001Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] I wish I would have start bringing those numbers up. Yeah. Go. the agenda a little bit. [Music] Wow, you wanted started. It's time to start the meeting. Like to call this meeting to order regular board meeting March 17th, 2025. Can I get a roll call? Mrs. Mr. Sterling here. Mr. Thompson here. Mr. Mcnite present. Mrs. Carlson here. Mr. Smith here. Mrs. Hy here. Mrs. Mess here. Pam Cook recording secretary. Charl superintendent. Shelley Wagner human resources. Michel curriculum and instruction. Jason, communications, community relations. Josh, business and operations. All right. All right. Well, I think you all can guess. Parker Zimma. [Music] I'm so excited. [Music] So tonight it is my pleasure to welcome our students from Parker Center, our park and pups who are
002here to lead us in pledge. [Music] Let's go. Does everybody see? Well, thank you for having us tonight. These Parker pups were selected because they have done a great job of showing their teachers that they can be respectful, safe, and ready to learn. All right, are you guys ready? All right, everybody, please stand. [Music] Ready? 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. And now for our Parker Center promise. I promise to make Parker Center a better place. I am respectful. I am safe. I am ready to learn. [Applause] All right, gonna get a photo with our board. [Music] only grade to this. If you want to get pictures after they'll give you
003an opportunity to take pictures that want to get a photo, you can do it on one real quick and I'll go up here. Nice job. Stay there. [Music] Sorry. [Music] We're going to go back this way to meet your grown up. Great job. Great job. [Music] What's a she? particular that haven't been checked out. We've got other ones. Those are just ones that haven't been touched. All right. I get a motion and a second to approve the agenda. Motion. Second. Mr. Thompson. I. Mr. Mcnite. I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mr. Smith. I recommend that we move uh 11 C1, 11 C2, and 11 C4 took close session. [Music] See one, two, three, is that one, two, four. Just one, two, four. [Music] Anybody have any issues? Are we going to do that in the normal flow
004of the agenda? Are we moving on session? 11 C1, 11 C2, 11C4. Correct. And are we okay doing that the normal positioning of the closed session? Are we moving close session up? Uh we will we could do it afterwards. I don't think it's something that I mean probably do some of this after all this after open session and stuff. We could do it with the rest of the post session. Corissa. Okay. I don't have a problem. I'm good. All right. With moving those changes to 11 C1, 11 C2, 11C4 to close session. Can I get a roll call? I mean, can I get a vote on that? [Music] Mr. Mcnite. Hi, Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mrs. Hi, Mrs. Lee. Hi, Mrs. Sterling. Hi, Mr. Thompson. I All right. I do the mission statement,
005you know, at every one of our meetings to show why we're here and what we're about. But after seeing the Parker Center kids, that's exactly why we're here and what we're about. So, I got to follow them. But I'll still do the mission statement. Uh the mission of the Harlem Consolidated School District as a vital part of the community is to help diverse learners realize their unimited potential by providing an educational program dedicated to academic excellence and a development of strong character in a safe and respectful learning environment. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve the board meeting minutes February 24th, 2025? Motion. Second. Mrs. Carlson, yes. Mrs. Smith, yes. Mrs. Hastings, hi. Mrs. mess. I Mr. Sterling. Hi, Mr. Thompson. Hi, Mr. McNight. Hi, [Music] Just Nice. All right.
006I know. Do some back braces for all the hardware. I know. We'll just keep standing for quite a while. See how long you should feel how heavy my certificates are. Well, it is my pleasure this evening um to introduce a familiar uh group of individuals, familiar a couple teams uh that seem to be invited every year because of their accomplishments. But this year, we're excited to introduce our state champs and state runner-ups, our boys and girls bowling teams. Um this is a pretty exciting uh exciting time as it always is for for us with Harlem bowling. We know that it's synonymous with Harlem um school district, but I was really hoping to have both teams up here because I was look doing some research and I struggled to find um a lot of data around
007this, but I was really curious to see what other schools in the state of Illinois have had the level of success that the Harlem bowling program has had. Um we had a year where we had uh both teams were uh champions, state champs. we've had freshman. I I have a full list starting from back I started at 2000 of all the um really the top 12 finishes that have occurred between these two programs and it's pretty incredible and and obviously this year we're excited to recognize these teams for the accomplishments uh that they had. Um and I know that there'll be some more things happening. I was just talking to this gentleman here about some of his more recent 300 game that he had which is a pretty amazing peak because I've already come close
008to that. Um, we're excited to uh to recognize you all. Uh, but I'm going to turn over the coaches because they can talk a little about the season and uh everything you all accomplished throughout the season uh leading up to your state run. So, I'm going to turn over to Coach Nick here with the uh the boys bowling program. Hi guys, thanks for having us. Um, just run through a few things. This group here um went 9 and0 conference. So, we're conference champs, regional champs, sectional champs, and then second at state. Um, one of the top things for these this group is there's six seniors here and then Ben's a freshman and the six seniors obviously pulled together last year and Ben came in um we couldn't really put them aside because he's averaging 235
009right out of the gate. So, we had some discussions about how we could, you know, kind of make this dynamic work and these guys were just all in on the team. There was no real individual aspect at all for any one of them. So it worked out really well where um all seven of them actually are all conference. So seven out of the 10 allconerence bowlers are are Harlem bowlers. Um that's the first time in history that it's even been six. We only bowl six at a time. So that's a rotation in order to get them to qualify. Wow. All seven. So that to me is is something that we like to at least talk about a little bit and congratulate them for because they they're all good enough to qualify that way. But for
010them to have the right mindset to to kind of take the days off and things like that and give the other the other guys their chance is pretty impressive at this age for me. So, um definitely a team team year for [Applause] us. I'm going to have you guys introduce yourselves. We're going to hear from the girls uh before we do that. But one of the things that if you haven't had a chance to to witness bowling happen specifically obviously our teams like the camaraderie not only within the team but across the teams is pretty amazing. The support and the rallying like coach was just saying um is pretty incredible to see you know them come together and to work as a team and then obviously to accomplish that level of having seven people all
011conference is pretty incredible. So uh coaching Scott I was going to try to hide so much taller than I am. Um, well, congratulations to the guys. It was last night was pretty cool watching you guys up there. Um, for the girls, we were 9 and0 in conference. I believe this was our 10th year in a row of winning the conference championship. Wow. And if I think about that, we have [Music] been 88 and one or something like that over the 10 years. It's pretty impressive. Or 89 and one, I don't know. It's pretty pretty neat. And they just continue to keep coming. Um, so that's pretty neat for us. And then we had four conference all conference girls. Three of them juniors, one of them a freshman. Uh, we have two seniors and a sophomore
012and another freshman. And one of my highlights of this year was the very first day of the state tournament. I'm a little bit nervous because we had three juniors, two freshman starting, and the very first game of the state tournament, I'm looking up and the three juniors are, "Spare, spare, spare, spare, spare." And I'm looking up and hear the two freshman strike, strike, strike, strike. And one of them, Sarah, shoots 267. Game one. First time she's ever been at the state tournament. So, to me, that got us off on a huge start. put us in the lead and we trailed one time by eight pins and that was at lunch on Friday and then they never looked back. Um, so these girls did everything they could, won regionals, won conference, we took second at sectionals,
013but then they rebounded and ended up winning the state championship. So congratulations to them and I'll let them introduce themselves once they are done. Absolutely. Congratulations, girls. [Applause] Don't forget Ashlin was also second in the state tournament. So she was all state as well. So Deon was all state. Ashlin was conference MVP and Devon was conference MVP. So we brought them. Wow. That's awesome. All right. So we want to hear from you all obviously. So name, what grade you're in. If you're a senior, if you want to tell us what your plans are for next year, what you're thinking about doing, we'd love to hear that as well. Maybe we'll start down here. Uh my name is Dave Titus. Uh I am a senior. Um I'm Devon's brother and uh I'm going to Rock Valley
014for two years. Uh take business classes and eventually take over my dad's business. All right. Okay. So like Dick, um I'm Dick's brother. Obviously I'm a senior as well. Yeah, I'm a senior as well. Um, I plan on going to take my bowling skills and knowledge to Mount Mercy and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They're ranked like number one in the United States Blind Congress rankings as of this year. So, very talented team. Hopefully, I can make that team and carry on my bowling skills. Nice. I'm uh I'm Andrew Bell and uh I'm a senior as well. I'm going to Rock Valley to pursue aviation mechanics. Awesome. and uh always been into engines and stuff and uh so I'll be seeing him there and then can't really point I'm in there too. So awesome. Uh I'm Colton
015Kilbreth. I am also a senior and after high school I really don't know what I want to do but I think I'm going to go to RBC and go to a trades. Yes. Yes. I am Ben Dolly and I'm a freshman and I am not going to college. Well, I'm Brandon Carpenter. I'm also a senior and I am also taking my bowling career to the next level collegiically. I'm currently going to Judson University studying business management and media works and hopefully I can also take my skills to the next level. Awesome. I'm hiding back here. My name is Simon X. I'm also a senior. I'm going to Rock Valley and I want to study engineering. Awesome. Great. I'm Ashlin Teis and I'm just a junior. I'm Alison Roberts and I'm also a junior. I'm Alexis
016Bourne and I'm the last junior. I'm Sarah Wilson and I'm a freshman. I'm Katie Martins and I'm a sophomore. I'm Kly Vine. I'm a senior and I'm going to RBC to go into nursing. [Music] School freshman. Uh, I'm Chloe Broen and I plan to go to Quincy University and study for early childhood education and also take my bowling to the next level. Awesome. Coaches, can you introduce yourselves too for um I'm Kim Katy. I coach Harlem Middle School and joined the Harlem High School coaching staff this season. Mike Raw, assistant coach. And what Jimmy and Nick forgot to tell you, they were also uh Nick 10 coaches of the year as well. So Oh, hey. It's all because of them. These guys couldn't do without our assistant coaches. So these kids, these kids are awesome.
017These two have been influential in in developing these programs into what they are. They've been around for a long time. I was looking up some records and uh coach Jimmy, you've had eight state championships, I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong on that, but you started in 96 season. [Music] Yeah. Jimmy's assistant coach in ' 04. So, well, Nick was also he bold for me and won the first boys state championship. He coached my daughter. What a pedigree. Can't even do it justice really. [Music] Anna's mom and Lindsay our other coach she's also state champion and Paige Carpenter she's also back keep going but we will we will cut this off. So, on behalf of the board of the Harlem School of District, to all of our our staff, our students, our community, obviously big
018kudos and congratulations to you all for the hard work and the effort and the accomplishments that you had. Um, we're excited to to be a part of this with you all. So, we are going to do a photo and it will be a big one, but we're going to do a photo together and then you'll be able to put these things down if you want to come around. So, you guys want to kind of You want to do two different Jason? Do you want to do two different teams? Um, what do you mean? I think we're going to do two different ones. [Laughter] So, we'll do girls first and then we'll Sorry, I'll get one and I'll get [Music] two again. Got it. [Music] Yeah. I don't know. I can get a good sixoot ladder.
019This will be okay. This is so hard. All right, here we go. One, two, three. for next. Oh, I'm trying to hunt it out. Do we have Jason? I don't know. But I guarantee if the money's right to go at the bowling alley can't give any better. [Music] All right. So tonight we have another recognition, an opportunity to highlight um one of the cool experiences and offerings that our high school has. We've uh seen this program before in the past. We've been able to recognize some students that have participated. But um this year I get to introduce a new adviser to you all uh Mr. Michael Bair who is a uh high school teacher. Um we have here him and a few of our students from the model UN group that have done some a
020lot of different things but I'm let them tell you about it because it's obviously there's a lot more coming from them. So we let you talk a little about Yeah. Well, model UN basically is the students go and they're assigned a country and they do what people at the UN do as diplomats. And so they're in a big room with other students who are representing other countries. They have certain international problems that they have to solve and they come up with ideas. They have to give speeches and they have to like make a coalition of different students to vote on these speeches and and different proposals and at the end they have uh some things that they pass. And so the whole bit of it is to be um pretending like you're this um diplomat
021there. It's a great way to improve your public speaking, your comfortability working with people. It's great for college. Looks great on college applications. Um, and um, it's also a good way to network with people for for later on. Um, so Avery, could you just tell me a little bit uh about warning that we were going to ask them to speak? So, Avery, I have Avery here. What country did you represent? Oh, I was Oman. Okay. What uh was the um committee? It was the legal committee. Okay. Okay. Very good. And uh, Jazelle, what uh country did you represent? Gambia. Gambia. Okay. And what was it? It was sakum for them. Sakum. The funny thing about the United Nations is that they have these like they have three or four different words which they smash into
022one word like sakum and dice and sakum is just the social uh humanitarian and cultural committee. So it kind of deals with those issues uh internationally and then they have certain problems that they have to solve. So and the the big uh thing that we did in February was we went to Chicago at the model UN conference there which the University of Chicago puts on. It's a massive international conference. People come fly in. I mean, we saw people flying in from Texas, people flying in from California, and also internationally. So, it's like almost the biggest of its kind. Might be the biggest or the second biggest of its kind. Um, and so we do that every year. Um, and that was that's the highlight sort of the capstone of the season if you like. Would
023you guys want to talk a little bit more about So, like you said, legal. So, tell me a little bit about what you what you participated in. So our two um main topics that we discussed, we had a topic A and topic B and our topic A was rights to resources and our second was universal jurisdiction. So we ended up voting on topic A and we discussed um rights to resources and how to like allocate the um resources needed for different countries and stuff. So, how many like So, how many other students or how many other countries were represented or anything that you Mine was um more like medium sized. We kind of have like different um like I don't know how to say like sizes to the committees. So, yours was general assembly. Mine
024was also general assembly but it was smaller. And then we had hybrid and um uh crisis. Crisis, but we didn't we didn't have crisis. So mine was probably about 100 kids, but just was like 300. Wow. Pretty cool. And so tell us a little bit about your what you worked on. Um well, my committee decided to vote on topic A, which was basically coming up solutions for those uh or she's seeking asylum and each country just kind of states their position on it. I think there was like 50 countries in one room and most of them were like double target two per country. So they get teamed up in that situation. Two Harlem kids are one country kind of like on a team and then everyone else is as a pair pairing there. Awesome. Very
025cool. Well, we're excited and thank you for you to for for supporting this and giving this experience to our kids. Um, I'm assuming it was a great experience for you all. What uh and how old are each of you? I'm a senior. Senior. I'm a junior. Junior. Okay. So, senior. What's what's next for you? Um, I committed to the U ofi. UI. Okay. I'm planning to study. Um, it it is kind of similar to what we do in model. Um, like geography, human geography. Okay. Studies. Awesome. Staying in the social studies. I do. So nice. That's awesome. Well, uh, thank you for representing us. I'm sure you you guys did a wonderful job, um, there representing Harlem. Thank you for for putting that on, um, and supporting these kids and getting to have this opportunity.
026I think it's pretty cool. We've got a lot of these clubs and organizations and and groups that kids can be a part of and it's pretty cool to see these experiences play out. And um I'll try to remember to to send you all a link. I've done it in the past when we've had them up here, but I'll send you a link to the website. Like you you'll have to play around with it a little bit and see like it is really a pretty cool experience. Obviously, I've never been to it, but from what I see on their website and what they offer, things the kids get to be a part of is pretty pretty awesome stuff. So, I'll send that your way. But uh on behalf of our board, our community, thank you for
027representing us. Thank you for being awesome students and we wish you the best next year and and maybe we'll see you back next year as a senior. [Applause] So you knew how you know how many we had to do. That's why you got the Nike. Yeah. the the green ones. Okay, there we go. One, two, three. [Music] Good job. I I just stood there and I figured you can fill in. There you are. I have one more. We're good. So, I'm excited um this evening and I know that you've all seen this because every one of you reads our around 22 newsletter. Um we get the opportunity tonight to recognize um an individual that has been recognized by the Illinois State Board of Education. Um she was um earned the teacher of excellence award. Is
028this the official title? Hopefully I'm saying that wrong. I grab that work. Yep. No, the award of excellence. It's the teacher award of excellence. It is award of excellence from the state board of education. Um, Miss Stacy here is I'm going to read this a little bit so you can kind of see. I know that many of you have met her before um because we've been here recognizing um students in our education pathway in the past, which we will be doing uh soon again. We should probably just put those on the same night, but we're going to have I know we're going to have her back again soon with a few students, too. But, um, so I'm just going to read a little of this to you. It says Harlem's proudly announced that Taylor's a
029consumer science teacher at Harlem High School has earned the Illinois State Board of Education's award of excellence. Um, she teaches the education pathway and operates Paul Prince preschool uh within her curriculum and classroom. She's uh she has taught the gamut of family and consumer science courses since 2003. Plus, she is excelling in the area of human development, early childhood education, and teacher education. Um, the award of excellence is the most prestigious of those who excel honors from the state board of education. Um, these are educators that have demonstrated a commitment to equity to the success of all students. They regularly collaborate with colleagues, students, and families to create positive cultures. They are lifelong learners who connect, uh, their schools to the community at large and who inspire other education professionals within within and beyond their
030schools. And so, um, Stacy is one of five that was selected from Wnebago County. So, they do this by region. they have teacher of the year finalist and then they have individuals that are recognized for three different awards. Um the award of excellence is the highest honor. Um and so uh the five I think total were made up of the three different categories. I don't want to believe there was maybe one other person from Winnebago County that also received a work of excellence. So um that's pretty cool to to to have that level of recognition. Um if you ever follow us on Facebook, we often post um pictures of students in the education pathway program and some of the things that they get to be participating in certifications they and all that type of stuff.
031And and without fail like every time the comments that follow that um is always pretty pretty amazing and and most of it many of it is due to her um and most of those comments are about the program and what she brings to the program and how she interacts with the students that are in that program. there's so many people jumping on I had I had son's my teacher and all this kind of stuff you know it's really cool and that and that just shows you like the environment that she creates and the opportunity she creates obviously in an education system near and dear to our heart is the pathway that you're focusing on because she's she's our pipeline right she's she's um helping us hopefully uh bring students back here to to work for
032us and and to pursue the career of of education and so do you want to say anything I should have probably let him um just tonight in the lobby. I saw parents of kindergarteners who I had in class and I was like but I saw about four that I was like hey how you doing? Um but it's it's been my passion. Um Harlem is been constant my life um through lots of tough stuff. So I've grown up with Harlem. Um my girls are here. We love it. We're not going anywhere. So there you go. I'm very proud of everything that we've been here. Well, we're we're obviously we can see through the emotion incredibly proud and proud to be able to to call you colleague, but proud to have you as a part of our
033our district and and again because of the focus and the students. Um we're so grateful grateful for you and uh we're excited that you get that honor. Um now I didn't print this out, but there's the banquet. Are you going to attend that? Oh yeah. Yeah. Um, currently my parents are fighting for who gets to go. Okay. Only get three tickets and so my husband was here but he had to run off to get my daughter from our theater. But um, so now it's a toss up between does mom get to go or dad get to go. So I don't know if they're going to have to draw straws or how it works but yes we will be. So she there's an official banquet that is has that they'll obviously recognize her in that capacity.
034So on behalf of the board, our community, our staff, our students, our families, our current students, our alum that have been a part of your class, we want to say congratulations and thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] [Laughter] the back or just go to the side of All right, we got one, two, three. [Applause] Yes, I will be in touch with [Music] Now you're done. Okay, now that the room's at there is there are at this time there are no comments from the community. Can I get uh can move vote over the the bills? All right, that is a tough act to follow cuz that was from the pledge all the way down. I would like to mention that only one person left when he was done and when I started. So that's a
035record. We'll call it a win. Your math still works. All right. The total payables for the period were 1,194,12146. There were void checks of $13,86.72. There were two payrolls this period in the amount of $7,29,879.64 64 for total expenditures of $8,44,110. Split out by fund, the education fund paid $7,42,31.80. The operations and maintenance fund paid $400,541.50. The transportation fund paid $366,129.85. The IMRF social security fund paid $254,132.98. The capital projects fund paid [Music] $292,39.97. And the life safety fund paid [Music] $49,125. Again, for total expenses of $8,44,110. There any unanswered bill questions? Is it for bills? Motion to approve the bills. Motion. Second. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mrs. Hastings. Hi. Mrs. Meeks. Hi. Mr. Sterling. Hi. Mr. Thompson. Hi. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. All right. With that, turning over to communications committee reports. Mr.
036Ar Mcnite. All right. So, um, first of all, Jason, thank you for bringing in. I'm going to kind of go over the thank yous cuz I think my fellow board members will um pick me up cuz I have something really important that I really want to talk about. But I I want to thank you Jason for bringing in these um you know Parker Center bowling every year. I feel like we should just put it on the calendar. Um especially not not taking anything away from the boys, but the girls I think they only had one senior. Um so which is amazing. Um and of course Stacy um amazing job every year. Um so today we are up for approval is probably in the two years I've been here is probably one of one of the
037or if not the most important um things that we are going to vote on. Um and that's the K through five um new curriculum. Um, and I just kind of for the people that didn't watch the committee of the whole, I just wanted to reiterate kind of what what our our staff and and administration went through to come to this conclusion. And I want to first of all say I appreciate it. Um, it was a month monthsl long project. Um they started out with more than I believe it was more than 10 different um curriculums, narrowed it down in multiple rounds and and then put two rounds into what do we call it? A testing or a a test um and sitting up here watching, you know, looking at the presentation. We spent probably two
038hours um trying to shoot holes in it on because of the cost, because of this, because of that, and it it walked away unscathed. Um and I just wanted, you know, I just want to say that I appreciate what was gone into it. And this this curriculum um will literally shape our district for the next 5 to 10 years in my opinion. Um, I feel that as a district, with no fault of anybody, we've kind of hit that plateau and this is something that needs to be done to get us to that next level. So, for the consideration, you know, cost, um, what it entails, all that stuff, just for the people that didn't watch me, the hold, there were a lot of questions. There was a lot of great answers. It's been tried and
039true in other district. Um on this weekend we actually I actually asked or Mike actually asked for um stories about other districts in the area that are doing it and we we got a sample size and out of the three that I looked at it was between 12 to 20% improvements in the first two years. So, um I just wanted to say that this is probably, like I said, one of the most important votes that I feel that I I um that I feel that I'm able to make, um as my time here as a board member. And I just want everybody to know what went through it. We're not This isn't something that was just thrown at us and we're like, "Yeah, let's go." It was researched, research, research, research. there was a panel
040and and trust me, the cost is a tough pill to swallow, but um in my opinion, the kids are worth it. So, with that being said, I'm going to get off off my soap box. You missed the $200,000 that we were able to work off of it with the fantastic negotiation skills as well. And they did work off $200,000 to get it to where it was even um as better offici. Thank you, Paris. See, I told you my other board members would help pick me up on that one. So with that being said, you see your time. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Rebecca G. Thank you. I have a a few things here and there. So, if you just work with me, um I went to the medical clinic open house. That was really
041cool. That was really, really cool. It was um a really nice clinic. I have spent some probably an hour with Cassie and Rachel who are the nurse, the assistant in the building. Um the doctor was a wonderful lady to deal with. I have a little struggle to understand her because she's um not native and I don't mean it in a bad way, but um she's a she was a real sweet lady and she really enjoys what she's doing. Um there are some small things. I spent some time of course with Cassie and Rachel and there were some things that were brought up um that need to be looked at a little bit. nothing substantial, but just a lot of little things that seemed like when RJC got done, there were a few things that were
042just kind of left floating. And so things like the the HVAC system, which they said, you know, comes in from the front door and doesn't go into the exam rooms and so they have to leave the front doors open and then of course it's unsafe to have the um front door open with the heat going all the time. But I know I sat in the front room a little bit just to visit waiting for people. And it was probably 90 degrees in that waiting room. And then the exam rooms were probably about 45. So definitely need a little bit of um tweaking on that one. And then there were just some simple things that they had given me like none of the rooms have code hooks. And so we're looking at just simple like let's
043put some code hooks in the bathrooms and in the exam rooms and places where they just kind of need to to update some things. but they both love their jobs and they're really um impressed at what they're doing and so it was a it was a really neat visit at the clinic. Um, I went to the Kishwwaukee dinner, which is the first dinner I have been to, but I was a little bit disappointed only because the uh my understanding was that it was going to be an actual dinner. It turned out it wasn't a dinner. It was more of a appetizers at the tables. And um uh I was a little disappointed in the is IASB only because um the room was so overcrowded and we were literally on top of each other and people
044couldn't get around to even get their awards and get between people and and of course we're sitting around and everybody's eating slimy greasy chicken wings which you know I understand it's all appetizers but you know you're shaking hands with people and you're like this is disgusting but so that was the only thing that I found to be really concerning. The sessions were amazing. Really good sessions. I really enjoyed Huntley. That was fantastic. Some of the things that they are going into doing um what they call the silver passes. And I I assume that our gold card is going to be basically the same thing, but they allow their their seniors, for anybody that hasn't heard of it, get to come in and they get to visit with the schools and they can go to anything
045that's going on in the schools. I mean, they can go to the place and the and the programs and the just everything. So, that that's amazing because these are our stakeholders who don't know as much about what's going on in our school district as they would probably like to and would love to be in the middle of things and not have to pay for things and and be able to come to anything they want to come to. I would like to see it go just a slight bit bigger than that and offer the seniors an opportunity to come in and tutor our students or help our students or work in our math classes or work in our our culinaries where maybe we have a a a former cook who knows some amazing recipe and and
046would love to teach it to the culinary students or something of that. So, it'd be really neat to have an option for that for our seniors as well. And if you know, if they have to have background checks or something, I'm sure they're not too worried about that. But, um, I found the candidate meet and grief was really kind of neat. It was It was neat to see all the different candidates, both the trustees for the township as well. I found it interesting the questions a lot of them and I learned later that they were all from the students and not from any of the the um staff questions. So it was interesting how they had worded some of the questions and changed some of the questions and some of the questions were the same
047but they were different for different people. So they were it was interesting that way to see um a lot of the things that they brought up. It was sad to me that we have worked on the auditorium and we've tried to repair the lights and the and the catwalks and things like that, but the whole the whole seat the whole evening it seemed like all of the um candidates were sitting in the dark and microphones quit working and they pass around microphones and then they wouldn't work and so it just seemed like I don't know user air. It could have been you know that people didn't know how to turn them on. It could have been pretty much anything, but it was just kind of disheartening to think, ah, we're trying to hear somebody and
048somebody's passing mics around and so it just seemed like it could it could have been put together and maybe League of Women Voters brought in all their own mics and then that was, you know, who knows who knows what happened, but it was just that was the only thing that I found kind of sad for the program. I want to say happy St. Patrick's Day to anybody who is either born or who's Irish on this day. And don't forget to vote. We have this is our last meeting before the April vote for new or reelected board members. So if if we remember that um just vote, you got to vote and you got to do what you got to do and you got to stand up and you got to you know if you don't
049vote, you can't complain. So we know we need to go vote for the for our people. But um I also like the ELA and I was not here Wednesday s I missed out on that one. But I would kind of like to see it tabled just for a um a month possibly because I would personally would like to see some of what we are looking at. I don't know if anybody has actually been given some of the information. I know you said you had looked at some of it but you know not having a visible you know what are they learning what are they not learning what are you know what's are we doing spelling are we doing phonics are we doing I want it to be that was all Wednesday so that was Wednesday
050okay so unfortunately I missed out on that being home but I I wish I hadn't and other than that I just I wanted to get together with Josh and Terrell a little bit about the the clinic just because I know they had some things that they wanted repaired and and and corrected. So, other than that, it's it's pretty much good for me. That's back to you. Thank you, Mr. Mcnite, for the due diligence on checking on those other schools that uh were using that curriculum. Well done. Thank you very much. I think the one he mentioned was Bington. Was it Bington? Bington. Bington. Freeport was actually one of the schools. Freeport was at a 12% increase at wonderful. I mean, wonderful. And thank you to Miss Anderson and the Parker Pups. It was wonderful having
051your uh ready tolearn bunch here to lead us in the pledge. So, thank you very much. And thank you, Mr. Bloom, for continuing to keep in front of us and the community all the great things that go on here in the Harlem School District. I think it's great. We've got state champions that you're always introducing. We have state recognized excellent teachers in this district. Uh we have state recognized school board members in this school district. This is a a very high functioning school district. And and yeah, we need to keep saying that that these people that we have now we as the collective, this community puts in place to work with our kids are are of extremely high quality and and we're very fortunate uh to have them. I was saddened to notice the other
052day that the snowman was banished from the board office. 77 that time of the year, I guess, when all good things must come to an end if you're a snow person. So, uh, but again, thank you very much, Mr. Yo. You're doing a great job. Thank you, Mr. All [Music] right. Regulations. All right. I did. You have something else? No. I'll wait until uh I got a long list. I'm going to read off my screen. So, um uh I talk about them all the time. Probably sick of it. Uh but our culinary arts students have been putting in overtime lately. I don't know how many events they've done for the school district. There's got to be some cost savings in there. Um but uh they did uh the two that I saw right off the
053bat were the literacy night for Olson Park. Uh their book um their one school one book theme or actually title was pie. Um so they made pie for literacy night. Uh so so cool um to see that. And then of course uh they catered the town hall as well. Uh, so not only studentled, not only student Q&A, um, but also student catered. So that was really cool. Uh, so kudos to the culinary program for really putting like, um, you know, the the kids to some real life work experience and and and catering those events. Um, on the same topic of the town hall, uh, I would be remiss to not shout out the journalism students and HNN for their work on the town hall. Um I have been to quite a few of these League
054of Women Voter uh events in the last month, month and a half. Um ours was way different and in the best possible way. Uh so having um our students lead it, our students come up with the questions, they worked in advisory, uh coming up with uh student surveys and really making sure that this was such a thoughtful and wellput together event. Um, I'm just extremely proud to to go to, like I said, several League of Women Voter It's, you know, it's it's campaign season, so several League of Women Voter events and ours be such a standout and it be because of our students, which is why everybody should be sitting at this table um at the end of the day. So, um, kudos to anybody who had their hands in that event. It was fantastic.
055Um, as you guys know, I read a lot and I was reading some local news. Um, there were some uh teachers that got some grants and out of 12 grants handed out by this um oh no, excuse me, nine uh handed out grants by this particular, it was the Delta Kappa Gamma mini grant program. Uh, Harlem took home three. So, Miss Kleta at Maple secured some funds to update her classroom collection of poetry books. Heck yeah. Um, Miss Proper at Harlem Middle School uh to purchase graphic novels to help bridge the gap between picture books and chapter books for our incoming sixth grade students. And then Miss Puit to curate a wide range of age appropriate books across genres designated to inspire a love of reading in sixth graders. Uh so kudos to the teachers
056that not only sought out those grants but for the fact that you got them and again pushing our kids to love reading. Uh if you can read, you can teach yourself anything. And it is probably I would say the number one thing right now uh to do is just read. Read a book. Um read across Parker Center. Didn't time that, but it happened. Uh I got Miss Bower's class. I coincidentally uh um picked a short book. Uh they let me know how short it was and that I should have picked a longer book. Um but we got to talk about uh cuz the next day was their day off. Um so we got to talk about their plans on the day off. A lot of parks, a lot of tra trampoline parks, a lot of
057hanging out with brothers and sisters. So thank you Miss Bower's class for uh inviting me in. Um as board members, we get invited to a lot. I think all of us try to make as much as we can. The one thing I don't make as much as I want to is the college signings for athletics because they are just in a sweet spot on the workday. So, I wanted to shout out uh Miss Cooper sent us Connor, Angel, and McKenzie. So, congratulations to those students for signing. So, sorry that uh we can seldom or sorry, not didn't want to talk for everybody. I can seldom make those, but congratulations nonetheless. Um, I'm on the fence about mentioning Miss Sterling, Miss Sterling because I'm sure, you know, Mr. Sterling would like to mention her, but um,
058I got to say she kind of Thank you for reminding me. She she kind of took over, uh, Facebook this week, so I could not like not only is she doing like one of the coolest science things ever in Mammal Madness, which is like March Madness, but animals. Um, the greenhouse is rolling again. They will have their flower sale in May and she was teacher of the week for Z. So, Miss Sterling kind of killed it this week. Uh, so I I I really couldn't ignore the fact um that she is doing incredible things over at the middle school. And lastly, um I will echo uh Miss Carlson. Uh early voting starts today. Get out and vote. Uh it is extremely important. And uh if you missed the candidate form, our HNN uh or our
059Harlem News Network posted the whole thing to YouTube, so you can watch it and get informed. That's it. Thank you so much. You're education. Oh, I missed the one thing I actually had to say. Next education committee is April 9th at 4:30 as part of committee of the whole. Thank you for the reminder. And thank you for the reminder. Um Hello everyone. Jason, thank you for bringing all the students, not just sports, but also the students that are doing above and beyond in their educational pursuits love to see the modern UN. Um, just the different subjects, the different things that they have to do and prepare. And uh, I don't know how forceful the the junior was. I I don't remember her name right off the bat. Her name was Jazelle. Jazelle. Um but uh
060just to be out there and and be able to speak in front of all those people that that that's kudos. I mean, I couldn't see myself in in high school get going into a room of 300 other kids that I did not know and having to be given a subject on the spot and try to try to do that. So that is awesome for both parties. I mean, I know we our kids represent us well. Um, obviously, uh, I've had emails and requests about our bowling, uh, program from parents in the district trying to figure out how to get their kids reenrolled into Harlem just to get into the back into the bowling program. That's that's amazing. I mean, um, it's everybody always thinks of football or something first, but Harlem and bowling is awesome.
061They won the last 10 years they've won. They've lost one game. They said 80 something and one 88 88 and one. My bad. Wow. But I mean, that's that's crazy. Like that's awesome. I mean, I'm just feeling like if you're from another school and you see a Harlem there, you're like, "All right, dude. That's good. That's good for us and those are good for our kids. They use Ros Park bowling alleys to to to do this. So practice these are these are our kids and our family members. Even the state was a cherry bowl. Yeah. But I'm just saying all the time. State was our cherry bowl. Um Aaron, you're always awesome. you the what you're doing at Parker, the teachers you have at Parker. I mean, again, Golden Apple, you you just exude the
062best in what we are. So, thank you. Uh our teachers that got was awarded by um ISP that is awesome. like Stacy just to be the one of the best teachers in the state just to be awarded. And again, that's Harlem again just showing through and through what we do here. I have to save my wife. She was she was a she was a teacher of the week 97 Z. Um, but also that was by a student and like reading what the student said of how they weren't they were sure they didn't want to they weren't going to like science. Yeah. They knew that they were going to probably fail. And now after being in class, they don't feel that way. just that that that little win there like they don't that they can go
063to school with the thought of actually passing a class when they thought that they weren't. So I definitely have to give my wife a a thing on that. But she did corner me. So yes, I'm in March Mammo Madness and I am losing to her right now. She let me know. Um, I'd also like to discuss board uh the middle school on getting something in front of any updates that we might need to do going forward. It's not we've we've we've done it as a committee before and and talked about it. Um, we've had engineers come out. There's only certain things that we can do, but we we're not building another middle school anytime soon. No. So, um I know we already have it a lot of the stuff in in planned in stages or
064or whatnot for life safety or whatnot, but to see if expansion through uh courtyards or the or the uh taking the actual portables that have become permanent. Yeah. um and making something that way, but just giving options and then being able to present something to the community because at this time like that's going to be a community project. Um so this is going to be one of those things if they we decide that has something to do. It's going to be many hands hands to try to help out. [Music] Um yeah, it's two weeks to April 1st. vote, get your voice heard, research. Um, also it's part of your civic duty. So, I mean, that's that's what we we come. We help, but you also have a voice. So, whatever that is, love to hear
065it. With that, our next board meeting will be April 14th, 2025 at 6 PM. Our next policy committee meeting will be April 9th at the committee of the whole. There's no policies yet for that one yet. Not yet. Have we thought of like with all the the the tragic news out of Rockford of just revisiting some of our policies and seeing what they've done afterwards to make sure that we're We're up to date on everything that we need to do as well as just looking where their lessons learned. What did they do? What are they pulling to make sure that we're for bullying? Huh? For bullying. For bullying. Absolutely. Yeah. Like I think it's important, right? Ours are there. Technology is so much changing. We we did actually review all of our policies um when
066we had our SBC meeting last week with all of our assistant principles as well as we had um talked with our principles the day before that because we too felt the same thing with with the concerns that happen. wanting to make sure that we are following all of our processes and procedures and uh really looking out to make sure that if there is a concern about a kid that we're following everything to make to try to get down to the um to determine what is causing that. Is there some notes that one you could share with the board and potentially some notes we could share with the community on kind of what that was what was found from that review? Something together. Yeah, just to make sure. Right. Like it's nice it's nice to hear
067that we're being proactive and we're doing it, but I'd like to see kind of what what came from that and you know what action items we can pull if it's not policy. Sorry, Mike. I I I stole it, but it was it was going with no and I was like I got to make sure we do this right. You're on a roll. I was not going to It's your time anyway. I'm not. All right. And my last statement for right now. We're going into spring break. Please be safe. Enjoy your time, seniors. Be safe. You got a little time left. Get your stuff done. We'll see you at the the metro. The beo. All right. And with that metro center to me. I know. It's Oh, don't worry. All right. Uh, wow. Uh, we had
068lots of good talking points. I'm I am feeling like Mr. Mcnite uh here at the uh the back end of this thing with with hopefully not too many echoes. Uh meant that Mrs. Anderson it has been busy with golden apple and bringing the friends in today and I also was able to do read across Parker Center had Mrs. Merrick. I picked a appropriately long book and I also like to uh ramble as many of you know and uh was able to share some of those rambling good stories with the class uh on trying remember which one it was I read now I'll come back to it it'll help me uh but it was great to do that and enjoy and read the class my whole list and I have a long list I assure you
069and you guys if it was bingo I would have won you had so many of them uh I I did notice that uh no in fact did mention uh school of rock uh right it was this is why we pick each other up it was absolutely phenomenal not just because of uh the theater not because it was a musical but the collaboration between band and our theater and the the fact that we had kids that had never knew how to play half the instrument if you didn't see it um one if you know that movie or at least my age um But taking something that has Jack Black as the lead and then putting a student into that is very difficult. And I someone should remind me of his name was phenomenal. And then the
070entire supporting cast all played instruments. And they didn't fake play the instruments. They played the instruments. So some of them hadn't played these instruments and they were doing bass, drum, guitar, and then there was an actual pit. So all the music wasn't just coming from the sound system. He was actually being played. downside of the the the the actual uh stage. I've never quite seen anything as cool as that. And the fact that it was coming from our students, the collaboration was everybody was there. It was amazing. If you if you missed it, three sold out. Yeah. Yeah. I was there the first night, not not late, and I no tickets were left. Uh thankfully seats were left, no programs left, and it continued to go that way. It was phenomenal. Can't wait to see
071uh what they do next on that one. Uh for sure. And that's just the start of like I brag about Harlem a lot. I brag about our students a lot. And it's it's hard not to. Like you guys hit a lot of these points and I'm going to go even over a couple of them besides everyone that we bring in and we get to see the great stuff here. But seeing everything in the community, um I was able to take part of the town hall. Um it is available. You can you can see all of that. Uh it was great to do that. The way that our students were able to one run this no nerves, no nothing, just asking people that are are running for these these tough questions and the fact that they
072wrote these questions had the confidence in these questions and they weren't like what do you think about blank? They were well written and you could tell they were written so that they invoked you had to pause. you had to think. You couldn't just jump out of them and say what you wanted to say. They held everyone, myself included, accountable for the answers that were directly there and sparked followup afterwards with the community. These were written by our students. Like this wasn't, you know, chat GPT or googling what should I ask? Like again, incredibly impressed by this. you get done with that and then everyone that was working on uh setting up the stage for for School of Rock, they're in there. They had everything set up for that and they did a fantastic job uh
073coming off the stage having additional questions and seeing what we're doing about stuff and asking questions like why is the only pathway for for uh uh fine arts through fine arts? Why is it business? These are great questions. Again, not even from the community, from our students. You get done with that. The culinary I had to stop talking and make sure I I stopped by to check out some of their desserts. They were fantastic. Best chocolate chip cookies. If you didn't get some, I'm sorry. It was worth listening to me just for the chocolate chip cookies alone. Perfect. Um, but again, I'm going to there's so much I can't stop bragging about our students just doing amazing things from that are phenomenal bowlers that I have to say I can't and everything's been said say
074it again. I'm just how absolutely phenomenal that is. Uh, model UN getting in front of a crowd, absolute strangers, knowing a topic, being able to do that in Chicago. Come on. I I wouldn't want to do that. You guys No, sounds like fun. Yeah. I mean, sure. Again, phenomenal. And they're all these guys are are absolutely going places and and they're they're from Harlem. They're part of our community. They are directly due obviously their hard work and their parents, but partially to us in our community. They're a product of it. They're our investment when it comes to that. Um, man. Yeah. See, uh, there's all the other stuff. I will say yes. Mammal mammal madness. March mammal madness. March. Yeah, say that. Be slow. Uh, team polar bear is going to take it all the
075way. We're going to see. We're in trouble. We're a line. Last year I won cuz I I I was not a lion. So, we shall see. Uh, but if you're not familiar, it's it's online. It's fantastic. We even got a couple people on Facebook that aren't part of school that are doing it. Take a look at it. It is a lot of fun. And yeah, Mrs. Sterling deserves uh all the uh accolades she gets for all the work that she does. Um yeah, I think I hit all the notes until I realized something I did forget, but I do know that the next business services committee meeting is going to be April 9th at uh 4:30 right back here. And uh to echo everybody here, yeah, early voting uh is going on right now. Uh
076take a look online, you can find the location for that. And then April 1st uh it's voting. Uh, do your research, find out what's there. I have my personal favorites, but uh, go out and, uh, do your part and go. I'll end it there. That was good. With that, I'm moving. Good evening, everyone. Uh, Mrs. Anderson, thank you for bringing Parker the Parker students to here today. I mean, this evening, but I got to read to Mrs. Jury's class. And I can't remember the title, but it was dealing with pizzas. I let them pick. So I go to this page where it's pizzas. And they were like, "Oh, there's a sock pizza. I don't know." They were telling me which one they like and which one they don't like. So I let them do that.
077And then after I finished reading, we talked a little bit. Then they wanted me to read another book. So I read another book. Then when I finished that, I, you know, start asking each one of the students about themselves. And they were telling me their names and their siblings. And then one student said, "My brother is 40 years old." And the few said, "No, he's 14. She's 40." Okay. And they're like, and then I kind of went over because they wouldn't let me leave, but I really enjoyed that class. I was like, I looked at Mr. D. I'm sorry. She said, oh, no, that's okay. I said they want you to come back. Come back. I said, well, I'll be back. But that that was an amazing day. I really loved it. And so, thank
078you for all you do and your staff, everything at Parker Center. Um, also I want to say um, congratulations to the boys bowling team and the girls bowling team for the boys being a state runner up and girls state champions. And I think that goes back the girls have been really good back in the late 90s early. No, they didn't. I can't remember the one girl, her last name was Pool or something like that when she was in school and she started out cuz her mom was a bowl and her mom ended up passing. But that's when I took notice to that program how it just kept growing and growing and growing. But I mean that's amazing cuz when I was in college, we got a trophy, but we got because of my high hand,
079I was guttering everything. [Music] I'm not a good bowler. And to this day, I'm better. I at least can get like a hundred and something. Back then it was terrible. But also I wanted um say congratulation to Stacy for being the teacher the Illinois State teacher of excellence. That's an amazing accomplishment. And so I'm congrat tell her you know congratulations wishing her the best. But there's so much stuff I wanted to talk about but it's been so now I know how you guys feel when you go last. I know behind you. I forgot and everyone else did. The polar plunge. Plunge. Yeah, Mike. Mike forgot. So did I. Everyone did. And your wife, too. How was it? That was cold. I know. You taking a dive like a Yeah, you went full committed. That picture
080better be over like I was very worried for you. I was like, does he know this is a kid's pool? He would hurt himself. It made me feel bad that they had to get the hose out and fill the water up again cuz you look like Superman the way you were like flying in the pool but not in the air. So, um, let me see. $7,300. $7,300 raised. Yeah. Special Olympics, too. Right. That's awesome. Anything else I wanted to comment on, but I can't remember what it was, but I just want to say um um with the women legal voter um Q&A we had this weekend. I want to say Harlem students are amazing. And I what I appreciate about the district, everybody in this district, we always give our students a chance to lead
081the culinary department for their their um chocolate chip cookies and their lemonade. It's just delicious. And we have some really good students here that go especially when they have to be in charge of something. They're real professional and they always amaze us all the time. So I want to say thank you students for a job well done with the questions and everything. You did an excellent job. I think that's all I have to say because everything else has been spoken to. So, I get to go last next week or next time. Just remember that the next equity and social justice meeting will be April the 9th. We would hold at 4:30. All right. Thank you. Oh, and thank you. And with that, turn over to Dr. Short as Mr. Mcnite stated uh you guys had
082me for two hours. Um it was like 2 hours and 17 minutes. I went back and listened. Yes. So So I have nothing this evening. All right. It was good talk. Only $200,000 in savings. That's all. I know. I was disappointed with that a little bit. All right. Sarcasm. I also have nothing. Oh, sorry. And there everybody leaves. Explains why there's people still here. I only have 13 items tonight. So, you only lost two. Start off with the recommendation to approve a resolution declaring surplus property with the transportation department elementary, the administration center, Wilson Park, and Parker [Music] Center. Next is a recommendation to approve facility requests. Uh, first one's the Rock River Valley division of the NM, which is a train show at the high school next March. That's been here a long time,
083hasn't it? Um, it's recently come back in the last couple years. It was down in Rockford. It was here. It left for a handful of years. It came back. So, remember younger? This was their first year back or their second year back. Second back. So, uh, next is the Rock Valley Mustang Club, which is a car show that takes place at Machznney Elementary, mostly outside. They've been doing that for many years. And at Rock Cut last year, I don't think so. They've always done it at Mach. Oh, it's a different car show, but the Mustangs have been at Machznney since I can remember back. So, they're coming out of there. And then the final one is Husky Wrestling Club at the high school in December for wrestling. questions. Good. So, uh, next is the recommendation
084to accept the January 2025 treasures report, which I reviewed some of the details at the committee of the whole. I'll just read these, and if you guys have questions, please just let me know. Um, next is a recommendation to approve a one-year extension agreement with Athletico Management LLC to provide athletic training services at $36,500. This is an annual increase of $2,500. Next is a recommendation to approve a contract renewal with Northwestern Illinois Association NIA for a needs assessment at a cost of $574,05 for the FY26 school year funded by IDEA flow through part B grant. This is a total amount of $18,513 less than last year. Yes. Uh, next is should be an easy one and that is a recommendation to approve a membership renewal of the IHSA, the Illinois High School Association for the
0852526 school year at no cost. [Music] You're proud of that one, aren't you? You're like, I don't get many no cost things. Um, next is the recommendation to approve agreement with Alpha Controls and Services to upgrade certain controls uh at the high school for a cost of $87,350. Next is a recommendation to approve a purchase agreement with HM Education for the purchase of K through5 ELA curriculum for a total cost of $785,28760. Can I add that that if we go longer the cost is cut substantially I I believe I mean um so yeah so just just saying yeah the onetime purchases plus the yearly correctables right so substantially so sorry no you're good everyone else good uh next is a recommendation to approve the Harlem school district 122 to fee information. So, this makes it
086sound like it's for the entire year, but at at um maybe the whole we talked about bringing back another recommendation. This recommendation is narrowed in scope to just adding the PE shirt to the $10 for the middle school. I think since that is the case, I think we need to either we should change this to a recommendation to approve uh the way we build just the middle, just the PE shirts. That would confusion because we could either change it here what we're we're recommending or we wait until we have a comprehensive fee fee statement fee structure developed and then then approve it all at the same time. I would I recommend that we wait until instead of just approving part of it tonight, just wait until we're done and it's comprehensive and it's ready to
087go and then make the approval. Is there any time constraints to this? Like we know that part of the the the actual new ELA program is to give, you know, teachers time to get caught up on it. When we look towards changing the fees of t-shirts, is there a difference in like ordering? Is there a reason to do it now versus We're trying to hit before the early registration so people can put their sizes in. Well, does it hurt anything, Larry? Then like there's a there's a legitimate reason to do it now versus I don't mind that. But then we should say on here that the recommendation is to Oh, I'm off with that. Yeah. The t-shirt. Mhm. I just don't want to push something off and then you know No, I Yeah, I But
088when you say approve the fees, you make it sound like it's comprehensive. The fees are made first, but in general, but this would allow us to start to build a back end because we have to create a new form in the system to take all of the uh sizes and some built into the back end of Skyward. Well, ideally for me, it would be nice to have that a little bit anyway to to work on that versus waiting for I'll just phrase it like the inclusion of t-shirts, whatever. That way when we vote that way, it'll be it'll be rewarded as just t-shirts. Correct. I'm good with that. Yeah. Right. All right. Next is a recommendation to approve an agreement with Nikcom Networks for fiber optic replacement at all locations with a total cost before
089Aate of $233,44151 and a total cost after eligible products of $61,791.91 that we paid with tech funds from 1 Gbit to 100 gigabit was it? And then the last time this was redone was redone originally was in 99. the police too. It says mid90s. Mid9s. Okay. Long enough that they don't even have a number versus the the the piece of uh component for the speed there. So, just kind of calling that out because I at first was okay fiber optic is glass that doesn't change too often, but all the components that are connecting that together and that's a pretty substantial speed boost. This work will be done in August also. Excellent. So that'll be coming online with our with our additional backbone of speed through metronet then. So the metronet is a secondary link. Yeah.
090I mean that's back. Yeah, I think that will be up or later would be my guess. Okay. My house. So yeah, let's be great. We'll be in a good spot. Great. Next is a recommendation to approve an agreement with Perar Security to update the monitoring systems at Lumps Park, Bolson Park, Parker, Machznney, Maple, Marquette, Rston, Windsor, the middle school for a cost of $83,172.66 pay with the Stronger Connections Grant. Another good hunt of grants, by the way. Yeah. So, you know, $200,000 discounted on this one. Here's another substantial cost that we were able to find with the grant for 83,000. And because maybe you didn't know because I didn't know up to this point, right? Like for for permar security you were saying if we don't do these upgrades it's the I mean older for
091everyone else would be if alarm gets pulled someone has to go out there to reset the alarm versus having a digital a lot of the struggles are giving access. Yeah. Or when there's new cards cuz the the older system is currently not functioning very well. So, for example, we had to make a change of a a door at the high school that staff were having trouble getting in. So, we were able to do that in just a few seconds by blanket making changes in the new applications. So, we have technology that's at end of life essentially. So, this this allows us to to be up to date on that. So, keeps a good state, too. Absolutely. Cool. Any questions on that? All right. My last two items, one is a recommendation to approve an intergovernmental
092agreement with Rock Valley College for the Running Start program. And then there's another agreement for the dual credit articulated credit courses. Uh there aren't any changes in this wording. They just require approval each year. They're great. Any questions? There are no wonder Josh, how is the solar field going up in um off of Swanson? I know it's still when I go by there there's just the flags and so I just wonder how it's looking to be done by school start or school end or they called me a couple weeks ago and said they were going to start drilling I they haven't updated any yet but next time I talk to them about just kind of on what they just be interesting beginning it's going but with the ground probably just throwing probably get going here
093we're in Florida right now if they find oil they may change it I mean fray please find oil solar It's my report. If we do, it's probably Oops. We've all seen that signal. All right. With that question, um, you have I I guess 11 C3. Yes, Mr. Sterling. I am pleased to bring the recommendation to approve the non-tenured certified staff recommended for remployment for the 2526 school year. Excuse. And the rest we'll do in class. Yep. That Dr. Tro. All right. Thank you. I got uh three four requests to read here. The first one response dated February 24th of 2025 um with no inclusive documents to request as submitted by Logan Layman on February 7th, 2025. Uh the second one is response including responsive information dated February 24th of 2025 to request submitted by Elaine
094Nichols on February 17th, 2025. And then the last foyer request submitted on February 21st, 2025 by Michael Ross of Alamia, I think it's a data for an open records commercial request regarding property and casualty insurance policy information. It seems like the season for foyer requests, but we respond and we get the wrong stuff. All right. We don't have any facility requests. We don't have any trail request. There was facility request. Oh yes. No traffic car and all this. Um car show train show. Correct. Can I get a motion to approve facility request? Motion. Second. Mrs. Hasting. I. Mrs. Meets. I Mrs. Sterling. Hi. Mr. Thompson. I. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. All right. Can I get a motion to approve resolution declaring surplus property? Motion. Second. Mrs. Meeks. Hi, Mrs. Sterling.
095Hi, Mr. Johnson. Hi, Mr. McN. Hi, Mrs. Carlson. Yes, Mrs. Smith. Yes. Mr. Hen, hi. Can I get a motion on a second to motion for what? Sorry. Motion to accept January 2025 treasuries report. Only if we cross out the extra egg. Yeah. Second, Mr. Sting. I Mr. Thompson. I, Mr. Mcnite. Hi, Mrs. Carlson. Yes, Mrs. Smith. Yes, Mrs. Hasty. Hi, Mrs. Meeks. Hi. Can I get a motion to approve one-year extension agreement with Athletico Management LLC to provide athletic training services for a total cost of $36,500? Motion second. Mr. Townson, I Mr. Mcnine. Hi. Mrs. Carlson, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mrs. Hasty, hi. Mrs. Meeks, I Mr. Sterling. All right. Can I get a motion to approve a contract renewal with Northwestern Illinois Association for needs assessment at a cost of $574,05 for the
096FY26 school year funded by the idea flow through part B grant? Motion. Second. Mr. Mcnite. I. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Hi. Mrs. Hi. Mrs. Sterling. Hi. Mr. Thompson. Hi. Can I get a motion to approve membership renewal of the IHSA Illinois High School Association for the 2025 2026 school year? Motion. Oh, second. Mrs. Carlson, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mrs. Hazy, hi. Mrs. Me. I Mrs. Sterling. What would we do if we don't? Do the same thing. Mr. Thompson, yes. Mr. McNight. I a motion to approve agreement with Alpha Controls and Services to upgrade controls at Harlem High School for a cost of $87,350. Motion second. Mrs. Smith, yes. Mrs. Hi, Mrs. I, Mr. Sterling. Hi, Mr. Thompson. Hi, Mr. McN. I. Mrs. Carlson, yes. Make a motion to approve a 5-year agreement with
097HMH Education for the purchase of K through5 ELA curriculum for a total cost of $785,287.60. Motion second. Mrs. Hastings I. Mrs. Mes I. Mrs. Sterling. I. Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. McNight. Yes. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. That was huge. Can I get a motion to approve the Harlem High School District 122 fee for gym t-shirts fee for information for the 2025 2026 school year? Motion. Mrs. He, Mrs. Sterling, I. Mr. Thompson, I Mr. McN. Mrs. Carlson, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mrs. Hastings, I. Can I get a motion to approve an agreement with Nikon Networks for fiber optic replacement at all locations? Total cost of rate is $233,44151 and a total cost rate for eligible products of $61,791.91. Paid with technology funds. Motion second. Mrs. Sterling. Hi. Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. Mcnite. Hi. Mrs. Carlson.
098Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mrs. Hasting. Hi. Mrs. Me. Hi. Can I get a motion to approve agreement with per security and up to update monitoring systems loves park Olsson Parker Center Machznney Maple Marquette Rosson Windsor HMS for a co total cost of $83,17266 paid with the stronger connections grant motion second Mr. Thompson yes Mr. Mcnite Mrs. Carlson yes Mr. Smith yes Mrs. Hy Mrs. Hi Mr. Sterling. I can I get a motion to approve intergovernment intergovernmental agreement with Rock Valley College for the Running Start program? Second. Mr. Mcnite. I. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Mrs. Hy. I. Mrs. Sme. I. Mrs. Sterling. I. Mr. Thompson. Yes. Can I get a motion to approve a memorandum of understanding with Rock Valley College for the dual articulated credit courses? Motion. Second. Mrs. Carlson, yes. Mr. Smith,
099yes. Mrs. Hasting, hi. Mrs. Hi, Mr. Sterling. Hi, Mr. Thompson. Hi, Mr. Mcnite. Hi. All right. Any more announcements and discussion at this time? Uh, we have 13 M. So, it's Yeah. Is that the one that we talked about? That gets moved because that's part of Oh, it's part of the Okay, got it. Got it. No, I think I thought that was number Yeah, that was a different line. That's a different item. That was C3. Just started marking them off to make sure. All right. Didn't want to approve something that we I need to talk to about later. Can I get a motion to approve non-tenured certified staff recommended for remployment for 2025 2026 school year? Motion. Mr. Smith. Yes. Can we get a second? Second. Yeah, we need a second. I'll second or Mrs.
100Smith? Yes, Mrs. Hen. Hi, Mrs. Meek. Hi, Mrs. Sterling. Hi, Mr. Thompson. Hi, Mr. McNight. Hi, Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Any announcements and discussion at this time? Yes. At the committee of the whole, the topic came up in regards to the Department of Education and uh we talked about a little bit about federal funds. I think Josh did a really good job. Um, and I just thought that it would be good to bring that back up during the regular board meeting. So, for the record, just Josh, uh, I think the question was something like, how does the district uh, interact with the Department of Education and how what revenues do we receive from the federal government? Sure. Uh pretty much all of those federal funds flow through ISBY and the main sources of department of ed
101federal revenue are title one, title two and our idea grant. Um Mike is there anything else you think that those are kind of the main ones at this point. So and they flow they send it to the state and it is sends it to us like they would the state grants also. And you also mentioned that some of the other federal money that we get comes from other departments and those are department the federal lunch money and uh the Medicaid money that we got. You had a good point too on the the fact that we're still continuing to get of course the free breakfast and the free lunch and there was a concern that as budgets tighten and things change that there would be the threat to that. But you had mentioned where we sat
102for the requirement right now and where the the requirement originally was and how much real runway we had for overall percentages for that. Do you have those numbers? Are you able to recite that? Y we're around 58%. So back in the day the C program was at 60 and then dropped to 40. I believe it's at 25% now. So we remain a good portion above that and we have four years left on our approval for that too. Excellent. Because that's an important one. Right. We're going into that. I think it's an absolutely fantastic program that we're part of. Uh, and with some of the volatility that could happen, it looks like, you know, less things really change. We should be good for a while yet. Yep. Thanks, Josh. The comment, thank you, Mr. Smith, for
103bringing that up. The comment I really took away from that meeting as well, and I think it's um important to to shout out Mr. here cuz you know the cabinet members don't get enough um uh noting. Yes, thank you. as they should. Um Mr. Rand came in around uh the last economic recession. Uh he very confidently stated in business services as he should cuz he does a great job um that you know he got us through that recession and he is confident uh that he can get us through anything that comes down the pike. And I don't know about you, but as a Harlem parent, um, sitting on the board and a community member, um, that gives me a great deal of comfort, uh, to know that somebody's got that eyesight on it and has
104that confidence going in it. So, thank you. I appreciate you, Josh. How many years now? How long you been sitting in these chairs? 17 years. 17 years. Okay. Thank you. This is not really an announcement or discussion, but thank you Kurt for bringing up School Rock. I was really bummed I missed that one. Seriously, it was so good. I went Sunday, so I think I got a little bit different of performance because like everybody was like loose and I from what I gathered the last portion of the performance, I think some of the members of the cast have a band and they performed a song. Did you guys get that at the end? I mean, there was a lot of songs, so you'd have to be more specific. So like way at the end after
105bowing and all that stuff they like they like got on stage and played. Oh me for you. Yes. So thank you very much. I'm really happy I Sunday. Uh my kids would not stop talking about it. I This will not surprise anybody and Mr. Smith would probably recognize me the most from these days. I was a huge like emo kid and that kid's voice, the lead's voice could have held its own in any like 2000 to 2006 emo band. It was just incredible. He was really awesome. He reminded me of the lead singer of Modern Baseball if anybody knows that. I hope that's a compliment for him. Um, but yeah, it was absolutely incredible. And uh, Modern Baseball. So, so good. So good. So, thank you, Kurt, for bringing that up. Thank you guys for
106letting me talk about it. when it's not relevant. I appreciate it. It's relevant. Now you got everyone who's gonna be googling modern baseball. I'm just gonna put on my playlist now. It was so good. He was so good. So top three songs I hope. I was just surprised. Thanks for for letting me know that he did not lose his voice because we're seeing Friday going I don't know how you're going to get to Sunday. That's that's none of them. I gave the lead a lot of talk time, but even the um uh the young lady who played the principal, holy cow, those notes, you know what I mean? We know that she did that play. She was a lead in the CYT play the the week a before that and then had another uh short
107play kind of uh thing the week after that. And now this Friday was rehearsals for another play that she got a lead in for Cinderella. Yeah. I don't know. I know these these she has a voice. I don't know how, but it was absolutely incredible. Like um the performance was just super cool. Fantastic. Yeah. Thank you for letting me talk about it. You're welcome. You're awesome. Thank you. All right. Uh with that, Professor Anymore, I just want to say kudos to the model UN. That is so so huge. Amazing. I mean, these kids, not only are they going downtown, which is enough of a struggle to be in this place with hundreds and hundreds of kids, and of course, they're thrown in, like they said, to to do stuff that they don't even know what
108they're going to do when they get down there. And, you know, to to see them doing like the one said, social studies, and she couldn't wait to do social studies, and and this this may be something that becomes a career is to be in either politics or in national news or I mean, I just that the school lets them go down and have a high time and they ride the train and they I mean it's it's amazing. So I couldn't wait for them to come in Jason and then I forgot about it. So I know thank you for bringing it up. I knew it was something I was thinking but thank you for bringing that up. You're absolutely right 100%. Yeah. All right. If we run out of things to brag about. I mean the
109answer is no. But we should never remember more. We should never. There's always something. There always been something. Can I get a motion to go into exact I have something to say to discuss employment of personnel 5cs 120-2 C1. Did that I believe that covers everything. That cover everything. Yeah, that'll cover it all. So we have motion. Second. Mrs. Hying. Hi. Mrs. Meeks. I Mrs. Sturley. Hi. Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. McN. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Smith. Yes. Five minutes. Awesome. Yeah. Well, everyone's leaving. [Music]