001Garrison >> here. >> Wesley. >> Yes. >> More. >> Oh, okay. [laughter] >> Mr. Williamson, you want to lead us in the pledge? >> 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, we've got retiree recognition. Do you want to Mr. Tim Foster? >> So, >> all right. So, we have Mr. Tim Foster. Tim has been with the district for 26 years. >> Almost 27. and we are presenting him with his bell. He is going to retire and we are sad to see him go. Tim has been a locksmith for the district for a lot of years and I'm sure saved us a whole lot of money which is a good thing. So, thank
002you Tim for everything you've done and we appreciate [applause] Thank you. Next. >> Does she want to get a picture? >> Oh, do you want a picture up here? >> Sure. >> Yeah. Come on up. Yeah, absolutely. 20 almost 27 years. >> Absolutely. >> Do you want with you? Tell us what you want. >> I don't care. >> Okay. Do you want to [laughter] >> ring the bell? Ring the bell. >> Like KPLR TV wrestling the chase. Ring the bell. Okay, >> next, my favorite agenda item is the example of educational excellence. >> Okay, so tonight we have Mrs. Cororsine from Jefferson School here to talk about one school, one start, making mornings matter. >> Good evening, everyone. Happy to be here tonight to tell you about of I think the most important pieces of
003our day at Jefferson School. I'm going to full disclosure right now. I am going to be that person with my notes. I am an elementary school principal and a mother. There are three days until Christmas. [laughter] Everybody around. So my brain runs off in a direction. So I'm not [laughter] um but yes, I'm super excited to be here tonight to tell you [snorts] about what we do. So, we start with a morning meeting. Um, so give a little background about our morning meeting, why it's a focus for us every day. If you look up here at the screen, this is a picture of what our mornings look like at Jefferson School. So, we have one common space at Jefferson School. We do not have a separate cafeteria or gymnasium. We have what we call the
004caffeinium. We take the cafeteria and the gym and put them together. This is our caff. So this is how we get to start our school day all together every morning. Uh which certainly presents it challenges but we have decided to make it an intentional time to come together as a school family to build a sense of community and culture and have a meeting all together. morning meeting is not my original idea. It is a very common practice that takes place in lots of classrooms all over. But I think what makes it special is the way that we do it at Jefferson with all of our students all together. So our morning meeting is focused on these four foundational pieces. Uh we are very intentional with everything we do during our morning meeting. All components are
005purposeful and they support our desired outcome. We're very consistent. So routines are the absolute best way for our students to start their day. For our students, predictability equals safety and is key for emotional regulation. So when students know what to expect, um they are able to regulate better. They are surprised by something that often triggers their fight orflight response. And that student. So those routines are absolutely key to how we start our day. It's also positive. So regardless of what happened before school, students start their day in a warm, welcoming and consistent way. So everyone gets a reset in the morning, including myself. I know if it's been chaotic at my house before I get to school, once I start in on morning, I can leave all of that behind and focus on the school
006day at hand. and it's non-negotiable. So our morning meeting happens no matter what. So even if I am absent, somebody else can step in and do morning meeting. If we have other activities, those have to take place after morning because it is not something that we [snorts] meeting each day. We have our Jefferson School fun slideshow. So this is updated on a regular basis once this slideshow. It signals to our students that our morning meeting is getting ready to start. So, it gives them a sense of what's getting ready to come. If they're eating breakfast, they know that up is getting ready to start. It really fosters a sense of belonging. As students see their pictures up there, they think it's amazing that their pictures up there. They like to point out other students and
007they love seeing when a new picture pops up on the screen. Definitely provides entertainment, which is great when you have that many students in one that keeps them occupied a little bit longer. And then it's great to see student connections as well. One of my favorite pieces of this is when um you have like a fifth grade student that see something that happened in first grade and they say, "Oh my gosh, I remember doing that when I was in first grade." And then you get to listen to them reminisce. And then likewise for our younger students, when they see something that our older students are doing, they say, "Oh, I can't wait to do that when I get to fifth grade." So, it really fosters that sense of community and family. So, then we move
008into our morning meeting elements. Um, so I'll kind of quickly go through those. Like I said before, these are all intentional and these in the exact same order every day. So, the students know exactly what to expect. In fact, they could probably read it for me if I wasn't there. That's how predictable we try to make this every day. So, we start with a greeting, of course. So I get to greet all of my students every single day in the same way at the same time. And I think that's very powerful that they get to see me and hear that every day. And it's one of my favorite parts of the day as well. Then we move into our expectations. So then we just start with a quiet countdown and then remind students of their
009active listening behavior. So we explicitly tell them what we want to see at this time. We have five instructions that we give them and that helps them to be able to that regulation process because they're going from being very loud and active being quiet and I think it's pretty impressive how quickly they're able to make that shift. Then we talk about the date so seems simple but it helps students orient themselves in um the bigger space of time and helps them understand that date in relation to other activities. Especially right now we're talking about how many days Christmas we talk about that celebration on Friday and we get to point out how many days are left until that along with that goes into reminders. We remind students what's coming up that day. It's very important
010that they know what's happening and there's a change in schedule because if they are surprised sometimes that leads to [clears throat] an opportunity to kind of set the tone for that day. So then we are able to go ahead and incorporate our PBIS program into our morning meetings. So we get to recognize our weekly pool winners each week. So our students get their names called in front of everyone. Uh they get celebrated, they get their picture taken. So that makes that a really big deal for them. And then we also encourages other students to want to do that as well. We have a daily discussion of the cool tool of the week and the word of the month. So we talk about those behaviors that we want to see daily examples we might role model.
011But the repetition is key for that behavior change. So the more we talk about it, the more we hope they remember it and exhibit that behavior that we're show. Birthdays are a really big deal during morning meetings. So we get to recognize anyone birthday, whether it be staff or students and we have their name up on the screen and we call their name, they stand up, students get very excited for them on their birthday. Um, so imagine over 250 happy birthdays at once. Um, that's super exciting, especially for our younger students. It's kind of like, you know, when you go through your Facebook feed and you see all of those messages. Well, those are all coming in live at once and it's very exciting for our students. We also have a vocabulary word of the
012day. So we get to read and define and discuss a new word every day and then we review the words that we talked about previous days as well. One of our reading interventions put these together for us. So we have a visual to go along with the word which a lot of our younger students like to connect to and then use these in sentences. Students like to give examples of different synonyms and then the hope is that that carries back over in their instruction and their writing there as well which is a larger initiative for Jefferson focusing on developing student vocabulary and language and then we get to do the pledge al together so our J crew that's our cake kids um our students that pledge in the morning and they have done a really
013great job it's kind of scary to do at first you know in front of all of your school with the microphone um but they've done a really nice leading our school. Then we move on and round out our morning meeting uh with sign language. So we have a sign of the day or sign of the week. Um so this kind of creates a common language among our students. Um they really love knowing how to communicate without using words. They kind of think it's like this super like superpower that they have where they like hand signals each other and have this whole conversation and never say anything. So we've been focusing on all of the words that would be necessary to know to complete our morning meeting completely using just sign language. So we actually are
014going to have some students become our sign language leaders when we get back from the break as we move into the second half of the school year. So that's been really fun to see them getting excited about that. We also take the time to remind students of any schoolwide initiatives that we have. So we like students with different goals. So, for example, we just did fast bridge testing. So, we were able to continually encourage our students to do their best on the test because we reward progress from the fall to the winter and we want to make sure that they're doing their best so that they can be rewarded for that. We do a a book challenge to go along with March Madness. Students have that going on our food drive. That's a competition. So,
015again, it's bringing that back and encouraging them to do things as part of the the school. And then we have our closing. So we end our morning meeting the exact same way every day and that sets the tone for the day as the students transition back to the classroom and then we dismiss of course in a very orderly fashion and sometimes a few commands that are just fun prior to that dismissal to help with that transition and get students in a space where they're ready to So that covers all of our elements on. Believe it or not, we're able to get that done in about 10 minutes every morning. So it's quick and it's fast, but again with that repetition of doing it the same way every day, it moves quickly. So these are some
016of our outcomes, our intended outcomes from our morning meetings. Um, so we have connection with every student. So, it's really great that I can make a connection every morning with every student at Jefferson School. Maybe not individually, but I see them, they see me, and we get to have that conversation. An average of 70% of our students eat a school breakfast, which I think is fantastic. I think they want to be there and part of that community. We're all there together, so they're not missing out on anything that's happening anywhere else. And our cafeteria is great. cooks are wonderful and especially on Wednesdays biscuits and gravy day you're not going to find an empty seat in that cafeteria. So it's great to see everybody come together breakfast seen a decrease in parties which is great
017I think that's partially because what used to be a little bit of chaos is now more controlled and since it's intentional students want to be a part of that they want to learn that new language they want to find out who tool it was so they make sure that they're there for that. Um, our J crew have developed their leadership and public speaking skills during that time. Plus, other students like to volunteer to participate in the word of the day or the pool tool, find out really quickly that some students really love the microphone and some don't. But we're trying to develop that skill among everyone. And then of course, I think these are some of our most important outcomes from our meeting that we load the beginning of our day with connection and routine.
018It means we are delivering students to the classroom that are hopefully regulated and ready to learn. I will say that a lot of our classrooms actually have their own morning meeting as well once they get to class. So, they're kind of double dipping and getting that piece of connection and regulation. It gives students a sense of control because those structures help them feel like they're in control. They know what to expect and they're ready to manage their day, whatever may come their way. Our students have a collective identity. They all participate in the same routine the same way. There's that family feeling and a sense of pride. And then our support system, students from all grades know each other. If you walk through the halls of Jefferson, everybody knows, which I think is amazing that
019they're all very eager to help and support one another. No matter if they need help with the water bottle filler getting to the nurse, everybody seems to know everybody's lunch box. So if they leave that behind, they know how to deliver the classroom and a lot of our older students become mentors to our younger students in our checkout program and other ways. So I am going to end my presentation to you the same way that I end my morning meeting with my students which is my favorite part because I know that every student is leaving that cafe knowing that they are loved. So have an amazing and wonderful day or night. Be kind and always remember Jefferson school loves you. And this has really become our entire motto and at school everything that we do
020is based on that I have for you. Any questions for me? >> How many different spirit days did you have this week? Well, we have only two. >> I don't want to throw another school under the bus, but toward the end of the year when I first moved to Marian district, they had the ABC spirit, >> 26 days of spirit. >> [laughter] >> our kindergarten do that towards the end of [laughter] the school year but not during this specific time. >> No, >> I have a question. How did how did you come up with I mean some of the terms you're using are clearly evidence-based. There's a lot of behavior research in there. So, where did you come up with this idea? What made you do it? It seems great. >> Well, it is a
021researchbased trauma informed practice. Um so if you dive into any of that research or go to any sort of workshop that's trauma based meetings um my personal experience as a previous special education teacher um this is just kind of my vernacular and >> very cool. Yeah. No, love it. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you. [applause] >> 26 days >> [clears throat] >> Okay. Okay. Um and I do appreciate the sign language. >> I was about to say language. >> Yes. I love that. >> Yeah. Um my grandmother was deaf. So yeah. So that that's great. Um and my mother-in-law used to teach at the uh hi there for years. Yeah. >> So okay, next audience to visitors again going once. Okay. MEA have no one from No. Okay. >> Madame President, I move to
022recruit the Senate agenda presented including the minutes from the November 1825 regular meeting and close session is presented. The bill and monthly November supplement bills and December billing is presented [clears throat] and the we're in the double digits triple digits to donations that Miss Mos. >> Yes. >> Second. Would you like to go through the donations? Sure. So, we have the Marian United Methodist Women to the District eyelasses valued at $300. Uh Marian United Methodist Women to Marian Junior High Wildcat Store, $500 donation for the food pantry. Uh Marian United Methodist Women to Mary Junior High, $1,500 for the Christmas blessing tree. Second Baptist Church Mission Banquet members to Mary and Junior High, $3,125 for the Christmas blessing tree. Kyle Schmidt and Alicia Stacy to the Christmas blessing tree for $250. Katrina Crane to Mary
023Junior High, $125 for the Christmas blessing tree. Joanna Galloway, Community Action Club to Mary Junior High, $250 to the Christmas blessing tree. Carrie Jackson, MJHS Service Club to Mary Junior High. $250 for the Christmas blessing tree. Becky Robertson to MJHS Wildcat Store, $100 donation for the food pantry items. Marian Junior High staff to to the Marian Junior High School for food for 20 Thanksgiving baskets valued at $500. Marian Junior High PBIS to Marian Junior High for hams for 20 Thanksgiving baskets valued at $500. La Fiesta to Marian High School band, a donation valued at $421 for the giveback night. Fullies to Marian High School band, a donation valued at $260 for give back night. Tropical Snow to Marian High School band, donation valued at $80. Chick-fil-A to Marion High School band, donation valued at $230
024for give back night. Protek to Marian High School band, donation valued at $300. Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation and Illinois Children's Healthc Care Foundation to Adam School bottle filler and water fountain and water bottles and pumpkin doodle babies to Washington Elementary School and Mary Junior High $1,388 donation for food pantry items. Did I say that right? >> Personnel. >> I know, right? uh renew [clears throat] secondhand store to Marian High School monetary donation valued at $1,681 for food pantry items. Charles and Evelyn Hancock to Wildcat Way fund monetary donation valued at $500 for the elementary food pantry. Robert Ronie to Marian High School girls basketball team donation at two for $250. Marian Elks to Marian High School girls basketball team donation valued at $250. Ross Construction to Marion High School girls basketball team. Also a
025a donation valued at $250. Dollar Tree to Jefferson Elementary School. Four four boxes of hats, gloves, socks, and scarves. So, I just quickly want to say this is a very giving community and especially this time of year during Thanksgiving, the holidays. >> Yes. And we've had some recent tragedies, too. >> Oh, yes. >> Yes. [clears throat] Okay. Any questions or comments or >> caller? >> Yes. >> Whiteford? >> Yes. >> Garrison? >> Yes. >> Wesley? >> Yes. >> More? >> Yes. Okay. Next is the memorandum of understanding with uh Southern University Carbondale. Do you want to talk about that for a moment? >> Uh, sure. So, uh, the Marian Star picked up an article somewhat few weeks ago. Um, for some reason, Marian High School was not on the list of of schools that were
026participating in um this uhou with Southern Illinois University so that students could take some uh dual credit courses um dual enrollment courses I should say through through SIU. And so, uh we had already sort of been in the works to get that going. And so this this is just sort of finalizing that agreement to work with SIU to have that dual enrollment and we will be on that list. Um and it will be starting in January for enrollment and they've already had a meeting with students to inform uh students about how to go about that. >> Okay, great. >> And if students are [clears throat] interested, what where should they? >> Uh the guidance office >> guidance office. Yes. >> Um we do a uh do we need a separate recommendation to approve that? It's
027part of consent. Heart of consent. Okay. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Um, [clears throat] new business. >> Madame President, I'd like to make the recommendation to approve the following personnel recommendations as presented. Employment certified Amanda Avery Junior High ELA teacher assigned to Adam School effective for the 2026 2027 school year. John Verscelino, science teacher assigned to Maran High School, effective for the 2026 2027 school year. Melissa Watcher, sixth grade ELA teacher, assigned to Maran Junior High School, effective for the 2026 2027 school year. Mandy Tillery, eighth grade science teacher, assigned to Maran High School Junior High School, effective for the 2026 2027 school year. Payton Baylor, seventh grade math teacher, assigned to Marian Junior High School, effective for the 2026 2027 school year. Britney Thompson, business teacher, assigned to Maran High School, effective for the 2026
0282027 school year. Stephanie Jordan, fourth grade teacher, assigned to Washington Elementary School, effective for the 2026 2027 school year. Sarah Kappell, fourth grade teacher, assigned to Lincoln Elementary School, effective for the 2026 2027 school year. Uh Bradley Abshire maintenance effective effective December 29th, 2025. Laura Herbert, school nurse assigned to Maran High School, effective December 8th, 2025. Coaching Shawn Phillips, Marion High School boys girls volunteer bowling coach effected for the 2025 2026 season. Maran High School volunteer bass boat captains effective for the 2026 season. Connor Brave, John Baker, Greg Miller, Aaron Henry, Steve Gabby, Kevin Williams, Brian Bruner, Adam Robinson, Caleb Mayfield, and Owens. Emiline Curley, Adams volleyball head coach, effective for the 2025 2026 school year. Reassignment, Kendra Walford, assigned for Marin High School business teacher to communication technology director at district office effective for
029the 2026 2027 school year. Michelle kissing reassigned from kindergarten teacher of Washington Elementary School to second grade teacher of Washington Elementary School effective for the 2026 2027 [snorts] school year. You need a break. >> Nope. Resignations. Carlo, Marian High School boys uh assistant soccer coach effected December 1st, 2025. Michelle Tate, Marian High School girls head track coach effective November 19th, 2025. Lissa Summer Cook assigned to Mary Junior High School. effective December 9th, 2025. Jennifer Deacon, Marian Junior High School assistant robotics coach, effective January 1st, 2026. Avon Moore Jones, Hall Monitor, assigned to Maran High School, effective December 19th, 2025. Alicia Chapman, math teacher, assigned to Maran Junior High School, effective July 31st, 2026. Kaylee Evans, Adam, head volleyball coach, effective November 18, 2025. Retirements, Connie Dmer, secretary signed School effective June 8th, 2026. >> Second
030call, please. >> White, >> yes. >> Garrison, >> yes. >> Wesley, >> yes. >> Moore. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Madam President, I move that we approve the 2025 tax slavery resolution is present to be presented by Miss Watson. >> Oh, we have and we have introduction. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Just a moment. >> Sorry about that. Yeah, that's okay. We want to meet all these fabulous. We >> have a lot of new people to introduce. >> Yeah, we do. All right. >> Don't hold it against me, please. >> You want to go first? >> Yeah. >> Well, I am here tonight to introduce three great new folks that will be joining the Mary Junior High School family uh this coming school year. We had some wonderful interviews and have a couple retirements and
031so we're thrilled to to have these new folks with us. Uh so, first I want to start with Mandy Tillry who's going to be a uh eighth grade science teacher. come on up for me. Uh she has been working at Carterville High School as a biology and earth science teacher for the last several years. Uh her colleagues say that she's a great team player, a great mentor for some of her young new colleagues. And we are super happy to have Miss Tiller joining the junior high science program. [applause] >> You have to get rid of all that lion propaganda from it. >> [laughter] >> his face to come. [laughter] >> Uh next uh I have Melissa Walker who is super excited to be joining the junior high. She was very she is very excited. Uh
032and we are very excited to have her. She is coming to us from Goreville. Uh where she has been a fifth grade teacher for a number of years, 18 years. Yes. Uh and to be honest with you, some of her colleagues were very frustrated with me when I called to get a little bit of recommendation. Wanted to tell me that they would say as many bad things as possible if it would change our mind. Uh but they no, they were very very gracious. Uh said she is a great leader in their program and in their school. Uh very much a team player, very much a hard worker. And so, uh, we are thrilled to have her joining our sixth grade, uh, side of the building teaching English. [applause] >> Welcome very much. [laughter] >> My
033niece. >> All right. Gville's small. So, >> two classes for grade, I think. Well, they're in Carterville now, so >> as a blessed. >> And finally, this nice, handsome young man here joining us is Payton Bis. Uh Payton just finished student teaching, I think, just a day or so ago, right? >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh he graduated from SIU. >> Just graduated from SIU's school of education. >> Is he live? >> He is. Well, we think so. We're hoping so. We'll see. [laughter] We'll see. >> He will be. He will be. Don't worry. He will be Joe. He will >> now Payton is is a great uh going to be a great addition to our math department at seventh grade. He's done an extensive amount of coaching in his life. Uh just a real uh
034advocate for students. His cooperating teacher gave a lot of glowing things to say about him. His contributing to the department and all the work that he's done. So, we're thrilled to have Payton joining uh the junior high in seventh grade math. [applause] >> We'll let you come. >> We won't hold that against him. I'm telling you, we get a little Franklin County in the building. >> He doesn't wear maroon. Okay. >> He's friends with Star, so I don't know what I can do. >> [clears throat] >> Thank you guys for having the for giving me the opportunity to come before you tonight. Uh tonight I am excited to welcome Miss Sarah Cable as the newest fourth grade teacher to Lincoln. Uh she's actually a Marian product. Uh she attended none other than Lincoln Elementary. From
035there she went to the junior high and she did graduate from the high school by the way. Um from there she attended Mckendry University. uh obtained her elementary ed degree. She was also a member of the golf team there. >> Um I know she is extremely excited to give back to the district that gave her so much through her youth. So everybody please welcome Sarah Cable. [applause] >> Congratulations. Thank you. Were you in junior high when Chuck Williamson was there, too? [laughter] >> Hey, wait a minute. I wasn't gonna bring up her. I just [laughter] >> I'm just gonna bring up Chuck. >> All right. >> Yeah, that's right. That's right. [laughter] >> Mrs. Benson couldn't be here tonight. She is not feeling well. So, it is my honor to introduce Stephanie Jordan. Stephanie has
036been teaching at Unity Point School District um for 11 years, third grade. Um she has a master's degree. She has her ESL endorsement. Um glowing remarks. Everyone we called had nothing but wonderful things to say about her. How she always strives to grow as a teacher and as a leader. Um a hard worker. Um she puts students first, makes great connections with kids. So we're super excited to welcome her to Washington Elementary School and to Mary, too. >> [applause] >> Welcome. >> Thank you. >> And Kendra, I get the honor. >> That's right. >> Oh, yeah. >> Miss Wolfford is no stranger to a schoolboard meeting. She is here every single [laughter] sitting right back there. So, um, just a few things I could say a lot RA she has been a leader at our
037high school in the business department particularly in the area of computer science. Um she's played a huge role as a member of our AI team. Consistently she's providing high quality professional development to our teachers not only at the high school but across our whole entire district. Um she has a strong focus on effective technology integration. Um in addition, she's demonstrated exceptional skills in securing grant funding um for a very exciting initiative for our computer science integration K12. Um she is we we are confident that she's going to bring this director of communications and technology into an area that we haven't even imagined yet. So we are super excited and we welcome you into the spot and I think we're going to be able to give you office with A WINDOW. HEY, HEY, [applause] HEY. Shake
038the guy's hand because you're going to be his voice now. [laughter] [cough] [clears throat] Congratulations. >> Okay, that's the introduction. [clears throat] I think that's it. Okay. >> Congratulations and welcome to Marion to everybody again. >> That was a lot. >> It was That's good. >> A lot of >> Okay. You want to I'm sorry. Did we get through a second? No. >> Second me. >> Second on the levy. >> Go ahead, Kim. [laughter] >> Ditto. Are you just going to stand up and say ditto from the previous meeting? >> Can we hear this already? hearing at 5:45. Here's the certificous. The total tax levy is 41,516,000. We ask for extra cover. You can ask for whatever you want. [clears throat] >> Any questions for Still? Okay. No. All right. Let's call >> roll. Yes.
039>> Wesley, >> yes. >> Whiteford, >> yes. >> Moore, >> yes. >> Okay. Um, the next on the agenda is live streaming board meetings. We had a discussion last meeting um about whether or not to uh continue that. Does anybody have any discussions before we just take a consensus? >> Why would we discontinue it and not let the public be able to participate and see what happens? >> Uh at the very from them. >> I'm sorry. >> We trying to hide something from >> Oh, no. Absolutely not. >> No, it's it's just whether we want to videotape it or just have them come in person. It's >> live if we're gonna live stream it. >> I did have lots of people say I watch it online. Sometimes I watch it later, not live, but I
040really like getting to see it. So, that's all I'll say is I did get a lot of people comment. >> I think it's one of I know we're one of the few people that do it, but I think it's a plus for Marian that you can watch it anytime [snorts] you want. if you can't make it. That's just my >> thoughts. >> So, um, are for the people that want to approve to discontinue live streaming board meetings? Can I get a yes or an >> What's the question? We vote yes, it's going to be >> if yes would be to approve to discontinue live streaming board meetings. >> Would it be easier just to do a roll call? >> Let's just do a We'll do We can do a roll call. So yes means to
041discontinue. >> Yes. Correct. So um it's just going to be easier for her to keep track of who's where. It doesn't have to be an official vote the way we normally would do it because it's >> not required. >> Can I just say one thing? Absolutely. >> I would say too that we will have an audio recording. So if anybody would want it or if you know we want to to make that available, we could do that too. Okay. >> Wesley, >> yes. >> Flyer, >> no. >> Dwightford, >> no. >> Garrison, >> yes. >> More. >> Yes. Uh, that passes. So, we're going to discontinue the live streaming board meetings. Next on the agenda are the board and district goals. During a recent training we had, we discussed um setting goals for the for
042the district and that is the board's responsibility to do so. And um so we need to discuss a couple things. One, do we want to facilitate that or do we want Dr. Perry Hill to come in and help us facilitate that to set the goals for the district? So those goals will be very um high level goals and then of course it would be Mrs. Moss's responsibility to execute those goals that we set before her. And so that sort of drives the direction of the district and um in addition to that we would have strategic planning committee um and get input and in how to execute those goals. So any conversation about us doing that and perhaps one or two of us facilitating that versus having somebody from ISAB come in and help us facilitate
043that. All of that will have to be done in open session. >> I think it might be nice to have someone come and >> I really like >> facilitate it with us. I think it would keep us a little more focused to have Dr. Dr. Hill come in. >> Okay. Any Yes, I'm okay with that. Yeah. Any >> I think we can do it. >> Okay. >> I guess we'll use help, but [cough] need it. >> Okay. Um that'll probably be a I'll get dates and times from him and maybe do um a special meeting for that. >> Uh I will say that at the ISAB joint at the joint meeting um the folks that have used ISAB for this very purpose were very complimentary of the service and um just help them stay focused
044on what those goals were and not kind of get in the weeds a little bit on some things. Um then we also have to discuss that meeting. U do we want that to be exclusive meaning board and admin or do we want to include uh open that to be inclusive to have during that meeting during that goal setting session have uh other community partners involved. Uh the direction that I received from ISAB was that the best practice is to have the actual goal setting uh meeting if you will to be exclusive meaning it be the function of the board and the superintendent and assistant superintendent to drive those goals and then as part as as part of the strategic planning committee include other stakeholders like other administrators and um teachers involved in that. So does
045that sound that seems like >> exclusive would be better and then and then bring it more the strategic stuff. >> Okay. >> So that's what we'll plan on that's what we we will plan on recommended. >> Yep. So I'll get dates and have Lila send those out to you to see what might be the best day. The goal would be January, but I don't know if how his schedule would work. >> Okay. All right. Next operational fund expenditure report. same report that I had in the levy hearing. So per the state board of education, we have to submit this to the board that shows our expenses last year and average them out and that [clears throat] our cash reserve balances we have to follow ours. Okay. Next on the agenda is the board policy review.
046There's no action on that at this time. So, please review those the following policies that are in your packet and we will vote on those in the January meeting. Do you want me to read all of the this? >> They're on they're on the website, aren't they? >> Yes. >> Yep. Okay. Reports, technology, >> nothing. Maintenance. Uh do you have anything for him or he's >> um No, I'll just say that um we you know obviously we had a really really cold spell um last was that late last week, early this week? I don't know. >> Um but we've been working through that and um Aaron has really tried to stay on top of that and the maintenance crew as well. Well, I have to give credit to Jason Jean and some of those guys
047that are in the buildings and really trying to make everything uh function properly. And I think we've we've been able to uh solve problems pretty quickly and have contractors in the building as needed. So, >> all right. Superintendent report. >> I don't have anything further. >> No assistant superintendent. >> No treasures report. >> Okay. November 30th, 2025 at 30,78,4 total revenue um is at 39.24% and we're 41.67% through the fiscal year. Um kind of behind on the property taxes. So once we get those up total expenses um are at 38.7% below 41.6 In November, we did receive some property tax extension money, million5,9028. And on December 12th, we got another payment of 5,18186.75. So, as of today, we've received 55.6% of our extension. >> What was the second payment for? Because we haven't paid the
048second installment. >> Uh, they gave us an on the first one because it sold late. >> Okay. >> And then they gave us the additional off and I was surprised that we got this other >> You didn't send it back, did you? >> Okay. [laughter] >> Didn't want you to be too surprised. >> Okay. Any other questions for Kim? >> Okay, we do need to go into close session. We're not going to have any action after we come out of close session. So, you're more than welcome to >> I'm impressed all the stay. >> I know. Thank you. Disappointed her disappointment. [laughter] I mean, nobody