Uh we did look at how our rates compare with with neighboring districts. Um this does bring it up to par with what other places are charging. So we're not we're not like ahead of the pack with how we're not pricing people out, but we're also not uh providing them with such a bargain that we're flooding our our facilities with people that want to use them. >> I get that. Just a question. >> No, for sure. >> A question too. So it says during winter months which is from what are you deeming like December like mid December to mid-Marchch? >> No the uh the current contract for like snow and salting it starts in October. >> Okay. >> And then I believe it goes all the way to April just in case. >> So this fee would be charged for any event from October through April >> if it snows.
So we are also um grateful to think that our checkpoint scores that we've had um at the beginning our technology department there was a little bit of we had to import input those techn those checkpoint scores in but um that has been um totally revamped and those scores go in as the kids get the checkpoint scores in. So then their individual study plans are just for them. Um so they're meeting them at that level and then continuing to have them grow. So, our data conversations happen. Um, we do some check-ins. And so, the kids have their data folders, our fourth graders. These are not just fourth graders from my home room, but across our grade level on how we're using EXL um has a fourth grade has a whole evergreen. And so, we um with that has been a support for us. Um so far this year, our grade levels had double digit growth um in our checkpoint opportunity ones to opportunity twos with that.
>> Thank you board members. You heard the recommendation administration for the school board to approve this curricular resource for adoption for use beginning in 2026 and 2027. Motion moved by Miss Basin. >> Second by Mr. Angel.
>> So move >> second. We have a motion and a second on the floor to approve the consent item. Any questions or comments? >> Hearing none. All those in favor do so by saying I. >> Those opposed. >> That carries. Thank you. Next is personnel recommendations. Michelle Williams. Good evening. >> Good evening, President Duckworth, Dr. Hoover, members of the board. Tonight's personal recommendations include the following: retirements, resignations, termination, regular appointments, resignations for extra duty, >> school appointments. These recommendations are presented for your approval. >> So move second. >> Motion and a second regarding the personnel items. Any comments or questions?
And then that third and final payroll dated January 30th was4664544. And again we had those taxes in retirement of 146 35837. Did anyone have any questions about any of the payments? >> Okay, we'll go ahead and move on to a list of prepaids for the month of January for 2026.
>> Yeah, absolutely. Um that can be done. What I would tell you is thank you for sharing tonight and I would bring that forward to our administrative team. I would also even if you approve tonight's second reading and I would also obviously have council review um that as we do all of our handbooks if for that has merit that we bring back you can amend um at a future meeting the one item but you can pass the rest of it tonight if you so choose. >> Um Mr. Wy, do you have anything at all at this point to add or not? >> Okay. Either way is fine. >> Then I will entertain a motion reference approval of this of the handbooks. >> Motion to approve the 2627 student handbooks as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Melture. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> Thank you, Mr.
>> Next we have Angelene Espinosa Garcia playing the viola. Next we have Brunwin Height playing the violin. >> Penelopey Holtz also playing the violin. Ashley Lenerys Pinto playing the double bass. Maxwell Murphy playing the viola. CONGRATULATIONS, >> Jacqueline Till playing the cello. >> And representing our outstanding performing arts staff is Miss Amanda Kamacho, our orchestra director. >> Ladies and gentlemen, two in the back. Come on back. Come back here. You over here ladies in the middle. >> Actually, I need him to step out just a little bit. Bring it down just a little bit. Second row. We're looking good, guys. You guys take one step back. Just back a little bit. There we go. >> Perfect. Will you take one small step to your >> Perfect. All right. One, two, three. One, two, three. One more time. >> All right. Freeze. Don't go anywhere. Parents go quick.
We need to know today what the cost of the increased SRO presence and hardened security will be to mitigate this fally imposed risk. Beyond today's safety, we must look at the 30-year liability created by title 5 of the Beckendi Vento Act because the federal government is spending $150 million on high-capacity plumbing, kitchens, and residential infrastructure. Now, they are effectively pre-building a regional homeless shelter under Title 5. Once the ICE mission ends, federal law requires that the property be prioritized for transfer to homeless providers at no cost. This isn't just a temporary facility. It's a 30-year encumbrance that creates a permanent unfunded influx of students requiring specialized services we are neither staffed nor funded to provide. Finally, as a fiduciary, I'm looking at the math. Based on the $70 million purchase price, this project removes an estimated $500,000 to $600,000 every year from the DAR budget by taking private property off the tax rules.
Okay. Now, um, another story about Christina Mariano. Um, coming up, I'm so excited. Sorry. Coming up on Thursday, March 12th. Um, Christina has now the honor of singing the national anthem at the basketball game at the stadium at the University of Illinois. So, it's going to be the finals game, right? So, it's she's going to sing two. I think it's the first round at 9:30 and the second at like 2 o'clock. Um and she got this honor because she was first in her room through the district level um at all state and then she had to audition at districts then she went down to all state had to audition again for six more people. So she had to go through this um major situation to be able to to get that. So congratulations to Christina. So, Soprano 2, Olivia Dulick, um Amelia Galdon and Abby Hein, and Tener 2, Maya Peterson and Jonathan Robinson.
>> Um and then we hope to see everyone there. So if you can make it, definitely show up because students from all over the district will be able to show you why they feel heard in their own school communities. Thank you. If I if I may add something, I just this has really evolved and I want to congratulate the the the organizers and the youth for really thinking about how to expand whose voices are present in that space. Um I noticed that this year you've really been intentional about adding 20 additional 20 clubs, different clubs and organizations. That's progress in terms of really expanding the voice and I know that the board of education um this was started actually prior to my arrival here in the district. Um the year the inaugural year was a year before I arrived and I think it's such an great example of the centering of student voice and so I just want to commend you all and as you prepare and I would just encourage um the community to to join us that night and uh in advance of if you have other questions um don't please send them in.
They'll kind of get a list and we'll kind of go through the process and say, "What do you want to do this time around?" So, there's a lot of things that we do throughout the year. if you could see behind me. Um, couple of things are um the torch mascot. We're in charge of that as well and we have the kids sign up for every Friday to come be torch and walk around the school and take pictures and sometimes torch shows up at the assemblies and things like that. But the kids actually sign up for that, write it in their calendar and then come be torch and have a little bodyguard and the kids love it. So, um, we did candygrams this year. We did Valentine's Day candygrams. students came up with that instead of doing the um candy canes that we do. So, that was a really cool fundraiser to see the kids taking ownership again, collecting the money and organizing it for the kids.
Yes. >> Only if it snows. Yeah. Yeah. It's not just a like um uh >> feed add like per visit or per use. It's only if it snows. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Um, is our snow removal, if this is approved by the board, is the snow removal company, do they get notified um if there's a program going on here or um will they be just like told, hey, no one's here. don't plow it till Sunday night >> before the weekends like or even any snow event like uh I communicate directly with their representative from Arctic to make sure we have a plan or when they are going to be visiting to get things done if it happens after the school school day you know before night or for a plan for the next day. So yeah, I was I'm in constant contact with uh our representative Tom from Arctic like every every time there's any kind of precipitation.
And so using that as a supplemental piece has we really um had the opportunity to see the growth and the kids can't wait to share with you where their um starting points were and where their current um diagnostic tests have shown them where they're at now. So they're all ready to tell you about their dad. >> So we paired up a fourth grader with first graders. So they're going to come up and they're going to share with you their data folders and talk with you a little bit about what they do. Find Oh yeah. All right. Oh, okay. All right. Everybody look at me and say I'll go over here and take a quick Oh yeah, I know. All right, board members, any comments about our scholars from first and fourth grade at Evergreen. >> Well, you were all wonderful. Thank you. It's not easy to come talk to a bunch of strangers who you've never met before and who are adults, but you all did a wonderful job explaining exactly what is and also your bingo card and the successes that you have.
Are there any questions or comments? >> Since we're no longer uh partnering with IU Bloomington, now we're [snorts] >> Purdue Northwest. >> Yeah. >> Uh and excuse me. >> Um is there a reason why Bloomington is just a mutual parting of the ways? >> Yeah. As we look at our dual credit partnerships, we look to see which will best support our Indiana College Core partnership and PNW is our primary um partnership that we have. So we move as many courses as we can to ICC which is the Indiana College Bo which is through Purdue Northwest. >> Thank you. >> I just had one quick question. We have a DC calculus as well >> or just DC pre-cal. >> There is DC pre-calc then we have AP calculus. Okay. I was just wondering if this aligned kind of moving on to the next year. But that makes sense since it's only just one.
Hearing none. All those in favor so signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed. >> That carries too. Thank you very much. >> Next is our district spotlight with Dr. Hoover. I think we have a special guest this evening. >> We do. Uh Dr. Kenneth Trump is president of National School Safety and Security Services, a national consulting firm specializing in school security and emergency preparedness. With over four decades of K12 experience, Dr. Trump has worked with schools nationwide to improve safety and emergency readiness. Tonight, he will provide a glimpse into the work he's doing in EVSC and what our upcoming school safety audit will involve. >> Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, superintendent, and everyone else. Thank you for having us here. My colleague Chuck Hibbert is also uh here with me as well. Uh what I fortunately I'm going to have to start out with a little bit of disappointing news for Jason.
As you went through this list, um did you have any questions about anything? The only thing that I will is that we did have two debt service payments for um bond 2017 and go uh 2017 and that was that 2275125 you're going to see on page F14. If we go ahead and go to the end of those prepays and that um page is F19 total for prepays January 2026 556 898 We're going to go ahead and move on to a list of claims as stated today, February 23rd, 2026. That's going to be on page F20.
Wall. Any further questions or comments? Mrs. Woods, I just want to say I do appreciate your uh time tonight and this will be um considered for sure and like to thank the uh our our helpers uh that uh looked at all the handbooks. Um your your efforts are not unnoticed >> board. Um one of the things I would also Mr. Peters has tonight. But we have also altered uh I believe from the first reading to the second. Correct Jay with >> correct. Um legal council has advised us um to update our handbook, the revision for furpa and our annual parent notification and this change is a part of this second reading. So we've been advised by legal counsel and we have made that change in each level of our handbooks >> board. I would also like to thank our one of our parents in our community has also has come forward to collaborate with us on that process.
>> Here they go. CONGRATULATIONS. All right. Cool. Thank you, sir. big. >> Hello. Thank you so much again for recognizing our performing arts students and for all of your support of our programs. Today we are recognizing um from Lauren Central Oliver Heyman. He was in the All State orchestra playing the French horn. Samuel Cover also all state orchestra um alternate in French horn. Dominic Morgan, a junior all state in the trumpet. Uh we have Alex Aia Hernandez um was in the all region orchestra playing violin and Hungi Leu uh in all state orchestra. Oh sorry all region orchestra in the violin. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. >> The middle man, you come on one side. >> Yeah, you front >> and we'll just come up front. We just all step up forward. Just all take a step up. >> I can't step up. >> But then we need then we need Dr.
If this board refuses to act, you are effectively accepting a permanent federal detention tax on our local homeowners. What are you prepared to cut to fill this half million dollar hole? Which teacher positions, extracurriculars, or safety measures are worth sacrificing to allow this facility to move forward without a fight? Which board member will step up to place a formal discussion on the next agenda to address these risks? Protect our solveny, protect our student safety. I yield the floor. Our next speaker is Kathy Noga. My name is Kathy Noga and I'm a concerned community member and also a former teacher. Every student needs good nutrition, sleep, nurturing environment and the feeling of safety in order to succeed. Academic achievement is inseparable from a student's sense of physical and emotional security. When students feel unsafe, whether at school, at home, or in their community, learning suffers. Approximately 60% of the student population at Daart High School is Hispanic.