.	SHILOH COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.1 BOARD OF EDUCATION
	Jan 22, 2008 Regular Board Meeting The Regular Meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by President Means. Board members present: Brown, Freebairn, Hutchinson, Means, Young Absent: Hales, Kile Others Present: Superintendent Lewis, Principal Hettmansberger, Gary Henry, Tonya Eich, Amy McClain, Andrew Albin, Pam Richardson, Sarah Freebairn, Ashley Young, Jessica Richardson, Colin Haga, Josh McIntyre, Barb Board Board approved the following Consent Agenda items: Treasurer’s Report; Activity Report ; Resignation of Darcy Church, Guidance Counselor, with regrets, and Larry Eastin, 5/6 and JH Boys Basketball Coach; Final reading of School Board Policies: 2:260 School Board – Uniform Grievance Procedure, 4:10 Operational Services – Fiscal and Business Management, 4:60 Operational Services – Purchases and Contracts, 4:110 Operational Services – Transportation, 5:10 General Personnel – Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority Recruitment, 5:100 General Personnel – Staff Development Program, 5:250 Professional Personnel – Leaves of Absence, 5:290 Educational Support Personnel – Employment Termination and Suspensions, 5:330 Educational Support Personnel – Sick Days, Vacation, Holidays, and Leaves, 6:20 Instruction – School Year Calendar and Day, 6:60 Instruction – Curriculum Content, 6:320 Instruction – High School Credit for Proficiency, 7:20 Students – Harassment of Students Prohibited, 7:70 Students – Attendance and Truancy, 7:185 Students – Preventing Bullying, Intimidation, and Harassment, 7:220 Students – Bus Conduct, 7:340 Students – Student Records, and 8:20 Community Relations – Community Use of School Facilities Board approved the minutes of the December 17, 2007, regular meeting and Executive Session minutes of September 20, 2007. Kile and Hales joined the meeting. Board approved the payment of bills as presented. FFA Week – Andrew Albin, Colin Haga, and Josh McIntyre discussed events planned for FFA Week, February 17-22, 2008. Bullying Presentation was given by Ashley Young and Jessica Richardson. They had distributed a survey regarding bullying to all Jr. High and High School students and reviewed their results and conclusions with the Board Sarah Freebairn addressed the Board regarding Student Council Events planned for this school year. Principal Hettmansberger: Congratulated the HS Girls Basketball team on their selection as Chicago Sky WNBA Team of the Week. During the WNBA season the girls will be invited to a game and be introduced during half-time. Congratulated the HS Girls Basketball team on winning the LOVC Championship. Athletes and coaches are doing a phenomenal job. Shiloh High School was named on the first US News and World Reports Top School Listing. The was based on PSAE scores and socio-economic factions. Our teachers and students are doing an outstanding job. This is proof that our staff and students take testing seriously. Jr. Class has proposed a post prom lock-in to take place at Shiloh after Prom. They are planning many activities for the event and the administration is considering approval. Senior sponsors and the class as a whole are not real interested in a senior trip. The administration is proposing that they take finals early and let them out of school a week early. Six Shiloh students will serve as Election Judges on February 5: Victoria Wax, Tressica Blair, Kevin Carrington, Katie Smith, Omar Alhelwani, and Sarah Freebairn Starting tomorrow the Brocton Christian Church is sponsoring an after school tutoring program for Brocton students. They have 12-15 signed up already. This is a very worthwhile project. IHSA will begin testing regional athletes for steroids possible 2008-09, definitely 2009-2010. Beginning 2009-2010 non-conference football games will be with members of the Vermilion Valley Conference. This will greatly cut down on team travel time. Spanish classes for grades 1-4 started last week at Newman Grade School. This program was organized by Ruth Patchett. Classes are taught by EIU students. Has been talked with Heritage about Baseball and it has been proposed that one year all JV games be at Shiloh and all Varsity games at Heritage. The following year this would flip with all JV games at Heritage and all Varsity games at Shiloh. This would save confusion about who is to be where when. The Shiloh Library has added several books on tape to it’s collection. The students can use one book on tape and then must read books after that. It has sparked their interest and increased the number of students on AR. Superintendent Lewis: Employee insurance renewal is in February. Is working with an agent now and should be able to get rates down again for our staff. Has found that if a district in a county has 51% of the student population of the county they can force a county sales tax to be put on the ballot. The county board can decided not to impose the tax even if it would be voted in. Paris/Crestwood is putting a cooperative high school on the ballot in November. DACC representative will be meeting with the administration and the counselor soon to discuss online classes and live feed in classes. Has been in contact with Lake Land and is trying to contact someone at Parkland. Eastern Illinois University may also be interested. Suggested that we bus out softball athletes to Chrisman and have all practices at Chrisman to avoid confusion of who should be where and when. Have been unsuccessful in finding a HS boys track coach. Suggested we bus our track athletes to Broadlands for practices. Discussion of how to increase parent and community support of student athletic programs. The Athletic Committee will meet and try to address this issue. Has meet with Chrisman Superintendent to discuss sharing a school psychologist and a social worker next year instead of contracting those services with EIASE. This would save a lot of money and provide faster, more efficient service for our students. This would be a contracted service with Chrisman. Board employed Nicole Mazur as JH Girls Track Coach, Doug Hageman as 5/6 Boys Basketball Coach, and Jason Conn as JH Boys Basketball Coach. Consideration of ESP job descriptions was not acted on as they are not yet available from the SEA. Authorized to destroy the audio recordings of Executive Session minutes of March 20, 2006, and prior. Approved non-release of Executive Session meeting minutes. Put consideration of the Spring Canoe Trip on hold. Superintendent Evaluation was to be addressed in Executive Session. Board entered into Executive Session at 8:57 PM Board returned to Open Session at approximately 9:30 PM. The Shiloh CUSD #1 Regular Meeting of January 22, 2008, adjourned at approximately 9:30 PM.