Crete Monee School District 201u Board Meeting 8/16/22

001okay i hereby call this meeting to order roll call please brown is here mrs galbraith here dr hall here mr sawalis here mrs walters vice president rooney here president and all we're here please stand and join me for the pledge of 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 ms roop would you please read our mission statement for sure our mission is to empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new future okay next up is public comment we do have one in-person public comment mary bragg on safety concerns welcome good evening board of education administration and community and staff members on behalf of the cmea we are both excited

002and concerned about the start of this new school year we are excited to greet our students and work with them to become lifelong learners we are excited to connect with our families and friends we are excited for the opportunities afforded to all to grow there have been many different concerns voiced about safety in our buildings the clear backpacks helped to address that thank you the changes to the cell phone policy seven colon 190 not so much allowing students to use their phones at lunch and when approved by the teacher brings another challenge for the staff that takes away too much of our educational time in front of the students we have one-to-one computers for student use they don't need to use their phones the teacher wants to allow music they can play some school appropriate

003music for the classes background music students don't need their cell phones we all need to be consistent and follow the policies that are in place we need to teach those life skills of being polite to each other how to get along with each other being on time which is considered a sign of respect completing our work on time which is meeting deadlines being present in the moment by staying off of our phones we all need to be the role models to all of our students in all of our buildings in all of our classrooms these are life skills employment skills necessary to be successful in today's world if we are all consistent and are all accountable we will have a great school year we have to have pma positive mental attitudes we have to be

004the solution not part of the problem my coming in with positive mental attitudes let us not forget that each and every single one of us you and you and you and you and me every single one of us is the first person responsible for the safety and security in our buildings it starts with us we need to be the role models that our students need our children are listening our children are watching our every move and hearing our every comment we need to be positive we need to be excited and prepared for this new school year thank you we also have a couple of public comments that came in via email the first is from mary oller it says um dear school board members and doctor caracoglines good evening as we are approaching a new

005school year i hope nothing but the best for our students teachers and all district employees i'm writing this and concerned about the clear book bag policy that you're putting into effect this school year as i wrote you all on july 26th i asked questions that didn't get proper response instead i got a response from dr cara that stated please keep an eye out for our district newsletter early in august where we will share many updates from over the summer clearly i asked if students are required by the school district to use clear book bags then then what about the admins teachers support staff school board members and all visitors will they also be required required to carry clear bags as well into any of our district buildings i mean it's only fitting since we are

006requiring our students to give up their rights how will our district monitor the bags being used by employees for concealed weapons also why is this only mandatory for second through 12th grade are pre-k kindergarten and first grade students not capable of bringing weapons into a building since they aren't required to have a clear book bag are you going to require clear lunch bags clear chromebook cases clear purses clear sport bags clear instrument case i mean you get the point this is foolish will you will you be monitoring all sports bags that come into the building or from opposing teams for concealed weapons well where will the designated area be for the student bags that the district speaks of also i know you put a 20 replacement fee into the student handbook once since this is

007mandatory and if a child whose fees are waived will the district pay for the replacements if the bag is faulty breaks rips or is lost or stolen the main question i have is at the last committee of the whole meeting dr karis said that you looked into sister schools to see what they're doing but i have researched around the local area and no one has said they're implementing clear book bags i will like to know what studies were used to determine that clear book bags will make the school safer please cite their origin and where i can find them as of today august 15th the school district posted on their social media account that our clear plastic backpack requirements begin the very first day of school all pat all backpacks not meeting their criteria outlined

008above will be collected and kept in the school office where the students can retrieve the backpack at the end of the day now this contradicts that statement that was made at the committee of the whole meeting on august 9th i don't recall the lady that was speaking at the podium that night but she said that the backpacks will be handed out on the first day so you mean to tell me that you want all these students in grades 2 through 12 to come to school on the first day with no backpack i can tell you this my i can tell you this my child will come to school on the first day with his store-bought book bag that he picked out because he is a second grader and was super excited to have a cool

009book bag this year have you looked at the comments on on the thread if not i recommend you take the time to look at every comment made by every parent on that thread maybe even answer some of the comments and turns concerns let us know what you that let us know that you hear what we have to say just remember if you aren't searching these backpacks then you're you are really improving any of this just remember if you aren't searching these backpacks then are you really improving any of the safety concerns sincerely mario the next is from miranda wilkinson and it just says board meeting public comment here's a question what studies were used to determine that clear backpacks will make the school safer why is it not all grades and how bags used by

010employees be monitored for the concealment of weapons and how will sports bags be monitored for the concealment of weapons what are we supposed to tell our children as to why they can't have the backpack they want and watch them cry over it my plan was to tell them that so nobody feels left out by making everyone have the same bag but wait i can't use that because kindergarten and first grade will have different bags also the statement i made about the active shooting training being denied is from a very reliable source so i believe it is true clear backpacks will do nothing and something else needs to be done the kids backpacks are so heavy from having to carry it back and forth in their chromebooks every day on top of all the other stuff

011they have to bring back and forth they don't even do work anymore they're staring at a screen all day whatever happened or reading and writing the chromebook should be left at school and the teacher should have charging stations for the kids to charge them the only reason they can't do that is because they have to have all these fans plugged in so the kids don't pass out from the heat because they have no air we need to protect our kids and i know the parents i know other parents feel the same sincerely a very concerned mom okay so that's all we have for public comment tonight um next up is administrative our board updates so who's we have the money parades this coming saturday right um that's coming up the university park parade perhaps we

012can maybe just talk through a couple of the details as i think a few people were asking as you recall we've got the um university park parade that is coming up we're all very excited about that there's a lot of literature that's still kind of going out to alert to the various communities about that we have secured a district van that we're going to use and we have thought that if for those that you that are coming i think we've got four is that correct about four that are coming we'll start off mr brown were you coming yes no okay so i think one two three four and then myself so what we thought we'd probably just start off and park your cars over at the the district office we'll have the van there for

013us we'll pick it up we'll drive over the parade and get in line and follow the directions once we get there and then have it come back here so if that's agreeable um and then what time i have to re i'll have to go back to my chart i'll send an email out to you folks uh saturday seemed a little far away earlier in the week for me but it's almost here so i'll i'll follow up to give you those specifics but and then we've got to figure out candy and maybe cheryl you can help me figure out uh we usually will pass out candy you and i can work on that um and have that ready for us that other shirley yes i'm sorry cheryl heinlein um there is another parade that's coming up

014but that's the money parade so it seems to be a lot of village parades are going on right now that is scheduled for september 10th again that is a saturday um i just send some information out to you folks earlier so you can mark your calendars again just let me know if if and who can come so that mr cerma can arrange for a van again and we can duplicate our efforts that's probably what i would suggest it makes it kind of consistent okay we'll move on to administrative updates or any other board updates i have one it's now two weeks and i can't find anybody in my subdivision who received the newsletter i've spoken with this timeline she got hers the day after it was mailed out she has the same carrier she gets

015her mail early in the day i get my mail at seven o'clock at night i don't know where they are but i can't find one person in my area that received the newsletter the reason i'm bringing it up in front of the board is not only am i angry about it again but we paid a lot of money for it to be delivered to every house and it has not been delivered to every house now i can go and complain as a homeowner and he's just gonna say whatever i i'm asking that this is always always always always and this mail carrier unfortunately has a huge route i don't know if he runs out if he gets tired i don't know what's going on but my entire subdivision we canvassed it i had myself and

016a couple people walk around we couldn't find one person in my subdivision that received the newsletter i did send an email out to all the board members everyone but todd responded that they had gotten it and and nelson even told me his dad did did you get the newsletter at your home yes he did so that being said my subdivision there's definitely an issue with the delivery in my area and that was not cheap to mail out and you're talking about a lot of households businesses whatever in that area that appear to not have gotten it again so i'm asking that i i believe that the district i mean i'm going to go and file a complaint but to me i think the district when you went ahead and and didn't send it bulk mail

017for the very purpose that we haven't been getting it again we did not get it and it had first class priority on it with a permit number i'm i'm very angry about it so no one in my area again knows anything about the newsletter they didn't even know what i was talking about i had to take one around and show it to people so um again they don't know what's going on in the district so are you asking then maybe the district go and talk to the post office you can actually file a complaint and it will get passed on to kansas city or whatever you can actually go online on 1-800 usps or whatever it is too and and file a complaint i am going to go in and speak with them um just

018because it it's to the point where it's like seriously what's the deal what's the name of your neighborhood again what would boost creek goose creek and it's always it's always in and i'm thinking it's because he has such a huge route that by the time he gets to my house he either doesn't have mary can't even barely lift his arm to put mail in the mailbox i don't know i mean i got mail at 7 15 last night he's on the street at seven in the morning you know you know i i would just recommend before you go to the post office that prior to those every door direct mail come to the post office they have to come from the printing place whoever printed it right so they issue and sort those for the

019route for the postal service so you need to make sure they did their job first and then go to the post office if they did their job first they showed you every route that they did for our district including janine's area then you can go to the post office but it's every mailing that my area does not get every mailing we have never i mean you know this went out so this is just not this it's not this one and we just decided to do it this way so that we thought we would ensure that not only my area but everybody got it um did we ever complain before yes we did and i've complained each and every time to the post office that is correct i filed a complaint each and everything nothing has

020happened nothing has happened and now we do have another new postmaster i mean i guess when they get enough complaints they put somebody else in there but i mean she specifically did this and it cost us more money to do it this way and it didn't get delivered again so i'm just saying that i again that's another huge area and many of those people don't have kids in school they're they're retired they're older people their kids are out of school and that's why we did the news and that's why we did this and they're not getting it so i will look into uh how we go about filing a complaint and i guess we'll just say it's for the goose creek subdivision yep okay all right we'll follow up just to let you know maybe

021there's something wrong with the delivery of the email too because i don't have your email i know i i still the search and everything i don't i don't see it doc dr hall you just got busted out that's all just accept it like a man take it and just move on like let me respond but i did i don't know sometimes like he's asked me and um did you get the one this afternoon that i sent out regarding close session you know what i could have swore i did because i knew that we had a closed session but oh i promise i don't know what to say what's politically correct yes so miss heinlein can you just make sure that todd is when we send things to school board that mailing list that he's on

022that i hope to make sure it's you like a preset uh ailment email address so okay okay any other board updates the only other update i have obviously clear backpacks are a hot topic right and we have a new director of security and safety is there a plan in place so that we go to school in nine or ten days that if someone doesn't bring it or doesn't want to what are we gonna do so that everybody is on the same page yes in fact we talked with the building principles last last week about this and they have a written uh internal procedures of what they're going to do and again the the plan for the backpacks is you know if students do bring it there's a place inside the dean's office you know particularly

023or the assistant principal's office where those backpacks will be secured their names will be on it and they'll have their issued of their clear backpack for the day and at the end of the day that they will receive their backpack in return and i guess in regard to everything not just that it seems like everyone's excited about the new school year with mixed feelings and a lot of our emails seem to be from teachers who are worried about support from upper administration and i'm not trying to do a gotcha moment i didn't really plan anything but i just want to put it out there i just want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to build those relationships and make the connection so they don't feel like they're doing something and then they're

024not being supported at the administrative level and i think i think those are some of the conversations we have to have to understand how policy is put into place it comes from you know public act then it goes to press plus then it comes to central office for procedures then it goes out to the schools so we don't necessarily make the policies we follow the policies right and then but then when it gets followed and then goes back up i think that's that to me that's what i'm hearing from all the emails is that when something happens and then it goes back up that's where they're feeling a disconnect that's what i'm that's just what the feeling i'm getting from all the teacher emails and i think too that we talked about last week i

025think it is making sure we follow the policies that are implemented and then that there is follow-through i think that's what the teachers are asking they want to know that things will be enforced so that we if you establish that at the beginning the year is going to run much smoother so we do all have to be on the same page supporting the teachers and following through with you know making sure policies are upheld so yes and they came in may voicing their frustration with that so that is exactly what they're saying is that we need to make sure that administration is supporting the teachers they need it we agree and i think we've got to go back and review the system and i think you brought it up last week and that's one thing

026that we are looking at is when referrals are written what happens what are the list of potential disciplines that can take place are those being uh and at some point in the school year whether it's a week two weeks four weeks six weeks there's going to be an issue and sometimes they're going to have to go into the classroom or into the school and see what's going on and i think it was brought up too at the end of uh last year that um you know when there were tardies and stuff the follow-through didn't it happened but it was like a time frame that was like months later correct you know so we just have to make sure that we're staying on it punctually with all of that we've put some systems in place already

027this year to address that uh i had sent out i don't know if you could read my little flyer i sent out and that would be something i probably want to share in an open session we've actually put quite a few uh systems in place and then the systems have procedures that will help address that and specifically we were looking at these these tardy issues in both the high school and the middle school and addressing them and we've got some other systems that will be put into place and tracked and then also looking at some incentive programs for students in order to encourage them you know both specifically at the high school i've talked with administration about trying to put back some of the fun items to incentivize students they don't want to miss something

028so bringing in more of the fun activities and again last well at least this last year we were more limited about putting in the fun things because you know of covid there wasn't a lot of fun things that were going on this uh no one working with the high school specifically this year they're doing a lot of um changes for this coming year um for example they just had these passport days and i was just talking to them today they're doing so much of that ahead of time so when the school day starts they can start working right away and you don't have to be burdened with you know students that didn't get vaccinated they're not coming into school students that don't have their paperwork so there are a lot of changes that are coming

029we feel we're on a more positive footing i think you know as far as the teachers are concerned i think the teachers once we get into those faculty meetings at the beginning of the year and we can kind of share and even at my opening address i'm going to share some of the bigger pieces that we have worked on so that they know we did hear them and we this summer we have worked to address some of the i call them system flaws that were in the system of why things didn't work it wasn't necessarily the procedures of the policy it was how they got implemented and that and that we are looking into um again hiring more deans at the high school helped they had two last years now we have four so just

030some things like that we also need to make sure that we're consistent through our entire school district that the high school can't be treating something one way in the middle school another way a lot of what i hear is that oh well my sixth grader this is the what happens if they do something but the high school if they're tardy ten times it's no big deal my student is tardy twice and they get three detentions or something so i think we have to have some sort of consistency also because a lot of families have kids in three different levels of schools and they're getting three different disciplines three different stories three different experiences and i think part of it is frustrating because this child got this and the other two didn't and you know what

031happens then right so i think we really need to enforce consistency and sticking to what we've said we're going to do yeah i will say i do not i don't necessarily agree with that that's like the state telling every school in this district you have to be the exact same because even though it's the same district the age groups matter uh well maybe it gave a bad example but we're not consistent through middle school and high school i can tell you that and we should be because we're feeding into the high school you could be somewhat consistent and have some but it's still a age and maturity difference and they're still learning so i i think i know what you're trying to say i mean if you set expectations and that you say you can't

032be tardy in my class and you're tardy three times and there's been no anything done that's not doing anybody any favors because that child now has thought well they don't enforce it here why should i ever bother to listen to it we need to we're going to set expectations and we have to follow them and that to me involves consistency well i think it's easier to transition than from one school to the next two it's not like well we did it this way so why do we have to change i think it's i think i'm saying this correctly ms galbraith is saying again there has to be an expectation um a follow-through you know that message has to be sent that we're gonna do this and then when you get here maybe it is a

033little stricter maybe but it's similar so that the the carry through from one school to the next so it's not a surprise surprise well hey i used to do this why can't i do this if it kind of flows in a similar fashion i think it's just an easier transition i just don't think it should be the same because at the end of the day regard we talk about tardies and i say this all the time if if creep money solves the tardy issue problem then some she's about to make some big bucks in this world because and when i like i said my daughter who went to marist it was the same thing and when i woke up in april no the same thing no matter where i've gone and we're sitting talking about

034not that when you don't do anything about it but it's the same issue if you solve this tardy issue then i don't think we're going to have it much longer because everybody's going to become but i think we have to do the best we can to set them up for the real world too because when you have a giant teacher and that was the point i was going to make next was the real world right um nothing against teachers but teachers are human we're human everybody's here and i guarantee you that if there was a late teacher who's which i'm sure there are two though every teacher knows who's going to come late just like they're late stu it's it's perpetual it happens and i think the thing i get frustrated with is if somebody

035makes people make this huge deal like we have to do something but they know every teacher that comes in late and they're not having to do something about that teacher or that administrator or whoever it is that comes in late but when it comes to kids we've got to show them so when they get to the real world they're going to be late in the real world too regardless it still happens and i do think we have to do something i just kind of maybe it's just me on my soapbox but i just kind of i feel like we're rehashing the same conversation we had it it's committee yeah you're right you're right it is i think it just boils down to what the teachers are asking they want the support this year they want

036follow-through consistency so i think that's and i can agree with that yeah we do need consistency i just kind of get like when people are just so adamant about we have to do what's to say go ahead i'm sorry uh let's move on to administrative updates uh superintendent i just wanted to bring the board's attention uh to how we're getting ready to kick off the year on a positive note we are actually really excited about having our students back our buildings are getting fixed and repaired they are still kind of a mess right now but they are going to be opening on time and i was just out walking in a few of them today and it is exciting to see things that are changing um so we are moving forward in a lot of

037positive ways i think that we're going to have a better start this year than we even did last year in fact i was talking with some of the superintendents next door that have already started and they all both noted that the students were a lot calmer this year and we're getting into the structure much faster this year so i was happy to hear that so i will certainly pass that along to our administrators um because last year was a rough start i think we weren't sure what kind of you know what we were going to be seeing and you know we had some challenges last year but i think this year and moving forward so in thinking about our challenges uh we want to start focusing on the positives so we're coming up with our

038our school theme for next year which is proud to be part of the u and we're doing a lot with the sending the good messages out about all the things that we are doing well there are a lot that our teachers are doing that our departments are doing and certainly we want to get the message out so you know obviously our newsletter that you received or many of us received we are working to have at least one a quarter to get more information out and i did receive some good feedback from one community member that said to me wow we didn't realize there was so much going on in the district they hadn't seen anything written for quite some time so that was very encouraging to me to keep going with that we've also been

039trying to make sure that we're getting social more social media out of the district once our media our webmasters come back on board the hype at the schools we'll be getting some of those great pictures that are coming out as well but we're going to be doing a lot more and i'm going to introduce ken he's been working with uh tirelessly with me along with um some folks in our marketing department um about some of the things that you're going to be seeing for the first uh week of school so in carrying on our theme um in all of our marquees it's going to be celebrating being part of the u but we've also um got some signs that we'll be putting out so i'm gonna let you share some of our our fun stuff

040thanks dr good evening board and dr karen administrators in the public and also our community um one of the things that dr kerr came to me with was trying to advertise out there and get all of our kids all of our staff involved in being proud to be part of the youth so one of the things we're doing this year so every child is going to get a yard sign this for year school that they are a student at school so we've had these made up they're being delivered to all the schools so they'll be individualized with school that they can put in very often i think we've seen these in a lot of communities that are around and everything so uh that's one of the things we're doing so uh we did that to

041get the students about so far they have distributed them um they've distributed them at the high school as part of their passport night and they've been a huge hit with the kids uh they love the idea so we're distributing those now and then i think during family nights or curriculum nights they'll be distributing we're not going to give them the kids to take on the bus just we don't want to do that um because they also have the holders that you get also to put them in the ground and everything so uh we're going to distribute them probably at curriculum nights or open houses and that for all the parents every child will get one all the way down to elc we even have them for elc too so we're going to do that these

042are also these are also some signs the art signs that we've also had these are for our board members yeah uh those are for actually the board members and for other members of the community probably our village halls and um an area that people can put out in their yards and say that they're proud to be part of you any of our staff members that are in the community maybe they want one of those too and that so we have those available i brought enough actually for the board tonight uh so the board can take some the difference with these is these are just two-sided so you can put those in your lawn and that again i've got the holders for those so be happy to distribute those uh for you this evening too i

043was gonna have one made up you know proud to be a board member but i didn't so um the other thing we're doing is uh is sharing and having t-shirts made up for all of our staff when they come back including yourselves i've got them here for you also again proud to be part of the u um with our logo on it so that's our theme um i've learned in life through married life actually two marriages that you don't guess on women's sizes so i've brought the sizes here that you can choose and um and take with you in that um i've put a little goodie bag together for you because again we're going to be distributing some things out to staff and and just getting you know part of marketing is getting your logo

044out there and you know getting that theme out there so we've had like little water bottles made up with our logo on it i've got some pens in here a little portfolio some mole skins that say proud to be you know and all that so um i've got little goodie bags for each of you too that you could take along these are things are going to be distributed to the staff also when they come back into our building so we can start advertising and marketing our district out there okay so that's just going to kind of give you an idea of some of the things we're doing from a marketing standpoint okay okay thanks again and also we are continuing to work on our communication certainly out with the community but internally as well you

045know and we were monitoring uh our facebook pages to see some of the questions that were coming up the confusion we heard about backpacks so we have made up some signs that will look like this these will be going out in school reach uh on wednesday through the actually peach jar in school reach that basically just reminds uh students about the specifics about the backpacks so that you know we're well advertised we've included some of those in your packet as well if there are some neighborhood events or establishments that you could see if they would like to have posted there see if they can post that i'm also trying to get these out to you know our libraries uh village hall just as some handouts where people can see that question uh and i'm assuming

046that the answer is yes are these in english and spanish those are not okay so neither these nor the newsletter the newsletter was in spanish and that was sent out to our families you think thank you we sent it out through the no we sent it out through the uh our email and then also um and we'll talk about this a little later on the cell phones you know there's been a change to the cell phone policy that we're going to talk about this evening that talks about no cell phones uh during the day and i just encourage again i said that that that we try to do all of this in english and spanish no i mean i'm assuming you all thought of this but if as much as possible because i i must

047i know that population is growing yeah and if there's an area that you know specifically that would be helpful as we're just you know kind of distributing them in the community and like you said maybe have one of each we can do that so those will be coming out um we can talk a little bit later if you're able to distribute those we can let you know where so we don't have people crossing over but we're really trying to push some of these out some simple way to do it because chicago heights has a high hispanic population it's just back to back that way it's all on one yep that's a good suggestion i will follow up with that too today okay um that's all i have for updates for me okay uh next up

048is consent agenda excuse me um does a board member have an item on the consent agenda they'd like taken off for separate approval okay i would just like to talk about two that are on the consent agenda before people vote on them okay well let me get the motion first okay um can i get a motion to approve the consent agenda move second okay any questions or comments oh i just wanted to uh draw the attention for item three um approved board policy seven colon 190 for revisions um this was this came in late uh but it is a revision um and i'm going to read it aloud just to make sure that people at home can hear this is on our use of cell phone policy again remember we had to merge the policies

049together we had two this is the change that was suggested as we talk with building principles it says unless otherwise banned under the policy or by the building principle all electronic devices must be powered off and out of sight during the regular school day unless use in a student's iep program or it is during the student's lunch period if approved by the building administration or needed as an emergency threatened or the safety of students staff and other individuals so we did tighten up the policy to basically say powered off all day and it would be only if an administration for perhaps a special building event was to take place if they would use that as an incentive i do have a question after listening to mrs bragg um i i think if i understood it

050right there's a concern about who who's going to grant that special privilege who's going to know that privilege and why do we why are we even considering that i guess what's the thinking behind it so it would be it does sound like it it would be the building principle so they would be making an announcement for example what if every there were no tardies that week right there's the incentive then we can have monday will be so it would be all children not individual no it would be all children yeah okay so this would not be an individual yes okay i i didn't get that clearly when i read that so i thought it was going to be you you did really good you didn't talk in class today no that's too hard to monitor

051that's what i was trying to figure out okay i didn't get that it was across the board right our principles after speaking with them they wanted to be able to use it as an incentive for things like like the tardies you know if we can have no tardies by you know x number of days then you know you can have friday with a cell phone during lunch so something like that so they wanted to be able to have it uh and it would only be the principal that would have now set at the building and it would be kind of a one size fits all so what did we do with 7 colon 0.93 we we merged it with this one so so we got a new cell phone policy seven colon one nine zero

052it's it's just a revised one it was already there okay and how do we officially delete the old one yes um we can ask maybe our attorney for that one um so we have to so i'll rephrase it for you normally what you would do that's what i was thinking so all right so we could put that on first next that's kind of what i was thinking next month yeah to delete the old one okay do a formal deletion i will add that at the september meeting okay thank you for that thank you good catch moe any other questions or comments on the consent agenda okay roll call brown i mrs galbraith hi dr hall aye mrs walters aye mr suarez hi vice president rule hi president albert do we need to talk about that

053president albert did you know aye motion carries just i said you want got it thank you okay uh next up our action reports under business can i get a motion to establish a date for the 2021 shouldn't this be the 2022-2023 okay establish a date for the 2022-2023 tentative budget public hearing on september 13 2022. second any questions or comments okay roll call when you're ready dr hall aye mr swann aye brown is an eye mrs galbraith aye mrs walters aye vice president rue aye president opera aye okay the next item for consideration is a parameter resolution for the issuance of of not to exceed 15 million dollars general obligation limited tax school bonds for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of the district based on the advice of bond council the entire

054resolution does not have to be read aloud since it was posted as part part of tonight's agenda and in accordance with the open meetings act therefore mr brown as secretary of the board of education would you read aloud the title of the resolution that was the 15 million right yes title of the resolution is the resolution providing for the issue of not to exceed 15 million dollars general obligation limited tax school bonds of community units school district number 201u will county illinois for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of sas school district providing for the levy of a direct annual tax to pay the principal and interest on sad bonds and authorizing the sale of sad bonds to the purchaser thereof okay may i have a motion to accept the parameter resolution declaring

055the issue of not to exceed 15 million general obligation limited tax school bonds for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of the [Music] you district one second bill moved yeah i think we've moved at the same time so pick whoever you want i'll second it doesn't matter okay as a summary of the parameters included within the resolution the following pertinent terms are summarized the district is authorized to incur debt and issue bonds for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund the board has agreed that it is in the best interest of the districts that the funds the fund be increased proceeds of the bonds will be deposited into the working cash fund and will be used for projects stated in the short-term facility plan that include but are not limited to temporary

056cooling rooms at balmoral elementary school creed elementary school moani education center and coretta scott king magnet school demolition the sixth grade center demolition of the dome heating ventilation and air conditioning at balmoral elementary school creed elementary school career scott king magnet school talala elementary school in the early learning center electrical upgrades at the balmoral elementary school creed elementary school coretta scott king magnet school talala elementary school and the early learning center cosmetic improvements at balmoral elementary school creed elementary school and carotid coretta scott king magnet school kalala elementary school and the early learning center based on the preceding information do the parameters do any members have questions or discussion on the resolution being presented [Music] so ken in this list of items so i understand the proceeds of this are primarily for the build out

057of the addition on the high school yes which is part of the plan uh which is part of the short-term facility plan so that would be included in there yes okay are there any other questions or comments yes am i missing something here did we skip eight eight alpha one on the business the tentative budget we just voted on that and i missed it i missed it you took the role i did got it okay i got in on my cards okay all right any other wait i i just we're on two right okay okay with no further discussion or questions mr brown you take a roll call to approve the resolution as presented mrs galbraith aye dr hall aye brown is a present mr swanless hi mrs walters aye vice president ruth aye president

058at albert aye before we do this i'm going to grab a bottle of water okay the next item for consideration is a parameter resolution for the issuance of not to exceed eight million dollars general obligation school bonds for the purpose of paying claims against the district based on the advice of bond council the entire resolution does not have to be read aloud since it was posted as part of tonight's agenda in accordance with the open meetings act therefore mr brown as secretary of the board of education would you read aloud the title of the resolution yes the resolution is for providing for the issue of not to exceed 8 million dollars in general obligation school bonds of community unit school district number 201u will county illinois for the purpose of paying claims against that school

059district authorizing the execution of an escrow agreement in connection with the paying said claims providing for the levy of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the principal and interest on said bonds and authorizing the sale of sad bonds to the purchaser thereof may i have a motion to accept the parameter resolution declaring the issue of not to exceed eight million dollars general obligation school bonds for the purpose of paying claims against the district second move second right as a summary of the parameters included within the resolution the following pertinent terms are summarized the district has current outstanding bonds in debt some of the current outstanding bonds in debt will be refunding to maintain the district's current annual debt payment and lower the annual debt payment in future years based on the preceding information do

060any members have questions or discussion on the resolution being presented so ken just so it's clear this issue is to refinance existing bonds yes it is okay any other questions or comments okay with no further discussion or questions mr brown will you take a roll call vote to approve the resolution as presented yes brown is an eye mrs galbraith aye dr hall aye mr swanless aye mrs walters aye vice president rue aye president albrecht aye motion carries next up can i have a motion to approve a certificate of payment in the amount of one million seven hundred forty one thousand ninety dollars and twelve cents to r l soho general contractor inc for the 2022 renovation work at talala elementary school in the early learning center doesn't matter any questions or comments okay roll call

061when you're ready mrs walters aye dr hall aye mr sewallis hi mrs galbraith aye vice president of rue aye president albright aye motion carries item five can i have a motion to approve a certificate of payment the amount of one million six hundred twenty eight thousand two hundred twenty eight dollars and seventy six cents to rl sohold general contractor inc for the twenty two twenty twenty two renovation work at karate coretta scott king magnet school moved second any questions or comments okay roll call sawani aye dr hall aye brown isn't i mrs galbraith hi mrs walters aye vice president rule aye president albright aye motion carries item number six can i get a motion to approve a certificate of payment in the amount of one million seven hundred and seventy three thousand six hundred ninety

062two dollars and thirty five cents to rl sohold general contractor inc for the 2022 renovation work at crete elementary school moved second can i ask the question could you read that again that number sounds different here item number six put in yes the number prove a certificate of payment in the amount of 1 million thousand 773 hundred ninety two dollars and thirty five cents okay i'm just hearing things i heard seventy six at the end there okay that was a great maybe i skipped up yes sorry all right okay any questions or comments okay roll call okay did we who um moved sandy sandy moved bill's second brown is and i dr hall hi mrs walters aye mr swanless hi mrs galbraith aye vice president rooney aye president albert aye motion carries um item seven

063can i get a motion to approve a certificate of payment the amount of one million six hundred ninety seven thousand thirty four dollars and thirty six cents to rl sohold general contractor inc for the 2022 renovation work at balmoral elementary school move so any questions or comments okay roll call when you're ready browns and i dr hall aye mrs walters aye mr sawalis aye mrs galbraith aye vice president rule aye president albrecht aye motion carries okay next up um can i have a motion to approve the hillwood development incentive agreement as presented [Music] second mr give us an update please this is the essentially the same agreement that has been before you before but i do want to highlight some of the changes that have evolved over the um last several weeks uh the major

064one major thing was uh actually the amount of the abatements they had asked for uh two-thirds of all the taxes each year we said okay but we need to comply with the statutory maximum of four million dollars over the course of the of the 10 years which under base under current estimates of the value we would hit that cap in probably about year seven um at first we were hearing that that that may not that may not make this economically workable for them and so we said um you know we can't go higher than the law allows uh they did come back to us recently said okay we'll we'll do it with four hundred thousand dollars a year um so instead of the two-thirds or any percentage it's four hundred thousand dollars per year each

065year for ten years going up to the four million dollar statutory maximum there were a few other minor uh changes that they asked for um which i made revisions to address uh the name of their op company they wanted the abatements to start in for the 2025 tax year rather than 2024. they wanted this obligation to run with the land that that means it's binding on us even if the property is sold but we had use restrictions on it they thought that our language was uh too fuzzy they suggested that we tie that to the particular provision of the zoning classification in for the village of money he said fine uh so we tied it to that um particular zoning classification um and that's about it although i also wanted recognition of the fact that

066they haven't yet purchased the property so their language uh indicates that they own or will intend to uh acquire and that the the agreement is not binding if they do not acquire the property by january 1 of 2024 so those are really the only changes since the last time you looked at it again the main thing here is that we are not going over our statutory maximum but instead of doing it as uh two-thirds of the taxes each year until we hit the cap it's going to be four hundred thousand dollars each year until uh for ten years which will still be the four million dollars any other any questions john you say that there is verbiage in the in the contract that says that they are to acquire the land by january of next

067year the land 2024 2024 okay so another year plus what about actually building on the land um and have a building you know constructed or erected right um it's anticipated that they will they will construct it but if if not they still have to operate the va we're not guaranteeing anything about the value of the property um and you know if there's delay in them building the property that's all the better for us because there's the abatements will start before the property has the value of the building on the property so we would get the 400 000 even though the land in it of itself may be assessed that fifty thousand dollars no i i did put language that's four hundred thousand but uh but no more than the actual taxes on the property so

068there won't be uh you can only this is not a rebate or a payment it's an abatement of taxes so it can only go up to the the value of the taxes for that particular year okay so we're abating for 400 000 a year we're abating 400 000 a year of the taxes that they would otherwise owe so by stretching it forcing it to be stretched out over 10 years we get been more benefit early on in the in the deal because otherwise they could have had a larger abatement as a percentage of value early and they would have used it up sooner that's correct it's it's it's not being front loaded it's spread out equally over time but and i think they they asked for that i think uh they were looking at as

069you know you know is more dependable and more uh better for planning for their purposes but i think it makes sense for us theoretically we could get more tax revenue out of it in the early years than we otherwise would have that's true right okay okay any questions yeah just on just one more so just again you probably said it i'm sure you did so other than us abating taxes and for example if they are to pay us 400 000 a year are you saying that we will waive that from them paying us is that whatever whatever tax obligation they have to us right the county clerk the county treasurer will collect 400 000 less than whatever that obligation is but it won't go below zero i mean so if they're taxes and they'll be

070they'll be more than four hundred thousand but if if it is less than four hundred thousand dollars that they owe to us it'll be a hundred percent of whatever their taxes would be to the school district so at what point when we first see a benefit to us and what the year was as soon as they as soon as the property is built and assessed i mean as assuming that the that there are more than four hundred thousand dollars of uh worth of taxes on it but understand as soon as they build that building we know that when the abatements run out that's increasing our our tax revenues into the future and that abatement total is ten million dollars it's four million dollars four million four million it's both in the statute and it's both

071and in the agreement now if the if the statute gets amended to increase and that's happened before i remember several years ago the cap was three million for instance if if it's get gets lifted we have it in there that that we went back and forth with negotiating and i said well okay i'll give you whatever the statutory cap is so that language is there so if it goes up the problem for them i mean not the problem but the way it's written now they still will get more than four million because we only we we only abate four hundred thousand dollars a year maximum for ten years for ten years yeah and and once the building is is constructed and erected and get assessed and if it's 400 or the assessment comes back that

072they should be paying 700 000 we're going to abate 400 000 within that 10 years and we will get the 300 000 that's correct okay okay okay any other questions okay roll call please mrs galbraith aye dr hall president mr sawalis aye mrs walters aye brown is an eye vice president roo hi president awkward hi did you get ms galbraith okay okay motion carries thank you uh next up is personnel and culture can i get a motion to approve the personnel report including approved certified staff employment leave of absence reassignment and educational support staff employment leave of absence return from leave of absence reassignment and resignation and dismissal second any questions on the personnel report yes um i was looking at it and i need clarification on the director of safety and district a d

073my understanding and correct me if i'm wrong my understanding was that there was not going to be a pay increase for these positions that they would get that would be more of a lateral move and not a pay increase and um and i see one with a seven thousand dollar increase and then another one with the ten thousand dollar increase plus we have another vote in here for something else mr neal would you like to address that turn it on that helps the the pay increase because they're getting a new contract that they increase that would be voted on next for administrative employees is factored into the agreements and because the athletic director position became a district position and was covering both middle school and high school there was an increase in salary i was

074not aware there was any discussion with the board that there wouldn't be any change in salary for that position but that was i discussed that with the superintendent and that's the contract that was put forward so just to be clear the pay increase that's in here is based up is already agreed upon with what we may vote on tonight their contracts if you vote if we approve the personnel report their contracts will receive uh that increase prior to the others so it's not going to be this plus that right they they will not get an additional increase when you vote on the next item no okay and this nothing against them i just want to understand that you want to be clear what you're what you're approving right and you so you said the the

075other one the district 80 that that makes sense if it's going to be district they're going to get it it'll be a new base salary but he will not get another increase with uh the next item that i was just trying to get clear okay any other questions okay roll call brown isn't i dr hall hi mr sowalis hi mrs walters aye mrs galbert aye vice president rooney hi president alfred aye motion carries next up can i have a motion for the approval of salary for assistant superintendent of teaching and learning retroactive to july 1 2022 so move second any questions or comments okay roll call please dr hall aye mr wallace no mrs walters hi mrs galbraith present vice brown brown is an eye vice president root aye president albrecht aye motion carries next

076up can i have a motion to approve a five percent increase in the salary of non-union non-administrative employees employed in working in their current position prior to july 1st 2022 with the salaries to be retroactive to july 1st 2022. moved second one two any questions or comments i just do have a more of a yeah i guess it would be a question can is there any way you know we all can attest on the level and rate of inflation and how these families and businesses have been negatively impacted by such inflationary increase in rate and rise and given that we can only seek taxpayers for revenues in the ballpark of cpi or five percent whichever one is less right yes yes so it looks like we're going to go after five percent or cpi i

077will probably i will probably recommend five percent to the board and it'll be their decision uh to do that uh cpi i believe in uh january for the previous year came in at close to seven or eight percent um it's still going up now so um you know i expect it's going to be another five percent coming up you know the following year too now you know i i will say there there is some possible relief money out there grant money out there that we may get but i i can i'll save that when i talk about the levy but my recommendation is probably going to be five percent to the board okay so we have a five percent uh increase for our non-union non-administrative employees on this particular action item is there any way

078we possibly could garnish the money somewhere down the path in the future i'm sorry that if we do have a surplus in some manner that we can dish out some type of stipend additional money to just help relieve these employees in any manner i i think you would have to do that across the board you know on this matter but i'm just throwing that out because i'm sure you know everybody got the email from one employee and you know i took heart to that yeah i i think you do mr brown uh you you can do that i just think though that you know again this is not a commitment i'm just throwing it out there yeah i i you know i i haven't seen it before i'll be honest with you i haven't seen

079it i've seen merit raises before but i haven't seen something like that you know based on your financials and all that so you know that's a difficult one to be honest with you for me to answer it really it just is i i don't know put it like this if you and and dr cogniti can see any opportunities to you know help help with some funds for our employees in any manner being not just this group right here but across the board sure that's all i'm asking okay christmas bonus anything that we can add for this year all right i think one of the things to just to share with you mr brown one of the things we did for our summer school teachers is we provided them an additional 600 stipend uh for their

080work during summer school and we were able to take that out of someone that was uh did we take that lesser we took that out of our some of our essar funds too so we did we did do that for all of our summer school staff anyone who works in the school whether it's clerical or certified administrative events excellent and that's kind of what i'm inspirating and kind of looking at okay i'm trying to nail you in and you know here i'm looking we're looking to vote on this and i'm probably probably not sure how we're going to vote here but sure that's right you know we pretty much at the limit as you see it elsie would have probably recommended more your staff so i just want to throw it out there that this

081board we do care we do care about our employees and given this been a very difficult financial year for pretty much everybody and whatever we can do we have limited funds and whatever we can do we're going to try to do it that's all okay roll call please okay brown is an eye mrs galbraith aye dr hall i wanted to be the tiebreaker hi mr sawalich hi mrs walters aye vice president rule aye president albrecht aye motion carries next up can i have a motion to prove a five percent increase in the salary of administrative employees employed and working in their current position prior to july 1st 2022 with the salaries to be retroactive to july 1st 2022 moved second any comments or discussion that speech that i said prior to this i didn't mean

082that it's not meant for the administrators no i'm just kidding says kitty kid any any other useful comments okay uh roll call mrs galbraith aye mr swanless [Laughter] [Music] i tried to set you up bill come i'm gonna be honest with myself i'm gonna vote no because of percentage i'm sorry say that again i'm voting all cause of the percentage oh you want it higher let's keep going mrs walters aye dr hall aye brown is an eye vice president roop aye president albrecht aye motion carries number five can i get a motion to prove guest employee rates effective august 17 moved second since this was a late add to the agenda while can you just give us a little color yes the many of our guest employee rates are subject to minimum wage and the

083minimum wage will be increasing by one dollar in january so those rates we are just recommending to go ahead and increase them now um most of the other rates are tied to uh what the regular employees would get in their agreements so we're just adjusting those rates to to match up with what they with what the with what those rates would be and for the remaining rates we just recommended another five percent added to those rates to continue to remain competitive uh last year we did a pretty significant adjustment in these rates and we just we don't want to have to make a significant adjustment again we just want to kind of stay in that ballpark so this includes uh substitute teachers yes this is all of our guest employees all of our summer worker

084rates all of the rates that would not be included in a collective bargaining agreement the non-union employees or the administrative employees so these are all our temporary employees all the people who kind of do the the odd jobs the odd odd categories uh that aren't included in those other areas okay so so lyle can you explain that are you saying you only gave that oops are you saying that you gave one dollar an hour increase was that what i understood the minimum wage would be one the ones that were impacted by a minimum wage would have a one dollar an hour increase in their rate yes because that minimum wage will increase by that i guess what i'm asking is and we've had this um conversation and we've been emailed a lot about substitute teachers

085so that being said can you explain to me how that works for them they're not at minimum wage is that correct no they're not they're at a higher rate okay so i they don't get the dollar now but they're gonna get a five percent they're getting a five percent increase if they are doing a day-to-day sub assignment so example you're filling in for a math teacher today and an english teacher tomorrow you're going to get an increase in that rate the rate for a long-term the rates for substitute teachers vary depending on the type of assignment and so if they're doing a longer term assignment in one in one classroom they're going to get a higher rate of pay and some of those rates are tied to what the teacher contract would pay a beginning

086teacher yeah you know so that so that we're competitive and we can get people willing to take a long-term assignment and and provide that service for us okay so i guess my question here is thank you for explaining there's different type of guest teachers but we received an email i don't remember how long ago i think it was when we we upped the rates after the contract was signed for uh acme okay and there were people who were saying that we were paying more for a food service worker than a substitute teacher and i guess my concern is now are we competitive with what we're paying substitute teachers so we get substitutes we we are competitive with our neighboring districts for substitute teachers we did do a survey on that uh january february and our

087rates are competitive we increased them even though our rates remain competitive we decided to recommend the five percent increase just to keep them competitive in case other districts increase theirs after we do this we i do not know off the top of my head what the exact hourly rate for a day-to-day guest teacher would be i do know that it is uh i i i couldn't speak to whether it's higher than what the food service workers would have in the new acme agreement i would have to look into that and get back to you on that one okay i guess i'm just concerned about you know what we're doing here to make sure that we are competitive and that we are treating everyone oh i don't know how to even explain it but it when

088i saw that email and i'm not downing food service at all because they work very hard but it's hard to get teachers and if we're not competitive and we're not paying them a good salary we're not going to get them well i want to be clear this is not teacher-sized teachers these are guest teachers which are not tied to the cmea agreement right which which is a separately negotiated agreement so what i can do is i can go in and pull all the hourly rates and i can give you that in the next fyi you know and and then you can see how they compare and if we want to make some other adjustments we can certainly discuss that okay i just wanted to make sure because that was brought to our attention and um

089i think that i talked to dr karen she said it had it was in the process of being addressed i just want to make sure that we're all on the same page with how we're addressing that because we are putting them in the classroom and we do look especially with our guest rates we do verify that we're the market rate in our area every year okay thank you any other questions or comments okay roll call dr hall aye brown is an eye mrs galbraith aye mrs walters aye mr sualish hi vice president ru aye president albert aye motion carries next up teaching and learning can i get a motion to approve the e-learning resolution moved second any questions or comments hearing none roll call please brown is and i dr hall aye mrs walters aye

090mr smallish hi mrs galbraith aye vice president rule aye president alford aye motion carries okay that's all the action items for tonight is there any old business any new business i have one um um as we know it's time for our children to get registered and it's a hot topic on social media about registration so i was just wondering if we could get an update on how things are going please would you like me to have that in the fyi or better if if we can just kind of put out because there again i i sent you um information today that there was a lot of chatter about calls not being returned paperwork turned in that had you know we didn't receive that type of thing so i'm just i'm just wondering where we are

091in that state like are we are we in good shape are we really experiencing a bunch of problems i mean just kind of let the public know because they're the ones out there saying that stuff and i just want to make sure we're on on track here sure mr cerma why don't you address that since you're already standing there sure i figured you'd want me to so i will do that um i will tell you that it is uh we are we're behind i will tell you that and here's the reason why i looked today in our queue and there is approximately i'm just going to give you some approximate numbers about 300 applications sitting there of those 300 207 came in since august 1st so between august 1st and today there were 207 applications

092that came in besides that there were additional about 30 applications that came in the last week of july so overall we've had 230 applications come in now with national investigations we have streamlined the system and so we're responding faster what we are asking our parents to do because here's what really the process is for new students right now the application will come in we'll make sure that it is completed and then it is sent over into a date we we put it into a database and send it over to national investigation within 72 hours we usually get a response on whether they are a resident or not and then at the same time we have asked parents to upload a birth certificate and a photo id state issue photo id there are times that they

093don't do that they can still go through the application and not do that but then in order to process the application we have to have that information and that because we have to verify the student's age and everything and then we also want to know we want a picture of the parent so we know it's the parent and so there are some delays there i have right now four individuals working registration and um going through things um is it enough uh probably not right now i you know we're looking and with the personnel agenda we just hired a new registrar so we've been sure to registrar actually so we've hired that so i'm going to be getting her going on on this process that's karina pasada the the other thing i will share is that

094there are instances where cases are escalated to me and i know mrs galbraith you had one that you sent in that you heard about and so that was escalating me i personally contacted the parent personally went through and got through and got her documents reviewed her residency status and she is set and ready to go so there are going to be times where those cases are escalated to us and it's a district's right to determine residency as someone i'm not relying totally on national investigations i do that i will tell you their first round produced about 250 students that were non-residents here in this district um and um i i figured that's what it would produce um i will tell you that the high school the next day when they got the letters the next

095day the parents were in here withdrawing their students they were coming in and they were doing the same thing at the elementary so again there is a process where they can appeal that decision and so they can contact national investigations and appeal that decision national investigations really looks at the same document side of it give us your lease give us your utility bills and we will we will go through that okay okay thanks i just wanted to make sure sure out there for the public too because we all know social media and um i personally have i just flirted the one that the board got sure last year's you know i think i gave you about a hundred people who were contacting me personally i've not had any personal but i just want to make

096sure that everybody stood what the process was and what happens during that process you know sent back and my final question is national investigations are what i guess some people are told to contact them well here's here's yes and here so here's what the process is when they determine that someone is a non-resident there sent a letter and saying if you want to appeal this decision contact us at this phone number and there's an extension on their 113. so they contact us so that we can talk about it and then what they do is they talk to the parent and it may be a situation in the proprietary database that they have they're a non-resident like they live somewhere else so they'll say to them where are you living show us your lease get us

097a copy of your lease and all that and so in fact the one case that you sent me over you know when i contacted the parent i said she the woman was not on the title of the house just her husband was so i said to her and now you have to think this through i so i said send me your marriage license tell me you're married to that person and then share you know uh send me your your mortgage or your tax bill that has the husband on there so i can tie the two so that's what residency all is all about and so it takes you know it just takes a lot of time to get through some of these things that's all right so if someone is found by national investigations to

098appear to not live in our district yes they send the letter out and they take that call from the from the parent they will take the call yes and you know there are cases and again i i i will as i am always open with you guys you know there are cases that maybe they didn't get through so maybe they'll write to the board please feel free to send that to me and then i will i i don't call national investigations i call the parent right away right i just want to make sure that we understood because yes you know calling us over and over if they got that letter isn't going to fix the problem sure sure so i just wanted to you know somebody comes to me i like to know the answer

099and we can just get them on their way the right right yeah and i think the other thing i'll share is that you know this is a brand new process it's going to take a couple years for us to get this cycle going and because we're going to do the same cycle every year next year we're going to do returning students next year we're going to do new students so we're going to we're going to continue this cycle so everybody's going to be checked all the time during the year we're also going to have residency checks so you know there may be some people that say hey i've kind of slipped by and they're all happy we'll catch them you know and that because i mean it's it's to the taxpayers that we want to

100make sure that we're we're paying taxes just and educating only our students okay so so ken uh thank you uh geneve for bringing this up because uh you know all the board members at least got the one email from a parent that sure went through some very trying situations with this registration having issues allegedly and i have no reason not to not agree with this one parent and multiple issues trying to communicate through various methods communicate to the school district and national investigation so and it looks like as if that particular issue was being resolved through you and and our superintendent so i guess my question is what are we doing to prevent reoccurrence of this issue you say yeah you took care of it but if that is true that this one parent made

101numerous calls to national investigation to no avail so sure what accountability are we imposing on national invasion investigation so let me take you through the process of that case so when i when i received the email that the first thing i did was call national investigations because i saw an email where she said that she had called national investigation multiple times called national investigation she called twice call was returned and she was asked to present her lease never did okay okay so i called the parent and and i i called national investigations first again because i want to hear two sides of the story here there's always two sides we all know that i called the parent the parent was very nice i said you know i understand there is some situation there's a situation

102with your residency tell me what's going on because national investigation told me she lived in another town i'm not going to get specific because i don't want to get specific with the with the family said she lived in the town so i said to the parent i said did you live somewhere else she says oh yeah i used to live somewhere else but now i got remarried and i live with this person all right so i said you know so i went through the whole scenario with her and i said i'm here to help you i said so i need this information i need the lease i need your marriage license and all of that and she sent it to me so i received it i looked over it it looked good it didn't look

103forged at all it looked it looked good and so i made the decision that she's resident i then called national investigation and said they're a resident here's the information i sent it to them and then i uploaded it to the system and also contacted the schools so it's you know i just do a thorough investigation now here's what i will say about national investigation they're investigating about 3 500 of our families there's going to be one or two cases there just is you know that that's just the situation it is it is you know um so again i'm i'm ready to have things escalated to be i don't have any issue with that at all but um i'm confident in their work i had another case where i will tell you that the parent called

104me and said this happened and i called national investigation and they said uh let me pull the body camera and see if that's really what happened and they did and it didn't happen okay yeah most of them do because they're they're there are police officers for various communities that work for national investigation you know yeah so they have body cams on yeah there's a lot of cases where they go to the door and nobody answers the door because they have their police uniform on a police uniform of of of various of various uh communities oh really yes so they they hire you know off your police officers so what happens a lot of times with well what happens a lot of times with these investigations especially national investigation that it's regionally known they will contact

105the local law enforcement said you know we're going to be in the area and i say that and i know that because when i was at troy we used them and so they would contact like the joliet police and say we're going to be doing some surveillance in your area we just want to let you know that you know that because sometimes they're sitting in a car watching a house in their police car no they'll have their own car actually because they're off-duty they won't have a police car but you just said they dress they have their attire they will have their attire on but they're not in a police car because they can't take their if they if they're if they work in let's say joliet and they're doing investigating here they can't take

106a jelly a police car here but they can have a joliet police uniform they can keep their uniform on sure yeah they just got off work sure they can yep but that's a different story shopping and off work but working another job yeah so they're doing that um i don't know i can't doubt you but knowing and i'm not an expert at this i mean maybe he can answer this but work wearing your police uniform um in another town where you may not have jurisdiction to is that right can you i i another company i i don't know i mean this is coming up i just think i think at least we need to inform the public of this process that police officers from various communities could come to represent the school district because if

107somebody from chicago has a police department come to my house i'm like i'm thinking no i'm not asking my dog yeah that's that's new to me i just find that to be unusual and again i'm just putting my place myself in someone's shoes if a police officer came to me from naperville say hey you know i'm just verifying that you live who what you verifying didn't i live here to yeah does it i believe they do i know again you see where i'm talking you see do you try to well i i i know i understand what you're saying apparently yeah wrong or right you know as far as they been a true person in the community or not here but just the presence and the whole scope of what this process is i at

108least again just being open transparent i think if that being the case we need to put that out so people can understand so they're not you know what the heck i see you know i'm looking out my window and we do get cases that people are tar you know are erroneous it may be small in numbers our erroneous selected as not living in the district right it's just very small nonetheless that happens so again not to be you know be late on this conversation but i just find it very unusual for a police officer from another village coming and representing us on this issue in their uniform i just find that kind of unusual i guess my only response to that mr brown is then who doesn't well i think to address i think what

109you're saying here is you know perhaps that might be a follow-up conversation so that if somebody uh has to go to that next process we just tell them what to expect next you may we'll have somebody come to your door that is representing national investigations you know to alert them i think that's what you're saying yeah or or just again that you know that a person a police officer from a community other than park forest university park crete money possibly beecher is coming to could possibly come to your door to address some issues with residency i thought personally it was all national investigation employees that's what i thought and they may have had some you know their uniform on so to hear a police officer from another god knows is there any boundaries like dr

110hall says chicago or any boundaries there we don't know you said they just hired him and we have no idea who that may be and i would find that very as again a taxpayer a homeowner or whatever someone came to my door you represent who i am not going to have a conversation with you i mean it's it's is bad enough that you know police officer came to my door from university park uh or creating i lived in moni i would put my dukes up but outside of the district i'm like no and you want to have that conversation right the police officer want that conversation with that potential person and we and when you start thinking about even safety i mean we tell there's warnings out there for families that if somebody comes saying

111they're wearing a comedy uniform or that that sure you just have to be careful with that and so um depending on the neighbor especially depending on neighborhood they i mean to even think that okay well they didn't answer that door so they must not live here they might be looking at you saying this i don't know who this person is this isn't i think we hear what you're saying i think we can follow up yeah i just want just one one question one question here can you follow up on your follow-up can you just ensure that it is okay for police officers you don't talk to crete they're their police chief or university park police chief to say is it okay for a police officer in university park to go and perform duties in markham

112illinois outside of their normal duties in university park with their attire police attire on okay that's all if it's okay it's okay that's fine you know no problems and then i just say share that with the community that potentially you may see a police officer with the clothing on outside of our district in the neighborhood okay okay okay any other new business the only question i had is i had a student reach out if they wanted to add a sport in the high school who they talked to about possibly adding that some of the surrounding schools hf maybe bloom he gave me two two examples about adding um another sport to the high school ms perkins can probably address this but generally speaking i think the student contacts the administration and completes it i don't

113know if it would go to uh the athletic director or it's usually the building principle okay okay any other okay we do have a need for closed session tonight can i get a motion to go into closed session for the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees moved second roll call brownies and i dr hall aye mrs walters aye mr sawalis aye mrs galbraith aye vice president rule aye president alfred hi um for the live stream just to let you know when we come out of close the only thing we have left is to adjourn so we will stop the live feed now thank you for watching sure and i will give thank you