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.

The AEA has formally asked to address the Board.

There is nothing new that is definitive to report right now.  Still no new state funding formula or state budget. I have included the latest Alliance Legislative Report.  A property tax freeze would be very detrimental for the Annawan CUSD 226 as well as for most area Districts.  In essence, if there were a freeze, there would be no levy increases for the next 4 years, meaning no additional new local dollars received.

These results are currently embargoed through June 30, 2017,by the State however, I want to let you all know that our District, Grade School, and High School results are amazing.  In talking with the State this am, they said that I could share our top page results at the meeting on Wednesday.  In the Annawan CUSD 226 overall results, Collaborative Teachers and Involved Families were ranked in the highest category out of 6 categories (Most Implementation), Effective Leaders and Supportive Environment were ranked in the 2nd highest category (More Implementation) and Ambitious Instruction was ranked in the 3rd highest category (Average Implementation).  In Annawan Grade School Results, Collaborative Teachers and Involved Families were ranked in the highest category out of 6 categories (Most Implementation), Effective Leaders was ranked in the 2nd highest category (More Implementation) and Supportive Environment and Ambitious Instruction was ranked in the 3rd highest category (Average Implementation).  In Annawan High School Results, Effective Leaders, Collaborative Teachers, Supportive Environment, and Involved Families all were ranked in the highest category out of 6 categories (Most Implementation) and Ambitious Instruction was ranked in the 3rd highest category (Average Implementation).  This was truly a phenomenal report! 

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.

Mr. Huber'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.

The Spring AW Coop Committee meeting was held this Monday.  Dwaine Shaw Jr. will give an update of that meeting after the AD Report.
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 Special Education Coop Union voted down contract.  Will have more information Wednesday.

 Attached is what we hope to complete this summer for building and grounds.  The portable football bleachers are scheduled to arrive and be installed between the last week in July and the first week of August right now.  I was asked to include Life Safety Survey work progress through this summer and that projection is attached too.

A Transportation Committee Meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 19th at 5:30 PM

No new reliable news from Springfield regarding this or next year's monies. Only received 1 of 4 categorical payments this fiscal year. 

I have attached a report from our auditor Tim Custis regarding District fund balances and financial position of the District. 

RECOMMENDATION:  Approve as presented entering into 3 year lease with $1 buyout at end of lease.

RECOMMENDATION:  Approve as presented.

RECOMMENDATION:  Approve FY 2018 District Goals 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 $92,800. and is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve these as presented.

This is another new mandate.  It will be ready by Tuesday and will be sent to you then.  Thanks to Mr. Brau for doing this.

RECOMMENDATION:  Approve Title 1 Plan as presented.

Board President John Rosenberry is going to reappoint Nancy Goodman to the Special Education Committee and take himself off that Committee.

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.

Duane Richter has submitted a letter of resignation of full-time bus driver.  Duane would like to stay on as a substitute driver.  Joe Buresh is next in line for a full-time position.

Jeff Parsons has resigned as AW Coop Head Baseball Coach.

Logan WIllits is recommended to be named AW Head Baseball Coach and he is the recommendation of the AW Coop Committee to hire, thus we will be voting to approve him on Wednesday.

AW Junior High Football hiring recommendations are Jeff White head coach and Brent Heitzler, Jacob Boswell, Kellen Daniels, Brandon Troxell, Grafton Hodge, Jared Spivey, and Dillon Foes assistant coaches.  We will be voting to approve these on Wednesday.




RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve these as presented.

John Rosenberry has asked for this to be on the agenda.  Many school districts have this.  Our Board has chosen not to have a Board Policy Committee, putting that responsibility on the Superintendent.  When we went to the PRESS subscription, this was visited again with the same outcome.  That is past practice by previous Boards.  If the President and Board want to establish a Board Policy Committee to go over all the policies that would be great.

RECOMMENDATION: 

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 May, 2017 Board meeting.

RECOMMENDATION:  I recommend you approve this as presented.

By State law, the District needs to legally have a Superintendent.  The Board needs to minimally hire an Interim Superintendent for July of 2017 at this meeting (Could call a Special Meeting sometime in June if you don't want to do that at this meeting). Dick VanKerrobroeck, previous Annawan Superintendent has told me that he would come back for the month of July 2018 in name only.  Thus, we meet the letter of the law.  I also did contact Shane Kazubowski, and he would do it if the situation was right.  I can NOT be the interim Superintendent for July of 2018, as it is another State rule that the Board cannot prenegotiate an agreement with the current Superintendent until 30 days after he/she retires.  The first date that I could be offered and approved is July 31, 2017 if that is the wishes of the Board.

Board President John Rosenberry was going to seek candidates in the area.

This is strictly a Board decision, but I would recommend that Matt Nordstrom become Superintendent when he gets certified (realistically around January 15, 2018).  I would recommend hiring an Interim until that point, and I have had a casual conversation with Board President John Rosenberry that I am interested in that position if that is the wishes of the Board in the best interest of the District at this time..  I didn't get to speak in Closed Session at the last meeting, but I DO want the Board to know that I literally made a last minute decision on May 29, 2017 to do what was the right decision to secure my pension and prevent it from possibly being greatly reduced next year with the real threat of pension reform by the Governor (tying pension reform with the new school funding formula or vowing not to sign the new funding formula).  There is no guarantee that I would be grandfathered into the system, and quite frankly, it was approximately a $39,000 decrease in year one of my pension.  Over the next 10 years it could add up to an approximate loss of $514,000.  The other totally deciding factor for my immediate decision is that I found out about May 15th that I needed to be retired by June 30, 2017 in order to be able to work as an Interim, Substitute Teacher or any other TRS position for the 2017-2018 school year.  Thus, I could not wait and see what the State of Illinois was really going to do with the school funding formula, etc.  I needed to make my official decision on May 30, 2017, give the Board 30 days as required by Contract, be retired on June 30, 2017 to secure my current pension with no questions, and make myself eligible for 100 days of employment in a TRS position beginning July 1, 2018.  It really was that simple, and I do believe that 99% of the people would have done the same thing.  I love this District, have been loyal and dedicated, and have done a very good job.  I want nothing but the best for it. 

*****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.

Superintendent positon and Closed session semi-annual review will be done in closed session when talking about specific people.

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.

The next regularly scheduled Board of Education meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 6:00 PM at the Annawan CUSD 226 High School English Room.