001Oh, we're going to get started. We like to welcome everybody to the Orleans School District 135 Board of Education meeting. Today's Monday, June 8th at 6pm. Katie, could we have a roll call please? Miss Browner? Miss Chmielewski? Dr. Castingren? Here. Mr. Morandi? Here. Ms. Peckham-Dodge? Ms. Thanos? Here. Ms. Ayed? We will start with the SWCC Art Invitational All-Conference Best in Show Award. Congratulations to Chloe Karzeepa of Orland Junior High for receiving Best in Show at the 2026 SWCC Art Invitational. Next honorees, also SWCC Art Invitational All-Conference Best in School Award. Congratulations to Ellie Hayden of Jerling Junior High who received the Best in School Award at the 2026 SWCC Art Invitational. Next honorees, SWCC Art Invitational All-Conference Champions. Congratulations to the following Jerling Junior High students who contributed art pieces to SWCC Art Invitational which
002resulted in Jerling Junior High the All-Conference Champion Award. Next honorees, SWCC Girls Soccer Champions. Congratulations to the Orland Junior High girls soccer team for placing first in the SWCC Girls Soccer Conference Tournament. Next honorees, SWCC Boys Soccer Champions. Congratulations to the Jerling Junior High boys soccer team for placing first in the SWCC Girls Soccer Conference Tournament. Next is SWCC Track Conference Meet First Place Finishers. Congratulations to the following Orland Junior High students who finished first in their respective events at the SWCC Track and Field Conference Meet. The next award is the Community Leader in Action Award nominees. Congratulations to the following individuals for receiving a nomination for the Orland School District 135 Community Leaders in Action Award. Each person was nominated by a co-worker, peer, family member, or friend for their dedication and commitment to
003the Orland Park community. Congratulations to the following people. Keeley, Dan Topin, Claribel Montemayor, and Courtney Lockhart. Next, we'll announce the Community Leader in Action Award winner. Congratulations to Anita Tracy, the winner of the 2026 Community Leader in Action Award. Anita was nominated by her family for her selfless acts of kindness. In 2000, following the sudden and devastating loss of her 21-year-old son, Anita and her family made the profoundly selfless decision to donate his organs, a single act that saved and enhanced the lives of seven individuals. For the past 26 years, Anita has turned that personal tragedy into a lifelong mission of hope, education, and advocacy. By courageously sharing her family's story with students and community groups, she has inspired countless individuals to lead with empathy while offering comfort and strength to other grieving families. Our
004next honoree is Paige Terazas, High Point School fifth grade teacher for the value of inspiration, nominated by Jackie Durkin. Ms. Terazas demonstrates compassion every day through the kindness, patience, and encouragement she shows her students. She creates a classroom where every child feels valued, supported, and confident to be themselves. Her positive attitude, willingness to listen, and ability to make each child feel important truly reflects the compassion that strengthens the entire school district community. Our next honoree is Gabriella Fernandez, Century Junior High ELA teacher for the value of compassion, nominated by Bridget Mimich. Ms. Fernandez has been a phenomenal first-year teacher showing compassion throughout this year of professional growth. She has built my children up and communicated home throughout the year. She strives to show compassion and discipline with dignity. She is amazing and we want to
005honor her. Our next honoree is Julie Lenhard, Park School second grade teacher for the value of inspiration, nominated by Andreas Patlin. Ms. Lenhard has done a wonderful job teaching Aria so many things. She comes home with so many new stories and ideas. I can see Aria really enjoys her class time. I would also like to say that Ms. Lenhard is also very transparent and great at communicating. Thank you and I hope you have a great summer. Our next honoree is Jill Decker-Dorn, Liberty School fourth grade teacher for the value of compassion, nominated by Karina Herrera. Throughout fourth grade she has provided support during challenges to help my son confidently catch up after absences while ensuring he felt encouraged rather than overwhelmed. She has also recognized his strength and pushed him to grow by encouraging him
006to present at the innovation event, an opportunity that built both confidence and independence. Ms. Dorn creates an environment where students feel supported while being challenged to reach their full potential. Our next honoree is Kara Guyon, a Jurling junior high music teacher and drumline director nominated by Lisa Lewis for the value of inspiration. Mrs. Guyon has been instrumental in my son's love for music so much more than a music teacher. She started and runs the only drumline group that district 135 has had at any of their schools. She is an inspiration to all of the children and also to me. The passion she exhibits truly comes out in all of the children's performances and it's such a joy to be a part of. Mrs. Guyon is a gem and deserves so much recognition for all she
007does. Our next honoree is Meredith Doyle, works at Orland junior high nominated by Milana Shaw for the value of inspiration. Her learning environment is both fun and challenging for students which gives a balance of hard work and having fun. Being in her class has been really awesome. Her class is very enjoyable to be in and she explains materials in class so that everyone can understand. Mrs. Doyle motivates us and never lets us give up. Our next honoree is Samantha Witzak, Liberty School third grade teacher nominated by Amina Shaw for the value of respect. As the mother of a third grader with an IEP entering a new school, I was filled with anxiety. Thankfully Ms. Witzak went above and beyond for my son. She beautifully balanced structure, compression, and respect creating a self-safe classroom. For the
008first time my child built self-esteem, made friends, and loved going to school. Mrs. Witzak's excellent communication gave me complete peace of mind. My child captured it best in a thank you note to her. Thank you for teaching me, caring me, and loving for me. And our last honoree is Eli Heitmanek, I'm sorry if I botched that. Orland junior high band conductor nominated by Salima Alice for the value of compassion. He has been my child's band teacher since the fifth grade and now she is in eighth grade. He has been so accommodating to her needs so that she can continue to participate in band activities. He supports her in so many ways in her percussion growth. Band is not just a class to learn and instrument, but a place for her to connect to her passion
009and having him is a blessing. All right, next up board member comments. Did anyone have anything they'd like to share? I actually did. First I wanted to thank administration and the buildings and grounds department for a great graduation ceremony. It went very well. Thanks for the nice weather. It was great I got to hand my youngest kid their diploma. That also means my time as a parent in the district is over. And I wanted to recognize a few of the staff members who have been really important and meaningful to my family. There's been so many I couldn't name all of them. There are a few that I felt like I had to recognize. At center school, Mrs. Hackett and Mrs. LeGrand were just amazing. Mrs. Pinolio doing math enrichment in the middle of COVID, she
010did an awesome job. At Middle Ridge, Mrs. Loison is such a fantastic librarian. Mrs. Prisby in the self-contained enrichment program has a calm confidence and skill that are really inspiring. And at Sentry, Mrs. Hammernick, Mrs. Shalish, and Mrs. Johnson-Dennis really show the true meaning of dedication and professionalism. And they've been amazing. They really show what makes 135 a great place. And I'd like to recognize some of the principals we've had through the years. Dr. Nichols at center school a year or two ago. Mrs. Karczewski at Middle Ridge, Mrs. Weston, and Dr. Horn and Dr. Noyokas. Thanks for all that you've done and you continue to do. Did anyone else have anything? I just wanted to say that I attended the Memorial Day Parade. We haven't talked about that yet. No, because, all right. I just
011want to say that I do parades for the Girl Scouts. We work on those together and I know how much effort it takes. So everybody in the district who helped make that happen, thank you. And I hope that it continues. All right. We do actually have two people signed up today for public comment. We ask that you keep your comments to three minutes. And the board does not respond to public comments, but we are taking notes and we do hear what you're saying. First up tonight is Nora Sharabash. Good evening. My name is Nora Sharabash. I'm a practicing physician, the mother of four children and a long-time district 135 parent. I want to start by acknowledging that our municipal district 135 has a strong reputation in our community. One that I have personally experienced. My
012older children attended multiple district 135 schools and whenever concerns arose, they were addressed quickly and professionally by administrators who made it clear that they genuinely cared about my children's well-being. That is the district 135 that I know. I am here tonight because I believe in something simple. No child should have to choose between their safety and their education. We entrust our children to this district every day under the principle of in loco parentis, the Latin phrase which means the responsibility of schools to protect and care for students as a parent would. This year for the first time in all my years as a district 135 parent, I have lost confidence that my child's school takes his safety seriously. My son asked for help through the proper channels. That made things worse. The simple reasonable accommodation
013I asked for to keep him safe was available the entire time and was never provided. As a parent, I followed every process. I communicated through every appropriate channel. I provided extensive documentation and advocated persistently and professionally. Despite all of this, our legitimate concerns were dismissed at every step. I have done everything right. I have run out of options within the channels that are available to me. That's why I'm here tonight. My son, my son wants to be in school. He has the right to access his education while he is safe, protected, and free from that is not an unreasonable thing for a child to ask for. As a physician, I take seriously the responsibility to advocate for those who put you cannot advocate for themselves. I am here tonight doing exactly that for my child.
014I have faced many difficult challenges in my life and I have met them all with strength and composure. But this past year has been one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. Not because of the challenge itself, but because I have had to push so hard simply to be heard, only to be dismissed at every turn. I go to work every day advocating for my patients and their families, fighting for them to be safe and supported. I come home and I do the same for my own children. No parent should have to fight this hard just to have their child's safety taken seriously. I have not been able to resolve this situation through the appropriate channels. I have serious concerns that I need this board to hear. I am not here to
015air grievances publicly. I am here because I want to get back on track and find a path forward that ensures that my child is safe, supported, and genuinely welcomed in this district. We love you here. It should not just be a motto for recruiting staff. It should be the lived experience of every student and every parent in this district, including my child. I am formally requesting the opportunity to speak to this board in executive session at your July meeting. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Our next signed up for tonight is Rosa Tubal. Hi there. I'm Rosa Tubal, member of the D135 Technology, Learning, and Teaching Advisory Committee. I'm here tonight in support of my friend Dr. Noura Sharabash and her family. Every child, as my friend said, should feel safe coming to school.
016No child should spend their day worrying about their safety. I understand as members of the board, you may not be involved in the day-to-day handling of these situations. However, as board members, you are responsible for ensuring that the district follows policies and that those policies are effective so that students can learn in a safe environment. I'm asking you to make sure that this family's concerns receive the attention that it deserves. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. All right. Next on the agenda, we have the superintendent's report. All right. Our first item, and I've shared this with the board in the last couple months about the potential of adding a facility dog at Centennial. And just a couple highlights, I know I've shared this entire presentation with you, but at least for the public, just
017seeing what a facility dog is and the benefits of having a facility dog at one of our schools, utilize special skills, training, and interventions to help providers achieve specific treatment and our program goals. Facility dogs are highly motivated by contact with people and affectionate gregarious and moderate to low energy drive and calm and quiet indoors and are trained as service dogs. As you can see, Rosie's taking a little break from a long day of work right there, but the key benefits here are listed. And I'm not going to read every single one of them here for you, but these are just a sample of the benefits that facility dogs can provide, not only our students, but our staff as well. There's just a few more benefits here at working with facility dog, what they improve.
018And then just the last slide on facility dogs, just a quote from Martin Berber. And I don't know if that's Rosie there reading over there on the bottom right. So she's encouraging literacy in our school district. But she's been a fixture in our school district already, being there multiple times. I know I've not literally run into her, but I've seen her at our schools multiple times and I brag that she likes me, but that's her job. So she likes everybody. So I can't take credit for that. But we have an agreement with the principal there, Beth Hayden, who's here. And she is in the process of adopting Rosie and being her owner, along with a couple of handlers that will be trained to have Rosie in our schools, to experience all the benefits that we
019just shared with. So we have a couple of representatives from Healing Hearts as well who have been great working with them in our school district. And there's definitely a snowball effect with some of our other schools that are in the process of potentially adopting some dogs once the ball gets rolling hopefully tonight. So that's all I have to share about facility dog unless anyone has any questions. Can I jump in? Tonight we're voting on the facility dog. So if anybody had any questions prior to going into that vote? Okay. Well, again, I want to thank Beth Hayden for making this all happen because she's the one that has made this all happen. And we're just here to kind of help her along with it, but without Healing Hearts and Beth and her staff and her
020students, we would not be here today. And hopefully we'll have, I mean, it's likely we have three or four more agreements next month. So I know Rosie's sister is being potentially adopted at Liberty next month. So that doesn't violate any nepotism clause in our policy, I don't believe. But if it does, we'll supersede it. We could change that policy if necessary. Dr. Castor had talked already about graduation and just our staff did a great job, our building grounds department as well in making graduation happen. I know it seems like it just happens, but it really doesn't. It's every department in our school district that is part of it from all staff members contribute, all 800 plus staff members contribute to that one day that happens every year in our district. And without everybody and our
021vendors and our partners within our school district, that day does not happen as smoothly as it does. And here's just a couple of pictures. This was the Century graduation. And this was the Orland Junior High graduation. Again, there's a lot of pictures on Instagram with every school's Instagram as well. And there's a couple pictures from the Jerling graduation. But again, without all our staff members making that day possible, it wouldn't be as successful as it was. And to Dr. Castor's point, the weather has been, we've been lucky with the weather. We only had one postponement I think in the last five years or so. So I'm sure I just jinxed that. But that's just part of it. That's part of it. And that's all I have with graduation. I will say, we did have a
022bit of a snafu with our Century live stream. But it was something that was unforeseen. We practiced that live stream during the week and we did not have an issue. We did run into an issue in Century during the graduation. Luckily, that was corrected. But unfortunately, that live stream did not happen as smoothly as it did for the other two schools. But we're going to work through that and make sure that there aren't any hiccups moving forward. Next item I have is student attendance. And I know in the, I don't know, it was maybe six-ish months ago, we were talking about taking a second e-day off on May 27th. And I just wanted to share with the board some of the student attendance figures that we had and also have some staff numbers as well.
023But generally, we're at about 9-10% of absentee rate per day. So that's roughly anywhere from 450 to 500 students that we miss school on a daily basis. You know, that percentage fluctuates for various reasons. But on May 27th, we did have a substantial spike to almost 32%. So there was an additional 1,100 students that were off that day for a total of almost 1,600 students, which is about a third of our district. So just sharing those numbers out. As far as staff goes, we didn't have a huge spike. I mean, we've had a lot worse days for staff taking off. On that day, we had 72 staff members that were off. And specifically, I will say I had only a couple of requests for religious exemption or unpaid day, but teachers who had personal days
024could take a personal day without specifying what it's for. But in general, we've had days where we had 100 plus staff members take off and we didn't have that. So just sharing like the day on the 26th, we had 50 staff members off. On the 27th, there was 72. And on the 28th, there was 38 staff members that took off. So it wasn't the staff attendance was within kind of normal guidelines, but the student attendance was obviously spiked quite a bit. So I just wanted to share that moving forward. So when decisions are made in the future years, we have that information. Are we deciding that tonight? No, there's no decision. Next year, that day felt fell on a Sunday, so it would not affect this year. When we work on the calendar in December,
025January, it would be for the following school year. Not the one coming up, but the next one, the 27th, 28th school year is when the decision will be made, come December-ish when we share a draft for January approval. Okay. All right. Thanks. Right. School highlights. And most of these highlights end up with field days and a lot of exciting things at the end of the school year. Centennial had their annual walkathon to support Healing Hearts and Rosie's there again. I know she just came here to see herself on screen probably. But EC had their Going to Kindergarten celebration. And then the other three pictures are field day celebrations at Centennial. At Center, there's a partnership with the Orland Park Library for reading programs on the bottom left. And then the PFE sponsored. And I believe
026they do this every year, if I'm not mistaken, the Jesse White Tumblers at Center. And these tumblers, they run from outside, streaking through the parking lot and to get enough steam to do their thing. And if you can't see up top there, that person is pretty close to the ceiling up there if you didn't catch that person up there. And then we had Officer Gordon come with their therapy dog or their service dog, Holly, which visits many of our schools. And just so you know, Holly is a rescue dog herself. So she's not only been rescued, but she's also rescuing others in the process. So she was at our graduation as well for a couple of different stints. Park had their fun day in the gym and visit from Kona Ice. And that was provided
027by the Park PFE. So thanks to them. Prairie raised $1,600 for their school, as you can see. I think that's why Jeff Nightingale won that community award right here for being the apple pie. And they also celebrated Howie Hawke's birthday at a glow party. And then there's some staff members on the bottom right as well that were assisting and assisting with that fundraiser at McDonald's, which multiple schools do as well. High Point, some field day pictures, and they did a Alex Lemonade stand. So it's not anyone named Alex, although I'm sure there is people named Alex at High Point, but it's a student that was raising money to end childhood cancer. So they did a fundraiser for that. There are students out there buying lemonade. And then they had an awesome attendance bike giveaway, their
028talent show picture here, and then also their fourth grade carnival as well. Liberty passed out their perfect attendance brag tags and their annual traditional ringing of the Liberty Bell for fifth grade students that are moving on to Jerling Junior High and Camp Manitocca field day visit, and then principals for a day. And I believe these students were the readathon winners, and that's why they became principals of the day. Metal Ridge, third graders had their wax museum, fourth graders had food truck presentations, and then the World's Fair for fifth grade, and also family members were welcome to join. Then they had their end of year celebrations as well. It was experiments, beach day, snow cones, and a field day. And I'll take a break and let you read these captions on your own. So many great
029events going on here. And at Jerling, for the first time, they had their dance off site at Silver Lake. And from speaking with Mr. Porock, that went very well. And then their eighth grade clap out. And then fifth grade step up day in Orland Junior High. And it was the last Friday of the school year, they had students pick two activities. And here are some of the activities they got an opportunity to pick to participate in. Then as Ms. Browner talked about, the red, white, and blue parade. And there's our staff members there to the left that participated. And thanks to Ted Schultz and Katie Lazarski and the Building Grounds team that they made a float with all the service flags and various other decorations on that float. And there are, we had some families
030as well that participated. And they were passing out, they were passing out nerd clusters, which went over very well from what I understand. And that is our school highlights for the year. Next time we do this will be in September for our school highlights. I also wanted to mention we have our movie night coming up on Thursday. So I believe there's a little bit rain in the forecast, but I think hopefully it's earlier in the day. We might even have a special visitor or two. I think Judy Hopps might show up as well. So more information will be sent out on that. As far as our FOIAs, it's written down here, we had six FOIAs. Four of them were requests for contractor records. One was for a utility and facility record. And another one was
031a tenant record. And that's all I have. There's a lot. Not pictured is Dave and Linda and Ali took the picture. All right, we'll move on. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. It was a beautiful date too. All right, next for committee administrative reports, we're starting with finance and operations. Mr. Baranek. All right, good evening. Good evening, everyone. I put together a draft budget for FY 27. These figures are tentative as of May 31, 2026. There are still things that will be changing throughout this budget, but I wanted to get in the hands of the board where we're tracking. The first thing that we're going to look at is the revenue assumptions that went into this draft budget. When we look at revenues, we always look at the three different categories that we have
032out there, our local, state, and federal. We are heavily reliant on our local property taxes. Just so that everyone knows, the district may levy for whatever the prior year's extension is plus the CPI factor, that is our inflation rate. We know that 2.7 will be the inflation rate. The only thing that we do not know is what new property is out there. So we have to take an educated guess around Orland Park to see what new parcels are coming on the tax rolls. And then the last thing kind of linked to this, once again, from what I'm hearing is that our second installment of property taxes is going to be late again. The anticipation on this is I believe the tax bills tentatively, from what all the grumblings are that are out there, is a
033November 1 in the mail with a 12-1 due date. Once again, how does that impact the district? That just means that we will not receive our tax dollars till then, which means we cannot invest some of the funds to make some additional interest income. And we also have to be sure that we have enough cash on hand to meet our expense obligations up until we get our property taxes. In this levy, I did put in there that I believe we are going to get roughly 3% on our tax levy. So that is captured within the revenue assumptions on this, is that we estimated the extension and then added 3% into it and then broke it down into what I believe are our requests that we're going to have for our 2026 levy in each individual
034fund. In March, we have the opportunity to issue bonds. We have two bonds that are rolling off of the books currently on that. It is built into this budget that the board will issue $5 million of new bond money. That bond money would be earmarked for the park extension road behind the school off of West Avenue to create a bus lane and a new, I guess, drop-off lane for the school on that. And then the remaining dollars would be spent on facility survey work. And once again, that is in March that the board would be seeing that potentially as bonds roll off, we reissue and just keep that payment flat. What we want to do is try to have no fluctuation for the taxpayer with nothing rolling off, nothing coming on, whatever our current payment
035is, we just keep that flat across the board. And with that, that would allow the district to issue $5 million worth of bonds in March. If we look at our state money, that is our evidence-based funding money. We were in tier three for FY26, which got us an additional $100,000 worth of evidence-based funding money. That became our new base funding level that has been added into this current budget for FY27. That pushed us from $4.65 million up to $4.75. Our transportation claim, that will be due in August. The claim is based on FY26 expenses and then it's prorated. The talk is that the state is going to cut the prorated amount down, so even though our expenses went up, our claim dollars are probably going to be about the same. So there might be a
036slight increase on that. It's just, that's how it works with the state. If they fund one thing, they take away from the state-mandated categoricals and prorate them. And with all of the information that is out there, there's talk of lowering that proration down for our transportation money that we would receive from the state. Our federal grants are held at FY26 allotments. Preliminary figures are matching up to what we have in our 26 allotments. So that includes all of the title grants and all of our special education grants, our state, also our preschool for all grant. Everything is held at what the 26 levels are. There is no indication that anything is going to go down on that at this particular time. From the federal government or from our state. That was the assumptions for the
037revenue side. When we look at the expense side, we have to look at our collective bargaining agreements. We have the certified agreement that is out there at 5.5% increases that was extended a couple years ago to run us through, I believe, the end of 28. And then we have our classified contract that is up after this current year, FY27. And in that contract, the increases are at 4.5%. And then inside of this budget, we also have factored in any retirements. That would mean any teachers who are retiring or any support staff that are retiring. In there, we have them coming off at, let's just say $150,000 and then hiring a new staff member somewhere between 55 and 60. The district has those savings for the retirements built into this budget. And then we still do
038not have our second largest expenditure numbers, which is our insurances. Preliminary figures have anywhere from 10 to 12% increases from our medical side on it. I do have 9.5% built into this. I'm kind of hoping that our claim history comes in better than what our broker is saying on it. Currently tracking through May, end of May, we are hovering right at what we are anticipating our claims to be for the annual basis. So hopefully that 9.5% comes in. Districts are seeing some pretty heavy increases on medical across the board outside with it. So it's just something that we always have to keep track of and monitor just to see how our current claim history and demographic plays into our increase. We also have built into this budget, the approved capital projects that the board has
039seen the past few months. That is roughly $15.7 million worth of approved projects. With that being said, we have to figure out how to pay for that. So within this budget, there are a transfer or transfers depending on how this whole entire budget plays out for FY26. With it, I do know that there is going to be $2.5 million worth of the bond money that is left that must be spent. When the board issued $14.5 million worth of bonds a year ago, the rule is you must spend that all down in three years. We have $2.5 million remaining on it. That is to cover the remaining expenses at center school. You can see that the projects have already been underway. You can see all the flags on the roof and all the construction stuff outside
040on it. And then with that $15.75 million, we have to cover roughly the other $12-$13 million on that. And that is either going to be transferred from the Ed Fund or taken the remainder of our working capital, working cash that is in Fund 70 and moved over to Fund 60. With our new contracts for regular Ed transportation with First Student, we do have 6% build into this budget on it. I do have them looking at route efficiency and looking at ways to try to be more efficient with routing throughout the different subdivisions and the different areas with our buses. We do have special education transportation increase at 4%. That is directly tied to the number of special education students that we have to transport on a daily basis. We did go up from FY 25
041to FY 26 with the number of riders for special education. We're hoping that we're pretty much leveling off where we're currently at and keeping that trend with it and then adding a 4% increase for the special education transportation. With all those assumptions that are out there preliminary as of May 31st on here, the district is going to eat into the fund balance by roughly $14.57 million. That was anticipated and projected with the projections that we had and with the approved projects. That's where it's coming in as of the current figures. If you were to take out the bond issuance and the capital projects that were approved and also take out the one-time expense for our intercom system on it, the district would be running a $2.194 million deficit on it which was also planned with
042the board approving the extension for the teachers contracts and approving all of the various contracts out there for our vendors. So preliminarily this is where we're sitting with the budget for FY 27. This is a working document that we have as new information comes in. It will be updated as staffing gets finalized. We will update the final staffing numbers as we get final numbers for medical insurance and dental insurance. That'll be finalized within this budget but as of right now tracking with this budget like you said roughly a spend down of $14.6 million of reserves. We're right on time, right on track with our budget timeline. Tonight you're seeing the preliminary budget as of May 31st. At the July board meeting we will bring a tentative budget that we will ask the board to approve.
043Once the board approves it, it will be put on public display for a minimum of 30 days. It will be on display for more than 30 days. It's going to be on display all the way through until September 14th. So if things come in and change in August, a new tentative budget will come to you with those changes and then that would replace the current budget that's out there and then ultimately at the September 14th board meeting there will be a public hearing that will go through the entire budget again with all the final documents that the board would have to approve and then ultimately approve the final budget which will be submitted to the state. Can I ask a question Mr. Brannick? Can you, I'm sorry, can you go back two slides? Just a
044question regarding transportation increase of six percent and four percent, is that an increase in student enrollment or is that anticipated? That is, it's not an enrollment, it's based on number of routes that we have so each year we get a rate for route costs and on top of that is built in the six percent for the regular ed and four percent for the special education route costs. So depending on how many routes we have, we could go up or we could go down, it depends, but what they do though like you said is they just say last year's rate was this times the six percent or times the four percent. Oh the rate, okay. I thought it was an increase in students, so routes. It's tied to routes, tied to number of buses and then
045it's also tied to how many tiers they can run. It's just the cost, the six percent cost every year. It's them getting a six percent raise every year, however you want to look at it. It's the six percent of what they charged the previous year. So if they're a route and we don't have a route that's a hundred dollars because that's really low, this year would be a hundred six dollars. So it's just six percent increase and the cost of the route for us. Got it, okay thank you. So I have a question, so the capital projects that you're putting in there, is that entirely the work this summer or does that include any projected work next summer? No that is strictly this summer. Next summer would be what would be taken, what would be
046started roughly in July 1. So we normally prove it, the contractor comes in as soon as school ends, you won't technically see the first pay application until the new fiscal year. So this capital budget that's in this current budget coming up is strictly for the work that is being done this summer. I guess another question, I know in the past when we've done bond issuances that you've had a spreadsheet, you've shown us with you know our debt service extension base and what that projects out to in future years and what the schedule is for the various bonds. Could we maybe see that before we approve the tentative budget in July, like could we see that at the next meeting? Just because I'd be curious on if we issue these bonds when do we actually start
047meaningfully paying them off? Got that, I got the whole full schedule, we'll put it in the presentation for the July meeting. Scott are we going to talk through the insurance renewal as well or do we have that on the property liability? Not property liability. Or the medical? We went through with disclosure. Oh with the abuse and sexual molestation, that's later on. Is it in the joint later on? Okay I just wanted to make sure. I guess just one other comment in here. I mean I'm, could you move ahead a slide please? Which one? Yes please. I mean seeing that we're running, I mean the fact that we're running a budget deficit because we're doing the capital project, that's one thing and we've known that. Saying that we're running a budget deficit, even leaving that aside
048is rather more concerning and so I would hope maybe we can have a close look at are there some things that we can trim from the budget to try to make that number a little smaller? We can review various items and share them with the board. Is that all that is being presented from finance? Yes. Okay. Let's move on to teaching, learning, and technology. All right leading things off. Extending our student and family experiences into the summer. Our summer camps got underway today. June 8th, our first series of camps run today June 8th through June 25th and then the next series of camps will run July 27th through August 13th. This year we have roughly 18 camps extending through multiple sessions and we have some new camps this year featuring the Legos, beginner sports, junior
049soccer, theater, and adventure sports and we are also extending some new opportunities to first and second graders this summer with STEM camps and beginner sports camps. Camps run anywhere from between $55 and $65 and registration can be found online on the district 135 website under parent resources and so we're we're excited about this summer's opportunities. That's Dana. I was going to ask about your summer programs. Yeah. Good evening. I'm Dana Garchesky, the assistant curriculum director and I'm here to talk to you about our summer SPARK program formerly known as summer school. This year we'll be kicking that off in just a couple of weeks. We do have 150 students, graduate teachers. We will be focused again on STEM reading and math and really how they integrate together. We also do have EL and intervention and
050we'll be using utilizing busing again which Mr. Baroneck has been really good about helping us get started and then another thing that we've added for this summer to go along with our STEM programming is we've actually partnered with a speaker who will be coming in three different times to kick off three of our weeks with STEM science focused activities at the beginning of the week and then we'll continue those activities all throughout the week. The first one being science and magic and he's going to talk to the kids how I'm trying to remember how he puts it. He said science is magic that we share with everybody and magic is actually science that we keep secret from everybody so that's kind of his big kickoff for the whole program that we're going to use. He's
051also going to be doing some physics and mini golf with the kids and the students will have to do some activities working on angles and just how adding bridges and things can change that and then he is also doing some stuff with the giant science star lab. We do have a star lab here but he's got a different one that he's bringing in and kind of upping the ante so those are three of the things that we'll be kicking the week off with. Hi everyone, Jen Brown, assistant director of special education. So the other program that we run in the summer is called extended school year ESY. It's for students that currently have IEPs. The goal of ESY is a little bit different than summer school. It's really about maintenance of skills so students are
052working on things that they've previously been introduced to, learned with the hope of lessening any regression when they come back in the fall for us. We have about 120 students currently registered where we anticipate a few more before ESY starts. This year everyone will be at Meadow Ridge which is a little bit of a shift so our early childhood students all through seventh grade and we are really excited about some in-person professional development we'll be providing for teachers and related service team members to get ready for ESY that will be coming next week for the setup day. We have an in-person trainer coming to go over the curriculum that they'll be using for the summer and really helping them get the ball rolling quite quickly. 16 days comes and goes before you know it so
053the more prep they can get ahead of time the better. Does anyone have any questions about ESY this year? Great, thank you. Hello again, I'm back to talk to you about something maybe that initially doesn't seem quite as exciting as a summer school and summer spark program but I do think that our results are very exciting. I think we've seen some great growth. We did give our spring benchmark for MAP. Again we give that the fall, winter, and spring as our local benchmark. We're really focused on growth and MAP wants us to really focus on the fact that 50 percent of the students are expected to hit their targets so in our district when our students are achieving as a cohort at the 60th percent or at 60 percent or more of students meeting their
054growth that's considered exceptional or excellent growth for a cohort of students. One of the things as we talk through and look at these I'm not going to read all of the numbers to you on all six of the slides but one of the things that we start to notice in that first column is our fall achievement percentile so that's where our students start off at the beginning of the year when they come to us regardless if they were with us last year or not we're looking at that starting point and our goal is to increase that achievement so that our our students are achieving at a higher achievement percentile than where they started. One of the things that we do notice is sometimes the higher that starting point is we may see that our growth
055may not look as high because you're starting at such a high amount or high percentile ranking there so some of our I think our biggest highlights are the growth that we did make at primary in both English and language are in ELA and in math we all know that math has been one of our big focus areas so this is something that I think is is something that we should be really proud of I think when you see things starting in the 60s seven going to 70s going to 80s and and at times touching in the 90th percentile that's something that that many many districts don't see so that's something that I think we should be really proud of where we are and also what that percentage of growth looks like so those were the
056primary this is where we are intermediate wise so you can see again we're start starting even higher at that intermediate level we're tending to start a little bit higher in the fall than where we did in primary and then we're still continuing to grow and see that see those achievement percentiles increase again math we were really pleased that we're seeing those those 80s that's something I think that we need to be really proud of and that we should celebrate all of our teachers for because the growth is tremendous and then as far as intermediate or junior high goes one thing that I noticed right away about junior high we didn't really have anyone else starting this high in ELA or math so that that starting point for our achievement percentile in the fall was really
057high we didn't necessarily see that same amount of growth but I think some of it is attributed to the fact that we started so high at our teaching and learning committee if you listened in to that at all or were a part of it we did talk a little bit about testing in the spring and what that looks like and we did have some conversations really with some of our administrators and even with some of our teachers at some of our end of the year meetings about some testing fatigue that that may be have been there especially with some of our older students some of our buildings in it you know they take IAR in the spring and then you don't have much of a break and then and you're taking then map pretty promptly
058afterwards so it is quite a few tests our fifth and eighth graders also have to take the science test and then several building of our buildings we're lucky enough to be chosen to do field tests for I for IR and that's not something we can tell the state no to so some of those buildings got to do an additional test that was right before map so that was something we want to look at the calendar next year we're already starting to plan this year we felt was an odd year in the sense that we did have quite a few days that we were trying to avoid and in previous years we've had a little bit more overlap of those days for instance Good Friday we you know are are avoiding and then that that following
059Monday we were trying to avoid days when students might be missing because of Eid the way our spring break fell obviously we don't want to say hi welcome back to school here's a state test take so we have to have a little bit of time for our students to jump back in and get used to being back at school and kind of get back into their routines before we we do that and so that's something that we're looking at and hoping that maybe we can have a little bit of a schedule that will give the students a little bit of separation between those two tests because we did feel that they were were pretty close to each other this year which is not not ideal I have a question sure so when you say that
060the standard for Illinois is 50 percent or higher and we're looking at numbers at 84 and 81 does that mean that we're significantly above the expectation of standard for Illinois so this these first two are actually national norms okay so that's where we fell nationally for fall and spring that 50 percent tile or that 50 meeting their growth target that's all the way on the right here so map based map what they do is they take your they're starting your starting score and then they're making a prediction of where that student should be based on their individual starting score so any student who gets that individual starting score and they norm it so every so they know that they've made it so that essentially they're expecting half will make and half won't that's how their
061their test is really set up so anytime you're exceeding that means that your students are growing more than map is actually even expecting that they would grow based on where their starting point is that is great I noticed all of the grades are exceeding that number so so we're on that hand side we're pretty we're at that 60th percent meeting their growth target almost in every single category there's a few that aren't um but those ones that aren't tend to be ones where we started really really high in the fall yeah starting that really high percentile awesome looks good thanks questions right thank you all right next up is school community and policy no you don't have any update you know we didn't um well yeah we we had talked about the clubs basically um
062and just kind of went over um you know there's over 80 clubs in all of the grades so it was um a very positive meeting talking about clubs and there generally needs to be eight students or more to start a club but there have been situations where there were um less than eight students and because they were excited and got a sponsor they were able to start the club um so uh mr prorock did a great presentation and um of all the clubs that are in all of the grades and um seven over one thousand seven hundred students participating in all of the clubs so just um kind of a very informative um meeting i saw that one of the clubs was called math without numbers i was very curious about that there's here i
063don't know i i didn't ask i didn't ask about that one clubs without or math without numbers okay a lot of clubs are game-based and um you know meant to be fun obviously but also come from a combination of ideas really from staff and students so we get these concepts a lot from staff as well who are excited just to facilitate a club and start new ideas so we really always encourage um any new ideas and especially especially the junior high level that it's a regular survey that goes out on a regular basis to get new ideas from students too and every year we have a large number of new clubs that are started uh just based on students staff ideas and i also wanted to add one thing one question that i had because
064as a board member and i think us as a board when we look at the stipends i wanted to understand what level a b c and d were so that really helped me since we um look at those numbers and the level d is the entry level and then as the club um becomes more involved and more students come in and the the sponsor needs to you know do more number of hours yeah number of hours thank you for helping me explain that so i think that as a board member that really helped me um just to understand when because we're always looking at numbers and you're like okay level d what does that mean so that was very helpful to me yep yes all right all right well here we go might as well
065keep it going um i move with the board of education approve the following consent agenda items minutes may 11th 2026 regular board of education meeting minutes may 11th 2026 executive session accounts payable may 31st 2026 four million six thousand five hundred and eighty eight dollars one cent impressed fund purchase card may 31st 2026 sixteen thousand sixty three dollars 26 cents payroll summary may 31st 2026 four million five hundred and forty five thousand six hundred thirty five dollars nine cents personnel report as presented let me just make sure that's the end um any questions second second did you oh i'm sorry second all right any questions not jill katie katie can you call the roll please dr castongren aye mr mirandi aye miss thanos aye miss zayad aye miss browner aye four ayes okay um resolution
066honoring local agencies and officials i move that the board of education adopt a resolution honoring local agencies and officials as presented orland fire protection district village of orland park police department orland hills police department village of orland park recreation and parks department village of orland park village of orland hills orland hills recreation department orland park public library orland park area chamber of commerce orland park rotary orland township state senator bill conningham state senator michael hastings state senator emil jones the third state representative justin slaughter state representative mary gill state representative patrick sheehan state representative robert rita u.s congressman jonathan jackson u.s congressman shawn caston second dr castongren aye mr mirandi aye miss thanos aye miss zayad aye miss browner i move that the board of education approve orland school district expenditure funds to defray necessary
067and proper expense and liabilities of the school district incurred for education or operations or maintenance or transportation or site and construction purposes of the district for fiscal year 2027 until which time the annual budget of the district is adopted in conformity with applicable sections of illinois school code second mr mirandi aye miss thanos aye miss zayad aye miss browner dr castongren aye i move that the board of education accept the proposal submitted by right specialty insurance company for the commercial liability insurance package option two and an amount not to exceed $342,000 for the 2026-2027 fiscal year second ray this is where you said that you had a question it looks like we are sticking with what we had prior years with right specialty insurance and not going did you have a question this is the
068$87,000 savings correct on on disclosure yes just to confirm okay yes it's it's basically changing from an occurrence form to a claims made form on it so how that impacts is if a claim is made in the current policy term that is the policy that you look at starting effective seven one of 26 currently we're in an occurrence form so if the first time that you hear about it was from 2003 let's just say for a an abuse or a molestation case it goes back to the policy that was present in 2003 if you with this renewal on it being a claims made form it means that the first time that you hear about this that is your trigger and the policy in place then is what is the current policy it won't go back
069and look at the policy that was in place back in 2003 it's just a different way to look at that particular policy for just the abuse and molestation on how that we have to utilize the trigger and make the claim then remember here the one thing that we want to do is make sure that as soon as you hear something you are reporting it the only way the district can really get tripped up on it is if you hear something and you don't report it within that policy year on it that's really the part that would get the district tripped up on it did we have any guidance on that even from legal on i talked with legal okay what they said was as long as you have a policy in place for this how
070you report it is up to your insurance agent and if you can do it so i did have a long conversation with our agent today and the whole entire what kind of claims do we have how do we do this and you basically run it through the broker on it and say here's what we're reporting we're keeping this in the forefront please make sure that you address this with right specialty that potentially that there is potential lawsuit in the near future so it gives the insurance obviously the insurance company knows going into the to the new year what claims are coming up right so it's it's risk reward the the risk is going to be if if someone does fail to disclose then we potentially won't be covered for the claim for that particular claim
071correct if one default back to the policy in place okay so this would be like you said anything um from 7.1 of 26 moving forward with it so that would be the date that's cut off as long as you know about it and you report it you are perfectly fine you're covered okay what the savings was it 87 thousand correct if if if we didn't go with this would it be this company that we would it would seem to go through would we have to switch companies and go through another you you could choose to go to a different company on it the part about the renewal only being the 5300 it is still right so they know exactly when that cut off date was that you move from an occurrence to a claims made
072basis okay on it so working with the same insurance you you have that specific deadline um as of 7.1 so anything that like if you got if you found out about a claim and it rates going to be able to determine is it in this current policy or is it going to default back to the old one but it does give them an out on coverage it would give it out on any um potential provider in the future to kind of say well we're not on the hook for something that doesn't have any statute limitations so remember the any type of claims that is dealing with abuse or molestation it can come back at any time so it gives the current providers who would be quoting the district moving forward knowing that they don't have
073that liability falling on a forever claim yeah on it so we might actually get um potential better pricing as you move forward with it because they don't they don't have to take on that extra liability knowing that it's the forever or if there is an outstanding claim it's correct you know they would know about it and it would fall under the previous policy and we would potentially pay a lot more because we'd have a disclosure on it well not necessarily it just means that moving forward on it um if we reported the claim in the previous year it's under that policy if the stuff that we first got aware of and triggered in the new year then it falls under that policy on it but i'm saying the renewal if they're if there's claim disclosed
074and the renewal yeah it wouldn't it wouldn't factor in necessarily on it so yes that's going to default back to that policy but that means that a new one knows that they're not on the hook for it so potentially yes we could get better pricing okay just a clear up we do not have any claims i just want to make that clear to everybody this is insurance language so we do not have any claims and no reason for a shift this is just insurance stuff we we do not have any of any of these any of these claims it's just i want to make that clear yeah and it's just legal just said make sure you have this policy in place none of the coverage is changing that's the same policy coverage that we have
075same umbrella same everything it's just if you were to ever have that particular type of claim it's just a different way of you know letting your broker know and letting your provider know on it that as soon as you hear something that potentially could be a lawsuit you need to report it in that policy period i have to say i'm not very comfortable with this change for two reasons one we're opening the district up to significant risk if a staff member doesn't report things up the chain of command properly which we're dealing with human beings that could have been that we could potentially leave the district on the hook for the entire liability which could be a lot of money the other thing and this was something that one of one of the finance committee
076members brought up is i think there's an issue of privacy as well because now you're going to have to disclose details of allegations to the insurance company potentially without any consent from the child or the parents involved or anything like that and you know i would have some concerns on that on whether that's in the best interest of a child who you know is in this kind of situation i mean it seems like look i'd rather we could save eighty seven thousand dollars especially after the tentative budget that you presented earlier but it seems like we're opening ourselves up to potentially some very serious problems and especially if this is something that if we do it we cannot go back the other thing that concerned me is it it doesn't seem like there's any clear
077cut direction on what a claim or potential of a claim could be if you hear something from a teacher and it's just hearsay is that reported is it i mean it could go nowhere but you just have to you got to disclose something that you may not even know where it's going to go or what it is you know what i mean i agree but at the same time anytime that you hear of any type of allegation like this you're doing discovery and investigation in it and you are going to be having a conversation with your broker on do we report this or not to the insurance company on it so yes i understand where you're coming from on it but um at the same time i had a long conversation with our insurance broker
078on this um there are districts that will say student a and staff member a on it and they know who the name is so when you do see your claims report it doesn't identify anybody on it however we also had a conversation saying okay how do we know then who the individuals are actually in this potential uh type of case on it without naming the names so if you name the names in it that's who you're doing your discovery on they're going to do their investigation on it no matter what on it even if it's a false claim or not as long as you report it in that particular policy year on it you are covered based upon that particular claim what they also wanted to stress was if the first time that you hear
079it falls in the next year's policy well that's the first time that you heard that's the trigger so you know one could say okay well we we have the risk of liability but if that is truly the first time that you are made aware of this situation you report it how do they know if it's the first time or not you're going to go off of the first time that it's reported um for that particular incident sometimes you don't hear about it and you just get served papers on it and then you're going to go and do your investigation in the motion i read it said option two if we stuck with the the current way that we report claims is that option one yeah it would be eighty nine thousand dollars more can you
080give me the exact number um i the exact number would be four hundred and twenty five thousand eight twenty two now this would be a policy update in addition to whoever is to whoever is responsible for doing the reporting which is it would it be like staff training right it would be just a couple like all of the principles or or would it be you or would it be an admin in the district building like how does everybody in the district's a mandated reporter okay and they it's a requirement to if anything is brought to their attention of this nature they're required to report it but reporting it to insurance no no if it was a staff member they were reported to their supervisor who then would contact district office who then we would contact
081our insurance company and proceed from there right so two separate things but you keep saying that it's important that when soon as we know something you call insurance so who's responsible i mean we contact the police we contact dcfs so there's there's various layers that all happen simultaneously for the most part so it's like adding them to that phone tree of when you first know you're calling to talk about that claim we already have a policy in place with dcfs calls it's just an additional layer that as it gets to district office we would contact our insurance broker and say this is what we um have received how would you like us to proceed with the information right i can't imagine that we're doing anything much different i think we're using the term policy in
082two different ways here right you're referring to insurance policy yeah but versus board policy yes right yeah is that clarified miss thanos yeah yes that's what i thought it was okay yep so all our board policy would remain the same okay mr branick's referring to insurance policy yep sure um so you had mentioned that uh with the insurance claims you can put in like student a staff member b is that if we are using option two that is no longer something it am i understanding that right we wouldn't be able to use aliases people's things shouldn't have to be in them no it would just be that's how it would come back on your claims report so that if someone were to look at it they wouldn't know and identify it however the administration would
083have worked through the broker and disclose the names regardless we're going to disclose the names on it because you can't just do a random investigation without names you know if you're going to have the person who filed it the claimant and then you're going to have the you know the the the subject that is with it so regardless they're going to know who it is the insurance broker is going to know who the two people involved in the particular case would be it's just that on the claims report it would just say student a claim student b if other like staff members were to see a claimed report it would be kept as yeah i guess just plain as simple as here's the alias as a student a and teacher a or administrator so there
084isn't more personal information being shared using this new policy it it regardless we're going to have to share who the people are right on it it's just that when the claims report comes through it just would say student a teacher a that that's it so i mean like it's not we're still going to disclose who it is to our broker and to our insurance provider on it because there's the only way that you can do a discovery is by reviewing the case with the people involved in it but i should the option two you wouldn't there wouldn't be anything done until you actually are served papers or you're you're there's an actual lawsuit involved correct that's well what what then would go is depending upon if you switched it to it the policy in place
085would go back to either the year that you reported it the first time that you triggered it and reported it so that is the year then that policy is in place for that particular case if it's prior to that something could come back you would report it and that then turns into it instead of being it goes back to the policy that was in place 10 years ago or five years ago it's as soon as you hear it it's just a different way of once you were to go to this then it goes to that policy that would be in place for that particular year that the trigger hit and that you reported it versus currently that you have it goes back to the year of when the occurrence happened so if it occurred in
0862003 it goes back to the policy in 2003 but if you go to this new thing and you hear about it it's now in the current term as long as it's reported from 7-1 to 6-30 in the current term it's covered under the policy that you reported it yeah so under the current structure if the district you know and fortunately as as dr brick said this isn't a current issue if there was a report of some allegation are you sharing that with the insurance broker right now yes as soon as you hear it that's our policy anything about it you have to you have to report it the only thing with it if you hear about it currently and it was from let's say it's from 2010 the claim on that goes back to the
087one it was when it officially was occurred in the report that you received so the policy in place would go back to 2010 instead of if you were in a claims base on it your claims made it's now in your current policy so in terms of privacy that's no different it's no different but we still have the issue that if something comes up and a staff member hasn't done the right thing and it's too late we could be stuck holding the bag for whatever a legal judgment is which could be the skies they limit but staff members aren't contacting the insurance no right but a staff member could could contact dcfs as superintendent brick said on it we're mandated reporters on it right um you're talking it could be um staff on students staff on
088staff uh student teacher with staff it's we wouldn't we be in like a session talking about people not reporting it the right way then so i mean like if if a staff member reports something that happened the next step i'm sure would be to call contact office and say hey this is what's going on for that support from district office and then you or whoever is it's contacted district office then would call insurance correct okay all right but if it never made its way to district office and there's gonna be a lot of people in trouble in closed session well well yeah but it doesn't work it would be on the hook for millions of dollars as a district right but you're proposing this right correct so you feel super confident now in per what
089the insurance broker said that is the first time that you hear about this claim we reported it it has been claimed in this period if there's something moving forward it goes to the policy that we claimed it in that particular year all right that's the first that we were aware of this and i wonder how their policies are updated if they're fair like because we don't get to see what 2003 looks like to 2026 so you're saying that their policy would go back if if we had a student who was in their 30s who decided to come forward and say something happened this is all hypothetical but then you're telling me that this would be that they would go back to that specific year of the time of occurrence and then whatever that policy would
090be would be what they would benefit from or that the helper or assistance they would get that's just who's going to cover the claim so like for example if 10 years ago we had liberty mutual on it and we received notice that we have a claim we got served papers in it that there's a lawsuit it goes back to when the occurrence was we might have right specialty right now but because it occurred in 2010 and we had liberty mutual we were working through the policy that was in place back in 2010 working through liberty mutual okay okay and the difference if i'm understanding it is okay if something comes up say in 2027 and we change this then we have to tell the insurance company you know if the district knew about it in
0912027 we have to tell them in 2027 and if we don't know about it until 2030 we tell them in 2030 and whoever the insurance company is in 2030 they're on the hook but if we knew as a district and what does that mean in 2027 we didn't tell them then we're just we're on our own potentially you would not be covered correct that's what's worrisome it's an out for the insurance company the other thing is that worries me is if you've ever dealt with an insurance company before they're always looking for outs you know so i don't know how different this i've never dealt with you know these cases but hey it wasn't disclosed the right way or it wasn't brought up or it was talked about and it was not disclosed to us
092that that's what concerns me and eighty nine thousand is that worth potentially millions of dollars i don't i don't know you know so what is the eighty nine thousand dollars that's the savings if you just switch to this pile of this so i'm not talking about saving let's say we spend it what what what then that we can just claim whenever the heck we want to oh we forgot the name sure that happened three months ago i can call you now yeah we don't we don't like you said you you only put in a claim if you hear something right all right so you would if you don't hear of anything you just spent eighty nine thousand dollars more right all right which okay great um right but at the same time like if something
093happened five ten years ago and the first time that you became aware of it is in this current policy with it you just report it right i just don't know what safety net we would be buying ourselves if we paid the extra eighty nine thousand dollars that's what i'm trying to understand so you wouldn't be responsible for any claim unless you were actually being sued so that you would be if we took this one that's being proposed tonight you're saying that's the difference value of disclosure so if again if the risk is disclosure is not made but if you paid eighty nine thousand dollars more you're not disclosing anything you're just getting you know you get paperwork from an attorney and hey this you're you're being sued over this event and you're covered no matter
094what well and i i think the concern would be okay something happens a staff member you know doesn't respond to it appropriately so this is nothing and there's some record of that and then okay if this comes back as an actual claim is made and there's evidence oh the district knew about this a staff member knew about this and didn't do the right thing then i mean how much are you willing to bet that every staff member will always do the right thing i mean generally they will we have good staff members but we're also dealing with a lot of human beings and people make mistakes as human error yeah scott does this have to be voted on tonight well we just gotta make sure that we have something in place for seven one i
095see so basically yes i like the safety net option um i know we're paying more but ray makes a really good point i've seen insurance companies offer um you know hooks and all of that too um maybe possibly potential in the future get out of paying something i mean they're very good at it so i i see that side of it i also see um dr castinger inside of it and well he said the same thing but just kind of having that responsibility potentially to make that big of a mistake if you know per se i know we don't have the issue but um i i don't know i i feel like it's risk a risk and are we willing to take that risk i i'm not sure very hesitant right now if if we
096decide to continue with the the way this has been reported in the past like we we pay the extra money this year this is something we could switch next year right uh yeah potentially on it there's also grumblings that potentially they may just go to a claims made basis regardless for this particular policy that we have just for this abuse molestation policy i mean we if we're forced into it by the moment that's one thing but if we change this we can't go back if we stick with the way it has been if we decide the next year you know the board makes a different judgment in terms of risk tolerance they can change this decision then that is true so it's up it's up to the board to ultimately decide on if they want
097to leave it as as is or just change it to the claims made which would be effective seven one do you have any other reasons you'd be willing to share about your proposal for it for being for this plan that's on for tonight i mean we've we're already doing it with with the professional liability on it that if you did something with it you're reporting it on a claims made basis we do it with our current cyber insurance as soon as you have any type of uh information that there was some sort of hack or something like that we're already doing it with cyber insurance it's just keeping the exact same way moving forward with those already two policies in place this would just be a third policy strictly for abuse and molestation for that
098particular part of our insurance okay does everybody uh does anyone have any more questions before we vote well i'm going to move that we amend the motion to change option two to option one and to change three hundred forty two thousand dollars to four hundred twenty five thousand eight hundred twenty two dollars because he would need us to amend there rather we would have to amend it tonight because of july you would have to second that and then vote on on that amendment second so basically this would be going so we would be maintaining the reporting you'd have to call roll to amend it as we do it now yeah all right um so dr castongren wants to amend it back to option one and ray seconded katie if you could call a roll for
099us miss thanos yes miss zayad aye miss browner aye dr castongren aye mr mirandy aye okay and then did you want to make the motion do you have your numbers written to move because this was just to amend it it was amended now read it read it as amended and then you want me to get in a vote again well you have your the number that he gave you written down so if you want to read option one for us you want me to read it okay yeah so the current so the motion now would read i move that the board of education accept the proposal submitted by right specialty insurance company for the commercial liability insurance package option one at an amount not to exceed four hundred twenty five thousand eight hundred twenty two
100dollars for the two thousand twenty six twenty seven fiscal year second that was quite enough discussion so yeah if we could have the roll call please miss zayad aye miss browner aye dr castongren aye mr mirandy aye miss thanos aye now for the fun stuff okay all right facility dogs program with centennial school i move that the board of education approve an agreement between the board and principal elizabeth hayden for the purpose of implementing the use of the facility dogs program at centennial school effective the two thousand twenty six twenty seven school year as presented second oh and we got these guys all right yeah yeah it was just interesting this is much happier discussion um katie could you call the roll call miss thanos aye miss zayad aye miss browner aye dr castongren aye
101mr mirandy aye yay somebody got a new dog today he is she is so well behaved this entire meeting that's so sweet all right i'm gonna look for a motion to oh wait i'm sorry did any board member have any comments or any questions or requests just thanks for the article that you sent us on the facilities dog to the board and i look forward to seeing the one next month all right ray you do us the honors i move that the board of education adjourned the june 8th 2026 regular meeting uh second um katie could you call for us miss zayad aye miss zayad aye miss browner aye dr castongren aye mr mirandy aye miss thanos aye all right goodbye