It's within the FEMA map of a flood plain and we have um correspondence from DCR uh that corroborates that it is in flood plain. So, we have a um um material difference of opinion on that, apparently. Uh for the record, my name is Chris Lucas with Lucas Environmental. I'm a professional wetland scientist and registered professional soil scientist for the project. Um that that is our opinion. I as I understand tonight, we had some correspondence on this. You have a limited time this evening to discuss. I I'm hoping we can stay on topic. The tonight was going to be focused on the soil contaminants. We have a lot to discuss. And I know the flood plain issue was a future discussion point. So, um, I think we disagree on this point and we intend to provide additional information. Um, we're also waiting for the peer review um, for that point to see what their opinion is on this matter.
>> Any discussion? >> Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? I I >> I >> unanimous. Now looking for a motion to approve the executive session minutes of May 4th, 2026. >> So move, Madam Chair, with the stipulation that they be held until the matter for which they were intended is complete. >> Second >> motion by Mr. Noon, second by Miss Coughlin.
They ebb and flow with new buildings in the state, that type of scenario. So, we right, we're at a down dip. It will at some point get better. And then we'll be time where maybe we can put more money, I don't say away, but accumulate some others as well. I think doing this, this does leave us still with some potential uses for even the following year, next year. Should you be but you will be, some of you may or may not be, but sitting here next year in the sense of on the subcommittee doing this next spring again where there still might be some avenues to potentially dip into. For example, transportation has roughly, and I'm using rough terms here for you, 800. Or we we project, they should Andy does a great job of projecting here trying to the end of this year being June 30th coming up pretty soon.
Uh so, I really enjoy the work that I do. Um when I transferred to Avon, um the PPT chair role um was um offered and um that allowed for a lot of personal and professional growth for me um in the sense that um I really took on a leadership role um of the special ed department in my school. And I really valued that experience because to your point, I was outnumbered. I was outnumbered by um special ed teachers and related service providers on the team, and I had to really work to unite us and and um help to move us forward in work that we do. Um so, I really um enjoyed that challenge um and I think it's prepared me well for this role. Um the reason I um became interested in this position is that I'm really passionate about building capacity in confidence teams, and I see that uh see this up as an opportunity to do that in Cheshire.
So, a lot of great experiences and um curriculum connections um with our business uh with our business club. >> Hi, my name is Natasha Nicholson and I'm a senior. Some of these courses and clubs that I've been part of throughout my four years at Chester High School include Accounting 1, AP Macro, AP Micro, Intro to Business, and Personal Finance along with the business clubs of DECA and FBLA. These classes and experiences have taught me important business skills, whether that be forming connections and networking at various business competitions or also understanding important business concepts such as economics, the flow of money, um how businesses track expenses and revenue in accounting, etc. And I've really grown my passion for business through these different clubs and courses um and it's a huge reason why I want to continue pursuing that passion as I move into college. All right.
This year's recipients of the Kansas State High School Activities Association Citizenship Award goes to Madeline Bell and JJ Brock. >> [applause] [applause] >> Our final award for individuals for the class of 2030 is the American Legion Award. This award is also voted on by the staff of Burlington Middle School. The criteria for the American Legion award is very similar to the Kansas State High School Activities Association Citizenship Award with the additional criteria of courage, honor, leadership, patriotism, scholarship, and service. Qualities necessary for the preservation and protection of the fundamental institutions of our government and the advancement of our society. At this time, we would like to welcome Jay Hill and Doug Feldhausen, post commander of the American Legion Post 38 here in Burlington. >> [applause] [applause] >> This year's winners of the American Legion award, Alaina Aikens and Gavin Belcher. >> [applause] >> All right, at this time, I would like to welcome Miss Hattie Berggren to address the class of 2030.
And I And I haven't known him a quarter of a minute of the time that you all have, so just really an incredible incredible guy. We wanted to uh obviously, we you know, appreciate what the the town the town did for for you, and now we wanted to honor you as well as as one of our loyal employees. And so, thank you very much. Appreciate it. All right. So, I just wanted to talk um well, before I do this, before I forget and and then pass the uh mic back over to uh President. Uh we called for single session or half days for tomorrow and Wednesday already. You know, the air is on in here. You can feel how hot it is already. So, um this is for students. Half day for students. Um again, you know, just trying to alleviate some of that discomfort and uh and some of the health possible um issues that may happen tomorrow and Wednesday because of the impending >> [clears throat] >> heat wave.
Please welcome board president, Miss Vicky Cox Golder, [applause] board vice president, Mr. Matthew Copek, [applause] board member, Miss Deanna Day, board member Dr. Michael Gemma, and board member Miss Susan Zebrat. And from Amphitheater's district leadership team, please welcome Superintendent Mr. Todd Jagger. Associate Superintendent for Elementary Education, Miss Tassy Call. Associate Superintendent for Secondary Education, Mr. Matthew Munger. [applause] Our Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Scott Little, Director of Human Resources. Mr. John Hastings, [applause] Director of Curriculum and Assessment, Miss Elizabeth Hawk, [applause] our Executive Manager of Operational Support, Mr. Rich Lanasa, [applause] Executive Director of Student Services, Miss Kristen McGrath. [applause] Director of 21st Century Education, Miss Julie Valenuela, [applause] Director of Communications, Miss Michelle Valenuela, [applause] and the executive assistant to the superintendent and the governing board, Miss Jen Anderson. [applause] Also joining us tonight are some other principles from around our district. Please join me in welcoming from Donaldson Elementary, Principal Andrew Spaniac.
Then we told them which of the policies we were um initially like asked to look at or what policies were left. So we would need to kind of decide what those are. And then um we would tell basically what was happening. This was kind of when we were saying like okay so after your first read it's going to go to the attorney. I think when we gave this presentation once before, it already gone to the attorney. So, it was really just like this is our final read that we're introducing you to it. So, that part we definitely would need to change and I'm not quite sure where we're at with next steps. And then the um team kind of came together and gave recommendations. So, that's definitely something that we would need to talk through today. Um and then that was it. That's basically how it's always been.
They want to make sure these students have a library of their own and so it's a wonderful partnership that we have with them. Quick quiz. How many cans of tuna fish do you think we sent out last year? >> [laughter] >> Is that measured in tons? Yeah, or cans? You you can >> You can extrapolate if you want. 7,800 cans of tuna fish. That's awesome. How many boxes of macaroni and cheese do you think we sent out? Oh, no. A lot. I don't Like 10,000, right? If it's 7,000. That's that's about the same. >> [laughter] >> How many boxes of cereal do you think we sent out last year? That's expensive. I would say like 8,500. 5K, yeah. 15,600. Wow. Because we have two breakfasts every weekend so we make sure that they get lots lots of nutrition, good breakfast and snack snacks to have on hand.
>> [applause] >> And then we do have our fourth place team here. Jack's is Is anybody else other than Is Jack's not here? I don't see him. So why don't you stand up and be recognized as well. >> [applause] >> All right. Thank you all for being here this evening. It is a public meeting. You're welcome to stick around the rest of the for all the fun stuff from here on out. But if you have other things you'd like to do this evening you can feel free to head out as well. Are we doing pictures? Do we know? I don't know. Yes. We are doing Yes, Jill. I want to be outside and then we can And then you're free to go or to come back. >> [laughter] >> Thank you all for being here and congratulations, everybody. >> [applause] >> Just take a second to Yeah.
Um after many years without a program, our purpose was a completely separate organization from the school as a 501 C3 was to help fund activities such as judging contests, uh national conventions, state and national conventions. So, there's a A of travel expenses with those with those things. Uh so we started out doing a plant sale. Eventually we were able to use uh the 28 acres of land owned by the school to raise crops which helped with the scholarships and fund student activities and all without using taxpayer dollars. So we're grateful to the board and to be able to do this. We hope to continue with the at least the FFA chapter with future projects. One thing we'd really like to do eventually is a greenhouse uh for plant science uh experiments with uh regenerative agriculture which is um I've been farming for 40 years and there are things that we're learning now with our soil and interaction with soil biology and plants that excite me every day after doing it for 40 years and that that takes something.
Think about it. I remember my elementary bus driver. I remember the lady who worked in our cafeteria at elementary school. We all remember those people who poured into us along the way. So retirees, thank you for impacting Avon students and staff during your career. There are hundreds and maybe thousands of students who will recall fondly your impact for the rest of their lives. So I will read each retiree's name and if you could come up here and stand by me, I'll share some brief comments that have been shared about each retiree and then Mrs. Parent will come up and we'll take a quick picture of each of each of you individually. So first up is I think we have Denise Handlon. >> [applause] >> Denise has served Avon schools for 21 years as a teacher at Avon High School. Mr. Shockley, Avon High School principal, shares that Denise Handlon is one-of-a-kind both in her meticulous eye for detail and her high standards.
So, congratulations to all those students and also to those coming up here in a moment when Dr. Hack uh recognize those who have earned all three levels of the work ethics certificate. Thank you, Dr. Hack. Good evening, Mr. Steiner, uh members of the board and Dr. Phillips and the members of the cabinet. Thank you for providing this opportunity to recognize the achievements of 21 outstanding members of the class of 2026. At this time, I'd like to call up Mary Ferdon, Mayor Mary Ferdon, and Cindy Fry, President of Chamber of Commerce. Tonight, we are proud to celebrate students who have demonstrated exceptional commitment, character, responsibility, leadership, and service through the work ethics certificate program. BCSC is grateful for the strong partnerships that make this program possible, and we proudly collaborate with the city of Columbus for the sixth grade and the chamber for the eighth grade and the state of Indiana for the governors.
It's a French company. Uh we were really, really impressed by it and then the guy told us what it cost. We're like, "Well, that's cool, uh but uh we're not going to get one of those." Um and then Adecco said, "Well, give us the thanks." And I gave them a list of the Niro robot, which was the $10,000 super nice French robot, and then some less expensive options. And after they discussed internally, um the owner of Adecco and their their leadership team said, "Well, we're going to buy you the nice robot because we don't want you to have the junky stuff that you have to fix all the time." Um so, that was unbelievable, right? Yeah. It's a 9,000 something dollar package. Um it's not just a robotic arm, it's a cobot. So, if the industrial robot was swinging by Mr. Robin, it'd hit him, he'd have no idea, right?
Any questions? I I only got to go to a little bit of it on Saturday, but it was awesome and I was just glad to see so many people there. It was really great. Yeah, it was a good day. We had a lot of press on it, too, um across the whole state. So, um already >> [cough and clears throat] >> thinking about next year's theme and and getting excited about that. Um I think about Team Chloe and Piper as the interns for TED and um you know now is it's kind of this like reflective look back at the entire year and the event. Um it's also an opportunity to look at finances, right? Herm public schools does not fund any part of this event. Um and so it's it's neat to get to see that that how they interpret those finances. And we took some risks this year um on a few different things and so it's it's fun to hear their opinions um and reflections about it.
Um and then one additional in seventh and eighth, if you go back. Yep, so in 7th and 8th um we all students have to create a graduation plan in 7th grade. So, Mrs. Cain, we found out about this, I think it was finalized March 4th. So, Mrs. Cain has done a really good job of getting all of our 7th graders to complete a graduation plan and parents have to sign off on that. Um so, as of this afternoon, we only had seven students left that we had to sign off, so we're putting some things in place the rest of this week to get that done. Um but again, they can be our 8th grade students take um high school couple high school classes, um and so that will bump them over for their first success indicator. >> [snorts] >> Um these are the measures for grades 9 and 10.
I said, "TinaRum is one of those people at Clinton Central that just keeps everything running so smoothly behind the scenes that most people probably don't even realize how much you do every single day." And I will probably miss some things as well trying to recount some of it. Um, how many years have you been at Con Central? >> 24 years. >> Mrs. Anard, she told me today she was going to stick around another 24, >> right? >> No. Um anyway, no matter how many years, obviously anything over over 10 years is just incredible in a public school these days. So 24 years. Um I said that kind of dedication and longevity says so much about not only your commitment to our school, but to our community. As our cafeteria manager, Tina handles things before I even have to think about them. Um in fact, today she came to remind me that my own son's lunch balance is a little low.
So, we are so proud of our kids. >> Okay. Want to also coaches, thank you for coaching them along. If you guys want to get together for a picture, please. And uh in there Okay, if we could have the 2025 2026 academic Super Bowl team for Colonel Wheeler, please come on in. Just come all the way down right here. All right, got a smaller group. Excellent. All right. I think we'll begin. First, it's uh it's my honor to present this accommodation award to you for your winning first place in the Lake County in the math category in class one at the Indiana Junior Academic Super Bowl competition. We're very proud of all of you for doing that and hard work that you put in. I'm going to read the resolution accommodation. The Crown Point Board of School of Trustees is honored to commend the 2025 2026 Colonel Wheeler Middle School academic Super Bowl team for meritorious achievement.
Hearing none, roll call. >> I will start with uh Secretary De Reese. >> I. >> President Duckworth. >> I. >> Trustee Keefer. >> I. >> Trustee Hollingsworth. >> I. >> Trustee Ragland. >> I. >> And Trustee Gamblin. >> I. >> Thank you. >> Okay, that motion carries. Next, we will move to personnel recommendations. Michelle Williams, good evening. >> Good evening, President Duckworth, members of the board, Dr. Hoover. Tonight's personnel recommendations include the following: retirement, resignations, end of assignments, regular appointments, position reassignment, temporary appointment, resignation of temporary appointment, resignations from extra duty, appointments to extra duty, reassignment of administrative appointments, transfers, and summer school appointments. These recommendations are presented for your approval. >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second regarding the personnel recommendations.