Uh you know some of the best times to learn is when a teacher is ready when when they are uh wanting to do a project and maybe uh needing a little assistance with a project or um maybe not feel confident, maybe need need a little virtual handholding to to help them through a project the first time they do it with students. um that's one of the best times for for them to learn and we're happy to support that as a as a technology staff. Um we are finishing uh the 13th year of our um one to one project in our district. We started that in 2013. Uh so uh you know there is a a lot of uh question of what's right and what's best and we'll be looking at that uh in the future for uh students and devices and how much time they're spending on them and so on.
Motion by Austin, second by Josh. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Same sign. Motion passes. >> I move to approve the resignation of Terrina Templeton as Wilson Elementary School teacher and virtual director at the end of the 2025 2026 school year. >> Second. >> Motion by Allison, a second by Josh. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes. >> I move to approve the certified staff list as presented. Second >> motion by Allison and second by Josh. All those in favor say I. >> I.
The percent of days were 83.2. So we don't like that. We like to always have the 8% of days uh ahead. So we're always lagging. But we had three payrolls in April. We do that two times a year. So we better reloaded for those payrolls because that's the way we do 26 pay every two weeks. That's the main reason. Uh we we see that in our capital budget of 778,000 that's going up. Hope hopefully you can approve that tonight to 804,000. Spent 576,000. We still have some incumbrances of 120,000 in capital. That's primarily curriculum. Back in the day, I think it ended in 2014. There was another fund, not just 610 and M. Points to anyone that remembers that fund. It was eliminated in 2014. It was 625. It was soft capital. >> Almost had it. >> Almost right there. And and the focus of that was academic adequacy.
It should never be here's a 2-week assignment, come back with an essay. If we do that, we're failing in our teaching with or without AI. Kids are going home copying it off the internet. You know, we're Googling things like that and piecing it together now. So, it is going to continue you know, we will continue to work with our teachers on great tier one instruction and that's what's led Dyser in the hub for the past few years and will continue to lead Dyser. I'll defer to my colleagues on the hallucination, but I wanted to talk to the teaching and learning part. >> Um I I let me piggyback that that too cuz I I hear your concerns. You voiced your concerns um when we did all the study sessions over the last 3 months. Um it's important to remember and and couch those concerns, our AI is not going away.
uh little over 1.7 megawatts so that's a huge offset to um both buildings and the reason that this says that it's only it's 22% which doesn't sound like a lot it is a lot because you consume so much in these high schools if you look at uh your annual building usage it's over 11 million um kWh which is again very typical for a height large high school and you have two of them and they're open 22 22 hours a day, six or seven days a week. And so when you're doing that, that's just a lot of a lot of costs going out. >> Are these numbers for both schools together or for each? >> These are for both this what you're looking at right now is combined for the two high schools. >> Okay. >> This is a budget. Now when we budget, we go through a pretty extensive process.
There's a big um blacktop area. The kids still find ways to have fun of course, but it's just time to to upgrade and bring it into a new um you know a new facility with great what we've tried to do is replicate what the other elementary schools have. And so when we put this out for bid, we did receive three bids, one in particular. And if you go to the next slide, Dr. Wendham, um you'll see that it looks very similar to Evergreen and Willow. It's the same company, a lot of the same playground equipment that they have on that playground as well. And then Maple also has similar playground. So I I think it was time. The kids are going to be excited. And it also has new subsurface, so it's going to be much safer than the existing playground. If there's no questions, I will entertain a motion.
I think that could be um very constructive for me as an individual. Thank you, Mr. Glick. So, reading through F-100, um I do like Mr. Nolan said, I do like the fact that we have a differentiation between uh actual BCSE funds and extracurricular funds. Um when we find an issue, it says SBOA triggers the superintendent to take action. Does that trigger an internal audit for that account automatically? Uh on on cuz it gives you the discretion there, right? Is that one of the practices? Cuz it doesn't really go into the defining material of what happens. It's It's just part of the audit process when when the an auditor discovers a um an issue, a discrepancy, or even has a question, they usually are going to approach the deputy treasurer, at which point she is digging into that issue to find out answers for the auditor.
At the hearing, we will ask that each person limits their comments to three minutes and that the topic be limited to the proposed project under consideration. The notice of the preliminary determination hearing was published as legally required. Uh at this time, I will ask Dr. Moore to explain the purpose of the hearing. Pursuant to Indiana Code 6-1.1-20-3.1, a school corporation must hold two public hearings and adopt a resolution to preliminary determine to issue bonds or enter a lease for a project which has a total project cost in excess of certain thresholds. These public hearings and the future consideration of resolutions are the very beginning of the legal process. We note that no board action is legally required at this hearing. Rather, this hearing is solely to hear public comment regarding the project. >> Okay. So, we will now hear from Dr. more again about the process of determining and communicating the project to the community and the need for the project.
So, so we're excited about this starting next year and I think it's definitely going to help us. It's also a great way for us to begin to nurture future school board members. To really give some individuals some knowledge about our school corporation to be able to maybe someday sit in your seats. So, so we're excited about that program and looking forward to it. We had a really good school safety audit. Most of the all the principals sat in with us. I think Mrs. Cruz came in maybe towards the end. Mrs. Officer Huber sat in with us as well. It was a very positive audit of our school protocols. They were very impressed. The lady from the state was impressed with what we had done over the past year or so in improving some of those protocols and then as well just we had some stuff that other corporations didn't have.
And Dr. Digits, I truly mean thank you for your leadership on this. Um, we are blessed to have you in Huntington um and the leadership role you're in, but we give you uh big rocks because not only you're capable, but it'll be done well. So, I appreciate your team and your leadership. >> Have has anybody looked into the meta glasses? No, I don't know about those. So, I guess I'll have to find out. Um, >> I think it I think it's still it's basically any type of technology that's not school issued. I think those would be not allowed either. It >> be not knowing what they are exactly. My assumption would be that'd be the spirit of the law. And I also mentioned to Mr. Brimberry, too, just to help our people because we'll get asked for a lot of these exceptions, getting some legal counsel training um from a couple of those that we work with directly to help give us some talking points and know how to hold the line and and the things that pop up like that that once companies read legislation and they can, hey, we've got this product that isn't mentioned in the legislation, but we'll still get you, you know, your technology.
I'm kind of, you know, listening in. And uh, you know, the somewhere in the that student's life, someone said, "I don't think you're going to be able to get you're you're not going to ever be anything. You're not going to be able to do anything or whatever." And all these people that were family cried because they realized their child is going to have a chance in life. uh moving that on being you watched a lot of presentations and stuff and you know I mean back in my day I had Pat Seaffort doing speech class um but realistically speak talking in front of people is not easy for everybody and you can just when you see these kids at the first of the year at the end of the year giving a g talking as a like a group project it's just amazing because they're scared they're probably supposed probably probably still scared their pants off either front or in but it was really something when you you see them, you can tell they really care, too.
Uh, but all we want right now is really just a base hit to the right side of the right side so we can move these runners over. Right. And Colette pops one foul. Yeah, so what we probably don't want to do is is is pop one up right now. >> Right. Yeah, absolutely not. Luckily that one was just far enough over. I think it actually landed like on the fence. The third was adjacent to the third baseman but she just couldn't Yeah. >> on it. >> Got to imagine Larue is saying keep this ball level, keep it down. Line drive ground ball right now is what we really want by Lorelei who takes a ball low. In the count is going to be one and one to the third baseman. The sophomore third baseman for Ashland. Randall wheels, deals and she swings and misses. Catcher does not handle it.
Um but uh we've been very proud of what we've been able to accomplish over the past 13 years. um our uh community networking with our coffee can model and partnerships with the county, the libraries, the hospital, um the other school districts uh in the in the county. And then just kind of a a look at some of the uh prior awards that uh the technology department has earned over the years. And it all boils down to we've got really great teachers in this district using great technology. Great results for our students. That's a good question. Um, there there are there's very few more that we could actually even add. Um, there's like an aviation which really I think only the Witchaw schools are able to have. There's also some um health and safety as an firefighter and EMT type of training which we would probably struggle to be able to get people who are certified to teach that as well as uh students to to man those courses.
>> Any opposed? Same sign. Motion passes. >> I move to approve Valerie Langston as the head cook at Central Plains Elementary School for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Second. >> Motion by Allison and a second by Josh. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes. >> I move to approve the summer workers list as presented. Second. >> Motion by Alison and a second by Josh. All those in favor say I. I. >> Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes. >> I move to approve Eric Hoffman as the middle school assistant girls basketball coach for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Second. >> Motion by Allison, second by Josh. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes. >> I move to approve the supplemental staff list as presented. >> Second. >> Motion by Alison.
So if you wanted to improve your district office with either equipment or some perhaps some construction, you couldn't use 625 until you satisfied all the academic needs. So textbooks were commonly put in 625. Then they said, "Well, that's way too difficult. Uh we can't manage the differences that some districts use between 610 capital and 625 soft capital." So they eliminated. So that might have been another good thing to do, but it was kind of nice to keep people's hands off 625 until all the textbooks and all the classroom supplies were purchased. So So that fund is gone. So the 120,000 still left encumbered in 610 fund for capital is primarily textbooks and I imagine they'll be here in the next. >> They've been rolling in. >> Yeah, it's it's been steady. >> Yep. We had pallets dropped at HMS today. >> It's been steady. So if you take a a look at the budget in capital, if it ends at 804,000, we add the other 120,000 of expense to the 576, we're going to have maybe maybe 50 maybe 60,000 left in capital.
It is here. So, what I hear you saying is you have concerns and it's important that we teach our teachers and our students to use it wisely and correctly. And I think that's what these guidelines are helping us do is put some parameters around it cuz right now we do not have any guidelines. And so, we realize you have concerns. I thank you for voicing your concerns, not just tonight. I mean, through the last 3 months we've heard you, and I think this district has made a huge step forward in trying to get the parameters around it of what is appropriate use in this district. Um because I think we all agreed during those study sessions, AI is not going away. And we can't bury our heads in the sand and say we're never using it. Um we have to be the ones to take responsibility on what is right with AI and what is not, and I think that's the groundwork that these guidelines are laying so far.
We have done over 50 megawatts of solar installations in the northern Illinois area. Sorry, well over 40 in Illinois and 50 as a as a company which is which is quite large and we very proud of. So we have actually really current data from installation costs from what the solar racking costs are, the solar panels, all everything that goes into the process. So we feel really good about the budget. Typically our budgets do come down but we haven't bid anything yet. So I just want to make sure everybody knows that this is just a rough idea. This would be if you did both high schools. Obviously it's not exactly uh you know, split down the middle but just a reference point I can tell you that the Oswego High School is a little over is about 4.3 million and which would leave about 3.1 million for East High School.
>> I move that the board of school trustees approve CRG for the Sycamore Elementary playground project as presented. >> Second >> motion by Jennifer, seconded by Mike. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? That motion carries. 50. Next up is the River Birch Elementary Wall Repair Project. >> And again, we um this is something that was on our top 10 list as well. And we've completed the flooring at River Birch over spring break. And so now we need to complete the walls. And again, we we had RFP um for this project. And we had three bids that came in and and actually um two of them were about $80,000 more than the winning bid. and it's a company that we've worked with in the past, Elite Pro Painting. So, um I recommend that we approve this um wall repair project. So, it's painting and then the Acraven.
Um if it ends up being a discrepancy, and if certainly if it ends up being material, it appears in the final audit finding. But, they are walking alongside the auditor as they go through it, trying to discover why there's an issue in the first place, and then every audit that I was part of in 8 years in the business office, we were implementing modifications to our practice and um and training in real time as the audit was occurring, not waiting till afterwards. But, defining that in either internal controls or policy would be would be helpful. Thanks for that. Well, even even before that Uh it says the assistant superintendent for finances and operations shall take appropriate steps to investigate and remedy any loss. So, once that's discovered, is the is the practice then to trigger an audit for that account as we then cuz it even says to report it to the SBOA as well.
>> Over the past year, Deli Community School Corporation has engaged in a comprehensive and intentional process to assess our facilities, identify priorities, and plan for the future of our school district. This work began with a full facilities assessment in partnership with performance services. Through this process, we eval evaluated the condition of our buildings, infrastructure, and systems across all campuses. This allowed us to clearly identify both immediate needs and long-term improvements required to maintain maintain safe, functional, and highquality learning environments. The total of all of those projects is around $50 million. In addition to the facilities assessment, we align this work with our broader district planning efforts, gathered input from administrators and staff, families and students. And we've also worked to keep our board and community informed through ongoing discussions. Through this work, several key priorities emerge, and the projects included in this bond reflect those needs moving forward.