South Central Reporter

Germantown School District 60 Board of Education met Jan. 10.

Here are the minutes provided by the board:

Regular meeting called to order by President Lee Deerhake at 7:00 p.m. Roll call showed the following board members present: Matt Korte, Jessica Hemker, Andrea Linders, Nicole Peters, Ashley Winter and Lee Deerhake. Also in attendance: Superintendent Robin Becker, Assistant Principal Trisha Weekley, SEL Coordinator Kristine Beer, Board Secretary Leigh Ann Arentsen and visitor Danielle Ribbing. Board member Terry Biggs was absent.

Motion (2023/24-80) to approve the agenda was made by Mr. Korte with a second by Mrs. Winter. Motion carried (6-0).

The Pledge of Allegiance was recited by all in attendance.

Assistant Principal Weekley reported on the following items:

● 2nd Quarter Discipline Data: Mrs. Weekley shared a handout on the second quarter discipline data and Dojo data by quarter. It was noted that overall our students did a good job again this quarter even though there were a couple of minor outliers that skewed the numbers a bit.

● Our December Student of the Month Winners were Cruz Dumstorff and Sophie Kabat. Congratulations to both of them. Their charities of choice were Rally for Rae and St. Jude’s Children's Research Hospital.

Superintendent Becker reported on the following:

● Construction Project: They are presently working on the flooring which will take 3 weeks to complete. Once it is completed the painters will come back to complete a few things before they open up and connect the two areas.

● Grant Recognition: Mrs. Beer, Mrs. Wilken and Mrs. Markwell were recently each awarded a $500 Clinton County Electric Cooperative Grant. Congratulations to you all. Mrs. Becker has submitted for a Spassfest Grant to replace some playground equipment. She is still waiting to hear back on this.

● The Capital Campaign Committee met again this week. Thanks to an attorney on the committee who helped out with resolving some contract issues, they finally have a contract signed for the main act. This then allowed them to hire a Marketing Firm who can hopefully start advertising the Sept 21st event very soon to the public. So far the committee has received $95,000 in donations with another $50,000 coming in soon.

● There was a quick revisit of the SB2390 Sample Policy. There are no plans to act on it yet, mainly just wanted to discuss to keep it on the radar. Mrs. Becker has talked to the Superintendent of the ROE to see if they had heard anything more from ISBE. Mrs. Winter will reach out to her IASB Representative to see if they have any more information and/or guidance. Since the board was talking policies, Mrs. Winter revisited the possibility of introducing new policies to deal with teacher/staff/administrative negotiations along with creating a formal policy of how we hire coaches/teachers ie: advertising within first before externally advertising.

● Mrs. Becker led another Core Value Activity on what Empowering means and how we all can empower others around us. This activity ended with everyone present writing a heartfelt thank you to a staff member that Mrs. Becker will hand deliver to them.

IASB Liaison Report from Mrs. Winter

● Mrs. Winter reported that most of the updates she has received do not apply to us but are more for bigger schools and/or Chicago area schools. She isn’t for sure that she will have information to share monthly so she will advise Mrs. Becker when to include it on the agenda moving forward.

Motion (2023/24-81) to approve Items of Consent as follows was made by Mrs. Hemker with a second by Mrs. Peters. Roll call vote showed the following: Korte, aye; Hemker, aye; Linders, aye; Peters, aye; Winter, aye and Deerhake, aye.

Items of Consent:

1. Approve Minutes of December 13, 2023

2. Approve Bills/Payroll for January 2024

3. Review of Closed Session Minutes for Public Release – June 2023

4. Approve Destruction of Verbatim Recording of June 2022

5. Approve Financial Reports for December 2023

a. Budget

b. Balance Sheet

c. Fund Balance

d. Bulldog Activity

6 . PSIC Insurance Renewal

7. Appointment of FOIA Officer – Leigh Ann Arentsen

New Business:

Motion (2023/24-83) to approve first reading of PRESS Policy Issues 113 was made by Mr. Korte with a second by Mrs. Hemker. Motion carried (6-0).

Motion (2023/24-84) to enter Closed Session at 7:58 p.m. to discuss Appointment, Employment, Evaluation, or Dismissal of Employees was made by Mrs. Peters with a second by Mrs. Linders. Motion carried (6-0).

Motion (2023/24-85) to return to Open Session at 8:33 p.m. was made by Mrs. Winter with a second by Mrs. Peters. Motion carried (6-0).

Motion (2023/24-96) to adjourn the meeting at 8:34 p.m. was made by Mrs. Hemker with a second by Mr. Korte. Motion carried (6-0).

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