001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, [Music] heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Let's see. [Music] Come on. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Regular [Music] board meeting to order. Monday, September 8th, 2025. Can I get a roll call? Yes, you can. President, Mr. Sterling, here. Vice President Mr. Thompson here. Board member Mr. Mcnite here. Board member Mrs. McKinley here. Board member Mrs. Carlson here. Board member Mrs. Johnson here. Secretary Mrs. Pam Cook, recording secretary. Toro Yarro, superintendent. Shelley Wagner, human resources. Michelle, curriculum and instruction. Jason Bloom, communications, community relations. Josh Raman, business and operations. All right. I am excited this evening to recognize some of our littlest learners here coming from Marquette Elementary. We got here. We also have Mr. Cole, our assistant principal for Marquette,
002who's going to introduce the students that we have leading us in the pledge. Thank you guys for having us. We appreciate the invitation. Today, we have a couple students that have been recognized individually by their teachers as being outstanding achievers. So, we're very excited to have them here. And I'd like them to introduce themselves. Go ahead. Ivy Smith Tessa Bley Oakland Juliet Rain out. Thank you. Can everybody sing? Ice 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. Thank you foring us. You guys did such a great job. See, I'm going to recognize middle schoolers a little bit and they are so nervous because you have the board members come around photo. [Music] Good. All right,
003here we go. One, two, three. All right. Awesome. He's a guy. [Music] Oh, there they go. You are afraid to not with that attitude. I think it's a tie. Wait till the bills. Wait till Josh. Can I get a motion and a second for approval of the agenda? Motion. Second. Vice President Thompson. Yes. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKinley. Hi. Board member Carson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Yes. Secretary Miss Meek. President Sterling. Yes. What's your All right. Thank you. As we do at every meeting, the mission of Harlem Casale School District as a vital part of the community is to help diverse learners realize their unlimited potential by providing the educational program, dedicate academic excellence to the development of strong character in a safe and respectful learning environment. Thank you, sir. Can I get
004a motion to approve board meeting minutes regular closed August 18th, 2025? Motion. Second. Board member Mcnite. I board member McKenna. I board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Board of Vice I mean Secretary Meek. I try to get fancy over there. Uh I mean President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. I honor this evening. Disappear. to go. They literally followed me in a single file line. We went back to the back of the hallway. Just right here. And then if you all want to kind of spread out that way and face put their face on the table. We talked through it. We didn't rehearse it. So, well, it is my uh pleasure this evening to introduce some um outstanding young ladies that um first got to participate in a really cool opportunity. Um, but I
005think what I'm most excited about recognizing um these young ladies and their coach for is that um these are uh girls from Harlem Middle School that are participating in the Rockford Park District's um flag football league which I believe practice starts tomorrow night actually. Um and this is kind of their second year but really it's kind of an inaugural season for the park district. Um and and I think what is most exciting about this and they may not recognize this yet. Um but they are really trailblazers in this movement around flag football. We've seen recently that um the IHSA has adopted that as a a school sport. We had the opportunity to recognize our high school team recently. Um but now we have this chance to introduce to you um students that are participating at
006the middle school level and we're really looking forward to seeing their success but also where this program um continues to go and where flag football at this level uh continues to expand. And I've heard most recently that we had like 26ish girls that are interested in playing which is phenomenal um to have that kind of number um for for this uh kind of semi inaugural first season I suppose. So um with that though because they're really excited to introduce themselves. They were really excited um I am first going to turn over to to their coach Mack. can talk a little bit about um what's going on, what they experienced um which you all are aware of because we sent you some stuff a few weeks ago, but uh turn over and let them talk a
007little bit and we'll get to hear their names and their grades. You want to start? Yeah, sure. So, hi, I am coach Brena Mackey. Um I am a graduate of Harlem as of 2024. I played my first year, my first year, my senior year, and then I was able to play at the collegiate level. um this program is so important to me because I remember being like really young and not being able to play football and I couldn't understand why. And so now I think it's an amazing opportunity for these girls to get a chance to do something that I couldn't and you guys are studying what history like you guys are creating history right now as we speak and I think you guys should be very proud of yourselves for that. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.
008Pretty awesome. Um, and so I don't know if you were willing to talk a little bit about you can see up there we we got one of the photos that um the park district posted um up on the screen there, but you want to talk a little bit about the experience that opportunity they have? Yeah. Um, so these girls um through pure talent were able to get to play on Soldier Field um during the halftime show of their preseason game of Chicago versus the Dolphins. And um I know that uh it was definitely a little rough to start out, but we did they did amazing. I mean, I can't be more proud. Uh, I know that you guys got to meet a couple of the football players here and there. They got kind of came
009by and shook your hands a little bit and you got to experience that, which was super awesome. And I think it just really set the standard for where um, these girls can go in the future and I really have high hopes that we will soon have a national flag team at least in the state of Illinois to where that they will be able to make that their end goal. Awesome. Awesome. No, I didn't ask you this ahead of time, so I'm okay if nobody says anything. But um does anyone want to talk about like the highlight of that experience? Like getting the chance to be in front of all those people on Soldier Field? Like was that pretty cool? I should have probably asked yes or no questions. So like what was the favorite part
010of it? Like somebody like there's got to be something you're like that was just awesome or was it like the whole thing? The whole thing. Okay. So, some of you may know that we also had the honorary captain for the game. Um, she is not I she's not going to have to talk, but uh, Miss Ava was the honorary captain for the game. So, she had that opportunity to be out center field um with the toss to coin coin toss. Thank you. Um, and so what a cool opportunity to be that. And uh, and we also had a chance to you played a local team, right? like kids from Haniga area, Rockton. So, kind of cool to represent our our region um at that as well. And so, now without further ado, because we've been
011waiting for this moment, wicker Adrian, so we get a little bit of an introduction, we can put a face to the name for our board members. You start. Um my name is Ava Stro and I'm in seventh grade. My name is Liv Weber and I'm in eighth grade. My name is Avery. I'm in eighth grade. Um my name is Brena Peters and I'm in seventh grade. I'm Ariana Mendes and I'm in sixth grade. I'm Saria Jackson. I'm in eighth grade. I'm Madison Carter and I'm in eighth grade. My name is Ry. I'm in eighth grade. Awesome. Well, we are super excited to see where this program goes. Obviously, like I said, you you may not know it yet, but you are setting the ground for and we see that we've got 26 students that are
012are wanting to play, which is really awesome. But you really are setting the stage for um what is to come with this sport. And so, we're we're super excited. We hope practice starts off well tomorrow um and that you all have a great season. We get a chance to to honor and recognize you in in ways uh coming up. So, congratulations to all of you and uh we're proud of you and and best of luck this season. As someone that was at Soldier Field, you guys did a great job. I saw you guys out there and I know uh some of the coaches had they really tell you the plays and then you guys realized it was so loud that you couldn't hear. So, you guys adapted and overcame and you guys did a good
013job out there. really. You really did. Well, best of luck and everything. Um, thanks for representing us. Games are on Saturdays at Clarence Higs Memorial Day. Yep. So, games are on Saturdays. Uh, if you anybody that hasn't seen um they recently unveiled their uh new field turf field with the warm-up area that was um paid for by Chicago Bears. And so great facility complex that you all be able to participate in. So kudos to Rocket Park District as well has really taken the the initiative to get this up and going and and so again we look forward to to seeing success this season. So with that we'll do a quick photo with our board members. So if you want to turn around and face that way, [Music] I can keep backing up. Watch this. There
014you go. Perfect. All right, here we go. Thank you. This is my dinner. [Music] [Applause] Best of luck. To a great season. Really? I think so. She was actually Yeah. No, I'm just trying. That's just how it works. You didn't win. I married her. She still hurt. No, she No, she's not. That was the bet. He said she's not gonna stay here for Josh's. All right. At this time, there are no comments for the community. So, I'm going to turn it over to Josh for the bills. All right. Thank you very much. The total payables this period were $980,361.91. Of that, there were void checks of $40,2595. There were two payrolls this period in the amount of $7,90,7965 for total expenditures of 8,71,157.96. Split out by fund, the education fund paid $6,924,615.77. The tort fund
015paid $23,175. The operations and maintenance fund paid $426,890.80. The transportation fund paid $375,62611. The IMRF social security fund paid $247,5943 and the capital projects fund paid $73,340.85. Again, for total expenditures of 8,71,157.96. Are there any unanswered questions? How does a company lose a $37,000 check? Someone says it's a lost check. Could you just I'll have to I can't imagine letting that out of my hand, you know? It's like Yeah, Wow. Still waiting for it to come back. Oh, yeah. Motion to approve the bills. Motion. Second. Board member McKennney. Board member McKini. She said yes. You said board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary Meeks. I President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Board member Mcnite. Yes. All right. At this time, I'm going to turn it over to Diane McKinn. Okay. Um, first
016I want to say thank you for all of you for attending tonight and I want to congratulate the Machznney teachers for being selected and the Burlington's partnership with Adopt a Classroom. Um, it was fun to experience the ribbon cutting for Burlington, but it was also really having a great time for the opportunity to share an excitement with the principal Abby Edwards receiving a $5,000 check from Machesn Elementary last Friday. And I also want to commend the equity and education committees um for their cootw presentations on the sense of belonging and the OLA and multilingual learner programming that was also presented last week. Um both were very informative to me. I learned a great deal um about the OLA and the multilingual um programming. Um I feel like sometimes when I had taught in the past
017some of the kids that came from different districts or whatever, it was very difficult for me to understand um where they were coming from, the opportunity that we had the little get together and the um exercise that brought us together with the um pictures and the words that we had to say with our favorite movie. It was very difficult for me to do that without thinking and overthinking it. So, I really appreciate it looking at that opportunity, having that opportunity to look what how the kids are struggling and the programming that we have here through our district is fabulous and I appreciate that that we have that. Um, I also want to thank the elementary, Marquette Elementary for saying the pledge tonight and for um the group of middle school girls for actually um having
018the opportunity to go to Soldier Field to play. That is fantastic. When I was in high school, I always wanted to have a flag football or even a tackle football team for girls and it just wasn't feasible. So, I did a lot of the GL um e GLA um experiences. And when I went to Rock Valley, I actually got to participate in the flag football for the um pompom um type of flag football. And that was kind of an exciting for their um that time period. So, I really appreciate all the girls coming around at this time period in their life and being able to participate in all these activities. It's really moving forward is fabulous to see that. So, thank you. Next meeting education committee. Oh, and the next education committee is scheduled for
019October 8th, 2025. Thank you so much, Diana Jones. Thank you. I'm just going to say ditto to what uh Diane said there. He said it very well, so I'm not going to repeat all that. Um the only thing I have is I did attend the Harlem's breakfast this morning and they had 73 members there. Some of the members were 92 years old in September. So, it's always a fun breakfast to attend. Uh we have ages all the way from the class of 1951 to 1991 2000. So, it's a it's a nice uh event. And that's all I have this evening. Thank you so much, Rebecca Cross. Thank you. I don't have a lot to say either because school just started. And thank you, Diane, for bringing up all those things. How old were our Marquette
020students, Jason? Are they all first grade? Thursday 31st first or third. I'm I'm impressed because I know when I was what, six, just saying the pledge of allegiance was like, you know, big words and putting it all in the same order and saying it in front of people and I that's that's fantastic that they can say that and and get it right and it's just it's great. And I looked at some of these books Mickey had given me for the new curriculum and I thought they were really kind of neat. I thought they were fun to look at. And I was telling her these stories, they looked hard. Some of them looked second and third grade. I don't remember reading that that big of stories when I was that young, but it it's just great
021to see them doing that. And so I'm just want to say again, I hope school's going well for everybody. You know, we've only been going what, two, less than a month. So it's good to have a a school district that just keeps moving along. And it says policy committee is to be determined. I expect there will be one on October 8th for the COOTW. And then I have a recommendation to approve the first reading of policy 8.8 from September 3rd and the proposed draft. Back to you. Thank you. I'm just going to resend my time. I'm just going to echo what everybody else said and and just rescend my time. You're welcome, Bear fans. And so I'm just going to step back because I have nothing to add. You always have something to add. Nope.
022Mr. I'm just going to piggy back off everybody else and say, Oh, first I forgot to say good evening everyone. Thank you for coming on tonight and I'm just happy to start this school year and I'm really excited about the girls flag football team. I think that is amazing. If you get a chance to go over on Old Road to see that new state, the new um football field and everything is beautiful. I mean, definitely catches your eyes, that red field. And I think it's going to be amazing. And you kids, the girls are really when you have something that looks nice, it really builds up people's self-esteems. And I think our girls are really going to be really good this year. So, I'm wishing them all good luck and looking forward to going to
023some championships. So, wishing everybody a great rest of the week and and all of our administrators, teachers, staff, you are greatly appreciated and we're looking for 2025, 2026 to be an excellent year. Thank you. Equity meeting. Oh, forget that. The equity meeting will be October October 8th at 4:30 here. If you plan, if you want to attend, come on out and just see the different things that we're all doing for our school, our schools, our districts. Thank you for Thank you, Kurt Thompson. Sure. I'd like to thank the board members for uh covering some of the fantastic stuff that's going on here, as well as Jason for bringing in uh all our great students and calling out their achievements. Uh other than that, uh we'll keep this one short and sweet. Uh the next business
024services committee meeting is going to be October 8th right back here at the committee of the hall meeting. Mike, thank you sir. Thank you. Hello everyone. Uh that was cool to see the the ghost flag there. Um Jason, thank you for putting that picture up. I did was able to see my daughter in the field right there. That's a small shoulder and hair, but she was there. Um, I'd really like to say thank you to the community for reaching out whenever you see or hear or think is something that we might not see, think, or hear of. Um, it's it's really helpful. I mean, we are a community of people who care. So, I just want to say thank you. Um, with that, we're going to keep this moving along. So, the next regular board
025meeting will be September 22nd, 2025. And with that, I will turn it over to Dr. Mich. Thank you. Uh, this evening, I just have one item. It is the volleyball overnight that I sent you all last week. Um, so they had a volleyball tournament that they attended in Hoffman Estates. They left Friday but returned Saturday. Um, so that's my only item for this evening. Thank you so much. All right, I'll try and keep my 11 quick. Um, my first item is a recommendation to approve resolution declaring surplus property at Machznney Elementary, Parker Center, Wilson Park, the administration center, and the middle school. Any questions on the next item is a recommendation to approve a facility request. There are two. The first one is Parker Center staff for a trunk or treat in October and the
026second one is a volleyball event at the high school in March. Is there a reason that they have to be approved when they are school students? No, I mean typically any rental that goes in on a Sunday comes to the board. That's just kind of in the practice, but could go without it, but just the board wrote policy says Sunday rentals. So we can have something for policy next month. Mhm. If you want to change it, you want to, but it gives you a tracking of who's using what facilities at what. Right. Next is the recommendation to approve an agreement with Perar Security to update the monitoring system here at the Harlem Administration Center for a cost of $3,540. All right. Roll along. Uh, next is a recommendation to approve an independent contractor agreement with
027Bright Beginnings Bilingual Therapy LLC to provide speech and language evaluations for 2025 2026 school year at $1,000 per evaluation for preK through 2 grade students and 1,400 per evaluation for third grade through 12th grade students. 80 per hour for screening miscellaneous services paid with idea flow through part B and IDEA prek grant. You guys remember this is the individual who's going to be in town and not coming from suburbs of Chicago. Okay. Next is a recommendation to approve a partnership with ROE17 for the middle school and high school science departments for continued implementation of open sed at a cost of $6,400 paid by title 2 funds. Questions on? Okay. 11B6 is a recommendation to approve an agreement with the Illinois MTSS network to provide professional development to Harlem Middle School uh Harlem Middle School improvement
028team at a cost of $16,116 funded by the school improvement grant. Next is a recommendation to approve an partnership with Upchieve to provide tutoring services for the 2526 school year to low income students for a cost of $10,000 funded by the school improvement grant. All right, Mike's favorite the PTAB resolution. Next is a recommendation to approve a resolution authorizing attorney Amy Sylvestri to intervene in property tax appeal number 2024-02971 for property index number 08-21-128-001 for the year 2024. This is the first midbank enforce any questions on that. Just hope to hear some updates positives. Yep. Next is a recommendation to approve an agreement with Gordon Flesh Company to provide six copiers at Loves Park, Machznney, Maple, Marquette, Olsson, and High School Athletics for a total cost of $96,585. Okay. Next is a recommendation to approve
029agreement with Clear for add-on license plate recognition software for an additional monthly cost of $27947 per month. I don't know if anybody else thinks so, but it seems to me that this is kind of I feel like it's a little sinister to be following around chasing students families out of the district. Um, we seem to have students that come in from other districts and students that I know some of our students go out to other districts and it just seems like we're taking time and we said that what would that be about $1,500 a month to cover the additional month. didn't we have clear for something else that we said was going to be like $1,500 because I was just thinking for you know $1,500 may not be a big deal but when you know
030we didn't approve what was it 37 jobs last month or something that 1,500 could have been spent on a pair or you know just it just seems like it's money that doesn't need to be spent. Sure. So I was going to ask Jason what's a what's an additional students financial cost in our district. 15 grand. 1500. So we're spending 1,500 to potentially save 15,000. I think that's a good What's the pain about being disqualified for a football game if they're found for someone trying to beat our district? I keep these same questions. I think it's minimal. Not just that, but at this time 1,500 this is. So yes, I I feel you on a lot of the stuff. 1,500 for that's including the 279. So we already spent the first part. I think you said
03163 44 to 63 open investigations at 44 students that we have concerns about right now currently. So there's this helps with some of those man hours and hours that get spent on the hourly on each one of those and yet aren't we losing students to some other districts as well and wouldn't it be kind of a a wash to have some of ours going? You know, I know we have a family in the subdivision where I live that they put out purple and yellow signs that are like, "Hey, we're going to go to Han." Yeah, I understand. But you're going to say that so there's students in here taking resources from Harlem students. Right. Right. But there's also students who are giving them away to students when they're going to other districts. I plus if
032we have more students, you know, if we're getting students, wouldn't we be excited to have students from basically anywhere because we're getting federal funding for the number? I mean, we don't I'm confused. It's a tax pay. Yeah. They're not paying tax to the district. I mean, to me, it's a little bit more of just the ethics of like this is, you know, falsifying. Exactly. So, the person that's got the nominating a flag or right, whatever is falsifying information, which, you know, clearly states like in our policy that students have to be residents of the district, do not step accept out of district tuition payments and that type of stuff. And so it is I and I will admit like I I struggle with like what is that balance especially as we've taken on more of
033this now like I trying to find that balance personally and like how much time and energy is spent in this um but we've found that people you know if we don't enforce it they will take advantage of it and we have people that are as I mentioned in the meeting like that are either falsifying addresses they're you know falsifying their guardianship of their kid they're you They're finding ways to, which again, it's a great I love the fact that people are trying to get in here, but they need to do that the right way. And I think like this is really the only way for us to really enforce it. Like we can use an investigator and and that costs money as well. We'll still probably need to use that a little bit. But, uh,
034to me, it's like it's either we have to say we're going to enforce this and follow through with saying that if you're you have to be a resident to to attend here, or to be honest, it will become kind of like a a free-for-all and it will just be whatever shows up, whatever you because you can get your driver's license change pretty easily and have an address change or provide, you know, a new lease or an affidavit that says you're living with such and such person. and you know and I I do think about obviously athletics and some of those things but I really think it's to me about ensuring that our kids are attending our schools you know and and we don't want people falsifying Rockford is their legal department is investigating these things
035so they're going after them we're working on some jointly and as I mentioned you know I know that Kinic or Rosco just approved clear last year one of them did up there um and the other one and I just had a call up they're looking at this as well because it is a concerned that people that are not are in our taxing districts are are trying to attend our schools. So, I get absolutely what you're saying, but I feel like it's it is I think one of the concerns for me is that, you know, if we're following somebody's license plate, you know, you you realize that they're going to some house that supposedly they don't belong in. You know, for all we know, it's a grandmother that lives out of town that's picking up students
036and taking them back and forth. And mom and dad really do live in the district. And so it just kind of seems like we're following the wrong people sometimes. And are we following the wrong people or that's where like clear came in and it's really taken us kind of down this path of like we have this now new intel. Before it was really just word of mouth like somebody would say hey we saw we know so and so is going home to Facebook whatever and so we would try to go off of that but we need in order for us to actually remove them from the district like we need solid evidence to be able to do that. and and we have have a lot of evidence and so um as we use clear to
037investigate and we pull those records and stuff like that that starts to build our case and so these people that we're going to actually get an investigator for or actually use the license plate stuff on is it's people that we have a pretty pretty strong suspicion. We have multiple pieces of evidence already to tell us we need to really look at this, but it can't be like, you know, that's the challenge of it is that they could be going to grandparents twice a week, but really the parents live out of district. They're only doing that twice a week. So, we've got to prove that at different points in time that they are actually going to their home out of district and and so it is a lot of that compiling evidence that we need to
038to be able to make our case if we're going to proceed with either moving somebody or or charging tuition to the things. Do we still charge tuition or do we just kind of say, "Hey, we don't have the space or is that how we used to do that years ago?" So, when the letter goes out, it tells them the tuition amount they owe. It lets them request a hearing. If they go to hearing, so if they don't contest it, then yes, they owe the amount on the letter. If they go to hearing and they don't win, then yes, they owe that. And we have sent people collections for that amount in the past. But can they pay a tuition and stay in the district? Yes. Any anybody can pay. Well, that's kind of what I
039thought because we used to do that and then they quit doing it for a while. Yes, we $14,000. We haven't done that. Yeah, we don't we haven't allowed that. Yeah, that's what I thought. They cancel like you can't we can't we could district allowed we just don't that's all. Sorry Josh. Any other questions? Good. My final item is a recommendation to approve an agreement with Challenger Learning Center to provide six mission expeditions to Mars from Chznney Elementary for $4,600 which seems like a pretty good going rate for Mars. So, does that include the return trip though? It didn't say that. So, they're going. There are no other questions that my report this evening. Thank you, sir. Good evening, Mr. This evening, I have the recommendation to approve the personnel agenda. There is no one done
040this evening. Okay. Um, we have 18 employments, 16 transfers, and 10 resignations that include one revision of a previously approved resignation. Okay, it was she's taking retirement now, not just a voluntary resignation. She's retiring, so we're just switching that up for her. Okay, and that's it for me. Thank you so much. So, we have a girl, so yes, Dr. Traro. Thank you, board president. What's up with this tonight? I too want to um want to thank our teachers and our administrators and our students for such a smooth start to the year. Um not every school district has such a smooth start to the year. So, I'm really proud of of all that we do um specifically putting things in place um like board member um McKenna said as far as making our students feel belong
041in in our space. And so that's great. So, thank you for that. All right. So the first item that I have here came pre um board policy 880. And so we have here recommendation to accept a donation from progressive components in the amount of $5,000 which is awesome. We already have the check. They donated that um to our CTE um programming to be spent you know in our CTE weight. So that was great. Cool. So excellent. And now I have some foyer requests here. So free a freedom of information act was submitted on July 30th, 2025 by Meredith Monty requesting information about the employment of Michael Cross in the Harlem school district during the years 2014 to 2019 with district response dated August 13, 2025 with inclusive documentation. The next one is dated September 2nd,
0422025, submitted by uh Peter Medlin of Northern Public Radio requesting information regarding digital copies of any contracts the district currently has for AI based education services. The district responded to the request on September 4th, 2025. We have no records for the request. Um the next one was submitted by CT Mills requesting copies of records related to district purchases and contracts for core curriculum purchases. instructional technology and common assessment software. We'll have a we'll have a response to that soon. And then the final one is September 2nd, 2025, submitted by Owen Wayne of the Rockford Sun requesting names and honors of all students in our high schools recognized by the College Board as AP scholars. We'll be giving a request on that one as well. Cool. Robertson. Yep. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Moving
043on to the consent agenda. Can I get a motion to approve the personal agenda? Motion. Second. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary Meeks. I. President Sterling. I. Vice President Thompson. I. Board member Mcnite. I. Board member McKenna. I. Can I get a motion to approve student travel requests? Motion. Second. Board member Johnson. I. Board member Meeks. I or I mean President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKenna. I board member Mayor Carson. Yes. Can I get a motion to approve facility request? Motion. Second. Secretary Meeks. I. President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKenna. Hi. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Can I get a motion to approve gifts to the district? Motion. Second. President Sterling. Hi. Vice
044President Thompson. Hi. Board member Mcnite. I. Board member McKenna. I. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary Meeks. I. Can I get a motion to approve the first reading of policy 880 from September 3rd, 2025 policy committee? Motion. Second. Vice President Thompson. I. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKenna. I. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary Meeks. I Sterling. I can get a motion to approve resolution declaring suppressed property. Motion. Board member Mcnite. Second. Do we get a second? Second. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. Board member. I board member McKenna. I. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi, Secretary Meeks. I President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Keep reading these things. Got water. Can we get a motion to approve an agreement with Permar Security to update the monitoring
045system at Harlem Administration Center for 3540? Motion. I'll second. Board member McKenna. I quick. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary Meeks. I President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Uh, board member Mcnite. I thank you. That brought up memories of Larry Smith. Yes, it did. Can I get a motion to approve the independent contractor agreement with Bright Beginnings Bilingual Therapy LLC to provide speech and language evaluations for 2025 2026 school year at 1,000 per evaluation for the prek prek through 2 grade students and 1,400 per evaluation for third through 12th grade students. $80 per hour for screening and miscellaneous services paid with the idea flow through part B and IDA approve K. Motion. Board member M. Second. Oops. Board member McKenna. I. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary Meeks.
046I. President Sterling. I. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Board member McMahon. I. Can I get a motion to approve partnership with ROE 17 for the middle school and high school science departments for continued implementation of open sad at the cost of 6,400 funded by the title 2 grant? Motion second. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary Meeks. I President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. I. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKenna. I. Can I get a motion to approve an agreement with Illinois MTSS network to provide professional development to Harlem Middle School improve improvement team at a cost of $16,116 funded by the school improvement grant? Motion. Second. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. Hi. Secretary Meeks. I. President Sterling. I. Vice President Thompson. Yes. Board member McNight. Yes. Board McKenna. I. Can
047I get a motion to approve a partnership with Upchieve to provide tutoring services for the 2025 2026 school year to low-income students for a cost of $10,000 funded by the school improvement grant? Motion. Second. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary Meeks I. President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. I. Board member Mcnite. I board member McKenna. Hi. Board member Carlson. Yes. Can I get a motion to approve a resolution authorizing attorney Amy Sylvestri to intervene in the property tax appeal number 2024-02971 for property index number 08-21-128-001 for the year 2024 motion second secretary Meeks I president Sterling I vice president Thompson I board member Mcnite I board member McKenna I Board member Carlson. Yes. Board members Johnson. I. Can I get a motion to approve agreement with Gordon Flesh Company to provide six copers Park Elementary, Machznney
048Elementary, Maple Elementary, Marquette Elementary, Olsson Park Elementary, Harlem High School Athletics for a total cost of $96,585. Motion. Second. President Sterling. I. Vice President Thompson. Hi. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKenna. Hi. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary me. I can I get a motion to approve agreement with Clear for an add-on license plate recognition software for an additional monthly cost of $27947 per month. Motion. Second. Vice President Thompson. Yes. Board member Mcnite. Yes. Board member McKenna. I. Board member Carlson. No. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary Meeks. I. Vice President I mean President Sterling. I can I get a motion to approve agreement with Challenge Learning Center to run a six mission expeditions to Mars from Machznney Elementary at a cost of $4,600. Motion. Second. Board member Mcnite. I. Board member
049McKenna. I. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary Meeks. I. Um President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. I at this time are there any announcements in discussion. Can I get a motion to go into executive session to discuss employment personnel 5 LCS120-2C1? Motion. Second. Board member Mcnite. Hi. Board member McKenna. I. Board member Carlson. Yes. Board member Johnson. I. Secretary Meeks. I. President Sterling. Hi. Vice President Thompson. Hi. 5 minutes. She got [Music]