.	SHILOH COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.1 BOARD OF EDUCATION
	Jan 9 - Strategic Planning Meeting President Means called the meeting to order at 12:34 PM. Present: Freebairn, Hales, Hutchinson, Kile, Means, Young Absent: Eads Others Present: Superintendent Hall, Principal Hettmansberger, Jacob Roskovensky, Terry Sullivan President Means welcomed everyone to the meeting. Eads joined the meeting at 12:45 PM. Terry Sullivan gave a presentation on current tech plan. Dr. Hall reports that we have funds in life safety that will pay for electrical upgrades. (handout for outline of presentation) Dr. Hall reported the Thermwood CNC machine in the IT shop goes down whenever we get a power surge. Mr. Ivey contacted the company and it would be approximately 7K to install a surge protector to protect this system. Young suggested Mark Smith (former IT teacher who now works for WoodLinks) be contacted to see what suggestion he might have. Sullivan recommended looking into a building wide surge protector although he wonders if we can afford that. Evidently we get frequent surges. This affects pretty much all electronics in the building. Hutchinson wonders why the power company isn’t repairing this issue instead of expecting us to bear the burden. Breakfast and lunch program: 3 options available 1. Operate our own program, 2. Keep Aramark 3. See if other companies will bid to provide our services. District is losing ~17K with Aramark. Previously we were losing about 40K running our own program. Dr. Hall recommends sticking with Aramark at this time Transportation: Previous experience has shown that it is effective for us to maintain our own bus fleet Newman Building Savings to closing Newman building would be about 90K/yr. We would need four additional classrooms at Shiloh to accommodate Newman building students. This includes the current empty rooms in this building. That would be two Kindergarten, two first grade, one second grade, cross-categorical, combination title/reading improvement, and two Pre-K (if we keep it). That is 9 class rooms needed. It would cost an estimated $550,000 for construction, not including any operating costs. Including Pre-K would require a total of five additional classrooms. Freebairn proposes that the numbers of students need to be considered. When our student population drops to the point that we can accommodate students without adding to the Shiloh building, closing the other building should be considered. Much discussion ensued regarding closing of that building. Nothing could be done at our current enrollment without building on to the Shiloh building or purchasing portable classrooms. Dr. Hall summarized: “at the present time, the only way to close Newman building is to add on to the Shiloh building.” In five years, as our enrollment declines that may be necessary. The board consensus is that this issue needs to be re-evaluated annually. Consolidation: Chrisman superintendent believes that they have no interest in coming in our direction. Oakland and Kansas are willing to talk but want a new high school in the Oakland district that would be more centrally located. They would even consider 7-12 in a new building. There is currently no state money to help with the cost of a new high school. Paris is always an option but they would want to call all the shots. Cooperative High School: Paris currently has the only co-op high school in the state. Co-op high school has 6-10 school board members. De-activation of high school: requires a vote from the voters after the de-activating school have the consent of the accepting school boards to take their students. Tenured teachers go to the receiving districts and go on their seniority lists where they fall. The transferred teachers go on to the accepting districts salary schedule. Shiloh could potentially send students to six different districts. Finances: State of Illinois currently owes us $214,374.86. Present EAV $58,868,721. Our tax rate is approximately $.60 less than the surrounding districts except Paris-Crestwood. Hutchinson feels we need to have a press release where we stand financially as a district. There is so much hearsay that the facts need to be readily available should a tax increase ever be considered. Course offerings: We are doing very well in this area in comparison to other districts. Options are : online courses, sending our students to an area high school and sharing instructors with other schools. Sharing teachers works best when shared ½ days. Meeting adjourned at 2:34 PM.