001here. >> Here >> we're in session. Please stand for the pledge. Any additions to the agenda? >> Recognitions and celebrations. >> All right. So, I'd like to shout out a few groups. Um, first to our building and grounds department. Thank you for all your hard work. While we know some of our certified staff are soaking up the sun and enjoying, you guys are kicking it into full gear. So, we are super appreciative for all the hard work that goes into making sure the classroom shine. So, thank you guys so much. Also, food services has started back. They are getting ready to get their um all their fresh veggies and fruits. Um, I asked uh, director Magguire if I could get some behind the scene pictures because her fridge area is the most beautiful colors of
002fresh fruit that she has. So stay tuned on social media for that, Tom. Um, I also want to thank all of our administrative assistants. Um, we couldn't do it without you. You're better than Santa's elves. They check us twice, three times. Um, they're they're so good. So I know on behalf of all the administrators, we truly want to thank them. Couple new team members join us. Sean Walsh, director of technology, and Barb Shanahan, director of curriculum, jumped in with us. So, we're super excited, and I'm just really appreciative of all their hard work. Um, text message, late night phone calls, just making sure everything's prepped for staff and students. So, huge shout out to the administrative team. I really appreciate you. >> Awesome. >> Uh, no student report. Any public comment? administrative report. >> All
003right, I will kick it off. Um my board report is in there for the board to review. I did want to thank um Scott Nison. He led our safety meeting at the end of July and it was a great time we get together with local first responders. So, it was a nice time for us to get together with them. Throughout that partnership, we've looked at some areas that we can strengthen. So, I'm excited for some of the internal safety measures that we're working on and partnering with local first responders as well. So appreciate his hard work on that. Um I also wanted to shout out another community connection. So the board will be taking action tonight on our strategic plan and community partnership is one of our goals and I just want to thank um
004Dave Blley for getting together with the Lockport Park District. He got a meeting with the administrators um from Lockport Park District. It was super great. Shout out to Sarah from Lockport Park District. She's amazing. But we were able to talk with them. If you don't know, we do Club 92. a lot of clubs um opportunities offered after school for our students that are fun and engaging and it couldn't happen without them. So, it was great to sit together with them and the principles to be able to talk about how can we improve clubs? Can we look at class sizes? How can we make sure that we're able to support the students that are coming to those clubs? They have a great experience. So, I just wanted to highlight that as well. I didn't include that
005in my report, but I wanted to shout that out tonight. So, thank you. Any other questions on my report? This is superintendent for business services. >> All right. Good evening, board. Uh in the U board book is my memo for tonight. A couple things that we'll talk about. First off, the tenative budget. Uh we are still in the building phase of the budget. Uh in the board book, you'll see the ISBY version of it. So, we have to submit that in a month um upon approval. But I just wanted everybody to see it. There are a couple things I'm going to call out. First off, we are seeing a change with title funding. So, title two and four, that funding is is uh dried up. So, we are not expecting that money for for next
006year. Categorical goals moving forward like transportation uh some of our food reimbursements. We're expecting twothirds this year, next year almost expected to be zeroed out from the state. We still get transportation funding. So, but we're still seeing a drop of about 150,000 this year alone for funding there. We're also seeing a drop with CPRT. So, that's revenue that we get from Illinois. Uh that was a $300,000 estimated cut. It's a little less than that from the projections I saw this week. Those numbers still aren't solid, but we're still anticipating a significant drop this year as well as another drop next year. And that's the state kind of recouping the mistakes they made during COVID by giving too much money out. Um, and so now they're taking it all back from everybody. The other big change
007from state funding was uh for evidence-based funding. And so uh CPS this year is being identified as a tier one school. And so what that really did was that forced the state to really do their redo their formula. So as opposed to being a tier two, now CPS is a tier one. So they're they're taking up a larger portion of the overall state funding. The impact for us, surprisingly enough, for EBF, it was about a thousand dollars. So we're we're luckily pretty flat with EBF because of our local property tax dwell. But still, it's just something to be aware of that's happening throughout the state. Um happy to answer any other questions. I I wanted to say the only other thing with um the budget that I'll talk about is to cops grant funding. So
008as you We've got the grant that we were awarded for cops grant and that's a lot of our security uh work that we're doing. We haven't really embarked on much of that yet. Uh the only thing we've really paid for out of that was informat. So we have a great deal of expenditures that are going to be coming up for us. So in the budget I identified expenditures but we won't see that revenue right off the bat. So sort of like back to the Esser times you know there were there were there was a delay before we saw that revenue hitting our accounts. So we are going to try to as soon as we can um in order to get the equipment that we need. So, radios, cameras, um door sensors, intercom, all of those
009components that are going to be made up of our security system, but we still are identifying the equipment we're going with. So, we're still sort of in a in a state where we're going to identify the equipment, go out and purchase, and then we'll be reimbursed most likely. Then, I I expect the revenue will hit for next fiscal year. So I don't want to identify it because we ran into an issue with that with uh because we're not we're not we're not acrual. We're cashbased. So it it's a different accounting system. So I'd rather wait until we have that hitting our revenue account. Um but so more news to come. We still have a month to work out some details. I'm working with our consultant through the cops grant and still working on those details.
010But that's the tenative budget sort of sort of in a nutshell. It's going out to Shaw Media to be posted. We have to 30 days. It'll be posted internally in the district office and then in September then we're looking at you know the running the hearing and then also then hopefully getting approval for the for the budget in September >> if there's um certainly if expenditures change uh we have to do an amended budget. If that revenue were was to hit before >> we could still do we could still do it because of the size. It just depends on timing for us. So, we have we're we're in the middle right now of so many different projects with um working through H Heartland. So, that's the the company that we've identified to help us manage
011the um the infrastructure, wiring and cabling. And you know, right now we're still we're still through going through the due process of talking, you know, cameras and radios and and so these things might take a little bit of time. Maybe not. I mean, on the flip side, I mean, we might be able to pull the make a decision quickly on radios. I'll I'll you'll bring that back to the board if we get to that point, right? >> But just to be on the safe side, I this is the first time for us with um the Department of Justice grant funding. So, I will be working with Homer because they they were trailblazers and just talk about just how quickly they they saw revenue hit. this is a you know federal so it's totally different than
012what we've seen with um state funding things like that. So although and ESSER was delayed as well. So when we put money out for ESER the one and a half million we didn't see that until the following year. So there was a there was a delay there. >> Yeah. >> Um happy to answer any other questions about the tenative budget. It is there for u for everyone's uh viewing. Some other updates then obviously it's super busy time in in the business office with end of year reporting that we've been in the middle of as well as then there's a new offering that through our co-op. So, this wasn't a District 92 decision. This was a co-op decision to offer um a new whole life with long-term care benefit. Pretty cool option. You know, our co-op
013is is trying to be responsive to to uh members. They surveyed us last year and asked what kinds of things might we be looking for? What are extra things? And so, this was one of those things that it's an offering. We're not off we're not paying any portion of this. This is just on employees if they want to go down this path. The buses are >> Well, we had a really good meeting with Grand Prairie. Um, I would say >> they've been driving around. So, >> I I I saw I saw him this morning. >> Take them today. >> I know. I know. Um, you know, we we had a really good meeting with them and, you know, the the receptiveness that they have with our, you know, concerns and questions. I'd say one of
014the biggest things that they were quickly responsive to was drop off times. And so all the principles know the pain points in the morning that we were having buses arrive too early >> at schools and sort of >> I noticed the the >> I know. >> So we are still trying to tweak that. What we don't want is a bottleneck where you know buses are sitting at Oak Prairie or here at Lewig and causing bottlenecks in the parking lot. Believe it or not you know 7:30 in the morning on a school morning is really busy. Uh we have staff trying to find parking and you know and so it gets a little uh chaotic. So hopefully, you know, that will be something that they are looking at the schedules. I haven't seen the final schedules
015yet, but I I think Penny's loaded them. I think we've got them. So we're we're nearly there. But I would say just as a administrative team, I think we all felt really good about the the meeting with Grand Prairie as it was yet last year. I mean, it was our first year with them. They were super responsive. And I think, you know, in terms of field trips and in terms of extra things they were doing for us for extracurricular real, you know, if there was a problem, they responded. We talked to them about behavior on buses. They were very responsive to that. So, I think it's a really good relationship, but you know, we're always going to have growing pains and um, you know, I think we'll be able to respond. >> Are there any
016questions about the budget so we're prepared for next month to approve? And just as I get any other updates, I will share that with the board. So if there's anything of significance to the budget or if there are concerns, please let me know so that we can we can prep and be ready uh for September. >> Uh student services >> few updates. We're pretty fully staffed at this point. I know you're aware we have two resations at a prairie, but we've absorbed those. And so we're looking at how we're scheduling students. has done an amazing job. Her schedule on the wall is something to be shined a. I don't understand it, but she's like, "Okay, no, that's third period." I'm like, "Okay, I'll type third period if you say so." But just putting all those
017pieces together. It might not sound like a lot, but we had 18 students with IEP needs move in and so that does shuffle a lot of things because they're all at two schools. So, we're ready for those students. We've received the records. We had a few move in today. So, we're working on that. We don't want students to start in a gened class and not have those services. So, we can get those ahead of time. That's what we like to do. So, working on that um at all the buildings, I have the numbers there um for moveins, but it has changed a little bit. Um so, the two positions we've talked about, we did absorb those. One with a sub and then the other one is being reallocated throughout the building. So, we have class
018sizes ready to go for that. Tomorrow, I'm actually meeting with Rebecca Munch, our new service coordinator. Super excited about that. She's going to be taking over all of the EI transition. So, our birthday students coming in so they can start on their third birthday. She'll be running those meetings, working with our PC program and then doing meetings over at Walsh to take some of those things off my plate which will allow me to be at the other building. So, I'm excited about that. Uh, we actually have training I didn't mention on the memo Thursday. Our early childhood teachers and staff are getting trained in creative curriculum which is our significant our main curriculum for early childhood. They're being trained all day on Thursday. So, we're excited to get that rolling out with more consistency. And
019then I have down here our early childhood curricula enrollment numbers are steady. We're looking good at that. We did decrease the teacher as you know in EC but upped it moved it to K1. So, we're doing fine with that. And then safety care is coming on September 3rd, fourth, and fifth. We have three trainers across the district. Christine Rohovic, Rebecca Munch, and myself will be trained. And then we will train the staff at the building. Staff will take the place of CPI which is what we use. we ever need to do restraint. Not a big portion of our students need that, but legally we need to have compliance and have that place. So looking forward to all the restraints that are coming up and kids will be here next week. So we're excited. >> Nora,
020I had one question and it might be in here. So I mean other than I see your note here on the prek, but I was curious how many te how many classes did we land on and what is the class sizes? >> So we have three early childhood teachers now. So, six sections. >> One teacher is early childhood self-contained, so she'll have a max of 10. And then we have two blended teachers. That would be the max of 20. >> And that's AM PM. >> Yes, they have and PM. We're at about 16 and 18. If I have to look at that specifically, we had one drop today, something like that. Yeah. Okay. >> But under 20 for sure. >> And we have seven open seats. Seven open seats for blended. and then 13 open
02113 for blended and seven for our self-contained. So as we go through doing our evaluations between now and December we should be good. in the spring. I know. I was a little worried that we weren't going to be good, but so far we're exciting. Dr. The new staff joined us for two days of training. They were able to meet with their mentors. They were able to meet with building in district and they were just really appreciative of the time and the support and we know how important it is to hire really good people and then do everything we can to keep them here. We want to make sure that we have the best educator. So being able to support them with our mentor program is really important. And I think we're also really fortunate that
022we have a two-year program. So it's not just that first year, it's continuing that relationship the second year throughout the year. Our new staff will meet monthly with us. They highlight different areas and then they'll meet with mentors as well. So, we're just really excited about that. >> Did they get their computer? >> They did. So, they had everything. They had it before we even started the meeting. Tech had them delivered to them. There were a couple that still needed them. They got them mostly when they came for their CLA training the day before. So, they were ready to go. Asked a lot of great questions, able to get into everything. So, I think they left just feeling good like everything, right? And Dave had tabletop question >> even though some didn't think so. >>
023Didn't believe him and maybe called him out in the meeting. >> All right. Thank you. Director of technology. >> Hello everyone. I just have a few updates. Um the tech department is currently reviewing the H Heartland scope of work, which is um what we're going to spend our cops grant money on, which is all the infrastructure for uh PA system, security cameras, door access. Uh so that's in the process. We're trying to eliminate any areas that um should not be covered or by by that I mean maybe things were added that we don't need. So, it's uh just going through that process and you know we have four buildings and going through all the maps and verifying double-checking and making sure we have uh the proper things in place so that when we do do
024this, it's done right from the get-go. Um I also completed discovery meetings with all of the admin team. uh I met with uh each person individually to get to know them, introduce myself and then go over any concerns or anything that they would have uh for that. Uh Rival 5, uh we have include uh we have put phones into all of the classrooms uh so that teachers can now uh make calls uh to parents and we can have our main office also call into those individual rooms. um before they could uh PA into the room, but it would, you know, that'd be a bigger disturbance of saying something. And it's not private either to where a telephone call the teacher can pick up the line and uh you know, be told who needs to be
025sent down for what for what. Uh parent square deployment, uh we are deployed with parent square. uh we started training with the administrative team and we will be training the teachers as well during the institute day. Uh we've also done um some early training with our library media specialists uh as well as our secretaries. Um so they all received early training uh because the secretaries will be the main people who will be doing posts and then the library media specialists. We wanted to have a resource in each of the building for teachers to go to. Um and then uh we had old equipment recycling pickup. Uh basically every year uh we try to sell back equipment so that we can uh recoup some of that money of old equipment. Um and then I think we're
026in a good place to start the year. >> Does anybody have any questions for me? >> I saw somebody already used square, right? Didn't a principal send something out? Gary did >> Gary did okay. >> All right. That's what I >> And then >> Oh, on the phones. >> But it works. >> It works. Yeah. I was so excited to see the first parent square message. Um the the phones uh sorry time of day are they limited so that they don't ring from outside. >> We will have do not uh disturb uh every night at midnight uh will be turned on automatically. The teachers will have the option to turn that off if they think they're going to receive a call or they want to take a call before or after. But then every night
027at midnight, do not disturb will be force turned back on. So classroom hours are not disturbed during that. But the main office will be able to call through um if do not disturb is on. We've programmed that into the system as well. >> Exciting. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Sean. >> Thank you. >> Recruit maintenance. >> All right. So, I have asked Gary to give a report every month. So, um his report is in there. I told him he didn't have to speak as part of the deal. Though, uh if there are any questions, I really just wanted to highlight all the that his team and department do. So, I thought that that the board and the public should be aware of so you'll be able to see his highlights every month. >> I love
028that. Thanks, Gary. I saw this and I know I text you and said, "I love that this is on there and we can see all of the wonderful things and hard work you guys are putting into." >> For sure. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. Yes, keeping up one house is hard enough, >> right? >> Buildings with, you know, 1500 kids. >> This and this room looks great. You know, the paint. So, thank you for everything. >> All right, principles. >> I gave the principal the night off, too. >> All right. >> They have been busy prepping and preparing, so they are here tonight, but um I just want to shout out it takes a lot to prepare, to get ready for staff, and they have put in countless hours. So, I'm super proud and impressed. >>
029I still got >> my only went to parents, right? >> Yeah. There was um >> request me to to families to >> Right. But it >> usually it used to be PFA, wasn't it? >> Right. But you and I know because we have students in the building. Oh, >> if you don't have students in the building, you don't know. >> Yeah, I did. >> I missed it. I could have missed it. I could have missed it. >> Literally, I have >> social social media. >> I didn't get it on. >> It is. I will check. I have to open email >> if I 87 right now. I gota go. >> No, no, no, no. Just not everybody knew what you were talking about. >> Yeah, I didn't know that. >> It's not a D. >>
030Well, I thought I spilled beans. >> No, no, no. It was a teacher appreciation thing. Awesome. >> All right. Um, I need a motion to approve the consent agenda. Oh, are you guys staying? Are you guys Gary? You can go. >> Yeah, I know Gary definitely get the brewing. >> Um, Hey guys, good night. Thank you everybody. >> Uh, I need a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Roll call, please. >> Yes. Yes. All right. I need a motion to approve the resolution authorizing authorizing the filling of an assessment complaint with the Will County Board of Reviewing the PDB Midwest refining refiner. >> What else? Uh this first resolution delegates the board to give authority to Robin Schwarz the attorney um to intervene and participate in the assessment client proceedings I have
031initiated. So that's what the boarding >> roll call please. >> Yes. Motion carries. Need a motion to approve the resolution authorizing intervention proceedings before county board of review and Illinois property tax board. All right. So the second resolution here authorizes the filing of an assessment complaint challenging the assessed value um of the brok. >> Yes. Yes. >> Right. I need a motion to approve the board. the second reading of the board policy. >> All right. So, the board may recall this is policy that we discussed at our June 17th meeting. Uh plan is presented tonight with no changes. >> Yes. I need a motion to approve the strategic plan through 2030 >> did well. I'm so excited for this. So the board has a sneak peek. You have the one pager tonight that has the
032strategic plan with the goals on it. So you can look at that. Um, we are super excited to bring this proposal. This couldn't have been done without the help of the entire community. Um, from our community day that happened in March of 2025 to surveys that were taken by community members to our our small team that kept a meeting every month minimum to be able to talk about what do we want. So, we're super excited tonight to roll out this new plan and have the board approve it. >> Questions, comments? turned out. And these are going to be laminated. >> The bulldog one will be >> um the art. >> Yes, they made this. >> So, we're excited able to hand these out and get these going so everybody at a nice visual. >> Oh,
033yeah. >> Read it. Um I think the committee did a great job being able to use user friendly langage. not education to still understand, you know, what our our mission, our vision, our goals are. >> We will be using this really to drive us. So, we're going to be I've already started and things that I'm working on to put what goal at work so that everyone can understand all together. I might already have. >> There might be a stack. >> My children might be earning service hours for that. >> Um, >> hey. Yeah. >> Well, you've already been doing the goal with even the um the weekly report. Yeah. Our weekly news. >> Yeah. Was it just >> I thought it might have been more than that, but I noticed Good job. >> No, but
034it it really is it's helpful, I think, and and as the other administrators and stuff, you know, start to do that, it will just become >> natural. >> I think it's natural to ask why are we doing something? >> And so every time we bring it back to here, it reminds >> roll call, please. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the superintendent goals. >> All right. So, keeping with aligning with goals. Um, these are my goals and I did align them to our strategic plan. Um, these will go in eval tool that you use to evaluate me. So, I'll start to put all that in there. offic as we talk evidence of her meeting her goals there. It's eas to me. I just think the goals are kind
035of lacking. I I don't think there's anything specific that we're gonna, you know, person's going to do X or Y and you graded that that was completed or not. It's just kind of years ago something happened and it kind of fulfills that area. I was kind of hoping that you know something that um kind of like with teachers and the principles were looking at their assessments and they're looking at scores of 80 or higher. You know, that's something that's tangible that they can look at did you need it or not? I think this is kind of lacking in something that we can specifically see and expect to be done. >> My evidence would be >> Yeah. Hey, we want you to draw something else. We don't like that as many times as we need to.
036That's our >> Yeah. Yeah, these are the same goals I've had in the update for about the past month as well. Um, and I didn't get any feedback from anybody in our heart, but I'm happy, you know, to put subsets in there for sure. >> Yes. They are >> right >> based off >> because that is the biggest. So basically, >> they've been available for a while. >> All right. Please. >> Yes. Yes. >> No. >> Yes. >> I need a motion to approve the wellness plan as presented. >> Washington stop. All right. So, this is the plan that you might recall we discussed in June at our board meeting. Um the committee got together and they did go back to precoid expectations. So, we would be limiting food and beverages in the moving to
037non-editable items in the classroom this is what the board will be taking action on tonight >> so we have a plan to roll that out >> yes multiple plans I just told everybody the email >> make sure we have multiple ways to tell families that they're not showing up for Sally's birthday we do once this plan is approved we We'll push this out. We did put a blurb in our August 1 newsletter saying it was pending board approval so families could see it. But we do know they will probably need to see it more than one time because they might not have been in the right frame of mind at that time to really >> No, I truly appreciate that for sure. >> All right. Roll call, please. >> Yes. Yep. Yes. >> Yes. Right
038now, the real meat of >> I need a motion to approve the seal coding quote. >> Tidwell, bring it. >> This is thrilling. So, um, but it is truly supporting our investment. So, you know, these parking lots were over three million each. And it's amazing that after two years you have to seal coat, but that is the world we live in with between the winter and and summer heat. So, it isn't very exciting. Um I think the price tag was was definitely I took pause with. Um we do have a threshold where we have to um bid out certain things. Um so we were under that, but that was through a lot of negotiations. So there were four companies that responded to us and the original um actually came in over 40,000. So there this
039put several back and forth with these companies. Rose was the lowest um responsible quote. It wasn't a bidder, but it was a quote. Um they can get the work done in the next month. So probably middle of September most likely. All these companies could have done that. So that wasn't a driver in this situation. Looking for quality, looking for something that look good. Um but either way, you know, this is a big price tag. Definitely more than you know we would do our own driveway for at home. So, um, when you look at both parking lots being done, it's a single seal coat, it's a single layer, um, sprayed on and lines being drawn. So, we've we've at times as a district have been very costconcious and tried to do things ourselves, which is a
040fantastic um, testament to, you know, our director of buildings and grounds and his team. But, it's not always an easy thing to do. Um, we want it to look nice. Uh, we want the lines to be straight, little things like that. So, um, it's nice to have a professional come in and do it. So, this is one of those things that it's worth paying for somebody on the outside to do >> because sometimes you just can't do that internally. So, um, like I said, we can get this done in the next, uh, probably three to four weeks. I'll, if it's approved tonight, I will talk to Rose and get, um, on the schedule tomorrow. It'll be a weekend and they they will be in and out in a day. Whereas our team, you know, it
041would take quite a bit of time. So, we we had an old truck. Um I don't know if you've seen it behind the barn, but you know, we've we we've done it before um back in the day. So, you know, some things have evolved and this is maybe one of those. >> Well, like >> it's a big investment. Yeah, it's a big as well as uh Schroeder did have to come out. So, some of you might have driven by and seen, you know, fairly extensive cracks in the surface. That's a very common where you have a cold patch and then a warm patch. Um we did see it at at um Reed and Walsh. So it it was just timing things. So Schroeder in our in the bid package in the contract, they had to
042come back out and fix the the cracks that were under warranty. Um but seal coating was outside the contract of asphalt seal coating, you know, not This isn't the stuff you would use at home. Like Yeah. Like uh it's not the bucket you get at Home Depot. Yeah. >> Yeah. There's the $25. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Yes. Motion carried. I need to sorry I need a motion to approve the administrative assistant to the district office. >> All right. So the board may recall in June we had approved job description for a 10-month position uh due to a resation. We did receive another retirement. So we were merging those two jobs into one job and it would be back to a 12 position. So that is the first time to approve. Your approval will get it
043posted tomorrow. Start looking for >> roll call, please. >> Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to terminate the employment of Lauren. Uh, roll call, please. >> Yes. Motion carries. >> All right. Discussion items. Um, the board policy first reading for the current. >> So, tonight uh the board will be looking at first policy revisions. You can see that um most all of them are just reviewed. It was a quick policy committee meeting. We did have one revision that's ready to go. Timing couldn't be more perfect. You just approved tonight the new school mission statement. So I was able to revise that and get that in. So we're um that's the only revision. Everything else was just a fiveyear press review. So those will be back in September for any old business. Any new business?
044All right. Uh information items uh foyer requests were in the packet as were thank you card. Uh any public comments not on the agenda? All right. Then I need a motion to adjourn the meeting. Uh all those in favor signifi signify by saying I. >> I. >> Eyes have it. We are