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002Walkegan School District 60 school board met in close session at 6 p.m. to discuss matters covered by exceptions to the Illinois student uh the Illinois Openings Act. Item C9, student discipline, C10, individual student matters. C1, personnel matters. C11, legal matters, and C21, close session minutes. Uh, at this time, I would like to ask for a motion to move to open session. So moved. Motion by Miss Aan. Second. Second by Mr. Riddle. Can we have a roll call vote, please? Yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Mr. McBride, Miss Ramirez, yes. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez. Yes. Motion carries. We are now in open session. I'd like to add Oh, Miss Calhan Waznjak, how are you? Haven't seen you in a while. Like to ask if you would uh uh give us the honor of leading
003us in the pledge of allegiance. Would all please rise to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. May be seated. Next item, president's report. Just have a brief report. First of all, I just want to say I was really very uh proud of all of our graduates. What was the exact number of high school graduates we had? I've heard several different numbers. What was that exact number? It was just under a thousand. 987. 987. Right. That's pretty close to a thousand. Yeah, that that was a beautiful event and just my uh uh I want to commend everybody who had a hand in putting that together and uh commend the bravery of
004everybody who stayed and uh saw it through to the end even though we had some violent weather there. Um it was it was a beautiful event and uh really uh made me proud proud of all of our students. I also um uh attended all five of the middle school promotion ceremonies along with Miss Lensing and uh that was another uh set of events that were very heartwarming and uh really uh makes you feel proud to be part of the Walking School District. Um we are having the board self- evaluation session which is going to be um conducted by the Illinois Associ association of school boards. Uh that's going to be on June 23rd. Is that correct? that the correct date? June 23rd. Okay. Um I am going to be focusing on a few things my
005my first few weeks uh first few months as um as new board member. Uh number one is going to be the minutes. Uh I know we've had a problem with uh having the minutes done on a timely fashion and getting them approved and and uh getting them moved forward. That's going to be one of my focuses. Another thing is going to be the uh superintendent's goal setting. I know that we have uh the board has been uh a little late on that in the past and I want to get moving on that. That's something that should have been uh started all over. I don't know where the process stands, but I'm going to be looking into that. See if we can't move that forward and get back on a timely schedule. And also the um
006evaluations of our superintendent and of our legal counsel. I understand that we're lacking in our uh evaluations of legal counsel. They haven't been evaluations have not been done in a number of years. So, that is going to change. Just want to let you know we are going to be working on that and try to get caught up and get everything back on back on target. Um, okay, that's the end of my report. Uh, student board member report. Okay, now it's on. Um, I don't have a presentation, but I do want to say congrats to all the graduating seniors who graduated. And I also want to give a big shout out to all the students for making it through a wonderful school year. Thank you. Okay. Item seven, special recognition presentations. A Walkan Strong Scholarship. Yes.
007Need to separate. Michael Teresa, would you guys come down, please? You would like me to come down? I'll be happy. Yes. So, um, we're a big group. Sorry. We're the Wagon Schools Foundation and we are so excited to recognize our scholarship winners for the 2025 cycle. Um if you could please go to the next slide. Um so some of our members are here today. Um again we're a big group. Uh Mr. Grimes serves as our president. Nick is our executive director. Karolina um is our sitting board member. And then um apparently I'm a secretary because I've been taking some minutes um and helping with logistics. Um Char is our uh member who used to also be on the school board and um did I miss anybody here? Oh, Martha Padilla as well. She is one
008of our board members. Um so yes, this is our team. Um there's some people who are not here who are also instrumental. Um we got together uh a couple weeks ago um to do Oh, next slide, please. Um okay. um we got together a couple weeks ago to do a fundraiser and some of the um funds that we've been raising for are actually for scholarship um recipients. So on this slide you see um some of the previous winners. Honestly, if we had all the funds in the world, I would have given them to most of the applicants um who we've seen. This cycle was definitely the hardest I think for any of us to judge. Um, and if you go to the next slide, our first scholarship winner is Jayla Tenan. She can come up
009here. She's going to UIC and she wants to study medicine. So, Jayla is super involved. Um, literally doing a little bit of everything. um from what we can remember in her application, um you know, you you played center on the basketball um on the basketball team. You were in prevet uh club and serving on um some of our student uh um student committees. So, um you know, if you want to come back and be a surgeon, we definitely need you. Um we believe in your next step. The next awardee is Yamled Monteano. Um she is going to National [Applause] Louie. Um for those of you who may not know Yummy, she's super involved as well. Um had been a leader in several clubs including Generation One. Um, and uh, I honestly was really moved by
010the interview that we had because she said that she wants to help um, a little bit of everyone in Walkan, especially those um, facing housing insecurity and we need more people like Yummy in the community development space, which I'm also a part [Applause] of. And so we thank you. Oh, yeah. So, we hosted our first fundraiser um a couple weeks ago for teacher appreciation, but mostly it was to appreciate our teachers. So, we also gave back to our teachers. Um we haven't done that in a long time. So, I'm just highlighting a thank you to everyone who participated. Some of those pictures are pictures of our winners from our um raffles, our or sorry, our drawings and our door prizes. We raised about $1,000 and so we are going to have another fundraiser soon. So,
011be on the lookout for that. And that money goes again towards these scholarships and the teachers grants. Next slide. And that's just a reminder for the teachers grants. Those um teachers, I know the school year is over, which gives you plenty of time to fill out a Google form. It's a very easy grant to fill out. It's $1,000 up to $1,000 per teacher, up to 10 teachers. Um you are able to apply up through September 5th and then that project is not due until the end of next school year. If you have any questions, you can reach out to me. All the emails um if you are a current teacher with the district, you should have received an email with a link in order to apply and then slide. And then if you want to
012connect with us so that you can um see our events and what we participate in, that's our Facebook page and then our email address as well. Um of course, we're always looking for donations. I did want to call out our member who is not here today, Lisa Megs. She's been instrumental in um giving us a donation, making sure that her um that her bank gives us a donation for the scholarships. Um yeah, Winrust. Um so, Walkgan Community Bank is what it's known as here. So, she ensures that they um provide us with that. And then I also wanted to shout out um Jose because Jose along with Adriana were the ones who came up with the Walkagan Strong scholarship and I like to give credit where credit is due and they were super instrumental in
013putting it all together. So, thank you both. [Music] So, if we could take a picture before you guys go so you have something to show your parents, that'd be awesome. With all of the board members and team You need to get up on a chair. I need to get on a chair. Can you get between there? All right. Cool. Nice. Oh, wait. Wait. One more. One more. One more. All right. Congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] [Music] Okay, next item under seven special recognition and presentations is B spotlight on 60 MVA civics showcase. [Music] Point of the project is that these projects are never going to be finished. Every one of these projects should be picked up by another generation and say, you know what, that was a good solution or that that that had good intentions, but
014this is how I could make it better. A big thing I want people to take away from my project is just how much this really affects the youth. If I want to be able to raise my kids in a community where I feel like they are safe, something like this is just not okay to happen. [Music] the research that has gone into this specific project. Um, getting to know what are some of the issues within the community, some of the issues that they're passionate about. So, it becomes their passion project and it's very important for our students. It feels good because I get to know that I have a voice in Wagan and that the way that I feel and the people who contributed to the project, I it feels good to know that we
015get to share it with everybody in Wagan. [Music] I worked hard these last few weeks, you know, getting information about these water fountains and anything that can contribute to getting some new fountains for school. So, it feels honestly a very amazing just to get this out to the public and get the idea of new fountains out for everybody to see and to think about. An additional next step I would say more from the student support services uh aspect is also getting an idea of what they want to do after high school and for their careers. [Music] I think we've seen the uh changes in um Waggan already. Um I know that we just turned over a school board, but the school board before that showed many different younger people getting involved. Um I think that
016when our students go out into the world, they know that they don't have to wait for it. they can go ahead and um make it a part of their own community. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Thank you. Okay. Item 8A, close session minutes approval. It is recommended that the board of education approve the close session minutes dated September 27th, 2023, April 9th, 2024, April 23rd, 2024, May 14th, 2024, June 20th, 2024, July 23rd, 2024, November 7th, 2024, and November 18th, 2024. Previously reviewed in close session. So moved. Motion by Miss Lensing. Second. Second. Miss Favian. Any uh questions, discussions on that motion? Okay. Does this bring us up to date with the close session minutes or do we still have a way to go? Uh there are still some close session minutes that are historical that um
017we've had some challenges with the recordings. So, we are working on getting those. Okay. Well, it's good to see all these old ones um getting cleared up. And just for the record, I will be passing on all these since I was not on the board or present at any of those meetings. So, um we have a motion and second. Can we have a roll call, please? Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Mr. McBride, Mr. Ramirez, pass. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez pass. Motion carries. Minutes are approved. Um 8 C approval of minutes of for the open session meeting of April 8th, 2025. Motion. Motion to approve. Second. Motion approved by Mr. Riddle. Second by Miss Lensing. Mhm. Okay. Any comments, corrections, changes, or discussions on that motion? Can I have a roll
018call vote, please? Miss Fabian? Yes. Miss Lensing? Yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Ramirez, pass. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez, yes. Motion carries. Wait a minute. Uh, no, I take that back. I I passed on that one also. I was not here for that meeting, April 8th. Okay. Item 8 D, approval minutes for the special open session meeting, April 15, 2025. Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Miss Riddle, second by Miss Lensing. Any discussion on that motion? Roll call vote, please. Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Miss Ramirez, pass. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez, uh, pass. Motion carries. Minutes are approved. Item 8E, approval of minutes to the open session meeting of April 22nd, 2025. Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Riddle. Second. Second by Miss Lensing. Favan. Miss Favian this time.
019Okay. Say my name before. Um, any discussion on this motion? Roll call vote, please. Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Mr. Ramirez, pass. Mr. Roto, yes. President Rodriguez, uh, pass. Motion carries. Minutes are approved. Uh, 8F, approval of the minutes for the special open session meeting of April 29th, 2025. Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Riddle. Second by Miss Fabian. Any discussion on this motion? Roll call vote, please. Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Mr. Ramirez, yes. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez, pass. Motion carries. Minutes are approved. Uh 8G, approval of the minutes for the special organizational meeting of April 29th, 2025. Motion to. Motion to approve by Mr. Riddle. Second. Second by Miss Hannah. Any discussion on this motion? Roll call vote, please. Miss Fabian. Yes. Miss Hannah.
020Yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Miss Ramirez, yes. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez, yes. Motion carries. Minutes are approved. And item 8H, approval of the minutes for the regular open session micro meeting of May 13, 2025. Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Mr. Riddle. Second. Second by Miss Fabian. Any discussion on this motion? Roll call vote, please. Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Mr. Ramirez, yes. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez, yes. Motion carries. minutes are approved. Okay. Uh opportunity for public comment. This is an opportunity for the public to address the board of education on any matter whether is it it is on the agenda tonight or not. Uh we have two uh individuals signed up. Mr. Mark Shinkin, please come to podium. You'll have three minutes. Mr. Shinkin, good to see you
021again. Been a long time since I've seen you. Uh good evening everyone. Uh tonight I'm going to ask the board to look into pos a position or positions for next year for the educational assistant paraprofessionals. I believe this district needs in a bad way what they have for the teachers, the instructional coaches. So far for to my knowledge for the tw last 20 years there has never been some kind of role for the educational assistant. paras paras that for instance work in security they get hired there's a training process they just don't walk into the school with educational assistance they get hired here work with the kids how does that happen if we had a couple of individuals here in the district they could go around to the schools and be mentors give feedback. Now
022I will say and people will say well that's the building administration that's their responsibility. Okay or the teacher that they work with well you don't want a teacher and a parah being adversarial. You you want somebody else walking in that can give good constructive criticism feedback. I mean listen um the administration in buildings what would they see of their paras maybe you know sit down formally maybe once maybe twice a year that's not enough to know if somebody's doing their job. So hopefully we can look into that. Um I do want to play this little snippet. It'll probably take the last 40 seconds. It's from Nick Sabin. And high achievers don't like mediocre people. So if everybody doesn't buy into the same principles and values of the organization and the same high standard, you're never
023going to be successful. Just like our spring practice right now. You know what my goal with spring practice is? get the right guys on the bus, get them in the right seats, and get the wrong guys off the bus. So, one of these days, you're going to be working in an organization and somebody's going to try to do that to you. So, which one of those people do you want to be? Do you want to be somebody they're trying to get off the bus because you're satisfied with mediocre performance? Because you can never have any team chemistry in your organization if everybody's not committed to the same standard and the same things. Thank you, Mr. Shinen. Wia Brisco. Good afternoon. Good evening. Good evening. So for the last years, I always come and uh whenever
024I'm out with the students, always bring back feedback from them. And last week they were taking exams and always do is always walk through the community. I talk to them and they have no problem in just sharing with me where they are and I love it. So last week I was with the ninth and tth grade as they were leaving the school after taking exams and stuff and I just stopped them and asked them questions. So I bumped into a ninth grader and I asked her how did it go? How was it? And she says, "Oh my god, I had a great school year." Awesome. And I said, "Well, is there anything that you thought that you know you might want to share with me about uh the school year?" She says, 'Well, you know
025what? The school work was so easy. I said, ' It was. Good for you. Good for you. So then I asked her, I said, uh, what middle school did you graduate from? And she said, I didn't graduate from a middle school here. I'm from Chicago. This is her first time being in Washington schools. So I said, and it was easy for you here? She said, yeah. She said, it kind of felt like I was doing eighth grade work. And I said, "Oh my god." I said, "Were you in a private school then when you were in Chicago?" And she says, "No, I was in Chicago public school." And I said, "Internesting." I said, "I'm going to share that with the board because if we have someone that's transferring into our district, I don't understand why
026they think her comment to me was that the work here is easy." She even said, you know, the work that she was doing kind of felt like eighth grade work to her from where she came from, Chicago public schools. So I asked her, I said, ' Do you mind me sharing that with the board?' She says, 'Absolutely, Miss Frisco. And you know, I said, 'P and I said, 'Go home and tell your mom, let your mom know that this is how you feel and if necessary, you get yourself in AP classes because I don't want you to fail here. I want to ensure that you are a success now that you transferred to this school. So I want to share that. The other thing that I want to share is that I talked to about
027maybe 50 um ninth and tth graders and I always ask them who's the principal? Do you know who the principal was? You know, not one of them could tell me who the principal was at the high school. Not one. And I know I know we went through a transition with Mr. Hill and now we have a new principal or whatever. But I figure, you know, this is the end of the school year and so by now they should at least know who the principal is, right? Next year we need to ensure that the principal is visible at at the high school. Last thing, um, in my 16 seconds, I was shopping in Marshalls. This lady came up to me. She says, "I know you. You talk at the school boards." I said, "Yeah." She said
028she was a teacher here for 19 years and she's no longer here. She's stalking the marshals. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Prisc. That is it. Can we get the agenda back up, please? Okay, we have a consent agenda. Um these are items that have already been uh information has been presented to board. Board in most cases has discussed them or had an opportunity to discuss them and ask questions. And these are items that are continued considered to be uh generally of consent among board members. And what we're going to do rather than uh take the time to go through each one individually, we are going to just vote on them all at once unless we have a request from a board member to separate any of them out. Do we have any requests to separate
029any out? Board President, I'd like to separate item G. Item G, the 202526 school improvement plans. Yes. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Then what we're going to be voting on, and I'm going to go through them. Um 10 A, renewal of no red ink 6 to 12. B renewal of better lessons professional development for 6 to 8. C. Renewal of expeditionary learning e education for sixth to 8th grade English language arts. D. Removal of near pod vocabulary. E. Renewal of the gaggle contract. F. Consolidated district plan CDP. H. We're skipping G. Learning partners for comprehensive schools and school action plans. I. Revision to Whittier professional development request. Uh J. The 2025 visible learning conference. K. A Miguel War Middle School, Avid Professional Development. Lwis, Middle School, AVID Prof Professional Development. M Jack Benny, Avid Professional Development
030Request. And N the AP Human Geography Summer Institute 2025, O the Allen Larson Scholarship, and P the Lulu Ripburgger Scholarships. Did I miss anything? Uh my apologies, board president. Um, I wanted to compliment that they group the AVIDs together, but I misunderstood that they were not all traveling to the same location. So, can we also separate out item M? Separate out item N also. M as in Mary. Yes. Okay. So, we are going to be voting or uh voting on the item G and item M separately. Do we need a motion to separate them out? We haven't in the past. Okay. Okay. A motion by Mr. Riddle to uh approve all of the items 10 A through P excluding item G and item N which will be voted on separately. Is that correct, Mr. Riddle?
031That's your motion. Yes. Do we have a second? Second by Miss Lensing. Any further discussion on that motion? One comment. Sorry, only one comment. Um because I did have a former scholarship member reach out to me because they did not know how to actually get the scholarship. So um knowing that the kids are now out of school and their emails are not being checked, if we could ensure that those scholarship winners get some kind of mail correspondence sent to their home or if we have their phone number that we're calling them directly so they know how to actually cash in those scholarships. And who will be doing that? I believe that's under Brian's realm. Mr. Losa. Yes. Sorry, Mr. Losa. That was very not nice. Okay. Oh, are you asking us to do that, Miss?
032Yes. So, I we'll make a note of it. Um, Mr. Al Jackets is in the back taking notes. Then we'll make sure that that gets done. Oh, thanks. Okay. Any further discussion? I just have one comment on item C for expeditionary learning. I'm going to be in support of this with the understanding that going forward it's going to be done with fidelity so that we can start seeing impactful results in our district. Thank you, Miss Lensing. Okay, can we have a roll call vote, please? Yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Miss Ramirez, yes. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez, yes. Motion carries. All these items are approved with the exception of GNM. Uh item 10G 202526 school improvement plans. We have a motion to approve. So moved. Motion by Miss Favian. Second. Second by Mr.
033Riddle. Uh any discussion on this motion? Um I'm just going to make a comment that I'm going to be passing just because um they're inconsistent formatting and approaches. So I'm going to pass. Thank you, Miss Fabian. And then I just wanted to point out that when you look at the um presentation, it says that there was family input and community input. When I'm looking at the actual plans and who's on the committee, I didn't see family members. I did not see community members. And there may have been other ways that you have captured the data like forums or surveys. Um but then that should also be included in the plan so that we do know that in fact there was some family/ community input if that's what we're stating that there was. Um and then
034the second thing I believe in timeline. So we talked about smart goals and being consistent. Um a lot of the smart goals are written for the end of June of 2026 but are using a metric that is much sooner than that date. So for example we have and this is throughout. Um so we have as noted as the five E as noted on AR as noted on access etc. Five E is in January IR and access are generally in March and April. And so why I say that is because as a teacher you if you're aiming for a goal for June, you think you have that extra time to make that goal when in reality you do not. So if we can make sure that our timelines actually fit our metrics on how we're um
035stating that we're reaching the goal or if they need until June, then they're using a different metric that actually gives them um to and it shouldn't even be June that gives them the end of the school year to do. Okay. Any other discussion on this? We do have a motion on the floor. Correct. A motion and a second. Okay. Can we have a roll call vote, please? Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Wenszing, pass. M. Ramirez, yes. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez, yes. Motion carries. Item 10 M, Jack Benny, Avid Professional Development Request. Do we have a motion? Motion to approve. Motion approved by M. Riddle. Second. Second by Miss Fabian. Any discussion on this motion? No discussion on the motion. Roll call vote, please. Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, no.
036Mr. Ramirez, yes. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez, yes. Motion carries. Item M is approved. These were the academics consent agenda. Now we're moving on to item 11, which is the operations consent agenda. and we will approve both of these together uh unless somebody wants to separate them out. 11 A is approval of board resolution annual waiver of facilities use fee for certain nonprofits and 11B is the approval of the attendance to the 2025 National Association of Social Work National Conference. Make a motion motion to approve by Miss Hannah. Second. Second by Miss Lensing. Any discussion on that motion? Roll call vote, please. Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Mr. Mirz, yes. Mr. Riddle, yes. President Rodriguez, yes. Motion carries, sir. Items 11 A and B are approved. Item 12, purchases and contracts.
037I see none. 13 personnel items. 13A. It is the recommendation that the board of education approve the attendance of board members Anita Hannah, Jeff McBride, Carolina Fabian, Angela Ramirez, Christine Lensing, and Superintendent Theresa Balencia at the 2025 National Association of School Boards Cube Conference in Los Angeles from September 11th through the 13th at an estimated cost of $2,574 per person for a total cost of 15,400. $244 which includes registration, lodging, airfare, and PDM. Do we have a motion? Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Mr. Riddle. Second. Second by M. Discussion on that motion. Um, the only thing I want to add is that I've asked before is that the board follows the same format as staff. We should be setting the examples. So, I see that there's an estimated cost per person which says
038registration, airfare, lodging, PDM, etc. But if we could break that out just the same way that the admin and staff have to break it out so that we know where we're getting those numbers from. Thank you, Miss Lindsay. Um I just had a question. So my understanding was the conference starts on September 11th. So is this are we traveling the 10th? That form would help because it doesn't say Yeah. So I think I think that would just be my clarification. So, um I realize this is coming um a bit late cuz it just popped in my head of like, oh wait, the travel to there. So, I'm fine to approve, but I think we just need to have a clearer understanding and make sure that that's built into the cost if we have to come
039back to readjust that. Yes. Um I'm actually not sure. I do know that sometimes that 11th is a traveling day, but they'll have a banquet in the evening or a late session. Um, Miss Christian, do you know? I'd have to see what time on the agenda the first item starts. Okay. The first session starts coming to you late. Apologize. May I ask the board if we can approve this and amend at next board meeting so that we can pay for the registration and start looking at rooms um so that we're um saving cost effective. Yes. Thank you. Okay. So, we have a motion and a second. Is who made the motion? I did. Okay. Is your motion you want to amend your motion to be subject to the uh subject to that the superintendent? Uh
040I will do. Okay. Amended as per the superintendent's request. Okay. Thank you. And the who made the second? Second. Uh Mr. Ramirez. And your second. You're seconding the revised motion. Revised motion. Okay. Thank you. Uh any further discussion? Roll call vote, please. Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Mr. Ramirez, yes. Mr. Riddle. Uh yes, but I'm going to preface this with the fact that being as we are in an uncertain time, I think these are the two most important conferences for our board members to attend, but I am not going to be I don't think I will be approving others um uh during the year because I think these are just two important ones. We go to triple I and this one. And I think we should show uh that we are
041being fiscally conservative especially with these uncertain times. So yes, thank you Mr. Riddle. That was a yes. President Rodriguez. Yes. Motion carries. Item 13B, personnel 52725. It is the recommendation that the board of education accept the administration's recommendations to approve the appointments, retirement requests, and accept the resignations and terminations as found on schedules F1002, L949, T317, and G660. Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Riddle to approve. Second. Second by Miss Hannah. Any discussion on this motion. Yeah. Um I I am just concerned in reference to the uh number of diverse learners um learner teachers that are um that we have been approving for resignations. And um we have been told that it is due to um um processes for uh their visas. And so my concern is that because we're at that threshold, what are
042we going to do in the coming year for teachers in the diverse learners and many of the um many of the um names on this agenda as well as last agenda, they were from diverse learners and I I I'm very concerned about that. Um and so that's my that's my issue with that. Yes, please. Currently, um good evening, um community stakeholders. So currently um there's been a number of initiatives to recruit locally but also with the impeding teacher shortage um while Keegan school district um made um alliances with international with other countries to bring international teachers to work within our community. As a result, there are some variables that go with their visa that state the amount of time that they're able to stay and when they have to return. Our first co first cohort
043of teachers will be returning um this year. Um however um and that is due to their visa. It is not something from the American side of the visa. It's something from the Filipino side of the visa. Um however, our HR department is still recruiting um internationally and locally with the focus on um local recruit recruitment first. Um so what you're seeing now is that turnover as long as we continue to keep this partnership with the Philippines and other um outside countries um there will be um standards within those agreements of what the timeline that they can be here when they have to return and we have to work around that. So you will see that retention and turnover in those places when those teachers need to return home. So, this will be the first cohort
044of our international Filipino teachers that joined us three years ago. I'm sorry, five years ago. That's why I was saying three five years ago. Um, and now that I'm speaking this, I personally want to thank you for joining the Walk Keaggan community. I know that many of you lived in Walk Keaggan, shopped in Walkagan, went to church in Walkagan, became a part of our community here and we thank you for the time that you spent here um whether with your families or away with your families and we appreciate the partnership and everything you have done for the students of Walking Public Schools. Thank you. Think we should give him a round of applause. Yeah. [Applause] Any other discussion on this item 13B? Just to say that I'm sad to see some of them go and
045if um law allows it that hopefully we could welcome them back. Right. Thank you. Roll call, please. Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Anna, yes. Miss Lensing. Uh, I'm going to pass on this one. Miss Ramirez? Yes. Mr. Riddle? Yes. President Rodriguez? Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Nothing under item 14 or 15. Yeah. Oh, okay. Please. At this time, are you going to put up the Thank you. Okay. At this time, I'd like to introduce Miss Lorine Zami. Laurian, pronounce your last name. Zamie. Laurianne. Zamie, who will serve as area 1 superintendent. She previously served as a principal of Pier School of International Studies. She will be starting with this base salary of $157,500. Congratulations, Miss Sammy. [Applause] I'm glad you got Ivy behind you. We need that. Thank you. Thank you. That's okay. Oh, is it? Congratul
046Okay, moving on. Item 16, financial reports. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of education ratify the 2nd May 2025 processing of board bills may check request payments and no national bank insurance payments for the period of May 7, 2025 through May 20th, 2025. The accounts payable board payments for the period of May 7, 2025 through May 20th, 2025 total 1,850,63757. The manual check request payments for the period of May 7th, 2025 through May 20th, 2025 total 1,584,91848. Though national bank insurance payments for the period of May 7th, 2025 through May 20th, 2025, total $0. Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Mr. Riddle. Second. Second by Miss Fabian. Any discussion on this motion? Roll call vote, please. Miss Fabian, yes. Miss Hannah, yes. Miss Lensing, yes. Mr. Ramirez, yes. Mr. Riddle,
047yes. President Rodriguez, yes. Motion carries. Okay. Item 17, uh, committee reports. And, um, before we get into committee reports, um, I wanted to just, um, point out to the board that I'm going to be reviewing all of the, um, uh, committee uh, participation by board members. I asked for a list of all the committees and I got something like 14 14 different committees. So I don't know which of them are active, which ones are not active, you know, who's participating in which one. So I'd like to ask um whoever is assigned to a specific committee, could you please email me and tell me which committee you are assigned to because we're going to be doing new committee assignments and um it's going to be based on number one, what are the actual active committees. Secondly,
048what committees you are interested in serving on and we can have uh up to two uh board members serving on a committee. Point of clarification, those are board level committees, right? Not all of the committees, the 14. These are board level committees. Yes. Okay. And then can we also add scheduling? We have some committees that are only available during the daytime and some of us work and cannot attend daytime meetings. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that. This is something I'm going to try to get straightened out because uh uh this is the time to uh appoint members to the committee and uh I want to be very uh considerate of everybody's time and we want to make sure that the committees are scheduled at times um that are convenient for everybody. Of course, that's going
049to depend upon a lot of individuals, you know, so um we'll have to just kind of see that. Mr. Aljacus looks like he wants to say something. Always always good evening everyone. So just um just a point of clarity for the committees. The list you have Mr. Rodriguez is the list of our active committees which there should be 14. Not all of them have board participation on them. About six of them do. And so we could provide a list of the board members who did part who were assigned to the committees for 2425. All of our committees are in the process of winding down right now. um they're taking like their annual survey and filling out the information. And at the June operations services committee meeting, the board will receive their annual committee report. So,
050it's going to be a report kind of breaking down some of the work that was done by all 14 of those committees. But I would be happy to get uh yourself and the other board members a reminder of those committees and the ones that actually have board members on them. As far as a second point, that is something we could bring up with our members um for participation to do it during convenient times. We know um there's some that are generally you're going to get them like that early or late afternoon at 4:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. But we will talk for 2526 if there's a desire from the board particularly for um committees that have board members on them. If you want to start seeing those later, we can talk to the committee about that
051to start scheduling those later knowing that that may impact some of the staff participation. But I'm sure there's like a give or take that we could work through. Okay. So, if you can give me the list then and all the members that are assigned to them, board members, then I don't have to ask the board members to do that then. Correct. Okay. Thank you very much, sir. But I can we can still submit to you. Yeah. What you can what I will be Yeah. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you. What I will be doing is is asking you for your preferences as to which committees you'd like to participate in. Yes, sir. And we can do up to two board members per committee. Okay. Okay. Good. Committee reports. Do we have any committee
052reports after all that? Just the wellness committee. We are in the process of getting our po posters um that are that's going to go into the um middle schools and high schools and they are um miss um oh I can't think of her name from the health department. No. No. Um, you're talking about the posters. Who's designed them? Is from the health department. Yeah, the health department is designing them, but we're they're tailoring them for our school. Right. So, Briana, I believe, was working at it. Yeah. And Briana. So maybe Briana was uh looking over right uh some of the samples like that's that um that that we showed her. Yes. And uh for this first initial time because we wanted to um the wellness committee decided to that they were going to pick the
053first round, okay, of posters so that we could get them um get them printed and September the plastic preserver, whatever it's called. examination. Yeah. Um and get them put up so that uh on the first day of school they will be there. And um also we will have a number of different posters that will be changed out periodically. Right. Um, so there's different posters and it's regarding um it's regarding the um the vaping um and it may it may um intertwine with the little uh with the tobacco and um um what else? Mr. Riddle were basically they were anti- vaping posters, right? The anti- vaping posters. Mhm. And um and hopefully we can um start focusing also on the unhealthy um the unhealthy um drinks, right, that the kids are um the kids are using,
054taking drinking. Um and so that's about it. Thank you, Miss Hannah. Any other committee reports? Um, so the equity advisory council, we uh had our closing out meeting and we really used it as a time for reflection to to one, not only look back on everything that we've accomplished, including updating our mission statement, which was a feat, especially with me not being able to connect on the phone, um, given the current national climate to make sure that we're still servicing our students as best we can um but also taking some time to reflect on how has this helped not only in our capacity to support our students but on an individual level. So it was a really nice um summation of the year and general plans on what we want to accomplish next year. Thank
055you Miss Lindsay. Any other committee reports? you can talk about. So PTAC met really quickly. Um again for next year just looking forward to seeing more input on our side. Um we had a lot of um overview which is great and is needed but again just having some more areas where we can give um actual input. Thank you. Anything else? Okay. Delegate reports. Do we have a delegate? Um, yeah, we I don't have a report at this time. Miss Hannah, have you been the delegate all along? I have since we since I selected you as our delegate. Yeah. Good. I made a wife's choice. Thank you. Okay. Uh, superintendent report. Good evening, board and stakeholders of community. At this time, we'd like to give you an update on our summer school 2025 program. Miss Patty,
056it is now. Oh, thank you, Stephen. Uh, good evening, board president, superintendent, members of the board, community, and colleagues. I'm happy to present to new with you tonight some information related to our summer school programming, which starts next week already. Mhm. Um, again, some of the information you're hearing tonight is the same information that we have already presented back in February. And again, um, later this spring, we wanted to just, uh, reaffirm some information in case there are families watching tonight just to make sure that we are, uh, clearly communicating the information related to logistics. And so, um, again, this is just a calendar. Our first day of summer school starts this coming Tuesday on June 3rd. We do have professional development for all staff tomorrow. And so we are looking forward to doing curriculum
057training and some other uh trainings with our teaching and learning team, our bilingual team, our diverse learners team um to go to make sure that our teachers and staff are prepared for our students next week. Um you can see the different breakdown related to preK through 8th grade. All programming for the most part is June 3rd through June 26. We do have a couple of courses at the high school level with our get ahead credits for our get ahead geometry um and those go a little bit longer um and start a little earlier and their day is longer to make sure they have enough seat time for that particular course. Um we also have AM and PM sessions for our students at the high school level and again we do not um have school on
058June 19th in honor of our Junth holiday. Slide please. Next slide please. Sorry. Thank you. Um again, we do offer uh breakfast and lunch at all of our sites. Uh not only for the stu the students who attend summer school, but we also open up those sites for community um service sites. And so members of our community may come into any of our 11 summer school sites and participate in both breakfast and lunch service. Uh transportation schedules, oop sorry, transportation schedules are being finalized this week and so we will be sending mailings home this week as well as contacting families this week to make sure that they have their information related to transportation routes. Um as an overview of our sites again um our prek will be housed at Lightoot. We have six elementary school
059sites Harmon clearview Cook Glen Flora Littlefort and Lion and those are partnered across u multiple schools to maximize seats to maximize staffing um and to make sure that we have sites that are um at all sides of our our neighborhoods. We have the north north central and south side of WKEAN represented within our sites. For our middle schools, we will be at Wararez and Lewis. And for our high school, we will be at AOEC and Brookside campus. Reiterating reiterating that we do have a focus on our tier one resources. So again, thank you to our board of education for the investment that you have made in our literacy and math programs and our social emotional learning programs. Those will be um prioritized as as a a large portion of the students learning days. And we'll
060go over the learning schedule in just a little bit. Next slide. Um, we have had the promotion retention policy in place since this past May. It was adopted by the board of education last spring and we started with three benchmark years, grades three, eight, and nine. And throughout the year, um, at every progress report and at every report card, parents received u information related to their child's status on how they were performing according to criteria set forth by policy. And so we worked with our school level leadership to make sure that any student who was on that list at any point in time was having uh interventions and supports documented through our uh platform called branching minds. Making sure that we had uh parent notification and conferencing throughout the year so that students and parents
061uh had a lot of information to know where they were, what supports were available, and what their next steps were related to how to potentially get off um off of this list for potential retention. Next slide, please. One thing I'd really like to highlight is if you would like to take a uh a quick look at this chart, you can see the benchmark grade levels on the lefth hand side. You can see the numbers at the end of each grading period. And you can see how um the numbers um for first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and then our final report card um turned out. And you can see that a lot of the work that at our school level with our our our teaching staff, with our intervention staff, with our principles and assistant
062principles, our MTSS teams, uh really working thoroughly to ensure that students needs are being met. Um you can see that from third grade starting out the year around 80s to 90s. Um at the end of the school year, we were able to successfully only have 56 students on that promotion retention list. And so that's one example. You can see that eighth grade numbers also decreased throughout the course of the school year. and just really proud of the work that teachers and staff at the school are doing to support students in making sure that they have those interventions and supports in place. Thank you. Our overall 2025 summer school enrollment so far, you can see our numbers um broken down by grade level. Um you can see that currently we have just under 1,500 students prek
063through 5. We have just about 430 students through our middle school and um as of this morning we had 103 students for our 9th through 12th graders walk high school through AOEC. Um we do allow our high school students to register through the 30th of May. Um they get the report cards after they just took their finals last week. And so in case there was anything um that a student needed to retake or recoup, they still have the opportunity to register through this week on the 30th. This is a breakdown of our uh kindergarten through fifth grade day. You can see the breakdown of instructional minutes for uh language arts, foundational skills, math, etc. There is a small difference between uh what a uh general summer school class looks like versus what the promotion retention
064looks. Making sure that there is ample time um for small group and for language arts and math, especially focusing in on some foundational skills. Similar structure for middle school. You can see the difference between the general summer school as well as the promotion and retention summer school. And then lastly, we have our high school breakdown. And again, the courses listed on the right hand side in the green are examples of some of the courses that we are offering. We didn't want to put in um all 50 or 60 courses that we potentially would be offering. These are just samples of some of the courses that we are offering. In summer school, all students will receive a report card at the end of summer school. And so we wanted to say thank you to our teaching
065and learning bilingual and diverse learner staff to in the collaboration with our um IT staff. It was a pretty heavy lift to build out another custom report card specifically for summer school. And so I wanted to thank the team for the work behind the scenes to get that going. And students will receive grades at the elementary level in both English language arts or Spanish language arts and math. And then for middle school they will receive a grade in all of their core c or content areas. And high school students will receive 14 grades, one per day. We do have our extended school year program which supports students IEP needs and those qualify for ESY would have that information from their uh case manager and invitations for ESY have already been sent home. And lastly, we
066have our newcomers program. So, thank you to our um Bango Multicultural Department um for u not only u making sure that we have seats for our elementary, middle school, and high school. Uh but we've been really thoughtful this year of differentiating by grade level to make sure that students in a like a early primary grade um have a different u newcomer experience for our than our upper grades. And so thank you to the bilingual multicultural team for the thoughtfulness in that planning. Um if you are a parent or a student of a um if you are a parent of a student um who may be potentially retained based off of grades, we have already been in communication with you. But if you do have questions or wonderings about uh summer school opportunities or just information
067related to summer school availability for your child, uh please let us know. We're happy to uh to respond to emails or phone calls at any point. And again, just thank you to all of our school level leaders for all the preparation planning. We've been planning this since probably about January, February. And we wanted to say thank you to all the uh work behind the scenes that our school level leaders do. Um and also to our operations team. They've done a a yman's task to make sure that all the materials that we need for summer school have been distributed in in the hands of kids by the first day. So, thank you to operations team for that work. Thank you. I had a question the um for the high school, are those students going in for
068recovery credits? How many of them are going in for recovery credits? And in addition to that question, how many actual credits are are the students required to to graduate? Sure. Um I don't have the uh the data in front of me for me to be able to tell you exactly what um your for the answer for your first question, but I can get that information to you if that would be okay. How many students are I don't have the numbers in front of me in terms of how many students are going for recovery versus how many students are going for get ahead credits, but I can provide that information to the board of education. That that that's something that we need to know. Okay. But how many credits are the students graduating with so we
069can come back with a presentation on that. I just want to know is it 17 credits or 24 credit? I apologize Miss Miss Hannah. I misunderstood the question. And I thought she was saying in general I was going back to the policy we passed. I apologize. Thank you. Go ahead. Sure. So So how many credits do the students need to graduate? Depending on the year, we we do have more foreign language arts requirements being added for the upcoming school years. And so those will those have already been adopted for part of our policy. Yes. This this year. Sure. So 17 is not the number. So 17 is a misnomer. I want to make sure and Mr. Rice is there who can also um make sure that I'm articulating it appropriately um should I misspeak and
070so 17 is out there as though this is what we people have a misunderstanding in terms of that's what students have to have to graduate those are core credits that they have to have and there are additional credits on top of that that they have to take they may not have to have a letter grade they have to pass or fail some of our consumer ed courses and some other classes uh like physical education but 17 is not the number of of graduating requirements with um with our current policy. How many credits? 24 23. It's I want off the top of my head, I want to say it's 23, but I don't want to misspeak. I don't have it in front of me. I don't have that policy right in front of me. Apologize, Miss.
071So, it's 22. 22. I think Lensing had her hand up first. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you. Um I think there's a a general misunderstanding with summer school at least at the elementary level based on conversations I'm having. Um so we have the retention right which we've clearly outlined on it's slide nine of 16 right so we have those that are under the promotion retention policy and then we have general summer school so there are families out there that have kids that want to go to summer school but they think that they can't because they're not one of the retention. So can you just elaborate what the general summer school is? Sure. And can you confirm that all of our principles are aware that if you're not under retention, you can still possibly do summer
072school? Absolutely. We've had extensive uh planning sessions with all of our assistant principles and principles throughout the course since uh early February. Um they have staffed their school to make sure their summer school site I should say to make sure that they have both um some schools are identified as summer school retention sites and they do have some classes for just students who are eligible and um that need to attend summer school for retention purposes. But every school that is a summer school site does have kindergarten through fifth grade if it's an elementary school as well as middle school sites sixth, seven, and eight um for students who um haveident been identified by their instructional leadership team and their MTSS teams as um being beneficial for attending the regular education summer school. And so we
073do have to prioritize um available seats in our programming just based off of manpower and in seats. Um but and instructional leadership teams and MTSS teams did use student data to send out invitations to students who would be um most impacted and and benefit the most from attending summer school. And but uh parents are able to inquire with with their family uh within their principles to make sure that if they would like to attend and there are seats available that we do have regular education summer school as well as a retention summer school. And so the big takeaway that our family should understand is that when they contact those principles, the principles may very well say we're full up because we have prioritize students that need it. They may more so. So I just want
074that to be um very clear. And then can so we have the sites with third grade students subject to promotion retention. So that's slide four of 16. Um, so can you just clarify a little bit more the Carmen Buckner Clear View and Glenn Flora component? Absolutely. So as an example, I'll use Carmen as an example and that's the same kind of thought process for the rest, but I can go through each if that would help. Um, Carmen Buckner is running a summer school site. They are partnered with North Elementary School. Um, and so any student in grades K through five that have been determined um, not through promotion, but just as it would be great for them to attend summer school, invitations were sent out to North students and Carmen students and they will attend
075at Carmen with North leadership and Carmen leadership on site and Carmen teachers and North teachers on site for those so that students are familiar with their principal, their AP and their teachers being on site. They have familiar faces in the school. um we wanted to look at our numbers and as you could um when we go back to slide seven as an example we looked at the numbers um we couldn't it doesn't it didn't make a lot of sense to have um some third graders who needed potential retention um at Clear View and some maybe a class of three or four at Clark and maybe a class of three or four at Greenwood. So we clustered them together in different areas of the city. And so if you don't mind going back to slide um
076four um Carmen Buckner is our um site. They will have kinder through fifth grade there and additionally they will have another class of third graders specifically from um the south side of Waggan's sites who potentially will need retention and so the same thought processes for clarity. They're taking more of the students on the north side and Glenn Flor is taking the students more in the central location. I think it's well thought out and it's great that it's a collaboration between the multiple schools because families and students have someone that they have seen in the halls before that they can connect with and it's not like ah this is not my school. Yeah. So I just I wanted to make sure that was clear for families as they prepare for this and really appreciate the thought.
077Thank you Savian. Um, for Miss Hannah's question, if we can get the numbers after the final enrollment date of May 30th so that we don't have to come back and update, that would be great. Um, and then the I have two more items. One is for the um summer food program, you stated that members um of the community can come to any of the 11 sites. I just want to clarify because if we're using the Illinois summer food program, it's generally just um student age children can come. So, I want to clarify that anyone includes those that are not students uh aged. Everybody, it's my understanding that as a community um eligibility, we we do have a community eligibility program. And so therefore, any any member of the community who would like to come in
078for the I think it's an the first hour after our food program is over um they are able to go to any of our sites and come in and and have breakfast and lunch on our sites. Perfect. that is that for um 18 and under for um for the Illinois school program, but if they're using the other the national program for the community um the community based one that we have throughout the year, then it it's open to everybody. So, generally it's only school age, which would be 3 to 18, right? So I just wanted to clarify that in our community anyone could go after the students. The second thing that I wanted to note was um because we are in that national program for um free lunches and breakfast. Our students will also receive
079a summer EBT card that's loaded for um $120 per student. Um, so parents, if you did not apply for EBT and you're getting the card, it's it's not somebody's taking your information. It's not that um, you know, it's not a hoax. It's because we are a part of that um, program that you will be receiving that card just as you did last summer. Is it still calledision? It's an EBT card. So just but under provision, it's through the state of Illinois. That one's not federal. Oh, are we informing families on this? I hope this is not the first time families are hearing about it. I know during the pandemic, we got one of those and we were like, "What is this?" And so, we didn't use So, I mean, like we we got an actual
080card. So, I just want to make sure we're communicating with families ahead of time that they're aware of these things. There are letters sent home through the Department of Human Services that they will be receiving them because it's they are the ones that are handling that. Yeah. But but we are aware of we haven't as parents received communication is what we're saying. Yeah. So again, because a lot of parents last time got that communication from DHS and said I didn't apply and chucked it because they thought it was like spam or some scam. So if we could and now that the kids are out of um school it's kind of a little bit more difficult but that was also approved very late. So from the state side it's something that transfer I mean uh nutrition
081we'll look into Mr. Milton just make note of that. Thank you. Okay thanks Billy. All right where are we? Um Okay, moving on. Um, item 18, a foyer report, April 2025. The report is available for the community to review which covers the foye activity that took place. Give me a second. Excuse me a second. Okay. Uh, can we just have one conversation at a time, please? Yeah. I'm sorry. Okay. Go ahead. This item is just posted for individuals to review at their leisure the FOYA activity that has gone on in the month of April. Thank you. Okay. Number 19, old business. I see none. Item 28, discussion of school code weapons offense language. So this was a discussion requested by a few of our board members to specifically address how weapons are managed from a
082student discipline perspective. What was posted to facilitate the discussion amongst the board is a proposal by the administration as to how to clarify and get consistency across buildings in managing lookalike weapons particularly if they are a lookalike firearm. Um and it has the proposal develops a continuum that looks at um whether it is mere possession, whether it is possession and use in terms of playing around. Nobody's fearful, whether disruption has been caused. The next level would be there is some disruption but there is no use to cause bodily harm. And then the final level is the mandatory expulsion referral if a lookalike is used or attempted to be used to cause bodily harm. With that introduction, I'm going to open it up to the board members to um raise their concerns and have a discussion.
083The information then will be taken back, shared with the outreach department and the PTAC in terms of the board input and feedback and we will incorporate all of that into a first reading proposal when the handbook as a whole comes before the board. Can you add how it's tied to the policy? I'm sorry. Can you add how this is tied to the policy? Sure. So the discipline policy itself, I believe the number is 6040, has a reference in it that um consistent with the school code directs that the administration and and PTAC parent teacher advisory committee regularly review discipline on an annual basis and make proposals for changes. M what um the policy says is that that recommendation coming from the PTAC will be incorporated into the handbook and the handbook will be approved by
084the board. And so the board is approving the discipline procedures that are set forth in that handbook when they go through that handbook process and the PTAC input is provided in in the scope of uh the final development of the handbook. Um so in full transparency I had requested that the board talk about this um for three main reasons. One we need to understand as a board what the Illinois school code states. When I read the Illinois school code, um, I have a different interpretation. And to me, prior instances, not just the most recent one, should have risen to a modified expulsion discussion with the board. Um, so because this is part of our policy, we need to have a public discussion about this information. With that being said, with the policy as it's written
085and with the Illinois school code as it's written, we as a board need to decide if we agree with that policy or if we need to adjust our policy language. There have been cases in Illinois um case AAA versus the um Illinois Board of Education where a student brought a lookalike weapon, didn't use it, was in their backpack, didn't just show it to anyone, and it it rose to a point where the board decided it was a detriment to the school environment, especially after it being the Yuvaldi. Um right after the Uvaldi shooting, everyone was heightened. the family came back and said, "You shouldn't have expelled my student because you didn't exhaust all of the levels before or um all of the possible interventions." Not that it shouldn't have risen to an expulsion hearing discussion.
086Um, and then thirdly, not just the board needs to understand the policy and update it if we want it, but the community needs to understand because at no point should we be at that podium identifying students of situations. It should not rise to that. If we're all on the same page, the decisions are made and we can keep it moving. We don't have to um feel as if certain situations were handled differently. And I think there's even some confusion with prior instances whether it's come to the board or not come to the board. And that's frustrating to me because we should all be on the same page as to did it come to us, did it not come to us, are we consistent, are we not consistent. Um, when I read the Illinois School Code,
087the section where it starts to talk about the lookalike firearms um is when it goes into the classifications. So, can we pull up the I think it's the second attachment just so that because I like to see it rather than just hear someone read it to me. Oh, of course. I'll I'll hold for a second and and while that's being pulled up, so the board has kept aware of things that happen in the district. There are a lot of things that um happen on a day-to-day basis and so to track what's coming to us in a close session meeting versus what's being handled at the school level, it does get overwhelming. Um but it it is still our responsibility to keep track of all of those pieces. So under number two, it has weapons also
088mean a knife, brass knuckles. Yeah. um or other knuckle weapon, regardless of its composition, a billy club, or any other object if used or attempted to be used to cause bodily harm, including lookalikes. To me, those two pieces are separate, but it's being interpreted as if