We are going to skip the pledge of allegiance since we uh just took part of that with the school. So we'll move right on to our vision and strategic goals. So our vision um obviously our vision which we always start with at the beginning of the meeting a nationally recognized district of choice that embraces all students and prepares them to grow and thrive for their future. We'll listen to some students and staff share our strategic goals in cooperation with our community. >> In cooperation with our community, >> we will become a professional learning community, improving student achievement by promoting equitable experiences and opportunities for all students. >> In cooperation with our community, we will create systemic and purposeful innovation opportunities to develop critical thinkers. >> Critical thinkers. critical thinkers in cooperation with our community. We will support student well-being, mental wellness, and the whole child.
Any questions or concerns? >> No. >> All in favor of accepting the minutes say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Same sign. Carries. Vouchers and financial reports. Can I get a motion to accept all those for last month? >> I'll make a motion to accept the vouchers and financial reports. >> I'll second. >> Motion and second in place. Uh everybody in favor of accepting the vouchers and financial reports. Signify by saying I opposed. Okay. Down to communications. We have several donations to look at. I can read it here. Tibetan Central, we have donations to the auto department, industrial tech, athletics, BC cafeteria cap, class of 2027, and to the student activity fund totaling $1,183. And we have one donation to Prairie Crossing, $500 to the backpack program. Otteran. We have about a page and a half of donations mostly to student activity fund camp to comes athletics library club totaling $4,10.
We do not have a pathway with animal science but if you have questions about any of those courses you can look at the course guide or ask me a few things there on that. Okay. So from the education part with those classes just the class of 2026 58 students we got uh number two there we got 32 students in this class during their high school career they earned 264 Ivy Tech dual credit just through the a education courses here at Cington High School. Um, also with that class, we've had 27 of those students that could potentially use that dual credit or a pathway to meet their college readiness requirements that are required for their graduation. Um, and then number four, we've got 11 students in this class that potentially could use one of those pathways. So the two pathways again are the natural resource management with forestry and wildlife or the a engineering which is a power structures technology and a fab.
He makes his classes fun and engaging for students to learn. He truly enjoys what he is doing with the kids and you can tell. Chris is able to communicate with students in a way that makes them want to be in his class. He is a great leader within our school. He always goes above and beyond committee work and doing fun extra things he does for the staff. Chris is always ready for a good time and he exudes positivity when he's around the staff. We are privileged to have Mr. King on our staff. [applause] >> Oh, and everyone, um, we are also very proud to tell you that Mr. King has received a $10,000 grant to support his PLTW program. [applause] Next, we'll invite up Miss Liz. >> All right. So, Liz is a dynamic individual who goes above and beyond to provide meaningful learning experiences for our students.
But is that information that public information once you get that final line? >> It will be. Yes. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Don Julian and follow up with my question from [clears throat] the last school board. Uh when you get the results from the walk through then from the contractors and I'm assuming you're going to have more than one the way it sounds then so you're waiting on the lowest and the cheapest cost. Is that what you're looking at? >> Not necessarily. And the second question, thank you for your time. Uh, once you have that lowest in your hand, does the board does the board have an input on the cost that that what what you guys are going to be uh voting on? Do you have any input like it be negotiated or whatever? >> You mean their price? >> Yeah. I guess we have a say in anything we do, but as far as negotiations, there'll be a time for that.
Uh but this was really just a nice celebration and really the message coming out of this is how important it is for all of us in our community whether you're an educator or a politician or a business owner just the importance of children reading and we know at EBSC we've seen great success this past uh school year uh for the strides we've made and we definitely want that to continue and not just EBSC but our entire community. So, uh, nice celebration around that. Uh, we had a release of another what's happening with Dr. Hoover and this was on the Academy of Science and Medicine program. And I won't say too much of that because we've got special guests here from ASM tonight who are going to talk to you during district spotlight. Uh, I will say because he's not here tonight, Dr. Barnett, Joy Barnett, who is an EBSC alum.
Grayson continues to listen, follow direction, and works hard to complete his work to the highest of expectations. Grayson has shown that he can do difficult things and persevere. Being a model kindergarten student, Mrs. Aubbering is very proud of you, Grayson. Keep doing great things. >> And who did she bring with you today? >> My brother, sister. >> Brother and sister. >> Second brother. The second brother >> glad they drove themselves getting >> from KDIS. I have Owen Cosgrove >> from uh middle school. I have Olivia Dot. KVMS is pleased to nominate Olivia Dodd as school board student of the month. Olivia is an outstanding student and is liked by staff and students. She is very creative and was recently recognized by Young Writers USA for an entry she submitted. Her story will be published in the April edition of Stranger Saga's epic tales. We hope this will encourage her to continue to be creative and take advantage of these types of opportunities in life.
>> Perfect. >> Yeah. And I would say too, like if you've probably read a lot about Miss Olivia here, she's going to go on and do great things, but it's her um her leadership that you guys had like what 30ome girls out. It was a wild and crazy number of the girls and a lot of it had to do with uh Olivia's leadership and her recruiting of other girls to come out and get them to join. And then like Brian Strong said, these two gentlemen have been uh great role models and leaders for our kids, too. And I think that's when we talk about we talk a lot about yeah, we're here to teach, you know, reading and math. Of course, those are important, but extracurricular activities are also extremely important because for many of our kids, they learn so many lessons. It's just another classroom, right, Mr.
The doors are now in since I took those pictures. And then I think we'll take a look inside. Yeah, you can see inside a classroom. Uh they're they're getting pretty close. Uh there's still some uh above those cubbies there, the the cabinetry goes in and uh the carpeting is going in. And so we're we're real close on Mary Castle. Uh Craig County, they're in there wrapping up the painting. and they didn't quite get done before we started having games in there. So, they're doing that during the weekdays. And then uh there's a look at the old PD room. So, the hole you're seeing there, the where the vacant wall, that's where the stage was. Uh so, the stage is now gone. That holes there, that's going to be a stairwell. And then the stairwell look down into the gymnasium. So, and then on the right there, that's some of the steel beams that are bigger than they might show in the picture there, but some big work there.
So I am uh ready to make a motion moving forward if if we're ready to do so. Um, I'm going to Rachel has her hand up. Sarah Bass, I am gonna go ahead and acknowledge her. [snorts] >> And Rachel, >> um, I I would agree with I I think further conversation is warranted. Um, I I'm like a a little uh I don't like the language that that we were just hearing from from Jenny of like this person filed an open meeting law violation because they thought there was a violation and that's the democratic process and they deserve a comprehensive and appropriate response if that's what they think is going on. like I don't think because we we we as a committee deny their claim means they don't deserve a comprehensive response. Um I think they're asking for community engagement which I which I also think we've we have some plans to do and so in a private response perhaps that can be acknowledged.
So, please approach the mic, state your name, and keep your comments to three minutes. Thank you. >> Good evening. Nathan Silvo. I'm speaking on behalf of myself. Um, I did have a chance to sit in on the budget subcommittee meeting um a few weeks ago, and I just wanted to take a moment just to say thank you for the approach the schools are are going to be taking uh in the budgeting process. I'm not going to steal your thunder, Jim, but uh um I think it's important that the schools ask for what they need and that we can have that discussion in public uh at the various budgeting uh discussions that need to be had. I think our kids have done enough at this point in time with the uh not having level services year after year. And I think it's time to to stop that and and get at minimum a level service budget.
So between K12 um you have a sprinkling. So all of those students are spread out across the system. So we might have a couple in um in a school in grade one, grade two, grade three, and then another school. So over time, if the if we continue to trend down towards the end of the year and we'll continue to re-evaluate, we might be able to reduce a little bit terms of FTEES. However, it's not um it's not a wholesale like whoop, we don't need 20 people anymore. Um they're incremental. They're FTEEs that might be here and there at at the end of the year. That's what we would anticipate. So, it's not like we're a complete overhaul in the way that we're staffing for the Danbury public schools. So, um we've accounted for this in our ask. We haven't asked for any. And in fact, um some of the staff that we have internally, we might be able to move a little bit around to service some areas that were on the heavy side last year.
We're working to utilize the activities um on the OPA program planner. They try to do activities throughout the year and also we are going to try to apply for a grant at the end of this school year even though all of our kitchens really have really great equipment and we're lucky. Um another thing we are really happy about all of our new menu items. The kids they'll come up to me like Oh my gosh. Not just our kids. I would like to point out some of our principles come up and say the best chili. Oh my gosh. So that's really awesome. Just just the new menu items alone. Um we do also have um our growth plan we would like to go over real quickly if you have a few. Just I don't want to take up a lot of your time but um So, our plan for the school year at the beginning of the school year was to increase breakfast, lunch, and all cart participation um to increase our breakfast um in the high school, the middle school and the high school.
So, I'm going to kind of refer back to those when I get to my superintendent report as well. We did have the Claflin wreck flow through that's from Barton County for $45,525. And then we also had another uh big ticket item that was our -ate funding for our technology for this past year that was 68,000 - going to be that's going to be reimburseable. Half of that will be reimbursed back once we have the projects finished. Um so that's $68,000 but we'll be reimbursed half of that whenever we get those wrapped up. So I am going to refer back to that one in a little bit too with the technology and the - side but those are our big ticket items for the month. I will make a comment um on that advance when you see that 57,771 just sped flow through that's actually a mistake.
And we need from consent agenda, we also going to remove item number seven, out of state travel to a later date. um given that some additional information was provided and we were unable to upload it uh in a timely manner as required by um the law. So that will be brought up in a different Yes. >> That's senior trip travel. Thank you. >> So that's the only one. >> Yes. Yes. >> Number >> um this was brought up um during the retreat. Um I can I can present it um and answer any additional questions. Um, I've been sharing the document with the governing board. >> Kathy, >> so the RCA, what what is that falling under? >> The RCA is inside the number five informational items. >> Number seven, not five. Five. >> Five. So the numbers are now for information items. One, Baba High School student council report.
>> Shake it off. Good evening all welcome to tonight's meeting. >> Uh if you are able would you please stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. >> Item number four is our adoption of tonight's agenda. I would entertain a motion to adopt a second. >> I'll second. And all in favor? >> I I it's going to be a small little group this evening. So there >> next is call to the public. I do have one form for call to the public and that is Mr. Mark Beagle. Did I say that correctly? >> That's correct. >> Thank you. >> Um, thank you for having me. My name my name is Mark Spiegel. I've been a coach in the basketball program for the last three years.
I just want to share like my own little story when I had this when I played soccer. Something that we valued the most was sportsmanship. It was always just like you know sure you're playing against the other team you can fight hard but at the same time you know you you got to have that sportsmanship. something we value here at Stevenson. I thought that was a cool place to showcase that there, how how much competitive people can get, but at the same time, you know, we're all just friends playing a, you know, playing a game we love or, you know, doing whatever. So, I thought that was cool. And also March 3rd, I'll talk about this more in the next board meeting, but March 3rd is the winter sports award because sports are kind of wrapping up. We're kind of getting toward that tail end of sports where they're starting to close and then we're starting to move into the spring season and a lot of that is starting up right now.
>> Anybody have any questions on the consent agenda? >> Can I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Motion. Joe and Vivian. >> Yes. >> Johnson. >> Yes. >> Bennett. >> Yes. >> Superintendent report. Mr. Golden. >> Awesome. Just a couple quick items. Uh January 31st enrollment update. We try to give you an enrollment update twice a year. Uh once at the start of the year and then once for the January 31st. Uh usually after winter break we get a little increase and this year we increased about 26 students. Um I looked back at the last few years and that was very typical of what happens. I it probably on the higher end but u we are getting some uh students coming into the new uh town homes that are down on Malidor. We we have some new families already down there.
There's quite a few of you. [applause] You can walk in this. [laughter] [applause] You would like to each introduce yourself. Hi, my name is Jana. I'm a senior at Donner's Grove South. Um, I plan to go to University of Iowa next year to major in elementary education. And yeah, this has been an amazing experience and I love the Grove Express. >> Hi, I'm Finley Warner. I'm a senior at Dinos North and I plan to major in economics at the University of Michigan next year. And the Grove Express is unlike any other foundation I've ever known. like I get treated with so much respect and I think there's truly everyone in the community loves it. >> Hi, I'm Lily Edington and I'm going to I'm a senior at Downro North and I'm going to Miami University to major in business. The Grove Express for me has just been a cool way to get involved in like every single different aspect of the community and with a bunch of new people in the community and it's just been a special thing to do these last two years.
And so when within our club, we love to celebrate our black history and like things like that. But then every single meeting we uh we put on a little presentation about a black inventor such as last week we talked about the invention of the three light stoplight which was a black person who invented that and we just within our we just love to show our dedication and things like that. So going around we do all types of community service like not too long ago we made uh blankets for niku babies. So we made uh how many did we make? We made a lot. I'll just say [laughter] yeah. So yeah, >> um kind of what Kevin talked about. So I'm gonna talk about the community service aspect. >> Can you tell us who you are? >> Oh, sorry. I'm Amila Thomas and I'm going to keep going on the community service aspect.