We are grateful for her years of service and the lasting impact she leaves behind. Thank you for our dedicate for your dedication to our students, staff, and community. We wish you a very happy and well-deserved retirement. >> [applause] >> Next up is Lynn Walters. >> [applause] >> Lynn is retiring after serving Avon schools for 18 years and is retiring as the middle school south special education teacher in our impact program. Dr. Pyo, the middle school south principal, shared that Lynn has been an extraordinary presence at Avon Middle School South serving as our impact teacher for the past 18 years with unwavering dedication and heart. Throughout her tenure, Lynn has spent has supported countless students and families as they learned to regulate themselves and find success in school. Always demonstrating a level of patience, care, and compassion that is truly unmatched. Her positive influence is felt deeply across our community not only through through her work with students but also through her leadership as a subject area coordinator for special education, where she mentored her colleagues and strengthened an essential area of our school.
Susie's mission in the classroom was to help her students develop into strong-willed, hard-working, and thoughtful young adults. Her ability to keep her students engaged bell-to-bell for 180 days a year accomplished that and more. Her impact will be felt for generations to come. Christy Meek, Clifty Creek speech language pathologist, 27 and a half years. Christy provided years of countless service helping the students of Clifty Creek and BCSE. Her engaging and challenging speech lessons helped thousands of students master their speech goals. Dixie Poe, Northside Middle School special education teacher's assistant, 16 years. Dixie was an unbelievable, dedicated support staff member for the students and staff at NMS. She always looked out for students and did the very best for them. The students Dixie worked with are better off because of her support and guidance. Sandy Sutton, Southside art teacher, 32 years. For 32 years, Sandy has inspired a deep love of art in her students.
Um But all those cars got back on the track and all those cars were able to compete. So, it was really, really cool to see that happen and and a fun award to bring home because it's voted on by your competitors. They gave that to you. Yeah, and then one other quick bit of of good news, speaking of testing, Um, we run industrial testing in my classroom, the board funds that. It's very much appreciated. Now, we kind of work the system, we get 2 years of testing out of paying for it once. So, we pay for it at the end of May, so we can test like early May this year then kind of do the same thing next They don't love that, but he said it's okay, the cert board guy. Um, we we definitely are setting a record this year for number of kids passing those tests.
So that's that's the next big project out there. A lot of progress inside um over at the EEC, uh starting to see that kind of take shape. Our restrooms are getting uh the floors are done in there, so if you want to take a look at those before you leave tonight. Um I know we took a look a walk through those before construction started. Um it's a neat spot to go and look at where we're at right now. So these are the 100 hall 100 hall restrooms, correct. Uh we just Friday turned over three classrooms back over to the high school. That's two science rooms and room 525. And again, these are all classrooms that were not supposed to do that we were not supposed to be able to get into until this summer, so huge thank you to the high school for the flexibility and Mr.
So the charts So for the graduating seniors and next year's seniors, if they are earning academic or technical honors, they start at 75 points. Um and then with two indicators, they get up to 100. If they're starting at a general diploma, they start with 25 um and then you can get up to 75. And then if they are earning um the enrollment plus or the employment plus, so that's the bottom row of the seals, they automatically get 100. Um so they don't need any success indicators with those two seals. If you were going to compare those to the old diplomas, that's similar to academic and technical honors. If they're at the top level of an honors seal, I'm sorry, enlistment plus seal, they start with 95. And then the honors seal, so that top row, they start at 75. And then if they're not earning a seal, which our goal is that everyone earns a seal, that's what we're working everyone towards, so it's honestly not really presented as an option not to work towards that seal.
Any discussion? Seeing none, proceed to vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. Motion passes 6. >> So now we can make a motion to approve the personnel packet either minus the football coaches or minus the volleyball coaches. One or the other. >> I move we approve the personnel packet minus the football coaches. >> Second. Moved by Amy, seconded by Katie to approve the personnel packet minus the football coaches.
So, our resolution of commendation, the Crown Point Board of School Trustees is honored to commend these students for meritorious achievement. It hereby resolved that the board of school trustees for Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to Emily Alamad, a student in the Crown Point Community School Corporation PLTW Biomedical Science Program for winning first place overall in the Big Cell Pitch competition at Purdue University Northwest. The board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity. Dated 18th day of May 2026. So we've got Emily first and then next up we have Simra and a seal. And before I let coach say a few words, um I am especially excited to get to present this one. These uh young ladies are absolutely amazing. I had the opportunity to sit in on a little um sneak peek of their pitch before they were officially ready to um to to give that at the competition.
No, there's a lot of hard work that you guys do. Not just you and you're you're the spearhead a lot of times. But thank you so much for all that you do. And I I really do appreciate it. I just I can't I can't tell you enough. I really do appreciate it. Thank you. >> Okay, any other questions, comments? If not, roll call, please. >> Secretary DeVries. >> Aye. >> President Duckworth. >> Aye. >> Trustee Keeper. >> Aye. >> Trustee Hollingsworth. >> Aye. >> Trustee Ragland. >> Aye. >> Trustee Gaines. >> Aye. >> It passes. Thank you very much. Next on the agenda is property tax base and revenue analysis, is Underwood. Good evening. >> Good evening, President Duckworth, members of the board, and Dr. Huber. Office of Business Affairs recommends approval to engage Policy Analytics to conduct a comprehensive review of the district's property tax base and long-term revenue outlook.
Um again, organized uh chaos. Um and then obviously one of my favorite things uh at the end of this week is graduation 7 o'clock uh Friday night. So looking forward to uh celebrating another great class high school. So just like to thank everybody for uh their efforts here at the end of the year and we're looking to finish on a strong note. >> Great. Thank you for that. All right, moving on. Uh no old business. Uh so we'll move right into new business. Have approval request for the second reading of the 2026 2027 building handbooks. So you had these last month. Um they were they were brought to uh then and now it's time to bring them back for um a second reading uh and adoption. Uh in between first reading and second reading, there were some minor uh changes to personal communication devices. So cell phones just with with wording wanted to be more consistent with the law, the language of the law.
They're secretly. So, they're excited about being at the middle school. They suddenly start acting like middle schoolers. So, um thank you to the administration at the middle school for being there, guiding them over, talking them through everything, and then bringing them back. Uh it's very much appreciated as well. Field day is next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Um looking for parent volunteers to run stations. So, if you're interested, please give us a call. Dr. Brown, I have you scheduled down for kindergarten up super course. So, if you want to do that, you let me know. I'll make sure that you can show it how it's done. But, when it comes to that, thank you, Mr. Hannon. He does a great job setting all that stuff up. He's here before school, during school, and after school, just running around and making sure that everything runs very smoothly.
Board, any questions? Miss Lawrence? >> I do. And first, Ben, thanks for hanging with us tonight. It's not always super fun. We'll do our best to make it engaging. So, public who are hearing a lot um SB1, etc.
I mean, I I noticed there's like what do they say something like 1,400 different uh plastics that the the EU has put on a no use category and we have what 10 or 12 here in the US. Um but, that's a lot you know, put those together uh and that's a lot of different chemical names to pay attention to since we have so few uh that are banned here. [clears throat] Uh is there some way that we uh as uh neophytes into the whole thing can start to uh figure out what per plastics we should be watching out for? Uh is there is there really something we can tangibly do to avoid those specific additives? Well, I think the answer is avoid them. Um because it doesn't then it doesn't matter, right? And I think, you know, on the tables in the back we've got a lot of examples of non-plastics that you can incorporate.
The plan in front of you, um, that's up on the board now is prepared by George Campbell, the licensed site professional for the project. And this plan shows all the various sampling locations and um that that have that have occurred on the site. Um the ones that I've circled in red uh currently and specifically show exceedances. Those are compounds or contaminants that we found that exceed specific MassDEP standards. Um our plan uh and the the applicant's plan for this commission is we we prepared a very detailed soil management plan. So that's that's and I'll get into that. That specifies how we're going to handle the soil on the site during construction, how it's going to be disposed, how it's going to be contained, and how we're going to prevent any of that soil from getting into the Sudbury or the resource areas. Part of that, we also have a detailed dewatering plan.
They're both fiction, but tall tales are an exaggeration. At the end of that unit, we performed our own exaggeration. I mean, at the end of that unit, we performed our own mini plays of some famous fairy tales. I performed in the play The Little Mermaid and acted out the part of the sea witch. We learned about Greek myths. One Greek myth we learned was Thesius and the Minotaur. >> When the military was defeated in a labyrinth, >> we also made some projects like clay sculptures and disguise a turkey as a Greek god or goddess. Another project we made was training cars of the Greek god and goddesses. Um, Zeus had the biggest value because he's the most powerful. >> We learned about the Civil War that the North and the South were trying to fight slavery. And we learned that Harriet Tone was one of the conductors of the Underground Railroad.
So, preschool revolving >> that like zero those two out? vacancy savings. >> [clears throat] >> Who's got 72,000? Actually, I've got more than that in the both of the vacancy savings. This says would be reallocated so that we would use less of We planned on using in that FY26 of $600,000 of choice. We won't use $600,000 in choice. Now, that will stay there. And therefore, that zeros out that vacancy savings. So, your So, your vacancy zeroed and your pre-K when you took 500 left 65. Okay, that was Thank you. That makes sense to me. There's nothing saying also that it didn't Roland mentioned it would be you know, I just took that 500 from pre-K cuz the mayor mentioned. There's nothing saying when we redo the summer that we maybe we take 250 out of the pre-K and take an additional 250 out of the lunch space.
Um myself as a school psychologist, um an occupational therapist, physical therapist, um as well as a full-time BCBA um who splits between us and then another school. Um so really a wide variety of um skill sets um that have helped um to resolve them. >> [clears throat] >> So what are you planning kind of for your entrance plan coming in? I I've been thinking about that because um when you have um Christina Sherwood moving on to a another position in district, you have to make the assumption that she was well-respected and well-regarded in the work that she did. And so I think it's really an opportunity to um get to know her, get to know her style, and pick her brain about what was working um in in the elementary schools, and where um she sees capacity to grow. Um you know, I certainly realize that she and I are not the same person.
In these classes, we used a lot of interactive techniques that helped make gaining the material easier to understand. For example, in accounting, we played a game called Payday, which is where we work with our table mates to journalize transactions from the game. We also used a flipped classroom approach where we completed visual notes for homework to introduce accounting concepts before practicing them in class. During the class time, we would do independent practice while the teacher would walk around helping students who needed it. In AP macro, we played a game called Grab It to help reinforce proper graphing techniques and analyze different economic situations. We also used vertical white boards to collaborate with our classmates and work through macroeconomic problems together. One fun activity that we did was creating macroeconomic themed holiday ornaments, which is where we worked with our tables while applying the economic concepts.
She was top 5% in computer applications and science, and was above the 90th percentile in the A reading. Madelyn is most proud of how far she's gotten in band. >> [clears throat] >> Rhett Bell >> [applause] >> Rhett was on the high honor roll, and will receive an academic letter, and was above the 90th percentile on Aim Math. Rhett is most proud of all the things he has learned in middle school. Dexter Burke >> [applause] >> Dexter was on the high honor roll, and will receive an academic letter. Dexter is most proud of being part of the Pine View League football championship team both his 7th and 8th grade years. Ashlyn Breece >> [applause] [cheering] >> Ashlyn was on the honor roll, and will receive an academic letter. Ashlyn is most proud of how much she has improved in school and sports throughout middle school.
Um especially those individuals that left districts to come here um because they heard all the great things that were happening here. Um No tenured teacher was affected. There's So, there's been, you know, technically no reductions in that area. I mean, that's really what where where it gets very very bad financially. So, I'm I'm saying this out loud. So, I said a few things out loud here and nobody's believing me, but with the special ed numbers coming in the way they are, um we may um you know, have to really go back and look at some of these these uh these uh programs and other things. So, in saying that though, I'm I'm happy at the board's vision was to try to restructure everything we could so that we didn't we didn't affect any programs for students. Okay, and that's what happened. So, even even what you see in some of the transfers, and I'll talk about that in a second, even you see with some of the transfers, like you may look at this list and say, "Oh my god, I can't believe this person's here, this person's there." Even with some of those transfers, the main program uh still is not affected.
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