But who would be willing to leave Earth to visit the distant place where the sky spirit dwelled? That means where the sky spirit lives. I didn't know there was a sky spirit. Awesome said. Owl is the wisest. Perhaps he should go. But no, the animals whispered. he might get lost in the day of light. So, the owl should not go because remember how owls they usually sleep during the day and they're awake during the night. So, they're worried when it turns daytime he'll get lost. Then Beaver said, "Perhaps raccoon should go." But no, the animals argued he might follow his tail in his tail instead of his nose. So, raccoon should not go. Then skunk said, "Perhaps coyote should go." But no, the animal shouted. Coyote is clever and loves to play tricks. He might chase the clouds or swallow the wind. So coyote should not go.
Granted, it's not here nor there. From the standpoint of coming compliant, it's our responsibility to address it. Nonetheless, the tenant was cooking a turkey, started a fire. I am not going to sit here and speak to anyone's cooking prowess, but um it was completely negligent. That was verified by our staff, our plumbers, and by an appliance technician that we have. So again, the act itself is from what we gather the responsibility and failure of the tenant to adequately use the stove regardless. We went ahead and ordered the um stove, a brand new stove in order to get into compliance. Unfortunately, the delivery date given the holidays are a little bit longer than we'd like. Not again, that is not, you know, an excuse. We don't feel that that is by any means something that, you know, is anyone's fault but our own. We take full responsibility for that because the nature of the stove given it that it is a gas stove and that it's going to require um gas fittings.
Uh I think we should reclassify some of the enterprise zone and increase the numbers and I do support the with the University of Hawaii cancer center. I was always a advocate for the uh uh cancer center ever since uh from day one and I've been putting it in in my strategic business plan for the APEC region so everybody can come here to have a cancer treatment and we can enhance our research and development for cancer and uh in top of the uh transplant as well. So I think uh uh increasing the enterprise zone in that area on Kakaoka area where uh the uh uh cancer center there's a pier 7 with the Hawaii development corporation that whole area can be designated as a enterprise zone and uh combine it with the foreign trade zone cuz we have a foreign trade zone right there too. >> So can you wrap it up here?
>> She might be >> Dorothy. I'm teasing. >> I think Yeah, I think she's letting them know. They might not be ready for us. >> They're ringing third graders out there. Uh, >> if you've ever tried to wrangle that many fifth graders, you'll know why this is going to take a minute. >> When I when my son was in fifth grade, I would always remind myself I'm struggling to deal with one. A classroom teacher deals with like 25 to 30 every day. >> I hear them outside. All right, >> here come our stars. So cute. >> Circle. One of us gets in the kingdom of God. I'm tired. President. >> Yay. Thank you guys. You guys did amazing. We're going to take a quick 15 to 20 minute recess um once they get settled if you guys want to take pictures a Lemonada Gayetas. We have cookies and treats for everybody.
I would then sell raffle tickets for these items. Mr. Mardaf gave me approval to sell raffle tickets at at our school's winter wonderland festival. I decided to set up a table and sell tickets for $1 each. Mr. Modaf sent us to a link to benches that were school approved and could not be stolen. I picked out one the one I liked best. The bench would cost $1,166. I started to work right away. I found supplies on Amazon, a cash box, a ticket box, and raffle tickets and made signs that night explaining what I was selling the tickets for. The night before Winter Wonderland, I was nervous that we wouldn't raise enough money and I wasn't sure what we would do. But people were so wonderful. They the donations and raffle tickets sales started right away. Everyone was saying they really liked my idea. In the end, my dad added up all the money that was given and and it was $1,344.
So I'm wondering where we are today and how can I and another and a group of committed parent volunteers help? Has Central reached out to the USDA? Has Central received a construction quote? Has Central explored a team playing only away matches? Has tennis explored a co-op team? Caneling only uses their courts for a girl season, so they're available in the boy season. South Elgen has 12 brand new courts when only eight are required. Could Central limit team numbers to alleviate strain on transportation? I know busing is an issue. Keep the numbers small and have a coach drive it. There is not a nearby tennis club or park district in our district. These central tennis courts could be a functioning tennis hub and could likely support itself. We could run USA tournaments there making revenue. We could run summer camps making revenue. Run junior and adult lessons making revenue.
>> That's awesome. >> Dr. Kong, that's good news. Before we get to the good news, >> great. Great. >> Good question. Um, is that I saw that something about the eighth grade open house. >> Yeah. >> Was that in your Okay, I'll let you >> Oh, I have nothing to say other than it was fantastic. Uh, lots of really good feedback. Um, >> is that part of your good news? >> Well, those are all good news. I didn't even think about those, but yes, >> great. >> Anytime the students can get in front of other students, the the response is incredible. So, and I have seen it. We've done a few things before. When the high school students get in front of the junior high students, if an adult or teacher, an administrator or coach, someone gets in there, they're an adult. But if a student gets up in front of there, >> they pay attention so much more.
The funding that came in did not allow us to be able to reach that 20%. Um, however, what the state is allowing us to do since the amounts didn't come out evenly. If we went with tier one for everyone, we would have been able to give out 10 grants and then we would have had almost a full grant that we could send back to the state. And in the past, they would let us round up on some of those grants. And so, they are allowing us to add corporation dollars um from the education fund to be able to round that up to make a whole grant. So then if we went with all tier ones, we would be able to give 11 grants. So we were $288.91 short of being able to give that 11th grant. And so since we don't have a policy in place, the board can pass a supplemental resolution that would allow us to be able to do that.
And then the donation for Wilkinson Church of Christ for $750. You need a motion for that, Mr. President? Yes, sir. Uh, Mr. President, I will make a motion to approve the consent agenda, which includes approval of bills, approval of financial reports and transfers as presented. >> Motion made by Mr. Leonard, second Mrs. Van Hoy, to approve the consent agenda as presented.
My partner is Bright Mark and we accept like plastic from home. People can bring them in from home. They could bring it to school. We like accept plastic like you could just bring it to us and we'll take it. and we it's in Ashley, Indiana bright market is and we've we've um had over 10,000 pl um 10,000 pounds of plastic um donated to um Bright Mark Brightark is a great community partner for us because they also made a book which we're going to show you. >> [clears throat] >> Breitbart came to Country Meadow uh last December and they sort of gave us a little taste of Hollywood in our small little town and school. They set up the lights and all the different places and spaces and they did write the story the magic of the the story of the magic dino bin. And in the you'll see what was the gym transformed into their trash area.
Who do you think they're going to send? Squitch. Squitch. Squatch. The noisy animals screeched and howled because they could not decide who should visit the great sky spirit to ask him to stop the snow. And so the snow grew deeper and deeper and deeper. The small animals climbed on top of the tall animals so that they would not disappear. And look how the animals all helping each other out. That's what kind friends do. Here comes the rainbow crow. Is that who you predicted? Let's see if that's who they sent. Suddenly, down from the top of the tallest tree blew rainbow crow, the most beautiful bird on earth, who called out to all the animals below in the sweetest voice of all the birds. And he sang, "I will go. It will stop the snow." And the animals happy at last have crow as their messenger chanted a song of praise.
We were required to have a uh plumber come in pull a permit in order to connect the stove. Plumber worked very quickly to pull the permit to address it. The plumber however did take a little bit longer than we have liked to. where we have now found the delay uh respectfully is we've had the plumber for probably I'd say 10 days now and we have repeatedly requested to have a reinspection. We're being told that we have to call the inspector between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. in the morning which is non-b businessiness hours for our office and it's certainly non- business hours for the plumber and then we are going to then be told when the plumber when the inspector can be there. We have a litany of emails just saying, can we just please put together a time and a place so that all parties can be involved because the plumber will probably be in the middle of a job somewhere.
>> So I I just wanted to make sure that we do have a free trade area. If we combine the foreign trade zone and the state enterprise zone, we don't have to pay import tax on tariffs. We don't have to pay state taxes for the business people to conduct business. So, we can and uh combine it with orchestrator. >> Your time is up. Thank you. >> So, I just wanted to support that measure. >> Appreciate it. >> Anyone else wishing to testify on the measure?
Okay. So, we'll go into recess now. We'll come back at 6:20. Thank you. All right, >> what a great evening enjoying our students and their special performance. That was great. Thank you to all the parents and everybody who came. That brings us to we left off on three now B, which is governing board reports. And Miss Marquez, I will go ahead and start with you. Thank you, President Karia. Um, I wanted to take a quick moment um to recognize that it is Black History Month and today we lost a civil rights icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson. So, I wanted to um uh state a quote of his that I think um at least I I really resonated with me. So, um I am not a I am not a perfect servant. I'm a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient.
I was so happy. I got um to go on the school announcements and say how much we raised and thank everyone for being so generous. I also got to announce the raffle winners for our prizes. Because we raised enough money, I wanted to see if we could do something extra to make the bunny badge even more special. My mom found a local business that would engrave a stone with a kindness quote. I chose for it to say, "Everyone needs a buddy. Sometimes you are never alone." I want to say thank you to Mr. Maf, Mrs. Mrs. Acasta, Mrs. Riggs, Mrs. Greece, and all the adults who encouraged me and donated to this project. I want to thank my family for all the support and love they have given me, too. I am looking forward to seeing the buddy bench out on the playground this spring.
It could likely support itself. I've played at the St. Charles North tennis courts with a community group of an email chain of over 60 people and it's informal and a staff member opens the gates to unlock to the courts but it proves that tennis is in this area and tennis is in 301 and we want to help bring it to our school. Thank you. Next we have PK Per. >> Thank you. Good evening. Um uh first uh uh regarding the advanced uh learning pathway that was presented last month. Um I received a question from the community I do not didn't know the answer to. Um, first of all, I commend the administration for sending representatives to the Illinois Association for Gift to Children Conference in the fall, for incorporating best practices um from experts uh in gifted education, and for being open to incorporating community feedback in designing the program.
So that eighth grade I heard was very good. >> Well, speaking of that, Bill, I know that's old business. Maybe we talk about students listen to other students. We were looking to have a student repres be representative on here. So >> just backpocket and >> hopefully next committee as a whole you can kind of give us a little I think it's you and Alex on that one. >> Yep. >> Okay. If you can bring the board any progress you made on that endeavor endeavor. We greatly appreciate it. Okay. >> Well, shout out to the social media team. I get a lot of my updates by watching that social media page and so >> um >> kudos to whoever that is that's managing that. >> That's that's Kala Ka Ericson. Yeah. She we really do uh do our best to push things out because as you know people will watch the little short videos and they're fun.
In the past, how we handled the TAG grant, whenever the money came in from the state, we took all of the funds that we received for the grant and we distribute those out to the teachers and then any of the turf and the FICA that sat on top of that, we paid for that out of the education fund. So, we kept that the same practice as what we've done in the past as well. And that's listed in the resolution as well from the board. So if we pass this resolution, then basically we supplement the 200 >> $288.91 cents. >> So we can give out the >> So we can give out Mhm. the grant >> sense questions regarding the resolution. >> I think the state is trying to make it more and more difficult >> to do ret. >> The state is I will just share a little bit.
Any questions or comments? I believe that this one was general yesterday. >> Yeah. Usually from been in for playground equipment >> and usually lifted what it what it's for >> a robotics club or >> the house isn't it? >> Sometimes. >> Yeah. Sometimes it's just a dollar amount. So, okay. >> Any others? >> Again, motion made by Mr. Leonard, second Mrs. Van Hoy to approve the consent agenda as presented. All those in favor say I. >> I post the same. Motion carries. 70. New business. weather waiver. >> Um just a discussion item for tonight. Um we know Indiana schools are required to provide 180 days of instructional time. Um through our schoolboard approved 103 waiver, our district meets this requirement through instructional minutes, not through instructional days, which allows us 178 instructional day calendar. Um after having a week uh almost a full week of of weather days this year um because a state of emergency was declared, the Department of Education provided a waiver process uh for people to to try to wave some of those instructional days if needed.
So, they did a a great job with the kids and um we were really excited to be partners with them. This video has not been released yet. It will be released to the public um in a couple months, but they've given me permission to go ahead and show it. So, I hope you enjoy it. It's a short five minute video. [clears throat] >> [cough] >> There's a little girl and her name was Ashley. She wishes on a bright side that someone could help her clean all the plastic waste up off the ground. >> The kids had no idea it was inside that box. So, my kids love dinosaurs, but they hate plastic waste. >> It's everywhere. Plastic recycling is broken. Only 5% of plastic waste is recycled. >> My name is Rick. I'm an engineer at Breitark. Our mission is to reimagine waste. We've built the world's most advanced totally circular recycling system.