gone to the Boston Marathon every single year. I've been endlessly inspired by it. And so I'm a local musician, a band director down in Planeville, and I also run the Ashlin [music] lesson program. We started a few years ago providing music lessons to all of our elementary, middle, and [music] high school band students. And so few years ago, I was uh diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and could no longer run any marathons or any other races really. I I struggled to figure out how to run past three miles. So, it's been quite a a learning curve, but over the last couple years, I've found my way back and I've run a few more races and found out about this program that we have here, the the grant, and immediately applied for it. Saw that it has benefited so many wonderful programs in Ashlin, including the Ashlin Music Association.
Anyways, anyways, so your stuff will not be displayed on there, so you'll have to rely on your phone or whatever or certainly ask any questions. Oh, and I apologize. I did not get here early enough to eat, so I'll be eating. >> Motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> Second. Go. Motion second.
I >> any opposed? Same sign. Motion passes 6. >> Reconciliation and cash balances report is also there for you to review. Oh, wait. Sorry. >> Yeah. Approval of the invoices. Mr. Murphy, is there anything you would like to draw our attention to? >> Yes. So, we do have a couple of items on there. Number one, we do have our middle school track uniforms. That was uh $4,254. We have our graduation alliance billable credits. It was a little under 96,000. It's our monthly expense for our virtual uh gym roof access ladders also on there to meet the requirements in our high school gym. That was 9,439. And then we did have to bring quite quite quite a bit of sorry quite a bit of gravel in for the back roadway behind the high school and middle school. So that was that came in at $4,180.80.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll please. >> Council member >> here. >> Ler >> here. >> Shaq >> here. >> Michelle >> here. >> Thank you. In complian with the open public meeting act, notice of meeting of this body has been given by the adoption of a resolution at the January 5th, 2026 organization meeting and the dissemination thereof which has fixed the time and the place of this meeting. I need a motion to accept and file the minutes of the February 23rd, 2026 regular meeting. >> So move second. >> All in favor? >> All opposed. >> Hearing no opposition, the motion carries. Resolution 26-62 for passage of the consent agenda. And tonight before we begin, uh we have a a an alteration to our consent agenda.
Uh that this is what I shared with Tyler Thursday and Friday the week. He did some extra research and he has a new number he would like for us to present. So but still uh this will come out of uh just for the context this will come out of the classroom site fund uh amount. It will not come out of the big number you see which is the M. This is completely from the classroom site fund for base salary uh which he he'll be here I believe virtually to give an indepth uh explanation. He has a a draft uh PowerPoint normally does. It's just going to focus on the classroom site fund. So he's going to share more with you on Wednesday. Uh we'll go into the reserve. We have a very healthy reserve. Well, share how much estimated sales tax revenue is coming in this year and how much uh with with the additional uh number that he wants to show on Wednesday that we want to show Wednesday, what will be the estimated expenditure.
There's not a stack. There's a stack. >> I don't think I don't see >> Good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us tonight. Uh if you are able, would you please stand with me and join me in the pledge of >> allegiance? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Item number four is adoption of our agenda. If I could have a motion. >> I'll make a motion to adopt tonight's agenda. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Moving on to item number five is call to the public. Mr. Campotelli, do we have any cards for call to the public? >> I did not receive any too much on this. [laughter] Seeing none, is there anyone that needed to fill out a card and didn't?
>> Does anybody have any questions on the consent agenda? >> Can I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Doug and Vivian. >> Yes. >> Peter. Yes. >> Yes. >> All right. Let's uh we can go to the uh item 10A, the February employment recommendations. >> Yeah. I actually I can do nine if you want. Uh superintendent report. >> Oh, you want to do yours? >> Yeah, I can do it. >> All right. >> Yeah, it's fine. >> Um item A is just the staffing plan for this year. Uh it's exhibit six for uh next year. Sorry. Um I'm going to just review real quick. You'll see that we are recommending a reduction of uh the number of core teachers in second and third grade down to eight instead of nine. Uh keeps our class sizes though right around 20.
I want to give back and help students like myself also be more confident in themselves and to hopefully be a role model for those that have dreams and wishes but don't have the confidence to do something about it. >> Thank you so much. So, thank you so much for everyone on stage tonight. These were all great answers. I am so sorry, Sarah. I'm so sorry. >> Thank you. Yeah. >> Hello, my name is Sarah Nugby. I uh am representing OE Key Club and I'm the 26 27 president. >> So, how has this club activity helped you care about others? >> Key Club is all about volunteering. It's a student led volunteering organization and we get to really choose who we help and how we help them. So we take a pro problem in our community and we get to solve it on our own. Whether that's through our a thrift day which we do every year, it's an event where we collect donations from the community and we organize a thrift shop so people can come and shop for free or that's spending time with senior citizens.
Okay, can everybody stand for Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you, everybody. Dr. Kildea? Yeah, good evening, everyone. What an exciting night. I want to thank everyone for coming out and so thrilled to have our students here. Um this is such an important tradition the board has led. Um the student-led forum and you have showed out tonight, students, and I'm so proud of you already. And I want to thank families and parents and principals and teachers and education were here also to support their students in sharing their voices as part of our public forum. I'm now going to send uh pass it over to uh our board president, Mr. Serone. Hello, everybody. Good evening and welcome to our student-led board forum, Speak and Spark. We are grateful to have so many students, families, staff, and community members here tonight. This forum is an important opportunity for our students to highlight the programs and experiences that help them feel connected and develop a strong sense of belonging in our schools.
Hearing none. Next up, we have community input. No one is here to make community input, so I'll skip that part. Next up, we have the approval of previous meeting minutes. The approval of the minutes from February 17, 2026 meeting. Does any committee member does any board member have any changes to the minutes?
All right, let's go ahead and do the pledge of allegiance. All right. Next up, um, as we always do, we'll listen, uh, we'll review our vision and listen to our strategic goals. Uh, strategic Oh, good. Sorry. Thank you. Uh, nationally recognized district of choice that embraces all students and prepares them to grow and thrive for their future. And we encompass that by saying all belong, learn, and grow. And next, we'll listen to some oh, some little ones perhaps. Is this a new video? I'm excited. Uh, as they present our strategic goals. In cooperation with our community, in cooperation with our community, with our community, with our community, we will become a professional learning community, >> improving student achievement by providing equitable experiences and opportunities for all students. For all students, >> for all students. >> In cooperation with our community, we will create systemic and purposeful innovation opportunities.
Any discussion? >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> All right. Motion carries. Uh we do have um patron comments here number two. So we'll go ahead and get into that. Um I do have one person in attendance. Uh Tim Connor. Um, you're welcome to come to the podium and speak about your topic. Uh, please state your name and address. Uh, my name is Tim Connor. I live at 5634 West State Road 18, Deli, Indiana, and I'm the president of the Deli Classroom Teachers Association. And I'm here to speak tonight about the principal position. says, "Dear DCS SC board of trustees, I'm here tonight to share with you our concerns regarding the removal of the assistant principal position at the Deli Community Elementary School. During our February 2nd corporation discussion meeting with Dr. Moore, we were told two positions were being added to the elementary school because one counselor in 500 students is not recommended.
Uh, and I couldn't help but think that I've had the opportunity to work with some very dynamic people. And tonight you're going to hear from two of them that rank right at the top of two individuals that I've had the honor and privilege uh to work with. Lynn Brown, assistant principal here at Huntington North High School is our second P second secondary PD coordinator and Lauren Hogue is almost wrapping up. It doesn't seem possible. Lauren, your first year as our elementary PD coordinator. And so what we wanted to do tonight board was just to share with you and to our public our science textbook adoption process that we went through this year. Uh we're going to bring back to you on March the 23rd a proposal uh with definite costs uh for you to vote on that and approve that for us. Uh that would start the 2627 school year and then that will begin that process of ordering materials and getting them in here uh this summer before uh school starts in the fall.
Our classroom is truly brighter with Mabel in it. I'm so proud of you, Mabel. Keep shining. >> Mabel, you come up. You got McDonald's and a free movie. Who did you bring with you? Who's with you? Who Who did you bring with you? >> My whole family. >> Your whole family. You can sit down. Mario Marcado Salazar. >> Mario comes to school every day with a smile on his face and is a kind friend to everyone. He works hard and always follows school rules, even when no one is watching. He always does his best work the first time and has gained so much confidence this school year. I'm proud very proud of him. >> Who did you bring with you? Who did you bring with you? >> Nathan. Okay. Aiden Bergos. Aiden is hardworking, kind, and passionate. He gives us all while in the classroom or in his extracurricular activities.
I'm like that's why it was paperclipipped. >> Charlie English Tech Challenge second place OVERALL TEAM. VA FAGNER, second place overall team. Allison Miranda Castro, second place overall team. Jose Romero, Tech Challenge second place overall team. We got and then we have the two coaches, John Veils and Jeff Shimonowski. Thank you, sir. Now, we're going to take a picture. >> We have to We'll have to like get in a couple rows, guys. Oops. >> To make sure my eyes are open because I'm not good at it. >> You can AI that >> or I could just make sure. >> You could. >> All right, we're good. Wait, let >> I I think uh this is like a about an every year occurrence. We're very proud of the um history that we have and um congratulations to you guys and thank you for representing Logan Sport so well on the big stage, right?
You got a big platform and two smaller platforms on the left and the right. We're currently loading into the game right about now. So, we're going to be switching over to the game play and yeah, I'm very excited for the match. So, we have played against this uh school before and we ended up winning. So, I'm excited to see how how Franklin County High School tries to combat us today. Yep. Pretty pretty freaking excited. And if you don't know uh the type of battle that they'll be fighting in, we'll be fighting in what's known as a 4v4 crew battle, which is when players from opposing teams take turn fighting one v one matches. And the winner of the match will carry the remaining stocks, which are their lives, to the next match. So if someone were to lose two stocks before they took out their opponent, they would start the next match with one stock since it's a three stock game to face the next member of the opposing team.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the cameras recently installed throughout the school. It is slightly surreal to be making this statement because this kind of surveillance of children and staff is so antithetical to what Telm Elementary represents. There are many shocking and worrying aspects of this situation. Starting with the complete lack of transparency or communication. No parents or caregivers were informed of much less involved in the decision. That is not okay. That is not an acceptable way to do things in our town and school community. Since there was no community involvement, nobody knows what the cameras are for. My daughter has been given five different explanations from five different staff members about why the cameras are there. And not one of those reasons sit well with me. One staff member told a kid it's because of their shenanigans. Someone else told them they were it's because kids were messing around in the bathroom.
So, my hope is that we can as a lesson program apply and find some financial aid for some families who maybe [music] can't afford private lessons. So, that's sort of the long-term goal. But, as a runner, I'm very excited to finally [music] get to run the Boston Marathon through this town and my [music] hometown of Maryland. So, I appreciate you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Any discussion? Hearing none. [snorts] >> Motion car 5. Johnny had to leave. So we're okay. No public comments >> elementary school. Sure. Council that parent teacher conference format continues to be I think positive for us. I mean we've always had strong attendance regardless of the format but you can see overall we're 90% attendance. Um the teachers like this format just because it gives them a little more time and um extra work on that whole day if their slate isn't full. So, that's nice. >> Um, if you didn't I don't know if those links worked on the document there once you were in the box, but we are a title one schoolwide building at Burlington Elementary. So, we have a lot of tasks that we have to complete as part of that funding stream. And so, one of the tasks is to give a survey to our teachers.
So, the other items on there are normal invoiced items for anybody else have any questions or comments. >> Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to approve the invoices as presented. So, move >> motion by Allison and second by Josh. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes 6. Now, reconciliation of cash balances report and those are on there for you to review.