001star no it's not I'm sorry wrong place live from Maran it's the Marian unit 2 board meeting Madame secretary will you call Ro please jarrison here Lawler here Henshaw Wesley Moore here bunden present Li yes we have a quum and uh for all of you waiting on christas packages Bryce couldn't be here today they had 26,000 package deliver today I asked him what normally it is he says about 13,000 so he's trying to make care Christmas and I think Mark had something at school so that's why we're not here so there's David Lawler and you know what David Lawler David Lawler since you're here will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance beon okay to the flag of the United States of America and to the repic for which it stands one nation God
002indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you come on in open that other door any parents that want to stand behind us and take pictures you're more than welcome just to get anywhere in the room you want to so you can take pictures or see anything so don't or chairs just make yourself at home is that everybody can you shut that door because that sometimes blocks the people we're good you two ladies mind sit down so you don't block the people go there chairs over there or you can come behind us if you want to stand in that way we have the Jefferson Elementary Pals program Miss Corine the floor is all yours okay fantastic well like he said my name is uh Jessica Corine I am the principal at Jefferson Elementary School and
003I am joined tonight by some great students and teachers to tell us about or to tell you about our Pal's program um I first want to thank all of these parents that came out tonight it's a very busy time of the year and I really appreciate you taking time to get your students here tonight to tell everyone about the awesome things that we're doing at Jefferson School oop sorry all right so this is really the first few months of the Pal's program for Jefferson School and pal stands for peer assisted life skills so our program is made up of fourth grade students from Mrs minkowski and Mrs bloom O's classrooms The Chosen students uh were paired then with students from Miss herzog's classroom and really the intent of the program is to provide opportunities for
004students to learn about the amazing and differing abilities of all students and obtain lifelong skills of acceptance and inclusion so we have a lot of our Pals here tonight to tell you about our program some couldn't be here tonight because they are sick or had other commitments but we know they are cheering us on so to tell you more about our Pals program I have my co-sponsor Miss Herzog and then some of our Pals all right so we have a lot of goals for the pals program um one of them is education just educating other staff and other students about neurodiversity um exposure and inclusion are big things that we're um really hitting here and then acceptance um this is also preparation for unified cats so we all know that um at the middle school
005they have the unified cats program so that's kind of what we based our program off of we work together with them to get our program up and running and then one of our bigger goals is the Special Olympics so once a third grade student um is in third grade they're qualify they can qualify for Special Olympics so that's something we're definitely working towards and then we're hoping to expand this to other classrooms in our building as well select processes students submitted an application of Interest teachers gave recomendations students needed good grades attendance and behavior to be chosen students had to get parent permission hang on one second sir hang on one second the slides not slid training students participated in lessons and videos things we should do give time to respond use shorter sentences and
006phrases ask an adult how to help if needed communicating with your pal may look different than what you are used to so it's okay if you are unsure at first be sure I mean be understanding and kind training the don'ts don't ask questions or continue to talk when you when you you do not get a response this may over the person that you were talking to avoid longer sentences and phrases just be just because it's sudden student is nonverbal please do not assume they cannot communicate or they do not understand what you are saying please do not insist on eye contact just because your proud may not be looking at you when you're speaking to them does not mean they are not listening training communication there are many different ways to communicate hugging when happy
007or sad screaming to show sadness anger or excitement touching a person's arm or face making repetitive noises or movements fidgeting or doodling rocking or hopping holding a person's hand to guide or show them something sign language and communication device so when our Pals found out uh who they were paired with they had an activity where they were each given a picture and then they had to go around the circle and find the matching picture so kind of like peanut butter and jelly go together or milk and cookies they were able to match their picture together to find out who their Pals were going to be so each so each pal is going to tell you um about their pal and what they like most about them my Pal's name is kieren my favorite thing about
008my pal is he listens when I need him to his personality is really good and I love doing crafts with him my Pal's name is Anthony anth my favorite thing about My Pal is Anthony is smart caring kind fun and playful I love to spend time with my pal cool my Pal's name is Titus my favorite thing about my pal is he is very playful creative and fun it is a joy to be around my palatitis my Pal's name is Hadley and my favorite thing about my Palace her beautiful singing voice and how she likes to talk about movies my my Pal's name is Penelope my favorite thing about my pal is she is kind nice generous and has a big personality she can help when you fall or get hurt she H is a
009good person to be with I am so happy that she is my pal my Pal's name is Gabe my favorite thing about my pal is he's very curious and wants to know about your day and puts others before him my Pal's name is Spencer my favorite thing about my pal is he has a very interesting life he is very fun and funny he loves to hide things my Pal's name is Dalton my favorite thing about my pal is he's sweet to everybody and loves books and he's kind Minecraft is he is nice good jobie so we have a few Pals that couldn't be here that wanted to uh see if this will work this way uh share some things about their is that she my P's name is CH my favorite thing about my is
010she is she is the smartest friend I ever met she is fun she is nice my Pal's name is Reagan My Pal is Reagan my thing W my account is is I like her I like her because because because she is clever she is clever and she is nice to me nice good job so here's some pictures from our session where they found out who their Pals were so they were all very excited to meet one another and I really it's talk really nicely to it will you please work Mrs Watts you had the Magic Touch earlier so here's some more pictures of our Pals together oh there you go my you got it thank you all right you got my back I appreciate okay so some of the activities we do are homecoming parade
011friendsgiving fundraising assemblies cooking trick-or-treating arts and crafts and the and Thanksgiving float parid just go until you things we have learned more kindness patience and understandings our Pals have many strengths and gifts we can form strong connections and bonds with our Pals thank you for listening thank you for listening do you have any questions I have a question yeah you like do you like this program I love it when did you get together during the day it just well thankfully we have two very flexible fourth grade teachers that um will pretty much allow us to have borrow their students uh During certain points of the day so we try to get together and do a fun activity at least once week if we can't manage that then every other week and then we try to
012take advantage of holidays and big events and then when we have our PBIS assembly and other schoolwide things then we try to make sure that our pals are together to experience that together this the first year you say y actually the first few months we just started uh about the end of September we got rolling and where did you learn about um just our creative genius um we were inspired by the uh Junior High unified cats program and um knew that a lot of our students um have grown up at Jefferson they've been with us since kindergarten and so they've all grown up together so we thought it would be a great time to introduce this with kids that are familiar with one another as they go into the junior high as well so you
013and your staff created just the program so to speak or the club or whatever we did we did did thank Youk thank you all right thank you anybody else okay thank you for having us now I just have one last question for did you was the experience coming to the board meeting all you thought it would be right on do you want to come back come back you can come back anytime your excuse this when everybody usually leaves but you can stay if you'd like thank you guys good job guys thank you see David that's what you get for coming in right at the last you get to do the Pledge of Allegiance Mrs Wallace you need to tell David thank you because I was going to pick you to do the Le pledge until
014he just walked in I saw him right there yeah until everybody gets that it's fine thank you David it's always nice to have the kids and I didn't know they I thought maybe they did that program but they made it themselves that's very nice one last thing I just I should have mentioned at the beginning but U couple shout outs to um what was it two weeks ago we had the bus accident and I just happened to be driving down 37 right when the accident happened and uh I just want to give a shout out on Fakebook land night to uh the bus staff uh John Wagner John I knew it was John I couldn't think of it lost me John Wagner at the bus garage uh and their staff John brought a new bus
015out and and also want to thank sheriff dedri and his staff they were the U Deputy sheriffs they got on the bus took care of all the kids took their names and also united life is it United Lifeline or United Ambulance what the ambulance service they were very nice and uh you know some people might concerned but it went very orderly we brought another bus out there and we we transferred all the kids cuz it was cold and didn't want to transfer kids parents picking them up on 37 cuz it was closed we transferred them from one bus to the next brought them back to the warmth warmth of the uh junior high and contacted parents and some people might say why didn't they contact really we're trying to get the kids in a safe
016place we didn't want everybody coming out there on 37 with the road closed so we got them to a safe place and then started contacting the parents to come pick them up and I think everything went very orderly uh the principal Mr wison at the junior high and Becky was there and uh it went very smoothly and I just happened to witness it all I didn't contribute anything to it but at least I was there to make sure everything was going right so with nothing but I would want to give a shout out and to the uh rescue the EMTs the uh and and John at the garage bus garage getting somewhere there and I think Becky there were some emails after the fact that we've kind of C responded with the U sheriff's department
017and the police department it was kind of like of a trial run of what would happen if there was an accident with the school bus and kind of we next time we hope there is not a next time but we kind of got the grant laid the ground rules and the protocol of what to do so I want to give a shout out to everybody that was there and helped the kids get along now uh we normally going to you're not going to call me out we're going to move you up right okay normally we it's our year to have our annual audit uh marel is here uh and you're ready to the floor is all yours good evening hello welcome as you mentioned I'm Marella I work for ker CPA Group and uh we
018performed the fiscal year 2024 audit for marry and Community Unit School District number two um I'll be pretty quick tonight but if you want to turn to your first tab in the audit report the independent Auditors report as part of our audit we issue three different reports um the first being the independent auditor report in the second paragraph of the first page the uh you'll see that it says unmodified opinion on the regulatory basis of accounting in our opinion the financial statements present fairly in all material respects as of June 30th 2024 in accordance with the financial reporting provisions of the Illinois State Board of Education the following paragraph you'll see that um it discloses that there is is an adverse opinion on the US generally accepted accounting principles this is the same thing that
019you get every year simply because you function on a basis of accounting other than generally accepted accounting principles your audit is clean tell the public that there's nothing wrong with our doing it that way correct correct um if you would like to now turn to the following report um it's about four pages the independent Auditors report on internal control over financial reporting and on compliance and other matters this is in accordance with the government auditing standards um the final paragraph of that first page this is where we disclosed that during our audit we did not identify any deficiencies in internal control that we considered to be a material weakness or a significant deficiency if you would like to read about the criteria for a material weakness that's in the paragraph above uh if you turn
020one more page the top paragraph report on compliance and other matters this is referring to compliance with uniform guidance so um single audit compliance um the final sentence the results of our test disclose no instances of non-compliance or other matters that are required to be reported under government auditing standards uh if you want to now turn to the financial statements tab um this first page this is your balance sheet as Kim mentioned during the levy meeting um you can see what your ending cash balances were as of June 30th obviously we're 6 months past that so these are no longer accurate but she provided you with November 30th so you're doing well as far as your cash balances go um if you want to turn one two about four more pages page five or page
021nine in the top left corner this is where your ending fund balances are noted um overall fund balances increase across all funds in fiscal year 24 um I will note that under column C the educational fund a portion of that is designated for health insurance the specific balance of that allocation is noted in note 14 of the footnotes to the financial statements um I just wanted to bring that to your attention also included in that number is going to be the Student Activity funds as well um if you would then go to the federal compliance tab that's going to be towards the very back the second page in that tab that is going to be our third and final report that is the independent Auditors report on compliance for each major federal program as required
022by the uniform guidance standards the second paragraph under the opinion section it states that in our opinion Maran Community School District number two complied in all material respects with the types of compliance requirements that could have a direct IM material effect on each of its major programs for the year ended June 30th 2024 so there were no issues in our single audit testing and no findings ISS ued this year either um the last thing I'll bring to your attention is on page 48 in the top right hand corner this is the schedule of federal expenditures that were spent during June uh during the fiscal year 2024 so these are all of your Federal grant monies that you receive and what was spent spent of those during the fiscal year um and this is also how
023we determine what we test for single audit purposes in 2024 we tested the idea special education cluster program and the equalized stabilization fund which are the covid grant monies that you receive and there were no issues found in either of the programs does anyone have any questions wonderful have a lovely evening wait a minute you sure no one has a question talk about last year no no okay never mind are we all compliant this year everybody's compliant okay well touche is they say so we need a motion please to accept the approved the annual District audit as presented Mr President I make the recommendation to approve the district audit as presented have a second second any further discussion hearing none Madame secretary will you call roll Bon yes Garrison yes wer yes Moore yes fer
024yes okay you can leave that open thank Youk moving right along uh the next item on the agenda is audience to visitors opportunity for anyone that brings issues before the board to have an opportunity to speak and the rules and guidelines for such action is on the back of the agenda that's fine when you go up here you need to state your name and and uh we it's been a while since we had just only thing you can't talk you can't mention CH students names not even well you me you are you you can mention your name and your students's name but he not let don't talk about any other students okay but I also have childreno en is aware situations AC the district across multiple districts from my friends I've heard things going on
025Behavior and and I aware that these have been addressed as best they can be certain Wheels move very slowly um my my concern is is there any plan moving forward that could possibly help is there any way that these things can be caught ear is any sort of screening that could be done going into kindergarten to possibly identify students have behavior issues that could cause a problem and result in educ by the other students again I I realize that the the idea of least restrictive environment when it comes to education but at some point one student's Le least restrictive environment becomes restrictive to my son's ability to learn how to read and WR and I know and forth I I understand that but I sent an email about three weeks ago and I heard back
026from a couple people and I do appreciate that um it's just some things to think about something needs to be done early we halfway through the school year almost and things are just now starting to kind of only comment I can make is you're a teacher you're well aware unfortunately there are certain rules guidelines that are not being a public school and there's certain things we can and can't do and you're right Wheels move slow when they start moving so I think Miss Moss has addressed the issue with you and so please if you have any other concerns or questions please contact Miss Watcher Miss Moss you know where to find them I I needed to speak tonight El so I can little that's fine thank you very much for apprciate time thank you I
027got a quick question off what what he's just said um thank you thank you we won't talk you know 25 so hard but anyway um so you mentioned screening now my girls are both grown but when they were going into kindergarten they did go through a screening do do we not do that now okay yes so we do do a screening for kindergarten um our screening happens the first like teachers come back typically on that Monday and then we do screenings on that Tuesday and Wednesday for students um we also have started the past I think have we done it three years um we started a program called Kinder cats um where we have it we've had it at the high school two years and then we had it at Jefferson in the um prek
028area last year where that's an opportunity for us to get students um that are going to be entering kindergarten so we can have them kind of um we take them to different stations we interact with students um we give them you know see how they do like show them the restrooms and see how they see how they interact at snack time and kind of expose them to a classroom and see what school's kind of about before they get there the problem um is we don't get all of the students like anything um some of the students that we really need to show up to kinder cats don't show up to kinder cats but we have um had some success and it's been very useful because we've been able to identify students that might need some
029more resources and to get some of those resources in their hands and the parents hands prior to August so we will continue to offer Kinder cats and just we're we try our best to draw all the families in unfortunately um some students don't register for school until September so and is that just our staff some after or is schol Williamson County a part of that yeah that's question how are we coordinating with William I remember the girls were little they were but I didn't know if they still were we um our teachers kind of put on the different stations and then uh this past year wison County prek was very involved we also send Flyers to Head Start and to the dayc carees in the area as well they and they also got Flyers at
030kindergarten registration floor is all yours also you need to state your name please first conc his comps child hased Environ rest of circumstances eni situation is unsain for everyone involved thank you my cafer going feel start think outside to Children cem stud teers would like to well app thank you anyone else excuse me thank you very much for your participation I know some of you it's some of you are teachers it's easy to stand up and talk to some in front of people some of you are not it's not as comfortable to stand up so we appreciate your input and your concerns so we're moving right along to item number six on the agenda Anthony you have nothing tonight will issue talk go ahead floor is all yours um we've had just so they all
031know we've had some meetings between the administration and the Union as to how to address these issues um they are serious issues that my members are very concerned about and I can promise you that with their help we are working to solve them um they are very complicated problems um ones that I know like I said our Administration is very concerned with and just know as we move forward they we're team and we're working towards solving that and um you know these creative ideas I mean we are definitely open to any of them um we talk about training opportunities time is difficult sometime with training opportunities everybody here knows that it's just those things they can be time consuming and I know for your children it's now and you're not thinking about but for us
032it can the wheels can move a little slow so I ask for your patience but I do want you to know that it is a serious issue and one that like I said I've been in me multiple meetings and I get lots of messages from my members looking for Solutions and we're going to keep looking for Solutions and and like I said hopefully we can work together and find those thank you Anthony can I ask you a question because I can't I can ask you a question so one of the things that I've talked to teachers um at length about is when you're talking to your peers in the state and outside of the state who's doing this well who's no one having success those are the questions because I'm I I don't I don't
033want to interrupt but like who's doing this well right now as far as I know is no one like Joe and I were talking about just a little bit earlier this is a massive change that has happened in the years that I've been teaching and it's and we don't it it's quite shocking the idea that someone can say to me that we have a violent kindergartener is really really new yeah and I know that there's frustration from my members um they're frustrated because of what's Happening that they sometimes feel like the administration isn't moving fast enough I understand those frustrations and I don't necessarily think there 100% invalid but I also understand Administration has their own things that handcuff them and make things difficult so that's what I mean like we have to come up
034with Solutions and talk about this in an honest way um I appreciate that we hired the more AIDS when we talked about that that first meeting I I I haven't heard much like I hear things I I hope that helped I hope that's made things a little better um but yeah it may take the expenditure of resources um hopefully we're a district that has those resources um hopefully our budget makes room for those but we may have to discuss I mean as we move forward how are we going to use our resources to make it better because I don't like I said honestly from what I've heard no one is doing this well and that's the response that I get I'm part of something called the pre the Ia president support team like I literally
035talk to presidents all over the state of Illinois and this is a problem I hear from everywhere um what the heck do we do um we have grade school kids who are acting in ways that we are not used to and we don't know how to deal with it um but we are going to maybe have to move a little faster than maybe what we're used to as well again new problems create opportunities to be creative and do things that maybe we haven't done before and do you think that I mean I can only speak to the folks that are working in the district and the feedback that I'm getting and the feedback I'm getting is our May unit 2 folks Miss Moss Miss watts are doing everything they can possibly be doing my question
036is is I'm gonna we're gonna have a real candidate conversation are what is Williamson County Education Service like are we what what are we doing are we working yeah I'm not as qualified to talk about that I can tell you that there are amongst our staff there's a lot of frustration towards the administ just in general Administration but also very specifically with Williamson County Education Services I hear a lot of that from my members they're they think things will move way too slow um it takes them way too long to get the interventions that they need and so then they're spending as they describ they're spending a tremendous amount of time with very special needs students and they're not able to spend as much time with their regular education and I don't like that phrase
037typical education system whatever you want to call it um they're not able to give them the time that they need and and that doesn't mean that they don't appreciate that the students need special help I think we all do that right but that doesn't change the frustrations I mean I sat in a meeting with every single kindergarten teacher and I had half of them told me they're thinking of quitting right you know and and I feel like I don't have all the answers for them and it's kind of frustrating for me because I'm like I wish I could give you a Magic Bullet and tell you that I have some great solution I don't um and and again and I know our administration's trying I'm not saying no one's trying they are right and and
038there are limitations but we may have to do some aggressive interventions sooner or later and probably sooner is better than later right go ahead you're asking Mr Stevens talked about the period of time it takes to do things um from what I know about a student at Adams you know there's a window of time that observation has to happen and that sort of thing before steps can be made but from what I can understand by what I've seen some in person some at a distance of the student he doesn't really belong in resource he doesn't really belong and strive um I feel like this is a brand new problem that's going to create something creative that we have to do to solve it like in and that it's going to be a big process that
039the school districts and the special education districts throughout these communities is going to have to deal with in a really creative way if we're going to prevent children from being scared to go to school thank you for the opportunity to speak to you so yeah I I just want to reiterate to everyone whoever's listening and these people out here we I know everyone's trying I have no doubt about that it's just a very difficult situation it's not as simple as us solving it in marrying no it isn't I mean I in some ways I wish it no in some ways I wish it was right like like if it was just marrying then we could figure this out really quickly but this is a much larger social issue and there requirements social issues that require
040from the FED SL down that we can only do certain things like you said certain option certain timing yeah there's all sorts of limitations and restrictions and we all understand that those of us who do this for a living understand that I just want to make itate that to the people that may be listening that it's easy I shouldn't say easy I think we've identified the problems but because of rules and regulations and red tape and regulations that in frankly sometimes are many times necessary looking out for the best interest of one overall and and sometimes the best interest of one can get in the way of the best interest of all and way around and the other way around right and so it it it makes just the solution gets complicated and unfortunately it
041may get expensive and and that's just the realities that we have to realize and and come up and that's I I really just wanted to let the community know that this is not an issue that just the administration is facing that we're talking about it and we're we're trying our best to deal with it and like I said I I know my members Express a lot of frustration to me me about how you know maybe they don't feel like the solutions are coming fast enough but that doesn't mean people aren't trying it just means we're not getting there and think kind of follow up on the point I'm trying to make it we can brainstorm and think of things but yet there are certain rules and guidelines regardless of what we've decide they have to
042fit into certain rules and regulations and student privacy issues and things that you know more about than we do absolutely there's all sorts of privacy issues there's all sorts of complexities about you know disabilities and acts and you know the disabilities acts limits how you can treat certain students and I have a child with special needs I know all about it okay so like I get it but like I said we're it's it's just very very complicated and I just want everybody to know we are trying thanks guys moving right along to the consent agenda Sher you want to give us an motion on that Mr President I make a recommendation to approve the consent agenda as presented minutes minutes from November 19th 2024 regular meeting minutes as presented bills the November supplementary bills and
043the December bills for payment as presented and then we'll let Miss Moss read the donations we have a lot of generous donations for this month uh the Maran I Center to the Maran High School science department they donated a lot of supplies valued at $17,616.63 500 Matt and Lauren Brown to Maran High School medical and lab supplies to the CNA and medical career classes valued at $250 Maxine Hancock to Jefferson School for student needs valued at $250 Jim Parker to the unit 2 District valued at $1,000 Community Action Group Joanna Galloway to Mary and Junior High School Christmas gifts for two students valued at $250 Katrina crane to Marian Junior High Christmas gifts for one student valued at $125 Alicia Stacy Stacy to Maran Junior High School Christmas gift for a student valued at $125
044Maran Junior High School service Club Carrie Jackson to Maran Junior High School Christmas gift for two students valued at $250 Kyle Schmidt to Mar Junior High Christmas gifts for a student valued at $125 Julie May to Mar Junior High Christmas gift valued at $125 Shauna Molton to Mary and Junior High Christmas gifts valued at $125 Second Baptist Church to Mary and Junior High School Christmas gifts for 25 students valued at $3,125 and First United Methodist Church Maran Junior High Christmas gifts for 13 students valued at $1,625 I have a second before we have a discussion I'll second have a motion any any discussion I just say that you know Christmas is the time of giving it looks like we have some very generous donors and Nighthawk I assume that's the coal mine okay that's what
045I thought yes and uh I certainly appreciate Mar and ey Center but to the science department is that for preventive care so they don't see any students they might get injured in their eyes in the science lab so with that said any other discussion or questions hearing none Madame secretary will you call roll please jarrison yes Ward yes Mo yes bunden yes yes uh moving right along uh Kim you have something for us on the report of shared services uh yeah so the report of sh Services is actually part of the audit it has to be presented to the board no actions required just need to inform you um like our insurance uh the workers comp is done through a a Cooperative like so there's several districts involved um that's why it's listed on shared
046services uh along with our special education Cooperative that is all five count uh school districts in Williamson County same way with vocational education and um prek that's all done through um Williamson County Education Services and all the districts in the county sharing that and that's what the report on shared services is about thank you Jared may you make a motion on personnel and you can break it up however you want to how's that right start go top finish you can take a break Mr President I would like to make the recommendation that we approve the following Personnel recommendations as presented employment non-certified Haley Banks media Aid assigned to Jefferson effective March 24th 2025 Randy Barton second shift custodian to Lincoln effective December 14th 2024 Kayla Tucker noon supervisor to Jefferson effective January 7th 2024 25
047did you type that I sure did appoint Lola Smith as the board of education secretary effective January 7th 2024 25 a coaching Perry Duncan MHS volunteer assistant boys track and field coach effective for the 20242 season Matt Brown MHS assistant boys track and field coach affected for the 2425 season Lee Lee win MHS volunteer assistant wrestling coach affected for the 2425 season Audrey Jackson Adams volunteer girls basketball coach effective for the 202 2425 season reassignments Abby Childers reassigned from Longfellow kindergarten teacher to fifth grade teacher at Longfellow effective in the 2025 26 school year Riley G reassigned from Adams fifth grade teacher to fifth grade teacher at Adams effective 25 26 school year Misty tiberan reassigned from Maran Junior High School cook to head cook at Maran Junior High School effective December 4th 2024 stop
048there that'd be fine may have a second second any discussion Madame secretary we call roll please laer yes Moore yes bundren yes Garrison yes Li yes resignations I to make another recommendation that's fine I just keep resignations Emma marer cook assigned to Washington effective December 2nd 2024 Marilyn vanata noon supervisor assigned to Lincoln effected December 20th 2024 resignations continued Mariah Arnold Elementary instructional assistant assigned to Lincoln effective December 20th 2024 JC vongh Elementary instructional assistant assigned to Long Fellow effective December 20th 24 leave of absence Shannon Wallace Hall Monitor assigned to MHS medical leave of absence beginning November 6th 2024 attended return date of April of 2025 and Kaye dwos 8th grade history teacher assigned to Marian Junior High School maternity leave of absence beginning approximately May 4th 202 until the end of the 2024
04925 school year and second second and I just want to note that M chers just trying to run out of here where she got normally we you don't have to run the gauntlet but since you took the time to come here congratulations thank you and I appreciate it thank you and I didn't mean to try to stop you but I no it's I think he had his we've been here an hour and a half so well thank you thank you so much any other discussion hearing none Madame secretary recall Ro please Moore yes Bon yes Garrison yes Waller yes F yes Oh I thought that was I'm sorry I thought that was the U I'm sorry thank you no it said no action I thought you were doing that with the other thing but would
050you give us the operational fund expenditure report yes so I have it on the screen is actually part of the l hearing that I had earlier butes us to the information thees over the last years total reses has to be l. thank you moving right along Jerome a Aon I just want to give a shout out tow Jun so that was a nice they did for did it get hard just to thanks to him good Miss Moss um well so since we're doing shout outs Ain I just have to give a shout out to you and your crew because U maintenance is busy all the time but they are especially busy this time of year setting up tearing down for all the different programs and there's a lot of movement and action so thank you
051to Aaron and his guys they do a great job the magic amazing good Miss Watts um I would just like to give a shout out to all of our buildings um it's a really crazy time of year and everybody's really tired and about ready for a break but they do a really good job going above and beyond to make this time of year extra special for our students so um we've been attending several different holiday activities at all the buildings and all the students um look great sound great um and I just want to thank all of our teachers admin everyone that that happen cool Miss Watson called your name more times in the worst kid in class the bad kid in class we won't tell we won't tell Miss Corine that apparently was a
052problem with it so we'll just tell it was her November 30th with 28 m456 68325 uh we're we're 41.67% through the fisc year and our revenues are at 4694 and our expenditures are at 3774 buet we did receive our second installment on our extensions on December 9th um it was 11, 51384 so we've collected 862 when is the um I know they everybody they extended the period to what last Thursday where you could pay both installments without interest or penalty but when is the U tax sale do you know January Oh I thought it was till last to the 12th that you could pay without you pay without aeny but then it was extend oh I didn't see that oh okay not heard okay don't believe so is this going to be our last one
053yes look at that smile even though we were awarded over 10 million on3 consider who gets us the 1% does that come out of our pockets it all comes out of our pockets because we sent it to Washington and it's sent back SO3 the biggest part of that wasal outl after we good so that we won't hear of Esser anymore that's it thank you and I appreciate you keeping track of all that through the last four years problem any other questions for the treasur board I don't have a question for her but I have a question for Jerry go ahead so at the School Board conference I sat in on three different sessions about Ai and they all all of the sessions they were taught by different people fled by different people but they all
054basically said the same thing that it's AI is affecting every aspect of Education not just math or not just English but literally every grade at every level on every subject and we need a task force and I know that I talked to Miss Moss while we were at the conference and she said she had already mentioned to you about starting the tax force and she the process of doing that but I just want to were I would like to be included on this it's possible you're nominated and your great okay and then they um they all three also stressed that the committee needs to be made up of people from every aspect of Education not just it people not just all high school people but it needs to be somebody from every grade level and
055every subject basically so and I don't know who El was on the commit I got it right but they and AI is Jared on progressing 10 times faster than any other technology we've ever known and they all said if we get behind we will never catch up and so we have a meeting Jared um I've got it set for January 15th send you an invite I'll send you an invite for it um but we do have all aspects covered um we have and I'm not saying I didn't think that you all did oh I know I I just wanted to say that out loud I wanted the public to know like yep we have um every school has representative we have um administrators teachers media Aid um Extension Center teacher uh myself board member Mr
056Garrison um Jerry so um we've got we I think we have it covered as far as all the representatives and um Jerry has actually done a lot of prep work just because he has attended so many things and then you and I had talked and um so I think we're going to be ready for January 15th and then our goal is to really get something in place before the start of the next school year it's exciting but it's scary it's scary and exciting like I mean most of us just sat there with our mouth hanging open and all the sessions like I mean you have elementary students using AI to solve their math problems because they don't know how to use it because they all have phones and so they just pull it out and
057put it in what what not to put on the spot but what was the most interesting or part about the AI me Sim Argent to you I mean the whole thing about the sayi is very interesting to me I mean I mean I think the thing that was the most mindblowing to me was how fast it's changes 10 times faster than any other technology we know like I mean that's just mindan I'm like because because to me like this the idiot I'm like what can change like it's I mean that's you know not to digress a couple you know I think it was two years ago when I was trying to case Auto case over in Jackson County and my defendant was a graduate from SIU and uh he was in computer technology Computer Engineering
058and stuff and the first time he talked to me about when we were waiting during the course of the trial we were sitting there talking about Ai and about how at that point he says they got the voice down he said the mouth features weren't he said because he was talking about like some celebrity coming on I think he used like Elon Musk comeing on and say I'm going to close my shop you know and tank the stock or something else and he says it's they had the voice down but at that point they were still working on the lips and I was talking to a judge here who's big into Ai and photographer and he says at that this was like last year he says it's getting better he says the fingers like real
059detailed stuff and he showed me a couple pictures of some old pictures that got brought for AI and you could see the real fine like fingers and stuff we not but it's changing now it's even you know it's more realistic now and you see things and it's h you know it's it's scary but fascinating that's why I describe it you know that you can do all that some why can't you just say AI create me the process and procedures and keep kids names out of it it should spit right out should you could your get another AI GO train my staff any comments or questions I never really considered myself like a techy not a techie and there are many things I technical that I can't do but that was those were some of the
060most fascinating seminar sessions I've ever sat in also have questions about an AI creates things for you like who owns it that hasn't that's yet to be determined because it's not technically you but you know you ask it to create it for you so is it yours is it theirs just there's some of aspects I never then it comes well we're down to we don't need Clos session tonight but uh one thing I want to say that normally in May and June we always have a meeting and we have all the retiring people and they get a little bell and there's one person always orders all the bells for us and she ordered a bell for herself but it's not here so I just want to give a special shout out that this is the
061last meeting that Monica Lynn who has been here since I was on the board in 2011 when she's became the board secretary and she's uh done a wonderful job for the last 13 years and I was kidding her when that she always let me know if I didn't know someone's face I could say who's that sitting over there she was always able to tell me who it was so I just Monica it's been a pleasure having you with us in the board for the last 13 years uh and you'll have to come back when and we can only blame yourself for not getting the Bell here on time but we we'll get it to you but seriously in all seriousness I hope you enjoy your retirement and your kids in St Louis and uh it's
062been a journey and we look forward to Lola taking over and stepping in right where you left off so and with that said I second what Miss wats said is it's a a very busy time at all the schools thanks all the administration the teachers the support staff the maintenance crew the IT people everybody that's part of this great thing we know as Maring unit 2 for making a successful first half of the Year successful Christmas programs and uh what Friday the last day of school yes damn where's Mr storm when we need him um but with that said we'll everybody have a nice holidays uh we'll see you next year our first board meeting next year will be right here same place uh January 21st 20125 at 6 PM but if anybody wants to
063come back and listen to miss Watson's presentation of the proposed Levy tomorrow at 5:30 not 5:45 5:30 the light will be on We like Mel 6 will leave the light on so just come on back with that said I have my favorite motion Mr President I would like to make a recommendation that we close do we have a second second Jerry seconded so any Madam Secretary will you call row please B yes Garrison yes Ward yes Moore Yes W yes see youall next year