001Whiteford >> here. Ben >> present. >> Wesley >> here. >> Yes. >> Aliance 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. >> Our example of educational excellence is a director. >> Is this working? Yep. Perfect. Well, good evening. Thank you uh for having me this evening. It's always a pleasure to come present to the board of education at unit 2. Um, you know, I think I'll start actually everybody was there at graduation. Um, one of the speeches that was given that night, Joby McCann, she summed it up last school year as being historic and and that's, you know, you really don't know how historic it really is until you start looking through the data that
002you compile in in a review such as this. And you know, when I get to June and July, and it's a a good time to reflect and and truly look back to just see how special of a year our Wildcats had. Um, they continue to make us incredibly proud. Um, all of them. And I do want to go through some of this with you. Um, just some of the highlights and some of the things that might not even be in there. Um, because we always talk about success and celebrating success, okay? But besides the winds, I do want you to know this has been since day one. Um, I'm going on year 10. >> Good. >> That's a lot of that's a feedback. >> Yeah. Anyway, um, going on year 10, I'm going to stay
003back just a little bit. going on year 10 here at Marian um since day one. This is something that I I truly I personally try to train hang my hat on and this is something that I preach to our coaches and kids on a daily basis. You know, you know, especially our coaches number one, we always want to, you know, develop young men and women of good character. Um that's whether they're between the playing lines or outside of school in a parking lot hanging out at Target, which I see a lot here of late. I guess that's the new spot. Um, number two, you know, we want to lead by example at all times. >> I don't know what's going on. >> Do you think it's this? >> Is it the remote? It might be
004feeding back because it's too close to the remote. >> I bet it is. Cell phone That's something I take great pride in. I try to constantly do in my dayto-day whether I'm at Marian High School, an away sporting event or just in the community as Lauren's dad run. Okay. And then of course number three, hey the high school level obviously we reach a point the varsity level we do want to win. Okay. Winning is important. winners and losers. We also try to lose seven champions looking back. 16. I think everybody What would you say? We had wrest and in the spring um spring, you know, we were actually down, you'll see here in a minute, we'll talk about the Gold Cup. We were down five and a half points after winter. So, we had a
005lot of work to do. I told the coaches and kids that and we end up winning by like five or six points. We had an incredible spring. Coach Neil softball team 10 straight South title. I know they talk about the Patriots and their dynes. But yeah, Coach Neil, she's really got that at a high level and they're doing great things and she does it the right way and she leads the right way of baseball coach again back to back south seven championships regional championship championships as well girls track coach Tate and staff our numbers at girls track are incredible she's got nearly 50 kids out they're expect them to have another big year this coming year. And coach Crabtree, nothing better than a hometown hero coming back and leading the way. Jesse Crabtree since she's
006taking over our girls soccer program, doing incredible things. Kids are having a great time, getting better, and their first South Seven title since 2014. So that leads us to the Gold Cup. Okay, like I said, um backto-back ship first time in school history. Um, you know, up until a few years ago, Marion had not won a Gold Cup in 356 years, and now we've won four out of the last five. So, super super proud of our kids and our coaches and the efforts that they're putting in, but we still have bigger and better goals to achieve. Yeah, we were down like five and a half and we ended up winning by a half point always state. So these are like postseason successes at the high school level MHS boys cross country I mean my goodness
007state champions lose two of the greatest runners arguably athletes in school history and what do they do? They come back. They're young. They're hungry. They won a regional championship. They qualified for expected. Maybe basketball. softball kind of like Unfortunately, very strong of course. How can we not high school? win South. Super proud of our kiddos. I'm really proud of this. You know, when I first came in, our average, you know, I felt like coming out. I was encouraging our first time in my years. I know she says six participants esports. hours. She goes off. Yeah. So, you know, academic team, this is just the listing. I forgot to update this for tonight. I know off the top of our head, girls cross country, boys golf, girls. huge superbody. I do apologize so much again just
008a young kid trying to find his way. You guys have any questions for me? She doubles up in the fall. She plays volleyball and she pulls it off. You know, it's very hard to do really. Obviously, we love sport. Obviously, most of our kids and I do think times have changed. You know, times really have changed. They're different than when I played. I was a sport athlete all four years, but it's nice to see those. And I don't know if you guys are aware of this. I created a patch for those. I did create a patch. >> That's all I got. to get a motion on President Bills. The May supplementary bills We just pilot travel center to Mary and that was it was a kind of a quick email to Mrs. Watts that we
009have this money and we would like to help out with any initiative that you have going on. And so we ended up putting um it was $10,000 and so we ended up putting that $10,000 towards our AI initiative which help us pay for a couple of platforms we bought for teachers to use starting in the fall. So very memorandum of understand Yesesley. Yes. Madam President. >> Yes. I'd like to make personnel recommendations or to approve the following personnel July 192 July 28, 2025. Whitney Westbury, teacher assistant assigned to Adam School effective for the 2025 2026 school year. Coaching the 25 2026 Marian High School, Mary Junior High, and Adam school coaches as presented. Jesse Hines, volunteer assistant, freshman, sophomore, football coach assigned to Mar High School effective for the 2025 2026 school year. Ashley FY
010head softball coach assigned to Adam School effective for the 2025 2026 school year. He stock coach assigned to Adam school effective for the 2025 2026 school year. Ryan FY, assistant baseball coach, assigned to Adam School, effective for the 2025 2026 school year. Reassignments. Nick Cresa, assistant principal, assigned to Marian High School to assistant principal, assigned to Lincoln Elementary School, effective for the 2025 2026 school year. Resignations. Ali Pord, softball head coach, assigned to Adams School, effective July 1st, 2025. Carrie Pulley, custodian, assigned to Adams, effective July 31st, 2025. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Just the personnel recommendations for the entire new business. >> Thank you for clarifying. >> Okay, the first and the second Wesley. >> Yes. Yes. >> Whiteford, >> yes. >> Bender, >> yes. Lawler, >> yes. >> Madame President, I'd like
011to make the recommendation to approve the 2025 2026 athletic and student activities handbook as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Okay. Having no discussion. Wire. >> Yes. >> White. >> Yes. >> Bend. >> Yes. Wesley. >> Yes. >> Waller. >> Yes. Madame President, I'd like to make the recommendation to approve the 2025 2026 parent student handbook as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> White? >> Yes. >> Bundan? >> Yes. >> Wesley? >> Yes. >> Wire? >> Yes. >> Lawler? >> Yes. >> Mr. President, Miss Mr. President, I move to approve the officials rate works presented. >> Second. Any discussion? >> Bundren, >> yes. >> Wesley, >> yes. >> Wire, >> yes. >> Whiteford, >> yes. >> Waller, >> yes. >> Madam President, I'd like to make the recommendation to approve the salary adjustments
012as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Wesley? >> Yes. or White. >> Yes. >> Bundan, >> yes. >> Lawler, >> yes. >> Mr. President, I move to adopt the Illinois case framework for Mary Junior High and High School as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Wire. >> Yes. >> Whiteford, >> yes. >> Bundan, >> yes. >> Wesley, >> yes. >> Waller, >> yes. >> Mr. President I move to approve the intergovernmental agreement between Mary and community and school district number two and regional office education number 21 as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Whiteford. >> Yes. >> Bend. >> Yes. >> Wesley. >> Yes. >> Wire. >> Yes. >> Waller. >> Yes. Uh, Madame President, I'd like to make the recommendation to approve the Marian unit 2 AI guidance policy as presented.
013>> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Yes. I wanted to say something on that. Um, I want to start by saying that I think that the tech team has done a fantastic job so far. They put a lot of time and care into it. And Becky and I have discussed this already. Um, in my professional work, I regularly, um, consult with experts on AI and privacy and, um, so because of that, I have an abundance of caution, maybe more than other board members when it comes to any emerging technology like this um, and from the policy level. So, um, because of that, uh, not because of the quality of the works, I think they did a good job, but because I am very cautious, I am going to abstain from voting on this tonight. Um, I
014would recommend um that we consider an outside consultation from an expert and um I did hear back from SIU. They will do that free of charge and they have someone who consults with um education programs writing these policies. They can just look over what we have and um determine whether they have any recommendations. Um hopefully they have none because I think our team did a really good job. So I just wanted to say thank you for all the work they've put in um and just explain why I out of abundance of caution am not going to um vote on that tonight. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Discussion. Okay. >> Yes. >> Wesley. >> Yes. >> Waller. >> Yes. >> Got to call her name. >> Oh, do I have to? Okay. White. >> Abstain.
015>> Okay. Can we get a motion on the close session minutes, Miss Wiper? >> Yes. I make a motion for the closed session minutes. Close session minutes from July 2023 through December 2023 to remain closed and confidential. >> Second. Any discussion? Can you please >> uh Wesley? >> Yes. >> White? >> Yes. >> Bundin? >> Yes. >> Wallard? >> Yes. Okay. And moving on to reports. Miss Woods, do you have anything to say with the food service annual report? >> I do. >> Great. Um, I'm pleased this year to share with you the status of the food service program for the 2024 2025 school year and what we've accomplished this past year. um food service program has and continues to make positive strides to improve annually and I'm proud of where the program stands to
016date and this would not be possible without such dedicated and hardworking food service staff. The American Food Service ended the year with a $540,738.32 ED fund deficit um which is only 10,000 more than we were in the whole last year. Um you can see the past five years of the where we've ended with the ed fund and kind of explains why we were where we were. Um it is the goal for any school food service program to break even or even be in the black but we continue to have the goal of positive food balance ed fund balance at the end of every year. However, with minimum wage increases continuing in inflation and rising food costs those impact the program greatly. Um we also do continue to have considerable amount of unpaid unpaid food balances
017throughout the district. Um, right now as of July 8th, our outstanding food service balances were total 97,8251 and part of that does include in excess of $6,000 in staff balances that are owed still. Um, we did receive a local foods for school funding once again last year allowing us to purchase cow to process and ground beef. approximately $13,000. Um we received a $10,000 grant that went toward the purchase of a new tilt skillet for Longfellow School and that was installed in early spring. Um we received just recently a $3,400 grant from Dollars for Dairy to purchase commercial blenders for the high school and junior high schools to add smoothies to our meal options at breakfast. So, we'll be starting that hopefully shortly after school starts. Um, we will be starting the year fully staff with
018just a few substitutes. Um, this is always Joe's favorite part, I think. Um, in the 2425 school year, there were 442,25 meals served to students and staff. And this averages roughly 15,248 meals per food service staff member. So again, I would like to thank the entire Marian unit 2 food service staff. They are hardworking and dedicated in what is often a very unglamorous and thankless job. They do a fantastic job taking care of the students in their respective buildings and they continue to go above and beyond what is expected of them and I want to publicly thank each of them. Um I would also like to thank the mayor unit board and administration for continuing to support the food service program. >> How many meals was that again? And I want to hear that figure
019again. >> Per staff member. >> Oh, just the total meals. >> The total is 442,25. >> Have a lot of meals. >> Yeah. >> Got to feed those athletes. >> Very good. Thank you. >> Carrie, >> I do have some additional June 30th, 2025 ended our way fiber internet contract with the district. We had clear as provider since 2012. This is done through a series of bid process which is service administrative company overseen by the FCC. So we have to go through a bidding process for reimbured for services. In the past, our fiber annual cost was $168,000 a year for the district through Clear Wave reimbured me after I file papers. We reimbured $134,400. Uh when we completed the competitive bid process down came out the winner. So that accepted their bid. until we were
020able to sign a new 5year contract with fiber. By signing that contract, we'll be saving about $4,00 reimbursement, we'll get $130,5,000 a year for increased purpose. We increase 1900% seems like an awful lot but based on these mandates changes every year the number of bandwidth you have to have per student outdanc over the next five years as well as these guidelines for what they recommend. I wanted to build it out for a 5year contract. So we went from two gate connections to two 20 connections and then next summer we'll be continuing that improved hardware in all buildings. Clear opted not to continue our phone service. So Northidge which is a subsidiary picked up our phone service. They're caring both local and long distance for us. Um to the tune of 6,955 annually. Um in the
021past we paid about $6,955 for local service and then with information gave me 17,000 plus annually for long service. Northidge has picked up all of that for the tune of $6,960 a year. So we'll be saving about $16,995 a year just on phone services. >> So total savings over the life of contract $24,000 for internet access $84,976 phone service over the life of contract for a grand total of $18,976 over 5year contract. And we're really glad for his communications and his for >> Thank you, Jerry. Mr. Dixon, anything further with the maintenance report? >> Well, wrap up construction projects also starting projects and gyms should be finished this week. cafeteria starting out the old steps raet. for every dollar for like but no I know some concern with the air conditioning some of the buildings
022you know everybody has to realize that between three grand schools alone we have about 96 air units that are over 30 years old so we're doing what we can this summer we've installed 11 We have 11 more coming. It's just with the whole shipping container issue that kind of put everything on the back burner back in the spring. So I would love to have 22 classrooms installed, but we just got to take I tried to get some sort of people have suggestions. So you guys have suggest Other than that, I appreciate my staff. It is a job every single piece of furniture, every single class, clean the floors, put it all back in like those are things um if you get an opportunity to build you things. things you take for granted really junior high
023we've done a lot of so I know on the east side a lot of the public comes through that side for sporting events so we've new ceiling systems just like Ryan said you know this is home so we got do what we can other than that question. >> Thank you, Miss Moss. >> Um I don't have anything further. >> Okay. Anything further? Um just want to say out loud that um registration for new students is happening on um Thursday, July 24th at the junior high and that's for new first through 8th grade students and returning students to Marian Junior High School. So the junior high students at Marian that day can um get a copy of their schedule um get their walk. Um Adams does not have to come that day because they don't have
024to pick up a schedule. They all have the same schedule at Adams. So, um, and then on, um, Thursday, July 31st is, um, new and returning students for Marian High School. So, that's registration day for that. Um, we also have had a lot of teachers, uh, in the tech office. Today, we're um, we have a lot of different summer PD opportunities available and we've had a lot of teachers take advantage of those. We have a lot of great presenters, which are mainly our teachers. Um, they do a fantastic job. Um, we have some sitting in the crowd today and they were in a very crowded uh room learning some Canva today. So, um just want to encourage everyone to if you're a teacher and listening to sign up um we have a lot of great
025opportunities this summer. >> Thank you, Miss Watson. The treasur's report too. Okay, June 30th was the end of our fiscal year July to June. So we ended um the fiscal year with 31,58,73.98. of that the operating funds uh totaled 22 million $884,14.92. Um our revenue was 105.15% of budget. Our expense was 86.87% of budget. So we did good staying within our budget. Um our operating expenses the ET was 71.98% of the total expenses um operation maintenance was 10.69% and transportation 5.14% total for the operating expenses of the budget I mean total expenses was 87.81% % of our expenses come out of the expenses, salary and benefits make up 55.7% of our majority of our expenses working on the budget. So next month you will be presented with a tenative budget. We'll go over that and
026the final budget will be presented in September. A lot to do between now and then questions. >> Thank you. Any miscellaneous or discussion? >> Okay. We will be entering into close session but we will not be taking any action >> after close session. recommendation. >> Can somebody please make a motion for entering close session? >> I make a motion to enter close session. >> You got to read. >> Oh, I didn't know that. Sorry. New board member alert. >> All right. To enter into recommendation to enter into close session for the purpose of personnel, purpose of the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee of the public body or against legal
027counsel for the public body to determine its validity and litigation. when an action against affecting or on behalf of a particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal or when the public finds that an action is probable or imminent in which case the basis for the finding must be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting. Yes. >> Whiteford, >> yes. >> Wesley, >> yes. >> Waller, >> yes. >> You look like you're going to the Kentucky Derby.