In PE, Mr. M describes her as very smart and a strong collaborator. While Miss Klene and praises her leadership potential, noting that she's the kind of leader our school needs. Julia's responsibility, positive attitude, and natural leadership make her deserving nth grade student of the month. >> Kesha, are you here? Okay. >> Kisha, 10th grade student of the month. You know this one. Ammani M is the junior class student of the month for January 2026. Amani is the daughter of Merla Pablo and Joseph Em. Her home village is San Miguel. Ammani is a strong leader and a well-rounded student who represents Babuki High School with pride. She's an athlete for the Lady Warriors competing in both volleyball and basketball. And she's actively involved in student leadership as a member of student council and the junior class president. Amani's favorite class this year is team sports with Mr.
I went to a truency training last year and they said statewide it's 70%ish is average attendance and ours was 94ish at the time. And they said, "Well, why aren't you teaching this class?" I said, "That's not me. That's that's the administrators and the staff. Um, and then at the high school level, the realities of turning 18, that the things you do as a 17-year-old may bleed over into being an adult. And I think that's extremely valuable for them to to realize, you know, the the huge line there is between 17 and 18. And I know Officer Hawk's been doing a lot of work with that. So, some of our other things, um, at at HMS, we have Cookie with a cop, and that's beyond just cops. They bring in the firefighters and the paramedics. I know the first couple of times it was like, why are there police cars and fire engines, whatever.
But thank you guys. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Do we have any visitors of everyone of the rules? Uh we do three minutes per minute. Um if there's multiple people, just maybe try not to repeat something that's already been said. We ask you to um keep it to D125 board business and we don't typically respond in the moment but we will make sure to set up any followup that is needed. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And if you could also just state your name and the village that you're from. >> Yeah. Um my name is Addie and I am from Lincolnfire.
Uh he told me, "I'm not sure, but I'm super glad he was able to make it work. This year was definitely a success. We we won a lot of conference games and fortunately some people were able to advance very far into like sectionals and stuff and I'm very proud of them. I'm very proud of how we uh applied ourselves and how well we were able to manage this brand new team [clears throat] [applause] slides with some highlights. Um [clears throat] any you guys want to do it or you want me to do it? Okay, go ahead. >> Uh so as I said before, there are a lot of guys on the team. Uh we had 24 boys in total. Uh a few joined after our football run, which was very solid. Uh so it was a good job by them. Uh we played a lot of matches at the beginning of the season.
Any question? >> I have a question regarding the ESY. Last year we had some pain points. So, are we benchmarking that data to see how we can do better this year, especially when it um pertains to transportation >> pain points? Are you referencing trans over summer? Yeah. A lot of >> pain. Yep. So, that's one of the reasons why we started early. So, this year we started earlier than ever to plan for transportation. And so transportation has been a thought partner with all of the summer school. So one of the thing that was new this year is ESY has probably met with transportation historically but it wasn't ESY and summer connections and summerbridge all meeting with transportation. So one thing that was new this year is we bought all the thought partners that were leading all of the summer school opportunities to come together early in the year and transportation was part of that conversation so that we could have a smoother transportation operation.
>> Well, good morning everyone. Well, I love to hear about Genius Hour. It's been almost a decade since my daughter was an intermediate school west and she was very involved in Genius Hour and it's exciting to hear that it's continuing on. One of my first texts that I'm going to send after this schoolboard meeting is my daughters. Guess who I saw? So Lucy, Stella, Molly, thank you for being a big part of of the Genius Hour for sharing this with us. Mrs. Howard, thank you for for taking the lead in such an important role. You know, one of the great parts about school is the structure. And one of the worst parts about school is the structure. And so when you get an opportunity to do something like Genius Hour outside of just the usual and you get to be creative about how you go about it, it you it really shines.
But they did get their own quotes, their own pricing and >> good work. >> Impressive. >> Thank you. >> No problem. Thank you guys for >> the winter. I have a curriculum update tonight. >> Yes, I do. I'll try to keep this short. You guys can read um the details if you'd like to. >> This mouse is not good. One more. >> No, they're coming. >> No, we're good. >> Okay. So, um just to give you um >> an update first of all with our reading program CKLA. Um we are right in the midst of um our implementation year. Um Jennifer Fry came last Monday and met with um some of us at Prairie Crossing and she said, you know, there's always an implementation dip. And I was like, oh, we don't want to hear that. But she said, you know, when you bring in a new curriculum or a new program, we're learning.
Excited. >> Great. Good deal. Good. >> Um, that concludes that that portion of our meeting. On to new business. Uh, review and approval of lawn uh maintenance. uh contract. We did have uh three, I believe, uh that put in bids or quotes for our lawn maintenance. So, basically, what we're looking for um it's been an issue. We've been it's been an issue for a lot of years. Uh tall grass and and just a lot of times it's not our our guys are spread thin and just right, >> we just couldn't do it, you know. So, uh, we've we contacted some some, uh, firms and some businesses to give us a quote on handling our grass in town, our in town grass. Um, so that's what we are approving tonight. And um what we have settled on is a contractor that's going to basically do all of our in town uh cutting and landscaping and getting rid of leaves and all that stuff.
And the other thing that we do is our Indiana regions. This is edible Indiana. And so the kids get a graham cracker and they have to nibble it to make it into Indiana. >> [clears throat] >> Some of them look more like Texas and some look like Hawaii. They're little tiny things, but they have really good came. So then they So then we decorate them with the three different regions. And so that's just kind of a fun way that we incorporate the regions in the fall. One of our big activities that we do is Indiana's birthday. And so when we I first came to the third or fourth grade, it was the year of our our centennial. And so we put on a big program. This now we just do a whole statehood day and the kids rotate around from all the four classes. So like in my room, we make um a Christmas ornament.
So, and what I'd like to see happen as we get into this process is that we start training our kids that how to do this because a lot of our parents, >> right, a lot of reports come from our kids. You know, they hear something um and they want to report it. I need a motion to approve this. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> I need a second. >> I'll second. >> I got a motion in second. Any further discussion? Is somebody going to be over this? I guess how does that work? So, really right now I'm taking care of setting it up and then we'll work with Bart as well over their school safety specialist. >> Uh it will probably be multiple people because it's What it is is an automatic um communication. So it's not really you have to monitor it.
We worked with St. Vincent and we actually came up with that number 500 not just randomly but based on the capacity that we that they had available to expand for our program. >> Great. >> So we have you'll have educators or teachers that will be able to serve that capacity. >> Correct. Yes. And so we're continuing to grow. Uh this year we had our largest ever applicant pool. We had over 235 applicants and we accepted about 185 of them. So yes. Yep. >> Well, my granddaughter Maya >> Yes. >> She's at Butler and and ASM was a stepping stone. A big um I was up there with her once and toured. I was just amazed. And you know the experience she had at ASM, she's able to just carry that on. We'll see that. Thank you. Thanks for being here tonight. I have um two questions.
Um, and as IAS, Emma and Bella also support students with push-in services. So, they join them in their educational their gened setting. They go into the classrooms, they support the students, they encourage them, they remind them of the strategies that they're learning when challenges arise, and they assist students with transitions throughout the day as well, which can also be really tricky for our students that have those disabilities. So, then Miss Karee focuses more on the pullout services. So, she works with individuals and small groups in her classroom uh throughout the day working on academic goals, but she's also created a classroom that's a safe space for all of her students. She has lots of squish and mini items that she loves so much, but they love to be in there, and she's a hoot. I would really recommend meeting her if you haven't. So, sometimes they'll join them for lunch.
That's right. Lawrence Central Bears uh won the sectional Saturday night over North Central at North Central which means next up for him is Pike. They'll play the Red Devils this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. at Greencastle High School out west uh in the Depal area. Uh, so that's up next for him. Pike beat him earlier this year. I think Pike is uh they may have one loss in there. I think they're 24-1 and the Bears are 20 and4, but it should be a pretty good game. Uh, should be a good matchup. So, that's 7 o'clock this Saturday at Green Castle High School. >> Thank you, Dr. Nesb. Put your GPS on. It's going to be a different road for us. It doesn't matter where we play. We're still out to win, aren't we? All right. That's all I have, Madam President. >> All right. Thank you.
>> I love it. I love it. It's great. >> Thank you. >> Excellent. >> I'll try it out. [laughter] >> Thank you. >> Oh, sure. >> Thanks, [laughter] >> Miss Bosi. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Awesome job, guys. Thank you SO MUCH. [applause] >> [applause] >> THAT WAS AWESOME. >> A big thank you to Mrs. Vosce for all the hard work and the love that she puts into all she does for us at DLO. We can't wait to send these students off to Bridgewater State where they're sure to impress. All right, moving on. We are excited to talk about some new initiatives that we are working on at DLO. As always, our work is grounded in the [snorts] district strategic plan. And tonight, we will be focused on initiatives aligned to the areas of teaching and learning, family and community engagement, and safe and supportive schools.
So that's you know again another thing that we have to continue to monitor. But I wanted to share this because this is hot off the presses. Okay, I'll go to the next question. Happy to come back to this if it there's a lot in here. Ken, could you go to the next slide, please? Uh, we had a question about uh what did the budget development process look like and were the principles involved? And so, you know, making sure that there was some stakeholder involvement and um so the budget timeline oh is was not shred. Um the budget timeline was shared and stakeholders met with the CFO and cabinet members for planning purposes. So uh we did not shred the budget. Um that's what happens when you rush. So basically uh we we submit we have a timeline. Ken, can you click on that budget development timeline and process uh link please?
I mean, as long as I've been here and I'm sure that which has given us some discretionary money for like field trips or like for our cooking because you can't you're like really limited on like using money on food. And so, um I mean I've got to really start trying to find some people to give us some inind support or some letters of support with some monetary backing so that we'll have some more discretionary money because without any fees, our budget is going to be very tight on that. So, um if you have suggestions of um people to for me to reach out to, I mean, we've had several letters of sponsorship the last many grants, but just that'll be something that we're looking for. So, >> would you start this next year then? So, >> if we get granted, we like on we had a zoom call.
Frankfurt would be host this year for the next two two years on the third Saturday in September for football. So pretty good distance between Stanton County out almost by the uh Colorado border and Frankfurt. So they asked if they could kind of meet in the middle and play in Claplin. Uh talk to Tim, talk to Jess, talk to Pat about this. we would be able to make this happen if you guys were okay with it on that third uh Saturday in September for football and that would be this year and next year. So, we've kind of made went through the progress of making those arrangements. Uh we will charge them the price of the custodial fees and to have someone on call during that time. So, they will bring all the workers. I know there's been talk about the concession stand and how the concession stand would work if we would have somebody from our community that would want to run it.
Me, which she enjoys because it's hands-on and fun. Her favorite teacher is Mr. Ethan Anton, who she says makes learning engaging. Ammani's teachers consistently highlight her leadership and character, and English Miss Cotjo notes that Amani brings thoughtful, insightful contributions to class discussions and sets a positive tone for others. In PE, Mr. Mi shares that Ammani strives for excellence in all areas. Okay, Darren Nez is a senior class student of the month for January 2026. Darien's Gardens Deina Jose Darren is not only a responsible and respectful student, he is also an accomplished musician who has rocked out the national anthem at our home football games on two occasions, sharing his talent with the school community and helping set a spirited tone for our events. In the classroom, Darren's teachers speak highly of his engagement and character. In English, Miss Cotjo highlights Darren's thoughtful contribution and notes that he has been a positive role model by sharing his college and career aspirations with classmates, inspiring them to think of their own goals.
It's like they're just they're just having cookie with a cop, you know. Um, but, you know, again, building those relationships, not just with us, but with the patrol guys and that trust there. And then just getting a chance to ask questions. Um, I know there's a lot of questions that they have and misconceptions about our job, the firefighters jobs, and and they get those opportunities to ask those kinds of things. And then at the end of the year, one of my favorite things that they do at HMS is the annual dodgeball game between the eighth graders and the PD. Um, I know the guys at the police department love doing it. It becomes extremely competitive. Um the eighth graders have progressively gotten better and put up quite the fight the last the last couple years, but again it gives us that opportunity to really get to know them and and them get to see us as people not just a uniform or a patrol car driving around.
Um so good evening members of the board, administrators, and community members. My name is Addie and I am a student at Stevenson High School. I am here tonight as a member and president of our Stevenson Club America chapter. My purpose tonight is to gain clarity on board policy and conflicting staff rules in hopes for Club America to be granted allowance to meet before school, just as many other extracurriculars at Stevenson do. Prior to being approved as an equal access club, Club America held meetings before school between 7:45 and 8:15 a.m. in school common areas. Before deciding on morning meetings, we asked our members to vote on when they would prefer to meet. The results of this vote left us with a simple conclusion. An overwhelming majority of students wish to meet in the morning due to after school obligations. In early December, our club was approved as an equal access club, meaning we should be afforded the same opportunities as all other non-curricular student organizations.