>> Loving it. Glad to be here. >> Anybody else have any? >> Okay. >> Thank you very much. >> Thanks for having me. Thank you. So then options with that um you know option one you guys could vote to appoint uh Thomas to the open seat. There need to be a motion made in a second and then if the motion passes he would take the position effective immediately. It didn't pass it remain open or option two if you guys would like a little bit more time to think about it and then put it on the board meeting in June we can do that as well. So get that right. >> That's right. A motion to appoint Thomas position to board. >> There's a motion and a second. Any other questions, comments, discussion?
That's the only way we can do it. >> Oh, thank you. Takes a village for sure. >> All right. Our next presentation this evening is going to be on English learning. Miss Rosa Maria. >> Hello. Thank you so much for having me. Would you like the the podium? >> Um no. I think I'm good. Thank you. Probably taller than me. So um two things that I provided you today. Um one is the trifold is just an update of our um SEI program. And just to clarify, because of the alphabet soup, that is our education SDI is structured English immersion. Um, and so the state um says you have to choose one. And so the one that we um use in our district is the 2hour pull out model, but that is a bit of misnomer because twoour is based on a five-day week. So you'll notice on that pamphlet I broke it down by weekly minutes instead of the twohour um because we're a four day week not a five day week.
This year, it was at the end of the year. Coincidentally, that drill happened a few days after the fact I publicly called him out on not conducting any drills. What would have happened if a real emergency occurred and an unprepared freshman was in that situation? The reason why I started advocating for students is because the district, my principals, and the Surprise City Council refused to. It's sad to see the people in charge of little kids don't have an ounce of care for them. I don't believe you guys are Dysart High School principals deserve to have your job. And if you guys have any character or care about students, you would resign and also fire uh Mayor Sarder. I don't know how you guys sit there and don't feel guilty about watching me having to spend my last few months of my senior year publicly advocating for hundreds of students.
Uh, first, can I have up Howard Mitch Coulter, middle school band, middle school STEM teacher? Is Mitch here tonight? Mitch is not here. Sylvia Garc, eighth grade science teacher at Big Hollow Middle School. >> Sylvia, how many years have you been at Big Hollow? >> Eight. Eight. >> Sy's been a solid solid educator for us and was nominated by her peers at the middle school here. Welld deserved. Uh Hannah Ironside, elementary pair professional. Congrats, Hannah. Hannah's uh been a pair professional now two years and she's a part of our program where we're trying to grow our own and she is going back to school to get her uh teaching certification and we would be excited to if she could possibly uh end up here as a teacher someday. So that's our goal. Uh Chris Jacoviaak, is Chris here tonight? Chris is not here tonight. primary PE teacher, Skyler Mley.
It's a chance to say hello and and good luck on the next step of your journey. Um then our students will bid their official formal farewell as students this coming weekend graduation ceremonies. And we are just so proud of them and excited to see what this next chapter will bring for them. I I really have been thinking a lot about the district's and the board's investment in the power of recognizing that our students' journey doesn't just end with graduation. And we're really invested in their future beyond their graduation. So their return as alumni and their participation in our community is important. Then the week after we celebrate the end of our school year at towards the end of it. We have our early childhood students will have their last day on Thursday, May 21st. And the rest of our students will have their last day on Friday, May 22nd.
Is there any discussion? All those in favor? That motion carries 5-0. Congratulations. for all of the like state level competitions, whether it's academic or um um co-curricular. It's always amazing to see the people who put in those hours, the dedication, um the perseverance, uh the work ethic was mentioned uh several times. Um, I don't think the rest of us would know how much effort it takes to prepare for something at that level, but to compete at the highest level that the state offers and to win in two events um, really sets yourself apart. So, congratulations on everything um, throughout the year and we look forward to seeing your success in the future. our second HOSA student uh is not here, was not able to make it. Um so we can contact her and see if she'd be able to come to our next board meeting uh and and recognize her at that meeting if that's okay.
Whose tax ID is associated with that checking account? It's the BCSE district level. So, the money belongs to BCSE. Correct. And are all extracurricular activities treated that way? Even things that aren't like a sport, that's not an IHSAA sport. Yes. There's there Help me if I'm wrong here, but we we have seen in the past extracurricular account totals for schools. Those are Those are BCSE overall, but the way I understand it is if Columbus East has a football game and they make $15,000, that goes into their account. That's accurate. And if uh Rock Creek has a basketball game and they make $1,200, it goes into their account. It's all BCSE money, but it's assigned to them for their use and generated by them, right? And it's been that way for ever? Yes. Okay. As long as you define forever as 25 years or more. Beyond that, someone else will have to answer.
Um, so really we're just upping our communication, upping our school spirit throughout all these um all the school supplies and shirts and all that sort of stuff. >> Okay. Um, and so a big endeavor that Dr. Moore has taken on and a really crucial step towards district success has been the creation of a strategic plan for DCSC. And while we didn't help like physically create the plan, we have like been a part of like many like numerous like discussions that pertain to like many important topics that helped create and it's really like set the foundation for this new plan and so and it's been reflected in many important aspects. One of them being the career pathways. This like talks this is a part of goal number two if you've seen it. Um, but we talked a lot about our the CTE courses and other career preparedness classes here at Deli.
So, um so, I need a motion to approve the summer camps for 2026. I'll make a motion to approve summer camps. Okay, I have a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed the same. Okay, that carries. Up at the board of education has um the duty to appoint members to the uh library board. Um so, the Open City Columbia Township Library Board has a member, Mr. Terry Gelhausen, whose term is coming to an end and he would like to continue to serve um another term. And so, the library uh director sent that recommendation over to me. Um so, this evening I would make a recommendation that we re-up his term for June 1st, 2026 through May 31st, 2030. Um so, I need a motion to approve Mr.
If you remember we had a lot of scheduling different you know as you heard hey we've got two at the same time what do we do? Well one that we're pretty proud of is at options where that's going to be a live teacher from outside the district. They can watch that live or recorded, kind of synchronous or asynchronous. We have 53 children that are either full-time on our virtual program. You say, "Well, what does that equate to?" Um, remember full-time kids are funded at 85% of the $7,100. So, at count day, which is February and October, you look and say, "Okay, it's at that time how many kids are at least uh 70% of their day are virtual." And on the last count day, we had 53 kids 6 through 12 who were at least that part of their day virtual. What does that equate to?
So next year um in order to to pull this off as you know I'm stepping back from um being the principal of the academy but I'm going to be the coordinator of virtual learning and so basically I will be handling this program um and these are some of my duties that I'll be doing um and basically um communicating communicating and communicating and more communicating after that. Um, I have really stepped up doing that this second semester, um, since I've been able to hand off some things to Amy and I certainly do enjoy uh, being able to connect with these people even virtually or over the phone or through Google Meet or just through email. Um, we uh, we're on speed dial a lot of us. So, communicating is is the biggest thing that I'll be doing. Tracking is the other thing. So there, as you can imagine, with that many students taking five or six classes each, there are lots of grades to put in.
I mean, it's it's just quite strange. And so, I actually took the time and I watched Hollist's most recent town meeting because they have a new moderator. It's someone I'm acquainted with. And I really encourage people to watch our town meeting and watch any other town. And it was it just started out with welcome, glad you're here. And they had a pretty good crowd. If you listen to ours, it's don't do this and don't do that and if you do that and we can't do this and do and there's comments about bullying and it was sometime before co I felt like I had been bullied at town meeting. They people up front were actually like I I felt like I was the brunt of somebody's joke. So I did and this is something important for town eating because I think part part of this show podcast show um for me anyways is about people taking their own power back instead of just giving it away and then you know just obediently going along with these really bizarre tactics.
Shame on us as the public we don't ask. So, that's one of the reasons we're here asking. >> Yeah. Um but we're supposed to have a capital improvement committee. That is citizen-serving government. And that has not been reconstituted for quite some time. So, I think that's sort of a problem. And I think when those rules are ignored, just like we're now out of sequence of reviewing the charter. Now, maybe there'll be no changes out of the charter. Maybe there will. But again, why are the public processes of checks and balances completely ignored in our town? Yeah, I don't know. We're going to be talking about type of government we have in a in a little bit. Um So, oh did you want to talk about Munson? Well, I I when we were talking about checks and balances, the the moderator there I I was actually surprised cuz he wrote you know, a short short essay on social media, which meant he was seriously wanted people to try to look.
And then it got changed to all economic development. and we're supposed to have a communication. >> Uh we're supposed to have a yearly report that says where this money basically went and even the previous version, it's a house bill. It's actually a law although >> the home rule petition. So we needition we need flashlights. The sunshine rule. This is where where it comes in. Yeah. >> And sunshine week was uh when we did the last podcast uh I didn't even think >> that's okay. We are not we will be persistent. >> Yeah, because it was a different topic. But um you know I've written numerous times to all kinds of people uh trying even state reps trying to get this report um with the money because if it's now economic development well like where is it? Like what what have we what are we getting for this money?
I think that's like the number one thing to remember and >> I think it's >> fine that we publicize wherea I' I've noticed that Ashlin it could be almost copy paste from any town they all publicize it well >> look at what we did one thing that's interesting is the actual rating um metric yeah >> I I have found published for other towns I found an old one on national website but the most current I >> and Those those are pretty telling, right? It's only three or four pages, but you know, it it it does um maybe if you read between the lines, doesn't say everything's perfectly rosy either. So, I that goes back with the curiosity. There's nothing wrong with us touting that we have a AAA bond rating. I think there is saying like that's in danger over if if we don't tax ourselves more.
One came across already for the Mustangs and this is going to be the first free pass of the day for the number eight hitter. So, we've got a walk for McDonald which brings up third baseman Maddie McKee. All right, we Bella will settle down here a little bit and get these balls in the in the zone. First one is low. You know, it's too bad they couldn't get that first play on that on that ground ball the shortstop. They would be out of the inning right now home free. But, you know, that's how the things go sometimes as the umpires tightening up a little bit here. That that's going to be a ball two to Domestico who does love to live on the black. If she's not going to get that call, it could be a long day for her today, George. Yeah, let's let's see how these calls continue to go here.
>> I think this is more forformational purposes and it will be in the handbooks coming up. So you'll approve the handbooks. There's no vote needed on this. if there's any feedback you want to give to administrators before they start preparing their handbooks for approval >> come June. >> Thanks for bringing it up. >> No, I'm just glad you brought it up. It's I have not been a big fan of the current scale for a while. >> Okay. uh high school report. Just a couple things just touch on briefly real here real quick here. Um had a lot going on in our building the last couple weeks. Uh hosted a track meet. Um obviously we host a lot of softball baseball games. Um we completed our community service day out of Wolf Creek that uh Selena helped me a lot as a first year organize that.
Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes. If you would like to to join us for the remainder of the meeting, Welcome to the board. >> Drill some points. All right. Um, item number 10 is our technology rotation. I'm going to slide this over so you can look. Okay, I know to me here because they have it on their computer. Okay. So technology rotation, we've been working on this for the past couple months, guys. Um, just the rise in the price of things with tariff charges have are crazy right now. So we've worked on cutting this technology rotation down to just try to get it in the ballpark of what we've spent in the past. We're not going to get near the amount of technology for our rotation as what we've spent in the past. That's why we've been working to cut this down.
So it's basically K5 300 minutes of targeted instruction a week um a week a day a week a day um would have been the the the two hours right so and then we have the integrated portion so integrated is just um every classroom so uh targeted being the EL teachers what they do and then the integrated being what um what everybody else does okay so that trifold is just updated. I I changed a little bit of the verbiage to more closely align with what um AD's verbiage is um and and put in our new logo. So updated um and I and so I do have it in English and in Spanish so that um we can provide to any community members who are interested in learning more about our program. So that's what that is. The other one that I provided for you is um an update on um testing.
Their dereliction of duty is disturbing. I'm here asking you guys for two things: to make a public statement reminding students of their rights and how the district will uphold them, and for the removal of Mayor Sarder from the position of the safety coordinator. Thank you. >> Th- That's all. Next on the agenda, D1 Superintendent and Governing Board updates. Superintendent update. >> Thank you, Mr. President. I just one quick uh update for us tonight. Uh I want to congratulate all our seniors on their upcoming graduation on Wednesday, and we look forward to uh handing them diplomas uh when they cross the stage. So, congratulations to everybody. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we have Governing Board updates. >> I had um I attended the Willow Canyon High School Choir Treasure Every Note performance on May 1st. I was absolutely blown away. Um the professionalism, their talent, their joy was all displayed out there, and it was beautiful.