so quickly. But like Mark, I just want to re uh confirm the gratitude that we have for our community and how they stepped up to support our school district on May 6th. Um to go from about 49% just unbelievable. We appreciate so much. But all of that could not have been done. And I'm going to read through a list of people here and I may get some of them or forget some of them and I apologize if I do but our leadership team Mark Bates, Larry Gson, Rich Pascus, LB Angel, Tara Johnston, Cat Middleton, Vince Lewis, Jessica Kvara, Joe Vagner, Teresa Zart, Brandy Sims, Jamie Berson, Jay Patel, Chad Cra, John Jordan, Alex Nicola, Teresa Kolazic, um did an amazing job as we led on them to really direct what the activities were that we were doing. Um, Steve Clink and Candace Antiselle did a a fabulous job bringing their expertise to our community, uh, to our corporation as we move forward with that.
and it was truly a memorable evening and I enjoyed being there. So, congratulations to all of our new inductees and their families and staff who have supported them along the way. Uh, we already talked about budget and capital improvement, but I will give you an update under what's going on with human resources. Uh, the first round of interviews for the parter school assistant principal and the Dartmouth High School associate principal have taken place. We will be conducting final interviews this week. So, we expect by the end of the week or early next week be able to be able to share uh those folks that have been selected for those positions. And again, it a lot of time goes into this and I want to thank the folks that took time out of their really busy schedules to um participate in these interviews and give their input.
Um you do see a reference to attachments in this document. The attachments come separately and are approved by this governing board uh separately. So they are not attached to this. For for instance, if you look at attachment three, it's the certified non-eing salary schedule. You have approved those salary schedules already. We bring them separately to you. So, um, just to clarify those pieces. Motion to approve the memorandum of understanding with the DAART Education Association is presented for the 2025 2026 school year. Second. Motion carries. And we have an item G7. Correct. Correct. I need to refresh. And we do not need Steve for G7 just to clarify. Oh, sorry, Steve. All right. Moving to item G7. Dr. Curtto. Thank you, Madam President. I I stand for questions. I believe members Scava, you pulled this for information and technology. So, we will stand for any clar clarification or questions that you have on this.
Uh first of all uh the school is being placed in an area that is very nature centric. So lots of windows looking out to the nature to the south with uh maple trees that will be that are already present and will be more present within the landscaping of the property. Um so we want to honor that and and uh the grove and the ravine behind the school. This is a photo of of Charles Sparrow who was one of Columbus's early architects well before the Columbus Foundation and Mr. Miller and and others got involved in that in that interest. Um Mr. Sparrow uh designed several school several buildings across Columbus including a few schools McKinley Washington the original post office the original city hall uh first United Methodist Church and others. Um, this is a photo of the administration building, current administration building of BCSE, which at one time was Maple Grove School in 1896.
Um, school board members, all of you that were involved and all of you were involved, cabinet members, I can't thank our central office team enough. Um, on those nights when there weren't very many people showing up, you could always count on many of the people and in the back of the room being there um passing out signs and going door to door and I thank all of you very much for that. Our building principles and how they organized their teams to come out, walked with their teams. Um our teachers uh continually showed up especially want to call out Michelle Bunch and Hillary Leort who are here. Um, CPEA, our association here in Crown Point schools, uh, made a monetary donation and a significant monetary donation. I appreciate that very much. Um, the gesture and and also obviously the donation, but the gesture more than that, but these two also organized a major donation from the ISTA at the state level as well.
As we know, hiring for those positions are really critical to the success of our schools. There are some other positions that you see that are being posted pretty much on a daily basis as we um respond to movement that's happening across the district. Whether it's content teachers at the high school, middle school, special educators. I mean, we're hopeful that we'll be able to fill those positions. We're happy to have those positions advertised as early as possible because we do want to capitalize on folks that are sort of this is hiring season for us in our field and we want to make sure that we're we're able to attract uh the best folks uh that are the right fit for Dartmouth. Um, so for family and community engagement, you know as well as I that there's something going on just about every single day as uh Mrs.
Yeah, it's the it's the line item from June 22nd to 27th with the Hila Packard. It's conferences in Vegas. Um just wondering why we're sending four people. I will have Miss Bedell is in charge of this department. and I will have her answer that. Miss Madam President, members Gabbara. So, because this is the annual um conference that really is the one time that we do send our network operations team, we want to make sure we have all those um topics really well covered. So, all the four areas. We have a security architect going um our network engineer as well as our two network technicians. And so, obviously, they span out to make sure the agenda is fully covered. The rate or the registration rate is entirely covered within our support contract already. So there is no additional um cost for that. Um regardless if we send one or two or five, it's already included within the cost of the contract.
And on the right, um, a flyer that you've seen, a reminder that we will have a public reveal session tomorrow evening at the Westside Community Church that will highlight Maple Grove Elementary School pending your approval. Happy to answer questions you may have. questions from the team. Okay. Not a not a question, but uh congratulations on the groundbreings held last week. Smith and North Side. I wasn't able to attend either one, but I've gotten lots of positive feedback from stakeholders. It was much appreciated, and I think it's a hopefully a new tradition for us when we kick off projects. Yes. Thank you, Dr. Volta Smith and Mr. Burton at Northside did all the work uh for those and they were very well attended and thank you for mentioning that. Thank you. Okay. Uh next on the agenda is public comments. If you ever want to speak at a board meeting, um please sign up on a blue sheet when you enter the room and and we will call you up.
Um, that wouldn't have happened without their leadership. I want to thank a couple of board members, Scott Babjack, Tom Hoffman, uh, who made, uh, definite significant contributions to our campaign. Um, Devin Lewis mentioned her husband, Vincent Lewis. Vincent was our get out to vote guy and we went to him and said, "Hey, you're just going to do what you did last time, and this was nothing like what you did last time. This was a whole lot of work." And his wife jumped right in and helped him. Mary Hurt, who is one of our uh, assistants here in this building, Um, she took on the duties and job of making sure the building that we were using was clean, that we had donuts and coffee every Saturday morning, which was every Saturday from spring break until, uh, the referendum passed, um, just went above and beyond.
Koreah referred to uh every single day and every single night here in the Dartmouth schools. These school if you drive through town you'll see the parking lots are really busy places um and I expect that only to increase over the next couple of weeks. Uh we celebrated teacher appreciation week. I cannot uh not uh acknowledge the PTO and the staff uh the leadership staff out in the schools who really do so many creative things to honor the faculty and staff in their buildings. There were quite a few lunchons that I was I keep up to date on what's going on across the district who's getting what. And I have to say um there were some good menus out there for people to enjoy throughout the week. And then just on behalf of central office, we sent an ice cream truck to each school after la the teacher appreciation week because we knew they would not be able to indulge in any more um treats during the week of teacher appreciation.
And so in order to ensure that that 4-day conference is well covered in verse, we make sure that every single one is going to attend different sessions and then they come back and bring it back to the IT director just to kind of discuss how they can better support the district overall. Okay. Thank you. I just wanted to make sure that they're all different positions. So clarify that. Thank you. Yes, you're welcome. [Music] If there's no other discussion, I move to approve overnight and out of state travel requests as listed. I second motion carries. This time I'll ask for if there are any requests for future agenda items. Yes. Um Dr. Croto, before I went on vacation, I did ask about um presenting for the school um extracurricular activities, grade requirements. If we could have a briefing on that soon, that would be lovely. Thank you, Madame President.
No one has signed up to speak tonight, so we'll move through this agenda item and go on to um request for approval. Thank you, Mrs. Wielen. Under uh requests for approval under old business, we have the minutes of the April 28th regular school board meeting as well as the May 5th um work session uh for on the handbooks. So, I request approval for uh item 7A, old business. I move that we approve the minutes for the last work session and last board meeting. Second. Thank you, Mr. Glick and Mr. Nell.
So, the list of those who donated, uh, restaurants, Station 21, um, Josimo's Pizza, and then also Bombers Barbecue, special community for us. We appreciate that and their leadership teams there uh many others who donated as we went through the process. It was a strenuous process, a stressful process, but at the same time just a great opportunity to see people come together and interact with a lot of people in a different way than we do. So, I can't state it enough how much I appreciate um and on behalf of our team. Um the support of our community coming together, which again was the highest passing rate that we've ever had here schools. You consider all the things that are going on around our country right now. A lot of the just people being diametrically opposed to each other and and things to see people come together in this way was very Appreciate that and just thank you very much.
So we just want to um again just let our educators know how much we appreciate everything that they do every day. We want to recognize Mass Hire. Uh, Mass Hire has generously benefited our school this year, our high school with fif over 15,000 in grant dollars in f grant funding to help cover transportation and field trip related costs. Um, thanks to their support, you hear some us update you on some of the uh, experiences that our students have been able to participate in. And in particular, Devin Rabbitali, I hope I said that right. um who is our contact at Mass Hire and of course Mr. Parade whose support makes all of this happen. So we're really grateful for those opportunities and again those are like the small kinds of grants that make a big difference and what we're able to provide for our students under safe and supportive schools.
Um member Dist, I believe I did send the date with that. Hold on. I will tell you when that's I'm sorry you did. I just remembered. My bad. Um, I I will tell you real quick. I believe it's in our June meeting. Um, and Jenna is telling me it's in the June meeting. So, we do have that scheduled ready to go for the June meeting. Thank you. I'm sorry. No problem. [Music] Okay. I move to establish executive session to be held immediately during a recess in the regular meeting. Second it came up. Oh, didn't vote. I got to vote for what I I am so sorry. I can't. Okay, at this time we will reconvene the meeting and we'll begin our action discussion J1 at this time. I move to approve the superintendent's year-end performance evaluation and performance pay in the amount of 18% reflecting the superintendent has satisfactorily achieved the approved goals for the 2425 school year.
Are there any questions or comments from the team? Okay. Motion and a second to approve item 7A, minutes of our last board meeting. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. All those opposed, please say nay. Motion carries. Thank you very much. under request for approval for new business. Um the the lack of a better term consent agenda, the normal items, um supplemental contracts, field trips, and professional leaves, school fundraisers, and also the claims and payroll uh for the May 19th docket. Um that is a total of 1.3 just over 1.3 million. Uh the pre-runs for the month of April, uh 3.75 million. And then the May 2nd employee payroll is just under $3.8 million. Items E through J include the test some technical corrections to policy 8500. Um those include a change of the maximum amount to be charged um for u lunches to change that amount from three meals to $20.
Well said Dr. Ter that list of individuals and all those people recognized amazing people just some amazing talented people too. So does not surprise me success have those people working. So thank you to all those individuals. Move on to 8.01 other business of the board. Sure. I'd just like to take the opportunity. I have a question. Um, my fourth grader brought home I learned results today and it just spurred like a whole bunch of thought about look over here to Mr. China and Dr. Terrell. Um, and the answer could be they're just not time. But I'm curious, you know, I say, let's just say we have four fourth graders across the school, 28 teachers in fourth grade. Do we have the opportunity or consideration of taking and I understand fourth grade teacher last they want is to be evaluated by some standardized test. We all understand that.
I want to highlight something from our middle you many of you uh were able to participate or to visit the civics's um school I mean the middle school civics presentations and really exemplified the power of student voice and civic engagement and action. Uh Mr. Mr. Kylie and I uh had an opportunity to sit with a group of eighth grade students who and I would say across the board students were serious about the presentations that they made and that they made a connection to being able to make realworld changes um using their voices. One in particular, I'm just going to mention, we had a group of eighth grade girls who met with us and they passionately advocated for the availability of menstrual products in the girls' bathroom throughout the school at the middle school level. And when they presented their rationale, it was so incredibly logical that we looked at each other and said, "How could we have missed this for so long?" Because of course, that's the exact age where you want young women to have access to those kind of products.
I second Motion carries. This time I move to adjourn the meeting. I second. I vote yes. Sorry. Are we voting to adjurnn verbally? Oh, I shut down. Motion carries. We are adjourned.
And then also to correct uh for our current practice that the um the chargers do not continue to acrue after that $20 item $20 maximum. Item 8F uh sets the meal prices as per Mrs. Milspaw's recommendation the required increase of a dime. Item 8G is the secondary and elementary handbooks as amen amended in the board packet with the four changes following the work session from a few weeks ago. Also the naming of the 12th elementary school to Maple Grove Elementary. The formal appointment of Mr. Glick to add uh to join Mr. Ster as a bo board representative on the district and facilities committee. And then last item 8J is to add Richards and Mount Healthy Elementary to the community eligibility provision for the 2526 school year. I'm going to ask that item J be voted independent versus the consent. Could Could I also ask for H as well, please?