Um February 3rd and 4th was the two days that were uh designated for the Special Olympics and it was at Mountain Creek in Vernon, New Jersey. Um all our athletes participated in the snowshoeing events. We had 100 meters and 200 meters and um the event took place like I said over two days. Uh the events on the first day when everyone got there began with practicing and then at night there's a beautiful beautiful ceremony that's a ringed ceremony like the Olympics and then there's a beautiful dinner dance and everybody got to participate in that. Uh from there people were supposed to go to bed early. I don't know if that happened but um and then uh the following day were all the competitions. Um from there um you know we had you know seen the winners and you know made sure the bus got back okay had a pizza party and that pretty much concluded uh the event.
Mr. Superintendent, board members, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Dell Ruby. I'm a 21-year Air Force retired senior master sergeant. I'm an 18-year federal employee retired at Luke Air Force Base. During my time in the military, I was a leadership and management instructor for First Line Enlistic Supervisors. The young athlete involved in the dismissal of a varsity head coach was involved in over 15 team violations, lied consistently to three coaches, created havoc in the dugout and with teammates. Coach Austin Ber and Lorenzo had one issue where the emotions took over both and both were forced to resign or be fired. I personally saw the Willow Canyon baseball culture changed dramatically as a volunteer part-time coach. Training by all coaches was positive, motivational, and effective. Results for the program. Four new ball players signed up last year. 30 new ball players signed up this year. 35 plus new ball players going to be signed up for next year as well.
Congratulations, Melissa. And substitute teacher Swapna Manchala. Swapna is a kind and responsible individual, always making the effort to help students. Her actions show that she cares for the people around her. She's dedicated to supporting her building and ensuring students stay on track with their learning. One nominator said her positive attitude, patience, and willingness to assist in any way make a meaningful impact in the classroom. Congratulations. One final round of applause. We need Mr. Springer. Come on up. Congratulations. Point pride winner. All right, for our final building celebration this evening, we move to the transition and pathways program. Our first winner is social worker Jessica Shega. Working tirelessly to support students in an innovative manner, Jessica is greatly appreciated by those around her. She's thoughtful, collaborative, and constantly seeks the input of all stakeholders. As highlighted by a fellow coworker, quote, "Jessica's thoughtful approach and compassion for our students and passion for her role is apparent in every day of the school year." Congratulations, Jessica.
Congratulations to all of our student athletes on your outstanding accomplishments. Good luck with your future endeavors. Thank you to our coaches for your dedication and the hard work that you put in each and every day to make a difference in the lives of our student athletes. I again just want to thank everyone for coming out tonight. I think we made record time this evening. I'm super excited though and I just want to thank uh Jill again, thank Taylor, everybody that was uh a part of making this happen. I'm just super jacked about these new boards and and we've got another one going in down at the multi-purpose field. So, uh things are looking good around here. So, this concludes our our banquet. I really do appreciate you coming out tonight and uh everyone have a safe trip home.
Now, Mr. Payne will conclude our presentation. In closing, we are incredibly proud of our students and their achievements in robotics. The hard work, innovation, dedication they've all shown have brought the them to this incredible opportunity at the VEX Worlds. And we know that they will continue to represent BCSC with pride. We'd like to thank you for your ongoing support um because without BCSC support, we could not do these things in our schools. Um we look forward to sharing their continued success with you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Have a good day. Oh yeah. Good job tonight. Have a great trip. Good luck. Thank you so much. Good luck, guys. Congrats. And congratulations on your award Saturday. Amazing. Good luck. Thank you for [Applause] I want you right in front of me. The element could be [Applause] and Miss Wen, they're being humble. Both uh some honors from this weekend.
We say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge 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. I'd like to read our vision statement. The vision statement of Coington Community Schools is equipping every student to achieve their aspirations. Um, at this time I need a a motion and a second to approve tonight's agenda. I'll make a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Second. We got a motion and a second to approve the agenda. All in favor? I. None opposed. And the agenda tonight, the sole agenda tonight is uh to approve the superintendent contract and to officially hire Paulie McGee as our next superintendent uh of schools here at Cington Community Schools. Um nobody has signed up for public comment, so there'll be no public comment uh this evening.
You will see an analysis of kind of what these curricula support as well as then the associated costs and it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the purchase of amplify ELA for middle school lingo Spanish for middle school for high school my apologies and reveal an Alex for middle school mathematics starting in the 2526 school year and this is at a price of $847,583.98. Thank you Mr. You heard a recommendation of administration for the purchase of Amplify ELA link Spanish for the high school 2025 2026 at 847,583 Mr. second by Mr. Bass question. Same same question as for the last adoption. We've worked with these folks before. Um Amplify will be similar to they package CKLA which is what is used at the elementary. However, Amplify is its own publisher. So it's slightly different than what is used at the elementary level. LinkGo is a new partnership for us and Reveal and Alex is a new partnership for us with those publishers.
Did anyone have any questions about anything specific? No. Okay. Total claims dated April 28th, 2025, $425,8753. We'll go ahead and move on to the fund report. Um your first line there is education fund balance at the end of March uh 31st, 2025. 3,921730. Go down about three more lines to operations. You'll see that balance at the end of March was 346 3197. The next one below that, we've got rainy day fund at 2,825 92247. And then in geo bond uh 2024 the balance um in the geo bond at the end of March was 1 million 355 33926 and then if you go to the very last page of the fund report you're going to see the balance in all funds that total balance is 10 million 41360766. Next in your package you're going to have the depository statement. Again, that just shows that we are in balance with our banks.
Understand any questions for Terry about the projects? So is part of that the re- roofing of the buildings too? It is the main part is roofing. The sighting is secondary to that. And I'm just trying to remember I think we did Andrew's and you may not know this a couple of years ago when it got hail damage. So these are the last two of that. So you the the shingled portions of the buildings are done. Okay. Those were done in 22 I believe. Um these are the flat roofs. Um they're just a smaller portion of building. Okay. I was just making sure. I was trying to remember what all it was. Cool. Any other questions for Terry? We can go to D2 bid. Okay. So we received two bids. Um got a vote on that. I'd love to make a motion. I thought that was it.
Miles. Uh board, any questions or comments regarding the financial updates? Looks like we're in good shape. So, we appreciate that work. Thank you. All right. At this time, I will move to our board for our committee chair reports. Um, we'll go ahead and start with policy. Miss Pucket. Yes. Um, I have three points for this evening. The Indiana General Assembly adjourn CADA early in the morning on Friday, uh, May April 25th. Now the real work begins of making law into actionable policy begins. So I know that we'll have more conversations on how um these policies will affect our township. So I'm looking forward to that on having those further conversations. Secondly, from this from this legislation session, we can expect two revision packets. Um, a one will be a special 2025 package addressing laws that will go into f uh go into force July the 1st and b the second will consist of all the policies not in the special package.
This is Cam reminding you that I said your name. I was just Yeah, I was just taking you guys through the first quarter. Trying to trying to do the best as play by play and and color. Just the one man. Good job. Yeah. So, from what I've heard, Sullivan has had a good game so far for the Raiders. And now, here we go. Here's a draw. And Hollist wins it. Anastasia with it. He is their lone goal scorer. He's going to run it around that long side. Getting pestered by Kramer. And now the ball is up to number nine Robi. Pass it off to 23. Melly got and they're just working the ball around pretty quickly. Cam, they got it behind the net right now. Number 40 with it. Maguire. And good play there for the Raiders. Getting it back now. This will be I think who is that?
Finn gets the ball up to Chapman. Chapman up to Conley and that's 16. Carney ends up sneaking one past Jenna Holly for West Springfield's first goal of the game. Sorry, not Carney. Connelly. A four to one Spartans lead with 254 left in the first quarter. Jordan back up on the draw this time. Kamarino ends up knocking it around. Still loose. M Whitler ends up with the ball. Mack making quick headway. Goes by one. smartly pulls back and waits for the saw metal offense. Keney with the ball, gets the ball over to Addy. Jordan goes through one, turns around, takes a shot. Nice save by Davis. Caroline Lucasa quickly there to pick it up. Gets the ball back to M. Whitward. M Whit the dodge. Takes a shot. Another save by Davis. Davis gets one up. throws the ball all the way up to Po. Po switches fields up to Hermovic.
So that's that that is a really good spirit to admire when we uh when we are looking for a great leader. So tonight, uh, Lane Griffith, uh, your leadership shines brightly and, uh, we are incredibly excited to see what you will accomplish in the future. [Applause] We'll now have Susie Becker come up and present. Hello, my name is Susie Becker. Myself and Lavina Dalby are the co-sponsors for the Wildcats Care Club. The Wildcats Care Club is a group of 16 high school students who look out for each other and who want to help out their peers. When the group first started, they only stocked hygiene products in the bathrooms at both Burlington Middle School and Burlington High School. We have evolved into stopping the boys and girls locker rooms as well with all hygiene products products needed. If a student needs to shower at school after PE class or a ball game, all products are provided.
With that, I'm going to hand it over to Mr. Yates. All right. Thank you, Dr. Smith. Good evening, everyone. Welcome back. Um, so here we are finally at our final budget presentation here in April. If you have not uh listened to our budget presentations that took place, we started these discussions in January. In January, we talked about S2, its impact on our district, why are we here, how do we get here? We identified that uh our cumulative total state funding reduction uh from the onset of S2 to the projected 2526 is about $38 million for us. Um and each year that we pass a budget where our funding is not restored back to prior uh S2 levels, we will continue to absorb those losses, whatever they are. For us, it's about $7 million a year as Dr. Smith mentioned. Um, so here we are tonight and we're going to talk about our 2526 general fund budget.
What is I really want everybody to know that there's so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen. Starts in about November and Mr. of the car can attest testify for all the paperwork that's involved in getting this to happen. There's practices, there's fundraising, there's advertisements, there's collating, reaching out to families. Uh it it's a big undertaking. Um but really really worth it. Wonderful experience uh for the district and and for the kids. Um, it could never ever happen without the support of the families and our wonderful, wonderful coaches. So, I'm going to ask you guys to just stand up and we can give a big round of applause to our backbone. [Applause] Okay. Okay. Assistant coach Kim Doctor another assistant coach uh also our pizza delivery man Andrew Diko uh is ill could not come tonight but let's give him a big round of applause anyway and our head which Mr.
One varsity, one JV, one freshman player missed games due to academics. This is the result out of 46 ball players. This is the result of coach Austin's academic mandates. Six Willow Canyon seniors receive baseball college scholarships. Currently, they have an 18 and 10 current record. They might have another win tonight. They're ranked 38th in the state. Last year, they were ranked 103rd in the state. 73 record in regionals. second place for this year. Last year they were in fifth place. Coach Ber had four non-paid coaches, adult coaches, working coaches who didn't have sons in a program as his coaches. Coach Ber also developed six major league university summer and winter baseball teams training and developing young athletes and more importantly their character. results. Major League University program dramatically impacted the surprise and surrounding communities with parents and athletes in a positive way with over 110 student athletes participating due to lack of upper management leadership support and ineffective communication to team members.
Next up, teacher Lisa Rooda. Lisa's patience and kindness is shared with students and staff members alike. Often the first to volunteer in supporting other classrooms, she brings a strong sense of positivity to her work. She's committed to supporting her students through every step of their journey. One nominator said, "She is the hardest, most caring teacher that I have ever had the privilege to work with." Congratulations, Lisa. And our last celebration tonight in the Pride winners is teacher assistant Sharon Shambball. Sharon's hard work and care has had such an impact on those in her building. She approaches every challenge with a positive attitude and a smile on her face. She's very helpful to both students and staff. quote, "She is a total assets to our program, our students, and our school staff." Congratulations, Sharon. One final round of applause. And Keith, come on up. One, two, three.
Hannah Widner won the middle school STEM student of the year at the MEA Gala, South Asian Gala over the weekend. Wow, congratulations. And on top of that, the central other central coach that couldn't be here tonight who teaches uh STEM there, and I think they have six teams that they run at Central, Mr. Jonathan Wolford was the middle school STEM teacher of the year at that same event. Congratulations, Okay, very good. Our next item is top 10 students from Columbus East, Columbus North High School. Dr. Charles Edwards. You are not Charles Edwards. I'm so sorry. Uh, good evening. I'm Brilland Noling. I'm assistant principal for cohort 2025 at Columbus North High School and I will let the video [Music] play. My name is Grace Wang. I'll be attending either Princeton or Columbia University in the fall to study mechanical engineering. Um, my favorite BCSSE memory has been food Fridays and poker in our math class.
So, um, I need a motion and a second to approve Holly McGee as the next Coington Community School Superintendent. Make a motion to approve the contract. Holly McGee, our next superintendent. I'll second it. I've got a motion and a second.
So this had been something in the past I don't specific question but something in the past would have been textbook rental correct yes exactly yep questions favor by saying I carries Item 4.03, approval to apply for and receive grant funds from the IDOE, Office of Special Education Behavior Grant. This is passes. Good evening, President Smith, members of the board. Um, tonight we come to you seeking approval for um application and receipt of the Office of Special Education's Behavior Grant Funds of 20,7183. Uh this will allow us to train three additional staff members as CPI trainers um and allow us to target some of our special populations with those trainers. Heard their recommendation to of the administration to apply for and receive the IDE office of special education behavior grant funds of $20,7183 for the 2025 2026 what you're feeling is competitive. What's our chances? Well, I may already know the outcome.