There's more correlation now with with those types of data metrics. >> That doesn't mean that those ABS or C's didn't come without a heavier lift from our team though, right? That that is obviously a teacher interviewing or other supports or counselors or all of those deans obviously. So, a a student with poor attendance that's earning an A, B, or C is probably coming with a heavier organizational lift than a student that is there regularly in attendance and earning an A, B, or C. >> Plus, they're missing out on social emotional learning. Plus, they're interrupting class activities that require their regular attendance. So, >> yeah, >> just because they have good grades doesn't mean we are going to be lax on them. >> Correct. Correct. Patrick, anything to add to what we've discussed from the building perspective. Okay. Any other questions on attendance? Thank you team for all of your work on that report and the data crunching throughout the year.
Uh, was was that time to get the invoice back to us. Um, on the 14th of May, you emailed me that invoice. Um, so we we got that that invoice back. Um, and that's where we wanted to, okay, now that we have the invoice, let's move forward with the thought process of purchasing new band uniforms. Um, I think at that point there was more discussion to be had and the proposal that I'm going to give to you guys today is what we came up with just in the last two weeks. Um, and and we think it's a really good proposal. So, let me let me go over this here. Um, put these guys on just because I need them. Uh so the uh the school corporation shall commit to a five-year funding agreement allocating $7,000 annually to a dedicated budget line item solely for the acquisition of band uniforms resulting in a total of $35,000 over the duration of this agreement.
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>> Uh just one final thought. Do you have like goals for next year? Have you thought about as a team? >> That's what the next month is working on starting with our meeting tomorrow. >> Okay. So, we'll come back with updates as we head into the next school year as to what those goals are and what the kind of work general work plans are for the year. So, the month of June is really the administrative team focused on putting that all together. >> All right. Next one up is behavior. >> So, you get the same team. We're we're talking about this again. and and as we're talking about the behavior component of this and and the different areas there, I want you to you you saw the memo on the handbook changes, right? So, you can see a lot of the what we're talking about is is related to this.
Um if the $7,000 is not used in a particular year, those funds will roll over into a six year. So if we only use 5,000, that two is going to roll over to a six year. uh we don't want you guys to lose that money by any means. Um so that's where that that rollover occurs. Um the allocated funds require uh the band to do the typical request for a purchase order through Mrs. T at the high school um adhering to all standard school corporation financial protocols. Um upon the conclusion of the uniform ser serviceable life um which these are going to be um one time one-year uniforms that'll be able to match your guys's play. I think that was important. The other important part of this is that we will have new uniforms this year. That was important to all of us that we did get new uniforms for this year.
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So, just think through that lens as well with some of the conversations that we're going to have. So, really we're going to focus on the attendance and the impact on behavior. Um attendance has had an impact on grades as well, right? remember when we talked at the end of the first semester and we saw look our attendance is better, our grades of our students are better, right? Um, and that's not just attendance, but it's also cell phones, it's also our academic integrity. There's a lot of variables uh that are at play and and that support that. So when we uh continuing with the the attendance uh we talked about the single period unexcused absences and uh excessive tardies is where students receive consequences uh for those types of things. Um again as we were talking about in the beginning of the year um our practices have evolved and shifted throughout the entirety of the year.
Um, and what we're what we're saying is that we want to buy um uniforms every single year that match for five years that match your guys's performance. Um, and then if there's money left over, then we'll we'll have a six-year. Um, and the other great thing is that um once you're done with them, um, what's the the site guard guard service? They're smart. They're just consignment websites that you can >> so they can go and they can sell those uniforms and you guys are keeping that profit that that is yours yours to keep. Whatever you sell them for, you put that towards uniforms, you know, or instruments or whatever you guys need need to do. Um so this five-year um agreement is also intended to allow for collaboration between us um to see what the future of buying uniforms look like. um you know after five years it'll be the uh 203031 school year right so this buys us some time to say what is our plan moving forward how are we going to budget together to to buy these uniforms um we're happy that we're creating a line item for band um I I think that's important to us um so that's that's where we're at that's the proposal that that we have and I'll kind of open it up to you guys for discussion So, we won it all along.
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So um we did automate uh and and what that means is that when a student has a single period AU at at South um then they were getting a consequence for that that was automated. It would be communicated to them be communicated to the family. Um it would be processed at the end of the school day. So teachers have until the end of the school day to clean clean up the if if they missed something or it came through. So what that means though with that automation then sometimes we had to go back and clean things up and you see that at the very bottom automation is problematic and the cleanup is needed when mistakes occur but we want to be timely with information right and so that's the that's the the timeline that we've worked with and then uh tardies for the majority of the school year were also automated at at South.
And >> yeah, I don't I don't think that anybody was against helping support the band. I don't think that that was ever it was the the talk of and of getting it worked out. And so, I I think that this is it it gives uniforms to all current members. You know, I think that there was a big thing about um getting uniforms for hopefully having 50 more participate and what if there weren't, you know, we just want to make sure that the funds are used um as best as they can. So, I I think that this is this is great that this is an agreement that was come up with. >> I like Yeah, I'll agree with you that um no one here was against the demand uniforms at the time when that was brought up. there was last meeting there was still a proposal that they were working on which is the one we're going with now and so there was really the discussion at that time you know >> all the facts all the facts and information weren't presented at that time so um and I think you know moving forward that any decisions that we make you know we we're committed in having all the information and facts on stuff before we make decisions so I think you know I think this is a great opportunity for him.
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We didn't get that going right away. Um but we figured that out um about how far into was that >> second semester >> um for the automation. So second semester is where we were fully running with uh that automation. Um and then at North they began with automating with second semester with tardies only. They didn't do the single period uh AUS. Uh next year we plan on doing the automation for both for single period AUS and for tardies at both buildings. Uh we're going to stay consistent um uh in that in that approach. So things that we learned from that automation of of this year, it's helpful, you know, for consistency um and streamlining the process, but it also it also is problematic in that we have to clean up, but it also helps with our attendance in getting it cleaned up, right? if there was an error or something along those lines.
>> Yeah, it is great that it finally did come around to something that could be so agreeable. We did ask a lot of them and we we did change the terms a couple of times asking for different quotes and you know without plume boxes and garment bags that you know it did take a lot of extra time and it did you know put some stress on on them getting uniforms in time. Um which is you know why I thought when that quote came in it was pertinent to add it to that last meeting which is you know was the attempt. So, we did have it and I'm glad we're at this point where we can Yes. all support the band. >> Absolutely. >> And from your discussions with the board, this meets their request and their desires going forward for the next five years. Mhm.
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If there's an automation, we're we're addressing it a lot quicker, uh where then that is, hey, I I received this. I was there. They go and talk with their their teacher, get it cleaned up, and all is good, right? So, there's, uh, there's benefits and and drawbacks to that. So then we're looking at um shifting gears and if you guys when you were at the um the parent teacher advisory you heard this with the Bcode uh information and we saw a definite impact um on that. So I'm going to uh transition this over um and I think that uh Patrick is going first with the bode. >> Uh just a quick summary. You may have heard uh Kelly and Karen talk about this here previously. You may have heard me talk about it at the parent teacher advisory over the last couple years. I was formerly the path coordinator.
>> And uh I just like to say that uh you know uh I don't know why it came to this you know when we were at the other part before and I don't see why you know we furnished uniform for everybody else. I don't see why we could have furnished for them uh with the full 70,000. Uh, but I know it's too late to get uniforms this year, but it's not >> getting uniform. >> Longevity of the >> Yeah, the longevity permanent. >> Yeah, they're getting a one uh what a makeshift uniform pretty much >> custom uniform that's going to uh get them by for one year. You know, you know, you stop and think those those uniforms that they're giving up now last 20 years. 20 years divided into seven $70,000 is not very much money. So you know >> my understanding is too that more and more bands are going to this type of situation.
Uh so this is D99 supportive approach to discipline. This is the inschool intervention program. So this is where students are you know have a level of accountability for their behaviors where it's being processed in the school keeping them connected to both their learning as well as you know accountable to their peers. Uh so what this does is it encourages the students to engage in restoring those relationships uh as well as thinking about how it impacts others. That's always one of the more interesting moments once you have a student who's confronting the mistakes they made and you say, "Who else did this impact?" You know, at that age they're often like, "Well, me and then it stops there." But if you ask kind of push on that, it really helps them think about like their general impact on the community and the school that they invest in.
>> Yeah because of the cost probably. >> Well no it's not really about the cost. It's about the it's about customizing. Marching band has evolved quite a bit over the last 25, 30 years and now it's much more what they call pageantry art >> where every show is customized down to the minute detail including the way that the band members look. Um, the reason that I've avoided going this route over many years is because it is an extra cost every year. And um, you know, we needed to update our uniforms, but it wasn't I didn't want to add that I didn't want to add that burden onto the school or onto the boosters um of an extra $5,000 on top of the already large budget that we have to take every year. So I was just trying to avoid doing that by updating our >> but this this might actually be a better alternative for the board to go to customized uniforms and to have the security of financing for at least the next five years.