001up oh no not at all I'm sorry it's kind of away ready right okay fore smile okay have a good okay oh wait till okay start dance you wow he know you to walk he and I was like I wel love all right made better I had to make you [Music] that's hey I bre all this is the February 25th 2025 meeting of the whst Community School District Board of Education please R for the allegiance there's a flag in the back and there's one behind me of Unites Dr bwell here Dr Harris president Mr Gilmore here Mr Hedley here Mr homo Mr melli Mr where you see here okay first item on our agenda tonight is the agenda in front of there's also an agenda uh first do any board oversee anything on consens agenda
002they would like to have okay take a moment look it over you have any uh whenever any ready there just a motion of person materials please make sure to approve the agenda move to Wai the reading of and approve the consent agenda as printed in the board agenda including the personel agenda second by Dr second by Mr roll call please Dr B yes Mr py yes Mr Headley yes Dr Ferris yes Mr Gilmore yes next on our agenda is the recognition we're honored tonight to have a number of students with us to recognize couple staff members we have our wear art show award wearers here to be recognized along with our art in the back of the room goinge that opportunity amazing artwor back there Dr Bliss art staff here as well appreciate all their
003hard work to make that happen every year we also H High School theater for making they qualified for the State High School theater Festival which is a very prestigious award number of years so we're going to honor the theater troop here tonight uh for bilans for the hard work there as well and then for in a row Ian Hansen quite a year is now a national Mar scholarship finalist which is an incredibly prestigious award uh nationally you know heart kids this test and narrow down being a semifinalist put you an incredibly prestigious company and be a so I we're honor again tonight first great we're honor staff forment these as well we ask the board to approve those nominations tonight suggest a motion pay materials mov introduced the following resolution whereas the Board of Education
004Woodstock Community Unit School District 200 wishes to recognize the contributions of these individuals and whereas District 200 has benefited as a result of this accomplishment now therefore being that the Board of Education of w Community Unit School dist 200 hereby this bestows special recognition and a certificate of achievement on behalf of the citizens of the district second Mo by Mr Gilmore second by Mr P roll call please Mr hilar yes Mr py yes Mr Headley yes Dr Ferris yes Dr yes all right category call up here please CCT start show winner first with the superintendent award or only us [Music] from Dean Street meie he from olon Isaac kusas from Prairiewood Lincoln Kowski for Mary Andre Kay l from Creek Side loer from Westwood Emma Mayo from nor Iz from Greenwood Kylie Sanderson from 4
005Eric Smith North Vega WI all right those all arer can we get any two two rows [Music] oh so I did not you appuse amazing God once you're done you can go back and you can leave with your heart except for the superintendent that stay with us congratulations thank thank you so much now we're High School theater group down St krania you Kean Harvey [Music] Johanson s Keenan Jack K van coslo [Music] hle and Victoria pz Tyler Rasin [Music] Ellie boster haly Zigler all right big round of applause for all again free me a picture [Music] big round Applause again all right now honor our national Mar with y [Music] great job um evening good evening members of theard Dr one fellow colleagues C Street uh it's with great pleasure that I'm some from our
006building they are very important for us andiz them today so at this point please J and Alis Miller join us wo my friend Kaa andando to join us too please yes I have wor about these two St members J is our attenda secretary little short story about her when she applied to the and I saw her res I saw Mrs bl's last name we know that Mrs BL is one of the best teacher that we have in the um with huge heart I of course like this is of course I have to to see her um I was not wrong she's one of the most cre people in the building as she their face come in students come in teachers come in but she also works with the students um she's our person um she
007works with our leaders um she just she just has an amazing part so we are very happy to have her in the building and we have our that he wrote aoup of words about yeah thee [Music] M at tonight is Miss um she is our dear teacher at Sweet she went through the teacher resident program and is one of the best that happen to our building in the last few years she's an amazing teacher and one of the things that I like about her the most is you see that smile it's always like that long way days we days better days um and that's the attitud that she has for everything that she does have so we have here to say some words to her to I've had many great te however there are some
008that make you speci every morning he makes him say everybody and make a SK take your time explain us and what we are learning you are always very PA when we do not understand I feel so that you are my vict all right a big round of [Music] applause congratulations heading the next part of our meeting the business part of our meeting it's our Communications you're all welome to stay for as long as you like to stay but time we I me know oh no you're fine congrulations that was a nice surprise addition together I think she like read right I didn't be careful that c I don't want you to trip sorry wor thank you see I'm here thank you you s my mom all right we're going to move on with our communication
009section Communications community members and District employees to Point View sign for public identify name address phone number name of organization representative any and a brief address comments are generally limited to 3 minutes board policy 2 call and 230 and are otherwise governed by board policy 2 call and 230 do we have anybody sign up no all right there's been nobody sign up is there any person member of general public who wishes to address the board at this [Music] time all right are there any staff comments board comments just a couple of quick notes don't forget we need to get our statement of economic interest in by May 1st um also if you look outside the auditorium there's a new plaque that recognizes the the 100th anniversary of high school Jo I might want to take
010a look at quite nicely last thank you any other more comments all right we'll move our superintend Bo okay what this week is always good for us we can start to see the light down that t when spring comes spring Sports start at high school which is always a good sign to for this week always good you know positive swing in the build we start feel a little bit warmer five essential parent survey is the site Board of Education yearly survey of our parents uh it's being shared by our principles with all our parents over the next couple weeks encourage all of our parents to take the survey feedback we receive from the state uh please reach out the you don't a survey link that should be coming out in the next couple of weeks
011and then four question about weather days so going to answer to on the same page last week it was really cold uh the question was what was the difference between that day and then January 21st we had taken a cold weather day and the largest difference is that on the 21st of January when it reached -30 windshield uh the national weather service changes from a leather advisory to a leather warning and we we've never gone to school during a weather warning um we go to school during weathers we live it's cold sometimes and do some things like that but we've never come to school during a weather warning that's typically Tri I want for National Weather Service but that's typically tried we it'sit 30 um on the uh um 30 wind show so that was
012the biggest differ the day we took the day we didn't take so there's other factors to go into as well but between those two days that was a biggest difference one the Nation Weather Service had put aary and more of War just information uh on on the difference between those two days old cold but one we here one we were that's our report any have question okay we'll move on to our monitoring report tonight monitor report2 program which we have seen well exhibited today so good evening I'm here and join tonight by three really important people to our program represent one of the things really wanted to speak about tonight is just the success of our finart district we have some amazing students and teachers that programs and really that culminates in three areas music
013the visual arts themselves and theater so first we talk a little bit about music and just the programs in general thank you very much for the opportunity to be here tonight we are lucky to speak on behalf of all of the staff and all of the students in this District who are passionate and so dedicated to uh to their work in this area we have uh we're very lucky to post really one of two districts that has three tiers in music a band Orchestra and choir one of two districts in Henry County that has an orchestra program um and we've seen all three of those areas flourishing um consistent the or we have students in fourth through 12th grade in B we have students in fifth through 12th grade and inqu students in fourth through
01412th grade um in our Visual Arts area you can see AP and dual C offerings well offerings and in the theater Arts area we have play musicals uh our spring musicals are some of our most widely attended events in our district and we hope that you consider supporting those events in spring in bore we have new Ensemble which you just heard as we're walking in tonight s chamber or S group they form at onsite venues in our in our town they're performing at acked event at etheral this Thursday night um in band we have the Jaz and Jazz lab which is performing at jazz festival and the district 200 Jazz FES inir of the M singers which have posted M Reserve or M for over in my building um over 40 years and um and
015the m at North this is the first year of with thquire which is a special education integrated general education students and we're really proud to United s thquire represented on both sides of town it's an awesome opportunity for our special education students um the uh Starline Arts event nights on Friday nights hosts many of our students artwor and so that outstanding thing for some of our students um again we Chicago and a cple music represented for our norite music as well 41% of our students are involved in music at the middle school level 25% are involved in uh music and some capacity at high school level and 40% of all high school students participate in at least one art class and their time thanks well to your unwavering support the communities and our parents we
016have had some great growth over the years you look over here you'll see the past few years we had cycle grow in each of our program um thanks to that we've been nominated in our success we've been nominated for the N um best new for music education for many years now and applied again this year um we've had our choir go down to State and be represented there we received grants from in-house organizations and outside of the district elements that allow us to bring into amaziing artists work with our students list ET um and then we had our teachers recognize different organizations for their other years we um have had a group go down the state since ever years since before I was born so that's a huge accomplishment for our community that we should
017continue to celebrate and we also have students from almost every area ever you're represented in the district level which is considered one of the most competitive districts in the state in Austin times you'll hear that they say thatc in the district our district are better than um we try to provide some amazing opportunities for our students whether that's bringing Ram award winning musicians we done multiple times to play with and work with our students um we're playing with a local nursing home where we show our students the value of playing for others and sharing their talents we're going on trips we are going to Europe with some of our students this summer and then have taking them to Florida and trying to our to make sure every student has we also as you were able
018to see tonight have an amazing visual arts program um they have over a thousand visitors at the library every time they H their art exit which is just incredible when you think about that and when we support those students and clearly their artwork is to much kids are doing amazing things which keep time need the teachers that are involved in educating them from the Gard they have at the high school level we have a courses and language sorry home writing courses that are also offered to these students to ensure that the highest level artistic ability is able to be captured and finally they take our their students to Chicago to museum they take them to R house to get architectural ideas they take them the on the classroom to ensure that these students have access
019to the real life work instead of just coming there seeing online or so in terms of theater I had a great opportunity to talk to a couple of our our theater uh program sponsors and really in terms of theater across the board you had an opportunity the last couple years see girls or six our theater here or going over to cadd a couple weeks ago there's some amazing performances and future starters of so it's great to see that so throughout the community performances uh we try to do that and share that weth as much as we can throughout our community and invite those in student opportunities whether you're part of the backstage crew the life crew the technical crew or one of the actors that are front opportunities for all of our kids that want
020to participate it's really one of myv Parts students that sometimes don't think they get up in front and talk to people it's where they start where they end they have Journey throughout academically our sponsors really try to make that experience extend beyond the classroom and also extend beyond what we offer our buildings both schools to students on the theater Fest obviously recognize some tonight they work with clinicians they have colleges that off theater and many other opportun so that being said I want to introduce who is obviously [Music] Welles uh 9 years ago I had the privilege to join our Orchestra program uh and I say that without uh being in the orchestra and within music in District 200 I would not had the success that I had both in and outside of academics uh
021the music classes that me and my classmates have attended uh teach us the values of teamwork discipline and perseverance as by your senior year you have spent about half your life uh committing yourself to one instrument or one genre of music that is an immense commitment which comes with a lot of difficulties of learning how to play this um which by sticking through year you able to commit um to anything you want to do because you these sces thank you question any questions or comments well I got a comment um one of the things that I think is great about our district and people ask what's good about our district and what are strength one of our comes up on find our program it's always one of first two or three things to say because
022what I've seen in my experience with you guys orless um 10 years now has been has been nothing short of modelers um the fact that kids stay through um continuing with music throughout their four years of high school the fact that you consistently come up with new things to do that there are um the way you mix and match things the way you looking for things way you reach out to the community all stuff I mean I'm familiar most with the Orchestra program but I've seen it with ch and I've seen it with Arts across the board and I think you should all be PR yourself and I think you should realize that the board I think is supportive because we realize what a great thing that you offer for our students and for our
023kids and I'd like to thank you and I and on behalf of the board I'd like to thank you for everything you guys have done over the years you you you've done it and um we look forward to more marvelous things from you over the next you know the duration of however long we're all here so uh thank thank you and congratulations that everything you accomplished because it's all very very much I'd like to say something I I've been in the know here a long time and they've always had we've always had this great program what what amazes me is the level of instruction that we get and I don't know how but we always get the best instructors you know compared to any around I'd say in the state we're just so lucky to
024have the on the structures we have now but in the past and it just seems like that torch just get sced on so thank you very much yeah couple quick time you know very soon we'll have our concert season right the district concert so our band Choir concerts 7,000 people will see those three concerts in this spring that's a real number right fire Marsh tell to we talk about all the time we pack those gyms for those three shows our community comes out and it just it's a a wonderful event 7,000 people we take a white sock seon at 7,000 you know it's the L from communi from our our amazing Constructors but it's just I think it's a great celebration of our community Every Spring we have that and one of my favorite Parts
025when you go to college what are you going to do dad told me Day music educator right so not not only we have amazing Educators but we produce amazing Educators too it's such a a great you know Circle to have in our in our our staff has such an amazing job thank you so much for coming and sharing with us tonight thank okay that's our report our next is on finish business we don't have any and okay um our next business then is our new business which is the approval of the 20 first item is approval of 2025 summer 2025 Life Safety work change order all righty uh last last meeting we brought to you a proposal to redo the track around high school and thanks to Dr Harris's work we realize there Le that
026we should also take care of while we're doing that and that would be why we're presting the change tonight it's called the on it allows additional track ELD type activities and I'll expand that and make it a better area for the kids so as long as we've got uh children asalt doing the work we we might as well get this going as well so that's what you're looking at tonight secret want to add to that I mean well we kind of got into I mean we're pushing this so fast so we have you know the approval and the drawings and then when we all s sat down we're like wow this you know this really needs to be done and everybody was in agreement and just one end of the track and the football field
027to to the track the whole C semicircle is going to be have a competition surface on it which it should for you know like a number of different Feld with that and so it was the time to do it and that's the way it's done most facilities so the reason we we know brought up now is because we had already had the drawings done we couldn't we would have had to wait like one or two more meetings and then we knew we never could it done so wean I love this building right we have with it part of is field it was bu 1921 and our there is probably 40 yard on each side short of where a mod field would be so it's it's imperative that we get every inch of coverage if we
028can and Bruce has been hiring with our staff just you how do we maximize the area we do have and and majority will Feld s track field so we think it's necessary to help make that you know we put a nice investment in the track which is great continue to make sure that it's viable for our technical team we need just a little bit of extansion you're just going in any way of impact the dimensions of the football field and the uh area around it around the football field adjacent to the track but is part of the TR this any way impact or encroach on that no it's in there it's uh on the east side of the end the East End Zone it's from The End Zone to the track so that will all
029be one surface that's where the four balls at uh the high jumps at and so there's no you're not you're not running across grass going on that or on the service that gr that's how it's done in most if you'll see a new facility usually both ends of the track are done that way and that's what Feld so there there's no there's no danger that a football player getting tackled could end up on this surface you yes pass that was already paid that was the runway was right there and now you know the runway is going to be part of that so that was already have that P theball anybody else have any questions thank you brce for okay do anybody else have any questions or comments if now there's a suggest motion I on
030page 101 of our materials grve to approve the change order to add the construction of the diesel to the wock high school external track replacement project second motion by Mr Headley second second motion by Mr Pedley seconded by Mr pry roll call please Mr Hedley yes Mr pry yes Dr FIS yes Dr bidw yes Mr Kilmore yes okay then our next item business business is the approval of policy revisions for a first reading tonight we have 12 policies for the first reading U all these come from trust uh as recommendations uh many of these are on a threeyear cycle of continuous Improvement so you'll see just small changes either references wording or terminology all the others I would classify as changes in state environments and all of these make sure that the district is compliance
031with all of these changes already and in many cases even before the state made the change we were already in comp a good example of that one I'd like to highlight is 4170 which deal deals with ads ulators and there now just with this new change all buildings with superintendant need to have may on District each one we had that for many many years and actually had multiple 80s and almost all so so that's an example of those changes and all of these as I said for press recommendation does anybody have any questions or it out comments all right now there's suggest motions on page 103 of our materials move to proove the recomended rision to policy 2120 430 4170 590 5120 5125 5230 660 6135 6270 7200 and 810 for a first reading we
032have a second second second by Mr Headley roll call please Mr py yes Mr Headley yes Dr Ferris yes Mr gimore yes Dr bigw yes okay that's it for our new business next time our committee reports have any committees met any committees have any report since our last meeting okay uh then our last item is our quote session um following move to um going close session for the purposes of discussing the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissable of specific employees of the district or Legal C of the district including in testimony and a complaint Lodge against an employee or against legal coun for the district to determine it validity second second motion by Mr Gilmore second by Mr P roll call please Mr Gilmore yes Mr P yes Dr pwell yes Mr Headley yes
033car yes okay uh we're going to close session uh we will be coming out in Open session again but there will be what going on after that so um thank you all for coming