This event is also completely free. We hope to see parents of small children there to learn some new and fun ways to do literacy that doesn't just involve just reading a book. Third, a 100 books before graduation is for 6th to 12th grade students. This program was just established last year and we are encouraging students to read just like our a thousand books before kindergarten program. Every 25 books is a different prize and a free book at every goal leading up to a $5 voucher to use at our 3D printer for a project you want printed. And yes, we have a 3D printer. And lastly, our monthly programs involve something for all ages to enjoy. There are story times for newborns to 5-year-olds. I have two Lego clubs, a craft club, and an art club every month for K through sixth grade students. Teen programs involve gaming with the Switch or board games and anime club.
James Vanderlin, I would appreciate that. A moment of silence, please. Thank you for your respect for Mr. Vanderland. Mr. President, I'll turn it back over to you. Uh, yeah. One more thing before we kick the the meeting tonight off. Um, if you're watching online, you're not watching the wrong school board. Yes, we are all wearing River Forest gear. This was due to a bet we had with the River Forest School Board on the J or the varsity basketball boys basketball team this year. Congratulations to River Forest on winning that game. With that being said, we are all representing River Forest here and we congratulate you gentlemen on a a win that night and an actual very successful season. So, good job on that. With that, Dr. Kryp, I will turn it back to you to start the regular meeting. All right. Thank you. The first item of business is the There was no public comments.
Uh so, whoever wins twice moves on to the playoffs at state. So, going to be pretty exciting today. I'm pumped. I got this. Well, they got this. Our players tonight for the varsity are uh the captain aka Jaden aka Blue Jay Eli aka Exploded. Uh Sam aka Minion139. Tristan aka Trizy D. Izzy aka Rainbow Moonlight and Kamora aka Corblin. Alrighty. So why don't we talk a little bit about the rule set of this match? A 4v4 crew battle is basically when players from opposing teams take turns uh fighting in 1 v one matches with the winner of a match carrying their remaining stocks, which is their lives, to face the next member of the opposing team. Coaches must disclose with one another in private the fighter for the first player of each team in the set. And after a player lost has lost a game, they will be eliminated from that set.
I get a motion and second to approve these donations. So second got a motion and second to approve all these donations. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? And as always, we're grateful for all those donations that come into our schools that go to help a bunch of these programs. School recognition. Yep. Uh first of all, I just like to um share Mrs. Lewis at Southwood. Congratulations to Southwood's agriculture teacher, Tim Callaway, who has been awarded the 2025 National FFA Lily Grant for Indiana Agricultural Education. This grant is the amount of $8,900 goes toward classroom enhancement to upgrade equipment and purchase new equipment. So, that's really awesome uh that he applied for that and also received that Willie grant. Also, this hasn't been mentioned by um the other principles and I'm sure they'll do this later, but this past weekend we did have five teams that went to the state competition of robotics that was changed from Lucas Oil that they've done for several years and now they're going to the fairgrounds.
The next item on the agenda is for the bo the board to hold a project a preliminary hearing on the proposed project. If you're interested in speaking at this hearing, please make sure you have signed the sign-in sheet at the back of the room, which should include your name and address. After a presentation by the administration and its adviserss, there will be the opportunity for the public to make comments about the project.
Uh, and I hope I wasn't a a burden during during our time together, but uh, you know, I think as you know, I've gotten to know you as a I I think as a friend, as a mom, and you know, it's just, uh, was special for me, and, uh, I just think our community is is so much better the fact that you you you spent time here. So, thank you and and good luck, Steve. Hi, Mark Sony 119 Main Street. I'm here for a whole different I'd like to ask through the chairman to the town manager. Has there been any progress on the stronger committee idea? Not that I'm aware of, Mark. Not not that's been communicated to me. No, that tells me that the compent plan is still in progress but not exactly strong without those committees inputs. I'm understanding through everything else that this town needs business e economics and all that does not need 40bs.
Board Clerk, MinFam, present. Board member Corina Herrera Aloa, present. Board member Minuen, present. Superintendent Herman Sa, present. Thank you, Miss Patricia. Can you all stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So the announce on 1.2 to announcement and public comments regarding items to be discussed in close session. Government code section 54957. Uh Mr. Superintendent SA, would you like to um make do the list or Sure. Um thank you. So we will be uh going into close session for item 2.1 conference with legal counsel existing litigation paragraph 1 of subdivision D of section 54956.9 just that correct president yes thank you okay and I'm going to take public comment although there's no public um any comment seeing none uh let's go into close session Thank you.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Superintendent Staley. Well, we've been hearing a lot from our elementary schools and tonight we're going to switch it up and we are going to hear from our high schools. So, we are going to start off with Chico High, the mock trial and Casey Masses is going to introduce that and team. I am an English teacher at Chico and coach. Hi, my name is Analisa. I'm a sophomore at Chico High and this year I was the secretary of the club and I've just been elected as the president for next year. Hi, my name is Kaylee Morhead. I'm a senior at Chico High and this year I'm the vice president of mocktrial and I was also a founding member.
I Hi. Hi, everybody. Nice to meet you. So, if you watch him in person, thank you. He gives a good energy to all the students. Congratulations. I'm not my costume, but uh I have a little speech for you. But his energy is always positive. You're not a cliffside kid, but you do bleed cliff side. I give you that much credit. I'm sorry to say that. He does bleed cliff side. I don't know what energy, but his energy is always positive on the court. I watched him a lot this season cuz I was at a lot of games and all that. His your energy alone. I have a little speech here for you. I am also a first responder. So, you know, I it's great that I'm saying this, but I also just wanted to say a little personal stuff, but I do I did watch you this season.
And you are Andy Chapla. Thank you. about. Hi. Who are we here with? Haley. And Haley, do you happen to be in any of the films as a producer or an actor? I am an actor in Eeve's film. Really? Eevee, do you want to come over here? Are you producer, actor? What are you? Yes, I am a producer for the film Nothing Personal, which she's featured in. And you want to introduce yourself? Uh, hi. Yes, I'm Eevee. Uh, morning news anchor, CHS TV, um, social media manager, all that good stuff. Period. She's mother, she's queen, and she serves. She's everything. And what is your film about? My film is about someone who goes through a breakup and these like weird things start happening and you'll have to come to this film festival to see more. Are you guys excited? How was behind the scenes filming it?
There's a craft for teens this month. Adults have crafting, hobby hour, adult only gaming and reading hour. And for every age, we have bingo at the end of every month, all free. So, please come to the library and find something fun to do or just come and read. But however you want to visit us, please visit us. We'd love to see you. Thank you. Miss Miller, do you have a copy or could you get us a copy of all those dates? Maybe we can share them on our Facebook and our uh our school website. Thank you so much. Maybe we can share these on our website. Thank you so much. You came prepared. I like it. That was the only one signed up for public comments. So, at this point, I will turn it over to Dr. Krippler. Okay. Thank you, Mr. President. Appreciate that.
Sorry. The first item of business is the consent agenda. Under the consent agenda is the approval of minutes, financial, fiscal information, extracurricular hirings, and donations. I recommend to the board that they approve the consent agenda as presented this evening. Hearing the superintendent's recommendation, do I have a motion? Make a motion to approve. Second. Second. Hearing first and a second. We'll take it to a vote. Mr. P. Oh, I'm sorry. Comments. Yes. I apologize. Comments. Uh, I mean, thank you for all the donations, of course. Uh, it's always nice to see people, you know, coming out and supporting. Can we can we pause, Dr. Can you read the donations, please? I just I just like the uh public to know who has donated how much. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Toro. We have four people or organizations that have made donations this evening that we'd like to recognize.
Mhm. Currently, we're just getting things uh like set up, make sure the match goes well. Um, we were having technical difficulties earlier at practice from what I noticed. Like there was like some really bad lag. So yeah, hopefully that doesn't occur today. Mhm. Granted, there were like 10 more people in the room on two TVs and like three switches, so there's like a lot more like like hogging up the Wi-Fi. Yeah. So look at that. putting in the password now for the uh for the private room. We're not going to disclose it. We don't want people getting in. But looks like we made the room and they are going to chat something. Oh, they're thinking. They're thinking. We don't we don't know what they're thinking. We can only go off of their like facial expressions. And according to them, edges don't scare them. Okay. Yeah, I I can testify to that.
Um and they had it in a couple different buildings because of the spaces and things like that. Uh so we had three um elementary robotics teams from Sharp Creek and we had one junior high and one high school from Northfield. And one team um has qualified to go to Worlds um again this year which will be in Dallas, Texas. So we want to congratulate them. Uh you'll hear more about that later because I think we're going to do a media um news uh release later on because there's just a lot of awesome things that go along with that. And one thing that's different from when we started robotics, um there were a lot of teams that actually qualified, but because Indiana has a lot of teams, um they were they reduced the number that actually go to state, so it's a lot more competitive than what it used to be and there are less um that are allowed to go to world.
At the hearing, we will ask each of you to limit your comments to three minutes on the topic and and limit be limited to the proposed which will be limited to the proposed project under consideration. The notice of this preliminary determination hearing was published as legally required. The first preliminary termination hearing was held on April 9th, 2025. At this time, I will ask Amy Corsaro, our bond council, to explain the purpose of this hearing. Amy, hello. Look at you. Thank you for having me. And there you are. Pursuant to Indiana Code 2026737, 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 explanations of the potential value of the project to the school corporation and the community are given.
The state and the 40b law is screwing us truly to the idea of saying we don't want business in here. The Route 495 Merc committee is the only committee doing any anything to attract businesses, but not here in Ashland. I think at the state house and the representatives are putting it down and don't want don't really care about it. I challenge them to put Ashan up front for business and not because it's a thing to do, but it's a plus. Thank you. Thank you Mark. Okay, Joan Friday, One Shore Road, Ashland on the historical commission, speaking on my own behalf. Um, hello Senator Spieler, Representative Lewis, and the Ashlin Select Board. I'm here because I need you. We need your help. Ashlin is about to be changed forever and not in a good way. There are currently 240B projects in the works with another on the way.
Hello, my name is Lisia Hunt and I am the founder and president of Mock Trial. So, Mock Trial is a club that anyone can join at Chico High where we essentially get this fake criminal case from the Teach Democracy Foundation and we use it to prepare for a mock trial competition against other schools and it's essentially like having an extra class. Um, we have homework and we have meetings after school and meetings during lunch where we work with local attorneys to learn about the process of a criminal trial and we study and analyze our case packet and we prepare for our arguments on the actual competition day. Um, mock trial really helps students to learn about the judicial process in our country and also to um improve their communication and their critical thinking skills. And it also just improves um our value of civic engagement as a whole.
Even at football, he's I thought I was hyper at a young age. He's triple the energy that I have. So, I hope my son is shaking. I hope my son doesn't have his energy. A lot of energy there. But on that note, uh this evening, the board board of education along with our superintendent, our sister superintendent, u we are proud to recognize Mr. James Liry, an exac exceptional educator and coach in our district whose quick thinking and heroic actions made a life-saving difference. In October, Mr. Liry noticed a student in distress and immediately jumped into the action using the Him remover. Does everybody know what that is? So, basically, you go behind somebody and you go like this and Okay, so I want to commend you for that cuz a lot of people are nervous to jump into action when there's distress. Usually, they go the opposite direction.
How was it for you? It was very fun. We got to go to like my park near my house to film. That was really fun to do. Was it cold? It was like It was like It got colder as the like time went on. Yeah, it was warm overall. Is this your first time attending the film festival? Yes, this is. Would you be attending it next year? I hope so. I really hope so. And what about you? Is this This is not your first. No, this is my third time being at the film festival. I came sophomore year, junior, and then finishing it senior year. Yeah. Do you have anything to say? Anyone watching? Come to the film festival if you're watching right now. Pull up right now. Now, do you want to say anything? Um, same what she said. Come see the film festival.