Il Community Consolidated School District 15 Board of Education - Regular Meeting

We'll call the meeting to order. Can I have a roll call, please?

Ader.

Here.

Annarino. Here. Bachman. Here. Hunt. Here. Kahn. Here. Taylor. Here. Skolnick. Here.

All right. The mission statement of District 15, by leveraging strengths and providing high quality support, we will honor our diverse learners in reaching their full potential. All right, happy start to the school year, everyone. Hope it has gone as smooth as possible. There's always some bumps at the beginning of the year. So thank you to parents and families for their grace and patience for any transportation issues or anything that's technology issues, things that have come up. We're so happy to start the school year on a good start. I have a couple of slides to include in this section.

We'll do them at the end of the, we'll do them after the superintendent's report. That's where I have them.

Okay, come back to it. Okay, great. All right, so I'll save those for that time. All right, Pledge of Allegiance, Mary and Jordan.

We all set? Okay. All right, good evening, Board President Ader, Superintendent Smith, and members of the Board of Education. Thank you for the honor and opportunity to begin the board meeting this evening. My name is Teresa Drogas, and I am the principal of Marion Jordan Elementary School. Alongside me this evening are Hilary Pruce, assistant principal, Julie Davis, fifth grade teacher, and representatives of the very talented Marion Jordan News Crew. The Marion Jordan News Crew consists of 36 dedicated students who arrive bright and early before the start of the school day to produce the morning announcements. Meeting daily before school, these students handle every phase of the production process from brainstorming ideas to recording and final editing, ensuring fresh daily content is delivered directly to the entire student body. And to bring these broadcasts to life, the team utilizes a wide variety of modern technology and digital tools. Students gain hands-on experience working with GoPros, Chromebooks, and software applications like Canva and Google Vids, and I'm sure they could teach me a thing or two, to craft engaging, informative multimedia segments that keep the school community connected. Central to the crew's mission is building a positive school culture and beyond just sharing basic updates, students actively promote our PBIS by filming goal reminders, behavioral expectations, and also boosting school spirit by interviewing teachers, creating popular recess videos, and highlighting everyday school life. We are so proud of your contributions and our news crew at home and they are just one part of what makes our flock rock. At this time, we ask you to please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you. Thank you. And then we'll get one official photo. And then if any family members want to come up, you're welcome to grab a photo as well. Any family?

Thank you.

All right, we now have our student recognition for our culture camp leaders.

Good evening, President Ader, Dr. Smith, members of the Board of Education and District 15 community. Tonight, it is our pleasure to recognize this very special group of middle school students for their leadership and service as language leaders in our dual language culture camp this past summer. Every summer for context, our D15 dual language program offers a dual language culture camp as an extension of our dual language program. Our dual language program is grounded in three pillars. That's developing bilingualism and by literacy and high academic expectations for rigor, as well as developing social cultural competence. so our third pillar of the dual language program is developing that social cultural competence and this summer our cultural camp was created specifically to bring that pillar to life so now we would love to recognize these three leaders for their service during that camp they spent 12 hours this summer for four days, serving as leaders for our younger students who are now walking in the footsteps of these three students who spent six years in our dual language program. So we are so proud of these language leaders who are developing their skills and perspectives to build relationships across cultures, contribute to their communities, and make an impact wherever their future takes them. Tonight, we recognize them not only for their commitment to bilingualism and cultural competence, but also for their leadership, their excellence, and their service to others. We celebrate each one of you, and we thank you for giving back to our dual language community. So please join me in congratulating this group of middle school students, and we'll recognize them by names. We have a certificate for them. One is Leslie Joseline. And then we have Elena. And we have Mabel. So please join me in recognizing them.

Center yourselves.

Awesome.

Yay, congratulations. All right, now we have our staff recognition.

Good evening, Dr. Smith, Mrs. Ader, and members of the Board of Education. My name is Angela Gallegos. I'm the principal of Sanborn Elementary School. I'm joined by our assistant principals, Kelly Dettlaff and Sunna Shim. Tonight, I am proud to recognize two outstanding Sanborn teachers, Deb Good and Tricia Liu, for their commitment to our students, families, and community. Over the summer, Deb and Tricia recognized an opportunity to strengthen our connection with families living in one of the communities within our school boundaries. They took the initiative to organize weekly visits and invited other Sanborn teachers to join them. Staff brought bags of books, food, and special treats for children while spending time connecting and building relationships within our community. And these visits allowed us to reach families who may experience barriers to accessing resources while maintaining important connections within our school. I'm incredibly proud of Deb and Tricia for recognizing an opportunity for greater community outreach and more importantly, taking the initiative to bring others together to make this happen. Their leadership is a wonderful example of the care and dedication our staff has for the Sanborn community. Please join me in recognizing Deb Good and Tricia Liu for their outstanding efforts to better our school and our community.

Thank you.

Congratulations. GMS has been killing it on social media too, if you haven't seen their dance videos lately. All right.

Let's turn my page.

Okay, we will now open our meeting for public comment. Public comment is governed by board policy 2 colon 230. Please remember this is not a dialogue between you and the board. If you have a specific issue that requires a response, Superintendent Smith or a designee will follow up with you as needed. Please state your name and identify any group that you represent. Please limit your remarks to no more than three minutes. If someone has previously articulated something with which you agree, please state that you agree rather than reiterating the entire comment. We encourage you to avoid comments specific to any person, student, or staff member respecting their right to privacy. This is not the forum to comment on personnel issues. Finally, the board expects and appreciates mutual respect, civility, and orderly conduct throughout the meeting. I saw Joyce turn one, but is there any?

No, just Joyce laughing.

Okay.

Can you hear me? Yes.

Oh, sorry Joyce. Can you turn your mic on? They said it's not registering.

Is it on? There we go. I greatly appreciate the district has created a page on gun safety as part of the D15 website. And I am especially thankful that Be Smart is included as a resource as well as where to obtain free gun locks. With the new school year, I ask that there is a communication pushed out via a newsletter perhaps to parents and guardians with information on the importance of safe gun storage. As of this past January, safe gun storage is the law for homes that have children under 18 years old in them. It's great to have that information, but we need to make sure that people are more likely to see it, especially now that we have a new school year and many new families in our district. according to sandy hook promise 12 children die from gun violence every day in america another 32 are shot and injured guns are now the number one cause of death for children surpassing even car accidents this includes homicides accidents and suicides 4.6 million american children live in homes with at least one gun that is loaded and unlocked 50 of gun owners have at least one gun that is not secured 76% of firearms used in school violence were obtained from the home of a friend or close relative. And suicide attempts with guns are almost always lethal. The new law now requires locked containers, but aside from the law, we want adults to understand their ability and responsibility to prevent gun deaths. What we often hear after a shooting is I didn't think it could happen here, but it happens everywhere in America. Anyway, the good news is we can, and we are doing something about it on our district website, educating our public about safe gun storage. There was no responsibility for the school board of the district to make sure people, parents lock up their guns. It's an opportunity to get gun owners and non-gun owners to recognize the lethal risk of unsecured guns because safe gun storage saves lives. Thank you for your service and for considering this very important topic.

Thank you, Joyce. All right. Anyone else?

Okay.

All right. Moving on to item 4.9. May I have a motion to adjourn open session and convene in the public hearing?

I move to adjourn open session and convene in public hearing.

SECOND?

SECOND.

ALL RIGHT, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. MOTION CARRIES. HAND IT OVER TO DIANA.

GOOD EVENING. THIS IS THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE FINAL FY27 FINAL BUDGET. THIS IS A SUMMARY OF THE BUDGET WE WILL DISCUSS MORE IN LENGTH LATER IN THE MEETING. WE DO HAVE A, WE ARE DISCUSSING A $4.9 MILLION DEFICIT IN THE OPERATING FUNDS. OVERALL FUNDS, 8.8 MILLION, BUT WE REALLY, REALLY FOCUSED ON THE OPERATING FUNDS. THERE WAS A NOTICE OF THIS PUBLIC HEARING PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY HERALD ON AUGUST 6TH. THE BUDGET WAS ON DISPLAY FOR 30 DAYS. AND OPEN UP TO THE PUBLIC.

IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT THAT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. Anything else we get to adjourn? Okay. I may have a motion to adjourn the public hearing and reconvene an open session.

I move to adjourn the public hearing and reconvene an open session.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. All right. Superintendent's report.

Thank you so much. Well, welcome District 15 Board of Education, our audience members in person and those of us, those of you who are joining us online. At our last meeting in August, we discussed all the preparation and work that was being done to get ready for the start of the school year. And now I just bring back an abundance of gratitude for the hard work of our staff members, our families, parents, PTA moms, and dads who really made sure that not only were the schools beautiful and from an operations and maintenance perspective they were in great shape but welcoming our elementary families and our middle school families not only to meet your teacher but also walk your schedule those were incredible days i love not being able to find parking at a school because it is that packed and just seeing the smiling faces from middle school all the way down to kindergarteners who were just excited to be here. And I think, you know, that really is just part of the fabric of this community. It made it special, you know, the kind of the neighborhood feel to the schools, I think is incredibly positive. And so it was wonderful to go through those activities and get the school year started. But I did have an opportunity to ride the bus on the first day of school. It was fantastic. I'm not sure if they were more crying kindergartners or kindergarten moms. but there were only just a few. I can tell you what I did see a lot of, smiles, hugs, good mornings, welcome to the school year. That's from staff members, from bus drivers, from teachers, everything in between. The bus driver, Mark, did a great job. And it was great for me to see up close the welcome that our students get the second they're introduced to a bus and they're getting on and they're on their way to school. Incredibly positive, focused, safe. I felt great, and I would certainly trust my children in that process. So we're really excited about that. But elsewhere in the district, really looking forward to kicking off my collaboration meetings with districts 211 and 214. We've got 214 coming up this Friday, and then 211 a week from that next week. We're really focused on aligning our programs, making sure that we're sharing information, creating economies of scale where possible, Dr. Rowe, Dr. Campbell at 214 and 211 are excellent partners. We communicate a lot. We share information. I'm really looking forward to partnering with them in this work. And certainly as we start to get staff members together, whether it's by department or building leaders, it can only accelerate the quality of the work that's happening in District 15 if we connect with our partners. Last night, I had the pleasure of connecting with the Northwest Suburban Council of the PTA is basically all of our PTA presidents coming together to kick off the school year, to talk about different strategies for increasing membership, activities that are scheduled for the year. They have a kind of a shared PTA inventory, which I think is genius. So they could share materials and bouncy houses, just all those things that can weigh on a budget, particularly for an elementary school or a middle school. A lot of great plans coming up for the rest of this year. I was glad to join them. I have a number of individual PTA meetings scheduled over the next couple of weeks and months. So I'd love to connect with those individual schools as well. It's an opportunity for parents to tell me what's great, opportunities that we have to improve, things that we should think about as we're trying to make decisions for the rest of the school community. But I've just always been impressed with the moms and dads who are in that group. They are solely focused creating great opportunities for our kids. And when it comes down to that, I have an unlimited amount of energy for it. So it was just really great to see them. I just want to thank the NWSC for their tireless work. And I know we have a few other events coming up later in the year. As we move on to human resources and admin services, last month was really busy trying to get all of the remaining vacancies filled and trying to onboard, which is as important as hiring those initial staff members for the year. During the week of August 10th to the 14th, we hosted all of our new team members at Thomas Jefferson Middle School. We wanted to train them on district materials, procedures, processes, all of those just important pieces so they could hit the ground running as fast as humanly possible. That new staff onboarding, it does take a lot of time and resources, a lot of collaboration between departments, whether it's human resources or teaching, learning and assessment technology, all of them really have to be aligned on that work, but it's critical. We have very high expectations here. And as we bring people into this school organization, we want to have to make sure that we're all on the same page. It doesn't stop just with that. New staff orientation that continues throughout the year through mentoring and additional training. But I thought it was incredibly effective and I'm really happy to report that we had the smallest group of new staff members that we've had in several years. That's a credit to the board and the CTC certainly in their negotiations and in creating attractive salary schedules to get people in the door. But it's also a credit to our building leaders and district leaders creating a place where people want to be and they want to work. and they want to grow and develop here. So just kudos to the whole team. Ideally, we want to retain our valued staff members year over year. It's something that's really important to us as we invest in all of them and they do great work for our children. From business and operations, at our special board meeting on August 26th, we did approve the resolution authorizing Diana, Anthony, and the business department to seek the no interest bridge loan offered by Cook County to the municipalities that are impacted by the delay in property taxes. You know, those dollars will ensure that we don't have any disruptions to our programs or district operations. I mean, I do want to thank Diana and Anthony for being ahead of that one and getting all the work done. you know, as we think about, you know, starting the school year, all of these pieces have to go together. the budget a little bit later, and I'm excited for that presentation as well. From an operations and maintenance perspective, the team did a great job, as I mentioned, getting the buildings ready. All of that is cleaning, certainly, but making sure that all the ceiling tiles have been replaced, that as we're doing HVAC projects on roofs, that all the dust that's going everywhere is cleared up, that our teachers have clean spaces to come in and set up for our children, and the buildings were fantastic is what, you know, We had a few HVAC issues as we were getting started, but they were handled quickly. They were handled effectively. And we started the school year off on the positive note. Certainly that humidity right at the start didn't help. It was surprising, but it also, it's a good way for us to test our systems to make sure that they're working appropriately. And if they're not, we can make those changes. In the communications department, Emily is here representing us tonight. They did an excellent job kind of capturing just the excitement and positive start to the school year. It's just heartwarming to see our kids, whether it's a video, whether it's pictures, They're really happy to be here. That's a credit to our families and classroom teachers and building principals, et cetera. But along with sharing information with the school community, communications department rolled out the AI assistant, which I highly recommend to anyone who's looking for information on the website. It's a box that pops up on the left-hand side. I use it all of the time because essentially the website has been downloaded into it. And so if you're asking a question about a policy or a calendar or a department page with information that you know it's there, you just can't find it, more often than not that AI assistant can pull up that information for you. I think their parents will find that helps them navigate the website pretty quickly and easily. So I recommend giving that a shot. I do want to throw out a plug for the upcoming Feed 15 Family Fun Day on Sunday, September 26th. That's from 1130 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Bolero Deer Park. There's some really cool deals on video game packages and bowling, things of that nature. Really thankful to Bolero for giving the Feed 15 group such a... really a cost positive deal for us. We should do pretty well and be able to invest a lot of that money back into the school district. But for all the football fans out there, don't worry, the Bears actually have a Monday night game that week. So you won't miss any of the action. In the Ed Services Department, they've been focused on professional development and program implementation to start the year. Hopefully you're seeing this thread as we are bringing new staff members in. We want to train them to what it means to be an effective staff member in District 15. We trained over 600 paraprofessional staff members. They covered everything from deescalation strategies and restorative practices, just to name a couple of the topics. But I think, you know, as I speak to Tom about the importance of this work, it really helps us provide consistency and program effectiveness. I'm really excited to share with all of you that this is the training that all new paraprofessionals will receive as they walk in the district, whether they're hired over the summer and the timing lines up perfectly, or we hire them in December. It's important that they're equipped with those tools so they can serve our students at a really high level. You know, the restorative practice work is critical. As we rebuild those relationships that have maybe been damaged by a student's behavior, overall classroom climate improves. future behaviors improve, discipline infractions obviously go down, but also as students are learning how to socially and emotionally manage themselves and to rebuild some of those relationships with their colleagues, which are truly adult skills that they can travel through middle school, high school, and into life. Across the district in our multilingual programs, everyone knows that the fall is a big time for assessments and I would say our multilingual program is no different. Certainly language proficiency testing is incredible data that our teachers use as they're planning instructional activities, identifying what their classroom focus is going to be and just how they can support their learners. But the focus is on collecting accurate data that teachers can use in the moment to increase the language proficiency of our children. I'm really excited. that we've exited so many students from our program because their language proficiency is increasing. That's a credit to our teachers. That's a credit to Renee and her staff just for the focus that they've placed on language proficiency for our students. I want to throw one more plug out there for our Bilingual Parent Advisory Committee. We have a picnic and a resource fair that's going to be held at the Winston Campus September 19th from 10 to 1. Based on the kickoff meeting that they had, I think it was the Friday after the start of school, I expect a lot of fun, laughter, and just a great opportunity for our families to connect around resources that they can access within our community. So we're really excited for that. I think the weather should be perfect. Looking forward to that event on the 19th. For student services, I want to bring your attention to two really important health events that are coming up this month that I want to highlight for all of you and for the community. On Monday, September 14th, from 5.30 PM to 7.30 PM at Lincoln Elementary School, the Cook County Department of Public Health will host a vaccine clinic for children and adults, anyone from ages six months up through 18 years of age. All of the vaccines are free thanks to the Illinois Department of Public Health. And that's going to be a great opportunity for anyone to come receive any number of vaccinations. Then again, on September 21st, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Winston Campus, it's another vaccine clinic, but those are mostly focused on school-required vaccines. Regardless, it's trying to be responsive to the needs in our community to make sure that we have resources for our families to access. And we're excited to get those two events kicked off here in the next couple of weeks. For teaching and learning assessment, really kind of touching back and tying that in with the multilingual department, the assessment window is upon us. But even going a little bit before that in my superintendent's report, as we talked about the new staff orientation, as we talked about professional development for our paraprofessionals, the TLA department played a critical role in that work as well. thinking about, again, what it means to be a staff member here, what training do we need to provide to our teachers and staff members? Certainly that's the first step, and then it moves into mentoring and induction throughout the school year to reteach skills as needed, to get a little bit more sophisticated with some of those practices, and just make sure our teachers are well-equipped to serve our students. But as I mentioned, the fall is a major assessment window for our children. Principals and teachers will use NWEA map data to identify children that need catch-up growth, children that need acceleration. We use that for program evaluation. So I think the data piece, as we have larger conversations at the board level about what our scorecard looks like in the coming months, I think will be really important as we're identifying changes that we wanna make to our assessment process, either reducing, swapping, adding. We wanna make sure that we're looking at the most important indicators to help us make great decisions for children. And so, as we have the conversations at the larger level, at the building level, they're using that data to impact SIPP planning, the school improvement plans that will come to the board at the October 14th meeting. They're looking at them and they're learning collaborative times as teams of teachers are getting together to talk about kids. So we always try to balance the amount of assessment that we're doing, but we know that it's critically important as we're planning our work moving forward. And then finally in technology, we just stay laser focused on the actual uses of technology in our classrooms. Every time I go into a building or into a classroom, I'm looking at what the children are doing. And then I will ask them what they're learning. And we wanna make sure that there's certainly a connection to that. But the reality is we want to make sure that when children are using technology, it's to extend learning, it's to access learning in ways that may not be possible with a piece of paper and a pencil. It's certainly not to just increase their screen time. I'm just really impressed with how MJ and her team kind of focus on our technology integration, the questions that they ask around the uses, and I would expect a few more recommendations to come to the board to make some technology changes in the coming months. I know we're gathering some information just about, you know, Chromebook availability times, but we wanna be sensitive to how children are actually using them, you know, family implications, things like that. But I would expect, you know, certainly October, November to have some recommendations come back to the board. I'll tie it all back to where we started this, riding the bus on the first day of school. And we saw the students getting onto the bus, using their IDs to check in, getting off the bus, using their IDs to check out. The safety features alone, the accuracy that has been generated by the IDeA process is an absolute hit. And I am, REALLY IMPRESSED BY IT. I THINK IT WAS A HUGE LIFT FOR OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO GET ID'S TO ALL THE KIDS. AND OF COURSE, THEY'RE ZIP TIED ONTO THE PRE-KINDERGARTENERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. But I think the reality is it gives us a way to know who's on the buses, when they're getting off. If we ever have a situation where a child gets off at the wrong stop, it's fairly easy to find them. And it was just a boon for the district. So kudos to the tech department and all the departments that worked on that. That's the end of my report. But as we end, we have a short video, I believe, to kind of just demonstrate the start of the school year. Thank you.

Working with new staff and students.

Watching all of the sixth graders come into the building, find their places, figure out how to navigate around TJ.

I get to spend time with my friends.

Excited to see how our students have grown, how our staff feedback in the building.

Playing the first grade soccer game against Jay and Adams and Mike Ruiz. There's a clean slate for everyone, teachers, students, families, colleagues. We don't need it in this little school. See my friends again and also getting rich in choices. See kids' faces. Meet others. I get homeward. It's seeing former students and families that I've worked with in the past. Having fun with my friends. Seeing the students reconnect with friends I haven't seen in months. And my former students come up to say hi. Going to lunch in recess. And having fun with my friends.

The opportunity to build new connections with my students.

To get to know my children.

To get to know my students.

To get high scores on my math test all the time or most of the time.

To get to know as many students as possible by name. Getting my teacher's license this year.

Multiplying fractions with whole numbers.

I want to encourage all my students to show kindness through their action.

Getting to engage them. And complete all my stress hours so I can make an impact. Making everybody have a fun time. That makes me happy.

Provided a warm, nurturing learning environment for my students.

To need more books. To have the best school year ever.

It was a really positive start. We're so excited about the kids. And I've made this comment over the summer, we spend so much time preparing, we forget that we are focused on human beings in this profession. And when those kids and parents walk through the door, our teachers get back, then it's back to being a true school district. And now we're off and running. And so as I'm visiting classrooms, again, it's an opportunity for me to connect with the learning that's actually happening, see it with my own eyes, recognize the great work of our teachers and our building leaders. And we'll continue to bring that information back to the board so you can see what's happening as well. That's an end of my report.

Okay, and this is coming back to me. So on August 26th, the board had a board retreat. I use retreat in quotation marks. It was really a second meeting, but was really an opportunity for us to step back and reflect on where we are as a board now and where we want to head. We had this retreat for a couple of reasons. One, it had been several years since we had revisited some of our norms communication and ways in which we want to operate as a board. And we have a new team. We have a new superintendent. We have a new board member, a new-ish board member who had just hit his anniversary. He has been on for a little while now. And so this was really, like I said, just an opportunity for us to come together as a board team to step back and reflect. It is an important moment for a district that we're in right now, as we will be launching a new strategic planning process later this year. And so the board, you know, and this really came through too in our interviews when we were hiring for a new superintendent, The board has been talking for the last several months about how we've gotten through moving 15 forward implementation. And now we really need to chart the course of what comes next for district 15 and wanting to have a very bold vision. And we hired a superintendent who would allow and support and encourage a bold vision. And we wanna model that within ourselves. If you could go back to the previous slide. No, you're good. So this is just a recap of some of the key agenda items of how we spent the time on the 26th. We started with really grounding the retreat in our individual and collective values. We then spent a large portion of the time talking about what it means to be a future ready board and what is our vision for how we want to operate as a board. We have a lot more information coming to the community in our October meeting. but that is where we really spent the bulk of the time. We did some pre-work where we read some articles about the future of education and really understanding how do we want to position district 15 in that. We then spent some time on district wins and opportunity areas. So what are some of the recent wins and challenges that we've experienced in the district and what has the role of our board been in those? and used that as ways to identify opportunities of focus for this fiscal year. And we closed the last portion of the meeting in advance of this retreat, we conducted a board self-evaluation. So we each took a survey through IASB to assess where are we doing well as a board and where might we need to improve. A couple of the key areas that came out of where we had majority right road designation. So these are things like we're making progress, but we still have some work to do. The core areas where we scored in that right road category were focused on connecting with the community. So we spent some time talking about how we want to think differently about community engagement and our strategic planning process. reaching those in our community that don't have kids in the district and don't get our emails and see all the social media posts regularly and finding more ways to meet our community where they are. So that was one area. Another area that we spent some time focused on was around monitoring performance. We want to be very clear about what is the data that we as a board are using to hold our district accountable to the progress that we hope to see and making sure that we are reporting on that data in a public and very predictable and standardized cadence to ensure that the community is getting regular data updates on our progress. All right, now we can go to the next slide. So these are just a few of the key opportunities or areas of focus for the board this school year and what some of the immediate next steps are. So first we are finalizing and will adopt our new board governance vision. that will serve as an anchor and expectation that we hold ourselves accountable to. The board will give feedback on a vision draft that came out of the retreat, and then we will adopt that during our October meeting. We plan to develop a structured learning agenda. There is a lot of change happening in our environment, socially, politically, technologically, economically, in any way that you can imagine. And so as we think about this next strategic planning process, really identifying what are some of the areas that we want to continue learning about as a board to inform our own decision-making. and leverage resources and expert input from within the district as well as outside of the district. So our next step is to identify what those priority areas of focus and topics will be. And then we need to actually develop that learning scope and sequence and ideally bring that to the board in November so that we can start to have those sessions through the next several months and into the winter. Third is we want to model our new governance vision through the strategic planning process that will kick off this year. I talked about the community engagement pieces, but I think in terms of that vision really guiding how we operate as a board and how we navigate the strategic planning process, wanting to make sure that we're modeling that right away. So we obviously have to conduct our strategic planning process over the winter slash spring. I know we'll plan on coming back to the community with more details about what the strategic planning process will look like in the coming months. And then fourth is establish a predictable public data reporting rhythm that is aligned to our goals. So in the short term, we need to establish what are the FY27 goals across all levels. So what are our board goals for ourselves, making sure that we're clear on the district goals, as well as our superintendent goals. and have defined reporting cadences that we can share with our community. And then last, we need to adopt our board agreements and norms, which is more around communication expectations that we have of each other, of our superintendent and the district. And so we have a working draft of that that has been shared with the board to give feedback on so that we can bring that and adopt it during our October meeting. Another piece of this is thinking about our committee structure. So we've had the same committees years now since I joined the board, at least in 2019. And so as we think about a new strategic plan, that also gives us an opportunity to think about, are these the right committees for us? Should we be considering other committee structures and areas of focus? So we need to develop the process for that. Would anyone else like to say anything of anything that we covered during the retreat or any other reflections? okay all right that's it all right okay school calendar I believe is next one of the

Issues that we identified as we were reviewing our calendar, doing a little future planning, is that we are currently scheduled to be in school for both of the upcoming election dates on November 3rd, 2026 and April 6th, 2027. Reality is that 14 out of our 20 buildings are used as community polling places. Immediately when this topic came up, the first thing that was brought to my attention was safety. Right now, our schools are pretty hardened. You have to get buzzed into a foyer and then you're buzzed into the office. And then we'll make sure that we know who's entering the building. that is not possible on days when voting happens. And we expect the next, certainly the next general election to be vigorous, is probably the best way to put it, with a lot of participation. And so we started peeking around to what's happening around us. outside of the high school districts, but any elementary district, they either have no school, they have an institute day scheduled or an e-learning day that has been scheduled, but none of them are onsite with students when voting is happening in those buildings. And on my end, reached out to some of the different groups in the district to get some just initial feedback on some of the challenges that have been faced. And as I kind of compiled all that information, spoke with the cabinet members and some building leaders, our recommendation is to move to e-learning. It is not perfect. It is not a substitute for in-person learning. I think I want to make sure that that's clear. Our challenge though, would be to either move some days around in the calendar, try to adjust an Institute day or try to adjust a teacher plan day, which now we're, you know, people may have other events scheduled that are aligned with those. So that could be a challenge. If we go with no school on the 3rd and the 6th, then we would have to come back after Memorial Day on Tuesday and Wednesday, which I imagine that our attendance would be severely impacted by that. The only other option being to move to e-learning and take the next month and a half to make sure that our teachers are prepared, that we've communicated with our families, that we've made special accommodations for some of our younger learners. Because again, we know that for an eighth grade student, e-learning might be a layup. As you move down in grade level, it gets more complicated. And so we just wanna make sure that we can have effective learning experiences for those days. if we decide to go this route. I think we're looking for direction from the Board of Education on if you think e-learning is appropriate. If so, we would bring the calendar back, an updated calendar back on October 14th for approval, but it would give us a head start on communicating with parents, working with building leaders, district administrators to make sure that we have good plans in place. So we're seeking your feedback on making the calendar change.

Has there been any thought to what to do about some families who might not have childcare for that day? I mean, it's two months away, but any thought to alternative somewhere where certain kids might be able to go?

We can work on that. You know, certainly connecting with the park district is an option on those days and actually have a meeting with Ben coming up this Friday. And so I'll make sure I add that to our agenda.

So how would the e-learning days be structured? Would it be where the teachers would actually set up like a meeting with the kids for part of it? Or how would they actually operate an e-learning day?

From the peanut gallery?

You're going to need a mic.

They have to get up.

Emily, you want the mic?

already up here find a stretch break they would actually classes would follow their typical schedules so that similar to previous or e-learning days that we've had not last year but the year before teachers and classes follow their schedules so if they have PE that day they'll go to an online version of PE and You know, if it's reading class time, they'll do reading in their classrooms. You know, we would be working within the next couple of months to help teachers so that those plans are already set and easily in place and kids have what they need. And if they need anything physical to go home, we print things out. We'll have kids take those things home. But it's a typical day. It's just that everything's online.

Got it. All right, thanks.

I think my ask would just be for the future years that we identify election dates in advance and that is pre-planned and baked into the calendar so that we don't have to make changes.

Agreed. Okay. Yep. Well, it's just something that easy, you know, I think the other piece along with the election dates is this conversation around e-learning in general. As I've said, it is not a replacement for in-person learning. despite all the hard work that goes into it. And I know there's a lot of planning and thoughtful work. The challenge really becomes is you're swapping out a great day of instruction for one that's less impactful. And so this year, for example, we're outside of moving 15 forward. Those are impossible calendars to set because you are really dependent on construction access and things like that. But now that we're past that, we do have some decision points. Obviously this year, if we took a no, if we got three feet of snow on a day and we just said we're not going to have school, we're not going to do e-learning, we do kick into that next week after Memorial Day. And so maybe as we're constructing the calendars moving forward, we can give some thought to how we want to approach those days, whether it's e-learning or just calling no school, which is, I think, a number of, what a number of districts are going to post COVID, but e-learning is still a great tool to keep in our pocket. We just want to use it very sparingly.

Did we consider doing e-learning for the first date and then identifying if there is an institute day that we could potentially shift for the one that's later in the school year where we have more time? And what are the pros and cons for that? Because I imagine it's obviously going to be too late to make any significant shifts for November, but for March we at least have several more months.

Definitely.

Just to help kind of accommodate.

When they have voting or the polling place, they're usually set up in the gym, correct? Correct.

that's my understanding.

Yeah. Cause I've seen in the past where it's pretty segregated from the rest of the school. Like people would actually come in to vote through it, through like an external, probably an exit door. And then, you know, they're not moving into the school.

So I think that's in some cases and others, what I've been told is, you know, they might do like a makeshift, you know, kind of separate, like at a movie theater or like what's behind Zubair there, you know, the stanchions to keep people separate. Principal feedback would say those have been a challenge because they're usually assigning an office member to stand there and to kind of watch those spaces. And when we got feedback on how that actually works, the staff member gets called to do something else any number of times throughout the day. So it might be unsupervised. They've had trouble keeping people out of some, not that anyone was doing anything nefarious, but just keeping them out of spaces that we want to separate from. you know, kids in the public. Right. So don't accidentally wander. Yeah. Okay.

Cause I, you know, you never know, I guess it depends on how the schools are set up. Sure.

All right. All right, great. So then we will, we'll work on these pieces. We'll, we'll bring back a couple of alternative plans. We'll move forward with planning for e-learning on the 6th, bring back a different option for April. I think that's a really good idea. And then, um, You'll get that approved on the 14th and then move forward. But we will, in the interim, we'll give our parents a heads up that this is coming. And so everyone can start planning. I'll connect with the Park District this week and have information for the board, certainly before our next meeting.

Can we include in those parent communications that it is a commitment that we are standardizing our practice moving forward for elections? Okay, thank you.

Yes, thank you. Great idea. And there's still potential for e-learning for that second date, like just to plan, you know, like child care, all the things. So heads up, start planning just in case.

All right, 7.2 enrollment update.

We just wanted to bring an enrollment update to the board. I think that, you know, this is something that the board should expect to see just a little bit more often. It impacts everything from staffing to bus transportation, program allocations, all those different pieces. On our end, we want this conversation with the board to be pretty consistent. So maybe whether it's quarterly or a different cadence, certainly at the beginning of the year, as we're getting everyone registered, we just wanted to take a look at the enrollment, see where it sits kind of generally throughout the district. And then on our end, we'll continue to refine this. I don't know that Sherry and I love, first of all, we think this is a good way to look at it, but there might be a different way to have this conversation. So if you have ideas, different ideas on how you want to see school enrollment data broken down differently, we can do all of those things. This is just a first pass at it as we're starting the conversation.

So good evening, President Ader and members of the board and Dr. Smith. So this is just kind of like a brief story behind the numbers in our district enrollment as it stands right now. This year, our enrollment is up to 11,002. So that's up 934 more than last year. Our enrollment and our class sizes are based on board targets. And I just want to clarify that there are targets, they're not caps. So kindergarten through third grade, the targets are 24. 4th through 6th grade is 26 and then 7th and 8th grade are 28. So we expect some variation by school, by program, by grade, but that's basically how it is. Currently, as you can see, our overall picture is right there at the target. Our average at the elementary level is about 20.6 students per grade level. And Staffing is supporting the class size average expectations given by you guys as the board of the target. But when you look at the range, which is probably more important than the average, because that's what we really think about when we're looking at staffing, individual sections are above the target in some cases. So when we are making staffing recommendations, we can't simply say the district is looking at the average of 20.6. students per class. We have to look at where our students actually are per building, because that's kind of where we're at is when we're looking at staffing is how many are at each building. One of the things also that we're looking at is how enrollment shifts. I'm gonna give you an example. One of our apartment complex, which has historically given us a specific amount of students each year in kindergarten, shifted this year because another apartment complex did a move-in special and it was like a free month. And so all of our students went to that apartment complex because they got their free months. So the numbers at that school were a lot higher this year than they had been in the past because of this move-in special, which we had not anticipated, we had not planned for when it came down to staffing. So those are all things that we have to look at when we're planning ahead, when we're looking at staffing. And that can quickly shift, you know, and that was not, that's out of our control and not something that we can necessarily look at or necessarily plan for. So another thing that also, when you're looking at this, that can probably catch your attention is that our EL population is consistently changing, right? Because we're looking at things that year to year change. A celebration for us is that we TESTED OUT 450 OF OUR STUDENTS. THEY EXITED THE PROGRAM LAST YEAR. THAT'S A HUGE CELEBRATION. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN PREPARE FOR YEAR AFTER YEAR, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CELEBRATE YEAR AFTER YEAR. SO WHEN YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT STAFFING, YOU WANT TO PREPARE FOR THAT, BUT YOU DON'T ALWAYS KNOW THAT YOU CAN. ALSO, WE HAD STUDENTS AND FAMILIES WHO HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN IN THE DISTRICT FOR A LONG TIME, WHO HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE DISTRICT, WHO HAVE RETURNED HOME TO THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. again, things that are out of our control that we can't always plan for, but those are things that we're looking at when we're looking at enrollment and we're looking at staffing sizes. And so that's also things that we're trying to anticipate when we're looking at number of staffing and number of sections that we're trying to do. The EL information that matters when we're talking about staffing is also that like this time of year, we're also looking at we're still completing testing. So for new students who are moving in, we're still doing screeners, who's testing into the program. So some of our numbers for our class sizes will change. So if they're not receiving services now, they're not in dual language now, they're not in bilingual now, they might be moving in. So our class sizes might be shifting. They might be shifting higher into our bilingual classes. And that means our monolingual classes are gonna go lower and vice versa. So they're constantly changing. And that makes it difficult for staffing as well because it's not that consistent expectation throughout that time. And so we're in that situation now with one of our schools, our numbers are low, but it's hard to prepare to see if those numbers might increase because new students are coming in or vice versa. The same is also true for special education. You don't know when students are coming in or out and as well as students are coming in with specific needs and staffing structures. And so you're trying to, look at all of that across multiple schools, which require additional staffing supports. Now, when it comes to middle schools, that's also not as consistent as when you're looking at elementary number of general education, homeroom class sizes, because you're looking at homeroom sections for ELA, science, social studies, math, electives, and you're not looking at just the homeroom classes. And you're looking at the math is being separated by grade level, by sub the different types of math. And it's not always as, you know, the specific pathways. So you're looking at the bigger picture. So overall our middle school core classes are averaging the low to mid twenties, which again is encouraging and a lot around under our average board targets. But then when you're looking at some of the other ranges, they're way above the board targets as well. Like I said, the math, you're adding another layer when you're looking at math seven, math eight, math six, pre-algebra, algebra and geometry. So when you're trying to staff for that, when you're looking at the master scheduling, it's not as simple as looking at just the grade level or the subject area. So higher numbers run larger on average because of those courses can't really be, they're not always predicted because you're doing them sometimes when students are moving in or based on where they're testing in. So when you look across both elementary and middle school data, one of the things that we have to look out for is the variability. We have sections that are small, right? So when you look at some of the data that's in front of you, you'll look to see that some of the sections are smaller than others. And then you have some sections that are larger and above target. Some of that is enrollment. Some of that is a result of the placement of the programming. Some of that is the type of programming that is. Some of that is the support of the programming that is needed. So you're really looking at the complexity of all of that, the master scheduling, the course selection. So for middle school, what are the interests of the students, especially when you're coming down to electives and trying to make sure that our students are getting where are their interest levels? Like, so they get what they want while also taking into consideration class sizes and also staffing. So the variability is where I think the future of our staffing conversations really need to focus and moving forward, I think moving, we really need to look at all that and build a stronger framework and kind of like what Dana said, just kind of continue having these conversations, breaking apart where our numbers are, where we're looking and kind of continue to build like the framework. to be able to understand that. So if you have other suggestions of other ways to look at this, please let me know.

I don't have any suggestions, but I have a question for you though. So obviously it's super complex, like you're very well explained. How do you make the decision that if we have just a target, how do you decide then it's time to go with a fourth grade? another teacher? Like, you know what I mean? So if we're, how, so we only have targets, we don't have a cap, for example.

So typically when all of the sections in the grade level, so I'm going to use fourth grade because that's kind of what you brought up, right? So let's say you have three sections of fourth grade and the target for, board target for fourth grade is 26. And so all four sections of fourth grade have hit 26. Now they've all hit 27. They've all hit 28. Then we're going to, we're gonna open up another section, typically.

Yeah, usually if it's two above, we'll open it for all of them.

So we've never really used the word cap and to be honest, I wasn't here when it was done either. So I don't know where that came from. This is just kind of the past practice of how they've done that. So I couldn't answer that question.

Probably for flexibility's sake.

Yeah, certainly flexibility. And then the other side is reality. So if we wanted to open up another section now, we would struggle. Even if it was an elementary position, because schools just started all those, for the most part, all those teachers are employed in December. A little bit different conversation. So you might make a different decision now. a number of kids enrolled, maybe we add paraprofessional support. We look at, you know, kind of some internal shifts as opposed to adding a section down, but then it could be a half step with the thought of contacting the local colleges and universities. We're going to have an opening for a classroom, a gen ed classroom or special education classroom that starts in January. And then we usually have better luck trying to hire at the mid year or before the school year starts.

I was thinking on the lines of the board policy, like where we're saying a target versus a cap that allows the district to have that flexibility, like you're saying, for hiring. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah, but it is a good question because I don't think I was on the board when we last revisited that. So I am curious about, like, what is the cycle of... understanding that.

These standards have been in place for probably decades. So I mean it's kind of they're kind of standard actually.

Yeah maybe we're not too far over in a lot of areas so it's not like that not like the target is way off where it's like we have to urgently revisit but I was just curious where like how it's decided you know where, you know, obviously you don't want to have a hard line because then you're like, oh, well, we're one over. We have to go.

Well, and also when you look at the CTC contract, there's language in there that has general education program assistance. And I don't know the direct correlation to this, but I know that part of it was that we have these assistants that are there that help support. And so class sizes that are larger have the opportunity to use shared decision-making to use some of those program assistants to support in those classrooms. They don't always do that because it's as a school, they make the decision what that looks like, but they have that opportunity.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thank you. I had a question about the variability. Valencia, would you mind going to page 27? Just for an illustrative example, I was looking at Sandburg for math eight, like we have the 30 and 31 and then 19 and then 10 and 10. are those different types? Because it's all Math 8. So I was just curious, and I know this is zooming into a hyper-specific example, but I wasn't sure.

So that's like the master scheduling one I was talking about. So it comes down to the electives that the students are picking or other programming that they're in. It could be whatever other programs they're in or anything like that. That allows for certain schedule choices. Okay, got it.

But that's an interesting piece. Maybe as we're retooling this for next time, bringing some more middle school actuals for those classes instead of just what it should be based on the original schedule.

Yeah. I mean, that's definitely something that we've talked about. Like that is like blaringly different. Right. Like that's something that we could, we work on to kind of condense that to make it a little bit more even. Yeah. Yeah. Looking at the schedules. Yeah.

Along those same lines, I did see in the Lake Louise school, the kindergarten.

Kindergarten. Oh, Dana and I just talked about this yesterday.

There's one at 25 and two of them at 12.

12, 12, and 25, yes.

Now that's not middle school, so it's like, why would that not be distributed?

So the 12 and 12 are monolingual, and the 25 is a dual? Sorry. bilingual thank you renee also was part of the conversation yes and so we we contemplated splitting um but we didn't want to split it at this point in the year yeah okay that makes sense yeah that'd be some explanation yeah it's a great question we definitely talked about it yesterday i was like that looks weird yeah just as if anyone in the audience is reading the chart too there is at the bottom

in that thing it says BIL, so that's where I was able, yeah, I think that's where the label, you can tell which sections are bilingual. It's like purple.

Yeah, it's highlighted, BIL is the bilingual, it's purple.

It's not obvious, but yeah.

Yeah, DL and blue is dual. Okay. Yeah.

Speaking about that section, does the state of Illinois still require additional supports for transitional bilingual education if you're above the enrollment of the regular education? What kind of supports is that? Teacher and students, what are they getting?

So that's outside of the sections. So that would be the resource supports. Or that would be why we have the bilingual classrooms or the dual classrooms. That's the additional support. for our students when you're above the 20 students of a specific language.

Sorry, what's the additional support I wasn't following?

Okay, I might ask Renee to help more specifically, but it's, so if it's above 20 students with a specific language, then that's why we have, you wanna come answer?

Oh yeah, I think that part I understand, sorry. Just wondering about the enrollment piece, like when there are that many more students enrolled in transitional bilingual education versus the monolingual.

Yeah. So there is an expectation on the part of ISBE that your enrollment in a bilingual classroom be 90% of what the monolingual classroom is. In this case, obviously it's different. The class started the year with 19 kids. and then they escalated unexpectedly. If we look at the historical data for that classroom, it hasn't reached that high of a number. So it is unusual for us to have that high number. And once the school year started, obviously the expectations changed slightly from ISBE and there's a little more grace given, but we do wanna provide extra support. So we do have program assistants that are assigned to that classroom to support the students with extra needs. In addition to that, we're providing extra coaching and supporting for the classroom teacher as well. That's good. It's a lot of kindergartners.

It is a lot of kindergartners. That's why we were talking about it yesterday. Yeah. It is an amazing teacher.

It would have to be.

Yeah. It would have to be.

I think looking forward, you should expect this information to come back. we will use this data as we're making staff projections, but these are the types of issues that we'll seek to address. And so as we get closer to that staffing conversation, one of the internal conversations that we've had is how many positions do we need to request in the initial staffing? And then do we need to ask for additional positions that are board approved, that are in case of emergency break glass, right? So we have those two small kindergartners, maybe they start as one. We know that it's a class of 24. We also know there's not a lot of wiggle room there. If five or six more kids register, we'll need to add a section, but let's wait until we get the kids, right? And then our end kind of hold that FTE back. If we need it, great. If we don't, you know, we've saved district, that kind of either can go back into programs without really impacting our class sizes at all or the programs that we can offer, et cetera. So when we bring the staffing back, we'll probably start the initial conversation in November, have a more in-depth conversation in December, you know, kind of have an iterative process here, trying to get the best numbers that we possibly can as we're trying to project for 27, 28, and then make those decisions in January, if not December, if we're comfortable.

I think one piece of information that would be helpful in this, in a future round is just our overall student count. Yeah. Yeah. Just to, and also so that we can see historical, like what our trends are. That would be great.

Thank you. Great.

Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. We are on our FY 27 final budget presentation.

Welcome Diane and Anthony.

GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT AYER, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AND SUPERINTENDENT DR. SMITH. I'M DIANA MCCLUSKY. I'M THE CHIEF SCHOOL BUSINESS OFFICIAL FOR THE DISTRICT, FOR ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WHO DOESN'T KNOW ME. AND THIS IS ANTHONY FISHOTA, MY DIRECTOR OF FISCAL SERVICES, AND WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT THE FINAL FY27 BUDGET. WE PRESENTED THE TENTATIVE BACK IN JUNE. So this final budget again is our best estimate. And I want to say hours and hours have been spent in the preparation of it. And I want to thank Anthony and Pei Pei, my assistant director. We will speak to the changes since the tentative budget presentation last June. And the story tonight is really that revenues are essentially flat and we'll explain how federal grants have affected this and expenditures are up a bit, mostly due to contractual salary obligations. This is a simple slide showing you property tax, property taxes in a bar graph, just giving you a little overview of how property taxes have risen over the last four or five years. Again, property taxes make up 78% of our revenues. And you can see how it's climbed every year. And it's climbed because of the CPI and new property. But it's easier to focus really on the CPI in this chart. You can see back in the CPI is the federal CPI. We use the December one when we do a levy every December. And you can see that it jumped way high during COVID. In fact, the CPI was higher than five, but we're limited to five because of what we call the P-Tel. And then it has gradually come down as inflation has come down over the last few years. And then this year's levy is at 2.7. Some of the highlights and the revenues since June are that again, you may, if you live in Cook County, which everybody here in Palatine lives in Cook County, Cook County tax bills just came out on September 1st. Again, that's late. They should have been mailed in June. We should have had receipts coming in in August. So due date is October 1st. We expect a lot of money to start coming in this month. And that $27 million bridge loan helps us if we don't get what money we are expecting from Cook County. They're still not caught up yet with their distributions from the past FY24 or Levy 24 and 25. We don't have a reconciliation yet. AGAIN, WE MENTIONED THE CPI ALREADY. SO AGAIN, THE FY20, TO GIVE YOU A, PUTTING IT IN CONTEXTUALLY, THE FY25 LEVY, WHICH I JUST GOT THE CONFIRMATION OF LIKE LAST MONTH, THAT INCREASE, NOT INCLUDING DEBT, WAS $6.5 MILLION OVER THE PREVIOUS LEVY. SO WE HAVE A $250 MILLION BUDGET, AND OUR INCREASE IN OUR PROPERTY TAXES IS $6.5 MILLION. SO WE HAVE TO REALLY FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE THAT WISELY. WE ALWAYS LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THE TIF, THE PALATINE DOWNTOWN TIF AND THE OTHER TIFS. THE TIF BUDGET IS 3.3. THERE'S SURPLUS. THEY GIVE US SURPLUS. PALATINE, VILLAGE OF PALATINE DISTRIBUTES SURPLUS TIF REVENUE THAT THEY DON'T NEED FOR THEIR MUNICIPAL PROJECTS. SO 3.3 MILLION IS THE BUDGET. AND THE DOWNTOWN TIF IS 3 MILLION, WHICH THEY'RE SHARING. THEY HAVE TO SHARE 100% NOW BECAUSE THEY KEPT IT FOR TWO YEARS IN THE EXTENSION. SO WE GET THREE MILLION OF THAT. AND THEN THE RAND LAKE COOK IS $383,000. TO NOTE, THE RAND ROAD TIF HAS EXPIRED, AND THE EAV ON THE NEW PROPERTY OF THE INCREMENT IS $45 MILLION. SO THAT'S GOING TO ADD TO OUR NEW PROPERTY. AND IT'S APPROXIMATELY 1.6 MILLION IN TAX MONEY WILL FLOW BACK TO THE DISTRICT ON THAT INCREMENT THAT GOES BACK TO US. THAT WAS THE AMOUNT THAT THE PROPERTY, THE VALUE OF THE EAV THAT WENT UP SINCE THEY FROZE IT. AGAIN, WHAT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE DEFICIT, WHEN WE GET TO THE DEFICIT OF 4.9 MILLION, THAT DOES NOT REFLECT THAT THERE'S AN OUTSTANDING OF 1.6 MILLION FROM ONE OF THE TIFTESTS, THE DOWNTOWN TIFTESTS DISTRIBUTION, I BELIEVE IT WAS A DOWNTOWN, BACK IN APRIL. THEY SENT THAT MONEY TO COOK COUNTY Cook County still has that money and has not distributed it yet. We cannot double budget that. So it was in last year's budget. It's like a receivable this year. We'll record it as cash. And I've tried to try to get their attention on this and for no avail yet. So they are still, we know for sure, one of the pools of money is 1.6 million that we're waiting on.

Other operating revenues. Like Diana mentioned, our property taxes are about 78% of all of our revenues. Some of the other revenues that we are receiving, local, state, and federal. Over the summer, we do get confirmation or at least some updated information from other taxing bodies. Sorry. We do get confirmation from other taxing districts or other taxing bodies through the state and federal regarding what some of those figures will be. For example, In the local, one of the larger personal property replacement tax revenues that we receive is going up about 380,000. It is increasing from the prior year. So the chart.

Yeah, keep going back one more. Back, back, back. Yeah, two revenues. Back another.

One more. There we go. The other local, so you can see it's going up slightly from the middle bar. That's for the personal property replacement tax. State is a two-fold. The good news is our evidence-based funding that we received through from Illinois is going up about 400,000. District 15 is in tier two, we are at 80% adequacy. On the flip side, the transportation allocation that we do receive from the state for our reimbursement for transporting all the children within the district, that is decreasing from 75% to 68%. That impacts us, we dropped our, Revenue is about $400,000. So you can see that our state revenues we are projecting slightly down from the fiscal year unaudited financial statements. Now for federal grants, out of our control, a lot of the grants that we did receive for fiscal year 26 we are no longer receiving in the amount of about $1.6 million. There are about four or five grants that we know of now that either are discontinuing or not open for application yet If they do open up, we will be sure to jump on those applications, but nothing has been made aware yet for those that are no longer available. There are two transfers that we are doing. Fund 20, our operations and maintenance fund to our ed fund is $5 million. And then our ed fund to our transportation fund for $1 million. That is to help offset some of the projected deficit that we'll be referencing in a few more slides.

And we do anticipate selling about 23 million of bonds this year of health life safety bonds, which we'll talk more about, I think in the October meeting.

And this, this fun little pie chart donut chart just kind of shows you how all those revenues split up 78% of the property taxes, all the other revenues make up 22%. So any of those delays that Diana mentioned within Cook County significantly impact our cash flows and our revenues.

NEXT SLIDE. SO THIS IS THE SUMMARY AND THE NUMBERS OF THE BUDGET SUMMARY. OUR FIRST COLUMN IS UNAUDITED ACTUALS. AUDIT IS WRAPPING UP. IT'S LOOKING GOOD. THE SECOND COLUMN, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE OUT THE TAW'S, THOSE TAX ANTICIPATION WARRANTS THAT WE HAD LAST YEAR OF $25 MILLION, BECAUSE COMPARING, WE NEED, WE WANT TO COMPARE WITHOUT THOSE NUMBERS INCLUDED. SO THE ADJUSTED ACTUALS OF FY26, YOU CAN SEE, AND ON OUR FINAL REVENUE BUDGET THERE, So we're basically flat in the operating funds. We emphasize operating funds, $800,000, basically flat revenue increase for FY27. Operating funds, you'll see those are just adjustments due to whether we're selling bonds or not selling bonds. We're not selling bonds in capital projects this year, but we're probably going to sell bonds in life safety this year. So overall, $2.9 million in a decrease in the revenues. Next slide.

Moving on to operating expenditures. This is a pie chart that shows the breakdown between all of our expenditure objects. One main point to focus here is the salaries and benefits make up roughly 84, 85% of our total operating expenditures. That is significantly higher than what we usually see around 80, 75 to 80%. Over the summer, budgeted salaries were reconciled to the actuals once teachers and all the staff were hired. We made sure to chew up all the salaries that we did budget for. Property and liability insurance came in less than the intended budget, so we projected 10% and it came in 5%, so that was a nice savings. We did purchase seven school buses over the summer. That was approved at the June board meeting. We have moved forward with that. We are still waiting to take delivery on those, but those take a few months for manufacturing and customizing everything. Once again, the transfers that I mentioned earlier, just this is the offset. We recognize the revenues and then we recognize the expenditures. As I did mention, transportation, the transportation fund is anticipating a deficit. So we are transferring $1 million to make sure that we do not experience a deficit.

And then we'll have the corresponding expenditures from the health life safety bonds in the summaries. Go ahead, Ann.

This different way to present it just shows the large increase salaries year to year. Those are due to contractual obligations, FTE counts and all that. Benefits go hand in hand. As you can see, all benefits have flattened out. The insurance committee did do some very positive work in fiscal year 25 to help maintain the plans the insurance plans funding, and make sure that the costs don't rise any more than they can, that's outside of our control. As we have mentioned in many, many meetings, insurance costs are one thing that we try to control as much as we can, but the cost from doctor services and IAC claimants is something we just cannot control. All of the other areas, all of the other objects within the expenditures you can see are either flat or not really material. Those all are departmental and so school's budgets. give props to everyone at all the schools and all the departments. They have held their budgets either flat or most decreased from prior year. So kudos to them to try to help reduce this deficit as much as possible. This is the chart that shows the flip side from the revenues is the expenditures. We removed out the TAWs. So we're showing our un-audited adjusted actuals for fiscal year 26, comparing it to fiscal year 27. You can see we're at about a $2.6 million increase for expenditures for the operating funds. And then just coinciding with all of the other funds, the life safety projects, we're issuing the bonds. We have about 23 million, 23 and a half million, dollars worth of projects. And for non-health life safety capital projects, all the shift is moving really this year from capital projects to life safety based off of the survey that was done a few months ago.

So, yeah. Okay. So, and here, that's fine. We can go. Next slide though. Next slide. Is it fine? Good. Okay. So here's the final budget summary with our revenues and our expenditures projected for this year estimated YOU CAN SEE, WE'LL GO THROUGH EACH FUND BRIEFLY. ED FUND, WE SEE A DEFICIT OF 3.7 MILLION. COULD BE, COULD BE. THESE ARE BEST ESTIMATES. THE FUND COULD BE, REVENUE IS NOT MEANING EXPENDITURES IN THE ED FUND. OPERATIONAL MAINTENANCE, SMALL SURPLUS, 472,000. ABOUT BREAKING EVEN IN TRANSPORTATION, BUT THAT INCLUDES A TRANSFER TO TRANSPORTATION. IMRF, WE'RE GOING TO GO, WE ARE STILL USING UP A LITTLE BIT OF THE FUND BALANCE. WE'VE DISCUSSED THAT IN PREVIOUS LEVY PRESENTATIONS. WE WANTED TO USE, AND THE ONLY WAY TO REACH OR GET SOME OF THAT EXCESS FUND BALANCE IS TO UNDER-LEVY. SO THAT'S OKAY THAT WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF DEFICIT THERE, BECAUSE WE'RE USING THE FUND BALANCE. WORKING CASH WE HAVE VERY LITTLE ACTIVITY THERE AND THEN TORT WE'RE ALSO USING SOME OF THE FUND BALANCE THAT HAVE BUILT UP THERE SO OVERALL THOUGH WE HAVE AN OPERATING FUNDS DEFICIT OF 4.9 MILLION WHICH IS IN LINE WITH WHAT WE BROUGHT TO THE BOARD IN AT THE TENTATIVE IN JUNE And then debt service and capital projects, those are just timing things because we've sold bonds in the past, we're still using those revenues to fund projects. So really just focusing on that operating funds total. We have a couple more slides here. Anthony, you want to explain this one?

This slide is the fund balance summary. On the far left column, we show where we're projecting our fiscal year 26, June 30, 26 fund balances to be. Middle column is the 4.9 deficit that Diana just mentioned, which results in about a $50.6 million estimated fund balance for all of our operating funds. That is about a 23%. fund balance of our revenues. It is following what our board policy does say. This next chart you may recognize from our five-year forecast. It doesn't look as pretty because I made it myself, so software. But same concept. The top blue line is 35% of our expenditures. The bottom blue line is the 25% of our expenditures. And that curvy red line, the one that's decreasing at the end, that is our fund balance just due to the recent year's deficits. And then on the bottom, the multicolored bar graphs, those are the individual funds, fund balances, just to point out. Ed fund is decreasing. Operation maintenance is remaining steadily flat, roughly around $9, $10 million. Transportation is, like we mentioned, hovering right around $0.00. Just over maybe $100,000. That's why we're doing this transfer for $1 million. IMRF, as you can see, Diana mentioned, we are drawing down that fund balance, which we are allowed to do. Working cash flow, we don't really use. And then the tort funds, same thing. We are using the fund balance for that one as well.

Okay, so next steps. So tonight we'll ask the board to approve the adoption of the FY27 final budget. Now we'll submit it to ISBE, that's the form that is attached in the approval. These are some of our recommendations and we have many, many more, but just a few for tonight. WE RECOMMEND THAT THE BOARD REVIEW THE FUND BALANCE POLICY TO MATCH THE FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS OF THIS DISTRICT. RIGHT NOW, IT'S AT 15 TO 20% OF REVENUES, AND THAT'S ON THE LOW SIDE. SO WE ARE MEETING THE POLICY IN THIS BUDGET AT 23% OF REVENUES. We need to perform a workplace staffing analysis based on making sure we get the right people in the right seats. LOOK AT THE ENROLLMENT, LOOK AT CLASS SIZES. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT THERE HAS TO BE A STAND- AT THIS POINT, AS ANTHONY SAID EARLIER, WE'VE MADE BUDGET CUTS IN DEPARTMENTS AND IN SCHOOL, IN PRINCIPAL BUDGETS. WE'VE GOT ABOUT TWO YEARS OF THIS, AND WE- THERE REALLY ISN'T A LOT OF- THERE IS NO- THERE'S NO FLUFF, AS YOU WANT TO CALL IT. I THINK THE NEXT CUTS WOULD BE LIKE THERE'S NO BUDGET FOR OFFICE SUPPLIES. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BE KIND OF LIKE THE NEXT LEVEL. CONTINUE ALIGNING THE BUDGET WITH THE DISTRICT'S STRATEGIC PLAN AND THE BOARD GOALS. THAT'S A BIGGER TOPIC OF CONVERSATION FOR THE BOARD. But some of the other things I wanna mention is rising healthcare costs. We really have to put a plug in that. We have to, I like to update. I've always said I wanna update. I wanna update some of the plan, some of the plan in the healthcare plans. We must be protect the district in case there's more delays in the Cook County property tax distributions. If we had a higher fund balance, we wouldn't be borrowing. WE DID HAVE TO TAKE A HIT LAST YEAR ON INTEREST INCOME THAT WE LAW, WELL, I MEAN INTEREST EXPENSE ON THE $25 MILLION OF TAW'S THAT WE HAD TO BORROW FOR, AND BOND COSTS, YOU KNOW, LEGAL COSTS ON THAT, BOND COUNSEL COSTS, ALL THAT. WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO, THESE THINGS REALLY DO HAPPEN. AND SO THAT IS WHY A FUND, A HEALTHY FUND BALANCE INSURE IS A TYPE OF INSURANCE WHEN THOSE THINGS DO HAPPEN. Those are the big things off the top of my head. Any questions?

I had a question around the Cook County delays. Do we have an estimate of what the net cost to the district was last year of like where we landed?

Yeah. Yep.

interest income. We had to cash out some of our investments that cost us about a million dollars. between early cashing out or losing out on some of the future earnings. The cost for issuing the TAWs was about a half a million dollars for interest that we had to pay on those, and plus the closing cost was about, I think it was roughly $9,900 to $1,000. So we're looking at about a million and a half, maybe close to $2 million overall just based off the timing of other revenues that we, other interest that we may have otherwise had if those were coming in. Plus, we are still short from the last two levy years. Cook County doesn't have a reconciliation that they can provide to us. They are still slowly coming out with reports. Based on our budgeting and our estimates from levy year 24, we're about $1.5 million short. I love your 25, which we just closed this fiscal year. It's about two and a half million dollars. So in total, we're short about $4 million, you know, give or take some based on our budgeting for property tax collections. Hopefully we receive those back, you know, into this next fiscal year. Plus on top of the TIF money that they are still holding.

That's the really strange thing. It's TIF money. It is. They've literally had that for years. I don't know, almost a year.

No, since April. Yeah. That one, that particular one is April and they're earning interest again or forfeiting interest again.

Okay. So a follow-up question for that. So for example, with that 1.6 million from the TIF that's being held by Cook County, is that reflected in the fund balance? So For example, if somehow by a miracle, they gave us that $1.6 million tomorrow, would that reduce

deficit by that if everything stayed the same what if everything stayed the same yes yes that 4.9 would come down by 1.6 yes that would make it that would reduce it it would make us look better it would look better yeah but yeah we talked to the auditors i'm like can't we double budget it no no it's not good good not good accounting you've already budgeted it last year yeah okay

All right. What's the latest promises from Cook County on this front?

Well, I do have a meeting I go on. The librarians are really great. They're a great group. So I have been meeting Thursdays with this group online, and it includes representatives from the Cook County Board President's Office. Not the treasurer's. It's the board president. And they, let's see, so today's September 9th. HAVE WE GOTTEN ANY TAXES? NO. OKAY, SO THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO RELEASE SOME OF THE MORTGAGES. SO ONCE THE BILL GOES OUT, USUALLY MORTGAGES, ESCROS, IT COMES OUT VERY QUICKLY. AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GET SOME OF THAT ANY DAY NOW. AND THEN WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GET A WHOLE BUNCH BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH. THAT'S TALK. THAT'S TALK. WE HOPE SO. EVEN THOUGH THE DUE DATE IS OCTOBER 1ST. SO THEY SAID WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GET QUITE A BIT THOUGH THIS MONTH. Again, that's why we have a no interest bearing $27 million loan from Cook County.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I would be curious just, and we've talked about this a little bit, like if there's any other avenues for us to advocate on behalf of the district and what role we can play with legislators or whomever we need to get in touch with, because this is absurd.

Mm-hmm.

All right, thank you.

Just to plug, Sam, that is one of our resolutions this year.

Oh, great. Any other questions?

With that $27 million loan that we have, what are the terms of that? How does that work? We have to repay it back, and how does that?

We don't pay it back. It comes out of our distribution. They'll say we're supposed to get, say, $18 million or something. So I kind of misspoke, because really, the first distributions we're going to get, they go against that $27 million. So we really have a prepayment on our distributions of $27. We keep that. We never pay it back. It just comes back. So technically we'll still get a notice.

It'll be interesting. We haven't gotten it.

It'll be interesting to see how they're going to shore that up. I don't know. I'm trying. Like I said, I've been to some meetings. I think the best thing is go to Cook County board meetings and tell our legislator. I've tried. They're insulated. Cook County Treasurer's Office is very insulated. There are. We want them to, we want them to, we want a reconciliation of what we're supposed to get for levy 24 and levy 25. We want a reconciliation.

You know, I think, I do want to thank Diana and Anthony as they've gone through this, but also the finance committee. I think we had a really good conversation about just what this budget means for the larger functioning of the district. Certainly Frank and Wenda provided us some good insights on how we wanted to just you know, either tailored this presentation to tell an accurate story, but also, you know, as we're thinking about this, yeah, no one wants to run a deficit. Also, it's the same that we brought, right? I don't think that's been the case in the past, from tentative to actual, because summer hiring might've happened, other weird things that kind of impact your budget from a planning perspective. So I think on our end, we do have a clear mandate. It's policy 4020 that we want to bring back right now that, that range is set between 15 to 20% for fund balance. We want to have a conversation with the board about just what that looks like moving forward. The last time that was revised was in 2024. So on our end, really setting clear targets from a fund balance perspective, as we heard from enrollment and Sherry a little bit earlier, all of these steps work together to impact the budget. The budget is the manifestation of the board's goals and dreams for the school district. And as we think about this, we wanna make sure that it's right-sized, that we're looking at all the different areas to make sure that staffing is appropriate, to make sure that we've obviously talked about different program and department budgets, things of that nature. But we want to make sure that we do have money so we can take some swings as we come up with this new strategic plan, because we know that what our kids will need in five years is not what our kids need now. And so kudos to this group as they've put this together. Finance Committee has some good work to do over the next couple of months as we continue to focus on the deficit and we're looking for some major changes for the next time we bring this back in September of 27.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you. All right, next up is crisis plans. Item 7.4.

Yeah, nothing to discuss. I just always like to bring the crisis plans. These are behind the paywall. We do not make these public, but we certainly just like to share those with the board and your member side. We take safety and security very seriously. connected to the conversation about elections. On our end, we do have plans to connect with local officials. Our building teams are ready to respond in a crisis, whether it's an internal crisis, external, et cetera. It's just, it could have been under information, but always like to bring those to the board for review.

All right. Board committee reports. Ed Red, Frank.

Okay. So the... The legislature is currently out of session. They will reconvene for the veto session. That shows up at the end of November, November 17th through 19th and early December 1st through 3rd. That's when we'll get back to going over any vetoes that were issued by the governor. And then they sometimes take up other legislation. Of course, this could be any kind of bears legislation that may sweeten the deal over him. Hammond, Indiana. So we'll see. I don't know about that though. I think they're looking for quite a bit, but you never know. And then Illinois still needs to decide if the state will opt into the federal scholarship tax credit program. That's the program which gives donors a federal tax credit up to $1,700. 31 states have opted in so far. program starts January 1st, 2027. And whether Illinois opts in or not, the program is, will still be active for people in Illinois that want to make donations. The only drawback is that if Illinois doesn't opt in, Illinois students and children won't be able to receive the money from donations to the organizations in the program. So, you know, the money is going to get tax credited one way or another. It's just Illinois kids won't get anything out of it if we don't opt in. I did attend the Ed Red legislative breakfast on August 10th. Main topic of discussion, of course, is state funding of education because Illinois ranks in the bottom of funding education amongst the 50 states. And property tax relief is something I think everybody is on top of their priority, especially since the last bills went out and everybody gets to see it all over again, how much their taxes have gone up. Another priority I think should be TIF reform, where the taxing bodies have a proportional say in TIFs being issued and being able to vote on them to say whether or not they should be put into place. And then Ed Red will be kicking off our new year at a lunch meeting on October 16th. This event brings together education leaders, legislators, and partners from Cook and Lake counties to discuss some key issues and set the plans for the next year ahead. When I was at that meeting, the meeting on the 10th, there was lots of people that were discussing the Cook County situation. and actually being able to put something in place where there are some real, say, pressures on Cook County Treasurer's Office and such to make sure that school districts and other taxing bodies actually receive their money on time. Because that really does have a massive ripple effect through all the governing and taxing bodies. So hopefully the legislature will be able to put something together that puts a little force behind it. We'll see what happens. I'm sure it'll come up again when we have the kickoff meeting on October 16th. So I'll be sure to bring it up again. I talked to Michelle Mossman quite a bit at the last one. So I got her cell phone number out of it.

So we'll see how long it takes her to change it.

Oh, I'm just kidding.

That's it for now. On that note. All right. One five foundation, Eric. And before you start, we have business to make you an official voting member of the one five foundation board based on their bylaws. I think it was that. Dr. Smith or I would technically be voting members and we are able to designate an appointee in order to do that, which obviously since you serve with this group, you should do that. So officially, I don't think we have to vote or anything, but just officially appointing you as a voting member of the One Five Foundation Board.

Thank you. Yes. It needs a gavel or something.

Thank you.

I really worked hard for that. Thank you. We had our kickoff event last month, the bingo night, which at the last minute I was not able to attend, but Dr. Smith I know was there. Did you win? No.

I've never won bingo in my entire life. I won an Ikea bucket hat, and that's my prize. I will take that all the way to the bank.

The funds raised, we raised $1,384 that night. And then the other thing we have going on, the teacher mini-grant applications are open. I didn't get a word on how long they're open, but I think they just recently opened. I HAD A CHANCE TO BE A PART OF THAT EVENT LAST YEAR AND IT WAS JUST GREAT TO GO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU NEED SOMEBODY TO DELIVER BIG CHECKS AND BALLOONS, I'M YOUR GUY. AND I HAD A, IT WAS JUST SO GREAT TO SEE, AS A FORMER TEACHER, TO SEE THE TEACHERS THAT PUT IN THE TIME TO MAKE THESE EVENTS AND MAKE THESE PROGRAMS FOR KIDS. FROM SOME AS SMALL AS $500 FOR EXTRA BOOKS TO MUCH LARGER PROJECTS. ONE TEACHER AT PADDOCK HAD for second graders had an exercise bike that was underneath them to keep them, like when they're on their Chromebooks and just keep them moving, which I thought was brilliant. My four boys would have really taken advantage of that when they were at Paddock. So all kinds of stuff, just seeing all the creativity and all the things that we have going around the district. So really excited. So any teachers that are listening, get those applications in, and hopefully we'll see you in December when we give those away. Our next meeting is next week on the 16th.

Awesome. Thank you. Finance committee.

The finance committee met Wednesday, September 2nd. We welcomed a new member, Frank Marino. We are so excited that you're going to join us. He's everywhere. We really talked about the Cook County, the bridge loan, really dug deep into the FY27 budget, as well as just some updates with health life safety. We're really at an inflection point at this point, looking at, I mean, even being on the board years ago when we looked at academic achievement and seeing where we are, And right now, this is how I feel about the budget. Where we are is not where we're going to be forever. We have a goal to... really address this budget and not in the timeline that we took for academic achievement. We wanna just really hammer on in this budget. So there's work to be done with this board. Again, evaluating the balance of what percentage points, where we're gonna be with that fund balance, and then looking at that ed fund. So I'm so excited that this is our goals for the next coming year, years, hopefully year. And we will really welcome the input from the community and the staff so that we want to hear your voice on how we can make this better.

Equity Committee, Jim Zubair.

We don't have an update at this point.

Yeah, no official meeting. I think what I would add though is that, like Sam mentioned, we did a lot of work in our board retreat and just wanted to add that although there wasn't an official Equity Committee meeting, a lot of the discussion, a lot of the work that we did hopefully no surprise to the community is that everybody on the board in some form or fashion had equity as kind of one of their top priorities is something that they wanted to focus on, or there was a reason that they were here and in some form. So just knowing that equity is kind of a top priority coming into our new season, if you will.

Awesome. All right. Item 9.1, approval of the personnel report. May I have a motion, please?

I move to approve the personnel report. Recommendations for administration certified and non-certified staff members as presented. Second.

Discussion? Roll call.

Ader?

Aye.

Annarino? Aye. Bachman?

Aye.

Hunt? Aye. Kahn? Aye. Skolnick? Aye. Taylor? Aye.

All right, motion carries. Item 9.2, adoption of the FY27 budget. May I have a motion, please?

I move to adopt the fiscal year 2027 budget as presented. Second.

All right, discussion. I'll just echo Wenda's sentiments of just knowing that this is a priority for the board over the next two years, I imagine, but hopefully most tackled in year one. So yeah, this is going to be a really important work of the board. All right. Roll call.

Taylor. Aye. Ader. Aye. Skolnick. Aye. Bachman. Aye. Kahn. Aye. Hunt. Aye. Annarino.

Aye.

All right, motion carries. Item 9.3.

I move to approve the doctoral stipend increase as presented. Second.

Discussion? Roll call.

Bachman.

Aye.

Annarino. Aye. Hunt.

Aye.

Ader. Aye. Skolnick. Aye. Taylor.

Aye.

Kahn.

Aye.

All right, motion carries. Item 9.4.

I move to approve the gifts to the district from Zoll and School Health Corporation as presented.

I second.

Discussion.

Thank you.

Yep. Roll call.

Hunt.

Aye.

Khan.

Aye.

Ader.

Aye.

Skolnick. Aye. Taylor. Aye. Annarino. Aye. Bachman.

Aye.

Motion carries. Item 9.5. Oh, wait. Do we not have... Consent calendar. Would anyone like to remove anything from the consent calendar? Yes. I need to remove item 10.9 to make it a separate item. Okay, so we'll remove item 10.9. So that may have a motion that incorporates that removal with the approval of the consent calendar. So I think, would we say, I move to approve everything except for?

Okay, great. I move to approve the consent calendar minus section 10.8. 10.9. 10.9. 10.9.

Second. Roll call.

Skolnick. Aye. Annarino. Aye. Hunt. Aye. Kahn. Aye. Taylor.

Aye.

Bachman. Aye. Ader.

Aye. All right, motion carries. May I have a motion to approve item 10.9?

I make a motion to approve the 10.9 approval Intergovernmental Agreement Exceptional Learners Collaborative.

Second.

Second.

Discussion?

So we're taking this out separately because of the dollar value or something?

No, that's a conflict of interest.

Ah, got it.

All right. Roll call.

Skolnick. Aye. Annarino.

Aye.

Hunt.

Aye.

Kahn.

Aye.

Taylor.

Abstain.

Bachman.

Aye.

Aydin. Aye.

All right, motion carries. Just a moment while we get through.

This can send calendar pages, hold on.

Okay, I think we are just in FOIA. Correspondence, or no, no, no. Is there anything in item 11? Okay, yeah, so I think we're at FOIA. Correspondence.

No official correspondence.

Okay. Yes. Lots of correspondence. It's just.

All right. May I have a motion to adjourn?

I move to adjourn. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Meeting adjourned.

Thank you, everybody. Have a great night. Thank you.