001Roll call, please. Lower here. Mson here. Nelson here. SM here. Gates here. All right. We didn't have anybody sign up in public comments. Is that correct? Comments. Um, I'd like to thank everybody that made the graduation ceremony uh possible. It was great. It was a good time. Always the best part about being a board member is get to see the kids smiling faces walking across the stage. So, appreciate everybody putting that together. Any other board comments? Item number four, correspondence. Did we have any correspondence? I didn't see any. Sorry. All right. Item number five, approval of consent agenda. Anyone have any item they would like pulled out or any questions or concerns? Property casualty liability insurance. policy renewals and their performance as well as the workers compensation insurance policy. If not, I would entertain a
002motion to approve. I move to approve the conception. Motion second. Roll call, please. Yes. Nelson. Yes. Yes. Yes. Gates. Yes. Balmer. Yes. Lower. Yes. Motion carries. 70. Item six. Committee report. Finance committee. Committee report is in your packet. Anyone have any questions about the only two recommendations were to approve the minutes finances? No action items on the finance committee. The building was also have anything to add about recommendations to move forward. discussion building 7.1 foyer request really major to think of lean you was basically they wanted the military Correct. We're having trouble hearing. I'm sorry. Sorry about that. We'll speak up a little bit. Um the FOYA request was just for documentation on the milary and fuel and oil bids. We got a request sent in to us. We fulfilled the foyer request. Is that
003what it is? I don't know. All right. All right. 7.2 academic improvement planning update. Okay. Well, we start with the district goals. Um the first bucket, student academic growth and achievement. Continue to strengthen K through a ELA literacy math curricular instructional approach. Continue to modernize our curricular approach programs and services. Continue to strengthen social emotional student supports and increase targeted pathway based course opportunities in district and community relations. Strengthen community involvement in schools. Continue to solidify and expand positive branding under facilities and access. accessibility. Develop and implement long-term capital improvement plan. Solidify security, safety, and district crisis plan. And our financial goals, develop and implement long-term budget levy projections, plans, and increase operation operational efficiencies, keeping students. Um, under academic improvement planning, five quick bullets. Um, end of year assessments are complete. I star as
004well as AP and ACT and probably a handful of others. We are assembling and organizing a team to conduct a full K through 12 math curriculum review for fall 2026 districtwide adoption. that we'll start with an introductory meeting on Wednesday. In the fall, we will utilize an updated version of the Amplify curriculum. In the fall, we will expand our utilization of the Renaissance learning platform. And in the fall, we will launch an IT pathway for students with help from a $31,000 link. takes us through 7.4 to 7.5 public school carbonfree assessment. I'll back up just a little bit. I got two more. Okay. Capital improvement plan update. Uh summer project plans uh just continue as we've noted the last couple of months at the ELC. HVAC and domestic water downsizing at Apollo focusing on security.
005Um some kitchen upgrades, smallcale concrete. Um that's to be determined if if funds allow. Exterior lighting and landscaping. New Boston uh building demo, prek classrooms, parking lot and playground, as well as there's a little bit of work that will take place in the kindergarten classrooms. um at the junior high security, small scale concrete. Uh if if we if we can do so exterior lighting, landscaping, parking lot, ceiling, I need to take that one off. We're going to do that every other year. I think this kind of potential HVAC controls and I would include the term balancing um at the high school. Vocational HVAC is the emphasis and we're going to take a look at restrooms and hot water try and do some work to make sure that we have functional, you know, fully functional faucets,
006toilets. District design team update. Just a review of the purpose and the goals that the team has constructed. The purpose of the design team is to design modern and enduring spaces within buildings and throughout the district that fosters unity, district pride, cohesion, and a seamless experience that transcends separate entities, creating an environment where every student, teacher, and community member belongs and thrives. Our 17 goals. Number one, strategic allocation of resources. Number two, a single point of design oversight. Number three, establish and maintain longlasting vision. Number four, imple classic and clean design for permanent fixtures. Number five, accessorize modernly. Number six, create spaces that make us all proud. And number seven, develop and deploy common design elements in regards to now I make to the public school free assessment. I got so to note I did
007want I wanted to take a little time to go through this. So this is something um Amaran Illinois offers to all public schools in their territory offers to all public schools in their territory and they'll do a comprehensive review of all of your systems including building envelope controls um a variety of buckets that they go through that I I'll walk you through at a fairly rapid pace to kind of give but I started with how much we spend energy. Um this is these are the FY24 totals. Uh you can see how much we spend on bus fuel, electricity, n natural gas with about 60% of the expenditures in electricity. The goal is to try and get to an annual savings target that has that number. Um and the target, the main target is electricity. Obviously,
008it's our biggest bucket and it's where we have the opportunity for the most gains. Um, if you look at FY25 so far, you can see bus fuels down. Um, electricity is pretty much on the same pace right now. We did have some new contracts that kicked in. I think it was in in February when our per kilowatt hour rate dropped a little bit. Um, and natural gas is up. I don't know if that's up because usage was up or because the price of natural gas was up this year compared to last. Overall, you can see our targets and where we are so far this year. Something to note with electricity. Um things are getting ready to go through the roof as far as capacity charges are concerned. Um we don't know how much more expensive
009it's going to get at a price per kilowatt hour. Those are like your on your supply side, but on your delivery side, everybody has to pay to have a certain um kind of a lotment like room for their max demand. And there's a formula that that Amar uses to figure out what your capacity charges are what everyone is preparing for is the capacity charges to go through the you can kind of see without getting too deep into it. You can see in the MYSO auction which is where we're in this MYSO territory regional transmission in RTO in 2023 24 the annual average annual megawatt per day for capacity was 9 and a quart 1996 and then for the coming year $21530. So what we're trying to do is position ourselves so that we don't be
010damaged by that increase. We're trying to do it through a variety of of ways. One is just be more efficient so we use less electricity. Two is trying to find ways to produce it ourselves, which is where the opportunities for solar generation. I won't have a lot of details on that in this assessment, but you'll see it as a bucket that they did for um so these are the buckets for the that combined to make the public school carbon-f free assessment. Um so they analyze they they use a lot of different subcontractors to analyze our operation. Uh their first task is to look for energy efficiency savings opportunities. Good example. Um Doug and I have been working with a a company that that sells the LED bulbs and will file for all the am uh
011rebates for us. Uh we've got new lighting going in out in both shops of the HVAC um facility of the high school. We've already installed uh low wattage LEDs in the wrestling room. And then there will be new lights, high efficiency lights going in common out here. So that's just a simple example of finding energy savings opportunities. And I'll get into a little bit more detail as we as we go. The second bucket is uh they have a firm that comes out and they inspect your insulation, your building envelope, and they'll use sensors to see where you're losing heat or where your gaps are. The third bucket is taking a look at your solar energy potential, you know, targeting some areas where you could put in solar panels for production and then looking at infrastructure
012required to support the electrification because if you're producing uh energy on site, it's to your benefit whenever you replace components to try and electrify as much as you can because if you're producing your own energy on site, that's obviously the most economic way to go. when you look at you know different different appliance upgrades. Uh the fifth bucket looking at uh infrastructure required to support electrification of transportation and then their sixth bucket they look at this well certification which is kind of an icing on the cake type of deal. Uh they looked at every one of our buildings, every one of our every building that has a meter. They studied those locations to for opportunities for efficiencies. Uh, and here's just a a real high level view of kind of their findings. So, here are
013things that they recommend. Develop a multi-year energy efficiency implementation plan. Leverage their energy efficiency programs incentives, which we are. Utilize their energy efficiency energy analyzer tool, which is online, and then examine your building automation systems which is a targeted thing for us to look at the controls on our various components at every campus. Uh they inspected the mechanical insulation and building envelope uh and outlined some opportunities where we could just you know make some quick fixes to result in some savings. So replacing some door seals, some weather stripping ceiling different And then they did a holistic uh review of of our campus and proposed some solar uh locations. And they did a review of our infrastructure uh to take a look at how much it would cost, what what our capacity is at each campus
014to be able to electrify the different. And that just ends with a reminder of, you know, we spend right now, except by 24, was $431,000 in, you know, we're going to try and do everything we can to cut that cost. residential homes. What that means is when you're generating our main energy and keeping it insially But yeah, that's and they used to only allow you to build to 80% of your last, you know, 12 months usage and now you can build 7.6 FY25 budget update. All right. Uh we walked through this in the finance committee uh meeting. So just looking at our operating funds, look at projected expenditures, our budgeted expenditures, and then that 110% budget threshold where we would look to amend the budget in our operating funds in particular. Uh you can see
015O and M and transportation both project to be under budget as far as expenditures are are concerned. ED is below projected to be below the 110% threshold but 5% above what we I've got a few line items kind of picked out to kind of show one is just in the substitute lines across our various schools and this is just pair of pros and teachers here. Um, so we budgeted about $260,000 and current expenditures are about 308. So we're about $50,000 over budget with subs teachers and parents at all our buildings. And then we've got other notable overages. Something to note on this is some of these items are reimburseable items. So we might be over budget, but I'll use prek as an example. uh we got a little bit of a budget bump, you know,
016as far as the revenue coming in to support the program. Similar with title one um and some similarity with SR3 so long as those funds eventually come through is still to be determined. We file an expense report on that today. Um look at some supply lines are a little bit little bit over. Uh you look at I mean cross special ed cross categoricals is a little bit over CTE a little bit over special ed programs you know private tuition um is is a little bit over and those are just things that we have to we've got to spend that money choice we try and budget to the best of our ability 12 months in advance. Uh when you look at computer assisted instruction, that's really the the tech department, we're a little bit over, but
017we've got two years worth of we had an early Chromebook order in July. It's on this year's budget, but late Chromebook order as well as some servers and stuff that we're getting reimbured money at least to 70%. So both of those items put us over budget expenditures to When all the smoke clears, we're still within the 110% threshold. So, no budget. All right. Any questions on budget? 7.7 FY26 registration prices and fees. Okay. A screenshot. It's kind of small if you're trying to look uh from your seat, but I propose we lessen the financial burden of registration on our middle income families with slight decreases per student. So, if you look at elementary, last year the per student registration fee was $55 per kid. I recommend 50. As far as junior high, it was 57.
018Uh recommend 50 there as well. and high school it was 90 recommend 75 there. Now, a very conservative mean like worst case scenario. If you look underneath those labels under elementary, I've got 500, junior high 300, high school 400. Those are round numbers that I took times those registration fees to come up with an estimation of about a $10,000 revenue loss due to those fees being produced. Um, within these lines, I also recommend a slight increase in adult breakfast and lunch at all schools and then a slight increase in PE uniforms, uh, shorts, shirts, sweatpants at both the junior high and the high school due to cost. This is something we'll bring back. Anybody have any questions? 7.8 student handbook updates. Okay. Each admin report has hyperlinks to their handbook drafts and some of the
019schools have like a summary on what their proposed changes are. Um so between this read and formal approval in June, administrative team will continue working to find ways for cohesion. books as you guys study between now and the June board meeting in particular for over the next couple weeks. If you see any language that you would like reviewed or adjusted, just let us know that consideration as well for approval. Any as we say that are there any highlights that principles want to share with their respective handbooks? The handbooks are in the in the admin. They're in the admin portion. I couldn't find them. So, I think for the most part, everybody has it at or near the very top. If you pay attention to the bright blue lettering that I just totally All right. 7.9
020FY26 Board of Education goal setting. Okay. Here's what I plan to do within the next week or so. Release a Google form districtwide. Um collect feedback from a variety of stakeholders, you know, students, staff, community members. Um and the the couple of items we're trying to feedback on uh is kind of a ranking of the goals that we had this year in order of importance to whoever is submitting the form and then an opportunity to share goal setting ideas that they might have for consideration June we'll go through those results the goals that we've set for this year set goals supposed to be. I I saw we have some FFA members in the Were you guys? Well, Mr. Hart thought, but we can go when she does the high school. Okay. I I was like
021I kind of was looking through. I'm like, yeah, I thought we were and then I didn't. So, I'm sorry I didn't put We will re we will take students to come and show us. We'll do it during the high school. That would be great. There's a song in the dance. I've heard that's what I've heard. Are you Are you guys doing I'm on right. I've been prepping. Okay, sounds great. All right, then we're on to item eight. Action items 8.1, the FY26 no fit. Um yeah, you can see you know on the on the slider in your packet how the milk came out. Spray farms is the only bid. It's about the same price as last year. No bread no breads by the way. So what we do for bread is we purchase through coal
022and it's frozen right but they did that this year. It's rising. It's rising right now. Thanks. All right. Well, then I would entertain a motion to approve the Prairie Farms bid at 37 to 40 cents per carton. It says 3740 because strawberry is a little bit more expensive. I move to approve or motion roll please. Nelson, yes. Yes. Frick. Yes. Yates. Yes. Bulmer. Yes. Lower. Yes. Mson. Yes. All right. Motion carries. 70. And then 8.2 is the fuel bid. We fielded two from one from Hal, one from Blick and Blick. Overall the HA prices were lower especially in the winter blends and definitely significantly lower. So the recommendation is to I think it stay right. Yeah. appreciate that you know participating. I would entertain a motion to approve the fuel bid as presented. Roll call,
023please. Smack. Yes. Yes. Yates. Yes. Bmer, yes. Lower. Yes. Mson, yes. Nelson, yes. All right. Motion carries. And we're on to admin reports. We'll start with the high school. I'm not prepared. I want to hear what the students will turn it on over. All right, I'm gonna let the girls introduce themselves uh first and then I'll take over. Hello, my name is Elsie Cook and I'm the North Yorkshire County High School FFA president and I'm so proud to be sitting up here in front of all of you, especially in a blue corduroy jacket. I'm so pleased to see so many of my former administrators here, administrators, teachers that I know and I love and I've been in class with and I don't think they coined me as the agriculture type. I'm more of a leggings
024and maybe a Caitlyn Clark jersey every now and then. But that's what's so great about Mercer County FFA and that's what draws people to Mercer County High School FFA is our ability to bring in people from all walks of life and expose them to what a church has to offer. Without FFA, I want to be the strong confident young woman I'm growing to be and I'm so excited for that. And here is another strong confident young woman to vice president in section by the door. and also by the um pretty much everything else they said and everything. I'm from I'm from the walk of life that like you know you'd expect from the walk of life that fits in and does well. She does really well. She's the president. I support her. Hello. I'm Lindstrom,
025one of the three A teachers here. Um, above all, I want to thank you guys for your support of our program, uh, and chapter. We have 280 members. Uh, so every kid in the class at the junior high level and the high school is an FFA member. Um, so I'm very proud to be, um, the leader, I guess, or one of them, of this great organization. you guys allow us to go to so many contests, conventions, um, and get to take these kids to grow into great individuals for, um, after high school and junior high. The junior high program is one of my, um, additions in the last couple years, and I'm so thankful for that. So, thanks for letting me come over to this building to teach because it's actually um, benefiting our high
026school program um, greatly. So, um, we just want to say thank you. You should have final report I believe um that shows all of our success and what we do. Um we have Addison getting her state degree this summer and we have three members getting their American degree which is the highest degree you can get in FFA this fall. Uh so we're doing great things and thank you thank you and thank you. So you have any questions for me on the FFA or we're good. Yeah, thank you guys for coming. Now, a few years ago, a group came in and they like ran us through a Robert's rule of order like demonstration procedure. That would be awesome if you could do that again. We were That was Julie's favorite. Yeah. Well, just Hey, show us
027show us how how it could how it how our meeting should actually run. We can do that. It might just need to be an annual. Yeah, maybe have a member. Have a member in the crowd for every meeting. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Maybe maybe monthly. Maybe monthly for us. And it's going to take me a while to remember. It's I know I'm living apologize. I got married in November, so it's mentioned electric. I don't think taking very long. I'm sorry. Thank you. And if you ever need anything, but thanks for all your support. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right, I'm moving out of order. Sorry. I just finished up real quick. Yes, you can. Oh, you had something to add? I thought it works off. Very proud of that program. Um students and our advisers are
028all the time and they do get a ton of experience all the things they get to go to. So, it is an amazing program. Never learned so much about FFA in my life than I have in the last few years. Um, despite having them in all the other places I've ever been. So, um, handbook. If you guys have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me thoughts on that or like where we were, what we were thinking. Um, we tried to highlight all the changes like would be replaced if that makes sense. Okay. Um and like Mr. said, we did have pretty awesome graduation. Um a lot of hard work put into that by a lot of individuals, the majority of whom are not here today, but Mrs. H is. So, I'd like
029to thank her along with everybody else that just worked their tail off. Mrs. Cooper and myself and Mr. I would say But we're just the faces and everybody else behind the scenes are the ones who did the work. So the kids speeches were were fantastic. They always are. But every year they always do a great job. You guys did a great job tag teaming the flowers and the diplomas, too. That is pretty impressive. I only almost gave one kid. He looked at Sorry. Nothing from the district as far as that. We're good. Okay. All right. ELC. I just wanted to highlight our preschool graduation. We had 35 preschool graduates. Um some we had an anonymous I know who they are community members donate our caps and gowns. So if you looked at the pictures, they're
030really adorable. So they performed Yeah, they performed a couple songs and it was really good evening. So do they give speeches, too? Told everybody what they wanted to do when they grew up. Oh, that's awesome. Do we got to videotape that for each one so that we can And then tomorrow we have preschool screenings tomorrow and Friday and have 23 children signed up. So I think we're gonna be pretty full this year. two more dates in June and July. Is 23 a good number for this time of year? Is it average? Um, it's a pretty good number. I feel like it's more than last year. So, I think we're going to be pretty. Sure. Um, if you look at the report I submitted, we did a million word challenge and I highlighted in there that
031Camden Brown read over three million words. We've got some posters hanging up in our each of the kids um starting at 250,000 words. So, they like looking at those um as they pass in the hallway. Just some other thing, Mrs. Norton's um kindness club really took off. Um and we had over 80 kids participate in the first one and they're just doing some fun things in our school and in our community. Um we had the wax museum last night with the fourth grade. They did a great job with that. Our first grade has had some community members come in and watch the readers theaters that they've been doing. And then the letter people play in kindergarten was a few weeks ago. That's world famous I think the people play. So they did that. We have
032our field day tomorrow. So I told the kids to dress warm for that. Supposed to be 60 degrees. So but we'll do field day tomorrow and after that we we'll announce our peace prize winners for for fourth quarter. So just kind of wrapping up the year here. Love the pictures. We've got we did part one field day today. Part two is tomorrow. We did go outside. It was cold. tomorrow field trips. Um, river boat, right? I think right before the tornado warnings, they left. So, they had a lot of fun out there and um we are Tomorrow we have our Eagle of the Month. We have a books for bikes giveaway. The students had to read books and they got some tickets for some of the books that they read. So we have our five
033winner and he'll be presented tomorrow and then about 20 of us are getting because we raised over$10 each um for our new playground raised over $800 to help contribute to turf and whatever they're going to need outside I'm in there. She was able to raise $300. Thank you. Um I just wanted to highlight Thursday last week. Um before I kind of see the order, Boswell worked her tail off to put an event together called the real world where all of our eighth graders went through a simulation days for them things what their money was brought in I think 18 volunteers to help with that process around their money and take that they don't make enough expenses and um we just had a lot of good feedback, a lot of good involvement. Thank you to the
03418 volunteers out the first year we've done that. Do they still go up to the junior year that I was part of that? It is fun. just feedback from the students after I think high school. All right, we are to item 10 close session. So I would entertain a motion to go into close session. Yes. Yes. Bomber. Yes. Lower. Yes. Mson. Yes. Nelson. Yes. Smok. Yes. Carried. We'll come back at 7:25. We hear anything about the game.