And the reason I say that is I mean again The thing with if we're self-funded and we're not bound by some of the federal guidelines that will help >> it will help and it won't help, >> right? >> It will help in terms of like we are we are there's stipulations that we have to spend those monies on now like we have to pay for an evaluator to come in and that's a pretty significant and we have to pay for some other things. We two people. That's I mean that's a big expense. We wouldn't have to do that if we're not granted. >> You're talking 10% of your budget right there. >> Plus plus to keep track of like there's another program that we utilize to like track student attendance and things like that. >> But you won't need that anymore because we won't have fees.
>> Any other questions? I move to approve the facility usage for the Frankfurt versus Stanton County football game for the next two-year cycle. Motion motion by Allison, a second by Josh. >> All those in favor say I.
What we did well? That is 44 number 37. Somebody bullied you. Giving out hot chocolate to the parents. Thank you for bringing your kids to school. Thank you. Have a wonderful day. >> Hi. Would you like a hot chocolate or a coffee? Thank you very successful to have a wonderful day today. Thank you. Go. Yeah. Are you daddy? Um, one thing to mention or make a note of with the um, operation um, Santa Claus, what happened is it was donated to our campus to our ES um, ESS classes. They told us they had enough toys for one or two classes. It turned into our library field. Um so what happened is we extended that um opportunity and bust over thanks to transportation um bust over our ESS kiddos from the primary and intermediate campuses and they were able to select the toys of their choice.
Next is student council report, I'm going to guess. Or school report. So CVHSCTE has their presentation because we shorted Matt last month. >> Okay. I saw Leah here. So I was just >> We'll let Leah will roll after. >> Fantastic. >> After Julie's crowd, >> you can go first. Okay. I'm fine with that. >> And then Leah can leave. >> All right, Leah. Miss Leah, >> you're on. >> Is the video part of my pres? >> No, it's part of my unless you want to take it. >> No, you don't have to. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. >> Thank you. I just wanted to make sure. >> It's fine. >> Good evening. So, a few highlights and stuff that's coming up on the campus is that on February 19th, we're going to host a canes night fundraiser. So, we're looking forward to that and hope some of you will join us.
So thank you. I'm Randy Gino and I am in Buffalo Grove which I think is Vernon Township maybe that you want to >> um so I am here in support of Addie as well. Um, I can speak twofold, which is I have two older sons that have already graduated from Stevenson, played golf, basketball, baseball, um, and many of those brought them in sometimes at 6:00 in the morning or often brought them back in at 8:00 p.m. at night. Club America would have been a program or a club that they would have loved to be a part of and they would not have had the opportunity knowing that they come to school at 8 in the morning and have basketball until sometimes 8:30 at night or playing games sometimes until 10:00. Um so that perspective I can speak to my most recent grad from Stephvenson who was also in afterchool sports and um there were many clubs that he wanted to be a part of the entrepreneurship club and the business club and unfortunately he was not able to be included in those clubs because they only met after school which he always had practice.
>> I want to give credit where credit's due. The the trophy that you see up there, Adam put that together from the southside. Uh, he's an avid bowler and, uh, did a great job. So, we're going to pass that back and forth when it, you know, it's sort of a traveling pin trophy for years to come. >> Excellent. >> Yeah. >> Going to start new traditions. >> Yep. Cool. >> That's what we're doing. We're trying.
And this year I was at an event last week that really reminded me of that story that my mom really made that very special for me. and telling stories throughout my childhood even though I was in a predominantly you know uh in Togo in Lome um where the idea of the experience of the African-American struggle was not prominent. She made sure that as I grew up as her black son that I understood what her journey was like in America and that she had to confront um the negative messages in schools. She actually grew up in a segregated school system in New Orleans and really the stories of my childhood um of her childhood which she conveyed to me about how her community had overcome to really bring excellence into her life and to ensure that all the children in her experience were given the best that they could.
Uh and uh has recently was named as the successor to leave to be the director of our orchestra program, continuing uh the legacy of Mr. Westman upon his retirement at the end of the school year. And as if that is not enough, uh, Mr. Powell was also recognized as the Indiana Orchestra teacher of the year. So, um, very excited that he chooses to invest in our kids and our programs here in Avon and just continuing the great things that have happened, uh, in our orchestra programs. And so, I know the board has a commendation to recognize Mr. Pal for, uh, his impressive accomplishments. >> All right. and you have the pleasure. This is the first one I'm reading officially as president. So, um I'm gonna try to channel my inner uh Mrs. Woodward and >> I'm some parts right now. Um so, this is the highest honor that the board uh can recognize.
You read these two sources, you have to write a paragraph or two where you pull some evidence from the sources and then you have to write a full essay. Your essay might be narrative, it might be informative or it might be argumentative. So just getting the kids to look at what the IVE has put up there because they have put online what should a four look like? um you know what they consider to be the highest rated essay. Um is our writing looking like the models um what are the rubrics that they're using? What are what are they expecting? And so all of our writing teachers, even though we're in this spiral of CKLA, we the teachers have said, "I'm worried about the iLearn." Because CKLA isn't asking questions the way that I learn does, and we know our school grades based on the I learn.
>> Anybody got any questions for Vicki on anything? No. No. All right. Ross, anything for us? >> No. Did you Did you want to let that schedule we got from Stacy earlier this week, did you mention anything like that about >> I shared that with them, but yeah. So, >> the the people that came and did our assessment, we got updated from them with a kind of a tentative schedule. So, it look like maybe about a month from now, hopefully they'll be getting back with us. we can start going over some of the findings that they got. So, that was kind of exciting. >> Good deal. Look forward to that. >> Me, too. I'm I'm anxious to see what they found or maybe didn't find >> um Paul, you got anything for us? >> No, just kind of checking along. >> All right. Everything's starting.
So, it is it is just a great day >> and this was this is a shared act for the Carol graders >> and I will say I'm always very very proud of the deli students. Not that the Carol students aren't good, but I noticed, you know, you notice behaviors and things and I'm always very proud of our students and our high school students who are here as well. >> Question, >> Mr. Ross there was the first class of the egg >> that did the >> the egg. Yeah. >> And so it's it's just a lot of fun. It's one of my favorite days because it's here in town. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um one of our end of the year activities that we do. We go pioneer day at the canal and we appreciate the support that we get from the community for, you know, donations and things.
Now basketball games that's at night time that's a different thing. It won't won't handle that kind of stuff. But anything that >> handles the things that happen during the regular school day, we can do things to to make sure that those people are checked out. >> Ready for a vote? >> Okay. All in favor? >> Okay. Those opposed? >> Can we do all favor? >> Okay. All in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppose the same. >> Okay, that carries. So, next thing dealing with school safety again. Um, we we're doing checking into our advs this year and our AEDs are about 20 some odd years old. Um, so they have lived out their life expectancy. Um, we have a procurement agreement with a company called Omnia and um, we can actually have Centas of us are AEDs. And so, um, to give you an idea of what the cost of an AED is, about $4,200.
So beyond you you want to go from 250 to 500. Oh, is that recruiting now beyond just Central or is it always been where any of our other high schools could come in? >> Yes. So uh you know we have been recruiting beyond Central High School now for the entirety of the program. Um, and we have nine different high schools represented both EVSSE and then out in uh Vandenberg and surrounding county. >> Fantastic. Thank you. >> Yeah, Ellen is a Ella is a warrior. She's a Harrison. >> She's a Harrison warrior. So, [snorts] >> just want to tell you, Ella, I appreciate that you're going into NICU as the mom of a NICU baby. Um, we need um well educated, compassionate folks in the new Thank you all very much. Appreciate you. >> Okay. Uh, next on the agenda are action items 6.01, consideration of conflict of interest policy.
And they know their students very well, spending 5 years or more together at times. And because of the nature of these classrooms, they really do become like families. And wow, truly, our kids are so blessed to be able to have these ladies on their journey with them. It's incredible. So, then we have Mrs. Hannah, whom we honored tonight, and she teaches our essential skills class. And this classroom serves students with the most complex needs, including students who are completely non-verbal, some who have s some significant medical conditions. Wow, words are hard today. And some of them are recovering from traumatic brain injuries. Of course, Mrs. Hannah and her IAS Tristan Smith and Christa Dy work on academic and developmental goals as all of us do, but their role goes far beyond instruction. Each day they provide care that protects these students dignity and their well-being.
For example, questions like what subject do you like best? What's the hardest? What's the hardest about a certain subject area? And then more specifically, what kind of breaks do you need in order to stay attentive and focused? And then lastly, do you feel comfortable telling your teacher that you need a break? So, we've designed these questions one through five um and we've had to adopt them to be developmentally appropriate and we'll be launching this within the next two weeks. our PBS committee will come back and analyze that, share it with the staff, but then also share and offer strategies based off of the results to help all of our teachers. And that we hope will um only create, you know, and improve their um ability to attend. So that's that. >> Thank you, Mr. Hill. Moving on to family and community engagement. This year we continue to look for new opportunities to keep our families connected to DLO and to welcome them into the building more often.
So those are those are things that you'll see in in an upcoming budget in a future budget once we get a handle on our staffing. You'll start to see you know those those things layered in along with some of our classroom supports. But there was a lot of a lot of participation. and principles all had lengthy meetings with CFO and with the various supervisors involved. Um, and then it's it's a lot of backroom work to to assess those requests and to parse through those as absolutely critical, mission critical and, you know, nice to have or these would be really good to help move the needle here. So, you know, the one thing I'll say is, you know, we made some nice improvement um last year. You know, the that's really hard work and um requires a lot of staff and attention. um you know that hands in the mix.
Like the reason we've got that is because the accounting side was way too time in the way it had been set up before. So even like we won't even put that in our budget this year because actually talk to about using Skyboard or you can make a Google sheet like because I have to report like the reports that I have to do for February reporting I have to turn in for every kid that ever attends our program to the nearest square hour how long they're in our program I mean there is a lot of data on you know like as fine but I mean there's a lot more to it than just like doing some after school care when you're receiving federal dollars is significant reporting >> would also help with all of these things that Darl was suggesting too with like minimizing because the bulk of what you're paying out is going to be after those things is going to be your salaries.
>> Any opposed? Same sign. >> Motion passes 6. And item number 10, the 2627 school calendar. >> Uh so we met with each school and each rep all the representatives from each each building. uh to put together three options for the school calendar for next year. Uh so we did put together three options. Uh option one did receive 75% of the total vote. Um so we did attach option one. So I would want to I'd like to just go over that and call your attention to just a couple things real quick on that school calendar. This does build in the same amount of days that we have this year um in case of emergency days. Um, one thing that's going to be be really weird is is the the uh month of March. If I could turn your attention to the month of March on that calendar.
>> Nice. >> Any questions from the board? >> Miss Hrix? No, I just just to comment on your attendance even I mean you had the 90% for the eighth grade but I think overall >> you went up 1%. Hopefully we can continue to see that. >> Yeah, if you look at the senior class that is the hit right now for January, but Mr. Diaz did actually go and talk to the senior parents to in hopes to address it as well um last month. So those kiddos Thank you. >> Please help me welcome um our outstanding Marita Mazone principal at our director at Auxiliary School.
But 15% of their profits of the night will be donated to student council to help with like the student activities fund. Uh we also have our spring sports and prom assembly coming up. So that's a good opportunity for us to recognize our student athletes in softball, baseball, and track and get everybody excited for this year's prom. Uh in partner with administration, student council is also planning a 100th day of school celebration. So the teachers will be dressing old and the students will be dressing as nerds because it's like 100 days smarter and so it should be fun and a light-hearted way to build school and bring our campus together. Uh senior trip planning is also underway and we have about 60 seniors that have made their first payments. The second payment is due this Thursday. Um, so just a reminder on what it is, it's to Disneylandc California Adventure and we will leave at 11:30 on May 6th.