001States of America and to the repu for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all thank you for that I appreciate it sorry we are so late we came out a close session um we will also uh entertain a motion for student discipline Mr President I knew that we uphold the findings of the board and student discipline number 25 25229 thank you roll call vote please second oh s yes Mr Kane yes Mr Corley yes Miller yes Mrs Sher yes M how yes Dr Ashton yes motion passes 60 thank you very very much um that brings us to the ENT agenda and agenda I have for here for your approval with one um amendment to it we will go back into Clos session after the meeting after our Open session
002we will take no action we will just be doing closed session on personnel and that's it that was our Amendment SC would I have a motion to approve the consent agenda and agenda please as amended so move thank you second motion a second any questions or comments voting on The consent agenda and amended agenda roll call vote please Pastor Miller yes Mrs Corley yes Mrs Shader yes Mrs Howen yes Mrs Payne yes Dr Ashton yes motion passes 6 Z it's just kind of weird having you call your own name oh my you're doing great lisha's voice is a little under the weather that's why we're giving her the uh the the evening rest over there so uh she's doing all the other duties we just thought we would uh we would call the role for
003her uh that should bring us to um I guess public comments okay our first public comment is Mr britz from dville high school good evening Board of Education Mr Hart um I'm here pquest to bring some positivity to public comments um so I have a couple groups here from the high school and some students so let's start with Miss Daly and our academic challenge team if you want to come up before I turn it over to you um so our academic challenge team recently competed in um regionals and I believe you have sectionals tomorrow and had some great success at the Regionals um proving of course that we are the smartest School in the county and so I'm going to um turn over to their sponsor Miss Daly and the students to tell you about
004their accomplishments good evening everyone so I this was like the first year we had done the academic challenge for several years the wise competition if you're familiar with that um and so we had what seven kids participate it was in everything from mathematics English physics engineering Graphics computer science um and so we scored first overall we will be going on competing at Eastern tomorrow um against uh in that area and they can compete as a team but they then they can also compete as like say that they get first or second in their math or English or physics that kind of thing they can go on to the state level for that also so they got medals the these are beautiful medals I'm pretty excited for it so yes hey everyone my name is Gabby
005wera um I won for biology [Applause] yeah I'm meline wiford I won for both biology and Mathematics hi I'm Revan Bailey I didn't bring my medals but I got a medal for uh comp uh computer science and engineering design wow [Applause] questions for them or Miss da good luck tomorrow than thank you congratulations our next group we have is skills USA so Mr Boyd Mr wner Mr Bame and this the students want to come up um so skills USA this is our first year doing skills USA it's been something we've been trying to get off the ground for a while um but um and we want to keep growing it but basically um it is an organization really focused on the skills that we try to cultivate in our CTE classes and they have competitions
006everything from welding to carpentry to CAD drafting even into like family consumer Sciences like all areas of CTE they have competitions for it so this we're on our infancy we're trying to grow the program but Mr Ward and Mr Boyd took a group and Mr Bame took a group um to the regional competition and we had some tremendous success and we'll actually have some students competing at State um so I'm going to turn it over to them and let you let them tell you more um as Mr Brett said I'm uh Adam Boyd construction trades teacher and Lead skills USA adviser uh skills USA is a Career and Technical organization dedicated to creating Partnerships between students teachers and Industry professionals and an advancing them in Technical and employability skills uh at the high school level
007to make them ready to be industry Le leaders in their choosing career field um our students are here tonight because they scored very well and are here to tell you about the amazing things they did at the Southern Regional Conference hi I'm Mr Ward I teach these wonderful humans how to light things on fire uh so I don't have much to add to what Mr Boyd said and I'll be very brief but what I would like to add is that these gentlemen every day have to operate in a space that is meant for adults they are in a workplace they got to demonstrate those skills and we're very proud all right hi my name is Austin Brown I am the chapter president for skills USA Club at Dano high school we had we had four
008different uh knowledge based exams that we took all of our students and all our student all of our students took and we even had one student Revan placed high enough on the exam that he can automatically qualify for state in technical Drafting and then on February 7th DHS sent six students to compete in either an individual welding event or a three-person welding fabrication team the welding fabrication team consisted of Matthew Sherman Seth Jameson and jiren jumps they placed first in the southern region of Illinois and they have been invited to compete at the state competition on April 24th [Applause] the the individual welders which consisted of Carly Roberts Casey vogle brm and myself performed extremely well in both the industry professional judges and the instructor for the hosting school had many positive comments to say
009about our damville students I was personally identified as one of the top performers of the day and I placed one spot outside of qualification for the state competi competition if anyone that placed ahead of me cannot attend then I will be bumped up to compete at state for individual welding I only had one semester of welding experience before the regional competition and almost qualified for State our welding fabrication team had never worked together before on any projects and ended up not only qualifying for state but winning the Southern Regional none of us had any prior knowledge of what we would experience that day and we did pretty well all right thank [Applause] you in this group that did something for was it friendley town or yes I was actually the site Foreman for that job
010right because if you haven't seen it at the park it's really something to see so I'm glad to see you guys are back and still at it congratulations thank [Applause] you you want to say anything so yeah come up and say names at least uh my name is Matthew Sherman good great all right my name is Seth Jameson my name is jiren jumps I'm Revan Bailey so I just want to thank you for giving us the time and just close by saying I think this is another great example of the wonderful instructors that we have at D High School Mr gley this uh trade Department of District 118 High School level is it freshman to seniors how do you apply who gets the it's open to freshman through seniors for the to get in the
011shoes these guys are filling they uh you need to take the introduction to skilled trades course uh the sooner the better we prefer to be with freshman so you go through a quarter rotation of CAD drafting welding automotive technology and construction trades and then they get to pick one or more path that they may be interested and in and then take Advanced course intermediate Advanced course work in those specific areas but it is open to every student boys and girls do you recruit or do they just recruit offer Mr H recruits heav he heavily at the elective fair that we have in the spring where uh Northridge brings students up we did that at the end of January they come up in two waves on a day and we have a Showcase of all our
012elective courses that students can register for CT always really shows out and puts a lot of work into their displays to make their courses appealing and then the following day our current freshman through Juniors come down and walk through the elective Fair as well so students have been exposed to all these opportunities okay I was just wondering if all the students were aware you know if you're trying to build this program that we got room for more I don't know if we use our counselors to help recruit or how do how do we build the program uh through our school counselors and Mr bu Mr wner and Mr Bame and the students the students are really the best recruiters actually okay all right thank you for our audience can you please tell us what CTE
013is I will Career and Technical education thank you thank you Mrs Howen well since we don't normally make comments during public comments we're violating it left and right uh I'm sorry I want to first of all uh to the the first group good luck because you're going to be gone by the time we give our comments and and so uh that's awesome I the what a great accomplishment and kudos to you and uh to this whole group here but to this group uh the welding that went on was one semester of welding and what I have to say is someone's teaching you really well right because someone there's an instructor yeah there's an instructor there picking butt I wish I could learn I would love to just come out and you're welcome anytime okay I
014remember you said that my time's running out but I'll get there P Mr Boyd has a more robust answer to your question yeah yes um we have and by we I mean the students are building a skills USA recruitment week filled with um events Outreach meetings uh to let everyone building wide know that we exist we're here and they can they can come compete and get uh potentially if they win at State the the win is both yeah you get a trophy and a medal but the big win is you get potential scholarship money and you get to meet elbow to Elbow with employers at the highest level of the industry so it slingshots them straight to the where they want to be 10 years from now that's great I always try to encourage our
015students that you know the trades is another place of uh preparing you for real life you you don't just just have to settle you're not going to a fouryear college but you can also get a trade that'll take you anywhere in the world be successful okay so I'm sorry thank you guys thank you very much awesome Mr H and Mrs paps it's a great great to take you back good evening Bard and Mr Hart Kimberly you set my five minutes we won't take that long I promise um Kimberly Pap's Director of Human Resources and tonight with me I have Mr Dan Hy he is a department chair for our CTE which is our Career Tech Ed and um one of our huge recruiters so we're going to piggy back off of the celebration for the
016students and also celebrate the staff and um just tell you about something that Mr Hy and his team put together for someone else that is a huge part of making our CTE program what it is um the person that um takes our staff that are not going through the traditional teaching trajectory program and really helping them fast track so bringing people from the workforce um and getting their lers to to get them to the high school so while Mr H goes out with students and staff and recruits and recruits we then go to the regional Office of Education who we both work very well with um with Miss Lindsay light who is over all of Cs and non-er um licensers and she is wonderful for us um and Mr Hy took it upon himself to
017make sure that she gets the recognition she deserves so there is a friends for educators which a ward recognition that goes through the iea and Nea so the Illinois Education Association and then National Education Association and on behalf of the DEA um Mr H nominated Lindsay light for recognation recognition this year for um this title um and she will be recognized she won we got to go tell her today it was great we met with her boss Aaron herd and um surprise Lindsay light with a lot of District 118 swag and then also swag from Mr H's Department um and I just before you have a chance to say anything I just want to go through a couple items that um our staff have to say about her um Miss Lindsay light again works with
018the regional Office of Education and the staff are saying she is very quick to get back with them she is shows lots of courtesy she is a rock star and a blessing for Vermillion County she's helpful she's easily accessible she gets us the answers um she said they say that DHS is better for for all of the support that Lindsay has given them she has exceptional dedication to our County she is very prompt she is organized she gives them the assurance that they are going to get where they need to be as a teacher in our district and without Miss light's Staffing and lesing your help growth in our CTE program would not be possible and we thank her for what she has done for us so we just want to share with you guys
019that it's not just the students that staff in Mr H um it's not just HR it's also people in our County working for the regional office that are saying we want to make you guys better and better and they're helping us so Mr H do you have anything uh briefly um I want to thank uh Mr Rivers uh president of DEA um uh so this is uh uh a long-standing uh banquet that laws friends and Advocates uh of public education uh and it's a combined venture between Region 8 and region 9 which is East Central Illinois and every year they bring some of the best Advocates together for education but what ml does for us really helps us um create opportunities for kids like you just saw with adults who come from high skilled areas
020you heard it welding wood other trades um that do not have the traditional education background to become teachers uh but there's a process to bring high-skilled workers to the classroom and without the Roe without the relationship yeah without the relationship that HR has with Roe and without Mis light uh it'd be very very difficult so we wanted to thank her and we thought this might be a good way DEA rep Council agreed and administration uh nice Cooperative eort effort and uh wanted to share that with you so thank you well celebrate her on April 28th at the Fab banquet so if you ever see Lindsay Li out if you know her personally or you see Aaron her out thank them and thank him for letting her work with us every day [Applause] so Mrs Bailey
021good evening board Mr Hart uh I just want to continue the positivity um and just wanted to highlight U Monday March 3rd was National seal day and um this is our second year for participating that in that here in District 118 and we've kind of coined it kindness day here um this year's theme or motto was kindness begins with us and um I just kind of want to highlight some of the smiles and great things that the district um did that day uh we did focus on the castle competency of um relationship skills so we did a bunch of kindness and friendship activities kids shared snacks and um did activities coloring sheets writing Avage strategy um activities in their classrooms and most of the buildings had a be the eye and kindness so um this
022year the students took pictures as the eye in kindness um you'll see a few different um bulletin boards that were created um just a really positive and great day for the district uh staff members always seem to enjoy this day as well as you can see um and I just wanted to kind of um thank the the district as a whole social workers clinical professionals and psychologists administrators for planning the activities uh for the day and teachers that did extra activities and take their extra time to make sure the kids are celebrated um on this day and I do um have a t-shirt that should fit each one of you um so that you can um remember you know it's just a great thing as we put them on that um kindness begins with us
023here in District 2018 so I'll leave them here with Miss Robinson um for you and just wanted to highlight our staff and students from something that we've been participating in thank you all right Miss Kelly h I'm G to do my best to get through so back in January 2024 I first applied for the sick Bank leave and I was subsequently denied three times over 14 months January 2024 November 2024 in January 2025 I reached out for help many times and I got shut down as you know I finally approved for the sick leave donations last month and I was generously given days by my colleagues and I am forever grateful to whoever they are um I appreciate their help it's going to be tough over the last year and they were given to two
024of us so here's my message to the board in Human Resources don't let another person fall through your cracks like I did and I ask you to vote to approve this amendment when it comes across your desk most often they say that you need to study the past to prevent from repeating it in the future so how did you fail me it says I was always very careful when I had my surgeries I had many recoveries and I was bound to run out out of days so I started to be Doc days in the beginning in 2024 and again by late November of 2024 and I continued to come to work as early as my doctor would allow me because I simply didn't have a financial option not to I had 12 surgeries recoveries complications
025chronic pain loss of the ability for me to have children a marriage that fell apart due to a spouse with mental illness a sick sister a sick father and a sick mother I asked for help in all of the right places and I had the door shut in my face each time why was I denied all of these times one word catastrophic apparently my illness wasn't catastrophic enough for you you might think well she's just processing her feelings and she's angry you're right I'm angry where there's anger there's pain underneath and I've had plenty of that my mother was diagnosed with cancer in November 2024 it was her third bout with cancer I desperately reached out two more times to get relief I had no sick time left because of all my own issues and
026I was still suffering with surgeries complications from surgeries and I was desperate to spend time with her when my mom had bad days I couldn't take time off to be with her to go to her doctor's appointments to sit with her to enjoy her company while she had chemo why should any employees have to make a choice between their health their family's health and whether or not they're going to be able to pay their bills when their co-workers are standing by wanting to help them one word catastrophic by definition it means causing sudden or great harm that's ironic isn't it how catastrophic this whole process with arguing with the district for help has been for me Deb Kelly is my mom another longtime District 118 employee she worked at East Park before it became Mark
027tenman she worked as a third grade gifted teacher for much of her time there she was kind and caring to the many of the students who've now graduated some of which are now back here in District 118 as Educators she volunteered after retiring to help with conservation locally until she felt ill with cancer again Friday I received an email from HR informing me that I had received 20 generous donation days donations made off the backs of other teachers and building staff unfortunately I can't use any of those days to go to my Mom's doctor's appointments you see my mom died Friday several hours before that email before I was told that I had days that I could use and I won't have any more time with her I feel robbed of that time because you
028drug your feet I try not to be angry and to feel resentment because there's nothing that can be done to help me to write the wrong it can't it can be helped to fix others for others do not let this happen to somebody else to my colleagues thank you I appreciate every laugh hug every encouraging word um for those of you who came to support me thank you again to those who donated who wanted to donate for those who allowed me to have extra time to heal as I try to reassemble my life without my best friend to my mother I fought with your support to help make this change so this one's for you Mrs Bunton good evening Mr Hart and board um LA on this past Friday we had a visit from Dr
029Brent Anderson um he's our Avid consultant and he came in to visit a couple of our schools and he had some great news that we thought it would be good to to share um first he has asked that um Danville High School start the process to work towards demonstration high school and we would be the first High School in the state of Illinois to be a demonstration high school for Avid which is a huge accomplishment and As and we're super excited about that it will take it's not something that will happen quickly it'll take probably a couple years for that to happen and we have to start with a self assessment and they will help us along that way but it's it's a huge accomplishment for us even to be considered second of all at
030the visit at um kenthy Bailey Academy um he was absolutely Blown Away by what he saw in that building the instruction that he saw the culture the climate um the way that the teachers worked with the students the way that the students worked with each other um and they were not aware that he was coming um they were it was a surprise um Miss Campbell was the staff was not and nor were the students and at that time um he he was just in awe of the the things that he saw and when we left he told me that the instruction that he saw rivaled any school not just alternative school any school that he's seen across the country and he was so impressed that he reached out to the um like the person that's
031over him that is over multiple States for the Midwest and they have asked that the CEO of avid fly out to see us next year fly out to see Kenneth D Bailey because they're so impressed with what's going on and they will be up for showcase um there is not a a demonstration school for alternative they don't meet that it's just how things are set up so they will be showcase which means that other schools will be able to come and visit them as well um it goes it's it's a little bit faster process but it is an incredible achievement that they've but to have the CEO of avid who lives in Seattle um and California come out to see to fly out to see us is rather exceptional they don't do that very often
032so those were two rather big accomplishments for our town of Danville and there's it's it's quite impressive so we just wanted to share that with you so congratulations [Applause] Mr de lawyer good evening board Mr Hart uh my name is taner de laer I'm the proud principal of me Park Elementary um I've been wanting to come up here for a while I just you know I I cannot brag enough about my staff my students my community um and I know Miss Payne you can you can attest to that uh me park is a special place um for those who didn't know I started my career there as a fifth grade teacher when we had fifth grade there um and now I have the privilege to lead the staff and students there um you can walk
033through the Halls well the what you can call hallways of meat park with our open concept and see see some fabulous instruction um I've had quite a few guests come through lately and whether it's uh community members whether it's people that are presenting to my students and they're just amazed with the learning instruction um going on in that building and I'm just I'm very proud and the staff doesn't hear it enough our students don't hear it enough um there are there's good things happening we just invited Oakwood High School um their National Honor Society last week they came to read to us for national uh read Across America week and it's been the third fourth time that they've been there in my three years there uh they can't get enough of coming back to me
034park because they love our culture our family sense there um and it opens the eyes to the to other communities because let's be honest we can all read what Facebook says about our schools our students and have that bias but they don't know what they're missing they don't know what they're missing and um I'll invite any of you to come out stop by me Park I'll give you a tour around you meet some of our students um they say the craziest things um but um I wouldn't trade it for the world but uh I just I just want to stand up here and say how proud I am of those staff and students that are working hard and we're going into a well-deserved break but we're going to finish year off strong so um I'm
035going to end it with a quote from Dr Seuss since last week um you'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut Dr Seuss so um hopefully you guys can make it out there and check out what we're about so thank you all [Applause] right that's it that's it thank you thank you for comments bring us to item number six of Kenneth B Academy 8ighth grade promotion and honor ceremony we have a recommendation from somebody that's for me certainly so um the promotion date for keny Bay Academy is recommended to be May 28th at a 1:45 p.m. boy we have to vote on that so I would love to have a motion by someone to approve that recommendation so moved second I have a motion a second any questions or comments seeing none
036roll call vote please Mrs hollerin yes Mrs Corley yes Mrs Payne yes Mrs Shader yes Pastor Miller yes Dr Ashton yes Mo pass Six 60 I'm still I'm not going to get used to that all night um item number seven Summer School uh 2025 summer school and extended school year this is always always fun it's not that long till summer school is it no we and the weather's getting nice so it kind of reminds us of Summer out there yes take it away we've been planning for months now already seems that way yes good evening um we're we're back um to tell you about summer school um summer school and ex extended school year will be from June 9th to July 3rd Monday through Thursday our Cade through six students are going to be at
037Mark Denman and our seventh and eighth grade students um will be at DHS and then yours are preschool through I believe fifth grade um fourth grade will be at Mark Denman and then the fifth through um age 22 students would be at Danville High School for extended school year and then we're going to do kindergarten blast off um will be for three days is um in Late July that last week of July and that'll be at the elementary schools obviously Northeast will be back in by then and so um we've got driver Zed going on at the high school as well and um we've got some credit recovery things going on um with the high school um they have courses as well so we're doing breakfast lunch all the things um and so we're and
038we're going to still do we're going to go back to Friendly town again with our little ones at um summer school and Staffing allowable we'll have social workers available and we'll try to do occupational therapy and speech um if I can get the staff there as well they do group lessons in the classrooms okay and we already have we've been talking about lunches and busting we've been all the groups are together helping we've all worked together all the directors we've worked together we're ready to go the best summer ever best summer ever any questions or comments Bard can't wait okay thank you thank you very much appreciate it okay item eight uh amended school calendars yes our favorite topic we had yet another change for the school calendar for next year um this time it
039was because the um spring break was changed on the County calendar and so we were made aware of that change so we had to adjust our change and our our calendar so we changed that and then we also recognized that there were some so then there also another change um so we adjusted spring break and we shifted we shifted the beginning of the school year by one day which shifted the end of the school year by one day by one day so those they're minor changes and um um our fabulous Mrs McBride has already made the adjustments and we will get that out as soon as you bless it okay questions did you want to tell us about Northeast oh Northeast and the prek calendar have also been adjusted and Northeast is going back to
040their balance calendar next year oh yeah I forgot that that's the big exciting news yeah they're going back to the regular to the balance calendar so they're going to have a little bit shorter summer this year you promise we promis and now it's going to happen or let if we approve this um what say you board I would love to have a motion move to approve thank you second have a motion a second for this uh meded school calendars any questions or comments see none roll call vote please M Corley yes Mrs Shader yes Pastor Miller yes Mrs howerin yes Mrs Payne yes Dr Ashton yes motion passes 60 thank you um oh number nine curriculum course description on engineering Essentials yes so we we've had project Le the way the high school for several
041years um lots and lots of years um and what we recognized uh we had a group Mr Brett is joining me this evening um we recognized we had had a group of individuals from Southview Northridge and DHS attend a Project Lead the Way conference and one of the things that they recognized by attending that conference was that we really needed a course prior to the ones that we've been offering that is more of an introduction and it allows the students to really find their pathway and Project Lead the Way the one that we were sort of sending our students into is not really an introductory course and so what we would like to do is start with the actual introductory course and get the students set off in their right direction and set up for
042success and we do that by we would like to do that starting next year by offering engineering Essentials and um it's a full year course and we've got the teacher ready to go um if you bless this why didn't we do that beforehand um it's a I believe it's a newer course and I think it's just some of it is just education and understanding projectly the way I think kind of understood that maybe it's time to do some support for students and um I think it's the first time we've sent somebody like a lot of people in in several years to this conference so education it just we learn we learned some things good we do better when we know better yeah what grade levels um and you can jump into projectly the way at
043any time so typically I think most of the kids that signed up for were nth graders I think right primarily be freshman but if any student could start project Le away at any time they're interested in it and there's always a already a group ready to go how many do you have signed up was it I don't know that my head okay sorry sorry it's usually somewhere between 20 and 30 that it yeah it would be the students that were signed up for the original course okay any other questions or comments thank you that brings us to item number 10 the mcken vental laundry room update good evening board and Mr Hart I'm Kelly Truex director of educational support program and I have Brandy kesy with me um she's a jack of all traes she
044does a little bit of everything in our department but um we came to you last year in March and asked you to approve us to do a um laundry room for our mcken vento families or which is our homeless families or those at risk of homeless well the laundry room is done and it's been used so we wanted to share with you some pictures of um the new laundry room at Mark demon so our process for use um with the laundry room is they referrals are given to the school social workers or the building program interventionist home program interventionist families must set up an appointment and will be accompanied by a social worker a home interventionist when using the facility and we have a district log um to monitor the use and for setting appointments
045there is no access into Mark demon it's an outdoor access only um we have laundry soap dryer sheets laundry bags are available um and all things were purchased with our mckin vento funds um I want to thank some people that were a big part of this here's some pictures of it um you're welcome to come by and see it um Miss solers agreed to house the laundry room at Mark demon U Mrs Kachi did a lot of planning and organizing for that um Mrs Cindy Redmond ordered the furniture she loved doing that she didn't she she had a good time furniture and um the carts and um Mrs War has Patty Warz she compiled resources for families which you're going to see in just a minute and obviously building and grounds maintenance crew um they
046made this face amazing we did we did it all in house and here's some more pictures our washer and dryers are um washer and dryer sets like they're all in one unit so that was pretty neat we got to go shopping for those that way we were able to have more units available otherwise the independence would take up more space along that so that that was nice and then we have the Cabinetry in the countertops um and we have a sink in there you can see the bulletin board with all the family resources there and then we have a table for which was in the last picture we do have a table there for like the hom aison um if they want to do like work they can work while they're there with their laptop
047and um there's the other there's the the last pictures we talked to about um with Mrs humel with the Resource Board that you saw in one of the pictures even getting to the point where while we're meeting with the families because they have to be there with school Personnel for their appointment you know maybe they want to get online and do some housing applications or some job applications or what have you while they're there and making it kind of multi-purpose SCH if so the laundry room opened up um the end of January we met with all the social workers and the hom aison in the laundry room and kind of trained them on how to do the washer and dryers there's actually directions and little QR codes and things um the first use was January
04831st three families have already benefited from our laundry facility and we have approximately 230 homeless students right now um so this is just huge um in case you're wondering like on some of the other mckin vento funds we did tutoring at the shelter um hotel costs for temporary housing we did clothing um we're disappointed that we no longer have mckenny vento funds um that was an American Rescue plan item but we have put additional funds for our homeless population in title one but we aren't allowed to do temporary housing with hotels and that was really huge for us so we just wanted to update you and you're more than welcome to come see it and um it's just a beautiful space so I want to thank all the people that came together to make this
049happen any questions about our laundry facility what about costs for the uh participants that would use it is there any calls for cost no no cost no they they are able to use we have everything there for them um we did we did say we would like it to be limited to clothing um we don't have big enough units for like comforters and bedding and things like that so we limit it to clothing just because a lot of times some of our students would you know need their their clothing wash so that's what our purpose is for that but there are no costs involved all they have to do is if a referral comes from a teacher or from a family can go our social workers or our hom aison and they'll meet them there
050the family there okay great are there other plans to um I'm thinking about the temporary housing are there other are there other grants or um are there plans to have a bake sale I don't know you know that um we we do the best we can um we do have a fund I believe that administrators we donate to that's kind of what's that called Miss ranking it's our student and so we work with the business office on that and I know Brandy you call nurses a lot and say hey we need some money for a hotel or something before we had the grant that ended up being extended for a little longer than we expected a lot of times what you would find is administrators teachers in buildings myself Mrs Trux we've all done it
051we paid Mr har has many times when we had students in that emergent type of situation we all just paid out of our pockets so it was uh Mrs ranken's idea to start that emergency fund um and it was nice that the rescue Grant the American Rescue Grant did go a little longer than originally expected um kept hoping maybe it would come back but not so far every year at the title conference we beg can we use those funds for hotels it's only for a week we don't put families in a hotel for longer than a week um just so that they can get housing secure or maybe you know get with a shelter that we can give them the resources that um all the resources we try to give to them and I know
052Brandy and M Warz deliver lots of furniture and bry's husband and mz's kids and you know they are truly advocates for our homeless families I can't say enough about Brandy and Patty Warz what's the name of the fun and can anybody contribute um it's it's it's the Student Assistance activity theed a couple years ago it's been a big help to us with our families and and our population's growing a little bit so any other questions we're thrilled with the with the facility this was one way we thought when we knew that Grant was gone that it would still be a way to support those families with the need that we knew was always there even when that money was gone so and we can sustain that so you just touched on that so we just
053went over that the first time I remember it's talking about this the first time we even approved this if if to refresh my memory wasn't it like a 40 to some 40,000 ended up being around 35,000 we had it's not a 10,000 it's in that area to to put this together uh and we didn't anticipate that the ongoing cost would be that high that we would be able to support this because that that's the board has always had that if we many times put things out there but we don't support it in the future so that's why want to see that in five years when we come back that it's still that it should still be there uh being that we put that hard cost and putting that beautiful facility together and that does look
054really nice in housee I mean we use our that's best bang for our buck right uh it it looks really nice and we want want to keep that going so uh can the staff use that from the school for their own purposes no no not for their own purp if a student needed something done can it needs to go through the Hom aison OR the social okay so they need to get booked through the whole yes we we just need them to just set appointments with our homely aison and every building has a homely aison and a social worker so okay so it get done okay thank you very much love that prop love that project do you know if Mark Deon still has a washer and dryer just for the building I think they
055do all schools do like sometimes some of the other like some of the life schools classes that's part of what they do is they um you know watch some things for the school I fully know what they do yes I just want to make sure they had that still option for theud this is a separate right entrance it's that only has the one entrance can't we can't get into the building um so it's very it's monitored okay thank you thank you that's awesome fing okay Early Learning Sumer travel Library good evening good evening board Mr Hart Chris Rice director of early learning and I'm here this evening to seek your approval uh for a recommendation for a summer traveling Library program one of our goals in Danville District 201 has always been to support our
056students and families during the summer months and to engage our students in an effort to decrease the amount of instructional downtime that often happen happens during the summer months our suggestion or recommendation um is for our summer reading program to provide the opportunity to students at the prek through sixth grade level students and families will have the opportunity to access books and Ed educational games on a weekly basis throughout the summer the traveling Library will be facilitated by home interventionists who are willing to participate in the program and who will be paid at a rate of $30 an hour uh through our title funds the traveling Library will be scheduled to appear at designated locations throughout Danville on Monday through Thursday each week starting June 9th through August 1st uh we're looking to get celebrity
057readers selected to promote their favorite books and to promote the program and our hopes are to provide students with books so they can be begin to build their own atome libraries so I ask for your approval move to approve second have a motion of a second any questions or comments can you explain I'm just a little confused is this like a a bus it's kind of like remember the the book bus back in the day it'll be run similar similar to that for the bookmobile um yeah we'll go to designated locations throughout Town haven't really establish where we will utilize those exactly yet but uh provide the opportunity for kids just to come uh read have a celebrity reader to read a book check out a book um but just to participate and have some
058opportunities throughout the summer that they normally wouldn't get so do they take the books home and then they have to bring them back they would take the books home bring it back the next week check out a different book we will have books that we give away as well so they'll be at the same spots weekly you just rotate like every Monday at the same spot every Tuesday yes a library a library library great I love this idea I was a bookmobile kid here in Danville growing up yeah I think it'll be a big hit I'm notna say word just G any other questions or comments if not what do we have I mean what are we using to to do it so we will through some of our grant funds purchase books that can
059be utilized we also have um just Library selections that we will use from the schools to to fill the library we want to be able to you know provide books at every grade level so that it's of interest but not you know things that are of an interest to kids to read that's why we also include like the education games and things like that not every kid will enroll in our summer school programs they don't necessarily have you know that option to a library or summer reading so we will have a a smorgus borg of different books and genres and give them that opportunity to check things out get the vehicle what vehicle are we we are going to believe going to use our um Vans at the home interventionist program okay we have seven
060vans so we will use those with seven cup holders Mr Ashton uh yeah so we will utilize those just a couple of those each each day throughout the week are you prepared to vote okay great U roll call vote please Mrs Payne yes Mrs Shader yes Mrs hin yes Pastor Miller yes Mrs Corley yes Dr Ashton yes motion passes 60 thank you very very much appreciate we'll be hitting you up for the celebrity readers yes yes wa you see my favorite book my daughter bought me one of those book boxes you know what I'm talking about right okay for my birthday and I was I've been toy whether to make it a book box or food box so you know what the problem with that is then I'm GNA get two boxes because we're g
061to have a food box and a book box but the book box is ready to go and it's painted and in Buckeye colors thank you so when you see that scarlet and gray box stop and pick out a book for your kids because there'll be kids books in there uh that should be item 12 I'm gonna make a motion to approve the resolution for the dismissal of an educational support Personnel Employee Jerry Taylor for reasons other than reduction and force effective immediately have a second second who made the motion I did oh thank you I just cut through the line didn't ask any of you else to do it I have that power um roll call vote please Mrs howerin yes Mrs Shader yes Mrs Payne yes Pastor Miller yes Mrs Corley yes and Dr
062Ashton yes motion passes 60 thank you very much operations number 13 Lu 13 yes good evening board Mr Hart Seth Oldfield director of operations and before you tonight uh with a recommendation uh to appoint a new group insurance broker of record and uh their annual fee so in January the insurance District Insurance committee uh which is comprised of equal DEA members and administration members uh issued a request for proposal for a new brokerage and consultant um and received two formal proposals one from Diamond brothers and one from one digital the insurance committee carefully reviewed each proposal and voted on March 4th to recommend one digital to be the district's new group insurance broker of record the annual fee uh that one digital charges is $150,000 and that would cover um all of our group Insurance
063programs uh the length of the agreement would be for three years with the right uh for early termination if necessary will you say you board are you asking for a motion yes so move second I have a motion a second any questions or comments on a proposal for one digital or services for insurance Consulting brokerage and Consulting yeah y y what was our brokerage fee last year 2024 approximately because it changes um monthly based on enrollment um $141,300 now it's 150,000 this paid by the district um historically the fee has been paid um 82% by the board and so under this uh proposal we're asking the board to pick up 100% of it committee so this is the committee the insurance committee recommendation that we adopt them yes okay so unless you want to go
064against the commit Insurance committee's recommendation I would I would suggest that we go along with this but then again I'm not I'm just one vote any other questions or comments see none roll call vote please Pastor Miller yes Mrs Shader yes Mrs Payne yes Mrs Corley yes Mrs howerin yes Dr Ashton yes motion was it 6 Z thank you thank you thank you um lucky 14 resolution to enter into a 2025 lease agreement with Patriot Honda for driver's ed Vehicles always exciting I love these good evening board Mr har b118 family I am narcissist Rank and director business and finance um the board approve actually approved the the bid for the driver a vehicles at the January 15 2025 board meeting um the leasing company is which they did the last time they are requesting
065that we do a resolution for the lease agreement and so that's why I'm come back for the dve Vehicles move to approve second it's the same thing we just we voted on we're just doing it through a resolution now yeah because the Von company is requiring a resolution which the last time when we did it in 2022 Honda requested a resolution at the time any other questions or comments seeing none roll call vote please Mrs Payne yes Mrs Corley yes Pastor Miller yes Mrs Trader yes Mrs howerin yes Dr Ashton yes motion passes 60 thank you very much thank you good luck driving those cars item 15 approval of board education travel expenses request approval for board education member Miss Payne's travel to the National School Board Association in 2025 annual conference and Exposition held
066April 3rd through the 7th in Atlanta Georgia second I have a motion a second any questions or comments see none roll call vote please Mrs howerin yes Mrs Corley yes Mrs Payne yes Mrs Shader yes Pastor Miller yes Dr Ashton yes motion passes 60 have a great time item 16 resolution approving the intergovernmental agreement of the Danville District 118 for school resource officers yes I can explain board please it is March I I do realize that so we've been working on this for a while in between delays we've had in our district and delays with the city we are here in March asking for approval for um the agreement with the Danville Police Department and we'll be coming back Really soon for one 2526 so we hope to bring that to you in the summer
067before the school year starts so that's our goal is to move it up on the calendar and on the board agenda so ask for your approval what say you board move to approve thank you second have a motion and a second any questions or comments this is approving what we're already doing that is correct okay to be sure yes it's our P it's our practice um any any other questions or comments thank you a roll call vote please Mrs Corley yes Mrs Shader yes um Pastor Miller yes Mrs howerin yes Mrs Payne yes Dr Ashton yes motion passes six Z I'm still not used to it but that's 17 items I better start getting used to it here a resolution improve approve approve approving or improving an intergovernmental agreement with d118 for reciprocal reporting what's
068reciprocal reporting Mr har uh reciprocal reporting is sharing information back and forth for the good of both the school district and the City of Danville thank you for ACT asking Dr my pleasure thank you move to approve second any questions or comments without um this is part of the school code right we need this because yes and it is extremely helpful um espe ESP with the city of Danville we frequently share information whether it's um a student who maybe got in trouble after school or um something that that's happened on school property and we share with um the Danville Police Department so very beneficial to both parties yeah anything that we could do to to help each other would be would be greatly appreciated and this agreement goes a long way for that so any
069other question or comment see none may I have a roll call vote please Mrs Payne yes Mrs Shader yes Mrs hollerin yes Pastor Miller yes Mrs Corley yes and Dr Ashton yes V passes 60 of all the times for you to lose your voice we voted like 87 things this is I know I'm kind of getting used to this though you are and we're not done we have more yourself registration fees I think we skipped number 17 but that's did I it's the access to cameras and oh the fire I'm sorry yeah resolution approving an Intero government that's why you're here agreement with d118 for police and fire divisions emergency access to security video feed and radio frequencies that does not void though number 18 being already approved easy for you to say yeah move
070to approve second thank you a motion and second uh any questions or comments did the same thing roll call vote please Mrs howerin yes Mrs Shader yes Mrs Payne yes Pastor Miller yes Mrs Corley yes Dr Ashton yes motion passes of uh 60 thank you very much now brings us to registration fees okay that's me as well so for the B past five years school years we've waved um school fees for students in District um excluding driver's education extracurricular graduation parking replacement IDs and loot fees other than that all material fees lab fees have been waved by um the Board of Education and I am recommen recommending that again this year and this may be the last year so one more and I will say was very appreciated by the community we get lots of
071feedback move to approve second I have a motion of second any questions or comments on registration fee recommendation which be waving him for this year Mr har you said this may be the last year this may be the the last year with um you know before we've used Esser funding and now we have Title One funding um for this year but you know with some of the unknown um funding for school district that this may be the last time that we're able to do that so I'd really like to take advantage of it this one last time hopefully okay any other questions or comments seeing none roll call vote please Pastor Miller yes Mrs Trader yes Mrs Payne yes Mrs Corley yes Mrs howerin yes and Dr Ashton yes motion passes 60 uh let's see
072any informational items kindergarten registration date or centralized registration date I don't have it do you have it April 26th is the registration date for kindergarten 13 to 5 April 16 and 1:30 to 5:00 April 16th thank you April 26 from 10 to 2 and centralized registration is July 15th 11 to six perfect so show up get your kids registered we are closing a school year and getting ready to open a new one I'm sure that'll be on the website it will be on the website and Miss Miss Robinson is creating a flyer as well that'll be going home with the students okay but heads up April so things are going to be starting in April heads up for your kindergarten registration we certainly do appreciate that I would like to take a moment to uh
073recognize our board candidates that are here this evening uh Mr Christopher een just wave to everybody thank you to the camera Mr Dr Howen okay uh do we this is tary oh yeah yeah yeah who else anyone else running no okay um just want to clarify something on the right in Ballance okay for the election that's coming up and the election's coming up it's in a few weeks here so please come vote for your Schoolboard people for your Schoolboard candidates there are two wrin candidates the winner of those two writing candidates is the fourth person on the school board so show up write them in okay and uh show your support for your uh District 118 School Board uh superintendent or you do you want any comments first I do okay go all right you
074a lot I do yeah you do I'll read really fast um huge congratul ations to Danville High School girls track and field team on winning the Big 12 Champion indoor Championship on Monday the 10th um shout out to jamaah thank you jamaah Esther and Gabby wte thank you I know my my pronunciation is awesome for yes for their individual titles into Naya shields for taking first in two events congratulations to the high school boys track team for finishing third at the Big 12 indoor um meet uh shout out to Demario Jackson Tavon dilts and Matthew Sherman for their standout performances Danville High School show choir delivered an outstanding performance in a in Avon vocal Invitational in Avon Indiana of course on March 7th earning top honors and recognition for the tal for their talent and
075dedication delegation impressed the judges with their vocal Excellence taking home the grand champion award and best vocals standout performers include Aden Cox who was named outstanding performer Gavin ball who won best M solo um the contemporaries also had a strong showing earning first runner up in their division president Reed was recognized as as outstanding performer in a highly competitive solo competition Gavin ball continued to shine earning second runner up for his vocco solo um Central Regional art show hosted by the ihsa and the Illinois art Education Association Central Council um we have two winners from DHS story merer and Walter corneo uh story took first place in painting and Walter took first place and mixed alternative media students have their work on display in a gallery on ISU campus and the pieces will be on
076display March 19th to the 29th um so there will be an award ceremony on March 29th so congratulations to DHS and our winners um just want to give a shout out to the staff that attended the hockey game last Friday I believe it was a great turnout um really had fun I think everybody had fun I did get on the ice which not sure that I'd recommend that again or or to anyone else but we had a really good time so thanks again for everybody that showed up and one last thing to All District 118 family enjoy your spring break you've earned it get out there rest recuperate refresh and we'll be back thank you thank you right to left M Corley um JTC is hosting the Nas and Bullseye archery competition at DHS this
077weekend so kudos to them for having that honor and then they're hosting nasp 3D April 5th so that's new for our district to host state competition here and so I'm just very proud of them that's all I have I just add to that that um kudos to the OTC parents um these are huge events that get put on especially some of these big state ones and they it's the parents group that do this and um we just really appreciate the volunteers and I know you spearhead that Miss Corley and um or you worked with a lot of really good people so um it's a it's not a paid position so thank you parents um I also want to shout out to um Mr Justin styck Chelsea Holton and um Mrs Principal Stacy solers of um
078Mark Denman um I had the opportunity last week to go on a ride along with them um to the the as the hom aison we they did home visits and um they'd come here few weeks ago a month ago and suggested that and I was like I'm down for that and I'm telling you what um I think I I hope every anyone who gets the opportunity to do that you need to let the let the situations some of our children are going through touch you you need to let it touch your um Soul um as we make decisions that impact them I think it's really really important um they were um as Mrs keski was talking about they were carrying these beds they literally were bringing beds in and it was um and the families
079um really um appreciated them they um they it it was I'm I'm really grateful for the opport to have gone I'm grateful for the invitation I'm grateful for the opportunity to have gone and um it was just it was um impactful it was very impactful and um and they did they were very proud of the laundry facilities by the way um got to hear all about them and I'm very glad that we also have to hear that they all the schools have laundry facilities and I'll just say that there there are um there are things going on in some of our children's homes that go that are in this District District that you wouldn't believe and um we just have to remember that not everyone has the same story and the same history and I
080was grateful I'm really grateful to have been able to be a part of that um and then the other thing is I'm really excited about the bookmobile that's coming up um Mr rice that's what I'm going to call it um and have a great spring break everybody thank you uh ditto to everything you know despite all the challenges we have um when I and you you all know that I am a show choir I I go to the competitions but what you don't know is when I'm sitting there and they announce Danville School Danville show choir coming up the people around me don't know that I'm from Danville if they read my sweatshirt that said sha Grandma they might figure it out but um they there's all these murmurings oh Danville they're so good and
081oh those Danville kids are the best and uh Last Friday Night in Avon uh the host School were so excited to be able to host Danville because we they said we have the best kids and we do they are such great ambassadors for Danville High School and for our community and I just want to share that because that just makes me so proud and that's it I agree that uh tonight was a positive board meeting that we had a lot of good information that promoted our district our teachers and the lrat and you know just a lot of good things and so I'm glad to be here tonight and to continue to uh pray for our district and for our dear sister here and the passing of her mom we will continue to pray for
082you and uh we just pray everybody had a nice we'll have a nice week to kind of re charge your batteries but thank you um I had an opportunity last week to V to visit Kenneth Bailey with the new addition I was stunned um it is if you've not been there you've got to go I could not I thought North e was great but I wasn't expecting I should have since I'm on the board but I wasn't but you really need to see it and um I'm excited about the a program and kenth Bailey when I was still working we started the AVID program when I was at North Bridge and it's amazing to see how that program has grown and I'm talking back well a long time ago um so I'm kudos to them
083um and the the students that were up here you know a lot of times we have the really bright four point fiveo children up here but it's always gratifying to see the everyday kid I taught on the South Side my during my teaching career and it was always the north side but if you really look at the kids they're all the same it's just what advantages they have and these men particularly the uh skill program the see their work you've got to go out to the park and see what they did last year because I'm excited about this year and enjoy your spring break everybody needs it thank you um thank you very much to this evening for um all the comments and everything that we've had it's been a great evening we certainly do
084appreciate it hope everybody has a great uh great next week enjoy your time off or your time down probably not even time off because if you're like us you're still thinking about everything that's still going on and it doesn't stop and it doesn't stop all year long so we know that we get that so but uh we're getting close to the end of the year it's kind of exciting a graduation day we'll be here probably before we even know it the weather's kicking up a little bit a little nice out there we're getting that spring fever uh so um kind of look forward to coming back and and finishing out the year so with that we are uh will join the this part of the meeting and we will go back into close session for
085I have no idea how long but that doesn't bother you because you guys can all leave we certainly appreciate it and hope to see you the next meeting remember to vote please vote