001We're good. I am reconvening into open session Township High School District 113 regular action meeting on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 at 7 p.m. The secretary will now call the role. Dr. Elliott Schrimer here. Mr. Heineman here. Ms. Lupa here. Mr. Nieder here. Mr. Pirra here. Mr. Braza here. Ms. Newman here. I'd like everyone else who is present to identify themselves. Ramina Jansky, executive secretary. Tom Krieger, chief human resources officer. Karen Warner, chief communications officer. Tiffany Rowe, assistant superintendent for student services. Brian Armour, chief operations officer. Molly Mahantia, assistant superintendent finance. Holly Fleischer, principal at Highland Park High School. Ron Casbone, chief information officer. Mira Ante, executive director of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Sheila Holland, superintendent. Thank you. May I have a motion to approve the agenda as amended to move item 8D, approval of Highland
002Park High School athletic director before item 4 board reports. So moved. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Having no further discussion, we'll proceed to a vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Say nay. The motion carries. It is recommended that the board of education approve a one-year employment contract for Mark Ribbons as athletic director of Highland Park High School as presented. May I have a motion to approve this recommendation? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Dr. Holland, is there any information your team would like to provide? Yeah, so I'm going to ask principal Fleischer to introduce our new athletic director. Yes, I would like to formally welcome Mark and his family here this evening and to our district. We're thrilled to introduce Mark Ribbons as
003our incoming athletic director based on Paul Harris's retirement. With a proven track record of success and a deep passion for our community, Mark is the perfect fit to lead HPHS athletics into an exciting new era. Mark brings 22 years of experience as an educator, 11 years as an athletic director, and a wavering commitment to student athlete well-being. He's known for his innovative approaches like the play two, play three program he implemented at Wakanda High School, which led to a 31% increase in athletic participation. He also spearheaded facility renovations and created initiatives to enhance the student athlete experience, such as a student athletic experience survey and an athletic leadership council. Mark is passionate about creating an inclusive environment where every athlete can thrive with equal access to resources and top-notch coaching. He's committed to data-driven decision
004making, removing barriers to participation, and fostering leadership skills. He's also a champion for multi-sport athletes and believes in recognizing and celebrating their achievements. Mark believes in education-based athletics that prioritize personal growth and sportsmanship. In Mark's words, he says, I'm thrilled to join the outstanding staff at Highland Park High School and look forward to building strong relationships with the staff, caregivers, community members, and student athletes. My goal is to lead HP Athletics into its next chapter while fostering a culture of cohesion and inclusion for all student athletes. I will work closely with Mr. Paul Harris to ensure a smooth transition and a united vision for the program's future. Welcome to Mark Ribbons. Is there any other discussion? Hearing no further discussion, a roll call vote, please. Ms. Shapiro? Yes, please. Mr. Braza? Aye. Dr. Elliott-Shrimmer? Aye.
005Mr. Heineman? Aye. Ms. Lupa? Aye. Mr. Nieder? Aye. Ms. Newman? Aye. The motion carries. Welcome to district. I love the family in giant blue, by the way. Yeah. Okay, very good. Okay. Okay, great. The family, family, one of the health families. I'm excited. Do you want to give a moment for the students to be able to come in and sit down? We'll move on to board reports. The first is the president's report. This week marks public school week organized by the Learning First Alliance, a coalition of 12 national educational groups representing over 10 million members. It is an opportunity to recognize the strength of our nation's public schools and the dedication of our educators and staff. Tonight's effort and excellence reports align perfectly with the celebration, highlighting how our district is meeting the needs of
006our students and striving for excellence. As we acknowledge the achievements of our schools, we must also recognize the challenges our community currently is navigating. On Monday, February 24th, the jury trial and people versus Robert Cremo III began. This marks a significant and necessary step in the pursuit of justice, just as it also resurfaces feelings of fear, anger, and grief. Emotions felt deeply by many, including members of this board. Our district's administration remains committed to ensuring the students and staff have access to necessary resources during this time. If you are in need of support, please take advantage of these resources. Mayor Roedering captured the weight of this moment in her statement last week. Our hearts remain with the victims, their families, and all those whose lives were forever changed by that devastating day. I also want
007to make people aware that with that message from the mayor, the city of Highland Park shared information about the trial as well resources for support. That information is housed on their website. While we reflect on our shared values and resilience, I want to bring attention to updates regarding public comment procedures effective this evening. Participation in public comment at school board meetings is governed by board policy 2230 and 830, with 830 specifically addressing visitor conduct on school property. As this room is a part of our school property, I want to be clear. Violations of these expectations will result in the immediate termination of speaking time. Pursuant to these policies, statements that incite violence, are threatening, harassing, or intimidating, or contain profanity, obscenities, or other abusive language are not considered protective speech and will not be tolerated.
008To promote clarity, guidelines for public comments are now printed on the back of each numbered card issued to speakers and posted at the podium. These guidelines will continue to be stated orally before each public comment session to ensure expectations remain clear. At its core, our work as a board is about listening, hearing the thoughts and concerns of the community we serve. We value public participation and take community input seriously. At the same time, we expect that our staff, our students, fellow community members, and this board will be treated with respect at all times. And that concludes my president's report. Moving on to administration reports, Dr. Holland. Good evening. It's musical season and I have recently had the pleasure of attending Legally Blonde at Highland Park High School and 9 to 5 at Deerfield High School.
009Both productions were a ton of fun and greatly enjoyed by everyone in the audience. I appreciate the strong messages of advocacy and empowerment emphasized in both plays. I would like to thank all of our students and staff for the time and hard work that went into both amazing productions. Thank you to Molly Tomlinson at Deerfield High School for making her vision for the Empower Her event a reality. On Monday, February 17th, over 700 participants gathered on a day off of school to engage in an inspiring and motivating experience, highlighting women in sports and female athletes. Athletes and coaches from the CFL conference and beyond participated in a day filled with speakers, panelists, and a wide variety of sessions. There were vendors and there was also the keynote speaker, Sarah Spain. Thank you to all of
010the volunteers and Deerfield High School staff members who ensured that the operations of the day went smoothly. It was amazing. On Sunday, I had the honor of participating in the Pizza Bowl and Baker Showcase as a member of the District 113 Education Foundation. This experience was months in the making and it was an evening of fellowship, fun, music, and too much pizza and desserts. By the end of the night, individuals were either stuffed or kids were running around after consuming too much. Thank you to the District 113 Education Foundation for supporting our district and for entrusting our staff with support to embed innovative experiences across our schools. The event was a fundraiser. On Monday, I attended the Black History Month breakfast at Highland Park High School. We heard from students who shared their stories and
011experiences and was also inspired by the poetry and insights from Ms. Janae Herreth. Thank you to the staff and students who made this event a special time to celebrate the month. And this morning, I was joined by Anne Newman, Rick Heintman, and Jenny Lupa for a presentation and overview of the State of Education hosted by the Highland Park Chamber of Commerce and held at the Arts Center where the work of our students recently on display. Members of the chamber learned more about our district, District 112 through North and the Highland Park Library. This week, we will engage in second round interviews for the Deerfield High School principal position. Our finalists will engage in interview panels with students, parents, and caregivers, building administrators, staff members from various departments, and also in an interview with me. We
012are still on schedule to bring a recommendation to the board for this very important hire at our March 18th board meeting. This week, we are also conducting our first round of interviews for the chief operations officer. And today, we actually did the interviews and brought in six candidates for interviews. So, I also have comments to make. Sorry about the length of them, but I have comments to make about our security discussions. I have taken a lot of time to review all of the board's discussions and public comments regarding safety measures in the context in which they were made. On Tuesday, February 11th, there was a joint statement issued to the school community regarding an incident at Highland Park High School. Unfortunately, there was an attempt to manipulate the message and an attempt to use the
013moment for a different reason and agenda. As a result, misleading and false information was presented at our board meeting, causing some confusion and harm. So, I want to acknowledge that. While I understand that there may be strong positions and sentiments around our safety and security measures that we have in place, intentional decisions to spread misinformation by making connections between unrelated events are very misleading and interfere with the board's ability to transparently and comprehensively conduct its business. The board has been very clear and transparent about the measures in place to keep the community safe, both in regard to this incident in relation to our safety and security generally. The tactic of using social media or calling the mainstream media to spread misinformation not only supported by facts presented is unsafe behavior that derails our ability to
014carry out our duties as public officials and frustrates others' ability to fully understand, consider, and participate as required by the public participation provisions within the Illinois Open Meetings Act and our board policy. While I recognize that the reported behavior of video recording in a restroom is of great concern, it was inaccurate and inappropriate to link the misconduct with our weapons detection matters. Public comment on February 11th included statements made that the district allowed video recording in public bathrooms, that a student brought a tool into the building, that metal detectors would have prevented this, and that there was no prior mitigation to address student behavior before the incident. These statements were false. The truth is that this is a rare and unforeseeable occurrence. Most adults and students carry phones with them every day, phones that have
015recorders on them. We have cameras in our hallways, but it is against the law to have recordings in restrooms without consent. Illinois law explicitly prohibits video recording in restrooms, locker rooms, and similar places where there is an expectation for privacy. The district has continuously adhered to this standard and takes its duty to protect the privacy and dignity of students, staff, and visitors very seriously. There was also no evidence to support that a tool was brought into the building, and so I just want to mention that a pencil or a device was likely used, and this is not something that would have been detected by a weapons detection system. There was no concerns prior to this incident as well, and other safety measures continue to assist with our investigation. We continue to hear that 77% of
016the public voted for the use of weapons detections. This is an important issue, but unrelated to the incident we shared during that time at the meeting. Weapons detections are being used, and there is a plan for expansion coming soon. I also know that it is important to consider the context in which all surveys are given. What is the timing associated with other matters in the district? I also agree that this is something that we can revisit if there needs to be an updated survey given to the community regarding beliefs around weapons detection. We have security staff assigned and present for our school events. Additionally, we are considering measures for all events, but do not need fear and violence inducing statements at our board meetings shared across our school community. That is not helpful. There was
017a statement made that our canines are only at one entrance to the school, and students text their location. Again, this is not necessarily true. Our canines move all over the buildings every time, every day I'm in schools, and they're all over the buildings and our campuses in patterns that are not predictable, and also that are not communicated. While they detect weapons and other items, they are not just stationed all day at one location. Finally, there were several references made concerning our plans for randomized weapons detection, and there were statements made that random deployment is ineffective. Again, while the board respects the opinion of community members who favor a different approach, research, which is the basis for best practices in safety and security, does not support the assertion that this type of deployment is ineffective. In
018fact, we intentionally align our efforts with best practices within the field. We would be happy to post articles and research associated with our approaches moving forward. I want to thank community members for reaching out with your own questions regarding incidents that occur in our district. Rather than subscribing or just adhering to messaging and information that is incorrect, we will continue to review our security measures and build on the efforts that have been made and that are underway and also that remain possible in the future. When it comes to student behavioral concerns and violations, we will continue to manage each situation, launching appropriate investigations while partnering with our local law enforcement on our investigations. Again, we will continue to prioritize measures associated with student connection, belonging, and fostering positive school relationships. One aspect of the research
019that is actually not contested or questionable is the association between belonging and safety. Belonging and meaningful participation and engagement is a protective factor for students and their school community. I also want to just briefly reiterate and take this time to remind community members of our board policies 2230 and 830, which govern public participation at board meetings and required for visitors conduct on school property. The board values community participation and gives serious consideration to community members' questions and comments. I know because after public comments, there's dialogue, there's follow-up and dialogue between me and the board. Pursuant to these board policies, statements that incite violence are threatening, harassing, or intimidating, include profanity, obscenities, or other types of abusive references are not protected and will not be tolerated. Guidelines for public comment are also posted, as Ann mentioned,
020on the back of the numbered cards. I want to encourage all speakers to recognize the authority of the board president and be respectful in response to reasonable directives, which may be necessary just to facilitate orderly public participation. Our board president will continue to review these expectations prior to our public comments. Thank you. Thank you. And are there any FOIAs? So there are no FOIAs that have been processed since our last board meeting. Moving on then to excellence and effort. Thank you. So I have some quick giant shout outs first. One is, as Dr. Holland mentioned, Legally Lon dazzled audiences last weekend with the immense staff and student talent displayed on the stage. Also, our debate team clinched the 2025 Illinois State Championship. Also, our annual charity drive concluded its month-long community effort to raise awareness
021and funds for Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation, which was led by staff sponsors Kate Silber and Lisa Berghoff and student presidents Samantha Rosenberg and Avery Raff. School board and district staff are invited to the club's closing ceremony on March 7th. The winter season, I have to do some shout outs to sports, to athletics, in honor of our new incoming athletic director and Paul Harris's hard work. The winter sports season is winding down and there's been a lot of excitement. The boys varsity basketball team ended the regular season 20 to 10 and finished in second place in the CSL North. This is the first time the program has won 20 games since the 2014-2015 season. The girls basketball season came to an end for our Giants on Friday when our girls were defeated by Maine South in
022the regional final. They did win the CSL North title for the second consecutive year in a row. That's consecutive. Our girls gymnastics program also had a memorable season. The team ended with their highest team score for the program in the last 15 years. We have two state qualifiers this winter. Senior Dana Holt became the second female wrestler in Highland Park High School history to qualify for the IHSA state wrestling finals. Also, sophomore swimmer Andrew Blower punched his ticket to the IHSA state finals with an incredible performance at Libertyville sectional this past weekend. Both competitions and shows, beyond competitions and shows, two weeks ago we were proud to host Moraine Township's resource fair, which was organized by the Highland Park Latino Advisory Board, which includes our very own Pablo Alvarez. The fair showcased the incredible support
023within our community with 50 community organizations reinforcing the message of safety, support, education, and community that Highland Park High School and our district champions. This February Highland Park High School, as Dr. Holland mentioned, celebrated Black History Month. Our students, staff, and community engaged in a variety of enriching experiences, including a vibrant Black History Month balloon wall. From the Black Student Union's collaboration with Quest Foods on a special menu and their powerful What Black History Month Means to Me display, to captivating HPTV student videos and a school-wide scavenger hunt hosted by our club 24-7, 365 days. We explored and celebrated the rich tapestry of Black history and its profound impact on our world and our smaller community of Highland Park High School. The celebration culminated, as Dr. Holland and Ms. Ante both attended, with the Black
024Ensemble Singers for a moving performance and our Black History Month Breakfast provided a space for reflection and connection for students, staff, and caregivers. I want to also say a thank you to Mrs. Janae Harris for her keynote at the breakfast yesterday, which offered words of affirmation and empowerment to our students based on the wealth of leadership experiences she has had in the community. Yesterday, our Highland Park High School English Department gathered for a full-day retreat at Rosewood Beach. They focused on professional learning and collaboration, centering around the department's goal, which is to their efforts to disrupt predictability of achievement in the classroom. The team engaged in a book in a book study of Unearthing Joy by Goldie Muhammad, where our HPHS social-emotional learning instructional specialist, Genevieve Misfelt, led professional development. Teachers analyzed student work and
025participated in discussion on topics including effective use of AI in English classrooms. With the support of our instructional coaches, Melissa Schlachta and Julia Kapelnikova, the educators explored how to use classroom data to plan student-centered instruction. The day was filled with meaningful learning and it also included planning for Read Across HPHS, which will take place next Tuesday, March 4th. During each English class next Tuesday, teachers are going to read their favorite children's book or a passage or chapter from their favorite novel to all of their classes. Additionally, the English department will host a lunch filled with book-themed snacks, savory bites, salads, and sweets, where they'll welcome all staff to the English department as part of our Together Tuesday series. Lastly, we are very thrilled and proud to announce that Highland Park has been honored with the
026AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award by the College Board. This prestigious award recognizes our commitment to expanding access to AP Computer Science courses for female students and fostering gender equity in this vital field. We are among only 1,153 schools nationwide to receive this recognition. This achievement reflects our belief that diversity drives innovation, equity is essential, and the future is tech. The success is a testament to the collective effort of our entire school community and I want to specifically celebrate our dedicated teachers like Deb Wilson, Tisa Edwards, Adam Washburn, and Robin Kapinski, who inspire and challenge our students in the classroom every day. Currently in our AP Computer Science Principals class, students are applying the coding skills they acquired earlier in the course to create a unique app. They will engage in the design and coding
027process, allowing them to showcase both their creativity and technical abilities. Upon completion, each app will be uploaded to their AP portfolio, contributing to their overall AP score. This project not only reinforces their coding knowledge, but also empowers them to express their individuality through technology. I also want to give a giant shout out to our committed administrator, Liz Waller, who champions equitable access to computer science education and is working to create a school culture that values diversity and inclusion. Thank you. Very proud of our Highland Park High School community. It's fantastic. Thank you. And I believe Dr. Anderson is at a conference, so she's unable to attend. So we will look forward to both schools next time. We'll now move on to public comment. We welcome your comments and questions. Give them serious consideration to pursuant
028to Board of Education Policy 2-230. Per Policy 8-30, the use of threats, harassment, intimidation, and language that is profane, vulgar, obscene, or defamatory is not permitted. Disruptive behavior will not be tolerated, and failure to adhere to these policies may result in loss of speaking privileges. All speakers should recognize the authority of the Board President and be respectful in response to reasonable directives, which may be necessary to facilitate orderly public participation. We'll go in the order of the numbered card you received when registering to speak. When I call your number, please come to the podium, identify yourself with first and last name and city in which you reside, and if applicable, state the agenda item to which your comment is directed. Please keep all comments within three minutes. The Vice President, Board Member Barraza will raise
029a hand at a 30-second warning and announce time when the limit is reached. You must conclude your remarks immediately. Any questions may be sent via email to the Superintendent to be answered subsequent to the meeting. Handouts for the Board to review should be placed in the designated spot at the front desk upon signing up for public comment. Commenters should not step beyond the lectern. As a reminder, public participation is not intended to be a back-and-forth discussion between the public and the Board. This public comment period will be for a total of 30 minutes, and I believe that there is someone that at least has card number one. Good evening. My name is Michael Shapiro. I'm from Bannockburn. I, as a member of the community and an occasional substitute teacher in our fine high schools, including
030this afternoon, I was in Deerfield High School enjoying the math classes. I want to express my appreciation and my admiration for the work of Mira and Deanna team toward the continued support for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Despite the furor that has been created by the self-proclaimed Fiora in his ongoing attack against DEI, D-113 remains strong in its support of your diverse community, and I thank you for your continued efforts. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comment. We will now move on to discussion items. Our first item for up for discussion is the 2026-2027 school calendar. Dr. Hollander, is there anything you and your team would like to share before we have any further discussion? Yes, I would like to ask our chief human research officer, Tom Krieger, to provide an overview of our proposed
031and recommended school calendar. Thank you, Dr. Hollander. Yes, you have on the screens in front of you a draft of the 2026-2027 school calendar. I want to say a few words about the contents of the draft calendar itself and then conclude with a few comments about the process steps that we took to get here to this point tonight. The calendar in front of you, by the way, this is common practice every year at about this time the board considers and then at a subsequent meeting approves a calendar for two years out. So the calendar that you see in front of you complies with the Illinois school code, our DEA agreement, and all applicable board policies regarding the number the count of days within the calendar. The calendar will contain 183 staff attendance days. Of those
032days, 177 will be student attendance days or our institute days, which are basically district-directed professional development days, and then two in-service days. The first day of teacher attendance will be Monday, August 10, 2026. The first day of student attendance will be Wednesday, August 12, 2026, and then the school year will conclude Friday, May 28, 2027. Most of the calendar mirrors what has been happening for the past several years, so it's not really new information. I won't go into every detail in that regard. I did want to highlight two kind of things that are new in 26-27 to be mindful of. Tuesday, the 3rd of November, 2026, which is designated on the calendar as an election day, as we sit here tonight, is not yet officially a holiday. 2020 was the first year that the national
033election was designated as a holiday, and that was known in advance, but the midterm election year in 2022 and then the presidential election year in 2024 were not declared by our state to be school holidays until very late. In fact, after our calendars had been approved in each of those years, and in each of those years, they caused us to do changing a calendar, a school calendar, after the fact is a really big deal. We base pay on school calendars, and it has a big downstream effect when it happens, so we figured it would be easier to change the other way should, for some reason, November 3 not become a holiday, but to plan for it to be a holiday in that case. And then the last day of the school year, Friday the 28th
034of May, is listed on the calendar as a school improvement day. This is new. We have not previously included school improvement days in our calendar. Previously, that last day of the year has been designated as a student attendance day, so a school improvement day, as long as you take the appropriate steps with the ROE, the Regional Office of Education, can be counted as a student attendance day, although students do not actually attend, and it allows activities geared towards the school's improvement plan that day. We've already gotten preliminary acknowledgement and approval from the ROE on that date, although the ROE will not ultimately consider our 26-27 calendar until the board has heard it as this discussion item, so our next step in the process will be to now report this calendar to the ROE. After we've
035heard back from the ROE, we will bring it to the board for action at a future meeting. I'm not sure that the March 4th board meeting will be workable, because we have to post for that meeting on Friday, and I don't know how quickly the ROE will respond once we submit it. So a couple words about process steps. There was a separate memo, Ron, if you're running. The bottom half, please, Ron. It's the table, yes. So we put together a table just to kind of show the process steps that have taken place so far with respect to the calendar, and then the process steps that will take place after tonight. We always coordinate with the Lake County ROE on this calendar, and we always coordinate with our teachers calendar committee on this calendar. Those aren't
036new, and we always bring it to the board. So none of those are new. The new events this year are our collaboration with districts 109 and 112 around this calendar. In fact, we had a meeting with them in the fall that kind of kicked off the process of looking at this calendar, which consisted basically of our three districts getting together and sharing, oh, I don't know, if you will, our hopes and dreams around what maybe a unified school calendar could look like, realizing relatively quickly, though, for reasons unique to all of our districts. One of the main reasons being that we're a high school district, and they're a K-8 district. Um, that all of the days couldn't quite match up. However, our winter break and our spring breaks will be matching up, and I think
037everybody appreciated at least understanding why everything can't match up exactly every year, and that there were good reasons for that, and we agreed to continue that collaboration in future years. Are there any questions or any discussions? The one question I did have is, with 106, what role do they play in the calendar process? They will not, we're not involved in our meetings this year, although we will certainly reach out to them in the future. Yes. Yes. Well, it's pretty normal. Unfortunately, any shortened week, there are issues, and I think as we firm up our attendance expectations, that should start to shift, but three-day weeks are always challenging. Families make a variety of decisions regarding that, and today, I mean, it's, there's no winning there, so we just encourage students to attend classes. Great. Okay, any
038other questions? Then we look forward to this coming back at a future board meeting. Now we'll be proceeding on to action items. It is recommended that the Board of Education approve the destruction of closed session audio recordings from September 11th, 2017 through August 22nd, 2023 as presented. It is further recommended that the Board approve those closed session minutes that are to remain closed or open from June 11th, 2024 through January 23rd, 2025 as presented. May I have a motion to approve this recommendation? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Hearing no further discussion, a roll call vote, please. Mr. Heidemann? Aye. Ms. Lupa? Aye. Mr. Nieder? Aye. Ms. Shapiro? Yes, please. Ms. Fugraza? Aye. Dr. Elliott-Shermer? Aye. Ms. Newman? Aye. The motion carries. It is recommended that the Board of Education
039approve the suspension of student B assigned by the administration. May I have a motion to approve this recommendation? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Hearing no further discussion, a roll call vote, please. Ms. Lupa? Aye. Mr. Nieder? Aye. Ms. Shapiro? Yes, please. Ms. Fugraza? Aye. Dr. Elliott-Shermer? Aye. Mr. Heidemann? Aye. Ms. Newman? Aye. The motion carries. It is recommended that the Board of Education approve a Memorandum of Understanding regarding DEA class size grievance as presented. May I have a motion to approve this recommendation? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Hearing no further discussion, a roll call vote, please. Mr. Nieder? Aye. Ms. Shapiro? Yes. Mr. Fugraza? Aye. Dr. Elliott-Shermer? Aye. Mr. Heidemann? Aye. Ms. Lupa? Aye. Ms. Newman? Aye. The motion carries. The next item
040is the consent agenda. Items including the consent agenda were provided to all Board members in advance and made publicly available as part of the meeting agenda. A Board member may pull an item for separate consideration. Does any Board member wish to pull an item off the consent agenda for separate consideration? May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? So moved. Is there a second? Second. I know, Greg, you have the bills. I did have the bills this time. So working with Adelie and Josh, I looked at a few things. The first related to a cause near and dear to my heart, that school chest at Deerfield. This one was for a payment to BoosterShot LLC, $4,462.50. This was to produce the checkbooks. I don't know if anybody's seen these things that
041have all the businesses and the coupons and stuff. And that actually will ultimately be paid for out of the school chest proceeds, but we'll just facilitate the payment there. The second one was to Lake County High School's the Tech Campus. This was for HPHS students, $8,424.00. The state's back to October, so tuition there. The third one was for a reimbursement to a staff member for purchases of supplies. I actually learned something on this one because the district obviously is a tax-exempt entity that when staff members go to make these kinds of purchases, as long as they provide evidence of that, they also are not charge sale taxes. But if they don't, they are then personally responsible for paying those taxes. So that was an interesting one. Based on our previous discussion, then our internal controls
042and that sort of thing, everything. Great. Fantastic. Any other discussion on any of the consent items? Yes, I have a comment on the investment list we have. Each month, more and more of the low interest rate CDs and bills go off and get higher interest stuff. So that's proceeding, and we're getting very close to a roll over almost everything. So that's really good news for our financial position. Thank you for highlighting that. Anything else? Hearing no further discussion, a roll call vote, please. Mr. Brazza? Aye. Dr. Elliott-Shermer? Aye. Mr. Heineman? Aye. Dr. Silva? Aye. Mr. Peter? Aye. Mr. Farah? Yes, please. Ms. Stehman? Aye. The motion carries. There being no further business, may I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? So moved. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye.
043Aye. All those opposed, say nay. The motion carries. This concludes the business of Township High School District 113, Board of Education for this evening, February 25th at 742. Thank you for your time and participation.