There should be no additions to the agenda from Board members per Board Agreements. 

RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve the agenda as presented.

We will need a motion to approve these reports which are attached.  If you have specific questions relating to any of these items, please call me and get clarifications before noon Monday


RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve these as presented.

Nobody has formally requested to address the Board. 

Nothing yet on State K-12 Budget.  I was hopeful for a K-12 Education budget before July 1, 2016 until Wednesday's session was cancelled.  I am optimistic that there will be a K-12 Budget sometime in August.  We may be doing some things as unified local Superintendents on this in the near future (press releases, speaking points, etc), and will be discussing these possibilities next week.  I have invited Geneseo Superintendent, Mr. Kuffel to potentially come to our August Board meeting to speak on this as former President of IASA and to give you another perspective of area schools and Annawan finances. 

Only new thing to report on Kewanee Wethersfield Committee of 10 is that it has been sent to the IL State Supt. for consideration to be on the ballot.  I will stay loyal to Wethersfield with all of our activities throughout the process.  IF it makes the ballot, and IF it passes, I am confident that our students will have all of the opportunities that they currently have for the 2017-2018 school year.  I have invited Wethersfield Superintendent, Mr. Kazubowski, to come to the Board meeting this Wednesday to answer any questions you may have.

We have taken some steps and do have an active Annawan CUSD 226 Facebook up and functioning.

Mr. Brau's Report is attached.  In an efficiency of time, we will not verbally go over reports item by item, but just mention a couple as we all can read.

Mr. Buresh's and Mrs. Wolf's report is attached.  In an efficiency of time, we will not verbally go over reports item by item, but just mention a couple as we all can read.

Mrs. DeMay's report is attached. In an efficiency of time, we will not verbally go over reports item by item, but just mention a couple as we all can read.
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 I asked Henry Stark Special Education Cooperative to pay for closing the room off we will be hosting for them at a cost up to $1,000 and they have agreed to do so.

 

 We will meet in the next month.  No transportation bus needs for next year from my perspective, except that we need substitute bus drivers.

No new reliable news from Springfield yet on any type of school finances for fiscal year 2017.  Once again, we have prepared the best we can to weather this storm.  We have the ability to issue working cash bonds if needed, I have looked into a line of credit at BankOrion with the timeline of revisiting that in August, and we have the ability to issue tax anticipation warrants if need be to get us through the year.  Certified staff contracts need to be honored according to legal counsel, however noncertified staff may be dismissed with 30 days notice.  I still have every intention of starting school as we stated and completing the school year.  At the very latest, I feel that a K-12 Education Budget will be passed in December of 2016, and I feel fairly confident in predicting that it will be before that.   The only NEW thing in this entire paragraph that you haven't heard before is that I did actually have a meeting to potentially have a line of credit with BankOrion this month.  

I am projecting an ending Budget deficit of $80,000 less than what we budgeted when subtracting actual expenses from actual revenues.  Great news on this!  Unaudited Fiscal Year summaries will be shared with the Board in the July email that will go out (no meeting or would have been shared there).

A finance committee meeting is scheduled for August 4, 2016 from 8:30-10:00 AM for input for the Fiscal Year 2017 Budget.

No new changes. 


RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve these as presented in May

Attached is the resolution to allow for no Board meeting in July.  I was to add this to the agenda as a directive from the June, 2016 Board meeting.

RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve this as presented.

We need to approve the date, time, and place.  This is a changed meeting from earlier.

RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve this as presented.

The March minutes read that the Board approved Colt Heston's early graduation request provided he met all of the Illinois graduation requirements.  It should have read.........."met all of the Annawan High School graduation requirements.

RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve this as presented.

This is an annual legal thing that we have to do.  No option.

RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve this as presented.

We need to approve these as presented. The total cost is $90,422. and is attached.  I have also attached some of the 3 year totals. 

RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve these as presented.

I should have a final cooperative junior high cross country agreement for you by Tuesday.  I have attached a draft copy so that you can see it.  It is now waiting Jeff Johnsons approval as funding sponsor.

  The estimated cost of the program is less than $4,000 and Jeff Johnson has committed to fully funding the program for the next three years.


RECOMMENDATION:  I am recommending we approve this junior high cross country cooperative with Wethersfield for multiple reasons providing there is NO COST to the District.

Any individual discussions on specific hiring decisions need to be done in Closed Session.  Thus, if there is any specific person that you wish to discuss before we vote, we need to go into Closed Session.

We are interviewing Monday for an individual aide position, school nurse, and cafeteria position.  I will try ti give you updates Tuesday, if I have any.

Here are the updates:  I am super excited about our total new hires this year.  This group is outstanding as well.  Rod Jackson will become a full-time employee now, Dawn Heitzler will help us out for one year as boys basketball cheerleading sponsor, Hope Derycke will be a special education aide and coach jr. high girls basketball for one year (and if variables at home with a child come into play she and I have agreed that she will be instantly let out of that duty, in which Chris Goodley has agreed to step in, and Jessica Quagliano will be a great addition as school nurse and Health Career Club Sponsor. 

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RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve these as presented.

A twice a year legal thing to do.  They have always been kept closed.

RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you keep Closed Session minutes Closed as presented.

*****Anytime school personnel or individual student issues are discussed, the discussion needs to take place in Closed Session, with action only coming in Open Session.

We need to review closed session minutes and keep closed session minutes closed like we have always done. 

If there are questions on new hires, we are covered here and we have student disciplinary cases from last month to approve.

If there is any news on the pending litigation with Webster vs. Annawan CUSD 226 I will let you know as well.

 

The next Board of Education meeting will be held on  Monday, June 27, 2016 at 5:00 PM at the Annawan Community Building for the purpose of Board self evaluation.

The next regularly scheduled monthly meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 5:00 PM.