00121st 2025. Roll call, please. Mr. B here. Mrs. Al here. Mr. Here. Mr. Stiani here. Mr. Fari. Mr. Murdo. Here. Mr. Sar. Mr. Sar here. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. 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. Okay. First on the agenda is the administration the oath of the office for new board members. Mr. Matt Murb. No. Nope. Raise your hand, please. I state your name. I Matt Murva. Do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of members of the board of education or board of directors of South Kanchup High School. Do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully discharge the duties
002of the office of member of the board of education or board of directors of Lasal Pru Township High School. In accordance with the Constitution of the United States, constitution state of Illinois and the laws and state of Illinois to the best of my ability. in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability. I further swear or affirm that I further swear or affirm that I shall respect taxpayers interest by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets. I shall respect taxpayer interests by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets. I shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion of my fellow board members and others who seek a
003hearing before the board by respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall recognize that a board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a public board meeting. I shall recognize that a board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a public board meeting. I shall abide by majority decisions of the board by retain right to seek change in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels. I shall abide by majority decisions of the board while retaining the right
004to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels. As a part of the board of education or school board of directors, as the case may be, I shall accept the responsibility for my role in equitable and quality education for every student in the school district. As a part of the board of education or board of school directors as the case may be, I shall accept the responsibility for my role in the equitable and quality education of every student in the school district. I shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community, formulate goals, define outcomes, and set the course for Lasal Peru Township High School. I shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community, formulate goals, define outcomes, and set the course for Lasal Peru Township High School. I shall
005assist in establishing a structure and environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework. I shall assist in establishing a structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework. I shall strive to ensure continuous uh assessments of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law. I shall strive to ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law. I shall serve as educa education's key advocate on behalf of the students and our community schools to advance the vision in South Township High School. I shall serve as education's key advocate on behalf of students
006and our community school to advance the vision for Lasal Peru Township High School. I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision the board has created in fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship, and personal development. And I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision the board has created, fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship, and personal development. Congratulations, Mr. Burma. Welcome back. Thank you. Thank [Applause] you. Okay. At this time, I'd like the board to look over the minutes of the reorganization of board meeting minutes of April 23rd, 2025. Regular meeting minutes, April 23rd, 2025, and special meeting minutes 13, 2025.
007If there are no additions, I need a motion for approval. Second. Mr. Pett, yes. Mr. Tiani, yes. Mrs. Alcor, yes. Mrs. Cania, yes. Mr. Murva, yes. Mr. Mr. S. Yes. Uh, tonight under recognitions and comments from visitors for 6.1. Uh, we have Mr. Dr. Jim Hilton here tonight from a IASB executive search uh for our superintendent search process. He's going to give us an update. Dr. Hilton. Good evening. Welcome. How are you? Good to see you again. Good seeing you, too. Good seeing you back. Yeah, we see. Thank you. Applaud everybody's service. Uh, what I'm going to do, we were thinking about a flash drive, but I also just made hard copies. And it's like, you know what? Let's do hard copies because it kind of goes with what we can talk about here. Uh,
008first thing I'd like to talk about today night is the survey. And I do have because they go in the brochures and I have some sample brochures that we talked about. So, Here's the survey. And here is a very rough brochure. These will go by the side back to back. Take it past. All right. I just wanted that. That way I can look you in the eye and say hi. How are you? Good. Good to see you again. 10 copies of the so good to see you again. I have a um something for you as well, Greg, that the comments and then you can make it copy. Sure. Sounds good. I don't want to leave here for later or not. All right. I'm lovely, thanks. How are you? Not too bad. I killed a couple
009of trees getting a little more. All right. Good for me. Thanks. Okay. Very good. Very good. Um, Mr. serve here is copies of the open comments. You can make copies at your Thank you. Yep. And then I also have a tenative or timeline after we go through things because all of this works together. So, um let's go ahead and take a look at the first page of your uh report to the board. Uh there's three ways that this is used. Uh, one potentially helps ideal the ideal candidate trades. Uh, two allows the board to uh, garner information for potential interview questions, etc. And then three for the new person coming in of what did the stakeholder say on the front side of the search. And so there's three ways that this survey can be used
010and we'd like to talk about that. Um, six board members access a survey. Okay, six out of six. Good job. Uh 73 staff accessed the survey and 102 parents for a total of 181. Now the board has approved for me to come back in and do stakeholder engagement on the front side of it. Um I've had about half the districts that do it before the brochure and about half the districts that do it after the brochure. And basically what we'll do again is I'll meet with stakeholder groups that the board wants me to within the Lasal Peru community. I'll ask them what's unique about your district. I'll ask them what you do well, what are your challenges, and then what they would like to see within an ideal candidate. After I listen, I gather that
011information. I present a report back to the board of education. And then you can also p post that on your website. You can do whatever you would like to have at that point. Okay. So, um we just need to get those dates in August and sooner I think we lock those in the better then. Sure. All right. Um so you can kind of see on the very first what I try to do um is you figure four sevenths of a board is what what guides. And so if I take the four sevens as uh kind of a majority of the board, um you can see what the board felt was the most important as an ideal candidate trait. And I'm on page two here as we go through. Um what I did for page two
012is if it's a 50% it's a darker yellow or lighter yellow. If it's below that, it's a a lighter yellow. And so you can see that the number one choices, there were two that were tied. Develop and work cooperatively and effectively with the board of education. Fostering a professional culture for educators focused on engagement, accountability, and empowerment. And those were the top two, five out of the six board members. And then they also felt that written and verbal communication are important generally collaborative and then also developing and supporting rigorous and clear systems for curriculum instruction and assessment. You can see the other how they played out within the survey. But what we do is survey the board have your uh thoughts have them published and then we'll compare them to the other stakeholders and find
013congruence at the end and that's what we go into your uh brochure and your your vacancy announcement. So if you look at previous experience as a teacher 6 yes thought the educational background was important uh previous experience as a principal 6. So again that building leadership is important, academic leadership, uh teaching and learning is important. Previous experience as a district level central office person 33 so not really significant. And then again previous experience as a superintendent 06 wasn't significant at all. Okay. And that's the board's responses. Let's go to the next page, page three. And we had 73 staff respond to our survey. Their number one choice was Yelp. Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration was their top choice. Second top choice has finance and budget experience. That didn't show up within the first
014one, but it is here. And then their third also founding significant again you can see the brighter yellow was fostering that professional culture for educators focused on engagement, accountability and empowerment. And then their secondary uh trait that they felt was an inclusive safe environment in school. Um and again you look at the teacher experience again strong 66 to7 previous experience experience as a principal 60 to13 rather significant previous experience in district office central office no not so much but they did have a little more positive than what the board was board was 50/50 on that one and then previous experience as a superintendent and again not statistically significant at all that they didn't believe that was important. Let's go to your parents and guardians. There are 102 parents and guardians that responded to your survey.
015Their number one trait that they felt was most important in your new superintendent was facilitating meaningful, authentic, and ongoing family and community engagement. You see now number two was that inclusive safe school environment that was visited with your staff page. The third one again we're seeing again that collective are the written and verbal communication and collaborative skills. And then their secondary going down developing and supporting regular clear systems for curriculum instruction and assessment. the board had that and then they also developed uh the shared mission and vision and they also had employees knowledge and skills continually grow. So a couple of secondary ones there that hadn't uh appeared in the first two. Sometimes the community is surveyed at this point, but this district chose to do that side of it whenever we come back in
016August. And so we'll have the additional information for you at that time. it doesn't per se uh appear in your brochure, but it does give you insight when it comes to for us whenever we do our pre-screening. And then also as we're advertising this position and then also when the board does their interview protocols, that will be one of the things that that we'll talk about them. So you can see what I've done then on page five is a large X is what the bright yellow basically significant for the three stakeholder groups that we um surveyed. Number two, the sec the excellent written and verbal communication skills re received two large and then a secondary as you go down. What also what also received votes was the curriculum instruction and assessment a large and a
017small secondary the employees knowledge and skills continually grow small that was with the last group um finance and budget expertise that was strong through the staff side. Um the inclive uh safe school environment also showed up a couple of times which was good two out of the three. Um the shared mission and vision again that was a minor uh for for the parents but then we had that professional culture for educators focused on engagement accountability and empowerment too large out of two out of the three too strong there. What I did was then take that put it in a chart and then rank it. There are six strongs. Do you want to add one of the seven? The number one overwhelmingly had the excellent written and verbal communication skills and collaboration. That was number one.
018Number two, fostering a professional culture for educators focused on engagement, accountability, and empowerment. Number three was two out of the three had the uh de develops and supports rigorous clear systems for curriculum instruction and assessment. Number four was your inclusive school environment. Number five working cooperative with the board of education. Number six has finance and budget expertise. Those are those are all and then we had two secondary ones. ensure that employees knowledge and skills continually grow plus the shared mission and vision piece. You also said that previous experience as a teacher was important here and the principal ship was important. So the statement at the bottom does that reflect what the board is looking for and it doesn't have to be final to nine. I don't like the word preferred. Don't like the word preferred.
019Successful experience as a teacher with building principal leadership. Okay. Preferred means preferred means not I mean in my opinion preferred means well I prefer to have this but I would be okay with that. I don't think we're okay with it being somebody that doesn't have I want Well, right. Let me know if anybody's different. I want a teacher with principal experience. Yes. I mean that's what I would advise putting is required. That's why I put referred. It definitely was request showed that what we don't want to do is put required in there because then that limits your pool. Somebody could potentially come out of the pool that has a diff different background. It's like holy cow they were strong in something else. But I think by putting taking the preferred out really just states what
020you want. And so that's that works well well. I put preferred because it was we just generally don't recommend recommend required because it limits pools but doing what you're doing is exactly strong. We'll do that. So where does that go within your brochure? goes and I think it's if you take a look and again I apologize for the this is again this is what you're look this is what you're looking at as a brochure and so we're going to do the large format um and again our communications department will snazz it up whenever it comes time just that uh but right now I'm able to work in this as a word document. Uh towards the la the towards the end it talks about the ideal candidate trades. It's easy to take out the preferred and
021have that statement successful and experience as a teacher in building principal leadership or with and or with with principal leadership. How does the board feel about that? That's fine. I also put in those last [Music] two that were number seven tied for seven. There's eight total. Are the first six strong enough? You want to reflect the last two as well? I'd leave them all in. Leave them on. Okay. I believe in this order. Yeah, I think they were all um identified. So I think they Yeah. Okay. All right. And what we tell candidates is this is the hierarchy order as well. And so what's most important on that list is mo most important from all the stakeholder groups. You're listening to your stakeholders by putting it in here. Will you have the X's behind it?
022No, no, no, no. This is just my Yeah, this is just our my So, you could look at it and and then Yeah. No, I don't I didn't want that. No, no, no, no, no. I'm I'm guessing it'll be in this format. It It will be Yeah, it will be in this format. The one that the fancy dancy format. I'm just doing it because I can't I can't do this in my home in my home uh printer. But I I wanted to remind you what that large book format looks like. And so rather than trying to concise your district information into a trifold like some districts do, we've gone with the larger format. I like the larger. It's easier to read. Yeah, I do too. Yeah, I think it's larger format. And again, it's online.
023a PDF anyway, but you'll I mean it the online piece will or the we'll have several copies of that as well. But I like the way the large format pre just present your district. I agree. Yeah. Are we good with those traits in that order with that preferred statement or take out successful experience as a teacher with building principal leadership? I'm good with that. Any Anybody have a problem with it? And I don't need a straw vote or anything. I just need No, but I I want everybody to have an opinion. Most definitely. I want you to I was reading the B. What was the question? Are we okay with those leadership trades? Yes. With that statement at the end, successful experience as a teacher with building leader principal leadership. Yes. Yes. All right. Next
024thing I'm going to hand out is a tentative schedule. What I'm going to do is go back and put this together in a You have it. Yeah. So, I have Oh, did you have it already? Yes. Okay. You're right. And Dr. for help. And I'll also update since we've got the extension for next year. I'll update the the financial data. Okay. As well. Yeah. Good. Let's get that. Yep. And put Matt on there. Yep. Yep. We need to do that those pieces. Yep. We'll do that. But we will mid July once we get all of the updates, etc. That that's when we'll post. Um, we don't we don't post it right now simply because we actually have a few districts that are just wrapping up a 15 search and so we don't want to get
025mixed up. We want to have it of its own. We have about I was telling Steve about I think seven searches going for next year already. And so and we're meeting with boards in the next couple of weeks. So, the ball is is definitely rolling and you're on the front end of it, which is what you wanted to do. Um, as I said earlier, that stakeholder piece that can be done in in August and we'll just firm some dates up and if we need to make it around your teachers institute to kind of ideal I mean, ideally target staff, we can do that. I mean, there's plenty of time right now to target that. So if we want to try to do that, we can do that and then we'll do the community groups booster.
026I mean, whatever you want to do with that, Mr. Charles, but and then right now I do I have it uh ending on September 25th with gives us a week to analyze applications. We'll do pre-screening of the top candidates. Um the slate presented to the board, I don't have a specific date. Does that 10th through 16th work for this board? Are there any conflicts on that time? Because what I'm going to do as we get roll rolling with this is ask for two dates during that time frame, three days potentially that we could schedule interview times. And then same thing with room two. The sooner I get them on your calendars, the better. Life tends to get hectic. Is there anything schoolwide that fits in that that will interfere with Columbus Day? Yeah. Columbus Day
027Monday. Yeah. The 13th. because I wanted to leave it with you, talk about it. We don't have to decide anything tonight, but I want as we get rolling, those will be the things that I'll start asking about is can we solidify some dates during this for all seven of the board. I think it's we have committee meetings that week. So just we want to save a date and just put have an after committee meeting. I mean that's instead put a sleeping bag here somewhere. Well, I'm saying instead of having it next week and having to make couple days next week, we might as well as long as we're here or you're here. I'm not. Are these going to be daytime or evening meetings? Evenings. Yeah, these interview meetings. Yeah. evening meetings because we want people
028at work, right, to be involved. I was gonna say, well, then the 13th might not be something bad to look at because that could be daytime meetings. How many How many people get off for Columbus Day? I do. I can get off. Banks do. Okay. I'm I'm good with I'm just throwing that out there. So many So many are getting away from holidays anymore. Well, it's just something to ponder. See, I'm I'm good. I'm pretty wide open. I have I have the the grant process for the $2 million for the CADs building is supposed to be closing in that time period. So, I really don't have any idea what that but evening would work for me or a Monday would work. But daytime, I can see what works. Let's try whatever works for the people
029that are I'm finally available. I'm available. I'll make myself available. Say candidates will come whenever you have Oh, absolutely. Most definitely. That side of it. The the regular board meeting is that 15. Yeah, it is. I just verified that the regular board meeting is October 15th. Okay. Just in terms of other things going on that week, um the 16th in the evening, we have parent teacher conferences. Okay. And then that would be it wouldn't have an impact on Friday during the morning. So let's let's shoot for Monday, Columbus Day the 13th if people can do it. Yeah. I mean I mean Chris is off, Matt's off. Sally's off. We're open. I can be off. Oh, you're open. Sorry. But most of the staff kind of back you running. No, we're closed. We're closed. That helps.
030Yeah. Right. Well, we're not going to meet on Monday. Right. Right. Because generally what happens if if we can get three in the evening, you'd have to start start as early as 5. If we stay much later than that because generally we try to schedule them about 90 minutes per meeting per interview. Some of them don't go that long, but that way you have a little bit of break in between. If you start any later than five, then we're getting I mean you could six, seven, three. I mean, it's just hard to get more than two in an evening, but we don't want to overload the board, too. Um, I didn't know for sure about your start time if possible. Yeah, if people can do that and then pick a night because Wednesday, can't be
031Wednesday. Tuesday we have committee meetings or are we doing them the week before? We do the week. Do them the week before. If anybody was available to do them on Monday, that would be delightful. Or even if we could start them instead of five o'clock, 3 o'clock. Does that make sense? Or earlier? No, earlier. But I'm just saying like if you had to work, if you could come at 3:00 instead of 5:00, you can come anytime. Oh, perfect. See, that's the kind of place he runs. Well, I just learned we're closed, too. No reason to be in charge. I'm spilling my water now cuz I could come on the 13th and bring candidates if you wanted to do that and then we could skate do the interviews the next week would get away from what
032because if I if I bring candidates to you on October 13th that would give you the time to read the material and and you'd have your board meeting. You'd have some things going that that week already at parent teacher conferences and the first round of interviews could be the week of the 20th. So what on the 13th? What are we doing? Well, I can bring candidates to you on the 13th. We're not doing interviews. Well, if we I I mean I just looked probably I would have to schedule another time to bring candidates to you because I bring the candidates. I misread my own notes here. Sorry about that. So you're bringing us a summary of the candidates. We review all their materials and then you interview them later. Yeah. Then we interview them the
033next week. You can interview them next week or later that week. Okay. Okay. So, let's ponder this and talk about it. The 13th that that meeting would be just with you, right? And Right. Right. Okay. I was confused. I was still No, that that's fine. I was confused because I thought it was I thought the candidates were coming on the 13th. That's Yeah. Yeah. We get back to you quickly. Oh, no. I mean, I it's we we have time, but I wanted to get since I kind of butchered up the whole Columbus day, but that would work for me as well if that works for everybody that I could bring candidates that day. Sure. And that way it would be on the front side of the week and then you could work that next week,
034the next two weeks of getting generally the the week of the 20th would be at least two days block for interviews. And like I said, if you start at five, you could give three in the evening. If you start any later than that, probably two in the evening, which might be three nights. Um, you do a Saturday, you could potentially do more. Um, do a morning and afternoon. didn't know if the board works on Saturday or not. Some boards do, some don't. Uh, and then the week of the seventh, the second round interviews would only be one night potentially. Week of the 27th. Yeah. So, in reviewing, when you bring these to us, do we share with you which ones we want to look at, or do you share with us what you're We screen
035the pool. We screen the pool off what you're telling us. is going to bring us We will probably bring you six folks, seven folks. Yep. Okay. Yep. Yep. Yep. All of our interview protocols, all of our those I'm going to be honest and if this makes me selfish, then selfish I am. I cannot do three meetings, one hour and a half meetings in in a night. I can't. You don't want to be around me after one. Number two, huh? You know, I mean, that's 4 and 1/2 hours and that's I agree. Two two would probably be the max. Two would Yeah, right. I can do two, but I can't do three. Talk. We're going to discuss. Two. Two is probably the max. Two. Then we probably need three nights. That's fine. I was trying to
036consign you. Yeah. But that's fine. But I'm just That's And that's fine. Four and a half hour. That's That's a lot of Yep. That that poor third person. Yeah. Because because I'm I'm going to being honest. Want to provide options. Everybody's a little bit different. Every culture is a little bit different. I'm not going to be with you. Three nights is I I don't mind with three nights. I don't either. I don't either, but I just don't. Well, let's work on your assignment. I couldn't do three. That's a long time. Three nights week of the 20th starting at 6:00 or 6:30 because we'll do if we if we start at 6 that you're used to, you can go six, you can go 7:30. And then what you could do is on your third night would
037be a little bit later potentially because then you would discuss the final candidates. Our protocols are you don't discuss each candidate until everything is finished just uh not have bias pre and we'll do that on the front side of the board training whenever I come the 13th if that's still the day that you want us want me to come. Sure. Anybody have any questions? complain after I messed that up the 13th day. Sorry about that. No worries. That's a big problem we have. We're good. Okay. Okay. What do you need from us? Everything I have right now, we need to get some dates in August. And if you want to work around I mean, so I'll meet with staff and you want me to meet with staff around the beginning of school. But generally what
038I'll do is I'll come and spend day. I can spend a couple of days. Um if I need to I can start as early as six o'clock in the morning. Go as late as you want me to go. Uh whenever we do the staff piece like I said generally um it's the four questions that I said. What's unique about LP? What do you do well? What do you have challenges of? Uh what's your ideal candidate trait that you're looking for? I sit and listen small groups, large groups. I write um and then compare and find congruence amongst all groups, community groups, parents, boosters, I mean whatever that this board would like me to listen to, I will listen to. Okay. Certified, non-certified, blah blah. Sure. Okay. Okay. You've done what I need to do on
039the brochure tonight. We'll get those things. As you as Steve said, we'll just make some of those finance updates. We'll get some of the board updates, those pieces, and then once we start rolling that, you'll get a fancy copy. So, everything's cleaned up and it it actually looks like a wonderful brochure. Okay. All right. All right. Thanks for having me here. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Bill. On the last week of school, right? All right. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you very much. We're good. All right. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's good to see you again. All right. Thank you. I will. I will. I have a couple of grandkidos that that I'm planning on calling and they're going to call me. So, makes my trip go a little bit easier. Thank you.
040All right. Tonight for our division spotlight, we have the PE health and driver edition and we have Mr. Matt Revoltz. No problem, Matt. Welcome. We didn't give you a chance. You're right. Um, you start timer. You're on. All right. Go. I have three things I want. Oh, sorry. Well, thanks for having me here to talk about our division. very excited about one of the about our division all the time, but very extra excited about one of our second spotlights. So, I'm going to start with talking about our division a little bit, zip through some stuff, but then the meat in the meet tonight is going to be talking about a personal fitness class we started and then the third little star and then I'm done is going to be questions you feel questions that you
041have for me. So, uh, I kind of reached out to all the departments and Scott Blessman and Nikki Gibson who run the health, uh, curriculum. They just said their they had a lot of success with all their projects and they had just very happy with the whole semester. It was a really good semester. They didn't really have anything else besides uh, the workout plans that they do with the freshman. I'm going to come back to that with the personal fitness, but the driver's ed department out with Jim Traven and Cal Patel. They let me know that they're preparing for summer driver's ed. There's three uh sections running right now or going to be running and there's 80 students that are enrolled which is awesome. So, uh, for PE, uh, one of the things I've done,
042this years ago, I think when I first came on, and I spotlighted, but I didn't really explain anything, so I felt like it was important. Uh, for for PE, we have freshmen who do learning readiness, sophomores who now have personal fitness. That's the class that they that's specifically for our sophomores. And then juniors and seniors participate in enhanced PE and AP, advanced physical training. And so, I'm going to go through those just a little bit. Carrie Chrisman, who's our learning readiness and freshman uh teacher. She said that she's had a great semester. She she's had a blast. She's been doing nitro ball ultimate frisbee. Other things she do with her does with her classes, she does first aid. She does a CPR unit. So if I do go down tonight, like I'm nervous and everything
043because I gave blood tonight. So no, she does she does all that. She does a hands-on with CPR and AD use in the classroom with the kids. She does line dancing and uh swimming, which is a six week uh unit. And she also uses the cardio room so I don't forget to say it later. Every teacher has one day in a cardio room. You're we're assigned we take our class out of this so they get that experience of being in the gym. It's it's like going to the Y or Plant Fitness and they get to use the ellipticals, the rowers, the treadmills, and the bikes and they I always give challenges when I'm in there, which is just I mean my own personal thing, but I a lot of my positive referrals that you'll see
044in the office Miss Lance gets is uh is usually kids completing like I the biggest one I have so far is Adam Caspersk. He did five miles in a class period uh in on a treadmill, you know. Uh that was pretty cool. And then I had uh another student I'm blanking. kind of know I'm blanking. John, Levi, I think it's Levi at 12 miles on a bike, get a single class period. Our class periods are 30 to 35 minutes depending on how fast we get down there. So, you talk about uh kids stepping up. There's a lot of them that really do try hard out there and it's fun and I they I can attest I've turned in a lot of positive referrals just for our party room days which is kind of nice. So,
045but that's learning readiness with Miss Chrisman and then for enhanced PE minion, myself, and Gibson all have a class. Minion only has one because he has personal fitness as well as me. Activities we do in there, disc golf, softball, tennis, ping pong, badman, all the fun individual and some game and some team games, team sports. Uh then going on to AP, uh Kevin Keane does the weight weight training. He's in four days a week lifting and one day in the cardio room. And that one day that we're that that he's in the cardio room is is great for our personal fitness class. I'm going to talk about for a little bit longer, but and not maybe as fast. So I'll slow down for you. Um, we actually utilize the weight room on the daisies in
046the cardio room which is great for this personal fitness. So, this is the first year we've had this personal fitness class and it's all sophomores. I have three sections and I believe Minion has four. I think he has four. I'm pretty sure I think and some of ours actually overlap. So, uh, we've kind of it's been an experiment. has been a great opportunity for us to try to give the kids a different uh type of class. Instead of just doing the games and the sports, we have uh in this in this personal fitness class, we have our main thing which we do in the south balcony, we do stations. And you're like stations? That sounds like a lot of fun. It's kind of like being at the Y and going from station to station to
047station. And uh just hitting on the workout, we have mats set up and dumbbells and sometimes hula hoops and I have yoga spots. Uh, I have grippers and all those things because they're going to be utilized for our fitness testing in the future. We've also had vertical jump testers. We do jump rope stations and we have them rotate around. It's been it's been great. First semester uh was awesome and the second semester I tried to change it up because I wanted to give them more stations. I didn't feel that that was as successful. So, I'm probably go back just having the six stations and keeping them in smaller groups because that I had more benefit out of that. Plus, I was able to open it up and say, "Hey, let's treat this like an open
048rotation instead of, hey, you got you have to go here for this minute, then here for this minute, and then here for this minute." I kind of say it's an open. It's like a gym. Go do what if you want to focus on upper body strength training over there, do that. But I still want you to hit this other station's wall throughout the day. So, instead of me uh telling them you have to go here and go there, it's it's a very I want to say gymlike environment. And that's what I'm trying to build for because I I every every class I have I always say when you leave here to the sophomores now I get to say in three years I say to the seniors and juniors as well when you leave here who's
049going to make you be active and they'll look at me like what? It's like we've been making you in school be active for 30 to 45 depending on where you're at 30 to 45 minutes every day. Who's going to make you be active? So, we're trying to give them a set of tools with this class to say, "Hey, body weight exercises." We teach have them do planks and push-ups, and we do warm-ups at the beginning of every class where they're holding planks, playing soccer, sliding discs back and forth, trying to score on each other, trying to make the physical activity fun, and trying to get them excited. So, uh that's just the station portion of all. We also get in the weight room on those days that Keading is in, uh doing cardio or if
050it's like a if he has a quiz on a day or uh if it's open, we get in there. I I was lucky. Fourth and fifth hour he he does not have any classes. So I was able to get my class in there probably two days a week in the weight room which was great. One week I'll do I have a day one day two workouts and it's all all laid out. They know they have their main lift and they have all their auxiliary lifts and they go they go to the board. This is I'm doing 8 to 12 reps. Then they go they do their exercises with their groups and they come back get their auxiliary lifts and go to the other side of the weight room. So kind of drag I'm kind of
051getting too deep in there. Sorry about that. But um other things that we do with this personal fitness class, we have uh oh, let me talk about the equipment. We just ordered, which is awesome. It's going to be awesome. I don't know if Mr. Tom is going to like it as much because we're TRX uh uh suspension training systems. If you've never heard of them, they're things you mount. We're going have to get some little mounts on the wall or we could use it in the weight room off of the bars and it's just body weight exercises. I have one in my garage. I use it a lot and uh it's going to be it's going to add. So instead of just doing stations two to three days a week, we're going to have all
052right, we're gonna do TRX day. So it's going to be a little bit different. So we'll have stations one day, weight room, we'll have uh fitness the other the other thing we do is fitness activities with them to get heart rate up and show them that the importance of cardio as well. So but the we're very excited about that uh that new equipment. We also ordered new floor mats uh I think I already said the vertical jump testers. That's all on the fitness gram which we do at the sophomore level. So Minion and I are in charge of collecting all that data. Uh Miss Chrisman also does the fitness gram stuff and and we collect that and we uh turn it in. It's it's all state mandated but the kids enjoy seeing the numbers improving.
053And I have a group tester they get to use and uh that's probably the most popular one. At the beginning of the year some kids are squeezing it getting like 45 pound pressure on it. By the end they're getting like 50 55 getting all excited. Yeah, I'm getting stronger. and then I squeeze it and I do 143 and they're like, "Oh, little ways to go." But we had fun with that. Um, besides that, uh, the thing I want to jump back to before I forget was health. They do a workout plan. That was the other thing Mr. Blessing told me. they put they make their own workout plans and I kind of was talking to him uh about a month ago and I said can we take those workout plans and not everything's going to
054be perfect and I don't know what roadblocks we're going to run into but can we take those plans that you made bring them to sophomore year for personal fitness and apply them so how um we're looking in ways that we can connect those and obviously if they want to use certain machines that we don't have we can't do that but if they if their workout plans are co like actually coordinate with the equipment we have we're going to allow them or bring in new equipment like if there's a high demand for TRX bands or something like that or another the next type of fitness stuff we're going to look to bring that in or at least try to try to implement that. So, um you're good. You're good. All right. Um I'm say I'm a
055lot so I because I lost my spot. But that was actually my last thing. So for next year, that's the biggest thing I'm I think I'm going to be trying to apply continue doing what we're doing, but also try to get that program where we take their old workout plans and implement them so they get to do them. So now step uh star number three. Do you have any questions about anything? Could be the whole department. It could be about the personal fitness. If I talk too fast and you're like I couldn't hear what you said for five minutes, then you can ask me about that. You mentioned tennis. Are you playing on the courts here? Yeah. Yes, that's one of our complex. Okay. Yeah, that's one of our major units. I would love I
056would love for you to go up there and take that beautiful complex and bring it over here and set it right next because we would use all that equipment, but we don't have that yet. And it works out here. They do just fine. Yep. They do just fine out there. I when I was here back in O when before I got hired on, I was coaching tennis out there. We had a blast. It's they work and I never did hear anything about the pickle ball courts. Is that changing or no? Another conversation for another time. Uh as that is actually one of our their favorite units. Uh 50% of the kids are okay and then the other 50, let's say 45 are need improvement, but they have a blast with it. We have a lot
057of fun. And actually that that's where my son just got home from. He was with a group of guys over at Washington playing tennis. So I was like I encourage it. I I'm totally getting off subject. You as you asked the wrong question. I can talk about tennis for any other questions. Nothing at all. Okay. Good. Thank you very much, Mr. Rebels. Thank you. [Applause] Uh there's no public comment this evening. I got uh under finance 7.1 a motion approval of bills and payroll for South Township High School. So moved. Second. Mrs. Al. Yes. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Murva. Yes. Mrs. Tian. Yes. Mr. Star. Yes. Any motion approval for the bills and payroll for the LP Career Center? So moved. Second. Mrs. Tian. Yes. Mr. Murva. Yes. Mr. PTO. Yes. Mrs. Alcart. Yes. Mrs.
058Gania. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. I need a motion approval for the payroll report. So moved. Second. Mrs. Alport. Yes. Mr. PTO. Yes. Mrs. Canz. Yes. Mr. Ra. Yes. Mr. Tiani. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. 7.2. The motion approval for the financial records as presented. So moved. Second. Mr. Murba. Yes. Mrs. Tiani. Yes. Mr. Fetto. Yes. Mrs. Elor. Yes. Mrs. Gania. Yes, Mr. Star. Yes. Under correspondence 8.1, we have a thank you letter from Mr. Wayne and Carol Zebrron praising the health occupations program, staff members, Mr. Lynn Kohar, Mrs. Kathern Lambert, Mrs. Jamie O'lanigan, and the students for outstanding care and professionalism given to Mrs. Zebron and the residents of Liberty Village Nursing Home. And we will hear more about that during our ACC report from Dr. Langley. Uh 9.1 committee reports, building and grounds committee. Dr.
059Bless uh buildings and grounds had our meeting on uh Monday, May 12th. Uh we had a number of updates um that several are going to be agenda items uh later on. Um we had two bid openings um earlier this week uh for the exterior lighting, paving and site improvements project. Uh that's also going to be all of the parking lots, the the um complete tear up and and remodel of uh Charter Street along as well as down Fifth Street um on the the campus. But we're particularly excited though about the lighting uh that we're putting in too. We're going to be putting back in the exterior lighting around the main building, the building itself. Um but we're also putting lights that will go all the way down Fifth Street to the stadium. So that's going
060to be a really great enhancement for safety um for um people coming back from from games, graduation or just taking walks uh in in the evening. Uh we also have a recommendation which is going to be in the agenda in new business for the concession space remodel. Uh that is that's the sip and save uh remodel. We had updates on our current projects. Right now we're really we're gearing up for the uh the summer renovations. We've had a couple pre construction meetings for health occupations. Um as well as some of the masonry work that is going to uh to be completed. Uh we'll be having some messages that will be going out to our staff just in terms of timelines um and what to expect for parking and and and those things uh over the
061course of the summer. Mr. Kmet continues to work on our a building uh designs and we should have that uh within the next couple of weeks and so we'll be uh ready to share that with the committee. but then also to and begin sharing with the community. So, we're very very excited about that. Another uh agenda item uh uh this evening is a request to let bids for the track replacement. It's hard to believe that's been 12 13 years uh since that was installed. So, we're looking forward to having that uh replaced. Um, one future uh project that we talked about um that was new this month um that I want to share with the full board is we're looking at doing a wait room uh remodel. Uh just real briefly that would be looking
062at uh removing the um the laundry facilities uh that are currently there. That would create like one open large open space. We've got a space to move those. Um, I know future plans uh down the road, we talked about the the fieldhouse, but having a wait room there. Um, we would have to do this renovation regardless because the wrestling room would get moved downstairs. And so we're beginning to um uh put some cost estimates together and we've had some preliminary conversations with the uh the key staff members uh involved in that. And the laundry move across the hall? Be across the hall. It' be across the hall down on the first floor. Yep. Yep. And we already have the plumbing that's already there. uh to start with. So that will save some cost for the
063district. The other concern too about wanting to look at doing it now is every year that goes by add 4% to whatever the cost is going to be. And so we feel this would be a good time to to make that uh enhancement kind of support some of the things that um coach Rebolt was talking about too that we can do even more more kinds of activities for our kids. Um uh we had carrier here. The main building chiller has been repaired. Um, so when the hot days come back again, we'll be able to have both chillers uh working. We had a water leak repaired in Howard Fellow Stadium and Minibus 2 is is getting repaired. Then lastly, we're looking at the uh sometime in the first two weeks of June to have a ribbon
064cutting for the early childhood program. And I'll follow up with uh board members. I've gotten some dates already, but those who I haven't gotten dates from, I will uh follow up with you um uh later this evening. That's all I have unless there are questions. Thank you, Dr. Bless. Uh, finance committee, Mrs. Talian. We met on Tuesday the 13th and we are 83.3% through the fiscal year. Um, the monthly financials look good with the exception the uh health life safety funds are up significantly due to the $7.5 million deposit from the bond sales. We will have uh multiple action items as well. Dr. Robleski went over the tax year 24 final levy. We'll uh there was a projected increase of 9.7 came in at 3.3. Um we anticipated a 6% increase in the figure was
065less than 1% of that. um we'll see a 3 cent decrease in the tax rate. So that's important. That's a good thing. And um we will receive 951,000 almost $952,000 in new revenue. Um we talked about the Prairie State Insurance Cooperative renewal rates. Um, in a shock to nobody, the insurance premiums and workers compensation, property casualty, those rates are going up and we knew that was going to happen. It's happening everywhere. Bid recommendations, we received bid recommendations and those will be action items for uh, pizza, bread, and milk. We also have the bid request for the projects that for the track. We talked about that. Um the approval to submit building permit applications for the roof, the lighting, the sip and saver, the gym, and the health occupations. We also saw a chart for what
066the health occupations remodel was going to look like. A little timeline. And uh it's going to be done for August. All right. So, um, yeah, that's that's it. Matt, I missed you. So, good job. The end. Are there any questions? Thanks missing college committee. Mrs. Alporn, we met on Tuesday, yesterday, and we discussed um um lots of things. Um we discussed the um student handbook um and it was uh reviewed and it is aligned with our press policies our policy manual. So it the wording and and all the communication is similar identical. So that was very interesting. Thanks to Kate and and the administrative staff for um getting that done was very well done. Um then we uh looked at um the artificial intelligence um we talked about that Russ I don't Anderson Anderson was
067there our tech um employee and we talked about what this looks like and how it's going to affect the schools and what we need to do. Um, so we are now looking at research being done during the summer, more research on this. Um, there's still a lot of complicated issues that aren't answerable or we don't have answers to yet. Um, and so we are going to research that during the summer and in August, Dr. Robleski will bring the the results from the team back to us in how we're going to um move forward with policies regarding AI. Okay. So that will happen then. Um press policies, we looked at that. Um the one thing is the president has done executive orders on potential immigration enforcement in schools and that is not clear. So, we are
068encouraged if we have questions to talk to our attorney who is sitting over here, Walt, who have all the answers. Right, Walt? Okay. Um um and then we talked about the state of Tennessee Verdis Cardona and that is the striking down of the 2024 Title 9 sex discrimination regulations and restoring the 2020 Title 9 regulations. So all the things that had been done um to that title N for sex discriminations and gender and all those things are going to be undone and policies. So a great deal of this policy um review was in regards to that process of changing that act. So that was done and AI uh we talked about a lot of different other things. Uh the next thing was uh parent and um students who are parents, expected parents, victims of domestic
069and sexual violence. There is new regulations on that and um that also was in the pack and is going to be addressed um in policy and how we handle those situations and those issues in our minor children and students lives. And so um it was interesting conversation. Um and this I learned that the staff will be taking trauma awareness education um to address help address some of these issues um and be able to identify them and then find help and and give direction to the student and then we adjourn. Thank you very much. Anybody have any questions? Thank you Mr. Alart. Um 10 administrative reports 10.1 Miss Superintendent report Dr. Blessing. Uh thank you Mr. Sarver. Um just one other thing uh just to add to Mrs. Talani's uh report on on the extension. Um
070what was really exciting this year when when we receive the results is it's always that that worry about what we think the EAV is is going to to end up landing. And and so we were very very excited that we were out of uh the final EAV total came in at um $732 million uh well about six 732 million almost $700,000 and we were $2 million off meaning two $2 million over which is kind of like where you want to be. So, um, we're we're very pleased that that ensured that one, we didn't leave any money on the table and, uh, as Mrs. Talani, uh, indicated, it allowed us to be able to drop our tax rate as we had projected that to our community, that was what, uh, was going to happen. So, we're
071we're very very pleased with that. Um, I do want to give commendations uh to our graduation planning team as well. I mean, there's a variety of people that are involved in that. Uh, but Mrs. Cushing, Mrs. Franklin, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Tomelloo, um, just to give some highlights, we know we had to move indoors. Um, I think it went off without a hitch and so, uh, we had a lot of nice comments afterwards about the setup, being able to have the auditorium available for for streaming. Um, so, uh, it was another really wonderful, wonderful evening. We had one foyer request uh since our last board meeting and that was from Bo Kim Union bids. It was a request for the uh bid tab for our roofing repair, replacement, masonry restoration. We responded to that request in
072the uh designated time frame. Um two last things, very exciting news, Miss Lance will share the one. Um, but I want to share at our last administrative meeting, uh, earlier this week, we had an update on what is going to be what we believe is our preliminary chronic absenteeism, uh, rates. Um, if you recall, three years ago, we were like at 32%. And then two years ago, it dropped 28%. For last year, it was at 26%. We we set a pretty audacious goal. My first year, the smart goal was a 2% drop, which we we attained. Went from 28 to 26%. We set a goal to drop it by 10%. This year, we bring it down to 16%. Knowing we're we're swinging for the for the fences. Um, we feel if we're going to set
073a goal, we we make need to make it a meaningful meaty goal. And I have to give credit to all of our staff that has been involved in tracking kids, following up with kids, and doing everything we possibly can. lots of home visits and our preliminary chronic absenteeism rate as of earlier this week is at 19%. Wow. So that is that is more than significant. So we're we're very excited to then get the final tallies and especially to be able to share that with the staff and the community and our kids. And we're excited too to be able to see where our graduation rate lands too. That's still being, you know, can't still calculating that uh at this point. So, uh, a lot of kudos to a lot of people that were were involved in
074that. And then I'd like to share m ask Miss Lance if you could give an update on our cell phone policy data. Good evening. This is in your packets, I believe. Mhm. So you get the board agreed to let us start a new electronic device policy and at the beginning of the year so the end of second semester we had 490 referrals on cell phones and with true improvement and I hope with the energy and the vivaceiousness of our staff the end of this semester we had So if you look at that, that is a nearly a 60% decrease in cell phone violations. And we're very proud of the fact that we went for suspensions. Our first semester, we had 65 suspensions for cell phones and we ended with eight this semester. So that was
075close to a 86% decrease. So we're very excited. I just wanted to share that brief information with you. We thank you for allowing us to do this new cell phone policy and we hope as the years come that it improves each year. So, is it improving the classroom instruction? I believe it is just from being in evaluations, Mrs. Elorn, and being there. It's nice to see students not doing this as the teacher's talking. Um, maybe if there is a cell phone in the classroom, the teachers take care of it quickly, quietly, and follow protocols. So I believe from being in and out also from being out in the hallways restrooms we don't allow them in the restrooms we don't allow them in the locker rooms those incidences have gone down because of no cell phones
076we have only had two video videoing occurrences this year so that's was huge for us so I think I believe it's helping across the board alto together that's what we that's the goal I agree I agree and I don't know if you have this number, but of of those suspensions and you know discipline referrals, how many are repeats? Repeats is it like we had last semester I do know that number just because it stuck in my head. Last semester we had eight repeaters who went through violations one through five. Sure. And then you even had two of them that did six, seven. And then this year we only had or this semester we only had two repeated offenders. That's that's and zero from the first semester. To the second semester were totally different students. So
077good. That's kudos to you. Okay. Well, everybody. So they did a really nice job. staff. We're hoping that they stay vigilant with it, you know, throughout the next couple years and that um and it's all of us as a team that worked hard to make sure that this was implemented and brought to light. So, and I think the students are getting used to it. So, that helps also. So, thank you. We appreciate your support and everything that you did for us. Thank you. Thank you. That's all I have. Okay. Any questions? Thank you, Dr. Blessman. Thank you. Uh principal report, Mrs. cushion. So May is a very busy uh month for us here. We're we're wrapping up things um getting all this data as you already heard some of it. Um and then already getting
078ready for next year. So um my report has lots of the good news about celebrations and we we gave away over 60 uh uh scholarships this year and we've been we're going to celebrate our staff um on Friday. Okay. So, lots of good things going on, but I want to kind of highlight um more of the things that we're going to look forward to. Um so, one of them that included in there is registration. Um we are sort of pushing more things to the online portal um to ease the burden on families of having to um spend so much time when they come here to the building u for registration. And so, um, that is something that I'm really happy that as a team we've worked on, um, and created a system I think that
079will benefit our families a great deal. Um, another thing, um, that I want to share with you, and I I believe you have a copy of it in your, um, packets as well is our um, proposal for an uh, academic success program um, as we have called it. The whole idea um behind this is really um to increase our students learning um and um we don't want to just chase after all this this missing work. Um we want to actually make it a good learning experience for students. Um and so we've spent a lot of time talking about this through all of our our leadership meetings. um those data uh quarterly data meetings and then we went through and we kind of created this proposal of what things have not been working and and what
080things we know we need to improve on. So um that proposal in there um we presented it to the staff as well at this point. Um I gave them a questionnaire to to send me uh any questions that they had remaining. They have been very very minimal um questions that they've had and they're really just slight clarifications. Um the overall program is really just to make sure that we get kids doing their work. Um it has four separate steps um that they can go through. I won't spend your time going through all of those with you even though I could talk about this for like an hour. Um but I think it's going to be really a good turning point for us next year to improving our our grades um and increasing our academic success.
081Um were there any questions about that program or anything in my report? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Athletic Director uh is in your packet. Mr. Hansen's not here this evening. ACC director report. Dr. Light. Thank you. So, I'm going to start by reading the letter um that we spoke of earlier. So, it was addressed to me and it says, "My name is Wayne Zabron. My wife Carol is a resident of Liberty Village Nursing Home in Peru. She has primary progressive aphasia with severe dementia and can no longer speak. I would like to take a moment to express my gratitude to your CNA program staff and students. As I watch the staff, Lynn Pohar, Katherine Lambert, and Jamie O Flanigan work with the students as the students too many to mention work with the residents of
082Liberty Village. I am truly impressed with the confidence, courtesy, and ability they display. The care they provide to Carol is amazing. They participate in activities with my wife like word search and other puzzle games. I'm not sure Carol understands what's going on, but I believe and hope that she feels a sense of participation with the students during the activity. As I watch the students take Carol for a walk with one on each side and another behind with a wheelchair, I've had great appreciation for kindness and sincerity they display. These young people are truly a credit to the instructors, the CNA program, school, and community. Carol and I have had the pleasure of watching the students lead Manor Court on several occasions. As they walked out, each young lady and young man called Carol by name
083as they wished her goodbye. We extend hope for the success of this group of students as they move on in their careers as well as the staff and ACC program. Thank you so much sincerely Wayne Zebron and Carol. Great job. Yeah, [Applause] I actually had an opportunity to witness it on two occasions um due to evaluations and that sort of thing and it it is a a pleasure to watch. That's awesome. That's awesome. So, as far as my report, I'm going to highlight just a couple things. My report's in your packet. Um, one of the things that I'm really proud of is the signing day and a hundred seniors participated in signing day. And of those hundred senior seniors that um had an intent to go somewhere, 60 of them chose to go on to
084postsecary education and the majority of them were for IBCC and we had IBCC participate in the signing day. So, Dr. Tracy Morris and two of her staff members came um and they presented some some things for the the students that chose IBCC and then um some other schools that were represented were ISU, the U of I, Bradley, Western and there were there were others as well. Um 40 students uh chose to go on to a related career and several community uh organizations were in that. Uh I I know for a fact there was um machinery maintenance, we had Bactor, several others, and then a lot of students chose some sort of apprenticeship, some labor union apprenticeship. So we had represented in there we had mill rights, um contractors association, uh pipe fitters, and several others.
085So that was really great. And four students chose military. So that was really cool there. Um, as far as awards, so the second half of the signing day was awards. Um, several LP students were chose for student of the year. They were chosen in health occupations, culinary, residential wiring, automotive, CAD, aviation, fire science, and EMS, and machines. LP student received the Anthony Easter Memorial Award and LP student received the TJ Chrisman memorial awards. four other LP students received awards in health occupations. So you guys kind uh also one other thing I'd like to highlight. So last last week we were I guess given an opportunity to do a last minute grant through ISVY for workbased learning. And in the same week, I guess the next day, we put the grant through. And the following day,
086we received the grant. Notice that we received it. And it's going to be used to enhance the experience and work-based learning for the students in the culinary program and then the aviation, specifically the drone side of things. So, there's going to be a few renovations that happen in the culinary area along with some equipment. And then we're going to try to get some firsterson drones for the aviation. So, any questions? Thank you, Dr. Thank you. Director of Communications, Mr. Baker. Uh, good evening everyone. Um, as you can imagine, been busy kind of working on all the communication pieces of all the things Dr. Bleskkey and Mrs. Cushing talked about, graduations and senior awards and top 10 lists and all those things. Um, happy to say that as Dr. Robleski hinted at for moving graduation inside,
087we were able to for the first time this year. Um, not only did we live stream out to the community, but we had our overflow area in the auditorium. So, um, significantly more people watched graduation than are watching our live stream at home right now. I can tell you that. Um, but um, but at any given point though, just live between YouTube and Facebook, there there were hundreds of people, not to mention however many were um, in the auditorium um, watching it where they could still stay connected uh, somewhat within the building. Um, so really good things there. I think that worked out really well. Um recently Dr. Weskkey and I attended um a seminar down in Springfield looking at kind of kind of strategic communication planning for the district. Um it also touched on
088some AI things and implementing some of that in into what we do. So I think there's some exciting things as we look forward and then also as we're looking forward to next year um thanks to some support from Dr. Bleskkey and just met with Mrs. Cushing and our counseling office, Mrs. Hartman and I she's our activities director if you're not aware. Uh we're going to kind of pilot a new program next year. Um kind of working on how we want to what we kind of call it, but it's kind of like our student runner program if you're familiar with our runners who do work in our offices during their study halls as upper classmen. Um but kind of taking that to the next level and kind of creating office assistance for her and I u
089so we can do even more because as we saw in the past year so we keep adding new technology and tools and lots of things that we can do but u we're not adding there's not more time in the day. So, um I think we'll have to do a lot more um to communicate with with our community, um plan and execute huddles and assemblies and other student activities. Uh but also give our students some great opportunities to really develop some skills, things that go into college applications, uh career portfolios, those sorts of things. So, we're really excited to see we just sent letter an email blast out to families today. So hopefully students will start applying for that and we'll have our first round of uh those student assistants uh next fall um with hopes
090that may that could really kind of grow into more of a schoolwide program. Um so we're looking forward to that. And then on the foundation side of things uh we're kind of hitting the break period uh you know plans for next fall but no real meetings. The last big activity was during teacher appreciation week. Um the foundation did host that their annual cookout uh for all the faculty and staff. So, we served a couple hundred hamburgers and hot dogs that day and I think it was all well received. If I can just add to that, just to give a shout out to Matt, the so much of the success of the programs that we have is because Matt's ability to to oversee and manage our our um our uh video system. It just opens up
091the doors to so many more people to be able to see the good things that are going on with LP and you know there's so much behind the scenes work that Matt put it puts into this countless hours from the hype videos that we do for the huddles and athletic events and streaming the uh all of the programs that we have the state sendoffs and so I just I wanted to say say thank you as well for that. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Have a good night. Okay. Lastly, under administrative reports, uh, tonight is Dr. Chris Gibson's last board meeting here at LP. Um, we want to thank him for everything he's done for the district and wish you the best of luck in your superintendency. Thank you, [Applause] Chris. Okay. standard new business. Uh
09211.1 a motion to adopt a resolution 2025-9 approving the tenative amended LP fiscal year 25 budget and place it on public display. So moved. Second. Mrs. Talian. Yes. Mrs. Al. Yes. Mr. Pto. Yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Murva. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. 11.2. We're going to do this in subtopics all the way down. So I need a motion of approval to award the contract a the home electric auto Illinois for the exterior lighting paving and site improvements for the project which is $428,58 which includes the main building exterior lighting with a base bid B of $229,850 charters and fifth street pole lighting alternative bid B1 for $138,500 courtyard Inside the E light fixtures, alternative bid B2 for $42,500. Uh add for uh Kim Cipher wall packs, alternative bid three for $9,661 and add for Kim uh
093Cipher wall plaques in courtyard inside of the E alternative bid four for $7,547. So moved. Second. Mr. Murva. Yes. Mr. Tiani. Yes. Mr. PTO. Yes. Mrs. Alport. Yes. Mrs. Gania. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. 11.2B. I need a motion of approval to award the contract to universal asphalt Illinois for the exterior lighting paving and site improvements projects which would be 1 million $80,000 which includes site work charters and fifth street base bid A for $646,000 seal coat main campus parking lots alternative bid A1 for $130,000 seal coat Dolan lot and replace walks. Alternative bid A2 for $44,000. East gym parking lot rebuild. Alternative bid A3 for $221,000. Athletic complex track parking lot crackfill. Alternative bid A4 for $21,000. Athletic complex soccer and tennis lot crack. Alternative bid A5 for $18,000. So move second. Mrs. Talian. Yes.
094Mrs. Alhar, yes. Mr. Pazto, yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Murva. Yes. Mr. Sver. Yes. 11.2C. I need a motion to approve the contract to AK Plumbing of HL, excuse me, IL Incorporated of Wooddale, Illinois for the concession space remodel project for $84,655. So, Mrs. Yes. Mr. Pedto, yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. 11.2D. A motion of approval to award the contract to Pizza Hut for the 2025 2026 school year. So moved. Second. Mrs. Talian. Yes. Mr. P. Mrs. Al. Yes. Mrs. Mr. Murba. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. 11.2e. I need a motion of approval for the contract to award the contract to Prairie Farms Escalator bid for the 2025 2026 school year. So moved. Second. Mrs. Al. Yes. Mr. RB. Yes. Mr. PTO. Yes. Mrs. Gania. Yes. Mrs. Tian. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes.
09511.2F. I need a motion to approve of the award to contract to Alpha Baking for the 2025 2026 school year. So moved. Second. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Mr. Sar. Yes. 11.3 and the motion of approval let bids for the track replacement project. So moved. Second. Mrs. Al. Yes. Mr. Pto. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Tiani. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. And a motion 11.4 and a motion of approval to submit building permit applications for the following summer 2025 projects. A main roof and masonary B main lighting paving and site work. CIP and Saver phase 2 D. East gym ACC paving and roof repairs in E Dolan Health Occupation Suite renovation. So moved. Second. Mr. Ba. Yes. Mrs. Tian. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Yes. Mrs. Coneian. Yes. Mr. Sarver. Yes. 11.5.
096Any emotional approval to submit the application for the statement of completion for the following projects. A main building amendment 85 which is counseling office renovation. B main building amendment 86 was counseling office ceiling replacement. And C soccer building amendment one tennis court renovation. So move. Second. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Murba, yes. Mr. PTO, yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Tian, yes. Mr. Sar, yes. 11.6, A motion of approval of the following application of occupancy and or statement of completion for the Dolan building elevator uh modernization project. A occlation of occup occupancy. B Dolan amendment 10 state of completion. And C Dolan amendment 11 state of statement of completion. Move. Second. Mr. Yes. Mr. Ruba. Yes. Mrs. Alcorn. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Tiani. Yes. Mr. Yes. 11.7. A motion of approval for the 2025 through 2027 boys swim team
097intergovernmental agreement between LP Ottawa High School, Strereer High School, Pman County High School, and Earlville High School. So moved. Second. Mrs. Diani. Yes. Mrs. Alford. Yes. Mr. Cto. Yes. Mr. Yes, Mr. Verbus. Yes, Mr. Sver. Yes. 11.8. A motion approval of the memorandum of understanding between Lelp proof Township High School District 120 board of education proof federation of teachers local 604 to rename Dwise Weiss coordinator coordinate coordinator differential level 9 to ACES coordinator differential level 9. So move. Second. Mr. PTO. Yes. Mr. Murba. Yes. Mrs. Als. Yes. Mrs. Gania. Yes. Mrs. Tiani. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. 11.9. Uh, this is not an action item. Uh, press policy issue 118 is the first reading. 11.10. The emotional approval of the 2025 2026 student handbook, which is second reading. So moved. Second, Mrs. Aler. Yes. Mr. Pto,
098yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Tian. Yes. Mr. S. Yes. 11.11. A motional approval for the bloodborne pathogens exposure control plan for the 2025 2026 school year. So moved. Second. Mrs. Diani. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. PTO. Yes. Mrs. Alcort. Yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. 11.12 in the motion approval of resolution assuring reemployment for the 2025 2026 school year. So moved. Second. Mr. Murba. Yes. Mr. Tian. Yes. Mr. PTO. Yes. Mr. Al. Yes. Mrs. Cia. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. 11.13 and a motion of approval of the following resignations. A. Mr. Aaron Gunther head boys tennis coach effective at the conclusion of the 2024 2025 school year. B. Mr. Kevin Kavanaaugh, assistant boys tennis coach, effective at the conclusion of the 2024 2025 school year. C, Mr. Matt Gunther, volunteer boys tennis coach, effective for the
099conclusion of the 2024 2025 school year. And D, Mr. Troy Woods, Scholastic Bull sponsor, effective the conclusion of the 2024 2025 school year. So moved. Second. Mrs. Talia, yes. Mr. Ma, yes. Mr. PTO, yes. Mrs. Alcorn, yes. Mrs. Mr. Sar, yes. 11.14 and emotional approval of the following appointments. A Mr. Leo Trujillo, assistant boys soccer coach, effective for the 2025 2026 school year, replaces Mr. Zack Horton. B Mr. Alexis Alexandra, excuse me, West, student council sponsor, effective for the 2025 2026 school year, replace Mr. Will Jacowski. C. Mr. Mr. Ryan Scoop, assistant boys basketball coach effective for the 2025 2026 school year replaced Mr. Tyler Patac B. Mr. Eric Bherkus uh substitute math club sponsor was split with Mrs. Caitlyn Monahan effective for the 2025 2026 school year upon approval of Mrs. Monahan's FMLA maternity
100leave and e Mr. Shane Gunther, assistant Special Olympics coach effective for the 2025 2026 school year, replaces Mrs. Kathleen Rebolds, Bucky. Sorry, Mr. PTO. Yes. Mrs. Al, yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Verba. Yes. Mrs. Tiani. Yes. Mr. Sar. Yes. 11.15. I need a motion approval to rehire the following staff for the 2025 2026 school year. A. Mr. Scott Leonard, network administrator. B. Mr. Matt Baker, director of communications. C, Mr. Sue, Mrs. Sue Rooker, AAP Coordinator. D, Mrs. Jennifer Doe's, business manager. E, Mr. Timmonella, director of building and grounds. And F, Mr. Bobby Rahi, uh, director of food and nutrition services. So moved. Second. Mr. Rob, yes. Mrs. Talian, yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Mr. Yes. 11.16. and a motion of approval of the following summer 2025 temporary positions as presented. Thank you. Second, Mrs. Mr. Yes.
101Yes. Mrs. Yes. Yes. 11.17 a motion approval for the following maternity uh FMLA request. A, Mrs. Abigail Passini beginning on or about Thursday, November 20th, 2025 and returning on April 7th, 2026. She will be using her accumulated sick days to cover the leave and be Miss Caitlyn Monahan beginning on or about November 7th, 2025 and returning on February 2nd, 2026. She will be using her cumulative sick days to cover the leave. So move. Second, Mr. Ra. Yes. Mrs. Al, yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Candia. Yes. Mrs. Sal. Yes. Mr. Yes. I need a motion to go into executive close session for the purpose of a discussion of the minutes that meetings lawfully closed under the open meeting act whether for purposes of approved by the body of the minutes or the semiannual view of the
102minutes b appointment employment compensation discipline performance or discipline of a specific employee and c collectively negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives or deliberation concerning salary schools for one or more class employees with open session and possible uh action items to follow. So move second. Mr. Yes. Yes. Yes. Mr. Yes. Yes. Yes.