001Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. N. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. [music] Heat. day. [music] Hey Hey. Heat. Heat. Hey, heat. Hey. Heat. Heat. N. [music] I'd like to call this meeting to order. April 13th, 6 p.m. Can I get a roll call? President Sterling here. Vice President Thompson here. Board member Mcnite here. Carlson here. Board member Johnson here. Secretary here. And recording secretary Yarro superintendent. Shelley Wagner, human resources. Michelle, curriculum and instruction. Jason Bloom, communications and community relations. Josh Raman, business operations. Well, it is my pleasure this evening to bring [clears throat] some
002students in from Windsor Elementary School who are going to lead us with the pledge of allegiance tonight. They are really excited to go. I think they're a little nervous actually. So, [laughter] Yep. You're going to turn. You're actually just going to face like the fewer people. You want to face this way over here so they can see your faces. I'm sure the parents are way here, our principal from Windsor Elementary. So, I'm going to turn it over to Hi. Um, we are really excited to introduce all of these great students today. They were selected by their teacher for showing great respect, responsibility, and ready to learn behaviors. So, I'll have them introduce themselves quick before we start with the pledge. Hi, I'm Hi, I'm Brooklyn. I'm in first grade. Hi, I'm in first grade. Hi,
003I'm Elena. I'm in second grade. Hi, I'm John. I'm in first grade. Hi, I'm in third grade. Hi, my name is I for I'm in third grade of the book. Hi, my name is Adrian. I am fourth grade. Hi, I'm in fourth grade. Hi, I'm Emma and I'm in fifth grade. Hi, I'm Kinsley and I'm in fifth grade. Hi, I'm Aiden and I'm in fifth grade. I aliance 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. Liberty. All right. What I'm going to have you guys do real quick. So if you all want to kind of come to the front here and then All right, I'm gonna take a photo. I got you. All right. One,
004two, three. I'll move away for a second. Yeah, that's your hand. All right. [applause] All [applause] right, there goes the audience. There goes the [laughter] He wouldn't want to stay before. Can I get a motion? A second for approval of the agenda. Motion. Second. Vice President Johnson. Hi. Board member Mcnite. Yes. Mini. Hi. Carlson. Yes. Johnson. Hi. Secretary. Hi. President Sterling. Hi. Dr. Tur. All right. It's important for us to say at every meeting uh the mission of the Harlem Consolidated School District as a vital part of the community is to help diverse learners realize their limited potential by providing an educational program dedicated to academic excellence through development of strong character and safe and respectful learning environment. Thank you, sir. Thank you. I get a motion to approve board meeting minutes and close session
005minutes from March 25th, 2026. Motion second. Second. Board member Mcnite. I board member McKenna. Hi, Board Member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi, Secretary Meek. Hi, President Sterling. Hi, Vice President Thompson. I All right. Well, this evening we have two uh recognitions. First, I'd like to follow up. He's been here like a zillion times. [laughter] So, you guys come a little closer. So, his hair color is Well, that's true. the hair color is a little bit different. So, uh it's my pleasure this evening to introduce and recognize again uh Bo Shields and then our coaching staff from our swimming and diving program. What's that? Former coach. Yes. But um a big part of obviously his success and so uh they're here to talk a little bit about the season, talk about Bo success as well.
006Um, I I kind of joke about the familiar face, but he's accomplished some pretty incredible things that that not very many uh student athletes get to accomplish in regards to qualifying for state um state meets and state tournaments or competitions. And so, uh, pretty pretty cool thing on top of just what I typically hear about Bo is is above and beyond his athleticism is, uh, just the character of the person that he is. And so, uh, we're excited to recognize and honor that as well. So, um, turn it over to coach uh, Shields. He's got it typed up this tag. So, he makes sure he hits everything covered that needs to cover. So, he's going to talk a little bit about obviously Bo and his success, but also the team and and as Bo's a
007senior, what's coming next, who we've got in our program up and coming. So, all right, sure, coaches. Thank you. Thanks for letting me uh join you guys in celebrating Bo tonight. My main goal is to make through this without crying. Um just give me a couple minutes and I'd appreciate it. This is obviously extra special to me as it's everything I've ever wanted to do. Every everything in my power to support my boys and their development. This is my other son. I coach only because I have sons that play sports. And I believe the lessons learned through sports outweigh anything that I can prepare them for a successful life. I fashioned my life around coaching my boys and their friends so I could be the best dad and coach I could be for my two
008boys without having to rely on somebody else or be critical of how they were doing it. Uh you know the phrase, if you want something done right, do it yourself. Uh Bo has made me exceptionally proud as a dad and a coach. His effort and desire are like no other I've witnessed. So much so that sometimes his competitive spirit exceeds even mine and I have to tamp it down a notch. Trust me when I say I've coached in excess of a hundred in in excess of a 100 athletes over the last 14 plus years and you just don't find him like this. Everything he's achieved is because of his dedication, focus, and sheer grit. He was not born extra talented or with unusual unusual physical traits that have made him what he is. He was
009raised to earn everything he got through hard work. I'd like to share something that most of you probably don't know. This was hands down the most special season I'll ever have. Finally, after all these years of coaching, I get to coach both my boys on the same team in the same pool. the Shield Trail. My youngest, Ryan's a freshman and is our next and last grade Shield swimmer for at least this generation. [snorts] During all my years of coaching baseball and basketball, I had zero intention of coaching my boys in my best sport, swimming. But things change and I recognize the need to jump in and join Todd to continue some secrets I learned from competing and coaching over the years. All right, that's the hard part. There were a few goals that I had
010this year. first was to continue developing and growing a program that Harlem and I could be proud of. Secondly, I wanted to sneak up and beat a couple teams that were a lot larger than us because we improved at a faster rate than them. And that we did. And the last set of goals were personal. I wanted to see Bo finish the high school career [snorts] on the trajectory he set and finish his story and to use this season of being together on the same team that Bose's presence and leadership [snorts] would ignite a fire in Ryan and the rest of the swimmers and it worked perfectly. You're looking at Harlem's two first team allconerence swimmers. That may that may be a feat that isn't done ever. Uh where was I? Ryan has finally caught
011fire and he gets it right in his own story for the next three years. Now back to Bo since this is his day. [snorts] one time conference MVP. Should have been two, but they decided to pick a diver this year for conference MVP for swimming and diving, which is a little crazy. First time in 10 years. Uh, seven conference titles, six individual, one relay. I am doing kind of a career recap if if I can. Here's the thing you need to remember at that seven conference titles, six individual, one relay. He only swam eight individual conference races. So, he only won six out of eight in his high school career. The other the only other two finishes were his freshman year. He got second and third. So, he should have swam faster on those two
012races. [laughter] He's got five sectional titles, four individual, one relay. His one relay was the first time Harlem went down to state in forever. Ever. It's never been happen before. That was his freshman year with Todd's son Jeremy. Yeah. Yeah. We just [laughter] Yeah. Four state appearances. Only Harlem swimmer in history. Swam the 100 breast at state the last three years. Sophomore year 43rd place. Junior year 36th place. Senior year 21st place. He dropped 081 seconds and moved up eight spots which is a big a big drop. Uh at that rate if he swims high school swimming for two more years he'll probably win it. [laughter] Uh he also this year qualified in the 200 IM and dropped 1.3 seconds. This is like over a small [clears throat] time period and he moved up seven
013spots. Those those time drops are extraordinary. [snorts] Four time allconerence first team nine school records. This kid doesn't lose races that are close. He doesn't get beat unexpectedly and he competes all the time. Every time. Bo, I wrote you a letter. Here it comes. Uhoh. I wrote you a letter before your first high school meeting. I told you everything I wanted to share with you about how do you get how you get to determine your success and author your story. I had no doubt that you are capable of all this. Your high school swimming story is complete and I couldn't be more proud of what you do cheese but just important importantly how you did it. You are no doubt Hall of Famer. You earn everything you deserve and for that you should be proud.
014I love you. [applause] Give that a moment here. Second bowl. [laughter] Why don't you can you say a little bit about like, you know, obviously we've heard about your career, we've seen you here before, but uh what's next for you? Um so next year I'm committed to Louis University, so I'll go um I'll be swimming in Romeoville and um it's in the GLBC conference, which is the best D2 conference that there is. Um so there'll be a lot of competition there, and I just hope to get better and keep on moving on. Awesome. Awesome. What do you plan to study? You know that yet? Yep. I'm studying nursing. So, I'll go straight into the nursing program because I'm in the um Rock Valley program, Rockstar program. So, that will um just jump start me when
015I'm there. Absolutely. All right. And to our coaches, so Todd Mueller, you've seen him before. He was here in the past and um his son obviously had a incredibly successful career as well. And so, you know, as a personally as a father and to the two of you to to be able to cherish these moments of being able to coach your sons and being able to be a part of that experience is is um something I'm sure that you all will will cherish. But all of that being said, you know, you guys have been establishing a program now that, you know, we we kind of use this as a gauge like when we get to invite you back every year, that shows that that our programs are building and that we're seeing success. And so,
016uh, pretty pretty cool and kudos to you for for the work they've done to [clears throat] build the program and and I know that, you know, kind of the transition and seeing the younger kids and, you know, just seeing some of their success and I was looking back at some of the stuff at some of the different meets this year and the way that the even the fresh team was showing up and we're excited to see the future of the program as well. And so really on behalf of the board, our community, our families, our students, congratulations to you. a job well done and the hard work and thank you to our coaches for for all the work and effort you put into it not only for your own sons but for the the teams
017the programs that you're building. So thank you [applause] photo something really quick. I just want to say um I'm so excited that you're going to Lewis University. Uh my son Ryan Johnson, class of 2000, received an academic and athletic scholarship to play baseball at Lewis University. And it's a wonderful school. You'll enjoy it. You're you're true. The Great Lakes Valley Conference has best in it. It's a good two school, so they'll take very good care of you there. Uh I'm a proud uh Will University parent alumni. So enjoy your four years. You'll get a good education, but the coaches are great. But just remember when you have a road trip and you're gone on the weekend, when you come back, it doesn't matter what time you get back in the middle of the night, you're
018going to class in the morning [laughter] because they will make sure your coaches always make sure that you uh get all your work done that you had to miss if you had to leave early or whatever, but you don't get to don't get to slack in the morning. So, well, kudos to you. What a good start and all the accolades. Yeah, great job. Oh, yeah. the board. Huh? Dian's face in there somewhere. I'm good now. Here we go. One, two, three. I'll send you first. We were so close to actually get right. Congratulations. Hopefully the next one doesn't pull. Take care. Thank you. That's going to be me after I get my daughter. As I mentioned, I have one other recognition this evening. Um, this is an opportunity to recognize um some students for the
019work that they're doing, but also to kind of get an update. Um, you had a chance to uh hear a proposal year agoish from Nick Makira about a special project and opportunity for our students. And so, um, we're excited to, uh, introduce Kenny Kai. I know Kenny's been here before. actually the publish author. Have you been here before? Yeah. Nope. Okay. So, first time meeting Kai. So, um we're excited to get a little update. We've got some stuff that's been passed out here. Um we're going to talk about uh the coal projects um the work that you all have done. I got a chance to see a little video um which is pretty pretty awesome and pretty powerful. And so, I'm going to turn over. I don't know if you guys want to start first.
020You want to pass it to them. So since we were here the probably less than a year they've helped us uh get about almost 50 oral histories we've had conducted so with the help of them as well as the team at the climate jobs institute at U of so they went on trips to West Frankfurt um and Marissa Illinois and um West Frank what and the coin the coin Illinois. So, they've been on probably over 10 to 15 interviews themselves. Um, and then in this time, uh, Kennedy, which you have before you, is a photo essay she put together, um, about about West Frankfurt. And then Kai, we played on H&N last week. Um, did a documentary about kind of a mining incident that took place around Christmas in 195 1951. Was it? um in
021West Frankfurt where a mine explosion happened um like four days before Christmas. I believe the 21st of December. So um and you can see that at the link at the bottom of the QR code in the front page. So yeah, the program's up and running. Uh it's doing well. It's just the tip of the iceberg of you know where we're at on the forefront of all this stuff. So but I'll turn it over to Miss Nun if she has anything to add. um just to just the stuff that we gave you. Um that second one is Kennedy's article that she put together first semester as her like deliverable for the um climate jobs institute and then Kais is at the bottom of this. So the front page just kind of looks at like student researchers.
022Um, so there was like a um a class at the university that did some work with the coal um project and then um these two students at the high school level that did some work and some research for the coal project as well. So this first one kind of highlights both of those. Um and then there's also I just see the booklet. So um there is a booklet from the from their annual report. Um I only had two copies, sorry. um that just kind of looks at the larger like climate jobs institute program in general. Um and those two are kind of highlighted in that as well as part of the project. Um so really just kind of doing contributing a lot to like college level research um and kind of being a part of
023that and exposed to different you know professors um at the university we've done interviews with and just the the team at um the climate jobs institute as well. So, I'm really just impressed with with kind of the the work that they're putting out and the contributions that they're making to that. So, but then I will let them kind of just talk about um their experience, you know, what they did and how how what they're taking away from it, I guess. So, um I didn't really go into it knowing what it was going to be like. It was very like a blind, okay, let's see how this goes. And I've come out with so much more experience with fieldwork. I know how to interview people better. and I've talked to working on my communication skills with
024all of the people. Um, and then working on these projects with professors has definitely helped expand my knowledge on how to write, how to write articles, specifically how to construct photo essays. And uh it's been great to see how coal and the production going down affects these communities and get a better knowledge of um the way the climate is changing and how that's going to affect the communities down in southern Illinois. Yeah, I kind of think she said like the project really helped build my communication skills with people like just talking to people I've never met before and getting to know basically their whole life. Um, but it also helped with my documentary making skills because I had never like made such a like there was so many parts to it and so many things
025that like I didn't have to do in high school like because it this is like more professional level and I' like learning a lot more I guess just like how to actually create a documentary I guess. I don't know. I learned a lot. Awesome. if if you get a chance like to I mean I saw the whole five minute thing and like apart from the work that you've done like the the Harlem documentary project like this preserving oral history is is a big deal like and to hear these stories and and you're interviewing children of these people or children of children with these people and getting this chance to preserve the stuff that is so important to these communities. I mean, just even that five minute by Christmas quit clip thing is just incredibly powerful.
026And so I encourage you all to to to take a look at that. And so I'm going to put you on the spot a little bit like when you when somebody asks you about what you're doing or what like what's the first thing that like a a story? What's the first thing that comes to mind? Like something you learned, something that shocked you, something that you know grabbed your heart, whatever. Like what comes to mind for you in this experience? Uh the way they talk about how their towns used to be is really what shocked me because we go down there and it's like these little small rundown towns. Not very many people left. Uh not very many shops in the downtown. And they talk about how there is everything you needed within a mile
027of where they lived and it was all together. Furniture stores, grocery stores, gas stations, it was all there and now there's pretty much nothing. And so that kind of tugs on your heartstrings and also shows just how much one product from a one job, one product from a community can really bring it down if they don't have it anymore. Yeah. Kind of what she said like it really shocked me like I never had thought about coal before this project. Like once you brought it up to me, I was like coal like really? And but like going down there and seeing like how much coal really impacted those towns and how dead they are now. But compared to how they talk about it, like you can like picture how like how like booming these towns were
028and how like like amazing it was there, but now it's just like dead and there's no like storefronts open. And so it's just kind of crazy to see how coal impacted those communities. Yeah. Well, obviously, you know, I appreciate your commitment to that and to obviously going to go going into the blind being like, hey, you know, like I don't really know much about this or I don't think about this and to be able to to dive head first into that, be committed to this work um is incredibly powerful and and we're incredibly proud of you for being willing to do that. And I'm sure that these are experiences that you won't ever forget, but again, most importantly, that our communities and these families won't forget because you're recording that. You're keeping that that history
029um alive and well for people even when those towns do what they do. And so um we're we're proud of you. We're proud to see your name in that U ofi, to see Harlem represented, to see all the work that you're doing and and uh at that level. and thank you to Miss Kira for being willing to step out and and give these experiences to our kids. Like we know that obviously the classroom seat time is great, but all of this above and beyond these opportunities that you all get are things that great for the future and things that you'll always remember. So congratulations. Thank you. Sorry. Y uh and this product got started by a former Harlem student too, just in case um we forgot that. So Emily Gusky, who was in the class,
030is the reason why this even exists. So, she's running the whole program, is in charge of pretty much everything. So, um it's her baby and brought us on with that. And then they're doing all this work on top of also working on two documentaries um that will be screened at the high school on May 15th or 16th. I can't remember which day is that, Saturday. So, 15th is Friday. So, the 16th, May 16th, their stuff will be screening there. Kai's doing to do about the the history of Miss Fischers. All right. And then Kennedy is doing a documentary honoring the life of her uncle um and godfather. So, and this is not enough people come out to this. It is a um you're seeing high quality stuff. So, we have not seen a lot of
031board members there in the past. I would love to see we've seen Miss Meeks definitely has been there, but not everybody that we've seen. I mean, you're talking about some of the highest quality stuff here. stuff that's played in film festivals. So, um it would be great to see everybody who's here out there for at least one of the screenings there. So, absolutely. What time is it? So, we have not solidified the times, but um we'll get that out. So, make sure to follow that. We'll bring send some emails out, too. So, it depends how many screenings we have. If we do three screenings, we'll go 11 to 1 and then 2 to 4 and then 5 to 7. And then in between the second and third one, we'll have Dairy House Ice Cream and
032the jazz band will perform. So yes, we will. Now he's got to do it. It's on. [laughter] I also just wanted to add one thing really quickly. Um, in relation to what they said about these communities really being hit hard by the the closures of a lot of these these coal mines and coal plants. Um, also one thing that I don't think is talked about enough about the the Climate Jobs Institute, the the project itself and what they're doing in preserving these oral histories is a lot of that is going towards um influencing policy in the future on how to best serve commun communities that are experiencing closure. So the work that they're doing in preserving these stories is not just to preserve the stories, but to make better decisions going forward and to influence
033or inform um those making policies about, you know, coal plants, coal mines, things like that. And I think that's really important to for them to say like, hey, we're in high school and and we're having an impact on um you know what what kind of is going forward. So I just wanted to throw that in there because I think that's really important. Yeah, the stories it answers the why, you know, to everything like why is this or what's the impact going to be and and I mean every company's hiring storytellers now whether it's Pepsi, Chamber of Commerce, school districts um because they want to get to that why and then once you start interviewing the coal miners that have lost it, people in communities who have had the coal mines come in and hurt their
034terrain, you know, the farmers we're interviewing as this. So, we're getting these they're not numbers anymore. They're people and that's the power of oral history at the end of the day. Well, again, of the board, thank you. Job well done your accomplishments. So this is an internship but we were selected because we all It's still okay. Thank you. How? Cuz I don't go that far. 45 minutes. [laughter] Like the great cherry like coal mine disaster like that's like this cherry but that's like just north of like south you're talking not that far away but I didn't know that it the the vein went all the way down through the middle of the state video like the coin is there's there's bended a coin and there's nothing about coins there's so many like yeah like I
035guess while everyone's adding. I do have one other just kind of announcement I'll I'll make before I'm done with my part. Um [cough] I did want to say because I know she often watches um the live stream so she can hear me right now. Um I did want to give a shout out to uh Debbie Kirker who um does a lot all of our Skyward stuff. She reports to Mickey. Um you know we've we've sent her through a lot these last few weeks and months as we've been preparing for our transition next year for um uh the new school year. And so I just want to thank her for the work that she's doing to get everything right on the back end um with making sure kids are where they need to be. We're going
036to be sharing that information officially uh tomorrow. But uh she's put in a lot of work to be able to get that to uh be where it's at in a timely fashion because, you know, we were interacting with 19,000 addresses and then combing that down to bringing it to our students and who our students are currently at. And there's just so much work that goes into in the back end. So, I just want to give her a shout out uh and a big thanks for all the work that she's done. So, I don't want to make you want to add anything, but uh um she's really supported Mickey and I immensely in in this work and getting ourselves to a spot where we can make sure that we can confidently say this is where our
037students are going um and that we've got everything uh accurate. So, and double and triple checking things because there's so many moving parts to all of this. Absolutely. Yep. With that, that ends my report. Thank you. There are no comments from the committee at this moment. So, can I get a motion to for approve the bills? Which way you got to do the bills? You're good. [laughter] We already perfect. All right. The total payables for this period were 1,35,120.37. There was one payroll this period in the amount of 3,579,56.81 for total expenditures of $4,614,627.18. Split out by fund, the education fund paid $4,22,97.38. The operations and maintenance fund paid $251,295.3. The debt service fund paid $2,250. The transportation fund paid $210,91657. The IMRF social security fund paid $125,866.13. And the capital projects fund paid $1,32.7.
038Again, for total expenditures of $4,614,627.18. Are there any unanswered bill questions? Try this again. Okay, I got a motion to approve the bills. Motion. Second. Board member McKini. Hi. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary Meeks. I President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Board member. Hi. Thank you. reports. Dr. Shelder, thank you. I have three items this evening. The first one is an overnight travel for middle school bowling. When I looked at the results, it appears that both the boys and the girls won their sectionals um on Saturday. Congratulations to them. Uh so that one they would be leaving on the 16th and returning on the 18th and it takes place in Joey actually. My second item is the district consolidated plan that is tied to our grants. Um at the committee
039of the whole I shared how the funds would be spent. I also shared um that it's our responsibility to oversee funds that the state gives us for private prochial schools and which funds go with them which directions. Um and so um I I it is part of the stipulation with the grant that we are responsible to oversee and make sure their funds are spent. So I am going to ask the board for approval this evening. And then my third item is um Parker Center. Um Parker Center right now is at 67.7% of their students um receive free and reduced lunch. Once you re once you hit 75% you are required to be a schoolwide building with title uh one funds. So it as we have seen that number increase over the years and since we're
040making all sorts of other changes within the district, we felt it was the appropriate time to make Parker Center also be a title one building and make them schoolwide. So, I'm asking for board approval on that this evening as well, which we did go into all of um the steps that they took and it's really tied to their school improvement plan. Is there any questions? Is the preschool part of that? No, preschool can't be. It starts with K. Good. So, that ends my report. thank you. My first item is a recommendation to approve a resolution declaring surplus property uh for the transportation department. Second is a recommendation to accept the February 2026 treasures report that we reviewed last Wednesday at committee of the home. So this evening just ask you guys to accept that. 10B3
041is a recommendation to approve a three-year extension with the value wise for a total cost of $23,55.90 to be paid with local funds. Just a reminder, this is an extension through 2031. There any questions on evalu? So for 104 the stadium lighting um just want to note that you know the current lighting tested about 10 10 foot candles and the minimum should be uh 30. So with this recommendation we do have $50,000 of school maintenance project grant. The projected combed rebate would be $35,000 and then the annual savings is about $4,700 on that. So, you know, in talking with Reed, he said it's it's critical to having a safe and viable field to do this and that it, in his opinion, is the darkest field that we play on. So, I mean, if anybody has
042been there and seen it, it's it's dark and needs the lights. So, my recommendation is to approve award the high school stadium lighting bid to Barton Electric, Inc. for $166,870. Are there any questions? Next is a recommendation to approve a one-year renewal eenuity for student licenses at a cost of $9,192.75 paid with local funds. Uh 10B6 is a recommendation to approve three a three-year agreement with common lit [clears throat] for high school ELA curriculum at a cost of $18,900 paid with local funds. Next is a recommendation to approve a memorandum of understand with Rock Valley College for dual and articulated credit courses. And there should be the updated the running the agreement with them on the website for my next time uh of a recommendation to approve the intergovernmental agreement with Rock Valley College for
043the running start program. Are there any questions on any of my items this evening? That is my report. Thank you. Hi. This evening I have the personal agenda and addendum. I think I'd like to point out that I separated the uh personal agenda a little bit differently tonight. We stylized it a little bit more. Um I often talked to my HR friends in other districts and we were noticing how their agendas looked compared to ours and theirs were a little bit more detailed. So, what what I did with ours was I I broke down the employments and resignations a little bit more than I normally would. So, you can see where where those fall in each category. Overall, we have two transfers, six employments, nine resignations, and three certified staff recommended for tenure, which is
044a revision [snorts] of the one that we did uh last Wednesday. That'll for me tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Dr. Troy Gabro. All right. Thank you, President Sterling. [clears throat] The first item I have here is 10D1 and the re recommendation to approve second reading of policy updates for March 9th, 2026. And then our first reading as well. Any questions on that? Okay. Then I got four foyer requests here to read. Um the first one is 10D2 Freedom of Information Act was requested dated March 18, 2026 was submitted by CT Mills requesting electronic copies of any existing records identifying the employees responsible for leadership oversight or coordination on the following functional areas at the district or central office level. The district responded to the requesttor on March 23rd, 2026 with the inclusive documents. The next
045one is 10D3. Um, request dated March 12th of 2026 was submitted by Megan Schultz requesting records on what companies we contract with or so to for every solar farm on Harlem owned land kickbacks that Harlem receives, what accounts these funds go into, and how they're being distributed and are utilized. and the district responded to the request for March 26, 2026 with the inclusive documents. The next one is attendee 4 um dated March 24th of 2026 was submitted by Bill Kim requesting records for 3626 results tabulations in which bidder was awarded the project for the flooring replacement work at Harlem High School and Parker Center um early education center. The district responded to the requesttor on March 27th, 2026 with the responsive documents. And then the final um FOYA request dated March 26, 2026 was submitted
046by Justin Winnick requesting all purchase orders and/or payment records for non-person vendor entities such as companies, organizations, or contractors from January 1st, 2025th to the current day. and the district responded to the request on March 31st, 2026 with the responsive documents. Thank you, sir. Are they still coming in by the car lo or they they're they're still coming in. There's It's not like it was, but they're still coming in. Yeah, other districts have got other districts are getting 40 a day. Yeah. Um Thank you. Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve the personal agenda and addendum? Motion. Second. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary meets. I. President Sterling. I. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKini. I. Can I have a motion to approve student travel
047requests? Motion. Second. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary Meets. I. President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. I board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKini. Hi. Board member Carlson. Yes. Can I get a motion to approve February 2026 treasures report? [clears throat] Motion. Second. Secretary Meeks. I. President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board McKenna. I board member [clears throat] Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. I can get a motion to approve resolution declaring surplus property. Motion. Second. President Sterling. Hi Vice [clears throat] President Thompson. Hi. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKenna. Hi. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary Ne. I. Can I get a motion to approve the district grant consolidated plan? Motion. Second. Vice President Thompson. I. Board member Money. I. Board member McKini. Hi. Board member Carlson.
048Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary Meeks. I. President Sterling. Hi. Can I get a motion to approve Parker schoolwide title one plan? Motion. Second. Board member Mcnite. Yes. Board member McKenna. Hi. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary Meeks. I. President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. I. Can I get a motion to approve second reading of policy updates from March 9, 2026, first reading? Motion. Second. Board member McKenna. I. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi, Secretary Meeks. I President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Can I get a motion to approve three-year extension with a valuewise for a total cost of $23,55.90 payable local funds? Motion. Second. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary meets I. President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Board member
049Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKenna. Hi. Can I get a motion to approve the HHS stadium lighting bid to Barton Electric, Inc.? Motion. Second. Board Johnson. Hi. Secretary Meeks. I. President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. I Mcnite. Hi. For me, I for Carlson. Yes. Can I get a motion to approve one-year renewal with egeneuity for student licenses at a cost of $9,192.75? Motion. Second. paid with local funds. Sorry, Secretary Meeks. I President Sterling. Hi, Vice President Thompson. I board member Mcnite. Yes. Board member McKenna. Hi. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. I. Can I get a motion to approve threeyear agreement with common lit for high school ELA's curriculum at a cost of $18,900 paid to local funds? Motion. Second. President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKenna. Hi. Board member
050Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary Meeks. Hi. Can I get a motion to approve memorandum understanding with Rock Valley College for dual articulated credit courses? Motion. Second. Vice President Thompson. I. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKenna. I. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary. I. President Sterling. Can I get a motion to approve an intergovernment intergovernmental? You got Rock Valley. You got to say yes or no. The last one and then we can you got to say yes and then we [laughter] I thought he didn't say no. He did. He didn't know. Can I get a motion to approve intergovernmental agreement with Rock Valley? I was ready for this one. He was [laughter] running. Can I get a motion to approve intergovernmental agreement with Rock Valley College for Running Start program?
051Motion. Second. Board member Mcnite. I board member McKini. I board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary means I. President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Johnson. Yes. Are there any announcements and discussion at this time? All right. I would like to Okay. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I apologize. One thing I want to bring up just real quick and want the board to consider and we can talk about it later um because Rebecca kind of brought up a little bit with the foyer request and how we were getting [clears throat] before and how some districts did 40. Um what some districts do um superintendents do is when they read the foyer request they also talk about how much time it took um to put together those forward requests and the amount of money that it cost
052for our lawyers to look it over as well. just so the community knows that it takes a lot to go through a foyer request and so just something to put in your minds to consider possibly there's districts there's districts in southern Illinois that are getting thousands and there's currently no mechanism it's like an AI or a bot or something like that that are creating because we I mean obviously we want to be we want to you know respond to our foyer requests but we also want the public to know like how much time and effort it takes to do funding mandates publishing Does it require legal to go through every single one? Does that make sure that we we're doing it right and some of them definitely do require legal? I mean POS we like
053list of POS I just review and said but a lot Oh yeah. So there something about just Thank you. Uh, can I get a motion to go into executive session to discuss employment of personnel five ILCS 120-2C1? Second. Board member McKenna. Hi. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board Johnson. Hi, I President Thompson. Yes. Board McNight. Yes. Five minutes.