001call this meeting to order roll call please mrs galbraith here dr hall here mr salonish here mrs walters here brown is here vice president roop here president albert here please stand for the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america to the republic for which it stands and ms roop would you please read the mission statement sure it's to empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new future and terry any public comment okay no public comment um first up is the consent agenda does any board member have an item on the consent agenda they'd like to pull for a separate vote okay can i have a motion to approve the consent agenda moved second let's galbraith i'm going to slow it down is there any any
002discussion or questions on the consent agenda okay roll call please brownies and i mrs galbraith aye dr hall aye mr sawalis aye mrs walters aye vice president rule aye president albert aye motion carries okay next up is action reports can i have a motion to accept a proposal and approve a contract for crack fill seal coding and re-striping services in the amount of 41 to dindler inc of joliet illinois moved second she needed sure just give it to everybody i'm sorry that was um and cheryl cheryl thank you are there any questions or comments on this action item have they already started no oh cause i thought i saw where did you go yeah i thought they were so no we have not started yet okay so when will they start okay so right now
003you have equipment there for the other work that's going on is it gonna be a problem with all that stuff going on one time are they gonna crisscross each other no no okay just wanted to make sure any other questions or comments okay roll call please brown it's an eye dr hall aye mr smallish aye mrs walters aye mrs galbraith aye vice president rue aye president albert aye motion carries can i have a motion to approve a certificate of payment the amount of five hundred eight thousand three hundred fifty seven dollars and sixty one cents to rl skoll general contractor inc for the 2021 renovation work at talala elementary in the early learning center so moved second give it to sandy can i just say that i think the name of that country company though
004is soho i don't know if that makes a difference oh so halls or when you're voting so correction for the record the contractors r.l sohal general contractor uh this question is ken here yeah he's back there oh he's right there ken how are we doing with obtaining ken is not here i'm sorry i can't i said everybody get a mascot right there oh he did okay i don't know if brian wouldn't know brian how are we doing with obtaining minority contractors for these big jobs we have do i know that you have to get to your do you have a mic hello nope still no here we go all right i know that ken mentioned that to everyone through the bid process but i i don't know off hand if there are minority contractors on
005the job but i can find out and get back to you if you don't mind doing like a spot check okay nothing where you have to exhaust a much energy just you can just nonchalant do a spot check sure right maybe put something in the fyi great yep thank you sir i appreciate it any other questions comments okay roll call please [Music] mrs galbraith aye brown is and i mr swanless hi dr hall aye mrs walters aye vice president roof aye president albrecht aye motion carries can i get a motion to approve the fiscal year 21 amended budget move second are there are there any questions or comments okay roll call please brown is an eye vice president root aye mr sualish aye mrs walters aye dr hall aye mrs galbraith aye president albrecht aye
006motion carries okay next up is human resources can i get a motion to approve the personnel report including the certified staff employment reassignment resignation and intent to retire and educational support staff employment leave of absence return from relief of absence reassignment intent to retire and resignation moved second there any questions or comments on the personnel report i i do just one second i'm sorry was that moved by you and second by gilbert okay sorry i had a question lyle like yeah lyle i don't have my computer up but my memory serves me right looking at their report you had slaughter it was that eric for i.t elvis alice i'm sorry and it looked like he was replaced by it1 person in it2 person that's what it kind of hit an it1 person an i2 it2
007person replaced elvis and then alice looked like he got a promotion um but we did not replace elvis's old position we added an i.t support tech position so there's a separate position that was added so it wasn't two positions replacing one what was alice previous position elvis was he a two it2 he was just he was a level two support tech and um and and we're moving him up i don't recall the title off top my head helped us help desk manager okay okay thanks for the clarification okay okay any other comments or questions okay roll call when you're ready mr salamis hi brown is an eye mrs walters aye dr hall aye mrs galbraith aye vice president rupert aye president albrecht aye motion carries uh next up on human resources uh can i have
008a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the recall of certain educational support employees moved second any questions or comments on this okay hearing none roll call please mrs walters aye mr sualish aye browns and i this is galbert i dr hall aye vice president bru aye president albrecht aye motion carries next up can i have a motion to approve the food service director multi-year retirement contract so moved second okay we have it moved by four member walters and second by any questions or comments okay roll call please brown is and i dr hall aye mr swalis aye mrs galbraith aye mrs walters aye vice president rupert aye president albrecht aye motion carries uh do we have any old business tonight yeah yeah i got something i just had one to bring up so maybe a
009month or two back we talked about well i think we talked about we're an assistant principal for csk and i think if i talked to dr kira and she explained in the outline maybe in the may meeting that that position we didn't rehire a fourth dean at the high school so that's how kind of they were getting that but in the fyi there's two positions called the cultural and climate liaison and at promise facility facilitator and both sentences say the position is being established at cmhs following the elimination of the fourth administrative dean position so and i know they're both being funded by the esser and title funds but i guess my concern is if we eliminated one dean how are we creating three more positions uh with that and i guess i know i
010brought it up before i think kid ken had mentioned and i know he's not here that there was approximately eight million dollars of funds that we can spend over three years so if we create positions and spend that money what happens after three years all right uh mr neal would you like to address this please i'll uh i'll address a couple things here first of all uh these positions aren't replacing the dean per se right now what we had had previously were four dean positions and one of those deans was responsible for monitoring and providing intervention as well and so that's the position that has been eliminated now at the high school administratively what we've done is with with that position we have moved that position to the elementary school to provide an assistant principal
011there so that's the balance for administration what we're trying to do at this point is to make sure we have interventions available and resources available for our students and staff as we return to full in-person instruction because it is going to be a different world they're coming back to and we're going to need to support them and we're going to need more than the one person that we took away and so that's why we're using the esser funds for them so we have put in place three positions that are doing various pieces of that work to make sure we support our students the way we need to support them after the esser funds expire okay and over the next three years we have some work to do to decide which of these positions we need
012to retain which may need to morph into other things which may need to go away so that we can be living within our means when we get to the end of that three years and we've known that coming into it so we have increased staffing temporarily if we do not have the funding to replace that staffing we will have to come up with a plan to get back into our means with our with our district funds and make sure that we can still support our students what that will look like at that time will depend on our needs at that time and you know hopefully we always hope to make changes uh you know where they don't hurt people but we go into this knowing we have three years of funding and we may not
013have funding beyond that so so on the fyi the app promise facilitator facilitator says it's not administrative is that correct correct but the cultural and climate liaison is that administrative no okay so neither one of them are no okay i guess the concern is do we you know just in fairness to the people you're going to hire are we going to hire them and if we can't support them in three years do we let them go you know i mean that's that's a hard reality it can be it's always possible we have a lot of turnover particularly at the high school for various various reasons and i don't expect to have to rif anybody at that point that is always an option if we get to that point we don't have the funds to retain
014the positions but it's not definite that those would be the positions to go away there may be other positions that need to go away because we don't need them so those may become more uh more in need than something else correct unfortunately right you know and and i don't know um there was a a bill proposed this year to to to establish a ratio of counselors to students k-12 and you know so you know there's a push to go this direction so these these types of positions may be here to stay and we may be having to adjust in other places gotcha okay thank you and and i know you addressed it in the fyi or you address the response to one of my questions which was the first one and i go i'm asking
015this and i and i know because you had mentioned in your answer that because i don't i think you had said the board didn't ask you to eliminate or or downsize something i guess when we move forward if there's a position to be added because you know like at csk they need an assistant principal desperately but if we have an area which i know we just kind of uncovered you know a little bit of of information but do we do you need the board's approval to make a switch where you could pull in excess of one school to go to another no we do not um because that's an administrative management issue yeah and that's something that we can do here we only ask the board if we're creating a brand new position and then
016we would need your approval on that for that and then the hiring of that person and so there is still a possibility if i read it right that mr main has interviewed you've started this internally it's exclusively turned on okay so that's wonderful but at least at this point there is a possibility that we are pulling from within and we're not creating we're not including another administrative position that is correct okay i have one question bill what was the title of that cultural one how did that read um it says cultural and climate liaison okay so i'm just curious was that stated somewhere that it had to be at the high school and if not why are we at the high school and not starting maybe at middle school or younger for that position mr
017neil right now the the need has been identified at the high school and that is why we're working there uh if we do determine there's more of a need at the middle school or the elementary level we will have to adjust resources accordingly but right now we're anticipating that need at the high school and a lot of that is based on uh what we have seen both pre and during the pandemic you know what our students are presenting okay i would ask you to keep your eye on the middle school watching the attendance and other things through all this i do think that there is an issue at the middle school that if we can get on it quick enough we can address it before they get to high school if you're talking about attendance
018our truancy resources will go secondary yes in attendance alone in the whole attitude about you know how things went down i just think that we really need to keep an eye on the middle school because they're feeding into the high school and if we can catch it before that i think it's much better and much more to our advantage to to catch them as early as we can and get that worked out and you gotta remember sixth grade and seventh grade is where these kids are being gelled together from other schools and unfortunately uh you know they're they're young teenagers so we all know that they're going to puberty and things are changing like you're getting those kids in that in that school it this position is almost you're right it may be needed here
019but it also may be needed there as well so is that something the state is talking about possibly funding more like in the future i haven't seen anything with that you know and of course the state loves to mandate without funds uh but uh don't don't make the assumption you know i know nobody's making the assumption but please understand there are structures in place at the middle school already that have been there long-standing to help students adapt to the secondary environment from the elementary environment and the the way the middle school the middle school of the three levels elementary middle and high our middle school is the best staffed level and has been for years in fact if you look at our evidence-based funding our middle school is dead on what our evidence-based funding says
020we should have it's the one place where we are well staffed and that's why we don't necessarily need to supplement those resources at this time so it's not that we don't need them we have them there now we're trying to supplement the other ends where we didn't have them as much okay and and i guess the understanding is we are going in postcovid so 40 of our kids 35 to 40 came back so you're i mean the idea is 60 or better are coming back and we don't know what kind of shape everybody's going to be in right and not only kids we're talking staff talking teachers we're talking employees right i mean so i guess we we are going to be prepared for all of that as well right well we're looking for a
021hundred percent to come back and so you know this is we're going back to school correct and and our kids haven't been in school for a year and a half almost at that point we have to be ready for that what i'm saying is i'm just making sure we're ready as a district for everybody 100 because mental you know our mental status is everybody's coming back so it's a different feeling so i'm talking employees teachers students everybody as a whole yes and we're working over the summer to make sure that we've got the proper pd and all the training um that'll be put in place for next year so we have been proactive you know it kind of said a side note it was interesting i saw something on tv today on on a news
022channel and they were talking about that even in kind of the corporate workplace people have been out for 15 months they've kind of forgotten their manners how to act in an office and just you know so this isn't unique to school districts it's you know for all of us so so i'm glad we'll have the resources in place at least for the next three years any other old business i guess this would be old business because it's just referring back to the approval of the food service director which we're not going to go back to take a different vote on it but i apologize if it's someone could someone pull that up it just was a minor change i think is this a minor typo and i'm trying to do it by memory here i
023apologize i think it just was a i believe do you have a number four there is a number for on the personnel report yeah it's under the food directors in the contract yeah yeah yeah it's just a minor and i don't have it written down yeah i think it's a matter it's it speaks of her being our director then it says something about he memory serves me right now all right you need to give me 10 seconds here but count slow not a food director okay i'm sorry all right i don't actually see it here but if i see it if it's just a matter of changing her to him to her would that be a problem if i get it i'll send it to the president and superintendent and senator and you can send
024it to the board i know it's i apologize i know i it stuck out like a like a good catcher yeah but i know and i'm sorry i just got a lot going on here i apologize and i didn't write it down so that's all i have i'm sorry is there any new business i just want to welcome our attorney this is his first time here so welcome and hopefully we'll see you many many more months i thought that was one of the students here that wanted to be an attorney eric could you just introduce yourself i'm eric bernard this on uh i'm eric bernard i'm an attorney at hausa rizzo um i've been here before although not to a board meeting so it's my first time meeting most of you so thank you for
025having me and i'm sure i will be here many meetings to come so sounds good do you mind just pulling down the mask real quick so i make sure if i see you you don't have a mustache okay all righty no mustaches right okay thank you welcome aboard i know you had me walk right past them huh anyway uh any other new business no uh we have we don't have a need for closed session tonight can i get a motion to adjourn moved second galbraith walters all in favor say aye all opposed we are adjourned at