001I'd like to call this meeting of the Summit Hill 161 School Board to order. Would everyone please rise for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God. Roll call. Melissa Ryan? Here. Adrian Chavez? Here. Patrick Goldfant? Here. John Winter? Here. Ron Petrie? Here. Amy Burke? Here. And Joy Murthy is not here. She is tardy with notice she will be here. Moving on to our Student Board of Education member. We are so excited this evening for the appointment of our student, Summit Hill Junior High student to the Board of Education. We continue to be one of the very few elementary districts to put this kind of value on hearing the voice of our students and we are extraordinarily
002proud of Leah Calzaretta for raising her hand stepping forward and jumping in. We look forward to working with her this year and for our school learning community to get to know her a little better. Could we give her a round of applause? You want to stand? At this time as we discuss in our orientation and in accordance with board policy 2 colon 4-0 policy 2 colon 8-0 and the Illinois Association of School Board's recommendations through their bringing student representatives to the school board table documents, we, the fully elected Board of Education, will recite the oath of office along with our Student Board of Education member appointee to initiate this. Can I please have a motion to appoint Leah Calzaretta to the Summit Hill District 161 Board of Education? Motion. Second. Any discussion? Can we have
003a roll call Mr. Petrie? Adrian Chavez? Here. Voting present or voting yes? Yes. Yes. Melissa Ryan? Aye. Patrick Goldfine? Aye. John Winter? Aye. Amy Burke? Aye. Ron Petrie? Aye. Motion carries and with that let's rise and join and join our Student Board of Education member. Um let's go in front of the board table and let's have her recite her oath. It will sound a little awkward with all of us trying to do it at the same time just so you know. Just stick with your own tempo. Moving on to number four. Information and proposals for a recognition. Tonight we take a step forward in offering another layer of security within Summit Hill School District 161. We have found that the Will County Sheriff's Department has been an unbelievable resource assisting us throughout the process to
004find just the right fit for us as we searched for an SRO. We would like to thank Deputy Chief Jingles, Sergeant Dirk Obermeyer, and the rest of the team at Will County who helped with the process. At this time we would like to introduce Deputy Justin Farkas to the Summit Hill community. After selection Deputy Farkas shadowed at both Lincoln Way 210 and Homer 33C in preparation for starting at Summit Hill Junior High and also throughout the Summit Hill School District 161 schools. Deputy Farkas's letter of interest was spot on so we'd like to um read that to the public. Deputy Chief Jingles, I am writing to express my interest in the school resource officer position with the Will County Sheriff's Department. With more than 16 years of experience in law enforcement as well as having
005a strong commitment to student safety and a passion for fostering positive relationships within the community, I believe I would be an asset to your team. The school resource officer serves as a vital link between law enforcement and the community. This role focuses on ensuring a safe and secure learning environment, building positive relationships with the students, staff, and families, and fostering trust through visibility, communication, and protective, proactive problem solving. Throughout my role as a law enforcement officer as well as many current roles as a deputy with the Will County Sheriff's Department, I have gained experience in conflict resolution, community resources, and crime prevention. I am well-versed in de-escalation techniques, safety drills, and youth outreach programs, and I am committed to serving as a mentor and resource for young people. What excites me most about this opportunity
006is the chance to combine my law enforcement background with my dedication to youth engagement. I believe that a successful school resource officer not only protects students but also inspires them to make safe and responsible choices. I take pride in being approachable, empathetic, and proactive in my work. Thank you for considering my application. I'm excited about the opportunity to discuss my qualifications further and to demonstrate my commitment to excellence in law enforcement and to discuss how my skills and experience align with the needs of your school district. Thank you for considering my application and I look forward to the possibility of serving your students and community. Sincerely, Justin D. Farkas. You had me at hello Justin. I'm just kidding. That was well said and it's been a long time coming. I worked really hard for the
007last couple years with the support of Amy and the new board here to get the school resource officer in place. I have said other times about different instances that has happened in our neighborhood and close to school and so I won't regurgitate that but you know we've had a shooting in Tennessee recently, 47 shootings throughout the country involving schools and then most recently the armed robbery suspects that fled into our neighborhood and shut our schools down at which time our school resource officer was at Lincoln Way training and got here very quickly. I don't know if it was 615 or 650 but I heard you were here like right within the moments of you know you drove right over here as soon as it happened. Yeah so you know before he's even in this building
008and in his office he responded here and you know there was three helicopters floating around our school and you know anyways I appreciate the quick response. I'm glad you'll be in our building. I'm grateful to Paul for working with the sheriff and the sheriff's office for working so hard and we look forward to having you here and working with you and in our kids building a great relationship with you so welcome. So we did ask Leah to prepare a statement of introduction and so she's got a few things that she had written out that she wanted to mention in public here. Great. Hello everyone my name is Leah Marie Casaretta and I'm an eighth grader at Summit Hill Junior High. One of my favorite things to do is talk and my parents would agree but
009what I love to do even more is listen. You can learn so many things in life by just listening so as it comes as a surprise to no one I love to watch our district's boards meetings. I love to take in what's happening analyze it and watch how other people fight for what they think is right but it always confused me why students didn't have a say on what happens in the district. Children have so many great ideas that can make us stronger and better if adults would just listen and because I am such a talkative person I have had the opportunity to firsthand hear these wonderful ideas from the athletic kids the musical kids the studious kids and even the disobedient kids. So standing here today my goal is to have every student heard
010and to share every idea so if I have the power every child in this district can have their ideas presented to the board and no child will ever feel unheard in this district again. Thank you. Very nicely said. At this time we will like to go to 4a2 and recognize our September summit award winner. Okay so the first summit award winner of the 25-26 school years Dr. Julian Rogge school nurse Christine Doty and her entire clan of people who are here. She's in her seventh year of serving in our district starting as a substitute nurse in 2019 before joining the staff at DJR full-time in 2022. She was nominated by parent Jessica McDermott at the end of last school year and here's what she wrote. I wanted to send a shout out to nurse Christine
011Doty at DJR. My son is one of the only type 1 diabetics at DJR and has been there since attending preschool. He was diagnosed with the disease at just 15 months old. On average he sees nurse Christine five times a day. Yep but some days it can be 10 plus depending on the daily roller coaster of his chronic disease. We problem solve with one another constantly to ensure that he is receiving the best care while at school and on average we text about five to ten times a day. These texts help us make individual treatment plan decisions for him that literally change daily. He recently had a bad day medically and again this was submitted at the end of last year. His insulin pump failed which caused a major blood sugar spike that in turn
012caused us to be on very high alert. He had to get manual injections finger sticks and eventually a full insulin pump removal and new insertion. Nurse Christine handled it all with style and grace and her typical compassion. He spent almost half a day in and out with her to ensure his safety and for us to have open communication with one another. When he got home from school he was telling me all about how nurse Christine was teaching him how to tell time. So since he was missing an important lesson in class it really touched me that she did that with him so he didn't fall behind scholastically. Also he shares with me all the little jokes they have and the daily candy swap at lunchtime and I could go on and on with the stories
013and situations like these that she has been a part of to help my child get through the school day safely. It is evident how comfortable he feels around her as well as how much we both trust her wholeheartedly. Nurse Christine is more than just a friendly face at Rogus. She's adored by so many and it brings a smile to our faces anytime we think of her. Summit Hill School District 161 is truly lucky to have such a compassionate and knowledgeable nurse on the team. Additionally we got Francie to write a few words and so Christine is an amazing nurse and she is quick to assist whenever and wherever she is needed. She has an amazing heart for our students and is always concerned about their well-being. We are very thankful that she is at Rogus
014to help take care of our students and staff. So thank you nurse Christine for all that you do. Will you please come forward and accept your Summit Award. Okay for B freedom of information. So yes we had three foyers they're listed on the agenda and the first one really didn't apply to us and so we responded that we had no information on the AP Scholar Awards. That's more of a high school type of foyer. The other two are commercial nature and they have been satisfied. For C public comments. Just so kind of a refresher just anybody coming up for public comments and we always encourage people to attend and speak. There are time limits. This isn't an open ended discussion where we are allowed to give instant feedback. However based on board member feedback we
015have adapted the form thanks to Tammy and it includes your information so we can follow up easily with you to try to again encourage communication and just always we continue to welcome and respect all engagement and points of view. So thank you very much for that. Jody Tedeschi. When there's one minute left I'll put my finger up for you. Somebody let me know. As we all know I like to talk but I'm very nervous about talking in front of you. Hello my name is Jody Tedeschi. I've worked here for 25 years. I wanted to come here tonight which is something I've never done and I am a little bit uncomfortable doing this but because it is very important to me to share how much John Snipes has meant to me and my family over the
016past 10 years. John has been one of the best bosses my husband and I have ever had. He was always kind, supportive and gave us the confidence to believe in ourselves. When I first moved from Indian Trail into math intervention I was nervous and unsure. John was the one who reassured me that I could do the job. That same year my husband was also moved and while it was hard to leave Indian Trail John welcomed us with open arms and showed us that every school could feel like home. From the very beginning John listened to my concerns, found solutions quickly and always supported my work. One of the biggest things he did for me was to help me move into one school instead of traveling to three for six years. He worked with his wonderful
017coaches to gather the data and made it possible for me to be where I needed to be and I will always be grateful for that. Another example of John's support was when I discovered Reflex Math. We all know how much I love Reflex Math. During the first year as a math interventionist and he encouraged me to run with it. At first I piloted it with a small group but then after much convincing on my part John surprised me and was able to get the program for our entire elementary level students. That decision I believe has made a huge difference. I was able to introduce Reflex into all three elementary buildings and since then we have watched our students math fluency soar. At Indian Trail alone we've gone from solving two million facts in one year
018to 2.5 the next and then 3.5 last year with the help of our Frankfurt Square friends. This year our goal is four million facts. The growth has not only strengthened our students math facts but it's also helped to drive overall math instruction forward. John I'm so glad you've been able to see the progress and the success at Indian Trail. None of it would have been possible without your leadership, your encouragement, and your belief in your staff. Thank you for everything you've done for me, my family, and our schools and as a taxpayer of Summit Hill 161. I also am deeply grateful for all the time and effort and heart you've poured into making our district stronger for every single student. We will miss you and we wish you the best in the future. Thank you
019very much. Lisa Brace. Hi my name is my name is Lisa Brace. I'm a parent of two Summit Hill students. A couple things I wanted to talk about. One thing is I've been seeing some strange use of of bright arrow where we've sent we've received a advertisement is what I would call it for some art studio. We've seen some fundraising for some organizations that are in our SCO that gave some of the community concern that that was a conflict with some of the SCO fundraising and we just want to make sure that you know these types of things I'm for fundraising for other organizations but we don't want to give the impression that we're conflicting with our own SCO that does so much for our schools and we also want to make sure that we're
020extending that if we're going to do that it should be extended to all similar organizations that we're not just focused on one that we open that up because again hey I'm I'm for for things that help our our community but we want to make sure that that we're not looking like we're biased or that we're being used to advertise to our community members. Many school districts or whatever will use use that if you want to use our systems maybe they do some fund something for the school in exchange for that opportunity but we just want to control that a bit. The other thing that I want to bring up again and I talked about this the last time I was up here was some misuse of AI where where some school districts were found in
021one case it was a teacher who was recording students and then making inappropriate images with those student pictures and another it was students in the student body making inappropriate pictures of these these students and posting them online and the thing that really resonated to me this week was there was a notification about the charges to the ones that involved the where it was just students in the student body so in this case each of those students who made those inappropriate images was charged with 196 felony counts this is some a child whose prefrontal cortex is not all the way developed who made some very bad decisions and this is why I think we need to make sure we're putting something in the handbook making students aware of the potential lifelong ramifications of this type of
022action because as devastating as it is to the victims the perpetrators these are again children students in that school district in a small town whose lives are forever altered because of this and that is my concern and I do not want to see this played out in our school district for both the legal ramifications and the ramifications for our students and our student body whether it's you know the victims or in this case minor aged perpetrators we want to make sure that they understand the seriousness of of this type of thing because really it's it's to the point that their lives are forever altered and it's probably something they they they never even considered they thought they were being you know funny you know how you know how young kids are oh isn't this funny
023it's it's not them there's no harm but there is and and the laws are changing rapidly so I just wanted to share that because I you know I want what's best for our students thank you thank you I don't think we're going to get through the consent agenda before so it we're gonna pause and move right to prepare for the public hearing for the budget so five b one um because that has to start exactly at seven thirty it should be it's like i just don't think we're gonna get through it's like two minutes something but I know we're not going to get through oh prior to public comments miss murphy answered the meeting as well public hearing is is yeah the notification is for seven thirty so we have to start it at seven
024thirty so we weren't going to be able to get through another item yeah so it'll just be about another minute and a half yeah no pressure Julie actually Kevin's gonna help me and put the other screen all right it is seven thirty we will declare the opening of the budget hearing for the fiscal year 2025-2026 summit hill school district 161 budget this serves as an opportunity for people in attendance to make comments regarding the summit hill school district 161 fiscal year 2025-26 budget the tentative budget has been on display at the district office after affording the public the opportunity to make comments during the budget hearing I will ask for a motion to close the hearing when we are done thank you Julie thank you Amy good evening everyone board superintendent community um we would
025like to take a moment to um go over the budget for this is 102 102 in their book so they can see too oh yes this is in their board books so um this is a summary page of the budget and it has a comparison and basically sometimes the comparison shows the trend so it's easier to see um where we're going or why we budgeted a specific amount so I know we kind of have discussed this um a little bit at the july board meeting a little bit at the august board meeting and on this um report up above it's a summary of the isby report which is detailed but this gives you a a clear cut view of of a route that we're going and within this route we um have our endeavor to
026continue uh fiscal controls and to it includes items that have been approved such as the security guard such as um planning for additional food purchases we've already anticipated and seen a little bit of growth in that area where with the pizza menu so it includes things that we know um it includes things like the parking lot that um happened the hvac work it also has estimates in there and some projections based on history and um so basically if you look up at the top um just to do a quick summary it's broken down by the funds and the education fund um it's showing that we're looking to do a transfer in of four hundred thousand dollars from interest in another fund we have found that to be very uh strategically successful for the district to
027instead of just leaving the money kind of in like for instance on the working cash fund we could transfer that interest into another fund and and utilize it so that's what that shows in there so after transferring money into that account from um i'll show you that when we get down to there to the where it came from when we moved downward um that it has the net 10,600 so then if you move down to the next one you'll see that like last year there was a lot more um going on it was a very um like there was a lot of things happening last year with the closing of the schools and the um buying down on the bonds or paying off on the bonds early and all that um but that's why you
028know there's some transactions you can see right there in the operation maintenance funds that are just in the 25 budget to actual area so this has a summary of the budget to actual area that we kind of discussed wanting to talk about in the september meeting which is today so that's part of the reason why all that information is included and it also is helpful i think to kind of see you know where we're at and where we're we're going so operation and maintenance waltz has worked with the team and he's completed a lot of projects and i know he works with the committee and so he has his budget and information is included in here and so basically we're showing um very it's a very conservative um budget as far as you know there's
029not like a high excess of revenue over expenses in any particular category so you can see the operation and maintenance is trending um basically you're considering you know the five percent costs is basically the main trend that that's in there because things are good are still very expensive and there's still some tariffs added to certain things and also the collective bargaining agreement is still at a five percent rate so i would say if you had to say like what is the main increase percentage um i would be five percent there's some areas that there are more like the paraprofessionals are um have been approved at salaries well above that amount so they're higher but then there's other areas that we're looking to control some costs on and um or like we don't have certain costs
030anymore that we had previously so that kind of we're looking to have balance with that the transportation is just very expensive there's just no way way around it um and that is reflective up there you know and it's it's a difficult area because you want to you know we went out to bed we have a new transportation company it has been proven to be better so far and we're happy with that but it does it costs more but it's it's the rate it's the going rate and also included in there is our special ed transportation costs which are very expensive as well um we have to have like lincoln way tells us basically what those charges are and those are incorporated in there so there's no like getting around that where we could go and
031we got to make sure we're taking care of those children and they may need some additional assistance so that's why that cost is quite a bit higher than the previous year it takes into consideration the increase from lincoln way on the budget that the sir rex road gave us last meeting and also beside that the increase it's eight eight forty three excuse me i'm sorry thank you thank you eight forty three especially cooperative eight forty three okay i saw joy she was going to try to beat me to the microphone okay i appreciate that thank you sorry about that so that cost is in there that's why transformation is high the next fund is the im ref and social security is just basically trending upward um at the five percent but there is more cost
032in there because most of like the pairs professionals are on im ref versus teachers are on trs where there's their increases are more at the five percent rate so then the tort is pretty consistent we are dictated by what our insurance charges us so our insurance pool gives us the amount and it's really beneficial for us to be in insurance pools because we're there with other school districts and they work too and they they know how to handle school districts and you you get some like economies of scale you get some benefits because you may have a bad year but you may somebody else might be having a good year where if you were standalone you'd be suffering that by yourself so and plus you have they have your back because they know things that
033school districts need to be informed of and then they'll you know keep you informed and then they have meetings and and inform all like the business managers at at these meetings on the updates of the class so not only are we in a pool for general liability and workman's comp we're also in a health care pool which was with ebc and that's with a lot of other school districts too we have blue cross blue shield through ebc but being in this cooperative with other school districts is a basically a cost savings and a risk savings i would say because they inform you they'll say things like use safety make sure that someone's not standing on a chair that has wheels and you know just they do like little reminders like that and i know we
034we have a risk management i mean sounds like common sense but believe it or not some people will do that because correct right and then there's savings when you have those so those have these meetings and then you um maybe if you have one person that doesn't get hurt not only is that person in better shape and able to come to work the costs are less so there's benefits from that and then torqued is the other one on there that includes well that includes that it also includes unemployment taxes ours are very low because we maintain our employees very well our working cash when i spoke above when i talked about the education fund about money coming in 400 000 that is showing it coming out of the working cash fund that so the interest
035income that we get will be coming from there and i will be bringing forth to the board you know a resolution or an emotion in the future board meeting to actually do the transfer of interest to obtain your approval there too so that area there just shows you know the subtotal of the operating funds and and like i said right in there this is the summary of the budget to actual two of where we're it's the unaudited numbers for june 30th 2025 but it gives us a really good indication of where we're going and where we want to be one of the main things that we try to do is control our costs by doing three three quotes for items over definitely over ten thousand dollars and and then we go out to bid on
036particular items that are some things are over 35 000 some things are over 50 000 it just depends on on what it particularly is if it's renovation it'd be 50 000 but that has saving save us money and then just even communicating that with like our staff they'll be very good about attaching quotes and and looking at it you know a better price because and the other thing is we use is a co-op cooperatives that omnia and i think it was ronnie from karak that wanted us to look at another cooperative and we are actually on two so i wanted to let you know that so so we do have two right now that we're in sure so um debt service this one looks a little weird um and what i mean by that is
037you can see it's an excess of expenses over revenues that is projected and that's basically because the beginning balance um that we have in that fund and we're running unless this board decides otherwise at this point it appears that we're continuing just to pay down the bonds and then they would be paid off so if that continues what happens is we're on that route and that's how this is being projected in here and that's why it's showing an excess of expenses over revenue because the beginning balance in that fund is paying for the current expenses so eventually this is going to fall off and we have projected there's a balance at the end so we'll work with paul and i will are planning to look at proposed ways to move that where the district can
038use that money at that time and we already talked a little bit on that so that's that's future resources out there after that's paid off and i think i might even have that schedule with me so anyway if that's the way that you know you were directed that's how we will continue it and that is how it's projected in there that's why you see that excess expense over revenues capital projects that in that area um there's some expenditures also a look for a transfer end of 180 000 from the interest earned on the debt service fund so and that would be another area that we're working and will come to you as a board for doing a transfer of interest through a through a motion and resolution so all in all um this basically discloses
039what our plan is it it shows you know if you look in the bottom right corner and you look at change in fund balance you'll see a negative number of a million fifty eight thousand six hundred nine dollars that is budget in there but if you if you scroll back up you can see where that's attributable to it's it is the debt service which is the reason for it okay yeah so in summary um this budget is you know a road map and it's a forecast it's a it's a plan but sometimes things can happen um there you know there might be a change in plans as some as we move forward but it incorporates the plans that we currently are aware of and we can plan to keep the controls to keep the costs
040down so that we can um pay the salaries at their biggest expense and the insurance and continue to upgrade the schools and then when there are some other areas that we're working on we have the nutrition committee we have the operation and maintenance committee and the finance committee and i think that those committees also will give us a little bit more directions and specificity that you would like to take us so do we have a contingent fund like just in case contingency like in case something happens that's yes so like the working cash fund if you look up there that's almost like a little savings account um and also um but not 25,000 like what if something big happens like working cash it's not 25 oh let's go up there yeah 8.8 million yeah so
041that we would be in our reserves we used to have a contingency fund that's why i was asking so you could consider that that basically i mean that money is just growing in there we haven't taken anything like theoretically the principal out since we've been here but we have moved the interest because the interest has helped us to complete projects and get some work done and actually just be more successfully financially though with it can we take a look at the capital projects uh can you kind of help unpack what's going on here so what i'm not kind of understanding how it's why it's so larger well like the change in fund balance what took place am i missing something there for the change in fund balance for that to go we're projected what's for
042a thousand dollars and change in fund just what's what's moving these what's moving this so um what's moving there is kind of the i think there was like interest in moving more larger projects to the capital fund like the rep projects versus in the operation of maintenance maintenance funds so there are some projects that can go in either fund so it's also like a kind of a response to an interest i think patrick i think you were interested in that um so it's it's starting to create an avenue to um open up that area and then it would then decline it out of the operation of maintenance yeah i just think it's really really important spending money that we that we label it trying to bend the backs and i'm not saying this has happened
043you want to make sure properly labeling where the money is coming from and not try and bend that to look good on the books um because they either answer a question is this an an annual cost that we can expect because then it's operations if it's once every five years that's just capital uh and when we vote or we're a budget in one we want to make sure again i'm not saying that this happened but we want to make sure that we're honest with the public with that because then we can go back after the fact and realize do we need to plan differently the next couple of are there trends that are growing we can see that you know this is what we need and i think this is and this is a well
044so i just had i just have one question on the operation maintenance budget okay um we closed two schools so in my thought process is that we would be saving more money in the operation budget because that was some of the things that was explained to us in the public was as you close schools you're saving about five hundred thousand dollars in operation budgets around those schools so if i look at this correctly um our expenditure is at four four million dollars which is higher than the year before that so are we projecting after this year for us to spend less on operation maintenance since we only have four schools dealing with yes i think that that is that's a very conservative uh projection and it's um it's also you know from from an accounting
045perspective there are certain things like we we put things through what we call a 500 capital code which is an object code so that's why from accounting we can put it in operation and maintenance or capital projects but i see that capital projects makes it clearer you know but they're both allowable but because you as long as you use the 500 object code you can see it there but but with that um there's certain projects that we already began in last fiscal year and they're going into so next it doesn't it seems it seems more appropriate to keep them together you know not divide them into a different fund so like say the parking lots we started last year and you know or the um the hvac we started last year so you'd want to
046keep them in there so it's sometimes you want to be a little bit more generous at the onset because you don't exactly know what is going to happen so um i think that that you're going to see that fade down next year so it's probably and likely not used unless some type of emergency thing happens i mean we've had a few issues with you know storms and stuff like that so so can i ask don't be an ask some questions real quick um the so the parking lot cost that came out of the operations and maintenance under under the capital code okay but under the okay yeah okay and then i just wanted some clarification yeah yeah it has like if it has a 500 object code yeah that's for items like that for items
047that are over five thousand dollars yep makes perfect sense yes but i understand your point patrick too so that's why we kind of wanted to you know use that other option yeah uh the technology costs are those coming out of operations and maintenance most of them come out of education it depends which ones like we buy a lot of lenovo's i'm not lenovo sorry right i'm not to be specific but we allow a lot of technology you know for the students okay i think i misspoke because you're you're exactly right i should have been a lot clearer um school safety technology right like different investments that we voted on um to beef up school safety and things like that is that coming out of the operations and maintenance costs like moving you know information to
048a data center and upgrading our infrastructure uh that's coming out of the operations and maintenance correct i would assume i would have to see which expense and talk to brian yeah there's different there's different security things that are for students that may have you know through the education fund but there's other there's other codes that allow that to happen and to specify because there there is some trends that some people are now saying that some of these funds should really just be merged together because you know like because of the grayness between certain areas so yeah and it's you're just building the best way to communicate what we're looking towards and this is a great this is a great piece of work here uh we're just talking about details and how to improve and that
049could even better allow this tool to thank you and so then um i will be bring by the sheet after if everyone votes to sign off on the front sheet and then um and i could email you guys the whole is b budget but it will be on the website too i just got one more question um back in july we got a notification that the ipad funding would be sent from the state to us somewhere between 800 to a million dollars did that come in yeah and is that imported in here and where fund did it go into it went if you go all the way up to the top um have education it's in the education fund in the revenue line item under 2025 actual okay so it's under the 2025 school year
050right so it's yeah it came in 2025 under the transfer in line is it under the transfer in is 350 no no no it's not the transfer in it's the revenue it's the revenue it's okay it's the revenue it's in the revenue okay okay oh okay because we received it like yeah yes yes you did yeah yeah and it's a like it's a budget it's a forecast you know to you try to figure out what's going to happen but you know yeah i get it thank you thank you thank you for clarifying okay thank you any questions in the community or this is a hearing so we want to make sure everybody is heard or has you know has the ability to answer questions okay does the budget go up approximately three million a year
051i would say that percents are a better way to look at it rather than numbers because you know if you look at it i would say a three percent change is a reasonable number there are certain years where you're at a five percent and then there are certain years that it could be a one percent so um i think three percent would be the most average but taxes no never thank you if there are any more questions i appreciate it i'm just watching melissa do we have any public comments on the budget any further board comments or discussions with that i move that we close the budget hearing on the fiscal year 2025 2026 budget for district 161 so moved second roll call joy murphy aye melissa ryan aye amy burke aye adrian chavez aye
052patrick oliphant aye john winter aye ron petrie aye motion carries thank you julie thank you julie thank you a summary of the final budget is included in the board packet at the august 13 2025 meeting the board approved the tentative budget for public display and established that budget hearing and approval to take place on september 17 2025 okay i have a long motion ahead whereas the board of education of summit hill school district 161 county of will state of illinois caused to be prepared in tentative form of budget and the secretary of this board made the same conveniently available to public inspection and whereas the public hearing was held as to such budget on the 17th day of september 2025 notice of said hearing was given as required by law and all other legal requirements
053have been complied with now therefore be it resolved by the board of education of said district as follows section one colon that the fiscal year of this school district be and the same hereby is fixed and declared to be beginning july 1st 2025 and ending june 30th 2026 section two colon that the following budget containing an estimate of amounts available in each fund separately and of expenditures from each be and the same is hereby adopted as the budget of this school district for this said fiscal year can i have a motion so moved second roll call amy burke aye melissa ryan aye adrian chavez aye joy murphy aye ron petri aye patrick oliphant aye john winter aye thank you to all the administrators too superintendent dr mcdermott mrs de boer mr snipes and all our
054principals i know that all your efforts go to making our budget too to help julie stay on track and keep us all fiscally smart thank you guys thank you well said can we move back to page 16 in our books agenda item 5a consent agenda i move that we approve the items on the consent agenda for this meeting as presented including 5a1a regular session meeting minutes of august 13 2025 5a1b closed session minute meeting minutes of august 13 2025 5a2 approval of july treasurer's financial report 5a3 approval of the bills list of september 17 2025 5a4 approval of retirement or resignation of staff retirement of staff darlene shultz effective october 15 2025 resignation of staff john snipes effective october 23 2025 dates sarabia david sarabia effective august 12 2025 hallie bern effective august 18 2025
0555a5 approval of family medical leave none at this time 5a6 approval of employment of staff marshall o'neill fmla teacher at rogues lauren newbar interim administrative liaison at summit hill ida fannin custodian at hilda walker lucia vega franco night custodian at rogues kaelin kuni paraprofessional at mary drew lisa henderson custodian at rogues slash indian trail 5a7 authorization to bid for parking lot and place surface striping seal coating and sewer repairs 5a8 authorization to bid stage curtain cleaning refire proofing and replacement option 5a9 authorization to bid for fire sprinklers repairs throughout the district i am pulling 10 so we're including 5a11 approval of first reading of board policy and 5a12 approval of memorandum of understanding language change to 55 extramural and other duties can i have a motion second discussion um i don't want to pull it
056from the agenda from the consent agenda but it's um it would be the bills list and it's primi star and i just would like i don't know paul's not here um wild yeah okay just i just want to know um like there's so much work being done is um i just see that truck in our parking lots every day all day um it just looks like a lot i'm not used to seeing this much work done at one time from them so is it gonna be like this next month too or are we getting to the are they finishing up these projects is there anything major going on that we should know about he's coming up yeah maybe a quick rundown of like what's getting done just some of status yeah okay um no but
057we're trying to get ready for the winter season last year we had a lot of issues and we're double checking everything that we can make sure that we can make it through the winter there's a lot of miscellaneous things when you fix one thing 13 other things down the line break so we're trying to get to a position where yes they're not here all the time sorry we're paying them uh 13 113 000 this month correct so do we have a con yeah go ahead it's actually two months of bills for them okay because we went under negotiations through omnia to get a better rate from them okay so yes we're under contract with them right now just that number really it it was large so i just wanted to question it's one third of
058what we paid them last year okay it's two months three months worth of bills there okay thank you all uh for discussion from the consent agenda five a nine the authorization to bid for fire smuggler repairs throughout the district yeah so we can have a discussion on it so i guess we can just discuss it now that's fine too well if you want a separate vote pulling it just means a separate vote so do you want to discuss it now or do you want to have a discussion in separate vote um i wish paul was here but that's okay uh we can just discuss that um no i wish paul was here as well but yeah with wall being here what i would like to do is discuss what are a what that entails because
059when the public reads it they're going to say oh fire sprinkler repairs or what are they just moving some heads through some drop ceiling tiles like they don't understand right um reading through the board book this weekend like there is very significant work being discussed that's wonderful um but wall sorry to have you could you mind coming back up discussing what is entailed in this and then uh i would like to find out how we go about the bid process and you can still pull it after you if after the discussion so if that's something we need to do then we'll just amend the motion sure and well do we have a one-year inspection and a five-year inspection for fire correct yeah there's there's actually a few different fire inspections was this the five year
060is that why so what prompted this yes was the five-year inspection okay yeah can just explain what kind of so the five-year inspection they'll do it internal basically take a piece of pipe down take a look at it since it sits there not used 99.9 percent of the time they'll take it out they'll take if there's any issues when they did those inspections another five-year inspection which is the fire department connection point that you'll see on the outside of the buildings djr actually has one in the island right where people come dropped off and picked up those were also tested the one at djr failed that being in the middle of the parking lot there's a potential that could be somewhere between the building and the parking lot so that could be a very big
061project it could be a very simple fix by putting that fire department connection on the side of the building so there's no underground piping that could so we were looking into that and the other portion is pressure throughout the district pressure in the water towers they'll fluctuate so some buildings require a fire pump which basically kicks in if needed one particular if the fire into our building and feed water into their those do in the water the seals between the motor and the impellers so that has and our frankfort water probably doesn't help much not at all thank you for giving more detail yeah right and the fact that it's not really used that often it's a good thing but the reason why we have these tests and inspections which is good for the public
062to hear is that god forbid something terrible happen and that line failed at djr and some there was bodily harm because of that good lord can you imagine you know when people are retroactively looking back and be like how could this have happened well the reason why we do these things is to prevent those things from happening correct and i think that's it's a really really good catch i like the progress in the view of this the vision of this my second point is how do we go about getting bids for these projects because as joey mentioned like this is not a small amount of money and people just don't pay attention to that but there's a if you notice in the budget buildings and operations and maintenance was the second largest fund so how
063do we go about getting proposals for this do we use an rfp process which for those at home is a request for a proposal um do you want to explain what that is or i can no go ahead go about so for anybody wondering what an rfp is it's a formal document that an entity like ourselves would send out to contractors to request them to supply a bid but what's great about it is it's a uniform document that has an introduction which is a general scope of what you're looking to do very pertinent important information is there specific equipment that you're looking for things like that any very specific procedural processes that need to be followed it's clearly communicated fairly amongst everybody and then generally you'll have all the contractors come in at one time
064to save your time and to make things very do one walk through on the job with everybody present and then they'll supply bids that's what an rf is but do we follow that process through these levels yes absolutely anything over ten thousand dollars i try to put out an rfp or something to that nature uh depending on pricing um that's why i would like to go out to bid for the curtain as well is because of that process uh the curtain just fireproofing itself and cleaning is not needed for the rfp process because it's under fifty thousand dollars for uh renovation so that would fall into that area but i would also like to look at for purchasing a that would last longer so that would require a bid process because i know that that
065will probably be over sounds like a very sustainable plan yeah there's there are curtains that need to be fireproof like 10 years 15 years like is no so it's every five years uh code says so last time they were fireproofed and successful okay so they would actually have to come out come down taken apart okay walk fireproof and then sewn back together okay and then you said if if i know you're getting a bid for the other curtains but the other curtains would last 20 years like 15 20 years without doing any so there's two types of curtains ones that have to be fire treated which we currently have yeah link away has a lot of have uh the other ones are ifc type materials which are composite materials that don't have to be fireproof
066those last anywhere between 20 and 35 years nice with just yearly cleaning of brushing and vacuuming yeah so yes it's a higher upfront cost but if we have to do 20 000 dollars every five years to have them fireproofed and everything then why it may be smarter to purchase that up front it's much smarter much smarter and i just wanted to detail the rfp process i mean people understand what going out the bid is but it's a very professional i'm kind of loud anyways but thank you um it's a it's an official process it's a very highly professional way of going about business that really goes a long way in ensuring fairness equality uh the lowest price possible that when we're dealing with expenses this large that we're taking it as seriously as we possibly
067can yeah so i don't really need to pull it and we don't we don't even need to do it for the 10 000 you know area we're just doing it to be as fiscally smart as we can correct correct thank you thank you very much was there any further thank you so much for explaining that um is there any further discussion or questions on the consent agenda did we want to pull it or are you good okay so motion stands that we have an approval um can i have a roll call uh melissa rine aye patrick oliphant aye ron petri aye adrian chavez aye john winter aye amy burke aye joey murphy aye motion carries um dr mcdermott had to step out for a family emergency just so everyone is aware he will further notify
068his team later with details um just keep your thoughts with him moving on to 5a10 approval to be the charter organization for the special scouting unit we have a unique opportunity actually we have the parent sponsor here um it's a very special opportunity um for serving a select group of scouts uh would it be okay if i read that letter okay um so this is a letter from mrs wheatley we have a unique opportunity to partner with one of our parents in support of some of our students to become the charter organization for a special scouting unit right here in summit hill school district 161 in working with shela wheatley one of our parents and community members she's directly involved and has been a point person for these ongoing discussions as the charter organization we
069would allow the special scouting unit to utilize space at md elc when our cleaning employees are present otherwise there are no other financial obligations to the district in the support of this awesome opportunity for students with intellectual and development disabilities fact we have many troops and groups for neurotypical students already meeting within 161 here's a little from ms wheatley as background information as you may know iris is a scout with our local scouting troop scouting america troop the girls and leaders are all very patient and accepting although things are going well i do feel like she would benefit from a scouting troop that is designed for scouts with intellectual disabilities i would like to start a new troop that would be ages 11 plus with intellectual and developmental disabilities my vision is for this troop
070to serve special scouts from all over our region with idd we would meet twice a month once at our base location in the second meeting i would arrange to meet with other scout troops at their locations the neurotypical scouts and our scouts would collaborate and learn from each other feel this would be a great opportunity to promote inclusion and an opportunity for all scouts and leaders to grow with understanding empathy along with life skills that we'll be discussing at each meeting in order to start a new troop a non-profit organization we need to agree to become our charter organization this could be a place of worship school or other community group that has the same interest when our family started scouting nine years ago i believe it was indian trail school that was a charter
071organization for the cub scout pack um do you think summit hill schools like to be the charter organization for special scouting troop um special scout troop is a scouting america troop that is dedicated to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities ages 11 year and older we will meet the first and third wednesday of the month from six to seven pm the first meeting of the month scouts will learn life skills which is cooking first aid wilderness survival navigation scouts will work directly with the registered adult parent or caregiver in each rank on each rank in the scout handbook the second meeting of the month we'll have scouts from neighboring troops to tend our meeting with an agenda built by the youth these scouts will work directly with our scouts with special needs teach them skills
072and play team building game this type of collaboration will promote the building of meaningful friendships empathy and respect i could add the importance of special scouts having a separate troop to grow at their pace and the life skills they can learn from scouting america program let me know what you think thank you sheila wheelie okay um so can i have a motion that the board of education approves summit hill school district to be the charter organization for the special scouting unit so moved second we're gonna have a discussion right and then we can go from there yeah so now we'll open up discussion yeah i mean i just had a couple questions because i had no idea what this was when it was um until i saw it on the agenda and actually i think
073i saw it on facebook before i even saw it on the agenda so um i mean this reading this is helpful um again it says right here no other financial obligations so i just want to make sure that i hope that is correct because again on facebook when i was reading it it said minimal financial obligations or minimal cost to the taxpayer so i mean i guess again i just wanted to make sure that it from what this sounds like we're literally providing a space and that's it and from if i read this right once a month because that there's two meetings but the other meeting would be elsewhere two meetings a month at mary drew okay um and the only reason i'm even questioning this is like i feel sometimes even recently we've agreed
074to do things that somehow didn't really work out with some of our own organizations or you know other obligations that we had um so that was just a concern i mean i think it sounds great sounds like a great organization um but again i don't i want to make sure we're not jumping into anything that's going to conflict with something else we already have going on um and then the only other concern is where like if other organizations came in and wanted us to sponsor are we able to do that where do you draw you know what i'm saying like that's my only other thing is if there was we used to always let other organizations if the schools as long as the custodian was here a lot of times we would let organizations in
075they just have to call sign up follow rules and so it's not like we've declined any other organizations no recently do you guys know no do you oh facility okay yeah okay but if some if some i don't know if you can answer this leslie but if somebody doesn't align with obviously this is a great organization i used to scout myself um but if it doesn't align we can decline yes okay okay i remember we used to have like open gym i know soccer winters you know i mean because your kids schools were open all the time yeah there's always activities but again if we're if we allow for one and we're gonna allow for all 100 percent yes because i feel like there was something recently where we had stuff held i don't know
076if it was at rogues and then they stopped so you know what i'm saying i just want to make sure that if we're doing it for one we're willing to do it for the next one absolutely these are the questions that should be asked beforehand just for an understanding say right yeah like i said i yeah i'm with you a question that i have and i think i could get directed over here are there for extracurricular activities that we host on site do we have to have an extra type of insurance for this and we do we already have that insurance in place well i know scouting of america has their own insurance as well yeah i'm not it's just a question if you yeah if you go to 95 it does but we have
077to have our own too right we also have insurance too no yeah right you can't just be on the other so just like you go on there it gets approved at different levels and at the school level then the school knows that you know if they're already having something it won't get approved and then if it's medical obviously we get priority to our own facilities and then the other utilization would come after that right so leah this is good information for students right so like if they have ideas of also how to utilize all the assets that we have here as well we have this process in place as well so if you have any questions you can jump into or any comments or anything just want to make sure you have the welcome all
078right i really love this idea thank you for bringing it forward i think our it's just hitting a group of people that i think sometimes are overlooked i really appreciate it thank you and for but you're beating the charts it's incredible yeah absolutely incredible absolutely it's a win-win thank you so just real quickly about like um all the supplies and stuff you guys bring all those supplies and everything okay that's just double checking with that too thank you are there any further questions do we feel like we need more time this is an awesome opportunity for those students we just want to make sure that we have information because when we first kind of saw it on the agenda we're like oh we didn't know that it was coming up and we kind of was
079like okay i didn't i'm not familiar with the scouting um troops obviously i went through girl scouts myself but um i didn't know like how or why they had to have uh a sponsorship with somebody like the district or outside resource or anything like that um any other questions no can we have a roll call then uh john winter hi uh adrienne chavez aye melissa rine aye amy burke aye ron petri aye joy murphy aye patrick olphon aye motion carries thank you okay if we can move on to 5c which will be about 101 in your board book sorry one 105 um 5c1 approval appointment of interim director of curriculum i will read on behalf of mr mcdermott um with the departure of mr john snipes here in october we began the internal process of
080looking for a replacement and generated some interest for an interim director of curriculum denise avlin current coordinator of instructional support has been selected and now recommended to the board for approval for those of you who do not know denise she has been with 161 since 2008 as both a classroom teacher and in her current role along with her bachelor's degree in elementary education she also has a master's degree in curriculum instruction a master's degree in learning and technology and a master's degree in administration she's pedagogically pedagogically sound an extremely hard worker and is universally well liked throughout the district we are very pleased this evening to recommend this denise aslan as the interim director curriculum instruction for the remainder of the 2025 2026 school year and we again offer our thanks to mr snipes for
081all of his work and dedication to the district and wish him well in his future endeavors um with that i move that the board of education approve the appointment of denise aslan as the interim director of curriculum for the 2526 school year so moved second roll call uh oh wait do we have any discussion oh sorry any discussion she's also an 02 night so he's hearing tonight and what's good is that we have this for the remainder of the school year and denise can get her feet wet day by day and then we can go from there as a district to continue to move forward okay um now roll call uh john winter aye uh amy burke aye joy murphy aye adrian chavez let's go ron petri aye patrick goldfunt aye uh amy burke aye
082motion carries aye we had enough though he matters no matter what he says they all love her say c just say c she's so sweet all right moving on to 5c2 approval of extension of snow removal services for the fiscal year 2026 public bidding process for the fiscal year ending 2026 snow removal services across the district began in the first week of september of 2023 when the notice was first published in the newspaper as part of that process the district received two bids by mail for the fiscal year 24 snow removal services with the option of two one-year extensions the lowest responsible bidder was alpine snow management incorporated over the past two winter seasons dr mitchell has been very impressed with alpine snow's management communication responsiveness and attention to detail from both management and staff
083based on their performance recommend extending the contract for the fiscal year of 2026 to continue providing snow and ice removal services including the salting of parking lot sidewalks and pathways throughout the district the original bid results are attached for reference this will be the second and final extension under the original bid process the district will be required to issue a new public bid for snow removal services for the fiscal year of 2027 can i have a motion that the board of education approve the extension of the alpine snow management incorporated for the fiscal year 2026 snow removal services it'll be here before we know it any discussion this was only two bids that we received or i'm it says the district received two bids by mail in 2024 last year so we're just giving them
084a one-year extension without getting new bids walt yeah i think it's walt that has to talk about it yeah walt's got to get his steps in yeah he wears his heavy boots welcome back um yeah my question is um so it says 2024 we put it out to bid correct and then is it we're just giving them an extension did we put it out to bid again or no it was part of the original okay and you're happy with them and they're clearing the parking lots before the teachers come in how are they i remember we didn't we have issues with um like making sure them and our custodial staff and working out together wasn't there issues with salting and just salting the thing like that right or was it this group or was it
085the prior company that we had this group we had the two ice storms on arrival so yes they came out they were salting while vehicles were in the parking lot trying to okay mediate this the ice as much as possible that may be what you're thinking of but i've had nothing but great success with that okay so far we've had situations where in the morning the staff pulls up and the parking lots are still full of snow i know it hasn't happened lately we don't have much snow the last few years but just so they're on it and you feel comfortable with them because i know that's a big issue for staff dangerous yeah i think it's important you know you know but sometimes it's unavoidable sometimes the snowfall accumulates so quickly right but if
086it's snowed at five and it's seven and they're pulling off that's more what i'm talking about right right right but i mean it's they're all coming early in the morning hard you can't have it right right i know i was going to say there are this person in there so they're here fairly quickly the so i mean he gets here within minutes of making a full haul especially if there's last minute okay so um so let me get this clear we're gonna extend for this year correct and then we have to go out for bids again next year is that correct okay just a little check and you're happy with this company that's why we're gonna go ahead and give that extension yeah wasn't a question before but i'm in a positive way is alpine
087snow management owned within the district by the district obviously but it no they're district or some of their employees yes live okay within the district uh still supporting local business right and like i said they're i believe they're based out of manning but they all went to lincoln way schools they're they're younger individuals that are ready to go part of the greater community yeah i always support that okay then can we ever if there's no further discussion can we have a roll call for the snow removal joy murphy aye adrian chavez aye patrick oliphant aye ron petri aye amy burke aye john winter aye melissa ryan aye motion carries thanks walt moving on to 5c3 custodial cleaning supplies budget and purchase of new equipment consideration approval at a future meeting so this is just for
088our information if you go to 107 in your board book for consideration last year we went out to bid for custodial cleaning supplies and requested board approval of a yearly budget not to exceed eighty thousand dollars with the help of dr mcdermott's staff we were and the um custodial staff well step to be able to keep the actual expenditure below 45 000 for the current year spoken with current suppliers they are willing to hold pricing with minimal or no increases even on much needed custodial equipment therefore we will be requesting approval of an estimated 150 000 budget for custodial equipment and supplies i've confirmed with julie sterns that this amount has accommodated within my current budget the funding would allow for the purchase of new floor machines for each building as some sites do not
089have an operational machine in addition the existing machines that dr julian rogas and summit hill junior high are undersized for their facilities by approving your request next month we'd be able to purchase the machines outright and save the district over eighteen thousand dollars in financing interest over the summer and due to the leadership of maria stanchion our custodial staff accomplished mark bowler's despite beginning work a month behind schedule due to new staff onboarding providing them with the proper tools and equipment will not only increase efficiency but also staff morale and their ability to maintain high standards moving forward um i know this is all part of a transition of having our own staff custodial staff and hiring out previously as alpha um so are there any questions that wall can work on over the next
090month you don't need to come up but you can take notes if there's any notes you want to give him or questions you want to give him now to i'm just curious that that that doesn't fall under omnia or any other co-op or um buying group or anything like that these kinds of purchases we went out to bid for it and yes some of it does fall under omnia but we got better pricing than some of the omnia pricing cool um on top of that i actually had two companies come out with products and i had my custodians run through them literally test them see what they liked what they didn't like and the one manufacturer came out ahead so i like that you brought that up so something that that you'll find with me
091is whenever we do get a company to come in or even demonstrate some of our products or demonstrate some of the services they bring that people don't understand that's also a really great resource for us because we get to learn how to do things better or we get to learn like what's the state of the industry with certain things and how we can do it better so the more a company is willing to come out present to us talk to us like we're going to talk about later the that's that is good engagement that we need and i think we need to demand from all of our vendors is getting that kind of engagement them demonstrating to us them educating us that's what they're there for so we got to consider that as part of
092the package right correct and they have let us demo the machines for the summer so the custodians really like them so that's with the interest component of it that's just 18,000 for one year and then you'll be saving that basically every year because we're purchasing these machines now so that would the terms of the financing over i think we looked at the cheapest was five years truly and it was 18,000 dollars over five for five years okay yeah okay still it's still i like the last um sentence providing them with the proper tools and equipment will not only increase efficiency but also support staff morale and that's so important and i'm all for it good job again thank you very much for your clarification thanks to all to know what goes behind the scenes you
093know thank you no notes for next month we're good all right emails you're doing good we got your email buddy um all right um with everyone's okay we're going to table the superintendent report until next month you can read the details of what he left in the board book and then you can follow up with him if needed and then we can bring those things to open at the next time when he's here to address them um so moving on to yeah the custodial thing was a month ahead of time thank you for approval next yep no vote needed perfect yeah the transportation update well i just i would rather like yeah unless you want to because it may beg more questions than i would think yeah i just think it's going to lead to
094more questions um i'm sorry yes no that's okay all right number seven board member reports uh district 843 miss murphy yes we had a meeting on august 26th at pioneer grove um that we passed the budget five zero um they each gave a report each of the principals so um pioneer grove has 69 students um the self program and stellar program have 32 together they were very excited um they had 11 students from last year over the summer to now push into regular education so they were they were super excited about the progress that they're making getting the kids out of these programs into the regular ed let's see here i know um brian i have a question for you um they had said that you reached out and offered some of our copiers which
095they were excited because they need them but do we need them too can we use some of those because i know i've heard some of the teachers say we could use more copiers or they're not the same as the old ones and i don't know i just wanted to kind of as long as you didn't get rid of them yet i wanted to ask you about that like should we hang on to some are they are we in need of some of them they're all gone we wholesale them all right okay yeah well maybe at some point we could revisit that and make sure we have enough um laminating and copying i heard so just i heard it a couple different times from totally different people so i just wanted to i just didn't know
096if you had a few of these copiers left sure i'll just tell you now the little ones the little schools um elementary especially rogues okay um the colored printers by the way specifically um and there was one thing that i learned i never knew it's i s b e s fund leslie can you help me with that because they went on for a long time and i could not wrap my head around with uh coding you know every student with an iep has a different code based on what type of environment they are in so pioneer grove has now been able to be added as fun code s instead of x so now we just code it differently and then we get a little bit it just it was a long conversation for that i
097was not i couldn't wait to ask you i was like i know this has to yes there were a lot of emails and my administrative assistant was on it and did it when she needed to because she does all the coding so because our district benefits from it correct yes okay um and i don't know it's just a great meeting i'm very i'm proud to be part of it um they have a parent group um that they just started there's halloween trunk um trunker treats planning like they're really starting to get community involvement which they didn't have before so that's exciting but it's it's a wonderful organization amy you have to come next time my my alternate when's the next meeting it's tuesday but if if you can't make it it's every fourth tuesday kevin
098i want to know why leslie's microphone is louder than mine can we yeah i'm insulted all right let's start with building reports we'll go from miss ryan and then work our way down we're both hilda walker here so we're going to split it the students and staff at hilda walker have kicked off the new school year with the theme one school one team we spent the first days of school learning a new routines participating in pbis cool tools completing ice breakers and getting set for a busy year ahead our band and orchestra programs have been recruiting new students musicians throughout the last month students enjoy a concert by the shjh band and string ensemble visited with the program directors and tried out new instruments during cycle classes and turn it over to you and thank
099you mrs carol for the wonderful report too all right our cross country season is well underway and our girls basketball season will be starting soon students have been joining clubs and the musical for this year alison wonderland was just announced we are proud that more than 90 percent of students at walker participate in a club the hilda walker sco is having our second annual family fall fest on september 24th from 4 to 6 p.m at hilda walker there will be a dj food trucks inflatable games and more you can buy tickets online or at the door they are discounted online thank you very much indian trail trailblazers the students are off to a great start they're actively getting into routines building friendships and diving into that curriculum staff has welcomed our new staff members to
100the building with open arms the new staff members have jumped right in as if they had been here all along we are so appreciative of all the support from our families just a reminder the back-to-school party in the park is september oh it was today yeah um so hopefully that one well yeah i remember seeing that so we will um i'm sure see info about that too but they had their back-to-school party um thank you mrs right and indian trail stuff all right along with summit hill junior high we kicked off this year at our first pbis assembly to announce this year spartan's theme challenges create character students learned our building expectation met staff and were the perfect audience we are excited to continue on this positive streak we are thrilled to have our eighth
101grade student leah join the board of education as a student board member she will help connect not only summit hill junior high students but also students district-wide leah will work with students on our principal panel and student council throughout the year to bring insight and value to our our school community our athletic season is off to a great start one student golfer qualified for state and our runners cheerleaders volleyball players softball players and baseball players are all busy with their seasons too the music department and clubs are in full swing as well thank you for allowing these opportunities for our students for a complete list of our clubs visit our school website and click students for more information our summit hill junior high staff is tremendous our students are the highlight of our days and
102we are excited to share big news next month stay tuned for more thank you miss global dr julian rogas school grades one through four huge shout out to collin bradley and tracy bolfer for helping put this together we are well on our way to a great school year our students have been working hard spreading kindness and enjoying our new outdoor play pad during all of this beautiful weather we are looking forward to an awesome year ahead a big thank you to girl scout troop seven five six three seven for choosing djr to complete their silver award project by installing a brand new gaga ball pit for our students over the summer which is really incredible it is well loved and may be the most used gaga ball pit in the state of illinois i think
103that is accurate uh september 26th is national school parent group appreciation day a big thank you to resco and all of our parent volunteers that help make djr a welcoming community for our students families and staff we appreciate all of the help in launching another school year the school year is in full swing and we have settled into a daily routine our students have been fantastic and we are excited for the months ahead as we learn and grow together we are looking forward to fall learning and for all the fun activities and field trips that come with it and thank you principal boss i get to report on julian rogas kindergarten kindergarten students are off to a great school year we had an outstanding turnout at the beginning of the year for the meet and
104greet it is a wonderful it is wonderful having an opportunity to connect with our incoming kindergarten families we held a whole school pbis assembly at the beginning of the year we kick off the school we kicked off the school year learning our rogas song which i need to learn and meeting the rogas eagle which i haven't met those students had a great time coming together as an eagle community we celebrated patriot day on september 11th wearing red white and blue as a school community we're looking forward to our first treat day sponsored by resco on september 19th a rose community is coming together and continuing to grow this school year we have kicked off the year with a school theme of let's grow we look forward to working with our teams and families to help
105our students reach their highest potential mary drew early learning center had a great start to the school year our students and staff parents have been busy in the building seeing old friends welcoming new ones and filling the halls with smiles our preschoolers this year will be participating in a weekly science experiment our classes have now made seen how soap makes germs go away and we also made glow in the dark slime meet and greet and the curriculum night was well attended the representatives from the parent group and the community outreach group and the tinley frankfurt mokina libraries were in attendance the first summit hill preschool screening will be held friday october 10th please reach out to kim zelka at mary drew elementary school or center for further information these are free chart free screenings and
106they're designed to give a quick check for skills for our preschool age children is there any way that that could be posted um is it okay yeah because a lot of our preschool parents are that age don't really go online so i don't know how we could get that information out too but again what if they don't have kids in our school i'll talk to paul i'll bug him later any other board info to share on that note future meeting dates come join us october 15th 2025 at the marriage administration center at 7 p.m can i have a motion to adjourn so moved second all in favor aye any opposed with that we are adjourned