001e e e we're going to call the meeting to order roll call please Mr stiff yes Mr Kennedy I'm here Mr Fitzpatrick Mrs Lyn here Mrs gu no here Dr Huntington here Mr Coffee here all right we'll welcome our rc4 please stand and face the flag for the Pledge of Allegiance call guard right B post Place colors I pledge Alle to the flag United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all order arms outward Face Forward Marge you may be seated as always big thank you to ourc color guard that do such a great job for us now a welcome to all of our visitors here definitely our star athletes that we are going to be recognizing soon uh and then for
002everyone else watching at home welcome uh at this time do we have any public comments on any agenda item no sir all right hearing none we'll move on to the consent agenda for a motion to approve or amend uh motion to amend to remove the Hopewell bills from the check register a second second any discussion n roll call please Dr hton yes Mr Coffey yes Mrs Tiff yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs Lyn yes Mrs gr no yes all right do we have a motion to approve the rest all moved have a second second any discussion hearing none move to a roll call please Mrs grow new mayor yes Huntington abstain Mr Copy yes Mrs stiff yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs lint yes consent agenda passes now the moment we've all been waiting for for recognition
003and awards I'll turn that over to Dr Guzman yes we're so excited to be here tonight to be able to recognize um many athletes and so I am going to invite um Mr Fitzgerald up to the podium to begin our central campus recognition thank you everyone I'm Kevin Fitzgerald I am the athletic director here at Juliet Central um tonight we are proud to recognize Charles Walker of Juliet Central the class 3A 215b boys wrestling state champion Charles finished the season with a School record 50 wins and finishes his career with a record of 138 and 34 this year Charles won eight straight tournaments and claim the SPC Conference Championship is is can't speak ihsa Regional Championship and ihsa sectional titles as well as the state championship at the state finals in Champagne Charles won four
004straight matches to win the title to explain Charles's individual determination and mindset we only have to look at his quarterfinal match where he was down 10 to one late in the second period Charles stayed patient and found his opportunity to pin his opponent in the championship match he faced the defending state champion and trailed 7 to5 with 30 seconds left with a thrilling take down that had the crowd on their feet Charles secured the win becoming our first individual boys wrestling state champion since 1998 what's even more impressive is Charles didn't start wrestling until his freshman year of high school Charles is a fantastic humble young man and the Steelman Community is incredibly proud of him congratulations [Applause] Charles why don't we also have head coach Pat mcgoverin come up for the picture too picture
005good call family picture he got slammed yeah we're not going to do the slam here slam you're not wearing the suit tonight [Music] ising I think bowling is good evening I am not Mr Steve milps as you can see okay but he is being a DAT at this evening supporting his student athlete um however he did uh want to share words this evening and I'll read them to you he says it's an honor to recognize our senior student Carson Weber the ihsa 150 pound wrestling state champion the last time Juliet West celebrated a state wrestling championship was in 1981 Carson has set an example within our school this past year he came to school at 7 a.m. every morning to get an extra workout in his determination to become a state champion was visible each
006and every day his work ethic is one that provides hope and promise for all of our students that if you believe it you can achieve it Carson will be attending Ohio University next year on a wrestling scholarship let's congratulate state championship Carson Weber [Applause] but also we want to honor and recognize his our head coach coach awaz Aran coach W provided guidance and modeling to Carson each and every day along with Carson getting a workout in every morning it was coach W being here to open the mat room this was coach W's first year as a head coach and we are excited for the things to come in the future let's congratulate coach wse as well [Applause] whatever you guys need to doe just us in that would be good don't fall off con we
007have one more we State fin a lot of state champions this past season also shared by Mr milabs it is with great honor that we get to recognize the 2025 ihsa girls bowling team here tonight the last two years our girls bowling program has brought home a state Trophy and this year the girls bowlers were South Prairie conference champs for the third time in a row ihsa Regional champs for the third time in a row ihsa sectional champs for the third time in a row and state runnerup the accomplishments of these young ladies are allowed because of their countless hours of practicing and their commitment to Excellence we are so proud of what you have accomplished and can't wait to see what you'll do again next year I will intr ruce the team we have
008freshman Angela Mah mahic Demco freshman student Jordan Jinx freshman sophomore Gian Mendoza Junior Emily michan Junior mallerie Barry Junior Mia Antz and Junior Samantha French who is also an IH ihsa all state for 11th place and with them is their assistant coach Miss Amanda ashmus and their hedge coach who could not be here tonight John lizo congrat congratulations I don't know if we can get all stand right you already there you go anyone who would like to take pictures used this three state trophies in take a recess all right we're going to take a brief recess to come out and congratulate the families and the athletes and then if you guys want to stay feel free most people don't you're e e e come out of recognition and awards and turn it over to Dr
009Guzman for superintendent reports sure I have um one piece of Correspondence um Workforce Workforce Services Division of Will County is preparing to submit a dceo apprenticeship expansion Grant application this grant will support our effort their efforts and our efforts to expand apprenticeship opportunities focusing on key areas within education specifically for general education teachers to obtain a special education endorsement lbs1 these programs address skill gaps increase Workforce Readiness and provide meaningful employment Pathways um to assist in this endeavor they're asking for a letter of support that speaks to the importance of this initiative and jths is commitment to the collaboration um and so I think this is a good opportunity this is an area of need um not only for Juliet Township High School but um for other schools in Will County um and so if
010there is no concern um I'll submit that letter and make sure I share a copy of that with the Board of Education as well I'm good with it um and then as far as legislative report there's a lot of information coming out right now um bills are coming out of committee um there's some things to look at with potentially 403bs um and some other legislation as we get more information and anything that is of concern um for witness slips and potentially contacting legislators I will send that information out to the board um we're we'll be getting a lot more information in the near future about um things that we need to be watching um and then moving on to our first presentation of the evening we have our annual um Staffing presentation um again this
011is Staffing for the 2025 26 school year Mrs McDonald uh will present that um and then the associated recommendations are the first items under action thank you thank you Dr Guzman and good evening board um this is our annual presentation on Staffing for the upcoming 25 26 school year so I want to start off with um just reflecting on our fall housing reports so this shows um our historical data since um the the 2012 2013 school year um through this year so the fall housing report comes in the fall um in October and that is our um count um that we submit to the state of Illinois um but it also shows you um and everyone um that's following along um that we are seeing a decline in student enrollment um just this past year
012and as we're going into our projections for next year we do see a decline as well um and that is being experienced um within our community so um the first slide contextualizes everything that um is within this presentation so um just to uh recap the the the verbiage so um uh full-time um Educators uh request for 25 26 it shows that um where we were in 1920 and how we've grown as a district um for the FTE request for the 25 26 school year we are formally requesting 462.11cfp ically um request for certifi certified FTE so really from last year to this year it is an increase of 1.8 FTE and some of the areas that we've spoken to with the board is um the need for a bilingual social worker at the west campus
013that's been board approved already the um bilingual instructional coach at West Campus that's been board approved uh the math interventionist at central campus that was board approved several years ago we never moveed forward with it um dur during Staffing um but this year we were able to move forward with it it was one of our priority areas so we're excited to bring that to the central campus um additional mtss release time for Central and West so there can be an additional focus with our El students and then additional release time for our El testing coordinators at central campus so central campus has almost twice as much um many students um that need that monitoring and the paperwork associated with it and the testing so um we are requesting additional point2 FTE uh for that testing
014coordinator um projected enrollments for for this is projected and this was what we projected a month ago and things change um so we're projecting um both campuses to be around 3100 and transition is actually 92 but as of today was 87 so things change um daily so I'm going to go into um so and I want to um please feel free to stop me and ask questions if you need clarification so part of the Staffing process um it's important to recognize that um whether we have a large pool of teacher retirements or not this year we actually had a large pool um from different um course areas retiring this upcoming school year 25 26 we have 17 teachers right now um that will be retiring and I want to point out to the board these
015are like the hardest areas High need areas so we have math science ESL and special ed so our high needs areas and we'll we'll have people retiring from this area so um again when we go into Staffing we take into account student requests with our student enrollment um retirements and then our special programs so with having retirements it allows us to look at our staffing holistically and see what we could um what we could or could not offer um but also keeping in mind that these high needs areas um with a teacher shortage um this could be of a concern for next school year so that's why we always take in student teachers I think too it's important and I think the board already is aware of this we um uh we Post in these
016high need areas anticipated posting things even before we're done with Staffing because we are assuming that we're going to have needs in this area so that way we're able to look at this more quickly hopefully than maybe other districts are maybe not but at least put it out there and and start the submission process earlier um so we we do that as well as well and we were pretty successful this year in um CTE with doing that yep we have three of the four positions filled which is great um so moving on to um all all of our entire team so I'll just briefly go over these um again we requested two additional FTE for this upcoming school year um that would be our assistant athletic and activities directors um which the board approved um
017per professional staff we have 126 FTE allocated um between security um our special education instructional and then we also have building level pair professionals um I did share with Dr Guzman and she'll share with the board that there are unfilled positions in these areas um we do continue to um try to hire throughout the school year this uh summer we will have another job fair um targeting our pair Professionals for the instructional classroom and potentially um both bus drivers and also security um yes there the security staff um you know based on the enrollment numbers is why is there more security at Central than West the layout of the building with a multiple uh with four floors okay so the layout of the building just so that comes into play too okay thanks thank you
018and then the um building level Care Professionals um we'll go into then office staff um at the two campuses we have or actually the four campuses we have 10 Monon staff and 12 month staff um even um as well as at transportation we also have non- bargaining office staff here at the admin building um seven FTE buildings and grounds cafeteria again some of these we have unfilled positions and we some of them are currently in the process of hiring for and transportation um technology just to point out to the board we reduced um technology FTE um we that instructional technologist we uh eliminated that position and we shifted that to the instructional Coach position for West Campus and then other um positions that we have that support a our district and just point out what
019was new we um have the new communication specialist for alumni and community outreach that was new for this year first year in um in that role so questions about any questions about our FTE and positions okay I'm going to go into um based on our team our te um it allows us to do all these things so um the most of the slides are continued and then I have a few slides that will be for new um again um by by having this team we have our continued initiatives things to point out is our Freshman Academy um and our freshmen have that extra period in the day um the support class is that we offer our co- teing model and cult model for special ed um we have credit recovery actually built into the school
020day for our ninth grade Gap um classes um having the transition Center um having a transition coordinator the pathways campus um our mtss teams our um bilingual El program at both campuses and having that co-taught English um in 1 two 3 and four for our El students um our catalyst program um our College and Career specialist at each campus you can see like we we have B we are very like efficient and effective with our FTE um for next year um we're excited to offer preap biology at the 9th grade so what this means for the class of 2029 is that um they will have preap English preap uh world history and preap biology and the benefit of that is through the College Board and preap um they'll use common language common terminology common expectations
021across all three classes um we'll have our instructional coach and bilingual social worker at the west campus um actually one has um in the board packet today um for the instructional coach for West Campus um our director for multilingual Services has been working with a team the school year to revise our El new CER literacy course so it's aligned with a um Career and Technical education course so they would be backto back um helping to bring relevancy um between literacy and postsecondary um application we'll be offering um that resource model for our 10th grade students as um presented by our special ed team uh we'll have that additional mtss release time for uh the focus on our El students uh offering Avid elective uh 11 and our expansion to schoolwide and um all for the
022class of 2029 all Accel accelerated students will be placed in a common advisory um with um with a teacher that'll be focusing on a specific curriculum and that's a stip and position so that's a lot like we like just say here's our FTE and this is uh what we do with the FTE I think it Comm it it recognizes all the hard work of everybody within the district I next part I'm going to go into low enrollment classes whether they're running or not and just explain the process and to recognize um the people that are part of this so it really starts with um like our the development of our course offering guide and then having conversations parents having conversations with their students St teachers having conversations with the students our counselors having conversations with
023the students to ensure that they have um they're making the selections based on their postsecondary plans um we take that information I meet with the assistant principles um Mater D antino Ville floor and we sequester ourselves for about two weeks and we go through all the course requests the priorities for the new school year um and there's a lot of back and forth with collaboration with um the building leadership teams the district leadership teams to make these decisions so every decision there is a conversation about it um and we take like even classes that don't run we we have convers like there's there's a lot of consideration when we make these final decisions so these are classes that we're asking to run for next school year low enrollment means that it's um under 20 20
024students have selected it um and the reason why a lot of these um are they're Capstone classes so anything related to music art um if you look at AP Chemistry AP Physics those are um junior or senior level classes or um like exploring the teaching profession is a dual credit class these are classes that are low enrollment that we are recommending to run at West Campus again you'll see um similar commonalities um in regards to the music um the theater the AP classes and then these are the classes that were not going to run um and they were similar at both campuses so they're not running at either West or Central so C stands for Central and the four is how many students selected it um same for West and then these are low enrollment
025classes that are not being recommended to run at the central campus D I have I have a question on medical law and ethics that's pretty close to the to the to the number and sounds like it could be a higher level course it it is so I can say for central campus that we are short staff with this certification so health and actually is a posted position right now so um we're unable to run it because that's because we don't have a teacher to teach that these classes with that certification um we are working on like we're doing some shifts um for next year so we are posting it is posted a health Expos um for um central campus so we're trying to hire somebody for next year so if we get somebody hired would
026it run I would probably no because because the numbers are based on this year so we like we're trying to re like um just re like re um structure the health acts program at central campus gotcha gotcha I just wanted because we haven't had enough staff that's a good question though thank you and then um these uh this is the one class that will not run at West Campus so questions about R running or not running is there any opportunity to travel students for those kind of situations where there's the certification issue is there we uh we District y we have two Health a teachers and the one at West has a full schedule and actually we have more sections at West so the central teacher has to travel to West to cover those sections
027and we don't because there's more at West than Central so right now we have two if there's if a class is running at West Campus and not Central or Central and not West we do try and schedule it so a student could go take the class at the beginning of the day or at the end end of the day but most students do not take us up on that option being fully transparent that's not really a viable option it doesn't seem for students so we're always looking to what can we do to see if we can run this class and you know we have a we have a large course offerings guide so each year and you see it on your um board agenda especially this time of year course eliminations as well as course
028additions um to try and make sure that we're fulfilling the needs of students um but sometimes we'll look at things and there's not interest for a while maybe it's time that we look at eliminating this course and then we go to another course where some courses it's just a newer course and maybe it takes a couple years to get information out and to have kids um have a little more understanding of what the course is about but we do allow for them that we do encourage it it's not something students do the only uh the ones that they do travel is from west campus to Central to use their Auto facilities and then postings for this year and the check mark means success we've we've recommended or um are going to recommend um positions so
029um we've done a lot of hiring so um just a big thank you to all the different hiring teams and the participants um so these are the administrative postings that we have for the school year um and then postings um related to um we have two psychologist positions posted our social worker on our instructional coaches and then our um classroom teacher postings for next year so we have a lot of higher teams um going right now and then thinking of oops next the next couple years um projected retirements for 2627 2728 and 2829 we're not going to say anything so any any other questions for me I feel like the board has seen this presentation numerous times so um there if there are any specific questions or information I'd be glad to get it thank
030you thank you thank you our next presentation and I'll have Dr Hampton introduce um our fellow presenters yes we have uh Whit and Company and Gil Bane here to present to the board um progress on our Master facilities plan and where we are to date in regards to um our phases um you'll hear some things that may be a little bit different than what was presented initially almost two years ago and that's just based on conversation based on needs based on Equity um like for instance uh we are having conversations about the TNI building which is our CTE programs um so we started addressing some CTE programs at the west campus so you'll see some things associated with that um this update is 2b for Jo uh Joliet Central 2 B phase so it's a
0312A then a 2B phase in April you'll hear the progress on Joliet West um and then we'll also share an updated uh Master facilities plan phase and all of the adjustments that we made so you can see where we are um today hello um probably see me a lot of times but I'm n sha with white and Company I'm architect and project manager uh we have Steve Shear here at White company as well architect and uh principal and then um David Norris at gil P this here as well think this is our our show usually every every time of this year so thank you for having us back we really enjoy working with you guys um and we're excited to show you what we're doing at Central for next year um just a reminder of
032kind of where we are right now um we started this plan we had this plan adopted two years ago and that was triggered by the colonial artch r Ovations which was completed in December of this year at Central so I hope everyone's really enjoying those spaces they turned out beautiful um we also before that did the athletic fields U the football fields at Central and West under construction right now um baseball softball field upgrades I believe you guys had your first baseball game on the field yesterday last night and they won so congratulations that's great Kevin left so I can say congrats to him um and then the softball field will be completed this summer and then uh we you guys saw last year the first phase for 2A was uh the two-story classroom and
033um link Edition that will be starting in March um and really you know getting um some something started in March in terms of spring break but really starting the summer and we'll go through December of 2026 right now we're talking about these three projects we I'll tie into is the completion of this connection from the main building all the way to your TNI building so it's to be it's a second link to your auxiliary building so we have the first floor of Smith Renovations uh your two-story uh TNI link Edition and the first floor of TNI Renovations um project goals which came from the long range plan um consolidate CT and visual arts into into the TNI building um with the exception of colonary we left that where it was as you guys know um
034part of the master plan was to kind of get the main building to have your core classes and to have cni I a lot of your um CT spaces um provide indoor connections between Annex buildings which we already talked about a little bit on both first and second floors it's only connected on the second floor currently um create an improved hallway on the first floor of TNI so this is a big thing there's no connection in this in central so to get into your fashion or your child development you have to go through other spaces which can be dangerous and we know um It's Kind it's kind of confusing for students coming into that space so it's really we're really excited to add that corridor um modernize your learning environments which we always try to
035do throughout these processes um when we have something like circulation to do we want to actually touch your spaces and make sure it's upgraded for um learning for today and and tomorrow so and then we want to showcase your program so really your TNI building's kind of far away from everything else but you're doing really great work there we want to show the rest of Campus kind of what you're doing and and make sure that's a showcase um just to give an update you know just so you know you guys know your campus but we are adding two links um so this this yellow one is a new one um that's going to be a two-story we're removing that bridge and placing a two-story Edition there first floor Smith first floor of TNI to connect
036all that together U we are not touching the auto shop that's on the North side there um just a reminder of what your building looks like in TNI so um there's no Corridor as you can see it's all purple there's no yellow which is what we use for the corridors and your spaces are built in 1950s hav't really been updated too much you have really great equipment but the actual space itself has not really been touch except for maintenance items um and we did look at the second floor that's the next phase but we did look at it in conjunction just to make sure we are looking at this building as a whole and everything's planned out so we are not going to backing backtracking anything when we do the next part of the process
037let Steve take it from here so we wanted to spend some time and just highlight some of the features of the renovated first floor um we'll start with the Smith building so that's going to be the relocation of the main office um um spaces and staff along with the the health office and the nurse kind of relocated to the first floor that was a move we identified in the master plan here's where we get to implement it and then where those spaces existed in the main building that provides opportunity for creating more classroom space where they once lived um we are also paying attention to some opportunities that might be for the future health clinic so if certain things fall in the place we're planning so that that could happen otherwise we're planning on renovating
038two classrooms there to keep those in place two of the obvious things are you now have a first floor connection from the Smith building to TNI where students don't have to walk outside um but there's going to be a constant hallway connection there and then obviously there's a new hallway in TNI that runs north south where students can get to each Studio or classroom or lab um through a hallway and not have to walk through a lab to get into um another lab um but like n said doing that comes with opportunities so one when we think about the new addition between Smith and the TNI building um we worked with the administration and we wanted to be as useful as possible similar to the big link project we said if we're going to connect
039the buildings let's make it useful so we created four classrooms here we don't have enough space to create classrooms here but we are creating small group rooms for students faculty resource rooms um so that additions as useful as it can be and not just more hallway space um this also gives an opportunity to think about which Studios and which Labs make sense to be next to each other and interconnect things like Project Lead the Way and Engineering being interconnected with the wood shop there's some sense of that there's some flexibility that that could offer um there's also some practical um functional reasons for that so all four those labs were actually plan to connect with overhead garage doors so students could work on bigger projects they have a means of getting them in and out
040of the building there's a means of getting materials in and out of the buildings without necess having to go through the new hallway it's also an opportunity to right siize some of the classroom space that's in TNI so certain Labs that actually do use classroom space they're sometimes in class other times they're in the shop but right now they're a little bit undersized to fit a full class so with this renovation we're going to right size those classrooms make them bigger to fit a whole class um and we're also specifically locating those along the hallway so that in the future there's flexibility that those classes could be scheduled for other reasons if they become available but they're still also dedicated and adjacent to um the lab so I think adaptability and flexibility was part of
041our a lot of our conversations when kind of thinking about these spaces um even the labs themselves there are certain Labs that have obviously heavy infrastructure like the wood shop the auto tech but everything else we're thinking about making them as collaborative and as adaptable as we can so as certain programs come online student interest change career interest change over time those labs could be um kind of adapted to that second floor for this phase is um a little simpler it's that sort of we're just doing enough in this phase to get that second two-story Edition and that new hallway that connects to the second floor um and then for the next phase phase three is when we plan the renovations of the second floor of TNI U but here you see we're also planning
042on those additional group rooms and faculty resource rooms in that addition um the these were like this uh show they're a little bit easier to understand but so we took the second floor off and we have a 3D representation of what the renovated TNI Building looks like um and here you get this um see another opportunity that we're thinking about just like we did in the culinary hallway this's an opportunity with this new hallway to sort of showcase the programs that are in these spaces put the student work on display um put the learning on display and just kind of intrinsically motivate students to see what other students are working on um maybe grow some interest in programs that they didn't know quite a lot about um but it's kind of be you know these
043are students who are making things and doing things and creating things that's something worth putting on display and celebrating so that's some of our thinking as we kind of design that new hallway just like we did The Culinary hallway on the third floor and then with that invite David I'm going to have to walk closer to that sorry do you want my computer yeah this iPad kind of iPad wasn't cooperating here all right so we're in the schematic design phase and so we're we're bringing our budgets up from a conceptual stage to a little bit more development and schematic design and the way we approached the budgeting for this project is we broke the budget into the separate phases so we had the Smith building first floor renovation as a separate bucket of cost the
044TNI link Edition and then the TNI first floor renovation so we've separated those for budgeting purposes and as we presented before we have a total construction cost which is really the bricks and mortar that's the true stuff that's going in the building and then we have uh below that line then we have we've broken out our professional staffing miscellaneous cost and and Professional Services a part of the construction cost of bricks and mortar we're carrying design contingency construction contingency and escalation that's real important especially now what's going on with the with tariffs and trying to budget ahead anticipate what may or may not happen in in the future for that so we're definitely carrying the escalation design contingency will carry us all the way through the next phase of design which would be designed to
045development then we'll go into construction documents and that will set us up for early fall bidding so we're targeting the November and December board meeting try to be ahead of the holidays schedule Wise It's not touched we have to use the mouse okay sorry it's because it's a PDF I can go through the schedule I don't have to see that one so as I said on the schedule we're looking at bidding this going to the November December board meeting so this work would start in the summer of 26 and it has a various each each project has various completion dates probably the longest one would be the TNI first floor where we're looking at we're actually starting a lot of the investigation work now we're going coming in and and doing electrical evaluation we're going
046to scope out your Plumbing Systems to make sure that they're how adequate and where they're located so we're doing a lot of upfront work now so our next estimate could be a little bit more complete in the design development phase so we're looking at uh construction start it's more than each one of these projects are certainly More Than a Summer only so we're looking at something similar to what we did in as a preliminary review of the schedule something similar to The Culinary Arts at Central where we start in the summer get the heavy uh dirty and noisy work done and then bu keep building out through and and targeting a December turnover and I would just add um just a reminder to the board the goal is to um be funded at least through
047phase four um and I would I would also share that I mean we're we're having conversations with 2B 3 and for like now um Tuesday meetings are about current projects Wednesday is about planning design for the future I know we shared some of that information um at the state of the district and will have more to share about West um in April and again we'll update some more information but um we we're on target I have conversations with um David and needy weekly twice a week sometimes three four times a week just about where we are budgets changes um but right now we're still on target to get through um phase four I have a I have a question I know that um downtown Joliet has they're doing construction down there and they've run into
048some issues with what's underneath yeah the street have you guys done your research on that piece of it every project the project okay every project just because I mean it's just the it's the norm in downtown area of Juliet so we always have contingencies for on unforeseen circumstances as we start to go into the Dig and go into the roads and things like that um so and David he's been here through all of these projects for the past almost 20 years now right so we're definitely aware of those types of things yeah and even inside the building not just the streets and sidewalks where for example TNI we're going to scan some of the slabs to make sure we know where your electrical Feats are so we don't hit them where the tunnels are I'd
049like I'd like to really thank you guys for this work because I used to work at Central in life skill special program with students with limited mobility and to try and get over to I used to actually teach in the wood shop with these kids and it was like over the river through the woods to Grandmother's we had to go through a wood shop up and down some stairs try and find an elevator for one of my kids who was in a wheelchair like it was a mess so the fact that this is going to be much more Equitable for all of our students to access this area is huge it's huge and and it's it's part of the commitment we have to equity in this District so thank you guys for that thank you
050thank you thank you that concludes our superintendent reports all right let's move on to action items so action item a is our 2526 staffing recommendations her Diane's uh request up there with her presentation so we have a motion to approve I'll make the motion second discussion good luck good good call yes all right roll call please good call and roll call Mr cofy yes Mrs St yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs Lynn yes Mrs gr Noir yes Dr Huntington yes motion passes on to action item B 25 summer hours do we have a motion to approve I'll make the motion second we have any discussion I'm glad to see that we're still having a uh yes a a work work week that is um allowable to function we would like to thank the board too because
051we do not have the 12-hour days based on the approval last year so we're all very thankful to the board for um making that request of us last year not gonna lie I looked and I was like good yes yes you thought we'd sneak it in there I did all right roll call please Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffey yes Mrs stff yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs Lynn yes Mrs gr yes motion passes on to action item c special board meeting for May 5th 2025 do I have a motion to approve so moved second discussion this um would be for the reorganization meeting it meets all the requirements um the numbers of days have changed so we uh verified that we're within the day um and so uh this seems to work for everyone's schedule so
052all right roll call please Mrs gu May yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs stiff yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs L yes motion passes action item d uh approval of 2526 Board of Education meeting dates to have a motion to approve some move second have any discussion it's the third third Tuesday of every month it worked out this year sometimes it doesn't but um with holidays but it does all right roll call please Mrs Lynn yes Mrs gr yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs St yes Mr Ken yes action item e ihsa membership renewal for both west and Central campuses we have a motion to approve so moved second any discussion roll call please Mrs Lynn yes Mrs gr Noir yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs stff yes yes motion
053passes action item F agreement between Julia Township High School and redeemed connection Ministries NFP do we have a motion to approve soov do we have a second second discussion this is a continued partnership that the board has seen before um in specific placement with students um with an IEP um so it's been a great partnership so we'd like to continue it so I two years ago they had like a end of the session kind of meet and greet I I didn't see that this year like it was two years ago I didn't see it we had Central this year oh was at Central this year can can somebody make sure they invite me I really enjoyed coming to that last year so sure okay great thank you roll call please Mr Kennedy yes Lyn yes
054Mrs gu new yes dror Huntington yes Mr Copy yes Mrs St yes all right motion passes onto action item G agreement between jolia thomps high school and involved Inc NFP do I have a motion to approve sove a second second discussion this is also a continued partnership um with support through our summer program again it's gone well we'd like to continue the partnership is this funded with title funds with Idea Idea funds so it's only for students with IEPs okay thank you all right any other discussion roll call please Mrs St yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs Lynn yes Mrs Gro yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes motion passes action item H Roe 56 Alternative Learning opportunities program intergovernmental agreement do we have a motion to approve I'll make the motion a second second discussion
055this is a new partnership with the regional Office of Education um to implement a program next school year that would place a student Advocate um from the Roe at each of our buildings with a assignment of 32 students that would be selected based on their behavior attendance and grades to get extra support in the area of academics Behavior social and emotional learning um this program uh was created and has been implemented very successfully in the west 40 region for over a decade with a 96% success rate currently in our area um Lockport began implementing this in January so as a benefit Dr Huntington um obviously was able to share uh what they have done to implement the program the success they're having we've met with the Roe so we're excited to bring this to Juliet
056next school year with the hopes of seeing the same success and then um potentially expanding it um in the future as well and it's 32 at each campus it's 32 students at each campus um we would want to partner for a stu Student Success Advocate at each campus to begin the pilot okay I have a question oh sorry go ahead um who provides the student Advocate is that someone we would hire or it's the Roe that it's employee um but I would assume we could have input and um we've talked about the need to make sure uh that someone who's bilingual would be preferred working with our with our student and families um and again they were able to hire someone who's worked out very well for Lockport we discussed what the profile of that
057individual would be they don't necessarily have to be a certified um staff um Lockport does have a retired certified staff um but they have a profile built out um and what they would be looking for and we're in agreement with those uh characteristics I I just wanted to point out that um the students remain in our school buildings so I think that you know when you hear AAP a lot of people think oh you're going over to Lincoln School so um they are still able to access all the academic all the support services and things that are in our buildings and so um I really is a it's been a win-win and they're they're stay in their classes right you said that as well so it's not even like they're pulled out into a coh
058in their they when they meet with the Student Success Advocate they do that at non-academic times that's cool yeah that's really nice or in their home in the evening yeah yeah but that's really nice they're able to keep their schedule too correct nice I like it roll call please Mr Coffee yes Mrs stiff yes Mr absolutely Mrs Lynn yes Mrs G yes Dr yes all right motion passes on action item I course eliminations for African and Latin American Experience sociology that's it psych psychology spit the wrong way sorry psychology and music appreciation to to have a motion to approve I'll make the motion second I'll second any discussion I could just share this is the work of our curriculum Council and the eliminations you'll see um when we go to course editions you'll see the
059reflection of the rationale of why C any further discussion roll call Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs stiff yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs Lyn yes Mrs ground yes motion passes on action item J course Edition we have heritage Spanish 3 Latin American studies sociology 1 and 2 psychology 1 and two and the history of American popular music that sounds fun so move second discussion I just want to point out just go over them briefly so the Heritage um Spanish 3 um the recommendation from the World Language team is that we have um students coming in into Heritage 2 and we wanted to ensure we provided four-year um sequence for them so it' be Heritage 2 Heritage 3 and then our AP Lang and AP Lit so that's um based on the recommendations from the
060World Language team for Heritage Spanish 3 um for um Latin American studies um this is to um this is in response to the elimination of the two semester classes um and this class um the sociology team or the sorry the social science team um modeled the Latin American studies course based on our AP African-American studies course although it's not an AP um recognized course um we're structuring at the same as a year-long class um for the 26 27 school year and then sociology and psychology we've always offered um as classes and the social science team um provided the recommendation of offering breaking it up into semester classes so you don't have to take one semester you could take two cuz they have unique um topics and if I don't take sociology one and take sociology
0612 they have a like a pre-unit so that students um are easy to transition to into that semester class so um sociology and psych are very popular with our students and they broke it up based on the topics for that um for the upcoming school years and then finally history of American popular music um in a previous board meeting we appr uh approve music production and the the request was to have a complimentary class um because music production is a semester class and for um when you come with um scheduling it's nice to have a balance so we eliminated music appreciation too and we're going to offer this history of American popular music so I don't know if we would all agree that some of this music has um is popular um but again it's
062it's really um just tailoring to our students interests cool are any of these courses um dual credit options not not at this time okay good question any other discussion roll call please Mrs gr no yes D johnon yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs stiff yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs lint yes motion passes on to K for donation have a motion to approve so moved second all right any discussion I just want to say thank you to everyone that donated especially to the MLK day we appreciate all of you absolutely any other discussion roll call please Mrs Lynn yes Mrs gr yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs stiff yes Mr Kenedy yes and a thank you motion passes on to action item L resolution authorizing preparation of the 25 26 budget we have a motion
063to approve so move second discussion uh yes this is just a recommendation to authorizing the preparation of the 2526 budget any other discussion never pretty straightforward yeah just wheels just keep moving all right all right roll call please Mrs Lynn yes Mrs gr yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs yes Mr Kennedy yes motion passes on action item M 2526 breakfast and lunch price recommendation do we have a motion to approve so moved second discussion uh yes uh this recommendation is to maintain the pricing for the breakfast and lunch program for the 2025 2025 26 school year any other discussion roll call please Mrs L yes Mr Fitzpatrick oops I apologize U Mrs uh grer yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs stiff yes Mr Kennedy yes motion passes action item n 2526
064fee and refund schedule recommendation do have a motion to approve so moved second all right discussion yes this recommendation is to maintain our current fee schedule for the 25 26 school year and what I will add to this um uh another thing that we're continuing is the $160 summer school fee to be weighed for anyone that is free and reduced as long as they can successfully complete summer school I like that and we and that's important because initially this was funded through um Esser M um and one of the programs we decided to maintain was this for our students St in terms of um equal equity and opportunities for students Dr Hampton I know we did this last year was was there any data collected did students tend to finish the courses uh yeah I
065believe we did AOL report school report was it in there okay we can point that out though again this year when we do it that's an annual report I believe we do that in August each year um and we have the number of students that enrolled as well as completed yeah I guess I'm just looking like how many got refund refund yeah yeah we'll designate that in the report this summer yeah thank you I like that any other discussion roll call please Mrs TI yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs Lynn yes Mrs G no yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes motion passes on to action item o agreement between Julia Township High School and ATI Physical Therapy to have a motion to approve so moved second any discussion uh yes this is a recommendation a
066three-year Proposal with ATI uh who offers uh Physical Therapy for sports medicine for our athletic programs um so we are asking for a three-year um contract with them very satisfied with um ATI in terms of their partnership and the services they provide in the district so Dr Hampton has there ever been any discussion about Hiring Our Own athletic trainers uh contractually and paying them um this is a pretty hefty Bill actually we we did have that conversation it was part of what we um analyzed this year coming out of last year um and talking with u milsaps and Kevin um we went through that process um and actually this is cheaper when you start to talk about the number so it's like 70 or 75,000 per um trainer mhm versus hiring a teacher if you
067can hire a teacher with this certification and then add benefits on top of those things and for them to provide services after school right so there's like a dual combination there um we did have one actually teacher that was certified um that was one of the athletic trainers and decided not to do the athletic training anymore because of all the time commitment that's in the afternoon and evenings so we'll continue to to monitor that um not like as a a teaching position but more as like you get hired to be just an athletic trainer you're not on the teacher contract you are like a support contract yeah yeah they so so it's this position is very hard to find so where you see it most is they are a teacher okay and they do provide
068the athletic training um Services um um so we we're looking at all of these different models I mean even like an ATI that's out there or even Athletico they have a very difficult time finding athletic trainers it's like one of those hard to F positions you know so is it is the threeyear you know because that's the other thing like we could we could do year to year but is is it just the package all together yeah we negotiated the package um get a better pricing um but we'll continue to evaluate and you know if there's a a a different recommendation as we move through there's ways to also you know um come out of this contract and do those things okay but we do evaluate that from year to year okay thank you you're
069welcome questions uh any other discussion roll call please Mr Coffee yes Mrs STS yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs Lynn yes Mrs G May yes Dr yes motion passes action item P exempt staff benefit recommendation to have a motion to approve so moved second discussion um yes these recommendations are for our exempt staff um in regards to their benefits um the recommendations will provide uh consistency among all exempt employees and will go into effect for the 25 26 school year and I just want to say thank you to Dr Hampton and his team for really Gathering the information looking added um and putting this package forward because I think this is directly align to our recruit recruiting retaining um staff and just having this information be more Equitable all right roll call please Dr Huntington yes
070Mr Coffee yes Mrs dff yes Mr Kennedy yes Mrs ly yes M May yes motion passes action item Q 2526 non-bargaining wage proposal do we have a motion to approve I'll make the motion second second discussion roll call just an it's an an it's our annual increase um we discussed with the board you can see that the entire package is an increase of 3.34% for uh this group of employees roll call please Mrs grir yes Dr hington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs sff yep Mr Kennedy yes Mrs Lynn yes all right we will go to action item R we will go to R1 and I'll turn it over to Mr Coffee for the first one then we'll approve number two with Mr Coffee as well yeah under action item R1 uh resolution of the board
071authorizing a notice of Remedy I make a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the notice to remedy of Scott Laken for the reasons discussed in close session do we have a second second roll call please Mrs Lyn yes Mrs gr no mayor yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs stiff yes Mr keny yes under action item R2 I make a motion to approve the resolution authorizing notice to remedy of Lee Swank for the reasons discussed in Clos session a second second roll call please Mrs Lynn yes Mrs G yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs stiff yes Mr Kennedy yes all right I would entertain a motion to approve R three through 14 I'll make the motion second any discussion n let's go to roll call Mr Kennedy yeah yes Mrs Lynn yes
072Mrs gr yes Dr Huntington yes Mr Coffee yes Mrs stff yes motion passes with that we're done with action items move on to unfinished business does anyone have any unfinished business going once twice sold moving on to new business does anyone have new business hearing none we'll move to board reports does anybody have a board report yes I do um so so March 4th I attended the Three Rivers um meeting that was in Manhattan with Dr Guzman um the chamber had a luncheon um for the international women's celebration where Dr Guzman was um part of the panel and I attended Julia Town Township Foundation trivia T night on March night that's right and we did not win but but we didn't get last either so so there's that so there's that I I also attended
073the the trivia as as usual it was a really nice time um the added bonus of having Mr Kennedy sitting by the scoring table trying to take my my um answer check in to make sure you had all the right answers I was just trying to be nice mhh I also attended the foundation night trivia night and it was a lot of fun um it's a great if you've never been I highly suggest you go um it's just a lot of fun um and thank you for all the work that everyone put into it and it's just a great event yeah absolutely and Mrs stiff for giving us all the correct answers I I I'm kind of jealous I did not sit with all of them I brought my whole family after I had so
074much fun the last a couple times so um yeah we were singing in the rain it was super cool Indo I I I do want to mention um cuz Miss sff did not but everybody is just raving about Pathways to professions um everybody was sharing about it online glad that their children went um family members just everyone so I thought that was awesome um the other thing is I just want to say Happy Social Work month to all of our social workers we appreciate you and all the work you do just a reminder that spring break is coming up and I really want to tell the teachers that the board wants them to rest and recoup and shut down for a while um take care of themselves um to be refreshed for that late last
075eight weeks which is going to be a grind so absolutely second that just uh I too want to say that it was a wonderful Pathways to professions um event I had the opportunity to go and we actually had about 320 students uh and I know a lot of our counselors and teachers were there as well and it was just a great opportunity for kids to interact with um individuals in a lot of diverse careers and so it was a really truly great event and then also I just want to put out a reminder that we do have our salute to service coming up on April 10th um I know I heard this morning at some meetings I'm we're already getting RSVPs um so thank you to Christine and her team te for the work they're
076doing on that but that too should be a great event so uh I wanted to report that I was at the NHS induction for jolia West it was a really nicely run event uh the students did a great job uh and also last week I was in DC uh to advocate for Medicaid Medicare uh Social Security and education uh I got the opportunity to meet with uh four house members and a senator um so hopefully uh there was a group of us of about 20 of us uh that met so it's it's hopeful that we made some progress at least gave them some information to make informed votes well thank you for that that's that's huge especially for a lot of our kids in our district so thank you Dan um also for upcoming events
077we talked about Foundation trivia they have their golf outing coming up early June so make sure you sign up for that that's one I have not been able to attend for years because I'm usually out of town I usually go to the booster outing and watch Mr Hampton kick all of our butts cuz he's really good at golf and I'm not so much so um but that is also coming up that's a that's a good event I've been been there but I haven't been to that one for years I think it's June 4th correct could be wrong June 4th June 5th 5th I was close was close out of town not close enough just like my golf game can I just speaking of boosters we have our Night of Champions on April 17th um Brian
078Shaw is receiving the Glenn Markham award uh Jeremy creger is Tiger of the year Brian Reed is Steelman of the year uh we're going to honor the two wrestling uh students uh that were here tonight um we normally don't have students but we also are bringing in two wrestlers both from uh Juliet West from 1986 one went on to Michigan State to play uh that was in wrestling so I know the students are really excited to meet those two gentlemen and then the 1986 admitt team so nice that's April 17th awesome awesome all right any other reports on to announcements or public comment do we have any public comment no sir nothing from our buildings we're good and I would entertain a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion second all right we'll do by
079unanimous consent hearing no descent