001Haven't heard. Okay. It's 6:00. I'd like to call the meeting to order. Please. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisibley and justice for all. >> Welcome everyone. We'd like to start the meeting out by having a motion and a second to accept the agenda for tonight. >> I'll make a motion. I'll >> second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> Again, same time. Um the agenda is accepted. Did we have anyone signed up for open forum tonight? >> No one signed up for open forum tonight. All right, we're going to move on to communications. Our director of business services, um Robin Bosford, is here to give us some updates. Thank you, Madam Chair.
002Members of the board, I apologize for my information getting on there a little late, but it is on there. Um, the first thing we have is our enrollment. Our enrollment did go down again in February or in March now. Um, we're down about 33 students total. Um, I did look, we had six moveins, but we had seven move out. And then we had some transfers. Um, some went to homeschool and we had one drop. So, it's just kind of what happens at this time of year. Um yeah, 15 down 15 since our last meeting, but 33 overall. Bring up the DBS. Um this is the DBS or the the director of business services update. Can you go up with the graphs, Michelle? Sorry. Just a quick look here. Um nothing out of the ordinary in
003the general fund. You can see it's very similar to previous years. Kind of sliding across there. um food service. Obviously, we still have, you know, we spent a lot of expenditures to begin with on buying a lot of those tables and some other equipment. So, that's why our expenditures look higher. And we do have fewer kids this year, so we have fewer or less revenue coming in in food service, community service, again, very similar to previous years. So, everything seems to be right on track so far. I will be bringing hopefully next month since we have contracts done as long as that gets all done tonight. Um I'll be bringing a revised budget to the board in April so we can kind of get things a little more on track there. And then the last
004thing I have is the treasures report. Um no changes in investments this month. We do have three CDs that are coming to you in April. So we'll see how interest rates look at that point compared to what we have in our money market um to reinvest those. Otherwise, we're sitting at $16.7 million in cash as of February 28th. So, any questions on anything? I know I did that really quickly, but any questions for Robin? Thank you, Robin, and welcome back. We're glad you decided to come back from your trip. We need you. >> Thank you. >> All right, so student representatives. Um, our students, >> they're both at the solo ensemble competition and they both at Superiors this evening. Oh, >> so they're being students being instead of school board members. >> Okay, perfect. >>
005Did they send you an update or no? >> Just from the event. >> Sorry, a little busy. >> They've been a little practice and they have >> softball. Okay. >> They meant to, but I don't think they >> All right, we'll move on to any board committee updates. Are there any board committees that met that you'd like to update us on? uh WCC uh the community that we did meet uh they did get hired the uh childhood uh person is in place and so is the full person. So they're rolling now. They got fully fully full fully staffed all of a sudden. Um Dan just grabbed me when I was in the WCC the um you did hear the new elliptical all the new equipment will be going in May, April, May. So we'll have
006brand new and that's the lease agreement. We decided to go with a lease agreement up there. So, we're not paying for them to come out all the time to fix stuff and it's just going to save us money. >> So, we'll be renting all the equipment that we can >> uh the exercise equipment. >> Exercise equipment. >> Yeah. The top level. Yeah. >> What happens for the old equipment? >> It's a good question, Lori. >> I don't know if any of it is any good. >> We would go out riding a bike and the handle broke off. >> Yeah. sheer force. >> I broke the machine. >> Yeah, I don't know. Um I'd actually I'll ask that and then find out. Do we have to pay to get rid of it or are they going
007to just take them? >> I just wonder if we can use it. >> They're so bad. I They're just I don't think so. >> The company Dan uses will part it out. >> There you go. >> They'll take it away and they'll part it out. Yes. >> Oh, there you go. >> It's like a junk. >> Okay. >> And spread met this month too. Um really we're just looking at some long-term like how will we serving our most vulnerable learners and how we be really intentional about doing that work going forward knowing that there are some growing needs for the for the collect program and for the those programs just like thinking strategically how do we meet those needs as partner districts a big thing we're working very good >> any other committees that Okay.
008If not, we'll move on to the superintendent update. Superintendent de have a few things just to cover. The first one is that we did our monthly soup of the soup uh this week and that was doing tours of our CT program. Uh we had a small group, but they were excellent. Uh we took them through all of our uh CTE programs and four different uh parts of that. So they got to see uh the work live and got some samples of some stuff. Met some of the kids and the teachers just did an outstanding job and it was just a really good experience. We had a lot of people afterwards that just spoke extremely highly and more favorably about the fact too of the balance we have in this district between getting kids ready for
009school college but also the career piece as well. And I think it was just really cool to highlight that and and enjoy that piece with uh folks coming in. Our goal is from this is that next year we want to keep widening that margin a little bit more. So I already have a couple interests from other people in the high school that are open their doors to say bring people in to see our program. So we're going to actually do I think two visits next year at the high school probably CT again and then maybe the culinary and egg as well. We're try to sort of meet up meet up and see if we can do some stuff in those two areas too. I'd also like to get them in some other buildings too. I
010think we do a lot of work obviously in literacy MTSS and middle school. So my goal is going to keep working to see if I can get people feeling comfortable to just make sure we open those doors and get people in. But just a really was a fun day fun experience to bring people through and especially people that haven't been in schools for a long time and they're like, you know what, it's just really interesting to watch kids just do the work and the work that they're doing is such a high level, high caliber quality thing. It it was really impressive just just to see. And then the last piece I want to give you an update on was Wildcat Academy. So obviously we went and talked to you in January about expanding the program
011seven eight for next year. I the last time we checked in with you we had basically filled our aotment our first target mark in probably like a couple days week whatever it may be. We still have a ton of interest coming in more and more every day. We are going to go ahead and resend information again I think in the next week or so just to again to re-engage and see what we have for numbers. And right now we think that again I think our goal was to hit 65 to 70. We're gonna exceed that right now. I think we're exceeding even more than that fe. So I'm keeping the loop probably you know look at coming back and saying I think we're ready to go to that next level for another instructor to come
012in as well. So this is just again good situations happening for our district and just excited about what that can do for our kids and their experiences too in the future. So when we when you said we exceeded our numbers at both levels, are we typically keeping Chicago Lakes kids here? Are we draw are we still drawing others? >> It's a great question. I would say right now we're about an 8020 split. 80% of keeping our kids here, 20% off side of our district. I think with the new numbers coming in, I think it does go the same way in those numbers as well. So it's a combination of both. I do believe that down the road and I think part of our intention for next year we want to do is put a committee
013together at the high school and start talking about the ability to look at supplemental and that does happen. I think we're going to open up a bigger door not only just inside of our own district but I think outside of our district too. I'll go back to the tours we did with people in our community. We do things no one else does. Our career pathway programs are unique. Doesn't mean that people don't have those. They don't have the amount we have. I think that again there's a golden opportunity for us to again get a different part of people coming through to say yeah I want to have that whole experience and be able to do some of these things. So I I do believe as we figure that out in the next year with supplemental
014um that'll be a good conversation to bring back and talk more that can change our horizons as well. >> I just like to tell all you guys that soup with the soup events have been so well done. The presentations are exciting. that people respond really well. It's worth when you want to see the subject pop up for the month, it's worth inviting people, you know, that might be interested in that because I had a friend show up at it this last time and she's kind of in awe of the programming and now can be another person that's talking about that kind of spreading the word. >> Well, thank you for those soups with the soup as well. Sounds like they've been well received. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, Brian. Um, we will move
015on to the consent agenda. Um, before we vote on the entire consent agenda, we're going to pull out um, Mr. Linman's contract because he serves as our track coach and he's going to need to abstain. Um, so we'll first need a motion and a second to approve Jeff Lman's track coach contract. >> Second. >> Um, by the hesitation. >> All in favor? All in favor say I. I. >> Mr. I think I do okay job. >> Jack was very proud of you. We just passed your contract for track coach. Now we'll go back to the rest of the consent agenda including claims and accounts, many personnel items, um the extracurricular agreements and other contracts and agreements. And we'll need a motion and a second to accept the consent agenda. >> Madam chair, I make a
016motion to accept the rest of the consent agenda. >> I have a motion in a second. Any questions? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Again, same time sign. The consent agenda is accepted. All right, we're moving on to old business. We have a reread of um our policy 711 which was regarding video recordings on school buses and as Corey explained last meeting it was mainly an update. Um we've included employees but very few changes as you can see in red ink. Are there any questions about our our school bus video policy? If none then we'll need a motion and a second to accept the second read of policy 711. >> I'll make a motion. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Again, same sign.
017The policies accepted. All right. Um, as we do every month, we have numerous donations. So, the Chicago Lakes PTO has donated $3,238.73 for Lakeside. The primary school social committee is donating $2,910 to the primary school. Um, the Neva Noi Memorial is um donating $500 for activity scholarships. Peterson Companies is donating $1,000 for the Chicago Lakes High School dance team. and Empire Insurance is donating $1,000 for the Chicago Lakes High School dance team. So, we'll need a motion in a second and then we'll do a roll call vote since these are donations. >> I'll make the second. >> We start with you, Sarah. Sarah, I >> and Lori. The donations are accepted and we're very appreciative of the community and the donations that go to our important school programs and scholarships. All right, we're moving on
018to uh the new teachers contract, the cle master agreement that we finally came to an agreement about. And I think Corey's going to highlight some things about the contract for us. >> Okay. So, first of all, of course, we just want to thank all the individuals that didn't reach the tenant agreement. It's always a long tough process. So, I'm happy where we ended up and how we're here today. So, um just some highlights of the agreements. Um there there is an increase on the salary schedule of 2.5% in each year one and year two. Um so with steps included, the average increase for our staff is 4.033% in year one and 4.173% in year two. I want you guys to know though that 46% of our staff um is on step Q, which is the
019last step of our salary schedule. they will not be taking steps. So they would get the two and a half%. But what that does mean to get to the 4.033% is the people taking steps something a little bit more than that as well. So just important to note um want to touch on starting wages as well. Um our starting wage at at the start of the 25 26 year piece of the contract is 46,000 66. When we average out our other five comparables, we are above average. I'm not going to say by a lot. It's 46,809 is the average and we're at 46,966, which was one of our goals to try to get to average. Um, and then when it comes to if you go to MA plus 60 step Q, which is our very
020far right lane bottom step, um, that amount is 94735 at the end of the 26 27 school year. Um, so the end of this contract, which is also considered above average from our comparables right now, um, which is 94,501. Uh, I say right now because only two other comparables have settled. We're still waiting on three more. Um, so we don't know where they'll end up. So we'll see where some of the stuff ends up for us. But another thing to factor into is when individuals are on step Q, once they reach year 20, um, they do get career increments. Um, and so with our comparables, their average range and their current increments starting in year 20 to go going through the year every five plus, but that's I'm just using what ours says. Uh, the
021averages go from 96,196 to 96,987. Um, for us in all those categories, we would be above average because ours start at 98,235 when we have to turn into their bottom step. And once they get to the 35 plus years, it will be uh 100,885 is where they would be at. Another piece to touch on is insurance. And I just want to really make sure we say that when we sat down for the 2325 negotiation cycle, we made a commitment um that over three contracts that we wanted to improve our insurance contribution from where we were compared to our comparables. Um in the first two contracts um starting with the 2325 contract, we gave an 8% increase in both years, both year one and year two. So single and family insurance. Um and then this year
022in year one we gave 14% and in year two it was 10%. Uh so while this this does continue to close the gap we know there's a little bit more work to do but if we do look at our comparable districts um noting that we have one more contract cycle to go to make a significant increase. Um our single contribution and I do include HSA in this even with our comparables when I do the averages. Um our single contribution is 10,928. um which is above the average for single because that's at 10,825 with our comparables. Um and then our family contribution did make a significant increase to get post to our comparables with the HSA it's 20,254. Um but the average is 22,000 or more. So we know we have some stuff to go there
023but we do have that one contract cycle remaining for it and we're confident during that time frame the next negotiation cycle that will be in line with our um other things in the contract uh we did add a personal day and we did increase the 403b by $150 in year one only. Um what that means for us the two-year total package percentage is 10.483% that does equate to 8.416% 416% MSBA. Rob can talk to you about MSBA percentages if you want because I just tell I just say what she says. So, and then another thing to note here is uh the district was over $350,000 of our budgeted amount um you know for the group and we just know that we have to look as we go through um our budget forecasting in the future
024that we have to make adjustments within the group. Um when we look at the over 26 27 school year >> any questions? >> I have a quick question. Was it correct that our insurance increased 25% for employees? >> 15% this year. >> Oh 15 >> over two years >> over >> not sure. was I don't know what it would be next year, but this year >> so it probably did if you did the four cycle 25 >> probably did go up 25%. >> Any other questions about the teachers contract? >> Out of our comparables, how many are uh three? Yeah. Any other questions? If not, um, the union has voted to ratify the contract. So, we need to vote to approve the contract tonight. So, we need a motion and a second to approve the
025teachers contract. >> Make a motion that we approve the club master agreement. >> I'll second it. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Again, same. >> The contract is approved. Thank you, Corey. >> All right. Next, we're moving on to this year's enrollment based reductions and with a short explanation, I believe. >> Yep. Just a quick one. Um, just talking about our budget adjustments for FY27. Sorry. Sorry. When we talk about enrollment base, it just means that as our enrollment declines or if it increase, but right now it's declining, we need to adjust our staffing and other expenditures to go along with that. And we just have some examples up there of what we would do. Um, and just I'll say this publicly, we are predicting a fairly small kindergarten class next year of
026around 175. And this is the first time we've had a class under 200. So, we're taking that into account as we do all of our um enrollment based adjustments. Uh, this shows a graph of um the next five years in our elementarymentaries. It's kindergarten. I know some of it's kind of small to see, but kindergarten all through fifth grade. And looking at the green would be this year. So those are our actual numbers and then going forward of what we're kind of predicting. So you can see we're hoping to hold kindergarten steady for the next five years. Um but you can see what it does as it goes through those other elementary classes. And so we'll be adjusting for enrollment as we go through there. Just kind of a nice visual to be able to
027see exactly what's going to happen when enrollment goes down. >> Just want to add one thing. I we are being more optimistic on this piece about the one set like I'll point out the kindergarten the far left. we go from 214 to 175 to 170 flat. I don't think that's going to be the reality, but we just don't have enough data at this point. Obviously, there's some some years out where there's not people born yet. But more importantly, we we are just going to have to figure out census data. It keeps coming up and updating, but I just wanted to let you know, I hope this doesn't get worse, but this is at least a baseline we decide to go with for now. And I think it's worth noting that all the leadership things that
028we attend, they talk about these demographic changes happening throughout the state. So this is not unique to satellites where all of a sudden we're losing students. People are frankly having less children and there's less children in school. There's less kids in college. There's just less kids. >> But that doesn't mean we we just accept it. We're working on things to to hold on to our kids. We've added our online academy because there was a high demand for that. We continue to market our school district, but it's worth noting that this isn't unique to Chicago lakes. No. And we did look at birth rates and but when you look at the Chicago County birth rates, they're going down, but it affects three different school districts too within our county. So, we just thought keeping it flat
029at least we had a a baseline, but we'll keep we'll continue obviously to update it every year. So, then these are the enrollment based or and our other reductions that we're making for next year. So, four elementary positions. Um, in the other has some retirement savings and then each building came up with 10 to$15,000 of adjustments within their buildings. And then in the activities, we have an increase of fees um reduction in middle school girls basketball and then reducing one and a half coaches and those are in swim, dive, and alpine ski. And that equates to $500,000. And that's what we came up with for reductions for fiscal year 27. Can we just talk about that reduction of middle school girls basketball for a second because we we've all been told the reasons and the
030numbers and so on, but I think it's worth noting it's not that we're choosing boys basketball over girls basketball. Would we ever do that? But this was really numbers driven and there's a place for these girls. >> Yes, that's an important part. So I we do have some 712 programs in our district. We're going to make this a 712 program. We did talk to the varsity program about this piece. And one thing the AD sort of mentioned this year was it was harder to get games. Normally we'd play our conference as much as we possibly can, but I went to some of the games this year. We were playing teams in the far uh west metro like say Michaelville and some teams from over there. We just felt again putting them together into the high
031school per 712 model would be a better situation for them. And then also they'll get more practice, more opportunities and for people in case that doesn't it's not where they want to go. We still have our association that actually offers again the experience of doing travel law as well. So they have a couple opportunities but it will be consolidated into the high school program and again this is another one where I'll be honest the norms are starting to happen other places as well. We do see this trend happening in other districts especially in our conference specifically in girls basketball. Um we're seeing more and more of this piece. So I think we're we're just catching up to some of the other districts that started to do this already last few years. And then I'd just
032also like to comment about the four teaching positions. Even though we know this is an enrollment adjustment, we have less students. So we need less teachers. You know, it's still people and it's their jobs. And so I just want to acknowledge that it's still difficult even if we know it's based on numbers. >> Absolutely. >> Say that. >> All right. So are there other questions about our enrollment adjustments? All right. If not, we need a motion and a second to accept our budget adjustment, our enrollment based reductions. I guess we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> In a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Against same sign. The enrollment reductions are approved. All right. Um, we have some resolutions coming up that we have to do every year. We
033every year we have to nonrenew the people that are in place that are long-term substitutes. So our first resolution, we need to um terminate any teachers that were serving in a long-term substitute position. And this is not nothing to do with their merit or how well they've done. This is something we always do every year. So we'll take a motion in a second. And we do need a resolution on this one. >> Motion. >> Okay, we have a motion. I'll second it. >> And we'll start with you Sarah. >> Sarah I >> Josh I. >> Jeff I >> and Lori I. >> Um the resolution is accepted. The next resolution again we do this every year. Um we non-renew probationary teachers. Um there's a probationary period of three years and then our person is tenured
034and so this is something we have to do every year as well. So we need a motion and a second before we have a roll call vote. motion. >> Second. >> There's a motion. Second. Sarah, would you mind roll against? >> Sarah, >> I >> and Lori I. Um, the resolution is passed. Um, the next order of business is we need our resolution for non-renewing tier one teachers. These are people who don't have a teaching license, but have stepped into these roles and are generally working for towards their licenses, but it's the law. We have to nonrenew them every year and they have to reapply and we need to show that we're trying to get certified people. So we need a motion and a second and then a little call on that one. >> Make
035a motion. I >> and Lori I. So that resolution passes. All right. Is there any other business before we adjourn? Okay. If no, if no other business, um I'll take a motion and a second to adjurnn. >> Second. >> We have a motion. Second. All in favor say I. >> I. You think you guys have brackets going or something. might have been next Thursday. Check your calendar. >> What was it?