So could we have that? So so the contract that you guys okay would look exactly like it looks now but it also would include every two years of a rotation of us completing the gym floor refinishing. That' be the only thing that would be added to that contract at this point. And we know for sure. Yeah. And when we refinish the floor here and at the Claplin wreck, we pay the full amount. It's not a No, we we looked back. Are you talking about the Claplin wreck? Right. The wreck. So whenever we pulled the May 13th May 13th board minutes from last year, I believe they're refinishing that for as we speak right now. Um and the board made a motion to pay a third of the cost of the project dependent on the decision that was to take it all the way down. Yeah.
If they do um become eligible, we then develop an individual individualized education plan. This is um completely individual to like their needs, their accommodations, their service minutes that they need, what type of program they need to be in. And then we revise this a minimum of annually, but parents um can call a meeting at any time. Okay. So, we have to follow two primary laws. There's other ones as well, but the key ones that we really consider all the time are the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. we call it IDA and the Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA. So, these laws are extensive and must be adhered to in every aspect of what we do. My job is to make sure every little thing we do in this district is following these laws. And so, we have all kinds of layers to make sure that that's happening.
Not my kid was this year too. I think it was at Loma. That's right. Okay. Oh, just when I feel like a failure, you pull you pull me up. I got you. I got you. Yeah. So, yeah. So, I think typically annually we bring some partner or another. The last two years, it's been not my kid. Prior to that, it's been um some other entities to be able to engage with families um through that community council process. We could we could look at ways to extend it beyond there. And I think some of our schools have brought them into some of their cafesitos. Um but I don't think it's been um universal. Yeah. And when I I mean honestly the way this is worded when I first read it I was like oh is this drug abuse among like the adults and the staff because it says staff education and I thought when I started reading I was like this is for drug abuse with staff.
Okay. Yeah. And then the next exhibit is a cost uh for three years. We do have Nicole did some good negotiating and we do have another uh quote that's at 43,000 for three-year plan. So the one in your packets a little higher, but we got a different quote for that. Any other questions? The consumables, do those are those being replaced every year? They will be. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else have questions? Savis EA curriculum. Can I please have a motion to approve the adoption of SAVIS as an ELA curriculum resource for students in grade 6? Ash and Doug. Yes. Yes. Raise sub rates by three and a half%.
We're ultimately our team looks at it where we have an educational, a counseling, and a mentoring component. And then the last thing is our law enforcement component. So, I'll go through those a little bit. There there isn't a day that goes by that students, staff are not in talking with the SRO for asking questions about um how can you help me with problems at home? How can you help me with conflicts with other students? Um a counselor may call the SRO because they're working with something that the kid confided to them and and they need some other resources. And so we are really involved in those type of scenarios that deans on a daily basis are asking for assistance. say, "We have this scenario. How would you like us to handle this? How can we best suit the student?" And so that from a counseling and mentoring perspective is fantastic.
So, we're going to we're going to make it all match. We're going to paint that or the strip along the top of the gymnasium. Paint that all and hopefully pressure wash off the the brick because the old paints fall down and stain the brick. So, we're hoping to get that all cleaned up and get it get it looking get it looking good. So, that's what this uh project uh is. So, I need a a motion, a second to approve elementary painting. I'll make a motion to approve the elementary painting. I'll second. Have a motion, a second. All in favor? I I none oppose. All right. Approval of Indiana Online Academy contract. You want to explain that a little bit? Yeah. I mean, I looked into this because we got this renewal came to us. Um, I was under the impression originally that it was being used solely for um, credit recovery type programs for students who are either expelled or home ill or whatever type of situation.
Tomony's class. So Nick Vice, Abby Duca, Kelsey and Lincoln Parks went Friday. They went to the state um capital. Um they attended a ceremony. They were given they were behind the scenes for their our section that they won. They were in the top. Actually, they were the top number one of our section. And then promot Saturday, May 3rd. It was a success. I had a lot of fun and so did the kids. And there were quite a few students that came and thank you. Mr. Uh start off with I sent you guys an email towards the end of the day today. Um this round and Mr. Long have been talking about a different project for quite a while. Um it's one of those that's something we feel we do need in the short term to fix some problems we've had. It's one of those chance to do it like maybe we do now.
So, High Hopes, everybody come up here and stand. Um High Hopes is a group at the high school. Um HOPE stands for Huntington Outreach Prevention and Empowerment and that is a group of adults in our community that does suicide prevention work throughout Huntington. And so at the middle schools we have two groups called hope in the middle and then at the high school we have high hopes. This year we have held two digital detoxes. A few of our members went to a training last semester and learned about the link between poor mental health and teens and the use of cell phones. We wanted to see if we could get students to give up their phone for the day. Our first detox was in February and we had 233 students participate. You could either turn your phone into grayscale or stay off social media all day, leave your phone in your locker or leave your phone at home.
Board, any questions or comments on our financial updates? Question done. I noticed that we are um on our actual year-to- date on transportation, we are over on supplies and materials. I'm wondering um what we believe to be the reason behind that. So certainly my uh esteemed expert here in the operations field next to me also uh we've seen certainly price increases on our supplies as as anticipated. Um certainly um that's that's hitting us as well. We're feeling that. And I I guess the question is, you know, obviously we've all heard about the we know that there's negotiations going on now with China with tariffs and so on and so forth. Um but curious is to do we anticipate that we'll see this trajectory throughout the year and what does that mean budget implications um for future budgets? Sure. Um it's a great question. Uh obviously, you know, we're all watching the news.
Yes, you had a bunch of Anybody else have any questions or other comments? What's that? You've done your report. Oh, good. Thank you. I just looked at the list and I didn't see any bills that were related to cell phone use, but there is one for safe practices for wireless. Yeah. Being considered, which is cool. All right. Uh, thanks, Joe. Should we go back to uh Tracy? Tracy, Aaron, I think you were next on the list. Sure. Okay. You have two items. Uh first item is budget report. Um I'm going to speak to just a few items. I think some of them um we've gone over a lot of items um related to this. Uh everything seems to be trending similar to to last time. So I don't want to uh sort of beat anything to death. Um, if you look, there's definitely some ups and downs in health insurance.
So, now we can just put it to work, right? And the fact and the fact is, yeah, we figured out a lot, but there's there's just so much more to know. Um, I I think there's more to know than we can possibly imagine, right? So that's why those of you who are thinking about going into science, I'm telling you, it's not that. Everything's been figured out. And once you get there, be like, uh, what do I do? Everything's been figured out. No way, man. Everything that we ever I mean, so much about the world, the universe is yet to be discovered, and it's almost certainly surprising and entertaining once to know. So, thank you very much. Um, I hope that was good. And I think we're going to What's next? Are we going to go to another room or we do questions in here? And and Candi's here.
Um and so what we did do is we took uh the CAB recommended policies, also married them with our current district practices as well as um you know current state uh requirements. Um, and I'll show you the proposed cave policies and you will see some highlighted sections in which we just tried to personalize it a little bit for Danbury um, to make sure it was in alignment with certain positions and and so forth. So, give me one sec while I bring up 5141.21 Two. One. Can everyone see that? Okay. Kate, I can't hear you. Sorry. Could you just zoom in to like 125%, please? Thank you. I always forget to do that. Thank you. Is that better? Yes. Thank you. Okay. So, this talks about our student health services and really the requirements um for physicals, vaccinations, screenings in the school environment. Um so, this policy is much more extensive.
Keep them in school a little bit longer. The will have an 8:00 to 3:15 school day. This will change uh this change can't help brought to our attention at the April future linkage at ES as well as have kids involved in activities and those that are involved in activities at the high school. They'll be in class a little bit longer because they're starting 5 months earlier. Again, I want to thank our staff, students, families, and board members for another excellent year. Just too many positives to mentions for strong educational culture. What's what's the reason behind the 4:00 4:30 start activities? You might want to speak on that, Jody. He's not here. He's at baseball at the J baseball tonight. Go ahead. Um they uh the league passed it for for our league to pioneer league and so it was a vote of them to move it up.
But when we just do a normal refinishing, we pay the full amount. I think so. Right. Okay. Let me just refinish it. This is correct. This is an exception. I think it's in that lease agreement that the school is responsible for it on a reason. So it was written hearing no further discussion, I would move entertain a motion to approve the contract uh with the city of Bush for the 2526 school year with the addition of refinishing basketball court. Can we stipulate within that motion that it would be refinishing every other year? Yes, I would make that motion. There is a motion by Allison. Second and a second by Chad. Any further questions, comments, discussion?
Um, it was making sure I covered everything. Okay, go ahead. Unfunded mandates. A lot of people do not understand or know that we cover private school evaluations and some of their services. So if a student is in a private school, we are responsible for paying for that evaluation, conducting the evaluation, holding the meetings and then if they qualify for speech or occupational therapy or physical therapy, we have to then provide that service and pay for it. Then we have the empowerment scholarship account which is the ESA. We also then have to provide these evaluations. And just to share with you um because ESA has grown so much now we are getting requests constantly through the year. It has grown. I've never seen it like this for evaluations because if the student qualifies as having a disability then their ESA funds increase and so we're getting a lot more requests.
And then afterwards I that second paragraph I was thinking that that was more towards parents and students. And then it took me a little while to kind of make connect those two. So, well, I think there's also room there aside from family and parents to I think not every teacher, staff or admin are in the know about these things too as drugs evolve and so making sure we have that possibility still open there to Yeah. Yeah. We had this conversation, I believe, in the AP meeting where we were talking about uh staff that uh that use vapes, not marijuana ones, but tobacco ones. And in terms of how uh you know, where is it supposed to be? Is it supposed to be as is it allowed to be on their person? Is it not allowed to be on their person? Should it be some other remote location?
Anybody have any questions? Can I please have a motion to approve the proposed increase to substitute teacher rate by 3.5%. Motion. Second. Tiffany and Vivian. Yes. Yes. Extracurricular assignments. Anybody have any questions? Can I please have a motion to approve the extra curricular assignments for 256? Yes.
The second that kind of goes in hand inand is that educational piece. The SRO's they go into school uh excuse me, they go into classrooms on a daily basis. They're talking in front of kids, driver's ed classes, forensic classes. It could be anything thing that they're talking about in that unit they could be talking about. and little I don't know if a lot of people know this but there's actually a criminal justice class that they teach in. So each school for per semester hosts a class in conjunction with Bubanzi Community College and the SRO actually has the ability to teach Monday, Wednesday, Friday for that semester and they're teaching what all law enforcement aspects uh bringing in Illinois State Police can bomb squad. The chief talks from a 30,000 foot view of how to his organization works and how he leads. I get to come in and talk about evidence technicians and forensics and whatnot.
And u, come to find out it's a lot more extensive than that. We are using it for calculus. I have several of our our upper level classes are using this program. Um so that's why I decided to go ahead and extend it since uh it's being used for numerous numerous things. All right. Yep. I need a motion a second to approve Indiana online academy contract. I'll make a motion to approve the Indiana online contract. I'll second it. I have a motion in a second. All in favor? I I none opposed. Next item is approval of CDL bus driver pay rate in addition of perf benefit. Um I believe we would like to table this for now. We're trying to make sure we have the numbers correct. Am I am I right saying that? when I looked at it, the calculations that I had. Okay. Um, so we're we're going to table that till maybe next next month.
So, I thought I'd give you some of that information. We don't have anything formal for this meeting, but basically um the lockers down in the heat area, they're all 30 plus years old. It definitely needs some love and attention. And so, we've got some that are rusty or banged up just from use over 30 years old. So, if you have questions on those, you can see it. We've had a few companies come in and quote different ideas. Um, while we're at it, we're going to try to tackle another far as the way that the athletic locker area was set up. You can't see the back concern, but nowadays it's a much bigger concern for us. So, they even quoted some ideas to be able to be able to see better as far as teachers go. So, that's kind of in the area there. Um, one company is offering install, one is not.