001distri 200 of Education please flag in the back of the United States Amer stands Nation God indivisible call please Dr big Dr Ferris Mr Gilmore here Mr Hedley here Mr homo Mr melli here Mr py here okay first tonight is our agenda please take a moment you should have had a chance to over take a moment look it over if any board the it the pleas now please keep in mind there's also a personel agend on your desk so [Music] I what motion on page page material please remember include the move to freely consent agenda print in the board agenda including the March 15th 2025 Personnel P second by Mr second by Mr Headley roll call please Mr bruy yes Mr Headley yes Mr hler Mr melli yes Mr Gilmore [Music] yes okay then we'll
002move on to our recognition we're going to ask the board to approve recognition for a number of stud so we're going to have oursa bowling girl State qualifier T Beacon and then Ford school for qualifying for the ISA and then our step F we have more for this even suggest motion on page 183 of our materials move inod the following resolution whereas for of Education W Community un School District which contrib to these individuals and where District 200 has benefited result of these accomplishments therefore be a result the Board of Education of Woodstock Community Unit School District 200 hereby special recognition and certificate of achievement on behalf of the citizens of the district second second by Mr Gilmore second by Mr Headley roll Mr Gilmore yes Mr Hedley yes Mr per yes Mr homo yes
003Mr melli yes [Music] right grou callic first qualifying for the girls girl tourament we have cor deacon [Music] congratulations great job all right now we've got four Isa Middle School ring State qualifiers together first we have from Northwood Z then we have from Northwood third place state from North Fourth Place Jordan Bradley and from Creek Side we have coleo want come take a picture feel free [Music] than hi there our Mr R if they remember anybody who remember Mr Ry um he is does such incredible work for us each day he will wear any sort of costum we ask him to [Music] wear uh stand up uh he will wear El he wears dinosaurs he wears pink shirts like he will do whatever and the kids love him he helps at car rers he helps
004at um passion coming late so whatever we need he's there to help us uh he maintains this really Childhood Center like no other it's clean weling for the students he get excited when we get the new picture the staff and the kids see it up so um we were asked about a staff and we couldn't think of anybody else or better to recognize every day and does anything everything anybody ever ask oh thank you hello everyone I'm so pleas to um honor Miss BR she our head services at olon she has been just amazing she helps every one of our kids their meals she is never upset when they're very cranky about the options that they want and they get and just really make sure that every single one of our kids is B they
005the kitchen is so organized she helps with getting all of our happy for all of our students and it's always spotless and just I can always so we just appreciate her so much and all of her congratulations good evening please meet Beth Su a bus rider at GE on the dolphin bus and the horse bus she is our very own Mary C she always has a bad trick tricks a warm smile and sincere patience for all types of children she has an unwavering dedication thats students every day with a smile maybe a hug she sometimes consols them and offers them whatever they need she is gentle she has a kind voice and she makes them truly feel at e thank you be for being so awesome and accommodating all of our students at J J
006din Ador picture [Music] thank you so much just a couple minutes we're going to go on with the rest of our our this meeting you all welcome to stay meeting your like see what's going on it's also time that we take a little break with those who are here primarily the so that thank you all com yeah I see ping sometimes yeah way later than us Sarah here it's been a long time oh okay I think I knew that I thought it but yeah you're back nice to see you bye or you I all right we're going to go move on with our meeting next our agenda is Communications communications are time for MERS District issue sign chief of the public to identify their name address phone number organization representative and a brief description of
007the topic to be addressed comments generally limited to 3 minutes in a course of policy 2 call 230 and otherwise govern by board policy 2 call 230 did anyone sign up to address the board this time no all we signed up is there anybody from the general public who wishes to address the board at this time okay are there uh are there any staff comments any board comments you know last week I spent going through different schools impressed every single L and I'm say I just want to say [Music] this schol school better with him office for me as well all in all just I was just I'm very proud to be a in this District I was reinforced last week by going for this school get a chance I'm going to reiterate with car
008previous last it's it's really a valuable experience for sure thank you any other board [Music] comments All right we our superintend support all right we're now heading into sprain hopefully done with snow B cold May snow tomorrow night definely turn the corner start spring break next week we're off next week we return on Monday March 31st we wish our students staff and families a safe and happy spr break State Board of Education five cenal survey is open for our students and staff and they'll finish taking the survey this week also to our parents through March 28th encourage any parents looking to take the survey to contact their school building for a link and last night we had our district Festival High School it was great musical performance by our students Fan Music we have upcoming
009band Festival on October 14th and our district Orchestra Festival on April 28 April 14th I'm sorry April 28th con to the public and encourage everyone to come to a good show to come out great time for our musicians and our teachers and our community to come together that's my report thank you all right next up agenda then is our monitoring reports which is ging Center update so thanks for having me tonight a little bit of update about the Challenger Learning Center um wanted wanted to talk a little bit about what's new at Challenger so when we first opened the center it been six years now um almost six years 2019 we acquired it and started getting it ready but we just had one mission that was available to different groups to come and so over
010the past few years we've been trying to add a few more missions and have different options so now we actually have four different missions that are available um the majority of the missions are really targeted towards fifth grade and middle school students um but you can see here these are two missions that we added this year operation Comet which is um for for our fifth grade students Target fifth grade and then lunar quest which is a little we're a little bit older students and there's a picture of a girl there and the lunar Quest they um they are a team of astronauts they're boarding the spacecraft and they launching the moon to search for um longterm inhabit on the moon and so the girl there in the picture she's actually testing to see if the
011water is safe the drink for the astronuts so that's one of our new um uh missions that we're doing and I think this year we had about 17 of those that we ran thus far this whole year so again it gives some of our returning districts because we have a lot of returning districts it gives them other options if they want try out something new and do a different Mission when you're coming to so this is the as I said we started in the 1920 school year then we hit that Co so we had a little bit of a drop there but you can see that we've rebounded nicely um so this year we are um almost to 300 missions and actually when the Challenger you know Challenger is a national program across the country
012and when we have they have an August like conference every year and our site is the one that is we do the most missions across all of the Challenger sites so that's kind of exciting too so we can run up to two sit two missions a day you can see that that we're approaching 300 for this school year so that's exciting I think it's always nice to look at where are the different um you know where are the groups coming from and so you can see here that the majority are within McKenry County we're actually C in Crystal Lake starting coming now which is good um but you can see there our second largest group it's Lake County about 20% are coming from Lake County and then Kan and then just kind of scr some
013of the surrounding counties and we did have a group come from car over there by by the river we looked was like how far is that hour um so and a few from well but you can see that we have you know wide variety of we dra from a lot of returning people and so we really encourage the people to book you know for the next year especially if they want to get the spot that the date that they want um but we're actively recruiting new um districts as well but we're pretty much looking at November to the end of the school year at capacity of course the beginning the school year we can still get some more but people don't want to go on F in August and September they're getting started with school
014um so we had a family sign tonight um last week actually and so we changed that up a little bit and it was a summer camp showcase and so we really tried to expand our summer camp offerings and so it was an opportunity for families to come and see what the children would experience with some of our summer camps and so looking at some of those summer camps we actually have 12 different summer camps registration is now open um and they're all the way from first grade is like the the youngest that we offer summer camps for but all the way through high school and this Camp is like a one day Mission camp that we're oby but we have a really this Astronaut training is probably one of our most popular so week long
015camp we get a lot of interest in that Astronaut training and then the junior space another really week where where we are inviting to come and all of this is linked nicely on our website we have a place where you can come see all the P subscription and register right [Music] there [Music] questions um so we bring our fifth grade students and so I believe this year that was 18 you know 18 sections so you know it's not 20% right it's it's considering start doing 30 300 missions so we we get a lot from the coming like I said start coming or 6% of total business for the year so a school year is roughly 180 days or so roughly uh if you're running 300 missions that sounds like you're running two a day for
016almost almost every day of the school year is that y very busy especially and um like I said August and September we just have a couple additions in September that are scheduled just because you know they're getting the routine established and we're not looking to go on field trips but once November hits we're pretty much busy every day so and we do uh missions also I can mention this but we also have missions on the weekends we do some at night for special groups like Girl Scouts there's different groups that come and so as long as we have staff available misss those St to has there been anybody reach out to you from like summer camps that are interested in coming on a field trip from like like summer camp looking to do it over
017summertime or is it pretty much all school year so actually well the summer Camp's actually interesting um we have a lot of people from outside wood stuff that are coming to our summer camps because they're visiting during the school year and hearing their children talk about it and then they wanting to go during the summer so we actually have a lot of parents that transport their kids during the summer and come to to our sites and a couple of other things we had tried to do is have um like a couple of days during the school year where new teachers that have never come here they can kind of jump on to meeting and learn more about the site too and get some you know an idea of what this means so that answer your
018question I just there's anybody who's looking at maybe doing missions in summertime other than than our on Camp other groups coming yeah we don't we're pretty busy with all of our um you know our camps but the some of these are missions so for example exibition Mars Earth Odyssey those are actually two missions so people can bring a group you know if they wanted to sign up for that day and then if we had more days available and we had staff for staff that we would obviously add those into but really the groups the school groups are coming during the school year and those other groups are more like girl scouts or Boy Scouts you know they might come do something but particular they want to do it on the weekend so really in the
019summer mainly just R summer camps but again we do have single day missions um that fill up actually those are really popular so any other questions or comments regarding the G [Music] there a million hats this is a helmet SP but um she worked really hard on this you know obvious we had the worst timing in the world on this thing Weil it in 2019 but she spot all the way back it's full uh it's really fing it's got ke work so thank you ke work thank [Music] you okay there's no unfinished business next is new business first item is 20252 paper paper mid all right before you is a um a proposal to accept the bid for purchasing a paper this year we had six different companies bid which is good in the past
020we've been struggling to get the bid so um I if there's any questions or anything please let me know but ' got it behind attached to your memo is the FID results you any questions any questions or comments regarding the paper grd if not there's suggest motion on page 185 of our materials move to award the 2025 26 paper bid to Midland paper for the total price of 81538889154 [Music] increased capacity Rel to Woodstock North High School col project contract we approve the other piece about 6 weeks ago probably now so You' ask us to keep an eye on this piece going through com jul did a great job we're going all top and we thought last week it have been approved so we want to bring it back to your consideration you go any
021details at all um actually it's um the original piece that you approved back in January was for 5 let's see 590 KW this will be 350 3 will get us to 943 which will essentially power 48% 48% of the Northwood campus or North I'm sorry anybody have any questions or comments if not there's suggest a motion on page 187 material move to authorize a superintendent or his de of need to execute a change order to the altop industries contract changing the scope of the cont contract to build an additional 353 KW system for not not to exceed 1,100,000 and in approving the execution of such change order the board makes the following findings that the circumstances of of necessity of the change were not reasonably foreseeable at the time when the contract was signed the
022change order is gerain to the original contract as signed and approving the change order is the best is it the best interest of District 200 and is auth authorized by law second second motion by Mr Headley second by Mr roll call please Mr Headley yes Mr py yes Mr melli yes Mr homo yes Mr Gilmore [Music] yes do okay that's all of our new business last item on our agenda is our committee reports have any committees met or do any committees have any reports since our last meeting stainability committee met and we're moving forward with few items one of is looking possibly some composting okay at the back end of our schools to start because I was hesitant first of all put that out there for the kids because we we've tried this in years
023past and it hasn't worked particularly well um so we're going to start the kitchens and comp kit to start with and maybe go beyond people the committee want to push it further and yeah there's a few other things going on but that's probably the biggest to change I'd like to add to the paper B did uh I asked Mike to do search and we've actually reduced paper consumption in the district by about 25% over the last years 10 years and I'd like to see that even be reduced even more over time as it's appropriate I don't want to Short change teachers or kids but whenever we don't need to use the paper uh that's a great idea so but U I think Mike also Julie found actually Julie found thank you anyway that's it add
024that to our new solar F yeah U we're making some progress soib no I'm want to see the panels in the ground and operating then I will I'll the happy answer all of [Music] them okay well that's terrific any other any other um committee meetings I went to the tip committee meeting couple weeks ago unfortunately there's nothing new to report uh then the committee met last week and um I was working on doing some stuff for staff and so forth this point that probably should be implemented by the beginning of this coming school year so that as [Music] well okay uh um there are no committ reports and there no buits I would entertain Mo to Jour move Jour second motion by Mr Gilmore seconded by Mr py roll call please Mr Gilmore yes Mr
025pry yes Mr melli yes Mr H yes Mr Hy yes [Music]