Good morning everyone. Congratulations to all the seniors. I am Jessica Atkins, my father, my son Miles Atkins, and our good friend Carol Bishop. We are here to celebrate and honor my mom Melissa Mari today. She fought a hard battle of cancer for 6 years. She was the strongest person I have ever known and remained so positive and uplifting even on her worst and most week days. Most people would see her out at my son's sporting events and wouldn't even be able to tell she wasn't feeling well or having a bad day. She is my hero. Before my mom left us, she asked if we could give a nursing scholarship in her honor. She had the most amazing and caring nurses take care of her while she was sick. I hope that the recipients of these scholarships continue on with their nursing and career in a positive and uplifting, caring way, just as my mom was.
Um, and I appreciate the kids what they did with the math bowl and spell bowl, the perfect score on the iid, especially as a second grader. That's amazing. So, congratulations on that. Student council starting uh starting at this level. I'm sure that's going to be great for you, especially as you move into high school. Uh, get an early start on that. So, you know, great job working on all those things, putting those things together. I get the unique privilege of, you know, calling out my nephew Jackson over there. How you doing? Um, but thank you all for, you know, coming out tonight and thank you for hosting us. Dr. Kryper. Uh, yes. I do have a few announcements that I'd like to make our community members aware of. Soccer is coming to Lake Station for ages 6 through 14. And you can register for soccer by going to the website soccer, all one word.com.
Um, I believe and I'm not even I know that that um the woman that runs Sportified um had her first year doing this. She had done it in Ashland. I don't think it's in Ashland this upcoming year. I think it might be Framingham. Yeah, it is. These are pages 28, 30, and 34 if you want on your Y. So, but you know, we reached out to find out how many like if it was going to benefit the Ashlin community and it from her response there was um going to be a lot of kids from the Ashlin community that were going to be part um participating in it um for the neurodeiversity support for children. So, hold on. So you're saying for the sportified one atract at this point you said you said you weren't going to do anything but now that you have more information are you recommending that we add that to the list?
Nice shot by Caroline. The blast one by the goalie. Spartans up 19 to one. Spartan goal scored by Caroline Mutton. Marino on the circle. Reena flicks it to open space once again. Gets it as she's done so many times tonight. Reena over the restraining line. Gets the ball over to Lucas. Lucas looking for somebody. Gets the ball to gets can't handle it. She's there to pick it up. Gets the ball back to Lucas. Kasich sitting outside the 12 meters which is back left and right looking to find that open cutter. She gets the ball to Mckne. Faith pass to Avery Morgado. Keney still with the ball. She gets tries to get the ball to Trilio. gets knocked away as Awam now scorching down the sideline gets knocked away temporarily I due to a fall on an Trullio flicks the ball the other side of the field is Mahoney with the ball she gets the Now Mahoney with the ball.
Um and that's mostly due to health insurance and heating oil. And by health insurance, I mean, you know, that number and what we spend on it kind of fluctuates a little bit throughout the year because, you know, you hire um people leave and so you have like fluctuations and you never really know if somebody's going to take the full family plan or just a single person or no coverage. So that number kind of fluctuates, but now we're at a point in the year where we can really kind of nail down what we're going to be spending this particular year. So um that is so most of our savings monthto month was due to that and heating oil. So, um, and fuel. So, that really kind of brought our net budget shortfall down to about $331,000, um, which is on our agenda tonight. Um, which actually is great news because it is within the contingency that the town had set aside.
Um but they will be giving us a credit for anything over that that that we may have been charged. Um we were recently notified as early as this week that there is um just shy of $600,000 credit coming back. Um so this number will will go from 14 um it'll increase about 600,000. Um there there will be unexpected costs between now and then things that are not um not necessarily encumbered. Um you the the classic example that we use is a lot of stuff for graduation um is not encumbered. Um some of the uh sports are not encumbered for the refs and stuff. Over time yeah overtime those numbers are relatively small. The the big number that's going to come between now and 6:30 um is the last payroll. um because as I'm sure you know the last payroll several uh many of our employees have the ability in their contracts to get um a lump sum payout.
The School Ethics Act also defines what a benefit is and the definition is that it that if there's a direct indirect uh advantage, profit, privilege um or gain to you or anyone in your family, that would be considered a benefit. And again, the the determination that the school ethics commission uses is if a reasonable member of the public would think that you're you were not being objective. And so again, it's the reasonable member standard that applies more than your own personal um thought. Um and the one example of this is and again this is a school official. This is a superintendent or acting superintendent that um so it's not only board members right everybody everybody has this but this acting superintendent it was her first meeting um as being acting superintendent there was a list of 160 people um for to be school substitutes in the school her son was on that list of people she recommended that list be approved ultimately list, you probably should have read through the entire list before it went there.
My mom always told me, "Just breathe. When the times get tough during nursing school or life in general, just breathe." The recipients of the first annual Melissa Mary Scholarship are Kayla Tam and Braden Emmery. Congratulations to both of you and good luck in your journey. [Music] I'm Pam and this is my son Jared. My mom and dad, Glenn and Joanne Moore, moved to Greensburg in 1955. They came with a dream, determination, a work ethic, and three little kids. They became successful in the business world in Greensburg, fulfilling their dream. But they knew that we kids needed more than just a high school education. So, it was never a question of if we would go to college. It was a question of where we would go to college. Um, it gives Jared and I great pleasure to help another young person fulfill their dream. Uh, Kathleen Swearing is the recipient of the Glenn and Joanne Moore scholarship.
And at the table as you enter the gym this evening, there are small flyers that you can take with you to give you more information about the soccer program. Also, I'd like to recognize the Lake Station School Board for being recognized by the Indiana School Board Association as being an advanced school board for the year 2024. So, congratulations to our school board members. There are some there are some upcoming community events that I would like to inform everyone about. on May 31st is a touch a truck program at Riverview Park starting at 10:00 to 2:00 p.m. They will have a different variety of trucks, police cars, fire trucks, dump trucks, plow trucks, a whole host of trucks that children and students as well as grown-ups can touch, sit in the cabs of those trucks, and get to know a little bit about what those trucks do.
Well we wanted to bring it to the board. You know we didn't really have time to post another meeting anyways and we just thought um I think one thing that's come to light in in all this is that again and I know we've reworked the policy a couple of times but we need to tweak it some more. um that that sometimes it's hard for people to understand what it is we're looking for, what we're trying to support. And so I think that that's something that we need to put on a future agenda. Okay. So then maybe do you want us to vote the ones that you've already done and then why don't we do that talk about if I can get a motion to support the funding that was that was presented um in our packets. Yeah. Right. So moved. Okay. So moved from Claudia and a second from Joe.
[Music] Ball back to Spalding. Spalding flicks one into the middle. Good grab by it's Constantini. Ball gets knocked away as Hannah Eddie's battling for the ball. No. Or Petite. [Music] Awan attacker didn't run the ball into the field. So you saw me will start off with the ball. Petite gets the ball to Jenna Holly. Jenna Holly flicks the ball up. Good grab by Grace Howard. Grace Howard scorpions onto the ground followed by Awam. hard with ball gets the ball over the string line looking to make her way in. She gets the ball behind the net too. I don't know who that was. Caroline Leasea giving chase. Grooven with the ball. Kicks the ball up to Bara. Constantini. Constantini flicks the ball up to Mahoney. Mooney to CrarAel gets the ball to Constantini. She turns around. Nice switch. She goes off the post as Mahoney with the ball.
So, we're no longer in kind of panic mode. It's, you know, a much more dealable number. Um, so, so yeah, that was that was the bulk of the business. Um, we did officially move to um, recommend that additional appropriation request and we did talk about the 2526 budget, but I mean I think some of that's a little bit moot now um because we did approve the the final changes to that budget and the budget has now since passed. So that was pretty much it.
Um but that number is already encumbered. So that that number is already kind of counted for in that $26.9 million uh incumbrance. So you're saying for example the coaches is that for one month or for the whole year that charge it it um I think they do it bianually. uh for it comes a couple times a year and then we get usually get a bill in the spring. Um but also, you know, we are now never used to be budgeted fully for. It's budgeted now, but any teams that go into extended season play, they make the playoffs, they need more buses and transportation, uh which you need more referee fees and and uh custodians to support the games. um security staff, those bills can come in that are um not unusual but not necessarily budgeted. That's pretty typical this time. The the only um item that I can think of that would be of significant uh dollar value.
Um, but they felt that it it was it did create um, you know, an opin a view that she may not be objective because her son was gaining financially and so it was she was reprimanded for that by the by the commissioner of education. These next few slides talk about um how the the different uh ethics rulings on um conflict and benefits um looking at my time. So we go through there and really just be be mindful like this the the well I'll go into the second one just because to kind of show you what it is. a board member uh a board member voted on two resolutions to name a school building in honor of an elected official who was also her boss. um and the um the elected also her boss. And so um there and boss of 20 years uh and um the school ethics commission said that the longstanding relationship could create a justifiable impression um that the independent judgment or the objectivity of that board member um um was could be impaired, right?
[Music] Good morning and congratulation graduates. My name is Pam Hersshley and I'm here today on behalf of Greensburg Rotary Club. Rotary's motto is service above self. We are here today for now to present two awards to graduates to graduates who have demonstrated exactly. Congratulations to Tiffany Grahamman, our $1,000 recipient, and Joseph Y, our $500 recipient. [Music] Good morning. My name is Dick Glasser and on behalf of the Greensburg Optimus Club, I'm here to award the William H. Grindy Scholarship. The scholarship is based on academic achievements, community involvement, financial aid, and also the impact of optimism in the student's life. The winner of this year's $2,500 scholarship is Daniel Fissy. Good morning. Congratulations to the class of 2025. My name is Travis Na'vi and I'm up here with my mom Jennifer and my sister Jeff. We are here to award the second annual Priyani Memorial Scholarship in honor of my dad.
So, that will be coming up on May 31st at Riverview Park. On June 7th and June the 8th, the Northwest Indiana Pride Festival will be held at Riverview Park from 10 in the morning till 10 p.m. And June 21st and June 22nd is the Hooers Veterans Festival where we pay recognition and honor to the vets here in our community. that will be held at Riverview Park from noon to 11:00 p.m. on Saturday and from noon to 6:00 pm on that Sunday. So, we encourage you to come out. There'll be food trucks, activities for the students and our children to participate in and it's a good family event, all three of these events. So, we encourage you to come out and be a part of that as your schedule permits. My last announcement today, prior to us having our schoolboard meeting, we had the senior awards program held at Edison Junior Senior High School.
All those in favor say I. I. Okay. So, now let's talk through the other ones and decide what we want to do with those. Thank you. Okay. So, um so we were talking about Sportify. Let's let's we'll finish. Yeah. Do one at a time and then we could decide. Um so in your packet um you can see the response back from um from it came um Katrina uh Nikki. What page? Oh, yeah. Okay. She did the response. Okay. It's This is page 30, I believe. Yep. So, it's almost packet or in a separate packet that you guys do in the document. I sent spring spring 2025 grants. It should be in the It's in the form. It the one I sent last night. It's uh by page. Yeah, whatever works for you. I pasted the response at the bottom. Okay. Why don't you keep going?
Kicking the ball out to Calville. Time about to expire and the Spartans will go into the fourth quarter with a 19 to1 lead. [Music] And we're back for fourth quarter action. Spartans up 19 to1. Grace Howard on the draw along with Mckne and Addie Jordan on the circle. Bog goes way up. Good grab by Mckne. Keney has room to to go. She gets the ball up to Illingsworth. Illingsworth. Nice move. gets the ball over to Jane. Pelier to McKnney back to Peliter behind the net to Parsons. Parsons looking to make a move. Nice pass to Illingsworth. Illingsworth turns around, takes a shot. Julia Illingsworth goes five hole for her second goal of the game. Nice pass by the freshman Parsons to the sophomore Illingsworth. [Music] East medal goal scored by Julia Ellingsburg. Lucy Parson with the assist. [Music] St. Anslam's commit. Grace Howard on the draw.
Any questions about finance? Okay, let's move to Cape then. Joy. Okay, we met on May 14th. We received a follow-up document you probably remember from last meeting um regarding it was a memo regarding midterm data um regarding strengths and weaknesses and targeted specific courses in which there were a large number of students receiving D's and Fs um so there's a follow-up it's attached um you have it in your four docks um just a quick summary uh for social studies and English it was reported that areas of improvement were based on stamina motivation inconsistent attendance work completion lack exam prep, lack of exposure for independent work and weakness in making claims and providing evidence for math. Uh there were common trend there there continue to be the common trends yeartoear they struggle with that added level of complexity. Students don't think that if they can do A then they can do B.
Um again, we it's not encumbered, but we have no way to predict it um is any placements that happen for special ed. Um they they do happen. Um but that would um I I'm I'm fairly certain it would be more than absorbed by the um surplus we have now. So I think Teresa what he's saying and correcting me if I'm wrong Mike is that he doesn't foresee any unexpected large charges that is going into Yeah. I mean to the best of its ability there's small there's small stuff that'll come in coaches were out things because that number goes down awfully quick. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, exactly. You know, when you look at it, two or three months ago, I think we were at I forget the month, but we're would be in April. Couple couple of months ago, I think it was maybe January, February, we're at $9 million.