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It was very It was an outstanding day at state. That's going to take us to Kansas City this fall to judge at the American Royal. One team out of each state gets to go to that. So, we are the team from Indiana going to that. So, >> congratulations. >> And then in closing closing out here, um 2026 brought a lot of new challenges. We brought on a new coach, Caleb Myers. Um and with our adviser, Miss White, we set goals at the beginning of the season. We want to be in the top three teams. We hit that. Um, and we wanted to improve in our reasons and we wanted to end up at Denver and Kansas City. So, we hit all of our goals this year. So, we really improved as a team. Um, it brought us some college experience and building our networks. We uh got some reasons help from some junior college kids that have been our friends.
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And then hearing none, So this evening, um we have a lot of recommendations, personnel recommendations. If you want me to, I can read through those. If not, we can just take them all together. Um I do want to recognize um is this Chris up here? Okay, Chris Skidmore. We have talked about this and I'm excited to um welcome Chris on board if you approve him tonight. He is going to start our construction trades class and uh we are very excited about this. This is a big step for us as a corporation to kind of keep our kids here and as well to provide them with a skill that is definitely needed in our community and even in our region. So, Chris, anything you would like to say? It's been a long time since I've sat in this lecture hall and the seats are a lot more comfortable than the ones I sat in.
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Sure. >> And so I'm just curious. >> Yeah. Um, have I had the conversation at the elementary level with Fort Wayne Community and the other schools? Elementary schools are a different animal in a lot of ways. They may not have a locker per student and those types of things, but students do typically each bring their own book bag. And so if they follow our kind of structure and policy that we're considering within HCCS, it would be in the book bag and turned off, which keeps it inaccessible and then also turned off. And so those satisfy the two main prongs of it. >> Sorry, I've been thinking about this for a really long time. I think the hardest part is going to be the smartwatch person. I think that's the one that's going to catch everybody off guard. So, I don't commend you. I I I don't envy you in this process.
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And they're the ones that are going to come right out the back door pretty quickly. And then there's ones that are very highly motivated and they know they want to get done. Okay, so they really work hard at it. The students that come in person and we do a lot of handpicking um for in person. This student is no way going to be able to handle it remotely. Okay, they go in person. Wouldn't you agree? >> Um they need the actual hands-on with the teacher a lot more than these. So, uh, juniors and seniors, uh, make up most of the, uh, virtual, >> but most of those then will end up being self-motivated and and because they >> not having to have somebody stand over them all the time. >> No, but believe me, I will be virtually standing over them. That's that's going to be my job to to do that.
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And I apologize I did not look up but so though we would be having those discussions as a community. And we should have those discussions. Like maybe when we had it everyone thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. We've had it for a while. We don't think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread anymore. What can be done? Yeah, I it just we we need more opportunities to really listen you know, to what the people are saying and And can I interrupt you while I while I'm not listening? Um so I as a as a resident of town did not sub my civic duties to the select board. Yeah. And that is just the truth. We we need to be involved and to be good good members of the community and the legislature you need to be involved. And so these things that continuously aren't done make it just much more difficult.
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Nice heads up play there by Ruby getting that thing back to first base just in case she could catch her sleeping. But, a nice catch down the last one. We've got one down here in the third. Yeah, nice catch, nice throw. Runner wasn't that far off the base, so um you know, luckily they executed on that play rather than allowing the runner to go. That's going to be in for a first pitch strike to Randall as again we have that pitcher versus pitcher match up here. Domestico gets ahead 01 on her counterpart. That's going to be another foul ball back. Carrick can't quite get there. She made that one then we would have been sending it to SportsCenter. Yeah, that was a very low pop up and she would have to have you know, had to sprint her speed the second it went up in the air and and lay herself out to have a possibility of catching that one.
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Um I'm going to jump actually to uh the uh slide 11. In our technology performance standards, we have those at grades one through eight and high school interactive media at this point in time. With high school interactive media no longer being a uh course uh that all students take. We'll be looking at how best to evaluate our high school students uh in the future. That's going to take a little little bit of thinking because they'll be uh taking uh multiple different business courses. So there there may not be a good way to uh track them through our technology performance standards in the future. Um we uh do a local technology assessment at second, fourth, eighth, and high school interactive media. And on the proceeding pages, you can kind of see how students uh scored on the assessments. We include all students uh even those who are special education students are included in this.
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So, just make it a little more easier to streamline the process if it's the same company that we're working with with our website. So, we're going to try to provide a little more um clarification on that and little more information on that once we get that meeting done at the 1 of June. So, and then the next one um that's on there as well um is electronic personal devices. Uh students are going to be prohibited from using or accessing personal electronic communication devices during the school day while on district owned or operated property except is expressly permitted by the policy or by law. That goes for smartwatches, phones, um um >> glasses. Yeah, the glasses and then the the headphones. I can't Apple iPod the >> earbuds. Those in my mind. Yeah, the earbuds. >> Yeah. So, um, we're going to have to develop our own policy and if they bring those, they're going to have to be locked during the school day.
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Then we have to send a check. The check has to clear. we have to respond and they're almost like except for there's one local resident who requests a copy uh printed copy of our annual financial report every year and the budget. Um the person owns a shipping copy. So we don't we just send the PDF I let them make their own copies. Um but John graciously provides the copies every year. And my point in that is we have one person and the stuff John sends is already available on our website. It's like three clicks away, but we have one. Every other request is coming from out of state. >> Wow. >> And why? No reason specifically or just all over? >> All over. a lot of east coast, a lot of mid-Atlantic requests. But our last round were like Montana, Idaho, wherever these companies are like have their lensure to do business.
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And obviously we want to make sure um other stakeholders, like our parents, are are well involved and are knowing what's going on and we get some feedback from them as uh as well. So, mass communication will be going out through Parent Square as we are moving forward with our finalized guidelines and with any tools that we do decide to move forward with as we're going on this journey. We also would like to push out a survey. We have AI committee that is in the works of being developed right now and is almost ready to rock and roll. But, we have a survey that's getting pushed out here very soon and so we'll be able to get some feedback that the committee review and everyone kind of look at. And then we'll make sure that all of this again is posted on the district website so that at any point in time anyone can reference what we have done and where we're heading and make sure it's very clear with what we are putting out and to our students and staff.
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>> And to have one united message going out. >> Yeah, you know, I think attached to this particular one is you know, that the um board members um we might be kind of you know, ex- not experts, but you know, our our job is to uh understand what's going on and you know, make informed decisions, but we're not in the weeds. Um and so, a lot of times the communication will be you know, somebody will, you know, that can answer your questions and and give you the full story, uh will respond to you. So, um that's why you get those. Um cuz as a board member, you don't you don't want me to be us to be you know, dictating bus routes. You know, um we'll mess that up. Um the operations. So. >> All right. >> Here he goes, like, "Did you just say that?" Oh, no, I didn't know.
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Yeah. and Lee company fortunately and we've worked closely with them at the start but then they ended up coming in about $100,000 less than the other companies >> and so the your best projection I know this is a wild guess maybe an educated wild guess how long do you think the entire project will take from beginning to end >> they are saying we should it should be done in just a couple of months so they're going to start in August and they feel that within two months they'll at least have the main bleachers in and Jason felt like we could have basketball games at that time and they'll continue to work on the upper level. So, they felt like they can get it all in pretty quickly and if they get things ordered now, then we'll have a good start. >> Um, I had a couple of questions also.
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So, on the ECA, I will I will agree with um Mr. Allen. I think the higher risk and I think we should look at how we implement more stringent controls and especially adherence to the dual signature, um adherence to more internal audits. I don't see a policy that requires a deep enough level of internal audits, especially given that the majority of this is in cash and not necessarily in a very transferable um you know, easy to easy way to track. I think for the corporate funds, your impact could be far greater and your abuse capabilities is far higher. So, I think you're going to have equally level of restrictiveness over there just because again, someone's not walking off with 100,000. You could be walking off with 1.5 million. And so, your impact is different. So, I think you're going to have more internal controls regarding what I would say is even external auditing.
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We brought them on. They were willing to help us. We see our reasons scores rise. So, it shows that if we can network a little bit, we're going to get better throughout the year. Um, as you said, we were we were lacking in reasons and seemed to stock consistently as a team. We got consistently better throughout the year as we started getting our names called more, bringing home more awards and and then in the allaround, which was a a big goal of mine, we ended up sticking all three of us in the top 30. So, I mean, that was a very high quality. This was a very high quality year. Um, really appreciate Caleb's dedication and the time that he spent with us achieving all of our goals. He was he didn't miss a practice. He was always here. He was a little bit late.
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Uh I agree. Uh graduated in 1988. I um from Open City. Uh I became a union carpenter and served 31 years, retired. And so, this is my next adventure, I guess. Mr. Cruz got a lasso me and >> [laughter] >> said, "Can you help?" And I'm more than willing. I think we need a shop class. Just get There's a lot of video games and everything. We need, you know, get their own tools in their hands, how to build stuff. So, I'm excited. Uh I'm ready to get the old shop class back to going. Is Is that Is that what it's going to be? A A wood shop class or is it going to be more You want to build something? So, starting off, we're going to build bird houses and stuff like that. But then, um through the carpenters, we have a program and we've already got the books laid out.
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Um I can't wait to see the final process. And I know you guys are working on it hard, but uh I all I can say is let's start communicating early and often because I think we're going to need to get everyone happy and we're going to have some unhappy parents, but unfortunately we're we're doing as we're as we're told to do from the state and so it'll be interesting. Um, but I will say listening to to Steve Corona, who is the uh schoolboard member from Fort Wayne Community Schools, where I first learned about this, there's been some positives up there. So, I I look forward to that and maybe that's part of that conversation thread that we we have and take some of those interesting ways from there. So, he says the lunchroom is a lot different than it used to be. So, I I look forward to hearing that and hearing your comments maybe this time next year how it went.
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um because I don't want to see it fail and I certainly don't want to see it be something that looks shady or fly by night. But any enforcement of any rules that you have to get to them is either going to have to be through voice or a letter. There won't be any in person except for the start of the >> We'll call them in. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I'm going to be there every Thursday all day. So that's my meeting day. So if I need to see somebody, I'll read them the riot act in person. Any other questions? Question. Go ahead. Go ahead. Uh with probably for both of you with the current with the current staffing, what do you think the capacity is in person, virtually? Like where are we at on if you have 100 more students next year, can you can you get them?
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Yeah, I mean we're almost done with our time here uh cuz it's so much fun and so enjoyable speaking into these historic microphones that were from the original WACA TV uh studio on Elliot Street. Uh Paul Bodwin who is our fabulous tech director. Um he was telling us about the history of these very fine microphones. Um yeah, I think the whole town would just run more smoothly if we actually had processes that we follow. Mhm. Um so we will be back uh uh I I don't think we even mentioned um your two co-hosts were Julianne Ardown and Kate Judson and we um and I graciously accept the opportunity to be a co-host and I would encourage other people interested to email questions, topics, and co-host opportunities. And it is [email protected] or if you see me around town just say hey. Uh I want to talk to you about that.
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It's 02 nonetheless. So hopefully we can get another another strikeout here for Domestico who looks like she does just Oh, just misses that one. Again, it looked No, it was indeed strike three as I thought it was. It was just a delayed call. I didn't see the umpire signal. But it didn't give me my chance to say that was a backwards K for Bella D and we've now got two outs in the bottom of the third which brings up the right fielder Grenon. Changeup in for a strike. Bella's Bella's got that changeup working right now. Yeah, that looked really good. Um, you know, hit a Grenon. It looked completely confused on that one which is the whole purpose of throwing that changeup. And then another one. >> a nice easy grounder over to Collette who makes the play to Vendetti 5-3. We get out of the inning with a little bit of harm done there on the two hot shots to start the inning.
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Uh at the second grade level, 92% of all students met all of those standards. At the fourth grade, 70% and I'll talk about that in a second here. At the eighth grade, 98% of all the standards at the eighth grade level were achieved uh by all the eighth graders and 94.5 at the high school. If you look at uh slide 17, which is the uh bar graph, uh you can see that actually our fourth grade even though 70% that's actually uh quite a bit of rise over the past three years where they were at 42% in 2024. Uh so um we've been able to work with them on a greater emphasis on their keyboarding skills which that's generally the the technology standard that most of them struggle with the most. Um the past two years where we've seen that rise also is where uh since they don't go to computer lab necessarily on a daily basis, we have had laptops for fourth graders.
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