001Ice to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Kramer, yes. Jensen, yes. Andrea, yes. Brooks, yes. Rick, yes. Thurman, yes. Ser, yes. At this time, we'd like to have the opportunity for public comment with Kylie Johnson. Hi everyone, my name is Kim Johnson and I have been a part of this level team for the past two years. Today I'm speaking not just as a player, but as someone who's grown under the guidance of an incredible coach, Miss Nikki. When I first joined the team, I was shy, unsure of myself, and not the strongest player. Coach didn't just teach me how to serve or attack the ball. She taught me how to believe in myself. She
002never gave up on me for any of us. Whether we're winning championships or struggling through tough games, she stood by us, pushing us to be better people. Better not just as athletes, but as people, Coach Nikki creates space where we feel safe, supported, and challenged. She's more than a coach. She's a mentor, a role model. And she taught us discipline, respect, teamwork, and resilience. There are lessons we will carry for the court. Losing her wouldn't just take wouldn't just hurt our team. It would take away a leader who genuinely cares about our growth and our future. We're not just fighting for our win for our wins. We're fighting for a heart of a team of our team. Please consider everything she has done. Not just stats or records, but in the life she shaped us.
003She shaped. We need to touch Mickey. I hope you will let her continue doing doing what she does best, helping girls like me become strong, confident, and at this time we have a scheduled visitor who is leading the middle school robotics. I'm Conor Patch. I'm our team captain. Uh there's Wolf, Katie, Paul, Landon, Matt. We have a few other members of the team that cannot join us tonight. Okay. Uh we would like to uh demonstrate our robot run uh our innovation project for and just robots. Can we get up and move around the table then? Yeah. If everybody get up and come on around the table together, we'd like to show you guys. Actually, yeah. We're going we're going to do something first on this table. So, at the competition, uh, we won, uh, we
004won coolest robot, right? So, we won coolest robot design. We won it with the robot that he has in his hand, but this is a demonstration of what that robot can do. So, it was the only three-wheel robot in the entire state. And those are called uh omnidirectional wheels. So most robots can move forward, turn left, turn right, move backwards. This one, as you can see, can move in any direction at any time. How do you come up with that idea? Uh, we saw it online and then, uh, Max Dismitt actually built it. Okay. So, u, and we tried using it in competition. Um, unfortunately, we realized why we were the only three robot. That's the reason. Now, it did get almost 5,000 views on YouTube because we're the only one that was doing it,
005which is pretty neat. Um, at the competition, you they had five awards and we were one of them that got it out of around 60 teams. It's a pretty good deal to So, what's the difference between that the competition? Uh, this robot uh doesn't have a place so where we could put attachments to actually solve missions. Oh, okay. So this one it's got a separate motor entirely where we can uh add attachments and stuff like that. Yeah, this is the one that we ended up using. So we we started out with this and wanted to attach a motor to the front of it. So we clearly think this design is this Lego what is all so everything at lll has to be legos Lego does not make an omniirectional wheel they make wheels like the
006blue ones that you see on uh that's actually that robot's name is Pop-Tart so uh so we had to design our own so so we designed our own wheels and those were Lego parts that we ordered from China because LEGO doesn't sell some of those in America. Uh so it was a giant hassle. Customs actually rejected the first order. We ordered them again. Uh and it was before the tariffs. So we're pretty happy about that. But uh everything it was neat. It was a cool idea. Unfortunately, just wasn't very accurate. Yeah, Lego has to be accurate within like a tenth of an inch. So when the robot moves, we tell it to move 9.23 in. Right. and it will do a pretty good job with the wheels that are on it. With that, it made
0079 in or maybe 9 and 12 in. It just we couldn't get it out. So, you're the pro robots are programmed to move a certain in a certain configuration. Yeah. You'll see uh some some of the basic rules is on the mat. You'll see two uh quarter circles. The only time the team members are allowed to touch it is if it's inside that circle. You cannot have a remote control. Uh, everything is programmed. So, uh, Nelly, if you'll show, hold up one of the programs. This is the programming for this year's robot. Uh, come on around, Landon, and show them. Sorry, Paul, and show them. So, this is kind of what the programming looks like. Uh, we use some stuff that other teams don't use that has a built-in gyroscope. Um, you know when you
008turn your phone sideways, the screen turns sideways. That's because of a gyroscope. Uh, Lego, we start out with just this little yellow brick. It has a gyroscope built in. So, when it turns, uh, it can tell between 1° all the way to 360. So, we can make it turn 43° to the left, 37° to the right. Lots of teams don't know how to do that. We created our own program to help make it do that more accurately with the my block driver turning driver straight. Yeah. So, and we thought that would help that robot and it did sort of but not working. So, for a competition, I'm assuming you guys are given a mission, so to speak. So, 15 missions, you get two and a half minutes to solve as many as you can. Um,
009unfortunately, I mean, we still did well, relatively speaking, but, uh, at our competition, we actually scored the lowest we'd scored the whole year, which was disappointing. Uh, but we still brought home a cool trophy. That is all that matters. So, um, but AAN in general, uh, previous competition. Yeah. Yeah. We've been, uh, a in general. So, there are no classes. There is no 1 2838. Uh our schools go against schools in Chicago, St. Louis, Champagne, Springfield, Decar, uh you know, all over the state. Um and then those scores are posted online. And one year we had third highest in the country, one year was fit. So, uh yeah, this program is doing really well. I explained to the kids uh the odds of becoming a professional athlete are pretty slim. Becoming a a professional programmer
010or computer engineer way higher odds way higher odds. Um so schools invest a lot of money in sports a lot. Uh we are very thankful that the school has sponsored this as well. Um, but this is it for the kids. Uh, once this is done, we'd like to see it in high school. I'm willing. Bring it. That'd be awesome. It It is It is quite a bit of money just to get started. And you need people to volunteer. They have VR jobs. The cost. If you really want to be good, it's like 10 grand. I mean, it's it's a lot, but uh when you do that, kids fund raise. I mean, it's not just school paying for it. Kids have to fund raise. Uh there are schools that spend like 20,000, but that's an initial
011investment. Um after that investment, those parts are good for years and years and years. They're made, they don't use Lego. They use real metal. Like you learn how to weld, you learn how to uh a lot more problem solving. Um and it's it's super serious. uh competitions are held at Bradley. So with this you get one or two or three competitions a year. With FTC you may get 10. So and then go to nationals and do other pretty impressive things. So uh I don't know if you guys know who Matthew Smith is. Um so I also help coach a 4H robotics. Um and that's paid for we actually go through Warren County. Uh Max we did so well last year at our competition. It was Max, his little brother, and JT Spire. We scored the
012highest ever scored in the tournament. Yeah, first year doing it. Uh, we got rookie year or rookie of the year team, uh, rookie performance and grand champions. So, because of that, Max got invited to a ISU camp that was only for 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. Max was an eighth grader. So, uh, Max also got to, uh, work with Apple, uh, programming. They sent him an iPad and a and an iPen. He's, uh, also going to be a mentor at that same camp this year and is in line to get a full ride. Can you go ahead and show us some of the things that you need to accomplish here? Yeah. Actually, everybody come up and around if you could so you can see it better. Uh, So, I'll sort of explain what's going to
013happen or what should happen. Nothing's perfect. Remember, this is still a toy. This is really expensive. Yeah, $500 toy. Um, so as you can see, this whole season was underwater. Everything's drained off four categories. So you got your table run, uh core values, you got innovation project and robot. Yeah. So uh the first run you're going to see is uh this program. So it's and the kids have to come up with all this stuff. So, this mission will gather loose objects from the board and set us up for future missions where we store most of our Y this is the same size scale in the competition. Everybody uses the exact same thing. Uh everybody nationwide, worldwide for that matter uses the exact same board. So in competition there's a time limit. Uh you are only
014allowed a few minutes to actually run everything. Here we will not be going for speed because we don't want to embarrass ourselves. So, we're the last practice. We haven't messed with this since last December. So, it's been Yes. Yeah. Wrong one. Number three. No, you still right. You got it right. Turn right. August is Yeah. We hope to get it. If it starts August, like first week of Labor, we'll release it and we buy it. We have to wait for it. Yes. Okay. Turn around. I don't think so. No, turn around. I don't know what's going on. That's okay. You're nervous for a while. We're fine. It has been a while. So, right there. There we go. So, what this mission will do is it will push up the coral reef. Normally, it'll get the
015shark out the cove. It'll flip the scuba diver out. It's been It'll normally flip that up and then raises the mask. Okay, that work. program to do all that. Yeah. So, it's all programmed. No, you cannot use remote controls. Everything has to be uh on its own. This mission will miss that tr. Yeah. So we normally have jigs where we set them against it for so we know the starting points but those have somehow been lost over the course of the last 6 months. So that is not one right wrong. There we go. So this mission is called artificial habitat. It will raise these artificial habitats and get us 50 or we get 40 points. You could get 50. Can get 50. So each task is different points. Absolutely. Normally we get we get three.
016So are all the teams given the same mission parameters and you build the robot and the program around the mission? Exactly. And everybody table, right? You built the table. They give you the insect thing. Yeah. And uh every robot looks completely different. And programming and programming is way different. Um we actually had more programming like more big sheets like this, but we actually gave them to other teams because they didn't know how to use a job. So this attached group uh will dump the krill which we've gathered with the first mission and dump them into the mouth of the wind. This is this is probably the coolest attachment. So watch the the whale's mouth if it lines up right. If not, we're going to run to you until it does. Hold on. We're not All
017right. So that and that would be our two and a half minute run. Excellent. Oh, go ahead. Yeah. So that's one thing we do. Um we have every kid program. Every kid gets to build. Every kid gets out on the innovation project and every kid gets their own robot. So the robot run is less than half of the decision to make it past. Yeah. We've had the third highest scoring in in the country and still not qualified for state. Wow. So you have to do well on all four categories. Core values, the robot design. When when we had the third highest score, it was just me coaching and I'm not a teacher. So u we got Miss Man Jerry in on the the last two years and we've been far more successful. She was pretty
018angry last year when we didn't make it and and we really stepped our game up with this. But just so everybody knows, when we did the competition, we went to it. Miss Jerry decided she would pull out our aquarium that we made. Dropped it on and then dropped it on the ground. Yeah, she said she did it on purpose. She seemed mad that she had to get up that early. Uh but we still fixed it and and carried on with the competition. We got some really We actually got some AT. Yeah. Um, in the competition, uh, we almost qualified for, uh, an extra award because of our innovation project this year. We did get an exe, which are extremely rare. Yes. Yeah. I mean, it's your So, but we do have more trophies to add
019to the trophy case. Last year, we had highest robot score indicator. The year before that we had highest robot score somewhere else it was it might have been indicator it was indicator so two highest scores indicator I know and then this year we got the coolest robot design and like I said there'll be uh anywhere between uh 40 and 60 teams at the competition there's only five and there's only like a total of six slots move on to the state yeah and only five or six slots move on the state And like I said, we used to really really concentrate on robot performance. Unfortunately, you need a lot more than that. We didn't do that as much this year and it's still very high, but um we did do a lot better on like innovation
020projects. Oh, absolutely. So, generally, how many kids do you have? What's the average? This year was the biggest team. Yeah, we had 10 this year, which is the max you can have on last year was six, I think. So, but the year before that was five. Um if you guys So it can actually be from fifth grade through 8th grade. That's the age range. Um we have some fifth graders that want to participate this year that couldn't because of the way it works. Next year we have four or five fifth graders that want to participate probably. As long as you get somebody to coach and you literally need to know nothing about nothing. I'm a dummy. So he can knock right. But but no, actually he's gonna come back with you today. Conor is actually
021gonna come back next year and mentor one of So yeah, uh it really is a cool program. Um like I said, uh the odds of becoming a professional ball player, even going to college based on sports is pretty slim. you getting into college because you're good at engineering, good at programming, you're good at problem solving is really good. Uh Caterpillar is a major sponsor in our area. Uh Caterpillar, John Deere, uh in the Chicago area, Motorola is one of the bigger sponsors. Yeah. Two years ago, C sponsored. Yeah. Two years ago, Caterpillar sponsored the whole team. So, I coached it out of my basement because the school wasn't doing it at the time. Uh but yeah, this year it was really nice. Like you said, the the school my wife designed that logo a couple
022years ago. You did? Yeah. It's a couple years old. Yeah. But anyway, it's a cool program and we would love to continue it and if anybody wants to help, the more help the marriage. Um it it would be nice. It is a super long season. We start in August, we finish like in January. You get up to three competitions. Yeah. And it's two practices a week. Um, and then on Saturdays I'd have them come in for three or four hours at a time. Yeah. Sometimes more. There'll be some I with Yeah. Sometimes we come in on Sundays just to make sure every everything doesn't. It is definitely a commitment. I had to do it during basketball and football. I can't even run. I will say that the coaches this year uh previously Connor was afraid
023of miss practice like for basketball or whatever he was doing. Um, so was Max. Uh but we talked to the coaches this year and they realized the importance of the program and said, "Yeah, if if we know that's where they're at, have them go." So, which is really that was a big bonus this year. So, cuz we were it was a struggle last year being able to do that. And it wasn't the kids' fault. I just never explained to the coaches, hey, this is what we need. Yeah. So, with stuff, like I said, I was going to call Max and have him tell you about his opportunities, but being able to get a full ride to college is a big deal. Thank you, Mr. Bergen. I have approval of the agenda motion. Oh my god.
024Second. Andrew. Yes. Brooks. Yeah. Rick. Yes. Thin. Yes. Yes. Jensen. Yes, sir. Yes. Do I have a motion for the consent agenda, please? So, is there a second? I'll second. Brooks, yes. Rick, yes. Thurman, yes. Yes. Jess, yes. Andrea, yes. Yes. Move on to principal reports. Mrs. Anderson, good evening. our screen musical, the Putnham County Fountain held on March 14th through the 16th. Um, we had to give up the first night because there was some weather that came through and we just felt it was safer that way. But in the end, the musical was a hilarious event. It showed great tons of our students. Um, the cast was amazing. Miss Murray, Miss Nanigay, and um, all the others that make it success. Thank you so much. It was a great um on Sunday, March 23rd,
025the National Honors Society held their annual induction ceremony. We had seven new members inducted. Um, and new officers for next year were chosen. Congratulations to all. There is a picture on the second page of who was inducted if you want to see who got in. Um, winter sports awards were held on March 25th in the AHS auditorium. Athletes of basketball, bowling, and cheer were all recognized. This this three times a year sports awards has become the chef's kiss as far as I'm concerned to make sure that all of our kids are recognized and it's all done in a timely manner and it's it's great. So, thank you Reed for putting those together and making that an easy forum for us to have that done for our kids. The Key Club held a pie in the
026face fundraiser for Cooper Bricks family last month. They collected around $200 for Cooper's family. Mrs. Smith, Mr. Foster, and Mrs. Brit were chosen to be pied in the face. I was not for the first time in my history as a principal, and I'm not sad about it. Um, there's also a picture of that happening because I've stopped smiling because it wasn't me. Um the FFA alumni held their annual banqueting on March 28th. This year the chapter's annual banquet and the alumni banquet were put together into one event at the high school. Um very well attended as always. Um it was the group raised a significant amount of money for that supports our FFA chapter. They have an auction every year. They and I just I cannot tell you how much we appreciate that as a
027school district and as an FFA mom. Um the support that you give our students. During the banquet, three seniors were awarded scholarships. Morgan Tracy, Carly Powell, and Joel Featherland from the um alumni. Joel Featherland was also awarded the D Chandler Memorial Award. Three graduates, they graduated last year, were honored for completing their American degree, which is the one you do after you graduate from high school. Um Addie Anderson, Jake Sutherland, and Riley Hall. Mrs. Winsky was given an honorary chapter FFA degree for her support of the chapter. And the new officers for 2526 were installed. There were a lot more awards given, but I'd be here all night inviting you all. Um, on Friday, March 28th, we had two students participate in the indoor state track meet, Jamil Johnson and Carter Stroop. Uh, congratulations to
028both state qualifying athletes. Um, also to further take that, congratulations to Carter Stroop for placing second in the 200 and fourth in the 400 at the state indoor track meet. Carter is one of the top 50 runners in the entire state of Illinois in both the 200 and 400 and the number one junior in single A. Um, in fact, he's already beat every personal record he had from last year. Um, and is working on just getting even better. Um, he's one of the hardest kids I've ever met in the sport. So, he's amazing. Um, he also set new school records in all those events. We tomorrow is ACT day. We're so so excited about that. God, I hope it works. It has not worked correctly for a single school district so far. Last year we
029took the SAT. State mandated to take the SAT. This year they changed it to ACT. So it's our first year doing ACT. Thank God Margie is amazing and has worked diligently to make that process as smooth as possible. So if everybody could just say a little prayer that it goes well tomorrow, we appreciate it. How long will that be? Half a day or it it it depends. There's different time frames depending on whether you're taking the ACT as a junior, sophomore, or freshman. Um, if you have special accommodations, it could be all day, it could be noon, it it just it depends at the school. Yeah, we're doing at the school. We the seniors are job shadowing or doing college visits tomorrow. So, we literally divided the building into the other three grade levels so
030that they can test in their kind of pod area. Juniors have to take it. Juniors have to take it. State man, well, everybody has the the freshman, sophomore, and juniors. State mandate have to take it. It only really counts for the juniors, but colleges don't even care about it anymore. It really will help you get scholarships and academic money. That's about it. So, um, but the state makes the state that you have to take. So, congratulations to our athletes of the week for the past month. Carter Street for track, Jacob Hall for basketball, and Emma Gunther for softball. Prom was held um April 5th at the Balkan Gailsburg. Uh Bob, if you're still in this room, I cannot thank Bob enough. Um, our DJ dropped out on us a week before prom and there was
031slight panic. Um, but Bob stepped up and the kids had a blast at prom. So, thank you. Yeah. You know who did homecoming? Me. You know who they didn't call for prom? Me. Wasn't me. Wasn't me, Bob. You know what they said after homecoming? This is the greatest. And then crickets. Well, here's what here's what I learned, Bob. I won't have to next year. Okay, I put together an entire prom binder now because the we can't figure out what to do for prom is never happening again on my watch. So, there's now a prom binder with Bob's phone number in changing it. Good luck. Yes, um this year's theme was Arabian Nights. We had over 130 students and 13 shops attend this year. Um thank you to the junior class sponsors for an amazing event.
032It the kids had a blast. So, uh freshman orientation will be held on April 30th. uh all incoming freshmen and their parents are invited to meet the high school staff tour through the building and get information regarding the change from middle school to high school. That night, we will also hold a resource fair hosted by our full service community grant. That event will feature 30 plus local businesses and resources for our community members in the um gym. So, you can come out. You you can come to both events if you want. You can come to just the resource fair if you want. If you're a freshman parent, get it all. I also put a list of other dates like spring break signing day. We're having a signing day this year, an official signing day at
033the high school. Um, senior awards, those kind of things. They're all in there for you guys to see. Questions? Questions? Great. Thank you. Y, this is Sharpie. Good evening, everyone. Um, so for our celebrations, uh, for this month, our third council pillar of the month is decision making. Um, what the kids are are learning about right now is we all have the power to decide what we do and what we say. and we are responsible for the consequences of the decisions we make. Um, April 9th, which is today, first grade went to the bank, uh, the Rarin Bank for a field trip. And let me tell you, those kids were so excited because they were going to see the big vault with all the money. So, that's all I heard is they were lining up
034in the hallway to get ready to get all the stuff. They wanted to see all the money in the book. Um, we are currently doing all of our a testing and we are finishing tomorrow with the third math test. We're really excited about that. Um the kids have been doing really well. Um they haven't been stressed or anything. They are loving the snacks that you guys have provided for them. Um they're getting water, they're getting body armor to drink. Um they also have been provided with like banana bread and just kind of little snacky stuff. So while they're taking the test, if they need to take a little breather, they have a little snack and continue on with the test. and that seems to keep everybody on just an even keel. Um, kindergarten registration is
035going to be April 14th from 4 to 6 is our evenings time and April 23rd when we come back from spring break from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. is our daytime slot. So, there will be no kindergarten or beginner garden classes on the 23rd. Uh, so that we can continue with the kindergarten registration. Our science night is April 15th from 5:30 to 7:00. I hope you guys can all come out and check out these science fair projects that the third, fourth, and fifth graders have been really working hard on um to prepare. This is kind of their let down after the AR test in the afternoon, they've been doing their science fair projects, which is we all love project based, you know, learning and it's a lot of fun, right? So, um the kids are
036really excited about showing off. We also have uh the Platinum Museum from uh Davenport coming down with our outreach program and they'll have activities in our cafeteria as well um with like putting circuits together, making tornadoes, building the tallest tower out of cars and weights and all kinds of fun for our kids. And we'll also have our popcorn um available for free. And then our also our ABC countdown. And I can't believe this. The ABC countdown begins on April 15th and it starts with a town pride. Wear your a town spirit wear. Um we go through every letter of the alphabet till the very end of school and it's like we're we're starting this right now. I just I I can't believe May is right around the corner. Um, we also had kids sell uh
037popcorn uh with a popping popcorn fundraiser to help uh with our field trips that we take each spring. Um, so we have partnered with a limousine company and our popcorn fundraiser. So we have 23 students going to get to take a limo ride in Gailsburg and enjoy lunch at Culver and then come back. So, they're so excited about that. And that's happening on April 16th as well. So, um I I can't wait. The third grade field trip, they're going to education day at Dozer Park. Um so, they're very excited about that. Mrs. Henipin is the uh Abidan Avon Public Schools Foundation teacher of the month for April. Top attendance goes to Mrs. Wider's class with 97.06 students in attendance for March. So excited for them. Um, we have been busy collecting cereal boxes, full cereal
038boxes. Uh, Walmart has donated. Um, I want to say hi donated. We've also had parents donate, community members donate. Um, because we are Mrs. U. Thank you. Mrs. Anderson, pardon. Mrs. Anderson is planning on doing a domino with the cereal box cereal boxes that go through the hallways. and it's going to end in our new gym. And um so we're very excited about that. We're hoping to get that done right before spring break, kind of, you know, after testing's done, getting into spring break, kind of just having some mini celebrations. Um so we're excited about that. We also held our I assembly. Uh the K12 kiddos were dressed as superheroes and came out and were talking about what superheroes stand for and how they have superpowers and they correlated it with uh test taking strategies
039and they sang songs, they chanted, they cheered. Um the third and fourth graders, they uh participated in relay games and it was just a lot of fun and I think everybody enjoyed that day as well. And then we also have student of the month. So for March is kindergartener Riker Begner, first grade Jaylen Johnson, second grade Bryant Berdett, third grade Tenley Quinn, fourth grade John Smith, fifth grade Tilly Hillary, and life skills Carson Cordova. Um, we have a lot of things coming up for May. Um, so it's just going to be jam-packed. So that's all I have for tonight. Thank you. Questions, Mrs. Kramer. Good evening. On March 14th, students and staff celebrated Pi Day at the Avon campus. Um, as I mentioned in my last board report, um, students raised money for the Brace
040family. Um, the winning volunteers were pied at a whole school assembly. At the last board meeting, I didn't know who was going to win. Um, the teachers who were pied ended up being Mr. Bassin in third place, myself, Mrs. McCorter, Mrs. Combmes, Mrs. Luhan, and Mrs. Barnes. Mrs. McCorer and I were not supposed to be pied, but a last minute donor, Bill Willis, decided that we needed to be, so we too got pied. Thanks, Bill. Right. So, um, that was a kickoff for I test. Then we did some relays, um, tug of war. We just had a lot of fun that afternoon. Um, leading into the IR, big thank you to Darla who ordered breakfast for all of the students to take tests every day during the IR and the science test. Um, so every
041day they came out of my office, got a juice, got a breakfast item, and then went to their testing locations and Heather Gooding with the Twister program provided the reward. So students had to um show that they were focused on the test, use their scratch paper, take their time on the test, do the best that they can, and then they were rewarded with things like Gatorade. Um Slim gyms are a big hit every year. Um bags, chips, candy, and all of that was provided by the Twister program. And then we had students earn prizes through a raffle. So if they got a reward that day, they also got to put their name in a raffle item. Um, those will be passed out this week. Big thank you to Michelle for setting up the test and
042helping me get some makeup tests done. We are almost completely finished with testing. Can't wait. We held an open house for the community come tour the new remodel at the middle school on Monday, March 24th. In total, we had 198ish people who signed in, but the number was closer to 200 215 taking into account people we knew were there but didn't sign in that night. Um, we had rave reviews about the building and all of the new that we have brought to the district. Um, on Tuesday, March 25th, we had a family night through the Twister program. Students and their families were invited to come make quick meals. They made them on sandwich makers and then they got to take those sandwich makers home. We served 15 families that night, five of which were completely
043new, had never been to a twister event and three of those families brought additional students from other families with them. We have the next family night is going to be in conjunction with the community schools project. We'll be doing a resource fair and a family night on April 16th from 5 to 7. So hopefully you can all come to that. We'll be making bracelets. There will be over 30 vendors that are here um and resources in the community for our families. The eighth graders might see welcome to the real world on March 28th at Carl Sandberg. They had the opportunity to choose a career, work through budgeting, real life scenarios, um, with the jobs that they have chose and they had a great time as always. Thank you to Jess Wong for leading that experience.
044We wrapped up the five essential survey on Friday, March 28th as well. Our numbers this year were 22% of parents took the survey, which is a 14% increase from last year. 64% of a AMS staff took the five essentials. 9% rise from last year and this year 97% of the middle school students took the survey which is an increase of 15% from last year. The only 3% of students that didn't take it are six students who dropped to homeschool or have alternative placement. So every student that attended this building regularly every day took the five essential survey which is helpful for us making our school improvement plan. And then the teacher of the month this month was Sierra Snider. And I have current and future openings on the second page. Any questions? Right. Thank you,
045Mrs. Andrews. Um, every year at about this time, I ask the board for the approval of our district consolidated plan. And what that is is the plan for all of our grants going into the next year. And those grants would include ESA of 1965 which houses title one, title two and title four. Title one is for um basic programs for um at risk students and or lowincome students. We are K through eight, a schoolwide title one program, which any school who has 40% or district that has 40% or more of students that are low income can qualify for schoolwide programs. Several years ago, we um did all the work through um doing a needs assessment, a comprehensive plan to become schoolwide programs. That means that the money that we get through title one can be
046used for all students with no matter what um their socioeconomic statuses or at risk statuses within your schools and that's what we do. Title two is to um basically for professional development for our for all staff and that is what we use it for. Title four is used for can be used basically like title um one but also for improving student outcomes and we use that for all of our social uh social emotional learning um items that we get basically character counts through K through 8. Um, our title one funds are primarily spent on salaries and benefits of our pair of professionals that work with students for interventions and um also for our benchmark assessment programs star uh and or anything through Renaissance comes from our title one funding that we get and most of
047our um most of our learning apps for the for the sites that students issues the licensing for those are purchased through title one funds. So especially loving teachers when we are bringing any kind of professional development we're sending teachers out to conferences that is all grant funding that is through tit that is paying for those things and also some of the grants that go into the facility plan are IDA which is special education and IDA preschool where you preschool funding for um special ed students there as well. And so every year before I can even begin doing anything with any of those grants, I have to complete the consolidated plan, which basically is an outline of how those funds are going to be spent the next year. And so I have to have the approval
048of the board to be able to go ahead and do so. I could print out the entire consolidated plan for you, but you don't really want to spend hours looking through the however many pages. Um, basically everything I just told you is what those things those those funds are spent on yearly. Um, in the past we have also used those funds to help us maintain and sustain the technology that we have in this district, whether it be Chromebooks, iPads, um, any of the monitors that we have within the buildings. um the some title one funds, the furnishings that you see within this room right here were grant funds that we received um through title. So I'm going to ask you just a question since that was grant funding. Why are we able to buy furniture?
049Maybe you could elaborate on that. um within a schoolwide program. furnishings that go within classrooms, whether it be monitors that are actually used for student learning and or tables, chairs, whatever. or we need lighting even um can be used through title one funding because it is considered to improve the stu the environment for a student which is they considered through research that they that is out there that it improves student outcomes by having a um environment that is conducive to student learning. And so yeah, updating the furnishings, especially the um the types of tables that we had, you know, especially when we did um the classrooms years ago, even at heading and here when we got the furnishings that offered a collaborative setting for students with whiteboard top tables and um burn tables that students
050can sit around and collaborate around different monitors. is conducive to student collaboration, creation, communication, um, and critical thinking. And that's something that can be funded. So, it's directly funding directly to kids and learning. Yes. Correct. Absolutely. Thank you. Absolutely. Um, the next thing that I want to visit with you about, I'm going to give you this handout, is through our full service community grant. Uh Katie Jennings through the ROE because the ROE is helping us um with this grant gave me a call and yesterday and it was put in the budget through this grant for both the high school and the middle school because that's where the grant funding is going to get a vehicle that will be used to transport students that may have attendance issues. Um, believe it or not, there's lots of
051students that may have some attendance issues that may be involved with um have chronic fluency situation uh that we're working with. And a lot of times, especially at the junior high, if they live in Addington, um it can be a real transportation issue if they're not getting to where they need to get uh for to get on the bus each day. It we can't necessarily consider that to be their problem. It is our liability to get them to school um one way or another and to figure out ways to make them successful by attending school because otherwise they can't be successful. And also um through Service Community Schools grant, we're looking at helping families get students and maybe themselves to appointments that they need to because helping the whole family is part of helping our
052community and our students and be successful. Um a lot of times transportation really becomes an issue and with these having this vehicle at each building um paid for by grant funds um we can help those help families out a lot of times. I mean we've had situations even it was it was just a few weeks ago we had a student that had to get home. There was no one to take her home. So, I ran down and took her home, which I don't mind doing, but um there's not always that availability. And typically, the rule breaker that I am, we don't take students home in our own personal vehicles. Um because that's not really good practice, but it's not good practice. Um so what has occurred is we have approval through the grant for these
053two vehicles but they will only approve leasing these vehicles and part of the reason behind this is there's a little bit of a act now is the um organization that oversees the the full service community school grant funding in the state of Illinois. They are in Chicago. They have no understanding of how things work in rural schools and in rural communities. Um, in fact, it's a little bit amusing, um, but not that originally they had told, um, Katie, well, why can't if students need to get home? Why can't they just you just order a taxi or Uber or lift? Um because that's what they do there. And we she had a difficult time explaining to them that's not what happens in rural schools. They we don't have those things available. um they did not for
054schools that do need vehicles in the Chicagoland area for whatever reason, they just they just lease vehicles and back and forth they go. One of the caveats with this grant though is that there's sustainability and so that beyond the grant so beyond the four more years after this year that there we would have the grant we have to show that whatever we purchase with the grant is sustainable. Well, a lease can be sustainable, but if you'll see that breakdown there over the next four years that for 4 years of a lease of the vehicle, it would be like 375. Is it 375? 531. Yeah, 531. Okay. To purchase the vehicle outright is 435. Well, at the end of a 4-year lease, that's returning the vehicle and having nothing left. For $5 more,000, we can purchase
055the vehicle outright, have the grant reimburse us monthly for the lease, and have a le have a vehicle at the end of the five years. What that would require is though that the district purchase the vehicle upfront and then the grant pay monthly the lease amount back. So all I'm asking you is to look this over, think about it. This is not something for decision making. Of course, tonight is not even on agenda. This is just information for you guys to look over, to think about um and possibly something to put on the agenda in the future because um to be able to get these vehicles. They're only approving a lease at this point in time. We can go ahead and lease them for four years. The grant will just pay the lease every month.
056It's no cost to the district up front. Or you can look at doing it where if we purchase the vehicles upfront, we get reimbursed monthly for the lease amount. We then have $5,000 more, you know, on top of that that we've paid out, but we've ended up with a vehicle basically than build equity of it. Yeah. Yeah. We end up with a vehicle rather than have to return a vehicle. How many? One. One for each building. pretty specify the vehicle. The grant does not specify the vehicle. No. How does that make it sustainable going forward? If you buy it, then they say you're committed and now you're going to be able to have it after the four years. Is that what the question you're answering satisfying? What they would say is so it would end
057up being more. What they would tell us is we would need to continue leasing a vehicle. Whether it be we would return that vehicle and update the vehicle, you know, at the but we would need to continue leasing that vehicle. So the vehicle would end up being more expensive than that 3075. But at the end, we're just looking at two the four years. That would be the end of the grant period for us. Part of the requirement of the grant is that everything that we do is sustainable. So we would have to continue a lease afterwards. But what I'm saying is in my mind, this is just me, it doesn't make sense to continue a lease and not have own the vehicle. Um, it it makes it makes more sense in my mind that you
058own own the vehicle. So again, the grant pays this, correct? This isn't coming out of general funds. This is not coming out. I just want to make sure Yes. But but there would be an upfront district cost if we choose to purchase it. We would just be reimbursed over over the four years for if if to the end of the grant if you choose to go the other route. So that's what just I want to make sure that you understand that there could be if you choose to go one direction an upfront district cost with reimbursement back over the four years or through the grant or it could just be lease it and grant pay it over the four years. It's totally your call just something to think about for Michelle is a fiveyear grant.
059This is year one right now. I see. So four years fast enough for us to really count this into the year of having that four years. That is a federal grant. So will they be marked to to say like that the grant paid for those so that people understand that this isn't going out of the general fund? Maybe that's something we should talk about. Yeah. And it could be. I don't know because we certainly don't want to let everyone know that we're, you know, spending general fund money on vehicles maybe that we don't need, right? Um the thing is we wouldn't have asked for them if we didn't need them. Um the situation arises there's, you know, as I was talking to Christie about this today, for example, there's a student that has to come
060from the high school each day to the middle school for classes. Correct. for education. There's no ban. That child has to be late every day because there's no ban available until after 8:30 every day for that child to be able to get transportation. The parents don't have the transportation. She can't use school transportation for specific reasons. So literally come at 8:30 or the the Awok coordinator use her own vehicle. So if the district was to purchase the vehicles, where does the money come from? What fun? transportation. Yeah. So, like I said, that's something just to think about to weigh the options. Like I said, this is not for decision making, of course, tonight. This is just information for you guys. Um, and we can always put on the side of the van, full service community
061grant. Yeah, we may need to do so that it can because that's what it will be used for is a lot full service community grant. Yeah, we need to make that clear. Can it be used for anything else? Can it be used? Well, that's the that's the thing. Well, with the full service community grant, it can be used for anything that has to do with family stu students in our in our community. And so, we're, you know, we're thinking right now most generally about how we're using it during the school day for our, you know, specifically for our students, right? Um, to help them be successful. But because this grant has such wide parameters for what it takes to link this school and community together. Yeah. There's there's a wide variety of ways they could
062be used. So Heather and Stephanie would use those primarily and yeah. Yeah. But it would not I would not primarily but I would not say it would be limiting to do something. What was the total amount of that grant again? Every year for five years per school. Wow. Per school. Per school. Per school. Awesome. Anything else while you're No, the Unless you have any other questions. All right, we'll move on to superintendence report. Mr. Walters. Yeah, sure. Um, I've been heading this uh last week and met with everybody. I do this annually. Uh, had great conversation with our staff. It's a happy group over there. They love kids. They love the to the success they're seeing. Um, I enjoy those conversation. because it clears up a lot of things for me on what's going on
063in the building and then what's being said elsewhere and then I can get down to Brad Stacks with some folks and find out what's really going on. You know what's really going on there? Great things for kids. Great things for kids. And uh people are extremely extremely happy with what they get to do. And here's the thing that you get from each and every one of them. The first thing you'll say is they'll say they love the kids and they love who they work. I've done them for three years and that's what they say every time. And it's it is a pleasure to be there. So I wanted to thank Hadding for being able to be there. Next month we will post the amended budget needs to be posted for 30 days. That'll be online.
064Some exciting reading for anybody that's interested. Um testing just to give you a little roundup on how we ended up with the ACT. That is a bib situation where SAT and ACT compete like everything else when you do an R RFP in the in with the uh state. Uh ACT won out and I think it's the next three years. Then they'll rebid it and we could be right back doing the essay. So it's not by choice. The state doesn't do that. They put it out there. It's whoever gives you the best cost. So I think they they try to throw in a few perks all the time. I'm not sure what we got with it this time. I got nothing. I'll let you know when I figure that out. So, are you telling me half
065the states can be doing ACT and half the states can be doing? No, no, no, no. That's the whole state. It's the whole state. I'm saying, but other states don't have that mandate. They don't they don't all use that same That's not the same uh thing. So, but that's a good question. And ACT is ACT and STD is becoming less and less important as far as admission to college. I know my daughters they didn't. No, they looked at more things. Thanks. Um, yeah. So then, uh, we also got our audit back was very good. Um, we'll have copies of that audit for everybody next month. That'll be a good time to hand that out. Um, let's see. That's all I've got. Uh, since you all what my report was. Any questions for me? All right.
066I will move on to new business 10.1. I know some of you listed your current openings, but I guess if you would each um, currently I've got a special ed parah and a onetoone parah. um for this year. If those are not filled, they'll roll into next year and depending on how the personnel report goes tonight. I have an anticipated middle school ELA open. All of mine are for next year. Um I need a special ed teacher of science teacher and potentially business. I would love to have a business teacher. We can still proceed. We don't have them, but I would love to have u my current opening would be third grade teacher and then anticipated prek. But if everything goes well tonight, she'll be hired. Um, and they're working on openings for next year
067once fifth grade moves uh if fifth grade would happen to move down. Um, we have some open classes that hoping to put teachers into as they're on this agenda as well. It's two fourth grade teachers to give fourth grade four sections. So, their class sizes are pretty large. Right now, it's sitting at 24 each. And one of the things when I got hired um was talking about small class sizes and try to keep them under, you know, 16 17 and I had to take away a section this current school year because we moved the pods out and I brought second grade in. So we're really tight. So um once we have three fifth grade if they would happen to come down and take home um we'll have those classrooms with them. Chrissy, I have a
068question. Absolutely. The business position that you were referencing to, how will that be paid? Oh, it's in the it's we we asked for that to be paid through the full service communities grant grant money. Great. Thank you. Anything else? All right. 10 two district consolidated plan. Back to Michelle again. So, we went over this, right? So, any other questions? Okay, then we'll move on to the 10.3 the pace framework for website. Okay, so that's me. That's you. So I gave you guys these beautiful green sheets um in front of you. Um so the Illinois case framework um was developed um by stakeholders um and it's supposed to give guidance to students, families, and educators on the experiences and information students should have in order to make their most informed decision for career and college readiness
069after high school. Um prior to this year it was 8, no, sorry, 9 through 12. Um and it was not mandated as of last year. They said it has to be mandated. It has to be posted on your website. You have to create it and you have to take it down to sixth grade. Um so I Margie and I have gone to conferences on it. We have worked with um Kathy Wright at the ROE uh to create this framework. Uh they have one on the website that you can just steal and throw up there because it has to be posted on the website by by July 1st. Well, I'm not one of those that likes to take other people's crap. I'm making my own. So, um, I created these, um, and I went ahead and
070did justice for her because I'm the one that's gone to all the conferences and all the stuff. So, this is basically a layout in each one of these little columns. It tells you what the students should be doing to be college and career ready um, in sixth grade, 7th grade all the way up through 12. And some of this is it should they should be supported to meaning like we will help you look at your career plans discussing with making connections with some of it is we will actually do um we will have you do career um college exploration we will have you go to a college fair we will have you go to a career fair we will have you exposed to these things. Now, some of this is being done through um if
071you remember last time I talked about school leads, which was the platform I purchased um with our CTE funds that allows us to determine those passive interests. Um scholarships, transcripts, college searches, interest surveys, four-year diploma, outlook, all that stuff is in school links. So, I plan to use school links to help us make all of this a possibility. But this has to be approved by you guys for me to post on the website. Literally, it just has to be approved for you to say to me, "Yes, you can post it on the website." Question. Yes, please. Each student should have an individualized learning plan. So, you have to school links. That's what school links is for. That's what Okay, that's what school links is for to create that plan for them of this is what
072I'm interested in. I want to be and I just had a a meeting with ULC today to if you remember me talking to you about those signatures that I want to do where kids go into high school and they're like I want to go. Okay. So I talked because they do it out east and um ULC helped them do that. So they're helping me do the same thing. So, if you want to go in healthcare, then these are the classes you're going to take for the next four years in the healthcare field or in in our school or GABC or dual credit. That will when you walk out of this high school, you will be ready to go to college and finish your nursing degree, your rad degree, or you might already have your CNA
073license because you went to dual credit. But this is the path you're on. So, you can look at it and go, "Okay, I know in four years I'm going here and I could do this." That's what I want. I want them to have that point. And if it's trades, we can do all that through GABC, too. I'm going to create those pathways so that they can see their future and they can change it at any time. But this this along with school links will do all that for us. How often do you have to revisit these pathways with each student? The the actual signatures that I'm creating, Margie will do it every single year as she goes through their schedules with them to plan into the next year. Are we still in the same path
074or do we want to change that? If let's say that Kate didn't pick healthcare and then she's like yeah no I don't want to do that actually happened already she once she makes that decision she could go into Margie and be like yeah I don't want to do this so next semester I don't want to take those classes can I switch to this absolutely because I'll have it laid out for them that this is this pathway this pathway this pathway these are your options if you're going this direction so they can have those we spoke for a few minutes about a writing program or some way to facilitate is being able to organize their thoughts and minds, what they want to do because a sixth grader doesn't know what they want to do. So, as
075it says here, they're just going to be exposed to things they like or interest and find out what they like, right? Yep. So, is there a is there a class or some one of the classes the kids take whatever talked about it in middle school? the sore class that the students have every day. We've got every single student during fourth hour has a 25 minute class that is sore. Um it has a different theme for each day. So I plan on incorporating this the career exploration into that program. Um the ROE has already moved the Oculus trying different jobs out down to seventh grade. Um, I think that they would probably move it down in the future, especially with the pace framework coming. Um, but I think the addition of the a program has really
076helped some of our hands-on students at the middle school finds that they have and then when they're getting ready to go to the high school, we've had kids that come down when Mrs. when he comes down, they're like, I really like doing this and egg and she helps them get into the ad classes that they would need or building trades, things like that that they need or and if you're able to go from just a generalization to a very specific this is what I'm interested in and how they come up with that idea is I assume a writing exercise or something like that allows them to come up with well and our goal at the high school is to get us exposure to all those things. I have a child who's interested in criminal psychology.
077I'm telling her she's got to take psych next year with 45 who's adding that quiz list so that she has an experience with that class to know is this really what I want to do and if she doesn't then you pick a different path. But at least you have exposure to those things. The signatures will also allow us to reach out to community businesses, bring in some of those people. We're talking about internships. We're talking about um just meetings where they come and talk to each signature group about a business about this that giving them those exposures field trips to CAT field trip like so that they can see is this really what I want to do. They don't have those opportunities now. So I want to want to give them those great thankings. Sorry
078that that's software. Yeah, we purchased that through we purchased that. We purchased that through our CTE funds. Okay. um that we get CTE funds based on the number of kids in our um in our vocational classes. So like our a um our business class well the business classes we have where does that money come from our um it comes from the and I'm going to say this wrong. The PEL grant Carl Perkins Carl Perkins Carl Perkins see I knew it was the wrong one. Um where's Colleen? I knew it's back there. See I knew a Perkins the Perkins grant. So that's a federal grant. Yes, federal grant. So that paid for that that school lease. It paid for the big because we pay a big chunk the first year and every year after that we
079may have to pull from our full service community grant. We may have to pull but once it's established it'll be grant funded. My next question will be for technology. Does that is that a problem with any of our being able to run on any of our machines? Nope. None. We had a meeting. Okay. Great. Thank you. I've included Mark in all of that. So he's set up any sorry any other questions about the base framework. Thank you. Well I mean I'm the one that went if we didn't we got to that conference and they were like well the middle school people are here because they need I'm like oh crap like well I guess I'm doing this for desk. I'll be at the next one. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. 10.4 Four, move fifth grade to
080Avon campus 2025 2026. Bill, uh just uh this really didn't need to do it because you guys decided it back in 21. Uh but this is a formality that you need to do. We'll get it on the record that uh you guys the current board is uh in favor of this move. Five. Same thing. Same thing. All right. Move on to 10.6 technology project plan. Mr. Wall was asking to give you an idea of what projects we got going on this next year, just so you have a heads up on what expenses might be coming. So, what I did was I went and um I pulled out of our inventory everything that we have that's checked out and being used within the district. So, the thought is every item has a certain line. So, we
081do want to depreciate it. Expect to be able to purchase replacements so you can sustain the technology we have. I've got a sheet on um and I I the idea to email this to you. Way more information in that email. Just look at the first four tabs and but um go to the hardware budget. All right. And what I did, I just plugged in numbers for how long typically we can keep these items. Like for example, with desktop computers, 5 years, and we should be looking at replacing phones. We can go 10 years on the phones. And I just plugged in the numbers and what it did is depreciate it out. And so you see the annual depreciation column. and you go down and total all that up and that's what you could expect to
082put out and and grant a lot of this comes from Michelle knows title one for years title one's helped us out with this um and Esther helped us out in the last few years but you know she's going to lose that but and then the rate funds which is federal funs that that amounts to about $98,000 for reimbursement and that includes all our internet access. You can see those last several lines are for um our internet access and then our fiber line going for Abby and Avon and then we will have a fiber line going to the district office and you can see the cost of that is well 126 if we had it reimburses totally on that do it associate - reimbures reimburse everything there,000 and network equipment I can get 80% reimbured that's
083that's usually a five years plan we went five years we have a certain amount all according to our student and we this is the last year of that and we had a little bit left and we bought some access points cuz we need to update all our wireless access points. Okay, next I put together software um that I had to kind of guess on a lot of it but Michelle we I talked to Michelle and some of the if you scroll down a lot of those programs we really don't know going further down what we're going to be using next year and what or even paying for. These are just the programs that they requested and whether Michelle decides we're going to do them or not. She is a recruitment director. She makes that decision.
084I use her as a scapegoat all the time. That's okay. So, um, and if you look at that 2425 school year, it looks like we, you know, you see the number at the bottom. That just gives you an idea how much is involved in in the annual budget. And um so that could be certainly could go up, it could go down if we drop some of the I don't know where we're at on all that there just to do that idea. The other thing I can talk about is just tech supplies. Um throughout the year obviously there's a lot of items that we have to purchase for tech supplies. Things go out. I did have it filled up in two months there. I just put the last two years and um and 2223 school year
085according to what I pulled from Skyward was $38,000 we spent in tax supplies. Um 2324 was 43,000 and so far this year 59,000. The reason those are so high, they all weren't around. We had to purchase a lot of extra cables, mounts, keyboard, lots of things. So, I suspect through the 25 26 school year, 30,000 maybe better. I would say it'll be this should be no more than 30,000. And if you want to go through and look at the what I sent you, you can see our inventory. I just dumped this out our inventory system and it pulls where everything's at. It's a it's a really good system that keeps track of [Applause] where questions. So I see an 11.5 What are we What are we voting on this? Okay, if you look at the
086first I guess I didn't go to that class one or the second there's another one over there. This is basically summer. It's really summer. Um, what we're doing is a lot of server upgrades. Basically, all our servers. We got like five standalone servers. They're gone down. You can you can read on the paper on what each of those servers are doing. Go on down. Those are the first. So five standalone units. It's a standalone service in the box. Above that we have the virtual storage array which has our virtual service and we got 30 different isn't it? 30 bro 30 different servers doing 30 different and you can you got any questions on any of those we got like for instance the video server takes a lot you got the video control server failover recording
087server and so there's three virtual right there and three or four but what they're let me help to that. Cory, what happens is Mark does a lot of projects through the year. What he has is a plan. You're voting on the plan so we don't have to keep coming back and say, "We need to do this now. We need to do this now." It gives them the green light to get things ordered and then it we get the best price we can possibly get. If you can scroll to the bottom, you can see what I project is a 25 26 school year. Mark does a really good job of keeping us on Google Sheets. 110,000. Is that what we're looking for? Yeah. So, so my I guess my question would be I mean we're not
088saying I don't trust you, but you're you're that's $110,000 and and I just got handed this piece of paper. Yeah. So, like I guess my question would be is it going to be a detriment for us to take this till next month to vote on it because I I just want to know. I want to know I could have I could have done as but I thought I'd get it out to you question. Yeah. I just I and you know throwing on me here and I I want to make sure that I'm educated on what I'm voting on before. But the reason the 110 is less than what I projected when we had a hardware cost because we kind of got ahead some of the other we stopped that. So next year probably you but
089we're not it's not going to be a detriment if we run this next month. It's not going to hurt us costwise or get a good deal or anything basically to get them into one. Is that going to hamper you if we do this next month? No. I can I can order like the Chromebooks or you may easily get two two grade levels of Chromebooks. I can order them in after July anymore. During co it was terrible, but um they're pretty good. Where's the iPads come from? I've been ordering the last on the iPads. I can order it in direct. We don't have that many iPads anymore. We just got K1 and two and I ordered from office the last time. I like Thank you. If you want to table that, we'll just wait till we
090get Yeah. Okay, we move to action items. Item one, consider for approval of the district consolidated plan. Do I have a motion? I'll make that motion. Second. Any further discussion? Rick. All right. Go ahead, Frank. Rick, yes. Clman, yes. Yes. Jess, yes. Andrew, yes. server. Yes. Motion carries. 11.2 Consider for approval PACE framework for website. Is there a motion for that? Oh my god. Second. Second. Any other questions? Frank. Yes. Andrew. Yes. Brooks. Yes. Rick. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. 11.3 Consider for approval fifth grade Avon campus 2025 2026. Do you have a motion? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Any other questions? How many kids How many kids you got in kindergarten? 14. 14. How many? 16. Any questions? And how many is in fifth grade currently? 65. 65. [Music] Yes.
091Jensen. Yes. Andrew, yes. Brooks, yes. Rick, yes. Thurman, yes. Servin, yes. Motion carries. I lost track of my check. 114 consider for approval kindergarten and first grade heading 2025 to motion there motion move. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Second. Any questions? Frank. Jensen. Yes. Andrew. Yes. Brooks. Yes. Rick. Yes. Thurman. Yes. Yes. Servin. Yes. Motion carries. Yeah. On 115, we just discussed tableing. So, do I have a motion to table it until next month? So, move. Is there a second? I'll second it. Any other discussion? Frank. Jensen? Yes. Andrew? Yes. Brooks? Yeah. Rick, yes. Thurman, yes. Yes. Sh. Yes. Motion at the table is approved. We will move to executive session. Do I have a motion to go to executive session? Is there a second? Second. Rick and Brook. Yes. Rick, yes. Thurman, yes.
092Yes. Jensen, yes. Andrew, yes. Yes. I'm assuming based on the size of this that you would like this. Yes, we will. Not Not yet. Not yet. I'll let you know. Okay, that's fine. All right. Action item 13.1 consider approval of April 2025 personnel report. I have a motion for that. All right. Rick, did you just make Yeah, I made Is there a second? Second. Second. Any other discussion? Okay, Frank. Thurman. Yep. No. Jensen? Yes. Andrew? Yes. Brook? Yeah. Rick? Yes. Sur? Yes. Motion carries. discussion item in the group. I'd like to discuss something. I'm going to bring to the attention of the board minutes from a board meeting June 15, 2022. I sent that out across here. You guys can read it if you like. Item number eight, a motion was made by Mr. determined
093and seconded by Mr. Craraver to approve consideration and action on a resolution of intent to issue $6.6 million in working cash fund bonds to increase the district's working cash fund. Roll call. Mason, yay. Brooks, yay. Quinn, yay. Thurman, yay. Craraver, yay. Servin, yay. Hes yay. Motion passed. That was the exact same process that we went through last November. And the bonding authority that this board currently holds passed through that process. Some of the other papers will show you that we had a special board meeting for a public hearing to conduct concerning the intent of the board to issue $6.6 million in working cash bond. That happened the 30 days left for anybody to challenge that authority. That authority was publicly shared and public notice in the three counties that our district operates in. And we
094have the authority to issue working cash bonds and the amount not to exceed $6.6 million. So the process that we just went to, the levy that we just voted on was unnecessary and irrelevant. We have the authority to issue those bonds. It's done. It was done in 2022. The process was started under Mike Curry because the board had plans to improve the district and capital expenditures, building improvements, other things. It was continued under Joe Campbell, the interim superintendent. He continued to follow the normal process. We went through the process, done a tremendous amount of good for the people and the kids that go to our school. I'm proud of that work and I hope that there are of the majority of members that sit on this board going forward who will continue to do that
095work. That's all I got to say. the last board member of last board of the old board. I do want to thank these two gentlemen on my left. It's your last board, Frank. 24 years, right? Y 24 years. That's pretty four years. And I appreciate both of you been great board members and great people to work with. And I appreciate you very much both taking the time out of your lives to uh to serve your community on the school board. Thank you very much. Thank you. There's no other discussion. I'd like a motion to adjourn, please. You have it. There a second. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Motion carries.