Thank you, Mr. Trout. Would anyone like to make a motion reference the changes to the agenda? I make a motion that we uh approve the recommendations of the agenda as presented. Thank you, Mr. Wall. And a second. Second. Thank you, M. Mlullen.
Any discussion or conversation before we vote? Hearing none, we'll vote on the changes to the agenda. Motion passes 70. Moving on to core values B1. Core values discussion. This is always an exciting time for our board meetings where we can um celebrate our staff and students and tonight is no exception uh because we have that tonight. And so I'm going to ask we're going to talk about EL programming, our HCCS adult English classes. So we invite you to come to the front. When I read your name, if you would please come forward. Elijah Eert, Annette Little, Ian Lindsay, John Petrovich, Ruth Anne Rust, Abby Grub, and Angie Grub. Our EL teachers and English teachers under the leadership of our EL director, Angie Grub, have launched adult English classes that meet on Monday and Wednesday nights at Lincoln Elementary School. These free classes welcome all HCCS eel families and focus on helping parents learn to read, speak, and write in English.
The program demonstrates our staff's dedication to going above and beyond their regular duties. Not only are they providing excellent instruction to our EL students during the school day, but they're also strengthening schoolto-ome connections by directly supporting our EL parents in their educational journey. By empowering parents with English language skills, our EL team is creating a ripple effect that benefits entire families, strengthens our school community. When parents can come can better communicate and engage with their children's education, success, student success increases significantly. This initiative exemplifies our core values of compassion through service to families, responsibility in meeting community needs, and excellence in educational support that extends beyond the classroom. We are grateful for the dedication of Angie Group and our EEL and English teaching staff who recognize that supporting our families is essential to supporting our students. Great job. Well, well done. So great. Oh, you got your card.
Next up, we'd like to recognize our Riley Dance Marathon at Huntington North High School for the 2425 campaign. Tonight I'm pleased to share how our students are living our core values through Riley Dance Marathon at Huntington North High School. So we invite to come forward as well Mia Klene, Emma Alford, Maddie Maddie Chandler, Andrew Chopson, Lauren Rust, and adviserss Chelsea Panine and Jackie Canler. If you would please come forward. This year, our students raised $28,383.15 for Riley Hospital for Children, a record-breaking amount in the eight years Huntington North has participated. These funds support palative care and the magic castle cart that brings daily joy to young patients. Under President Ella Newton and Vice President Mia Klein's leadership, students built positive community connections, secured business sponsorships, strengthened corporate corporation relationships, and increased dance marathon attendance. Hima Alfred will lead as president next year. Students fundraised year round through Nelson's chicken sales, spooky bags, Valentine's carnations, car shows, pickle ball tournaments, final exam kits, duct tape a teacher events, apparel sales, and miracle minutes at sporting events.
This program exemplifies our core values. Compassion through service to sick children, responsibility through a sustained commitment, integrity and fundraising efforts, and excellence in record-breaking results. I don't want to miss this. The success of Riley Dance Marathon demonstrates what our students accomplish when motiv motivated by something greater than themselves. We are so proud of their dedication and positive community impact. Again, let's join me in congratulating our students and their tremendous efforts. Well [Applause] done. That concludes our core values. Righty, we'll move on to C1 items from visitors. This is the time for public comment. This time, the public may address the board. We ask you to sign your name and uh announce your name uh when you step up to speak and ask you to be concise and keep your comments to around five minutes or less. We have one person signed up for public comment, Jacqueline Cancer.
Chancellor, making sure it's Can you guys hear me? Okay. I am gonna keep this a lot shorter than last time I addressed you all. Prompts and I have goodies for you tonight, too. So, my name is Jackie Canler, and I come to you as one of the people of the state of Indiana and a teacher in the Huntington County Community Schools, Mr. Allen, school board members, um, and administrators. I'm here to actually serve you a notice of maladministration and an affidavit of myself to you. The people have served hundreds of notices to the school board and to the local and state government officers um from November 27 of 2024 through March 3 of 2025 instructing you to provide remedy in order to immediately correct the employee guide handbook showing claims each of which were supported by the expressed written constitutional text and the highest law the maxims of law.
You were given specific amounts of time to rebut then controvert the law and claims provided by the people in the above mentioned notices and there was no public response sworn by affidavit under penalty of perjury. So ladies and gentlemen, I am here to serve you an affidavit sworn under penalty of perjury that the law I served you was in fact right and as of now you are in maladministration. So, I'm going to serve you an affidavit that I'm swearing under oath of penalty and perjury that I am 100% correct in the law. And I'm just going to read it to you and then I'm going to serve it to you. Aant Jacqueline K. Can cancer one of the people as seen in the Indiana Constitution article one section one Republican informed suie jurist do serve you Tim Allen Ryan Wall Aaron Carl Matt Milker Deb Miller Gary Mlullen and Carrie Haim this affidavit in this court of record to make the following CA claims that you provide due care.
Please take notice. It is guaranteed right and duty of the people to assemble together to consult for their common good regarding the employee policies found in the employee guide handbook for Huntington County Community Schools. There should be no law restraining any of the people from instructing their government servants, which is you, the school board, to redress of grievances. The people shall not be restrained from exercising their constitutional right to the free interchange of thought and opinion. Please take further notice as school board members. You are elected agents, also known as servants, for the HCCSC within the state of Indiana and are bound in good faith to fulfill the duties of office by your oath to uphold the Indiana Constitution. As servants, you are bound to uphold all reserved rights of we the people. Any failure on your part to protect the rights is a breach of trust and denture and your oath of office for which you have sworn.
Facts claim one. On October 28, 2024, the HCC board school board this amp presented all members of the school board administrators evidence of the constitutional law that legislature has no power to write statutes that follow that violate the rights of the people. All statutes, codes, policies, and ordinances must be in pursuit to the Constitution. Neither Indiana legislature nor any agency such as the Indiana Department of Child Protective Services, DCS entity or school corporation has been granted the authority in the Constitution to remove a child over the objection of either of the parents of such child. Similarly, no authority exists mandating teachers to work as agents with such agencies or entities. This is recorded and witnessed to you by Eddie Ecounselor. claim to on October on November 17, 2024, Afient plus 463 people sent via Jot form a lawful court of record titled notice of danger of maladministration peritt permitting operation of DCS and HCCS to all school board members and school administrators.
A response was demanded within 10 days of receipt of this notice and no response was attached. Claim three. On December 7, 2024, Afant sent an email to Mr. John Trout, Mr. Chad Brimberry, and Mr. Matt Roth, former school president, confirming the job forms are received. Mr. Trout confirmed they were received. See evidence in the envelope I will be writing. Claim four. On December 23, 2024, Afient handd delivered printed copies of people's notices to Mr. John Trout, Mr. Chunk Brimberry, Mr. Pat Mc Pat Mclofflin and Mr. Matt Roth at the school board office. Mr. John Trout and Cynthia Gray received this delivery. Claim five. On October on January 16, 2025, the Afant plus 40 84 people sent via Jot form a letter titled point of clarity regarding members binding oath to Mr. Tim Allen, new school board president. All members of the school board were CC to Mr.
Trout and school administrators. a response for demand by February 10, 2025 and no response was given. Claim six. On February 10, 2025, Afion attended a school board meeting requested to speak as one of the people and Afion was denied her freedom of speech and the right to redress grievance found in the Indiana Constitution Bill of Rights witnessed by Eddie E. Chancellor. Claim seven. On February 10, 2025, a handd delivered 84 printed copies of each of the people's point of clarity to Mr. Tim Allen. After serving Mr. Allen with the letter, he stated that a meeting would be scheduled to address the letter. Claim eight. On February 11, 2025, Afant sent an email to Mr. Allen requesting a meeting. And on February 14, 2025, Mr. Allen responded and a meeting was set for February 19, 2025. Claim nine. On February 19, 2025, aient met with Mr.
Allen. Mr. Allen stated changing the policy handbook pertaining to the mandate of teachers reporting to CPS would be a challenge due to two issues. One, a state statute which was overcome by the Constitution of the United States in the state of Indiana and funding. On February 26, 2025, Afant requested to speak to be put on the agenda for the school board meeting on March 10, 2025. Request was denied with which abregated the Aference constitutional rights of free speech and redress of grievance as guaranteed in the Indiana Constitution. Claim 11. On March 2nd, 2025, Afient sent email to Mr. Allen asking clarifying questions of why Afient was denied her freedom to speech at a public board meeting. A response was given. See evidence in the envelope I will provide. April 22, 2025. A had meeting with Dr. Duggets to inform him of a notice of maladministration to be sended at the school board meeting to be held on April 28, 2025.
A meeting was scheduled for April 24, 2025 with Mr. Trout, Mr. Allen, Mr. Ryan, and school board attorney or school attorney Mr. Riley. Claim 13. On April 24, 2025, Afion attended a meeting with Mr. Trout, Mr. Allen, Mr. Ryan, and Mr. Wy. Aient hand delivered the notice of maladministration to each attendee at the meeting. Afient gave evidence of maladministration and again demanded they provide remedy in order to immediately correct the employee guide. A claim 14 May 2nd, 2025. Aient received an email from Mr. Trout with an attached letter of a response to the meeting held on April 24, 2025. This letter was also sent by certified mail. attachment and envelope provided claim number 15. May 27, 2025, aant sent email to Mr. Mr. Trout in response to his letter. Please take notice. The aant swears by affidavit under penalty of perjury that the above claims are true and that you are instructed to provide remedy in order to immediately correct the employee guide and showing claims each of which were supported by the expresswritten constitutional text the highest law and the maxims which are automatically implied in any contract and universally accepted as being true rules and principles of law.
You, the servant who has sworn an oath to the Indiana Constitution, were given specific amounts of time to rebut or controvert the law and claims provided in the above mentioned notices. There were no responses given by affidavit, point by point given to any of the people or the aant. Please take final notice that it is my wish, order, and demand that you provide remedy by revising the employee policies in the HCCS employee guide to remove any reference reporting child abuse to DCS. If you have failed to respond in writing submitted by affidavit sworn under penalty of perjury and postmarked to the to the address of me within five days upon receipt of this affidavit, the evidence or constitutional authority granted to you um to do so or you agree by TASA equence that all statements herein in the notice shall stand as evidence and truth in the law in all courts of record and you do violate my rights and the rights of the people.
All responses not sworn under penalty and perjury are nonresponses and that no court can rehear this matter and I reserve the right to have an arbitrator of my choice. If you guys have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them.
I don't have any questions. Uh if you'd like to give me those, I will distribute them to the board. Anyone else like to make a public comment during this time? We will move on to D special presentation one is food service topics universal free breakfast and meal prices. Mr. Burgess. Good evening. I'm here tonight to present HCCS food services and meal prices for school year 2026. I believe Cindy has a presentation to put up on the screen for you all to see as well. And then with these changes, I'm also offering more detail and background than normal for everyone's greater understanding. Next slide, please. So here we have our proposed uh prices for meals next year with the breakfast prices first as my proposal of student reduced price breakfast at 30 cents a piece. Student full pay breakfast at $160 and adult breakfast uh set at $2.
The IDOE recommendation for adult breakfast prices are at $2.38. The proposed lunch prices for student reduced price lunch for all schools would be at 40 cents a lunch. Uh for full pay elementary school lunch prices would be $245. Uh full pay for student prices at uh middle school and high school would be $2.95. Adult lunches at uh all schools would be $3.95. Again, the recommends $3.91. Uh milk would remain at 50 cents a piece. Next slide, please. The increasing cost of food, supplies, and equipment significantly influences meal prices, leading to adjustments in pricing for the upcoming school year. Uh there has only been one student meal price increase since 2017. Uh meal prices are also adjusted according to budget needs, ensuring affordability and sustainability uh for students. An increase in meal prices is necessary to maintain food quality and to continue to follow increasingly strict USDA meal pattern guidelines.
Um the actual changes to meal prices for school year 2025 2026 are as follows. Uh the obvious one that is a big standout is a return to student paid breakfasts. Uh 10cent increase in full pay student lunches. increase in adult meal prices to get closer to the IDOE recommendations. Next slide, please. Uh, a little bit of background of our department's funding sources. Federal funding plays a major role in supporting school meal programs across the country, ensuring accessibility and nutritional standards. This is the majority of our funding and is directly based on the number of meals sold each day. At the end of each month, I report our meal counts to the state and they release funds based on how many meals we have sold. While we typically receive reimbursements for these meals within a month, it has taken up to three months for funds to reach our account at times.
State funding also complements federal resources providing additional financial support for local school meal initiatives and programs. This funding is very minimal, only comes once a year and we do not know when we will receive it. Payments for full pay meals, reduced price meals, adult meals, and allocart sales are also a significant revenue source. Obviously, however, the food services department again does not immediately receive these funds when purchases are made. As a point of necessary oversight, at the end of the month, our department sends sales reports to the HCCS central finance department. They then move the funds from a holding account into the food services funds. All that explanation is to show that our breakfast and lunch programs are funded, if you will, after the fact. If there ever seems to be any kind of excessive funds in our accounts, it is because we have to stay ahead of our finances for these reasons.
Uh, next slide, please. The universal uh uh free breakfast program was initiated in school year 2020 2021 to address child hunger and improve nutrition among students during the pandemic. uh throughout the United States at that time. All meals were fully funded by federal dollars which were at an all-time high. There were also significant supply chain subsidies on top of that that helped keep K12 food service programs afloat. The USDA ended funding for this program in June 2022, and these extra supply chain funds are no longer available. Not only did they stop fully funding breakfast for students, but the federal meal reimbursement that we were receiving at the time has significantly decreased across the board since then. As you can see from the graph on the on the board, uh, in 2021, the reimbursement rate for a breakfast for a student who qualified for full pay meals was $246 a breakfast.