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Bluford Unit School District 318 Board of Education met April 21.

Here is the agenda provided by the board:

1. Call to Order

2. Roll Call

3. Opportunity for Public Comment: (This is the time when visitors may request to address the Board of Education on any item germane to the role and function of the Board of Education. When the Board President so directs, persons should stand, give their name and begin their statements. Persons must refrain from making any personal comments regarding any individual. The Board President reserves the right to limit presentations to five minutes.)

4. Correspondence/Scheduled Visitors

5. Additions/Deletions to the Agenda

6. Approval of Agenda

7. Consent Agenda* (The Consent Agenda includes matters of usual business of the Board that may be approved through one motion, second, and roll call vote, unless it is determined that one or more items be removed from the Consent Agenda for additional discussion or because one or more negative votes may be anticipated.)

7.1 Approval of Minutes*

7.1.1 March 17, 2022 Regular Monthly Meeting Minutes

7.2 Financial Reports April 2022

7.2.1 District Fund Balance Report*

Cash Balance (March 31, 2022) $5,669,771.97

Activity Accounts (March 31, 2022) $97,367.10

Payroll for April 2022 $188,169.54

7.2.2 Approval of April 2022 Bills*

8. Administrative & Building Reports

8.1 Mrs. Henson, Mr. Dunaway, & Dr. Gordon

9. Executive Session

(The purpose of the Executive Session is to consider evaluation, resignation, compensation, disciplinary action, or dismissal of employees, and other personnel matters of employees of the District, collective bargaining, and possible litigation of the school district. **)

9.1 Personnel Matters**

9.2 Employee Compensation**

9.3 Pending Litigation**

10. Action Items/Possible Action Items

10.1 Consider Approval of the April Personnel Report

10.2 Consider Approval of the Consolidated District Plan

10.3 Consider Approval of Increase for Athletic Officials to $75

11. Adjournment

* Consent Agenda

** Executive Session

By Order of: Mr. Steve Tate, President

Board of Education

Bluford Unit School District #318

Personnel Report April 2022

Resignations:

- Leslie Prior Junior High Teacher (Effective with completion of FY22 duties)

- Del Wilkins Junior High Softball Assistant Coach

Renewal of Administrative Contract

- Nicole Henson Grade School Principal (per contract)

Recommendations for Employment:

- Michelle Marlow Math Teacher (return to salary as scheduled)

- Jamey Hodges High School Principal (per contract)

Requested Transfer of Positions:

- Marci Sherwin Second Grade to Third Grade

- Ariana Shelton Third Grade to Second Grade

- Manda Sellers First Grade to Fifth Grade

Reminder:

The May regular Board of Education meeting is not scheduled for the third Thursday. It is scheduled for Tuesday May 17, 2022.

Administrative and Building Reports

Maintenance Report:

A gash in the rubber roof was found above the fifth grade classroom. The gash was repaired. Installed new electric in the HS gym, for the projector screen and the projector. The administration building is progressing nicely.

Principal’s Report:

Juniors took the SAT 3/23, it went well. We have three to make-up on 4/26.

Illinois Assessment of Readiness testing for grades 3-8 was completed the last two weeks of March.

Freshman Orientation was 4/18 at 5:00 pm. A class of 32 being promoted from BGS with one of them going to MVTHS next year. Three are coming from Farrington and one from OBR. The projected freshman class size of 36 for next year.

Illinois Science Assessment for 5th/8th grade began 4/19, the ISA for juniors and PSAT for 9th/10th will be 4/21.

Spring midterm grades for RLC - 75% A’s, 18% B’s, 6% C’s, 1% below C

Twenty-six seniors are on track to graduate: Two students will have to pass all classes 3rd trimester to graduate.

Senior sponsors are meeting with senior class officers on 4/21 and potentially the whole senior class regarding t-shirts and a senior trip.

Athletic program dates are set.

-HS 5/10 at 6 pm

-GS 5/17 1:30 pm

Senior Awards are set for May 12 at 6:30.

Several end of the year trips are being planned.

∙ 3rd to New Harmony, IN 5/5

∙ 5th to Cedarhurst 5/10, St. Louis Arch 5/12

∙ Kindergarten to St. Louis Zoo 5/10

∙ 4th/5th to Tri County Electrical Safety Program

∙ 1st to bowl & city park 5/13

∙ 2nd grade to CMOE 5/18

∙ 8th to Holiday World 5/20

∙ 5/23 Field Day for grades K-7

Superintendent’s Report:

Financial Quarterly Report- The third quarter budget report is included in the board packet.

Evidence Based Funding- It was confirmed that the state will invest an additional $350 million in this year’s budget. For reference, that amount equaled an additional $181,160.45 for this fiscal year. Since the budget passed, I would expect a similar increase to next year’s EBF state payments. Additionally, there was a piece of legislation that was passed recently to correct a data error within the funding model in which Chicago Public Schools was overpaid approximately $87 million. The legislation provides back pay to districts who lost funding as a result. Our share is $17,869.05.

Consolidated District Plan- The Consolidated District Plan is an annual process that is part of being awarded Federal Title Grants. It addresses how the district meets the compliance standards of the grants.

Officials Pay Increase- At the last county junior high meeting, the rest of the county schools approved increasing pay for game officials from $60 to $75. It is recommended that we do the same or securing officials would most likely be extremely difficult. Additionally, HS volleyball, baseball, and softball need to be raised to $75 to keep consistency between JH and HS.

Prevailing Wage Ordinance (PA 100-1177) This is just a reminder that the district no longer needs to pass a prevailing wage resolution each year. The mentioned law, which became effective last year, eliminated that requirement.

Junior High Bowling Program- Since the junior high bowling program was new this year, I wanted to report the details. There were 19 kids that participated. In their first year as a program, we had one female earn a trip to the state meet. Additionally, the boys competed as a team and placed sixth overall. The total cost for the program was $1,569.

High School Athletic Conference- The conference voted Patoka and Red Hill into the conference for next year. It was our thought that Patoka was a good fit, but Red Hill was not because of size and distance. However, there were enough conference votes to approve both schools.

Sports Co-operative with Farrington- The group met to discuss various aspects of potentially forming a co-operative for all junior high sports. We need to have a discussion at the meeting to decide if the Board is in favor of moving forward.

ROE Community Partnership Grant- The ROE has been awarded a Community Partnership grant which was a collaborative effort with school districts throughout the ROE (us included) for $635,000. This will provide social emotional learning resources, after school/summer school programming, community engagement, and professional development for teachers. I am working to write our request for the grant. When I know the amount we will receive, I will provide further information.

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