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Greenview Community Unit School District 200 Board met Feb. 15.

Here is the minutes provided by the Board:

The regular meeting of the Board of Education of Greenview Community Unit School District No. 200 of Menard and Logan Counties, Illinois, was held Thursday,February 15, 2018 at 6:30p.m. In the Greenview District Meeting Room, within the boundaries of the District. Roll call was held with the following members present: James Booth, Norman Hofmann, Tim Schultz. Phil Watson, and Rex Arkebauer.

Absent: Aaron Burlison and Lenny Monroe

Administrators present: Tim Turner and Ryan Heavner

Visitors present: Doug Morgan , Matt Blaise, Justin Kossak, Linda Sheppard, and Vicky Claycomb.

The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mr. Kossak , Mr. Blaise and Mr. Morgan gave a presentation regarding the prospect for joining the ECIC Conference.

Mr. Reed presented a report the progress on the change for students in having a daily study hall. This will allow students to get help in subjects they may be having difficulty in. The instruction will be given by the teacher of that course or area. The number of credits to graduate is being lowered to 24 credits, to mirror that of other districts in our area. This will be a great help for student transferring from other districts that may have had a lower graduation requirements.

The Consent Agenda consisting of the minutes of the, January 18, 2018 regular meeting, January Imprest Fund, Treasurer’s Report, Investment Reports, Student Activity, and February bills were presented. Booth moved to accept the consent agenda. Watson seconded the motion and it carried unanimously by roll call vote.

Watson made a motion to enter in Closed Session under 5ILCS 120/2c concerning 1) Personnel Matters The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees; and 10) Matters related to individual students 2) Matters related to collective bargaining. Schultz seconded the motion which carried unanimously by voice vote.

The Board entered into closed session at 6:50 pm.

The Board returned from closed session at 8:11pm. Monroe made a motion to approve the minutes of Closed Session. Booth seconded the motion and it carried unanimously by voice vote.

Superintendent Heavner provided the following updates:

Building and Grounds:

Planning for summer projects will begin soon. Kevin Handy has requested a meeting with the Building Committee to discuss and review the high school boiler and develop a plan.

The ground around the play-ground equipment has been noted by the insurance company, that it must be dug out and mulched. This will be a summer job.

Students

The WYSE Team did well at the regional, Payton Markley, Preston Green, and Creighton Monroe were medalists.

The Scholastic Team is also doing very well.

Finance:

The budget is being reviewed, and noted that the building fund has had many unexpected expenses.

ISBE will be doing away with daily attendance as the way to compute funding. The new evidence based funding will be based on enrollment which is a better indicator of how schools need staff for students. Our ASE number is 234.67.

Norm Hoffman noted that the regional advisory board is allowing persons with 90 hours college credit hours and allow the to be substitute teachers.

Principals report.

Teacher evaluations are complete.

The end of basketball and JH Volleyball seasons with Senior night being February 9, 2018.

HS Boys Regional-pairing will be posted on February 9, 2018 at 4 p.m. on IHSA website.

The Spelling Bee was held February 2, 2018. Advancing to the county Spelling Bee on February 21, 2018 will be Ben Oller, Heather Godsel, Carson Davis, Gabe Oller, Faith Kennedy, and Lexy Baird.

February 26, 2018 is the beginning of Dr. Seuss Week for the elementary.

The substitute teacher shortage has been a concern during this flu season.

Work has begun on a unified bell schedule for next year for classes K-12. This should make personnel assignments more efficient if it is successful.

Staff professional development has bee focused on improving assessments, both formative and summative

Information items:

#1 Work has been done on the new set up for 2018-2019 school year. Mr. Turner and Mr. Reed have worked to readjust the schedule to provide for balance at all grade levels. The schedule provides more efficient us of teacher man hour, and help get a true program aligned for the RTI in Jr./Sr. High School. This schedule provides study hall for students who need time to learn skill that they need help with. The district needs to look at adding a health teacher to meet state required minutes of instruction.

#2 The district is looking at changing the class of 2022 graduation requirements to 24 credits. All state requirments remain the same. Changing the amount of credits needed to graduate provides us more time for instruction and intervention for struggling students. This will also help us provide enrichment and mentoring time for students that need help.

#3 The district has been approached about joining the ECIC Conference as a second conference. The schools are: Normal Calvary, Cornerstone Christian- Bloomington, Decatur Christian, Deland-Weldon, Arthur Christian, Judah Christian, and University of Illinois High School. We currently play of have played all of these teams with the exception on Arthur Christian. As long as the games are not on a school night, Superintendent Heavner endorses this move for our spots teams. These teams are all on our level and would be nice competition. ECIC will meet and send Greenview a formal letter since initial contact has been made with ECIC. Since the IHSA has made schedule and class changes it makes sense on many levels to join ECIC.

The district has parted ways with the Waverly Tournament that plays at Christmas time. The staff of Greenview CUSD #200 are hoping to start a small school basketball tournament at Christmas to fill the gap. Matt Broch of Wells Fargo has agreed to be the title sponsor to this tournament. Greenview has posted on IHSA website trying to make this an under 100 enrollment Christmas Tourney. There have already been responses to the posting.

#4 The bus bids have been posted and opened on time. Central States Buses bid the outright cost purchase as $321,081 on four new gasoline buses. Central States was the only company to submit a bid. The lease option would be $69,710.54 a year for five years with the buses being returned after five years. Superintendent Heavner recommends that the buses be purchase not leased.

#5 SAPCO is no longer able to get competitive bids because the group has become too small to are interest from providers of food and milk. A new cooperative is forming with local schools and others schools across the state. Mr Ehrman, Superintendent, of New Berlin has organized a group in the group in our area called TPC. PORTA and Athens are also considering joining this organization. The major change would be that we would no longer get food from Kohl Wholesale Foods instead food would be furnished by Gordman Food Service ( GFS) from Springfield.

# 6 The district needs to accept a motion to remain a member of LTEC. Greenview currently project five student will attend LTEC next year if it is approved. Mr. Hilst will be our liaison to Mr. Puckett on the vocational organization side for needs of the classes.

#7 There is a need to add a health teacher and someone who can teach PE. This is to make sure we can teach required minutes and students can get the required driver education minutes.

Mr. Blaise wishes to resign as Jr High Track coach to focus on basketball and work more on curriculum. Mr. Reed has interviewed Shame Hoerbert and feel is will do the job well.

The district needs to update the contract for Marilyn Johnson to make sure it is compliant for IMRF retirement purposes.

#8 After reviewing the January bank statements it is suggested that the district move $100.000.00 from the ISDLAF Max account Education Fund, $50,000.00 from the ISDLAF Max account Operations and Maintenance Fund, and $50,000.00 from the ISDLAF Max account Working Cash and purchase ISDLAF CD’s at the rate of 1.7% for six month CD.s.

Watson made a motion to accept the bid to purchase 4 buses from Central States Bus Sales at a cost of $321,081 due July 2018. Hofmann seconded the motion and it carried unanimously by roll call vote.

Hofmann made a motion to approve the membership in the TPC purchasing cooperative. Shultz seconded the motion and it carried unanimously by roll call vote.

Booth made a motion to approve the membership in LTEC. Schultz seconded the motion and it carried unanimously by voice vote.

Watson made a motion to accept the resignation of Matt Blaise as the Jr. High track coach. Schultz seconded the motion and it carried unanimously by voice vote.

Booth made a motion to accept the hiring of Shane Hoerbert as Jr High track coach. Hofmann seconded the motion and it carried unanimously by roll call vote.

Watson made a motion to accept the amended contract of Marilyn Johnson as Bookkeeper. Hofmann seconded the motion and it carried unanimously by roll call vote.

Watson made a motion to transfer $200,000.0 into CD’s within ISDLAF at the rate of 1.7% for six month term.

Watson moved to adjourn at 7:48 p.m. Hofmann seconded the motion and it carried unanimously by voice vote.

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