Mr. McConey, is there anything you want to say for the people watching at home? Maybe, I don't know, some other play. Oh, definitely. If you're if you're watching this at home and you were thinking, I'm going to stay home, hang out, maybe watch Netflix or something, I got to tell you, 18 original films coming from uh the students here at CHS, you definitely want to be here. Um not at home. This is the place to be tonight. And um yeah, I always tell my students, you know, whatever it is, skip the party. Um skip whatever's going on because this is the place you want to be. It's going to be very exciting tonight. Guys, please stay in tune and watch till the end. else. Uh, can I do a second? Yeah, sure. Okay, cool. Who are we here with? Oh, uh, I'm Joey Petriella. And you were very familiar.
You contributed a great deal and we're very proud of you as well. So, thank you very very much for that. Good job. One of the things that is a strong goal of mine was to have our elementary schools work together to provide our students with the same opportunities that both of our elementary schools provided. So we had students from time to time that may leave Bailey and come to Hamilton school and vice versa. And we wanted to make sure that those students in those transitions were not lost in their studies and lost as to where they were uh studying and learning in their particular classrooms. And one of the advantages to prevent that from happening is having our elementary school principles working together and our schools working together offering same opportunities, same programs, same instruction, and meeting those Indiana academic standards. And I want to just take a moment to express my appreciation to Miss Havens and also to Mrs.
Our first one was held on March 13th, but we will have two more. One May 15th and then one when school starts in September 25th will be the last one. I also want to make recognition of the Lake Station Lions Club. They have partnered here with a local eye doctor in Lake Station to provide uh needed glasses for any of our students that may need help in getting glasses. Uh reach out to the school, reach out to a member of the Lions Club and they will be very happy to help you with that. Yesterday we had the career fair for our Edison High School students and this was the third career fair that we had. It was very well attended. We have over 40 vendors representing colleges, universities, representing uh apprenticeships, internship programs, military service, law enforcement, and also we had people from the Legacy Foundation that were here to offer our students the opportunity to apply for scholarships to further their education.
Outing the talk back my good luck charms. All right. I I use a lot of these for tributes to the people that mean a lot in my life. The ones that you know the ones I've gotten tributes from. I got this necklace from my good friend Sebie. We seem to be starting. I got this uh Pokemon card. I pulled it while I was with my sister and her fianceé Jesus. I got this uh bracelet from my dad and these Isabelle ears for me, baby. And we are starting right now. Go coach your team. Go help your team. Go help your team. Go help your team. We can do it. You could tell they're enthusiastic about this. We're starting with Oh, look. They are fighting. Falco hitting some really I I I think that was I don't I don't play Smash a lot. I play different like platforming fighting games such as Brahalla.
Had a update on the road. It's going well. I think they've had some pretty good weather, which helps. Um, on their calendar, April 10th, they will have a ASBA, which is a military test available to the students. Um they'll have a career fair April 16th in the school during school and then they'll have an open house 6:00 to 7:30 the same day after April 16th. Then on April 21st at 6 p.m. at the First United Methodist, they'll have the National Technical Honor Society. They'll have 32 seniors and 28 juniors, which is pretty good. Uh Mr. and Mrs. Donald How donated a 2002 Dodge Durango for them to fix and they think that will probably be one of the they'll give away. Yeah. This year they got a Pontiac I think 2005 Pontiac buy. One of the local people in Wabash had that and I guess it's a mint condition.
I'd be happy to answer any questions uh at this time if that is correct Miss Corsaro or should I are we is there somebody else who needs to speak okay thank you any questions see none thank you sir we will now open the public hearing remember if you would like to speak please sign in on the sheet which is located at the table in the back of the boardroom As I mentioned earlier, we ask that you state your name and the address. Limit your comments to the proposed project and financing.
Yep. Hold on. Get to the right place. Oh, no. Not that one. If I can get a motion to reopen the hearing for um the continuation for modification of a class 2 license for New Beginning Auto Services, Inc. 73. 73. Yeah. So moved and a second. Uh all those in favor of reopening the hearing. I we have not heard anything back from this uh business. So if I can get a motion to close the hearing. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. Uh, so that piece of business is done. Uh, Susan has reached out to them to let them know that they're now going to have to reapply because we've asked for them and so then it'll get rescheduled. Thank you. Sorry about that. Go ahead, Roger Shri. Not not a problem at all. Um, I wanted to acknowledge Jen as well. Um I got to know her um as one of the earliest members of Ashland is United when it was formed in 2017.
Not to say mine isn't cool, but this is extra cool. Uh, and so the future plans to this uh would be we're going to be designing like a robotics style course and uh we can we were actually spitballing ideas this morning about how we could potentially continue our collaboration. Uh, and I just put some like simple graphics as a as a an idea where we have like a prototyping idea. So that's just like the drawing. It's the idea, you know, what you're thinking it's going to look like. Then the next stage would be your your first viable prototype or your, you know, your proof of concept that everything will work together. And then the third version which would be you know the the final product that would be marketable which is where Lauren and I think that we could extend um into that that space so that her art students can help us make the components and the wires look nicer and more pleasing.
He does really a wonderful job and this is the plan that gets reviewed by the county and the state each and every year. It gets updated. Uh it's a probably a 50 60page document. So I commend Mr. Dano and his team. I also like to take you to pages 17 and 18 if I may please. Uh, page 17 is each and every year we're fortunate to get about $8,000 from New Jersey Schools Insurance Group for a safety and security grant. What we're actually going to do with that money, we don't I'm not 100% sure yet. We'll work with the uh the staff and co in regard to the best use of that money. But the first thing we have to do is get it uploaded and get it approved to use the money. And that's what we're doing tonight is we're going to get the resolution approved.
You were in the Big Time Rush last year, right? Yes, I was. Yes, I was the producer of Big Time Rush. Oh, really? Was it you and anyone else? Ian and Omar Rosario, we were the producers. They went viral on Tik Tok, guys. And who? Gustavo was the one who noticed you guys, right? Yeah. Uh Gustav, the actual Gustavo, I forgot his name. Steven something. How was it being noticed? It was cool like seeing him like acknowledge us and whatever. It was really It was really cool. Like we were actually big time for once. What was were you guys going to make a sequel ever? Like uh we're in the works of making a sequel right now to see if it blows up again. Very excited for that. I'm sure the girls, the fans will go crazy. Is there anything you're producing? Anything you're going to be in this year?
Hayes for being here this evening and doing just that. Uniting bringing the strengths of both Bailey Elementary and Hamilton Elementary together. And it has been an amazing thing to see. And our students are benefiting from that through high test scores, improved test scores, and improving that instruction and that curriculum that we provide here at Lake Station Schools. So, I just wanted to express my appreciation to both those principles this evening, Mrs. Havens and Mrs. Hayes. Thank you. [Music] And I also want to express my appreciation to Mrs. Miller. Thank you for coming. Uh I have been to the library several times and had the opportunity to meet you. She does an amazing job working with our students and working with children in the library. So we will be putting the information that she shared with you this evening on our website. So that way you can get the dates and the times and also the programs that they are offering.
It was very well attended and our students also got a little bit of swag out of it. So, they got some things to take home with them. I want to just thank Raquel Ibakco for organizing that and working with the mayor, Bill Carroll, and some community citizens to put that career fair on for our students this year. Last night, the elementary schools combined their efforts and held a math madness uh event up here at Edison High School where parents and students were able to come work on some STEM projects and work on some math projects where they made different shapes using paper, popsicle sticks, toothpicks, and marshmallows. They also featured popcorn and snow cones for our patrons that visited the Math Madness program last night. Uh we also had students guess on the number of jelly beans that were in a jar. Another one was how many beads and how many hair ties and they won those that guessed the number or came closest a prize.
So sending out Gordos. He got hit by it. What the heck? Spits him out. All right. Parrying is happens to be very good, you know. Oh, boy. Fighting in the air. Oh, big hit. Big hit. Big back here. Oh, I forgot you get Oh, with the forwards match. Wow. Or that's the first stalk. Wow. Did not expect it to go away that fast. Wow. Granted, Eli does always hit some very heavy hits on um King DDD. I think that's his name. Yeah, he plays King DDD. Mhm. Is he getting back to the stage? Oh, he does get back to the stage. Yeah, that super armor through his upy. Oo, it's a pain to deal with. Oh, he almost hit him into the spike. Oh, but he does hit gets him with the back hit box. Ups. Oh, wow. Up special doesn't end up working. All right, shield the forward air.
Uh on personnel, Dave Brace has been there for 43 years teaching graphic design and he's going to retire. So um they had competitions cosmetology cosmetology skills USA will send seven students the Indiana State Fairgrounds in April 11th and 12th. Culinary arts will send two students and networking cyber security Vicky Hulahan teaches u they'll send eight students to the national to business professionals of America in Orlando Florida in May. So that's what they're doing over there. Good. Excellent. Thanks Matt. Right. Just a couple of things. Um, you know, legislation continues and we talked about this before the board meeting a little bit. Dr. C and I were talking about it and of course the um it will end I think it's April 29th. So we're just about a month away so we'll know a lot more but there's a lot of things that are talking about.
Keep any comments to three minutes and avoid being repetitive if possible. And we have the sign-in sheet here. It looks like our first uh person to sign in as a guest is Amanda Harson. Amanda, good evening. My name is Amanda Harson and I am the chancellor at IvyTech Madison and I thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I am here to express my full support for Madison Consolidated Schools proposed Erling Learning Center and share how IvyTech stands ready to help contribute to its success. There's no question through the data and through the surveys that access to reliable highquality ch child care is one of the most urgent needs in our community. Our community continues to face a s shortage of early childhood educational professionals and that shortage affects not only families, it impacts our workforce, our economy and our ability to grow. IvyTech Madison is deeply committed to being a part of the solution.
I joined much later and I leaned on her for her astute sense of direction. I was amazed how seamlessly she traveled between her role as a senior leadership in town as well as a veritable member of this community. Every meeting ends or begins with we need to check with Jen or what does Jen have to say? Through heavy uh and sometimes conflict-like situations, Jen emerges unfased and truly focused on the goal. Because of her, we became a group that works in tandem with the town, spreading our message of inclusivity. Even re as recently as last week, we sent her a barrage of questions and promptly Jen got back to us with her response. She opened a lot of doors for us. Uh she has been our rock of Gibralar, our friend and an incredible leader. Jen, we send you our good wishes and know that you have a home and a family right here in Ashland.
And uh so that's basically our whole piece. They these two were great. They uh basically did all of the stuff independent of us and then we needed two people and so we just immediately grabbed them. So they they are further along in our project than we are. So this is going to be great. Yeah. They're going to tell us where we're going. So I would like to summarize what our graphic design students are going to do for this project. and they're going to create sprites, which are like two-dimensional textures or animations, like images that the computer science students are then going to use in their own game that they're going to be making. And these are some examples that students have currently made in the class. And uh what this assignment is going to teach the graphic design students and why this could be valuable is because they're going to learn a few like necessary skills to go further up into the graphic arts and the graphic design which is going to be animation collaborating with a client and other skills such as that.
We will upload it tomorrow morning with the help of Mr. Savastana so I don't muck it up and then we will get formal approval and then we can engage in a project for 252. We get this money pretty much each and every year and on page 18 resolution 47 that we spoke about that's the multi-purpose room at number six school. Uh a bid was awarded to Blackstone as Mr. Capano alluded to in the work session. The total bid is approximately $1,392,000 and it's going to be a complete rena of the multi-purpose room on the elementary side at number six school. Mr. Capan, I wanted maybe want to give a little overview of exactly what we're going to be doing there. Windows and flooring. Excuse me. It says growth contract. Grove contract big. They were the lowest bidder and then he withdrew it. As you know, we've had experience with Grove Construction.
Me and Omar, we produce the substitute teacher film. I heard a lot about that. Yeah. So, we got the first film in the film festival, which should be really uh exciting. Very exciting. Is there anything you want to share about your film? No, I think everyone will see it and uh you know, hopefully they have a little laughs and we'll be good. You know, I'm sure they will. Is there anything you want to say to the people watching at home or maybe across the world who never know? Uh, I love cats. Real. There we go, guys. I'm kind of starting to run out of questions. So, we're going to introduce. This is the paper. This is the paper that they're being given at the front desk. Right now, we have people walking in. I'm waiting to get more people. Maybe a parent excited to see their kid on the show.
You can get that right from our website. So give us a day maybe even well yeah we can do it in a day. We'll get that up on our website for you. Thank you Kathy Banks saying okay we could do that. All right without further ado if I may continue. Absolutely. we will get to the business at hand and go to our schoolboard agenda this evening. Our first item on the agenda is the consent agenda. And the items underneath the consent agenda will be the approval of minutes, financial fiscal information, and approving hiring for our extracurricular programs. Those are the items under the consent agenda. And at this time, I would like to recommend to the board that they approve the consent agenda as presented to you this evening. Hearing the recommendation of the superintendent, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I have a motion.