001Okay. Good evening everyone. I am going to call the January 26 board of education meeting to order. Roll call please. >> Miss Kerr here. >> Miss Khan >> here. >> Miss Martin here. Miss Nolan >> here. Miss Schwarz >> here. Miss Thomas >> here. President Owens >> here. >> May I have a motion to move into close session to discuss individual student disciplinary matters pending probable or imminent litigation, the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees, specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park, recreational, or educational setting, or specific volunteers of the public or legal counsel for the public body. The purchase or lease of real property for the use of the school board. The setting of a price for the sale or lease of real property owned by the
002school board. An internal audit control weakness. Identification of potential fraud risk areas. Known or suspected frauds and fraud interviews. Collective negotiating matters between the school board and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. The review of close session minutes and individual student matters. >> So moved. >> Second. Roll call, please. >> Miss Kerr, >> yes. >> Miss Khan, >> yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Miss Nolan? >> Yes. >> Miss Schwarz? >> Yes. >> Miss Thomas? Yes. >> President Owens? >> Yes. >> We are in close session at 6:04 p.m. Hey. Yeah. Heat. Oh, hey. Here we go. Don't. Wow. Heat. Oh, hey. Yeah, hey baby. Hello. Oh. Down. Oh. Down. Heat. Heat. I want to feel. I'm feeling Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat.
003Oh, hey. Heat. Heat. I want to be Data. Down. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey, hey, hey. I feel it. Don't know. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Here we go. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Good evening everyone. I am going to call back into order the January 26th 2026 Board of Education meeting to order. Um, if I could have everybody stand as they're able for the pledge of allegiance and then please remain standing for a moment of silence afterward. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We'd like to take a moment of silence for a U46 employee who recently passed away. Pam Juel was hired by U46 more than 20
004years ago as a noon hour supervisor at Oakhill Elementary. Eventually, she joined the food and nutrition services team where she had served as a food service manager since 2015. Pam's colleagues say she was a leader within the department, but also a mentor, a friend, a source of strength, and a strong advocate for her team and the students served by food and nutrition. She encouraged her team members to grow and support each other, and her impact will be lasting. Pam passed away on January 20th. She is survived by her son Jake and daughter Kayla, her father Edwin, and two siblings. A memorial mass will be held on Friday, January 30th at St. John the Evangelist Church in Streamwood. We will keep Pam's family and friends in our thoughts and our hearts. Thank you everyone. Okay, the
005first item on our agenda tonight is accent on achievement. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. Uh this evening we are celebrating National School Counseling Week and in recognition of National School Counseling Week, the U46 Board of Education will present a proclamation of appreciation uh to Dominique Zod, our lead counselor, who I uh I see is joined by some of our other team members as well. School District U46 has 62 school counselors serving more than 16,000 students in five high schools and nine middle schools with three elementary schools and two alternative programs as well. The role of a school counselor is to support a student's academic, social, and emotional growth and help them establish plans for their future. Counselors meet with students throughout the school year on both an individual and group basis to address social
006and emotional issues that arise in their lives and help them create academic plans that align with their post high school goals. And I uh see that board uh secretary prom uh Schwarz is here to also share share the the recognition tonight. >> Okay. So, I'll read the proclamation of appreciation for National School Counseling Week. Whereas, school counselors are employed in schools to help students reach their full potential. And whereas school counselors are committed to helping students explore their abilities, strengths, interests, and talents as these traits relate to career awareness and development. And whereas school counselors help parents focus on ways to further the educational, personal, and social growth of their children. And whereas school counselors work with teachers and other educators to help students explore their potential and set realistic goals for themselves. And whereas
007school counselors seek to identify and utilize community resources that can enhance and complement comprehensive school counseling programs and help students become productive members of society. And whereas comprehensive development comprehensive developmental school counseling programs are considered an integral part of the educational process that enables all students to achieve success in school. whereas our approximately 62 counselors support students academic, social, and emotional needs. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education recognizes its talented counselors during National School Counseling Week, February 2nd through the 6th of 2026, and asks administrators, students, parents, and the community to join in recognizing and thanking these individuals for their dedication, efforts, and service on behalf of children and youth presented this 20 26th of Jan presented this 26th of January, 2026. six and is signed by our board of education
008president Melissa Owens and our superintendent Suzanne Johnson. Dr. Suzanne Johnson. Congratulations. Thank you so much on behalf of all of our school counselors for this recognition uh to uh celebrate the work that our school counselors do. I'm so excited tonight to be joined by Sarah Costel and Joe Vasalo, school counselors at Dream Academy New Beginnings program. They represent the heart of what our school counselors aim to do and that is meet every student where they are, advocate for their needs, and assist them in their post-secary planning. So, on behalf of all of our school counselors, thank you so much for this recognition. Okay. The next item on our agenda is facility planning report. Uh facility planning update. Dr. Johnson. >> Thank you, President Owens. Uh this evening, Brian Lindholm, chief of staff and Dr. An
009Williams, Deputy Superintendent of Operations, will present to the board of education an update on facility planning. >> Good evening. Uh thank you for the opportunity again to give one of our monthly updates on our ongoing facilities work to support the Unite U46 uh initiative. So tonight's presentation uh will cover several projects um and really demonstrates the amount of work that that's currently underway across the district um to update our facilities. We also have included a financing update uh summarizing the recent bond issuance and providing a budget summary of all theite 46 projects. So to start, uh, we'll go through and give monthly updates on all of our projects that are currently under construction, starting in our middle schools. So our first update is at Kimell Middle School in Elgen. Uh, work continues at Kimble as
010the addition is now largely under roof, so they are able to keep working during this uh, bitterly cold weather. We've had the pleasure of taking board members to the site recently to see the progress firsthand. Uh and it's exciting to see things really starting to come together. Some of the recent milestones include uh turning over eight renovated classrooms and a new stairwell on the north side of the building uh at the start of this semester. It's really cool to see the science labs and art rooms being used and the new stairwell is beautiful uh and has really helped with building circulation. Some of the other recent milestones include structural steel and loadbearing masonry across the addition, underground plumbing and electrical, uh, comed transformer tie-in and Nyore permanent meter installation, and some of the work that
011we expect to see in coming weeks would be, um, continuing to install face brick on the addition, cafeterium exterior framing, overhead uh, and overhead MEP roughen and roofing work, and installing windows in the addition. The project remains on schedule to be completed in time for school to start in August. Although there will be a lot of work to be done over the summer uh once staff and students vacate the building. And we will certainly need to take advantage of the longer summer break uh that was built in the district calendar this year. But we are confident in our team's ability to pull it off and we can't wait to open the doors to the new Kimble Middle School for our students and staff in August. Next, uh an update at Kenyon Woods. Uh as you
012can see from this overhead image, the the addition is taking shape very nicely. Work continues with uh basically zero disruption to instruction or normal daily operations at the school. Last month we hosted the village president Steve Ward uh for a tour. He was very impressed with the progress and uh is excited about the newly expanded Kenyon Woods opening its doors in August. This slide shows uh some recent pictures inside the addition. So on the left you see one of the new classrooms with the uh the lighting installed and and the flooring in place. Um you notice the large bank of windows providing plenty of natural light into the space. This is an example of a classroom that we basically need to install uh finish installing the casework uh the active wall solution and then many
013of these classrooms are are starting to look pretty close to ready to move furniture in. Um, so this this project is is coming along very nicely. On the right hand side, you see some interesting light fixtures that we've introduced into the corridor that connects the addition to the existing building, adding a lot of color and sort of variety uh to that space. Some other recent milestones include uh installation of the lockers um which you see on on the left, casework in the science labs which you see in the uh the two images on the right. The ceilings at this point are nearly complete uh throughout the addition and some upcoming milestones would include um completing the installation of the flooring and light fixtures, installation of the active wall um classroom storage and and wall surfaces
014and classrooms. And then as early as the end of February, they will be getting they will begin um site work mobilization in the construction area, meaning moving the construction trailer out and starting to to sort of work on on leveling some of that ground for um what it will look like next school year. This project uh as I mentioned remains um probably a little bit ahead of schedule. We are fully confident it will be completed in plenty of time uh before school starts in August. I think Ann was probably knocking on wood when I said I had a schedule. Yeah, I didn't want to jinx this one. >> Uh, next we'll move on to Legacy Middle School um in Elgen. So, construction for Legacy Middle School continues to make great progress. Like I said last
015time, it feels good to have a name for the school now. So, we got all get practice using using the name here. Um, as we mentioned, the team has uh or had been able to take advantage of the gener generally favorable weather. I have to change my tents here until very recently. Um, so we were largely able to make up ground for for some of the late start as we were working to get all of the the permits that we needed from the the city of Elgen. The current work is focused on completing structural steel erection and loadbearing masonry. Um, winter weather conditions as I mentioned had slightly damage dampened overall progress but the trades have been increasing their manpower um to make up for it. project remains largely on schedule um with substanti substantial
016completion anticipated for later this fall uh leaving us plenty of time to move in and have the building fully ready to welcome students and staff uh in August of 2027. And because the image on on the last uh uh slide did not fully capture uh recent progress, the construction team put together this drone video um from a couple weeks ago. gives you um gives you a perspective on the massive amount of work that's being done on this site every day. And again, for reference, um during one of our last visits, there were over 60 trades people um working while we were there. So, here we'll watch this short video. the three-story edition they have under tarp so that uh they're able to keep it warm and let people continue to work during this bitter weather.
017On the bottom of the screen is the uh the new parking lot that was put over the top of uh was the um storm water detention area. We're facing Cardinal Drive. On the right, you start to see where the uh the gymnasium and the cafetum starting to take place or take shape. This shows the overall site with Hilltop Elementary. If any of you have approached the site kind of driving past Hilltop Elementary, kind of down the hill, that's when I think you really appreciate the massive scale of this building. It's going to be a big school. So, yeah. Okay. So, our next update is at uh Century Oaks Elementary in Elgen. Um we had an exciting groundbreaking uh in early December. Um and since we did not do an update last month, I thought I'd
018include that one. Um we had great turnout despite the chilly weather. Um and here's some one of the nice pictures that was captured and and uh how it was covered in the Courier News. So, uh there's been close coordination between our construction teams and uh school administration. I and I I've said every time I I really appreciate the um the cooperative um attitude that we've had from the principal and the assistant principal particularly at the school, Principal Frederickson and assistant principal Tallup. Uh they've had a great attitude and it's kind of um filtered down to their staff, I think, where their staff has really taken ownership um helping us through the process and they're all really excited about um the the promise of what the school what this new school is going to mean for
019their community. Uh as part of the construction phasing, we did construct a temporary parking lot in the southwest corner of the property to support uh staff parking. Um that's now impacted by where the uh the addition is being constructed. So that's the image that you see on the left. Um in late November, we received approval from the city of Elgen to begin temporary site staging and construct stone access roads in the northern half of the property. And um crews continued to work uh on those elements kind of as weather allowed um up up through the winter break. Uh and some of that's shown in the images on the right. And then just last week we received the full permit from the city of Elgen allowing us to begin um work on the foundations and continue
020with vertical construction in the coming weeks. Uh so I'm sure that we will have images at our next update that will show dramatic progress uh at the site as the work commences. Next, a a quick update at Glenbrook Elementary in Streamwood. Uh so, as a reminder, our plan is to move Glen Brook students and staff to the Hannover Countryside building um after Hannover Countryside is retired as an elementary school at the conclusion of this school year. So, for next school year, students and staff um at Glen Brook will all be reassigned to Hannover Countryside. Um, we still have many logistical details to work through over the coming weeks, but we do we are confident that this is a plan that removes project risk and it provides a safer and more conducive learning environment for our
021students um during construction. It also means that um we do not need to break ground until later this spring and we'll still be able to complete the work by August of 2027. So with the site construction slated to start uh in late March, um our construction management team ICI and Studio GC architects continue to coordinate with subcontractors on equipment procurement and mobilization schedules and renovation work within the existing building will commence once school is out in June. Uh please watch for a groundbreaking ceremony which we're trying to schedule sometime before spring break. Our next project is Illinois Park um which as we shared will be converted from an ele an early childhood center to an elementary school. This rendering is from the northeast looking back at the new multi-purpose room u which will be located
022in the addition that's being planned to provide a more appropriate uh space for elementary age students. Um, this project has been submitted to the city for storm water approval and to the city's planning and zoning board as well as to the Fox water Fox River Water Reclamation District and the ROE uh for all of the required permits. DA Architects has begun to review submittals from contractors to get get ahead of long leadtime items and ICI has hosted subcontractor kickoff meetings, started procuring materials and equipment and preparing for early mechanical and electrical work that's slated to start actually be before the end of the month. So potentially even later this week. This early work would consist of back of house and above ceiling classroom uh infrastructure that would take place at night after the school staff
023have vacated. Uh the building addition and other select site work uh are targeted to start in late March. We're confident that the site work and the building renovations will all be complete in time for school start starting in August. However, the multi-purpose room will likely not be completed until midfall. So, we have made plans to start the year using the existing kitchen and cafeteria. And then our final update uh for this evening is for the new elementary school in Elgen uh to be located at the former David C. Cook site at 850 North Grove Avenue in Elgen. Next Monday evening, February 2nd, the planning and zoning committee of the city of Elgen will review our application and our plan to construct a new elementary school at the site. The final timeline for bidding de building
024bidding demolition and new construction is still under development as the project moves through permitting and zoning with the city of Elgen, but we are anticipating getting started midyear uh with an anticipated completion in time to start the 2028 school year. So that concludes uh tonight's construction updates and at this point I will turn it over to Dr. Williams to discuss financing. >> Thank you Mr. Lindholm. This section focuses on how the district is financing these projects, how the market has responded to our stewardship, and how we are tracking commitments against the voter approved framework. On January 13, 2026, the district completed the sale of its general obligation school bonds series 20 2026A and 2026B totaling just over $81 million. Both series were met with exceptionally strong investor demand with investors paying prices above face value.
025This generated premium proceeds and reduces the district's true borrowing costs. These results reflect strong confidence in the district's financial stewardship, governance, and long-term stability, and will result in meaningful savings for our taxpayers over the life of the bonds. As pricing varies by maturity, structure, and credit quality, there is no single average interest rate for school bond issuances. This slide displays the true interest cost for both bond series as shown by the navy blue and teal bars. While there is no average, the beige shaded band across the top representing roughly 2.75% to over 4% represents the typical market range for school district bonds. As you can see, both of our series price very favorably considering this range with the series 2026B pricing actually below what is typical for this market. High bidder participation is one of
026the strongest indicators of a successful bond sale because competition drives higher prices and lower yields. In this case, the district saw 10 bidders for the larger bond issuance for 2026A and 14 biders for 2026b, which our municipal advisor from Raymond James noted this is among the highest level of participation that she has seen on a school district bond sale in her 30 years. The bidding pool consisted of a diverse mix of firms, including several institutions the district has already worked with on prior bond issuances, as well as several new participants drawn to the district by the district's double A+ credit rating, disciplined debt planning, and thoughtful bond structuring, separating the issuances into two series with distinct maturity timelines, one ending in 2041 and the other ending in 2035 allowed for better alignment with investor demand.
027Together, these outcomes reflect reflect the board's fiscal stewardship and the trust placed in the district by the community through the approval of the Unite U46 referendum. Completion of this final bond issuance marks an important milestone in delivering the capital improvements envisioned underite 46, ensuring more modern and equitable facilities across the district. Now that we've reviewed the fin final bond issuances, let's look at how our spending aligns with the construction schedule that Brian referenced earlier. This slide serves as an update to the financial snapshot the board reviewed last in September of 2024. The key enhancement is the addition of two columns, the actual spend to date and a cost tracking indicator to provide clear visibility into how each project is performing relative to its approved budget. Please note that the first two projects here were not
028part of theiteu 46 initiative, but they were discussed at length and approved by the board of education. The fourth column entitled project cost tracking uses plus and minus indicators as a highle monitoring tool with the plus indicating that a project is currently over budget and the minus indicating the opposite. If there is nothing there that means that the project is generally tracking on budget at this time. These indicators are not a final reconciliation but an early signal to support proactive board awareness and discussion. The third column entitled actual spend to date reflects where each product project is in its life cycle. Some projects are still in the early phases while others are much farther along. So the dollar amount should be viewed in that context rather than comparing directly across the sites at this level.
029The purpose of the slide is not to walk through project by project, but to demonstrate that we are actively tracking cost performance, identifying areas that require closer attention, and managing programs deliberately. One item that I do want to take note of today on this slide is Kimble Middle School, which is marked with a plus. Um, as construction has progressed, we identified scope items that are necessary to ensure cohesion between the new addition and the existing building. Examples include additional scope for window replacements, flooring in existing corridors, and replacement of spline ceilings in targeted areas. We are in the process of finalizing the pricing and will return to the board of education with a formal change order at the next board meeting. This slide provides insight into what the district has committed to spend, what we
030anticipate spending in planned enhancements, and how that combined picture compares to the original $380 million framework. This is not a static snapshot. It is a forward-looking view of how we're managing commitments and anticipating scope changes throughout the program. At the program level, and even with multiple projects underway simultaneously, the district remains below the o overall $380. Let me start again. The district remains below the overall $380 million referendum estimate at this time. In addition to the work already under contract, there are several projects influencing our overall outlook. As mentioned on the previous slide, we will be returning to the board of education with a change order for the additional work at Kimble. Um, part of that work will be paid for out of the plant operations maintenance budget, but some of it will impact the
031actual project directly, so the board will need to approve a change order for that work. Additionally, Century Oaks Elementary is tracking slightly over its original estimate as there will be a need for mobile units that were not included in the original budget. Also, Illinois Park Elementary is tracking slightly over budget due to the addition of HVAC scope to improve the air quality and humidity control throughout the building. Lastly, we can't we can't end without talking about the projects for smaller targeted improvements at TEPT, Canton, and East View Middle Schools. These improvements include secure entrances, science lab updates, collaborative learning furniture, cafeteria improvements, and library updates. These are planned enhancements intended to promote consistency, equity, and functionality across all middle school sites. While some of this planned work is still being priced, we are actively tracking
032both committed cost and anticipated scope at the program level. As scope and pricing are finalized, we will continue to bring updates and formal recommendations to the board of education to ensure alignment with the voter-approved framework. In closing, this slide is intended to demonstrate that the district is managing the UniteU46 program holistically, balancing cost, scope, and quality. Together with the previous slide, this gives you both a snapshot of where we are today and a clear view of where we're thinking about the program as we move forward. And that concludes our update for today. We'd be happy to take any questions from you at this time. >> Thank you both for the presentation. And do board members have any questions? Don, >> thank you for the presentation. Um, thank you for including slide 19. Uh, it was
033one thing when we just had like Hawk Hollow and we're like, okay, so here's the Hawk Hollow budget. But now that there's nine projects, it has gotten um a little bit more difficult to track what's going on on all of them. So there are more plus signs than I was hoping for. Though I know it's early on some of the projects. My assumption is along you know when as you were talking about slide 20 um so if our and I think you covered this but I just want to confirm the additional work we're looking at doing you know namely some of the um additional middle schools like with the uh enhanced science and um entryways. I'm assuming that as we have changes to the main large projects, that's how we're going to kind of evaluate
034the work at those other schools, do what balancing we can to do as much as possible, but stay within the 380. That's the holistic view, I take it. >> That is the holistic view, but remember, we did really well with interest last year and we transferred that interest into the capital project fund to help fund some of those projects. So, we may at the end be over 380 when you add in those additional projects, but we will definitely be looking at it holistically. >> So, and um for people who don't always follow, so the interest that we earned that we've um moved, we'll be able to use that. That's just money that we have that we earned because interest rates were so fantastic that we have additional money that we can spend on capital projects
035is what you're referring to. >> Yes. Yes. >> Thank you. Also, we are investing the bond proceeds that we have now and that we're holding prior to payment to our contractors. We're investing those funds as well. So, we will have additional interest from there as well. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Any other questions? >> Just a a followup on on Don's question. And I, you know, it's when you look at at this chart, it's it's easy to see that some of the, you know, the projects that are running a little bit over are the projects where we're doing renovations, whereas the projects that are running under are more from the ground up, right? Um, even with Hawk Hollow, sub a substantial portion of that was was from the ground up. So, are there
036are there costs that we're incurring that are I mean, you listed, you know, a couple of the things, but Yeah. I'm wondering if some of this is just also the the general complications of working with older infrastructure and trying to >> Absolutely. Absolutely. >> I >> and I would answer the other things. I think the Illinois Park and the Century Oaks estimates from September of 2024 were really before we'd gotten into those buildings to the level of depth that we have now to know all of the the things that may need to be addressed. So, those were very early estimates. Kimble, I think we had a much better estimate at at this time and we will be bringing forward a change order, but even then we're still running close to budget. It's just it's slightly
037more than what we thought when we brought the construction bids to you um >> you know months ago. Um but I think the other ones I just think it was virtue of that the estimates the preliminary estimates were pretty preliminary. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> Also important to remember that we still have contingency built into all of these projects. So, um, some of the contingency as we get further along in construction, the contingencies are reduced. So, >> okay. Thank you. You're welcome. >> Hey, the next item on our agenda is public comments. >> Do we have any public comments? >> There are no public comments tonight. >> Okay. Moving on to other business board member and superintendent updates. Does anybody have any updates to share? >> Kate, um Dr. Johnson and I were able
038to attend the um ECC um Martin Luther King Jr. prayer breakfast this past Saturday. >> No, two two weeks ago. >> Yeah, two weeks. >> Sorry. Time flies in January. Um yeah, it was lovely. Um there was a really nice um um tribute to a few Elgen folks that we've lost recently. Um some amazing singing. Um good food as always. Um but just a really nice way to um yeah just be a part of the community and see everything. It was a nice nice morning. >> Anyone else? Dr. Johnson, did you have anything to share? Uh, I want to thank all of our teams, but I really want to thank our operation teams. Um, our maintenance, transportation, plant ops. Uh, it's a it's a grounds. It's a it's a long crew out there who are
039working a lot of late nights, very early mornings in these treacherous conditions. And so I want to thank them all uh working around the clock to make sure that the buildings are going to be safe and welcoming and available to have all of our students and our team members in them at all hours. And as you all know, you just got a facilities update. Um the buildings don't decide to always have challenges or issues at convenient times. Uh so uh very much appreciate the late hours that they are putting in and to keep our extensive fleet of buses up and running. Uh that requires around the clock support and all of this snow and ice since winter has returned doesn't take care of itself. Uh while we've made tremendous um you know accomplishments in doing
040that, our our team is out there every day uh working to clear sidewalks, driveways, parking lots and make sure that they continue to be safe for our students. So I want to thank our teams and I if I left anyone out, I am terribly sorry. It is not to be intentional. Uh please pass along the thanks to all of your team members and if you feel that there's someone that was overlooked tonight, it was not the intention. We really appreciate all that you are doing uh to welcome our students and get our students school every day. So, thank you. >> Hey, thank you. Next item is foyer requests. Dr. Johnson. >> Uh thank you. This evening uh we have 10 Freedom of Information Act requests available on uh the board docs domain and will also
041be available on the U46 website later this week. Next item is consent agenda. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. Uh, this evening we have personnel report and workers compensation cases. Uh, minutes of board meetings, November 3rd, 2025. Termination of Amina S. Evans bus driver. Bid plant operations Larkin High School Stadium project number 275-25. Proposal plan operations Larkin High School Stadium project field turf project 275-25. Proposal plan operations Larkin High School Stadium project grandstands project number 275-25. Proposal plan operations age and obsolescence playground playset replacement. Proposal financial services fiscal year 2026 school maintenance project grant proposal office of schools boys and girls club before and after school program provider. And proposal office of schools right at school before and after school program provider. Okay. Okay. Are there any items that board members would like removed from
042the consent agenda? Hearing none. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as read into the record? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Kerr, >> yes. >> Miss Khan, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Miss Nolan, >> yes. >> Miss Schwarz, >> yes. >> Miss Thomas, >> yes. >> President Owens, yes. Motion carried. >> Next item is discussion action. Dr. Johnson. >> Thank you, President Owens. Our item this evening, itemized bills. January 26, 2026. Robin Cornellison, executive director of financial services will respond to questions from the board of education regarding the attached bills. Administration recommends the board of education approve the list of bills in the amount of $32,17,137.98. May I have a motion to approve the list of bills in the amount of $32,17,137.98? >>
043So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> Okay. Roll call, please. >> Miss Kerr, >> yes. >> Miss Khan, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Miss Nolan, >> yes. >> Miss Schwarz, >> yes. >> Miss Thomas, >> yes. >> President Owen, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. Okay. The next item is other business student disciplinary cases. U may I have a motion affirming the findings of the hearing officer thereby upholding the suspension of student A. >> So move second. >> Any discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. Miss Kirk, >> yes. >> Miss Khan, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Miss Nolan, >> yes. >> Miss Schwarz, >> yes. >> Miss Thomas, >> yes. >> President Owens, >> yes. Motion carried. Next item is other business. Dr. Johnson. >> Thank you,
044President Owens. Our item tonight, November financial report. Robin Cornell, executive director of financial services, will review the attached financial report and respond to questions from the board of education. >> Good evening. Tonight, I'll be presenting key highlights from the November 2025 monthly financials. Please note that these statements have now been adjusted to include the auditor journal entries process for the end of fiscal year 2025. Please note that you will see a difference in various revenue and expenditures along with fund balances that account for those adjustments. The November highlights include November ended with a deficit of 32.3 million with a year-end actual reflecting a 47.3 million deficit. This deficit is primarily attributable to the decrease in local revenue due to the Cook County property tax delays. At the same time, last year we have had received
04573.9 million from Cook County, which if received this year would have provided us a surplus balance for this year. The audited fund balance now stands at approximately 7 million88 788.4 $4 million. With 307 days cash on hand, the district can now operate for just over 10 months without additional revenue exceeding common benchmarks for financial stability. The combined cash and investments total 822.7 million. As of the last business day in November, the state of Illinois owed the district just over $1.2 million. November revenues totaled approximately 35.3 million, bringing the year-to-ate totals to 266 million. This represents 32.46% of the annual non-financing revenue budget. This year-over-year comparison reflects a difference of 82.9 million, which is the Cook County uh tax delay as well as the ESSER funding we received last year. I am happy to report that
046Cook County has continued to work on their new software platform to release property tax payments to taxing districts. We did receive two large deposits in December with continued payments throughout January with a total of $50.6 million received to date. The final distributions for the second installment are anticipated to be completed the first week of February. So definitely uh good improvement there. Our November expenditures totaled approximately 67.6 million with a year-to- date of 303.3 million for 32.53% of the annual expenditure budget. While compared to the prior November year-to-ate totals, the variance of 34.7 million is largely contributed to the Unite U46 capital as well as the associated non-c capitalized equipment expenditures. However, we are slightly below 1.5%. We'll take a win um below our projected budget. Some key highlights is our salaries and benefits represent our
047largest expenditure category totaling 2.2.3 million 202.3 million 35.8% of our budget. Our capital outlay through November uh totaled 41.4 million. And in relation to the Unite U46 projects, we also were required to have builder risk insurance that totaled 3.1 million for this fiscal year so far. Various purchase services and supply expenditures continue to rise. Costs such as utilities, water, sewer, and electricity. Our contracted pupil transportation and student tuition continue to um to rise in our expenditures. and district administration continue to monitor. As of November 30th, we had 319.7 million in cash and money market balances, 503.0 million in investments with total liquid assets of $822.7 million. For student activity, the district at the end of November had $3.9 million in student activity funds throughout all schools with year-to- date receipts exceeding dispersements by approximately $33,000.
048Various receipts and expenditures continue to be based around fundraisers, field trips, and athletics. In closing, while the district is currently reflecting a year-to-ate deficit driven largely by the timing of the Cook County property tax collections, our overall financial position remains strong and stable. Audited fund balances significantly uh significant liquidity and more than 300 days of cash on hand provide a strong foundation to manage short-term revenue fluctuations. expenditures remain closely aligned with our budgeted uh expectations with continued oversight of rising cost areas and major capital investments such as U4 uh Unite U46. As delay delayed property tax revenues continue to be received and state funding remains stable and liable and reliable, the district is well positioned to meet its operational obligations and sustain financial stability through the remainder of the fiscal year. Thank you for the
049update. Do board members have any questions, Sue? >> So, has Cook County indicated that they've solved their problems now and we it should be smooth sail sailing from here on out? >> Yes, we actually received an update from them today that indicated that they are now starting they have been we received two large ones the end of December. Then they started throughout January trickling a little bit at a time for us. Um and we received a correspondence today indicating that they are going to keep doing that. We should receive um all receipts by February 3rd. So, >> and do we have any indication whether things will be back to normal by the next by the time the next >> We are certainly hoping so. The correspondents today did speak to if the de uh property
050tax bills will be delayed to taxpayers. I can't really speak to that. However, they said they are working to get those out as soon as possible. Um, hoping that early taxpayers will pay um and we can start getting but they they also indicated that all tax receipts will come to us within 30 days of receipts. So, we will continue to get those. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Anyone else? >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Next item on the agenda is work session. Dr. Johnson. >> Our next item, board policy updates. Trisha Olsen, chief legal officer, will present proposed changes to the following board policies and administration recommends adoption of proposed changes. Trisha Olsen. >> Thank you. I um beg your pardon in advance for the large number
051of policies this evening, but we'll get through them as efficiently and quickly as possible. Um I >> just interject real quick. I'm sorry. Before you start, do would you I know that there's some policies that have more substantive um changes. Would you prefer to hold all questions to the end or on the ones that have changes, would you prefer to address them at the time that you present the policy? >> Um I would actually prefer to address them however the board would um best review the policies. Um if if it would help you to ask questions as we go along, certainly I'm able to do that. >> Let's do that and I'll just kind of monitor for everybody to raise their hand. Okay. >> If I get on a roll, please interrupt me. >> That's
052why I'm asking now. >> Okay. >> Slow it down. >> Um I'm happy to present board policy 2120, which addresses board member development. Uh there's very few substantive changes to this policy. There is an inclusion in a footnote of board training which must include trauma responsive or trauma informed practices and a deletion to a reference to the implementation date of parah. Next I'm question >> um just a actually a rather simple one because it'll go for all of them. This one still says his or her. Can we get that pronoun switched to there? We have um requested that that be an implementation that be made um along with board policies. Okay. Um overall um if at some point in time the board would like us to proactively go in and amend all of our own
053policies that will take us out of the regular updating process for the board's um usual press updates. But that's something that we would be able to do. >> Yeah. No, I think as they come up it's sufficient for me. I don't know if anyone feels different, but >> as they come up, it seems like a good time to make those changes. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Next, I present board policy 2 colon 150, which addresses committees. This is part of the regular press update and addresses footnote updates. I do want to highlight for the board of education that we do already alter from the standard press um provided language regarding our standing board committees. We have our own internal committees that are set out separately and we would have the opportunity to update update
054those at any point in time we so choose. Yes. So, and this might not be a conversation for tonight, but since this policy is in front of us, um, and I know we have our board work coming up as a group that that might be a good time to actually look at this list of committees. Um while things like the legislative committee like we met tonight, finance committee is a normal one where we have meetings, it it feels like several of these we really haven't done work on in a while in a normal committee format. So I don't know if this is something that as a policy we need to look at and change the committees, figure out which ones we need, which ones we still support or how we actually get in compliance with
055this list because it feels like to a degree we haven't some of these committees I don't think we've heard from in quite a while. So, I just wanted to bring that up since the policy was in front of us. >> Yeah, I would I would agree with that and and anybody else please chime in. I I you know I when we had our our board self-evaluation last year um we had some discussion about committee work and especially that committee work that's redundant to what we do at at um board meetings and how given that we're all pressed for time, right? and and we have a lot of work ahead of us, you know, at at any given board meeting, um, to try to cut down some of those redundancies, which we've done. Um, but we
056we we we kind of haven't yet taken that next step of really examining the polic the the committees themselves. Um, and so I I kind of have that flagged as a topic of discussion for our next board self-evaluation. And I think that's um again with with the eye of being a little bit more proactive in how we are using the structure to serve the work that we want to do. Um so I I have that flagged as part of the the discussion when we get to that session and if anybody else wants to chime in but that's that's kind of the kind of what I see as a a good piece of work ahead for us. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Next, I'm happy to present board policy 2 col270, discrimination and harassment
057on the basis of race, color, and national origin prohibited. There are minor changes to address uh footnote updates and changes to address training requirements throughout, but no other substantive changes in that board policy. I'm happy to present board policy 3 colon 10 goals and objectives. This policy is unchanged with only minor changes to the footnotes. I am also happy to present board policy 3 colon50. 3 col 50 addresses administrative personnel other than the superintendent. There are merely footnote updates to um that board policy. Nothing substantive has changed. I'm also happy to present board policy 360 colon60 which addresses administrative responsibility of the building principle. There are only uh footnote updates on this board policy including changes made by legislation to address uh certain threats made on school grounds that are updated in the um footnotes
058only. Next, I am happy to present board policy 4 col10, fiscal and business management. There are um changes and updates made to the footnotes to address legislation that was passed by the general assembly addressing the statement of affairs um required. I do want to highlight that um the changes that are made to this section primarily reduce some of the obligations regarding reporting of school districts and um and that the language is updated um generally speaking uh to uh address the um certain uh contents of the statement of affairs that are filed. Next, I am happy to present board policy 4 colon30, which addresses um revenues and investments. There's language that changes footnotes regarding the public funds investment act. um that act um and um changes that were made there address deposit requirements for financial institutions
059that are subject to the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act. Um it basically provides that no Illinois funds in the Community Reinvestment Act can be uh utilized unless the institution has a rating of satisfactory or outstanding. Next, I am happy to present board policy 4 colon 80, which addresses accounting and audits. Changes in this policy address that the um uh I I going to restart that one really quickly. Um we are actually recommending that the board of education make additional changes beyond what press is recommending in this particular update. If you see the update that is currently recommended by press, it addresses certain language requirement regarding the um annual audit filings by the school district. If you recall earlier today during the committee meeting that we had with the IASB legislative um representative that uh representative indicated
060that there were additional discussions in the general assembly regarding the dates and timelines for filing audits. We believe that it's important for the board policy to be something that can be proactively already accomplished by the district. And so the recommendation that we are making to the board of education this evening is that this policy be further amended to remove the October 15th filing date, which is something that is not generally achievable um and not achievable not simply by school district 46, but uniformly across the state. Otherwise, we do recommend adopting the the press policy changes as provided. >> Doug, so all right. So clarification. So when I'm looking at this policy, the green highlight mentions the October 15th date. Is it the recommendation of administration to not include the green highlight then? >> Correct. So
061for example under annual audit um the first change that would recom that we would recommend to be made would read the superintendent shall annually submit one copy of the audit instead of shall annually on or before October 15th comma by removing that clause with reference to the October 15th date we believe that we will have a policy that we will readily be able to achieve it meets the aims of what was intended by the general assembly to ensure that the annual audit is performed and it will meet the aims without the district inadvertently violating a board policy every year when it is not done by the October 15th date. >> Okay. And then we would take the October 15th date out of both of the green sections. >> That's correct. >> Okay. Thank you. Can
062um just to clarify because it also says October 15th, >> we would recommend removing it from each place where there's a reference to October 15th in the document. >> Okay. >> Any other questions on that? >> Okay. Thank you. for board policy 4 colon 110 that addresses transportation. There are footnote updates to address changes made by the legislature including the requirement for seat belts to be on newly purchased school buses beginning in July of 2031. There's also changes that address legislation that was passed this past session addressing the use of multi-function school activity buses which can be used for curriculum related or career related activities when that individual driver has a school bus permit. Next, I'm happy to present board policy 4 colon 140, waiver of student fees. This is a general legislative update um
063regarding um uh legislative changes that were made. I do want to highlight that this um the footnotes in this section do make the update regarding waiver of instructional material fees um which was passed by the general assembly this past session. Next, I'm happy to present board policy 4 colon 150, facility management and building programs, which addresses footnote updates throughout uh based upon legislation. I am happy to present board policy 4:160, which addresses environmental quality of buildings and grounds. There are additional uh footnote updates throughout this provision, including an update addressing um citations to um various um links and URL citations. I'm happy to present board policy 4 col 170 safety. The policy is generally unchanged but does update footnotes throughout. Um, there is going to be a reference in the footnotes to new substitute teacher
064or substitute personnel training on all evacuation or emergency drills as well as an update regarding receiving information from municipalities on the state of drinking water. I'm also happy to present board policy 4 colon 190 targeted school violence prevention program. There are updated footnotes and legal references throughout including renaming of legislation to its appropriate titles. I'm happy to present board policy 5 colon 10 equal opportunity and minority recruitment. Um, in this uh policy, there are updates to address um updates to the VESSA law, which is the Victim's Economic Security and Safety Act, including a prohibition from employers from preventing employees from engaging in um certain activities um during the the workday that continues uh that that is considered a condition of employment. um and the ability of employees to use work um either work-based equipment or
065other work uh provided benefits to record instances of violence in the community that are occurring. I'm happy to present board policy 5 col 20 workplace uh harassment prohibited. The policy is unchanged and it's part of press's regular review with updates to footnotes throughout. I'm also presenting board policy 5 colon one uh 5 colon 90 rather which is the abused and neglected child reporting policy. There are minor uh updates throughout to address changes that were made by the general assembly. Um, for example, the uh term uh child pornography has now been changed to child sexual abuse material throughout that act and thus it's changed in the policy. There is also um expanded definitions that are made reference to in this policy including an expanded definition of grooming um which was an uh change implemented by the
066general legis uh the general assembly this past year. Next, I am presenting board policy 5 col 100, staff development program. Uh, the footnotes are updated throughout, including citations to general uh, assembly legislation that was passed. I am presenting board policy 5120, employee ethics code of professional conduct and conflict of interest. There are footnotes that are updated throughout, including um a new an additional update to the expanded definition of grooming that I mentioned just a moment ago. I'm presenting board policy 5 col185, family and medical leave. The policy is unchanged, but there are uh changes to the footnotes um including changes made by the military leave act uh that were done in recent legislation to allow um employees paid leave to participate in funeral honors for um those uh military funerals. and also changes made to
067the um wage uh labor wage and hour um opinions from the US Department of Labor regarding what constitutes intermittent leave definitions. I am happy to present board policy 51 190 which addresses footnote changes and u minor updates throughout and a reference to a shortterm approval could credential that was added by uh legislation passed this past session. I'm presenting board policy 5 col 200 which addresses terms and conditions of employment and dismissal. Uh there are changes made to footnotes including uh changes that were done uh pursuant to the nursing mothers in the workplace act um requiring that employees be compensated during a break um if they are needing that break to express breast milk. I am presenting board policy 5 col220 substitute teachers. Um there are um changes to the footnotes throughout including that substitute teachers
068will get trainings on the evacuations and emergency drills that I mentioned a moment ago and also minor changes to address CTE license holders who do not hold a bachelor's degree but are able to meet CTE uh credentials to uh continue teaching. I'm happy to present board policy 5 col280 duties and qualifications which addresses minor language changes throughout the policy itself including uh changes uh to remove the word certificated and include licensed for um teachers. I am presenting board policy 5 colon 300 schedules and employment year which makes similar changes according to the nursing mothers in the workplace act that I mentioned a moment ago. I'm presenting board policy 6 col 20 school year calendar and day. There are uh multiple changes mostly to the footnotes in this board policy to address multiple changes done by
069legislation, including that the state board of education will now be producing a list of holidays for all boards of education to consider when um putting together their calendars for the school year. Also removing certain commemorative holidays according to uh legislation and um providing that for commemorative holidays that are observed, school districts may devote time to the instruction of that subject instead of shall devote time to the instruction of that subject. >> John, >> school calendar changes. >> Yes. >> Do we know if this affects calendar we already have in place for next year? >> It will not. Uh these will be um uh for school boards and boards of education to take under advisement. Okay. It's supposed to be an additional tool for boards of education, not a mandate for boards. >> Perfect. Thank you.
070>> I'm presenting. Anyone else? Okay. Presenting board policy 6 col40 curriculum development. Uh there are updates to this policy to address um certain topics uh stemming mostly from uh the Supreme Court decision in Mammud v. Taylor addressing optouts and the opportunities for families to opt out of certain curricular choices which is something that the board of education and the school district has had in place um prior to the Supreme Court decision. There's also updates to address whether there are single gender classes or activities and that those must be periodically reviewed by the board of education. Uh for this board's information, we do have certain um activities that appear at first blush to be single gender um activities or organizations. For example, I am lead or brothers rise up are two examples. However, um staff have
071confirmed that if a student were to request to attend that uh organization or activity, they would not be prohibited from attending if they were not uh of a particular gender. Next, I present board policy 660 on instruction. This is a big one. Um, primarily what this um, policy revision addresses is a very large bill that was passed and that was referenced during the legislative committee session earlier this evening. The bill is public act 104 391 and it is 273 pages long. The primary emphasis that I'd like to give to the board this evening is that what this bill did to the section of the school code that addressed curricula curricular content is it reorganized that section. It gave new headings to various topics. So, for example, where the curricular requirements were previously listed mostly in
072the order that they were required by the general assembly, they're now going to be listed according to the headings of safety education, skills and workforce education, online safety and media, history and social studies, high school graduation requirements, summer school, physical education, permissive curriculum, driver education and health and science education. Um so while the the piece of legislation is very long um and while this section um addressing changes also is very long, there is a lot of renumbering of pieces of curriculum content that had already existed in the past to simply be reumbered to fit into a new perhaps easier to read section. I do want to highlight a few um additional changes. Um, there are going to be new Illinois State Board of Education nutrition best practices and physical activity best practices database that is
073created um under the uh legislation that was passed. In addition, there are additional changes that are made um to a section on patriotism which falls under the history and social studies section. Um while there has always been a require certain requirements for patriotism in the school code including the pledge of allegiance um there is now um a discussion of uh flag display civics education in grades six through eight and um a reorganized uh pledge of allegiance to fall under this new category of patriotism. Um, in addition, throughout uh the legislation, there is now going to be a reference to um certain media literacy requirements and internet safety. The um new um guidance um requires that there be certain uh safety um instruction and curriculum for both uh K through 8 and in 9 through 12.
074>> Done. So, I I have two questions, I think. Um, one, for items in this that appear to affect curriculum, I'm going to assume that if these are items that we don't currently cover appropriately, we will see those come forward as a board as curriculum updates. >> That is correct. >> To be in line. And then >> the second question is um item uh what section is this? It's item 14 uh grades 9 through 12 training on CPR. Yes. Was that is that a new item? I guess is the first part. And the second part is giving students the idea that they know how to do CPR can actually be very dangerous. It's actually a very there's a reason you get certified in CPR. So, I'm trying to figure out if this means we need
075to certify students on how to do CPR or if they're learning the like to me that's a little concerning only because I know what it takes to get CPR certified. >> This is not a new provision and there has always been an opportunity for opt out for families regarding this provision. Um, but this is one where this already previously existed and is just being reumbered and reorganized. >> Okay. So, we're already handling it. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? >> Okay. Next, I'm happy to move on to board policy 6130, program for the gifted. Um, previously this board policy included a reference to um, uh, opportunities for state funding um, and a gifted education um, grant opportunity that has been removed um, as a possibility or a requirement under law uh, through legislation. And so the
076uh provision on uh program for the gifted has been rewarded so that it will simply be uh uh provided and responsive to student needs within the parameters set by the board of education. Next, I'm introducing board policy 6 col um which addresses accelerated placement program. There is a question for the board of education on this element. Um, and that is whether or not we would like to continue to have the uh provision read that the district must allow students who meet or exceed state standards in English language, mathematics, or science to automatically enroll in the next most rigorous level of coursework. There's an option for the board of education to remove the word meets and simply have it read a student who exceeds state standards. Um the reason for that is because legislation was previously
077passed um requiring that students be advanced to the next subject uh or then automatically enrolled in the next rigorous level of that that subject when they meet or exceed. There has been a change to permit boards to only allow that for students who exceed state standards until the 2728th school year whereby all boards of education must have a policy that includes meets or exceeds. Um my recommendation um is that we currently have meets or exceeds in our language and I've not heard that that has been a difficulty for the district and so given the fact that we are going to eventually need to change to the meet or exceeds standard that we would keep the meet or exceeds language from now until the 2728 school year. >> Any questions on that? >> Okay. Thank you.
078Next, I present board policy 6 col 140 which addresses footnotes updates. Um, and uh those updates were generally made by uh legislative changes. Happy to present board policy 6160 English learners. Um there are footnote changes throughout. Um, I do want to highlight that there's an emphasis now on using the term English learners instead of other um, phrases that have been used in the past. Also, um, changes made to address parents or guardians in this section. Happy to present board policy 6210 instructional materials. Um, this section um is primarily unchanged. I do want to highlight for the board of education that we do use alternate text. Um uh in this board policy. So, uh, for example, um, we have an opportunity for, uh, our board policy to say that the superintendent shall approve the selection of
079all textbooks and instructional materials to the standards described in this policy. And we are recommending that the superintendent or designate shall approve all selection of textbooks and instructional materials according to the standards described in this policy. Generally speaking, we have um many provisions in board policy where we provide the superintendent or her design uh to make appropriate decisions and we believe that that's also appropriate for uh the board of education to implement here. >> Any questions on that? Okay, I'm happy to present board policy 6 colon 220 which addresses bring your own technology program responsible use and conduct. The footnotes are um updated throughout and there is certain updates that are made according to that large uh legislative um uh piece of legislation that was passed this past general assembly regarding internet safety. And there's
080also changes regarding um instructional materials and uh the requirement now to wave fees for those instructional materials. I'm happy to present board policy 6 col235 elect uh access to electronic networks. This is part of um the press policy's regular review and mostly changes to footnotes. Happy to present board policy addressing field trips. The footnote changes do address um elements that we have already previously discussed tonight such as the multi-function school activity bus which now permits students to take uh those for um school sponsored activities or career related or curriculum related activities. I'm presenting board policy 2 colon 260 complaints about curriculum and instructional materials and programs. Um many of the updates here were to address changes by that Supreme Court case I mentioned earlier, Mahmood v. Taylor. Um as I mentioned earlier though, uh the
081board of education already has pretty robust opt out provision that we have been using even prior to this Supreme Court decision and we are talking internally uh with district staff to ensure that the opt out provisions are in a highly visible space for um parents to utilize. I'm presenting board policy 6 col270 guidance and counseling programs. um addressing footnote updates to address legislation um specifically requiring that school counseling services be provided to students regardless of their immigration status and addressing that student directory information be made available for the Illinois student assistance commission uh for public university direct admissions programs. Presenting board policy 2 col 80 grading and promotion which just addresses uh footnote changes and is part of press's regular review. Presenting board policy graduation requirements. There are multiple changes that we have already addressed
082previously tonight such as the changes on the patriotism law um in article 27 of the school code. There's also changes that are made to in the uh footnotes and throughout regarding graduation requirements and the option of having um CTE in uh uh as a graduation requirement in the same categorization as foreign language, music, art, or speech. There's also a change to address a requirement that each school um each high school designate a staff member who is considered the FAFSA design for answering FAFSA questions or concerns. Dylan, >> sorry I'm full of questions tonight. Um so item four, passing an examination on patriotism principles, blah blah blah. methods of so we're we have to add in the proper American flag items but we're we no longer have to teach about voting or is that just covered
083elsewhere? >> Uh that is covered elsewhere there the concepts of patriotism are um are globally discussed. Okay. Um and there the the reorganization of article 27 of the school code was meant to um you know organized topics um requiring students to pass the exam on various topics. I think the various topics of patriotism would encompass those um subjects that you know appear to be removed such as methods of voting. Um, so I believe that it's encompassed throughout the the provision on patriotism. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Y >> anyone else? >> All right. Next, I am presenting board policy 3, I'm sorry, 6 col 310, high school credit for nondist experiences. Uh, this is primarily uh footnote updates throughout. I do want to highlight that there was legislation uh that addresses um uh I can't
084read my own notes. Um there's legislation uh deleting the provision that required um certain programs of academic credit for tech prep workbased learning experiences for high school students and certain renumbering of elements based upon the large piece of legislation that I me mentioned earlier. I'm presenting board policy 6 colon 315 high school credit for students in grades seven or eight. There is a change to address legislation that expands the ability of students in grades seven or eight to obtain high school course credit when those courses are uh subjects that would have the same proficiency level at the high school. I'm presenting board policy 6 colon 320 addressing high school credit for proficiency. I do want to highlight that u our previous board policy does not include optional foreign language or other testing language uh that
085could be permitted uh by this board policy. Um so uh we would have merely language in the second paragraph that says proficiency testing may also be used to determine eligible credit for other subjects whenever students enter from non-graded schools, non-recognized or nonacredited schools or were in homeschooling program. Um this has been a historical um holdover from uh the board's um previous iteration of board policy and the board could choose if it wishes to add the optional foreign language and other proficiency language but at this point in time I've not heard a desire from the district. Uh so that would not be the district's recommendation. >> Any questions on that? Okay. Next, moving to board policy 7 colon 10, equal educational opportunities. This addresses regular um review by the press and it addresses footnote updates that
086have been made. I present board policy 770 attendance and truency. I do want to highlight for the board of education that um there are um options with this board policy. First, um we do not currently permit voting as an uh valid reason for a student to not um comply with attendance provisions. We've had recent discussion on this when this came up um for a regular review and the discussion was that there are a number of options that the state of Illinois offers for voting and that there is no um need at this point in time to permit students to be absent from school in order to participate in um voting. Um they wouldn't be disenfranchised. Um, our current recommendation is that that continue to stand. Um, there's also updates to this language to address that
087there is no fines or fees for truency, which is a provision that was passed uh by the general assembly and also permits CTE and apprenticeships to count towards the mandatory 5:00 hours for student attendance. I am happy to present board policy 7 colon30 student rights and responsibilities addressing mostly um updates to the footnotes and cross references. I'm presenting board policy 7140 search and seizure. This is something that the board had recently reviewed during um one of our more recent uh press uh review updates and we had recently um adopted the board uh recommended language by press and so we continue to recommend that that language be kept by the board of education. I am presenting board policy 7 colon 150 agency and law enforcement requests. Throughout this policy there are changes made um to remove
088references to police and instead refer to law enforcement and um it has basically been rewritten to accomplish um certain legislative changes um and wording changes throughout. I am presenting board policy 7 colon 180 prevention of and response to bullying intimidation and harassment. There is a change in this uh board policy to address legislation that creates a definition of um cyber bullying that includes AI uh the use of AI rather um during bullying and an expanded definition of cyber bullying. I'm happy to present board policy 7 colon 190 student behavior. Uh there are changes in this board policy to address certain elements of legislation. For example, there's a requirement um by law now that there be anou uh with law enforcement, which is something that U46 has had for many years. There is an option for
089the board to consider regarding language in the policy addressing whether or not um uh whether how phones should be kept um in the school building. Uh the language that I'm looking at is um specifically called out in the section addressing prohibited student conduct and it's number six. The language would read, "Unless otherwise banned under this policy or by the building principal, all electronic devices must be kept powered off or silenced and out of sight." Um, the board currently has an option to consider whether or not we would like to remove the words out of sight. We currently have that language in our board policy and I recommend keeping it. >> Any questions on that? >> Okay. >> Uh, in addition, uh, there's changes to this board policy uh to address AI plagiarism and discipline. Um,
090there is an option for the board to consider whether or not we would like to have that optional language, which would mean that in not instead of just referencing academic dishonesty, including cheating, intentional plagiarism, or using a writing service, that there be explicit reference to the use of improper use of AI as a rationale for disciplining students. And that is something that the board would would want to consider. Where is that up here in the policy? >> I apologize. It's under the same section that we have been discussing. Um number 10. Um, number 10 currently just addresses engaging in academic dishonesty including cheating, intentionally plagiarizing, using a writing service and or this would be the optional generative artificial intelligence technology in the place of original words work unless specified unless specifically authorized by staff. So
091it's that additional language regarding generative artificial intelligence technology >> and the the change is either or the option is to either have it and >> or or >> uh no it would it would be you can remove the generative artificial intelligence technology language overall. >> Okay. >> Any questions on that? I'd want to keep that in like that we shouldn't like that using AI would be bad. >> I mean, >> I would agree. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Um, there's also references in this section to elements that we've described already tonight, such as no fees for truency or no uh ticketing for municipal violations as a route of student discipline for the school. In addition, um, there's additional changes made to this board policy to address, um, elements of whether or not, um, students would
092be prohibited from school grounds, um, during, um, during moments of exclusion from school um, for suspension or expulsion. Um, the board of education currently adopts a board policy that excludes students from school grounds when they are suspended or expelled, but does make an exception that's not addressed in this board policy. The exception that we've previously made is that students who have an IEP or 504 plan who are being requested to attend those meetings would be permitted to attend those meetings without violating board policy. My recommendation is that this continue to stand. >> Anybody have an issue with that? All right. And then finally, we do have an option to consider regarding confiscation of devices. Um there's no uh requirement that when a uh a device is used um improperly in school, there's there's no clear
093bright line test for how the school should confiscate devices. Um, and there's a reference in press's policy to consult the board attorney for advice concerning confiscating devices. Our practice has been and what we continue to recommend is that confiscation be done when there's a violation of uh board policy or our student code of conduct and that it be done carefully that devices be isolated in a safe spot such as a safe in the principal's office or in the front office. and that uh the condition of the phone be documented when it is confiscated. We continue to believe that that's a safe practice for our schools to follow. Any questions on that? >> Okay. I present board policy 7250 addressing student support services which uh includes mostly footnotes and citation updates. I'm also presenting board policy
094addressing suicide and depression awareness and prevention. There's a change that's made to address uh legislation public act 104391 regarding um language that previously read um that is uh curriculum addresses a student's uh sound mind and body which has now been changed to read a student's mental health and illness. In addition, this board policy is updated to address that staff IDs will now be required to have suicide and crisis hotline information on them just the same way that student IDs are. I'm presenting board policy 3 I'm sorry 7 colon 310 restriction on publications elementary schools. Uh this is uh primarily updating footnotes including um updates to address the legislation on bullying and cyber bullying. I also present board policy 7 colon 315 restrictions on publications high schools which makes similar changes as the board policy we
095just discussed. I also present board policy 7 colon 340 addressing student records. Um, regarding the changes to this policy, there is now a document that is created um by special education teams called a summary of special education performance. This document is now going to be kept in a student's permanent record. Um the uh rationale for doing this was so that a student um special education records which were previously considered temporary records um and disposed of um well before the 60-year permanent record requirement were sometimes disposed of and then an individual would need to secure access to either state or federal benefits and have difficulty providing evidence for those benefits. So now there's a requirement to keep this document, the summary of special education performance document. Also, the references in this policy to police has now
096been changed to law enforcement. And there's a change in the state of Illinois uh providing that a student's place of birth is no longer considered directory information and subject to release under directory information provisions. >> Any questions on any of that? Next, I present board policy 8 col 30 regarding visitors and conduct on school property. Um, and I do have uh um an element for the board of education to consider. This board policy currently reads that when visiting or when leaving a school, visitors must return their badges that they are provided when they enter a school. That's not currently our practice. We would recommend that the change in language be to read, "When leaving the school, visitors must comply with checkout procedures, which is more in line with what we currently do when individuals leave
097the building." >> Any comments on that? We okay with that? >> And I'm done. No, I'm not. Sorry about that. Um, almost. >> I got really excited. Um, I present board policy relations with other organizations and agencies which is an unchanged policy only addressing updates to the footnote. Now I'm done. >> That's it. >> I have one followup. >> Oh yes. So going back to policy 480, the um the draft we're given has the October 15th date in it. >> Yes. and the are we will the um I just forgot when our next meeting is when we vote on these policies are we saying that um we've agreed that the 15th date is coming out >> can I can I confer really quickly >> okay um if um we anticipate that we will be voting
098on these on February 2nd. And for the board's pleasure, I'm happy to submit a draft of the policy that reads as we would like it to be passed if that would be helpful with the language removed. >> Yeah, it would be helpful. Yeah. For me to see it the way it's um that it's being presented or like how administration would like us to. >> Absolutely. We're happy to do that. >> Anything else? Thank you, Miss Olsson. Okay, we have people set for our next agenda items. Uh, moving on to uh 17B. Yes, they had time to make their way over here. So, we uh have the elementary art curriculum and resource proposal. Silia Banks, director of curriculum and instruction, and Jamie Abney Geraldo, fine arts coordinator, are available for questions relating to the elementary art
099curriculum and resource proposal. Hello, and thank you so much for having us with you tonight. Um, the purpose of our proposal is to outline this new curriculum for your consideration and approval so that we may implement it starting in the 202627 school year. In these revised courses, students will develop fundamental art making techniques while learning about artistic styles, artists, art movements, the elements of art, and the principles of design. They will experience a variety of artmaking tools and media as they build their creativity, innovation, and collaboration skills. This proposal addresses goal number three of the U46 strategic plan, focusing on student academic growth and mastery. The revised curriculum includes detailed instructional units aligned to standards and common unit assessments which will provide for enhanced student success. Our existing curriculum adopted in 2016 lacks board approved
100resources, common assessments, and no clear instructional units, limiting the possibility of alignment across sites, and making consistent instruction a challenge. The new curriculum addresses these gaps by providing clear units, textbased resources, and rubricbased assessments that ensure consistent learning experiences while still allowing teachers creative flexibility. Here you can see the committee members who worked to write the curriculum, rubrics, and assessments being presented today. This team worked tirelessly tirelessly to create thoughtful intentional curriculum to improve the art learning experience for our students, seeking feedback from colleagues along the way at department meetings and in their teacher collaborative teams and incorporating that feedback to the extent possible to refine instructional units, assessments, and resources. The curriculum writing timeline for this curriculum is outlined here. The team developed a comprehensive curriculum that will support learners and prepare them for
101future success and lifelong creativity. The elementary art curriculum was written based on the National Core Arts Standards for Visual Arts, which you can find at this link. In a curriculum revision of this scale, where there had previously been very little structure or guidance, it was important to define the components that align with district expectations and are considered non-negotiable while still maintaining space for teacher creativity. The non-negotiables detail the essential components of the curriculum including the unit summit of assessments for which reassessment must be possible, rubrics, learning targets, success criteria, the media used for the common assessments, and concepts and styles to ensure consistency across classrooms. At the same time, teachers have room for autonomy in choosing projects, themes, and learning activities to support students in developing the fundamental skills needed for the unit assessments, allowing
102them to adapt their instruction to meet their students needs. This balance provides both structure and flexibility, so teachers are supported while maintaining creative freedom. It is important to note that every unit also includes suggested formative projects, themes, and learning activities that teachers can use, but they are not required. This provides an additional level of support for less experienced teachers, late hires, long-term subs, and can even support buildings when emergency sub plans are needed. Here's a general overview of the course structure for the primary grades, kindergarten through 2. These unit summaries include only the non-negotiable concepts and media for each grade level, as well as estimated unit pacing. You can see that a variety of media are specified over the course of each grade level and band to ensure a variety of learning experiences and exposure
103to many styles of artmaking. Kindergarten focuses on the exploration of different media tools and basic concepts. And you can see that start to expand into first and second grade. Similar to the previous slide, here's a general overview of the course structure for the intermediate grades, third through 5th. Again, these unit summaries include only the non-negotiable concepts and media for each grade level as well as estimated unit pacing. You can see that a variety of media are specified over the course of each grade level in band to ensure a variety of learning experiences and exposure to many styles of art making. Those media begin to expand with the intermediate grades to include a number of more complex processes and tools. In these intermediate grades, the concepts start to become less concrete and more abstract. Instead of
104learning about shapes and lines like in the primary grades, students start to think more about possibility using their imaginations. Here is a general overview of the art course structure for the self-contained EN2 student classes. The EN2 primary and intermediate self-contained art classes will align with the ULS curriculum themes through a three-year rotation where content is similar but not identical each year. Instruction emphasizes artistic exploration with consistent lesson structures that reinforce learning while also incorporating readalouds, choice making, and hands-on artmaking experiences. Curriculum resources will include the Explorations in Art textbook series by Davis Publications, which will provide teachers with project ideas, connections to artists and other content areas, and the supports they may need to provide successful learning experiences for our students. The intention is for the student editions to be teacher use only to support
105instructional planning and delivery. So, we do not need more than one copy per site. In addition to the textbook resources, each school will receive an art classroom library of children's books that have been curated specially to align with the concepts, artists, and themes present in each grade level. Finally, the adoption will include a budgetary allocation to provide for consumable artmaking supplies. Here is the proposed implementation timeline which includes plans for teacher professional learning resource purchasing and shows the planned implementation rollout for the 26 27 and 2728 school years. Our professional learning plan is very similar to any other typical curriculum implementation. Teachers will receive one full day professional learning session where we will unpack the standards, curriculum documents, rubrics, and assessments in advance of implementation so that the teachers can start to think through and
106plan for their instruction. This professional learning will be provided at additional times for any teachers who are hired late or otherwise do not attend the initial training opportunity. The initial cost of the implementation will be $178,614.96 and will include the one-time textbook purchase, one-time art art classroom library purchase, and the annual consumable artmaking supply budgetary allocation. The consumable allocation is based on estimated student enrollment of about 15,000 students at the current rate of $5 per student. Please note that this per student rate may change based on inflation. The consumable budgetary allocation is the only reoccurring cost estimated at approximately $75,000 per school year. The implementation of this curriculum will be evaluated over the first full curriculum cycle to ensure impact on goal number three of the strategic plan, academic growth and mastery, based on course
107assessment data and teacher feedback. At the completion of the initial initial curriculum cycle based on collected data, our team will work with district leadership to determine needed adjustments to course program structure or resources to ensure that the objectives are being met with fidelity and are improving student outcomes as aligned to the strategic plan. >> Thank you again for allowing us to present to you today. Um, do you have any questions for us at this time? >> Thank you for the presentation. Do board members have questions? No, I have um one quick question. So um so for example, I'm looking at at slide 11, which has the program overview course sequence for third, fourth, and fifth grade. So I guess this is a two-part question. My first question going with this concept of of having the
108non-negotiables versus some flexible autonomy for instruction. So for in third grade, for example, lesson T1, the media that's listed on there is oil, pastels, markers, and and pencil drawings. So those are the the types of media that need to be used for that lesson, but the teacher has some autonomy to bring in something additional >> absolutely >> if wanted. So given that concept when we talk about the the cost for implementation and the cost for the art supplies, if there are art, you know, art media that an instructor wants to bring in to that lesson, how are those art supplies purchased? Do they is there a kind of a cushion put into the budget so that they can you know are able to secure those additional materials or how would that work? >> The estimated
109$5 per student that they currently have to purchase consumables and artmaking supplies um has been sufficient over the past several years. Okay. Um and many teachers already utilize all of these media that we're specifying. Um, the reason we're specifying some of the media is to make sure that our students have a consistent experience across schools, especially since we have so many students that may start the year at one school and then move to another school. We want to make sure that they're having um a variety of experiences. So, I'm not concerned about um them not having enough funding unless we continue to see inflation increase. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions? Okay. >> Move on to the next one. So, next we have the elementary music curriculum and resource proposal. And uh Celia
110and Jamie uh continue to be available for questions relating to the elementary music curriculum and resource proposal. All right. Hello again and thank you for having us with you. The purpose of our proposal is to outline this new curriculum for your consideration and approval so that we may implement it starting in the 2627 school year. In these revised courses, students will develop fundamental musical skills supporting the elements of music through a variety of learning experiences as they build their creativity and collaboration skills. This proposal addresses goal number three of the U46 strategic plan focusing on student academic growth and mastery. The revised curriculum includes detailed instructional units aligned to standards and common assessments which will provide for enhanced student success. Our existing curriculum adopted in 2016 lacks common assessments and has no clear instructional units
111limiting the possibility of alignment across sites and making consistent instruction a challenge. The new curriculum addresses these gaps by providing clear units, textbased resources, and rubric based assessments that ensure consistent learning experiences while still allowing teachers creative flexibility. Here you can see the committee members who worked to write the curriculum, rubrics, and assessments being presented today. This team worked tirelessly to create thoughtful, intentional curriculum to improve the music learning experiences for our students. our students, seeking feedback from colleagues along the way through emails, updates, sharing at department meetings, and in their teacher collaborative teams, and then incorporating that feedback to the extent possible to refine instructional units, assessments, and resources. The curriculum writing timeline for this curriculum is outlined here. The team developed a comprehensive curriculum that will support learners and prepare them for future
112success and lifelong creativity. The elementary music curriculum was written based on the national core arts standards for music which you can find at this link. Okay. Much like the elementary art curriculum we just learned about in a curriculum revision of this scale where there had previously been very little structure or guidance, it was important to define the components that align with district expectations and are considered non-negotiable again while still maintaining space for teacher creativity. The non-negotiable de non-negotiables detail the essential components for the curriculum including the unit summitative assessments for which reassessment must be possible rubrics uh learning targets success criteria types of learning experiences such as singing and movement activities and instrument use to ensure consistency across classrooms. At the same time, teachers have room for autonomy in choosing songs, tools, supplemental resources, and
113additional learning activities to support students in developing the fundamental skills needed for the unit assessments, allowing them to adapt their instruction to meet their students needs. This balance provides both structure and flexibility so teachers are supported while maintaining creative freedom. It is important to note that every unit also includes suggested learning activities that teachers can use, but they are not required. This provides an additional level of support for less experienced teachers or in the case of needing emergency subplants, for example. Each grade level, kindergarten through 5th, includes six total instructional units. Five units focus on new content and skill development and one focuses on performance-based skills. The performance unit is designed to be flexible in terms of timing since not all schools are able to schedule performances at the same time over the course of
114the school year. Therefore, the instructional units are designed to be able to shift accordingly as outlined here. For example, if a school or grade level has their performance scheduled at the beginning of trimester 2, their yearly pacing would be unit one and unit two in trimester 1, unit six, which is the flex unit, and unit three in trimester 2 and unit four and unit 5 in trimester 3. Here's a general overview of the course structure for the primary grades, kindergarten through 2. These unit summaries include only the unit themes for each grade level, as well as estimated unit pacing. The curriculum guide includes additional details about required learning experiences. Kindergarten focuses on the exploration of basic concepts and skills, which are key to long-term musical development. First grade starts out in a similar structure to
115kindergarten, then transitions into deeper concept development partway through the year. Second grade continues to build on key music literacy elements and expands on singing and instrumental techniques. Similar to the previous slide, here is a general overview of the course structure for the intermediate grades 3rd through 5th. Again, these unit summaries include only the themes for each grade level, as well as estimated unit pacing. In these intermediate grades, the musical experiences start to expand into more complex forms and concepts, as well as instrument playing with heavy emphasis on recorder in fourth grade and ukulele in fifth grade. Here's a general overview of the music course structure for the self-contained EN2 classes. The EN2 primary and intermediate self-contained music classes will align with the ULS curriculum themes through a three-year rotation where content is similar but not
116identical each year. Instruction emphasizes routine and structure and learning experiences include steady beat activities, song tales, which are stories and books set to music, modified movement activities, sensory instrument exploration, and choice-based activities. These are the recommended textbased curricula to support specific grade levels for kindergarten and first grade. Curriculum resources will include First Steps in Music for preschool and beyond. curriculum guide series by GIA Publications, which will provide teachers with developmentally appropriate foundational music learning experiences, songs, and stories, as well as the supports they may need to provide successful learning experiences for our youngest students. For grades 1 through five, curriculum resources will include the purposeful pathways curriculum series by music is elementary. These books provide detailed learning activities supporting singing, composition, rhythmic development, instrument playing, and much more. And the resources provide teachers with the
117support needed to engage advancing musical learners. In addition to the textbased curriculum resources, there is a number of items that will be provided to support all grade levels and programs. These include two folk dance and movement resources from New England Dance Masters, online access to the essential elements music class, a set of children's books that will become the music classroom library, as well as a variety of music equipment and instruments. The adoption will include a budgetary allocation to provide for consumable supplies, including recorders. For schools that host the EN2 program, resources will also include an extended set of books for the music classroom library, some adaptive movement tools, and several experiential adaptive musical instruments. Here is the proposed implementation timeline which includes plans for teacher professional learning resource purchasing and shows the planned implementation roll
118out for the 26 27 and 2728 school years. Our professional learning plan is very similar to any other typical curriculum implementation. Teachers will receive one full day professional learning session where we will unpack the standards, curriculum documents, rubrics, and assessments in advance of implementation so that the teachers can start to think through and plan for their instruction. They will additionally receive two full days of resource training in the purposeful pathways curriculum resource and the first steps in music curriculum resource. This professional learning will be provided at additional times for any teachers who are hired late or otherwise do not attend the initial training opportunity. The initial cost of implementation will be $165,000 $165,91.76 and will include the one-time textbook purchases, one-time music classroom library and movement book purchase, one-time music equipment, instruments and storage purchase,
119and the annual consumable supply budgetary allocation for online license renewals, student recorders, and classroom supply needs. needs. The consumable allocation is based on estimated student enrollment of about 15,000 students at the rate of $4 per student. The consumable budgetary allocation and the online licenses are the only recurring cost estimated at approximately $60,000 and $9,657.70 respectively per school year. The implementation of this curriculum will be evaluated over the first full curriculum cycle to ensure impact on goal number three of the strategic plan, academic growth and mastery based on course assessment data and teacher feedback. At the completion of the initial curriculum cycle based on the collected data, our team will work with district leadership to determine needed just needed adjustments to course program structure or resources to ensure that the objectives are being met with fidelity
120and are improving student outcomes as aligned in the strategic plan. That concludes our presentation. Thank you again for having us this evening. Do you have any questions we can answer for you? Thank you for that second presentation. Do board members have any questions? Sue, >> so just one quick question. Since recorders are consumables, I I take it the kids can keep them. >> Yes. >> So, okay. Yes. And I have a a silly question, but on your on your on page or slide, is it 12 where you talk about Dory, me and so forth, >> what happened to Fa and T? They get into more of those in the later grades. >> Oh, okay. >> They're used a lot less at the elementary level. >> Okay. Okay. >> It's a great question. >> They still
121exist though. I promise. >> I listen to The Sound of Music, so you know, >> I That was a nice catch. Board members have any other questions? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay, the next item on our agenda is work session resolutions. Our first item is a resolution abating the working cash fund of school district number 46, Kain Cook and DuPage counties, Illinois to the operations and maintenance fund and further providing for the transfer to the capital projects fund. Dr. Anne Williams and Dr. Dr. Kyle Vonnezzy, Deputy Superintendence of Operations, will respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends the board of education adopt the resolution abating the working cash fund of school district number 46, Kain, Cook, and Dwage counties, Illinois to the operations and maintenance fund and further providing
122for the transfer to the capital projects fund. >> Thank you. Before I ask for board questions, did you have any comments that you wanted to give to the board or No. Okay. Any questions from the board members? Okay. Next resolution. Next is a resolution authorizing the submitt of serious safety hazard findings to the Illinois Department of Transportation. This resolution is required annually annually by the Illinois State Board of Education. The attached resolution confirms that the hazardous transportation area designations previously approved by the Illinois Department of Transportation still exist and students who resided within the designated areas during the 2025 2026 school year were provided free transportation services. The district will request reimbursement from the state for transportation services provided. Marcy Murphy, director of transportation, will present the resolution and will respond to questions from the
123board of education. Administration recommends the board of education adopt the resolution authorizing the submitt of serious safety hazard findings to the Illinois Department of Transportation. >> Do board members have any questions? Sue, >> can can you just confirm the one for Centennial? It has walking along North McCann Boulevard from Jenna. >> No, that's okay. >> I mean, Centennial's in Bartlett and North McCann's over across the river. So, one second. >> Oh, thank you. Apologize. Okay. >> Um, for Century Oaks walking along big timber. Is that the one that you were talking about? >> No, underneath it. Centennial. >> Oh, I apologize. Centennial. We are walking along Sterns from Bartlett to Kingston. Oh, that's because twice. >> 465 46-25-08. >> Okay, hang on. And I've got to flip through my 03, 04, 06, 07, 08. This
124is for Centennial walking along man from Jenna to Sandhurst. >> Is it manage? It is Fox Meadow. >> It's supposed to be Fox Meadow. Our apologies. >> Okay. >> So, we will update that. It is. So, because on the map attachment, it is Fox Meadow. >> Okay. >> Yes. Apologies. >> We have several submissions of these because we've done an extensive amount of work. So, we'll have we'll make sure that we w mark them correctly going forward. >> Thank you. Any other questions? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> The next item is work session bids and proposals. I'm sorry, work session resol. Uh, no, I'm right. Work session bids and proposals. Dr. Johnson, >> thank you. Our first item is a bid operationsite U46 Kenyon Woods Middle School Furniture Project. Dr. Anne
125Williams, Deputy Superintendent of Operations and Denise Smith, procurement coordinator, will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends awarding the following base bid packages in the total amount of $483,55645 cents and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. Base bid A to Continua Interiors in the amount of $479,1831. base bid D to Continua Interiors in the amount of $4,37344. This expenditure will be charged to the capital projects fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. >> Do board members have any questions? Okay. Next item. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Uh next is a bid operationsite U46 Kimble Middle School Furniture. Again, our team is here to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board
126of education. Administration recommends awarding the following base bid packages numbers 2,35 and 7 to educational environments in the total amount of $263,955.90 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the capital projects fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? >> Okay, next item. >> Next is the proposal operationsite U46 Kimble Middle School Furniture Cooperative. Again, our team is here to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the proposals through the Omnia Cooperative for miscellaneous furniture items in the total amount of 196,536.98 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the capital projects fund. The cost
127is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Next item. >> Uh, next is a proposal operations. Unite U46 Kimmel Middle School Cafetum Furniture. Our team is here to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the proposal from Amtabell Cooperative for miscellaneous furniture items in the amount of $158,689.88 88 cents and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the capital projects fund and the cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. >> Do board members have any questions? >> Thank you. >> Next item. >> Next is a proposal assessment and accountability and student success King County Regional Office of Education support for planning schools.
128Brian Tennyson, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning, and Matt Ramandi, director of assessment, accountability, and student success, will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the proposal from the King County Regional Office of Education in the amount of $25,000 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. >> Do board members have any questions? >> Thank you. Next is a proposal from plan operations agent obsolescence dump truck purchase. Ashley McCain, assistant director of plan operations and coordinator of grounds will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the proposal from Sutton Ford
129in the amount of $58,92 and Napki Truck Equipment Center Chicago in the amount of $53,527.90. Requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged the operations and maintenance fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. >> Do board members have any questions? >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. The next item is work session change orders. Dr. Johnson. >> Uh we have a change order this evening. Plan operations Elgen High School parking lot paving project number 251-25. Sheila DS assistant superintendent of operations and Cassandra Rekenbach, assistant director of planning and systems will present the attached change order and will respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends the board of education approve the change order from Schroeder Asphalt Services Incorporated in the
130amount of $244,717.70. >> Thank you for detailing the the reason for the change order and the proposal. Um do board members have any questions? Don, >> it's a large change order. Um so I mean it looks like obviously the soil stabilization is the largest part of the issue. So, I kind of my question is going to have a couple of parts. Um, as far as the initial soil borings, I'm going to assume that what they the number of borings they did, we considered appropriate at the time for the square footage of parking lot that we were replacing. >> Yes. And then um moving forward um just with the amount sheer amount of construction we have going across the district at our different sites, are we looking at increasing possibly the number of soil borings we
131do so that we have a better understanding of of what's going on at some of these sites as we do constructions so that obviously you can't fully avoid issues with soil because soil is what soil is. Um, but I think it, you know, it would be better if we can get if there is issues, if we're on top of them sooner so that we have a better chance of absorbing those into our budgets as we work through, especially with all the Unite U46 and just the square amount of ground we'll be covering. >> Absolutely. So, um, because of just the sheer amount of construction that we're doing, we are absolutely learning valuable lessons. Um, one of which is that, um, in areas that we know that we've had similar issues, um, we are bumping up
132the contingency as well, just for unforeseen issues. We are also taking additional so soil borings um, in select sites. And so, yes, we're definitely learning lessons along the way. Also, just some of the stabilization, the limestone in key areas. Um, we are integrating that into the base bit as well so that for future projects that we wouldn't have to come back as a change order. Great. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any additional questions? Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> That is the last item on our agenda. I will take a motion to adjourn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Kerr, >> yes. >> Miss Khan, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Miss Nolan, >> yes. >> Miss Schwarz, >> yes. >> President Owens, >> yes. >>
133We are journed at 9:12 p.m. >> Thank you, everyone. Careful going home. >> All right. Hallelujah. Oh yeah.