february 28

The bOARDBuzz is put together following District 25 School Board Meetings and serves as a recap of what occurred.

• For the full agenda of the Regular Meeting, please click here.

This meeting was recorded and that recording can be viewed here: www.sd25.org/0228FullMeeeting.

As always, the bOARDBuzz is archived at www.sd25.org/BoardBuzz.

The Board recognized and congratulated the following students who participated in the Arlington Heights Council of PTAs Reflections Art Program:

Dryden

Mikayla Carlson

Greenbrier

Elise Christiansen | Lila Davis | Christina Harisiadis | Jonah Katz

Kurt Peterson | Ashwini Srikanth | Maya Zbrzezny

Ivy Hill

Harshan Rajkumar Anusha | Aarav Singh

Patton

Ameline Burney | Amy Chang | Joanna Luo | Sara McCarty | Cassidy McKown

Aashvi Parekh | Ananya Parekh | Suhani Parekh | Joe Scapillato

Westgate

Addie Daley | Gannon Daley | Gabriel Dziedzic | Maxwell Lange

Ainsley Warner | Beck Warner

South Middle School

Jadynn Cantu | Ameera Fatina | Grant Heaton

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In this portion of the meeting, Board members catch one another up on the happenings each member has experienced as an individual since the last meeting. Also, some Board members are appointed as representatives to attend meetings on behalf of the District 25 Board of Education for different organizations. Those members convey relative information to the entire Board at the monthly meeting.

• Board Member Updates
• ED-RED Education Research Development
• Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB)
• NSSEO

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Community members addressed the Board during this public comment portion of the meeting. According to Board Policy, public comment is heard for 30 minutes at Board of Education meetings. At this meeting, the public comments begin at the 21:58 mark of the meeting.

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Please remember that the Board can be reached outside of Board Meeting hours by emailing boardfeedback@sd25.org.

In this portion of the meeting, the three organizations below addressed Board Members.

• AHC PTA
  
• ABC25 Foundation
  
• ATA (Arlington Teachers Association)

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MOTION: APPROVED

That the Board of Education approve those items on the Consent Agenda as follows: (A) Personnel Report and Addendum to Personnel Report; (B) Treasurer's Report (C) Invoices; (D) Fixed Asset Disposal Report; (E) Regular and Closed Session Meeting Minutes of January 24, 2023; (F) Hold Closed session minutes of July 1, 2022 through September 30, 2022, and November 15, 2022 through December 31, 2022 per Board Policy 2:220-E1; (G) Release Closed session minutes of November 7, 2022 per Board Policy 2:220-E1; (H) Destruction of Audiotapes January 1, 2021 through June 30, 2021 per Board Policy 2:220-E1

The consent agenda documents can be seen by clicking here to visit BoardDocs.

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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REPORT

Superintendent, Dr. Lori Bein, updated the Board on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from the public:

• Thomas Jankowski requested information on an Open Meetings Act decision; a response was provided on January 20, 2023.

• Nathan Mihelich, Illinois Retired Teachers Association, requested information on district retirees; a response was provided on January 27, 2023.

• Laura Quesada, Contract Administrator at Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling requested information on a beverage agreement; a response was provided on January 27, 2023.
• Ryan Vaskovsky requested information on student resources for math; a response was provided on February 6, 2023.
• Rob Propst, Senior Account Executive at Waste Management, requested information on waste and recycling services information; a response was provided on February 15, 2023.
• Sheri Reid, Data Acquisition Specialist at SmartProcure requested information on district purchases; a response was provided on February 16, 2023.
• Brad Guretz requested information on summer reading lists; a response was provided on February 17, 2023.

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TEACHER PARTNERSHIP WITH BELLWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT 88

Arlington Heights School District 25 and Bellwood School District 88 are entering a trial, teacher-partnership this spring. The purpose of this partnership is to give a small group of excellent teachers the experience of teaching in different communities with different student demographics and staff demographics.

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There were no items presented by the Department of Student Learning.

There were no items presented by the Department of Student Services.

MOTION: APPROVED

Extension of Bus Transportation Contract

That the Board of Education approve the Extension of the Bus Transportation Contract with Cook County School Bus Co for 2023-24.

Assistant Superintendent of Business/CSBO, Stacey Mallek presented this item to the Board. This contract sees a 0.5% increase for 2023-24, or an increase of about $163,355, based on maintaining the similar number and types of routes as the 2022-23 school year. These increases are due to Cook County School Bus Company's need to increase pay rates to attract additional drivers and remain competitive, increases in insurance premiums (property, liability, workers comp and excess), and a need to replace some buses to maintain the required average age of the fleet.

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2023 and 2024 Facilities Capital Improvement Projects

That the Board of Education approve the intended 2023 and 2024 Facilities Capital Improvement Projects as presented.

The projects presented to and approved by the Board are a list of capital projects intended to align with the timing of the building addition projects for the Kindergarten expansion projects. Approving this will improve the economy of scale with the upcoming Kindergarten expansion projects. These are intended to be implemented in the next 2 years in order to allow for better coordination, bidding and implementation.

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SEIU Contract Approval

That the Board of Education ratify the Negotiated Agreement between Arlington Heights School District 25 Board of Education and Service Employees International Union, Local 73 as presented.

This item was presented by Assistant Superintendent of Personnel & Planning, Dr. Brian Kaye.

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The District 25 Board of Education offers a second opportunity for public comment at each Board Meeting that takes place once all the agenda items have been presented, discussed, or voted on.

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FUTURE TOPICS & TOPICS WITH DATES TO BE DETERMINED

• Cyber Security Update | March 14, 2023
• Policy Legal Update | March 14, 2023

• Student Assessment Discussion | Following Spring assessment

• RULER Update/Presentation | May Board Meeting

NEW TOPICS

• No new topics at this meeting.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2023 @ 7:30 PM

*Time has been changed to a 7:30 pm start for this meeting.*

This meeting will be held at the Dunton Administration Building and broadcasted live and recorded. The link for the livestream can be found on the Board Agenda page (www.sd25.org/BoardAgenda) the week of the meeting.

Public Comments

Anyone who wishes to make a public comment can do so, in-person, at our Board of Education meetings. The Board hosts two public comment opportunities on their agenda: 1) at the beginning of the meeting, prior to any agenda items, 2) at the end of the meeting after the agenda items have been discussed/presented.

Meeting Recordings

A video of the meeting will be recorded and uploaded to our site the following day on the 'Board Agenda' page and on our 'Catch up on Meetings' page.