd come up here too since I've got quite a few things up for discussion so um the first thing that we've got is a memorandum of understanding with both the cmea and the Acme uh employee unions on uh mandated training um over the years the state has increased the number of mandated training pieces that all employees are to go through um I can remember 10 years or so um

029we would have seven training modules maybe at two hours it was no big deal you just kind of knocked them out now we're upwards of 7 to 10 hours of training that employees need to do because of Faith's law because of Suicide Prevention because of DCFS mandated reporter trainings have changed so it's it's become quite a burden on our employees um additionally the time with within their day uh we don't have the time to provide them on professional development days because that time is critical for us to provide training um whether it's curriculum training technology training so the employeers are then forced to then do this training on their own so we've come up with um a bonus payment a cash payment of $115 for each employee to con complete these trainings by the contractual

030deadline of January 8th 2024 that's the you know a Goodwill measure to say thank you for doing this on your own this is a condition that you have to do um we don't have we realize we don't have the time to give you during the day so thank you for getting this done kind of on your own okay so these are online training classes that correct yeah online modules self-paced okay yeah okay y all right any other questions okay um all right did I lose my order okay the um the next thing is the guest teacher assistant rate changes so last month we brought forth a whole slew of changes to the guest teacher pay rate changes and our teacher assistants were left off um not intentionally um so we've got different rate changes we

031currently are at $91 a day for our teacher assistance that's $13 an hour so come January 2024 we will be out of compliance with minimum wage um so if we brought it up to $14 an hour we'd be at $98 so being the generous person that I am I'm proposing the extra $2 just to make it a nice even 100 for the daily rate and then long-term teacher assistance would be anyone that's taking over a leave of absence or a vacancy and those people will be working more often um a proposed rate of $150 a day um that is in line with our daily guest teacher rate so uh somebody that is a guest teacher can also work as a guest teacher assistant so if that long-term rate were lower than our daily guest teacher

032rate we would have a hard time filling some of those long-term teacher assistant rates so we wanted to bring that rate up to at least the guest teacher rate to help fill those positions as well okay any questions kind of sticking in the same air Arena with our Cadre teachers so our Cadre teachers are working every day they're in our schools they're picking up assignments as teachers uh put in absences if there's not an absence on a particular day they're helping out with other building needs what we've had happen is people that were slated to take these Cadre teacher roles have been resigning from those positions because they want to hold out for the long-term substitute teacher positions which the pay rate is higher so to kind of entice uh um some of our folks

033to take these Cadre teachers we would like to put together some benefits for them uh we're also looking at adding Cadre teachers for the OTL department and special special education department so that they can release teachers to provide additional professional development during the day so those cadr and those two departments would receive some specialized training on top of that um so for the cadres we wanted to keep our benefits somewhat similar to what we offer regular employees which is the uh board paid single HMO health coverage the board paid single dental coverage the $20,000 life so those are all regular pieces that we currently offer to all employees um then we would offer access to the employee assistance program that we've just rolled out access to vision insurance and then they do have access to

034purchase additional health and dental coverage they will work the number of hours required by the Affordable Care Act to provide access to the benefits um but if they want elect anything higher than the single HMO they have to pay the entire premium so if somebody's really looking for that insurance coverage they know that it's going to be at a higher cost than what we are offering um at the base package and then five sick days um that's reduced from uh a regular allotment of full-time employees um just because the cadr are supposed to be there to fill in for our regular employees so it's kind of hard to say okay we're going to give you the same amount of time off off for our regular employees when you're supposed to be here filling in for

035our regular employees um and then with our specialized codr for teaching and learning in special education uh we'd increase their their daily rates by $20 so they would be at $180 a day versus $160 a day because again they'll go through some specialized curricular training and special education training to fill in for those departments okay and what it says the cost incurred by offering these benefits is minimal but what's minimal do we the minimal would be um so we're going up another $20 a day for the specialized cge rate teacher and I'd have to get more hard numbers from Ken and the business office on what maybe you could get that in the FYI before next week absolutely okay we'll do all right and then lastly that I have for you this evening is the

036addition of a family engagement position so the district has received an influx of Migrant families we're seeing a influx um families of from Venezuela um currently we are our registration department has been wonderful in trying to assist the families in registering for school it's becoming somewhat uh of a burden on the registration because there's so much more than just registering for school that goes into servicing these families that have now moved into our community so we're looking at adding a family engagement position and we believe it's going to be we're going to propose a family engagement coordinator position um somebody that can kind of supervise and take the lead on really getting these families some assistance within the community so reaching out to Catholic Charities reaching out to different Villages and different uh resource organizations

037that provide assistance to our families um so that person would kind of be taking the lead making contact with them helping through of course the registration process but also connecting them with different places in the community to get them some housing some different supports as well is that going to be an administrative position with health insurance uh it's going to be um a coordinator position uh not on a certified level so it'll be a classified level so uh you don't require a light we don't require a license for the position so so it won't be administrative with like a administrative where they'll be underneath that bracket right you're not creating another administra okay yeah and when you say family engagement it sounds when I first saw that just looking at it on the surface here

038a family engagement I would think more like a community engagement that's kind of what I was looking at but you you are specifically looking for this position to engage with these families these migrant families that's coming in that's your target right there for the most part to help them yes and yes exactly English is a second language families are Spanish speaking families as well so uh families that may have been here too and reaching out for them as well there's there's some other pieces that will go with the family piece like mckenny vento our our homeless Lea on um duties would follow with this person because again there's more support there also our uh DCFS liaison for our foster families there will be some responsibilities there so whole wide arching family connection piece with this

039position so this is a new position not something you're adding on to somebody it is going to be new and tweaks to a potential existing position yeah but you're not eliminating any other position so it's a new position but you're adding a position right so you're adding a position or are you tweaking a position you're or are you adding responsibilities to a new position so I I think it's a combination of all of the above um we'll be so the way that registration is it's a two-person operation right now with some additional fill-in support um by putting this position into registration it would be tweaking additional responsibilities of somebody that's currently in the department but then also backfilling that person's registration responsibilities um because registration is a whole you know it's it's a whole animal

040so we don't want to by putting this additional work on somebody in registration then slow down our registration process for all of our other families so we would also increase support there I I would like if we could even any data on what percentage of the population is elll what you know just the numbers that we're talking about that this position might serve I understand it's broad but you're talking about the mckin vento and you're talking about Spanish speaking if we could just have some data in that regard sure to yep uh so I uh I asked for for that uh information a while back Cara you gave me the information it says um it was in the FYI yeah a while back uh so uh it says here we have 193 families in the

041district that speak Spanish at home uh this includes about 39 students that speak Spanish at home currently 240 of those students are elll students so uh I don't know yeah I'm not sure I'm I'm not sure percentage wise but uh those are the the raw numbers I think it would be helpful to see see the increase or kind of what the trend is that's generated this need is that similar to what it was two three years ago or you know what's changed the numbers are 5% so it's 5% of our population students are they going to only work with Spanish speaking families is that no not necessarily I think the way that we craft the job description is that that person is bilingual that fills this position so they can assist but it's not just

042limited to Spanish speaking families no it could certainly be uh families that are new to the area that move from out of state that have never been here and they're you know get displaced you know we've got hurricanes that are happening around the country we know that families get displaced and you know they have a family member that lives somewhere in the area but then they get housing here so no it would be a broad a broad brush we paint with the family engagement piece in the FY are you going to put like a dollar amount of what they're going to get the paid so we can figure out yeah it's LED here as I can't I can't log in myw yeah I was going to say down for some 50 50,000 but is that

043so we're adding additional responsibilities to someone right we're trying to restructure that little miniart okay the registration right and so this new this person who who falls in this uh this job uh gets an additional 50,000 or is is now raised up to 50,000 yeah it'll be a combination between restructuring the current job somebody's in and then providing that additional support in the Registration Department I think it's a cumulative to cost between giving somebody an additional increase and then bringing somebody into registration the cumulative would be 50,000 so Registration Department go from two people to three correct okay with an additional 50,000 yeah wait I'm sorry what did you say what you I didn't hear if registration would go from two to three employees with an additional 50,000 okay so the new person coming in

044make it 40 and the other person who has additional duties gets an extra 10,000 like that yeah okay yeah I I'm not that that's how it's going to go but I'm just trying no I'll will provide some numbers for you in the FYI this week so you can you can see that all right thank you any further questions thank you thank you Dr yep appreciate it all right is that it for you K doc yes all right thank thank you board members for chiming in on that topic very good need here I guess all right do we have any old business out there if not do we have any new business um I don't know if this is new business well it must be old business you can talk on it's business I know we

045the um um what is the national invest I I would like to see numbers on if there how much they are quote unquote saving the district and how much we actually PID them umal investigation yes are they paying are we say are they saving us more than we're paying them that's what I want well I know for last this was last year before we um there were 200 students that were in our district en so each student worth as far as enrollment and tuition would be between 14000 so are they saving us but the the hard thing on the number wouldn't be saving us because we get her student corre so we're losing how much they how much we pay them for their service right because when when we don't take a student we actually

046lose the money so yeah I think I I think I think I think I think the board kind of got lost in a shuffle I think when we first hired National investigation years ago I think we had like a $25,000 contract and then x amount of dollars for every hour they go out and investigate so I don't know where we are with that so that's a good thing good point you to bring up yeah just kind of see update where we National investigations how much we pay on the contract how many students we this year and and I think it's past it's it's more than the money too I agree I mean you got to think of this if if a hundred kids are here that aren't supposed to be in our district and they're

047in activities or on teams doing sports that's one of our taxpaying families that's losing an opportunity that are paying taxes in our district Park Forest University Park cre and Mony so if they're paying taxes that everybody a lot of people complain in our district that our taxes are high and then if we allow those students in here they're taking away from our taxpaying citizens and you know our families in this District that that's if those kids even play sports or activ or do anything else and take an opportunity away from another student that our family pays taxes on it's it's a two-way street it is about money but it's also about the opportunity that all the kids all the families in our district should have I regardless of who they are that's that's fine I

048don't don't I want to I I think the anecdotal evidence also shows the years that we have implement the year after we've implemented National investigations and cracked down on on making sure people enrolled are in the district our discipline's gotten better you know the discipline problems have gone away so I think there's a lot of there's a lot of non-monetary benefits to continuing this program so yeah and I think the bottom line again if if you don't live in a district you shouldn't be here just that simple I think that's worth dra line it's a law that's a law that's it so again yeah if you get that information it'll be great and I oh I did Dr M about how many or maybe you don't dror I'm kind of backtracking a little bit how

049many new families of migrants are coming here cuz I heard Chicago they received like 12,000 since this started 12,000 migrants and so are they coming from Chicago that's where they're migrating out the migrants are migrating out to different areas so how many have we received so far in our district do you have that number roughly 32 we're up to 32 I think before 32 so with that being said 32 right is there any assistance from the state because of it's 18,000 a student and you're you're you're talking 18,000 student times 32 that's a burden that's hard on our district I mean the people in Chicago are complaining that our homeless people are still on the streets and they're giving them education and food and shelter you know housing and there's no money there I mean

050I understand Chicago's argument I mean there's no money there so that would be interesting 32 right is keeping a track that because that is 100% burden on our taxpayers in this District yeah I guess it goes back to a homeless just take a homeless person and they have the right with the mckenny vento law that says that we have to educate those kids right so indirectly the state does pay the district as the numbers goes up or whatever it depends on where we are because we was at 5,000 students at one time and last time I check we was at like 4500 so and a lot of things is predicated how much money the state gives us is predicated on how many students we have and and if it's based on what tier we're in

051or or some of that then that that's fine as long as it's taken in account for right right I mean yeah I agree I agree with you 100% so but 32 I'm glad you know got that number but okay doc oh is it on you you're not old it was you you did you did the old new business right yeah so any other new business yeah I uh was actually uh wondering if we could have uh the board if we could have like a map of there's a lot of people that me we don't know uh me and Jamie were new to the board if we could have a map of like uh admin Administration yes an organizational chart yes actually mentioned that the organization chart yeah yeah and I think that's I think for

052all of us we got a lot of new administrators and things like that so are you talking about starting with Dr C and filtering down all with the administrators and so yeah it would be it would be uh yeah well this is really ask a lot stretchy I don't know if you can put faces to those names that would be awesome that's a stretch okay and then put it on a magnet so make a bit one but that's that's a good idea though just you know as board members goes to different schools and you know you can put the name to the positions and when you hear the names you know so we had a principal come out and assistant principal come out at Mo fog Fest Parade just this past Saturday and I was

053getting the names all twisted up but so but it's good it's good to know who's who and who's what and keep that readily available organ for central office for all the buildings uh all the above some time we never met the um at least I don't remember not until I went over to cre Elementary the principal of cre Elementary I actually met have went on a first day of school when I went over there so yeah I mean if if you could do like central office and then uh this school and that school and like break it apart that way uh that maybe just go down to the administrative level you okay with that yeah just administrative level yeah and just put one big glass block our Dynamic teachers and other staffs okay uh any

054further new business thanks Alice Alex for chiming in on that okay we have a reason for close session we do we are going to be going into close session and we will not take any further action after Clos session and the reason for Clos session is the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees can I have a motion so move second move by was that Nelson second by Alex roll call please mam secretary okay Mr gyos I rup is and I Mr alre hi Miss z stumbras i Mr swales hi Dr Hall I president Brown I we all we are now in Clos session about to get there and thank you no no further action until we meet again next week thank you public for joining us

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