Indiana code requires the board to either reaportion districts or adjust their boundaries if necessary or reertify the organizational plan if no changes are needed. uh this must be completed no later than December 31st of the year following the denial census which was 2020 for us and the statutory deadline to meet this requirement is June 30th of 2025. Uh the statute goes on to say that if the board does not reertify the organizational plan by this date, members are not entitled to receive any salary or fees until the plan has been reertified. We recently received a reminder from the county clerk re regarding this requirement and the upcoming deadline. Because Center Grove Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees consists entirely of atlarge members, there's no need to balance electrical electoral districts or change our district boundaries. So we're this is a repeat. This just shows our organization as a school board.
If you notice that all the students are getting the same question wrong, you can literally stop the test for all students, go back and talk about what the misconceptions are, and then get them back. And you probably wouldn't do that on a normal benchmark, but if you're doing like a classroom assessment of some kind, you could stop um the test and retach right there before they go any further. You can start on like item type. So, if you're wondering, well, is it really the concept they didn't or they just not understand the way it was presented. You can pull up and see like um did the of the questions that students got wrong were the majority of them like a drag and drop or were you know so you can see kind of it's what it can do is amazing. It's options with it. Jen, um, for the benchmark test, will we be able to design our own so that basically we're only testing on the stuff that has been taught in the classroom and not the stuff that's going to be taught in the classroom.
So I thought maybe that it would be you start your sophomore year um you know if you're interested in something like this and then maybe the sophomore person could be like a three-year term so finish out their high school years and then pick up your second one as a junior and that one would be like a two-year term. Um I just didn't know. I mean, whenever I went to this little seminar at the in Chicago, whatever, I mean, they were just kind of like starting to talk about this process and that, you know, we are here for the kids. Um, they do have voices and stuff like that. So, I didn't know, you know, if this is even something that we have an interest of. I just thought since it was in the journal, you know, the articles were in there that maybe we should discuss it a little bit.
Uh it shows what our officers are and uh we are recommending approval of the organizational plan as presented. Thank you Dr. Long. Any questions or or comments? My understanding Dr. Long, this is as you said a requirement by statute. So this is in essence just a kind of a form document. We already did a reorganization. Uh we do it every January. We comply with the rules that are in here. So this is just kind of formalizing that. and the census has has uh redone since we don't have districts, right? There's no reason to redistrict. I'm not talking about your children. I'm talking about redistricting of of election um groups so that you know one one board member may be from one area another. We're all at large. So this is really just a technicality as I understand it. Do any other questions or comments? All those are Do I hear a motion?
So that the benchmarks are more accurate on how much the kids have really learned, not versus what they might pos what they're going to be learning, but you know, so we we we have a better benchmark to see are they getting what they should be getting this semester or this period and stuff. Yes. So it comes with benchmarks that are set, but we can create our own. Okay. So if that's the direction that the board would prefer we go in, then we can create our own. Um we worked hard this year on creating pacing guides. So um we should have a better indicator on, you know, what we're teaching from quarter to quarter. We would probably have to like for quarter two do all of the quarter two standards and some from quarter one because we want to make sure, you know, that they're maintaining what we taught before.
Do we want to form a subcommittee that would then discuss it more in depth, come up with an actual written policy and then share it with you all? I I think my recommendation would be the administration tell us what they would like as far as the process because whether it's be like a student council president or whether you go through a search process. I don't personally have a preference. I think it's whatever the school the high school thinks would be the best fit to find an individual to represent them. Okay. Yeah. Because I also wrote down like, you know, do you appoint one of your class officers? Um, do you do your student council rep or I mean, I don't know if the high school is do we have students that ever show an interest in like, you know, Mr. Stand will send uh some students from government, not seniors, to polling places, and they'll work as a poll poll official during the elections and we have some that will go to uh a senator or house representatives office for a day to learn.
Now everybody's silent. Yeah, I move as presented. Thank you, Mr. Russell. Do I hear a second? I'll second. I hear a double second. Thank you, M. Donigan Smith and Mrs. Counts. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Opposed. The eyes have it. Thank you. Thank you. Now, on to announcements. Uh we will have a public works session on May 7th, 2025. We will be holding that in the Center Grove High School Media Center followed by an executive session um which will not be open to the public by statute at the same location which will occur on May 7th. Our next board meeting regularly scheduled is May 15th here in this room at 7 o'clock. We'll also have an executive session before at 6 o'clock. Um, Mr. Russell, do you have any announcements? Just legislature finishes up next week and hold your hats on.
But it is a possibility. Yeah. Cuz like on the benchmarks like you know what you know having been a teacher and what I would like to see as a board member is okay we test on what they have supposedly been taught this benchmark period. And that way the teachers can go back and look at it and go, "Oh, this is what we need to." And also then in the like the second benchmark, include some of the stuff from the first benchmark to make sure it stays with them because I mean you can learn it for this, but if you forget it by the end the next one, then you're not going to do well in state testing. So, you know, include in each benchmark grow from the the previous one, but start with the first one just being on stuff they've test. And and so it's always something they've been taught in class, not something that well we're going to be teaching that standard in six weeks or something.
Uh so we do have students that are interested in that. I would say yes. I will get with Mr. Reeves and we will we will try and put some some details into this and then bring it back to the board before the next board meeting. Well, this is just the first reading so we can Yeah. improve it. Any other comments, concerns, questions?
There could be a lot of major changes to public school. Thank you, Mr. Russell. Mrs. Dunan Smith, do you have anything today? No. Mrs. Counts? No. Mr. Alexander? Yes. Um, had our Central 9 monthly board meeting um last th Tuesday, Thursday, last th sorry, last Thursday, one of those days. Last week, last Thursday, um had a um the spotlight program was the early childhood developments. Three Center Grove students out of there was probably 10 or 12 there came in and and presented with what they want to do. three future educators are in the program over at Central 9 or um looking forward to early elementary teaching opportunities. Um on the CN9 front, we are um actively reviewing the contract for um Dr. Kovatch, the director over there. So we are in the process of doing that with him. Um and things are things enrollment at C9 seems to be up quite a bit.
Yes. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. she uh she Jen actually invited me to attend these meetings um on this system and I went in and I looked at it and I said well this is way past my pay grade and so um I kind of gave them I said just make sure it works. Yeah. Yeah. So I appreciate Thank you, Jim. Um and they're all pretty excited about it. I I could hear the um because they did some of the they they did a lot of this with Zoom meetings and so I could hear the conversations across the hall and uh even when I couldn't hear the words because Jen's pretty good about closing her door most of the way but I could hear the tone of voice of the committee and the presenters and and the enthusiasm was the committee was you and um Mrs.
Hearing none. Would anybody like to make a motion to approve the first reading of the Grody Gayy policy review? I'll make the motion. Thank you, Andrew. Second. I'll second please. Lisa Schumacher, yes. Tyson Search, yes. Norin Friedick, yes. Adam Humpkin, yes. Andrea Cory, yes. Kelly Moyer, yes. Greg Meyer, yes. All right, move on to our discussion items. The first one is our facility study. I'm not sure it's a study anymore. I think we're kind of under construction right now. We are under construction. We did the walkth through at 6:00 with the board and uh it's moving fast. We are still in in on tap to have the fence down, parking in front and be able to go in through the front doors and have the administrative administrative offices. um in August with December being about when we would get the classrooms and the auditorium. There's been discussions of do we move the kids in the classrooms in in December and or not.
So there's a lot of interest in Central 9, not only from us, but from the other eight schools. And I saw on Facebook, we had a few synagogue students that were part of teams that went to some state things and won. I can't remember. Yeah. It's a contest they go to a lot. Business Professionals of America. Um there was another one too. Um Oh, culinary. Um and one of the and medical was the other one. POSA was the other. So, yes, I I didn't hear I I just saw quickly, but I saw CG was listed couple times. Um and then on the redevelopment commission front, um we will be getting their annual dollars spent TIFF reports. TIFF reports. Thank you, Mr. D. I'm draw. So, um, should be getting those soon. I think the RDC is giving the update on that, um, the next board meeting on Monday.
Brown, but we also had one um teacher or instructional coach from each campus. So we had a variety of grade levels um so they could all see how it might work for their their grade level. So we had a second grade teacher, a fourth grade teacher, a sixth grade teacher, instructional coach, eighth grade teacher, an eighth grade teacher, and then no, okay. And then myself, and then we had um Mrs. Wily to represent the administrators. Okay. Really a really good committee. Yeah. And we're looking to give that test the same amount of times as we three times. Yeah. Three times. Three times. Yeah. Uhhuh. Okay. Okay. Next item. Music program. I referred to this uh a few minutes ago. So, uh if you recall, and maybe you don't, but that's okay. Um, uh, Jen and I met about two months ago, two and a half months ago with the music teachers in the district, um, who, uh, wanted to know if we could really work on a comprehensive music program that flows all the way from elementary to middle school to junior high, uh, because it's been kind of disjointed and that's partly because we haven't had consistent people in those positions, particularly at the middle school and at the junior high.
Um Mr. Avis Rouse seemed excited today as we did a tour with the with the faculty. He he said he'd love to move in over Christmas break, but he then was talking about the distance from the current gym because it'll be nice when the new gym's there and and so we're just kind of kicking around a bunch of stuff, but uh the building's jumping up. We will have um by August of this year the front by December the whole front done and then in August of the following year of August of 2026, the uh gymnasium will be completed. So, the whole project and phase three, which is the buttoning up in between the media center and things of that nature. Um, any comments from the board that walked through it today? It's nice. I mean, a lot different looking going walking through than it was like driving by on Admiral Parkway because you can't really see all that.
Thank you. Dr. Taylor, do you have anything to add, Dr. Simmers? Dr. Long? No, just uh, real quickly, I you know, the gayla was last Saturday. What a great time to have uh, down at the garment factory in Franklin. I thought that was a really neat venue and lots of people there. That was a lot of fun. Uh last Tuesday we held our first uh strategic planning meeting. Uh and we followed that up on the 30th of this month with our second meeting and a great turnout. Um had good feedback and I think we're making good progress and just that's about it. I do have one other I'm sorry you lost your chance. Yeah, this is a good thing. We need a motion. I think it's kudos to to Dr. Long and the staff. Uh they're getting out into the buildings a lot. Yes. um and seeing what's going on with the kids and talking with the kids.
And I think they were a little surprised when Jen and I said, "Well, yeah, uh, we'd like that idea. Um, give us a proposal. Understand that we might not be able to do all the pieces in year one." And, uh, so they gave us a proposal. Uh, serendipitously, the high school district has offered us a a band teacher at Fox Creek two periods a day for next year. Wow. Yes. So, uh, we are taking them up. So, uh, we we will be doing an IGA with them, uh, for, uh, the music teacher to, uh, teach the high school music teacher, the new band teacher that, uh, that they've been introducing around the neighborhood to, I mean, around the town community, um, to teach two periods of band at Fox Creek. Um, Miss Edge, who was here with her group at Christmas time with the Bells, if you remember her, uh, from Desert Valley, she is going to be the music teacher at Fox Creek next year.
So, it was nice to put, you know, stuff in place. Yeah. I just wanted to say thanks to like all the staff at the high school, the middle school because we were talking with the construction team today and there's what they say 60 I think um contractors on site, which means you have probably 40 plus vehicles that are finding places to park. Sometimes the right parking places, sometimes not. Uh so I know that causes some logistical challenges for Mr. Reeves and company. Um, but I I just want to thank the staff and the students because I know the students are like, I showed up and there's someone in my parking place. Um, it's probably not the last time that's going to happen. Um, but everybody seems to be rolling with the punches and flexible. So, uh, just very appreciative of that. Even the construction crew was, you know, like, you know, we're they're trying to stay on it.
Uh and I think that's just a a great thing. Kids need to see you guys. So, could have commented on that, by the way. Got Dana's attention. All right. I have nothing else to add tonight. So, do I hear a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Do I hear a second? Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. The eyes have it. We're adjourned. Thank you.
and her specialty is strings. And so we're excited to to re resume or uh reinitiate strings because we had a pretty strong strings program about three years ago, four years ago. Um and so uh the two uh principles from the two schools are working on a schedule that will allow Miss uh uh Miss Edge to come down to the middle school next year and restart strings with fifth grade. Okay. and she will start strings at Fox Creek as well. The new teacher that we just talked about that we hired for the middle school in Fox Creek, uh uh the new H1B teacher, her background is coral. And so, uh we will uh of course continue coral at the middle school, but then when Miss Edge comes down here to teach strings, uh the new teacher will most likely go to Fox Creek and teach coral music.