001Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Oh, [Music] heat, heat. Oh, [Music] heat, heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Right. [Music] Like to call this uh meeting to order for regular board meeting. Can I get a roll call? Yes, you can. Mr. Thompson here. Mr. Mcnite present. Mrs. McKenna here. Mrs. Carlson here. Mrs. Johnson here. Mrs. Meeks here. Pam Cook, recording secretary. Toro Yar. Shelley Wagner, human resources. Michelle, curriculum and instruction. Jason, communications relations. Josh, business and operations. Thank you. Do we have
002anyone deleting us? Probably not. It's time of year. Right there. All right. Yeah. We're doing it in Spanish, right? I would love if everybody would join me for the pledge of allegiance. 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. Thank you so much. Approval of the agenda. Is there any changes? No. All right. Can I get a motion? Yes, you can. Mr. Thompson. Motion. Oops. Got to get a second. Second. Now, Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. Mcnite. Yes. Mrs. McKini. Yes. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mrs. Johnson? Yes. Mrs. Meeks. Hi. Thank you, Dr. All right. The mission of the Harle School District as a vital part of the community is to help diverse learners realize
003their unlimited potential by providing an educational program dedicated to academic excellence and the development of strong character in a safe or respectful learning environment. Thank you. We'll move on to the approval of board meeting minutes of June 16th, 2025. Motion. Second. Mr. Mcnite. I. Mrs. McKenna. I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes, Mrs. Johnson. I Mrs. Meeks. I Mr. Thompson. I And for awards of recognition, Jason. Well, is my pleasure this evening to recognize um one of our student athletes who had an incredible se Come on. this this track season, as you can see with her shirt here, this is a young lady, Taylor Washington, who qualified to compete um at the state track meet. The big piece of this is that she's well, now she a sophomore, but uh she was a freshman this year, which is
004a a pretty impressive thing to qualify to compete at the state competition um in track and field. So, we're excited to have her here, recognize her. I had the pleasure of talking with her out there for a little while. um and just a neat young lady that uh uh I'm sure we will have back the the next couple years for this for this meeting. So, I'm going to turn over to Coach Datson. He can talk a little bit about um her success, just the team in general um and all the things they accomplished this year. All right. So, uh first off, Taylor Washington. Um I was very fortunate to work with Taylor as a freshman when she did flag football and um you know, myself and the other track coaches were like, "Oh, she's going
005to be special. She's this is going to be fun to work with her four years. Uh going into track season, um you know, her dad had told us that she at one point was a national level national level gymnast and I was like, we need to get her on triple jump as soon as we can get outside. So all indoor season she was doing long jumps. She was doing really well. Uh she placed at the indoor conference meet which is awesome because you know we don't have indoor facility. So landing into a sand pit without land without practicing it is tough. So, for her to go out there, compete, play six at the conference meet, um, at the indoor conference meet, and then as soon as we got outside, I talked with Coach Mike, our
006jumps coach, and I said, "We got to get her triple jumping. I I think she can do something special triple jump. We got to get her triple jumping." And Taylor not only like took took it on, but excelled at it. It seemed like every week she was getting just a foot better, a foot better, a foot better. And then the week before conference, she jumps like 32 feet and we're like, "Oh, dang. All right. All right. That's those are some good numbers." Um cuz we're thinking, "Okay, that's like a good solid third, second place at conference." Go into the conference meet, you jump what? 35. 30. You jump 35. She jumps even farther. wins conference as a freshman beating girls who had been continuous conference champions placing a conference um in state qualifiers. So then
007we go to sectionals where we had the toughest sectional because the girl that you know did beat Taylor jumped 43 ft which was the number one jump in the nation. So then Taylor follows that up by jumping 36, was it? 362, 363, 3 cm off the automatic state qualifying mark, but she took second place, which means she now qualified for the state track meet. She was our only qualifier. She's our first qualifier in two years, our first qualifier in triple jump since 2019 when Olivia Lewis qualified for the fourth straight year in a row. With that jump of 363, Taylor is also number two all time in school history behind Olivia Lewis, who is a three-time state medalist. Wow. At the state track meet, now I'm not how sure how familiar you guys are with
008triple jump. All season, Taylor had been moving up on the jump board. So, she was started off at 24, went to 28. Then at the state track meet, the day before prelims, she started jumping off the 32 board. Just kind of did it by accident. She's we're like, "Hey, that's the 32 board, not the 20 28. your usage. She goes, "I'm okay with it." Which for any other athlete, I feel like is a um I'm going to panic and freak out. Taylor's like, "Okay, I'll go out and do it." Jumps 35 ft, which was her second best jump of the year. The coolest thing about that whole experience, Taylor was the only freshman in 3A that qualified for triple jump. So, the future is very bright for Taylor. Um, as far as the whole team,
009we had a great season. Um, we lost indoor conference by one point uh to Honda who has a gorgeous facility. We weren't even anticipating doing that. We had just spent all season training training training trying to find the best girls for the best spot and all the way up until the 4x4. We were we were winning it and we were like this was not expected. So going into outdoor season, we knew we had something special, but there were some other teams that we knew um would be right there. So, fast forward to the conference meet. Um, we ended up taking fourth. Boland uh won it for the first time in I want to say over 10 years. They ended up winning their sectional for the first time ever. So, they had very good squad. Um,
010they had multiple state qualifiers. Guilford was second with Han third and we were right behind them when fourth and that's a great great finish for us cuz two years ago we were eighth. Last year we were fourth and we're still growing. We scored more points this year and we have a lot of girls coming back. Taylor being one of them, but a lot of other girls in this youth that are going to fill those spots really well and I'm excited to see where this team goes. Not just Taylor, but I think you're going to have some teammates next year going down with you. So, as far as the whole season, it was great. Um I think overall we broke or sorry not broke we had 10 girls or combination of girls and relays break into
011our top 10 in school histories events with a lot of those coming from the indoor conference meet which like which really shows you how dominant we were at that meet um to have I want to say it was seven top 10 finishes in school history in one meet. So, uh, the future is very bright for Harlem, very bright for Taylor, and hopefully in a couple months, we'll see you guys here for flag football with some plaques. [Applause] Obviously, like all that success is a huge testament to to Nate and his his team and coaching. He's been around here for a while and has built a strong program. And, you know, it's kind of fun. I was asking her a little bit before we were we were in here about the events that she likes to
012do and stuff like that. And as a former, we'll say former track person really long time ago. Um like we know that like you have limits and what you can do and what you can be in. But you know she's like long jump, triple jump, 100, 200, 41, 4x2, like pretty much every event is possible. I think this it sounds like this girl can be be successful in that. And so I'm excited to hear and see what happens over the next couple years. Um I know that you're going to uh you're going to do some awesome things. And so congratulations on your success this year. uh we look forward to watching that and kudos to your hard work and um all of that. So again, on behalf of the board, our our school district, your
013school, congratulations. We're super proud of you. If I have the board come up that way. Yeah. So, we're gonna get on. So, I'm gonna face this way. [Music] One, two, three. All right. Over here. One, two, three. Well done. I mean, that's what it looks like to me, but they probably do. Well, I wouldn't do it. Looks like their knees. They land so hard. I used to coach. Okay. So, I guess if you don't hyperend and then go to Miami. So, I don't know. Thank you, Jason. Do we have any comments from the community? All right. And with that, Josh, approval of bills. Correct. Thank you. The total payables this period were 6,65,23624. There were void checks of $36,983.25. There was a summer payroll batch that had an issue had an error in it that
014had to be voided. So that's why we avoided those checks when we issued those. There were two payrolls this period for a total amount of $7,361,95154 total expenditures of 13,967,187.78. I'd like it noted that only five people left of the six one's required to be here just so you know split out by fund the education fund paid 7,527,8548 sorry the torque fund paid $1,547,696 the operations and maintenance fund paid $516,8756 6. The transportation fund paid $2,61,740.36. The IMRF social security fund paid $252,7257. Capital projects fund paid $495,455.81 and the life safety fund paid $1,25,493.90. again for total expenditures of 13,967,187.78. Are there any unanswered bill questions? Is it for your bills? Thank you. All right. Need a vote on that. Huh? You need a vote on that? Yes. Approval of the bills. Motion. Second. Mrs.
015McKinley. I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. I Mrs. Meeks. I Mr. Thompson. Hi. Mr. McNight. Yes. And with that, communications and committee reports. Mrs. Meeks, you are first. You're first. Good evening, everyone. We're looking for a response. Thank you everyone that's here tonight. Um, first I would like to say for Taylor. Wow. To be able to compete in more than one or two different events, that's awesome. One thing I could not do when I was a track runner, I could not throw. I could not jump. If I threw something, it probably go about right here. But I love I was a sprinter. I mostly was a distance runner. But whenever we were short, my coach, he believed in points. So he would pull me, oh, I need to run this. I'm like, I didn't even
016practice it. But, you know, I still don't. But I love track. Track is good. And so, for her to be able to participate in more than one event, that's amazing. And she definitely has a good future ahead of her to be that young and doing as great as she is. We got some good students out, some good athletes. So, wishing continues success to all of them. I attended the community the whole meeting last week and everything ran smoothly. But I just want to say to the equity committee, um, you are greatly appreciated. I know how hard it is trying to, you know, do the things that you do and I appreciate how you go above and beyond making sure that all of our students, not just certain students, but all of our students are getting
017the proper things that they need to be successful students. And you are greatly appreciated. And I can say one thing about this district. We do go above and beyond making sure that all of our students in all of our schools are being treated fairly. and you're going above and beyond to make sure that you get whatever they need to help them because equity is ne it's not just about color. It's more to equity than color. You know, you have kids that um that have handicaps or speech implies. It's it's everything. and this district coming together to try to help everybody to get on the same wavelength, building up their morale. I want to tell each and every one of you and those that are not here, I'm screaming it to you at your house telling
018you thank you and you're greatly appreciated and our meetings are getting better and better and we will continue to make sure that Harlem is improving in everything. So again, you might not hear it, but you'll hear from me. Thank you again. And I really do appreciate each and every one of you at all of our schools. And I Oh, I I also attended the um Rams banquet and we had two students that were honored with um scholarships and I'm wishing them success as they prepare their new journey and also looking forward to school starting back. No, you're not. You are, but the kids aren't. Yeah, I think they will be. you know, sometime they they don't, but then once they get back in the groove, you know, they'll pick back up. But again, I just
019want to say thank you to our administrators, our principles, our staff, our teachers, everybody. Um, you might not hear it, but you'll hear from me. You are greatly appreciated, and I know you do go above and beyond to try to do what you do to make this district number one in my book and everybody else's book. So, thanks again for all that you do. And that's that's Oh, and the next equity and social justice meeting is August 13th, 4:30. So, if you can come and attend and just see some of the things that that everybody's doing, you know, it's just a good meeting. And Josh, you know, I always tell him he's the young he's the baby of the bunch. So, I just really like to give him praise because Josh is a perfectionist and
020all that he does to make sure this district is running smooth and making sure we're getting the right people to do what needs to be done. I have to give it to you, Josh. You are amazing. And everybody else, too, you know, I just want to say thank you again and I'll end my speech. Thank you. Thanks, Evelyn. Aaron McNight, I'm going to be quick. I mean, it's summertime, you know. Um, you know, track and field, it's my my oldest did it in middle school and I don't know, it track and field's tough because, you know, especially somebody that's competing in multiple events, like there could be hours in between, you know, one of your one of your events and another event. So to be able to compete and especially at a state level um
021and one but to compete in many is you know it's a it's a it's a great task because I can't imagine doing a a sprint here and two hours later doing a relay as an as an old person older person and trying to loosen back up again. But um so but uh other than that, like you know, I'm I'm I'm excited for the next school year to see see what what what our students and teachers bring and and um you know, I just hope everybody's enjoying their summer. Um you know, vacation's tying up here pretty soon, you know, and what we start to 13th. I mean, we start early. I feel like I feel like we start early this year. So, um so yeah. So enjoy the rest of the time and and start getting
022in the head space that that you're going to excel and you're going to do better than you did the year before and and uh just keep moving forward. And with that being said, I'm done. Thank you, Aaron. Rebecca Carlson. Thank you. Good evening. One more month till school starts. Like Karen said, back in the groove. I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you to Josh especially and to Mickey for literally working tirelessly, endlessly for grants and finances and and I mean we know there's all kinds of budget nonsense going on and craziness in the outside world and inside here and you just wow I'm not a numbers person so I'm I'm lucky to balance the checkbook. So it's like to have all this done is just impressive to me and um I
023appreciate it. Um, thank you to Jason for bringing Taylor in. I just She's Wow. I can't even I'm lucky to jump three feet and not break an ankle. I mean, those of us who are older people, Aaron, don't know for sure how how to run up and down the stairs. Um, but yeah, that's that's just amazing. It's fantastic. and to talk to her mom just for a split second and she's got all of her babies doing athletics and so they're all going to be track and field and flag football and and so she's gonna have a busy busy future but um I too am looking forward to school starting. Um I wanted to say especially welcome to Pam to the big seat at the table right here. And uh we're fortunate to have you doing
024all the great things that you do. Appreciate And for Joshua's new assistant, we welcomed her on Wednesday night. And so I'm excited to have her on the team, too, and doing some great things. I noticed there was a Shannon Thompson on the agenda, and I was like, there's no way that Shannon Thompson went from that to this. And so I thought that was really funny. But we'll we'll let her know that she's she's in in that job for a good reason. So with that, I don't have much. I Everybody's enjoying their their summer and hopefully it stays cooler for the next month. And yes, and we have a recommendation to approve the second reading of the policy updates from May 19th, 2025, first readings. So I put out the recommendation and the next policy committee
025meeting is August 13th at 4:30 as part of the COOTW. So back to you. Thank you, Rebecca. Yeah, I I can't forget Mickey because I know Mickey. Mickey does. You're amazing, Mickey. I want to say thank you. You know, um I know you from back when my kids in school. I know you for as being their track coach and you were amazing track coach. You kept those girls in line and they did some good things back in the day. So, good times. So, you're you're amazing at what you're doing and you go above and beyond trying to make sure when you when you present everything to us, it's right on tech perfectly um and screen and and everybody that works with you too. Well, I sometime I don't like to um say thank you to
026people cuz I always No, I didn't say that right. I don't like I never say that. I love thank you and I like to give people I like to, you know, congratulate and praise people on what they sometimes you forget somebody and then that little thing will hit you in the back of your head and you feel bad. But if I do forget people, it's not don't my heart doesn't mean that my brain might be kind of running trying to think of everything. But I just want you to know too and too much good stuff. Too much good stuff. But Mickey was the bomb back then. She's still the bomb. Thank you, Mickey. Diane Johnson. All right. Well, I would uh just like to thank to congratulate Taylor, too. What an awesome job she did,
027and I know we're going to see great things from her in the next few years. I'd also like to mention I did go to Chris Ardino's retirement party. So, we had that retirement party for after her 25 years here. She did a wonderful job, but we do welcome Pam taking her spot. So, we Pam will do a wonderful job for us. Thank you. Um, I'd also like to mention that next Monday night, uh, the 21st at 6:00, the village of Machznney Park will be honoring our boys bowling team, our girls bowling team, I'm sorry, our girls bowling team for winning the nationals. Uh they did the boys two weeks ago which I didn't know about but I do want to mention everyone if they'd like to attend the six o'clock meeting next Monday at Village
028Hall uh before the start of their board meeting they will be recognizing the girls bowling team. So and then I do uh want to thank all the staff. I'm just going to thank all the staff so I don't forget anybody. Thank all the staff and I would like to point out our bus behind us. We have our first 100 bus. Is that I would hope so. sometimes. But anyway, our part our electric is part of our program that we you know do with grants and things. So, one of our first and the second bus is coming. You said Josh soon. If not today, then tomorrow it might be out tomorrow. So, it might be shocking if it was got her first electric bus. So, just like to point that out and um I think that's
029all I have for this evening. So, that's it for now. I'm looking forward to school starting. Sorry for talking over you with that terrible joke. Uh we'll pretend like that did not happen. We'll go into Diane Giddy. Okay. Um first I want to thank everybody too from the Harlem staff and all the hard work um they the plan and organizing of the committee of the whole presentation. I always learn so much when I come here to that. Um, I know it's my job to be here, but it's also so interesting that I feel like, um, I learn so much and I can also process so much at the time. And then when we move on to the next one, I feel like I'm still in that other committee because it's so much information. But I
030enjoy it so much. I learned so many of the acronyms um, and some of the things that have changed over the six years I've been gone. It's just amazing how far we have moved and progressed um, from those six years. It's just amazing to me. Um, and I really think it's so important that we're all informed and it's what's happening in our entire school just happens in one whole month and then we go from there. It's great one for one wonder one full meeting. Second, I attended my first RAM scholar um celebration at the Tibala event center and um Aisha Pierce and Zerian Sims Bryce were two of the Harlem School District students that came here and got scholarships and they were recognized during um event here um during one of our meetings. I also
031had the opportunity to meet a former student which was really exciting to me. Um, Mercedes Joiner. Um, she was one of my students and so excited to find out that she was on the 2024 um, RAM board of directors which is really such a success. I was really thrilled about that and to find out that she also owns her own business um, JMC Strategic Counseling. Um, I was just amazed and I love hearing that and finding out about all the students and especially the ones I've had in the past so I can recognize them and be appreciative of what they've done and um, their future. Um, I also attended Chris's um, ceremony um, for her retirement which is really nice. I got to see a lot of friends from the past and some of the
032people I worked with in L Park School and at the middle school. And I also want to put a shout out to once again Taylor um Washington for doing the great job in track. Okay. Yeah. And our next educational committee meeting is August 13th um at 4:30 p.m. Thank you, Diane. Can I pull it real quick? Losing control. Oh, I well I forgot to mention this and I I had it mentally written down and it mentally left but um about the Golden Apple event that the guest bartending on Wednesday. So show up the plug in what? Get the plug in. I'm trying. I'm trying. So I will be there 6 to 7 pouring drinks. Uh I know Kurt will be there 4 to 5. Kurt will be there. Dr. Garber will be there. I can't
033remember who else. Oh Josh will be there. So there's a bunch of us. Marquette I believe is there. I'm trying to think of um Brock. Yeah, Brock. Yeah. And I It's It's a guest bartending event. The money goes to the Golden Apple Foundation. However, we because it's at Rascals because it's in our backyard. We should smash every other district. We should. Two years ago, we got hurt cuz we Belvadier took us out. We can't have We cannot get beat up. We cannot lose to Belvadier. So, show up Wednesday 4 to 7. There'll be a food buffet there. There's a raffle going on. So, let's uh It's in our backyard. We have no excuses. Sorry. That was well placed. My hands be fighting for that one. Uh Mr. Sterling is out today. I want to thank
034the board members mainly because I get to uh go last and echo all the fine things that was said during this meeting and all the accomplishments. Uh, I'd also like to uh congratulate Taylor and Nate. Um, I am not a track person, but not only is it having someone with that skill and then helping and guiding them to be to do all of that and then we had someone else 2019 as well that was absolutely amazing. Like that takes a good coach as well. So, um, I'm so glad you bring, you know, everyone in to, uh, celebrate, uh, that. And thank you for everyone else for calling out the great events that are going on as we prepare for all the fun that begins with the next school year. The timer is ticking down for
035sure. It might be a few more weeks, but it's going to feel like a few mere seconds for anyone that's say married to a teacher. Uh, uh, that being said, I do have a couple things uh, to call out here, including a message uh, from uh, Mike for some discussion. Uh we do have the meeting of the whole uh which will be uh covering business services August 13, 2025 at 4:30. Uh and the next regular board meeting is going to be August 18th uh this year of course at 6:00 p.m. Um and with that I will move into the budget discussion which we do have something prepared and then we can do some discussions around that. Pardon me as I read this. Let's see if I can do better than it was written. Uh, as
036we begin the new school year, it's important to acknowledge the financial challenges currently impacting our district and many others across the state. We are keeping a close eye on several financial factors that could impact how we sustain the level of services and support our students and staff have come to expect. First, we are facing an increase in healthcare costs, which puts added pressure on our operating budget. In addition, corporate personal property replacement tax, commonly known as CPPRT, revenue has declined by approximately s 6 million over the last two years, which represents a substantial portion of our funding. On the federal side, the situation remains uncertain. Title 2 funds, which are typ typically received in the amount of $221,000, are currently being withheld. The same is true for title three funds which typically amount in around
037the around $43,000. While we are given an initial allocation for title 5 funding, title 9 funding of $115,897, those funds are also being held at this time. We are also keeping a close eye on the potential for declining interest rates, which could further reduce the revenue we receive from interest earnings. We remain committed to being transparent with our community and making informed, responsible decisions as we navigate this evolving financial landscape. The administration is actively exploring ways to adjust our plans and budgets accordingly to ensure that we continue to support our students learning and staff needs to extent possible. That is his and to add to that, we're starting to hit that, right? So among all the things that we did um at the committee at the whole one of them in business services was was
038calling out those funds um running we knew that this was going to be interesting and and all of these board members new board members are running again we knew that there was going to be financial challenges coming up and I think we're putting what we need to be put in place but we have to be we have to come together as a community as well to know this is coming and to make sure that the money is being spent correctly and just knowing those challenges right Like Josh, I mean, we called out the amazing work that you've done and you've always done amazing things from the the fun of getting funds for for a bus and you've been there through tougher times that we're going through before early on and you know, we're going to
039we're going to count on you and this team to to really directly get through to this. Just a note, that was title four, but Oh, sorry. Uh I didn't study my uh Roman numerals there. Thank you. You're good. No. Yes. Yeah. Thank you. We still doing committee the whole huh? We still talking about it. Committee. Yeah. We're this is open discussion like to discuss. I do think that's directly here. So committed the whole is where it's called out. No. I just want to say thank you to Jason too and Terrell for coming up with ideas and giving the staff the opportunity to be able to discuss what they feel needs to be done to improve our district. going, you know, going above and beyond to make the meetings more interesting and showing on on the
040screen. Oh, you're social. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah, we do that. I was I was Oh, you guys talking No, I'm just No, we're just moving on budget discussion. You go back. I think No, I'm just saying that I think they're all doing a good job. I know it's hard, but I really do appreciate um Jason and Terrell cuz I know it's hard especially the way the climate is now. It's hard to try to make sure we're doing everything right to make sure everything is doing right, crossing our tees and dying our eyes. And so, and I know it's probably a lot of sleepless nights, waste of, you know, energy being drained, but just know that you guys are appreciated. It's a hard. So, thank you. I mean all of it right of knowing where these numbers
041and calling these things out immediately at at the committee of the whole and knowing okay these are the funds that are being currently withheld hopefully we get those back if not this is what we're doing this is how we're adjusting and not going well hopefully they come in and we'll figure it out but having a game plan to make sure this is done it's tough and there's the accolades are harder when you're you're working with with less funds that are coming in and I I I you know that this is going to be the beginning of it, not the end of it. And it's going to be an interesting point. And I I thank Mr. Sterling for at least writing this up and calling this out to have this discussion. Right. The the comm we
042have been really active is being as transparent as possible. Right. I think that's important. And part of that is making sure the community knows exactly this that they know what we're going through the challenges that are there and that everything is here, right? I know the amounts we'll call them out and and you know the budgets and the things that are being done. We'll discuss at the community the whole meetings and then we'll bring them out here as well. So yeah, and that's piggybacking off of what Rebecca said, you know, with Josh's team and and and Mickey's team as well and then also Dr. Dr. Wagner when she's meeting with the principles is making sure that um every dollar is accounted for, you know, grant money, grant funding that we can find. Um Josh call
043me through everything with a fine tooth comb. Um and then like I mentioned um you know, Dr. Wagner having conversations with principles about positions that may not get, you know, we may not can't feel, you know, we by attrition and things like that. And so, um I want the board to know your your team is is working hard, you know, to make sure that we're being fiscally responsible what we're doing. Uh but there are, you know, challenging times ahead and we're going to work through it. So, yeah. Thank you, Shel. Yeah. All right. Kurt, I talked to I talked to Michael a little bit today and he and I discussed it a little bit and he he agreed that we really may have to look at doing everything possible to squeeze whatever money we can
044come up with and taking things out that may have to be taken out. And um I look at the personnel agenda and not that I don't want to see people get hired, but certain things where you just kind of go, do we really need that position? Do we really need Obviously, we we feel that everything that's on the administrative needs to be filled, but I know he and I even discussed it a little bit. And then just some of the little things like, you know, does because there were a couple food service on there, did they really need the extra 15 minutes, 20 minutes, hour and a half? I mean, it's they've been doing without it for so many years. And I hate to say, "Hey, nope, you can't have it. You can't spend that
045money." But at the same time, even the small amount can add up to, you know, 2,000 a year or 5,000 a year. And just as little as it sounds, it it, you know, can help in the long run. So, I don't know. I think everything adds up for sure, right? Like the big drastic things that, you know, the elephants that sit in this room of are the things can come up and to avoid those, we have to look to the small things. I would just push back. I would push back, I guess. But as we just kind of showered praise on the administration, you know, they also they're in the same room and they're seeing it closer than they are. They they know what we're up against, right? So if it comes to a position,
046I don't think it's nicities anymore. I still think it does. And you know, we are also the added say like we get to vote on this. We get to call on things out. So if we see something and I look to your expertise, you know, on on food services far more than than where my knowledge is elsewhere, right? So, I think calling it out and making sure it's done there, but I don't think anyone's in a mode of Oh, no. Not not yet. Yeah, not yet. I think we're we're preparing it and it's those small changes, but I mean, call them out, right? And I'm sure every single person here will get you the answer that you need and we can discuss them as well, right? Like, if there's an opportunity or a miss, um,
047going back to, you know, even some of the discussions that we had at the whole, right? like I want to make sure some of these programs we've got that we're doing them for the right reason and we're not doing it because we've always done it that way and this is going to be a year where we're going to have to really look towards that like it's made it it's something that's nice about this district but are we doing it because we've always done it or is it truly making our district the amazing district that it currently is. So yeah, we're going to we're going to look towards it. You know, there's a reason we're keeping praising our our team here, but we got to watch him. We keep them accountable. Any other call outs with
048the budget discussion here? I know it's a a little different without Mike's calling it out and not being here, but is there any any other discussions, points or anything? Otherwise, I think we need to be accountable to us as well. We we need to be accountable as well to the district as well as to our administration, to our superintendent, and be like, you know, we are the ones that are voting yes or no. Oh, absolutely. On these budget things. So, I think we need to be seriously looking at ourselves in the mirror going, let's really pound out the numbers and cut wherever we can cut. So, I'm I'm will always be I ran on being a cheapkate, so to speak. And so, anything anything we can mess with and rearrange and redo and, you know,
049to me is very important. So, absolutely. And it's it's hard, right? Like I I'm also generalized cheap state cheap state. No steak there. But I also know that it's very difficult especially like to I know Mike says it's really hard to kind of as you steer that boat and sometimes you have to make sure right like it looks good to cut something but what you don't see is all the things that have gone into certain programs and while you may have some immediate savings from them the long-term costs or the cost to bring it back once we see better financial times sometimes can outweigh and some of the amazing things that not just not our district but other things that have had in the past got caught cut and it's so hard to bring them
050back and go how did you ever do that and it's the times that we have to be careful when I say they all in the room we've got to be really precise and I would rather be very frugal in the small stuff right making sure that's all done making sure we're budgeting everything correctly we're trying to find additional ways for maybe added interest to come in we we've got one of the most creative people to that so we don't have to do some of these more drastic means right like we have to watch everything we've got you know there's there's there's buildings, the the new program we've gotten for the the clinic, right? Those are really easy things to cut and you look going cut the clinic, we save X. But we put it in
051place to ultimately save money down the road. So, we've got to be really diligent and careful. And our job is tough, right? Like speaking about running, I ran on the fact that this is this is going to be the toughest four years possible one way or the other just with what we were going to be going through. So, I'm with you. We're going to do some teamwork to do this. I just want to make sure that like the the throwing the baby out with the bath bath water like that's a that's a that's a bad one but it's important right like that is going to be really important I think to as we navigate through this is that we need to keep that Harlem pride and the things that have done so well that we've
052been able to benefit through as coming through this school as we navigate through tougher financial times and I think that's that's why it's so important too you know for our community if if you really want to know about what's going on and what we're doing to attend some of our committee the whole meetings when you have time because in our latest meeting Dr. Herb went over you know there's a certain amount of money that was um you know was supposed to be giving to her department that she doesn't have right and now we have to figure out another way to to do that and so um being able to hear that information and and and learn about that and figure out what we're trying to do to still u provide services to our kids I
053think it's more important so So if you want to come committee at home. Yes. Yeah. Stay for the budget. All right. We with that we will move into administrative reports. Dr. Thank you. Uh I have two overnight travels and um you may recall when Mr. Sangi came and he shared a grant opportunity with all of us. Um, and so we received the grant and everything, but part of that he shared would be some overnight trips where he'd be taking students to conduct some interviews and do some filming. So, the first one is in July. They leave on the 23rd and come back on the 25th. They'll go to the historical museum in um, West Frankfurt, Illinois, and um, there they're going to do some interviews uh, history. And then the second one is um August
0548th through the 10th they're going to be filming doing some cold history in MRSA Illinois. And so both of them are great opportunities. The students are known as like student interns. So they're getting some internship opportunities along um with us. So uh it's completely paid for through that grant that um received through the University of Illinois. Fantastic. Any questions? All right, that ends my report. Thank you. All right, Josh. Back to you. Thank you. The first item this evening is a recommendation to approve a resolution declaring surplus property at Parker Center, Harlem High School, and the administration center. Next is a recommendation to approve facility request. There are two. There's a soccer rental in a few weeks at the high school and then a high school musical in March for the auditorium. Any questions on
055either of those items? Do we know that these things like we saw file cabinets or something? Do we know that they're going someplace or they just going out in the pile somewhere in the backyard? We had nine. We asked the the buildings and four of them I think were spoken for. So we have five. So they are available free to take or they're free to even like something crazy like posting them on marketplace and going hey 10 bucks and come get them or something. Simple. Okay. They're hundreds of pounds heavy. Yes. cuz they were fireproof HR ones a while back. She says they're not fireproof anymore. So they don't meet CO there too. So it's not like No, but we talked about maybe the fire department wants them testing. Sounds good. All right. Next is
056the recommendation to accept the May 2025 treasures report. And as Kurt noted in committee the whole, we dug into some of those revenues and just highlights low weights kind of where we're seeing things. And just a reminder, this is the last treasures report until the audit uh presentation in December. So, and we will have a tenative budget presentation next month in August. So, we can obviously dig into the budget a lot more at that point, too. Are there any questions on the treasures report? Okay. Next is a recommendation to approve an agreement with the regional office of education for the renewal of a truency interventionist for a cost of $50 per hour at 40 hours per week for the 26 school year paid with district funds. And there's only one officer. There's only two. It's
057like you buy one get one. So it's like we're paying for half for both of the individuals of the deal. Yes. So ROE is paying for half of each of the individuals and we're paying for the other half. And do they have a specific or do they just go with excuse me like the like some one person takes half of them or one person takes half or elementary secondary? Correct. Okay. So they're kind of okay. But they do work together because often a family that might need that support um has kids in multiple levels. Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. So any other questions? Okay. Next is a recommendation to approve an agreement with Secure Halo for security penetration testing for a cost of 21,254 paid with technology department funds. This is cyber
058security prevention protection of the district network. So let the good guys break in so the bad guys can't. Yes, there you go. Probably sounds better than penetration test. So next is a recommendation to approve a proposal of service with Hagy Architects for a dust collection system at Harlem High School in the CTE building. Now that we have a construction program and teacher and uh this will uh fit the needs of that program so we can get a system in there that is appropriately scoped and functional. And that I I you probably talked about in the committee hall and I apologize I wasn't here. I had something else um prior engage, but sure that number we had kind of a basic ballpark number beforehand and it was nowhere near this. So what what we talked about
059is originally the I mean it's not shopback. I get that. But the alternate in the bid originally was 100,000 but we didn't have a program. We were a million over. So in December the the board asked us to look into that. So that was right before breaks right after break. In January, we started meeting with DA. They gave us their proposal about midappril and it was in this range, but at that point, like you said, it was so much over. We had Hagy start that process and they came to the same conclusion. So, so who's going to actually have did we receive bids for this then? No. So, this is they're going to finish the spec. So, they the architects and engineers have looked at it. they'll get it out to bid, get it back.
060Either it'll be close to that meeting, otherwise makes we just call meeting in August to get that going. So, this is what we're anticipating then. So, I would say that that's a a worst case scenario. I I think it will be slightly less than that. It might be a blessing that we didn't take that first one because there was no program. We had no equipment or locations. Like I don't think it would have been obviously the right scope of it. We probably would have had more problems putting in some way underized system. So, um, you know, the second item there is a recommendation to approve this as a life safety amendment for the system so that we can use some of those life safety funds that we had for the roof for this to make
061sure that to fund it. We call the insurance companies about the hail yet. speak about roofs just I mean just saying we don't always typically walk all of those and if there's any problems we let them know on the roof but you know but it might be a blessing that we can use life safety funds for this where originally necessity that use life safety funds I mean nothing qualifies more than this under a life if you think about it this should be the definition of a life okay thank you so the number that we're looking And which is kind of what was saying too is is also the Hagny number. I mean it's kind of a ball an all thing. So what makes the first time I look at this I'm going oh my gosh
062Hagney's charging that much for no just their services and I can't imagine that but I'm thinking so I don't have the exact $400,000 number in there. But when they put that into IAS it adds 10% for contingency and 10% for architect and then that's what it becomes. So it also may come in less than that. I mean, we've seen that before, too. So, I know Jake has been working hard with our uh union trades about this project, talking to them about it. We'll let them know when this goes out to bid and see if there's ways that, you know, if we talk about as a community as a whole. Yeah, absolutely. So, Jake's had a lot of conversations on that, too. So, hopefully that comes to fruition and and we get good bid numbers that
063way. We'll definitely make sure that everyone that can do this work knows and we get a good good as low number as we can back and that this system, like I said, meets this program and meets our needs and we're good going forward. So, now if we have a construction class that's using this, can they use the construction class to help install it or is that over their heads? No. We got to like prevailing weight. Yeah. No. Any So, I kind of hit both the items there. Are there any questions on either? They're both related. There will be one more resolution because when we passed the resolution to issue the life safety bonds, we identified H9 and the middle school. So now that we're going to bring in the high school, there'll be an updated
064resolution. Well, that shouldn't be a big deal. Uh but I wanted because we have to click this to be I wanted to have the board approve the life safety amendment so we can keep that moving as everything is moving at the same time. Get it done before it gets cold. Yes. Yep. That's that's the goal. And we've seen, you know, we talked at committee the whole too. We've seen projects finishing up this week and multiple projects finishing up a month early. So that's that's a positive. So hopefully we can get some luck on this one, too. Good. Everyone good? Good. All right. My last item is a recommendation to approve the purchase of updated Woodcock Johnson V protocols for the 2526 school year for a cost of $7,817.50 50 cents paid idea flow through part
065B funds and Heidi answered any questions hopefully at committee of the whole are there any other questions that were not answered that is my report you Josh thank you Dr. Wagner Mr. Sounds the same thing. I have a recommendation to approve the personnel agenda and the addendum 12 transfers tonight, 19 employments and 19 resignations. And if there's no questions, then recommendation report. Thank you, Dr. All right. I got a few foyer requests here before we get into the profile of a graduate. Um so the first one 11d1 um freedom of information act request submitted by Owen Wayne on June 18th 2025 requesting graduate information and the district response dated June 23rd 2025 with partial inclusive information. So we we could provide some of the information that Owen Wang was requesting about our graduates but not
066all of it. Um 11D2 freedom of information act request submitted on June 23rd 2025 by Owen Wayne of the Rockford Sun requesting information about the math team attendance at the MOO alpha theta conference and district response date July 10 2025 um our math team did not attend that so that was easy for you this year. Yeah. 11D3 uh again uh submitted by smart procure on July 7, 2025. All purchasing records from 47205 to current and the district response dated July 9th, 2025. And then finally 114 recommendation to approve the NIA Northwestern Illinois Association um sub region 2 ballot for the executive board for a two-year term as follows to elect Sarah Moore Winnebago County Special Education District Administrator and David Lombardo Rockford um 140 school board member. They just um kind of something that the
067the board has to vote on and found out we're in subsection of sub region two. Didn't know that before. So thank you for that. And then so profile of a graduate um if you remember way back what was that I don't even remember when came probably December or somewhere around there but anyway um we started talking about um bringing to our district a profile of a graduate and and really um you know something that could tie together um our mission statement, our visions, um things that we're doing in our classrooms. And so when when our um graduates graduated um the individuals that would be employing them would know this is what you would get from a Harlem graduate. And so um Mr. Hubert um director of secondary education um took us through a process um
068of getting um getting this together and I'm really appreciative of of what he did and he's going to go through how that went um who was involved um and then our final project and then also next steps. So, all right. Well, I just want to say I'm really inspired by Taylor Washington's long triple jump. So, I'm going to try to provide a really long presentation for you. Um, so I'm not going to read through um the mission. I know we did that at the beginning of the meeting, but I would like to point out one of the things that we um are is in our mission here is the development of strong character in a safe and respectful learning environment. And so one of the big keys here for profile graduate is really kind of
069highlighting um some characteristics that we want to set our students apart from um students in other districts. And so uh we had the opportunity I had the opportunity to to work with Dr. Yarro and really doing quite a bit. Um and one of the things you know you really want to think about is is what's the purpose of school? Well, the purpose of school is to prepare our students for the future. Okay? And it's not just academics. In fact, uh, US News in 2022 ended up, um, coming out with several points of interest that a lot of colleges, universities are looking at as far as when they take in, um, you know, students. And it's not just GPA and test scores anymore. Um, they're starting to look into personality traits and extracurricular activities. How involved
070are the students in the community? And this is one of the things that we really want to make sure we're bringing to the forefront for our students about the importance of really getting involved. Um if you look at other research uh as far as like college board uh who uh is the maker of the SAT and AP classes um they work quite a bit with colleges and they're talking about the and they provided these six qualities here that colleges are really looking for um other than the GPA and the test scores um you know they they want students who are going to end up taking risks have initiative are true leaders um you know, a commitment to service. That's a big one. And and these are things that I don't know that we we get
071to our students early enough with. Um and so um it it's important for us to look at like what all are what are all our our um students what do they need to be prepared for after high school? Um just beyond the academics. Then when you look at it, uh Illinois uh took a number of different organizations about 20 different organizations. Um a lot of those involved industry recognized uh professionals um and educators and they came up with these cross- sector essential employability skills. So we have all of these different entities who are saying look here are all these things that we need our students um you know to really kind of be able to show and exemplify on things. On top of that the state provides four different um four different mandates basically for
072what we're supposed to be providing to our students um so that they are prepared for the future. In this case, you talk about the PACE framework, which is post-secary and career uh expectations framework. This is something we're supposed to be providing to our students in grades 6 through 12. It ends up going over financial planning, future planning, um and and really takes the students down the road of of really starting to look at their future. And that goes clear down to sixth grade. Um they have what you're used to with your traditional graduation requirements. Um and those are just like the um required courses students are take to supposed to take to graduate. So four English classes, three math classes, um so forth and so on. You have your college and career pathway endorsements which
073we've talked about a number of times. Um those talk those involve the cat the pathway classes um along with work experience in a specific pathway um and in college early college credits. And then you have your college and career readiness indicators, which all of our high school students are supposed to be doing. Um, and that involves summertime work, getting involved in extracurriculars, trying to take honors, uh, AP classes, collegiate level classes to start prepare theelves for the future, and really trying to challenge yourself um, rigorously in academics. So, we have all of these different uh entities that are that are telling our students, this is what you need for your future. Um, here are all the things that that you need to be prepared. And there's quite a bit of overlap when you look at
074all of these different entities and guidelines and regulations. And so one of the things when we really started down this road was we wanted to make sure that we're um taking all of these things right now that are just checklists and kind of combining them into something that's far simpler for our students and and really our educators, our community, parents, um you know, our employers to really know and expect from our students. So we started down this uh this road over a year ago. um you know, with the goal of combining the multiple requirements that Illinois has, establishing focus categories for our students, um identifying really what is it that we want our students to be known for, um and and then put the students at the center of setting their own goals through this
075path, um through this project, I should say. provide them with a framework and then provide everyone with a common language really for how how we can move forward. So um over a year ago we had niued systems come in and they worked with a group of about 20 um uh people from around the district to um develop really kind of five categories that we wanted our students to be recognized for. Um I I know Dr. Yarborough and I had the opportunity to reach out to a number of different entities to kind of ask um how they developed their profile graduate, who do they work with. We spoke with some of the uh people out there who who have led profile graduate including um boy who we brought in um and they kind of helped us
076out with some of this process. Um we sent out surveys to stakeholders for which we had around like 1,800 different responses um from around the community. Um we used um a group of community stakeholders to help review that data and then um we worked with um you know we worked with some of our own students to try to come up with a graphic um to help us out with this which has kind of led us to this point. So, when we look at the committee of stakeholders, you can see we had a really well-rounded um group of individuals who came in. Um we had two different evenings that we met um and we dove down into all the feedback we received through those surveys um from from a number of different stakeholders and we split
077the group up into groups of six. And I know um one of the things Dr. Dr. Arbo said is it's really important that we make sure we have a good solid five categories within these categories exactly what is it and let's make it simple and that was what we set out to do within um that group and so that took us um two different uh meetings to get through all that and we have a short video to provide about um the experience for those who were involved. Can I can I say something real quick? So, you will notice this awkward laughing moment in this video of me laughing. Um, that was really me just looking at Jake at the moment. So, I'm the only one that's laughing in the video. So, we uh I just
078want to point that out cuz it's kind of awkward watching myself laugh. Nobody else is laughing. Maybe no one would have noticed if you No, they they would have noticed. They would have. [Music] I'm Burns and I'm in sixth grade. Um, I'm Dr. is Cindy Schaefer Tobin and I work at Rock Valley College as the dean of Early College. My name is Brilliance Tarver. I'm in seventh grade and I'm a student at Harlem Middle School. I'm Melissa Burns and I'm with the YMCA of Rock River Valley. I'm Corbin Phillips and I'm a junior here at Harlem. Darlene Keller, Rock Valley Credit Union, president, CEO. I'm Melissa Haggererman. Um, and I am a workbased learning teacher and coordinator. Asia Pierce and I'm a senior. My name is Dr. Terrell Yarru. I'm the superintendent. Miss is Nicole
079Baileing and I'm a math interventionist at Harlem Middle School. I'm Jason Bloom, assistant superintendent. I'm Molina Fleta and I'm a junior. Jacob Hubert, director of secondary education. Jeremy Boyce. I'm the principal at Harlem High School. Um, I think I see them as being ready for like whatever the future throws at them. They're ready for like the outside world. most important things that they really get from a profile of a graduate are just great communication skills and then the ability to work with a group through critical thinking and stuff like that. I envision them being ready for any a postgraduate career. So whether that looks like um technical trainings um entering the workforce um pursuing higher education these are folks that will be more mature professional. I'm hoping that they take those like lifelong skills of
080like always wanting to like learn new things and uh collaborate with other people and to communicate with other people very professionally. And for our graduates to leave um as innovators and problem solvers and um getting involved in their community I think is is the most important piece. uh the profile of a graduate will help our students to really understand how what we're doing here at Harlem uh helps to provide an environment and and really connects them um to what they want to do in the future. Not only are we teaching them math and literacy and you know science and social studies, we're also uh finding ways to make sure that they get skills and collaboration and communication and all of those things that will be essential to both just life outside of outside of school
081or within school um within jobs and their career. They're going to be a force to be reckoned with. I think it's going to really be able to highlight not just the skills they've learned in their particular trade, but how they demonstrate them um both at school and on the job front. Like I it's going to be a really nice almost like a personal resume for each one of them. It's like a package deal and not just a piece of paper that says I think I can do this. It's one more way to articulate what it is we do here and what our purpose is. Um because it's not just to have four years in a diploma. It's so much more than that. I thought it was pretty fun. Uh they kind of put you with
082people that you might know or they think that you'll like do well talking with. So, it's actually really fun working with um other community members, uh faculty, staff in the Harlem Community School District, some students. The students are always the best part of course because they're sharing their lived experiences. It really like collaborating with everyone and like talking. It really kind of was like an eyeopener and it was very um it was a very fun and very engaging experience. I would say um Dr. Yarro and I and myself put in a lot of times toward towards researching what other schools were doing to develop the profile graduate and uh my group was really outspoken and they really heard my voice too even as a student compared to them who have more experience especially in education
083and stuff like that. And to see not only staff and administration but parents and just stakeholders of those in the community uh was was really great to just see you know especially as a parent in the district and to see everyone really come together. We have opinions from like all over because we have a student teacher or other adult opinion on some things. Um we reached out to a number of school uh schools and a number of different um groups that had helped schools develop the profile of a graduate, you know, as a large group, but also in our smaller groups. And we were able to really dissect and share um ideas of what it meant to be a Harlem graduate and what did we want people to think of when they think of Harlem?
084and setting that expectation aligns with our district's long-range plan and our mission statement and really that we're trying to provide uh learning experience for our students to help them realize their unlimited potential. So all of those things our mission statement you know strategic plan all those things were in our mind as we were you know going about you know creating the profile of the graduate. I think the teaching and the learning drives the profile of the graduate rather than the other way around. I think what the profile of a graduate does is it tells the graduates, it tells the community, it tells our stakeholders at every level what it is that we do here. We've always had meaningful instruction. We've always had meaningful learning and we've always uh try to instill lifelong skills. What the
085profile of graduate does is articulate that and really depicts that in a way that's clear and shows both learners and community members all the magic that goes on here every single day. Uh we've been doing this for a long time. And this is just a way to kind of show what is it that a Harlem graduate brings to the table. Um, and what is it that students are striving for? Um, not just a walk across the stage in a diploma, but what that actually means. And if this is going to be part of our fabric of of what we do and um, it's it's going to be an all hands- on deck. You become like a better like individual is all. It helps you maximize your potential, become the best version of yourself possible. I
086would definitely say it helps with meeting new people and new experiences. able to go out to the community and employers know even before graduation um whether they're getting a job in our community, employers know like this is a Harlem graduate. Jay, can you back that up and let her listen to that one again? That was Oh, yeah. I have no idea what she said. She she when she came to she'd been to the board meeting because we recognized her. She was a state tennis qualifier and she always every time I've interacted with Erica, she talks to me now. Yeah. Yeah. She's going to be an auctioneer. So, I'd actually like to thank Michael Stanley put a video help video together. So, he man the interviews and uh helped piece all together. So, thank you very
087much to Michael for that. So, um Dr. Aro passed out the profile. Um after we came up with the categories um the definition of each category and really kind of boiled it down. One of the things that we did end up having discussion about is the characteristics that you find within each of the five categories. Can it be in one more than one area or not? And that was something where like I think you'll notice curiosity is in three. In fact, um, you know, it was important for us to realize that there is some crossover in some of these, uh, and that's fine, but to try to kind of narrow that down, um, and make it easy to understand and come up with a definition. And we ended up taking, um, we ended up taking
088the definition and the the descriptors that were in there, the attributes, the values, and and sent that off to uh, Mrs. Korilla's uh class there um before she retired. This was one of the last things that she was able to get in for us and she worked with her students. They developed about six different graphics and in the end there were two of them that really kind of stood out. Um we asked them to combine um those two. We asked them to combine those two. Here we go. And of course, this is what they came up with for a graphic. Um, so from here, where do we go? Uh, one of the next things I'm going to try to do, I've got a meeting later on this week. Um, so we have a program called
089Zello. It used to be career cruising. Um we luckily we get to keep we get we keep that program through our um Perkins funding that we received through CNC and so um it's a program we should have for a long time. I think we've talked about it before in one of them where the students actually right before they graduate they have an opportunity to put into personal email and then they have access to all the stuff that they've built up in there. So, when we talk about the profile of a graduate, um, you know, and I'll kind of skip down here a little bit, what what we're going to ask students to do is come up with artifacts and our our educators, there's a lot they're doing in their classrooms to help to develop in
090in each of those five areas. Um, so and I'll talk about that a little bit on the ne next slide, but we want our students to build up artifacts. So, they can have um a portfolio, they can have a job, um they they can have a resume, um they can have several key characteristics they need to give them a really great head start and use that to apply for, you know, colleges, universities, um you know, uh the trades, whatever it may be, you know, wherever they decide they want to go after high school. So, we're I'm going to end up meeting with Zello. Um there's a way for us to build this out in there. um and really to take even a lot of those mandates that the state has and I can kind of
091put them in and give those students experiences where they're developing um you know the state mandates along with what we're doing in the profile of a graduate. Then we're going to end up presenting this to um our building principles. Um we have we're we're looking into um graphics for each building um and what that would cost to make sure we get um you know a smaller um a smaller uh uh like 8 by 11 in every room in in middle school and high school because that's where we're really going to focus on starting this up. But having some posters made for the elementarymentaries um in some of the common areas in in the middle school and high school. Um we're going to share with staff and inside 122 and with um the rest of our
092stakeholders in around 122. Uh we're going to have we're going to ask the high school and the middle school to share this video and um give them some key talking points um at the uh back to school nights that they have. Again, provide a form a little bit more formal uh introduction of the expectations in the advisories. Um and and then on 8:14 I'm going to end up uh I have the opportunity to work with both um high school staff, middle school staff to see how this is going to look in Zello and talk about profile graduate and kind of what some of those expectations are this next school year. So this next school year will be a bit of a soft roll out um in the case we're not getting we're having graphics made
093up for the classrooms and common areas. But beyond that, I know um when Voy came and presented, they had folders. Um I know they've got mugs. They've got the really cool pens with the on them. Yeah. So, but obviously this is something where we also want to be fiscally responsible. And I think the big thing here is really bringing about an awareness of things. And so in order to do that, some of the things we're asking to do are um for staff at least in one activity they do a week in their classroom, highlight how something they're doing can foster um one of these characteristics within the profile of graduate. Um so students can start to think about like, hey, this is really having an impact on one of these five areas. I can use
094this kind of as an artifact um you know, for later on. We also want to try and see if they can find three ways to recognize students for various things through um through the week. Um so it could be in the classroom, it could be out of their classroom, but um man, what you said today, gosh, that was really innovative. You know, I really want to, you know, highlight what you did. That was a great job today. And and start trying to recognize students for some of these characteristics. So they're starting to see this and it's starting to have some meaning for it. Really make sure we're building awareness. Um and then like I said, we'll be talking with the students in in um those advisories. We're going to be asking um our our teachers,
095especially in high school, to be checking up on on um you know, how are the students coming along with developing um some of these characteristics? What artifacts do you have? Um how does this match up with um your your academic plan for graduation and what you want to do after graduation? um in in really working through our advisories, we do have some classes that'll be a little bit na more natural too, like the career explorations that we have both in the middle school and the high school. So, um they'll be diving a little bit deeper into that, but then also to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to provide feedback. Um so, at the end of of this school year, how did it go? Um trying to get in input from staff as far
096as like next step tweaking things within Zello. um you know kind of what are other ways we can kind of recognize our students and try to developing some of these characteristics. So making sure we're getting feedback from the from the staff at the end of the year and from the students as well and that's all I have. What questions do you have? This this won't be the the last time that you hear about obviously profile of a graduate and the progress that we're making that Mr. Hubert um talked about as far as with next steps, but um you know, I thank you Mr. Hubert and then also obviously everyone that was on the team and the committee to to putting all this together because I think it's a very important step. It is a road
097map like it really uh it's a it's a road map. I'm excited to see where we we roll it out and how we trip on some stuff and learn from those to go because it's not I mean it's easy to put it on paper but to like you know we've got the right staff to call out these accomplishments and make sure that you know this list is something that you look back on more than just because I have to. But if you do this is fantastic. the hard work that went into this really shows. Well, it and I think one of the most important things is yeah, we have all of these different things we have to worry about and our students are supposed to be checking off and doing this. If we can really
098simplify it for them um you know that's extremely important and then that way they can focus on really developing on some of these key areas. Um which I think is is one of the most important things and I think that's one of the things Dr. Yarro really wanted to make sure through that committee work especially like we need this to be clear and concise and and something that's powerful and easy for for our students and families community to really latch on to. It's a great tool for educators too. any chance that you can give positive reinforcement, you're doing it anyways, but now you kind of have like a template that like the teacher and the student both recognize that they're getting, you know, notification that you did something great because sometimes the teacher may recognize
099it and the student may not. This is just kind of nice to kind of connect those two and then to have an artifact going on beyond that to look to it. Like again, I think it's going to be tough to really utilize this, but if you do this, this is this is awesome. Sure. Like this this is Yeah. better than pets. I like the pants. All right. Well, thank you very much. And yeah, you'll be hearing about it, I'm sure, plenty hopefully from your kids. Thank you. The color is nice, too. Eyecatching. [Music] I like that the students did too, that the artwork from students. That's awesome. Yes. Yeah. Besides Mike's fantastic work. [Music] All right. And we'll move on to the uh consent agenda. Approval of personnel personnel agenda and addendum. Can I get
100a motion? Second. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. I. Mrs. Meets. I Mr. Thompson. I. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. McKenna. I I don't do all I'm sorry. I apologize. Do we Is that all bundled into one or do I do B and C? So, it can be bundled into one. We've been voting. No, we've been voting item by item. All right. So, we'll go to 12B then with that. Uh motion uh to approve student travel requests. Motion. Second. Mrs. Johnson. I. Mrs. Meeks. I Mr. Thompson. Hi. Mr. Mcnite. Yes. Mrs. McKenna. I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. And then 12C, a motion to approve facility requests. Motion second. Mrs. Meeks. I, Mr. Thompson. I, Mr. Mcnite. I, Mrs. McKenna. I, Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson, I on to action items. 13A. Approve resolution declaring surplus property. Motion. Second.
101Mr. Thompson. I, Mr. Mcnite. I, Mrs. McKiny. I, Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. I Mrs. Meek I 13B approve the NIA Northwestern Illinois Association subregion 2 ballot for the executive board for a two-year term as follows to elect Sarah Moore Wnebago County special education district administrator and David Lombardo Rockton number 140 school board member motion second Mr. Thompson yes Mr. Mcnite. Yes. Mrs. McKenna. Hi. Mrs. Carlson. I have to abstain only because I don't know these people and I don't necessarily want to vote for people I don't know. That's kind of where I was at too with that. That was a hard one. Mrs. Johnson I. Mrs. Meeks. I All right. Uh 13 C approve the acceptance of the May 2025 treasures report. Motion second. S McKiny I. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs.
102Johnson. Hi. Mrs. Meeks. I Mr. Thompson. I. 13D. Approve an agreement with the regional office of education for the renewal of a truency interventionist interventionalist for a cost of $50 an hour at 40 hours per week for the 2025 2026 school year paid with district funds. Motion second. Mrs. McKenna I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. Hi. Mrs. M. I Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. 13E. Approve an agreement with Secure Halo for a security penetration testing for a cost of $21,254 paid with technology department funds. Motion second. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. I. Mrs. Meeks. I Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. McKenna. I. 13F. Recommendation to approve a proposal of service with Hagy Architects for a dust collection system at Harlem High School CTE building. Motion. Second. Mrs. Johnson. I. Mrs. Meeks. I
103Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. Mcnite. Yes. Mrs. McKenna. I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. 13G. Approve Harlem High School life safety amendment for dust collection system in the amount of $531,000. Motion second. Mrs. Meeks I Mr. Thompson I Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. McKenna. Hi. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. I. 13H. Uh this would be approve uh the purchase of updated Woodcock Johnson B protocols for the 2025 2026 school year for a cost of $7,817.50 50 cents paid with the idea flow through part B. Motion second. Mr. Thompson. I Mr. Mcnite. Yes. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. McKenna. I. Mrs. Johnson. I. Mrs. Meeks. I. And we move on to announcements and discussions. Is there anything we want to discuss? And with that, I move to go into executive session. And that's going to be negotiations. Five. ILCS 120/2C2. Got
104to get a motion. Motion second. Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. Mcnite. Yes. Mrs. McKenna. Hi. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mrs. Johnson? Hi. Mrs. Meeks. I Excellent. 5 minute break. We'll go to close session. All right. This [Music] Hallelujah.