001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] call to order uh this public he hearing at 5:40. Can I get a roll call? Okay. Yes. Sterling absent. Thompson here. Mcnite present. Mrs. McKini here. Mrs. Carlson here. Mrs. Johnson here. Mrs. Meeks not present. Chris Arduino Toro Yu. Shelley Wagner. Michelle. Jason. All right. The pledge. I pledge algiance 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. Are there any comments from the community? None. All right. Sorry. No, it's all good. Keep it nice and suspenseful there. And with that, we'll turn it over to Terrell, which will be filling in for Josh. Although I I'm
002going to try to do him justice because the audience clearly every word. So, as as all of you, you know, know or if not, um, anytime that we transfer funds between ED and OM, transportation requires a public hearing per school code, which is why we are here. And so this resolution is authorizing the transfer of monies in a sum of 650,000 from the education fund to the operations and maintenance fund and the transfer of monies in the sum of 200,000 from the education fund to the transportation fund which will help us with some of the projects that we have upcoming. So is that a state policy or is that just a Harlem policy? No, that's school code. Okay. Yeah, school code. Wasn't sure that's all they got? Yeah. hoping for approval. Yeah, we went over
003it at COOT COOTW, which is why those are good meetings. They're long meetings, but they're good to have because everyone is there and they want to hear that information. So, the last thing any questions, is that just the 650 you were talking about? What's that? Was that just the 650 or 200? 650 from the education fund operations and maintenance fund and then the transfer of monies and some of 200,000 from the education fund to the transportation fund. I missed the 200. Okay. Section two. All right. There's no questions. That is Oh, is there any other questions? All right. Any other questions? Come up. Oh. Oh, maybe no takers. And one last time. Any other questions? That's four. But we got we come for good measure. And with that, we can adjourn. All right. Thanks everybody.
004We count good here. Yeah. You know, we're covering all those bases all. Thank you for the only two [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, [Music] heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, [Music] heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] girl. [Music] All right, we are going to call this board meeting to order. Meeks, can I please get a roll call? Yes, you can. Mr. Mcnite, present. Mrs. McKini, here. Mrs. Carlson, here. Mrs. Meeks, here. Mr. Thompson here. Mr. Mcnite, here again. Oh, sorry. Still here. Mrs. Johnson, I'm here. I'm messing up already. I'm sorry. Don't you worry. You bet. Chris
005Arido, recording secretary. Royal, superintendent. Shelley Wagner, human resources. Michelle, curriculum and instruction. Jason Bloom, communications and community relations. Excellent. And we have Abby Edwards leading the pledge today. Sure. Park Elementary. Just so you're aware, Abby, you are leading the pledge today for she's on the list. Yep. 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. [Music] Next, we have the approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion? Motion. Second. Mrs. McKenna. Hi, Mrs. Carlson. Yes, Mrs. Johnson. Hi, Mrs. Meeks. Hi, Mr. Thompson. Hi, Mr. McNight. Hi. That all right. All right. The mission of the Harlem Cali School District as a vital part of the community is to help diverse learners realize our
006limited potential by providing an educational program dedicated to academic excellence and development of strong character in a safe and respectful learning environment. You Thank you. Uh, approval of board meeting and closed and regular minutes for May 19th, 2025 and special meeting minutes of June 11th, 2025. I get a motion. Motion second. Mrs. Carlson, yes. Mrs. Johnson, yes. Mrs. Me I, Mr. Thompson, I, Mr. Mcn. Hi, Mrs. McKenna. I Excellent, Jason. All right. Awesome. Well, it is my pleasure this evening. I've got two individuals that are very familiar to you. I've got Josh that would like to come on up. We didn't really rehearse this a whole lot. I just kind of pointed to you as you're going. So, um, these two individuals, as you are aware, because you were all at graduation, um, we have
007our class valictorian and our class saludiatoran who obviously deserve a big round of applause. Right. [Applause] So, there's a lot of numbers after decimal points, so I had to bring this piece of paper up here with me to make sure I got this right. So, um Josh's GPA was a 4.5769. Um and Avery ended up with a 45094, which is pretty incredible. Um that's a big feat. We had 417 graduates this year, and so to have the top 200 class, um that's quite a quite an accomplishment. We're super proud of you. We all got a chance to hear you guys speak at our graduation event, but we thought this would be a great opportunity for the board to kind of have a little bit more of an intimate setting to be able to congratulate you
008um and just to hear a little bit about what's going on for you guys. Um both what happened during school, kind of just your take on on on school, what was exciting through your time here at Harlem, but also um to hear about what's coming up next for you. So, and usually we do this in age order. So, usually I start with my youngest, but Joshua's actually on lunch break right now from work. So, moving him first so we can get him done and get him back to work. I'm sure he's maybe wishing that we would draw this thing out for a while. Um, but I'm going to start with Avery. Um, so tell us a little bit about your high school experience. Um, you know, what were some of the things that you were
009really interested in in in school? What kind of motivated you um to obviously put in the work and the effort to to get to the place that you are now? Um, if you want to start with that. Um, that's a very broad thing to Um, I mean, I did all kinds of clubs. I was really into like the social studies department. I took almost every AP in that department. I did UN student council. I think just being involved in like the Harlem community like made me more involved to like get my work done and work hard, I guess. So, is your favorite class? Favorite class? Um, AP World History. AP World. Awesome. Awesome. Who is Who is your teacher doing? Mrs. Stark. Yeah, that's why Mrs. Stark. Okay, good. On video, so we'll make sure
010she sees that. That's awesome. So, turn over to you. Say, what's next? Where are you going next? What's Oh, you're going to Oh, I'm sorry. Thunder. Lord has spoken. We're going to continue person. Yeah. So maybe why don't you tell me a little bit about uh what's next for you, what your plans are high school. Okay. So um I'm committed to the UI for geographic and um GIS which is geographic information science which sounds really repetitive but basically it means that I'm involved with like the technology that goes with um mapping. So think like Google Maps, Apple Maps, stuff like that. And so I'll be there in the fall. So I have to ask a little bit. Obviously world history is your thing, right? Like what kind of led you to that path? Like it's
011kind of an interesting I mean like it's it's a really cool thing, a real cool field that you're getting into, but like what is it about it that that excites you? Um, in my freshman year human geography class, we did like a city planning project and I was like, "Oh, nice. Maybe I want to do that like as a job." So, like that's kind of the field I'd like to go into with urban planning and geospatial technology. Awesome. Very cool. Very cool. Well, I'm excited to see what what comes from that. All right, you got the lead on questions already. So, talk a little about high school career, favorite class, just some of the experiences that you have. Uh, I did not do all the stuff she did. Um, my focus was GPA. I thought
012I was going to college and then I'm not. So, uh, plan on going to trade school. Electrician really interests me. I don't want to be in an office all day. So, just kind of getting out there and stuff is kind of what I want to do. Yeah. U, what was the next one? Favorite class? Yes. Favorite class? Probably uh, Spanish 3. Spanish 3. I really like that. Did not do the next year after that cuz it seemed really difficult from what I decision. It was just a fun time when I was in there. Just all the people and the projects we did and then all the culture that we got to see along with it was really interesting. Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. But for a guy that like accomplished so much, the fact that
013you backed down from that challenge like Yeah. But that's awesome. Um, do you know where you're going to trade school? Um, what's the union? This the one union I've done like no research into I just don't taken the test on uh like July 1st. I'm wait till 18. Y. So that time. Yeah. Well, I'm excited to see too what comes of that and exciting that you're following your passion as well. Um, pretty fun. So board members will turn over to you. any questions or followup that you'd like to ask as we have these two uh in front of you? I was I was just going to say I have a friend that's doing what you're doing. He works for and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. So um yeah, so he's been there. He's about to retire,
014but he can't tell me what he does. Um no, he has top secret security clearance. So every two years, um two officials from the federal government come and interview me for an hour. So, um, because I'm on his list of 60. So, it's it's some of the stuff has come declassified from like 15 years ago. So, he could tell me some of the things. But, it is he loves his job. Let's put it that way. But, he's in. Yeah. He now lives in Nebraska. So, but he's living in Colorado. He went to cool places, but now he's in like Nebraska. Very easy place to map. Flat [Music] sideways. Um, yeah. Usually we want to like hear about the future, you know, so maybe we won't actually hear about some of the future things that you
015do, but uh we wish obviously the vote to the best of of luck in the future. We know that you guys are going to do some great things and you should be obviously super proud of the accomplishment um and your time at at Harlem High School. Again, to be top of the class for 17 of you guys. So capital for our community. Oh, I had one quick. Do you have any idea what kind of city you're looking at doing? A big city, small city. Um, it's just kind of like where the jobs are. I mean, like Chicago would be nice. Big city. Um, yeah, big city. But like there's also So there's the city sector and then the private sector, which would be smaller firms. So that's good. Whatever comes my way, I guess. I
016was just going to say to this young man, too, don't forget your mask. You're going to meet a lot of addicts. I know. At least it's not and your bug spray and all the good things like that. I had an electrician in a family. So it starts you out on the low end. So that's that's the fun stuff. I know as a master electrician that takes quite a few years too, right? To get Yeah, it's it's it's a little bit starts running out there once you put some time into it. Yeah. Don't forget your grounding pole. I just want to say I enjoyed both of your speeches very much. Nice to see them from the front. Very good. Again, we're we're excited to see you all follow follow your passions and look forward to hearing
017about what you accomplish in the years to come. So, on behalf of all of us sitting here, our community, our fellow students, our staff, congratulations to both of you. [Applause] Oh, yeah. We'll make sure I'm gonna get one and I'll get out of the way. One, two, one, two, three. [Music] Well, congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] Oh boy. We'll do it for two years. Rebecca and I did it for two years when she sat here. You never went first. Oh, I understand. You can always go on any side you want. Push them out of the way. There's no mandatory space. All right. So, my next um recognition this evening, um this is one that you're familiar with. You have not met her yet. Um but you have seen her artwork displayed here in the boardroom. Um it
018is my pleasure to introduce Desafar to you. Um she is from Harlem Middle School. Uh in 2025 this spring in April she participated in the Breitpoint Breit Point blue bow campaign um which is around the um uh the month of April which is the abuse neglect month. And so um she participated in their um poster contest and was selected in the state of Illinois as the winner of that contest as you can see by the artwork up there. Um which is a pretty incredible feat. Um and to kind of do it justice, I just I want to read um what they actually posted on their social media um about the project and then um just a little bit about what they said about DESA. So, it said um this year's annual child abuse prevention uh
019month poster contest brought together young artists from across Illinois to share a powerful message about healthy families and the prevention of child abuse and neglect all through their own creative lens. We received an incredible array of handdrawn and digital posters from youth ages 10 to 18, including individual submissions, group collaborations, and entries from our amazing partner agencies. the theme that were that the themes that were explored were the healthy family life and relationships look like and how we can prevent child abuse and neglect. Uh and then they went on to say and the winner is Desa, age 12. Um Desa's artwork captured the heart of what it means to grow up in a safe, loving, and supporting environment. We're proud to honor her uh with the first place prize. Um and and so um one
020of the things that's pretty cool about this is one that you took the initiative to do that and to um to use your um your skills and your talent to uh bring attention to something that obviously affects many of our families um and affects our community. Um, but also when you read that and you say you had entries from people 10 to 18 years old and you're obviously on the kind of the younger side of that, but to be selected over, you know, middle school, high school kids across the state, um, is a pretty big deal. And so, um, as you can see up there, she has her poster. Um, you can kind of see all the different components that she highlighted in there. Um for those of you that don't know, Breitport um was
021formerly Children's Home Aid um with Brown from Family Services, providing support to children um etc. And so um I know you were actually up at Chesn Elementary, right, when you were in grade school and we've got Abby back there, our principal, um who said a lot of great things about you and before we started uh the meeting. So um on behalf of all of us, um we just want to say congratulations, job well done. Thank you for representing us. um and the Harlem community. Thank you for your advocacy for um the important work of Breitpoint and what they're doing and bringing attention to all of this. Um and so we want to just say congratulations and and job well done. [Applause] So if you would stand in the middle and then we'll have our board
022come around. I'm sure your mom's I have a certificate. [Music] You said that was me. One, two, three. Thank you. You should get in there. [Music] He's part of the board. Thank you. Great job. [Applause] So I I do feel really bad because as you can see she recently um it's ran fractured like right at the start of summer which is hey at least you can take it off. Too many high fives. Yeah. So one of the things I'm I'm also expecting and looking forward to. So um we do as you're aware we have an art gallery out there. So maybe we'll see some of your art in that gallery as well. Joshua, who we just recognized as the valictorian, was also he's in our art gallery from when he was back in grade school,
023actually all the artwork that he contributed. So we look forward to seeing some more of this because there's some awesome opportunities to to bring attention to things in our our community. And so we're looking forward to to seeing that and hopefully your your hand. So congratulations. Good job. One more time. Excellent. Yeah. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Forward to some more good work. Sounds like Josh is about to talk. She was obviously very nervous to so she didn't want to talk. So adjusting there. So I've got one more. Um this is a recognition slashthank you slash opportunity for them to present uh a little bit about what they've been doing. Um these are some again some familiar faces to I think many of you. Um as I think some of you are aware
024we have a great um relationship with Haraska Fire. Um this is a group of individuals their association the whole department as a whole um are great supporters of our community and the district school districts that they serve within their fire district. um for many many years they've been supporting us um in a variety of ways and back in uh probably 2010 12 13 somewhere in that time frame they started um a fundraiser uh to raise money and they were doing a scholarship and I had the opportunity to serve on their uh their committee that uh selected a scholarship from either or a student from either Harlem High School or Hanigga High School. Um, and then a few years into that, they decided to uh do something that would be a little more impactful to more
025students. And so we went kind of an IT route. Um, and they were doing computers and Chromebooks and things and donating classroom sets of Chromebooks um through the fundraising efforts that they they had been putting on. um they did did some other things throughout there with you know welding and and and stuff like that, but um this year now um they have decided to bring to our district and the districts that they serve um stop the bleed kits. And so uh we're really excited about this. Um not that we have to have these, but we're excited about um the opportunity to have these in our classrooms to have training that will allow our staff um to use these items. And so, um, I'll turn over to them and let them talk a little bit about
026what went into this, but I just wanted for those of you who didn't know, give you a little bit of the history because again, this as a firefighters association, their main fundraiser is the golf playday that they do every summer. Um, they raise a lot of money. If you've ever been a part of one of those, it's a a lot of work, a lot of, um, calls, a lot of organization to make those things happen. And so, um, we don't take this gift and donation lightly because we know there's a lot of, um, support work that goes into getting the funds and the work to to do this type of stuff. And so, we obviously want to recognize them. We'll do that at the end and thank them at the end, but give a chance
027to just kind of introduce themselves and then talk a little bit about kind of how this came to be and what's going on. I'd like to pass these out to the board. This there's many more of these. These are just a sample so you can kind of look through there um, as we're talking about this. My name is uh, Rob Lucowski. I'm with Hunter Rosco Fire Department. I'm a lieutenant paramedic fulltime with them. Uh Chief John Berseron, our our main person. And then Chief Jay Alms um Chief Jay Alms and I have been uh co-chairing the the golf play day for a while. Over the last 11 years, it's kind of debatable, 12 because of co um we've raised almost about $170,000 and all of that 100% of it is donated to our school district.
028So, we served three school districts within our fire district. Um, so we tried to uh allocate the funds accordingly to everyone to help them out as Jason was explaining. Um, this year uh we've raised uh enough to purchase close to almost 200 stop the bleed kits uh hopefully to outfit as many classrooms as possible. Um, like Jason was stating, we we hope that these kits will never be used. We understand the hope is not a plan. this is we need to be prepared. Um, and having these in place in our in our in our schools and getting the proper training to the individuals in these schools and how to use these kits is going to save and protect the safety of these individuals. It could be a teacher, could be a student, it could be
029anyone that's in around the school district there or in the school itself. Um, so we we want you guys to have the right tools in order to to to hopefully never use them, but again, um, to be there rather than not be able to do anything whatsoever. Um, and in conjunction with the the 200 kits that we're going to be donating to the Har School District, um, we're going to be doing a train the trainer. Uh, we're going to work with the administrators from each school um, and get a few individuals uh, trained so they can go back and and train those individuals. we find that I'm not even sure how many teachers we have in your school district, but I can hardly control seven, that alone thousands. So hopefully they will go back uh
030the administrators pick them wisely and we can get those individuals trained. But again, we just want to show our unwavered uh support to keeping our students, our teachers, anyone in school district safe and continue that because we're only as strong as our community. Absolutely. Absolutely. Um and so, you know, again, I I can't speak enough about this group. We've got great relationships with all of our local agencies, but this one um specifically has been a great partner um ever since my time at Rston as well, a great partner uh to us. And so we appreciate that commitment. Um even today uh Chief and myself were in a a training on reunification standard response protocol with school districts across our county. Um and so they're committed to be in in spaces like that. We were in
031that room for from 8 to 3:30. So, it's kind of a long day uh together, but um it just shows you kind of the indication to the point that Rob was making about um really uh making sure that we're doing whatever we can as a community to keep our kids and our staff safe. And so, uh we appreciate that commitment um uh to our district and our community and all the districts that you that you serve. And uh we appreciate the hard work that you guys put in for that play day and and the money that you raised to to support things like this. Um, and so on behalf of all of us, our community, our students, our staff, our families, uh, thank you very much for for that commitment. We really, really, really appreciate
032it. [Applause] All right. I always offer the adults a photo opportunity. He's in charie. Make it happen. I think I might have to get back. Here we go. One, two, three. One, two, three. Training the trainers makes a lot of [Music] love. So, at home. I don't Thank you. I got plenty of duct tape. [Music] Just a little short story that supports this. I don't know if you all I'm sure you do remember the Coline shooting 25 years ago. Yes. Corners tell us those kids bled to death because EMS couldn't get at them. So now the SWAT team's carrying five or six of them on. That's amazing. Yeah. So it's a big push. Hopefully we've never experienced that again. But better off prepared than not prepared. the reunification training that's that's that's a tough training
033but it's so vitally important for for again you never want to use it but to have that amount of knowledge to do it successfully is important and that takes a lot of collaboration that's not just one team again making that stuff happen so and as Jason spoke uh during that training day we had school districts throughout county the private schools the Catholic school Harlem all of them so it shows that everyone wants to get the end results and god forbid something should happen So, and we as we've gone through this training and you can attest this like our job as a school district job is to protect our students and staff, but it's to buy them time like right to to preserve life and to be able to do whatever we can um to buy
034time for police to do what they need to do so that they can do what they need to do. And those seconds and minutes matter and so this is uh kind of a great tool for us to have these back in our classrooms so that we can support that mission of of keeping our students and staff safe. So, we really appreciate Appreciate the collaboration. Thank you guys. Is he the only one in this building for this? Do we have any comments from the community? We do not. Okay. And we move on to the approval of the bills. Josh is out. All right. Mr. Oh, so total payables for this period is uh 2,314,284.94. Um total payroll um we had two um is 6 million uh 693,3329 for total expenditures of $9,7,617.3. [Music] And then broken
035out um in educational we had $7,455,637.97. Um SW $7,187.50 operations $519,6928. Uh depth service $38,81944. Transportation uh $367,37520. IMRF, Social Security, $257,28.97. Our capital projects, $88,61756. And then life safety uh $3,70.11 for total expenditures of 9,7,617.3. And I hope you don't have any questions, but if you do, I will get through those answers. I will send an email as we speak. So again, it was good at the committee of the whole going through those Josh giving a a far more detailed update where we're tracking for budget and things that could He does a very good job. That is my report. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Oh, yes. Thank you. Uh motion to approve the bills. Motion. Second. Okay. Mrs. Johnson, I. Mrs. Meeks, I Mr. Thompson, I. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. Mckini. I, Mrs.
036Carlson. Yes. On to uh communication and committee reports. I'm up first, but I'm also covering for Mike. Let me see if I can find Mike. Let me start with the upcoming meetings. Uh we have the uh next regular uh board meeting July 14th, 2025 here at 6 PM and then we have uh business services which will be at the committee of the whole which will be July 9th 2025 at 4:30. Um it is summer and it's usually slower in here, but thank you Jason for shining the light on uh some amazing things that are going on at the end of the district going on and things that are overall uh helping the community. Uh hopefully Josh was able to get back to work on time. It was great to hear his story and where it
037led. Uh and I can't wait to hear from Avery. Hopefully they keep the contact with Alex, which has also been doing a great job and has been quite busy with all of our alumni and some of the great things that they've been doing and their uh successes in their careers. We had Desa, the art that's here. We have so many great artists and I think that stood out was the fact that as you mentioned it right seventh grade and you're competing with people with kids graduating high school and to win that for the state no doubt why it won. Um outside of that we've had our amazing bowlers which I'm certainly will be in here shortly next month next month to take away from their thunder and I think most people know about that. Um,
038there may be a few more, but starting this off. I if I did miss any, I've got some excellent uh board members that can cover up for that. And lastly, the last board member that Chris is going to be here, who's going to whisper to me, you need to approve the and and and that like everything that goes into these simple things that how you've made things run so well. And I I it's not going to be real until till next month. And Pam is going to do an excellent excellent job. Um but yeah, hopefully I know you won't get bored, but I hope you get bored and then you can be up there and go approve the bills. Yeah, I I I don't have a word for I don't know, you know, for for
039as much as we're going to miss you up here, but if it exists, I'm sure you'll whisper it to me. I'll miss all of you. Yes. Uh and with that uh I will conclude mine. Uh Evelyn. Okay. Hello everybody. Hello. No artwork so I can't talk about welcome to the club. But um I just want to say congratulations to Josh and Avery. Is that her name? Yes. Congratulations. Um wishing you continued success in your future. Um it was nice seeing them and then hearing their speeches at graduation did turn out to be really nice. I did attend and I had a nice time. It just seems funny because when I when I first started on Glor, people were flipping off of the stage and throwing beach balls across and so the security is down really
040tight now but it was still a wonderful excellent graduation. It ran smoothly. Uh I want to also say congratulations to Desa. I mean she did an amazing job. So with her being in seventh grade, you can I know once she gets older it's going to be even better. But she did an excellent job on this really. So I wish her congratulations especially being first place. So she did an amazing job. Okay. Now let me see. I got everything all mixed all up. So I hope I can get the dates right. I attended um the senior walk and I did attend all 11 schools. It was excellent just seeing the little kids. I mean I I got exercise in that day but it was nice the first time I was able to go to all 11
041schools. She's been great. Um I also attend Balor that night and it was really nice um later on that evening. So it was a busy day and then graduation that Saturday um it was nice um seeing the bowlers come in with the police escort. So that was really nice being there for that. Um let me see. I know I'm missing something. Oh yeah, the tea. I also forgot about that. Went to the tea for tomorrow and that was really nice being there. And like you said, reading is the key to everything. You know, students that aren't able to read, if they're given a chance, cuz sometime a person might not be able to read read, but they're afraid to let people know they can't read because they're afraid they're going to laugh. But once people
042take time to read, reading can really just open up your eyes and read. Like I told my kids, read everything. Don't just pick one particular thing to read. Read everything because reading is knowledge and it's power. And I want to thank all of the teachers and staff and principles. And I think I got everybody. As you prepare, have a nice summer as you prepare. And I know you won't be able to really enjoy summer because you'll be doing what you have to get do for the following school year. But I wish you all a successful, nice time. Enjoy yourself if you can summer. And we'll be looking for you back when school starts. Uh, and then Chrissy. Oh, I'm gonna cry. I met Chris. I met Chris in a meeting that they were trying to
043get together before I even decided to become a board member. But I'm going to miss you, Chris. Chris has always been a person that will help you. And she knows she's highly knows what she's doing. Uh she makes you feel comfortable when you don't really understand. She takes her time. She's thorough. She's a perfectionist. And you're going to be greatly missed. But I miss your success in the future. And it's time for you to enjoy yourself. I wish I could clone somebody there, but I know Pam is going to do an amazing job cuz she's been working on you. But you have done an amazing job for how many years you've been here? 25. 25 years. And how many How many superintendent? Five. Five superintendent. So that's shows something. So all right. Once you're done,
044you have to tell us which one your favorite hesitation. She's a graduate. Oh, she she's a graduate of Harlem and then she's, you know, working it. So, that's really that says something right there. But, I just want to wish all of our students um hope they have a really nice summer. Stay safe and, you know, just be ready to come back and enjoy whatever grade you're going to be entering because you can never get these years back. So, you enjoy them while you can. Especially once you become a freshman, it goes by so fast cuz one day you're in ninth grade, next year you're in 12th and you're always saying, "I can't wait to grad. I can't wait." And then when that day actually comes, you're like, I want to go back and start. I
045don't know which particular grade, but it does. It goes by really fast. And so I don't want to keep talking. I know I missed something, but Oh, yeah. I knew it was something. The next equity meeting will be uh July 9th at 4:30. So, thank you everybody and have an enjoyable summer. Thank you, Evelyn. Aaron McNight. All right. So, we talked about Josh and Avery. Um I I I'm not going to tell you what my GPA when I was graduated was, but I I think it was the point they just wanted to get rid of me. So to not worried about the decimals? No. No really worried about the first number either. Um but uh you know to to be a student like that and and and take that commitment and it's it's it's out.
046I mean to me I can't grasp it because I I will be the first one to tell you I was not a good student. I mean I wasn't bad like I just it it just I didn't like doing homework. I didn't like doing that. So, for that kind of dedication and commitment, that's that's absolutely phenomenal. And I know that race, if I remember right, that race came down to like the last week of school, right? And like, didn't somebody say that? It was very very close like up to the end. So, um, congratulations Josh Avery. This close, but congratulations there. And then does like I I I can I can echo what they said, but you know, for a seventh grader that's competing against seniors that have been doing art for, you know, five more
047years. No, seven more years. Um, five more years. I was right the first time. I math. Um, to to compete against people that are doing that. I'm I was curious um on how many people entered something into the contest. I'm assuming because it was a state thing, there had to be thousands. Um, I mean, I'm looking at our district on just how many students our district has and you put all the districts together, all 800 and something districts in our state. Um, so that I mean, obviously winning that is is phenomenal. Um, I'm going to start to share something and Charles, stop me if I can about our meeting that we had. Can I talk about that? With Jake. Yeah. Okay. So, um, something that something that I've kind of wanted to champion recently, um,
048so Mr. Hubert, Dr. Yarborough, myself, and um and Representative Dave Vela and his assistant, I cannot remember her name for the for the life of me. We actually sat down and talked about um what the optics look like to help with some funding to start a JOTC program in the Harlem District. So, um Mr. Hubert has been kind of doing some research on costs and what it takes to get started. And his work, um I'm going to give a kudos. his work was he ended up talking to like the commander of Fort Knox who then put him back in contact with somebody at Great Lakes Bays. Um so he did a lot of due diligence to figure out what we need to get this get get this off the ground. So I called the meeting
049with with Mr. Vela. Um he's extremely excited. He's going to see um what kind of funding that he can get for us down in Springfield. I asked him for all of it for at least a couple years. You got to ask for a lot. hopefully you get some um to see if this program takes off in our district. Um we seem to think it'd be great for our district. But um we're it's just something that we're doing. So um you know the last thing I want to say is you know I would love for our students like the one thing I'm going to encourage our students number one have fun but get outside. Please get outside away from the screens. Um I don't care if you just sit in your front yard and read a
050book. I mean on a Kindle I guess is a screen but or I don't think they even use those anymore. But get out get outside enjoy the weather because we we don't enjoy it in the summertime then we complain about it in the winter. Like let's let's get out there and enjoy the time and enjoy your summers. Um and and you know don't worry about next year yet. Just go out decompress and and come back and do you know next year be better than you were the year before. That's that's that's my my message. And with that, thank you, sir. Rebecca Carlson. Thank you. Uh, I'm going make a recommendation. Can I do that right off the bat? To approve the first reading of policy 7.60 AP2 from June 11th, 2025 policy committee. And I'm
051not sure if there's anything to say about it other than we're going to hopefully put it into p um works here. had a few changes and so it just needs to be updated. And uh there will be another policy meeting with COOTW on July 9th at 4:30, which of course won't happen policy at 4:30. It'll probably be about 5:30 by the time it gets here, possibly 6:30. Um but I just want to say congratulations to all of our graduates, whether it's 8th grade, high school, kindergarten. I know some of these kids, they go around in their little gowns and caps at five years old and enjoy showing off for their their families. Um, and kind of echoing what Aaron said, get your butt outside and quit sitting behind a computer screen all day long. Um,
052to our new drivers, careful, please. I know there's a lot of practice going on during the summer for these kids that are ready to go back to school in the fall, but um it was neat to see our our saludiatoran and validictorian from the front for the first time. We watched them at the at the graduation. I asked Abri, I said, "Did you wasn't your hair curly?" She said, "Oh yeah, that was the hot rollers." So obviously she has long straight hair, so that was kind of fun. I appreciate our firefighters. We love them up there in Shepherd Hills. We hear them go by at least three times a day. So, we we know they're they're working hard and doing the golf clubs and and having a high time up there. It's a great place
053to live nearby. Um the artwork I am impressed and just the topic, I just love the topic to stop violence. We're not just drawing. I mean, there are great drawings out here as well, but the idea of of violence and child abuse and all of these other things that go on in our families, and she's actually won it for thousands and thousands of students in a seventh grade class. And congratulations to Abby. She was in your building at least what, a year ago, two years ago. Now, was she fine arts as well? Yes. Okay. So, is even There we go. Fine arts. But, um, it's great to to see all the great things going on. I say, "Hey, have a wonderful summer to our staff and our our employees and our be great to have
054food service going again soon as starts and new foods and new great things going on with the new school year." To Chris, we love you. We'll miss you. We It's just especially for myself being new, it's just so nice to be able to go, Chris, how do I and and get a straight answer and a fast answer and knowing that you sign us up for everything and get everything smooth and running and tell us where to go. And yeah, what hallway and what person to talk to and the good time. Thank you. And I'm I'm thrilled to have Pam step in and and take over and it'll be a great time and and to your to your family and enjoy just relax. I love your future. So with that, um back to you, Kirk. Thank
055you, Rebecca. Uh next we have Diana Johnson. Thank you. Well, I would just like to say too to um our salvator and our school auditorian, as we say. Uh they did a great job on their speeches as I told them when they were up here. Um that's a big you know the here was pretty well filled that day too. That's a lot of people to stand up and give a speech in front of and they did an awesome job. Um I did attend bag laurate and that was very nice. The students did a wonderful job putting that together. I wish they would have had more participation because it really was a beautiful ceremony. Uh graduation I have to say I was very honored. This is my first year of course is helping helping with graduation,
056helping hand out the diplomas. I haven't had a cap and gown on for almost 50 years. So that was that was fun. Uh but really was a very enjoyable and memorable day. Um I'd also like to say I was there to welcome the bowling team back. That was very exciting with the police escort bringing them in. I've been there a couple times for that and um it never gets old. The kids are always so excited and the parents and things and that's always a big deal. Um the girls have won it. I believe it's now two years in a row of the national championship and the boys came in runner up. So it was very exciting for that. Um I did attend a tea for tomorrow. Uh and that was a lot of fun. We
057got to meet a lot of authors, had a lot of good things to to try. We taught Dr. Garrell how to drink a cup of tea. Wasn't thinking out, you know. Was there a picture? Yeah. I I I expect that to be up here soon. But it was a very enjoyable put in the newsletter. Yeah. And I was just going to say I remember we bought one of the Harlem teachers had written a book and I can't think of the name of the title. It's very long. Owl saving Christmas. Something something like that. Something like that. And uh Sunday we went to my son and daughter-in-law's house and I gave it to my granddaughter. She's nine. I wasn't quite sure about age for it, but I said, "Well, I got this book in a book,
058you know, where and it is about Christmas." She sat down, started reading that book. We couldn't get her attention. We're opening presents, you know. So, um, it was a very good book, she said. So, um, I was pleased with that. And after I got home, I realized it was an autographed edition even. So, that was very nice. Even more so, a nice book. That was a very nice event, actually. And, um, Tessa with Desa over here with her drawing. And so, I can't see it too well from behind me, but I've seen it before. was very very nice and I have to say to Chris even though I'm a new board me remember I've known Chris for a long time um I when I was a village trustee and Chris probably had just first started
059back in 2000 or so when I was a trustee from 93 to 2005 but I would call up here when I needed something with the village we did coloring contests and we did all kinds of things and I would always talk to Chris back and forth about things I was doing and then when I started with the chamber in 2002 I was always on the phone um you know with us. We were dropping off coloring contest or we were calling about coloring contest or we were calling about various events that we were putting on the Easter egg hunt. Got to get the flyer out, things like that. And so, and I've known Chris for a long time. And uh so just I've known her a lot longer than starting here with the school board. So,
060we're definitely going to miss her expertise, but um I know you'll do a great job with your granddaughter. I know you're going to be busy with that. And uh and that'll be a lot of fun. It'll be a lot of work, but it'll be a lot of fun. And so enjoy your retirement and uh I've always enjoyed working with you and calling up when I needed something too. That's it I think. Thank you Diane. Diane King. Yes. Um I also had a very busy week the week um of graduation. Um I attended the community days at Machznney and um put together mosaic tile in Were we all there? Were we all there? We were there. [Laughter] Yeah. And had a chance to um talk with Abby, and it was really nice to talk with her
061one-on-one. I also had their um children in my classroom years ago, so that was kind of fun, too. Um I want to congratulate um Josh and Avery for the valadictorians and doing such a great job um at the high school level. That was always kind of my um thing to push the kids and to try real hard, keep going and do the best you can in school. And when they came back and told me or called me and said thank you for so much or to the other teachers. So that was kind of a pleasure to see that. Um they did great um with their speeches at the graduation. Um it was also really an honor for me too to be at graduation. Not only before as a teacher, I had sat in the audience
062and always tried to go at the the kids graduations every year and clapping whatever, but I would always be way up in the balcony. So, it was really kind of a different story being actually on the stage and getting to shake the students hands. It was really an honor and kind of brought tears to my eyes several times um during that time period. So, that was kind of interesting. I also went to um the senior walk. I didn't do as well as Evelyn. Um she obviously got quite more schools than I did too. I got through Evelyn Evelyn even got on video, you know. Yeah, she was there. Um so that was really good. Um I enjoyed that. I thought it was always such a pleasure when they came back through our schools when especially
063when I worked at the middle school in L Park. It was always such an honor to see those kids and the younger kids at the school themselves looking up to those kids and thinking someday I'll be there and hoping they'll get there. So that was a real thrill for them. Um the big thing um I also saw the um back lauria. I went to B lauria that day um that evening and I attended um last week um the tea for tomorrow. I thoroughly enjoyed that. That was quite the um entertainment but it was also really important to listen to the speeches on literacy. I think that's so important and how we start the kids so early um hopefully reading to them and getting them exposed to reading before they even go to the schools and
064getting involved that way. I was really impressed with the authors and talked had a chance to talk with Lynn Gibson and her son Brian and um see the book also I purchased the book also but just to listen to them because I know that was her dream and her son's dream years ago to finally put this together. So that was exceptional that see that they finally had reached their goal. Um thank you for once again the Harlem Fire Department um um to do that and give us back the stop the bleed kits. I thought that was really good for us. Um, Desa Bar, once again, the art project. I think once again, like Becca said, the theme is very important, especially what's going on nowadays in the communities and in parts of our world. So,
065it's kind of crazy. Um, I really en enjoy the colors and stuff. Um, let me see here. And thank you once again to Chris. Chris, I don't know you extremely like some of the other people and all the other times I've met you, but um you have did a lot for me when I would call too at the board and ask for different things and you helped me through getting things set up for retirement and things like that too. So I appreciate all your help and tell your son Nick I said hello I really appreciate Rick with him at this park too. So, congratulations. And then back to Kurt or Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Educational Committee. Um, is next meeting is July 9th at 4:30 p.m. Excellent. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Can I can
066we uh just add all the committees together and just have Mike announce it? be like, "Hey, all the committees are meeting on this date, this time as as command of the whole not a terrible idea cuz I I mean it's it's not like we have one 4:30 to 5:30, 5:30, 6:30, 6:30, 7:30 time." I I just think it'd be I don't know. Sorry, I just thought about that. And even on some of the policies, if we know the policies, we still call it out. So, yeah, maybe we maybe we get uh we figure out a better make Mike do it. Yeah, make Mike do it. All right. Mike, you object. Okay. Perfect. Perfect. Do we have consensus? Really? I just want to throw out one thing I had forgotten about. Please everybody have a wonderful
0674th of July. Oh yeah. Excitement for our country. What is it? 257. I don't know what it is. But it's just everybody have fun and don't burn the house down. So have a great day off of work as well. It's good to know. Thank you. All right. Uh, with that we move on to administrative reports and we have Dr. Michelle. Thank you. I have two items this evening. My first one is an overnight travel. The dance team will be leaving on um July 20th and returning on the 21st. They'll be going to the University of Iowa for their annual dance camp. Um, but uh I'm asking for approval for that this evening. My other item is something that we did cover in education committee. Um both Loves Park and the middle school shared their school
068improvement plans. They presented it to the board and at that time we so we were asking for approval at this meeting. The remainder of the schools will be bringing theirs in August and then we'll ask for their approval at a board meeting following that. That is my report. And then we have the uh we have moving on from that uh Josh who is out you are covering here for Josh with all the fun items. You're going to leave this point to leave for continuing on with that joke. All right. So, I'm going to um play the role of Joshua Iran here for a second. One of my favorite um musicals is Hamilton, so I'm going to pretend that I'm I'm Jackson. No, I'm just going to read it. Recommendation to approve resolution declaring surplus property.
069Um any questions about those? I'm sure you guys have all looked at those and a lot of books. A lot of books. A lot of books. Um recommendation to approve um facility requests. Um we have a Sunday facility um request for Wicked. Um it's a dance uh company that are going to be utilizing our space on November 2025. And then looking at Sunday facility requests for which is testing on in May of 2026. It's going to be interesting because that's in the wrestling room. So we'll see how how that how that goes. Right. Um and then Harlem Palooa. I think that should be a fun event. is back again and a lot of music and and so I'm I'm hopeful for your approval for that. Um recommendation to accept April 2025 treasures report. Josh did
070a really good job during COTW, so I don't think I need to to go over that, but he did a really good job. Um and here goes a lot of the reading. Recommendation to renew bus washing agreement with Jared's power washing for the FY26 school year at a cost of $21 per vehicle. a lot cheaper than washing my car, so that's good. Um, recommendation to approve a three-year renewal agreement with Final Site to help support our district communication systems. Um, recommendation to approve a one-year contract renewal with Verive Corporation for $6,535 paid with uh technology budget. recommendation to approve uh to submit a school violence prevention um program uh grant application to US Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policy Services, COPS. So, we hopefully we can get that grant and um be able
071to supply our our schools um you know with some preventative measures as we always look to improve our safety measures. um recommendation to approve a resolution transferring um 650,000 from the educational fund to the operations and maintenance fund and 200,000 from the educational fund to the transportation fund. We had that earlier um today before this meeting. Recommendation to approve an independent contract contractor agreement with Speech Horizons, Inc. to provide private and parochial speech and language services for $100 per hour for 37 weeks at 24 hours per week for the FY26 school year at a total cost of 88,800 funded by the idea flow through part B grant and prek IDEA. And then we have a recommendation to approve an independent contractor agreement with soy bilingual therapy LLC to provide speech and language testing and evaluation
072reports for the 2025 2026 school year at 1,000 per K through um second grade students and 1,400 per um 3 through 12 plus grade students to pay with idea flow through part B and idea 3 through K. And then we have a recommendation to approve an independent contractor agreement with Christina is it gaenau to provide bilingual psy I apologize if I butchered that name psychology evaluations for the 2025 2026 school year at a cost of $900 per bilingual academic assessment per student and 1,100 per bilingual academic and cognitive assessment per student paid with the idea flow through part B and IDEA P through K. Then we have the recommendation to approve a contract renewal with Sunbuilt staffing for one for one for school psychology services of 37 and a half hours per week for 38
073weeks at a total cost of $152,247 for the FY26 school year funded by the idea flow through part B and IDEA pre through K. Then we have a recommendation to approve a five-year agreement with BSN rewards program for the purchase and supply of athletic apparel and equipment. um that is a partnership um with Under Armour. I would have picked Nike, but we'll go with it. They're giving us a good deal. So, so we're good with that. And then we have a recommendation to approve resolution designating interest earnings in fiscal year 2024, 2025 and prior years for fiscal year 2025 2026. That ends Josh's report. Some cards, right? Yeah. Do we assume that the books like we had said before kind of go to other schools or they basically I don't know. So it depends. It
074depends on the condition. I don't want me to cut you off. No, that's fine. Depends on the condition of the books. If there are some books that we could, you know, obviously repurpose or reuse, we offer those, you know, to staff members um who may want to add them to their libraries. Uh but the ones that are just worthless, worthless, then we get rid of those. Megan, did I do a good job on that one? You did indeed. That is exactly what I actually was thinking. I read your email. So, thank you for that. All right. So, yes. So, yes, I say you call it a very uh what was it? Most of the services had no cost increases. Buses were up a dollar. Uh so, keeping costs generally low. And the other call out
075too, which I did not know until recently that the uh facilities request we only have to approve them on Sundays. like just something to think about. I think it kind of makes sense. I don't know if we ever want to approve more than just Sundays, but I didn't know that. So, yeah, we didn't know. That's that's an interesting point. We only approve Sundays. All right. Uh that being said, moving right along here. Uh Dr. Shel Wagner. Good evening, Mr. I have the personnel agenda and addendum this evening. I have one change before I give you the numbers uh and that would be found in the ESY extended school year staff for summer 2025. You will notice Cody Tuy is listed as an employment and we will be striking that he is unable to do that
076this summer. So strike Cody Tuy as an employment for ESY staff for summer 2025. Thank you. Then I'm going to go ahead and let you know that there's nine transfers, eight regular employments, 45 summer school employments, two certified federation bank requests, three classified Federation bank requests, one food service bank request, and 16 resignations. That will end it for me tonight. Thank you. Thank you. All right, you're a busy person tonight. All right, back to you, sir. Thank you. So, I'll speak for myself this time. Um, and which is why I said this and Miss Chris, we'll we'll have our opportunity to to not say goodbye, right? But, but say see you later and and all that good stuff. But, you know that I hope you know how I feel about you. Um, and and how
077you've helped me um going into my fifth year now, which time flies, but I wouldn't have made it out of the first two without you. I mean, that's that's just the things that we went through those first two two years in my first superintendency. I would not have made it, you know, without you and and obviously the support of of our team that we work with. And so, um, from the bottom of my heart, you know, I appreciate you. Wish you well. Um, but like I said, I'm not saying goodbye. It's just see you later. See you later. And we're going to have another opportunity to really talk, but I wanted to to obviously express that, you know, to the community as well. So, thank you. All right. So um recommendation to approve amendment to
078the intergovernmental agreement with the Boone Wnebago Regional Office of Education. I had included that um information in one of my board memos um to you all. Um do you have any questions? I think I got one question um from a board member which was a pretty good question and I believe I answered that and we good with that. Okay. All right. Freedom of Information Act requested dated May 23rd, 2025 submitted by Mary Wernern requesting information regarding any former employees records and the district's 5-day extension requested June 10th, 2025. And then the district's response went inclusive documentation submitted to requester on June 10th, 2025. Um the next Freedom of Information um act request dated May 25th, 2025. We were really busy at the end of the year by Mike Vichik requesting records of purchase orders from
079January 1st, 2020 through March 31st, 2025 across all departments in the district's response dated May 28th, 2025 when inclusive documentations. Um the next one is a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by CT Meals on June 5th, 2025 requesting information regarding administrative staff and the district response dated June 5th, 2025 with inclusive information. And then the last one, which is personal for me because I don't remember the last time I took a vacation and my wife isounding me, so I'm doing this. I'm asking for it. Request to approve superintendent's vacation days June 30th, July 1st through the 3rd, and July 7th, which will be five days. Um, we plan on going to Toronto. So, you approve it. So, candidate French there. When you have the FOYA for a former employees records, is that former employee
080allowed to is that person told that somebody's looking into the records? We we had to do that per certified mail and we had to do it by email. So yes, that's good to know. So that is it's cold up there right now. On to the consent uh agenda 12A approval personal agenda and addendum. Make a motion. Motion second. Mr. Thompson I Mr. Mcnite I Mrs. McKini I Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. I. Mrs. Smeeks. I 12B. Approve student travel request. Motion. Second. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. McKini. Hi. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. Hi. Mrs. Sme. I Mr. Thompson. I 12C. Facility request. Motion. Second. Mrs. McKini. I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. Hi. Mrs. Meeks. I, Mr. Thompson. Hi, Mr. Mcnite. Hi. All right. Buckle in. Action items 13A. Here we go. Approve first reading
081of policy 760 AP-2 from June 11th, 2025. Policy committee recommendations. Motion. Second. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. I. Mrs. Meeks. I Mr. Thompson. Hi. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. McKenna. I approve resolution declaring surplus property 13B. Motion second. Mrs. Johnson. Hi. Mrs. Meeks. Hi. Mr. Thompson. Hi. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Hi. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. 13 C. Approve acceptance of the April 2025 treasures report. Motion. Second. Mrs. Meeks. I Mr. Thompson. Hi. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. McKenna. Hi. Mrs. Carlson. Yes, Mrs. Johnson. I 13D. Approve recommendation to renew bus washing agreement with Jared's power washing for the FY26 school year at a cost of $21 per vehicle. Second, Mr. Thompson. I, Mr. Mcnite. Hi, Mrs. McKenny. Hi, Mrs. Carlson. Yes, Mrs. Johnson. Hi, Mrs. Meeks. I 13E. Approve recommendation for a three-year renewal agreement with Final Site to
082help support our district's communication system. Motion. Second. Mr. Thompson. I. Mr. McNight. Hi. Mrs. McKenna. Hi. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. Hi. Mrs. Meeks. I 13F. Approve recommendation for a resolution transferring $650,000 from the educational fund to the operations and maintenance fund and $200,000 from the educational fund to the transportation fund. Motion second. Mr. Mcnite. I. Mrs. McKenna. I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. I. Mrs. Meeks. I Mr. Thompson. I. 13G. Approve an independent contractor agreement with Speech Horizons Incorporated to provide private and parochial speech and language services for $100 per hour for 37 weeks at 24 hours per week for the FY26 school year at a total cost of $88,800 funded by the idea flow through part B grant and preK idea grant. Motion second. Mrs. McKini. I Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. I
083Mrs. Meets. I Mr. Thompson. Hi. Mr. Mcnite. I 13H. Approve an independent contractor agreement with Soy Bilingual Therapy LLC to provide speech and language testing and evaluation reports for the 2025 to 26 school year at $1,000 per K through 2nd grade student and $1,400 per three grade 3 through 12 plus grade students paid with the idea flow through part B and IDEA prek. Motion second. Mrs. Carlson, yes. Mrs. Johnson. Hi, Mrs. Meek. I Mr. Thompson. I Mr. Mcnite. Hi, Mrs. McKeen. I I'm going to destroy this name. Apologies before I say this. 13. I approve independent contractor agreement with Christina Gushinar to provide a bilingual psych psychological evaluations for the 2025 to 26 school year at a cost of $900 per bilingual academic assessment per student. and $1,100 per bilingual academic and cognitive assessment per
084student paid with idea flow through part B and idea pre through KO second Mrs. Johnson I Mrs. I Mr. Thompson I Mr. Mcnite I McKini I Mr. Carlson. Yes. 13J. Approve a contract renewal with Sunb Belt Staffing Voco Vision for one for one for school psycho psychologist services of 37.5 hours per week and for 38 weeks at a total cost of $152,247 for the FY26 school year funded by the idea flow through part B grant. Motion second. Mrs. Meets. I Mr. Thompson. I Mr. Mcnite. I Mrs. McKinley. I Mrs. Carlson. Yes, Mrs. Johnson. I 13. Go 13K. Approve one-year contract renewal with Verive Corporation for $6,535 paid with technology budget. Motion. Second. Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. Mcnite. I. Mrs. McKini. I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. Hi. Mrs. Meek. I 13 L approved to submit
085a school violence prevention program SVP grant application to the US Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. CPOS COPS. What' I say? CPO. Oh, thank you. It's cops. Cops. Yeah. Motion. Second. Mr. Thompson. Hi. Mr. McNight. I Mrs. McKini. I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. Hi, Mrs. Meeks. Hi. 13m approve a 5-year agreement with BSN rewards program for the purchase and supply of athletic apparel and equipment. Motion. Second, Mr. Mcnite. Absolutely. Mrs. M. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Mrs. Johnson. Hi. Mrs. Meeks. I Mr. Thompson. Yes. 13N approve resol resolution designating interest earnings in fiscal year 2024 to 2025 and prior years for fiscal year 2025 to 2026 motion second Mrs. McKini I Mrs. Carlson yes Mrs. Johnson I Mrs. Meeks I Mr. Thompson I Mr. Mcnite. Yes. 130. Approve amendment for the intergovernmental agreement
086with the Boone and Winnebago Regional Office of Education. Motion. Second. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. Hi. Mrs. Reese. I Mr. Johnson. Hi. Mr. McNight. Hi. Mrs. McKenna. I can't quite read this next one. I guess we're going to have to just skip over the eyes just please. [Music] like it was not the last 13P approve superintendent vacation days. This is going to be very critical motion. Hang on. I got to get the days in here. July 1st through the 3rd and July 7th, 2025. I'll still motion. Second. Mrs. Johnson, I Mrs. Me I Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. Mcnite. Absolutely. Mrs. McKenna. Hi, Mrs. Carlson. Tell your wife yes. That was a good one. And 13 Q. Approve school improvement plans for Loves Park Elementary and Harlem Middle School. Motion. Second. Mrs. Me. I. Mr. Thompson.
087Yes. Mr. Mcnite. I. Mrs. McKini. I Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Johnson. Hi. [Music] announcements and discussions. Chris, when's your last day? July. Well, June 30th, but I'll be here on the 1st. I have some things coming up. So, I didn't talk about you. No, I'm saving it to the end. No, I I echo what everybody else said. being a new board member here and with with the attention that you've detailed the things that you put together um especially for these new board members. I know you had a very large place with the rest of the team and putting together those binders. Um I remember the first page that you gave me was all the acronyms and it was like the front and back of five pages. Does anybody still have that? Like I it but
088no you you've been a I I I truly believe you've been a vital part to the success of this district. I know Trell's a superintendent, but we all know who who No, I'm just kidding. I mean, I mean, I kind of I kind of feel feel the same way at the township. I you know, all I do is sign checks and and approve things. So, um but no, um thank you for your time. I I mean I I know that you bleed husky orange and and you will be missed, but as Terrell said, it's we'll see you later. We'll you'll be around. you can't go away completely. You'll be around. So, thank you for for the time that that you put in here and and once again, I know you're training your replacement and she's
089going Pam's going to be absolutely wonderful as well. Absolutely wonderful. So, with that said, I had to wait till the end of the meeting. We just need to get like we like the bad symbol put your face up there on the roof of you. I mean, there's phones. Yeah, we have to have phones, but still be better. The actual I steal myself and call her like I do sometimes. I don't know. Get the welding team on that one. Miss all of you. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead, Chris. No, I'm just going to miss all of you. It's hard to talk right now. I'll just That's You don't have to. She'll just type it out. Really fast. We'll just type it really fast. Next month's minutes. Pardon me. No, I said we'll have to approve your
090next month's minutes. Write down a few things. Now, I just wanted to say I appreciate all of these these great things that are the grants and the and the funding and the what is this idea and there's a whole bunch of idea flowthroughs and all of these great things that are our assistant supers and Josh who's not here and and our teachers and everyone who just work their literally butts off trying to get all of this great funding and and figuring out where where on earth to save and scrimp and and put everything through and the grants and I mean I can just you just feel the tiredness having to call and and work so hard to get these. So I just just want to say thanks and way to go. Thank you to you
091also Dr. VR will for being that fire and being the person that respects everybody that works for you, your assistants and everybody giving giving letting them be able to be themselves and be able to do what needs to be done to keep this district running. So all you guys are greatly appreciated. So thank you all. Thank you for not micromanaging. You know, you respect people enough to know that they're they're going to do their job. So I know that's what everybody really appreciates. But all the people that work for you really appreciate how you let them be able to do their job. So are we going into an executive session for nothing? Okay. All right. Well, that makes it even quicker though. That means uh no 16 no 14. Uh and with that all in
092favor to adjurnn. I thanks everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Use it. Use it to get over there. [Music]