Good evening. Um a couple of updates from the school foundation. Uh Dr. Phillips alluded to this, but it was quite a busy weekend for BCSF. Um Saturday morning we kicked off with the good, better, best 5K that's hosted um in collaboration with Mr. Todd Grimes. So, it was great to see Todd. Uh, it was a great turnout, lots of student runners. Uh, the event actually honors Chuck Grimes and Ross Wallace. And it was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate a current BCSC teacher. And Mrs. Casey Andrris was recognized at the race for being out of the box and innovative. And so, it was really great to celebrate her. She received $500. So, it was wonderful time. A little windy, but a great great morning. Um, Saturday night was the South Asian MEA gala and uh, also wonderful community event which supports STEM funding for BCSC. Um, comments were made by community advocate uh, Sri Pad Manavan, Mayor Ferdon and of course Dr.
Um so it was just a great night and the multicultural night. Uh I think I was there I went I could see a baseball game, unified track, multicultural and boys volleyball. I got it all in one night. So it's just a lot of things happening and just big thank you for everybody that's involved in those things. Kind of why we do all these things that we do. Thank you, Mr. President and board members. Speaking of May 7th, uh next week, as many of you know, May is the month where teacher appreciation week, day, month is celebrated. In Crown Point though, we make a point uh to title this educ education appreciation day because we believe that it's not just our educators or teachers which are very very important but there are so many individuals that play key roles uh in supporting our students um helping you know raise them and achieve all their goals.
We just need to look check into it. Uh helping it transfer. Um just kind of a whole multitude of things. And just the most positive thing just doing community policing, building relationshipships with kids and staff at lunch. Um we do have K9 Gunner who has made visits to our school um as well. So, look to uh continue to uh uh be excited about having them here um and be a part of our family um moving forwards. That's all I have for this club. May I jump in? Absolutely. One second, Mr. Gib. We found out late uh Friday afternoon that our is interdisciplinary team is also going to state. So, Awesome. four teams at state. Wonderful. Okay. I was not aware of that one. So, thank you for correcting. Very cool. It's not a correction. It's just so hopefully and the state competition, you happen to know when that is?
So, if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer, but like I said, my purpose here tonight is just to ask permission to move forward with uh getting permission with IDE to access these sites over the summer. Thank you, Mr. Burgess. I'll entertain a motion um and then we can ask some questions and discussion afterwards. Anyone would like to make the 2025 summer food service proposal as presented. Thank you, Mr. Melture. Is there a second? Second. Ryan got that one. I mean, um the numbers speak for themselves. Um I know the efforts she took to get Ronok included was significant. That's just really really important. We know that there are children that are hungry in Ron Oak despite what other people might make there. Um, thank you so much uh for what you're doing. Well, as I said before, you know, I've got a really I'm really passionate about what I do.
And I'm guilty of this myself. But um I like these appreciation weeks and days because it reminds us to say thank you. But I want to encourage myself and anyone else to even throughout the year just if something's going good, if your child feels welcome on the bus or you know they they've had an amazing experience in a class, just um just randomly say thank you. And so this is my general thank you for that. Um so that that's what I leave it with. Um Dr. Smith, any comments from you? I'll keep them very short. board. Just to remind you, watch your calendars as we have a lot of events coming up. Uh I know next week we will do and this is always uh beautiful but it's also very difficult. We have our retirement celebration next week which is a function of the board and our district administration is we will celebrate years of excellence in this district who will be leaving us including two men who are in the room.
A couple of posts from the Raiders, but that's about it. Yeah, Olsson now with it. Olsson little juke. Oh, drops it. Gets hit off the ball. There's going to be a whistle though and it's going to be Raider ball. Olsson draw a call. [Music] Olsson is going to let Hartnet get it. Hartnet up to Fowler to Atwood. Atwood getting pushed to the outside. Olsen has it behind the net. Bobby dishes it up to Fowler. Fowler looking to get a shot off and missing the net, but Olsen was there. So, it's going to be Raider ball. behind the Panthers net. It's wild to just think like uh last quarter I feel like there was already five goals at this point. It's crazy, right? Olsson, great pass to Atwood and what a save from Kelly. Wow. He was on the knees and just had the stick up ready right in the perfect I know right from the knees.
Calibri ends up with the ball as she gets the ball off the post. And that would be number seven or eight for the Spartans off the post as Westside gets the ball quickly moves in, gets the ball to Davis. Davis tries to get the ball to Po. It's knocked lost. Matt Whit Matt Whitward gets the ball and Matt Whitwick goes low far post on Davis for another goal. Whiter and Addie Jordan both have five goals on the game. Calib has two. Kenna Marino has two. Lucas and Trulio both have one. Spartans up 16-7. 6 minutes and 35 seconds to go in the third quarter. I think this has been a good formula with Grace Howard on the draw. Spartans just keep winning draw after draw as Howard wins another draw. Addie Jordan with the ball. Kicks it over to M Whitler. Mack over to Mckne.
Congratulations, Tori. Cole Isaac Carlson plans to attend Kansas State University. He will major in mechanical nuclear engineering. He has received the Royal Purple Scholarship and the Engineering Commitment Scholarship. Congratulations, Cole. [Applause] Hayden Neesa Castle plans to enter the US Army. Thank you for your service, Hayden. Mera Paige Codney plans to attend Southwestern College and major in nursing. She receives the athletic scholarship for track, the blue chip scholarship, the honors scholarship, and the southwestern academic scholarship. Congratulations, LRA. Carly Anne Cole plans to attend Avala University. She's going to major in kinesiology and the chiropractic program. She receives an athletic scholarship for softball. [Applause] Tyler Aaron Coulter plans to attend Flint Hills Technical College. He will major in automotive technology. He receives the Jones Success Scholarship from the Jones Foundation. And we found out Tyler just a little bit ago, you're also getting another $1,000 scholarship from Flint Hills.
Um and and the elementary classes end up in an elementary school. Um the uh what that means for Demacy Elementary specifically would be um they they currently have two available classrooms which would we would shift so that those are those two classrooms are in that fifth fourth grade pod and then we would need to basically create an additional classroom which would be in the nearest possible room to that fifth fourth grade pod. Um, and that's that's how that's at this point that's how we're planning to do it. Great. Thanks. Yeah. I I would just add one other thing and I'm glad you you brought the just because it as we think about these pieces. So, a person might ask um what you know with all this additional levy, why continue forward with um this agreement? Well, a couple reasons. one um from a you know we we take every aspect of what we do including every dollar very seriously of how we you know that's a resource that we are um bound to maximize for for for children, right?
That principal should be bumping the last principal that was hired. We are here and Mr. Tonka, I wish her here to save this district money. Think about the children first. I don't see one thing on this agenda that refers to anything like Wilson reading to help these kids learn more phonics. I haven't seen anything on this about spelling. I haven't seen anything on this about math. It's all creating positions for right now. There's too much there's much more important things that need to be done besides all these directors to or unless you're you're saying our director of whatever is not doing their job. So, we need a director to the director. It's not making any sense to me. And that's about it. Thank [Applause] you. Good evening. My name is Jerry Leford. 77 Morris Avenue, Garfield is where I reside. I was the former federal program supervisor for 15 years.
And so Mary D, I don't know if you have any Yeah, there isn't a max or a cap to answer your question. Thank you. So yeah, we're at the mercy of inflation in the equation they have in place. Do we currently have a breakdown of how much of the salary increase is for minimum wage increases? Madame President, could you repeat that question? So, there's a salary increase in here, but this is just the straight salary increase. It's not for the minimum wage increase. Uh, Madame President, governing board members, first we have to we don't have any options. We have to increase it the minimum wage every time it increases. Right. If I understand you correctly, um, that it's caught up, the minimum wage has caught up to other positions we have. And so with that, we're trying to create that gap to where people are paid accordingly and not just with a minimum wage salary that have a skill set that's more than just minimum wage according to the state of Arizona.
I am a parent of a student at Foxchase as well as Trober. I have two children currently enrolled in first and fourth grade at Foxchase. I appreciate the opportunity to address a matter growing of growing concern that directly affects my first grade daughter's health, safety, and ability to learn in a secure environment. Today, my daughter had a seizure in class. um had a seizure while in class while taking a test which caused the dust to fall on her. The seizure came on suddenly as most do and was triggered due to the stress of the test. This is a prime example of why I am writing this letter today to hopefully help you make aware of how serious my daughter's medical issue is and how a simple stressor can cause such a scary and emotional toll on her and her body as well as the surrounding students.
Phillips. Three students were recognized and I know we mentioned Hannah but uh, the elementary school student was Theo Newell from Taylorville Elementary. uh Hannah Widner from Central and Aya Assad from Columbus North High School. Uh in addition to three teachers um Jason Davis from Parkside Elementary, uh Mr. Jonathan Wolfford from Central Middle School and Dr. Kathy Osbborne from Columbus North. So great opportunity to celebrate STEM and Col the Columbus community and BCSC. Um Council for Youth Development uh has closed the youth ambassador application process. They had 63 applications for 25 openings. Um the selection committee is made up of youth serving representatives from the community and decisions will be made mid to late May. Mr. Major. Yeah. So the redevelopment commission met this week. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend due to a funeral in Terote. Um the health trust met as well and there's a four 4% increase in enrollment which is encouraging that more people are beginning to use the insurance which helps helps settle the cost some and then uh we should have in May a preliminary cost study that's complete that kind of gives us guidance as to where where we're headed.
So next week uh on May 7th at the morning, every building will be hosting and celebrating educator appreciation day breakfast at their site. So I know service department very hard thank all those that make this event possible just to show some appreciation all the students. Thank you Mr. Thank you. chief financial mation. Our food service department does provide that. We are kind enough. We're actually getting some catering for our food service department to prepare appreciation lunchon. Uh so we're going to outsource that. We're excited to bring them in so they can celebrate them as well. So looking forward to Thank you and good evening. I just want to say a quick thank you to some teachers who have hosted us in their classrooms over the last month for videos and news stories and things. Um Carrie Quinn at the high school who teaches ceramics too.
May 10th. May 10th. So, hopefully we'll have some state champions to report back on um at our next board meeting. That's all I have for this one. Thank you, sir. All right. We have no old business. Moving on to new business. Looks like we have several approval requests starting with athletic transportation. Yep. So, um with some of the uh with some of the oncoming changes and obviously uh the increased costs um over the past really the year since uh the inception of the fee which which I think was right around 2014 2014ish. Um, yeah, we're looking to include the athletic transportation fee from 12250 uh to $20 per season uh starting the uh next school year. We think that that will help with um some of the increase uh in fuel and just the just the upkeep of our our buses with making our extra trips.
I know you you all know that. Uh, I'm really blessed to have people at the IDOE and USDA that are the same. Uh, you all know that they are facing challenges as well on their end with funding and staffing. uh all of all this application process is through their website and about a month ago um all of their programmers got fired. So any kind of kink in the website um they have to actually go that person has to go in and manually allow it to go through as opposed to them just fixing the website to work properly. So the last email I got was on Thursday night at 11:25 from my field specialist at the IDOE. So, I want to make sure you guys know that they're working tirelessly as well to make this happen for us. So, we have the support too from the IDE to help make this happen in Huntington.
So it's going to be bittersweet but a celebration. So, we certainly want to do that and also remind you board, join me next Sunday because this time we celebrate the Bears and they expect for us to be there at 12:00 sharp to celebrate the distinguished graduates of that high school also. And we will build up for the big celebration in June as we will hold both of our graduations and that's always a big deal uh June 4th and June 5th. So, I'm going to leave it at that because there's so many things that you can go visit and be involved in as our student plays, our end of year celebrations and honors at every level are worthy of our time. So, I look forward to the future meetings. Madame President, I turn it back over to you. All right. One last thing to wrap up.
So now Hollston breaking out. This would be Anastasia. Anastasia cutting to the center of the field, gets hit, sticks with it, dishes it off to number 46, Broaddsky. Broky gets it back. Dish it off to Gelligot. The ball. Yeah, Hart comes in, blocks it, but Holl's still with it. M Galagot getting pressure from Newarker. Gelligot beats him and misses on the shot. Still going to be Holl though. Holl now trying to work it back up. That's the Brodsky. Miguel got just missing the net again. You know, Cam, uh he's been missing the net a lot. Yeah, but you got to try to you got to try. Sure do. So, as long as they keep getting the possession after it, it doesn't really affect them. No, it doesn't. It's actually kind of an interesting strategy because long as they have the guy in the back, you can just shoot like as hard as you want with no control.
Keney looking for somebody for something. Nothing there. Gets the ball back to Mack. Nice feed to Trulio. Trulio takes a shot. Misses just wide. Nana Caliby's there quickly. and I don't know what that's about. Somebody was complaining about something. Officials will get together and talk about whatever the West Springfield coach was complaining about. I don't think he was complaining that Matt Whit shot was too hard. They did have the radar gun out there for the youth night taking shots on that. The highest one recorded was number 16. I don't know what her name is from the youth, but she shot the ball at 75 miles an hour. So that was that's good for you saw me youth coming up when you have a a 9-year-old shooting 75 miles an hour. Calib with the ball. Gets the ball over to Marino. Marino over to Trullio. Trulio feathers went into Lucy Parsons.
It's the Jim and I can't remember the Schwarzberger or something, but it's on should be on your slide. But congratulations on that. Yeah. Ezra Lee Crutchfield. Ezra plans to attend Headlines Barber Academy. Matthew Lawrence Decks. He plans to attend Witchah State University and major in aerospace engineering at Witchah State. He will also receive an honor scholarship and a merit scholarship. [Applause] Augustus James Depalo. He plans to enter the workforce as an automotive mechanic. He has his certification from Flint Hills, so you know who to call. Congratulations, [Applause] Jess. Deja Lee Dolinger. She plans to attend Witchah State University and major in psychology. Landon Edward Ernst. He plans to enter the workforce as an electrician. Eli Russell Urban. He plans to attend Kansas State University. He will major in business management and eventually earn a master's of business administration. He receives the Royal Purple Scholarship. And I told Eli, "Someday we're going to hear him on the radio as the voice of the Chiefs.