>> Yeah, that's why You're nice. So, this is our field currently. This is a drone shot of where it was. Um you guys have all seen it, but this is this is the problem. This is what we want to work on. And we've all had lots of great memories there. Good things have happened there. Um Sarah read the problem. The vision for it, what we're hoping is a safe playing field, rubberized track, and new lighting. Just simple, something safe where the boys can play or girls can use our soccer team, stuff like that. Um and then we're also hoping for a field that brings our community together. So, like Sarah mentioned, we're hoping for something that the community can use as well. When I was growing up, I got to walk the track with my mom and it was great. Like I loved being able to do that.
And we and one of them we know we're for sure going to demolish because it's in such bad shape. That's the one where the art room is. But the other one, the eightlex [clears throat] that had the fire in it, has had lots of good rebuilding inside it. And so we asked them, you know, um can we have students in there for student occupancy if we need it? Um you know what if we you know turned it into the wrestling room because the interior walls are not loadbearing. There's no air conditioning here. there never will be because the roof wasn't sound enough to put HVAC on. Um so we're exploring lots of other options with the possibility of keeping that even if it's for a warehouse. Um, they have sent us a a list of questions for occupancy, student occupancy, and we may not meet the standard for like everyday classroom use, especially because of the excess temperatures in there, but we may be able to use it for other student use things.
All right? So, and they don't have zero pools on any of their campuses, all right? So, um they have to work with the YMCA and what that would mean to them. Uh so, there's a lot of considerations but throughout the state of Illinois that again, I think it's an information campaign about how it's affecting female athletics and also resources throughout the state as well. What questions do So, how does it How would that work then in the state series? I mean, I I picture in a lot of um in a lot of sports, the the team enters and then there is the team score and then there are individuals. Swimming would be good for that. Yeah, so I know the team score is gone, but can the entire How do the individual students Are they students at large? Does the team participate anyway? Yeah, they still basically just technically still compete as a team.
Second state championship in the Avon showquoire program history and the Avon Accents second consecutive championship, making them back-to-back isma state champions. Whereas the Avon accents have demonstrated perseverance to achieve excellence at the a high level and have demonstrated excellent work ethic, determination and commitment. Whereas the Avon accents have earned the respect of the entire school community for their high standards and expectations. Whereas the highest level of distinction given to given by the Avon Community School Corporation is accommodation from the board of school trustees. Therefore, let it be resolved that Avon accents through the work of their students, directors, and parents are hereby commended for their success and achievements. Board members, I will entertain a motion. >> I move that the board of school trustees approve the commendation for the Avon accent showquire as presented. >> Second motion by Josh, seconded by Jennifer.
Some bucket list things there. Um, here's what's included. Nothing new. Nothing's changed from the previous international flights. I basically treat it like an all-inclusive vacation. Um, you know, you pay this price and this includes your overnight stays and most of your food, not your snacks or unexpected um luggage if you overpack. But um, everything is included. And I I can't stress enough how awesome that is to not have to worry about all of that stuff. Um here's what's not included. If you do overpack, we were we've been awesome and doing carry-on only. I'm so proud of all of our people. Carry-on only is awesome. >> My wife hasn't been on these trips. >> No way. >> Here's the breakdown. U it looks really sweet in the pink. That is more than doable. And of course, the total overall cost is in the smaller print right below that.
The state of Indiana the average is 21. So um your class sizes when when taken up on the average all right are smaller. You have um a lovely situation I guess we could say there in that respect. Additionally, your paraprofessional staff is abundance, just usually abundant compared to many other less fortunate schools, I guess we might say. Um if we look at it specifically, you know, for we have just over 1,300 kids in the elementaries and about 77 paraprofessionals. Um and so that's exorbitantly more than the ratio to student the student to paraprofessional ratio for the entire state of Indiana, which certainly is can be wonderful luxury to have and have a value, too. But um in a time when we know funding is declining and enrollment is declining, that situation becomes very relevant, shall we say? So we have adequate and more than adequate staff for your current instructional and supplemental programming.
And in that survey, there was things in there that made us change how we drive our daily ins and outs of our building. And one of the the first things that we're going to talk about and this is Dannon Griffith. Hello. Um assistant principal. So, we're both this is our first years uh as in our position. And so, principal, assistant principal and then Mrs. Gangloff over there, she was also with us for most of the year, but then transitioned to be the EL director. And so, we're we're we're you know hanging in there, not being down an administrator, but we're doing it and Ashley comes and and helps us out here and there as we need to and but so moving forward. Um so, we had the opportunity to work with Dr. Cavazos, who is a um an EL expert. And Dr. Cavazos led us through a Surreal meetings.
You're always engaged in some phase of curriculum review, whether it is that first phase where you're looking at different you know, programs that are out there, or whether you're um piloting, or whether you're um you know, implementing it or monitoring it. Um but one of these phases you're always kind of engaged in over that 5 to 7-year um period. And each of the phases is extremely important, right? When we're first looking uh at what curriculums are out there, it's important that we find a a program that's going to work for us, that's going to support our our students and our teachers. Um you know, but along you know, throughout that 5 to 7 years, it's important that we're continuously monitoring and making sure that the intended learning outcomes are are being achieved. And so that's kind of um you know, how that works. The other piece that's important to note, and Katie's going to talk about it in much more detail in a couple of slides here, but there is a defined process um that we use in the district.
And just wanted them to know really what what what we've done and it's created some opportunities. Like for example, the Belk. That's created a wonderful opportunity for us to, you know, impact early education. But, it's also it is a springboard in the pre-K. We only had one pre-K teacher when I first got here and we only had one morning and one afternoon section. We have That's the board we've we've added a second pre-K position to be able to fund two full-time positions, two morning sessions, two afternoon sessions. So, wanted to tell them that not only what the Jones Trust grant has provided for us, it's created opportunities where our board has expanded what they have, you know, started with us with their with their generous donations towards uh education education in Burlington. Thanks. Okay. Anything else for Craig? Um I don't know I feel this way, I don't know how the rest of you feel, but Craig, if you could write an article for the newspaper um about like the fund some of the funding that we're losing and potentially losing.
So, at this time we don't have really anybody to run it past that last day of operation unless we keep it open on our own. But then that leaves a lot of uncertainty for us in what that looks like moving forward as well. So, Yeah. We need to communicate with at least the one parent to let them know when that last day is going to be, so they can be able to work on what they need to do to make accommodations for that. So, I think yeah, I think this probably makes more sense to to just go ahead and say the last day of school can be the last day of operation. Are there any other thoughts or comments or anything? If not, I would entertain a motion to move that the last day of operation for the Wilson Elementary Daycare will be Tuesday, May 19th, 2026.
I know many other people in the community do that, too. Um so, we want that. And here's just some pictures of potential what it can look like. Here's costs as we've as we've dove into it the last four years. We got an estimate for the field. It was going to be 440,000 just to do natural grass. So, that's the installation of an irrigation system, removal of the dirt, import new field soil, grading, and then they would actually this company that we were talking to, they would do a hand-over-hand training for the test so that you can properly maintain the field. Um and then rubberized track can remain in the area can range anywhere from 300 to 800,000. Obviously, we want to go cheaper, but we're looking at asphalt for the lower base and if we can go higher, we're looking at 800,000 and that's for the synthetic rubberized track.
Um, you know, like a wrestling room or something like that. So, we are exploring other options because the building is still sound. It's just not adequate for um, you know, regular student use. And what we know is that if we retain the building, SFB will never make another improvement to it. So if we have a fire panel issue, if we have a roofing issue, they don't pay for anything. We can't appeal to them for building renewal grants for any of that. So if we keep the building, then any future repairs would be on us. So we're just carefully weighing some of those options. This building's actually in pretty good shape right now since we had classrooms redone from the fire, but you know, it just it will never be below the minimum adequacy guidelines for temperature in our hotlands of the year. So, those are some things we're looking at because we want to still be really good stewards of the resources that we have.
They just only receive individual awards. So, let's say you were swimming the 100 free. If you won the 100 free, you would get your gold medal, but on top of that, you get a certain amount of points allotted to your team score that allows, you know, the overall team championship. They would just not allow us to take a team score. Okay, so you can still participate as as as we are co-op. >> Correct. It's just okay. Okay. Can you break down lacrosse that way as well? How would that work? So, that's that's the trouble that we would face going into the next school year with lacrosse is that we would not be able to compete in the IHSA state series. So, you wouldn't even be able to We wouldn't even be able to compete at all. So, we could play our regular season schedule, um but then when it would come regional time, we would just not be allowed to compete in that regional.
Is there any discussion? All those in favor. That motion passes 5-0. Congratulations. What are we doing? All right. Can I have Okay. Next, can I have Eli Neil come up? The Avon Community School Corporate uh school corporation board of school trustees would like to congratulate Eli Neil with the passage of the following resolution. Whereas Eli Neil placed first in the DECA Indiana State Career Development Conference on food mark in the food marketing category earning a state championship on March 3rd, 2026. Whereas Eli Neil has qualified as a finalist to compete in the DECA International Competition due to his superior performance at the district and association levels. Whereas Eli Neil has demonstrated perseverance to achieve excellence at a high level. Whereas Eli Neil has demonstrated excellent work ethic, determination, and commitment. Whereas Eli Neil has earned the respect of the entire school community for his high standards and expectations.
And here's why uh EF leads the way in travel based learning. I I met so many people never heard of this before Mr. Kerzy brought it here with him and I now the more I'm like, "Oh, I'm traveling with EF. Oh, we do that too." Or all school that our school does that too. And so look at all of our friends nearby that are also doing the same thing. And it's just it's growing all the time. And it it's really amazing what kind of opportunities everyone's doing around us. So we're doing it, too. Um, everywhere on the map is where they have an office at. So, basically, they are ready to hit the ground running at any given time if there were to be an incident, if you will. And the peace of mind is is just there with them. They just know what they're doing.
And so if you were to reconfigure, you'd have to make adjustments focusing on where people needed to be based upon the location and the services at that at that new locations, right? But we would certainly also have to consider looking at your staff for optimizing um not just for instruction and academics, but budgetary resources as well. Um hard facts, I guess we should say. In curriculum, again, you guys are um you are strong. You are very strong. Your Your practices are aligned between the buildings. You have your professional learning communities that you take good at advantage each of. The principals work very hard to coordinate services for kids. You have common assessments, you have curriculum maps, you have power standards. All of those things that impact curriculum along with the quality of your teacher, of course, are currently in place. Certainly one of the most important pieces that you need.
And with Surreal, we really focused on bringing together 12 of us into a into a a room. These were people who were were wanting to work on bettering our school, bettering the strategies that we're using in the classroom and we've we've really bonded. And so, when Dr. Cavazos, who came twice to observe in our classrooms of the teachers that are on our committee, and then afterwards, we would debrief. And Dr. Cavazos would talk about with the teachers, she would meet with them individually and not at when not with admin present and talk about glows and grows. And so, those teachers then would come back and meet with us after having their glow and grow meeting, all 12 of us sitting at the table in a very vulnerable you know discussion, openly talked about things that they needed to grow on and things that they that were glowing, that were outstanding.
Um it's outlined in our um district uh curriculum and instruction materials adoption plan, which is on our website uh for anyone who wants to um take a look. Um but that's all pretty outlined um for us, and Katie will speak more to that. Now. This slide should look familiar because we've talked about it um with the adoption of CKLA, and that's really what Dr. Thibault was alluding to, that we have a defined process that we go through when we're looking at either updating or replacing a curriculum. And so um very similar to what we went through with the process of uh of adopting CKLA at the elementary level, the thing to of importance to note is that it's not a short process. So we don't make a knee-jerk decision about bringing a curriculum material in. Um and so our proposed timeline for math it is you'll notice it goes across two school years.
So, like um was mission mentioned in the tech report like the I L I X L program, right? Um the special education, how it's not fully funded. I don't even know that most people are aware of that. Um and anything that they additionally may have cut. Um JC's position potentially, um the after school program grant that you know, just I just think it would be good for people to be aware of what has been cut, what's not being fully funded, and what we might be looking at like being cut. Um I just think it'd be good for our constituents to be aware of like what we're kind of facing, you know. Talking about it you know, a year before some of it hits the fan. Right. Having conversations so that we're thinking about it, you know, that the after school program's not funded through that.
So moved. Motion by Allison. Seconded by Dalton. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, same sign. Motion passes 6-0. Item number 11, the road by the Okay, so um spoke with Mr. Herder a few times via text and via phone. So, um we were talking about the road by the practice football field that's actually on school property, but that's his entrance to his property as well. So, we've kind of been working through this. Our original conversation revolved around the average price per acre and what that looked like and the amount of road um that he would need to be able to access his property. Um so, originally we were talking maybe between $1,000 and $2,000. Well, we had a call into Barton County, but since then we got a call back from Barton County on what they call their Orca website that has all the property values listed.