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I mean people there's something to be said about somebody being responsible for their attendance walking into classroom and being proactive about their things. I think students are starting to realize that if they take initiative and they get involved they do [clears throat] that communication they're going to see that happening and it I just feel like it's it's just something that people are wanting to see and people are having that um they're having their own um way of regulating that, you know. So I think it's just people people are starting to realize that their education is in their control and I think that's what one of the [clears throat] um leading causes of that. Yeah. >> I will say that there's also people realizing that again you can take accountability and take things into your hands but there's also like consequences to not being accountable and not taking control of again those small things.
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Is there anything you like? >> We are doing this protest to we're doing this protest to voice those who cannot have a voice, those who are too afraid to even go outside their homes because of all the horrible things that ICE ICE has done. And we just hope that the district can like have those proper measures to keep students safe um as well as staff members. I agree with what um my partners have said. Um u I just want to point out just making sure everyone knows again this is uh just a safe protest and everyone is entitled to their opinions. So of course we respect everybody and yeah that's >> um also there has been a Facebook group going around spreading much false information. No, students are being pressured into doing this. And I know that there were some things about threats, but from what I looked out, but from what I heard, um, they were all just things taken either out of context.
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and it's really focused on building those positive replacement behaviors. One thing I always want to make sure we're very clear about is that prior to any student starting any small group, if it's with a counselor, a social worker, or a behavior academy, we always make sure that we are reaching out to the guardian and obtaining informed parent consent before any meeting ever happens. We want to make sure that this is always a partnership with school and home um because we all need to be moving in the in the same direction to reinforce that skill acquisition. So, we always make sure we get consent before we start any service. There we go. Um, one of the big improvements and alignments that we've made this year is really trying to make sure that the lessons that we are teaching are interwoven and aligned with the Avon instructional model.
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That's why there's new like a new um permanent sub because that current permanent sub is went to some other position. >> Yeah. So they probably switched positions. >> Yeah. >> Just curious >> some turnover. Yeah. >> Okay. All in favor to consider the staff report and other personnel items signify by saying I. >> I.
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And so we work with to provide those services. And I want to add that we are currently at 14 students with this now status can go up or down accordingly to how many students we have enrolled. Is that correct? >> That's right. We actually have received a package deal because the number of students that we have. So we do have students who um you know enter and exit. we can put this uh the funds back into an account. So actually advantageous of us to pursue this package option versus pay for students. This is an annual. So this is based on year but should our needs increase which is a problem um then we might have to increase >> [snorts] >> These are great questions. And so she was asking questions about the participation of students who are enrolled online [cough] and participate in athletics. If they can participate in activities such as dances and if they can walk at graduation then the answer to all of those questions is yes.
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Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Have a motion and second. Any further discussion? I do want to uh take just a moment to recognize two of our teachers, Karen Miller and Julie Locris, has submitted their retirement letters. We will be recognizing them later on this year with presentation. I just want to thank both of those ladies for their years of service to uh East Gibson School Corporation and amount of kids and lives that they have touched. We really appreciate that. Wishing the best in the retirement. All those in favor signify by saying I >> oppose the same. And that carries. [snorts] So um you have there my uh report uh for this evening what I've been working on [snorts] the past month. I will We are working on the strategic plan. Kind of getting some things done. I'm also going to begin working with a group to write the nonprofit security grant.
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I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> Are they local? They uh are out of Rockport. They've done uh quite a bit of work here for the EDSC. >> Thank you. Any other questions, comments? Okay, that moves us to um consideration to award the contract elementary school roofing project. >> Vogal Elementary School Roofing Project 2026. Notice the bid was advertised on December 5th and December 12th, 2025. A pre-bid meeting was held on December 16th, 2025. Bids were received on January 8th, 2026. The board has received a bid tabulation sheet for this project, and I will recommend awarding this project to Midwest Roofing and sheet metal at the next scheduled schoolboard meeting.
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>> And does that would that goal change during the day? based on what they see happen. >> Yeah, it very well could. Um it's with many of these students, it's a daytoday, hourby- hour um situation where yesterday might have been a great day and today when we came in, we knew it was going to be off and we just start from square one. You know, it's five steps forward and three steps back and they're just they're used to that and they I'm I cannot say it enough. They know these kids so well. They see them when they walk in the door and they know exactly how their day is going to go >> and they know how to support them through it. >> It's incredible. >> Based on experience that I had walking into her classroom, you know, I don't know if they're rock stars, but they're very special people.
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ing. I think that invention breeds invention is an amazing way to explain what we've been learning. Without the CKLA unit, I probably wouldn't even know who Jackus was. I'm very grateful for it and I'm hope I get to do more knowledge next year in the same program. And we for our trash challenge where we had to build this, some of our classmates made these diagrams. Um, if you want to pass it around. Somebody's very talented. >> Yeah, >> that's neat. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> Very cool. >> Yeah. And store it. >> Compact. >> Really cool. >> Nice job. >> Very detailed. >> Yeah. Excellent. Excellent. >> I see we have uh budding engineers here. >> That's exactly what it is. >> Take a look. >> Considering I can't draw a straight line with a straight edge. >> That's so impressive. >> Good job. >> No, it's nice.
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So, if you're talking about fiscal year 2028, um, and and we could start to dig into that and again with a scalpel and not a highlevel roll up like wholesale swing at things, but if if our general fund is at 175 and we're rolling up at 5% and I say 5% because you have contracts that run range anywhere from three and a half% to 6%, 7% % depending right we're still negotiating contracts. Um we have bus transportation at 6% next year. Um so you know contracts everything goes up supplies. We could probably hold the line on on certain project lines and supply lines or reduce those to kind of offset the contractual just cost of inflation and shipping and all those things. But if you just rolled up flat at 5% in our general fund, that's an $8.7 million increase just wholesale, right? And in grants, just Alliance.
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So, there's some people in uh in legislature that are running for governor. So, having said that, they want to get home so they can start campaigning so they can get reelected. So, we'll see what happens. But again, I'm cont continuing to stay in touch with Brad Barrett, our local representative, as well as Karen Tyson, our state senator that represents Burlington. So, um, again, I try to be nice and say, "Hey, this is how this would affect Burlington." I don't tell them to vote yes or vote no, but I tell them how it can affect and impact Burlington so that at least they hear from me. And then there's a whole list of dates coming up, uh, some hot dates, some, you know, things to remember from February, March, April, and May. And, um, that's my report. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay, moving on to border reports.
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>> Yeah. >> And I think we still have some time to kind of decide on that before we get there. I just need to know, are you guys good at those price points or would you like me to see what else is out there? Like Miss Murphy said, we have them booked already for that time, but at those price points that we need to go looking um for other comparables, we can I can do that as well. They might just kick us off of the moratorium, you know, if we don't okay it, but I'm fine with doing that if that's what you guys would like to do as well. And this is a company we've used before and so we know the standards and know that they're reliable and be able to get it done during that time. I would say we just go ahead with it.
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And by the end of the year, by quarter four, if they have 18 absences, uh more than 18 absences, they will be chronically absent. During the month, during the first quarter, we had a about 100 students that were chronically absent. By the month of December, we almost close to 500 students chronically absent, requiring then u special attention. So uh the purpose of this is to not not only have the students information, the parents information but start documenting when we have those conversations, when we have those meetings with the parents and with the support of also tech support. Um there we want to make sure that we um we have a system in place to document our efforts and upload it to the student records. Well, there is a place already in there uh in which uh we can have not only have these documentations but every time we have the meeting a parent keeps signing on the same document we scan it again and we can upload it in synergy.
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So, anyway, that's Chino Valley. What questions do you have? >> You guys are doing amazing. Awesome. >> Well, thank you. We all three. It's a great team. I couldn't ask for better, guys. >> Sure. >> I just want to thank you, too, Julie. And having the high school be an up place to be is because there's so many things that have been down for a while and having it at a place is awesome. So appreciate that. >> Well, thank you. I had a student last week come up to me and tell me, Mrs. Bryce, it was so cool to have you as a middle school principal, but it's even cooler to see you as my high school principal. And so I love the kids and they know I love them. >> And it shows. Thank you for everything. >> Thanks. >> All right. Next is item 6B.
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Uh third question, um not as big of a growth here. How well can this teacher tell whether or not you understand a topic? And although we're quite reflective in our practices, we do provide students with um informed guidance and the next steps that they're going to have in their learning. And we do support our students by providing various learning opportunities or options, contingency plans so that they can navigate their own pathways uh to achieve proficiency. And the last question that we faced that really drove our discussion on why we level up is how confident are you that you can choose an effective strategy to get your work for this class done well? And so what we wanted to do is focus on this work here on leveling up to help uh the students get better at this particular um skill and building their confidence to build an effective strategy um through us providing them with various strategies that they can use in their learning.
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So for example like if you miss a day and then you don't follow uh don't follow up with your teachers. I think students are realizing that okay that that is actually affecting things that makes me less successful in the classroom being there matters um with attendance and just like putting your phone away and stuff. I think we're realizing that doing small things like that makes a change and it makes you want to continue those habits and overall see yourself succeed. And even to add on to that like accountability, the conversation when student a student does something wrong and the conversation has shifted as in you did you did something wrong here's the consequence. It's more about understanding why that student did that and how can we move forward um in preventing that and that accountability and the student or student and teacher and whoever it [clears throat] is with that conversation them having that conversation initially and understanding what accountability can the student take.
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I don't really know what they were saying in there, but it was one of them was we like our ice crush. That was apparently a threat according to a Facebook group. I don't really understand what they're trying to say, but it's clear that they're just taking out their political beliefs on students. And I had a friend who got personal information leaked on one of this groups and it's just been really crazy. But we hope that the uh district can just support this and allow us to show our voices. >> Thank you very much.
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Counselors and social workers. While we get fantastic training as part of our graduate programs, one piece that we lack is how to provide effective direct instruction kind of from a holistic school sense. We get lots of good training on group topics, on good replacement skills, how to model those. But one thing as we were going through the Avon instruction model that really resonated with me is this is a way for us to get better. If we are aligning our instruction closer to our teachers, we're helping students share a ven diagram of brain space. We're not doing something completely different. We're doing more of the same, more of what we know has a very positive effect size to make things better. That's why we really tried to interweave these strategies. Over the summer, we brought instructional coaches to our counselor group to have them review our classroom lessons, review our small groups, give us feedback on how we can continue to improve the service delivery by boosting the efficacy of our of our lessons.
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>> Any opposed? So moved. >> Considering approval of contract between Benton Community School Corporation and Jeff Deler Public Relations LLC. I get a motion for that. >> I'll make a motion to consider approval of contract between PCSC and Jeff Delard Relations. I'll second. >> I second. >> Okay. A motion in a second. Um discussion.
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They are students. >> Is the yearly based off school year after? >> So what they do is they put it in the account. We don't want it to expire. So it's kind of like purchasing credit that you have access to >> because we could have students who potentially there's a need. So it's not limited. Okay. Uh, all in favor of 8B supporting Edmondum say I. >> I motion carries. >> All right. Next on the list HC. I'd like to get a motion to discuss the NWA as presented. So this is a platform that we use to monitor student learning. This allows our teachers to see whether or not the students have learned standards and whether or not they need support or whether or not they need that extension. And so this platform is preferred by our staff and our administration. they utilize the information from these testing opportunities because it's a testing platform in order to look at the data and make informed choices.
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