Very bittersweet, but very exciting. This week and next week, we are also hosting interviews for the incoming ASB students, and they've been going very good. Our theater class has been very busy. Over spring break, 22 of our theater students were able to attend a 4-day trip to New York. We experienced subways, real Broadway acting, and actors, as well as a lot of learning experiences like how the acting world works. I can confidently say that I learned that I do not like planes. But on a more serious note, I also left with a much more much more of an appreciation for the acting industry. We want to say thank you to all of our board members and district personnel because this wouldn't have been possible without you. I passed out papers earlier to you which have thank you notes from Miss Glisten as well as some of our students.
We're adding two more and we've been back and forth in negotiations with Boys and Girls Club. However, the funding for all of those spaces, including the current rentals that we have, is included in that per pupil amount that is provided by the um preschool aid. So, pea pays for the space as well. Okay. Thank you. Um yeah, Mr. Kusovich, do you want to make a comment also just reading the minutes just reminded me about the adult school we have? maybe some comments on what that's coming up or uh yes no I mean the the parent university. So that's a plan for next year um where we really feel that um families don't necessarily know everything that is going on in our schools. You may have a child with with a particular need and you may not realize that we already have um things like multi-ensory reading through foundations in grades K through two is through three is offered for every single student, not just our special needs population.
Hello everyone. We spoke last year over um last year we launched one of the most successful travel programs in the state of Indiana. Um my partner at EF said it was the fastest they had ever seen two full buses fill up in any school in the state. Um with that that means 79 students are coming with us to Europe next year. Uh and in order to um kind of alleviate that strain we would like to launch um our 2027 trip moving us from a every other year system to an every year system. Um the goal of this is to be able to reach more students, have the community be um kind of able to trust that we have a system in place um and also kind of help bring the number of students that are going on each tour down in order for us to have a more impactful kind of uh relationship process with them throughout their trips.
Any discussion? All those in favor? Seven. Next, we're down under other. Do you have anything? So, just so that everyone knows, we did have um it was a an individual that was here. I'm not sure if they're still here or not, but didn't want to speak, but dropped off some um basically some resource material. Um resources in my backyard. It's Jennings County. Um has a list of all kind of resources for community members. Um we have a few copies here. Um Nikki has them. Appreciate always appreciate getting resources espec especially for community members. So just want to thank them for that. If you need that information again, we have several copies that'll be available here. Anything else? Um Nikki hearing nothing. We'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Motion by Pat. Do I have a second? Earl. All those in favor? 7 meeting.
And so that's one thing. Domin define dimminimous changes define who reviews that which it it of the ones I looked at um they ranged from the planning department the planning department with we had said before maybe one person from the board to just come to the board give me your little presentation. And is this in a decision typically or in the bylaw? Um, it's just the pro, as far as I know, it's just part of the planning board process. Just like we say, do this for an application, give us so many prints of this size. It's just I would think it probably we would want to add it to our decisions when we tighten it up, right? But the rest of it appears to just be process. I mean, I like Deepo's kind of definitions of some stuff like materiality. It's almost like things inside your control versus outside.
Um, so I think I'm just going to say let's go ahead and do that. Go ahead. I'm not going to do it. Um, while so many of my GHS colleagues are here, I wanted to be sure that you were here for this agenda item. Um, I will for I'm going to cry too, so I apologize, but I will forever be grateful to Donna Woodcock. She's the reason I am in Greenfield today. She was the principal at Greenfield High School and hired me in the summer of 2010 along with Miss Creek, a history teacher at the high school still, and Miss Pollock, our librarian. I still recall our first new teacher meeting with Donna. It was just the three of us, and we had never quite met anyone like her. And yet, we all grew to love and respect her. She was a strong, fearless leader who loved Greenfield to the core.
And that that's what raised the question. So what we offered is, you know, we'll send you an a fact email and copies of the documentation as to the amount of energy savings. Every year we receive from Amoresco and our owner's rep, which is now Enia, a summary of the guaranteed savings that were supposed to be achieved each year of the contract and the actual savings that we achieved. And every year over the first eight years, um, we've had more savings than were guaranteed under the contract by roughly $34,000 was the average. So, you know, we are saving more than that 690, you know, thousand that's in our budget line. So, that's why that I know Dr. Solen shared the email, but that was the background on that. Thank you again. Welcome. Great. Thank you, Mr. Masiana. Uh we'll move on to the policy committee. So, Mr.
And simply put, amazing. I feel more educated. In second semester, after four-year college applications, we shifted to FAFSA completion and course selection. We took six-year planning to a new level. Sorry, through eCadence, which uses student data and AI to develop individualized college, career, and life readiness plans. And now in April, we're wrapping up FAPS and six-year plans in prepare preparing for our senior exit survey. For the first time, we're asking open-ended questions such as, "Do you feel supported in developing your college and career? Do you feel s sorry, do you feel supported in developing your college career and life readiness here in AHSD? Please explain. How have your high school experiences shaped your academic and social emotional growth? If we do not ask these questions to our students about what they need, how can we expect to give it that to them?" And as Maya Angelou wisely said, "Do the best you can until you know better.
Now, it's time to get ready for a night of drama, dreams, and a dash of revolution. Our theater program is hosting Lay Miz tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 7:00 p.m. So far, we've had record-breaking ticket sales, and it's going extremely good. Last weekend, I saw Miss Longworn, Miss Tucker, and Miss Buchanan, and I hope you guys enjoyed it. Last month, our chamber singers also took a great trip to New York, which Mr. Churchill will be talking to you all about later. 11th grade students began state testing upon returning to school from spring break, and we have already met our goal of 95% participation for English and math. Students will continue to help with scientists over the next week, and our student performance has increased year-over-year for the past 5 years, and we are hopeful in continuing this. As for CT, they're continuing to grow.
So, it's getting out the branding and information about things like that to our families um through courses, through evening events, through video presentations and through um I'm going to age myself, but they're not Tik Toks. The little videos, the the the Facebook and and Instagram videos. Reals. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Kuselovich. Um anyone else? Oh, Commissioner Mia, will that come through title one? um right now that um the parent university funding would that would be um primarily driven by our title one parent funding for our title one schools. Things would be held at those title one schools, but we are allowed to open up to the further community um beyond title one as long as everything is targeted first and looking at the title and held at those title one sites. All right. Thank you. Okay, next up is our public recognition portion of our meeting.
Um we will still maintain our 6:1 uh student to chaperon ratio. None of that has changed. Our uh department or our um community sponsor with EF is not going to change. Um we are just going to a different hemisphere this time. Um I would like to um and in your packets you see um our itinerary for a trip to Costa Rica. Um I in keeping in mind that we have 79 students traveling with us in 2026, I wanted to pick an itinerary that kind of reached out to a different group of students. Um so on that list on that schedule is kayaking and hiking and snorkeling um to kind of approach a more adventure focused student. Um, it is also coming in at a lower price range than our Europe trip to kind of make that more accessible to our community. But, uh, yeah, we saw amazing growth uh, with the 2026 trip.
So, energy related code changes are outside of everyone's control. understanding that we don't need to like we the planning board don't need to say yes you must follow code but certain types of materiality we probably want them to back so to me I kind of like that distinction is making put on but here's where I don't think it's that simple so the energy code changed so I need I need a much bigger HVAC on the roof to handle it and now it's not screened And you said I don't have to come back. Yeah. So the energy things like energy code could cause I understand substantial could Yeah. Substantial changes which which should be Yeah. which should be um looked at in that light by the board like I gota uh so um and then for solar panels for example it may be a two-year plan to install solar panels and we assume that it's going to be totally hidden for example but when it's actually installed you start to see all these panels so so some of those things that may matter to us as a planning board I think you should quantify I kind of start to list what I mean maybe what we need is just a memo from the planning board to potential applicants just says hey we don't have a defined rule at the time but we are concerned about these types of things like here's four examples of kinds of things we've seen or that we imagine that we're concerned about.
Every decision she made was made with the best interest of kids at heart always. She was a fierce supporter of women in sports and how being part of a team built character and strength and camaraderie for our students. She was also a very dedicated supporter of school libraries and what a powerful impact a school librarian has on the culture and success of a school in life and now after her passing. Her legacy and commitment to Greenfield High School community remains steadfast and true. In your packet this evening, you will see Donna's last will and testament included donations to the GHS library and nine different GHS girls sports teams to continue to uphold the value and importance of all of these areas that impact students in such positive ways. Thank you. [Applause] I'd like to hear a motion to accept the donations totaling $46,000 from the Donna Woodcock Trust to the Greenfield High School library and sports teams as presented.
Eki, if you could report on that, please. So, we had an interesting meeting. We talked about the uh community relations use of school facilities and Emily updated the entire uh the entire regulation regarding fees that we hadn't uh changed in quite some time. and uh who qualifies for which building or which classification and all of that. A lot of it is anticipating the new buildings and getting us caught up to speed. Um did did everybody get a copy of the regulation or am I the only one? I think it's in there. It's there's a link on the uh on the agenda that talks about uh the cost and how it all breaks out. We also spoke about uh we have a second reading on our electronic devices policy and we added in AI glasses to our policy. If Dr. S would you like to share the impetus behind that?
Then when you know better, do better." Before I end, I do want to acknowledge that the quotes I used from Maya Angelou and Ruth Bader Ginsburg came from a very important source. They came from our AHSD students who were asked on their college and career fair reflections to share a quote that inspires them. We have some deep thinkers in our district and without this data, we would have a more difficult time showing it. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Zai. Good evening, President O'Neal, Board of Trustees, Superintendent Matsuda, Executive Cabinet, students, families, and our school community joining us both in person and online. As we continue the final quarter of the school year, we find ourselves in one of the busiest and most exciting times. While we celebrate the accomplishments of this year, we are also preparing for a strong and successful start to the next.
This year we sent 53 students and six adviserss to compete at Skills USA at the state level and hope to return to nationals. Last year MedCore teacher and skills adviser Jennifer Hunt was recognized as a region 6 adviser of the year and goes on to nationals this year for national adviser of the year. This year we are also proud to recognize graphic design teacher and skills adviser Miss Wendy Temples who was recognized as a region six adviser of the year. We also have 11th grade student Matthew Lurley running for state officer. We have so much to be proud of and we look forward to giving you an update next month. I'm sure there will be a lot of great things. As for sports, they're doing great as always. I'll have a more detailed update next month, but we thank you guys for your support of Granite Hills High School.
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We're excited to go. We're in the planning stages for there. Um, but if we could launch a 2027 that would allow more students to travel with us and to keep our our groups a little bit more manageable. You ensure you continue to work proper schools and you don't leave us to go work for tours. I'm assuming they're seeing your recruiting ability and you must pay back every trip fee for every Can you write that up real fast? So given that this is in 27 price lock in or is that So it will not change. I've been assured that that number is going to be our number until we Okay. So, they have they're still going to have two years basically to do the fundraising. That's why we're doing Yep. That way and we can alternate years where we get back from a trip, we launch two years, we get back from a trip, we launch two years.
So, as we approve projects, we can share the memo with them and we can just be like, "Hey, can you agree with us that if it comes down to construction and you're seeing this kind happen, you're going to come back and we can list some of those examples and see how it works out and kind of through the process of learning project by project, we can start to define the rules or the boundaries of what we're looking at." Because right now it's kind of theoretical to me other than one project I can think of which I was not involved in where there was some major changes that maybe were not what the planning board envisioned that maybe were material related or etc. Other than that I don't have a live example that I can touch. But what's the problem with doing something that is quantifiable?
So moved. Second. Um, okay. I heard a motion from member Ston and a second from member Goodwin and appreciate member Childs as well. Any discussion? Um, Secretary Den, will you call the vote? Yes. Chair Johnson, yes. Vice Chair Ston, yes. Secretary Geneva, I'm a yes. Member Goodwin, yes. Member Childs, yes. Mayor Disorger, yes. Member Martini, yes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. We'll move on to the reports of the administration, starting with Andy, our business manager.