001Hey. [Music] Hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] I need Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Good evening everyone and welcome to the June 9th, 2025 board of education meeting. I will call to order. Roll call please. 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 an independent contractor 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 setting of a price for the sale of lease or real property owned by the school. An internal audit. Control weakness. Identification of potential fraud risk areas.
002Known or suspected frauds and fraud interviews. Collective negotiating matters between the school board and its employees or their representatives or deliberations for one or more classes of employees. Review of close session matters. So moved. Second. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Session. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] I can't. Hey. [Music] That's okay. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] I don't know. Hey, [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] I'm [Music] Good evening everyone. I am going to call the June 9th, 2025 board of education meeting back into order. If I could have everybody stand as they are able for the pledge of allegiance. United States to the stands. Thank you everyone. Uh before we get started, just a couple housekeeping items. Welcome to our kind of test run on our new home for our board meetings. Um, we
003hope that this space is a little bit more accommodating for everybody as we move through our our board meetings into the future. Um, just a note though that our next board meeting, which is next Monday, June 16th, will be back at Educational Services Center at 355 East Chicago. So, don't come here next week if you're going to attend the board meeting. Um, we will be back at our old location. Uh, so with that, we will start with accent on achievement. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. This evening, uh, it's definitely a a performing arts theme. And so, to begin, we will be recognizing the Elgen Symphony Orchestra Orchestra's arts educator of the year. So, as part of the board of education's accent on achievement, board of education this evening is recognizing Jamie Geraldo, fine arts
004coordinator, for being recognized as the Elgen Symphony Orchestra. Educator of the Year, Jamie, please come forward. [Applause] Don't don't go too far because Yeah. Yeah. We've got We have more. Yes. Um so in addition to this recognition, we are also celebrating uh U46 being identified as a best community for music education award. So again recognizing Jamie Geraldo, our fine arts coordinator for school district U46, being honored with the best communities for music education designation from the National Association of Music Merchants, NAM Foundation, for its outstanding commitment to music education. The NAM Foundation is a nonprofit organization supported in part by the National Association of Music Merchants. [Applause] bring forward the evidence. All right. Um, so now the really exciting part, we're gonna recognize uh some of our our students. There's actually going to be four
005different groups of students who are going to be recognized. So, I'm going to do my best to give you some direction. I think all of our students or um even perhaps a graduate or two are over on this side. Um, and so we're going to ask uh when I give you some directions, you're going to gather down in this area in the lower right hand side and then we'll be recognizing you. So, the first that we're going to recognize Illinois Music Educator Association's All State Music Festival 2025 individual on uh individual winners. So, we're going to recognize you um by high school, alphabetical order by high school, and then we've got a couple of high schools that have multiple students being recognized, and we're going to recognize you alphabetical order by your high school. So
006again, if you're an Illinois Music Educator Association's All State Music Festival individual winner for 2025, please come down to the uh area right here. Miss Beavens is waving at you. And if you would again, organize yourself alpha order by high school and then alpha order at your high school. We're going to start to recognize you and I'm going to read the names of all of our students who were recognized. They may or may not be here this evening, but we're going to recognize all of them. Uh your students will receive then a certificate and then we also have an area to take pictures right outside as well. Is going to give me the All right, perfect. Uh, and again, uh, we'll, uh, recognize all of our students representing Bartlett High School, Harvin Ignasio, second base.
007Representing Elgen High School, John Drew Viola. Representing Larkin High School, Thomas Aan, Contrabase Clarinet. Also from Larkin High School, Aiden Clapperich trombone representing South Elgen High School. Alyssa Zin, Viola, Ian Kim, Bflat clarinet. Maria Serban, Future Music Educator Symposium. Amy Scraas, Bflat clarinet. Ellie Jonkey, second alto. Ruby Montgomery, first soprano. and from Streamwood High School, David Berman Future Music Educator Symposium. Okay, now our second group, All State Music Festival Featured School Ensemble. So, all of these students, you should be representing South Elgen High School. Please head over to the right, line up by alpha order if you can. Thank you. To your left, my right. Stage right. Thank you. Thank goodness. from the right to the left. And there it is possible that some of our students are going to make a repeat across the
008stage here. So or across our day tonight. So some of these um some of our students are being recognized twice. All good. Okay. Representing South Elgen High School, Cameron Ant Soprano. Alicia Budsman, Soprano, Maria Sakala, Alto, Natalia Cologne, Soprano, Jessica Cruz, Alto, Magdalena Zeppela, percussion. Kate Benner, soprano. Maddie Gallagher, soprano, Jayen Galvin, soprano, Ava Gutierrez, alto, Esther Gutierrez, soprano. Payton Hawkins, soprano. Giana Hel, soprano, Rebecca Herman, Alto, Ellie Jon, Alto, Rose Lockard, alto meadow mckllingdong, soprano. Arabella Magdlin, soprano. Ella Malone, alto. Maline Martin, Alto, Alex Mascoro, Alto, [Applause] Alexa Medina, Alto, Luchia Meliori, Soprano, Michaela Msina, Alto. Ruby Montgomery, soprano. Ganna Muna, soprano. Maya Nagalska, soprano. Julianne Nelson, Alto. Grayson Roland, Alto. Freda Salgado, Alto. Alex Sanchez, Alto. Reagan Shaw, Alto. Kai Scores, Alto, [Applause] Maria Serban, Alto. Liliana, Alto, Kayn Smith, Alto, [Applause] Maria
009Spanos, Soprano. Shannon Strickland, Soprano. Lyanna Theos Alto, [Applause] Ellie Toma, Alto, Abby Wallace, soprano, Samantha Weber, soprano, [Applause] So y soprano, Melanie Zerat, soprano and Ivan Zamoodio percussion. [Applause] Okay, so we're only halfway through, which is awesome. I think we all know why why we've received some recognition for the work that the community and our team has done. Uh, next we have the Illinois High School Theater Festival 2025 all state individual um production winners and uh all of these individual winners are representing Bartlett High School. So, if I can have our two winners from Bartlett High School um please come forward. We'll recognize you. So, as part of our board of education's excellent on achievement, the board of education recognized the students who were named by the Illinois High School Theater Festival for their individual
010role in the allstate production of the prom. So, representing Bartlett High School, Ethan Bakos, Ensemble, Principal Hawkins understudy, and Isabella Nelson, pit orchestra, violin. [Applause] All right. And then also this evening we have the Illinois High School Theater Festival featured school production of an of Green Gables from South Elgen High School. So, if all of our students here from South Elgen High School again, we're going to see some familiar faces. And if you would as well, we're going to read all of the names in alphabetical order by last name. All right. Uh, we have Lily Barcel. [Applause] Next we have Annabth Balkam. Olivia Beach, Junior Beanland, Kaden Berber, Noah Cheney, Megan Cooper, Mia Dstrup, Justin Denton, Cameron Dickas, Megan England, Alexis Foster, Jess Irons, Mac Clinger, Bianca Lambertie, Charlotte Lippy, Rose Lockard Avi McCullum, Regina
011Merrced, Aditia Mal, Leila Mioli, Audrey Mohart, Sean Miduck, Evelyn Pou, Aditi Patel, Ashley Purscil, Alli Radkkey, Gabriella Savino Banock, Kai Scoris. [Applause] Sorry about that. That's that we're gonna make sure we get through everyone. So, I apologize. Um John Perez Marano, Sophie Potenzo, Elise Pratt, [Applause] Kayla Shimabuku, Jordan Slavic, Kayn Smith, [Applause] Jersey Spidel, Ryan Suarez, Connor Thompson, Abby Wallace, Adler Win and Soha Yasir. We want to congratulate all of our award winners and certainly send a hearty uh gratitude and thanks to uh our our teachers and our administrators in our performing arts programs across U46. Thank you so much. Okay, congratulations again to all of the students and their families. We will move on with our meeting and the next item on our agenda is comments from the audience. There are no public comments
012this evening. We can take a second to pause if if people want to exit the building and take pictures outside. Thank you. Feel free to stay. Okay, we'll go ahead and proceed with the meeting. The next item on the agenda is consent agenda. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. Uh this evening on the consent agenda, we have personnel report and workers compensation cases. So, I've never had this before, but with one item on our consent agenda, does anybody want that removed from the consent agenda and put that on to discussion? Okay. Hearing none, I will take a motion to approve the consent agenda as stated into the record. So moved. Second. Yes. Martin. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Next item is discussion action. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. Our first item is a resolution
013approving a letter of support for a 12year extension request for the central area tax increment financing otherwise known as tiff district within the city of Elgen Illinois. Dr. Anne Williams, deputy superintendent of operations will present the attached resolution and will respond to questions from the board of education. administration recommends the board of education approve the resolution approving a letter of support for a 12year extension request for the central area tax increment financing tiff district within the city of Elgen Illinois. Thank you Dr. Johnson. So before I uh read the motion into the record um Dr. Williams you have some remarks about the the approval. I sure do. Thank you Miss Owens. Good evening as Dr. Johnson mentioned tonight we have um we're asking the board of education to approve resolution which authorizes Dr. Johnson to
014submit a letter of support for the city of Elgen's proposed 12-year extension of the downtown tiff. For context, this tiff was created in 2002 and tiffs allowed cities to reinvest increased property tax revenue called the increment back into the district to promote development. In this case, the downtown covers more than 10,000 acres, including key neighborhoods and commercial corridors. The request for the TIF extension was created largely in part to allow the city to bounce back from the losses that they occurred as it relates to the growth of this tip during the pandemic and during the great recession of 2008. Um, while school district approval isn't legally required, municipally, excuse me, municipal leaders and legislators often look for support to demonstrate consensus amongst taxing bodies. As the largest taxing body involved, we've taken a proactive approach
015and Dr. Johnson is prepared to submit a letter to the city that allocates 10% of the total tiff increment to the municipalities impacted by the tiff. during the 12-year extension period. With that in mind, I will take questions if there are any from the board. Board members have any questions for Dr. Williams. Sue, so can you just clarify the 10% is going to the school district and to other taxing? Yes, ma'am. To the other municipalities impacted by the tiff. Do we are there students living within the tiff? I imagine it might be if it's res any of it is residential. Most of it is commercial. Okay. Okay. I do believe there is a small percentage that is res. Okay. Thank you. I neglected to mention I'm sorry that the um the tiff increment that the
016district receive receives is planned to add additional secure entrances to our elementary schools, Elgen High School and some of our middle schools. So we already have identified a source um project for that source of funds. Any other questions? D, do we happen to have an estimate of what the difference would have been? So like with this 10% there's a approximated amount that we might receive. Do we know if the tiff had expired what that monetary difference would have been? I can provide that to the board of education via memo. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions? I am going to ask for a motion to approve the resolution approving a letter of support for a 12-year extension request for the central area tax increment financing tiff district within the city of Elgen, Illinois. So moved.
017Second. Any other questions? Martin. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Next item. Our second item is a resolution authorizing the transfer of interest earnings from the working cash fund to the capital projects fund. Joining Dr. Anne Williams is Dr. Frank Williams, Assistant Superintendent of Finance to present the attached resolution to respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends the board of education adopt the resolution authorizing the transfer of interest earnings from the working cash fund to the capital projects fund. May I have a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the transfer of interest earnings from the working cash fund to the capital projects fund? So moved. Second. Do any board members have questions for the doctors Williams? No. Okay. Roll call, please. Yes. Martin. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. And that is
018the last item on our agenda. So I will take a motion to so second. Yes. Hey, we are ajourned. Thank you everyone.