We had Sed Obi who did the 100 meter took silver second place and 200 meter bronze third place. We have Jeremiah Perez who did the 100 meter who took a certificate of sixth place and 200 me silver second place. We had Jennity Rodriguez who did the 100 meter. She took a certificate of third place and the 200 meter she took second place silver. And last but not least, we have Rainard Rogers who did the 100 meter. He took second place and the 200 meter. He took gold first place. So I just want to thank the superintendent, the business administrator, and all the board members for making this possible for these students. Thank you. [Applause] Sure. Heat. [Applause] I know we do. We do. Wait, guys. Wait, guys. Wait, guys. Before they leave, can we just acknowledge them because you guys are leaving and we always do the thank yous and we appreciate you.
Good evening board members and superintendent. My name is Genevie Blair and I'm here tonight representing not just my own family but many families who are deeply concerned about the future of the athletics in the Daart Unified School District. We're here because of the recent situation involving Willow Canyon baseball is not an isolated incident. It is a symptom of a greater, much larger ongoing problem. The lack of stability and support for our student athletes across the district. Through my 20s, I coached student athletes and I've seen firsthand the relationships that can be built with players that aren't formed in one season or two. They are built over years of trust, with mentorship and consistency. I still keep in touch with these girls today. I've been invited to their weddings. I've celebrated their children be born. My own children have stood as flower girl and as ring bearer in their ceremonies.
So we limit it to three minutes. Let's see what we're doing. Okay. All right. Okay. Okay, we're moving to 5.1, the public hearing for renewal of state waiver. So, we are going to have two opportunities for public comment tonight. The first opportunity will be during the public hearing on the renewal of the show choir waiver application and the second opportunity will be during the public comment portion of the meeting. If you wish to make a comment about the show choir waiver application, please make it during the public comment portion of that hearing. If you wish to make a comment about some other matter unrelated to the public hearing, you may do so during the second opportunity for public comment. So, public hearing 5.1. This is the public hearing convened by the board of education of community unit school district 308 regarding the renewal of the show choir state waiver application.
My name is Annabelle Sun and I plan to study neuroscience on the premed track at either Georgia Tech or IU Bloomington. And my f favorite BCSSE memory is playing in the pit during the musical and I've participated since my sophomore year. And the teacher that has made the most impact during my high school career are probably my C4 biomech teachers, especially Mrs. Steinwetted cuz she always supported my dreams for my love in science. My name is Mila Espazito. In the fall, I will be attending Franciscan University of Stubenville where I will double major in communication arts and theology and minor in Spanish and also um pursue the honors program. My favorite BCSSE memory has been all the sports, clubs, and classes that I've been involved in. And the teachers that have made the most impact on me are Mrs. Hill, Mr. Marks, and Miss H because they taught me to think critically about my classes.
Second by Mr. Quest, thoughts or comments. I suppose Mr. Ka, I think I held off my question last month and that is where do we balance or draw the line between AI being a mechanism that is the future for kids and students to learn versus actually doing the work for students and being thought about this discussion? Quite Yeah, quite a bit of thought. I'm sure Mark or Sabrina and any number of our curricul myself and all of our blended instructional diet specialists met. Um there is some digital literacy grants that are out there by the state and the conversation around it and we've been piloting some AI things but we really feel like our teachers and our staff need to be really comfortable in how they use it to enhance their instruction and then possibly opening it up into the students and how they're so we really are trying to find some funding to work with some platforms that we can all be agreeable upon and then work with the PD of our of our instructional staff to then be able to move that out to the rest of the students because this is the world we live in and it's going to be here.
And if you take a look at those notes on there, and you'll see where we're at on those. And then, um, lastly, we've got I've got a detail report for you. There's probably way too much information on here, but this is basically just, um, the expenditures that have come out of geo bond 2024. um you know, you've got the total revenue there, you've got our total expenditures, and those were through um April 18th, 2025. So, I just did this last week for the board packet. Is this something that you think you would like to see in the board packet each time to continue tracking the GEO bond expenditures? I I think it's interesting to see what Okay. what we're spending and where it's going. Happy to do that. We can do definitely do that. So, pending any other questions, I'd like to submit for approval.
Thank you. Anyone like to make a motion uh reference this item? Motion to approve the bid for McGuff roofing for Flint Springs and Lincoln Elementary. Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. And anybody make a second? Thank you, Mr. Mlullen.
Um Senate Bill one, the tax cap bill also passed. Um some key highlights from that bill uh relates to school referendums only being allowed during general election ballots. Um and uh also it is I think the the net net of it is it will make it harder for schools to raise funds um given that they will lose tax revenues tied to growing property tax increases. Um and then the funding bill HB 1001 um also passed. Um it included a a 3% increase in um in total funding for um for public education, but it also last year we got a grant to fund our school books um as as part of the funding measure. Um this year it will be rolled into the total funding package. So, it it basically is approximately a 2% increase in funding for schools. Um, and I think we'll have lots more on what that actually means for Lawrence Township in the future, specific to our township, but it was a very busy uh cycle for public education in Indiana.
All right. Now on that far side working the ball around. This is McKelly got few good poke checks. He still got it though. Quick dish up though. And you know what? That's what happens when you you're looking at the defender instead of the ball sometimes, but he was able to maintain it. Nice play there. Mclli got now trying to get in. Going to shoot it and finds that top left corner snipe. Yeah, that was a very nice snipe for sure. Um, not much Abs could do about that because picked the corner pretty well, I'd have to say. Yeah, he sure did. That is 9 minutes and 23 seconds left in the second quarter. Hollist scores again, cutting the lead down to three. It's five to two, folks. still very much so in it. Here's another draw. Still fighting for possession. And who grabs it? No other than John Kramer.
Has seven seconds. Gets the ball up to M Whitler. There's four seconds left. And at the end of one, Spartans up five to three. We're back with second quarter action. Spartans up 53. Po and Grace Howard on draw. Grace Howard. Good job by Grace Howard to turn around and win that one. Grace Howard gets the ball over to M. Whiter. Hopefully things can change a little bit in this quarter with the sun not being in the Spartans eyes this quarter, but the sun's going down. So that little bit of advantage on the field is gone for both teams as Ken Marino has the ball. She goes by one, two, turns around, takes a shot off the back post, bounces all the way around to Calibies. Calibaries quickly get the ball to Matt Whitw. Matt Whitward gets the ball knocked away but Kenna Marino there to pick it up.
The National Speech and Debate Association works to connect, support, and inspire a community committed to empowering students through competitive speech and debate. Part of their mission is centered on celebrating the achievements of members and recognizing students for participation and achievements in speech and debate activities. As members earn points, they also earn honor society degrees. Each time a new degree is earned, members are mailed a corresponding seal for their custom membership certificate. Our students know that your membership certificates have been hanging up in our room for the past three years, and so I'm excited to finally give them to you um to take home this evening. First is Zay Allen. Zay Zale is a four-time competitor at the state championship and as a competitor at the national qualifier tournament. Zay also earns honor courts. Next is Lane Griffith. Lane is new to forensics this year, but he has quickly become successful in all his events and will be attending his first state championship this weekend.
And then we're going to put $200,000 back into fund balance so we can restore that 2%. Um uh just assisting our district's long-term fiscal health. Our state aid is broken up here in multiple categories and I want to talk about those. So state funding that we're always talking about. S2 funding is that number that says state aid there. That's the 7,159,894 makes up about 7% of our budget. An additional state funding that we receive is what's called extraordinary aid. And we talked about that as well at the January meeting. It pays for additional services not covered by traditional state funding and we have to apply for that and we get a portion of those expenses back to us. That's extraordinary aid. We budget the prior year's number that we received. Typically, we do see it increase year-to-year. So, we're budgeting the maximum allowable for us, which is $655,924.
I was there the whole time. He did leave. It was freezing. 100%. you guys gave and it was it took my heart that you guys were out there in the cold and act like it was summertime, okay? They did every meet like professional athletes and I'm so proud to say that I was there for you guys cuz you guys were awesome and I thank you for being so awesome. You guys, congratulations. [Applause] If anybody standing would like to fill in the seats, there's seats up here in the front. Anyone seats up front here, ladies? M Mr. Rose. Oh, there you are. I was trying to text you. I didn't see you. You're hiding. Yeah. Go ahead. Uh we now want to call up uh middle school principal to talk about uh a student who uh just a phenomenal feat uh Ga Eveina. So I have Yeah, I do.
That kind of bond only happens when there is stability and commitment. And that is what our students are lacking and being denied today. At Willow Canyon alone, there has been five baseball coaches in the last 10 years and four in the just the last five. Valley Vista has the same. Shadow Ridge and Daart High School show similar patterns and 12 baseball head coaches changes in just the last five years districtwide. Regardless of the reasons, this level of turnover is unacceptable for students. They're depending on these programs for mentorship, for development, and opportunities beyond high school. Stability matters. Consistency in leadership matters. Relationships between players and coaches cannot be built in one or two seasons. And instability disrupts the very foundation that grows as student growth, teamwork, and opportunity. Every time a coach leaves, a community is fractured. Every time a program resets, our kids have to start over.
Dr. Mitchell, deputy superintendent, is with us this evening and will present an overview of the Oh, no. She is it. Do I have it right? Dr. Mitchell, leave the other part off. Okay. So, Dr. Mitchell is with us this evening and will present an overview of the district's waiver application and the submission and approval process going forward. After the overview, the members of the board of education and members of the district administrative team will be invited to ask questions and share their thoughts. Then members of the public will be invited to comment on the application. At this time I will ask each member of the board of education the what is Dr. Mitchell's um title executive directors of schools and the district administrators who will speak to identify themselves for the record. And now I I will ask that Dr. Mitchell present her overview of the district's renewal of the show choir waiver.
My name is Ruth Anne Gilroy, and I will be attending Boyce College, which is located in Louisville, Kentucky to study elementary education. My favorite BCSSE experience has been C4 as a whole, specifically being able to be a C4 ambassador for my education professions class and this year being on the C4 leadership team. The two teachers that have made the biggest impact on my life have been my freshman year math teacher, Mrs. Whitaker, and Mrs. Newell, my education professions teacher, because they have both supported my love for teaching and passion for education. My name is Neil White. I'll be attending Purdue University next year for computer science. My favorite BCSSE experience is sophomore year from cross country state. Being able to be up on the podium with all of my friends and people I'm still close with today. And then the teacher who's impacted me the most is David Spencer, my 11th grade English teacher.
So uh we don't want to sit on our hands but we don't this is one you probably don't want to be maybe the first one in line either because things changing so rapidly. So we do have a plan and we are working on it as of today we talking about a vote. Uh all in favor signify by saying I I carry 40 50 excuse me. Uh action item 4.05 banking service provider Mr. Thank you Mr. President members of the board. Uh and since I came here in 2006 we have not looked at changing our banking services provider. Along with that, anybody in the office can't remember the last time we did change when it wasn't a bank takeover. So, we decided given the current situation, we were interested in doing an RFP for banking services to see what the market looked like. With that, we received five proposals, all fairly competitive.
Hearing none. Can I get a motion? Motion. A motion. Do I have a second? Second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor?
Any questions or comments prior to the vote? Hearing none, we'll vote on the item. Motion passes 6. Move on to Thank you, Mr. Thornsbury. Appreciate that. That's good work being done out there, brother. Uh, move on to E1 HNHS summer 2026 trip to Ireland. Hi. Um, I'm Bill Palmer and I'm presenting information on a proposed trip to Ireland um that Mrs. Bailey Kindler and Mrs. Ellie Seing and myself are planning on taking a group of students on. Um, currently we are looking at taking the trip in July of 2026. Um, so we're a little bit a ways still. Um, but we are going to be doing the trip with EF tours. Um, currently Mr. Oza leads a trip to Spain um with EF tours. So, we've already worked with them a little bit as a school. Um, now we're kind of looking to expand that beyond just the kids who are in the Spanish program.