Beach Park Community Consolidated School District 3 Board met Jan. 13.
Here is the agenda provided by the board:
The Board of Education of the Beach Park Community Consolidated School District No. 3, Lake County, Illinois met for the Regular Meeting held at Kenneth Murphy School, in said District on January 13, 2020.
ROLL CALL: 6:33 P.M.
The Regular meeting was called to order and the roll call was requested. Upon the roll call being had, there were present Mr. Luther, Ms. Gembarski, Mrs. Johnson, Ms. Jesiel, Mr. Lenzi, and Ms. White. Mrs. Coletta was absent.
Administrators present: Dr. Craig M. Doster, Superintendent; Mr. Seda, Director of Student Services; Dr. Wilcox, Director of Curriculum; Mr. Ongena, Director of Technology; Mr. Medina, Supervisor Building and Grounds; Mr. Fredrickson, Principal, Beach Park Middle School; Mr. Barsotti, Assistant Principal, Beach Park Middle School; Mr. Anderson, Assistant Principal, Beach Park Middle School; Mr. Cappozzo, Principal, Kenneth Murphy School; Dr. Bringas, Principal, Howe School; Mrs. Schaffer, Principal, Oak Crest School; and Ms. Wolverton, Principal, Newport School.
Also present was Mrs. Contreras, Secretary of Record to the Board of Education. A list of others that attended this meeting is in the district office.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT
● Beach Park Middle School Presentation
o Mr. Fredrickson spoke about how group work has an impact on learning. He presented a short video of students engaged due to the classroom structure of group work.
o Mrs. McBride is the STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math) teacher.
STEM skills allow students to identify problems and use a logical approach to find a solution. Mrs. McBride demonstrated a project that her 6th-grade class worked on. The project was to create a roller coaster all from paper. They learned all about roller coasters, how they work, the terms and vocabulary. o Mrs. Olsen is a Math teacher and she runs an after school program - Logo-
Robotics. A team of students designs and builds a robot that can compete against opponents in a series of specific challenges. The competitions run from September to mid-February, and there is one regional meet at the end of the season. Our team is the only middle school competing in our division. The other competitors are high-school students. A group of students explained the robotics competition games, how they design and build their robots, and how to control the robot. It takes two people to work together to operate the robot. Mr. Luther and Mr. Seda volunteered to try out the robot.
● Learners are Leaders - presented to a group of students who volunteered to be coding teachers to 12 elementary classrooms.
● Martin Luther King Observance - January 20, 2020
● 2020-2021 School Calendar
o Dr. Doster has created two calendars;
1. If the referendum passes, we will start school with the teachers on
Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Teachers will be allowed in the schools on August 31, 2020, 1 week before school starts. 2. If the referendum does not pass, we will start school the week of August 24, 2020, and school will end the last week of May 2021.
● ED-Red Dinner - will be on January 28, 2020
● Referendum Update - We have an excellent committee that has started working on the referendum. Principals and Cabinets members will be involved as we move ahead. We will start our Kick-Off on January 30th at the Band Spaghetti Dinner. The following week there will be a Town Meeting at the Middle School and there will be a presentation.
AGENDA
A motion was made by Mrs. Johnson and seconded by Ms. Gembarski to approve the Agenda.
The Vice President called for the question and upon a roll call being had, those members present voted as follows:
Ms. White, aye; Mr. Luther, aye; Mrs. Gembarski, aye; Mrs. Johnson, aye; Mr. Lenzi, aye; Mrs. Jesiel, aye; and Ms. Coletta, not present.
Thereupon the Vice President declared the motion carried.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
A motion was made by Ms. White and seconded by Mrs. Johnson to approve the Minutes, Regular Meeting of December 9, 2019, and Closed Session of December 9, 2019.
The Vice President called for the question and upon a roll call being had, the members voted as follows:
Ms. Gembarski, aye; Mrs. Johnson, aye; Ms. White, aye; Ms. Jesiel, aye; Mr. Lenzi, aye; and Mr. Luther, aye.
Thereupon the Vice President declared the motion carried.
CORRESPONDENCE
None
CONFERENCE ITEMS
OLD BUSINESS
Enrollment Report
There’s been an increase and that’s normal for this time of the year with students transitioning into our school district.
NEW BUSINESS
Long-Range Planning Committee
Mr. Lenzi stated that the long-range did not meet this past month. They’ve been commuting and getting their weekly updates from the superintendent. They will begin working shortly after they hear from the referendum.
Finance Committee
The Finance Committee reviewed the following:
● Reports and Bills
● Talked about some potential impacts from some upcoming SEDOL changes
● We don’t have a report from SEDOL. They will meet in March.
Community Outreach
● Mr. Seda spoke on the Multicultural Event
■ We have secure parking at Zion Benton High School
■ We will have District 1, District 3 and Lake County Police Officers will be present
■ Beach Park Fire Department will be in attendance
DEPARTMENT UPDATES
Board members were provided with written updates from the following departments:
● Buildings and Grounds
● Curriculum
● Finance/Maintenance
● Student Services/SEDOL
● Technology
Dr. Doster mentioned there will be a presentation recommendation for approval from our EL Services (Dual-Language Program). It's a carry from last year to finalize everything.
No Questions from the Board on the department updates.
FOIA REQUESTS
POLICY UPDATE
There are numerous first readings. These are PRESS updates.
Dr. Doster spoke on policies 7;190 Student Behavior (Discipline Policy) and 7;270 Administering Medicines to Students.
● 7;190 Student Behavior - Cannabis became legal in the state of Illinois on January 1st of 2020. There are a lot of questions and a lot of navigating and some uncharted water throughout the state. Dr. Doster has been to several meetings and has had phone conferences with various stakeholders and groups on how we are going to handle this. Currently, it is going as usual in regards to our discipline program.
● 7;270 Administering Medicines to Students - The policy is very specific on how a child of our school district is allowed to have some kind of medical cannabis and it talks about a caregiver or parent providing this to them. It also gives the school district an opportunity to allow an administrator or one of our health clerks to do this. Dr. Doster recommends that we do not engage in this as a school district because we receive federal funds such as Title I, Title II, etc. and marijuana is not legalized in the United States. We do not want to jeopardize any title funding that we get as a school system. As we understand more, we could revisit this. Note: Policy 7;270 page 4:
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FROM VISITORS
None
ACTION ITEMS
None
CONSENT AGENDA
A motion was made by Mrs. Johnson and seconded by Ms.White to approve the Consent Agenda consisting of:
I. TREASURER’S REPORT AND BILLS
PROPOSED ACTION BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION: Approve Treasurer's Report for bills for December 2019/January 2020
II. PERSONNEL REPORT
PROPOSED ACTION BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION: Personnel Report approved as presented.
The Vice President called for the question and upon a roll call being had, those members present voted as follows:
Ms. Jesiel, aye; Mrs. Johnson, aye; Ms. White, aye; Mr. Luther, aye; Ms. Gembarski, aye; and Mr. Lenzi, aye.
Thereupon the Vice President declared the motion carried.
ADJOURN OPEN SESSION – 7:31 p.m. There being no further business, a motion was made by Mr. Luther and seconded by Mrs. Johnson to adjourn to Closed Session.
The Vice President called for the question and upon a roll call being had, those members present voted as follows:
Ms. White, aye; Ms. Gembarski; aye; Mrs. Johnson, aye; Ms. Jesiel, aye; Mrs. Coletta, aye; Mr. Lenzi, aye; and Mr. Luther, aye., Mrs. Coletta, not present.
Thereupon the Vice President declared the motion carried.
CLOSED SESSION - 7:36 p.m.
ADJOURN CLOSED SESSION – 8:29 p.m.
ADJOURN MEETING – 8:29 p.m.
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