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okay call this meeting to order it is 6:30 and School Board of Education District do the public I apologize we will call the budget hearings order and take a role place Christmas present his house key Collier strong president and secretary stuff is present this is the 20 21 20 20 budget hearing this is a public hearing to discuss the proposal the budget of Community High School District 218 or the 2021-2022 fiscal year this information has been available for the for review and legal notice of this hearing was posted any person made present testimony to make a comment regarding the book anybody want to make a comment. turn on the estimated total revenue for fiscal 2022 are one hundred thirty six million eighty one thousand one hundred twenty $5 estimate for fiscal year 2022 are 135821000 $781 would anybody like to make a comment or a question Harry not at this time with any board member tonight excuse me with any board member like to make a comment or a question steering on the resolution to adopt the budget will be presented to with the old business items on the agenda for the meeting that will follow I will accept a motion and a second to close of a friend I like the motion think about the secretary still. and tell him this is roll all right okay play Disney I'm steaming up tonight okay we'll start all over again here at school board of education Community High School District 218 regular board meeting this is Thursday August 19th 2021 we are at the District administration administrator Center is me Oak Lawn Illinois excuse me we need to take a roll call please secretaries go kiss presents Miss Kim's Hello by President cats this is wrong we'd like to do the Pledge of Allegiance at this time start to hurting would you I was allegiance of the United States of America thank you I already request to please silence your phone at this time I'm getting a lot of interference on her thank you agenda item number for his resolutions and commendations yeah and I believe we do not have any for this evening thank you I would also ask for a personal moment of silence for a board member that used to be a board member was dr. Joseph Rafa now he was from the playlist he served I will be two or three terms on the board of education a very bright individual actually if anybody knew mr. T I believe mr. It was a student of Dhaka ripping out they did precious little bit but anyway his heart was in the right spot and his children also attended to this time okay thank you very much agenda item number 5 is comments from the public are there any comments from the public this evening Amadeus my legal counsel and please explain the policy so we're clear on it but everybody that's it thank you we under the Board of Education of public participation at school board meetings in addition to the board and section 2 colon 230 adopted on September 17th 2019 I don't have to go over all the policy however any public comment limited to no more than five minutes and there is a limit of no more there's a limit of 30 minutes for any certain subject in 40 minutes total so it's 5 minutes to / common up to 4031 subject 40 minutes total anyone who addresses the board must identify themselves and then if you're to death time limit we all understand that and are you going to keep the time okay if you're going to address or this evening would you please raise your hand are we have quite a few okay what's up what's the start with the first rolling on with this workout weights back if that if that's okay with everybody address together okay 118 South Kedvale Oak Lawn I have three children. do do we have to wear masks when speaking of and me hard understanding meeting okay if three children that three children two graduated 2017 2014 and when it's a senior now I was down in Springfield yesterday I spoke before is the the Illinois State Board of Education and along with several others and many others and we were in were telling them that they don't have the authority they know they don't have the authority but they sent out letters to the superintendent and index are hurting and I'm assuming you the reason you change your stance I'm asking is because you did receive a letter from is be stating that about the mask mandate and pritzker's rules of his executive order okay because okay because the board wasn't given to the board for a vote and it should be given to the board when you eat when you are going to change direction it should be given to the board so they can do their research they can discuss it they can debate it and then vote on it and if that was done they would have found out that the mask should not a mask on everybody should not be and that's what I'ma if so anyway with you yesterday also you should be receiving hopefully a letter from his be apologizing for their overreach and their misinterpretation interpretation of their Authority on this subject it's not a law they don't there is no law that gives them the authority to do what they did the superintendent's B and then to send the letter to to all the superintendent in Illinois so we asked them to send an apology in a clarification and hopefully you'll get that soon there was a a law that would give them that power a lot trying to be past it's not past yet if it did pass or does pass then they would have that Authority they don't have it now so you don't need to follow what they're doing or what they're insisting you do and take away your recognition is a school and take away funding that's fall so that's what you're hearing that's false and if you do your research and discuss it and debate it and then vote on it you'll know and these Mass anyway they're not good for anybody so that's all I have to thank you not only because we have issues and other public comments yours is not about math we have a time limit on mass to me do all the mass together that's what I would recommend to the president okay so the next person wants to speak please hello everyone I'm not really prepared cuz I I was just supporting everybody on the former student of Oakland High School and I believe this is my duty here and stand up for our students and their parents because they clearly do not see what's happening I'm coming from a foreign country I'm from Poland we went through this we went through the things that are happening here and I I cannot believe that we are still sleeping or pushing the agenda of critical race Theory with pushing the  education we're pushing the masking dividing over children the next thing they're going to do I have a child I have two kids he's in third grade and but by the time he's going to get so High School nothing's going to be done I don't want to see him being injected at school because this I should not happen and this country I believe a lot of foreign people come here for the freedom and I cannot believe that the natural born citizen do not see that this country is turning into, we need to send up if it takes us the Forints to wake up the people who are born into this country I will do it I will keep showing two other school board meetings because we've been doing it and we will do it we will not stop fighting until the people have the guts to stand up to the people like you because you have the power you have that power to stop this you do have it we have your name for the record you spell it j a Dwight last name h a j o s I do 30 persons with this math thank you would you state your name please yes Paul roll r o w e l l from worth and my kids went to The Boy's son and daughter they both went through the worth and Shepherd system and good experiences all the way and the trouble is that was twenty years ago and what was happening 20 years ago was great what's happening now is terrible Air Bud when you look around in our society the cities are burning violent murders all of this stuff are your eyes open and what are you doing to stand up Springfield and all the crazy stuff that's coming down come on we want freedom we want Liberty this is my friend from Poland says please push back Springfield and everything that they're trying to do and whether it's from Washington or Springfield or whatever please push that because what my son and daughter enjoyed his I say again with wonderful and I trusted the system but I don't trust the system anymore and you are the last line of defense for our community if you cave it's all over for a regular receipt comfortable learning and I urge you to please stand up against it thank you thank you hello my name is Yolanda chocorua and I wasn't even supposed to send thank you I just came to support other parents I would not bring my kids here with me I do sing they should secure everything that I'm saying because there is some of it is very very tough stuff but yeah I will tell you one thing I am from Poland to and believe me you don't want to go through what we went through I was only 10 years well we had our free first free voting to have a president so I do not remember much but my mom to price if she talks about that stuff and I was telling a lot of stuff mama why you didn't stand up people why you didn't do anything we were all afraid you are all afraid to exactly the same like people in Poland were you do not have got to stand up for your country going to do that for freedom and the freedom is taken away from me again what am I going to move now to Australia is even worse over there I don't know if you watching the news what's going on you know what's happening and I'll date we do. They don't work so you telling us that we have fixed your mask you know what reach those packages none of those masks you will find will tell you that it prevents you from the virus you know what's the virus observe if you wants to take us all she will take us all but now we are strictures of one Governor that is just trying to come up with his own rules. They're not even in the system they are not. HP 2789 guy that did not pass isbe has no power over you do something or you're going to wake up it will be too late how it was in my French we do not let that happen to you thank you are there any other mask speakers in the world my name is Christopher Lombardi in 14 years old and I go I attend District 218 Shepard high school and I gave the speech in Springfield I'm going to keep doing it till works so yesterday I was doing some research and I found out that healthy people should not be wearing masks it is a high risk of infection for concealed your arms and carbon dioxide toxicity also affects a young ability to recognize familiar face will features and emotions for all the parents they say they would like to reduce their child's screen time because when talking they're not looking people in the eyes you think I'm asked us it's blocking half of your face and you can't see what used to see you can't rely on that facial features are on those emotions that you used to be able to see when talking to someone so you don't know what you're doing to them you can see their eyes and that's it and it's not easy when you're walking through High School your kind of nervous kind of scared your first day and you can't find your friends because everyone's got the same blue mask on their face and I also went to a site ucsf.edu which is what the scientist saying how according to this site specialist Peter Chang Hong MD says that if 95% of people are all masked up everywhere they go in public that the death will be down to 33000 Tober 1st 2021 that was worldwide or in the u.s. in the US as of two days ago at 8:35 p.m. there were exactly 332636285 people now 33,000 is exactly zero 009-920-7457 1780 for 1% of that now the world population at the time that I checked with 7783553100 and 3 in Rapid increasing 33,000 of that is 0.000 4% now I know that the more people are born the higher the rates of people in the world and the us is going to go up and the bigger that number gets the smaller the percentage is going to get I don't think you should be enforcing a mandatory mask mandation for everyone 40.000 that's three zeros 4% of the world thank you running Lombardy based off your science that doctor real kept talking about from the CDC they did a few researchers 192 hair stylist who had sixty-seven clients over an eight-day. So the hair stylist saw these clients for 15 minutes at a time and that's what they're basing this off of they're basing it off of a household in Korea with a Thailand with 824 households with one confirmed case again those people are locked in the room not around the other people that's what the base in the mass off there was a study done as many as studies done is just one of them from the University of Copenhagen adapter hunting Bona guard where he did 6,000 people $3,000 - $3,000 out of that there was only a difference of 3% of people catching covid so out of the people wearing masks 42 people caught covid out of people not wearing mask 53 masks are going to stay it's one micron there's no way I'm asking going to stop there unless you're wearing and then 95 specialized Mass that's fitted to your face by a professional which I have co-workers that did that their eyes are bloodshot and now they've been bloodshot red for the last four months they have trouble breathing cuz they keep these messages are so afraid afraid of what a flu cuz I had it it's just the flu I work in the jail the doctor do not recommend the inmates wear the masks lot around the tears what you want to force my children to wear masks that have allergies it's ridiculous and then you're going to kick my kids out of school because they're disabled cuz they can't wear a mask all day 5 year old gets migraines when he wears these masks migraines he's starting school will now he can't cuz he can't get the face shield because you people won't allow it it's ridiculous who cares about the kids with disabilities right think about it child abuse you don't think we're going to have enough parents to do a lawsuit against all of you cuz that's what's going to happen 45,000 people sign petition that was just the one that knew about there's over a hundred thousand people in this thing we will have lawyers and you will be soon individually because you are not acting on any powers you are welcome did my doctor real from her letter where she's abusing title 43 you think that's going to stand in court you think when you go to court with Doctor Alice sent me this letter saying I had to do this no she said she recommends it we're coming after you it's it is there anybody in the audience to speak on masks this evening okay we will consider that subject closed at this time and I believe this gentleman the Master Mason oh you do to support the community and a spoon I have just a very simple thing really that's evening to talk to you about it so concerned I have around Public Safety and the use of school property this evening if we were to walk out to the softball fields we would see a number or private organizations using those fields and violate your policy around alcohol use in fact if you would go out there Stephen standing underneath the sign that says no alcohol with a beer in their hand this is something that happens repeatedly things happening tonight tonight when there is an Oak Lawn Police Officer sitting there in the parking lot these private organizations are using your facilities with impunity I'm breaking your rule I'm here today to ask you to do what we would do if that was one of our students rights in such a role and that's gives 10-day suspension suspend these organizations from using public property and is violating District Rules by doing so and so that we're sending a message through about what is right and proper and these organizations do this over and over and over again this bunch of people driving so there's a lot of drinking and driving going on this is opening the district up to potential liability so I'd like you to go ahead and consider whatever grievance you have with these private organizations to use these fields and hold them accountable to the rules that you have so and thank you for your time this evening thank you sir are there any other people that want to make a comment at this time I would at this time I would consider public comments quote the agenda item number 6 is board members an opportunity to respond to the public and or or drummers comments do any board members want respond or ever, at this time the present I have a few talents tonight first I'd like to address for Mason but what is the disgusting is basically talking about Saint Catherine of Alexandria parents and in men's club and their members are our community and I was baptized made my first communion at Saint Catherine Robin in Des Peres in school until 4th grade in 2005 my wife and I were looking for home we decide on this neighborhood because of the parents and the community of Saint Catherine entire Oak Lawn area and I'm Claude has between 400 and 500 active members and several hundred other cast members who live in our neighborhood these private organizations are taxpayers use our facilities are men's club is never required members to be part of the parish or have a kid at st. Catherine's they can go to any public school they could be from any other Parish or any other religious in fact many of our members and a member of The Men's Club and I played in at softball league until I was like to the sport they play on Thursday night so one reason I stopped playing was because I'm at the school board and to I probably one of the worst players in the league so that also added to it those people out there playing softball contribute greatly to our community and answer strength or High School District despite the vast majority of those knots in our kids to the public schools answer the private schools in fact me study this issue before and its conservative estimates are that 1 million dollars each year, The District 218 from sink Prisoners the people are playing softball at least filled the Lawn Manor and if you include your two million dollars that come into this route 218 I don't know mr. Mason's animus and this isn't the only meeting his hand until only government mean he's attended I don't know what is animus is towards the air says but like it or not these these neighborhoods were founded by these parishes which is why a majority of the girl from the South Side still refer to their neighborhood. Other parents names you talked the last three to four Oak Lawn Police chiefs were frequent they frequently would comment or say to you that they don't even have to police the around 2:18 or 4 Lawn Manor on Wednesday Wednesday line is play softball on Thursday when and Katherine's play softball why is that because they have a strong presence there protecting our community they're basically dads out there playing softball that our taxpayers drinking a few beers it's not against the Villa Jordans to drink beer in public it's not you can't be intoxicated but I don't think I are police officers no pain the restaurant for drinking a beer out there because if not intoxicated not thinking for them that is not my thought if they were toxic a that that's a different story The Men's Club Paris Community is what makes I will climb so desirable and hot in the real estate market people want to move into this part Oaklawn a lot of it's because of the parishes sense of community are pears has lead to higher property values for everyone even our Public School family clear the board member glad I send my kids to the public-private squash and say this is Mississippi representative senior citizen private school families Public School families everyone and the negative tone that sometimes idea needs to stop I want I like to give mr. Mason last night in Hawaii Amazon tape some stats about the men's club and what we do for the community other than maybe drink a few a few beers outside and end up in a park or it is go to school The Men's Club donated $5,000 to help families in need to send intelligent Catholic schools that they cannot financially afford the men's club hosts an annual picnic at Lawn Manor was just last Saturday it's open to everyone in the neighborhood you don't have to belong to Saint Catherine we invite everyone to come out to provide food entertainment for everybody The Men's Club also spend $6,000 or gave $6,000 to students to help them towards the high school expenses and we could share the food drive with Saint Vincent in the middle of covid-19 are there parachutes would do that The Men's Club has food drive at Thanksgiving and Easter for a Paris called Our Lady of Guadalupe and their food pantry because over six Vans for the food pantry and contacted seniors also during covid-19 Burrs throughout the area to see how they were doing do blood drives were run like I said the only person to run the blood drive I misspoke not the food drive the blood drive over the only person that would do it we did it twice and applying the third time to do it I know he only spoke mail about the alcohol but if you look it up other play it's really disparaging my Paris and I are in our community in general which I find it disgusting instead of complaining about drinking a few beers and about the parish maybe mr. Mason should bounce here homeless shelters or a fruit or a food and blood drives or bring his family to our picnic there's only so much time I have and I can't believe he would worry about drinking beer and a public place when they're not getting intoxicated I hear this over and over but it's the animosity that needs to stop I don't think I'm better than anyone else because I send my kids to a school and the public private school thing in this area needs to stop and its Downs I don't know where it stems from but as I said everyone's walking in into our men's club in to that softball league could join this because he wanted to set the bar private organizations mother and I'm not just speaking just about Saint Catherine the private organization we pay taxes and then should be using to sell these more it should be open all the time to everyone when we have when I reach out to the community I always say we need to talk to everyone in the community not just families of parents is everyone it's just very very disappointing to hear that he spoke to one issue but that's your a bigger issue if you doubt deep and you look at what he's supposed to be at the village board meeting in Oak Lawn and the park district so I wish he was here at the address I'm on that it really bothers me because the fact of all the good things that Catherines those people are playing softball out there they're doing they're basically 40 to 50 year old dad's playing softball with their kids running around at a good time as well if that's what destroys Oaklawn I think he has better things to worry about. all the things that everyone in this room spoke about those are the bigger problems in our society we need to focus on now. Let's have a few drinks at the park which isn't even against the ordinance I don't stand up here and grandstand I don't I just speak my mind I didn't run for the seat to sit here and vote Yes on everything but kind of turning into a useless way maybe school boards in general become a nuisance because what is happening in Springfield such as the governor taken away local power of the school board so maybe there's no need for us at this if we keep going down the path we're going ever know that I always speak up for but what I believe is right no matter how controversial either like me you don't like me vote me and vote me out the volunteer position you know I just try my best and wants to encourage public debate and transparency that's why I wanted on the face mask and I agree we still should have a hold on it because it still should be voted on those things I'm passionate about I stand for the national anthem the Pledge of Allegiance support our police officers I believe we are the best candidates based on their credentials and I had and I stood against the critical race theory has still stand against that that education bill on against maximum tax increases or deposit that I'm going to ask her removed from the consent agenda today so I can do the Giants and the obsession with political correctness and Other Extreme left-wing ideology that are basically invading our schools and our universities that's what happening if he wants both here tonight I agree with what fire force at 100% And I tonight I want to publicly oppose Democrat Governor JB pritzker's unilateral and basically mandate is not enforceable in my opinion through 12 schools that decision should not be made by one person be a superintendent or a governor it shouldn't happen that way while I'm against the mask mandate and believe the decision should be up to the parents my biggest complaint is really about the extra mass themselves what they said my biggest complaint is about a governor you surfing local control of education and his mistrust of local authorities we are like our school boards to it is important and difficult policy decisions if we don't have local control as I decide what's the point of us all sitting sitting here State originally said we did a vocal control but when they didn't like what certain districts were doing Governor pritzker took that away guess who stated that in his reasoning because her indifference weren't found the CDC that then I'm going to come in and take over and say I miss you in this mandate so that I think is on but not right is you interrupt you know how to roll a mandate and threat in this Ryan just said you know that I question the enforceability of those and they're basically threats that can lead to a slippery slope that's the problem with this evaristo Lopez were taken away local control whenever he doesn't like it that you're not happy with something he'll take over and that's it could happen not Beyond schools I don't like that local controls works for the app this is dangerous I'm bigger than the masked man too so thankfully it being challenged and hopefully it's successful because it's bigger than just ask the guy has constantly changing do decide about the stats you getting off work and $4 2/4 the least vulnerable to wear masks is not right stop me from putting studies as to the effectiveness of masks and the problems they caused all the downsides from wearing mask the communication with teachers and students concentration breathing issues all sorts of things we didn't Bandit masks for influenza h1912 killed way more people and we shouldn't be mandating it now I can see both sides of the issue definitely there needs to be public debate and I can't see why we wouldn't want to debate this at a local level my opinion Vsauce make lots of lots of parents decide so I probably care stand against Democrats. may be present here I stand against the Mast and I hope that lawsuit successful and the parents got to decide whether to wear masks or not and in the future this board to vote on important issues and if it's 6 to 1. if it's $7 with doesn't matter whatever the board as we're here to make those decisions in public and for those of you who disagree with me if I decide to run again hold me out man but I'm here to make a tough decision map to stand against the mask mandate and I'm at the troubles me along with the the bias not the bias the the negativity sometimes I receive from being a Catholic School family not my daughter is going to take the entrance exam at Marist High School in December oh no lies that you shouldn't be on the sport not sure one bit doesn't mean that District 218 schools are bad they disagree with them or I think my you know way better academic institution I just believe in a faith-based education for my kid a personal choice but I want to sit on this board to make sure we have good Public Schools strong public schools that are property that say hi and we have low taxes so tonight I kind of went off I realize that but the mask mandate drive me crazy hope that lawsuit success hopefully board stand up to the governor and he dead I like how they were there placed on probation a bunch of downstate district probation as Ms Ryan said there's no if any student comes before this board for x I'll be a no vote I'm not going to expel her discipline anyone I do realize I'm only one but there will be no repercussions coming from this these regarding the mask mandates and I think I said enough but it's I think there's a lot of people are upset about it and one way around it is an election next to June so people go to the polls and make sure you know where you're going to vote for the ticket that you think your parents hold it for cuz not same party that it was years ago so that's my comments for tonight you learn a lot more about me probably but you need to do no States take a position I think sometimes and that's thank you for listening to me are there any other board member, said hearing none Google sewage and item number seven is approval of the consent a giant agenda items this is an action so I need a motion to bring it to the floor please so we'll have a first and a second thank you 7 a.m. approval of the minutes for the board meeting June 17th 2021 session board meeting June 17th 2020 1 8 is old business resolution to adopt 2021-2022 budget new business thank resolutions for h l Richards account 11 Legend item 11 is approve of the expenditures Beauty High School District 218 payment of bills June and July Mac payables June and July Personnel Personnel list number 2020 8 agenda item number 8 is all business resolution to adopt the 2025 scuse me 2021 22 budget are there any board members that want to have anything removed from the consent agenda at this time I like to remove that resolution to adopt 2021-22 I need to budget that is a genuine item number 8 okay so we will take the boat on all the agenda items except we will take that out of consent and take a vote on that please so if they were first and second thoughts on the floor so we can take a boat to test and sent it this time please I'm sorry, wrong person. Sir president cuz I was skiing Sister Christian Miss Collier this is wrong my present cat secretary still cuz I Discount Auto and BC standards and item number 8 is old business it is resolution to adopt a 2021 2022 budget I need a more so bring it to the floor please have a first and a second is there any discussion on this it rained on the stand on my comments I made it through this board meeting thank you for that Pick-n-Pull please president has a house key call Aaron what's wrong secretary still get snow Gonzalo and vice president so I saw you had your your hand raised but comments are closed it was in the beginning of the meeting sorry. Just so you know cuz I did recognize thank you okay bring the style to agenda item number 9 is reports to the superintendent a the new hiring a dachshund Productions. A great thanks brings us down to 90 is technology update any questions 36929 C is done maintenance report any questions about that I know the football fields have been a lot of work is been gone going find the right words and I know what this time with covid and a lot of companies are having hiring problems too get the boys to do the work on these type of projects inside buildings outside buildings or whatever and I'm sure that there was a lot of stress on Rodger and Lisa and I do want to run advise you for all the hard work under these conditions and to have the fields as far as done as they are I believe Shepherd is done at this time is that correct and I heard the contractors had some issues and I was like that but the forward and stressful I get it I've been there myself I want both of you out I want to thank you and thank you very much for all your hard work 90s business managers update questions discussion nothing weather report Reviving okay 9 Square request any questions on the boy has we've been in compliance so thank you 9 G's report and the 20 20 20 20 20 21 AP exams any questions on that yes sir number of students at Sam's 333 or higher yes so we do have some preliminary data we can go with her spaghetti. To verify those numbers but the numbers have been are based on what Tony share with us so far the numbers are pretty pretty slap a good sign the three fours and fives and even drink some really high numbers of success with three fours and fives and a number of our courses we can definitely sure that they would be okay I will just share that with the whole board to when you get there please thank you all right reasons. The 9/8 is report on student withdraws 20 21 they questions on that discussion hearing on brings us down to nine Iowa state and federal grants the net infrastructure Bill Elsa are we is any of that pertain to us at all all right you don't have to go could be a maybe though I kind of figured that trivia OK Google thanks are we at with the extra money is it to three and we have figures for is 211 million dollars I'm sorry sad face 2 is 4.9 million. everything we do as far as Grandpa's expenditure base so we spent first meet them in person after the fact thank you I'll bring this down the nine Jays committee reports by board members do we have any tomatoes it rained on hey I don't believe we need to go in the clothes bless you today I'm sorry thanks okay 10 a.m. is press policy Updates this is the first reading so under new business excuse me we review this look at the Press policy is pretty much mandated again mandated we do not vote on it for the second reading so we will not vote on this this evening but if you want to review more or if you have questions you can call Super Nana pretty pretty. Dates based on a v e if you have questions certainly let me know before the next board meeting all right we do not need to go into closed session so we're down to agenda item number 15 and 4 number, are there any other time you still love Rodger and turned Thunderbird today video of building of principles and your team for welcoming all our students back in and getting our kids back and I know we got these Macon but at least you're back in the classroom and and smiling and having fun and a big shout-out to dr. Jacobson did call me and tell me how hard is that working in the front page of the newspaper I saw everybody's just doing such a great job and get these kids back in here and welcome them with open arms so thank you for that any other comments turn on I need a motion to adjourn please all favor opposed extension motion carries we are officially adjourned

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