So, we appreciate that opportunity that our elementary schools provided for our community and our families. And the last but not least, in case anybody has forgotten, Lake Station Schools is on spring break next week. Enjoy spring break, but remember, school starts back up after spring break on Monday, March 31st. Thank you, Mr. President. You're welcome. Uh, Mrs. Tober, do you have anything? Just that I want to express my deepest condolences to the Vanderland family. I got to work with Jim for a lot of years. We became dear friends and even after he left the board, we still got to chat quite often and he will be greatly missed by me. He uh I had a lot of respect for Jim and and I I'm very sorry for Eleanor and for their whole family. So he he will be missed. Absolutely. Mr. Wesn had anything? Um the same.
Punish it. That's good. He Oh, he he sends back the spike. Oh, get the stock off Eli with a nice air combo. Holy canoli and then up tilt and a back air. He's about one hit away from death from just one heavy hit. Oh. Oh. Oh, a forward air and up tilt. What the heck? Up tilt into up airs. He's using combos. Wow. He's a gamer. He's a gamer, ladies and gentlemen. Mhm. All right. Using a forward tilt to space him out. Punch lies forward smash. He tries landing with a neutral air. Doesn't end up working. Oh, man. A lot of a lot of King DDD's moves have a lot of lag, so he's got to be very selective about lag to them. Huh? like end lag to them. Yeah, lots of end lag. So, lot big punish windows if he misses. Oh, he does miss the belly flop, but he still does get the kill.
Of course the budget is the big one. The property taxes, school grades are also on there too. Um that's going to be legislated that we'll have to bring that back in. So that that makes some changes. Think uh will change some things again for us at all schools. And so we're just going to keep an eye on it and continue to talk to our legislators about some of the things that we would like to see happen if um they have other thoughts. And so the forecast comes out like the middle of April, I believe. And so that will give us a little better idea of what the budget will actually look like. So we'll continue to watch that. And the last thing uh we have another update on the video here. I just want to show you that um with uh the project. So since they do this is a little about a minute and 4 seconds.
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Congratulations on your new job and we know we are sending off the best of the best to them. Not that I really care about them just thank you. Thank you registry. Uh anyone else for public participation? Seeing any hands? Okay, great. We're going to move to the next item in our agenda. I'm going to welcome uh Jack Patrick Lewis, our state rep, and Senate President Karen Spila. I don't know if you're going to both come up together um or if you want to do one and then the other. Um I am going to let you know this, their time is limited and we are not going to be opening this to the public for questions. We are going to allow if the select board and I know we're going to have some school committee members um attending as well. And uh maybe Jim, I'm not sure is Jim on there.
So that's what we're kind of trying to have them learn right now is mainly animation is like a big focus of this project. So those are some more examples. I'm just going to interject. I just started animation like two days ago and so these are like just their first like two day two days of learning how to do this. So we're launching up. But yeah, it's it's it's funny and and we're just in the start of it. Yeah. And I think that the art is a really important part of the video games. You could argue it's like the most important part because as someone who grew up on video games for better or for worse, um I think that probably the most important part of the video games is how they look. Not necessarily quality, but like the feel or like the kind of tone of the video game.
Paragraphs says withdraw. Okay. And and being part of a lot of bids. He underestimated the job and then he he thought about his numbers and he pulled his bid and in a way it was a saving grace. We we had budgeted around 2 million. So this came way below under budget. The cost estimate was about a million7. And Blackstone is currently working in Cliffside Park on um senior activity center and housing authority administrative offices expansion. Um we have some experience with them. You can pass by the housing authority complex and uh you can see that the structure is already up. So they look like a sound uh outfit uh company um in construction and Land Associates has checked their referrals and we're currently working with them on the housing authority end. But uh they're a good company. It's going to be an overhaul of the entire multi-purpose/ gym.
So, let's get over let's go over act one. So, first we have bikers and surfers rumble. That's giving very teen beach movie which I'm very excited for. Then we have welcoming cast three seniors. The substitute teacher which was Joey who we just interviewed and Omar. Omar come here. Come here. Just talking about Mr. Omar. He's here. How are you? Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. You seem tired. Yeah. Woke up from a nap, you know. Uh really careful of senior assassin. I see you with the floaty. You better keep it more out so people to see. Guys, his mom called. Um I don't think a lot of people want to be interviewed. I'm kind of scared. Um I lost my moral support. I don't know where Philip went. I'm kind It's live. You guys can duck down if you want. You guys are good. [Music] Um, I don't know where my moral support went.
Do I have a second? I'll second. Any comments hearing? None. Mr. Phillips. I. Mr. Plesca. I. Mr. Musk. I. Mr. Tinario. Hi. And I vote I. Moving on to items under personnel, excuse me. I I would recommend to the board this evening that they approve the recommendation to suspend Mrs. Godby without pay for three work days starting April 29th, 2025 through May 1st, 2025. returning on Friday, May 2nd, 2025 for board policy violations. I would recommend to to the board this evening that they approve that recommendation. Hearing the recommendation. So move. I have a motion. Second. I have a second. Any comments?
My condolences to the Vanderland family. I've known Jim for a very long time as well and he will be dearly missed. Any other comments? That being said, this meeting is a journ.
Now, let's just see how much damage he could take. Best case scenario, Eli. Oh, Eli just Oh, kills him the stock. Oh, okay. He gets back. Oh, cutting him into give him damage. Hopefully. Mhm. Hopefully, he can get a lot of damage or better yet, just not lose his stock at all. Oh. Oh, there you go. That's a big hit and an up air, too. Quite disjointed that up air is. Oh, wow. He covered the top of Falco with his Gordo and the left of Falco with his uh with his neutral special. He's He's very intelligent player. He's thinking in five dimensions at this point. See? So Oh, he he does get the recovery. Mhm. He's up to 200%. Falco just can't get He's just one tiny touch away from death. Oh gosh. But the Falco was also one just heavy hit away from dying as well.
So launch here. They don't have an over overlay like they've done before, but get some more of the foundation completed and more of the walls. At least four. Look at this tennis courts too. I think the tennis team is going to enjoy those. Would be nice. That's what I like. Are you doing say you're doing productivity? Yes, I am. And to pull that up. So, there's two things on here. First of all, the K through5, we appreciate those people or the one person that actually took the time, we appreciate that, going over, uh, the curriculum that had been sent out there. And so, uh, they spent a lot of time going over it and they have decided for grades K, I'm sorry, for grades three through five, they're going to go with wonders. Um, and so that's very, very good. And then for K through 12, they did not feel like they had a viable option for their instructional needs.
With your leadership in this investment, we can make a generational impact. On behalf of IvyTech Madison, we're ready to stand with you as a partner in preparing the early childhood workforce your families, our businesses, and the children deserve. Thank you for your commitment to our community and thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this vision. Thank you. Thank you, Amanda. Our next speaker is uh Holly Robinson. There she is. I should say Dr. Holly Robinson. It's okay. Good evening. Oh, thank you so much for having me. So, Holly Robinson, 1645 North New Jersey, Indianapolis 46202. Um, so I am here tonight uh as a pediatrician uh as a researcher uh and now as a founder of a program here in Jefferson County dedicated specifically to serving infants. Um we all know through other presentations that child care is critically important. Um it was you know barriers um to having child care was named in our state survey as number one to work.
Okay. Um only because of respecting of their time. if afterwards, you know, you have a specific question, you can certainly reach out to their offices to get those questions answered. Um, I also expect that with their reports that they're giving us tonight that a lot of the potential questions we may have may already be addressed. So, go ahead. And I want to say welcome Karen, welcome Jack. We appreciate you taking the time to be here tonight. Thank you. It's always a pleasure. And surprise surprise, we want to start out by thanking Jen. Uh thank you so much for everything you've done for all of our residents and the community as a whole. You have really helped to make Ashland a richer place, a warmer place to live, uh and have contributed in so many areas. You've heard from only some of the people the highlights.
It most video games all have their own style. There's not really that many that blend together. So, I think that's a really important part for game making. And I think that having students that excel in this like little niche of making um their designs and their own, you know, ideas and actually being able to put them into games. I think that that's going to be really beneficial for them and open up a lot of opportunities for them in the future. And I'll let Xavier take over. So what our computer science students will be doing is they have been tasked with coding and creating a fully functional game from scratch. Um, we've spent this year learning how to code and using JavaScript. And as of right now, we're using a game engine called P5 Play, which is very beginner friendly. And it's it's been working very well for us so far.
Some structural work with uh has to be done also. It's also going to become ADA compliant with um going to have a a chair lift in there. A lot of good things uh are going to come out of there. Uh I know it's going to affect a little bit um the recreation program, but I'm pretty sure that uh Joe Rut, the bird administrator is going to be meeting, can I interject? We met with myself, uh Sir Spanella, Mr. Rut, okay, and Magna today on a plan in regard to how we're going to work the recre summer recreation. Correct. the fall recreation, everything to do with recreation with Ma Magna gave us kind of a laundry list and what she needs from us, how we could potentially be compromising her business, what we can do to help her uh you know, kind of reinvent the wheel.
I'm kind of scared. Kind of not. Oh, I'm really excited for songs in real life. Kayla, I don't know who there's Phillip. Phillip, please don't go away. I'm scared. I need Do you want to do me a favor? Do you want to search up questions on like Chant to ask? Yeah, you're fine. I think we're going to have to be like, "Hey, those are the boys I sold. Do you guys want to be interviewed?" I sold the tickets to you guys, right? You remember it was me. Good. So, I'm here with Brian, Jaden. No, I'm joking. It's Jaden. And are you guys happen to be in the film? Are you a producer, an actor, or anything? Um, no. We're just uh here as a viewer, but um we do want to make our own film in the future and we are also supporting our friends in the films.
Hearing none. Mr. Bilips I. Mr. Plesca. I. Mr. Musk. I. Mr. Tinario. Hi. and I vote I. Moving on to items under new business, I'm recommending to the board this evening that they approve to adopt the revisions to board policies as presented for first reading at the March 19th, 2025 meetings. Those policies are policy 2340 field and other corporation sponsored trips. Policy 6250 enrollment policy 8330 directory information. I'm recommending to the board that they approve the revisions to those board policies. Hearing the recommendation. I'll make a motion. I'll second that. Any comments?
And Eli knows how Oh, he I was going to say he knew how close he was to death. He was using a lot of dodges being very selective with his moves. Ooh, up tilts into up air. He loves that combo. Yep. But Eli with an up tilt of his own and a forward tilt and a dash attack. Let's see. Can he Can he Can he edge guard? Ooh. Oh, wait. Oh. Oh, wait. Oh, let's see if he gets the edge guard. Sends out a Gordo. charging up. Oh. Oh, he barely misses. He didn't even turn it around. Oh, but a forward. That's good. That's good. Sending a Gordo off, but Falco reflecting it. Oh. Oh. Oh. Misses the sidebe, I think. I don't Would that be correct or is that like No, that would be a forward smash when he brings his hammers. Okay. Oh, boy.
So they're going to continue uh with the Heggertity, which they've been doing, which they've been using. And so they're going to look maybe next year to see what that would look like and see if there's um some other curriculums out there. And so Wonders is the one uh that, like I said, for three through five and K through two is not choosing anything new. Um they're going to continue with what they have. And so I'm going to ask after I get done with this that you approve that. Um Mr. Drake was would like that to be approved. And then preliminary I read results are very favorable, but we do know um there's a lot of time you take the test. So in second grade, you can see that on the first bullet point. Second graders that did not pass will have another opportunity to retest before entering third grade.