001neate if we don't get eled I mean we could still do it but yeah it wouldn't be very much continuity yeah as as an Al I don't think Tran is he's at home doing some math stuff right now the last yeah yeah for sure I'm take care of that dressed lady oh I don't have your hair's pull back and I thought she looks really sharp [Music] that'll you out to Sor I to write the date on your name I tell you the time they stole my signature off the website somebody tried to had hack my email really and they I get this notice from my investment guy do you really want $10,000 wired out well they went on the Schoolboard website they got my school board email oh yeah REM me to tell you a
002funny story about signatures good evening I'd like to bring the uh meeting to order and ask that Ro pleas here like to ask everyone to please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America to the stand one indivis and justice for all the board will now move on to the public participation portion of the meeting and we'll begin with the superintendent's report Dr dearm all right um we've had three fouryear requests since our last meeting and Mr McKenzie has completed all of those requests uh general information those who Excel Awards I'd like to congratulate several members of our staff who have been recognized for their exceptional contributions to education through the Illinois State Board of educations those who Excel Awards deputy riy and Deputy Medina have
003received the award of special recogn in the category of Team their dedication to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our students is truly commendable Dr Matt Andrews has earned the award of special recognition in the category of administrator his leadership and commitment to Excellence have made a significant impact on our school Community Mrs Sally Saul has been honored with the award of Mater meritorious service in the category of classroom teacher her passion for teaching and unwavering support for students exemplifies the best our educational Mission each of these individuals will be recognized at a Statewide banquet in May for their accomplishments selected from hundreds of nominations across the state again congratulations on these welld deserved honors uh last night I had the pleasure of watching members of the Dunlap High School uh section of the future
004Business Leaders of America present at fortresses Fortress Banks Bank tank event it's a shark T type event um this event recognizes the importance of small business owners in our communities and the importance they have on our local economies the students business Agra vision technology combines machine learning algorithms uh it sensors and AG Agronomy expertise to provide solution use datadriven insights for increased crop yield and sustainability reduces waste and increases effective resource utilization their business motto is Farm smarter not harder the students did an excellent job presenting their business and Fortress Bank awarded them a $5,000 donation to their Club congratulations to the students and thank you Fortress bank for your donation last reminder our March board meeting will be held Wednesday March 12th it's a week earlier than usual same time same place and that's
005all that I have thank you Dr dearm and congratulations very well deserved on those Awards so proud of our staff in general but we really appreciate all that you do and well well deserved at this time we'd like to move on to public comments is there anyone here who wishes to address the board if so please raise your hand seeing none this concludes the public participation portion of the meeting the board will now move on to the information discussion items the school activity accounts reports are included in the board packet is there any discussion I have a question yes ma'am so can you tell me the mechanics of the school activity accounts school activity fee how does that work I'm sorry how does how does the school activity fee work how is it distributed and
006is it in the general fund does it go per build into each building for their discretion how does the activity so these activity fund accounts here are completely separate these activity account reports okay that to my question thank you all right information regarding the 2025 26 student handbook is included in the board packet is there any discussion I want to this is just discussion but um there were a few things that that were brought up during this and I know that everyone worked really diligently um some of the things not many things are going to be changed but there were some uh changes to some tardies uh and uh repercussions for that as well as detentions um for skipping class and um we also took a look at the validator status but I believe that
007has been removed that I'll okay there was a new suggestion about suspensions if anyone has any questions after you take a look at it if you haven't had a chance feel free to give me or um Mr Andrews a call or even Mrs CET so well it's it's actually yes it has I was on the high school but there were also middle school and grade school I don't know if anyone had any concerns that they wanted to bring up if they served on those committees okay next we have a presentation from Mr russum from gorens and Associates regarding our yearly audit and he's promised to be kind of brief but informational brief and information brief as in don't go on for a half hour I spent a career with Russ this is all right that
008mind I did dog tag a lot of I know re the at least last month but with 15 minutes or so in I think I'm going to skip most I don't know if any of the report but at least that'ss I we've had it for two months so we've had a chance to I mean on page 51 it does present the fund balances of the district before the TA I've always thought it was important to monitor the fund Bal tax just because those dollars the next year yet there's million com in in June kind of up the balance sheet is before those advaned taxes you I ran through a couple the of the funds so Ed fund had about four and a half months worth of expenditures building fund had about 3.3 months worth of
009expenditures Transportation fund is actually one of the more solid funds has more than a year obviously the other thing after after I take a look at that is like okay what about working are there dollars work yeah so that's all good but anyway I just want to mention that because it's it's a report that get very in the but I think it's good information also the AIT report I know each but in any event you know there's there's about four pages in here really what you hire us to do to issue an opinion on the financials we issued an unqualified opinion it's the same so we have time we can we can jump back this that being I'm focus on each and the handout itself is presented with the operating you can have but in
010any event so most of this is presented as the operating funds which is the education fund building fund Transportation fund work cash f so we'll just jump in on the first p so the top piece of the first page is what it's the fund balances of the district and you can see on the far right hand column 212 million that's the fund balance but what most of that is made up of the buildings the contents the equipment so backing out1 150 million of those types of fund balances and then also the restricted fund balances end up at 46,8 of the equity operating of 1.1 million for previous year I was going to give you a quiz but I'm not going to do that you know if we looked in the financial statements the district issued
011$2 million of working cash bonds right so I mean that's going to be kind of important to remember that you had a positive increase here because as we turn the page it's not a positive before those transfers right and that's what the next few pages will um this Center section deals with actual results compared a budget and you know we'd like to see plus or minus 10% and for the most part that happened uh the transportation fund did collect more than what was anticipated by 29% and you know the state has an interesting way of delving out the transportation a typically there's four payments but I don't know that there's anything typical some years there's three some years there's four some this year had five being on the cash basis There is five payments and
012that's typically what push to there's also and this will be coming up as wellp the bottom piece here is the financial profile score if the districts have been officially apprised of what that that score is yet obviously ISB does that but we run through a preliminary 3.55 that is financial recognition and the one category actually there's two there there that lowers it from a perfect 4.0 to the 355 one is the dep outstanding and the second item would be the expit we ask you questions if you'd like to umal recognition you're saying that one of the main things is our debt do you do you do this for a lot of schools yes okay where do we stand are there a lot of schools that have fours we don't have to um there there are
013quite a few schools that have fours there's quite a few score scores that are at the 355 most districts are scoring a financial recognition ceg um some schools would have slightly off the debt would be the only thing I feel like the debt is a little it doesn't make sense to me that that the district I mean I think there's over you know this off it is the AUD report but I think there's over half of the legal debt margin that still can be ISS example I talking issu BS wild and even if we ISS are we hav saturated our It's ability to do it's a fairly white you know you how this if you're below a very small percentage then it's four and then you know if you're in out of that matter finest
014we'll stay in that category even with weon I I would assume that that ranking impacts what interest rates you're charged onp ratings rating this although goes into some of the are there any other categories m that would bring us down well the other one that's bringing us down a little bit is the fact that in those Opera funds are are there any of those four categories that you anticipate we would never next year on that category won't will be a four no I mean our our budget is not in the red next year uh we still have bonds might that came out of the question you know de capacity we have hamstring building Wilder and the answer no we actually do no tax increase we debt capacity build Wilder you knew I was to ask
015question I'm glad you last question so out of 135 has the uh the results for 22 23 24 the far right hand column has the change in between years of 23 24 and you can see the first sub total almost 49 million that's the revenues brought in and if focus on the right coln what is increasing as you can see taxes real estate taxes are item that are even based funding went up some follow down you can see the changes in between the individual categories expenses and if we follow it all the way down the total expenses topers was 3471 higher than the previous year about a 7 half% increase and if we focus on 24 all the way at the bottom a973 is do come from and just looking at it a little bit
01669 comes from real estate taxes and other local Revenue makes up 11% that other local Revenue might be the Food Service program with interest earnings the corporate replacement taxes those types of revenues and one thing I as I would as I look at this Loc to the tune of you know approaching 90% was local and the state was more like 10 and the federal was two so operating FES what are the trends can real estate have been trending upwards and other local Revenue has increased some of that is a little should say a sh game but for aunch child nut those dolls ended up over you see the larger Blue Bar over on the right hand side that lunches now we come back to the other local Rue now the F service bus as well
017replac tax inre interest earnings have increasing over time as well evidence based funding not so much other state sources and thenal we talked you know those are probably higher typ next stage of the hand is the expenses compared year3 24 forer Main transpal and again we already mentioned total4 milonas total ands as page as you turn the page where's are the dollar right so salar and benefits 8% and then you can see the next category 9% supplies materals Capital outlay again this is only oper fude capital projects F so that's 5% I think if you went backwards over time you can see the other objects is a small sliver and if we focused on it you know there's been a transition distri so you know the other objects I think historically made up and salaries
018and benefits were slightly so what real state taxes we seem kind of just looking at these real real estate taxes are really important and salar ands are one of right so as we see this over time we can see oh wow so yeah salaries and benefits are largest and purchase services and somewhat FL supplies of materials have been increasing Capital outl $25 million some of the projects that I went back and looked at some paring some Paving improvements over wasn't this past summer but previous summer seion next page and so this is where you know this is a simple one right but but again what Mike alluded to was the fact that you know the financial profile I mean if we really focused on that and focus on it but yeah so in 22 23
019and 24 What expenses exceeded the revenue so that does that is and cating that score obvious do you have this on like a elect I I put it on itk you next page of the handout comparative you the attendance assist of the housing numbers we didn't count students but there is something that the comparative month average daily attendance 4,419 students and that does come into play calculate estimated operating expenses per and again State mandated calculation is nothing we came up with so you can see that 11,754 is estimated operating per pupil look at 2023 11,2 that's 7 right yeah know funny thing there's only like of is three districts that are distri so you know just as a point of reference is at 16,000 andon is at 12467 I don't know if you to anybody
020else interrup yes this also what you're see as far as well the re the the expenses stripping revenues it depends District to District obviously what's going on within the district I would say that the revenues and expenditures are closely aligned if you will not too many districts are banking hug dollar I'm not saying AR any but as far as the revenues exceeding I don't know that I can com on that going back some ofc expenses exceeding Rees Al l we narrowed that Gap by 50% from both 23 to 24 do you you know he mentioned we passed the balance Budget moving forward you project that Gap closing getting closer to even or is that hard to predict yeah really depends right now it's I think points to maybe struggles if you will you know again
021we said what's the biggest just focus on what is the biggest driver of re all agre real right very the is as you can see the eav what in 2018 for one two years was on a decline and coming out of it it wasn't that sharp ofc one two four years but you know you you basically just recovered to maybe a 2018 by 2023 and and obviously if a district is Ling the maximum right rate against the real estate taxes the other nice thing with this chart is obviously as a school has seenan and then you can take look comparative tax rate on the bottom the large jump and I don't know if it's that large but the large jump was a Debt Service Rees next page of the handout this is with Advan taxes
022onp bottoming it actually widened a little bit Cur right and again if we we look deeper down into okay what makes this up the fund had about four and a half months worth right I mean you go back into the audit report add those come to figures here next page and putting this in here but it's already happen and this is really it doesn't impact the district one bit okay it's a it's a revenue it's an expense but it's something that in the back of my mind it's like well this is what the state has to putting into TR system on of District it isn't app like that it's actual evaluation I always think that you know the state would probably be motivated to push this back the district this hasn't been conversation I don't
023know if you I would say it'sa seven years the state has mentioned this obviously the local for this District 82 million here's the next pageand ofri you can see you know the the large one in 12 to 13 was Hickory Ridge DHS editions there was another small slight increase in 17 to 18 with the the valley middle school expansion than that the district next page of the handout is is just looking at the assessed value you know real estate ta is a big deal district and just looking at the assessed value by category you know farming isn't a big should sayig you know just looking where does the really where what drives this residential right can see it and you can see where it bottomed out and you remember the we saw now and now
024we can see the increases for the last several years commercial same you know commercial is very important as well but the increases in commercial aren't really what they are in residential really the residential is driving e of the district I really don't have any comments on that last time I know I understand it's quite all right it's very helpful for us to be able to answer ask questions this is a question that we've asked or more years and I know you don't have the answer but how does a district continue to survive when salaries and expenditures aren't keeping up with the revenue other than continue to raise taxes or cut staff I mean what what's going to happen you just you can focus on your right that's where the dollars that's where the incre dollars
025came from saw that on page as far as add it is eved it's not hopefully all but the eav will probably not continue to go up 7% every year and that's that's what's any have any questions absolutely this going be done again in the future it would be nice if this could get to us early on the board home are watching I think it helps it helps us when we're negotiating it helps public to understand why you know what their tax rates are how we haven't raised the tax r Although our property values go up so they do pay more taxes you know so I think most people may not want to look at it but there might be some of them and we can make this available on our website right it's not secret
026the further questions for Russ or for anyone else Russ see you next maybe's that we can come that's right we can come in all right that cones his presentation now we're going to look at information regarding the destruction of closed audio that's been included in the board packet this is something we typically do and have to review every year is there any discussion next Dr Adrian is slated to present information regarding summer projects Dr Adrian [Music] okay well uh last couple years I think we spent 1.8 and 1.6 million on Sumer PR so one of the big messages I got clear was coming in million uh Dr D and I talked about how we're going to do that and mostly focus on Health by safety uh you saw the list of items in here that
027we've proposed um sorry about that I want you to know that we've done a lot this year this school year to take care of a lot of the health light safety stuff that's been on the Roe inspection list so every year they come through they uh write us up for different violations and recommendations and things we need to take care of also this year you notice probably in November to get a build to Farnsworth for the 10e health Life Safety get it doing five buildings so those help us also identify all the health Life Safety things we need to do the good thing is that they're spotted in ten your health Life Safety we don't have to do that amendment process which is quite cumbersome so we were pretty encompassing those 10e inspections if you
028look through those uh there are priority a and priority B's all the priority BS are not the same yes you probably not do some of them and nothing nobody will probably notic except the principal in that building or myself but some of the schedule be are important to have so there's a little bit of difference in there I know you've had time to look at them and you've uh some of you asked me some questions on them is there anything in particular that you have as far as questions one thing I wanted to know and that's coming up later in our on agenda is the banner piping project for heating and cooling we use that project we identified that to apply for maintenance improvment Grant and so we've been granted that 50,000 to apply towards
029that project so that comes off the bottom so it's not really the 209,000 15 that's just one question on on the clocks on midd school 23,000 how many clocks was that 60 there's 60 clocks and the thing that makes you know clocks nowaday unque our Bell system and that all goes through our intercom systems and all of our schools well the five most recent school we've had all new intercom systems put in new bell systems that were Antiquated and those tie those clocks tie directly into that a lot of that stuff the proprietary the good news is that Johns bid on this and they've been tremendous on their Bell work so far so they had a really good job they've been responsive they have a couple people there that are super sharp in fact they're
030the ones that figured out our fire detection system here in high school we thought we're going to spend 110,000 for that we spend about 25 they figured that whole thing out so confident the bidder on that and confident in that price about little less than $400 a clock but that's what that's what they cost if Katie were to get one repaired for this building here it's going be 350 to 375 replac here so I guess my question so the clocks that are currently in there are not tied no longer functioning and they no longer tie to our bill system how many so the other schools that we have when will we need to replace those I think they're compatible they're all compatible yeah last last summer we did the one we did DMS the bells
031that's why this become an issue okay so it's become an issue because they got it in the other school didn't no no it became an issue because they updated a bell system in inter so what are they doing now they just look at the clock and then the Bell Rings the clocks are wrong now yeah clocks wrong and when the bell rings do they hear it throughout the yeah they do the building so they're relying on maybe a wall clock or phones phones said uh but yeah so we've gone through this quite a bit trying to get trying to pair cost down when you get down to the district expenses uh pavement maintenance is down from I think it was $110,000 we put in there last year to 30 so that's from constant assessment of
032our payment with farmsworth we've got a 12E plan for those and even though L Lin what we may need in 2028 we look at 2027 we look at it we may not need that so it's kind of a your spitball and what you're going to need but in reality you may not need it so uh We've paired that down quite a bit we've also paired down the the roof maintenance which was I think 60 Grand last year down to 30 because this year we this year we budget is 60 Grand and we spent a little less than 23,000 so far so we're starting to get a better gauge of where they're at and those facilities are coming up so they're not needing as much am I mistaken or was this painting at D Middle School
033scho it was it the high school that had the $41,000 okay is that something that's been on there a couple times and we' not no this should be the second year of a threeyear plan to get the lower level painted so last year we did the S hallway this year is the in hallway which is 14 or 15 classroom the actual hallway the bathrooms all the little cubbies you know what the in hallway looks like lots of so and that's did you get that's an estimate or we' already that's ex price that that's from ho painting they've done a lot of our painting the last couple years and the fact they're a little bit on the training center also so they got that pack question on on soccer Field's what are you doing for okay
034I'm glad you asked that I pointed that out in the The Narrative portion of the uh discussion item so to build our trading center we have to take all of the dirt that we stockpiled in 2014 that's just west of our existing stock so we need almost all that every cubic yard of that dirt to move up to the corner lot for the construction so with that in mind we've got all the equipment there we're tearing it all out we need a practice soccer field because that soccer field gets used by boys and girls spring and fall all summer with camps there's no break for so it gets beat up quite a bit get that so my thinking along with that was and Mike first want to point that out we're have all that equipment
035down there I don't think IDE but it was a good idea all the equipment down there and all the expertise down there why wouldn't we do it right instead of leaving a r down there so that price there 10 is $125,000 you see 19,000 in food for irrigation which you have to have we're going to come in and that price no question about it the reason why I'm confing that is that first bid of $125,000 was forg the top soil across the entire area that they're taking out we only need for the top soil on the actual plane field and half what's that they love I me everybody L to have more so there is going to be some C there but that's the high number right now so again the thinking is it's going
036to cost us twice as much down the road why would we do it when we have the opportunity Valley right now look at that that Ro yeah yeah between between exi and 91 didn't we kind of say we were gonna do this years ago yeah so uh that I when I became the principle that we talked about the soccer field and getting the maintenance done on that because they made an erir on the last soccer field they bring any top soil so we spent the last 10 years amending all the soil trying to get it to where it's playable and I am they said well we're supposed to go to soccer field practice soccer field also but that's never it's my understanding that that was part of the original plan when the soccer field was
037built and they cut it for a cost savings well now that we got the equipment down there and the expertise that's why I thought be goodidea passort and the other thing we're going to talk about a little bit later the paving project at uh D grade school you notice in there on that proposal that far north portion of that parking lot along the new pball court is not actually our property so but we've maintained that and there's there's a gentleman's agreement between the district and the village that they would give us the authority to use that property even though it's their as long as we maintained it well I didn't want to have us redo that spend $25,000 on proper that's not our without you guys knowing that saying that's good thank you um any
038have questions on the project list why we got you sitting up there Dr Adrian um want go to the project there two proposals no I just want to talk to you another another issue the board approved those um uh solar panels on some of the schools is that process moving forward yes we actually they've had real difficulty obtaining the rights from Amon to do the high school because Amon is doing a bunch of calculations they don't know if they have the current setup to house what it would cost the inflow so they've been going through that we're on the aned list our vendor cdeg has paid to have ited but we're waiting on the high school that said we we're going to move forward with the highight school here shortly is the other one is
039the other one producing yet well the idea for the investor group was to have all three do it at the same time so you have workers here at one time get all three so now we're like we're tired of waiting on all three let's get going we got going they start see return our invest so yeah it's been a process okay I have one one more question I'm sorry I'm just now getting to I know you sent me an email back do we have a plan for all of the buildings when things about that yeah I just want to make sure we're keeping up with that yeah so we uh the plans you refer to no one's ever seen those PL I have them after we dug for them but there is never any work
040towards those but we have a similar plan that we follow that our two H guys Joe and Tyler they they have an annual inspection they do and they have a semiannual I'll share that with okay but we also have a 10e plan on the payment that's something substantial and we have leov on our maintenance I just want to make sure and I know that you know you're told to you know we're always looking at our budget right but I don't want it to defer anything that's maintenance related because that poses more risk than if we if we do not do that well it's one of those things where fortunately work like we two water po school is hug 44,000 it was for that sof the so thank you all right thank you Dr adri information
041regarding the recommended updates to board policies from press has been included in the board packet um I've looked at these myself as serving on that committee the only thing that I think really stands out is there's going to be one more board training that'll be required and and um that has to do with improving student outcomes there was some information about the fibrillator making sure we have one at all of our activities um I did notice something they have new instruction on climate change and uh The Accelerated placement process so um if anyone has any questions on those after you take a look at them if you haven't already please feel free to reach out to Dr dearm or to me the board training Abby yes that be available for us well I don't know
042it wasn't really in there but it's it's something I'm sure it's going to be another online session that you s through so now you have five trainings to to I'm sure it won't be too cumbersome but student outcomes are important all right information regarding the 2024-25 facility rental agreements included the board packet also included information regarding the athletic participation fees uh requested at the January meeting previously sent to board members any discussion next yeah I would like to at least bring it up sure um to see what folks have to say so thanks for sending us the information inil so as it stands right now with the activity fees we're at $90 per student right and that's capped looking at the midi Canton is 50 lordon is 95 right so it looks like based on
043what you sent us our fall Sports weed up in the black our winter sports we were in the whole 12,000 I think is that right yeah 12,000 so spring Sports just out of curiosity are those like expense wise is that less than fall and winter yeah so from like a spectator Fe standpoint yeah admission fees is that what you mean no he's talking about like use of the course oh I got you okay because what we're talking about potentially increasing it to 100 or and then maybe 50 for an additional one I think 50 is a little high but I think it's worth a discussion it is worth a discussion that's why I want to bring it up I think it's as we all know we're all over heavily burdened with taxes right report in
044December were number one in the country that puree was in terms of tax burden relative to home value so if there is another Avenue to try to like cover this spread if we can or figure out a way to do it without passing it off additional burden to our taxpayers and our parents I think you should try to you know do whatever we can to try to prevent putting more burden on them because as we know we're all parents with kids in activities there's always out of pocket expenses in addition to that fee and people understand costs are going up so it makes sense we have to be stewards of our district and our taxpayers and you I just at least want to bring it up for discussion see what people think you know if
045you have any input that'd be great we're going to vote on it next month I assume so I just at least want to share some ideas some thoughts that's kind of where I'm at so I don't know if anybody has any input I would just say out the teachers the janitors the bus drivers all these folks are get ra yeah why District yeah I'm not saying our buet yeah no I get it we he just and that's the thing though looking at all these numbers they seven eight n digit numbers right we're talking about 10 to 20,000 so it's like a drop in the bucket but it is real money we need to watch every pening we spend as a district which we do but from a family standpoint that's a that's a substantial increase
046if you have I have multiple kids with multiple activities that's a big jump to be like four times what Morton is and you know everybody else is at zero with the exception of King so I just before we take that just again add more burden to our taxpayers and our parents if there's so how do we cover those fees now so I I assume historically we saw back a couple years if if for short 1520 grand for the whole year where does that come from a fund General funds or is that like yeah okay gotcha so those fees that we pay in so if a parent has three kids they play multiple Sports 600 bucks where does that influx of money Tagg for the a it Tagg for athletics so they're use it somewhere else
047that was just asking I don't know yeah I got you it it doesn't cover the nearly cover the cost of referees of three or 4% increase in the stifen every year for the sponsor for the assistant for the no it doesn't even come close we don't we don't expect it to cover that but it does help and and I will say from a historical basis um I want to say eight years ago it was $100 yeah and uh we we three I believe made a motion to lower it 290 so we haven't even raised it in fact we lowered it so it's been 8 years and while our budget's gone up probably three and four% every year I think that was probably the impetus for um why it was and that's fair I get that
048that makes sense I just would be hesitant to jump to 150 and 200 that's a that's a substantial hit for a lot of families that's just I agree that you know to double it or triple would be one thing may consider okay you know I I'd make uh two comments every one I was surprised to see what the other schools are doing or not doing in this regard uh that was eye opening to me and then the other is um we're talking about Athletics but when you go to register your kid or School actually there's a list that pops up in power school that it's called Power School um I actually do it so I know um it's one of my it's one of my jobs so I actually do that um but uh on
049the power school there's a whole list of things on there and this is not just Athletics I don't want to make it more complicated than it needs to be however you're talking about a lot of nonathletic activities like chess club or FBLA or some of these other things are on that list that add into the you know if your kid is going to do one or more of these things and I I think that we need to keep that in mind if we're really going to be talking about what is this costing the district I think there are things that are a little less resource uh uh required or intense that these potential funds might be going to as well so just something to keep in mind that's all is your average student including the
050chess club is your average number of student including the chess club or just athletic this year he sent I would assume those numbers include participation in any of those that are charging yeah which is right it could be so the Scholastic right that's all subject to that so it's not all just athle th thas correct I'll just make you know the administrative recommendations you know talking with Mr Holmes others around the office you know Dr H it's my first year um it did get lower from 100 to 90 and our costs have gone up so I I think an increas is Justified um I'm okay with that I would ask the board to consider if there's going to be an increase I don't like the idea of well if you do a second sport it's
051this much more it's a third sport it's that much more just because the logistics is going to put on Jason's office to track all that and the potential for error and then the other anomalies will have kid pays the fee goes out for a week and decides he doesn't want to do that activity or that sport are we going to reimburse that it just complicates things unnecessarily so I'd like to keep it simple if there is an increase let's just do it on the front end one time and keep it at yes and I will say just one more Point let we can move on because it's been it's going to be a long night but you know rightfully so we our administrators do a great job of encouraging our students and our kids to
052to go out for as many things as they can right do as many activities you can especially in Middle School speaking to some of Administration so we know that it it they it helps them develop lifelong skills character traits all that good stuff team building mentally socially emotionally and physically right it it helps them it's part of the U educational experience that we offer so we want to encourage that I just hate to like increase it so much to where now we're just making it harder for those kids to actually be involved with multiple activities I believe it that I don't think the intent was ever charge all these little clubs because they don't have the expens to Athletics do but I don't know how you separate that maybe it's too hard to do there
053are certain clubs he was explaining to me earlier that you know they still travel they have competitions they pay those fees that like competitions those things charge so I think that was considered on the list but not all the activities have a there are some that don't have a fee they do individual fundraising they sell Donuts or whatever a little I agree with him that you know our costs are going up we should look at that but I'm also going to support what Andrew say there Absolut last thing I want to do is discourage and make it harder for our kids to get involved in activities not just athletic but all activities and the extra cost is is is diing those opportunities probids also are students low inome so there are students that if they
054do have a hardship apply to all of our kids so I guess Dr dear your recommendation to the board is that we look at a onetime fee and maybe bump but not not that overlay the complexities of a another fee for each other specific activity I think that would comp Tim maybe we can look at something like that inad I read a really good dissertation about the benefits of extracurricular participation and academic achievement and yeah that's I wrote that so this is very important to me and something I definitely uh believe in strong participation I can just add it's also a great benefit and experience for a kid to get a part-time job for a month or two you know that really gives them money and they build responsibility there too so don't don't think
055you can only learn in a school you can learn in a parttime job oh for sure like our my son for example has a job so good yeah yeah you're right he pays for not not enough okay okay there's no further discussions or comments uh next Dr Andrews and Dr Hastings will be presenting information regarding the Staffing request and the enrollment update okay um so really quick my portion of the presentation is going to be presenting just enrollment update for the next school year as well as just giving a very high level enrollment projection update the nextal druc department um so just a precursor going into this just I know none of you are uh this willon be new information to any of you that we are of course very full in particular our our
056elementary buildings um and so our enrollment practices have been that we maximize our available spaces within those buildings and so just want to give a little bit of light show how we've done that varing degrees in all our elementary buildings um our goal has been and our directive has been um from members of to keep students at home schools to the extent possible that's always during the middle of the year um and then when we do have those those instances where students are displaced that we are managing that beward that information proved there the next slide is same as it's been for the last several years just with this year added again you see has G up but obviously not as large of exponential level might have had um at the late 2000s early 2010
057but yet still still increasing and then you have larger profence of students that are going up to those levels um so for each Elementary School you'll see the slide has different considerations on the LA they've done to maximize space in there and what ways they' Consolidated inorder to make rooms for more classs whether that's for U more sections of grade level classes or um services and that we offering within that building and so on the far right you'll see for you what the current en is on each grade level and for that near capacity number that's how many seats we have left at that grade level and then below that is what the en at this time some things that are specific to Banner that they've done to circum um spacing issues is just putting
058related services staff into the same space which of course does the job and they've done a great job of one dealing with that and two to make sure that there are partitions in place we can't put up per walls because things change each year and so this year could be again just so you can see howx the ex regrow all do not have private for for the building nurses when they so they do that in the office mice [Music] schol um again you see the the en on the right and then some similar things are being done where you Orchestra utilizing corridors or hallways um specifically toade their interventionists were in a classroom were moved to a space that was previously a storage area but was before they their transition go to a resource room
059um great it's great um it's the needs for now it is off the gym was never intended for instruction to happen but again utilizing justes that wed for that for hi we know obviously be our largest tool but just give like an idea of things have on the stage which for about hours each day is up to to the cafeteria so then they have that plus you um you also have because of the number of students and the limit amount of space they have to serve lunch you have um just long a long lunch um sh which start earli you get lunch starting at last you have related servicing staff that are either servicing in cubicles that are currently situated in cafeteria as well as space for to WR not session service [Music] libr and
060pick ups so but again very thankful that they being very understanding that um and then at Wild AWA obviously another one we talked about quite a bit frequently you have had the addition of different different programs most recently the instructional program we brought back this scho year which to um um for the middle schools again similar thing you'll just project enrollment going up a little bit higher we a to um those up um these figures are of inine done cations myself and [Music] then orus highest being the highest change being 30 Terms same corner and so the right side the Middle School you for both middle schools you'll just see how various needs are being met with sta currently have and how know that Fant support being buted number stud will re keep Ane on
061that able to provide that [Music] service those are [Music] and and sorry to go back there we to have an increase the middle next year of 4 students we have the largest the largest of students moving up from elementary middle school starting next uh and the ship was the burden of that is banner notley and then the high school um again you see an increase also in near 50 for next year and at the beginning of each school year our number of high school does close um quite a bit my guess would be that that would be anywhere from 20 more than what you see um that realiz 1437 of every school always much higher than we are by the end that first semester the we still have to have seats Place put those stud
062we will continue toit en needs we have here just the obvious thing for the elementary or I'm sorry for the high school would be um have that LGE increase in particular between 2029 2032 would be fores there no able effective your radar and then of course we know we've had various conversations entertaining discussing moving for with Building Wild we just how that will be able to increase functionality on each Elementary building right as inil Wild SE now if the I heard you right the I've already lost the name but the thing you're doing with the five children at Hickory Grove so if that is that something then that down the road would be I mean I know it's based on need but that could be then expanded or rolled out to other because you're only
063the five surely those five children at Hickory Grove are not the only kids that probably fall within the parameters um but but the fact that they've clustered that there's five of them it makes it make sense but if it's successful there and should the population or the needs warranted it's something you could expand to other elementary schools right EXP GR this isn't a new employee this is just something you're shifting around so you mentioned real quick before you go on that the life skills population was doubled in what time frame is that doubled got thank you're asking teacher and then a psychologist and a social work so three positions how much is our student population increased by how many okay how many has it increased since last year 100 more students and you're only asking
064for three you're asking St right am I noticed champagne got a bunch of funds from state for some of this stuff do we apply for them assum get add they have seven and 13 and how many do we have we have any further questions about either one of these presentations thank you very much no there are other questions Dr asting maybe you past you calculated what is the additional cost for these 200,000 will depend upon the final estimat started so we're looking at this Dr HS reest maybe I'm overlooking it I don't see one there are no's you're not asking for any thanks any other questions okay thank you so much information regarding the 202528 Furious School County school resource officer agreement has been included in the board packet I believe Dr Gman gave us
065a pretty good explanation his report any discussion or questions information regarding DLB grade school pavement project has been included in the board packet any questions or discussion there was a gra that was there so I have a I have a comment about that so the that north entrance that's not on the village or it's on The Village's property is that a I mean I know we have an amicable relationship with them now and they're letting us use that but seem really risky to have a key piece of our property that's not on our land is that something that you could talk to the Village about like selling I mean can you can they sell part of that or it just I I think it's a also they are utilizing that for their parking for for
066the park for years people would have the Pavilion is I don't know if you've seen it but people have picnics and so they don't would they be willing to give us easement access I'm just thinking if if somebody you know the village ever if they well if they ever sell it to a private party or you know it just seems like a looming issue we have an you know a key piece of that property is is not maybe it's time we look at a formal some type of formal agreement been going on since I think at least talking to theill I I think you know buying that piece of prop you know not not that whole lot but just enough to cover that entrance so and that's a little out of my come yeah okay
067yeah just Flo it from them it's to stay that way for a long long time something something more formal than a gentleman's agreement think would be I think can write it's to getal agreement handshake all right any further discussion to run information regarding the banner Elementary School piping project has been incl included in the board packet is there any discussion seeing then this concludes the information discussion segment of the meeting the board will now move on to the consent agenda are there any clarifications or discussions needed regarding items on the consent agenda I like point of order if I may yes ma'am the minutes I wasn't here last month and the meeting was 18 minutes for the record I want to be clear that the difference tonight is not because of my presence okay it's
068not because I'm here may I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda approve the consent on the agenda presented thank you Mr wagon ball is there a second not second thank mrra any discussion roll [Music] vote I motion Carri will now move on to action items Bill list Treasures report District invest report bank statements are all included in the packet any discussion I've got a question I got a on the bill list there's one item that says teach your vacancy Grant Revenue us that's $17,000 I understand I understand we'll get that back okay good question may I have a motion to approve payment of bills I move to approve payment of the bills in the amount of 47,1 1594 we have a second thank you Mr that was you icludes the action item
069portion of the meeting will now move onose session I have a motion toj close session oh I'm terribly sorry let's vote roll call please I iag motion carry now may have a motion to go into close session Ive to S performance of specific employees student disciplinary cases collected negotiating man litigation security procedures discussions of minutes and meetings lawfully closed in the purchase of real property thank you a second Mr all those in favor say i n go ahead sure sure sure when I saw that saw report e e e [Music] Abby no Tom Tom's Training Center I think the nest is fine are we ready to go can I have a motion to return to open session please I move to return to open session thank you Mr hold yeah is there a second second
070thank you Mr wisdom those in favor say I any n okay 830 did I have a motion to approve the human resource consent agenda 836 sorry I move to approve the human resources consent agenda as presented thank you Mr Tyra is there a second yeah thank you Mr wagon roll votra I I ition car may I please have a motion to approve the special education supervisor contract I move to approve the special education supervisor contract as presented thank you Mr H is there a second a second thank you Mr Tyra vote I I have motion to okay so that was second and mrman wisdom what wisdom I don't want give that all those in favor say I I 738 me