001I like to call the public hearing no order roll call please Mr Ferrari Ferrari here here the purpose of this budget hearing is to provide any member of the public an opportunity to ask questions or comment on proposed amended FY 2023 lphs District budget does anyone from the public wish to comment or ask questions on the budget hearing no questions ask for a motion to adjourn it's almost Saga yes yes Dr Lynch yes this is out yes okay I like the call to order the regular board meeting for June uh June 21st 2023 to order roll call please Mr Ferrari here still here please stand for 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
002liberty and justice for all to welcome everyone this evening on this nice cool June evening and watery and watery all right we'll start with the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting uh May 17 2023 any motion to approve hello yes yes next on the agenda is um recognition the comments from visitors I will tell you that this is the Highlight every month for me to strut our stuff you know the show what our young people and staff have done and I I can't be more proud of you I'll tell you that right now because the things you do and go through are amazing to accomplish your Feats and first of all before we get to the honorees I would like to congratulate and thank the parents and Guardians because without you you know
003get into practice having meals after practice making sure they make certain I mean it's amazing the impact the influence you have on the young people of our district and I'd just like to give you a round of applause [Applause] now for honorees uh when I call your name uh please we have a certificate for you please come up meet the board and don't hustle out of here because we're going to get pictures after we get through everything all right first of all girls track Elizabeth signs [Applause] congratulations thank you nice job congratulations congratulations head coach John Beatty [Applause] John congratulations thank you nice job coach thanks you're welcome thank you assistant coach Madeline pillar [Applause] congratulations thank you Mr summer congratulations thank you so much you're welcome congratulations thank you congratulations thank you very much
004thank you an assistant coach Dan Burkhart [Applause] congratulations thank you congratulations congratulations and just just to recap uh Elizabeth Renda 100 meter hurdles and finished 14th overall in the state well for boys track state qualifier uh Richie Santiago [Applause] congratulations thank you congratulations uh head coach Adam Spencer he's not here this evening assistant coach David sputic is not here this evening but assistant coach Jose Medina is here this evening [Applause] congratulations great job and Richie qualified for the state in a discus throw and finished 29th overall in the state [Applause] Daniel santoy nope not here that Andrew bolus also is not here but we do have head coach Aaron Gunther [Applause] Mr Gunther is also a brand new dad thank you congratulations yes and play and playing tennis assistant coach Kevin Kavanaugh [Applause] thank you
005congratulations thank you sir congratulations thank you I won't hug it out Kevin congratulations okay he's awesome everybody how's your day been I think you know just like yeah yeah you look up at the clock and it's like oh it's yeah yeah it's already four o'clock thank you you have to throw out the first picture right there's no public comment so Nexus Finance I need a motion to approve the bills and payroll uh for LP Township High School yes [Music] the emotion to prove uh the opiary career center bills it's almost Italian yes yeah yes Mr merva yes yes Mr passetto yes any emotionally approved payroll report yes yes any emotion through the financial records as presented so moved yes Mr Ferrari yes yes under correspondence we have a thank you letter for Mrs Cheryl depape
006for the Board of Education donation to the lp Educational Foundation in memory of Mr Jacob Eunice son of Mrs April Judas and we also received a thank you card from Mr Tony Sparks for the Board of Education Dr rubleski and Mrs Riva for appreciation of the retirement gifts the celebration for spinal board meeting next on the agenda is the committee reports uh building grounds committee Ferrari building and grounds committee met on Monday afternoon we discussed a number of items the storm drainage piping repair in the East Building uh the bids came in higher than anticipated and therefore there's going to be a slight delay as we have to go back to isby to get approval for the additional funding Dolan building elevator elevator repair projects so far uh at least as of Monday there were
007no bids received as yet summer projects Sports Complex is coming along there are a number of change orders that will be on the agenda tonight for approval but as far as the progress goes everything seems to be moving forward the tennis courts were slightly behind but there's still a couple months of the summer to go so they might be able to catch up auto shop phase two it's coming along the S asbestos abatement is scheduled to take place after the Fourth of July and anticipating that the project will be done before school starts the nurse's office renovation is underway Furnishings are currently on order Stadium concrete repairs lejinski is going to be doing that work they're anticipating a completion by the middle of July which will give time for the concrete to cure and then
008the painting to be completed before the season starts the problem with the lights and banner arms and the uh East gym parking lot where waiting for a call back and an inspection to see why some of that equipment failed so that's um the Canterbury Tales mural has been completed it's been cleaned and touched up there's a discussion about putting up a plaque and recognition of the artist who did the work yeah yeah the bike rack uh installation has been completed and it's out there on uh Charter Street um there was a brief discussion regarding uh naming for the baseball field being constructed currently actually if we could maybe expand a little bit you know on that as well in terms of just for the the the full bar matter I know it's in the report
009and it's in in in in my report as well there was discussion about naming the new baseball field in honor of coach hubby Sarver long time baseball coach here at LP I know he was coached when I was a student and probably several others who were on the board here also and let's see under other bifocals on here can't read my own writing um the work on the uh the power equipment that's coming into the ACC from the donations we received from uh who else Kowalski that's that's ongoing Sanders table saws 3D printers welding equipment it's it's flowing in there's like a half a million dollars worth of equipment has been donated from that gentleman it's pretty incredible it Mr fur if I could add to that I had a conversation with Mr Kowalski today
010um he is uh putting another check for a hundred thousand dollars uh in the mail for the district and shared with them too that we were having conversations um with Mrs Lori Johnson we recognized uh recently she has a proposal a vision to create an outdoor playground for the kids in the Early Childhood Program and so we're uh working on with Mr kemetz's office to put together the plans for that and uh Mr Kowalski has has expressed a desire to to assist with that project as well so it's uh very exciting and uh there was some discussion also about uh use of uh solar panels not on the uh the roof of the parking garage but uh for other purposes yeah to support Mr Dawson's classmate curricular standpoints yeah the change orders involving uh the
011sports complex uh a couple of them have to do with fencing another one has to do with uh the flagpoles and we'll be getting to that later if like and if I could just add to the the for the addition to for the uh uh the additional funding for the um this the uh storm drain repairs as well and then um the other thing too I know you mentioned too uh Mr Ferrari that you know we had we had one bidder um uh for that and so on on the agenda as well is the uh is a motion to kind of tied in with the approval for the amendment is once that's approved is to then award the contract to to team and Builders contingent you know this also ensures too that it doesn't require
012a special meeting to come back to have to uh to to award the contract and that's it for building the ground are there any questions thank you the finance Community report will be given by Dr robleski this year yep thank you Mr starboard uh finance committee also met on June 13th um following buildings and grounds we had updates on the monthly financials uh 91.7 percent of the way through the fiscal year uh which be the end of May everything is is is on target with where we uh expected uh both revenue and expenditures uh to be uh we also discussed the proposed amended budget there is really nothing of substance that has changed from last month's um overview for the uh the agenda so we are recommending to ask the board to approve the amended
013budget and once that's done then we'll be able to to resubmit that to isby our Auditors and the uh the county county offices um we presented a proposal which is another action item uh it's the call it the the Cavalier paid internship student teaching uh proposal uh program the the intent behind this is it's it's a recruitment retention tool um to be able to put ourselves as a district in a better position stronger position to attract and retain quality candidates it would not be utilized probably on a regular basis but it would be utilized in those situations where we know we have a quality candidate and we have an opening uh could be uh you know we've been utilizing permanent Subs the last couple of years uh we could have a candidate can emerge from
014that it could also be a paraprofessional in the special ed Department that would be interested in going back and getting his or her teaching certificate the idea behind this is that we have flexibility as a district to pay them during their either their internship or their student teaching experience and what we're proposing a number of other districts are now doing this is to make a uh a commitment uh to the Canada and the Canada to us that as long as he or she successfully fulfills the internship and our student teaching experience that we would then recommend that person to a uh and they would accept the the open position in exchange for a minimum two-year commitment to the district that they will not look to leave during that time period but the understanding of the
015agreement that if they were to leave they would have to repay what we paid them for the internship I'm recommending that we utilize the ba step one um whatever the year the contract would be as the the salary for payment that this would not include any benefits um I guess if we may have to maybe reconsider that if we have a paraprofessional that's currently on staff that we would cross that bridge you know when we would get there but we don't have any circumstances uh like that um but we we feel that this would be a a tool to uh to be able to retain and attract uh people and not worry of or have the fear of them even in the in a year or so to consider leaving uh and the committee is
016recommending the the board to to approve that recommendation uh our committee also reviewed the um uh change orders um uh from the sports complex and I know Mr star was going to go over those you know individually when you when you get to that part of the the agenda um uh so I won't I won't repeat any of that other than that normally when you have projects like this that you you have a 10 set aside contingency uh for this we are more than halfway through um the project and the the toll total amount of these change orders represents 1.2 percent um of of the project which would be only 1.2 percent of that 10 contingency that's very good and then uh I am seeking Authority uh to pay July bills since we are not
017going to be meeting the committee is recommending this um with Mrs whalen's assistance um kind of calculating what we expect the construction renovation projects uh total expenditures coming in as well as our normal bills and payroll would be to authorize uh payment of bills up to four million dollars and um once the bills are are completed I would have that report we will email that to the board so that way there you will have access to see what were what was being authorized that's all I have unless there are questions or if any other member of the committee has anything else to add thank you thank you a college committee Mrs Elkhorn thank you we met Monday the policy was very short there was absolutely no changes in the items presented the meeting was historic
018it lasted five minutes so we were it's pretty good it's really good we did well yeah um there was one item which Dr robeski ask that we pull from our recommendation for approval of these and we're not going to approve them tonight but it's 6.40 curriculum development as I understand this um the district has done their own curriculum development policy and they are going to go back and revisit that and tweak it and update it and present it in August to be and then we can approve this group of any questions thank you okay administrative reports uh superintendent Dr Bluster uh just a a couple uh uh items to update the board on um we are uh District audit the dates have been set um for this uh summer and fall July 10th our auditor
019will be here on site for the preliminary intake of information and then August 24th no 21st through the 24th will be they'll be on site um and probably a combination on-site remotes or at this point it's all going to be on site okay all right and in our it is our hope then to be able to have the final report um on either the October or the November uh regular board meeting uh Mrs Whalen and I are continuing to work on the District budget uh Mrs Whalen has um had all of her meetings with uh the division chairs administrators so we're at that point now where she where we're now going to begin to go over all of the the individual items um uh in the revenue as well as the expenditure budget and we
020already had our kind of a preliminary discussion on the naming of the baseball field uh it is the uh is the intent then if I can also share if I can maybe add to that the committee was very was unanimous you know in in the the uh the support uh for the naming but we wanted then to be able to make this as sort of the first announcement and uh provide members of the board time to um uh reflect on it as well we'll have another a follow-up discussion at our next buildings and grounds meeting and then the intent would be to have a recommendation for the board at the uh the August uh meeting um so we're looking forward to to moving forward with that and then I had two foil requests that we
021received in the since our last board meeting both from the same uh entity this is from local Labs um we had a uh a request for any records email correspondences with Lori's Children Hospital from July 1st 2022 to the present day as you can imagine there's a lot of um confidential information with that we relied heavily on Mr zukowski's office who was very helpful um in making sure that information that was to be redacted was was redacted and we did ask for an extension of time uh to complete that request and we and we did respond though within the uh the the appropriate amount of time then received another email or another for a request from the same individual this individual was asking if we had any contracts or agreements with any vendors that would
022be providing diversity equity and inclusion services from January 1st 2019 to the present day after accounts Consulting with our appropriate staff members we do not have any contracts or service agreements in regards to that so that I did respond to the uh to that request as well okay so I haven't answered questions okay the principal's report director Athletics and activities and the director of the Area Career Center are in your packets all right director of communications Mr Baker I'll try to keep it quick then um so big pieces as we talked about kind of before the meeting we've really wrapped up all of the big streaming upgrades the last piece of equipment came in we did our last kind of official Training Day with key code uh staff here on site to go over a
023few extra things also Mrs Williams said in on that so she has a little bit of cross training so if I get hit by a bus or something or just need to take a vacation day there's somebody else at least of how all this works um and otherwise so then with that project kind of put to bed uh now we're kind of really kicking off the migration of to the final site website system so at our first hand official kind of kickoff meeting with their team uh as a webinar yesterday and they'll just kind of keep rolling out over the summer as we make the transition so that's all unless you have any questions all right thank you thank you all right under new business uh 10.1 any motion to approve FY 2023 amended District
024120 budget so move second yes this is Italian yes Mr Ferrari yes Dr Lynch yes this is Alcorn yes Mr Potato yes Mr sarva yes any emotion to approve that 2023 2024 ACC joint agreement this is Alcorn yes Dr Lynn yes Mr Ferrari yes Mrs taliani yes Mr murbach yes Mr yes I need a motion to approve the Kevlar paid intern internship student teaching program proposal so moved second yes the emotion approved authorized superintendent to approve July 2023 LP and HCC bill is up to four million dollars so moved Mr Murphy Mr Ferrari yes Mrs taliani yes Dr Lynch yes Mr pasado yes Mr Sarver yes but a motion approved authorized superintendent to pay lease FY 2023 fourth quarter bills not to exceed 85 500. no move Mr pasado yes yes Mrs yes Mr murbaugh
025yes Dr Lynn yes Mr server yes okay are they most improve the transfer of working cash fund interest to the education fund this is an annual request so move second Mr murbach yes Mrs yes Mr Ferrari yes Dr Lynch yes Mrs Alcorn Mr faceto yes Mr starter yes the emotion food to transfer to Capital lease payment of 206 59.87 from the education fund to The Debt Service fund this in the this is an accounting motion Mr merva yes Mr yes Dr Lynn yes any emotion to prove the Smith Hill Life Safety East gym industrial Arts Building amendment number 20 request for additional funds for storm drainage repairs amendment number 19 36 972 dollars second yeah this is yes Mr Ferrari yes yes are the emotions approved the reward team and Builders a contract for steam
026storm drainage repairs East gym bid not to exceed 66 890 contingent upon isby's approval of the health Life Safety East gym industrialized building amendment number 20. so move second yes this is our yes any approval any motion for approval of the following LP Sports Complex phase two change orders uh a change order one flag polls 26 000 800 dollars change order number two light pull upgrades for cameras twenty five thousand dollars change order number three additional fence a baseball and softball diamonds sixteen thousand one hundred thirty seven dollars change order number four new soccer shelters for home and visitors forty nine thousand nine hundred forty nine dollars change order number five soccer field concrete fifty six thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars change order number six which is the deduction uh tips contingency which is
027a deduction of seventy seven thousand five hundred dollars so the total request is ninety seven thousand three hundred and sixty six dollars which we said earlier is uh one point two percent of the original contract value someone second is that Mr furry okay yes are you a motion to approve the following nurses office renovation change order change order number one uh case work revisions in storage room Corridor and additional an addition of bathroom accessories in the toilet room two thousand five hundred ninety eight dollars second yes yes I mean the motion to approve the 2023-2024 event emission fees which are no changes from last year so moved second yes Mr Ferrari yes Mrs stalliani yes Dr Lynch yes Mrs Alcorn yes Mr posetto yes Mr Sarver yes the emotion to approve the 2023-2024 board paid
028holidays hello suck it yeah Mr Murphy yes Mr Ferrari yes Mrs saliani yes Mrs Alcorn yes yes and there's no change to consolidation plan for this current year okay I need approval of the FY 2024 District consolidation plan which is annual motion and there's no change from this year it's almost second yes Mr Ferrari yes Mr merbach yes yes uh 10 10.15 is a press policy issue of 112 which is the first reading that is not an action item uh 10.16 any motion to approve the resolution ensuring re-employment for the 2023-2024 school year for 10-month employees Saga is that far yes yes Mr Ferrari yes yes Dr Lynch yes Mr yes are they in motion approved the falling resignations as presented so second Mr Ferrari yes Mr murbach yes Mrs stalliani yes Dr Lynn yes
029yes the motion approved recall the following staff for the 2023-2024 year 24 school year as presented yes Mr Potato yes Mr Ferrari yes Mr murbell yes Dr Lynch yes Mrs Alford yes Mr Carver yes are they a motion to approve the following summer 2023 temporary building and grounds extra help as presented second [Music] the motion approved the following appointments as presented so moved second Mr merva yes Mr Ferrari yes Mrs taliani yes Dr Lynn yes Mrs Alcorn yes Mr faceto yes Mr Sarver yes I need a motion for approval of the girls soccer team outing to the Chicago Red Star game on July 7 2023 the purpose of the outings for team building yes Mr Ferrari yes Mr Murphy yes Dr Lynch yes Mr server yes any motion to adjourn your executive closed session for
030a discussion the minutes and meetings lawfully closed under the open meetings act whether for the purpose of approval by the body of the of the minutes or semi-end review of the minutes B appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal office a specific employee can see purchase or lease of real estate real property for the use of the public body including meetings held for the purpose of discussion is to discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired with open session of partial possible action items to follow yes