001To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Music] Roll call, please. Yes. All right, move on to public comment. Uh, just a quick reminder about public comment. So, um, when you start, I'm going to start my time. You have 5 minutes. Um, this is public comment, not public dialogue. If you'd like to speak with the board and have a dialogue with us, um, our contact information is on the website. We'd be happy to have a conversation with you with to discuss. So, uh, I have my list here. We have one one person sign up for public conflict. Mr. Franklin, I don't do you want a microphone? Now there is the funds we have and stuff we
002have $300,000 that's possible. So we have to move what we had further into the into the agenda there. I can't move anything until we have to be accurate where we're at a money. Okay. So everything that we have goes into certain times. So towards the end of the year what happens is some of those are higher lower and checking accounted that. So in other words, if you're going to pull money from the money market, then it has to go to a certain [Music] I think the the ledger is set up the money comes out. Correct. the the money for all of the accounts is in a general fund. But as far as accounting purposes, we have to budget where each where each fund is at. [Music] So that's what we that's why this is all
003part I can't just move the money. [Music] Sure. All right, moving on. Do we have any uh scheduled business? Any additions or relations to the agenda? Approval of agenda. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? So move. Can I get a second? [Music] We need to have a quick discussion. On our previous meeting last week, the maps that were reported were incorrect. Well, it showed election officers of police saying yes to everybody. I didn't vote. We'll just take that. So we'll check that. Correct. The approval of Anthony. Yes. Yes. Sarah. Yes. All right. That's an agenda. Do I have a motion? Second. Any discussion? Discussion. Yes. [Music] Yes. Principal reports. Can we get her mic on? Yeah. So today was the last day for seniors which is pretty exciting for them. Um we
004have graduation in two days. So um it's been a very busy week of graduation and getting ready to finish for them. Um ACT and ACT 9 were given on April 10th. Uh we did them all in one day this year and it worked fabulously. We will never go back to the old days. Um, it worked great to have everybody doing the test on the same day at the same time and the building basically shut down the last service. Um, Mrs. Winsky put all that together. So, thank you, Mrs. Wy, for doing that. On April 17th, our high school band students participated in concert with the West University band at Wu. Congratulations. They were invited to be a part of that awesome opportunity. We welcome Brie Jefferson to our team. Bri has been hired as our
00521st century coordinator. Uh she has already started offering a program called future Fridays where she meets with students on Friday night advisory to help them build their resumes college savings to learn about how to use. She's also hosting an endear family night on May 21st from 5 to 7. Everybody between our games um here at the school on April 30th we had a resource fair sponsored by our community schools grant. We had over 40 vendors and local businesses here um promoting their services for our families. The event was attended by 135 people. Thank you to Mrs. McMillan for putting that together um for our community. Freshman orientation was also held on April 30th. All incoming freshmen and their parents were invited to meet the high school staff to the building and get information regarding the
006change from middle school to high school. We had over half eighth grade students attend. So pretty awesome having them volunteer and get ready for their adventure in high school. We've had several signings this year for students who will be continuing their educational journeys as student athletes. Um Jake Paul is going to play football on college. Adriana James is doing at Arizona Christian University. Emma Ducker is playing softball at Wood Community College. Haley Reing is playing basketball. Morgan Tracy is trap shooting at Illinois College. Sophie Kern is in track at college. Taylor University of Illinois Springfield. And Justin is playing baseball at Illinois College. I just found out. Um on May 4th, we held senior awards to honor the accomplishments of those seniors being awarded scholarships and from our community. We had 21 community organizations and
007families present scholarships to our students. More than $59,000 in scholarships went out the door that night for our students, which is an amazing support from our community um and the local organizations that help our students and we cannot make enough for them and for helping our students in their future pursuits. We also look back at that night here in the auditorium. Um was hosted yearly by the academia. So we thank them for doing that for our seniors. Last week was teacher appreciation week. Um we had individual kits came and we got gift cards breakfast from our national society and MFA. The board of education provided lunch on Friday. Uh if you happen to see a staff member since then please thank them for all the work they did for our kids. Our athletes of the
008week for the past month are Sophie Kern for track for baseball for baseball for softball for track and for softball. Uh, like I said, graduation is this Friday night at 7:00 p.m. Doors will open at 6. Please come watch our 70s walk across that gym and get their clothes. Any questions? Good evening. It's been a really busy couple last couple of months over at Hetting. Um, I want to start off with our character count. Our color of the month is the daily reflection for May. So the kids have been thinking about what is character uh what are the six pill colors of character that we have reviewed throughout the entire school year. How does the six pillars of character relate to your life and how can you use the six pillars to help make good
009decisions? Um we did on May 1st we did the domino serial wreck. I vis the third fourth and fifth graders help set that up. It was pretty amazing. It is out there on Facebook. I highly recommend going to our the Hetting Green School page and looking for it because it was pretty phenomenal. We had over 500 cereal boxes that were donated and each student was able to take home a cereal box at the end of the Domino. Um all of our life skills kiddos um and K5 kids went to the performing arts academy to see the Shrek performance and it was a huge hit. They loved that. So, thank you um providing that experience for them. We had bar days at the high school for all of our students as well. Um we were able
010to recognize two students through the Illinois Principles Association exceptional student recognition practice at Wu uh for fifth grade. So two fifth graders, Ellie Der and Corbin Sticker were honored. Uh the students were nominated by their classroom teachers um and they should exemplify qualities that reflect what our school means to the students and to the greater school community. And those two students do that. So they were pretty excited to be able to get out of school for a half a day, go up to Western and have breakfast and be honored. Um we also honor teachers at night at the ROE excellence and education reception. Uh the teachers that were recognized at heading Michelle Sunderland, first grade, Julie Vicky prek, and Chris Peterson prek. Michelle was the recipient of our excellence in education. And then we also
011honor retirees and those three all relate to our retirement this year. Um, our kindergarters mentioned Zoo, we had fourth graders going to the YMCA to learn about water safety for the summer and um, you know, make sure you have a buddy when you go to the pool, that kind of thing. Black Life Skills had their field day with lots more special education over in Lincoln Park and that was a big hit. They even got some snow cones. So that was great. Um K4 held their end of the year grade level meetings working on predicted class list, MTSS intervention, reading math and um our SEAL programs. We had VIP uh VIP day uh yesterday. It was a huge hit. We had over 275 um VIPs come through our building and let me tell you the kids
012the smiles on their faces said it all. And then of course you know Mrs. Rall she is just phenomenal and she had the kids she did little skits with them that performed for their VIPs that too is on Facebook. So please you get a chance look at those videos they're super good and cute. Uh last day of prek was today and we'll tell you our two retiring um prek teachers had some tears. They are sad to see the kids go. They're sad to be having um they really have put in 34 plus years into teaching and um I'm kind of really sad to see them go. I've made some wonderful connections within the past two years. Um tomorrow you have time in your schedule, come out. Now we're doing our quiz bowl, students versus teachers.
013So we have third through fifth grade uh students that have signed up to be in the quiz bowl and we'll put them in the random wheel of names. We'll spin the wheel and we'll get to see who our contestants are going to be. Um for the students versus teachers is fun. It should come out at 1:30. Uh let's see. We have our third grade going to the Historical Society and the fourth grade going to John Public Library. Kindergarten went today to learn all about the reading program. Um, let's see. Mrs. Bassen, who's in the audience tonight, she is our Avon Public Schools Foundation teacher of the month for May. So, I'm excited to announce that. Uh, top top attendance. Yes. So, top attendance goes to Mrs. Mar's class with 97.53% of students in attendance for
014April. So, very excited about that. Our students of the month for April are kindergarten Riley Cordova, first grade Osborne, second grade Bishop, third grade, Tanner Johnson, fourth grade, TJ Randolph, and fifth grade, Heather Foreman. So, we are very excited about the month. We want to make sure we recognize that. We also had um two teachers that were recognized. Uh Michelle Sutherland was um nominated by a student for the KFM 95 teacher of the month Apple teacher Apple award winner. She received that last month as well. And then also our first year teacher Ellie Nixon. Uh she by love your classroom is teach train ride uh people that come into our building and kind of help us with behaviors and give teacher suggestions. Um they've been in and out of our building all year thanks to
015you guys for providing that. and they nominated uh Kelly Nixon as a first year teacher because she's really just soaked up everything that they have given her um to try her class and um and she's a wonderful first year teacher. So I look forward to having good things come out of her classroom as well. Um I think that's it. Any questions? All right. Good evening. First, we start April 16th, the Avon campus had several students participate in Miles of Smiles, which is our free dental checkup. It counts as the dental exam that they need before entering school and throughout their time in a town. Thank you to Mindy Evans for setting this up and running back and forth to classrooms to get the kids. Our Avon Elementary students have also been participating the ABC countdown
016that started on April 15th. So far, they've had a great time and are enjoying everything they're doing. They've done tie dying, chalk art days, extra recess, a lot of fun. And they also attended Barnyard Days last week. Some congratulations to Cayla Batson, our teacher of the month for May. And the IPA dinner winner was April Fagan who is a pair professional in Avon in the elementary rooms. She's with Mrs. Dar this year in first grade. And also Ricky Quinn at the high school. Congratulations to Chase Deford and Connor Jennings. Both boys have qualified for the state track meet this weekend. So we will be doing a clap out for them on Friday morning before they leave at 8:15. Good luck, gentlemen. Mrs. Winsky came down last week to talk with the eighth graders about their
017transition to high school. She talked to them about their electives and different options they have for the classes they can take and it was a big success. All of the kids are excited to come to high school. Can't wait to see all the activities they can be in in the different classes. Mr. Walters and I did our end of year interviews the last week of April and it's always one of my favorite parts of the year because we get to sit and talk with people about goals that they set for the year and what they accomplished. Um things we did well this year, things we can improve next year. It's always a great way to wrap up the year. And we also celebrated teacher appreciation week. Last week, the Avon campus enjoyed a nacho bar,
018mini cakes, breakfast provided by the PTA, lunch provided by the board, and an Amazon gift card as well. And then last night was our fifth and sixth grade orientation. Between the two grade levels, we had 118 people in attendance. And that is all for me. Do you guys have any questions? Thank you. This is Andrew. All right. Well, I'm gonna get to looking at some data here. So, you should have some star scores in front of you. And for our new board members, you're not familiar with what STAR is. STAR is an assessment tool that we use K through eight to basically benchmark students, see where they're at in reading and math at the beginning of the year. and then find out by the end of the year how much they have grown in all
019the skills that they've learned throughout the year. It is also an adaptive test. So what that means is as students take STAR, as they get questions correct, they keep getting more difficult and skill level. um students if they start getting them wrong, it kind of goes back and so that it finds the baseline of what that student's skill level is. So students who typically score very high on star to begin with, it is much more difficult for them to make a lot of growth throughout the year if we're teaching them at grade level. thus they try to provide those students with some more accelerated uh math and reading skills throughout the year. That's why as we dig into our um seventh and eighth grade classes, we've been providing the seventh and eighth grade hybrid math
020class and aluminum one class so that we can challenge those students and we can see greater growth. If you look at these scores, what I want you to first of all, if you're looking at the reading star scores um at the beginning of the year, you're going to go, "Wow, 53% of those kids." And then bounce back. One thing I want to tell you about star for kindergarten is in kindergarten it's called STAR literacy and everything on there is read it. By the time first graders are taking it, then most of the first graders are taking the actual STAR Enterprise test by the end of the year and they're having to read it themselves. So, you'll see a big change in the number of students because that's their first time having to read any type
021of assessment on their own and answer questions. So, as you're looking through this, you will see that what we're looking at is fall state scores to spring state scores and then our actual grade average. You'll see when our students are coming in average wise for the entire class, we're scoring right from the get-go our students below the state level. But you have to remember this is all students across the state. So we have like a big gap sometimes to make up. Students coming into kindergarten may have a sixyear eight um skill level range that teachers are trying to teach to. So there's a lot of times that we're getting students that have never been in school with kindergarten. They have no school experience whatsoever. And so there is a lot of gap to make up
022there for those students. What we're looking at here, if you look then at our um percent of students meeting, we can look at these these scores and you're like, "Oh, wow. You know, we only have 25% of our students meeting when we get to third third and beyond." Those scores will typically correlate with ITAR said it would be very Illino assessment of readiness like and these would be fairly typical percentages of students who would be at the level. What we really focus on is you turn to that second page. It'll show you the breakdown of percentage of students in the fall to spring in each one of the cortiles. Students who percentage of students who scored below the 25th percentile all the way up to percentage of students who scored in the 75th percentile and
023above. What we're wanting to look at is from fall to spring, what percentage of students were moved into a higher cile? And so as you can see, we're pleased with really our math and that's where we really have been focused on is that higher percentage of students moved up into the 50 to 74 child in the 75th and above for child. Um that that's basically what we're trying to achieve during the course of the year is student growth and that's showing us that we are able to see student growth that we are trying we're working for because those percentiles um starting in order to test. So all students across the state of Illinois those percentiles change based upon the students how the students do all the way across the state of Illinois. So as students
024do the number of students who take it as they do better across the state of Illinois that's how the percentiles change for us as well. And so we're seeing that we're getting greater number of students in those quartiles and percentiles. So that's exactly what we want to achieve. Does it make sense to anybody? Okay. Yes. I guess you kind of reve. So then that one won't be doing as well where the other end it's going to get easier. That one's going to get better. So no. What that what it does is it finds that baseline you gave for that student. So it finds let's say a student starts missing some. So they start giving them a little bit of easier questions until they start getting them right and they kind of balance it out. So
025you find that baseline for that student of where their skill level is. Then the next time they take stars I'm hoping that they can start answering more. And that's when that that baseline starts going up for them and they start getting more difficult questions. But you have to remember again all the students that take STAR across the state of Illinois are doing the same thing. And so that's how the percentiles change because if you have two students who were at the same level to begin with and they both start taking it and one starts getting more right than the other one does, that changes that percentile for what that student would be. And so that that's kind of how it's added. But yeah, you're right. Those students who do very well to start to begin
026with, they do have a much more difficult time showing great growth. But that's part of what we look at as educators is how then can we offer acceleration for their students. Um provide them with some more rigorous content so that they are continuing to grow rather than All right, moving on. Number nine, superintendent report. Sure. Uh, segue into that journal entry. If you remember a couple months ago, we had to move the journal entry because of our u uh our audit. So, now we're moving to the next audit. So now we have to move things again. So that's what that journal line on it would be for us to do that to make that look right for our auditors. Also, you have a copy of the auditor's report with you. We did very well. Um,
027a lot of the same things kind of came up with uh handling cash and different things that districts have right now. That's you have a lot of districts that are going cashless. Um, I think there's uh something to be said about that, that's for sure. Um, we haven't quite done that. We've done it with some ticketing and some things at some events, but we haven't been totally cashless. Uh, but that was the main things. You've always got to have things in place when you're counting money that you make sure that more than one person's with you. Uh, little things like that that fall into place. Um, but Whipley does a really good job. We have a really good relationship with them. Uh, and they are very, very thorough. So, I trust them immensely. We've already
028got our date set for next year. They'll be on site with us in September uh to do our audit for this past year as well. So, we would like to get those journal entries straightened out. These are straight from them. We go we work with them on when we make those changes. uh recognition and congratulations to our seniors class of 20 2025. Congratulations. Uh it's a big deal for everybody in the district cuz so many of those kids started in kindergarten prek and now they're graduating. You can't hardly believe it. So you kind of age yourself with that. So congratulations to them. Congratulations to our staff and our leadership team uh for finishing up. We're going to finish up another really good year. Uh kids did well. We saw growth in student achievement. We saw
029some really great things happen in our extracurriculars. Uh just a lot of really good things. A lot of people in our district working extremely hard uh for the kids of our community. Um I did share my report with you guys. If you had any questions or anything I shared with you, then I'd be glad to chat with you about that. Is the um tax rate that's set for this year, is that the same as last year? Correct. 474. And that's what it was last year as well. It was $476 or 78. Okay. 79. Do you know 79? Do you know ballpark of how many dollars we're getting on tax money from? A little over $6 million. Over $6 million. Mhm. What [Music] um what do you think our financials will look like start of school
030next year? We should be looking at uh probably I've got projections done on our budgets for the next up through 2030 that I'll share with you guys uh that I worked with our auditor on to get that. So I'll share that with you. Okay. We should be looking pretty good. It'll show our reserves going back to growth. Yes, that's the big that's the plan. Anthony, that if you remember, that's what we talked about at the beginning of the year that we want to move it to the other direction. Now, we've spent some good money, now we want to move back the other direction. Correct. Good question. Anybody else have any questions for Bill? Okay. Move on to item number 10, new business. We don't have to make a motion for any of this. This is
031just discussion, correct? Okay. Item 10.1, current openings. You like to share anything? at this time. Two, annual financial report. Yeah, that's that's our audit that we have right there. Some light reading for you at night time. It's really good. Yeah. 85 pages. All right. Section 10.3, uh, bid from Ultimate Concrete Coatings Build. You want to talk about what that's Yeah, sure. That's to finish the the floor in our shop in the U middle school. Uh, as they do work, you want to put a decent floor down for them. Um, we weren't sure how that was going to turn out once the construction was done. And then the other piece that we wanted to do was to start in on the uh bathrooms here at the high school. So we already have partitions that we purchased
032last year if you remember. Um and then we want to do the floors. That's been kind of a bugaboo here at the high school and we like to get those cleaned up and and looking good. How many bathrooms you do? Two. Just the two. Yeah. We're going to start with that and then we'll do two more. We'll add on each year. I'll I'll pass that down when it comes back to you. But for roughly 3,500 square foot of flooring, how many? 3500. Same gentleman that did uh he did the bathrooms um all over the district. He did them at Heading and uh and uh the middle school. Does a really nice job. Any questions on that? Okay, moving on. 10.4 bid from AMP companies. Um the AMP he'll show you that they bid us on
033a 4 ton and a five ton. One or the other? Um Oh, okay. This one uh this air particular was in the vocational wing uh and it's gone bad. So, it needs to be replaced. One of the other five ton or four ton HVAC stuff just it's time to replace it. Just was it 12? It was 12450 or 12750. The 5 ton is $12,750 and the 4 ton is $12,450. I would assume you would put the 5 ton in. That's correct. That's what the one they wanted. She has field differently. Any questions? One cent. This is all one cent. For those of you that didn't hear, Rick asked if that was coming out of the general fund or the 1-centent sales tax. Both of these bids being considered will come out of the 1-centent sales
034tax. Yeah. All right. 10.5. Review journal entries for transfers from money market account to general fund. That's the one I talked about earlier. It's the same thing. We got him do the proper journal entries to make sure that we do that. Correct. For 1.5. No, it won't be the whole thing. It won't be. No, no, no, no. Uh-uh. We won't take it all out of it. Just just what what what we need to balance it at this point. Correct. Yep. Just to stay balanced. That makes me feel better. All right. 10. The 313 then or you going higher? It'll Well, we won't have to because we do have uh revenue coming in. We still have revenue coming in from our our grants. So we have close to a million dollars yet that has to come
035in of money we laid out and put out for grants that has to come back to us from Isby. You talked about that in your report. Maybe you elaborate on that front. That's a state grant, right? We got correct. So more money coming with your grants with your grants that you put out that we and we have quite a few of them. Um you have to put the money out first and then you get reimbursed. So then um it ends up probably towards this time we put our expense reports in and then is we reimburse it and we're sitting on right at a little over a million dollars that we have coming back to us. They have a million that they're going to reimburse us. Correct. That is correct. That's how it works. They don't
036give you the money upfront anymore. Do they got a deadline of payment or is it just whenever they get around to it? When they feel like once you put it in, it sits there until they decide to pay it. So, I'm sure they have a process like this where it gets approved. So, you wait till that process happens. So, they're going to reimburse us and take it out of the taxpayers. There you go. Yeah. You're not You're getting it. All right. Any other discussion on that topic? All right. 10.6 vehicle purchases through full service community school grant. This is what uh Michelle talked about last month. Uh us purchasing a couple of vehicles and then we get reimbursed from the roe. We actually lease it to them and then we end up with the the
037vehicles at some point. This was a federal grant. Correct. That is correct. Where's the vehicles going to come from? Pardon me. Where's the vehicles coming from? They'll come Well, they they'll look at Yam, they'll look at every everybody. I think they went to several different dealerships. Um, yeah, just because we have to meet those those criteria for the purchase. So, we're just asking for authorization to do the bid. Correct. Actual bid of they want the chance to and then we'll put the final bid in front of it. Do you have anything to add on? Do you want it again? Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead and Yeah. Sure. Put that in front of him. Heather schools. She's the one that got this. She can give you more information about these levels. But that's actually based upon the
038lowest bid that they receive. [Music] It's a good deal. It's a good deal for us. Any other questions, comments? All right, moving on. 11.1 consider approval for AFR 24. Do I have a motion? So move. I have a second. What's this for? The report. Oh, yeah. Is Sarah speak up for me here? No. No, we're good. Any discussion? No discussion. David Rick, yes. Anthony, yeah. Sarah, yes. Johny, yes. Myself, yes. Yes. Moving on. 11.2. Consider approval bid from Ultimate Concrete Coatings LLC. I have a motion. I'll make that motion. I'll second. Any discussion? David. Anthony. Yes. Sarah. Yes. Chanty. Yes. Myself. Yes. Rick. Yes. Ford. Yes. 11.3. Consider approval bid from AMP Companies. Uh can we add uh well let's make the motion and then we'll discuss uh can I make a motion for the
039we want to make it for the certain unit. Let's open it. We'll make it for the unit that Okay. Well motion. Yep. Okay. Rick second chanty. All right. So are we in agreement that we would like to make it for the five ton and not the four ton? Okay. Any discussion? All right. So for the five ton approval for the five ton, not the four ton. Correct. Write that down. Yep. David. Sarah. Yes. Yes. Myself. Yes. Rick. Yes. Anthony. Yes. Yes. 11.4. Consider approval of transfers from money market account to general fund. Can I get a motion? I'll move. I'll second. Any discussion? So, what what's the exact dollar amount that's being moved, Bill? Out of that CD? I can't hear you. What What's the exact dollar amount out of that CD? It's already 300.
040It'll be just over 350. Okay. We'll go over just a little bit. Well, you changed my mind since it wasn't going to be the whole 1.5. No, we good. David Sarah, yes. Chanty, yes. Myself, yes. Rick, yes. Anthony, yes. Yes. 11.5 Consider for approval vehicle purchase through full service community grant. I get a motion. So move. [Music] I'll second. Any discussion? Is Is everybody good with them purchasing this and not leasing this? Well, we want to be able to own them at the end. So, we lease it first, right? And then we No, the district is going to buy them out of the transportation fund and then they're going to lease it back. And they're going to lease back. Yes. Correct. Back. Okay. Okay. David. Chanty. Yes. Myself. Yes. Rick. Yes. Anthony. No. Sarah. Yes.
041Court. Yes. [Applause] All right. Uh, do we have we need to go to executive session? Not. Does anybody have a motion or reason to go to executive session? Yeah. I don't brought up. Okay. Item number 13, action items. Possible action items. Consider approval for the May 2025 personnel report. Can I get a motion? I'll make the motion. Second. I'll second. Chanty. Discussion. Any questions? No discussion. David. Anthony. Yes. Sarah, yes. Johnson, yes. Myself, yes. Rick, yes. Cory, yes. Number 14, discussion items. Um, it's been brought to my Madison Schultz, uh, would like to address the board. She requested. She requested. Yeah, it's good. [Applause] Science chair. Um, from what I understand, he pled guilty to the charges of possession of child pornography, um, and was expected to register as between the years of 2017 and
042the year of 2017. I understand that he is not he has the right to attend school functions. That is his right. He's not necessarily meant to he doesn't have to continue to register. I understand. But I do believe that there's a moral obligation that our school and our staff has to make a judgment as to whether it's appropriate for him to attend and for him to participate in these functions. If he comes in on his own and I agree can't stop but I think that myself as a parent I heard from our staff members were very concerned that this was about to happen. Um, I do have a few questions. I would I would love to hear some feedback. I'd like to know um when was staff when was the whole school system made aware
043that it was working that he was who he was. I also do have some questions as to I saw that there's a new safety school policy over vetting who's going to come and participate in that event. I'd like to know what the polic was prior to the amendment to this. Um, I do also feel like there needs to be some accountability and an apology given to the community because I understand accidents happen. It was skimmed over in the policy to acknowledge that something that happened with somebody, but there was no accountability and no policy. How are we to trust our children being whenever somebody that is a child pet was allowed to come into our school and participate is just absolutely unacceptable. I I understand you guys may not necessarily be directly related to the
044situation, but I definitely would really respect you more if you guys could open an internal investigation to figure out what happened, how it was allowed to happen or the events that to where this could have been prevented. We're very frustrated, very upset, very hard. My children are in her care and skipping over it. It's been what almost a month and a half now since the science fairs happened and the lack of accountability makes me feel like I I just sent my children to school at the moment. Um, it's very difficult for me to think that I can safely know that my kids are safe at school and then turn come up around and find out somebody who was in possession of a child or not and was allowed in our school to participate in something.
045You know, I definitely think there investigation when it brought to staff members attention, what kind of comments were made whenever they were made aware of it. I love to just acknowledge that's all I ask and thank you for your time. Thank you. Any other discussion items? One other discussion item. There seems to be somewhat of a misunderstanding about location of our meetings. I know last week at the meeting I complained about it being at the library needed more room but it was thought that it was said that basically all meetings would be here. Now I don't remember that part of it. I'm not saying it wasn't. I just know that I said I didn't have a problem with the times and the dates just here at the library. So, do any of you remember you
046just meant when we meet in Abington, we would meet here, right? Yeah. Still going to Yeah, that's what's on the calendar. We're going to still alternate going down to Avon, right? Still the flex. Well, I think the discussion was all um any Abington Library meetings were to be changed to the auditorium. Yeah. But that doesn't change. Flex room was going to stay correct. Correct. In Avon and that's what's on the calendar. So, we heard you. Well, I I know you heard me. I made sure of that. [Music] Um, are you referring to the public comment that was just made? Yeah. Um, is she I would like to get with her after the meeting to to set something up. of our children in this school. Okay. I I understand I understand your concerns. I understand your
047concerns. This is not an open forum. This is not an open forum at this moment. We we it we made it [Music] clear to the community. Can we at least get guaranteed that there's going to be an investigation into the head and principal as to why she let us reach out to me at the end of the meeting. Please come up to me. I will set up individual meetings for every single one of you who has any concerns. We will gladly discuss this with you. This is not the time to do it at this moment. This is what this meeting is. This is what this is for. Are you willing to have that discussion with us all openly together? Yes. If the board can discuss it, we can discuss it also. All right. Any other
048discussion items? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for Can I get a motion for a No, I have some questions about the budget, please. you have opportunity on I apologize. Okay. I please please reach out to me after the meeting. I'll be glad to have a discussion with you about the budget about setting up the meeting to discuss whatever you would like. We're here to help facilitate and get issue answers. You have an opportunity to begin the meeting to make any comments. This is for board matters to handle business discussions between the public and board. He'd be happy. I mean, I just had a general question about the the tax levy that was just We're we're going to adjourn the meeting here in two seconds and I'll I'll I'll have that. Okay. Sure. Can
049I get a motion for it? All signify by saying I