##VIDEO ID:PlIK92DECvU## e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e going to resume the December 16th 2024 Board of Education meeting if I could have everybody stand as they are able to say the Pledge of Allegiance thank you everyone the first item on our agenda is Accent on achievement Dr Johnson thank you president Owens in recognition of National Education support Professionals Day uh annually following on the Wednesday of American Education week being November 20th 20 2024 acclamation of appreciation will be presented to Diane gazinski Our Food Services lead and also I know Ain Noak is here today also our director of food and nutrition services um and uh Ms Thomas board member Kate Thomas will be coming forward uh to present the proclamation and to uh thank Diane and eron for their hard work and dedication right good all right so I have a nice Proclamation here I'm going to read for everyone um whereas educational support professionals including secretaries paraprofessionals Food Service workers operation staff bus drivers and assistants serve students on a daily basis in many capacities that contribute to the quality of Education whereas the contributions of those talented and dedicated individuals are recognized as part of the education support Professionals Day November 20th 2024 whereas School District u46 employs more than 1,000 800 support staff and whereas you 46 support staff members work to serve our children and communities with care and professionalism now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Education recognizes its talented education support staff in honor of Education support Professionals Day and asks administrators teachers students parents and the community to join in recognizing and thanking those individuals for their dedication efforts and service on behalf of our children and youth presented formerly on December oh no presented this 16th day of December 2024 thank you you you like thank you just appreciate it not expecting it so thank you get aoup phot [Music] the next item on our agenda is strategic plan report Dr Johnson thank you president Owens uh this evening we have an equity update so coming forward we have have Dr Latrice satte assistant superintendent of equity and Innovation Lisa Jackson director of equity and inclusion grisela Pell director of multilingual Multicultural education Michelle Chapman director of postsecondary success and Amanda letherby director of specialized student services to provide the Board of Education with an update on our Equity work he good evening thank you to the board of education for the opportunity to share an update on the u46 equity work tonight I am joined by the directors of equity and Innovations Department my bus to Navigate please there all the work we do and equity and Innovation aligns with the district's moral imperative We are continuing to make changes and until all systems measurably work for all children in u46 this statement emphasizes the equity and Innovation Department's commitment to transforming systems to ensure they effectively serve all students our mission statement reflects the district's commitment to creating an inclusive educational environment where all students feel valued and supported with a specific focus on addressing the needs of historically marginalized groups by adjusting its structures and systems the district strives to eliminate disparities in academic achievement and Excellence ensuring that every student has access to the resources and opportunities needed for Success this evening we will address these six areas equity committee progress as the district develops a new strategic plan some initiatives of the equity committee are being adjusted to align with the district's overall goals members of the equity committee serve on various work groups of the Strategic plan development to be a voice for the equity work and to ensure it is fully integrated into the planning process each pillar is provid providing updates on the progress made so far and challenges encountered after completing this task they outline next steps for the group to take this approach is a way for the equity committee to embed Equity into the Strategic plan we should not be doing Equity Equity should be embedded in all we do this example demonstrates how the equity committee tracks progress and assures accountability for achieving the goals outlined in the equity plan the action step to promote AP and dual credit programs involves creating advertising materials in various formats key benchmarks include Distributing Flyers starting in sixth grade providing a userfriendly link for parents on school websites and sharing program details during orientation sessions building the district administrators building and District administrators along with teachers are responsible for implementation the Tas is scheduled to be completed by Fall 2024 with annual reviews starting in Spring of 2025 necessary resources were allocated and the status of this action step is marked as completed I will now share some I Ela and math data broken down by ethnicity groups this chart displays performance Trends from 2021 through 2324 across different racial ethnic groups indicating the proportions of students who have exceeded met approach partially met or did not yet meet standards across seven subgroups there is a general increase in students exceeding or imming standards over the four years 6% increase or higher two or more racist students had the most gains in the number of students meeting and exceeding the standard with an 18% increase followed by white with a 177% increase and then Asian with 15% increase of the number of students who met or exceeded the standards the percentage of students in the did not yet meet category has trended downward across all racial ethnic groups for American Indian or Alaska native Hispanic and black or African-American students while progress is evident they continue to have higher percentages in the partially met or did not yet meet categories overall the data reflects a positive trend in improving student outcomes over the past four years but disparities persist along racial ethnic groups suggesting a need for continued focus on equity and targeted support similar to ELA this math data chart depicts the percentage distribution of performance levels of exceeded met approach partially met and did not yet meet for various racial ethnic groups over four academic years 2021 to 2324 across all groups the percentage of students in the did not yet meet category has trended downward over the four years with American Indian and Alaska na native having the largest decrease from 47% to 24% which equals a 23 percentage Point decrease from 2021 to 2324 school year followed by native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders with a 14% decrease Hispanic Latino from 42% to 29% with a 133% decrease and black African-Americans from 48% to 37% with 11% decrease students identified as white or two or more races showed the stronger performance with seven percentage Point increases in the exceeded and met categories from 2021 to 2324 school year followed by native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders with a 6% increase next I'll talk about student code of conduct revisions for the 2425 school year revisions were made to the student code of conduct where definitions of hate crime and speech were added along with the levels of consequences we want to reiterate that hateful language and discriminatory Behavior will not be tolerated in our schools school district u46 and its schools takes this issue seriously and disciplinary actions will be taken in accordance with our student code of conduct hate speech is addressed in all four levels of misconduct and includes consequences up to suspension and or expulsion depending on the severity of the incident we encourage All Families to review the student code of conduct with special attention to the section on hate speech this will help reinforce the expectations for respectful Behavior and the seriousness of the consequences for violating these standards learning opportunities and initiatives I will share the work that has been done as well as the work that is currently in progress in the department in July of 2024 the assistant superintendent of equan innovation along with the director of diversity and inclusion provided two key trainings for over 200 administrators one focused on understanding and addressing bias and another on hate speech and offensive language in collaboration with legal counsel in addition administrators have received sample Communications for staff parents and students which principles can adapt to address incidents within their schools in September the hate speech and offensive language presentation was revised for teachers and delivered during staff meetings by building Administration this training covered how to appropriately discuss hate speech in historical or lesson context address it with when encountered in the building or at school events and document incidents properly ETA leadership also provided feedback on the department on the the development of the presentation for students some principles created presentations to share this information while schools like Elgen High School displayed hate has no place here banners in Spanish and English Abbot and Larson hosted student assemblies and Hilltop organized activities through the kind campaign Lisa Jackson is collaborating with schools to implement no place for hate campaigns led by students reinforcing respect for diversity and a sense of belonging for parents guidance on discussing hate speech with children was included in the superintendent newsletter and a letter from the superintendent addressing the seriousness of this issue and the importance of collaboration with the district will be sent this week additionally a webinar is being organized for January 15th to educate and support u46 families the district is also partnering with various organizations to provide ongoing learning opportunities for all stakeholders some of the areas we are planning to address are around diversity and supporting lgbtq students as of July of 2024 the reorganization of the equity and Innovations Department established key areas of focus within this department the diversity equity and inclusion department is dedicated to fost fering a culture of belonging fairness and respect by addressing systemic inequities promoting inclusive practices and ensuring that all students and Staff feel valued and support the multilingual Multicultural Department supports English Learners through programs such as dual language English as a second language ESL and initiatives at the Welcome Center including newcomers ensuring a smooth transition and academic success for students from diverse linguistic and cult cultural backgrounds the postsecondary success Department focuses on preparing students for Life Beyond High School this department overseas programs such as Avid magnet acmy career Pathways dual credit opportunities and summer connections to equip students with the skills and experiences needed for Life College and Career Readiness the specialized student services department provides comprehensive support for students with individualized education plans IEPs 504 plants and Health Services each director will now present data from their respective departments highlighting efforts to ensure equity for all students first we have Lisa Jackson presenting for diversity equity and inclusion you Dr s so over the past few few years thank you uh the the department of diversity equity and inclusion has concentrated on fostering inclusive practices throughout the int through the intentional creation of mentorship opportunities for our students I am lead is one of those mentorship programs that serves as a platform for fostering leadership fortifying self-worth and nurturing cultural awareness our vision has been to inspire and equip our young girls to confidently lead and thrive in a diverse World although IM Le has been part of our district for nearly 10 years our Focus during the last two years has primarily been on literacy during this time our mission has been to cultivate an environment that models positive attitudes and behaviors while providing the resources necessary to help our girls fall in love with Reading Writing listening speaking and themselves these activities and experiences are designed for IM am lead are centered uh are centered uh on their love for these things and we believe that they plant seeds uh for growth as a result our students English Eng language arts scores on the IRA assessment were just below the district average moreover we believe that their love for life and learning would encourage them to attend school every day looking ahead our next area Focus will be numeracy where we aim to help students view the world through a stem lens we want them to make connections between everyday life and Concepts like social media algorithms College investment planning homemade ice cream science self checkout technology and coding similarly young men of Brothers rise up uh for the brother uh the young men of Brothers rise up we are developing a comparable uh process of reviewing and responding to their data to ensure their growth and success um next one yep you got it so um additionally I am pleased to share the important work of our Student Success Advocates we call them ssas uh they are the work that they are doing to support our students particularly in the areas of attendance behavior and grades our ssas are DED dedicated to helping students to navigate their academic Journeys but their impact extends Beyond this group we also have ssas in our elementary schools Lor's Park huff and Coleman are two are three of our schools where they play a vital role in fostering the success of our younger students one of the most important aspects of the ssa's role is serving as a mentor to our students mentorship is an ongoing Dynamic process that helps our students build and strengthen their own age gency working side by side with their their students ssas gather information about themselves they deliberate over questions such as where what do students believe about themselves do they feel empowerment to design their own Futures are ssas help students understand that they have the potential and the power to make a real difference in their own lives next they work with the students to set goals through Discovery again they address questions such as what do students know about themselves what data are are they using to guide their decision-making are they aware of the steps that they need to take to achieve their goals and then comes the exploration phase this is where the students act uh actively work towards their goals what uh actions are they actually taking what steps are they um taking to make progress and then lastly the process continues with ongoing reflection so they ask themselves how they're how they are feeling about their efforts are they assessing their progress and identifying areas of improvement this reflection ensures that they remain remain engaged motivated and on track toward success through this process our ssas are not just addressing academic concerns they are empowering students to be active reflective participants in their own education with mentorship as a Cornerstone we are guiding students towards a future where they believe in their ability to succeed and I will now turn it over to Gela perto the director of Multicultural and multilingual educ ation thank you Miss Jackson um I am pleased to highlight our former English learner students in our district these are students who are reclassified from English learner status to former English learner status based on meeting the state's exit criteria on access as you can see from the graph at the top left the percentage of former El's meeting and or exceeding I Ela standards increase from 25% in school year 2021 to 62% in school year 2324 an increase of 37% also as indicated by the graph on the top right former El's improved 26% in school year 2021 to 41% in school year 2324 in I math these percentages show a strong continual upward trend on the bottom left you will notice that former El's achieving college readiness on saat Reading Writing increased from 43% in school year 2021 to 46% in school year 2324 showing once again an upward Trend finally the graph at the B on the bottom right shows former El's demonstrated minimal improvement from school year 2021 to to 2024 2324 excuse me decreasing by only 3% this data demonstrates that our English Learners are benefiting from the instructional supports and resources provided by our district it also highlights key objectives for the mme Department like closing the English learner achievement Gap this growth also aligns with our goal to build academic and language Proficiency in our programs now I would like to celebrate the work related to the Seal of biliteracy which is an award given to high school graduates who demonstrate Proficiency in English and at least one other language this is aligned to one of the goals of the Dual language program which is for students to demonstrate high levels of proficiency in English and Spanish one way for our dual language students to show their proficiency is by earning the Seal of biliteracy the graph shown on this slide depicts the number of dual language students who earn the Seal of biliteracy and the Commendation to the seal in the last four school years Commendation to the seal is an award given to high school students who have made significant progress towards becoming proficient in English and another language as you can see the graph shows a steady upward trend of dual language students who earn the Seal of biliteracy with a total of 170 students in the 23 24 school year this year we've engaged in intentional work to support the continued growth of our dual language students to earn the dis this distinction by streamlining the process dual language students will now focus on earning the Spanish side of the seal as freshman or sophomore in alignment with their courses during the Junior and senior years the focus will be on earning the English side of the seal now I will hand it over to the director of postsecondary success Michelle chatt thank you one of the postsecondary success Department goals is to ensure that every u46 student graduates with an early college experience early college experiences are Advance placement International baloria and dual credit classes earning the state seal of by literacy industry credentials and the College and Career Pathways endorsement we have been working with our middle and high school counselors as well as our families to promote these early C College opportunities with our students this data highlights the increase in the number of students who are in our free and reduced lunch program who are accessing our advanced placement International Balor and dual credit courses over the past three years every subgroup shows substantial growth from the 2021-22 school year to this year as you can see from our Trend data American Indian Hispanic native Hawaiian two or more races and white free and reduced student enrollment in our AP IB and dual credit classes has grown over 10% with native Hawaiian and American Indian student enrollment growing over 20% these two graphs show the overall enrollment trends for our advanced placement and dual credit classes enrollment advanced placement has increased by at least 2% and enrollment in dual credit courses has increased by at least 6% for each subgroup in the last three years our counseling and post-secondary teams have been reviewing this data to continue to promote advanced placement and dual credit courses the teams have identified specific courses that students should be taking and are encouraging them to pursue these classes next year as we continue to move towards every student accessing early college and career opportunities we expect our numbers to continue to increase next is our director of specialized student services Amanda leatherby good evening specialized student services is proud to bring this update and the positive impact it brings to our students an inclusive environments State performance plan indicator 5A measures the number of students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment or general education classroom for 80% or more of their school day it is important to remember that our students with disabilities are general education students first and on this slide you'll see the numerical representation of our data and we are pleased to share that we are meeting and exceeding the state Target for this indicator we want our percentage to be above that of the state so you'll see that the state Target for 2023 and 2024 was was 53.3% that was increased for the 2425 school year to 53.5% u46 data uh in 2024 and 2025 is at 54.58 per as of November 1st and last year at the same point in time we were at 52% so that's some some significant growth we are quite proud of our December 1st um data that's the data that determines our data point in time that that'll be reported next year u46 is projected to be at 54% meaning that we met the Target in 2324 we were at 51.4 4% on December 1st this is the graphic representation of the data from the previous Slide the blue line at the top is our Trend the u46 trend for the 2425 school year the red line is the target the state has set for all districts for the 2425 school year and the dash line below that was our data from September to December during the 2324 school year for u46 when we dug into this data during the 23 24 school year the data showed that students were increasingly placed in more restrictive environments going into middle school and high school to mitigate this restrictive impact and encourage more inclusive environments the general education setting we took a look at the following factors and took the following action steps one we wanted to bring awareness and training to special education administrators and local Education Agency Representatives both of which have a direct impact on placement decisions at the IEP meeting in the middle schools we removed self-contained classes for many students in science and social studies and placed those students into general education um science and social studies classrooms in the high school setting we pushed many students from self-contained settings into the general education Health classroom and then finally at the high school setting we are making more targeted decisions for students who need to be in study skills which is a current self-contained classroom at the high school setting I'm gonna now pass that back to Dr s white to wrap us up thank you Amanda an HBCU or historically back black college and university is an institution of higher education established over 180 years ago with the primary mission of serving serving the African-American Community these schools provided an inclusive environment fostering academic Excellence cultural pride and leadership development an HSI Or Hispanic servy institution is a federally designated college or university where at least 25% of the undergraduate full-time student en rment identifies as Hispanic these institutions focus on providing access to higher education and supporting the academic success of Hispanic and other underrepresented students we are excited to share that the department will be hosting its third annual HBCU bus tour from Sunday March 30th to Friday April 4th 2025 and we are also planning our first Hispanic serving institution HSI plane and bus tour from February 27th through March 2nd 2025 students must meet in academic attendance and behavior expectations in order to attend thank you for the opportunity to share this important work that is being undertaken this school year through the equity and Innovation Department we deeply appreciate the board of education's continued support and commitment to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for all students thank you so much for a very comprehensive and complete presentation do board members have any questions Don thank you um for the presentation on slides 10 and 11 that were those were the slides that had the um I performance for ELA and math um very nice to see that they have increased you know year-to year um across the board do we know if the data for our high school students on the and the PSAT is following a similar Trend that will be something that we can look into okay and provide you that data thank you sue um as as far as students having access to AP and dual credit courses are all the high schools offering pretty much the same classes I know at one point some high schools didn't so you out of luck if you're at that high school so um this year is a first year um Larin I know principal this year but we're able to offer uh English 101 and 102 at the we have a teacher there at Larin so um yes we we have all the schools represented now for the credit okay great thank you Shonda thank you for this presentation I just have two questions um and my apologies if this was mentioned for the slide with the Student Success Advocates is that just at the middle school level or is it also at the high school level it's at the middle school and the high school okay and is this this is the first year for the student sucess Advocates second year okay and then for the I am lead and brothers rise up um and it's okay if you don't have this numbers off the top of your head how many schools is it at so so far well that is a good question so all of the middle schools is for I am lead one and a half maybe so I say one and a half of the one um of our uh high schools that will be Elgen and then South Elgen want started there and um gosh I'm going to say six or four elementary schools for IM am Le Brothers rise up uh all of our elementary middle uh I'm sorry all of our high schools and middle schools um and then a handful of I mean like every day it changes so I'm going to give you 10 right now okay so that it fluctuates thank you any other questions okay thank you thank you uh this evening we have a second strategic uh Plan update and that is our work on our new strategic plan uh so we are welcoming muu faay uh from performance fact he's our president he's the president CEO and Lauren KY uh performance fact Vice President Chief program officer to present the Board of Education a strategic Plan update well thank you very much uh good evening board and superintendent I need to check if Lauren is on she was on early on but was having internet internet issues Lauren are you on I am here good evening I'm still having some connection issues so I'll let you kick us off that's good what we would like to do this evening is to give you an update on the works to date but I want to digress for just a few seconds the last presentation we just saw that's really very well done and it shows um a district that really has a a well thought through approach to things uh the data you shared is actually very very uplifting it's it's quite impressive and the data was shared across so many different platforms you'll also notice when we go through the work that's been done so far and uh around the Strategic plan that the much of the Investments that the district has been making for the past few years are really been carried over so this the Strategic plan is not a new thing it's uh it incorporate it includes all the best ideas already in place and adds a few uh additional uh ideas also so my commend to the the last group for really well done job really well done for our presentation we'll do in two in three parts um we'll spend two or three minutes on just the process you've seen most of that before um then we'll share the work to date and then we'll open the floor up for questions and comments from the board and the the first two parts should take about 20 minutes Lauren you have Chim in any time uh next next slide um our role again is to facilitate not to guide not to command or control and you know I think we've uh we've been acting true to how we position s our role in the process this is your process and whatever makes the final plan is what makes sense for you 46 next slide please the emphasis on diverse voices align around or unified direction is a centerpiece of our approach that's why we organize the planning process around a series of teams on the next slide we have the core planning team as the Santa piece it's the most diverse of all the groups it has students and parents and staff and admin and board members on it and that cor planning team generates work that goes out and also takes feedback from the other teams and to try to integrate into a unified hle the on the on the next several slides we'll just show you what we've done so far with the for the student Voice team we've met with them five times uh about two hours each time a mix of virtual sessions and one onsite onsite session so the students themselves have had a chance to uh interact with data they've had a chance to identify what they see as a strength and concern they've weighed in on all the things that the adults have worked on the portrait the goals the measures the equity commitments and they also recommended strategies to accomplish those goals so not only have the students been engaged in a really substantive way uh but they have voice has been given special uh agency by having them as their own team the the last major work for that team is the a feedback survey on the draft strategic plan that same survey is going to go to everyone else within the community including staff the next team that we're going to touch on is the cor planning team you may recall that one that's at the center of the bullseye and in the second column you see that that team has invested four full days there about 60 between 60 and 7 70 participants on the car planning team and they've invested about 4 days we have two more sessions planned one in late January and one in mid-February half day sessions each next team is the instructional Focus team this is the only team that's our describe as homogeneous we set up the instruction Focus team to be manned or to be populated by mostly primarily teachers uh coaches facilitators all those folks handling instruction every other group will mix people up uh except for this group and also for this for the student voice and the instruction Focus team about 40 people if I recall correctly has met for three full days between early October and just before Thanksgiving and they have two more sessions planned uh for them they they do pretty much the same kind of work that the cor planning team does and except they go a lot more deeply into the instructional component of the work next team is the uh the forums uh family and Community Forum we held four sessions uh in October late October and the last activity for this group will be to give feedback on the on the final uh draft of the Strategic plan sometime probably sometime uh in early January that that will close so almost everyone will get a chance to win on the final draft before he comes to the board for formal approval next team is the alignment team the one that we describe as consisting of movers and shakers uh they've met three times for about 90 minutes each time most recently last Tuesday and no additional um feedback is planned from for them although we may uh Lauren maybe we should give some thoughts to having them participating in the survey to give their feedback to the formal final draft before it goes to the board but they've made three times and all three meetings have been very well attended and next we have we we've been doing um review sessions updates to principal and admin um they short meetings all of the meetings are show uh this is a really key group for us to interact with because after the board formally approves the plan and the superintendent's team takes it and begins to operationalize these are the folks who will be will be tasked with making sure we make it happen so in addition to them serving on one or more of the teams we meet with them as a collective so we get the uh feedback of our school leaders and District level administrators into what's been proposed and I think finally well we got two more uh have refer to this earlier on the although there's a an instruction Focus team of mostly teachers they do not represent all teachers necessarily so a way to make sure every single staff member at the school level and a district level gets to uh participate is through the uh survey a feedback survey uh two of them one Focus uh specifically on instructional programs and then second one is the same survey that everybody else will work on which is the feedback on the draft and finally we have uh review sessions with the board uh this is the tonight's session it's the second of four that are plan between now and um miday we expect to be done with most of the data Gathering and compilation uh sometime in late February or early March uh Lear I think that's the last of the updates right the um calendar review just the superintendent's leadership team oh yes one one more okay uh this speaks for itself we although we meet with the principles and admin uh teams we also do spend time with the superintendent uh cabinet essentially we've met with Dr Johnson Ste four times and two more are planed by uh mid mid-February so that gives you a feel for the journey in terms of just engaging diverse stakeholders what I'm going to do next is to actually talk about the work that's been produced so far the out outputs to date and then we'll open it up for your feedback so we'll begin with the uh framework for the Strategic plan we like you to think of the plan as if it were a play in three acts act one is all about the students act two is about instruction which is the strongest driver of student learning and act three is the support and services we need we call it the empowering infrastructure to drive number two so that we can get more kids home more quickly the order of those three circles is really really significant and that's why we talk about keeping the ends ends and the means in proper sequence the only ends that matter are the ends defin articulated in circle number one student out outcome of student learning represent the only ends that we are all about Circle two and circle three are Means To The Ends but we Elevate Circle Number Two to a slightly higher level primarily because the strongest driver of circle number one is Circle Number Two instruction is what matters most so kids first instruction second and then infrastructure third in our view on the far right are some of the components of each one of those three circles the tonight we're going to talk mostly about Circle number one because it's pretty much I say fully baked pending feedback from the uh surveys we I'll talk specifically about the port of a graduate and then we'll talk about the goals Equity statements and the measures of student progress if time permits um Lauren might come in and give us a quick update on where we are with Circle Number Two around instruction and circle number three around the strategies uh both circles are already in play they actually very close to being done uh but they're not done yet that's why we have it in yellow this point okay so let's start with the portrait of a graduate you may recall that the portrait is a broadest vision of what we want as students to know be able to do and be like their their Knowledge and Skills and disposition and the the two parts to the portrait in the First Column I what we call qualities think of those as the the foundational uh pillars of student Readiness for life after after high school and then in the second column we call those attributes you can uh consider those as the uh competencies that we would like to see our students demonstrate or illustrate to show us and themselves that they living consistent with qualities so in this draft there are six qualities this was just before the uh December 10th meetings I believe yeah I think was December 10th we walked in with six I think we came back out with five the uh the last one I if my memory TS me right didn't make the cut as a quality but the idea of empathy and kindness will be woven into the five that are above we don't have those notes updated so there are five qualities we want our students to be empowered leader analytical thinker collaborative collaborative communicator and so on and on the right side are the attributes that go with with each one of those qualities okay let's leave it on for just a half a minute um for folks to take a look okay thanks Lauren then the last part of the presentation is to talk about the the goals and measures if you think of the uh portrait as the uh fondest wishes for all of our kids you you may recall from the previous slide that there a mix of of skills knowledge skills and dispositions now if we were to get a little bit more fine grain in defining what we want to produce as outcomes and if we could identify no more than four goals for student learning and success what will those four goals be that's where this next section segment comes in and for each one of the four goals we'll recommend between two and three measures of progress you can think of this as the vital signs if the goal is the outcome we looking for what are some of the measures of vital signs or indicators of progress towards the goal and then finally uh as an equity center School District if you were to make an equity commitment to our students relative to each one of those goals what would we what what will that statement look like what will that commitment look like so that's how each one of these pages is set up and there are four of them but I'm actually going to talk about one uh then four then two then three uh goal number one you can think of that as strong start we want to give our students a really strong start so that they are as close to ready of being on standard as possible by the end of the second grade so that's goal number one strong start we go to goal number four goal number four is about a strong finish so we want them to uh develop the skills and interest for Success at the postsecondary level and throughout their lives so goal one strong start goal Four Strong finish ready to rock and roll Take On The World and then in between those two book end goal one and goal four are the two book ends in between those two book ends we defining two additional goals goal number two it's focused on our students being well adjusted that's the social the secl goal Lauren if you go to goal number two please so goal number two is about safety belonging and inclusion so that's our goal and goal number three is our AC mic goal so I'm spending time um on these goals because they need to tell a story they all about all of the kids and every single one of them so the goals that we setting as a as a school system is focused on giving them a strong start a strong start giving them a strong finish making sure that they socially emotionally well adjusted and making sure that they know their stuff the academic piece and it is those for goals for which we Define some specific measures so for goal number one there are three measures of Student Success one around Lear if you go to goal number one please goal number one it's the first measure is about uh acquiring the necessary skills at every grade level then measure number two the math skills measure number three the SC social emotional skills so those are the me me for goal number one for goal number two the measures would be uh student experience of a strong School climate uh safety inclusion student staff relationships and so on and the second measure was around attendance and absenteeism because students coming to school or not coming to school is a very strong indicator of how they feel about school and the level of Engagement that they have with school so this goal has two measures goal number three has three measures has two measures also excuse me goal number three is the academic goal and it's about us making growth and also reaching standards in the core subjects on State and National assessments and also on common assessments aligned to standards mostly District level assessments and finally go number four has four measures um many of these were actually addressed by the presentation that preceded this one uh student enrollment in career Pathways CTE Advan uh IB advanced placement and so on goal number two I'm sorry measure measure B would be about as high school seniors completing at least one career pathway measure C it's about students completing certain courses and activities at Key Junctions fifth grade 8th grade 10th grade and 12th grade and goal number uh measure number four is about making sure that our students are on track to graduate every year during the their High School experience so that's where we are now and if youve uh if we've done our job explaining the work today this is all about Circle number one which is again around student learning uh Lauren if you still there maybe a few statements about Circle Number Two this the status C and uh Circle number three and it will open it up to the board for questions and feedback absolutely so Circle Number Two uh that was shaded in yellow earlier um we do have the beginning draft for uh the professional practices and we've administered the instructional survey that will be analyzed to complete that third component of the strengthening the instructional program um aligned to the standards and assessment system the instructional Focus team actually was has been uh doing a phenomenal job and uh kind of EX exceeded our uh time benchmarks whereby we did not need to hold the last um halfday meeting in December and will'll be reconvening in January uh once we they have one more opportunity to review their work we'll be able to bring uh that work forward to the other teams um and particularly the principal admin team the core planning team and also to the board in terms of the signature strategies we actually have drafts um around our strategies and some key actions those were uh worked on further uh when we met with the core planning team on December 10th and we are compiling all the feedback that has come in from students uh from the community forums and will additionally be compiling from the survey that goes out to gather um further input around strategies to achieve the goals as they set forth uh from the larger community and the core planning team will then have an opportunity to revisit its work and to finalize their recommendations for those strategies so we're well on our way uh we just have a few more um iterations to move through and um a wider Community engagement to complete uh to put the the full first draft of those strategies together thank you much we are might un happy to take your feedback questions thank you and thank you for the presentation um I just want to convey my thanks to Performance back for getting us to this point um I know it's been a a long uh a lot of meetings a lot of work has gone in into this and thank you as well to all of the staff members the students the community members that have engaged in this work um I've had the the pleasure of sitting in in just a couple of meetings I know some board members have been able to do the same some of us a little bit more um but thank you to everybody that has gotten us to this point we'll open it up to questions from the board Sue I'm assuming you have a question I I don't I just actually have a comment I've been part of the core planning team and the discussions have been really quite vigorous and gone into great depth and it's been really valuable having students involved and and not just I think some of them were middle school students as well as high school yeah that is correct and and they've had some great ideas so so thank you again the performance fact thank you anybody else have any comments or questions feedback so I have just a couple of things I I and and maybe this is because I sat in on one of the more recent um meetings with the alignment team um during that session there was a lot of discussion about word smithing and I know that the word when we start talking about the the uh the portrait of a graduate the word tenacious came up um as a discussion Point um I just I I want to I I know that Dr Johnson had mentioned during the meeting that that also um had been spoken about at other uh Team meetings I just wanted to throw my my hat in the ring so to speak for that word I really like what what that what that term conveys um and I know as we go you know forward with with kind of finalizing this portrait of a graduate um just thinking about some of those other um words that may have come across from different teams and how they might get Incorporated within the Strategic plan okay and I don't know if that's a something that performance fact if you want to weigh in on that or Dr Johnson if you want to to weigh on that in on that as well so what I had shared previously was that in the most recent sessions I've been part of Tenacious has been a conversation so actually I'm looking at at uh at um board member uh we were we were part of the same uh group to begin the work last week with the core planning team and our our team spent a little bit of time talking about tenacious I know most of the teams did that day uh additionally I I've had some opportunities to to discuss that topic with our students as well so it seems to definitely be a word of uh of question I think uh overall we we're in agreement um president Owens of the importance of the word once we unpack pack it and determine what our shared meaning will be of of the word but it it certainly we didn't land I didn't feel after the core planning team in a firm place of either the word was going to make the final cut just yet or not but I think there was more of an interest to have a shared understanding of what u46 means by tenacious and not only u46 but uh the alignment team for example the other night so those those uh who are members of that work and how they support you for 46 with mentoring and with coaching and um internships if we if we as a community can leave this strategic planning process with a common understanding of of what we mean by you know a a team our student our graduates rather being tenacious if we're thinking of them as a thinker or even as a learner I I think that's a tremendous success for us to you know share that statement and then all immediately have the same understanding whether or not tenacious makes the Final Cut but that type of understanding would be a tremendous uh step forward in supporting our students across our 90 square miles and 11 communities and 55 sites so uh I'll I'll also defer though to board member K on her take of the word tenacious last week I we had a lot of discussion I know there's a lot of back and forth on it yeah yeah and I think that's the value right of having all of these teams discussions because it really does hone in on on what we're trying to get at what we're trying to build with this portrait of The Graduate um one other piece of feedback when I read goal number two which is slide 17 um really appreciate the the structure of of these draft goals and the the equity commitment that goes along with each one of these goals for goal number two the wording of the goal itself and the equity commitment is very very similar I didn't really find that with the other three goals and so wondering if I can just put a plugin to maybe take a second look at that because the wording is just is yeah essentially says the same thing yeah that's that's why we love these feedback sessions you know things that we miss so maybe other teams haven't picked up as I really read them now you you're right and we we can fix that yeah if I could go back tenacious for just a a brief moment uh from our perspective either either uh term works and maybe uh Dr Johnson's suggestion about what makes sense for what's the interpretation for you for the six and if we can reach consensus then it's perfectly fine it's not one of those uh highly technical um disputes in quot it's really come it comes down to matter of preference and whatever you prefer whatever you learn on as consensus we'll be fine with us yeah either one will work quite well if we have Comm on understanding Shonda president Kerr for goal number two you're saying the goal and the equity commitment sound the same they do yeah um I was part of uh I think the rewrite of the equity commitment and when I look at the slide I look at as go the goal is for every student to contri RB an experience our commitment is to Pro provide that experience or provide that environment it does look like it's there's a lot of similarities but I kind of look at it as one is the students contributing and experiencing it but in order for them to experience it we have to provide it in some way okay okay I I will also add that um last week when we were uh working with the student voice group they had a lot of feedback for us actually on go too and some pieces to potentially consider for that revision or other items to include a as well so um I I know I need to revisit what they had shared but that was a that was a a similar conversation amongst the middle school and high school students in the afternoon session I appreciate that that and that makes you know when you when you when you say the background and and the intention on it it does make a I can see where the the structure of that comes through yeah to be Rewritten but when I read it that's kind of how yeah to get that intent through um and then the final piece of feedback that I have is uh just again for the alignment team um I didn't get the sense when I when I sat through that session last week that that conversation was done with them and so I'm hoping that at least they are included in a in a feedback survey um because I think that just looking at some of the the there was a section of that meeting where we were writing down the um different strategies to to bring these goals to and I think that with that team especially especially with that goal number four and some of the post secondary um work that we're doing and the the high school experiences I think that group has a lot to a lot of feedback that they can offer in that that category so I'm just hoping that they have another chance at least to weigh in yes yeah your your alignment team is exceptionally active compared to many of the others really active they I mean not only not only do they care they have substantive they know enough about the work that they really want listening to very active anybody else okay thank you for the update thank you thank thank you have a nice evening okay the next item on our agenda is public comments uh thank you president Owens uh we do have a public comment this evening so coming forward is Brenda Gomez to provide our process for making comment good evening and welcome to the Board of Education meeting we are now at the public comment portion of the meeting attendees wishing to make a public comment in person or via Zoom tonight we asked to complete a request to speak form in advance those who chose to speak via Zoom were provided with a webinar ID number to call in promptly at 7 p.m tonight as always speakers will be given three minutes to share their comments the board the board listens to the speakers but does not respond to individual questions or comments during the meeting a written response will be mailed to the speaker if requested on the form public comments may include the speaker student name if you wish all public comments must refrain from mentioning any other students protected personal information and name if your public comment includes other students information we will need to end your public comment at that time Those Who provided a public comment but chose to not to speak public in the meeting were asked to submit an email to board u-46.org those emails were posted on the board agenda for public viewing for Bo thank you our public speaker tonight is Crystal Bush good evening I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to the school board for considering the approval of a stadium for lin High School school this initiative represents a significant step toward ensuring Equity across the district's athletic programs excuse me providing our student athletes with the resources and opportunities they deserve having a dedicated Stadium will not only enhance the athletic experience for our students but also Foster a sense of Pride and Community for Larin High School your commitment to fairness and inclusivity in education and extracurricular activities is truly commendable thank you for your leadership and for prioritizing equity for all students thank you thank you and the next item on our agenda is other business board member and superintendent updates feels like we've had a long stretch between meetings where we've had board member and superintendent updates so does anybody have anything they would like to share I know that we've been like you know we had the iasb meeting and and all of that so don if you want to have something to share yeah I just wanted to um remind our community I'm sure they have seen all of the different messaging we have going out but we are continuing our boundary talks we have done two meetings with our public so far I was at the most recent one held at Bartlett High School I know several of us have been attending them and do plan to um so I just want to remind the public attend the meetings if you can we have the maps available so you can see exactly where your house is and if and if not your students are changing um administrators Galore are available at these meetings we are available at the meetings to answer questions and listen to your feedback and I do want to remind the community that the the maps are drafts we are taking the next few months to look at them and listen to the feedback and um review if changes need to be made so I know you're getting a lot of information about it but I'm saying it again because the boundary work is huge and it's a large part of what we're doing with all of our construction and facility work and um changes of this mag to don't happen often so please be involved if you can and make sure you're informed and the videos too for each for each Network as those Network meetings conclude those videos are are posted up on the the website as well which are I think really helpful to zero in on what's happening in a specific region of the district does anybody else have anything anything from the the iasb conference that anybody wants to share that they've they learned or they picked up or I know that I mean it was like long ago I attended a couple of workshops that were like leadership workshops one was called leadership I attended it with Miss Kerr as well um and there was a lot of good information about adapting as a leader in challenging times it requires a different type of leader um one of the things that I thought was was um interesting and something to consider is protecting the voices of dissent in in your area in your District as we have public comments and people giving comments being able to allow for that um the other I attended was the trust Edge and it talked about building trust how to build trust but also how much is trust how much is the lack of trust costing you how much is it costing your team and the person who um developed this work was also one of our General Session speakers so that was really good and then I attended a workshop that was called legally stumped where they went through different alleged um scenarios and had um a team there that could uh provide guidance on these alleged scenarios anybody else so just to tag on on the the IB thing and just is a a housekeeping we um you should have received an email today from ISB regarding the board governance survey um for the self- evaluation in January so that is due January 13th um I just want to also put out because we just talked about the Strategic plan meeting meetings there are a few openings for the future strategic plan meetings in January and February so if anybody is interested or can attend any of those meetings there are still four meetings that have just one person attending so there's space for one more um and then finally I just want to check did you all get an email regarding a potential resolution or a a proposed resolu solution from ISB under their Vision 2030 yes you all receive that email if you didn't let me know and I'll I'll send you I'll forward you the the copy that I have um but they are asking that we review that resolution and um if we are in support or want to show our support of that resolution that we put it on a board agenda to approve and they would like that done in January so if we want to do that then I would need to know um before the next board meeting in January um so if you have any uh comments or concerns or questions please direct that to me and we'll consider putting that on the agenda then with if if people are in support of that but I need to know if you are are feeling strongly about supporting that or not okay that's all I have if if I may very quickly I uh I want to thank the Board of Education and our teams across school district u46 for all their work throughout the 2024 year hard to believe but this is our final board meeting for 2024 and it has certainly been a very busy year with some significant decisions and Leadership coming from the Board of Education as we work to continually change our systems so that they work for all students and it's an exciting time to be in u46 I know that it means there's a lot of work in u46 as I look out at the people who are here in person tonight and I know others will watch and are participating every day in all of this work um but it is so essential and looking ahead to 2025 as Martin indicated we have boundary work we have more facilities work we are going to welcome a new building online we are going to start a number of Capal projects some that you're going to hear about later tonight we will have a strategic plan in place we're continuing to monitor all of the other works you heard accolades tonight from performance fact to our uh diversity equity and inclusion team accolades to the alignment team which is the community I share all that because it's a tremendous time to be part of u46 and I hope that as we uh move into winter recess everybody here has an opportunity to reflect on all the work that we've done this year and then re charge for the work ahead in 2025 because it's uh it's going to be an exciting time so thank you all to the board of education for your leadership and thank you to our teams in u46 for being part of this work appreciate you all thank you uh the next item on the agenda is foyer requests Dr Johnson uh we do have 12 Freedom of Information Act requests this evening they are available on the uh public domain of board ducks and will be moved to the school district g46 website later this week okay and the next agenda is cons our next item is the consent agenda on the consent agenda this evening we have Personnel report and workers compensation cases minutes of board meetings September 23rd 24 open session October 7 2024 Open Session proposal of plan operations sore Trails Elementary School HVAC project proposal School accountability Creekside Elementary School needs assessment contract renewal multilingual and Multicultural education department Ready set go Continental contract renewal curriculum and instruction Career and Technical education co-s spaces edu contract renewal multilingual and Multicultural education department Roosevelt University dual language teacher leadership programs cohort 7 occupancy permit one for Larin High School auditorium house light seating flooring and sound system replacement project number 273 may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented so moved second roll call uh any discussion roll call please miss Kerr yes Miss Khan sorry yes Miss Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president ens yes motion carried next item on the agenda is discussion action Dr Johnson our first item itemize bills for December 16 2024 Dr Frank Williams assistant superintendent of finance will respond to questions from the Board of Education regarding the attached bills Administration recommends the Board of Education approve the list of bills in the amount of 62,939 may I have a motion to approve the list of bills and the amount of 62 m980 46095 some moved second any discussion roll call please miss Kirk yes Miss Khan yes Miss Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president Owens yes motion carried next we have the minutes of board committee meetings attached for the Board of Education review are the following board committee meeting minutes October 21st 2024 board of education curriculum committee meeting November 4th 2024 Board of Education policy committee meeting Administration recommends the Board of Education accept the minutes may I have a motion to accept the minutes of the October 21st 2024 board of education curriculum committee meeting and the November 4th 2024 Board of Education policy committee meeting so moved second any discussion roll call please miss Kirk yes Miss Khan yes Miss Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president Owen yes motion Carri next we have the elementary Health curriculum proposal Celia Banks director of curriculum and instruction Tracy jaida student wellness coordinator and Mary Jingo student wellness teacher leader are available for questions relating to the elementary Health curriculum proposal may I have a motion to approve the elementary Health curriculum proposal and Associated Resources with an estimated cost of 174,175 so moved second any discussion or questions okay roll call please miss Kerr yes Miss Khan yes Miss Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president Owens yes motion passes our next item is fiscal year 2024 tax levy Dr Ann Williams Deputy superintendent of operations and Dr Frank Williams assistant superintendent of finance will be available to respond to questions from the Board of Education regarding the attached fiscal year 2024 tax levy documents Administration recommends adoption of the truth and Taxation certificate certificate of Truth and Taxation compliance certificate of tax levy resolution authorizing the adoption of the certificate of tax levy and certification of the resolution authorizing the adoption of the certificate of tax levy may I have a motion to adopt the 2024 certificate of tax levy and approve the supporting tax levy documents as presented so moved second second so the tax Lev is estimated and then adopted annually after review and discussion by both the finance committee and the full Board of Education this process ensures the district's financial needs are balanced with the responsibility to our taxpayers Dr Williams will now provide a recap of the total ly amount for your consideration once Dr Williams has concluded the board will have the opportunity to ask any questions before we vote on the lobby that over to Dr Williams sure good evening so we've had lots of conversations about the tax levy I am happy to say that we have met all of the guidelines U around postings it's been on our website we posted in the newspaper we've had the levy available for revew for the 30 days um as required as we know the CPI for this year is 3.4% and so uh we ask which is the levy we ask uh a certain dollar amount but because of the CPI and because of pel regardless we're going to get the 3.4% plus any new construction this you're estimating new construction about $55 million across all the counties um so overall uh we're looking uh including bonded interest our Levy of about $376 million board members have any [Music] questions roll call please miss Kerr yes Miss Khan yes Miss Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president ens yes motion passes next is a resolution providing for the issue of bonds not to exceed $60 million General Obligations School bonds of school district number 46 Kain cook and DuPage counties Illinois for the purpose of paying certain costs of those capital projects approved by referendum at the April 4th 2023 Consolidated election providing for the levy of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the principal and interest on said bonds and authorizing the proposed sale of said bonds to the purchaser thereof Dr Anne Williams Deputy superintendent of operations is joined by anelie vi vi our bond consultant from Chapman and Cutler uh and they are available to respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends the Board of Education adopt the resolution providing for the issuance of General obligation School bonds not to exceed $60 million for the purpose of funding capital projects approved by referendum may I have a motion to approve the resolution providing for the issue of bonds not to exceed $60 million General obligation School bonds of school district number 46 Cain cook andup Page County Illinois for the purpose of paying certain costs of those capital projects approved by referendum at the April 4th 2023 Consolidated election providing for the levy of a dis of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the principal and interest on said bonds and authorizing the proposed sale of said bonds to the purchaser thereof so moved second so this resolution is directly tied to the successful $179 million Bond referendum that was overwhelmingly supported by our community last April I want to take a moment to thank our community again for their ongoing in investment in the future of our schools and their trust in our stewardship of those resources it is also important to emphasize that issuance of these bonds will not increase debt taxes for our taxpayers as these bonds are structured within within our existing Debt Service I will now turn it over to Dr Anne Williams to provide additional information on the resolution thank you Miss Owens good evening um this is part two of what will be a three part Bond issuance relating to the referendum and you may recall that um during the month of November at the finance committee meeting and the board meeting we discussed two options with the only difference being between those two options the issuance of working cash bonds um the recommendation was to postpone the issuance of working cash bonds to the final trench of two in 2026 assuming that the market is unchanged delaying issuance of the working cash bonds will actually save interest over the life of the bonds to the tune of roughly $4.2 million which would far outweigh the estimated interest we would receive if we issued the bonds along with the bonds that we're issuing in January um giving the given the timing of the projects the current fund balances and the lower interest costs the recommendation remains to move forward with delaying the issuance of the working cash bonds the next step in the process after tonight will be a call with standard and poor to review the district's initiatives the district's financials and the proposed bond issue I think it's also important to note that we will continue using the process that we used for the last bonds where we partnered with three Underwriters JP Morgan beard and Cabrera and as a reminder we did an RFP to determine who those Underwriters would be last year and during that process we were able to identify MBE and W firms that could support the process we're also going to reach out to our community and engage with them and hopefully sell bonds to members of our community as well um the anticipated close date on the bonds is um early February the week of February 10th and with that I will turn it over to miss VI to see if she'd like to add anything about the actual resolution um I'm happy just to spend a minute or two roughly outlining the parameters of the bond resolution um you have been through this process before so I won't take too much of your time um but as you know the bond resolution sets forth various parameters that will be approved um and considered by the board tonight and then delegates The Authority for the final sale to the designated officials which in the resolution are the board president as well as Dr Williams as the deputy superintendent of operations um the bonds will have a final matur no later than January 1st of 2042 and will bear interest at a rate not to exceed 55% the annual principal will not exceed $1,950,000 a year and the annual tax levy will not exceed $13 million per year um the bonds will be sold at a price not less than 98% of the par amount of the bonds any questions thank you do board members have any questions no okay um I just wanted to offer um Miss Hennessy an opportunity she I believe she had two board meetings tonight so she's been driving trying to hurry up and get here before um we presented so thank you very much Dr Williams I apologize board for being late whenever you want your navigation system to get you to a from A to B it's never works when it's going back Ro so I apologize um but the good news is the market is is very strong we do expect the FED to reduce uh rates by quarter point on Wednesday um all signs are showing that's the case so hopefully uh rates will continue to come down as we move into the pricing in January so thank you roll call please miss Kerr yes Miss Khan yes Miss Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president Owens yes motion carried thank you thank you our next item is a contract curriculum and instruction Career and Technical education Project Lead the Way Brian Tennyson assistant superintendent of teaching and learning is joined by Celia Banks director of curriculum instruction and dorine Roberts coordinator of Career and Technical education to present the attached proposal and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends approval of The Proposal with Project Lead the Way in the amount of 14156 and requests authorization for District administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the education fund the cost is included in the budget for the 2024 2025 fiscal year may I have a motion to approve the proposal from Project Lead the Way for pltw automation robotics course resources in the amount of $141,500 any other questions okay roll call please miss ker yes Miss Khan yes Miss Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss schwar yes Miss Thomas yes president noan yes motion carried next is a contract equity and Innovation historically black college and universities tour Dr lri sat white assistant superintendent of equity and Innovation will present the attached proposal summary will respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends approval of the contract with World strides in the amount of $127,000 and requests authorization for District administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the education fund this cost is included in the budget for the 2024 2025 fiscal year and may I have a motion to approve the contract with world world strides for the historically black college and universities tour in the amount of $127,000 second board members have any questions or discussion okay roll call please miss Kerr yes Miss KH yes Miss Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president owan yes motion carried next is a contract equity and Innovation Hispanic survey in institution student tour Dr lri site continues at the day is to present the attached proposal and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends approval of the contract with World strides in the amount of $7,800 and requests authorization for District administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the education fund the cost is included in the budget for the 2024 2025 fiscal year may I have a motion to approve the contract with World strides for the Hispanic serving institution student tour in the amount of $7,800 so move to Second any questions or discussion Don I just want to say thank you for continuing to find new opportunities for our students for these types of experiences thank you yeah for sure exciting okay roll call please Miss K yes Miss Khan yes Miss Martin yes Miss Dolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president Owens yes motion carried next is a bid for operations unite u46 Kimble middle school project site utilities Dr Anne Williams Deputy superintendent of operations will be joined by Brian Lindholm Chief of Staff to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends Awards the lowest responsible bidder Burger Contractors Incorporated in the amount of 3,4 $30,000 for the base bid with alternates not to exceed $85,000 and requests authorization for District administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the capital project fund the cost is included in the budget for the 2024 2025 through 2026 2027 fiscal years may I have a motion to approve the award to Burger Contractors Incorporated for the unite u46 Kimble middle school project site Utilities in the amount of 3,433 th000 for the base bid with alternates not to exceed $85,000 so move second and since this is a a substantial project I had asked if if Dr Williams could say a few words about this uh contract before we take the vote on it so I'll hand it over to Dr Williams yes ma'am um before we delve into the details of this particular recommendation I would like to share information on why this item and others will be brought to the board for expedited approval the Kimble middle school project requires an accelerated approval process to meet critical milestones and stay on track for the August 2026 completion deadline essential for transitioning to our true Middle School model construction at Kimble is scheduled to begin on March 31st 2025 and will take approximately 16 months this construction will occur while students are are still in the building and the building is fully operational therefore it will be staged in staggered phases during that time minimizing disruption to students and staff will be a top priority additionally recent hurricanes in southern states have prioriti have prioritized reconstruction efforts away from the Midwest and that is resulting in Long lead times for essential equipment relating to our projects expedited approvals allows the district to place orders for long lead time items immediately mitigating risks and maintaining momentum for this project with that said I will provide a few highlights on the first recommendation for Kimble this evening the first bid package focused on site utilities and again is critical to keeping the project on schedule in compliance with the Illinois school code this project was placed out to bid and a public bid opening was held on November 21st to comb competitive bids ranging between 3 3.3 and $3.4 million were submitted as well as alternates um it's worth noting that the alternates are tied to the use of soil from the Kimble site at the new Middle School in Elgen site as well as the insurance needs for all unite 46 projects the alternates will be determined at a later date but will not exceed the 10% threshold of the total project value so they should not impact your award tonight um with that I'd be happy to address any concerns or questions that you have regarding the first recommendation the B members have any questions Don I just have a generic thing I'm GNA once again thank all of you for working so closely with our contractors to try to keep our projects on schedule we have a large handful of large projects going on at once and attempt to going along with all the boundaries work and everything else and um I understand how vital it is like if one piece doesn't happen on time what that can do to our um just the overall project byes span so thank you for working with all the different teams and bringing these forward as they need to be thank you anyone else okay roll call please miss kerk yes Miss Khan yes Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president Owens yes motion passes uh next we have our proposal operations unite u46 Kimble middle school project HVAC and electrical equipment uh Dr an Williams and Brian lolm continue at the de uh to review the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends approval of the proposal from Johnson Controls and Greybar in the amounts of 1,695 555 and 320 $ 4,434 70 respectively and requests authorization for District administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the capital project fund the cost is included in the budget for the 2024 2025 through 2026 2027 fiscal years may I have a motion to approve the proposal from Johnson Controls and Greybar for the unite u46 Kimble middle school project HVAC and electrical equipment in the amounts of 1,695 555 and $324,400 respectively so move second Dr Williams did you have anything else that you wanted to add specific to this um specific to this project we are utilizing Cooperative purchasing for both of these items due to the long lead time again po members have any questions okay roll call please Miss K yes Miss Khan yes Miss Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president Owens yes motion carried thank you thank you it brings us to other business student disciplinary cases I can just go into the motion um can I may I have a motion affirming the findings of the hearing officer for student B thereby upholding the suspension of student B so moved second any discussion roll call please miss Kirk yes Miss Khan yes Miss Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president Owens yes motion carried the next item is for student C may I have a motion affirming the findings of the hearing officer thereby upholding the suspension of student C so moved any discussion roll call please miss Kirk yes Miss Khan yes Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president Owens yes motion carried next item on the agenda agenda is other business Dr Johnson under other business we have 2025 proposed summer capital projects Dr Anne Williams Deputy superintendent of operations will review the attached 2025 proposal for summer capital projects list along with Ashley mccy assistant director of plant operations and respond to questions from the Board of Education good evening the proposed summer projects um include a mix of preventative maintenance academic upgrades and athletic improvements to enhance student experiences across the district the projects reflect the district's commitment to operational efficiency equity and creating modern learning and athletic environments um the preventative maintenance projects total roughly $36 million and that is allocated to allocated to address aging infrastructure including hbac upgrades Paving roof Replacements and pool Renovations um the Bartlett High School Pathways renovation is also included for this year um and that is a direct result of the commitment to Equitable opportunities and it rotates between the five Comprehensive High Schools each year um this is a two-year project with Renovations of the Auto lab occurring this summer along with um along with repurposing some of the spaces related to Project Lead lead the way and the second phase of the project will which will occur in the following summer will include updates to culinary arts and healthc Care science programs last but not least certainly not least after 62 years Lin High School will soon have its own dedicated Athletic Complex a long overdue transformation that underscores the district's commitment to equity and Excellence um I think it's it's important to note here I know there was a lot of information on um Facebook about the um direction of the track so we did extensive research and consultation with civil engineers and they have confirmed that the ihsa the Illinois High School Association does permit football fields to be oriented either north or south or east or west and lens's New Field will feature an East and West orientation but I think it's important to note that there are very successful programs that also have an East West U orientation including Mount Carmel High School um glenbard West High School and Providence Catholic High School some of the exciting features of the complex it will have a modern stadium with Turf um high performance track updated locker rooms enhanced spectator amenities and we anticipate starting the project starting the design in January um breaking ground in November with an anticipated grand opening date for the new complex in the month of July 2026 um I'd be happy to address any questions that you have regarding any of these projects at this time board members have any questions okay um I mean all of these programs for those who listening at home there's a whole six more pages of heat pumps and parking lots and playgrounds that are all really important too but I just really want to take a moment um and even just put on my L and parent hat it's going to be huge for these kids to be able to walk into their own stadiums elen's been fantastic elen shared with us even when we win The Jug game and they lose um they've they've been fantastic but for these kids to have weie Mrs Bush is because you're here it's just it's going to be huge and thank you for making this happen happen and I can't wait for my daughter to be able to come back and celebrate it as an alumni and um and see this big new beautiful stadium so thank you thank you thank you Don so too quick they're not really questions they're probably statements out one just a reminder to the community that along with all the facilities work we're doing at the Grand scale the new buildings one of the things we had agreed to do was put more money towards facilities in general and I believe it was around at least 10 million a year that we were going to start to do better maintenance on our buildings and keeping up with everything so not just the big projects but all the small projects so that was just a general thing that we had agreed to do as a board um which is benefits our students and it a running building is better than when your students lose water or whatever goes on in our older buildings that is difficult um so just that as a reminder that you know we had the board had previously talked about starting to spend more money on ongoing maintenance and then the second thing is thank you for looking into the whole directional issue with the fields that was all over social media um various people discussing it so it's it's good that it's out there and that it's known and that we can do what we want to do with our stadium and it is going to be okay for all uses yes thank you you're welcome any other questions I have just one um the the roof replacement for Kimbo that was pulled from uh the you know the the long-term renovation plan it was pulled from 2027 to Conde with the additions that we're doing right now I'm assuming we're going to get some economy out of out of doing that eale out of doing them yes get economy of scale out of doing them all at the same time okay thank you all right thank you very much thank you next item is work session resolutions yes we have a resolution for the disposal of surplus personal property so uh returning is Dr an Williams Deputy superintendent of operations to review the attached resolution and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends the Board of Education approve the resolution for the disposal of surplus personal property Dr Williams do you have anything you want to present on that or can I go right to questions uh no we can go right to questions unless po members have any questions okay just one I have just one we we're saving some of these just in case we have another pandemic or something we are absolutely saving some we um have a few water breaks from time to time so we may need those yeah okay thank you you're welcome anyone else okay thank you thank you next item is work sessions bids and proposals first item is a bid Communications Information Services plant operations Video Production Service Brian Lindholm chief of staff and Jim wolf director of Information Services and Ashley mckany assistant director of plan operations will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends award to the lowest responsible bidder real images Production Incorporated in the amount of $248,800 thank you next is a bid procurement districtwide copy paper Dr Frank Williams assistant superintendent of finance will present the attached proposal summary and will respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends award to the lowest responsible bidder verev operating Corporation in the amount of 3,484 n6 and requests authorization for District administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the education operations and maintenance and transportation funds cost is included in the budget for the 2024 through 202 2024 2025 through 2028 2029 fiscal years board members have any questions for Dr Williams thank you next is a proposal plant operations Plumbing on call services Ashley McCain assistant director of plan operations will present the attached proposal and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends approval of the proposal from T&J Plumbing Incorporated for Plumbing on call services and requests authorization for District administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the operations and maintenance fund cost will be included in the budget for the 2024 2025 through 2026 2027 fiscal years where members have any questions for Miss mccy thank you next is the proposal plan operations Ford F350 truck Fleet replacement Ashley mccy ret remains at the day is to present the attached proposed summary and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends approval of the proposal from Sutton Ford in the amount of $152,500 and nap Truck Equipment Center in the amount of $ 38,9 41 and requests authorization for District administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the operations and maintenance fund the cost will be included in the budget for the 2024 2025 fiscal year board members have any questions okay next next is a proposal plan operations Ford F550 dump truck Fleet replacement Ashley mccy continues at the de to uh Pro to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends approval of the proposal from Sutton Ford in the amount of $16,300 and Nappy Truck Equipment Center in the amount of $1,332 70 and requests authorization for District administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the operations and maintenance fund cost will be included in the budget for the 2024 2025 FIS school year board members have any questions thank you next item is work session uh contracts over 35,000 our first item is a contract Athletics snap Mobile Incorporated digital communication platform Dr Frank Williams assistant superintendent of finance and Paul Pennington Elgen High School athletic director will present the attached proposal and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends approval of the three-year contract with SNAP Mobile Incorporated in the amount of $75,000 and requests authorization for district admin ation to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the education fund the cost is included in the budget for the 2024 2025 through 2026 2027 fiscal years board members have any questions okay uh yeah I have a question so this is a newer version of 8 to8 is that yes yeah so this replaces uh 8 to 18 is it going to work better because 8 to 18 is as a parent is a just it's a really frustrating website because it is not like I have to sign the Spanish documents just after I've signed the English documents does not let me skip that yeah well um I think what we're looking at is it's gonna integrate a lot of the platforms and systems that we already use okay so um with uh Patron personal device they'll have access to schedules rather than going to the desktop and navigate that okay and schedules will be pushed out notifications are pushed out um if you're at an event there's at at the event task that can be um displayed on on the on your device all right well this gives me hope so yes thank you any other questions thank you next is next is a contract professional learning consultant dretta Sao assistant superintendent of schools Dr Kyle bunker executive director of the Bartlett Network Lisa cardinus principal of Laurel Hill Elementary School Teresa Winters executive director of the Streamwood Network and Andrea Gan buos principal of Sunnydale Elementary School will present the attached proposal and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends approval of the contract with hudsmith Bailey in the amount of $221,000 and requests authorization for district ad Administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the education fund the cost is included in the budget for the 2024 2025 FIS schal year to board members have any questions for our panelist Don and I'm I'm apologizing if I somehow missed this how were these two schools picked for this consultant uh we actually funded through our Title One funding and we brought up the proposal so Dr said that it was better we combined This Together come I thought it was title one I didn't see it in the proposal so I just missed it thank you so much any other questions thank you thank you very much next is a contract renewal food and nutrition services Food Service packaging aoak director of food and nutrition services will present the attached proposal and respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends approval of the one-year contract renewal with press paperboard Technologies pathway film Solutions LLC and form plastic in the a total amount not to exceed $550,000 and requests authorization for District administration to execute related documents this expenditure will be charged to the education fund the cost is included in the budget for the 20242 25 fiscal year do board members have any [Music] questions okay thank you thank you that brings us to work session change orders first we have a change order plant operations South Elgen High School water softener installation and Water Heater replacement project number 280 Ashley mckany assistant director of plan operations will present the attached change order and will respond to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends the Board of Education approved the change order from heartwig Mechanical Incorporated in the amount of minus $ 34,848 again Ashley mccy is presenting attached change order and responding to questions from the Board of Education Administration recommends the Board of Education approve the change order from preservation Services Incorporated in the amount of minus $227 n any questions okay next item next item a change order for plan operation 500 shales Parkway parking lot reconstruction project 2070 Administration recommends the Board of Education approve the change order from Abby Company Incorporated in the amount of minus $290,400 45 any questions hey last item last item a change order plant operations 500 shales Parkway fire alarm replacement project 2071 Administration recommends the Board of Education approve the change order from Austin Electric Incorporated in the amount of minus $20,000 any questions okay thank you thank you that being the last item I will will ask for a motion to adjourn the meeting so move second roll call please Miss K yes Miss Khan yes Martin yes Miss Nolan yes Miss Schwarz yes Miss Thomas yes president Owen yes we are adjourned at 8:58 pm thank you everyone