A-C Central Community Unified School District 262 Board of Education met Nov. 16.
Here are the minutes provided by the board:
PRESENT ABSENT
V. Todd Jokisch Troy DeFord
Dan Cuba
Jennifer Fanning
Jennifer Knapp (by phone)
Deb Petefish
Jason Smith (came in at 7:02)
Others present: Superintendent - Candi Shaver; Co-Superintendent - Tim Page (by phone); Principal – Ashley Trueblood; Technology; A-CCEA – Mason Vincent, Gilbert Robison, Spencer Laughlin, Greg Lange, Robyn Lovekamp, Kelsey Taylor, Kaitlin Johnston, Stephanie Lindsey; Parents - Ruth Trissel, Daniel Trissel, Mindy Marr, Roxanne Hampton; Students Tyler Trissel, Katelyn Gutmann, Olivia Hampton; Citizen - Alex Trissel, Karen Gutmann; Other Dan Cuba, Robyn Lovekamp; Media- Michael Kloppenburg; Unit Staff Ann Henry.
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m.
Recognition of Visitors and Guests
V. Todd Jokisch led everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance and welcomed everyone to the board meeting.
Proposed Agenda
Cuba/Petefish- Motion to approve the proposed agenda as presented. Voice vote: All members present voted aye. Motion carried.
Accolades from the Board
Dan Cuba stated that everyone did very well in the school play. Deb Petefish stated that the 7th grade basketball girls won 2nd in the New Berlin tournament. The 6th grade basketball girls won the tournament that was played in Ashland. Jacey Ratliff and Macyn McClure made the all-tournament team.
Guest comments
Dan Cuba read general rules of a board meeting.
Mr. Laughlin asked permission to take a student to the FFA Building Conference in Bloomington Normal on 11/21/22. Mr. Laughlin forgot to get approval ahead of time so the board will give him a verbal okay to go. The motion will be on the December board minutes.
Robyn Lovekamp spoke in regards to the Apptegy app. She has the app on her phone because Triopia uses it.
Mindy Marr spoke in regards to the coffee bar. She doesn't know many details on the project but does know that it is going to be located in the back room of the art room and it has some structural issues. Recently our BETA Club had a service day where they did some cleaning in the back room of the art room and a student got sick because of exposure to paint fumes, cleaning solvent, and lack of ventilation. Mrs. Marr contacted Mrs. Sinclair with some concerns about cleaning without an N95 mask on and some ventilation in the room. Mrs. Marr is concerned about the safety of all the students being in that room.
Roxanne and Olivia Hampton said that Mindy basically covered everything they had planned on asking or stating.
Kaitlin Johnston is the Art Teacher and she was not asked about the coffee bar beforehand.
Mrs. Shaver has contacted Environmental Consultants regarding the safety of the students working in the coffee bar area. We know that it is wet in an area of the room and we know that the mastic underneath of the tile is asbestos. Prior to work done in the coffee bar room we knew that was a safe room. The room was abated on Saturday prior to work beginning and air quality was also checked and found to be safe.
Ruth Trissel asked if the air quality report will be made public so everyone can see it?
Mindy Marr also asked if the reports cover black mold and Mrs. Shaver said we do not have a mold issue.
Katelyn Gutmann said prior to working in this room we asked specifically if there was asbestos in this room because the students are very concerned about it. The students were told by Mrs. Sinclair who said specifically that she had read in the report herself that there was no asbestos in the room. And we were also told by Mrs. Shaver there was not asbestos in that room. Then this Monday we went to the Virginia Food Pantry and on our way back to school in the van Mrs. Sinclair said I would just like to let you all know that on Saturday someone (Environmental Consultants) came in the coffee bar room and did a test and they found asbestos in the adhesive in the floor tile. We had already been exposed to the conditions and the dust floating around in the air. As the kids were sweeping the tiles were popping and so dust was being spread around. The tiles were not attached to the floor presumably because of the water damage. The flooring under the tile does look like black mold. I feel like either there was negligence on somebody's part or we were lied to. As students we should be protected and we were not.
Mrs. Shaver called Mr. Jeff Faust who is with Environmental Consultants; he can confirm there is not any hazardous asbestos in that room. Mr. Faust said that it would have to have a sander to stir up the asbestos and the students were only using a broom. Mr. Faust could not confirm the mold situation.
Karen Gutmann asked why would we want to even put any type of food/coffee in a room that already has issues? Why is this even an option? Is that the only spot that's available?
Mrs. Shaver said it could be placed in other spots if students wanted to do that. Their idea was that area connects to the library so making a coffee shop/library/ Barnes and Nobel kind of thing. Karen said so this is the student's idea? Mrs. Shaver said it's a senior service project. So a chunk of the Seniors was a renovation of that area.
Tyler Trissel said he could vouch that this was not the Senior's idea. It was Mrs. Sinclair's.
High School Student of the Month is Tyler Trissel.
Middle School Student of the Month is Hailey Haggerty.
Congratulations! We are proud to call you an A-C Central Knight!
Sierra Robinson is one of the top 10 finalist in the NPR WUIS “This I Believe" Essay Contest. She recorded her essay for the radio station, she won $500.00 and will be celebrated on campus at U of I in Springfield on November 30.
Kevin Handy is here to discuss the back room roof of the art room. Last Thursday they opened 3 bids in the Unit Office. R.D. Lawrence was again our low bidder at $146,000.00. May 31, 2023 is the completion date for this project.
Mr. Page said at the initial levy presentation he will have this in much more detailed for you next month. The overall levy without bonds is $3,620,000.00. Basically Mr. Page has taken the assessors EAV estimates is that the property value has increased by a little over 7% so our EAV went from last year was $66,672,866.00 to this year almost $71,500,00.00 if that ends up holding out. It is a little lower than what Mr. Page expected.
Executive Session (Exceptions 1,2, & 16)
Cuba/Petefish Motion to go into Executive Session at 7:55 p.m. in accordance with State Statute to discuss the following:
The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the District or legal counsel for the district, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee or against legal counsel for the District to determine its validity, 5 ILCS 120/2 (c)(1).
Collective negotiation matters between the District and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(2).
School Safety. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(16)
Voice vote: All members present voted aye. Motion carried.
Return to Open Session
Petefish/Fanning - Motion to come out of executive session at 9:40 p.m. and to approve and seal the minutes of this executive session. Voice vote: All members present voted aye. Motion carried.
Amended Consent Agenda
Approval of Minutes of Regular Meeting on October 19, 2022
Approval of Minutes of Special Meeting on October 25, 2022
Approval of Treasurer's Report
Approval of Activity Fund Report
Approval of Board Bills for an amount of $136,258.42
Approval of September Journal Entries
Approval of November Personnel Report
New Hires
Cindy Mueske - Cook (Ashland)
Robin Pettit - Elem. Tutor
Maggie Allen - Elem. Tutor
Jim Brauer - Elem. Tutor
Jenna Surratt - Elem. Tutor
Carmen Savage - Elem. Tutor
Anna Stevens - MS/HS Tutor
Jennifer Guillou - MS/HS Tutor
Liz Sinclair - MS/HS Tutor
Robyn Lovekamp - MS/HS Tutor
Ronica Carwile - School Nurse
Cuba/Fanning - Motion to approve the Minutes of Regular Meeting on October 19, 2022, approval of Minutes of Special Meeting on October 25, 2022, Treasurer's Report, Activity Fund Reports, Board Bills for an amount of $136,258.42, September Journal Entries, November Personnel Report. Roll call: All members present voted aye. Motion carried.
Administrators Reports
Elementary Report - PT Conferences went well. The Elementary is having a Penny War the week of Nov. 7th 11th to benefit the Cass County Food Pantry. The winning class will earn a pizza party. Nov. 7th is the 55th day of school so the staff and students dressed in 50's attire.
Building & Grounds Report - The new HVAC units are expected to arrive in November. The awning in Chandlerville has been replaced. Still have not received our 2018 lease bus.
Technology Report E-Rate update: Metro Communications ran the new fiber connection into the high school and to the server room. Server Installation update: Small strives are being made in the server configuration process. Major progressions have been somewhat stymied die to workload constrains with our engineering consultants at LRS. Core Network update: D-Link appears to have remedies the issues with the network. So far things are looking good.
Superintendent's Report
We have all three schools commendable. You can look this up at Illinois Report Card.com.
District wide High Impact Tutoring we still have some work to do. We are hoping to start the week after Thanksgiving. Both buildings will be on a M-T-Th for an hour after school schedule.
Update on the Marquee we have some pictures and it is supposed to be done on December 5th. Mrs. Shaver and Mr. Vincent will have some training to do on how to work the Marquee.
Building Committee Report
The committee has not met yet. HLS went through the building today with Tim Richard and Kevin Handy. Most of the concern is the things that have not been done for years and was under an old architect.
Old Business
Art Room Structural Repairs - Already discussed with Kevin Handy.
Fanning/--------- Motion to award the bid for the art room repairs to RD Lawrence in the amount of $146,000.00 as presented. Motion dies no second.
Egyptian Trust and Insurance - Mrs. Shaver said the Trust is pretty stable financially. Projected balances looked pretty good. Several more districts have withdrawn. The network change, so the other thing they did was changed from the current health plan to Blue Choice Select. That added an additional 5.5 to 6% in savings.
New Business
Levy Hearing Date - December 21, 2022 at 6:45 before the regular board meeting.
Cuba/Petefish - Motion to set the levy hearing for December 21, 2022 at 6:45PM as presented. Roll call: All members present voted aye. Motion carried.
Apptegy Purchase - This can be paid for out of REAP money. REAP money is used for ongoing laptop purchases for the kids. However, last year so much Federal money was brought in we made the decision to be ahead on all of those purchases, so we are a complete year ahead on all of those purchases.
Fanning/Knapp - Motion to begin content migration of the website and building of the district app with apptegy, and pay the related set up free of $5,250 as presented. Roll call: V.T. Jokisch, J. Fanning, J. Knapp, J. Smith voted aye. D. Cuba and D. Petefish voted nay. Motion carried.
EdDirection Contract No discussion.
Cuba/Petefish- Motion to approve the contract with EdDirection in the amount of $20,000 as presented. Roll call: All members present voted aye. Motion carried.
Adjourn
Cuba/Petefish - Motion to adjourn the meeting at 10:14 pm. Voice vote: All members present voted aye. Motion carried.
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