001September 2nd, 2025 video. [Music] Dr. >> here. >> Dr. Harris >> here. >> Mr. Gilmore >> here. >> Mr. Headley >> here. >> Mr. Ho >> here. >> Mr. Relli >> here. >> Mr. Parisy >> here. >> Okay. First item on this site is our um consent agenda. You had a chance to review the consent agenda already. Take a minute to look over again wish to pull any of the items please note there's also personel on your desk [Music] there it be motion material please the department to the reading of the consent agenda is printed in the board agenda including the September 2nd, 2025 personnel addendum. >> Second motion by Mr. Prey, second by Dr. Bidwell. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Bissy, >> yes. >> Dr. Bwa, >> yes. >> Mr. Ho, >> yes.
002>> Mr. Hley, >> yes. >> Sister Misselli, >> yes. >> Dr. Ferris, >> yes. >> Mr. Gilmore, >> yes. >> Okay. Next item on our agenda is our recognition. Yeah. Heat. We ask you to move resolution where support education community school district contributions these individuals aware of district accomplishments accomplishments. Now therefore be it resolved that the board of education Woodstock community unit school district 200 hereby dispose special recognition have certificate of achievement on behalf of the citizens of the district. There have a second motion by Mr. Gilmore second by Mr. Cy. Roll call please. >> Mr. Gilmore. >> Yes. >> Mr. Paresi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ho. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hedley. >> Yes. >> Dr. Fris. >> Yes. >> Dr. Big. >> Yes. [Music] We're going to call each winner for our show certificate.
003Shake both hands, please. And stand for a picture. All right. from school. Frank [Music] D3. [Music] I really camera. and radio. All right. [Music] Sorry. [Music] can be [Applause] [Music] in a return. I know you're all in the middle. Please take pictures right there. [Music] Yeah. [Music] Big smile. Big smile. [Music] Heat. Heat. Thank you very much. [Music] Good evening members of the board of education colleagues. I my distinct pleasure to celebrate and acknowledge two distinguished colleagues. It's a great pleasure and a part of Hollywood player here. Tonight I share with you a tradition we have at play. As you're aware, we have our very own academy right here in town whose members are a multiaceted multi in addition to the teaching and student support service members that play staff a collegiate athletic coach. weekend
004world travelers school district alumni a free agent quarterback who signed with San Francisco 49ers for 103 days back in the year 2001 division and a teacher who did believe it or not related to Santa and Mrs. June all the talents at the academy. We're here tonight to celebrate unique talent staff to shine spotlight on the true star of our school district. Our incredible accomp is justified. I'm going to share with you some awards that we handed out uh at Clay recently. These awards recipients are not chosen lightly. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards recipients receive an Oscar to commemorate their achievement. Now, the Clay Academy Award recipients received the official one of a kind Clayton the Bulldog statue to celebrate their accomplishments. I love nothing more than to share the recipients of
005each of the 23 categories with you tonight. I promise I won't do that. So instead, the academyy's governors have chosen two tremendously distinguished individuals to highlight here. Our first award for best art direction and this year the claim that goes to a visionary who transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Our art teacher April D. April works her magic at the academy elementary and Greenwood Elementary. So her talents are truly benefiting students near and far. When you walk into April's classroom, you're not just seeing art. You're seeing a world of creative possibilities. Her room is vibrant. Rather, her room is a vibrant studio where every student is encouraged to be an artist and perhaps equally important to paint themselves. April has a unique talent for seeing the potential in every brush stroke in every sketch. And
006I say that in both a figurative and liberal sense. She fosters an environment where mistakes are simply happy and selfexression is the ultimate goal. Whether she's helping students find their voice through a messy clay sculpture or guiding them to create their masterpiece, April's passion for art and her dedication to her students shines through in every single she does. Our next award is for the best actress and a supporting role and this year we claim those powerhouse of our school community and an absolute legend who's been with us since the year 2005. Our very own Michelle Every great leading actor or actress needs a phenomenal supporting cast and Michelle is definition of a supporting star. As an associate or or appropriately actress and supporting worker, she works tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure every student
007gets personalized support and the support they need. Michelle has remarkable ability to anticipate a student's needs often before they even realize themselves. for wide educations and unwavering support to help our students feel seen and valued is shown every single day. Her daily work is a master class empathy and dedication and we are so incredibly lucky to have her on our team. So on behalf of the academy community I'd like to thank board of education superintendent for the opportunity to share these two remarkable colleagues here with you. Their collective dedication exemplifies the very best in education. We're fortunate to have them among us. And on behalf of the governors of the academy, I do have something to present to you both and here for you is better than members of the board. Heat. Heat. Oh yes.
008Heat. Heat. Heat. Okay, next is communications. Communications are community members district employees to express point of view. There's a sign she name address organization representative and script topic be addressed comments are done to 3 minutes policy 230 and otherwise govern policy 230 we'll start with public comments we do have one person sign up wish to address the board or maybe to address that will be Jackson to address the board at this [Music] Good evening and thank you for letting me come to our meeting tonight and I just came to say that I'm a teacher a school teacher special all my life and it's kind of appropriate that I'm here tonight because my topic is going to be cursive writing and I've been passionate about handwriting been a cursive writing for a long time and recently
009I I opened up the stuck independent and there's an article by Cheryl in there all about tours of writing and if you you need a copy of it I will give it to you but I was so excited and then I thought this is my chance to come and and show show my passion for it. Um so from the voice independently thank you very much. Um in this world of technology I think it's really important that we don't um dismiss handwriting it supports not only one thing as just handwriting um one one class for it. It encompasses all the things and I I think handwriting in general should be um upgraded and we should look at that a lot more than we do when they learn in our classrooms. Um and there's benefits um the
010benefits that I I see that we lead to and especially this is this is like there's a loophole I feel in our um handing because I know that just district 200 is doing that having classes in handwriting in third grade and I'm very excited about hearing about that. But there is a loophole when when the students are in sixth grade and now in high school they not know how to write in cursive because they have not had the lessons co is part of it. I know parents need to work on it also but there's a loophole there where they don't know how to write it. So if they can't write it, they can't they can't um read it. And I I see that as my own grandkids and children in the district, but they say,
011"Mrs. Jackson, we haven't we haven't learned it, so we need we um we all need to." And I I think that's kind of sad. Um and and in Cheryl's um article, it shows how extending um that handwriting is it extends your personality too. And we know when we see somebody that wrote a handwritten note, we can say, "Oh, I know who that was. It was my mom or my grandma, my daughter, my sister." Because it's an assumption of your personality. And just think of it all the things that we do these days. you need to have um you need to sign with a signature, financial documents, health documents, official documents, checks um and it's very important and I guess one thing it also helps with your creativity because if you write in person and you
012have beautiful handwriting, I think it is an art these these words I'm very proud of but this could also be an art too. So, lessons that I lessons that I want to pass on. Um, handwriting is a life skill. It's just not one skill that learning and reading and math. It's a life skill that the kids will take on forever throughout their lives. So, and use it as an enrichment. I just saw in the paper how well the Woodstock schools are doing in the state. And let's do this, too. was operating at and I push for um push for handwriting in our schools that that we can operate in. Be proud of the students when they come out. Thank you so much. Thanks to for putting that in. Thank you. >> Thank you for taking
013the time to come and address us on that issue. >> Thank you. >> That's everybody signed off. Are there any who wish to address more this time with sign up? [Music] Last call. [Music] Okay, then we'll move on to our next item. Next item. Staff comments. Are there any staff comments at this time? More comments. [Music] Okay. That'll take care of our communications. All right. [Music] Great idea to build our staff back and our students great learning opportunities for us to build. Oh, you're a great job for a year. You are feeling here really good. That's really sharing. you know there really tonight but we'll get a long time too and afternoon. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next item is unfinished business. We have unfinished business. So, welcome to our new business. The
014first item in our new business is a review of the 2025 2026 strategic plan goals. Galaxy want to see for the next board meeting in 2 weeks 3 weeks actually 23rd of September. So any feedback we absolutely take. Do any more members have any comments or anything to say about the 2025 2026 strategic plan goals at this time? Okay. Well, our next meeting is 23rd of September. And at that point, this will be up for a vote to approve the plan goals. If you have any questions or anything, please refer to Dr. Mo or appropriate regard questions or comments about it. Next item is the approval of the insurance committee recommendation of medical stop loss. Good evening. The insurance committee met on August 22nd. Committee is there for education members, administration, and a member of
015each of our four marketing groups. We met with our 12 consultants and they made a presentation with one item of business that was renewal for our stop loss insurance. They had seven bids went out the market with they came back with seven verified qualified bids. They walked us through those and then they made a recommendation that we go with sunlight for their bid on our stop loss for this year. And the major reason for that is that we reflected over $300,000 [Music] lower than what our current plan is. So savings of over $300,000. There's a few questions and discussion at that point. The committee voted unanimously to bring that recommendation here to the Does anybody have any questions or comments for Brian [Music] to uh our current insurance and the one to go with apples
016to apples with everything? >> Yes, they do. They work with this company as well as much as they work with who's our current carrier and that was that was a question that came up as far as they they have a top tier verified biders and they're both on that tier. process every health committee. We've got representation from all our unions at the table asking questions part they do a nice job information ask questions too. Does anybody else have any other questions regarding the insurance recommendation? If not, there's a suggested motion update 97 of our materials. Move to approve the recommendation to accept the stop-loss insurance bid from Sunlife Insurance for the time period of October 1st, 2025 through September 30th, 2026. >> Second by Mr. Second by Dr. Bidwell. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr.
017Hley, >> yes. >> Dr. Bidwell, >> yes. >> Mr. Perez, >> yes. >> Dr. Paris, >> yes. >> Mr. Mouselli. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hullman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gilmore. >> Yes. >> Okay. Next item is the authorization to accelerate pay paid to Gordon Food Service. >> This excuse me. This item was brought to me brought my attention by food service where we currently um probably purchase 90% of our supplies with the exception of dairy through food service. By taking advantage of the opportunity that they've presented and paying them on a on a more timely basis as opposed to on a monthly basis, we have the opportunity at a 1% price. Our average bill with them is about $88,000 a month. This would give us about $880 a month, which is about $10,500 a year
018in savings that we have for that. So, what we're asking tonight is the opportunity to um to pay them on a timely basis, meaning every within 10 days. But of course you can still see that on the list of bills. So you know what we were paying for authorization to do that and take advantage of that credit. [Music] Anybody questions or comments regarding the authorization to accelerate the age of food service. [Music] I I have some somewhat mixed feelings about it. I mean, I understand our our department does a great job paying attention to what's going on, everything like that. I certainly would like to save that do that. Uh the process we have in place though is designed to make sure that before you know the board members are aware what's going on and
019when we do the financial training meetings the purpose of those is to not at least supposed to be to look at the bills seeing and doing all that stuff by paying the bills ahead of time. We kind of circumvent that. Um, and I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that myself. Um, you know, a couple years ago there was somebody in somewhere else in this one of the cities who stole $2 million worth of chickens by facing their bills. And this seems to be the reason we have a financial committee. The reason we do those things is so that we can what's going on and we can make sure that something like that doesn't make sure something like that doesn't happen. I trust our employs issue. We don't know who's coming down might be something like
020that. So I kind of mix about this. Is there any way that this can be accomplished without having in in the in the from our perspective we could do something differently where we could achieve the same result without having to to go around the process that's in place? I mean, could we just pay it? I mean, can we just pay the same amount every month? Um, or do something like that that would just set up so that we would not have to change the processes or they're designed to guarantee fiscal sol. >> We can certainly investigate, see if there's another way around it. The the way it was presented was they wanted to receive payment within 10 days of sending their invoice. And just for your knowledge, it doesn't circumvent any of the approvals that
021happen internally. So for example, it'll be entered by the secretary in the food service department is approved by the director of food service and then comes into the accounting area be approved again before it's paid. So there's there's several steps along the way before you even see it on the list of bills actually. But we can certainly see if we can find some other um other options. It's not it's not a you know deadline um type of item just place. Heat. Heat. Oh yeah. about it and something that just kind of I have some discomfort that other people may not but that's my personal feeling on it. So I want to raise that issue. So how long does it take usually before they're paid after the invoice is done? You know, it really depends. Um,
022because we're a school district, we have up to 60 days, but we always wait until the second meeting of the month. So, if for example, receive we've re received an invoice in early August or, you know, like this time of year, you wouldn't see it until September 23rd or the second meeting in October depending on the cutoff. So, it could be anywhere between 30, 45, 60 days. Definitely not within that 10day window. How um how frequently are we invoice by do they invoice monthly or do they invoice more? >> Actually they are starting to invoice us almost daily. As soon as they shipment out they'll send an invoice. So what's happened in the past is that the food service secretary she accumulates all those and puts them together on one one bill to be paid
023by doing this. We probably just look at them in that 10day range and try and process them a little bit quicker so we can take advantage of that. But you know as Dr. moment and it's not a hill to dying. It's just an opportunity for us to generate some savings and it's certainly something we can try and be more creative and find some other way. What are the I don't know if you look be able to look them up but if you're over the last obviously not six consecutive months but the last 6 months that we've had kids in school what do the bills amount to? >> They're typically it's about 80 80 90 it depends. I mean sometimes it's closer to 100,000 sometimes 75,000. It depends on >> variance. There is a little bit
024of variance. Yeah. And I don't think as a as the vendor I don't think they're interested in this platform. They want to be paid for what they would be otherwise [Music] would it be possible to do for example do I be August or September September October do those for the same month. So that the next month would be accelerating the the time period in which we pay the next bill. So let's say for example you would do September and October and then in November we have a bill that would be due we receive sometime in the month of November which would then be approved on the November meeting. Would that be a possibility timing it? >> We can certainly bring it to their attention. I mean it's it's pretty much a standard process with them.
025It's not something that they've offered us as a special incentive. They offer this to all their customers. If you pay within 10 days, you get a 1% discount. >> But we can certainly bring their attention. >> All right. Does anybody else have any questions or comments? [Music] Sorry, my computer. There's a suggest a motion on page 90 of our materials if anybody wishes to make it. Move to approve the accelerated payment for Gordon Food Service to realize the 1% discount on the cost of products purchased by the food services department. >> Second motion by Mr. Seconded by Mr. Pesy. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Ha. >> Yes. >> Mr. Paresy. Yes, >> Mr. Hedley. >> Yes, >> Mr. Miselli. >> Dr. Ferris. >> Yes, >> Dr. Bidwa. >> Yes, >> Mr. Gilmore. [Music] >> Yes.
026Okay. And on to our last item was the rejection of the Woodstock North York High School photo voltaic system light site package project. >> All righty. We went out to bid back in August for the um site improvements for our solar field which essentially was fencing and then potentially some seating for the grass area. We received one bid which was almost double what our um what our architect had suggested it would be and we also didn't receive any reply from some of the folks that have been working with us on fencing. So we weren't uncomfortable with it. So we wanted to bring it to your attention and our recommendation is that we reject it and give it another try. [Music] Anybody [Music] have any questions or comments regarding the photo volite package? If not, there's
027a suggestion of a motion update 99 to reject site improvements around the Wood High School [Music] system. Second motion seconded by Mr. Headley. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Ho, >> yes. >> Mr. Hadley, >> yes. >> Mr. Melli, >> yes. >> Mr. Fesey, >> yes. >> Dr. Paris, >> yes. >> Dr. Big, >> yes. >> Mr. Gilmore, >> yes. >> Okay, that's it for our new business. Next item, there are committee reports. We're going to join the report since our last meeting. [Music] >> All right. If there are committee reports to move by Dr. Second by Dr. Goodw. >> Dr. Fris, >> yes. >> Dr. Goodw. >> Yes. >> Mr. Paresi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Melli. >> Yes. >> Mr. Homemark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hadley. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gilmore. >> Yes.