001Now 7:02 p.m. and the board of education of Camland Community Unit School District 302 is in regular session at Kingland Harter Middle School on Monday, July 28th, 2025 at 7:02 p.m. Uh and I would like like to inform all board meeting attendees that this meeting is being livereamed and archived for access at any time by our community members on the internet within 24 to 48 hours of the meeting's conclusion. And Mr. Okaui, the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance 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 a roll call, please. >> Mr. Manisky, >> uh, here. >> Mr. Klesner, >> here. >> Mr. Cook, >> here. >> Dr. Lawler, >> here. >>
002Mr. McCully, >> here. >> Mrs. Simmons here. Mr. Spela >> here >> with seven members present. We'd have a quorum. Is there anything the board would like to move from consent to new business? >> Hearing none, I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> So move. >> Second. >> And a roll call, please. >> Mr. Klesner. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Simmons. >> Hi. >> Mr. Cook. >> Hi. >> Mr. McCauley. >> Hi. >> Dr. Lawler. >> Hi. >> Mr. Stalup. >> Hi. >> Mr. Manipsky. I motion carries 70. The agenda is approved. It is now time for board superintendent salutes. I will turn it over to Dr. Rowing. >> Thank you. So, uh, summer is generally a little bit of a quieter time for us. Uh, but this evening we are
003going to be, uh, introducing our new dean at Keland High School, Mr. Steve Lucas. So, I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Atkins. >> You don't want to clap for Dr. >> Once a year. Come on up, Stephen. So, um, we're very excited to introduce Mr. Lucas tonight. I'll let him explain a little about about where he's come from and what he brings to Kaneland, but, um, as you know, all of our administrators interact and are forward- facing in some capacity, but I think it's fair to say that the dean is probably at the front of that list, especially at a high school. Um, so we're very excited to have Mr. Lucas joining us. He has a wealth of experience, and I'll let him introduce himself, but >> congratulations and welcome. Yeah, appreciate it.
004>> Good evening. How's everyone doing? >> Good. How are you? >> Good. Good night. So, my name is Steve Lucas, new dean of students. Uh, been in education. I think this is my 15th year. Um, half of those I taught CTE, so I was a business teacher. Um, at West Aurora. Um, I coached football several years. Um, and of course got into dean work. My first gig, um, I was just telling a couple of the fellows over here, my first gig was in Chicago. So, um, definitely blessed to be in a community like Keaneland. um and uh to be working in a school that uh not only is very prestigious in terms of you know the surrounding areas but uh has a great great community u backbone um great student population great educators and faculty
005members so definitely excited about that um like I said this is probably my seventh year as an administrator recently I was at Plano High School so very very close down the hall or street if you will I'm used to learning the halls of Kaneland High School so that's that's probably what's got me thinking in the hallways. Um, but I was the director of athletics and activities there for the last three years. Loved it, but I do have little ones at home and so kind of had to prioritize a couple of things at home and make sure I was home for my seven and 5-year-old, uh, Maximus and then Blake, my two boys and my lovely wife, Aaron. We live just here in Asiggo, so very local and very I like it. Um, very very happy
006to be here and uh, thank you all for this opportunity. >> Welcome. [Applause] All right, that that is all the slips I have this evening. >> Dr. Bogen, >> board members, anyone? All right, the board appreciates everybody in attendance this evening and invites you to stay as we move into the new business part of the meeting. We understand that not everyone is able to stay for the entire meeting. We wanted to make sure that you know that this is an open meeting, so you can come and go as you need. and we look forward to seeing you at future meetings. Tonight's consent agenda contains the following information. Approval of accounts payable and payroll for July 2025. Approval of the treasures report for June 2025. Approval of personnel. Approval of minutes from the June 23rd, 2025
007special meeting and the June 30th, 2025 regular meeting. Approval of destruction of audio recordings from closed session meetings from January 2024 and approval of post issuance bond compliance report and the followingformational items, the employee/position report and the Freedom of Information Act report. We'll now entertain a motion to approve the consent items listed. So move second. The >> roll call, please. Mrs. Simmons. >> Hi, >> Mr. Cook. >> Hi, >> Mr. McCauley. >> Hi, >> Dr. Lawler. Hi, >> Mr. Stalup. >> Hi, >> Mr. Manipsky. >> Hi, >> Mr. Kaisner. >> I motion carries 70. The consent agenda is approved. [Music] >> All right. No public comment tonight. Uh tonight we will have the first meeting of our newly created board committees. The education, HR, community engagement and finance facility committees were created as a platform
008for discussion and feedback in addition to the formal board of education meeting. These meetings community is encouraged to attend. The board chairs alongside the committee chairs will provide an overview and updates to the board of education at each meeting. I will begin with the board of ed the I'm sorry. I will begin with the education committee update. All right. >> Was good. >> That's the thing. >> Thank you, Dr. Lawler. >> No, we um we discussed about the new curriculum and how implementation going forward particularly at the elementary level which is what we've been focused on. Um, we've also discussed uh the whole idea of co-eing >> and what training as to what that exactly means >> because different districts handle co-eing in different types of ways >> and we were fairly indepth on special
009ed and special ed services and the king approach. >> All right. Anything you want to add, Dr. Lana? >> I just thank you both of you for meeting with us and it was uh it was good to get to learn about the different processes and how the different departments are organized and the initiatives going forward. So, we'll have more to report next meeting. >> Okay. The financing facility, Mr. McCaulay and Mr. Sat. >> So, we met we had a small group uh one visitor but had some good conversations. We worked to lay out kind of our path forward and what we wanted to see in the meeting and how it interacted with the finances and the taxes and the levies and and trying to generate some simple type information for presentation and discussion. And then
010with the facilities, um, we didn't get into it with a lot of depth, but started looking at, um, what we're going to talk about in the next several meetings, how it pertains to referendum versus just general capital projects. >> All right. Human relations, uh, human resources. Sorry, Mr. Cook, Mr. Klesner. >> Yes, we, uh, we were looking at the field. We didn't get into the weeds at this meeting. We talked about the seasonalities, what HR does in every season, the intricacies and the new process to digitize a lot of the HR uh interworkings and make all the nodes go to the central system which will help out. Um, but we brought up a few uh topics for future agendas such as evaluation and what that looks like for teachers and how that impacts uh the
011students and the and the teaching that comes from that. >> Yeah. And then u also discussed for uh for the future um HR's role in implementation of new curriculum. >> Yes. >> Kind of get into the weeds on that as well. >> Good good first initial meeting and good overview. >> All right. um community engagement. Miss Simmons, Mr. Klyman. >> Um yeah, I want to thank David first for the presentation that he did tonight. So, I'm not going to share much because tonight's meeting is mostly about the website. So, and that was a lot of things that he talked about and just the work that he's doing and the jobs that like the projects that he has going on. Um also, I'm impressed too of the fact that he's looking to help have students be
012engaged in a lot of this work too because there's a long list for him to do. But I also want to thank Bill for being here tonight too. one of our community members uh engaging conversations, great advice and also um had a lot of positive things that you know to say about some of the things that we have done recently and a lot of compliments about David and as a community uh communications director we wanted this two three years ago and so the fact that you've been with us now to see the improvement just even the website if you haven't gone on the website yet please do it's just phenomenal so uh we spent a lot of kind of what is David doing and what's those next steps because since his role is still kind
013of fairly new. He's got his feet definitely solid in the ground here, but there's still a lot of things that we're asking him to do. And so, as he's navigating that, and he's really leaned into Bill and I, um, as allowed us to ask a lot of questions, too. So, >> okay. All right. We'll move on to new business. The first item of new business is a referendum update. Dr. Rowan, if you could provide us with more information, please. >> Absolutely. Happy to. Uh so um as we know we are continuing to work on the referendum related projects and kind of shifting our mindset from referendum really to construction planning. Uh so since the last board update we have um reviewed applications to participate on our core planning teams. So these are the community teams
014that will be helping to provide feedback as we go into um into the the detailed planning. Um so those individuals have been notified of the selection and uh which team they'll be serving on. Um the steering committee which is made up of of administration and some of our industry partners and um Mr. Stockup. We visited uh facilities in Rochelle, Harlem, Richmond, Burton, Mckenry, Huntley, and Burlington to see some of the things they're doing in terms of design, equipment, um classroom layout. Uh we we looked at fieldouses, stadiums, uh science labs, CTE, uh and a variety of other things. walked away with some really interesting things and some ideas that we want to share um with our core planning team and and then our staff as we return. Um and then uh we also developed the
015calendar of meetings for the PEL and the academic core planning teams. So that information will be going out to the teams um probably later this week. We will be meeting every other week to uh throughout the fall to to get those that feedback and get that work done. Uh so what's up for us in the near future? Um we will be hosting the first core planning team meeting on August 13th. So that'll be the first time we get those groups together over at the high school. Uh we are reviewing possible um industry partners for playgrounds and furniture. So, we wanted to uh playgrounds especially, there's a handful of companies that really specialize in that. So, bringing them into the fold, working with our uh our architects and our construction manager on what that looks like.
016Um once we get that nailed down, we will be developing a schedule for the playground core planning team. Um and then, uh furniture is fairly similar, right? We want to have one partner we're working with so that we can create some consistency in furniture as we look to the future. Um so we're not kind of just like buying stuff at IKEA, right? This is a a whole different operation. So um we will be working on that in in the coming weeks. And then finally, uh we will be developing a schedule for staff engagement. Uh that enduser is really important to us. So how do we uh we'll be working on where we're able to get that feedback from teachers, coaches, you know, all all staff essentially that will be using these facilities uh throughout the
017process. So that's where we are and that's where we're going. Uh any questions? >> And you're making sure that the playgrounds are going to be ADA compliant. Yeah. So I think that you know I actually I was at the um the uh corn boil this weekend which is held at uh at Shields and I was uh you know looking at the the playground uh versus like uh you know where I live we the park district built a brand new playground and looking at the distinct difference >> not just in terms of like bright colors uh but also in things like accessibility things are more ground level uh it's just you that that stark difference. So I I got excited about that. Even though there were a bunch of kids still playing on the playground, I
018was thinking in a couple years it's going to be way nicer. >> Yeah. >> So for PE and athletics, uh the planning teams, how customizable is a lot of this construction going to be? Do do the firms have here the three field houses? >> No. No, really. I mean, when you think about it, the fieldhouse, right, it's I'm so Don't quote me on the number, please. Um Jack just split up. So So we'll see if I'm right. The entire addition is slated to be 78,000 square feet. >> Okay. >> Right. But inside of that, what that looks like, there is quite a bit of variety. Now, in that also includes um uh our our upgraded um >> locker rooms and move the weight room over there. >> Okay. >> Which will likely be lofted, >>
019right? So, there'll be locker rooms here and wait room above. Kind of like what we have now, but way nicer. Um but you know when we went to see um went to see Huntley and you know they said well you know we did this and we like this but we don't like that. So they have they have their um for example right they have their storage built into one of the sides of the fieldhouse. >> So that comes into the the >> the area in which you are participating. Whereas Burlington built their storage off in a corner because if you think about a fieldhouse and you have a bunch of track, there's a natural corner. Yes. And so they have more room for spectators and and athletes for hosting like things like track. So there's
020actually quite a bit of customization that can happen. Uh Burlington ceiling was much taller. >> Completies were shorter. Um Burlington had air conditioning which I was a fan of because it was super hot day. >> Um so there actually is quite a bit of um custom and little details. And >> so when you think about how that's going to go together, right, the core planning team is part of that equation. >> Um, but it's also then getting feedback from our PE department and our coaches and all that. And then taking all that and synthesizing it into something eventually, you know, the decisions are made with the steering committee because if you ask a 100 people for their opinions on athletic facilities, you'll get 110 opinions. So we got to take all that in >> and
021then come up with something that we fit think both fits the needs, meets the expectations of the community and all that type of stuff. So, >> that avoids the problem that those other locations said that they wish they wouldn't have done. >> Yeah, it was I mean that was the first question I asked like what would you what would you have done differently or what don't you like about this? And so that you know >> and they all had something. >> Mhm. >> Yeah, >> definitely. >> Okay, sounds good. >> Any other questions? Oh, will we throw a maybe uh elementary student, fourth or fifth grader on like the playground committee or maybe invite >> I I think we could find a way to either do that or >> something, right? >> I think yes,
022we I would think we can definitely look into that and how we might be able to do that. >> I'm sure one of the committee members has an elementary student. >> You know what? Extremely extreme argument. >> Very. It might be fun also to do uh for a couple of us to go do um like uh panels. We did that with the high school students last year. It was a lot of fun. We got really good feedback. >> And sometimes there they may not be feel comfortable talking in front of a whole room of adults, but there's just a couple of us. So >> that's a great idea. >> That's great. >> Make sure that Julie wrote that down. >> I did. >> Anybody else? >> Dr. Boen, did the bonds issue? >> They did.
023>> What interest rate did you get? I need to look at the exact number, but I do know that it was slightly lower than what we had budgeted. So, I think it was 452 and it came in at 4.49. So, just slightly lower. And I >> Good. That we did well. >> We did have an update, but I can get you. >> No, no, that's I was just curious. >> All right. Anybody else? >> All right. So, I'll provide um another public overview uh at the second meeting in August and the second meeting moving forward. >> Perfect. >> All right. Thank you. >> Great. Okay, there is no action necessary tonight for the referendum update. The second item of new business is the new website mitigation update. I'm sorry, migration update. Dr. Rowing, if you
024could provide some more information. >> I'm going to hand this one off to Mr. Chavez who has done all [Music] >> I should say. >> Yeah, >> all right. Well, good evening members. Uh, tonight I'll be giving a high overview of the migration for the website. First off, I want to start off by uh thanking everybody that collaborated. As Kurt mentioned, uh we've been handling a portion of this through the communications office, but also the IT department was heavily involved. So, I want to thank uh Tim Wolf, Nick Borg, and Jen Hodak for all their contributions on uh getting everything migrated over. All right, let's start off here with a high overview of what we'll be uh discussing tonight, and then I'll get into some more details about everything. So, really what we're looking to
025do is just improve the usability. Uh we've heard a lot of uh feedback from our community and staff that it's a little bit um sometimes too congested there at the top of the web page. Uh they want things to be a little bit more usable, a little bit more user friendly and really less clutter. So that's what we're looking to do and it'll be an ongoing project when it comes to this website. Uh we also wanted to make sure that we are in compliance with the accessibility. Uh ADA was mentioned just a few minutes ago. So that's one thing we wanted to do by converting it over to Final Site. Final Site is a company that specializes in education websites. So a lot of these this stuff is built into their program already, which includes
026the ADA compliance. Uh next thing we want to do is make sure that our website secure. Uh this day and age, a lot of hacking going on, uh information being leaked, those type of things. So one thing that was important to us and is ongoing for the IT department is really safeguarding our information, safeguarding our website and we'll talk more about that as well as in terms of some of the things that we did. Uh userfriendly content management that comes back to our department that's for us to be able to manage the website. Uh final site provides a lot of robust tools that allow us to go ahead and go in and change things quickly. So that'll come in handy for anytime there's an emergency situation. We'll be able as a staff to be able
027to go into the website and update the information quickly and make sure it's accurate and that way we can keep the community up to date via our website. Also flexibility and scalability and then also this goes into the integration as well for modern tools. With Final Site, it's everything's modern. They continuously upgrade everything. So anytime a new tool comes onto the market that we want to integrate into the website, new security features, those will easil those will easily be integrated into the new website um with uh ease on our part through final site as the partner. All right, so some of the key drivers for redesign were the enhanced user experience. I know uh Kurt likes to mention the three-click rule and that's if you're on a website and it takes you more than three
028clicks to find the information, you're going to get frustrated and that's taking too long. So, one of our main goals here is to meet that three-click rule, three clicks or less. >> Uh, one of our main focus right now though for that is going to be the parent and the student tab as we get ready to launch for the school year. you know, the website's already launched, but to to get ready for the school year, we want to make sure that those parent tabs and student tabs are robust, all the information is accurate, and that parents are able to find the information that they need in three clicks or less. Uh, one of the things that we want to do as well as part of the communications plan for this year is create a guide
029for parents so they can easily find where they need to go for grades or where they need to go for registration. Um, so that way when they go to that website, they click on that parents tab, uh, everything there is visible for them and they know where to go because they have a little bit of a guide of where to find it. That's one of the things we've heard. Can't really find this, can't find that. I did a search for it, didn't come up. So, be able to create that guide of, hey, here's where you go for grades. Here's where you go to register. Uh, make that a little bit easier for our parents. But again, really trying to focus on that three-click rule first and foremost for that parent and students tab, but then
030for the whole website as we continue to work on it. So, one of the things that we wanted to focus on as well is mobile experience. Uh we were actually talking about this earlier in the committee as well when you used to go to our old website on a mobile phone and you might need to zoom in, you might need to pinch, you might need to navigate over, it just wasn't too mobile friendly. and uh 63% of the visitors to our website are actually using a mobile phone or a tablet uh in comparison to 35% which are using a computer. So based on that it's very important that the website is mobile friendly. Some of the features that uh final site includes with their program is something called automatic adjustment. So really final site focuses
031on that mobile experience first. That's kind of how they build everything out with that focus of being mobile friendly. So really what this does is it adjusts the content automatically to fit your screen uh whether it's a tablet or a mobile phone and that just really makes it easy and makes it uh make sure that the website functions correctly when you're pulling it up on that mobile device. Another thing that they have is something called fluid content and that goes back to where you're having to flip your phone horizontally, you're having to zoom in, pinch those type of things. What they provide is something where it just shifts all the content automatically and then refflows so that it fits on the smaller screen so that you're not having to pinch and zoom and flip the
032phone horizontally. So, uh, feel free to visit our website and check that out. If there's any concerns about that, feel free to let me know so we can continue to work on that. But you should see a much better mobile experience with this website than you did on the past one with being able just to go to it, click on what you need, the buttons appear bigger, everything is where it's supposed to be. [Music] All right. Uh strength and security, as I mentioned, that's super important. And what's great about Final Side is they have all kinds of safeguards in place when it comes to that. Some of that is um secure cloud computing. They partner with companies such as Amazon and Google to make sure that they have a secure cloud infrastructure when it comes
033to the website. They have those firewalls, the encryption. Uh they also do scanning and penetration testing as well. So basically they're always also testing their website and their products as well. And they have multiple layers of safeguards in place. So if one layer fails, then usually there's another layer that's in place to prevent any kind of breach or attack to our website. So I think we really strengthen our security to prevent any kind of issues with hacking in the future. Anybody getting getting into our website to obtain information or change the information that's listed on the website, which I think is super important when it comes to branding and uh making sure that we're protecting our products. >> Has security been an issue in the past? Have there been security breaches at any point? To
034your knowledge? To my knowledge, there's not been any major security breaches when it comes to the website. Um, in terms of it being taken over in any way or information being changed, we've had some issues more so with our forms and things like that that we send out through Google and things like that. For example, we uh we sent out our committee form uh when we gathered all the uh we gather all the committee members to join the facilities committee that Kurt was talking about. And to my surprise, I went in to find 30,000 responses. Uh we have 30,000 people that apparently want to join our facilities committees. >> So that was an example of our form >> getting hacked. >> Yeah, there you go. Um so that's one example of our form getting hacked.
035Essentially what happened is a bot went in there and filled out the form 30,000 times and now we have 30,000 responses to sort through. Luckily uh Kurt was able to fix the form and get it categorized to where we only had people that actually filled it out correctly show up on the the form. But so >> great. All right. >> But super important to safeguard for the future uh as well. So >> thank you. >> All right. I talked about just really streamlining the content management. Um you know we I think the industry in the whole has gone away from the days of coding you know web pages and stuff in the background. Everything's automated these days AI stuff like that. So just super important for our team internally to be able to manage the
036website update, make changes anytime there's a snow day, heat day or anything going on. And then also too just for transition uh you know is maybe a new employee comes on board and they may be managing the website. It's just an easy transition for the previous person to onboard them and make sure that they're can hit the ground running and start managing the website easily. Whereas in the past, you'd probably have a lot more training to get into to have somebody manage a website, this with the content management system that Final Site provides, it's uh they have their own tutorial videos. Everything's there. It's pretty straightforward. It's a very intuitive platform to be able to go in and change the banner on the website. So, it'll be a much easier transition for the next person
037who's managing the website in the future as well. All right, we touched on this earlier here, the uh accessibility compliance. Um, so we want to make sure that the website meets ADA standards and then also meets WCAG. So just to touch on that a little bit, um the ADA is the Americans with Disabilities Act and public entities uh are required to have their websites accessible and they usually follow the WCAG standard which stands for web content accessibility guidelines. And what the standard does is just make sure that the website is accessible to all people with diverse disabilities. And final site provides those tools. Everything's built in. Um, so that way, uh, anytime that you post something to the website, it's automatically made, uh, made sure that it's ADA, uh, compatible and making sure that we're
038meeting all those accessibility standards when it comes to the website as well. So, all right, and just some of the key updates to walk through here. Um, we have some new tabs in there. Uh, for example, the upcoming events. So, we've revamped the homepages and the school pages. Um there's some additional uh or some new tabs in there that we'll go through now. Uh one of the ones I want to call out is the upcoming events. So uh we really want to make it easy for our community members to find the calendar, find the upcoming events. Um so we've created an actual section for the website that houses that information which just makes it easier to find and a little bit easier to follow through and go through the information. Uh we already talked about
039the simplified navigation. And I'll touch on that a little bit more in the next uh round, next slide as well. And we talked about the enhanced um accessibility features for ADA. Um some new features for families as well. Uh we identified a need for having a back- toschool resource section. So on the homepage now, we try to declutter the top, but then at the bottom, we've tried to add some additional information that might be helpful to families. That being the back to school resources. So, this is where families can go find their uh list for materials that they need to buy and just really anything else that they need to get started for the year. And then we also identified a need for uh information for new families, a place for them to go where
040they can find how to register their student, what requirements they're going to have to go through in terms of a physical if that's needed, anything like that. So, really just a one-stop shop for new families to be able to easily find the information that they need to get plugged into the school district. And then one of the next things we did here was the new staff internet site. So if you visited the site in the past, there used to be a staff tab at the top. So what that took you into is um public documents for to a certain extent. I mean it wasn't private information per se, but it was our HR resources, it was our payroll documents, it was how to sign up for insurance or Blue Cross Blue Shield resources, those type
041of things. Um, again, not private information per se, but meant for staff and really no need for that type of information to be um to have an option to access it from any website and for the public to access it because it's just again more for staff at that point. So, one of the things that we did is we created a staff internet website and this is what most corporations have for their staff. You kind of have your public facing website, then you have your staff internet site and then the staff will need to log in to be able to access that information. So, they'll need to be signed into their Caneland email address uh in order to access that information. If they're not signed in, they'll be prompted to actually sign in. And then
042behind that is where they can find now all the um staff internet information. I kind of put a couple of um uh images there. As you can see on the top right corner of our main website is where the staff website link is. They'll click on that. They'll get logged in. And that's where you find again documents that pertain to staff only. So, couple good things there. Kind of removing some clutter from the top of the web page, removing information that the public doesn't need, and then putting that behind a secure website that staff needs to log into to access. Uh work will continue on that, but that is uh one of the major things that we did to declutter and also make the website more secure. And a couple last things here. I called
043it some finalization task, but a lot of it is really also ongoing work. Um, we'll continue to review and update the content on the web pages. That's going to be identifying those broken links where it doesn't go anywhere, identifying outdated information. Uh, we've asked our principles and our uh cabinet to review all their department and school web pages so we can uh get a list of broken links or outdated information. We're in the process of getting that all updated right now and we'll continue to do that. Um, again, the focus right now is really that parent and students tabs to make sure that everything is where it's supposed to be. Um, right now we have a couple of web pages right now where if you click on it, it'll take you to a Google folder
044and then you need to find the document you're looking for within that folder. It is labeled, but it doesn't look like a real website quite yet, but that's again part of the ongoing work that's being done. Once we get all the pages done, it'll just be like a standard web page. It'll have a link to click on and then the document will pop up. So some of the pages that are still like that are mostly kind of the ones that aren't public facing more internal stuff as we again focus more on the public facing web pages and really the parent and students but overall the website is functioning as it should. There aren't any major issues. All the information is there. Um some stuff has moved. So we've had some questions about where to find
045some things and and we've directed them to the right place and we've gotten some feedback from high school staff and other staff members already on hey we'd like to see this here done. We take that feedback as I always say most important part of the feedback is to implement it. So we've made some changes already and we're we're going to continue to do that. So the way we'll do that is we'll meet with the CAC um committees those type of groups that are already established and gather feedback from parents about how to continuously improve the website especially that parents tab to make it easier for them. Uh we'd like to send out surveys of course and gather feedback in that regard and then also get surveys or get feedback from staff and also students. Um
046perhaps we're looking at getting some small student focus groups uh looking at students from graphics class, any kind of computer science type classes and really gather feedback from them as well on how we can improve the students parents tabs, but really just the website overall. One of the things we want to do is a quarterly audit. Uh we want to make sure we go into the website quarterly and really just take stock of everything. take that feedback that we've gathered, make those adjustments, identify again broken links, any outdated information anyways just to make the website better. Um there's always going to be ways to do that and continuously improve. So that quarterly audit will be super important for that continuous improvement with the website. So that is what I had for the website. Are there
047any questions, comments? Thank you again for all this work because I know there's been a lot of work you know there a lot of things that we tasked you to do too but um I had also mentioned this to David too because that website was cumbersome and people had a hard time f finding stuff people relied on Facebook going to Keeland moms going to Keeland whatever Keeland Facebook page and not always that information was correct you know so this is going to be nice if parents we can start getting parents to go to here first before putting hey where's the supply list I just saw that today on Kaitlin, you know, where's the supply list? We'll know if we can get parents to start going back to the to the website, you know, then they
048will get the information, the most updated information. So, it's not that somebody on Facebook didn't put they thought it was the right information, but it might not be. And you get a lot of different messages and stuff like that. So, if this can be our source of truth for our students and our teachers and our parents, that would be great. So, this really nice. I've already looked at it was easy to move around and stuff like that. So, thank you to the whole team. >> Thank you. All right. Thank you everybody. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> There is no action necessary tonight for the new website migration update. >> It is now time for superintendent board report. Dr. Rowan, do you have anything to share? >> I do have a couple quick things. Um,
049so in this evening's personnel report, the board approved the hiring of Leah Rosselli as the new principal at John Shields Elementary School. We are excited to have her on board. Um she's got pretty short runway >> as we rapidly approach school. Uh but she's already been in the building. She's uh been been hard at work. So um but we are excited to have her on board and we will formally introduce her at an upcoming meeting. And then uh finally uh the new K5 math materials have been delivered to the schools. >> Um some staff have already participated in training. Another group is uh doing some training tomorrow. uh certain teaching and learning team has been working hard on developing a comprehensive u professional development schedule for our teachers. They are empowered to use this correctly
050and uh making their lives easier. So we are excited about adding this new support for our teachers. And that's all I have for today. >> Dr. Bo, um I just have a short uh budget update. Uh really two related to the budget. one um tonight as part of the consent agenda was the treasures report and I just want to call out a couple things um on here ending fund balance um or I'm sorry ending revenue to expenditure for the year right now we ended June 30th at negative uh $3.5 million and in the meeting prior we had thought we were going to be somewhere between 3.7 and and four million so that came back just a little bit lower this number still may be adjusted um after go through our our audit process. Um, one
051thing I do know, um, after July 1st, we did, uh, get confirmation from the state of Illinois that they received the rest of their federal ESSER money. So, we had $76,000 um, actually for operations and maintenance um, for some some upgrades that we were going to use that we had to code locally. So, that money was spent, but that um, revenue did come in. So, that will help out. um specifically when it comes to fund balance, we did end the year negative in O andM for fund balance. And so um it's showing right now according to this report about 307,000, but it'll end negative 230,000. Just as a little preview, um at the upcoming board meeting, I will be presenting some additional information, uh with a recommendation to correct that, um to bring that that
052fund so we're not sitting in a negative fund balance. So, I will share some updates um on that and then more information to come at the next board meeting. As far as the 2526 budget goes, um I will be presenting some u more detailed information at our next committee meeting with specific updates there. But um did just want to share with the group that we have seen a little bit of summer creep. We we know that there's going to be some changes. Uh when it comes to salary and benefits, we've added uh about an additional 120,000 and then there have been some adjustments to the operations and maintenance budget. Uh Mark Payeyton, our director of buildings and grounds, has really been going through that with a fine tooth comb. And so he did send me
053some adjustments that he'd like to make. Um and it's sitting in a better position. He cut um just about $45,000 from that overall. So there was some shifting dollars and um there was some purchases that were actually related to the referendum that we were able to pull off of there. So, um, that will be looking better for the 2526 school year. That's all I have. >> Board members. >> All right. So, public comment. >> All right. Uh, the board of educ um topics for future agendas. >> Just an update in terms of where we are in getting the curriculum online, >> where where we are. >> Yep. I can have Dr. >> and available to members of the the community. Um, anyone else? All right. Close session. The board of education is scheduled for close
054session to discuss Illinois open meetings at section 2 sub C sub21 and 2 subc sub 1 or there will be no action taken following this session. Therefore, after the vote to go into close session, the recording of tonight's meeting will be concluded. I will entertain a motion to go into close session to discuss Illinois open meetings act sub 2 subc sub 21 and section 2 subc sub 1 at 7:42 p.m. So move second >> and a roll call please. >> Mr. Kaisner >> I >> Mrs. Simmons hi >> Mr. Cook. Hi >> Mr. McCully. >> Hi >> Mr. Stalup. >> Hi >> Dr. Lawler. I >> Mr. Manisky.