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Nathan showed up for the students and the staff at Greencastle High School with true integrity and direct decisive moral compass. Our comp our campus is not open for students to leave as they please during lunchtime in the early fall semester. Nathan and many of the others were asked to stay at school rather than to leave at lunch. He was politely responsive, understood what was being asked of him, and acknowledged the expectation. As the days progressed, as the weeks turned to months, and now to the end of the school year, Nathan at lunch every single day without fail. Most likely, Nathan is unaware of this decision throughout the school year to be a disciplined and responsive young man, upholding, maintaining a single expectation set forth for students resonated so much. But he's a tremendous athlete, an exemplary student, and a leader by example. So, thank you, Nathan.
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Ellis, would you like to say anything about him? Absolutely. So uh Mike came to us through the new process process um and did a phenomenal job and the one the one word that's every interview committee member said about Mike was that the word genuine came came about um genuinely uh supporting students um building those positive relationships um and really being that big bridge for um students and staff um to really make sure that we bring everything together. So I'm just I'm really excited to see him get on board, get started, and see what what what he can do for our students and staff. Excellent. Uh Mike, once we get around, we'll give you a chance to talk to her towards the end. Um and then also we have uh Chelsea uh Goodin. Um she's going to be a third grade teacher. She's got 11 years worth of experience.
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Good evening everyone. From Forest Glenn we have Nolan Kloffenstein. Congratulations to our math stars. Now, our final awards come from the VEX Robotics State Championship. Oh, they're so eager. You can see why they were winners. We We have three teams who placed at the state VEX Robotics Championship. to introduce those teams. I'll bring up their principles to introduce uh the team that won third place in teamwork, Mr. Yearwood from Forest Glenn. And then we had two teams who worked together to earn second place in the teamwork award. We have a team from Amy Beverlin and from Sky Test. Mr. Yearwood, if you'll come up with the Forest Glenn team and introduce your students. >> Thank you very much. Tonight from Forest Glenn, we have Aaron Nunees, Medina, plus Kyler Wheander Christ, and Connor Christ. They are joined by our fabulous coach and Clo, our STEM teacher.
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It's been found in tumors, uh, colon cancers, prostate cancers, bladder, um, lung cancers. It's been found in the brain in patients with Alzheimer's have 10% more than other patients or other brain samples. So, and we don't know if that's the chemicals or the microplastics. So, don't think it's just the chemicals. Plus, they didn't go into as much, but it's a massive part of climate change. The plastics industry is they put in more and more into their development of plastics because we're switching to renewables and, uh, so, uh, anything we Right now it's about 4% or 5% of the nation the world's greenhouse gas emissions come from plastic production. So, us getting our cars on batteries and solar panels is fantastic, but they're just transplanting it with that. So, I wanted to put those two things that they didn't touch on in the movie. I'll open the floor to questions.
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And at this point, I am going to turn the microphone over to the vice chair Carl Hakansson. Thanks, Greg. Um Mr. Lucas, do you want to come up to the podium? All right. Okay, a little bit of background for uh you people that are watching and watching for the first time. This is a again it's a 40B hearing. So, in in Greg's uh introduction, he talked about uh local bylaws. Local bylaws are not on the table uh because of the 40 uh B application eliminated the the local bylaws from this discussion. So, our uh discussion tonight will just be uh with regard to the state uh Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act. Um our This I believe that this is our fifth hearing uh with regard to this application. I believe it started on March 2nd. And at that time um we asked uh uh um for the applicant to uh agree to stipulated facts.
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Has participated in field hockey and track throughout her four years at Darmmouth High School. Her passion for helping others extends beyond our walls for volunteering for the sea turtle conservation in Hawaii and her current internship at uh Chase Farms Veterary Hospital. Her AP English lit teacher captures her impact on our school perfectly. Bri is one of the most insightful and perceptive students and is one of the nicest all-around students I've ever taught. She has a dynamic personality and is an incredible talent, well-rounded student athlete that exemplifies what the quintessential Dartmouth High School graduate should embody. She is a joy to be around and is always the highest praise for her teachers and peers. Briana is off to Tulain to study biochemistry in the honors scholar program as well. Her intelligence is matched by only their kindness and driven to make a difference. Is my honor to present Brianna Wait for this award.
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Because I know that actually tomorrow night we'll be going to Wave and Means talking about that and they they're doing some scheduled meetings throughout the next actually the next month, right? Having different departments go in. Um I did watch a little of last week's meeting where they had some public services there. I think police and fire maybe some others but don't quote me on that uh and people talk about right? Everybody has opinions on everything, right? Where we should spend all of our money but some of the comments that came up too were talking about well just more money for the schools in that sense and in just generic terms if you have watched some of their public comments during that meeting. Everybody else schools are going to need more money. Everybody's going to need more money. We know the police and fire and DPW and the rec department.
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I don't know what um what the disconnect was, but I appreciate you jumping in uh via your phone. Uh we just got started and I wanted to introduce to you Beata Seleziowsky uh who was our successful candidate after going through um several rounds of interviews. Um then there was a talent portion and all other sorts of things. We had um we had to do couple of different uh exercises including evaluating and I uh series of evaluations and IEPs um to provide feedback on that process. Um Beata is currently a uh school psychologist in Avon uh at Pine Grove Elementary School where she is also the PPT chair since um um when she uh was hired in Avon. Um Prior to that, she served as a school psychologist at Hebron Avenue School in Glastonbury for uh 5 and 1/2 years before you making move to Avon.
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This. Um but it's a great team. We are all passionate about teaching students um in business education. Um I can't Well, I want to start out by sharing um our business clubs help our students make connections to everything that they're learning in the classroom. Um but not just that, it's also providing them with skills that they're going to practice now and take with them and use um and use for many, many um years, if not the rest of their lives. Uh two clubs that we have um DECA and FBLA, we have a fall leadership conferences that our students attend. And then both of those clubs have spring leadership conference conferences that are also competitive events. So, in subject areas such as accounting, advertising, there's also impromptu speaking, personal finance, banking. They can compete in any event. Some students have taken classes that have prepared them for that.
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At the end of the evening, those of you that received an individual recognition, we ask that you come behind uh the podium here for pictures tonight. We will first recognize students for the Presidential Achievement Awards. The Presidential Achievement Awards were founded in 1983 honoring students in elementary, middle, and high school for their achievement and hard work. This program has provided individual recognition from the President and the US Secretary of Education to students whose outstanding efforts have enabled them to meet the challenging standards of excellence. Each year, thousands of elementary, middle, and high school participants are recognized. I will first read a letter from President Trump. The First Lady and I want to extend our heartfelt congratulations on receiving the 2026 Presidential Educational Award. For more than 40 years, this prestigious program has honored exceptional students across America. Students just like you who bring unmatched dedication, innovation, and leadership to the classroom every day.
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So, it was great working with you all. Uh you know, obviously uh we've we've made a lot of progress these last 2 years together. Uh and we'll be, you know, again, I know next month is crazy month for graduating. So, so we look forward to it, but good luck. Um I'm sure the board's going to wish you well at some point, but I just wanted to say that. So, so what we look forward to the final wrap-up for June. Um okay, Miss um Gutierrez, I don't know if you want to do uh Mr. Kovach. Come on. >> [laughter] >> How long do we know each other? A long time. A long time, too long. We have to tell. Okay. Uh Mr. Edward Kovach, whereas Mr. Edward Kovach has dedicated an extraordinary 50 years of service as a volunteer firefighter in the city of Garfield, demonstrating unwavering commitment, bravery, and selfishness in protecting the lives and property of the community.
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[singing] Someday soon your whole life's going to change. You miss the magic of these good old [singing] days. >> I was thinking about the band. I was thinking about the fans. We were underground loading merch in that 12 passenger van in a small club in Minnesota and the snow outside of first half. I just wanted my name in the star. Now look at where we at. [music] Still growing up. Still growing up. I would lay in my bed and dream about [singing and music] what I become. Couldn't wait to get old. Cannot wait to be now that I'm here. Wishing I was still young. Those good old days. >> I wish somebody would have told me that these would be the good old days. [music] All the love you won't forget. And all these reckless days [crying] you won't regret. Cuz someday soon your whole life's [singing] going to change.
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And one of the things that we're trying to do in our board meetings is transparently provide as much information as possible without creating an 11-hour board meeting. Because if you think about the June board meeting, we um in the past have had two June board meetings. We've had consent agendas that run from A to like double G or something like that for both of them. They're combined into one this year. Um we do have a budget hearing, bud budget and truth and taxation hearing. Um, we have a bunch of action that needs to happen on the meet and confer process. There's just I mean it's going to be a jam-packed meeting. Our our final progress monitoring report for the year. Um, so I think there will likely be an in-person presentation necessary if we're using it as a first reading for the board, but I think we could significantly shorten that if a lot of the content is provided through uh recorded presentation and then um any members who were available to be present at the board meeting could give a quick overview and then field questions from the board and then that way it would be a little bit more efficient use of time and is also So typically a little bit more um functional for the board because they'll have time to process what they saw in that presentation in advance to really have some good questions or be in a position where they go, we love all of this and we don't really have additional questions.
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I also want to thank my family who's here with me tonight for their encouragement, their support, and understanding throughout my career and through this journey into leadership. I'm grateful to be part of the Central School community once again and I'm excited to begin. Thank you so much. >> [applause] >> Congratulations. We're just so thrilled for you. Thank you. We're super excited Congratulations uh Ms. O'Kelley. I would have to take credit for hiring you. I think in the school district, right? Oh, really? >> [laughter] >> But you know, I can do that now. And as much as I told that your children and your nephew and husband would like to stay for this school board meeting, We'll give you the one pass this time as an administrator. You can leave whenever you want. We're not going to judge, okay? Thank you. Congratulations and thank you for joining.
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>> [laughter] >> We ended up having to stay in Bloomington, so we traveled back and forth about 50 minutes to an hour uh, six times to go back and forth, but our our kids were awesome, uh, very resilient and um, that's not to make an excuse that we didn't take first place in architecture. >> [laughter] >> Uh, we did really well. We took second through 11th place. Wow. But we had some some some great accomplishments. Uh, Max Polipka, if you would mind would mind standing in second place. He uh, he took first place last year. He was really hoping to have back-to-back and um, it just came down just to a couple points. In fact, first through fifth place was a difference of 20 points out of a thousand, so it was really close. Uh, [snorts] Michael Gentile, third place. He's actually going to come up and talk about his experience.
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Jonathan. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Our next speaker is Jonathan Klein. >> Hi, my name is Jonathan Klein. I grew up going to the Burlington Central Schools from pre-K in this very building to graduating in 2015. I started in my I started FFA in my freshman year of high school and continued through senior year. During my later years in school, I was offered an independent study class through the agriculture program. In that class, I restored a tractor, managed the record book, and then competed against other people in the state of Illinois that kept similar record books to this. With the help of the FFA alumni, I graciously had a tractor, paint, tires, and other parts donated for restoring this tractor. Many of the alumni, with their extensive knowledge and connections, helped me through issues that I had along the way. This opportunity was an initial stepping stone to the 11-year career I've had in agriculture equipment service and sales industry.
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Whereas, the highest level of distinction given by the Avon Community School Corporation is a commendation from the Board of School Trustees. Therefore, let it be resolved that Jonas is hereby commended for his success and achievements. Board members, I will entertain a motion. I move that the Board of School Trustees approve the commendation for Jonas Eclou, the Indiana University Indianapolis Mathematics Contest state champion as presented. Second. Motion by Josh, seconded by Kim. All those in favor? That motion carries 3-0. Congratulations, Jonas. >> [applause] >> Look, for several of the students that I taught throughout the years, uh they might come in and say that class was easier, that test was easier, you know, the whatever grade they were in at the time, that that was a less of a challenge than they thought. And I said, well, one, thank all your teachers before you. Um that was probably there.
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I don't know if you noticed two of the last names were the same. Yes, they are brothers. The third grader and the middle school student are brothers. So, Brad's probably already recruiting for Math Bowl back there, Mr. Branham. Um tonight we're excited to share with you for just the second year um celebrating our students who have earned their multilingual proficiency certification when they graduate from high school this year. So, um our director of English language learning, Dr. Nicole Leach, please come up and share with us the exciting news about these students. Good evening. Um I'm very This is an award that's very dear to my heart and something that I've worked on for a few years. So, just a little bit of background first, the Indiana Certificate of Multilingual Proficiency is known as a Seal of Biliteracy throughout the United States. It's an important recognition that validates a student's proficiency in two or more languages including English and it's a high level of proficiency that they have to have.
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Um we do appreciate the board's support for PD. We are having uh some PD right after school is out with math for math um a 2-hour training and then we're looking ahead to next year and the fall plans for PD, so. >> That sounds good.
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It would be all of campus. Anything that we own on campus. Do we own on the other side of the wall? We don't. It's highway. It's state. Yeah, that's what I thought it was the highway. That's why I just double checked. Yeah. Eagle Park is the cross country course as well? Everything. Cross country, baseball, softball, soccer, practice soccer. Parking lot. Yes. Anything So, anything in that complex out there, we are taking over ourselves.
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