2026-05-28 Miami County, IN YouTube / Maconaquah Streaming transcript source: youtube May 27, 2026 - Maconaquah School Board Meeting · passage 63
>> Admin will start on Monday. >> Okay. >> And then I'm not having anything done yet at junior high due to the June 4th activity that we have going on over there. And so the west lot of high school will start when we're done with athletics for a whole week around 4th of July. Uh there's no athletics that week. That's when we'll do the west lot of high school. >> Okay. >> So a lot of things aren't started till we get through graduation Saturday. >> Sure. Any other questions or comments? >> Well, I will need to abstain on this due [snorts] to the fact of my close association with one of the meeting businesses. >> Okay. Awesome. So I didn't >> [clears throat] >> I didn't realize that you're going to ask for a vote on this. I thought this is this was informative as what as are some other items in um section eight new business.
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2026-05-28 Hampden County, MA YouTube / ELCAT01028 transcript source: youtube ELHS Girls Lacrosse Vs Melrose States Round Of 32 · passage 63
So I mean it's really tough to give up those open seams, but we could turn around and win a draw as now they're changing up the draw. Mac Whitworth taking it once again. >> And we've seen a lot of fantastic things happen in a short amount of time this season, so >> Absolutely. It's girls lacrosse. >> Yep. >> You can score a a bunch of goals in a short amount of time. >> Mhm. Another big draw here. They're all all big draws, but this one especially. >> Yep. It's big as ever. >> So Whitworth and Matthews? >> Whitworth and Matthews, yep. Whitworth Matthews doing a good job. I mean it was pretty even earlier on and then Matthews was winning a lot of the draws, but not winning them like that. Just >> Getting them. >> They're getting them, yeah. Daniels with the ball, kicks the ball all the way up to Matthews.
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2026-05-28 Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT YouTube / hatters tv transcript source: youtube 5/27/26 Board of Education Meeting · passage 63
So, um, and be, you know, very much anticipate that, but we're very excited for them. We have either a, uh, breakfast, uh, morning, you know, that we're planning for them or pizza depending what we could pull off between now and the end of school. So, um, we're excited and we're we're very proud. And that's it for my update. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Um, our board standing committee reports. Um, we're kind of winding down our committee meetings, but does anybody uh our committee chairs have anything they want to report Kate? Just a quick update for policy. You'll see that the next meeting is scheduled for uh listed for June 3rd. We are going to reschedule that meeting to June 11th, same time, 6 pm, due to the we race graduation happening on the 3. >> Okay. And um we'll also um I'll have be having Carara send out an email for the committee chairs to start looking into schedules for the 2627 school year to start putting those together.
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2026-05-28 Miami County, IN YouTube / Maconaquah Streaming transcript source: youtube May 27, 2026 - Maconaquah School Board Meeting · passage 64
>> Sure. >> So I guess it But I did ask the question and I do still ask the question in my mind. I've I've seen a lot of parking lots that look a lot worse than than [clears throat] um the admin parking lot here and uh if we're going to keep heavy traffic off of it, that sounds great. Um that sounds uh helpful. But I mean, we've we've been approving a a lot of software purchases, a lot of other purchases. Another $60,000 for an administrative parking lot which should be a low weight, low traffic area. Um it's not convince me why. >> Well, you want to talk? Katherine, go ahead. >> If any of you after this meeting you go to the west side out back here, how bad it's breaking up. The this end back here with by the garage is in horrible shape.
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2026-05-28 Hampden County, MA YouTube / ELCAT01028 transcript source: youtube ELHS Girls Lacrosse Vs Melrose States Round Of 32 · passage 64
Now you have to This is what we're talking about. You really, really have to pressure whoever has the ball. You can turn around and let them go in, but she's She's not even going to look to take a shot. She knows that the clock means It means more. Find the turn around wide open. Julia Gray with the save. Who is it? Burns comes up with it. Burns turns around and fires the ball up. Get her out of bounds. Melrose comes up with the ball. The Spartans will have to do that all over again. >> Great play, just unlucky there. >> Daniels with the ball. Got to Got to pressure the ball. Got to pressure, pressure, and stay up on top. Spartans really need to force a turnover right here. Like we said earlier in the game, Melrose Melrose was really, really sure with that ball.
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2026-05-28 Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT YouTube / hatters tv transcript source: youtube 5/27/26 Board of Education Meeting · passage 64
Yeah. So get your calendars out. Um okay, if nothing on committees, we're going to move on to our action item. Minnie, can you do our motion for us? >> Need a motion that the board of education accept April 2026 financial report as recommended by the finance committee and in accordance with 26-84. >> Thank you, Minnie. The motion is made uh by Minnie. Do I hear a second? >> Seconded by Lauren. Any comments, questions, or concerns? Seeing none. All in favor?
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2026-05-28 Miami County, IN YouTube / Maconaquah Streaming transcript source: youtube May 27, 2026 - Maconaquah School Board Meeting · passage 65
>> On the the far edge? >> Yeah, just the whole You walk out of your out doors out here all the way to the where you come to the grassy area, it's breaking up really bad. >> Is Is some of it concrete back there now? No? Okay. >> No. But I I would encourage you to take a walk back there. It's >> Well, I was fixing to. >> Yes. Yeah, that's That's [clears throat] really bad area. Um what I did also, Allen, I had both companies come out and not together and I said, "Tell me, where would you start on 5 year looking at all the all we have?" And this is probably the worst back here on the on the back. >> Okay. >> So, that's why. I mean, you can't even seal it and and >> [clears throat] >> patch it. >> Okay.
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2026-05-28 Hampden County, MA YouTube / ELCAT01028 transcript source: youtube ELHS Girls Lacrosse Vs Melrose States Round Of 32 · passage 65
>> Yep. >> Hannah Eddy giving a little bit of pressure. McKechnie turns around and knocks it loose. Whitworth comes in. >> Yeah, that That ref's not going to let anything slide for the Spartans. 47 seconds left. The Spartans down by two. Melrose looking to just eat up the clock. Ooh, that's dangerous into the middle. Yeah. Ball gets knocked loose. See Arnold had that. Could have taken a shot and was in off. >> And it looks like as if Melrose will will be advancing to face Hingham in the sweet 16. Bose, great to have you here with me once again. Good luck next year at Tufts. But more importantly, I would like to say thank you to Sabina for giving me a great four years of high school sports. >> Yep. >> Goodnight everyone.
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2026-05-28 Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT YouTube / hatters tv transcript source: youtube 5/27/26 Board of Education Meeting · passage 65
>> Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. I think we're going back to you. >> Yep. Either one. It's if we have under information tonight the leader and educator evaluation and support plan for 2627. So, what happens um on an annual basis, we're required to submit our plan to the state. Um sometimes we have little tweaks and changes, sometimes we do not. We do not have any changes in this particular plan at this time, but it is on for information because the board has to uh vote for it in the next meeting. Okay. Thank you. Okay. And for my report, um don't have much. Uh we've been really busy the last couple of weeks. I just want to take a minute to thank all of my board members that have been showing up for all of the events that we've had pretty much every night of the week.
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2026-05-28 Miami County, IN YouTube / Maconaquah Streaming transcript source: youtube May 27, 2026 - Maconaquah School Board Meeting · passage 66
And lastly, I kind of agree with Andrew that we took the motion to to hear the request or to hear a motion for it before asking questions and knowing what what we're talking about fully. Um as I said, I didn't realize we're going to be voting on this tonight, but but I did plan to I actually I parked on the far side so I could walk across the whole thing, >> [clears throat] >> but of course I missed the worst spot. But I was just by >> not park over there. >> where where I thought most of the traffic would come from, but Okay, I'm satisfied with my questions being answered. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Other questions, comments? Okay. You got a motion and a second? Roll call. >> Please. >> Roll call. David Schebler? >> Yes. >> Craig Stevenson? >> Abstain.
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2026-05-28 Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT YouTube / hatters tv transcript source: youtube 5/27/26 Board of Education Meeting · passage 66
Um, but it is wonderful to see um, everybody's faces there. It really means a lot to uh, the schools. It means a lot to me and everybody who's involved. So, thank you. Uh, thank you for coming for teacher of the year. I thought it was a great event. Um, it just gets more exciting every year. Um, so it was really wonderful. Uh, wonderful. And congratulations to our winners that night. Um we have a couple more weeks of craziness before we finally get the summer off. So keep your sneakers on. Um we're going to be moving to um our final event will be our graduation on June 18th. Um there's a couple of you know dos and don'ts for our new people who are coming on. What I'll do is I'll have Cara I'll put it into an email and I'll send it to everybody so I don't have to bore you um here tonight to go over that.
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2026-05-28 Miami County, IN YouTube / Maconaquah Streaming transcript source: youtube May 27, 2026 - Maconaquah School Board Meeting · passage 67
>> Um Rex Buckster? >> Yes. >> Allen Wilson? >> No. >> Tim White? >> Yes. >> [clears throat and cough] >> Andrew Adams? >> Yes. >> Robert King? >> Yes. >> [snorts] >> Okay, that gets us through that. Comes up to item 814, shared teacher contract, math high school. >> Yeah, I shared this contract out um a couple of weeks ago as well. Um in an in an effort um one to help out an an area school, but also uh to give us some flexibility in what we're doing with our teaching staff. Um working with North Miami, they cannot find a an advanced math teacher. Um they solicited me probably 2 months ago saying, "Hey, do you have somebody that we can maybe uh stream in um some of the days a week and some of the days a week they they go uh to us.
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2026-05-28 Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT YouTube / hatters tv transcript source: youtube 5/27/26 Board of Education Meeting · passage 67
But it'll have all, you know, what time to be there, you know, just little little things that we need to to to make sure that we're doing. It's an exciting time for us and I know it gets really exciting for us to be under the tent and everything happening. But it is we are there for the kids. So, we just want to make sure that we, you know, we focus on them, not on us. Um, and that's all I have for now. Um, so I'll move it on to board discussion. Does anybody have anything that they have to add or talk about before we >> I just want to remind everybody about the DSABC breakfast on Tuesday morning? >> Yes. Do we have And do we know who's going? I'll be there. Yep. Perfect. Okay, great. Anybody else? >> The DSABC breakfast. >> Yes, the DSABC breakfast is Tuesday morning.
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2026-05-28 Miami County, IN YouTube / Maconaquah Streaming transcript source: youtube May 27, 2026 - Maconaquah School Board Meeting · passage 68
So, what we've tentatively worked out, obviously has to go through North Miami school as well next month, um is that we will share a math teacher one period a day and what that looks like is 4 days a week uh he would be on our campus streaming to their campus. Uh >> [snorts] >> one day a week he would be on their campus. Um I think that probably this is something we're going to see more and more uh with the availability of the teachers that teach dual credit classes um being very limited. So, trying to get out in front of some of that uh right now [clears throat] we're helping another district out. There's going to be some compensation involved there as well. Uh in the future I can see us having to do that with other folks having some live stream coming in to make sure that we um can make ends meet and with the name of pathways.
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2026-05-28 Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT YouTube / hatters tv transcript source: youtube 5/27/26 Board of Education Meeting · passage 68
Okay, go ahead, Kate. Just a real quick reminder everybody knows we have a board PD session tomorrow evening at 6 pm. Uh, Attorney Mooney will be here to talk to the board about the Freedom of Information Act and how that impacts our communications >> and we will have dinner for everybody, too. So, I know we've had dinner every night this week. It'll be different. Tomorrow is different. The menu will be different tomorrow night. Um, anybody else? No. Okay. Well, that's all we got tonight. Do I hear a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion made by Kate. Do I hear a second? >> Seconded by Lauren. All in favor? >> We are adjourned. Thank you, everyone. No
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2026-05-28 Miami County, IN YouTube / Maconaquah Streaming transcript source: youtube May 27, 2026 - Maconaquah School Board Meeting · passage 69
Uh if you lose one teacher, you could lose a pathway. You could lose it lose any of the college core. Uh you could lose a lot of different things. So, um that is the the plan moving forward. So, just ask for your approval of that contract um and then it will go in front to air board after us. >> Okay. So, before we get to taking motions on this contract, has everybody looked at it? Cuz couple things that stick out to me is the the per student with a minimum of 12 12 kids. I mean, North Miami is a pretty small school. How are we going to guarantee [clears throat] that they're going to have 12 kids to take this math class? >> They have 19 kids in the class. >> Okay. And [clears throat] what happens if they fall below that? Are they Are they on the hook for paying for 12 students no matter what, I guess, is the question.
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Cuz cuz it ends up being $6,420 a semester that they would be paying us, which is 12,840 a year. So, where where does the math end up on our end, I guess, and what our expenses are compared to what they're giving us what we're getting out of the project. So, >> Well, I I would say this covers um for a class, this covers And And basically what this is >> [clears throat] >> is off of that fee structure is off of his Ivy Tech classes. If they If they audit a class through Ivy Tech, it's a per credit hour fee, correct, Mr. Sheldon? Uh and it is similar to that structure. It's actually a little bit less with us than it would be with Ivy Tech. Uh Ivy Tech also, the same reason we do, they put a cap, meaning if it doesn't reach this amount of kids, it does it's not feasible for us to do it.
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2026-05-28 Miami County, IN YouTube / Maconaquah Streaming transcript source: youtube May 27, 2026 - Maconaquah School Board Meeting · passage 71
Um so, that's why that language is in there for for both of those. >> Okay. So, would the contract be changed to where um no matter what their enrollment, I mean, I guess where I'm having a problem with this is we're giving up one of our teachers out of our building, and then what's that look like for his increase for stipends, for travel, so on and so forth. What At the end of the day, what does the mechanical pool benefit? What's the bottom line? What are we getting? Other than to help out another corporation, I get that. Sure, but what are we getting out of it? >> I I would piggyback on that too to say this is our what our second arrangement would be like this. Have we identified places within these other schools where it would be beneficial to me that we would benefit from a situation like this?
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2026-05-28 Miami County, IN YouTube / Maconaquah Streaming transcript source: youtube May 27, 2026 - Maconaquah School Board Meeting · passage 72
Yeah. >> Yeah, I actually had a conversation with with Mr. Hansen, which is right. He's leaving the corporation, right? Um about Spanish prior to us being able to secure [clears throat] a Spanish teacher. They have a Spanish teacher there. So, there were some talks in the works about a Is this something we can we can share back? Um what what this allows us to do is for that period, so if you if you divide him out over say a six-period day, which is what he teaches, that pays for the period of him being gone. So, that makes sense for us um with with what we would get back for ADM for those for those kids. >> [clears throat] >> Okay. >> There's other questions I have along that same line though concerning the stipends and what's in it for our instructor? Because there is an extra workload here and travel.
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2026-05-28 Miami County, IN YouTube / Maconaquah Streaming transcript source: youtube May 27, 2026 - Maconaquah School Board Meeting · passage 73
>> Yeah, he he will get a stipend to travel there. >> And that is paid >> It's paid out of >> the payback? >> No, no, no. Absolutely not. So, Mr. Eisenberg and I have agreed on a $5,000 stipend. >> Okay. >> For him to take on that workload. So, if you look at the what we're getting >> [clears throat] >> again, it still pays for the stipend and also this class period that he's not here. >> And he this Uh I don't know how to I guess how to approach asking this because it's more than an individual question for him, but how how does this work on retention of our teachers if we do have um partnerships like this? >> Well, I I think retention-wise it's going to help us [clears throat] because they're able to make additional income outside of what the NEA contract would allow them.
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