Board Briefs: 2-23-2023 Regular Action Meeting

D86 Website | BoardDocs | LiveStream | Video Archive | D86 Equity Statement

February 23, 2023

Regular Action Meeting

Good News

Principal Bill Walsh from Hinsdale Central and Principal Patrick Hardy from Hinsdale South provided the board with good news reports for their buildings. You can access the report for Central by visiting https://bit.ly/41jtooF and the report for South by visiting https://bit.ly/3XOdKyF.

Superintendent’s Report

Superintendent Tammy Prentiss presented the board with a high-level overview of the milestone report that the administration produced about the district's strategic plan. This overview included:

Background information about the recent history of strategic planning in District 86.
The areas of focus that have been common/consistent throughout the district's strategic planning efforts over the past 15 years.
Details about some of the tools that aided the creation and have supported the implementation of the current five-year strategic plan.
A link to the scorecard that the district is using to monitor, measure and communicate progress on the key performance indicators for each of the plan's goals.
Accomplishments and next steps for the components that are helping advance the district's mission and vision.

You can access the overview and milestone report by visiting https://bit.ly/41iegYG.

Committee Reports

Members of the Finance Committee provided the board with a report from their meeting on Feb. 15. The board also voted on the release of the draft minutes from this meeting as part of the consent agenda.

Consent Agenda

The board approved the consent agenda as amended. Please visit https://bit.ly/3EuUHTt to access the consent agenda items beginning under number eight.

The board also approved item 10.7 (Legal Bills Group-2 $27,506.50), which was pulled from the consent agenda for a separate vote.

Action Items

The board took the following action during the meeting:

Approved a settlement agreement with a former District 86 employee.
Awarded bid 23-014 (Athletic Trainers) to Athletico Physical Therapy for a three-year contract totaling $750,000.
Approved an amendment to the lease for the Transition Center's Burr Ridge location that will reassign the electric meter for the space to the landlord and reduce the annual rent by $40,000 in lieu of granting the tenant improvement allowance.
Approved the purchase of classroom furniture for Hinsdale Central. The total cost of the purchase is $1,040,514.54.
Renewed the emergency evacuation agreements with the organizations that serve as the district's designated emergency evacuation sites.

Board President's Report

Board President Erik Held commended the district on its commitment to equity and representation, and noted some of the opportunities that have been made available to students. He also said that he is looking forward to seeing how the district will build upon these efforts in the future.

Future Agenda Items

Below are the future agenda items that were requested by members of the board.

Confirmation that the board will be discussing the changes to the social studies curriculum during one of its meetings in March
The process/protocol that the board uses during meetings for discussing agenda items that are presented for a vote.
Presentation about the performance of students who were previously enrolled in the district's AR and G-level courses.
Follow-up presentation/discussion about the costs associated with the work of the strategic plan.
Discussion about whether changes need to be made to policy 2:105 (Ethics and Gift Ban) to address how the district will handle future opportunities that are similar to the Global Service Project organized by the Illinois Association of School Administrators..

You can access the current list of future agenda items by visiting https://bit.ly/3IRr7tJ.

Financial and Treasury Reports

Per its regular cadence of reporting, the administration provided the board with the treasury and financial reports for January 2023. You can access the financial reports by visiting https://bit.ly/3IIR5j3 and the treasury report by visiting https://bit.ly/3XY6VdY.

FOIA Requests

The board received information about the FOIA requests that have been processed since its last regular action meeting. This information included the names or titles of the individuals and departments who helped respond to the requests, a summary of the records that were requested and who asked for them, and trend data about the number of requests that have been processed and the legal fees the district has incurred in responding to them.

The board also reviewed a determination by the district's FOIA officer not to post documents on the district's FOIA log that were provided in conjunction with a response to a recent request. This determination was made in accordance with the administrative procedures that correspond with policy 2:250 (Access to District Public Records). The board did not take action on this item following its discussion.

Audience Communication

Members of the public spoke about the following topics during the two opportunities they had to give audience communication:

Next steps for the strategic plan, most notably in the areas of student well-being and multiple measures of success.
The amended lease for the Transition Center's Burr Ridge location.
The status of Honors Philosophy.
The future of early release Wednesdays.
The achievement gap in District 86.
The role that African Americans played in the creation of a free universal public education.
Solutions for offering all courses at both high schools.
The creation of an academic excellence committee.

The meeting adjourned at 7:54 p.m. The video recording of this session can be accessed by visiting https://vimeo.com/user9373008/videos.

Future Board Meetings

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Committee of the Whole Meeting

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Regular Action Meeting

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Committee of the Whole Meeting