Um One time, I guess. One time. Yes, one time payment. Yes. Yeah, that's correct. Uh Mandy, do you want to say anything about that curriculum? Um it's it's similar to what was adopted at the elementary school as far as the same publisher. So, we I know you guys adopted K through 5. Uh this just takes more of a literature base um than the science of reading that built up to the learning to read. So, uh my teachers were very confident with the the curriculum and what it offered them. So, we're looking forward to kind of keeping that continuum K through Do you know how many books that was? Uh how many books? To come up with the $35,000. It it's for about 50 I I asked them for a quote of about 50 students per class cuz that's our average. Um some are a little bit more, some are a little bit less.
We're not just shoehorning them into that square peg, even if they're a little round or if they're a different way. I think that's the best thing that we can do for our K children in this community and everything. I I think it really is a positive that we try to find every child every day just as our motto says because that's that's what we need to do. We can't just focus on the the college person. we need to fe we need to meet everybody and that's every time they come I'm I'm always very happy for where we were at today because I know when I look back that's not maybe where we have been and I continue to want to push to continue to make sure that we are doing every student every day. So I commend you. I commend Dr. Deets and everyone at the high school and I know everyone in the corporation that's trying to do that every day.
Um so students come up with different ideas and then Mr. McCord was on our panel and listened to our uh students present their ideas. We had John Michael Price, Aaron Shaver, um, and some other, uh, community members. Jacob Pomol was there, um, listening to the kids' ideas. And that's a pretty big deal when you're third, you're 14, 15 years old and you're presenting in some in front of some of the most important people in our community. Um, another great project that was really integrated with the hands-on learning uh was the Columbian Exchange project and the students created u menus and they talked about um all of the things that were exchanged through uh the Colombian exchange uh including uh the not so good things like diseases and smallox and those types of things but and the foods. So they were able to identify uh foods that are new world, foods that are old world and then they cooked for our staff which is very cool.
So for some reason you can now get up for your three minutes but now you can't get up a second time which I don't know about you but >> well so I I don't understand this because town meeting it's the legislative body of the town and it's very important in New England town government and unless we change our form of government it should be taken seriously and I feel like the time limit so I I I did read a bunch people um the League of Women Voters in like Stow area, they studied um all those area towns >> and a lot of them do have a limit and they they were trying things to encourage more participation. They they didn't promise that >> the participation didn't really change. So participation in government in general, that's one of the reasons we're doing this podcast is a problem.
So, I if we had one, I think it would be strange that two people who are actually alert couldn't find it. So, anyways, I I for anyone that watches this, and I hopefully some of our leaders watch this or listen to this podcast, uh they can maybe look into it. Um it had like even down to what they spent on a project. And I mean, >> Oh, I love the part about this would be super helpful about the bonds. It's every bond, when it was started, when it's finishing, and how much is currently owed, and the interest rate. It was really, really simple, easy to understand. Yes. Medway had the bonds, the long-term debt. All the projects and what it was and the interest cost and it just reminds me just how much we're actually in the dark here. I mean, we have these aggregate totals at town meeting and no one knows what what what even makes it up.
But they there is a cost to that. The schools have a cost. >> Um so that is that is again that that also speaks to that power imbalance. If if town government has access to resources but the people don't, >> how do we fix that? >> Yeah. Um, yeah, just finding out more about the communications person because when I looked at the job requirements, it sounded like they were reporting to like five different people and and none of them were the people. It was like everyone but us. It's weird. It's like we we pay for all of this, but we don't actually have a seat at the table. I mean, we sit in the audience. Um, that's about as close as we get to the table. Um, so I I wanted to talk about a couple of things that are are contradictory. Um, and one is related because it's related to this override and it's just something I have been following for a while.
So, How do we how do we fix that? >> So I think it is an honorable vocation and I think that people mostly in in public service I have high regard for do their job in service. I think where I have a difference is how did the salaries get to be market rate meaning market like compared with private sector yet the benefits are beyond. And I feel like on these larger budget to be sustainable, we have to have discussions like maybe you get to choose. I get a market rate salary or and I and I do a 401k like the market. >> Yeah. >> Or I choose to get that lower salary in the security of pensions and benefits. >> Yeah. I mean, there's definitely you really cannot have private sector salaries and public sector benefits because I think that's at the root of a lot of these uh alleged problems that towns are having.
This is going to be an unfortunate >> [screaming] >> turn of events. So we do end up getting I believe the out on a throw from Kyra over to Colette on the runner trying to turn something into a a play at third base. Carrie does gun her down for the first out of the inning. But when the ball was getting thrown around just a little bit too much after a misplay in right field, we do have a run on the board for the Mustangs. Yeah, that that one well that one throw back hit the runner and then the bounce then to the edge of the infield. So that is going to go [screaming] down as an E9. But then we got a two to five put out. Well, happy the Clockers at least got one out out of uh that kind of fiasco of a play.
Uh, when we go and we talk to other league schools, they're they're more on the traditional scale of 59 or below is an F there. And so, um, it does have an impact as kids get older. um especially around scholarships and GPA and things like that because where somebody in I'll just use Anderson County that I used earlier kid may get a 62% and they have a D but here they're going to have an F and so part of that is just to bring it to what what everybody else is doing is our proposed change there you want to add to that just back in the fall when I started looking into why we were doing that um really never wasn't looking to do it to just make change to change. But um when we looked at our ineligibility lists um in terms of how it impacts athletes as well and then going to principal meetings, talking to other schools, this current grading scale we have um I would say is rare would be a accurate assessment on that.
So Mr. Lloyd, thanks for coming. Thank you for having me. >> Um just maybe as a starting point for conversation, my background is in uh educational backgrounds in physics and chemistry. I've spent most of my professional career as an acoustical consultant. So I did primarily industrial noise control. So I'd go to uh manufacturing sites and design um engineered noise control treatments to make the environment quieter so the people that work there would uh not lose their hearing. So that's been primary focus of my professional career. But now I'm retired in uh living um out in the country between Dorance and Wilson and I saw this vacancy that was available and thought it'd be an opportunity for me to do something productive. >> What can I answer question from you? That was going to be my main question is kind of what your interest was or how you how did you where you saw that the seat was open or >> Well, I saw it on the ballot.
How to do um increased behavior management, how to work with kids who um are on the spectrum, those types of things so that they and how to write IEPs. Um we just think it's going to really provide support and build some teamwork amongst them. Um we also are going this summer to do our EDP and CPI training. Um we use foundations for life for uh children with emotional disabilities and then we're also going to have an increase in speech therapist employees. So we're looking forward to that for this coming year. So some highlights for overall special needs rodeo is always a hit. Um we have a variety of programs to meet our students needs on an individualized basis. We have structured programs. Uh when you go into any program you the teacher can tell you this is what we do in here. Every every program has a purpose and a structure.
If you do not know what I am talking about, you are precisely the reason these students feel unsafe. I am, of course, talking about the conversion from a of the DHS warehouse to a detention center within just a mile from the Dysart High School. And the students were very vocal in opposing this. They have made petitions to enact a 3-mile buffer zone. They have spoke to the Attorney General in order to file a lawsuit against it. And what did this boardroom do? I'm not sure. It really does seem like nothing. And could that be because of a conflict of interest because of the safety coordinator, Kevin Sarter, who is also the mayor's surprise, who these students so vehemently criticized with? That does seem to be a conflict of interest to me, and he should be removed. He just is not even able to do like basic fire drills in place as as there has been several months that the Dysart High School went without a fire drill.
Um, thank you so much and thank you for the recognition. Thank you to the board and to Mr. Gold and Rachel and all the administrators I've certainly um have worked for. Um, it's really been an honor to be part of the Big Hollow family. Um, and throughout my 27 years in education, I've always been in Big Hollow, um, since day one. Um, even at the old building. So, um, it's just amazing to be part of the Big Hollow family and just to serve our students, um, families and colleagues. It's really um a blessing for all the relationships um and lessons and um memories that I'll take with me into my next season um you know of retirement. And I'm just going to just seeing all the faces on I I'm going to cry too just um and seeing all the faces in here that I recognize that have um come through the primary building and also worked with them at elementary as well.
His supervisors and colleagues in Texas praise his strong work ethic, powerful connections with all students, and partnerships with families. His current principal shared that he has been a wonderful addition to their teaching staff, quickly building connections with all stakeholders this year. Through the interview process, Tyler's strengths are his knowledge of administration, student discipline, and making meaningful connections with staff and students. Please join me in welcoming Tyler to District 308. That concludes my report. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Mitchell. And uh we'll be to 6.1, our superintendent's report. Dr. Solgany. >> Good evening, everyone. I just want to uh take a minute to add to something Dr. Mitchell said, which is that I want to thank all of our hiring committees. We we we Tonight we get to uh bring to the board our recommended candidates. And what we don't always have an opportunity to do is to recognize that behind each of these recommended candidates is a very full process.
You know, a lot of students, I'm sure, start their uh career in school really hoping that they will aspire to that, but I can tell you that it is just diligence and hard work that cause you to stay that course um and to be involved in so many other things and still be an exceptional student and an exceptional role model. So, thank you so much for representing Avon so tremendously well. Uh, we just can't wait to see what you do both as a genius and a really nice guy. Thank you. Next, we're going to recognize some students from Avon High School who are a part of the HOSA um competitive group, which is health occupation students association. So, these are students who are all interested in going into a health related field when they leave the high school. there is a competition uh that they compete in and we have two students who achieved state level championships in their respective competitions.
They're two different entirely different systems. Um extracurricular accounts consist of almost entirely actual money collected at the school or program level. And that money is maintained in a bank account specific to that school and or program. Um and then that school has an extracurricular treasurer who is bonded and insured that manages those dollars with the oversight of an administrator, hence the dual the dual signatures on on checks. Um whereas district-level funds um are a completely different monster. It's I actually don't know that. I maybe have heard of one instance in my time in public education where there was any significant theft or fraud that happened with corporation-level funds. It's It's you're very susceptible to those things at an extracurricular program level because checks and cash are being collected for field trips, fundraisers, um at the gate to a an athletic event, and that is flowing through the thousands of events that we have in a district of our size on a daily basis during the course of the year.
ion and that really as you see further in this we're going to see brought a lot of change to this this year and um I just think the very diverse group of 12 of us brought in just so many different viewpoints and have really opened my eyes as well of just different sections of the school that maybe I wasn't participating in >> uh changes much has changed here at Deli Community School Corporations uh to start off uh new hirings for coaches and teachers were coach Peoples got hired this past um February and got announced as our new football coach and will be starting next this next next year, next school year and throughout the summer. Also um improvements consist of the new stuff in the athletic department with the new lockers with the that they did and the new court that just got installed into the high school arena.
So, when you purchase the first year, then every year after that, they will send cuz it's a consumable. It's not a hardback book. So, they send the number of student textbooks that are needed for the next year. And this is for 6 years, so Yeah. So, it's 100 and at my school it's 150. Times 6 years. So, this is >> lot cheaper than a hardback. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, it comes out of the education fund, which means that comes out of the per student money that we get. Yes. If you remember correctly, what the state of Indiana did this past year is they eliminated in a roundabout way, they eliminated the curriculum materials moneys that we were receiving in the past, and it was all just lumped into the basic grant. So, this is This is another way to squeeze money out of us. Correct.
I think it's very important to do that. And if we ever need to take a step back and figure out what other ways we need to do that, let's do that because Meg's got a hard job out there. Dr. Duggets has a hard job out there. But if we can help in any way, shape, or form to hit get to every kid, that's the important part. >> Thank you. Couldn't have said that better. Other board members, >> fantastic program. Oh my gosh. Um, just fills my heart with pride what Huntington's doing for kids. I assume this is true, but I'm just curious as to how we do this. I assume we have learning aids and support for all the different learning issues for kids that might be in that program. >> Um, it depends on your audience. Um, as Mr. Malone just uh listed. So, yeah, if uh a student from special services, they would still have access to their teacher of record.
We were using air fryers and hot plates and uh kids made stuff at home and then they prepped and so it was really cool and the kids were so proud to share their um cuisine with us. And then we have particip we participated in a couple community service projects. Uh we packed shoe boxes for um Operation Christmas Child and um the students got to go in uh to the church and they really poured into our kids, the community members there. Um they fed the kids and then they worked with the kids to pack the shoe boxes. Um we also participated in live united day as well. And that's PECAP and now to virtual learning. >> Thanks Amy. So, what I want to get into um most of tonight is the the virtual school. Um so, basically, like I said, um Mr. Starky received a letter and the DOE basically just told corporations that had over 100 students enrolled in online programs that they had three options for next year.