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Uh not just all first graders here, but also the parochial schools. We screened almost 700 students uh here in two separate days. Uh they were getting busted here. We're using rooms just like this one just down the hall uh to kind of keep their focus in one room and then bring them in the other room and get their screenings done. So, thank you to everybody that was involved uh in that effort. And then finally, I I'd be remissed if I did not just take a moment to uh uh thank two special individuals uh dear to me uh regarding recent uh retirements. I just want to thank uh first of all uh Bill Derilla uh had a chance to uh be a part of his onboarding years ago at the old high school as athletic director and uh the amount of hours and time and and energy he has he's given our school corporation.
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And um it was my pleasure to offer the second to this motion. >> I was just going to say I remember um first of all, good evening, Dr. McDonald. When I um got out of the military, moved back home, I had small children and I heard about Joshua Academy. First of all, heard of it, of course, and then saw where it was located and realize and saw the work that you all are doing in the community for the families. And what I've seen over this 20 years is consistency, not perfection, but consistency. So, thank you so much um really for what you do for the home, for the bright one. So, I just want to say thank you. >> Anything else? All right. We have a motion and a second on the floor. All those in favor do so signify by saying I. >> I.
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>> So, it's just better from a budgeting standpoint and a cash balance standpoint is what I would want. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Anything further before we vote? Let's vote on the motion. That motion passes 6. Moving on to items of discussion by board members. Anybody got anything they'd like to talk about? >> I kind of already hit it, but we did have the state house uh day. Uh last week it was good. There's a couple of uh interesting bills that are working their way through legislature right now. One of them is a bell-to-bell cell phone ban. That is interesting. And another one is an immigration thing that is going to be uh in enforce upon uh passage that we will need to do that. I know I gave uh Mr. Wy, we had had a conversation about this earlier. I gave a conversation about that to Mr.
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>> And how long are the windows? Are they like >> They're six minutes. Seven minute window. >> Seven minute windows. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. >> So that's just that one Thursday night or one Thanksgiving week Monday night, right? There should >> And it's a 4 hour window. >> 4 hour window of time. >> Okay. >> Yeah. But there'll be a minimum of two-hour outreach from teachers for dialogues with f. That's the expectation here, right? So from when the first progress report goes out at end of September um through that week of Thanksgiving, every teacher is required a minimum of two hours of dialogue, phone, video chat in person with families regarding student performance, whether it be good or bad or the direction that a student is going in. All right. Um that's on top of the already expectations that we have around email or other outreach could be any format regarding attendance or grades.
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We're not looking to add any additional staff. There would be two reductions in staff um just through attrition only because of uh the number of students in those particular grade levels of those buildings going down. Um but there would be no reduction in force or anything like that. Um really all of the support, services, programs and everything are just going to continue and roll forward. Um so that is what our recommendation is for the staffing plan. >> All right. Uh may I have a motion to approve the staffing plan as presented? So moved.
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Um I just want to publicly thank Bill uh for what he's given us here at the Crown Point Community School Corporation. And uh above that more importantly uh is my wife Annie uh who is put in her retirement. So, um, Annie was hired in 97, uh, here, and I just wanted to tell my wife publicly how proud I am of her for being such a great leader and and, uh, role model and guardian for so many of our students, uh, here in the school corporation. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Kiwin. I'm glad you broke the ice on that because I never know when we can publicly say something or not. So, now, [laughter] >> uh, 7.07, Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Reeves. >> Thank you, Mr. president uh over the summer uh partnering with GFS, our food service department, went through a process referred to as balanced ordering.
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Passes. >> Thank you again. >> All right. Now, Dr. Underwood, preinary determination for the general obligation bonds for 2026. It's in your hands. >> Good evening, President Duckworth, members of the board, and Dr. Hoover. This item was brought to you during the last board meeting as an information item. Tonight is the public uh preliminary determination hearing on a proposed project. Notice of this hearing uh was published in accordance with all applicable legal requirements. Uh pursuant to Indiana code, a school corporation is required to hold two public hearings and adopt a preliminary determination resolution before issuing bonds or entering into a lease project whose total costs exceed certain statutory thresholds. This hearing along with a sub subsequent public hearing and any future consideration on resolutions represents the ve very beginning of the legal process related to this project. Uh at this stage no board action is required.
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Wy. Uh but the belltobell cell phone ban is also something that's going to be interesting. It's going to be using a similar model or proposing a similar model to what Fort Wayne Community Schools does. So it's not putting it in yourself, not putting it in your locker and just looking at that. It's actually securing it in secure storage during bell to bell. So that would mean kids either would not bring their cell phones to school or if they do bring them, they would have to be secured in such a way until the end of the day. I would just want to start if that does pass, we're going to have to have a conversation with our community and say this is not our choice. This is the legislator's choice and then we're going to have to figure out how we're going to implement that. So, I just want to keep that on everyone's radar.
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All right. Um so there's a lot of outreach that occurs from our teachers as you saw in the data from the last time we meet. This is just that dialogue. How's that occurring? And remember this adds another two hours of teacher initiated two-way dialogue second semester that has never existed in the district. Right? Once we hit in the past once we hit October and had teacher conferences there's no formal expectation other than what teachers do because it's their job of reaching out to families but there's not structured expectations like these would be for second semester that has never existed in the district. So you're collecting the data on this dialoguing through >> Infinite campus and that's me positive, negative, email, phone call, everything. >> Yep. Logging it. Yep. >> So there will be accountability for that to occur. All right. Any other questions? >> It's up to you, Don.
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>> Any discussion? >> And I apologize for not being here last week. Um Mr. Shephard, we have we have uh money set aside because some of these numbers are bordering on another section, several of them across the district. We have money set aside. Should we need to go? Should several students move into the district? I think the last time the economy stumbled a little bit, we saw an influx of private school students coming into to the public school. Um, should we need to go out and hire, there's we have money set aside for that like as kind of a backup plan. Is that accurate? >> We have space for one additional staff member. >> Okay. >> And that uh that is simply because of the the realities of CPI and how our budget uh is greatly affected by the CPI. >> Correct. So that that negative 110,000 the negative 2.0 I know that we see there that's already shifted somewhere else in the budget.
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So, as you can imagine, we're off for two months. Not many orders get placed. Uh the same happens for across uh our area and state regarding school food service. Then GFS gets bombarded with orders there at the beginning of August. They put in place a program where you could do balanced ordering through June and July leading up into August. And with that tied some rebate money attached to that. Last month we received almost $20,000 from JFS uh through the additional work that our staff did preparing for that preparing venues for the start of school and making sure that the orders are in place. The food was still absolutely good to last into August. So I want to thank Christine Clarahan, Kimman, Michelle Simski for taking time to do that over the summer and generate some more dollars for our food service program. >> Thank you.
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The sole purpose of tonight's hearing is to provide the public an opportunity to share or add comment to the board. So, at this time, if there's any member of the public that would wish to approach the microphone, identify uh your name and your address uh to provide testimony to this board on a proposed um project for 2026 general obligation bonds. That would be once again if there's any member of the public that would offer like to offer testimony regarding the general obligation buds of 2025. Now would be the time to approach the microphone. >> Seeing no one approach the microphone, I believe it is safe to close this hearing. Thank you, Mr. Doctor. >> Thank you uh Dr. Underwood. Appreciate it very much. Uh with there not being any board action needed, we'll move right along to information item 7.01, consideration to award the contract for Stockwell Elementary School flooring renovation project 2026.
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Um, it's going to be a little bit different. I know I I just know it's going to be something we need to keep our eye on. Uh, the other thing that happened recently was uh ISBA had their um leadership conference. Uh, I think that was in January. That turned out very well. Uh, there is some great presentations I'm going to see if I can cut out and share with the rest of the board members. Uh, one of them is on Robert's rules of order. We all need to just get a great refresher on that. Uh because I'm a nerd. I enjoy that. But it's all things and if I have a chance, I'll share that with everyone and go from there. But thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Um referenced that uh cell phone um change. Um whether you agree or disagree with it, it is possibly going to be what we have to do.
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Do you guys want to take action this evening or would you like to table it for March? And if we're tableabling it for March, I just like to know if you need time to think or if there's additional things you'd like for me to research and bring back. >> Is anyone not ready to to vote on this change? Does anyone need any more information before we vote on this tonight? Okay. >> All right. Thank you. And as we as we work through logistics, I'll keep the board updated. Uh if the board approves it tonight, obviously then as we work through the next set of FAQs and documentation of protocols and everything and we build this out further, I'll I'll update the board as we move along. >> And it's a two-year commitment on this year commitment. >> Yep. So, we get a year to run it and then adapt and change and get better and then another year to run it before we choose is this going to be our model moving forward or something something different.
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Is that accurate? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Any other questions, discussion? We take a vote, please. >> Stacy Salt, >> yes. >> Katherine Potter, >> yes. >> Jason Jansig, >> no. >> Darling, >> yes. >> Mindy Hartman, >> yes. >> Bridget Sandlin, >> yes. Okay, >> next up for 8.6, we have the technology plan. Hi. So, uh, for the technology plan at the, uh, committee the whole meeting, we recaped what we talked about for monitoring our student safety and, uh, keeping our devices safe while they're in their hands. We outlined the, uh, new lease that we will be, uh, um, signing on to with Apple uh, as well as paying off the um, other two lease payments that we have currently. uh as well as the staff uh laptop refresh that we will be continuing. Uh we also talked about infrastructure phase 4 uh which is part of the um building modernization and safety coming out of referendum dollars.
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Miss uh 7.08 director of communications, Mrs. Allen. >> Thank you and good evening. I want to wish you a happy public schools week. It runs this week. It's a national celebration of all of the great things that public schools do. This is a week that's supported by the list is long. National School Board Association, National School PR Association, School Superintendent Association, National Association of Elementary Principles, School Counselor Ass. the National PTA, the National Education Association, and the Consortium for School Networking, which is our association of technology leaders. Um, in Indiana, public schools support more than 1 million students, which is roughly 90% of our school age population, and that's across,900 public schools. So, I always like to think of how much we're doing here. Then imagine multiplying that by 300 and something districts. It really is quite a feat. Happy Public Schools Week. Same to you, Mrs.
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Mr. Shelley, you're back on the stand. >> Good evening once again, President Duckworth, members of the board, and Dr. Hoover. The Stockwell Elementary School flooring renovation project 2026. Notice the bid was advertised on January 9th and January 16th, 2026. A pre- bid meeting was held on January 20th, 2026. Bids were received on February 4th, 2026. The board has received a bid tabulation sheet for this project and I will recommend awarding the project to Razer Flooring at the next scheduled schoolboard meeting.
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And um I think you're correct. uh it needs to be made real clear exactly who's making the rules here. Um so yeah, just be prepared to to reach out to your your people or have them reach out to you board members uh as this thing goes into action because I'm sure there's going to be plenty of things, plenty of um opinions um we've survived worse. The >> conversation I was having is from my understanding here at the school corporation. I'd love to hear from Dr. deets and others, but what we're doing today seems to be working and not causing disruptions. So, I'm not sure why they're trying to do this forcing of this because they just changed it last year and it really hasn't even had chance to change. But that >> Mr. Wall, I couldn't agree more with you and and I know several of you board um have been to Huntington North numerous times and they handled this situation very well in the school system.
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But at that point then if the board wanted to see us go back to more of a traditional model that would be the time to decide to do that. Helps us with calendaring and expectations and everything. All right. uh board representation on the parent teacher advisory committee. This is the committee that meets uh every year in the spring. It's focused on discipline, student handbook, topics of discussion over the years have been things like attendance tardies, cell phones, those kinds of things. Scott Woozer runs that. It is an official board meeting. We have an agenda and all of those things. Julie shows up and uh takes the minutes and and everything else out of that. So we need to know uh that's the proposed date 42726 and uh we need two board members uh to serve in that capacity. >> Yeah, I'd be willing to >> so we you get to decide.
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And um we also um talked about reselling our retired iPad fleet uh as we've done in the past few years. Okay, thank you. May I have a motion to approve the technology plan as presented? >> So moved.
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