001This is the party school district. Heat. Heat. [Music] here. Dr. Harris, Mr. Gilhart here. Mr. Hudley here. Mr. Ho Mr. Melli here. Mr. Pesy here. is in front of you. There's also a personal message that is on your desk. Please read this agenda. Uh I ask you to report item 2.6 that will be discussed in our new business. So other items uh please let me know. If not, when you're over your suggestion on the first page materials, please include the agenda as part of your motion. Move to the reading of approve the consent agenda as printed in the board agenda with the exception of item 2.6 and including the April 8, 2025 personnel. Second, second by Dr. Bidwell, please. Mr. Perez, yes. Dr. Bidwell, yes. Mr. Homo, yes. Mr. Hedley, yes. Mr. Melli, yes. Dr.
002Ferris, yes. Mr. Gilmore, yes. We have amazing young. Okay. Community school unit school district wishes to recognize the contributions of these individuals. District 200 has benefited as a result in the college's accomplishment. Now therefore be resolved the board of education of Woodstock community school district 200 hereby restore and certificate of achievement on behalf of the citizens of the district. Second motion by Mr. Gilmore seconded by Mr. Py roll call please. Mr. Gilmore yes Mr. Pesy yes Mr. Hollow yes Mr. Hedley yes Mr. Melli, yes. Dr. Paris, yes. Dr. Pipro, yes. We're going to call each one big picture when we're done. Right. So, here we have great There is street. [Music] Um, we have two winners. We have and [Music] Open church. [Music] Fire. Everyone. [Music] I got [Music] more arena. I will find out.
003[Music] I know. [Music] Oh, no. I don't [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] First thing is costume. She always likes to do She adore her. She's She's She's smart. This is Antonio. [Music] very nice to everyone because he's the best teacher in the world. I love you, Mrs. D. You're the best. Mrs. D makes me smile because she came with us. Mrs. [Music] Okay, Miss Rosa. So, Miss Rosa, she was a prek associate. Now, she's one of our career educators. Thank you to Super. You show up always [Music] wheat. Heat. Heat. [Music] We [Music] have glory. meetings. We're going to move into one of this portion of the meeting. You came primarily for um for recognition a chance for you to to stood out. Um you're welcome to stay the meeting. We thank you for coming. We're
004going to pause for a couple minutes and then we will resume the meeting. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] There's [Music] other communications. Communications are community members to express the point of view. There's a signup sheet for identify address organization representative and every description to be addressed comments are general 3 minutes for policy 230 and other governor policy 230 who wish to address this not we Okay. Are there any staff comments board comments? Uh first, congratulations to those board members who were reelected on Tuesday. And second, please for those of you who have not done so, take a look at the signup sheet for the end of your activities and fill them in and try and get to as many as you can. Okay, that's it for our communication. Then we'll move on
005to superintendent report. Thank you. Uh spring today activities coming up this month show this Friday next Monday to our seniors as Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. last week again and services. Thank you so much. [Music] Okay, this is our superintendence report. So I have that on our general monitor report which is early childhood program. Okay. So, it's kind of timely because Suzanne here as we kind of talk about some of our early childhood programming and support and those who are a big part of our early childhood programming here. But I kind of wanted to just give a brief overs. Um I'm going to highlight some of the things that we have here primarily uh house but we do have some um but we have a zero3 prevention initiative program and that really
006serves children who are group three and so um that's a program that we have normal visitors that do a lot weekly visits with identified families and students and there we also have a mental health consultant that kind of does workshops and consults with staff. Um that's a really great program where we get families early on and get them into doing connection or sports. Um that's program that we have starting out. So we have our preschool for all program, preschool expansion, tuition. So this is what you would think of as traditional preschool programming. So when the kids go, we have full day programming now for preschool, which is awesome. We've had that for I think five or six years currently. Um, we have opportunities for students to go to preschool for a full day and then
007we have half day programs and then we have tuition programs for our families that may not qualify for the the grant funded um preschool programs. Uh we have two parent educators and here tonight and we have about 14 prek teachers that support this program as well. We have um we have about 390 students who are students. That's a lot of students. a a great number of prek teachers that support those programs. And then something that we just started two years ago, actually this year um that I wanted to highlight was our year program. And so this is really for those students maybe who have never gone to school. They've never gone or part of our prek program. Maybe they didn't even go to a local um preschool program. And so they're just we offer an
0088 program right before school starts is in August. And it's for those students that are getting ready to go into kindergarten. So it's where they can come to school, they spend four hours, they learn routines. What is it like to go get breakfast in the cafeteria? What's it like to go to lunch? So it really sets them up for when they do start school 2 weeks later and know some of those routines. So it's kind of like a catch up or program that has been really successful. We had great feedback from families the last years that we've done this and we were able to about 40 kids. It's been a really nice addition both and so a little bit more details about the 0 to3 program. Um this is serves currently 37 families and 42
009infants and toddlers are part of that program. As I said, they're visiting weekly by the home visitors. We identify those families based on um income, based on if they're a teen parent, if they if maybe the child has health issues, we want to make sure that we're getting them into early intervention. Um so, it's a lot of identification, those types of areas. And then, as I said, parent education. We have a lot of parent education through those programs. So, we're connecting the families with different outside resources. We're having um play groups. So, we're having um times where they can come and get resources and education at the school to learn more um things to help them to support them as they're uh getting ready to send their children to school. So, as we look at
010this curriculum is we have a curriculum that we use to support this program. It's called parents teacher. Again, we're really looking at supporting families with this wraparound service. We do a lot of connections with them to other outside agencies and we're really modeling in those home visit times. So when the home visitors are going out to the homes, they're modeling appropriate interaction with their children and how do we play with them and talk to them and build or world language and vocabulary. And so those are some of the things that we're focusing on through those um home physics again to get them ready to enter into our preschool program or early intervention is something we need before the three-year-old preschool program. And then our preschool and parent education. This is more again for the children
011that are ages three to five right before they are going into kindergarten. So again, we're identifying our youngest children to go into our preschool program. We also have um we have monthly screenings. So Rosa and Christina are part of those monthly screenings where we're bringing families in and screening the children, asking questions of the parents to determine if they qualify for the preschool program. And then we're enrolling them in one of those programs. We have we also have tuition which we typically always have a waiting list in our tition program. So there's lots of interest in our tuition program as well. But some of the things that Rose and Christina work on, they do they do home lunch visits as well and they do a lot of connecting with other agencies. They support a kindness
012closet. Um they're connecting families with those outside resources. you're hosting some uh parent cafes where parents can just come into the school and learn about different uh projects or learn about more information to help them as parents. And then we have lots of partnerships. And so I know that Christina and Rosa are a big part of developing relationships with all these partners that then bring in resources for our families and our kids. For example, the Northern Illinois Food Bank, they provide food backpacks. We worked with United Way for coasts and we started the door dash casino which has gone really well um to bring those backpacks those blue backpacks and some families don't have cars so the door dash will then take those blue backpacks to their houses and that's done really well and then
013the first time we tried that this year um and then county health department is another example of an organization that is you know providing presentations and and classes for parents questions that just a broad overview you on some other things that we are doing to support our early learners and families. Any other questions or comments? This is funded by Yeah, I mean I would say that the state has a strong [Music] Because there's a grand available design once they do the exact opposite before they get here. Do you so much work for the families and build relationships and getting services and your team amazing job with this grant and want to build our kids between prek and kids. So great job everyone. We really appreciate your hard work. So, one of the things I always
014like is that when you're talking about preschool kids and getting kids involving schools, you really start to see a snapshot of a snapshot of our community and types of people that need help. And it's also a good example of what our school how our schools serve beyond just providing education, the numerous ways in which we are reaching out and providing things. It's great to hear what you're doing and so forth to see the kinds of things because I think it's a reminder that there are lots of needs and that this school district is a major part of the community making sure those needs get met. So, it's great to see what you've been doing and really appreciate what you've done um from two different levels the hard work of all of you. I just want
015to add that we share the well. So we have some families that are empty school and we're trying to work on attendance. Her student has been asked several times about your schools. Can you help us? She's on her own business and trying to you know sash going to a family home in the morning and helping mom up and going and rot like so we do like we share it out to other schools. Uh so they're our goto. Yeah, right. One of the things that surprised me, I think, when I first came on board a while back was the level in which our district supports families within the community. And and again, I see that again tonight and from all of you. So, thank you all for what you do. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next
016item on our agenda then is all we are all business so we'll move on to our business. Next on the agenda is the approval of the summer 2025 life saving safety work change order. This is the track that we piec So we want to make [Music] sure that area to maximize the space out there as safe and as possible. comments looking forward. Yes, we can see it done. Really nice. Any other comments or questions? I have some comments or questions. Um I'm confused as the why this wasn't included in the original bid is if it's necessary. It was timeline issues. Yeah. work over a horrible experience for us. So the start date really became what we were racing against in January. This came out pretty good, but we're worried about it now. I think there
017was um some later in the process some of the decisions to to take a deeper look at a couple areas. That's that's what this came up was. The reason I asked is I I I have seen the track and I'm fully aware of it and I appreciate the work that everybody's done on particularly the community members who have helped involved in it and what I'm concerned about is this. The original bid price was about 700 the original bid was about $79,000. And with the two additions that we put in, we've now added about $250,000 to that to from that original bid price. It's not much less than it was when we bought when we when we looked at what the highest bid was at the time that we we originally approved this. And I'm just
018I I don't I'm a little concerned as to why um prior to when this was originally developed, why was that um it wasn't included the architects didn't include something that needed to be done? I I I think it's the deceleration pit which we had the last time. I kind of understand that because, you know, it might have been it was worn off and things like that. The shot is a different thing cuz it was it clearly needs to be replaced and it it was it kind of obvious and it kind of concerns me that you know here we are now. We don't really have much choice. Um we've approved it. It needs to be done in order to meet the timelines as you said we had with the tennis. So we don't have the same
019thing with tennis courts. We got to approve it. Now, I kind of feel like we only got we got to approve it or we can't get it done in time. Um, and that concerns me a little bit because I think that these were two things that could have been included in the original bid. Um, perhaps maybe they should have, maybe they should have not been in the original bid. Um, and and never seen the actual bid. Um, you know, as to what was included. I don't know if this is a comparable price or it's not comparable price to what we originally approved. So, I just wanted to express that concern because I think it's important that when we get we get complete appeal that stuff and that we make those those we we we we're
020fully informed when we make the uh decision. So, um I just wanted to make that make a record of that before we considered it. Yeah. Um I can tell you when they built Woodstock North it went out was for AR, you know, the architect designs that at that time I approached a number of people on the schoolboard and I said let's get some members in the community that are active in this. The coach is involved and I was told don't worry these architects know what they're doing that that that facility is just awesome out there. Okay. And there uh so when this came up I that's when I said hey I really would like to be involved in this so this doesn't happen again. The architects are going for cookie cutter what they you know
021this is what we specified and there was no input from us by the time we got involved. It had already been uh it was on our agenda to come up for a vote. So, I wanted, you know, I'm like, we can't go through with the bid as it is, but if we waited and brought this all back for a bid again, we would be behind another full year. That's why we did it this way. I've looked at all the numbers. They're being more than fair with us with this. And that as far as the shot put um that was uh that was to make it more accessible for more kids to actually utilize that and they moved it off of where it used to be and out of the infield. And so it's also for
022safety reasons. There were some things when we looked at them were kind of glowing errors that we thought needed to be changed, but that's it was a time time issue and I really I think that whoever would have bid it would have bid all the I think the prices their bids would have been compromised if they had put these additions in there. You mentioned that the highest bid well that didn't include any of this either, you know, the high. So, you know, that's why and I and I appreciate that. I I do I do appreciate that when you're doing a project like this, there are things that come up that you can't anticipate. What I'm concerned about is is that this is not the first time that we've had this happen where we've gotten the
023bid and it's ends up being we have additions and they're substantially more than what the original bid was. We're not talking here about $50,000 $50,000. We're not talking about adding $50,000. We're talking about adding $250,000 to the parks before they come up with people that are the reason we hire architects or we hire just because we rely on our expertise on what needs to be done. And if they're not looking at it and figuring out what we need to do, then that's a concern to me. and and going at a price. I mean, when when the architect goes out and looks at the track, it's pretty obvious what needs to be the certainly the the the shop the track is part of it, but the shop will be another one that you can look at
024and say, "Well, boy, if we're going to do it, we'll do this one, too. It really means it." And it should. Now, I you know, and I appreciate that. I I guess I guess where I am is I'm a little little frustrated with the architects that we've had that we've had this happen several times now. And um and and so I just want to make a record and maybe make the point that I mean I I'd rather take stuff off and say we don't want to do the shot than put it on and say we have to add it down because we didn't put it in the original thing. I'd rather have that choice of doing that. But as we sit here today, as you said, I mean, I understand this is a time crunch
025and and and but I also feel like at this point um we, you know, I also feel like we could have addressed this, this first came up in January. We could have addressed this in January and dealt with it then in terms of do we want to do that or do we not want to do that as opposed to having it handed to us after the mismanagement? There's nothing we can do at this point and we want to have this done in a year. uh we can't reit everything, we won't get done. So I I'm I'm concerned about that and I think that we should keep an eye very closely on what we're getting from in terms of our expert opinions if what we're having is if we're going to continue to happen because I
026think it's something that we need to keep an eye on and and be conscious of in the future. But that's our people like it. I mean there were some changes made but it our people had looked at this going back months and months probably you know again I knew this problem right so I looked at this numerous time we brought some different opinions to the table and expertise uh that was kind of what happened here you text [Music] me, you know, kind of more viable solution. Okay. All right. Any other questions or comments regarding the the um but you might see a few changes for the summer 2025 [Music] 43 suggest a motion on page 50 of our maternals. Move to approve the change order to add construction of the shot pit to the Woodstock
027High School external track replacement project for an additional $73,684. Motion by Mr. Heley. Do we have a second? Second. Uh second roll call, please. Mr. Henley. Yes. Mr. Mr. Holu, yes. Mr. Paresi, yes. Dr. Ferris, yes. Dr. Goodwill, yes. Mr. Melli, yes. Mr. Gilmore, yes. Okay. And the other other new business is actually what's been transferred over from our consent agenda, which is the renewal of the Woodstock Community School District 200 middle school, middle and high school activities code of conduct. uh you should have received that in your package as part of your um set agenda material. The reason I wanted to pull up separately is this is a matter that came up last year. Um I believe in the spring of last year. Um and there have been some cons there were some the
028board had some concerns about um the process and and how certain act things were were addressed. And I thought it would be worthwhile for those of us to for those who have something to say or wish to to add their input to it that um they have an opportunity to do that before we approve this. so we can make potentially make some changes. So I hope everybody got a check out that message and got a chance to look at it. Um, does anybody have anything they wish to add with respect to the rules of the the conduct? If not, I'll tell you why. What I thought um there are two things that I thought we perhaps um would want you perhaps would want to take a little stronger look at. Um, and then there's some
029other minor ones which we can discuss when we do the final ones. um in particular on page 34 where it talks about um infraction page 34 and it's the whole section talk about rules of conduct um I didn't see anything in the rules of conduct that says activity must participant must observe basic rules of sportsmanship which I think is part of should be part of it. Um I also did not find anything that talked about real about language use of language racial or stereotypes as language as as a as something specifically branded. Yeah. I I only have 21 pages. So what I [Music] have page 34 I thank you. So page and I think that it should state very clearly that racial or stereotypical language or racially or stereotypically language would be a basis on
030which to um to um to discipline that school as well think you know you can because the fact that there are clear violations of our school policy. Any clear violation of school policy is also enforceable. Okay. I I look for I don't find anything that makes it clear. I went through all the kind of things before we clear. This procedure may suspension handbook specific specific statements that your rights originally is not per it doesn't say that in the hand. It doesn't say that in the handbook. It talks about conduct but it doesn't get to that level. Okay, that's what I'm saying. I mean, and we want to try a war to try to avoid it's not clear that this is for evidence. It's not clear this what happened with it. And and and that's what
031I think we need to have in this somewhere that we can fall back on and say is that you can't do this. And if you don't then sit says that's not prohibited. Um the and the other issue I have is just generally in terms of dealing with any disciplinary matters. I I don't think it's crystal clear on who makes at least the initial decision and what happen initial or final decision and who what happens if you get one person saying one thing and another person saying something else or you got a principal who says something whereas the parent now called and said this is what this is what's going on and the principal says something different um that needs to be that needs to be laid out as to who's which one you how how
032that's handled. I don't think that's crystal clear on this either. And that that's another thing we ran into last [Music] year. How would we say that? Well, I right now I'm just simply raising questions to see if the board members in the board has anything else in which anything to say. Those are the two things that stood out to me. I've got other little things on here, but I I don't even show spend more time going through every little thing, but in that little thing, there's a few, but those are the two things that stood out to me that I think we need to that I'd like to see cleaned up in in the book. I like to add one thing or maybe I missed it. Um, when I was reading this, it talked about
033or I didn't see a whole lot of coaches or advisors taking kids on an overnight trip or a trip under supervision. Uh, I think it it was kind of open. For example, you know, people lose their jobs. They take the kid on an overnight trip with team and then they put the kids to sleep and the coaches go out for a drink. Well, you know, that should be that you can't do it because you're still supervising the kids. And I didn't see that in there. That was funny because, you know, people do things sometimes things through. Um, and I didn't need to have that. You want the students, too? Well, I want whoever. Yeah, we can do that. We can put that in the staff handbook. I mean, we want to handle that. I just
034think it's really important to put in because when you supervise kids, you're placed as a parent and you need to be you're getting paid supervised. I didn't say anything. I just thought that a little better. Yeah, I don't disagree with you, but that doesn't belong. This is Dr. Well, I was just reading and we had we have coaches and advisers code in there. That's so Carl. Yes. I think um I'm apologize. I'm kind of straddling between the handbook and this, but um I believe when it's talking about the student policy under bullying in the D200 student handbook, which it is referencing back to, it says that um in terms of conduct that's not okay or tolerated um bullying on the basis of actual perceived race, color, national origin, military status, unfavorable, what goes on on
035gender identity, sexual orientation, um ancestry, age, religion, physical or mental disability. So, it really covers all those things. Um and so I think it's addressed. I think if we're going to put something specific, it really does need to include all of those things cuz I think we want to keep the um the parameters really broad rather than very specific so that we can address any type of bullying or prejudicial behavior. Um, so I mean I think it's on page 44 of the student handbook at the top. Um, anyway, so I just wanted to make sure that we knew that was in there with that specific wording and in addition to many other things that somebody could be harassed for. I I guess my question for discussion tonight from the board perspective from a policy perspective
036is does anyone disagree that that language should be in there or I mean it's okay if you do. I'm just asking if there's a disagreement on it then we have to decide whether or not we want to include it or not. That's that's the policy aspect of it. No, I I kind of think that um there's sort of the two things. One I I think it would be um redundant isn't the right word. I do think that it is covered by the paragraph that Mike pointed out, but so are several of the other things that are in this handbook and I would like it to be in there. Um, I would like it to be specifically stated and I think what happens in this policy language is it is mirroring a lot of the language
037that is in the student handbook and I also agree with Michelle that we should mirror the language that's in the student handbook as far as that concept is concerned too. So I agree with both I don't have any problem with it being added. Um I just I think you could copy paste to be quite honest or you could just put a reference to that page in the student handbook too. I think I think a lot of this language that's in this um I think a lot of the language that is in this uh handbook when we're discussing tonight is copy pasted from the language of the student handbook. I have problem with that and I like the idea of underlining that part of the student handbook here too. Well, I think the difference between this
038and the school handbook is this deals with activities and things that occur which are not during school hours. you know, practices and stuff like that where or games of things or things that might be off site where we might have some problems enforcing them unless we have something that says this is what our conduct is for those things as well. You you assume certain responsibilities as or or certain responsibility other person these activities these activities would if if you were in school they weren't school activities we wouldn't be able to do much off the school grounds but here we are school grounds and these are the things that when you're pursuing in school activities you're responsible for you're consciously responsible that's why I think this is important possibly why here in a lot is because
039it's taking the same things and saying okay we're now applying them to voluntary activities as opposed to mandatory schools. Um, so I think that's important that we that it's there. So I don't have a problem with necessarily repeating. I don't think we need to repeat the whole thing, but there are certain things that I think are repeating. I'm looking at things that cause those problems and I'm trying to try to and I remember going through it and looking at it and saying to myself, I'm not sure this is clear enough for us to take action on it. it it refers to it but it doesn't say what is and is not and that's what I'm trying to avoid that if there were culture we could take action on we spell it out and that's why
040that's why these two particular areas there was there was a conflict last year we wanted two administrators said one administrator said one thing administrator said something else both of them appeared to be legitimate and now we got you know one by one person that was the least believe was the least um we wanted to go with something a little high and that's why that's why I'm trying to avoid at this point. I'm trying to get us out of the situation. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. That one is is tough because in every situation you want the chain right like that's what you want for sure. I think that this is a situation where somebody else talked to him while he was still considering. So now getting one story and then and then we were told this
041very easily out there you know the decision to pretend uh Well, as I recall, the way it ended up happening was was that old people looked like they were had authority to make the final decision. And it could be something as simple as any decision that you know all all decisions regarding this one must be approved by these superintendent prior to being finalized. We would have truth. So that even if even if a teacher or a principal were to say something, it still has to approval so that he knows what's going on. You turn around and say, "Well, no, I don't agree with that. I think we need to make this, you know, less or more, whatever he decides. But we can do something as simple as that." This is really process. [Music] like our
042policy should be that we don't rule it. Yeah. My worry is that it's just going to pull Brian into every little tiny decision. If we do that, it takes, you know, some of the, you know, power, not power, but you know what I mean. It's going to it too many cooks in the kitchen. It's not always necessary. And I worry if we put it into policy and Brian has to approve every decision they make around discipline in an athletic department that could be a lot. Um I mean is there I guess my question is there any reason not to copy paste this statement around bullying and I mean that that seems like there's no harm. The only thing I would say with that is if we were to do that I probably would try and
043generalize more from bullying to just general conduct. Sure. I think the um I think what I think is most important is the the language around all the different possible learnings. Um so that is that wide breath of we can really make the decision that we feel like is right in that moment. That's that in here. Do you want me to show you what? So, it's the part it's the top of page 44 and you would cut off like on the basis of and then all the stuff it says or perceived race color and it goes through all the way to like being homeless um actual or potential marital oral sex like on and on and on. Just it's so broad and encompassing. I think that's an important language about all the behavior. Well, I was
044thinking specifically that okay I'm confused. I'm not the regard is correct. Why are we doing it twice? I mean I say it's there. Yeah, the student handbook applies to we're just repeating something. We're talking about imposing. The reason I think it's important is because we're talking about imposing discipline related to school activities that are not mandatory activities. where this that we're talking about doing something that says you for example you were you were on the basketball team you're going to be suspended for threes and three games I don't think that's covered under the I states the number of privileges that these kids have they're not they join us they have to follow they've always had to follow students handbook so for us for me I have you want to do that this is redundant and
045it's it doesn't change our things that the error might be made clear was with the decision by the administration that is where the problem was it wasn't in the policy it was in the practice that's I I I can tell you with my legal record when I looked at that policy and what it said I said I can see holes all over the place and it's policy I can see not being able to enforce it yes student referring to those behaviors that we're trying to duplicate into this and I don't understand the logic of having to do that. If that's what the board chooses, I'm fine with that. Well, let's do this. Just folks voice communication. How many people feel like they're the reason I brought this separately because it was something we had said
046that we wanted in terms of policy. and didn't want to pass it off as a matter of consens but I thought it was a good idea to have a discussion. So do any secret you believe we should make we should be making the revision or we should leave it as it is to to the problem. Okay. How many people say we should how many people think that conduct are necessary? How many people do not disagree? How many people say they're not necessary? All right. So, the question is, how do we go about doing this? Because I think trying to discuss this in this in a committee of one, but giving a whole is probably not the best way of doing that. Here's what I'm going to suggest that we do. Uh, take a look. I
047would suggest we take for one meeting for the next meeting that you can make suggestions to Mike. Okay. I prefer email. So you got down and do that kind of [Music] stuff and then they can implement them as they see fit and we'll see if there's a policy that we are more comfortable with. Is there any timeline issue? This is going to launch before Thursday. Yeah. high All right. Um everything [Music] Yes. You know, you know something else. Heat. Heat. [Music] something that works. Okay. Anybody's got any comments, please get this done in the next before April, April 20 or April 20, whatever next. Yeah. and then you can either pass policy or you know we can strike things out things like that too. Okay, fair enough. I appreciate you guys listening and talking about
048this cuz I think it is important that we I don't want to see repeat that was bad. All right. Um that's it for business. Next item will be committ reports. Have any committees have any reports until last meeting? Sustainability last composting acts. Thank you my sort of sustainability event and we're going to be doing composting in the vacuum which is the kitchens. We're not doing it with the kids and there's a lot of reasons why but primarily it's cost. uh if we mess up and uh the kids throw things into the uh compost uh bins and it's not uh compostable, we'll pay double for that particular garbage family, but we don't do that. Uh we're trying to do this so it's successful and we know we can control it in the kitchens and we know
049we're going to reduce waste by doing so. So that that's that was the consensus within the committee uh last week for sure. So I'm excited about it. I think it's a really really neat thing to see. So, and we're moving forward more with the uh uh the classrooms and not the classrooms, the hallways and uh throughout the district for LED lighting, which is neat to see as well. And that's going to save us a lot of money down the road. And again, it's environmentally the right thing to do. So, those are the two things we're doing and we're going to hopefully the solar fields get put in before um we lose out there, too. But we'll see. And I'm just a little more clearly on that, but Mike, anything else on that besides what I
050said? No, you did a great job. I appreciate the great voice there. Everybody, thank you, John. Thanks for your work on that. I I'd like to say just I don't know if the board realizes, but uh or community that one of our teachers, Jim Succi, her husband, passed away last week. He was only 58 years old. She's been in the district for a long time. She's a wonderful teacher. He was a great guy. You know, just wanted to make that. Thank you. Anybody else with any other reports or anything else to report? Yeah. The pri awards, thank you guys uh for all your support. We approved our our WHS and W NHS uh pride award winners in our uh board agenda tonight. Uh John and I worked with uh Deb Wor. Thank you so much
051to Deb. uh she's retiring unfortunately for for me. Uh I really enjoyed working with her uh this for the last uh 8 years on the board. So really going to miss uh working with her and maybe she'll come back and assist with it. But uh no, we're very excited for our award winners. The changes that we made to the private board that you guys recall those were good and this is so much more streamlined and it really does highlight kids who we want to hire. uh versus the redundancies that we were doing with all the you know the best athletes. Well, they have all the sports fans for that already and we got rid of all of that and this and and I thought about that this year again Jake I don't know if you
052did this but this is just so it's clear it's something we want to support and and be behind. So I really appreciate what we did last two years. Thank [Music] you questions. Any other committees? All right. So move second motion by Dr. Chris seconded by Mr. Melli. Roll call, please. Dr. Harris, yes. Mr. Melli, yes. Dr. Bidwell, yes. Mr. Fesy, yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Hudley. Yes. Mr. Gilmore. Yes. Yeah. Heat. [Music]