You would look on the screen. You will see uh what has three different colors on it. Uh this is popular street extended. Uh the green part is the current driveway as you come off man and come into the parking lot. The yellow and purple is is the area in question which is the grass the grassy area. Uh through looking at deed records, city council minutes, plats, uh street vacations, board minutes, um we wish everything was was very clean and neat and it is not 100% that way. However, what we're doing in order to get all of this land in the hands of the school corporation, we already own the purple part. Um, and if you'd want our dissertation on how we got that, we can give you that. The the city has claim to the yellow part. Now again there's there's contradictory records but for today's purposes we're accepting or we're going to allow for the city to say okay they have that yellow part.
She's in there helping with the musical awards or uh performances. She's always there helping. And a couple weeks ago, I came across a quote and I the minute I read it, I thought, "Oh my gosh, this is Lou. This is Lou." So, I sent it to her. She go, "No, I'm going to say, "Be the reason why people believe in beautiful souls, kind hearts, and good energy. Never stop being a good person." And when I read that, I thought, "Oh my gosh, that's loose. Schroer." So, I am more than pleased and honored to represent the staff of Landis Elementary and award you with the Apple Don't [Applause] Well, take a picture. So, dry it up, sister. didn't mean to do that to you. I didn't mean that. She did, too. You know what she said? She called me today and said, "Watch me make her cry before the picture." Thank you.
There's one program that you might not know as much about it. It's called Silverbox. We have about 69 people that are homebound. You know, these were folks that could come to the sharing place someday some time ago, but we are now going to them and they have a choice of uh food and there's groups of people that put these packages together and our volunteers deliver highly highly intensive work. But there are people out there on hospice care in our community. There are people out there that are very very ill. There are people that have some other challenges and that's how it is a lifeline. It's not as you all know about food because we're in the richest country in the world. It's about connectedness and uh being part of a larger community. So again, thank you so much and uh we're looking forward to uh all the new uh paint schemes.
So, we've been holding our um new SPE directors institute over at the Haven. So, I had the opportunity to drive around the community and see what it looked like. And it just looked like such a wonderful place. It reminded me of the town that I raised my children in, which was a nice small town. We were also part of a regional school district as well. Um, during my time here, I served um six years as a school committee member and five years on the finance committee member. So, I understand sort of the playing push and pull of being in a regional school district. Um, but what I really like about it is the opportunity within a small, you know, town, you have the opportunity to really immerse yourself into the community and really get into the schools, get to know the students, get to know the teachers, get to know the principles.
Well, good evening everyone. Uh we almost made it. We got another uh we got another three days left before April vacation. Uh I'm sure I know most people in my house are excited about that. Uh just a reminder that this meeting is being uh video and audio recorded by uh Dartmouth Community Television in partnership with the Dartmouth High uh media program and Mr. Parade. As always, we thank them for their support. And this meeting uh will be rebroadcast in DT DCTV channels 9 and the following days. Wednesday and Thursday at 5:00 pm, Friday at 6:00 a.m., Saturday at 8:00 a.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. The meeting will also be rebroadcast in DC TV channel 18 on the following days. uh Monday and Saturday at 12 pm and Thursday at 3 pm. And as always, you can find us on the Dartmouth High uh media program media uh YouTube channel.
Each student enrolled in culinary essentials, culinary arts one, and baking and pastry 1 in fall 2024, which is a combined total of 51 students from both general education and special education populations, passed the national serve safe food handler or national serve safe food manager industry level exams. They receive certification and this enables them to receive higher wages when working in food service. Students enrolled in human growth and development completed a collective total of eight hours of training related to topics such as newborn care and safety, the effects of trauma on children, and developmental milestones. Each of these professional development hours is childc care industry recognized and it's certified through the Kansas Train Learning Network by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. In 2024, I became a ProStar industry educator in conjunction with the Kansas Division of the National Restaurant and Hospitality Association and partnered with that organization's educational foundation to register all VHS culinary classes as industry recognized career training effective next school year uh in fall 2025 upon the adoption of the foundation's curriculum.
A reminder on the active fund that we do have a grant that pays half of that. The grants now is at 16,000. So that'll offset that. We have to buy that first then we get the grant. Okay. Thank you, D. I would entertain a motion to approve the invoices as presented. Motion by Allison, second by Josh. All those in favor say I. I.
And again, yes, reading, writing, all that. Um but I'd like to focus on some of those snippets that we are are doing to promote character um and intrinsic learning. That is to say, we want kids to still be coming to school and want to come to school. And that's why we have 24 kids still with perfect attendance. Um, and so if you could hit the next slide, please. Here are some of the things that um, wow, that did not transfer well, but let's just set that aside for a second. Clearly, we're not teaching me technology, but let's just roll with it, you know. Um, we we have a variety of things. We're and I'll go through some of these in particular. We're an A-rated school. We have 17 clubs andor extracurriculars. A large part of that is thanks to the middle school. Um we have um PE which is not offered everywhere.
You know we don't need to read policy to the board. They'll have the opportunity to read the policy. So unless there's something specific the committee wants to call out because you feel like this was particularly important to us based on our work. Oh, I see. I I don't know that we need a policy by policy, blowby-blow for the board. So is there I guess my question is would there be a reason to have it be different than community council? probably, you know, given given this conversation, I'd say there may not be because it really is just the overview. I'm trying to remember if what we did last year was any different for each one or if it was the same presentation, but I can't remember now. Hilda seemed to think that they were the same, right, Hilda? Between community council and the board meeting. Copy the one from last year.
Graduated from Iowa State, continue to be a Cyclone fan. Got my master's in curriculum and instruction from Greenville University and I'm currently working on my LIS endorsement. I should finish that uh roughly about a year from now. um joined the big hollow family in 2017 and just have a lot of experience with different grade levels, different subjects as well. In my free time, I spend a lot of time with my family um those sporting events, cyclone football games, and we always tend to find food. So, food is always involved as well. Um throughout my presentation, you'll see different books kind of scattered about. These books are things that we have read and I've shared with students throughout the year. they have ended up being some favorite books of the students and are just kind of guiding my presentation today. So, one of the first books we read was um the book of gold and essentially a student finds that every book has value.
Um again a larger firm so we have the capability to stretch to take on a lot of stuff but this team would be very focused on your work. Um, we also work with districts large and small. Approximately 100 plus PK-12 clients. 76 of those are in Illinois and 20 plus of those are in northeast Illinois. Many of our clients are in southern Illinois, not served by our office here, but served by our St. Louis area offices. Um, we and again we work with districts large and small, urban and rural, and have a great understanding of the differences in those communities. Mike, why don't you describe some of our recent design work? Hi everyone. Um, we wanted to share one slide with you just recent projects that we've done knowing that you are all unit district as well. So these are examples of some PK through through 12 grades here and you know we know one of your goals as a as a district is to create a community and support a community that is about connection and belonging.
At the hearing, we will ask that each person limit their comments to three minutes and that the topic be limited to the proposed project under consideration. The notice of this project hearing was published as legally required. At this time, I will ask Mark, Mr. Janeski, to explain the purpose of this hearing. Okay. Okay. Pursuant to Indiana Code 20-26-7-37, before a school corporation may spend more than a million dollars to build, repair, or alter a school building that will be financed by a lease or bonds, it must hold a public hearing at which ex explanation of the potential value of the project to the school corporation and community are given. This public hearing the adoption of resolution are the very beginning of the legal process. These resolutions establish the maximum financial term terms for the proposed project. We will now hear from Mr. Janeski about the process of determining and communicating the project to to the community and the need for the project.
uh they will want they want to give that to us by Indiana statute to governmental agencies can can transfer property for uh any consideration deemed appropriate. Um the city is going to quit claim that property to the school corporation. So the end result will be that the school corporation will own the yellow and the purple. The green will remain uh belonging to the city of Huntington. They will continue to maintain that. It's a street, extension of a street. They will snowplow it. They will do all those things. We will own everything north of that. Now, that cleans up another problem. There's a sign there that there were some issues with. Once we own that, that will help take care of that. And then the yellow and purple's all what Mr. parks uh uh class will uh pursue and give you give you ideas on. So the the process from this point is that on I believe it's April 25th this the board of works meets we meet we meet April 28th we will pass parallel resolutions uh that say we're excha we're they're transferring quit claiming this property to the school corporation once those parallel resolutions are recorded, authorized, they will sign a quit claim deed saying that they no longer have any interest in that property.
Thank you so much. Thank you. Well deserved. Where? Right here. Right here, sister. Okay. Okay. Make you cry some more. Eyes open. I'm always checking. You put the shoulder on that made us all look, you know, 20 pounds around. Yep. We're good. All right. Congratulations. [Applause] All right. Next on the agenda is the public comment section. This is uh you can make a comment about anything that's on the agenda today. And there'll be a second chance later in the meeting also. And anybody wants to leave? By the way, this is typically the moment when everybody leaves. Oh, how kind. All right, moving on. Next is our consent agenda that includes the minutes of the March 10th, 2025 executive session, minutes of the March 10th, 2025 regular school board meeting, personnel recommendation, donation request, field trip request, the treasures report for February of 2025, and claims.
I'm I'm not sure it will be all orange or green, light lime green. We we don't know. But it's uh it's it's great to be here with you and I would just want you to know how much we appreciate it and how much the um the clients like it. It's one of the favorite food pantries they have. We sometimes do some questionnaires and people really like the friendliness of the folks and that we are uh you know making it real easy because we are not asking for 500 different documents before you get a can of soup. you know, we come on in and we help you. And that's and Amy, thank you so much for for your special interest to to be uh part of that. And then of course, one time you had to feed me too. So at a is that I think they're running our kid is running at Mount Vernon tomorrow.
You have a total of three schools. Makes it, you know, just delightfully manageable. Um I think there's about 1100 students that you have as well which really makes it easy to get to know students on a one-on-one basis and be able to go in at lunchtime and see the students and you know have those conversations to see how their days are going. So a lot of that appeals to me as well as um I really do like the structure of you know having a selectman having the finance committee that speaks to me as to how you can work together and collaborate. You know, I know also that you have a fire um building that you need as well as needing a senior center and some other issues on your um budgets during what we call the fiscal cliff in education these days as I'm sure you're well aware of.
Roll call, please. Miss Gentner, Kathleen Amar here. John Nunes y Mary Beckith here. Coughlin here. Chris Oliver here. Thank you very much. Just a reminder, please silence any electronic devices uh that you may have at this time. So, with that said, uh next up, uh we have public comment. At this point, uh we typically allow approximately 10 minutes, uh for anyone wishing to speak on any of tonight's agenda items.
I submitted for approval in March 2025, which is right over there. In January 2025, I met with CTE director Craig Coleman about adding a new CTE career pathway. We agreed to add the course event planning and management of the level two ProStart aligned course, qualifying USC 244 to add the travel and tourism CTE pathway to its offerings, which increases CTE funding and enables students to earn ProStart certificates of recognition and the ProStart certificate of achievement. In fall 2025, I hope to form the first ever BHS ProStar culinary and Skills USA culinary competitive teams. Next school year's class schedule draft, which I received on April 2nd, had me selected to co-e English 3, which utilizes my prior experience using English language arts. To increase hands-on and career oriented learning opportunities for my students, I partnered with the following additional additional organizations and businesses throughout the last two years.
Any opposed? Same sign. Motion passes. 70. And then the reconciliation and cash balances report is on there for you to view. Is there not a district office on this one? I have two points. I thought I had it uploaded there for the I can make copies real quick. There's two Wilson in a central place. Okay, I forgot to upload it. So, I'll make copies and get that to recognition of visitors. Nobody. Okay. Administrative reports. You always have to go first read. No, they keep looking at their computers and they never look up. Cash balances match our reconciliation report. Currently taking the state assessment. should finish up this week and we'll have some of course some makeups ne next week. Um had our three-year-old round up on March 25th. Right now we are planning on 26 attending. Uh we began our calendar raffle April 1st. We'll go to the end of the month.
Technology in the library every week for kids. We have a variety of community partnerships. We'll talk to that and I think that's a huge part of who we are. Um we focus on character and and we promote kids that way. Um reading is central to everything we do and we'll talk about something we're going to do there. student technology safety. He's standing back there. Um um we have an active active PTO. In fact, they're still meeting right this very second. And so we'll set that aside. Um we have our EL program. And if you've been in education like I have for the past 32 years, um EL used to be called SEI, used to be called ESL, it used to be called LEAP, I've seen it called ESOL, I've seen it called DLL. Um any number of things. our English language learners who are coming in.