So could you put some of it into the capital reserves and would we make any money on that rather than just taking it all from there? Yeah. So, we're assigning those two expenditures in the subsequent year budget so that we can spend that money on the identified projects that the board had agreed to at the last meeting. Um, the list is extensive because we don't know that the cost of each of those projects or what you identified. We might not be able to tackle this or that, but as much as we can get done, we want to get done. We've identified those as critical needs through our maintenance and facility staff who were here at our last meeting. If there is any of that money that we're not able to spend next year for those critical needs, those would be a deposit at the end of the year into our reserve account.
Keles I Mr. Ramos I motion carries all right lastly motion to go into policy 16.1 through 16.2 motion by Miss Sanchez seconded second by Mr. P Warick roll call Mr. Taylor I Mr. Focarino I Mr. Gaba Hi Dr. Porroek Hi Miss Sanchez Hi Mr. Killes I Mr. Ramos I. Motion carries. Okay, that that concludes our voting session of this meeting. At this time, I would like to open up the floor for public comment. Um, public comment, we have a brief statement. Um, you have it. Okay. I know it gets tiresome, but we have to re repeat it just for the people that haven't been here before. The Garfield Board of Education recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters of community interest. Please be advised of the following guidelines.
These are these are qualifying factors as well that have to be employed currently up until uh October 31st because why is it October 31st? Because directly after that week, payroll is kind enough to uh push that retention stipen out of 3% based on their earned salary of this year, this current year now as we speak. Um so we do have salary schedules. That's something that's on the agenda tonight for the board to consider. Um, so the 1% is added to the minimum base salary of all of our salary schedules. Uh, that doesn't affect any of our current employees. Those are new employees coming to us for next school year. Uh, we have our OTPs and speech and audio aiologists that are we're increasing their base minimum salary schedule and you can see here the starting salary at for bachelor's only versus a mast's. uh this is to put us in a key position of recruiting and uh we've spoken about uh trying to get to that point where we don't use vendors to uh provide services.
Students can't learn when they don't feel safe. The students in the classrooms that are regular regularly disrupted despite the best efforts of the teachers and staff cannot be getting the education they deserve and are entitled to. I am in full support of the individuals with disabilities act and its protection of students with unique needs. But what about the students that idea doesn't protect? Who what are their rights? Who is advocating for them? Clearly, you can see how frustrated we as parents are with the situation. You have claimed to have a partnership with parents and want to see students thrive, but are missing the mark. Seemingly nothing is being done to solve these issues. Sending out slide decks with all the right buzzwords isn't going to make lasting changes. It is the equivalent of a politician going on the news to offer thoughts and prayers after yet another school shooting.
Jamie Ashcraft, nurse at Southside. Jaimeie takes care of all students in Southside daily, meeting each students needs with understanding and kindness. Her dedication to maintaining a healthy school is commendable. Ruanne Cave, lead custodian at Central. Ruanne demonstrates compassion for students and staff, taking the time to understand their needs with a dedication to ensuring the school environment remains supportive for everyone. Cindy McCoy, bookstore manager and athletic director at North Side. Cindy goes above and beyond for all the sports teams at North Side. You can tell that she loves what she does and supports the students and coaches well. Ashley Travis, nurse at CSA Newekch. Ashley knows all of the students at CSA Newekch, jumps in to help no matter the need and is actively engaged in the success of students. She deserves to be recognized for her hard work and dedication. Daphne Mace, lead custodian at Johnson Early Learning Center.
And so I just wanted to give them a shout out to item 5.05. Thank you, Mr. President, board members, um there have been a lot of events since the last board meeting. I'm going to point out one on April 15th, the math bowl that was held at Colonel Wheeler for all our elementary students. Um what an amazing job and a big thank you to all the teachers and staff and parents and students that were involved in that. The gym is packed. Um couldn't fit another person in there. All us adults sit there and feel shamed that we can't do these math problems that are going up there. Um, but you know, it was just it was a really great event. Jerry Ross pulled it off on the last Splashkin and they went away with as the orange champions. Uh, Mac repeated as the red division champions as they do every year, but again, another championship for Mac and uh, so it was just a great night and it's really great to see that.
You know, we've had a play at the middle school. We had putting on the hits um at TZ. We have a a another performance at the high school. Um band choir is active. Um we hosted 22, correct me if I'm wrong, Mrs. Dory, 22 schools. 21 schools for the Indiana Academic Super Bowl competitions. Um, Green Castle had three teams finish in f first place that are going to go to the state finals to hopefully extend our lead to have the most uh state titles in Indiana academic Super Bowl. So, that's really really exciting. The high school also had we had the top 10% uh dinner. Was that last Friday? It's seems like a a month ago already. Top 10% dinner. So, that was a nice evening to recognize kids and also see the students recognize some influential um educators. Um May 21st, we'll award the first uh annual teacher of the year, Greencastle Community School Corporation.
So they would have a meal to take home with them over the weekend. Also, um, for this one, families would not need to sign up ahead of time for this and this location would be open to all children 18 and under as well like most of our sites. Also, um, one other change, as I'm sure most people are aware, is that, um, high school, summer school will, uh, not be at the high school, be at Crestfield Middle School this year. Uh, other than the change in location, our our style of operation will be the same as last year. We will be offering breakfast and lunch service Monday through Friday. Um, it will also be open to the public as it has been in previous years. Uh we will offer breakfast and lunch service in person, but we will also offer that what we refer to as the wraparound meal service for the weekend where we offer them a meal kit for the weekends where they have a uh a shelf stable breakfast and lunch for Saturday and Sunday.
Congratulations, Mr. Harsha. Mr. Harsha, you get your first directive. Come down here and shake the board of education's hand. You've been at these meetings a thousand times. Come on down. Congratulations, Andy Harsha. All right. Congratulations, Mr. Harsha. adds to our wonderful evening of celebration. Yes. Um and we will do our best to continue to advocate for -ate funding. Yes. All right. At this time, we are now to 5.1, our administrator and board comments. So, I will take I will um take a vote on who not a vote. Once again, my my brain is a little hot. Okay. Would anybody like to volunteer to go first tonight? If not, I'll call on you. I don't have anything to say other than in the great prophetic voice of Tupac Shakur, you are appreciated. As we end near to the end of this year, it is quite hectic and busy and so I sincerely you are appreciated.
That's how bad it is. There's a white car in the background, and you can see the glare. Yeah, Atwood bringing it up. Oh my gosh. Diaz hitting the crossbar twice. Close as can be right there. Goalie's best friend, they say. That's the iron post. Yeah. So, I mean, that is the end of the Hollist penalty. That would have been a goal. Yeah, I know. Might have jinxed the Raiders a little bit there. No, I didn't. It's just a lucky lucky play. Yeah. Flipping now with it. spins off of Sullivan. Gets by Hartinet somehow still has it. Oh no, never mind. He jinxed him. Yeah, but I got the power of the jinx today. Sullivan getting hacked a bit. Sullivan in the body. Nice scoot to himself, but Kelly's going to step up and grab it. Kelly dishes it off to Lucas. Lucas looking for an option.
Connelly getting met by Kyler Marino down there as Finn has the ball. Finn gets the ball knocked away by Grace Rayold. Kicks the ball over to Chapman over to Canada. Over to Hermovic. Movik met out there by Mckne. They switch off now. She's met by Addie Jordan. Addie Jordan pushes her over to the 30 yardd line. She throws the ball over to Finn. Finn met by Ray Pul and she gets the ball all the way over to Chapman. Back to Hermovic. Herovic goes in. Met by Grace Howard. Good defense by Grace Howard. Canada with the ball. Still no room. She throws the ball in. Nice pass by [Music] her. I think that was Carney gets the ball and she scoots one past Jenna Holly and once again West Springfield cuts the lead into half. Spartans 14-7 with eight with 853 left in the third quarter.
[Applause] Congratulations to our students graduating. [Applause] Kumadi students graduating magnaum ly have earned a cumulative seventh semester GPA of 3.5 to 3.79 they will wear a red and cray honor award at graduation please hold your applause until all are on stage our magnum ladi graduates are zeal Allen Olivia Bangs Sarah Sarah Gford, Chance Heg, Madison Kim, Casten Payer, Haley Potter, Ty Stephins, and Kent [Applause] Stoie. Congratulations to our magic body. Students graduating sumakumlotti have earned a cumulative seventh semester GPA of 3.8 to 4.0. They will wear a red and gold honor cord at graduation. Please hold your applause until all are on stage. Our Suma Kumladi honors graduates are Brody Anderson, Grace Burke, Payton Bernie, Cole Carlson, Lara Codney, Matthew Deckett, Eli Irvin, Sage Schaefer, Chloe Gosny, Lane Griffith, Olivia Lions, Tabitha McKenzie, Llaya Meyers, Valerie Over, Isaac Rinker, and Hannah Sides. [Applause] Congratulations to our Suma Kumladi graduates.
Okay. And do we make any money on the reserve accounts? We make the same interest rate on whether it's in our reserve or in our general fund. Okay. So, we'll make the same amount of interest on that money regardless. Do you have an estimate of, you know, ballpark all there? There's a lot of things on that list. all of the heat pump replacements and so on. Just a general estimate of how long you think those um urgent projects will take. No, I I wouldn't have that, but that would have been a good question for Brian and Tom when they were here last meeting. Okay. Thank you. I had one I had one other question. Um did could you discuss anything about Yale and what the plans are for that? Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Mr. Pman. Um, so and that is um it was a budget item, not not so much a budget item, but it was an approval item at the I believe at the March meeting.
Uh members of the public who would like to address the board must state their name and address um their name and address. Each member of the public will be limited to offering no more than five minutes of public comment. No participant shall speak more than once. As as this is a public forum forum, public comments may not in any way be disrespectful, vulgar, or threatening toward any member of the board, district, faculty, administration, or staff. If any public comment comments violate these guidelines, the speaker will be asked to refrain from offering any further public comment regardless of whether they have time remaining. Uh in addition, the speaker may be interrupted and his or her privilege to comment terminated if the speaker's comments are disruptive or otherwise violate these guidelines. On behalf of the Garfield Board of Education, thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter.
We want to have our own employees providing those services and this marketing approach uh with this salary schedule hopefully we can get there get to that point. Uh the other piece is um the salary schedules. Uh there was a consensus from our group that says let's address compression. We have compression within our hourly weight sal hour hourly rate salary schedules and uh this is very difficult to maneuver but it's necessary and so with a lot of hard work and looking uh at different numbers we've increased these particular grades and the grades are in order of of of um high to low as far as starting salary schedules. And so this creates an opportunity where somebody that's doing a job that is completely different from somebody else but they're getting the same pay. This is going to create that gap and and restructure it again. Our goal is hopefully this can sustain itself where our compression is eliminated for the next couple of years.
No one is thriving academically or socially with what is happening in these classrooms on a regular basis. I implore you as the district leaders and schoolboard members to step in and make this right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Kimberly Balder. Good evening. My name is Kimberly Balder. I've had children in SD308 starting since 2010 and currently have a third and eighth grader in 308. Throughout those years, I've been a committed volunteer and home and school board member at Broka, Thompson, Trober, Foxchase, and Southbury. I served as home and school president as at both Brokaw and Foxchase for multiple years. I'm also currently on the school district special needs PTA. Tonight, I'm speaking not only as a parent, but also as a dedicated building sub at Foxchase. I'm here alongside many other concerned parents to ensure that the urgent need for additional resources and support at Foxchase is heard and addressed.
Daphne goes above and beyond all expectations to maintain cleanliness, functionality, and safety, ensuring that our youngest learners can thrive in a supportive environment which remains clean even after meal times in an early education center. Cynthia Dilling, cafeteria manager at McDow. Cynthia does not just prepare and serve food to students. She treats her responsibilities like she is preparing and serving food for her family. In fact, she calls all the students and staff she encounters as her BCSSE family and makes a positive difference in their lives. Tangana TJ Skinner, student services coordinator at ISC. TJ's leadership and dedication to bettering BCSSE has proven to be impactful through her ability to excel when given large-scale projects such as centralizing the enrollment center. Her demeanor creates an inclusive and accessible enrollment process. John Jr. Owen, bus driver at operations. Jr. is a dedicated bus driver who is always happy and ready to help students and fellow drivers.
Again, big thank you for everyone put their time into that. Couple upcoming events. Dr. Kachina not being here tonight wanted me to remind you that on Monday night at the Crown Point High School stadium, football stadium of music teachers will be having second grade hosting the folk dancing with their parents and you guys are welcome to come on in there on the field and do all your favorites. The classics will be handled there. I'm sure Dr. Charles asking there represent another event coming up on May 7th. the class of 2025 military stole ceremony out in front of the school uh right there in the circle drive. We have more um students enlisted than we've ever had. I think it's up to about 15. There's quite a few different of our military units that are be represented there that night. It's a great ceremony for those kids that get those that they will is May 7th at 100 p.m.
So, we'll award one for the district. Um and then we will also honor or recognize um teacher of the year from each building. Um so, that's uh very exciting. We have staff appreciation week taking place next week. So we celebrate everyone together. Um so we'll have some nice things taking place at the building level and then certainly at the district level. We're going to support the staff because we have an incredible team here and everyone's working uh incredibly hard. And then um you know we have 16 days of school left. It's hard to believe this this year has snuck up on me faster than most. Um students are uh are testing um completing a lot of different field trips. We are sending uh kids all over the state and county. Um so they're having nice fun rewarding experiences. Um and then obviously we finish up um with graduation here um in just a in a few weeks.
So they have breakfast and lunch for themselves uh at home as well. And then uh as I'm sure you're aware as well, Flint Springs now is offering a I read summer school uh to catch those kiddos up for their uh to move on to fourth grade. And we are offering breakfast and lunch also at at that summer school from June 9th to June 27th. And then we are also offering breakfast and lunch then in person as well for those kiddos uh free at cost also. Um and then the other sites we have the kinder camps uh the two weeks before school at all elementaryaries, the two bus routes that each hit three sites in the county and then Park View Family YMCA as well. So that being said, last year we did I believe I have it here. I don't I don't need to believe.