I think that you do bring up a good point because we don't have it in here is um, and I'm not quite sure I could speak well to it, but uh, Mr. Man, something that like explains the like we jumped back and like forth like you know, we were on the copper one, but not really. We were using the trust and now we're back on like a new trust thing. Um, so I think that could be something, but I'm not sure if that's necessary. I mean, obviously knows. No, I think I think the way I'd probably I mean I'm not suggesting how you represent it, but this is the way I I've processed it is the team spent quite a bit of time this year verifying alignment like that the let me say this a different way following the pol like two policy manual changes.
Also, we will be doing a city-wide school supply drive and we will hope that it all comes into one central location, so all the schools can come and get what they need or the families can come and get what they need and we don't have to start shuffling from one school to the other with extra pencils or magic markers or whatever gets brought in in abundance, so Any questions? I don't want to take any more of your time, but again, I just want to thank you for the partnership. I hope we continue to continue for much longer and um questions? No questions, but like I've seen it grow and just seeing how much it's grown since when it started and it'd be like I would talk to the local church be "Oh, we're doing six backpack you know?" And just seeing how it's growing and it's kind of like it's going to live beyond the people that started it, and that's when you know you've built something great, right?
Um Megan interviewed with a really competitive group of her peers for this role. And what really made Megan stand out, and I have not heard a teenager talk like this in a while. As a former social studies teacher, Megan spoke at length about her passion for democracy and her love and respect for the democratic process and just her desire to influence it and be a part of it in a way that just made me feel really inspired as a US citizen. So, thank you, Megan. Um Megan is involved in a wide variety of leadership at club at South. One that stands out the most to me is our PE leader program. It's one of our most prestigious leadership programs that we have, and Megan is a star amongst that group. Um we're just really really excited to have you, and I'm so excited to hear your voice in this space.
Um young girls were developing severe brain swelling, even causing loss of vision. Hormone blockers can cause geriatric type skeletons, causing permanent damage in teens. >> [snorts] >> Parents signing a waiver for their children to take part in a study by the National Institute of Health to observe the effects of hormone blockers, read, "If your child starts puberty blockers in the earliest stages of puberty and then goes on to gender affirming hormones, they will not develop sperm or eggs. I'm so glad I was 1971 as a transgender and not now. Do not ignore the growing number of de-transitioners who have suffered irreparable harm. Do not ignore the serious side effects of black box warnings. Black box hormone blockers, District 301 should not celebrate Pride Month. Thank you. >> All right, now we're going to have a recognition of our seal of bi-literacy students. >> Um good evening.
Pam rose to the challenge and never looked back. When it came time to retire, she worked tirelessly to ensure her successor had all of the tools necessary to step into the position. After many years of serving children in Avon Schools, uh Carrie shared that she's thrilled that you now have the opportunity to focus your time and energy on your legacy, your grandchildren. Avon was blessed to have you on our team. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Next up is Susan Parsons. >> [applause] >> Susan has worked for Avon Schools for 12 years and is retiring as an instructional assistant from Pinetree Elementary. Shelly Moyer, the Pinetree principal, shared that Susan is a highly dedicated instructional assistant who consistently pushes both students and staff toward excellence. She's a committed team player who willingly supports others, volunteers her time, and goes above and beyond to meet students' individual needs through creative and effective interventions.
>> [applause] >> Ella Conrad. >> [applause] >> Abigail Fischer. Austin Giles. >> [applause] >> Sydney Johnson. Lucia Morales Pasqual. >> [applause] >> Dominic Piper. Alani Scott. >> [applause] >> Alia Scott. >> [applause] >> Columbus North High School, Mia Bowers. >> [applause] >> Christine Fischer. Michaela Hellwig. >> [applause] >> Theodore Littrell. Caitlin Nester. >> [applause] >> Wendy Roehrig. Avery Sheehan. Gabriel Spurgeon. >> [applause] >> Rachel Tinsley. Cora Treganowan. >> [applause] >> And Addison Weakley. This time, let's congratulate all the students for this achievement and then we'll take a photo. >> [applause] [laughter] [applause] >> Good evening. Thank you to the board for the honor to present our 2026 retirees. With 865 collective years of BCSE experience, our retirees have made countless connections with students, families, community members, and colleagues. Even as we are wishing them well in their retirement adventures, we will miss their passion for students, dedication to the mission of the corporation, and their overall expertise.
Ned's a pretty cool little guy. I have to figure out how to code him and teach with him. That's a fun thing to be able to figure out this summer. So, I kept up with that. They also helped with super mileage this year. They donated, as you've seen along with a lot of the other donations this year, the the community stepped up in a huge way. Lots of small companies, mid-size companies, individuals, people like who never had this amount of money rolling. We didn't really do anything differently. Like we sent out our little like, "Here's the picture of the team and thanks for supporting us in the past. You know, if you're able to this year, that'd be great. If not, no worries, it's all good." Um but it just seemed like one of those years that just everybody stepped up and and donated funds and things and it paid off.
Some bills that came in April that were really March bills, so, um, it's it's not in real time up to May 18th, um, so, you can take a look. I mean, you can see the bus contractors are up 44, um, last month they were lower, we had spring break. Same thing with transportation salary, it was up because of spring break. Um, last month, uh, transportation expenses are up 14,000, gas and diesel costs. Um, janitorial's down. I think that's another one that is an ebb and flow every time we look at this. Um, we did not receive an invoice from Poojar Cleaning, so, when you have several weeks when they decide to bill you at a different time, it it just makes that go up or down. Um, and that is the same thing with the electricity bill. So, if you notice, um, so, with next month, right, it's going to be up by a bunch, I guess, is what I'm trying to tell you.
You can see there with the success indicators those students can earn three additional, but if we have a student who is struggling to earn credits down there in the pink, it's much like the I-Learn. They started at zero. And the highest that student can get is a 65 or a 65. That's why it's so critical that students who are behind on credits have an opportunity to make those up. Even at expectation, you're seeing that they're starting at a 65 there, and then they can move on. And then above expectation would be what you see there at in the green. So, that's where our ninth and 10th graders that's where their grades will come their grade will come from as a part of our measures. I have a possible question regarding the overall. So, the ninth and 10th, what's considered mastery? Just the fact just completion of the credits?
Absolutely. And then we have some kiddos to recognize as well. Um in the month of April, we recognized a kid from each classroom that showed great perseverance. And so their teachers submitted those names to us and we are happy to bring those that could be here tonight up here to get their student of the month magnet. So if you hear your name, come on up. Memphis Peterson, Coraline Seismore, Kingston Lucas, and Haley Jacobs. I see Haley. >> Haley, come on up. >> Come on. >> Will you come stand with me, please? >> Another kid. >> Yeah, just keep as I keep talking, maybe she'll join some friends. In kindergarten, we had Eleanor Shy, Juan Guido, Bristol Nelson, and Rowan Wallace. In first grade, Paisley Mccllich, Brooks, Eli, David Patchet, and Tatum Williams. In second grade, Jackson Lmer, Axel Reed Roby, Whan Lucas, and Melody Coder.
Excellent. That was a quick transition. Well done. All right. It's my honor to present this commendation award to your the Colonel Wheeler Robotics team 78151N for winning the excellence award and team 78151C for winning third place in the division finals at the Indiana State VEX robotics competition. Uh team 78151 North or sorry used to doing addresses all day. I'm going to read the resolution of accommodation. The Crown Point Board of School of Trustees is honored to commend the 2025 2026 Colonel Wheeler Robotics team for meritorious achievement. Be it hereby resolved that the board of school trustees for the Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2025 2026 Coler Colonel Wheeler Robotics team 78151N for winning the excellence award and team 78151C for winning third place in the division finals at the Indiana State VEX robotics competition. The board of school of trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity this 18th day of May 2026.
So, I I've seen the life that that that brings you. Um don't try to talk our students into anything but when we meet with them, we're like, "Okay, this is this is what's out there." We just want to When someone asks what we do, we're like, "Okay, we try to create informed consumers." So, when we lay out what all of our industry partners have to do um have to offer, it truly does. It sells itself. So, obviously our focus is manufacturing health care and the skilled trade. That's what dominates our economy. But we are moving into banking and finance next year. So, we'll have an at seven students doing similar activities at banking and finance at Old National Bank next year. So, we're excited about that. But this day, if you haven't been, I'm inviting you now to next year. It is truly it's a special day.
And so that's a pretty big deal. And then on top of that, there are a few 200 level courses um ranging from English to political science to history to regular art sciences um that are also covered by the FCC, which is a really cool opportunity for me. And um my advisor actually said that I'm about two credits away from an environmental science minor, which I have no interest in. It's just a really cool thing um that the IC has provided and it's a testament to the um efforts on behalf of the school to grant better coursework for those of us who want to challenge ourselves more and also um it's just a really cool opportunity for students that want to challenge themselves and get ahead and it's provided that opportunity and most likely I'll be able to graduate a year or two early should I want to not sure if I want to but should there and I sort of get a jump start on my career as a lawyer following in my dad's footsteps probably coming back here.
Uh diff- page by page, essentially. So, we are definitely as much as you want to be pencil in hand, you can, or as much as you want to be digital, you can do that as well. But, we are moving forward with something else just because of various reasons why Sadlier which we currently use just is not it's just not what we want currently. Sadlier was actually one of the one of the six of the options that we had from the DOE and all of our staff said now we're going to move forward something else. And the state went through an alignment of their curriculum also a couple years ago. So we got to get in line with that and that part of that is the And it's just time to recycle and we're actually I believe a year or two behind that which is actually beneficial.
I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the process or the legal requirements. Uh, but you all, as I said, you've gone through this on several occasions before and that process has not changed since we've gone through this since we did the high school projects and the middle school projects over the last several years. >> Thank you, Mr. Quacenbush. >> With that, I'll turn it back over to Mr. Miles. >> Thank you, Mr. Quacenbush. Uh, at this time, I'll give a general um scope uh estimate of of what we're looking at for this project. The total cost uh estimates of the project are $175 million. The majority of that uh is coming from our McKenzie uh transformation. And we're calling it a transformation because it's it's really in line uh more with the scope of what we've seen at our high school projects both over the last few years at Lawrence North and Lawrence Central.
So, keep getting things recycled that can be recycled, um but uh still need to reduce because it gets recycled to one more use and then it gets broken down and then it's garbage. So, recycling is not sustainable or not It's actually the current >> It's not Yeah, it's not the answer. Um because plastics, because of all the chemicals that they're made with, when they go through the recycling process, um it is really down cycling. You just you can't have a plastic bottle and then um make another plastic bottle from that. Which is different than an aluminum can, which can be melted down and used again um and it come back as an aluminum can. But every time you're um they need to add virgin plastic in order to give it the structure and stability to have another uh new item. So. Yes. Um that leads me to a question that I just thought of when you were saying that was uh the mention of a lot of uh tin cans actually have a lot of plastic in it and is should that be a concern or does it is that contaminating our uh recyclable bins when we're getting recycling done like here in town in Ashland?
Thank you. Do a lot of hearings, you never remember exactly how it works at each of these. So. Okay. I was just saying, I do a lot of hearings. You never It's always a little different each hearing, the setup. Um can't remember each week. Okay. Uh again, this is Chris Lucas. Um briefly just going to recap. Um again, this is a little delay there. Uh again, this is our site. It's um primarily developed with uh historic mill complex. Um and it's adjacent to the Sudbury River running along the northern portion of the site. This next sheet again shows the resource areas. Um I guess it'll be to the east. Uh plan left is north. Sudbury River is flowing towards the south along the eastern portion of the site. Um there's also the old canal along the southern portion of the site uh that was delineated and approved through an ORAD process.
This evening, we're going to start under teaching and learning where we have a number of action steps related to literacy. We are going to begin our presentation by showing you CKLA in action in grade 2 along with sharing an incredible honor our students and all of Dartmouth received. So, I'd like to turn the microphone over to our literacy coach, Miss Sullivan. >> Good evening. My name is Caitlyn Sullivan and I'm the literacy coach at Potter. I'm excited to share with you all a little bit about part Potter school's partnership with the North Dartmouth Library. For the second year in a row, every Potter student has had the opportunity to receive a library card and visit the North North Dartmouth Library one to two times a month. We travel with myself and our school librarian. As you know, it's next door. During these visits, students check out books, explore new titles, receive recommendations from the library staff based on their interest in reading levels.
You don't have choices in the adding some of those in there if they're for wants sometimes versus needs, maybe we will readjust and move from one building to another. I don't mean to be physical person, but if it is a person possibly, but a lot of times they're vacancies and move the vacancy over. In the next month, the way we would project this going out would be obviously talking to Ways and Means tomorrow night. I'm seeing you at School Committee meeting again in June, and then the City Council would be the week after us in June where they would approve the budget, the entire city budget at that point. In the next month, still working with you mentioned Mitch Number Web. The principals working on their scenario then fine-tuning all of this, but shifting dollars versus adding. What I'm talking, right, working within this the realm of this concept of the dollar amount.
And so, that didn't match what I was looking for in a in a position long term. So, when the position opened up um in a nearby town that would allow me to be full-time in a school in one school um and really provide comprehensive services, um that was the impetus for my for my change. Yeah, so you know, we we had talked about the different stops in um Yeah, there's career and um And certainly uh had reference calls um and the people in Avon uh where she's been for the last 6 years obviously are uh devastated to to see her moving on um and then this is is certainly a shift back to um moving between different schools um at a different point in your career. I don't know if you want to tell me about that at all. Sure. Um I do uh given that it's a different um job description, um I think it's exciting to change between schools now because you really can see um what works for one team and what skills that they have or where we have opportunities for internal professional growth that we can leverage at one school versus another.