Um, does anyone have any questions or comments regarding the computer science recommendations? Okay, very good. And again, this was all discussed in depth at our um our work session on the 14th. At this time, I will move to 4.5 approval request for RFP on the cyber security upgrades. Dr. Gagline, President Norman, members of the board, Dr. Smith, I request permission to issue the RFP for cyber security upgrades as submitted. Thank you. I'll entertain a motion for the approval. So moved. Second. All right. Okay. properly uh moved, Miss Lawrence, and seconded, Dr. Maul Holland. All in favor? I I All right, none opposed. All in favor? That has passed. This is for the approval of the RFP on cyber security upgrades. All right, now we will move on to 4.6, approval of the proposed 2526 board of education uh meetings. Dr. Mahal. board. Thank you. I'll entertain a motion.
It goes high and over though. That was Mckeligot trying to go for that top left corner. 126 now left to go in the half. This is Anastasia running it up from the corner. Anastasia up to Roi. Roby back to Anastasia. Back to Roby. over the side and mel uh Miguel guy flies it over the net again. Just misses that. I think that's going to it hits the mental school building. Yeah, it did. Still bouncing. Hollist though still has it. It just hit Lquist Commons. Anastasia up to Roi. Roby shoots and nice save there from Absis. Under a minute now to go. Kramer taking some contact and drawn a drawing a flag. Somehow takes it out of danger. He had a Panthers coming at him hard and Olsen's grabbing his face mask. So, the Raiders penalty should be up unless this one is now. Yeah, Raiders totally did an excellent job.
Ball's loose. Some type of call. It looks like Po ends up somehow getting a goal in there. I wasn't paying attention, but looked like she was the one that scored the goal. They cut the Spartans lead in half 12-6 128. It's Po's 17th goal on the season. She's one of West Springfield's leading scorers. I think we're have another high-scoring game like we did the last time. Westside and East Metal faced off. They've already scored 18 goals between the two of them. Last time they scored 34, so they're right on that pace of scoring goals. Ball's up. Jordan picks the ball up again. Jordan goes by one, plays behind the net. They're looking to double team her. Jordan still with the ball, turns around, fakes everybody out, goes upper 90 and gets one past Davis as she's playing a little peekaboo hideand go seek behind the net with three West Springfield defenders.
So, the ACT test is used for college admission, course placement, and scholarships. The state of Kansas pays for every student to take the ACT for free their junior year. The highest composite score a student can earn is a 36. And ACT offers a variety of awards. The ACT Benchmark Achiever Award. These students have met the benchmarks set by ACT for success in entrylevel college classes such as an 18 on the English, a 22 on math and reading, and a 23 on science. So, the ACT Benchmark Achiever Award is going to Brody, Brody, Cole, Matthew, Eli, Sage, Olivia, Mallerie, and Isaac. Then, we have the ACT STEM award. These students met the STEM benchmark set by ACT. They have earned at least a 26 on both the math and the science tests. They are Brody, Matthew, Sage, Mallerie, and Isaac. Then we have the ACT score jumper award.
And that is for um all of the waste that leaves this facility goes into that station and is then pumped out to the sewer so it can then be treated by the township. Additionally, we owe a pr-rated portion of the MUA fuel pump station replacement as per the shared service agreement. So we're going to assign some uh withdrawal capital reserve for that purpose and that's it for me. Thanks Mr. Yates. So just uh because of the distance in the room and so on. Um carried over this slide from the last uh presentation just to make the numbers a little bit bigger for folks. Um, so that's the uh average assessed home increase as Mr. Yates said, 25.4% and about $910. So um just to wrap up this final budget um the first in my memory and in many people's memories um that is talking about maintaining talking about adding building improving instead of cutting reducing decreasing.
So, that's something exciting. And last but not least, uh because there was many things going on districtwide, we're doing an updated energy audit and the first things that are going to be started will be um LED lighting in the schools. So, we're doing anything we can to see how we could save money um throughout the buildings. And that is it. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Derich. Um, briefly, um, so just a little bit of transparency and something that we're going to be experimenting with in the future. Uh, we're going to be moving public comment to before the votes. Uh, we're going to try that out just so, uh, a lot of the things that have transpired throughout the last year. I know that, uh, people would like their input uh, before their input heard before we actually vote on items. So, we're going to be presenting that and giving that a trial run to see how that works out for us.
Yes, the that decision and final approval rests with you. Yeah, that is correct. Thank you. Any other discussion on that? And again, I want to stress for anybody out there that's watching, um, sign up for our committees. All too often, we don't have enough people sign up for the committees. So, please go online and sign up for committees. That would help us out tremendously. And the governing board's not um eligible to be on a committee, right? Correct. Darn. Okay. All right. All right. We'll move on to item G2. Dr. Croto. Thank you, Madam President. Uh, tonight we have a brief uh summary of the meet and confer sessions. Um, you've been briefed a few times and they're at their final stage. So, Mr. Mattingley will give you a um a brief um summary of this. Steve. All right. Thank you. Uh, Madam President, governing board members.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Melissa Harry. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Melissa Harry and I have a third grader at Foxchase Elementary and a sixth grader at Benarc Junior High. I too am here to speak about the behaviors at Foxchase. I have lived in Asiggo for 10 years and have been teaching in a neighboring district for 25. While I don't have firsthand experience with the behavior challenges that the students and staff have been experiencing, I do have a unique perspective. My oldest has an emotional disability and has had what would what most would call extreme behavior since he was two. We had him evaluated at Broka when he was three and he has since had an IEP. He went through elementary school at the Wheatlands in their skills program and continues to be in skills in the skills program at Bedars. I can honestly and truthfully say that despite my initial reservations about sending him to a school other than our home school, the programming he has received through skills has allowed him to learn and grow despite his challenges.
If I can have a round of applause for that as well. Good evening and thank you for the honor to announce the 20242 classified employee of the year for each school building and department. Nominations were accepted from students, staff, families, and community members. Voting then occurred to determine the classified employees of the year. As I call each employee of the year up to the front, I ask that the audience hold their applause in order to hear each person's name and kind words from their nomination form. Jennifer Thompson, business office specialist, located at the front desk in the administration building. Jenny is a ray of sunshine who greets everyone with a genuine desire to assist, creating a warm, inviting atmosphere for all who enter the building. Janice Reed, special education teacher assistant at Clifty Creek. Janice consistently goes above and beyond in supporting students and teachers, creating a welcoming and effective learning environment for students through her innovative approach to problem solving and unwavering patience.
Um, so that's coming up on May 1st. And then we have educator appreciation week next week. And so we really want to view everybody that um services our students and makes our community and our school corporation um what it is next week. And I know that Dr. Terrell has done a phenomenal job of rebranding that name of teacher appreciation week to educator appreciation week because it really is um all hands on deck and we all do what we think is best for students on a daily basis. So it was a really nice moment. I think that there are, you know, there were a lot of meetings that were in and it was a good moment to just think about the pride that I have and that I know we have in each other. So, thank you for letting me share that. Good evening. So, we also had an exciting event last Wednesday.
Um this is specifically for our education fund. So our tuition support payment. Um so if you look at fiscal year 26, which is uh ne essentially next school year, we're looking at roughly a 1.42% increase uh in funding. And then the following uh school year 1.17% uh increase. So 2.61% 61% over the two-year B bianium. So the budget set for two years. Again, there are some estimated counts there, student counts used by the state. So um if uh on those count days, we have more students that'll result in a little bit of an increased uh additional funds, but not much. Um but the big thing uh when you were uh if you had an opportunity to look at the governor's um or not the governor's budget but if you had to look at the budget that was approved um listed in those increase they threw in our curricular materials reimbursement which is roughly uh 264,000 fiscal year 26 and 261,000 f 27.
uh this year at Rowan Oak Elementary. Um just to kind of give you a little background on our limitations with why it has been a challenge to find a site in Rowan Oak. Uh there is nowhere within Rowan Oak town limits that is technically allowed to operate the summer food service program. The school itself does not qualify because of its low number of students who qualify for free and reduced meals and the census of the entire area shows Rowan Oak as too affluent to run the program. Uh for these reasons, I've worked closely with the IDOE to establish a very rare type of site referred to as a closed enrolled conditional rural non- congregate site. That's the technical term for the site. I have to say that every time that we talk to the state about it, uh this will be the very first site of his kind in the entire state of Indiana.
So moved. Second. Properly moved. Miss Lawrence and seconded, Miss Pucket. All in favor? I I. None opposed. All right. We have approved the proposed 2526 board of education uh meetings. Um, at this time we will move on to 4.7. Awesome. President. Yes. I move that we treat action items 4.7 to 4.13 as consent agenda. All right. Do I have a second? Second. Give it to Jessica twins. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. Who got places you got to go? All right. The consent agenda has been uh moved the moved by Miss Pucket and then so we're giving it to Miss Dunn for the second. All in favor? I All right. None opposed. All right. I move approval of the consent agenda. All right. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Um approval of the consent agenda has been approved by Miss Pucket, seconded by Miss Dunn.
Absis coming up big on that save and you know, unfortunately for Holl. Uh there's a few missed nets. Yeah. So, they they killed the penalty and now they're on the power play, I believe. Couple costly misn nets. instead they were they hit school and yeah, look at this. This is going to be Miguelot. He's in there for a a minute. So that'll be the rest of this quarter, the rest of this half and 15 seconds into the second. Raiders might be able to get a little little insurance here. Yeah, that would be nice. A twogoal lead is nothing in theory. No, you got Hart with it at the top. Pass it to Atwood. Atwood dishes back to Olsen. Olsson looking for an option. Back to Atwood. Atwood up to Hart. Hart passes to Fowler. Fowler digs it out. Fowler back up to Hart. You got 23 seconds.
Jordan, it's Addy Jordan's fifth goal of the game. Grace Howard on draw. Minute 09 left. Giving both teams plenty of time to put a couple goals up on the board if they want to. Grace Howard fighting around for it. Ball still comes loose. Ball is still loose. Good hustle by Grace Howard and she ends up with it. Good work by Grace Howard. M Whiter with the ball. See what East Salo does. They're gonna wait for the last shot. [Music] It's probably what they're gonna end up doing. Spartans up 13-6 with 30 seconds to go in the first half. Waiting for West Springfield to make a move and then the Spartans will set up the offense to get the last shot attempt. Marino over to Witworth. Whitward with 10 looking for a space. Looking for something. Whitward goes through one. Whitward behind the net looking for a feeder.
These students took the test more than once and increased their score from a previous administration. Grace, LRA, Matthew, Eli, Sage, Chloe, EMTT, Olivia, Laya, and Hannah will receive the ACT score jumper [Applause] award. BHS then recognizes seniors who have earned the three highest ACT composite scores in the class of single administration. Congratulations to the following for receiving the bronze award, meaning they've earned the third highest ACT in the class. And that score is a 25. The bronze award goes to Brody Anderson, Cole Carlson, LRA Codney, and Khloe Gosny. Should be Brody Cole Valer Clo. Okay. Then we have the silver award for earning the second highest score in the class which is a 30. The silver award goes to Sage Faer, Mallerie Over, and Isaac Rinker. And the gold award for earning the highest ACT score in the class of 2025. The score is a 32 and that goes to Matthew Deck.
It's the only way the only way that we're going to get out of this not just yearly but but really like daily perennially unendingly the the nightmare of our budget situation which ultimately impacts our staff and our kids. Our mission tonight's about mission is to help students learn and grow to reach their potential to the greatest extent that we can. That's our job as a district. And the only way we've been able to do it in the face of decreasing financial resources is through the quality of our staff. But at a certain point, that becomes harder and harder. the ratios. If you go into again that taxpayer guide and you look at the ratios of students to teacher, students to administrator, whatever metric you look at in there, it's a tale of extreme challenge. This final budget lets us overcome that challenge and begin to meet our kids' needs better this year and beyond.
So versus having everybody speak at the end when the votes are already done, we can actually hear input from you guys before we actually, you know, uh, vote on items. So that's something we're going to be starting after the reorg and everything of that nature. Uh, just something that I feel would help the community out a little bit better so they feel more heard than they have been. Uh, thank you. Uh, at this time I'd like to move forward to see if there was any committee reports. I believe not because of everything going on. All right. So, um, let's move forward. Uh, motion to go into personnel 7.1 through 7.18. I'll second. Motion by Sanchez. Second by Mr. Porchek. Um, Miss Dal. Mr. Taylor. I Mr. Focino. Hi. Mr. Gaba. Hi. Hi, Dr. Dr. Pivor. Hi. Miss Sanchez. Hi. Mr. Keles. Hi. Mr. Ramos. I.
uh this brief uh little summary of the meet confer process uh I want to share with you that we use an IBA process and so do I control that thank you uh so thank you there we go and so uh it's called meet confer but the process is an interestbased process and I'm not going to read everything on the slide but it's just basically the epitome of the three C's of success and that is communication ation, collaboration and cooperation amongst a different um four different silos if you will of of our employees. And that's uh basically our teachers association, our support staff association, our administration and cabinet members. And so you can see here our members here and uh of course myself and Miss Fadell were uh non- voting members. We're host we're actually a resource for these 20 people. So, um, I don't see too many people, but we do have, uh, if anybody is out there, uh, Sarah, I see Sarah's on the committee back here.
The teachers, social workers, administrators, and pair professionals that my son had were some of the best educators I've had the pleasure of working with. They always made my husband and me feel like we were part of our son's team and pivoted as often as necessary. They were caring, patient, fair, creative, and always treated my son with dignity despite his many struggles and differences. They, along with his outside therapists and a loving and supportive family, have allowed for huge gains and growth over the years. I tell you all this in the hope that you can see the perspective I have as an advocate for all students getting what they need. In my teaching career as well as as a mom, I have advocated when I felt that my voice could be used for change. And that is my hope in coming to you in coming to speak with you tonight.