001All right. Calling the meeting of Tuesday, March 18th to order. 7 o'clock. Roll call, please. I'm going to do too. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. We are in session. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Yes. Every day. You did really good, too. All right. Any additions to the agenda? No. All right. Hearing none. Uh, recognitions and celebrations. All right. I'd like to start with students because we have two amazing friends with us tonight. Mrs. Urban, who's joining us tonight? So, we have Maddox and here. Yeah. Come on up. Yeah, we have a special prize. Come on up, guys. Okay. You get a prize. There
002you go. There you go. What are the What are these called? Spirit sticks. There's your spirit stick. We're counting to 100. Nice. And a pen. There you go. Wow, Jackson. There you go, buddy. A Where's your There you go. All right. You're welcome. Yeah. Yeah. Could you sit together? Could you smile really big with them? Frankie, do you want Megan in it? It's okay. No, you didn't. Yeah. No, it's okay. Thanks, guys. All right, go by grandma. These two young boys have worked so hard all year to master the skill of counting to a 100. It is a big deal at Walsh to join the hund club. Um, our students get recognized weekly for that accomplishment um in kindergarten and even some of our EC kids have accomplished that which is amazing. But we just
003know how important that CLA is to really be able to project forward in all of their math knowledge. So, we are so proud of them today. Nice job. Great job. All right, we have one more student report and then uh we'll take a quick break. Uh so we have a student report from the NJHS, National Junior High, National Junior Honor Honor Society, BH Thanks, Sydney. The National Junior Honor Society has been serving groups both within District 92 and our community. We're required to volunteer for 20 hours a year to be a member. Some of the industry events we have been helping with lately include the teachers in the home building raid family night and build 92 groups at W and our focus over the past month at our monthly meetings is how important it is
004to seek wisdom from trusted adults and how that could shape us into better leaders who all saw a piece of wisdom from someone what do you wish you knew when we were at junior high. We took the time to share our collective pieces of wisdom with each other as a leader. We along here have shown our lesson with our student service by incorporating what we learned to the announcements and the spells across the building group at family members are invited to come back food for children across the globe. We are excited to be able to serve as share our update with you tonight. Good. Thank you. Okay. Um, so thank you parents for uh having your students out uh for us to recognize this evening. Uh if you would like to leave now and uh
005head home, we're going to continue on with our meeting. Thank you. Good job, Jackson. Great job, guys. Thank you. [Laughter] Bye. All right. Does the ATF have a report tonight? All right. Can I do staff celebrations? Yes, we can. Theft. Did I say aft? Would be a much different report. Oh, that would be a different that would be a different report. Okay. Oh, I'm gonna jump back to jump back to staff recognition. Right. So, um I wanted to highlight our staff spotlight winners. So, um as you know, these are employees that were nominated by their peers. So, from Walsh, we have Claire Finny, from Reed, uh Gina Takia, Caroline Kimmy, Ann Marie Hoen, Colleen Napkick, and from district Penny Gustiffson, and Lisa Krueger. So, we had lots of people that we wanted to acknowledge. um
006you can learn more about them if you check out our March spotlight. Then I also wanted to celebrate National Social Workers Week. So that occurred March 2nd through 8th. So I just wanted to give a shout out to our five social workers, Mary, Shannon, Kristen, Kayla, and Ethan. So they make a profound impact on our schools daily. Um we know that meeting our students need is something that we're all doing, but this is who we call in when we know our students need a little extra TLC. And so they go above and beyond to ensure that our students feel safe and have the supports they need to be successful. So their work is challenging, but they always rise to meet that challenge. And I'm really grateful to them. So I would just like to shout
007them out and tell them how thankful we are for them. Sorry we did not celebrate them during that week, but hopefully they can feel the love now. All right. Thank you. Um any public comments? All right. Administrative report. Superintendent. All right. So, I have a couple things. Um, the first one will be an action item that we'll be taking tonight. Uh, school calendar. So, the 2526 school calendar is back as an action item for the board tonight, but there is an update to this. So, I just wanted to point out on the version that the board will be seeing tonight, it's different from last month's December 19th, 2025 and March 27th, 2026, we've adjusted dismissal time. So, the dismissal times for Oak Prairie and Lewig are 12:50 p.m. The dismissal times for Reed and Walsh
008are 1:50 p.m. These are the dates before our winter and spring break. So, I just wanted to point that out before the board takes action on that later tonight. Next item I just wanted to highlight was our strategic plan. So, a huge shout out to everybody that came out and celebrated with us and uh shared their feedback. We loved listening and learning about their hopes, their aspirations, what they love, and what they hope to see from the district. So the next step that we need um is to form our small committee. So in working with the union, we have their reps. Um working with administration, we have our reps, but we need two board members. So that is something that is not on our agenda that if we could add under new items tonight to
009be able to kind of talk about which two board members would want to um represent. That small committee is comprised of 12 individuals who will meet monthly or bimonthly to be able to just talk about the work and then every month at the board meeting share out any progress that we've done. So super excited um to keep that going. And then uh later tonight I will be talking about staffing. So this is the season for staffing. So we're working really hard. Um our current enrollment numbers are there. What I would like to point out to the board, if you look at our current enrollment numbers, specifically at our current second grade and third grade classes, so you can see our current third grade class has 154 students. Our current second grade class has 126 students.
010So we have almost 30 students less in this cohort that's moving up. Currently in third grade, um we did have two teacher um retirements this year. So, one of the things that we'll be doing, we'll be absorbing one of those positions through attrition, which is something that the board's given directive of. And that's only because this cohort is so much smaller than the other cohort. So, we'll be able to do that. But I would like to point out if you look at kindergarten and first grade, we're monitoring those numbers closely. So, on the flip end of that, our incoming first graders, our current kindergarten class is higher than our first grade class. So, Megan's keeping a close eye on that, keeping communication as things come in. So, we'll be monitoring that and keep the board
011informed if we need to make adjustments. We don't predict um any changes in kindergarten enrollment um staying pretty steady. We'll keep monitoring that. So, excited for that. And then Nora has been tasked with really reviewing um with the building principles, student needs for pair of professionals. So, we're analyzing all of those and making sure that we'll be able to support all of our students as well. When does kindergarten enrollment open for 2020? I was going to say yes, we're we're in the final touches of that. So, I just have some very excited incoming kindergarteners. I think the process will be pushing out blast for that because the process will be a little bit different because now that we have clear, we'll be able to run all of our students and their families and guardians through
012Clear to be able to check. So, it will be a little bit different process. So, Penny is working on those fine checks to us. Thank you. That's fine. That's fine. Just want to let my friends know. They're very uh any other questions regarding my report from the board. So with that one cohort, second grade being lower, is that something that as they progress through assuming numbers are going to stay relatively the same will be will you be moving say an extra teacher back to a larger cohort kind of floating? Sure. I see what you're saying. So this time due to the retirements we were able to through attrition make that move. But in the future, if that cohort stays smaller, that's something that we would be posting for those positions and then seeing maybe if
013we have any staff interested in voluntarily transferring. Otherwise, it potentially could be an involuntary transfer. For sure. Yeah. All right. Uh business services. All right. So, in my memo, I just wanted to highlight a couple different items for uh attention for tonight. First off is for the FY25 budget. We are looking to do a um an amended budget because of our construction fees that came in for construction. Unfortunately, it was done almost two summers ago and that was from Schroeder. So, a bill came in late after the fact. So, we're going to do need to do an amended for probably May is is my timeline I would like to do, but we also want to do a transfer as well. So, as as we've talked about in the past, we've been able to do a
014transfer. Last year, we transferred uh $750,000 from the ED fund and moved that over to capital. We'd like to do that same amount, but I'm still just looking at our our cash balance to make sure that we can move that much. So, I'll have more news to come hopefully next month with an estimate and bringing that back and for a May timeline um to to make those uh changes. So then in the um in in my uh board report then there are several different reports from PMA on economic economic presentation. Uh it's already unfortunately dated. It was March 5th but it's still kind of good information as well as a weekly weekly update uh market update from the 10th of March. But again everything is changing so drastically and quickly but um just wanted to
015provide that for your reference. The other item that I wanted to call out was theou that's in the board packet and that's with DLA for our 10-year life safety analysis. Um, so this is every 10 years we have to do a study. It's uh something that's uh has to be reported to ISBY. Um, in the board packet I would just point out that there's the the proposal from DLA. That cost is actually $100 less than what we paid over 10 years ago for um uh for Farnsworth. Um, so in terms of perspective, just knowing that at least the services that we were paying for over 10 years ago were a little bit less than that for for this renewal. So it still is a it's a it's a large ticket item, but I just wanted
016to keep that in perspective of of what we've paid over 10 years ago for that. Um, and and that's it for the the update at this point. Any questions? I have a question on the budget. Is there a dollar amount that you look at to determine you have to amend the budget? It's over 10% within a fund. So, we were at a point where unfortunately that bill came in timing wise when we thought it was going to hit last year hit then in this fiscal year. So, we're still looking at at a 10% and it's not just all your funds, it's just the specific fund. And is that the only fund we anticipate? Yes. Needing. Okay. Yes. Good. Uh, student services. Good evening. You have my memo in front of you, but just a few
017updates. We are busily interviewing for our vacancies for next year, working on those. We do have some shifts in OT again, which is listed on the memo. You can see that. And then you're going to be taking action later, hopefully this evening. We are looking to reduce speech by two days. So, it's not truly going to be a reduction. It's going to be a shift if you're good with it. We're looking to add two days of OT, but we're really not adding them. Currently, we're contracting two days of OT with a part-time OT. So, when you look at it, it's 15 days of OT. So, we're looking to have in-house 15 days next year instead of paying the higher contracted rate. So, if we could hire the two full-time, one to replace the current vacancy,
018and then the current part-time would go to full-time, then we'd have 15 days total. So, we're reducing two speech but picking up the OT. So, it's kind of an even wash, but a huge cost savings because the contract salaries in there. You can see the difference. Um, if that makes sense. Then, under preschool, we're looking to shift the hours. It really is only about a 15 minute shift, but what it does is the afternoon section would be able to dismiss with their siblings at the end of the day. And I know Walsh is working on some magical bulldog thing that is going to happen next year. I don't even know what to call that. Bulldog fairy dust magic. Right. So, right now EC has a separate arrival and dismissal. So, what this will do is
019it'll keep the morning entrance still will be separate, but then the end of the day, so the afternoon ECs will leave with the K1 kiddos. So, it'll be one dismissal at the same time. And for safety, there's a lot of pros to that. So, we're looking at that. It'll also give teachers the appropriate amount of plan time because they'll have their plan before school starts and then in the middle of the day as well. I think I captured that right. And then we're looking to change our current crisis intervention program. Right now we use CPI which is a very labor intensive for us to train our staff to do it and it's very cost prohibitive. So safety care is another approved program through the state that we can use. It's a little cost savings but
020then it is less hours for the staff to be trained and it's more school-based. It's more school friendly. So the focus isn't the hands-on piece which we don't use very often. So it's really looking at all the preventative resources you can put on the frontend incentives to keep children from needing that intensive need. So we're looking to do that. There will be kind of an overlap to get everyone trained. So anyone who's currently CPI trained will carry us through the first part of next year until we have everyone have a team at every building. So looking to do that and that's it unless anyone has questions. Thanks. D Frankie, you want to um Yeah. So uh you can see Dr's Lake's report is in there. So um ELA pilot is still going strong. She's doing
021a lot of good work with that committee. Currently soliciting their feedback as we're approaching the time to make a decision here. Um, math professional development. Reeds had some really great math professional development. If you'll recall, this was tied to their school improvement plan. Um, but the feedback from the staff was really great. So, we're excited to kind of continue down that journey. Uh, staff institute day was a success back in February. It seems like a lifetime ago. Um, but just a few weeks ago. and standardsbased learning and grading. Another big committee that we're excited to see wrap up here. Um, one of the things that her and the committee are working on is a presentation that will be pushed out to all the families in advance. So, we know that there's busy schedules and sometimes
022um, people aren't able to attend in person. So, this way we'll be able to push out all the information prior to like a board meeting or anything and then we'll be able to um, address it again. So, we're excited for that presentation to be able to um, go out to families. We are only implementing standardsbased learning and grading next year, K4. So, we're not rolling up to that fifth grade. That was a strategic plan on the committee's part because those fifth graders have currently been receiving letter grades when they flip to OP. They're in in that hybrid where they have those letter grades still. So, we didn't want for one year to flip their whole world only to reflip it. So, something to be on the lookout there. So, lots of great stuff um coming
023from curriculum. All right. Any questions? And we're approving, we plan on approving u the ELA in April. Yeah, they're meeting next week and I think the hope is that we get Right. Right. You'll have something about April, May at the latest. Yep. Oh, so maybe even in May. Yes. Okay. But I think the goal is April. Okay. But I have director of technology. Right now, I'm looking at my a lot of the summer safety stuff going on as far as phones, wiring, all that fun stuff that always goes in the background. Something's in the classroom. Uh phone wise, we ordered uh phones for the classroom. They're nice orders got to be processed. They have but they have the order. Once they arrive, we use the Wi-Fi on them for now just because the switches themselves
024on the power to power all the phones we have. And then as we get the wiring addressed and switches, we can switches addressed. We can plug in the phones and all powered by PoE. Um along with that uh we're looking at doing the wiring of course this summer. Well, part of that is looking at the elementary schools as well. So we I talked with Heartland Business Systems and they're actually a single wire a single wire in Formicus vendor and they're going to help come out and do scope for us and they're going to look at our buildings say okay what do we need as far as for security? What do we need as far as for our door systems? Look at for as our cameras look as far as for intercom systems all that piece.
025So we can kind of analyze what we need to buy and what we really don't. Um, we had had a conversation with them on Friday last week and one of the things we were talking about as a team was if we go IP speakers for every classroom. Do we still need a Khog system? Do we still need a traditional PA system? We might not. So, it's looking at pieces like that and see where we can maybe cut costs and also looking at the door systems because we look at door systems. We're we're guessing right now what how many how many wires we need for a door system. Might need two, might need five. We're have them look at that and say, "Okay, well, if they only need two, we can cut down our cost of
026wiring for the buildings that way because we're projecting like five now per door." So, we're just looking at those pieces there and evaluating it. So, we can look at the long-term project and say, "Okay, this is the cost will be and this will be for the hardware." But them also being a single wire vendor means it can give us better pricing on single wire and also give us some connections. Uh, one such connection working us right for now now right now for us is they gave us an extension on our single wire trial license and also they're getting us a demo of one of these Atlas speakers we're going to try to proof of concept with with the system and the demo is going to be free for us as far as the actual piece
027of equipment afterward. They're going to say here just keep it which is usually about a thousand device getting us for free. So I'm working with them to try to get better pricing get these things up and rolling with that as well as helping us just make a better roadmap. Um, we have a lot there's a lot of pieces to this to this puzzle. A lot of pieces between the the alarms, the buzzers, everything else that go with this, but having a good road map to say, okay, this is going to take one, two, three years. What's the cost going to look like? What should theation look like? And how do we really make this work well for the schools? And that just be something we're just kind of scratching our heads figuring this might work
028when they've done it before and they can give us some good references and good basis to work off of. Um, so you're um the slide deck that was in the board packet. We're we're rewiring all of OP, right? Yeah, that's that's the plan. And then we're looking also wire the three elementary schools. Um, and that's that's new from what we've been talking about in the past. Correct. Yeah, we were that was just be a later a later project, but we're thinking if we can the elementary school is actually a little easier to wire because you have better easier drop ceilings. There's less less less mess up there to clean out. And there's also some there's also some cases cable there already. So I can see if we can actually conquer those sooner possibly depending on
029the bid process and how things roll. And then as that happens we not conquer those then hit then hit OP at a later time because that's going to be such a bigger project and involve a lot more downtime posy downtown of all the buildings because internet circuits are there main servers are there. So we want to make sure that everything kind of coordinates well. So you maybe can coordinate it starting this year with the elementary schools during off off seasons or places where kids teach teachers kids aren't there or teachers aren't there and work it that way. So, so some of the u right having a full plan but the demo of single wire and getting that connected to things like the phone system right what's the timeline to start that I mean right total
030completion and all of the they're not bells and whistles some of them are bells and whistles right because those are the alarms but um so what what is our uh realistic timeline of getting implementation and and a deeper proof of concept in right it works. We all know that that it works but actually getting it implemented um in some of the buildings. Um well I know we have a we have we currently have a small PC setup right in the tech lab here at level actually we push it from phone to then hit to it into inform then to hit to uh alert to both um phone and laptop screen. So, as we got that currently working as part of that process and we're looking to bring that speaker I was talking about the speaker
031and then add into that pro proof of concept process as well. As far as a larger implementation, we're hoping that we can maybe do get the at least the phone part up where we can do the alerting via phone to laptop poss if all goes well. Um, we got to see again just checking on the status of what we can actually wire up. um because the building's wiring is not where we want it to be yet or the POE part is not there yet for putting all the pieces in place we'd like to put in place but we're gonna try that's trying with Harland to get a good road mapap to say okay yeah we think we can you can accomplish this this year or maybe take a year and a half we don't fully
032know our assistance first to really say you know it could happen now or it could happen a year and a half I it's hard to really judge right now and the was it I don't know if it was last month or a couple months ago we approved some - stuff Right. Yeah, that was switching for Walsh, Reed, and Lwig. And that's to get them their POE power up and so we can start doing some phones in there and stuff like that. So working in that piece of it. Yes. Right. So all those switches are the POE pieces that we're correct waiting on, but we'll have them this summer. Yes. And that's all -ate, right? So that's grant money paying for parts of that as well. All right. So, so we have the we will have
033the pieces the pieces are being laid out pretty relatively quickly so we can start seeing some implementation obviously not full implementation right away but okay. All right. Uh there are no principal reports though the floor is yours if you have anything to share. Very quiet. Yeah, absolutely. That's right. Yes. 1:30 tomorrow. This is a student run, student produced, student organized podcaston to help raise money to cure childhood cancers, tune in. You know, we have uh set a goal for ourselves for the podcaston to raise 3,000 for St. Baldicks. If by chance we do get up to 5,000 by the end of the day on Thursday after our open gym, I will be trimming the hair. Stay tuned and see how much we can. So, where do we find the link? Where do I circling around,
034but um we'll blast it out via Blackboard and on Facebook first thing in the morning. Okay, perfect. We'll be waiting. Alex told me save his head. Awesome. Um, very good. All right. I need a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Stop key. Yeah. I guess confused. Sorry. Um, roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Uh, I need a motion to approve the vision 2030 board resolution. Ted Well, Frankie. All right. So, the board may recall we had a presentation on this last year. This was or last month. Yeah, last year. Well, feels like it. It feels like it. Last month we did. Um, so this is a statewide initiative that was developed with over a thousand stakeholders. And so tonight, um, I'm recommending that the board approve
035this. And then what I will be able to do is go on and say that we've approved it and then the state's monitoring it. So it'll pop up a little ping that our board has approved as well. So very good. Any questions? All right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the administrative staff director administrative. Wow, you're struggling. Yeah. Approve. It just didn't read right. Approval of administrative contract for the director of curriculum and instructive instruction effective July 1st, 2025. Dokey Tidwell. Great. All right. So, um, as as the board knows, um, Dr. Lisa Lake has a new opportunity and so um we wish her the best with that. We knew that um we had to replace our director of curriculum position. So we had
036over 80 applicants apply for the position. So we did a deep dive because we knew that it would be worth it to be able to really bring forward the be best candidate. So we had three interviews, three interview rounds um with candidates. The last one included a presentation. And so I'm thrilled tonight to bring forward the team's top candidate um Dr. Barb Shanahan. So I have had the pleasure to work with Dr. Barb Shanahan um previously in Frankfurt. So I know firsthand the experience she brings, but I wanted to share the feedback from the committee team. So these are some quotes from the committee members. She's a clear communicator, walks the walk and talks the talk, is skilled in how she collaborates with colleagues, has also provided great insights into our data. Barb was the
037best overall fit for our team. I believe she will see everything through and help make us a high performing district. She's highly intelligent, very knowledgeable, warm, approachable, funny, and has experience prek through 8th. She was calm and kind, had high expectations, but was willing to put in the work to succeed. And she has great big picture perspective and cares for students. Barb spoke about her coaching experiences and how she brings articulation across the buildings. She's also planned and led professional development at all levels. So, that's just some of the feedback from the committee. So, I'm super thrilled tonight to bring this candidate forward for board approval. All right. Anyone anything? All right. Moment of truth. Here we go. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries unanimously. Congratulations. Congratulations. Welcome to the
038bulldog. That's I need I need a device and I need my right. Um All right. I need a motion to approve the 202526 administrator contracts as presented. Folk TW. All right. So um all the contracts are listed there. There is a memo page that's an quick read for the board. Um, if you're able to look at the memo page, it will have the administration's name, their position, and then their base salary for 25 and then a 4% increase. The only different contract that I want to point out is um assistant principal position is in the retirement lane. So, you'll see an asterk there just marking that it's that 6% increase um following our CBA. So that's the only difference in in there, but it's a nice quick view for the board to be able to
039see. And thank you so much. It was just Yes, I would agree. And in a in a table just got to love it. And the 4% mirrors the collective bargaining agreement with the teachers. The collective bargain. Okay. All right. Any questions? You know, I just expressed my concerns about this to um Dr. Frankovvich and Matt. To me, it's just the appearance of the timing of it. Um with the election a couple weeks away, I didn't think it was really timesensitive. That was my only concern on that is it may not be anything wrong with just the appearance of trying to get it done before an election when half the board is up for election. Don't we always do it in March? We have the last two years. Yes. Yeah. um previous years on occasion we'll
040we'll save it uh it gets tied to collective bargaining agreements and things. Got it. But in the the last two years uh we have done it in the at the March meeting. Got it. Well, I know no different. All right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the administrator benefits package for 202526. Zapki Tidwell getting lots of action. Um, so the administrative benefit package is the same package that was presented to the board last year. There have been no changes made to the package. All right, questions. All right, roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Um I need a motion to approve the 2526 school calendar. Dokkey verlock. All right. As I shared, the only adjustment was um to those dismissal times
041prior to uh winter and spring break. Right. And uh the calendar mirrors the high school and the other grade schools in the area with the big breaks at least um Christmas and spring break. Yeah. Um are in alignment. So that's important. All right. Roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need Oh, I should have practiced this. What's the second? I need a motion to approve the Gazith Gazinsmith and Mesco engagement letter Baracki. All right. So, as I uh presented last month, uh this was the new engagement letter with Gazen Smith and Michael Elesco. Uh it's a it's another uh three-year engagement with them. As I identified last month, there was a larger increase uh when confirming with John Michelleco, the the reason for that is the gata requirements that were enacted
042by ISBY two years ago. We he saw a large increase, an actual extra day for auditing purposes. So, we're seeing those increases across every audit firm. So, I'm just presenting that back background information. Um but otherwise it was an 8% increase over over the year but that 8% included almost a full extra day of Yes. Yes. labor whereas typically they were about a 3% increase. Okay. Questions. All right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to uh to pass the resolution in the reduction in force of a of our part-time speech pathologist. Stop key. Correct. All right. So, uh this motion comes tonight. We just had a we don't have the speech numbers. There's nothing performance. We absolutely adore this educator, but um we don't have the speech
043numbers currently to keep them on. Okay. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Uh discussion item staffing update. All right. So, as I shared earlier, I kind of stole all my thunder here. Um we're keeping a close eye on the cohorts. The one thing I did just want to clarify for the board and and the community, anybody listening, is um we're not making cuts. So, I know that it seems that when we have a resignation or a retirement and that is what attrition is and that has been the board's directive. And so, we're really looking at um if you were able to join us at the community event, I think Dave did a great job speaking to that and talking about every time we receive a resignation or retirement,
044we're really looking at evidence-based funding and the need for that. And so, um, I do just want that's the one thing that I wanted to make clear is we are not making cuts, but we are looking to be able to be more fiscally responsible through attrition. And and like you said earlier, the the only uh current one in the teaching staff is a is the third grade position. Correct. That numbers wise, we clearly um can absorb those students and keep class sizes the same. Yes. are we anticipate that um kindergarten uh first through fifth grade will still be around 22 students a class which is a really great number. Any other um but that goes for all positions as well, right? like we're looking it's not just teaching staff when we're looking everything our uncertified
045staff um from um custodial and maintenance to tech every position when we're receiving those resignations we're really diving into um you know what's the need that we have for that to be fiscally responsible my I just have one question that there's two major developments that are coming up in the district have we considered that just before we move forward we've at the town home complex on 151st and then the apartment complex. So potentially that could bring in some students that we could see some growth. Yes. Yes, definitely something to stay on top of and keep looking at numbers. Like I said, um we're watching them. I I know when we look at that kindergarten number, we're watching it really closely for first grade. And so while we're able to absorb in one way, we might
046have to spend that in another way as well. Okay. And student handbook committee. All right. So, we are um excited. We have a student handbook committee on April 8th at 3:45. So, the board had a lot of committees, but we didn't have anyone on student handbook committee. So, I wasn't sure if anyone wanted to join us. I I don't know that. I mean, I don't know that we need anyone unless somebody has a passion for negative. I'm good. Yeah. I mean, so much of that is driven by administration principles and you know, like what do they need and so um I think who's all on like what are what is it a symbol Avengers assemble? I don't know. Depends on the committee. Um so there's um certified staff members. So we have union representation ship
047uh leadership on there building leadership district leadership and then um we pro we're looking for a couple parents. So my hope was some of the parents that couldn't be on the strategic plan okay will be invited to this um meeting. So do we have to have one of us on? We do not have to I think and and parents having parents on there other than us Yeah. is is great. That's why Yeah. Okay. Perfect. great way to involve community. Um do we expect any um right there's a lot of talk about cell phone um we are monitoring that closely. So if you've been watching the news yes Pritsker has made reference that you know he hopes to ban um cell phones. Um I do know that um there's a lot of talk about that. Some
048districts have already adopted that. I would anticipate potentially press might have something about that when they come out in April. Um, so we're just going to monitor that carefully. I'll keep the board updated about that. And he wants to ban them completely from the school or it's got to be in a locker like So different schools are handling it different ways right now. I don't want to call them cells, but like if you picture like I used to put my Barbies in them like your old behind the door like shoe hangers. You know what I'm talking about? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And so then like students will drop them in there and so then they don't have access so they're engaged in the instruction. Teachers aren't trying to have to monitor and fight for student attention
049because they don't have access to those. So some districts are handling it that way. Other districts will have like a small pencil case like the clear plastic box looking ones on the desks so that students put them in there and then obviously have to open it up so they're not able to easily access it. So there's a lot of different ways that school districts are handling those. What's what's Pritzkar pushing? You could not have them in class. So, you would like students that have an IEP would be able to have them if they needed a device for um let's say a diabetic student and they they're monitoring their insulin that way. There are exceptions to that, but he is looking to be able to get them out of the classroom. Interesting. Yeah, there were three
050or four or more versions of the bill introduced by different people and I'm sure they're coming together to find one that everybody can agree on. Yeah. So, it but it's tricky because of the exceptions and Yeah. and still leaving it up to schools to determine, you know, local communities to determine what level to to do it. But, yeah, it's going to be I think vanish. And I I'm interested. I haven't seen anything yet, but watches are a thing, too. I know that especially at the the out I was actually thinking to myself, well, there's an easy way out. Yeah. like I've been where I'm walking somebody like I'm getting on the bus mom. I'm like oh um so that's there's been nothing about that at the moment but that's something we're seeing too. Does Oak
051Prairie or any school have a lot of challenges with that or no? Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, quite interesting at the high school. Said he's not for the band. Just thanks Christian. Glad that you're concerned. I do remember when Lockport came to visit to do the PSAT test and the administrators were in the hallway and they're like, "Oh, this is so nice. Where are the cell phones at?" So, yeah. pull your headphones. Yeah. Yeah. That's Yeah, that's They went back. Yeah, they went back to original. They went old school. Yeah. Um school. All right. Well, we we look forward to that work being completed. Um Right. We need to do it by May or whatever. We Yes. So, one of the things we're waiting for was to approve the school calendar because the school
052calendar goes in the handbook. So that's kind of the delay. Any information about the potential for the 8:45 mandated start? Have you heard about that? There's another bill going through the state legislation that no schools can no students can start attendance until after 8:45. What? Why? Oh, I have not seen that one. I thought it was all students. Man, that's gonna put us in a pickle. We use I think it might be because the other high school bill I saw was the sports the club sport verse, but that's only high school, too. Okay. Maybe I only heard it because it's high school. But I I thought it was all students 8:45 8:45 start time. We'll look into that. Interesting. How do you do that without doing it to everybody? I I don't find some new
053and then it has huge impacts on after school activities starting that much later. All right. Okay. Um no new business. New business. So two board members will be needed for our strategic plan. So I do have um the tentative time that uh the board's consultant Kathy Pezanowski has is um 5 to 6:30. She did give me a couple dates. um April 15th, that's prior to our our next board meeting, May 6th, May 13th, June 10th, and then she put June 17th. She anticipates the work will be done by that time. That's also a board meeting night. Um but but she just wanted to slate pencil one more in for the committee. So, those are the the tentative dates that we have. And then um if I could get two board members, I'd be able to
054push out communication to that small team tomorrow with these dates and times to get them on everybody's calendar. I'd be interested in that one. I would too. Yeah. Well, I'll bow out. Adriana and Melissa can do it. Are you sure? Yeah. Absolutely. Saturday. Yeah. Jeff signed up, too. I'm arm wrestle. If you and Jeff want to do Well, I'm looking at my calendar, actually. Hold on. Hold, please. I have a whole So Melissa, Gina, Adriana, Gina already dropped out. Gina dropped out. Gina drop out. Listen, I was being kind to you girls, but I'll get it back in. Jeff, you want to I don't care if you and Jeff Melissa's looking at her schedule. You and Jeff can do it. They're I think most of these are Tuesdays, I believe. Yeah, I think they're all
055Tuesdays. the April 15th, May 6, May 13th, June 10th, and June 17th. Make my own schedule. I'll text you. Remind you. Adriana, put Adriana. Um, Adriana, you can do it. That's fine. Okay. Thank you. I'm I'm concerned about the commitment with working in baseball and my husband's schedule and yeah it's going to be So can you just call me and fill me in? Yeah, she will have to do board updates that way. Yeah. I mean I think she's going to keep us very well informed. So don't worry. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you for your Okay. Perfect. Another new business. That was the only one I had on my agenda. Unless you have one. I I don't think I do. Okay. Um there was uh FOYA report FOYA was in the board packet. Student conduct review
056was in the board packet. Any public comments not on the agenda? No. All right. Then I need a motion to adjourn the meeting. Yep. Doky. All those in favor signify by saying I. Eyes have it. We're adjourned. Ready for me.