Yeah. So I'm I'm just conf You mean for these new ones, Adriana, or the original ones? The original ones, like what's the update on those in terms of next steps? Yeah, those were adopted and we're just working on getting them integrated into the policy manual. So we'll we'll do the same with these once if the board adopts them and the state they're adopted, then we'll work on getting them integrated. We're we're having some challenges because of the multiple migrations between policy systems, if that makes sense. And so, um, it's on my to-do list to get that to sorted out. Got it. Okay. Uh, then the next slide, slide 14, uh, committee recommendations to the board. Looks like somebody's already kind of edited this. Well, I kind of Oh, you had I was cheating and hoping. No, I appreciate it. I fixed I assumed you'd want to continue next year since we didn't get through everything.
We accepted a resignation from Marliss Dero, elementary school social worker, effective at the end of the school year. Uh we accepted a resignation from Lisa Swederski, sixth grade math teacher, effective at the end of the school year. We accepted a resignation from Susan Sek, sixth grade science teacher, effective at the end of the school year. Uh, do we have any public comments?
It's going to be the money that you can access and leverage. Um, so we understand that we go down that referendum path. Um, we've got great success stories. Um, we've passed in the last 15 help districts pass over5 billion dollars of the work. Uh, that's a corporate number. Um, but we really have a a technique of helping districts and there's two sides of the fence in that push to get the message out. There's a fact side, which is the administration and district employees and speaking to the public from a real informative side, but there's also the emotional side, which is your yes committee, and they can go out and actually say vote yes for this and give them the reasons why. We know how to help create media for both of those messaging tactics as uh you move into that ca that campaign. The one thing we uh this we created this very similar to the Keanland.
So, um after that, our next upcoming date, May 12th, will be our next regular uh board meeting at 6:30 right back here. Um so, that's all we have. I need a motion and a second to adjourn our meeting. I'll make a motion to adjourn the meeting. I will second. All in favor?
Um but we've written different grants to help pay for that. Um, we are lucky that we have such great facilities here at Huntington North, but I'm very cognitive that that's additional work for our custodial staff. Um, so my hope is we can use this grant to support some of the setup and tear down um so that it's not more on their regular duties. Our third goal um is to increase the percentage of students earning state recognized certifications by um by the end of that next year. um we would look to fund that from our basic Perkins grant and this is the area that we utilized area 18 the most for in the past. That's our equipment, our software, our technology, things like that. Um what's exciting though is when I turned in this grant in March, I actually turned in the budget for next year.
With the 150% markup, we'd be closer to 1.7 million. So, um, today I spoke with our vendor and the computers we want to purchase are on a state contract, so there's locked in pricing. As long as that can we can get that we're in before the terrors hit, then we should be okay. and all the computers we need are currently in state. So things are looking good at the moment. Thanks for your lobbying on this project. I appreciate that. You're welcome. Anything else? Questions or comments? No. All right, moving on. The curriculum report with Mrs. Rosie and Dr. Dehole. Thank you. Um kindergarten roundup was last week in our three elementary buildings and I hear that was successful. Landis, how many did you guys have? Not to put you on the spot, over a hundred. Yeah, it was a lot. So, it it was really successful.
And we will leave you that rolls into our next um item on the agenda for curriculum advisory committee recommendations. Mr. Noter. Thank you, Madame President, members of the board, and Dr. Smith. Each semester we bring to you recommendations from our curriculum advisory council and Mr. Harshshire, director of secondary education facilitates that council and we'll bring the recommendations this evening. Good evening. Uh as you can see there just as a reminder uh we do meet as a curriculum advisory council twice a year once in the fall and once in the spring. Um those uh proposals are taken here and um we as you can see there in the third bullet point um that group is made up of building level and district level administrators, counselors, teachers, department chairs. Uh the council ensures that all recommendations are on Indiana's list. The state does give us a list of approved courses which of course we need to uh follow um as we continue to build our pathways.
I had an engineering background. It was a light lift. So, I did it. And in addition to my current job, I've also taken on in other as a as a regional school district person um for uh another dual job role. I took on the um assistant superintendent and middle school principal simultaneously before it became a permanent position and then I assumed that role permanently. Um, so, um, I love to involve town people early in any type of budget because one of the things that's unique about regional schools is that while the school committee approves the budget, the both towns must vote to pass the budget um, at the town meeting. So I know that and I think it is smart to just you know start you know educating and collaborating as early on as possible. So um going on um I'm not going to read every single bullet because if you'd like to you can follow and ask me any question you would like.
Um, so we want to sort of increase that a little bit next year by saying that we are going to create a schedule um, as part of our year-long schedule where our data team is going into PLC's with our teachers to talk about that data. And we do that very informally right now, but we really want to formalize that um system to make sure that that's happening and we're including teachers um and really getting the teachers, interventionists, and special education teachers together to help build that collective efficacy across the school. So moving on, still in teaching and learning and looking at our professional development opportunities across the school. Um our first action step related here is to foster peer observations and coaching opportunities to support our CKLA implementation. We've begun some of that work um over the last month or so where we're having classroom teachers who didn't pilot the CKLA program go into the classrooms of those of the teachers that did and begin to observe what that looks like.
So we we took that recipe, sent it to our nutritionist that had all the guidelines and we served that recipe. So we got an exemption that we didn't have to do the whole grain noodles at the time. So because that was a big Have you ever if you never eat a whole grain noodle, you're lucky. So something you might see because they're really hard to get right now. So especially in a school approved. Okay. because uh Tyson isn't making the speedos the chicken crispositos right now for some reason. So they're really hard to get and that's been a frustration not only for you but for a lot of people. So bringing Byron and Jack here tonight. You guys have had some comments in regards to the food service. Uh we can go out for requests for proposals to bid if we want to. Board will have a final say.
Will that trigger any of the ADA compliance? Well, that was what we were going to ask him. Would there be any compliance issues if we did open that wall up to continue like where we would have to update a certain percentage of the facility for that? You would not. So, let's say that we did an addition off of this building um and did nothing but maybe cut in a doorway and you know retie in the finishes. Uh you don't have to update anything in in the existing building. The threshold for that is anything over 80%. So, basically what the state's saying is, hey, if you guys are going through and gutting things and moving walls, you have to update it. Um, you could go through and add carpet or ceiling tile or even cabinets to classrooms right now and it's not going to impact ADA code.
Somebody's got to have an an SRO eval because I can tell you the police department's eval is, you know, performance on traffic stops, performance on calls for service, things that are just not always relevant to this position. And everybody, including Phoenix Police Department, said, "No, we just use our patrol one." I'm like, "Well, that's not really relevant." So, we came back and and created our own. Created our own. We really wanted something that would help our SRO's and SSOs to grow on an annual basis and um we feel like this tool could be it. You know, we'll use it a year and then come back and re-evaluate it. But um Matt was pleased with it and he gave us some bullet points after talking with the other agencies and we're ready to present questions please. I thought I read through it. I thought it was very good.
So, I fixed the dates. Um, Evan's like, "Not me." But the rest of it was already there. So, all I did was fix the dates. Okay. And I didn't know if that last bullet still pertains or not because I thought we might have done that this year. determine guidance on the law enforcement contact and involvement outside of the mandatory reporting requirements. I thought we I thought we might have accomplished that this year with all of our um process and form alignment determine guidance on the law enforcement contact involvement use outside of mandatory report requirements. Yeah, I mean we could delete that. Is everybody okay with that? Yeah. What policy letters is that? Because I think that was done before I was here, but I I'm curious. I think it spills over between them because a lot of the policies actually had inconsistent guidance on when to involve law enforcement.
Anybody have any questions on the foyer requests? No. Anybody have any questions on the monthly reports for the board? Uh, the board needs to discuss the schedule for the superintendent evaluation for Mr. Gold. the following timeline to be used for completion of the evaluation process. May 1st, May 31st, June 9th. And I'll I'll send you all information on that as we get July 15th.
They just used this in the last referendum, but it was an eightweek basically a task list to march forward and say what does that yes committee need to be doing on a daily weekly basis to make sure that they're getting the word out and the messaging out. Um so this was a successful uh playbook for them that uh we created. So once we get that successful referendum, it's time to start delivering out the project. And I'm going to fly through this just for the sake of time, but um really what it comes down to is look, the firms you're interviewing, they're all they're all completely qualified to to design and construct buildings. Um and we think what sets us apart is our our client experience. Um we very much focus on that and want to make sure that that's a an a good experience for you as a as a district.
Um which doesn't sound like a big deal, but what that means is if this gets approved from the state, we'll order in July. Like we will order our equipment for next school year in July and our teachers will come back and have the tools they need and they can update their shops like day one. um the past time like as part of a co-op, you know, there are nine high schools in that one. Um we wouldn't know until we we'd apply for things like in August. We might find out in December, maybe order in January. It was a very lengthy process, but because we're our own district and we set our own budget, we can order as soon as um that grant period starts so that our teachers have it when they come back so they can use it in the school year that they need it.
Um, preschool registration starts tomorrow and that will start by running off of the weight list because everyone wants to go to Berry Preschool. Good. Yeah, true. Um, I learn window open today. Um, so students in grades three to eight will take math and language arts and then fourth and sixth graders take science, fifth graders take social studies. So, we'll be doing that for the next few weeks. And then tomorrow, um, IUK kicks off their career fair. So, I will be going there in the evening and we have, um, six current IUK students who would like to interview with us to do their residency here. We can have up to three, but we also have three of our paras who are in the same program who are also ready to student teach who would also like to be a part of the residency. So, I'll be talking with Mrs.
Um we're paying close attention to those. And then just as a reminder, anything we would um bring to you for approval this spring could be implemented as soon as the fall of 2526. So the first uh course is actually related to the slides that we were just talking about. Um our curriculum advisory council would like to add offering course 7218 technical math to our course offerings. This would meet the graduation requirement for math. Um it is a focus on mathematical reasoning in realworld skills and problem solving in things such as fabrication, manufacturing and business. Um it includes a lot of hands-on work and projects and real world application. Um which our committee felt very strongly would be a great option for students all students particularly students who might be employing that or uh excuse me pursuing that employment seal um as an alternative possibly to algebra 2.
Um but um very quickly I love to be visible in schools. Um, and part of that visibility, one of the things that I had fun with when my music teacher said, "Hey, could you conduct a concert, be the guest conductor and work and conduct the finale?" I said, "Sure." And I did. Um, and I've also um been absolutely present for um high school pathways. that we one of our requirements um is that our students that pursue like a STEM pathway or a global studies pathway that they absolutely do like a final presentation a researchbased presentation where they were given feedback by some of our some of our um strongest teachers and also I would join in and also provide feedback and it was like watching uh the students give like a mini master's level project like they were at the high school level. It was really great.