001Yeah. Can I get back? I'll get set up on my microphone. >> Okay. Good evening. Thank you for coming to our December 16th regular school board meeting. We will start with the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the stands. nation indivisibley for all. Thank you. And now we will have a moment of silence. >> Thanks. And we are going to start this evening with recognitions. Uh Dr. Hy. >> All right. Thank you, board. And welcome to all of our guests this evening. We have several uh recognitions tonight. So, the first one is actually we're going to recognize the uh the student who was selected to um for our annual holiday card artwork. So, for that, I'd like to have Mrs. Marty Cook, executive director of marketing communications, come
002up and talk to us. >> Great. And I see Noble Crossing art teacher Amanda Russo and second grader Bentley Hackman are making their way up. you guys can. So, it's it's the holiday season here at Noblesville Schools, and one of our many traditions that we have is that we do send out a holiday card every year to all of our friends and partner organizations in the community. We send it to all of our Noblesville schools parents, share it out on our social media, and every year we go out to all of our art teachers at all 10 of the schools and ask them to share some of their, um, very best, uh, examples of winter themed art for us to choose from. And so this year, um, Bentley Hackman from Noble Crossing Elementary was selected
003as our winner. You can see his art depicted here. And, um, Amanda, you want to talk a little bit about the project? >> Yeah. where wherever you're coming from. >> All right. Uh for this project, our second grade students studied the work of illustrator Indie Maverick, who is known for her very whimsical drawings of animals dressed in clothes. As they examined her artwork, they identified her use of texture to create the illusion of fur and then pattern to bring uh personality and visual interest to her clothing designs. Inspired by this approach and connecting to our winter season, students created their own woodland animal illustrations, thoughtfully applying texture and pattern to design cozy sweaters for their animals. This project encouraged close observation, creative problem solving, and intentional artistic choices while allowing students to express their individuality
004and imagination in their work. The results reflect both strong understanding of visual arts concepts and a joyful engagement in the creative process. We are absolutely thrilled that Bentley's artwork was selected as this year's district holiday card. >> Wonderful. You You said that much more eloquently than I would have. I was just going to share that I I did particularly love the sweater and the different colors on the sweater. And then I really loved this um the eyes that I thought were just really fun. So, congratulations again to Bentley. And this card will be shared out on Friday as we enter into winter break. All right. Next, I'm gonna invite Mr. Geelart from West up to talk to us about a very exciting award. and I'm going to let him tell us about it though. >>
005Uh, good evening. My name is Dave Geelhart and I am the club leader for our student video announcements um team at Noblesville West Middle School and tonight we're being recognized uh for winning the Indiana Association of School Principles Real Impact Competition. Um, so at this time I'd like to call forward Austin Ruth, Cadence Side, Charlie Hughes, and Hadley Brown to be recognized. So, Real Impact, which is spelled REL, is a statewide digital media competition from IASP student programs, and it challenges middle school and high school students to create a one-minute video to promote something meaningful at their school. Um whether it's a student club, academic program, athletic team, or service initiative, this competition is designed to elevate student voice, showcase school pride, and build communication skills. Their video won the competition um won the competition
006service and impact category, scoring 48 out of 50 possible points on the evaluation rubric. So, we would now like to show everyone the video in case you haven't seen it yet. Hi everyone. Wonder what the real school magic looks like. It looks like this. Every fall, our adaptive PE program hosts the most exciting event of the season, the Miller Magic Flag football game. >> This This game is the perfect example of how awesome our students are. It's a chance for our adaptive PE class to step onto the field and be the show. They've been working hard, all hard all season, building their skills and teamwork. And today, all that pays off with cheers, high fives, and a huge crowd. >> But what makes it truly special is that this isn't just about one class. It's
007about our entire community coming together. Just look at our whole seventh grade section. Our students and staff, volunteers, but bodies running alongside our athletes, cheering them on and helping them score that unforgettable touchdown. It's a powerful moment of inclusion and support. So, if you're looking for proof that teamwork, heart, and a little bit of magic can make anything happen, just look to the field. This isn't just a the best day of the year. This is what heart looks like. This is Miller Magic. >> Wow. So, we are just incredibly proud of this video and how it showcases the positive impact our students and staff um are making within our school community. Um a big thank you goes out to our build principles, Mr. Hoy and Mr. Stafford, who encouraged us to enter this competition. Um,
008we'd also like to thank all of our applied students and teachers who started in the video. We certainly couldn't have done it without them. Um, and thank you to the school board recognizing us as well. We appreciate all of you. Jade all of you. Thank you. All right, next we're going to hear about eighth grade volleyball. So from East, I'm inviting up Leone. Hear me? Can you guys hear me? Good evening. Before I begin, I would like to ask for the eighth grade volleyball team to please come up to the front so everyone can celebrate you guys tonight. My name is Leah Con Harris and I'm one of the eighth grade volleyball coaches. It's truly an honor to stand here recognizing these young women as the Hamilton County champions and to share that this is
009Noblesville East's first county championship for volleyball. From the start of the season, the skills were already there. These girls came with the athletic ability, solid fundamentals, and the competitive drive. What we chose to focus on instead of something What we chose to focus on was something even more impactful. The mentality of an athlete and the mindset of the team. Throughout the season, we emphasized purposeful accountability partners holding one another to high expectations. Every drill was intentional and not just f focused on the physical skills, but the psychology behind the athletic performance, decision-making under pressure, communication, confidence, and resilience. And those habits definitely carried over during those intense game time decisions. The biggest test of our season was not the county championship match itself, although that was intense, but the semi-final match against last year's county
010champions where we finished runners up. That was soon proven as we pushed our limits to over three matches. And the moment the girls did not lose sight of their training or each other, they buckled down, trusted the process, and worked as a team and displayed exactly what we practiced all year. Watching them rise to the challenge was incredibly powerful and one of the most rewarding experiences as their coaches. Coach and I are truly have truly enjoyed coaching each one of you. Your growth, determination, leadership, and commitment to one another this season was unforgettable. We are extremely proud of you girls and excited to see where the journey takes you next. Finally, on behalf of our team and coaching staff, I would like to thank the school board for taking the time to recognize this huge
011achievement. Your support for our students and athletic programs mean more than you know. Thank you again and congratulations to the 2025 Hamilton County Champions. Congratulations. >> Can you get it? >> Congratulations. All right. And next, uh, Rick Fields. He's already made his way up here. He's going to talk to us tonight about girls golf at West. >> Good evening. I'm Rick Fields, athletic director for Noblesville East and Noblesville West. Would the West girls golf team please come forward? Tonight, I would like to recognize the Noblesville West girls golf team as the 2025 Hamilton County Girls Golf Champion. This is the third consecutive year West has won this tournament. This team, coached by Brad Coverdale and Brad Howard, finished their season with an overall record of 18-2 and finished second overall in the Zansville Invitational. In
012addition to the team, I would also like to recognize our individual 2025 Hamilton County girls golf medalist, Taylor Ross, who set a new county record of four under par 32. Congratulations to these student athletes, coaches, and parents for another amazing season. Thank you, Dr. Hy, and the Noblesville School Board for recognizing the accomplishments of these fine student athletes. Congratulations. >> Great job. >> All right. So, now we're going to shift over to some staff recognition. So, at this time, I'd like to invite uh Karen Carter, president or president. Yes, president. How about that? Principal of Hazel, president. We can call you president, too. Um to talk to us about our hair teacher spotlight this evening. >> Thank you so much. Thank you for having us here this evening. Actually, Mr. Davis is going to do
013the introductions of our hair Chevrolet spotlight teachers. >> Saw you today. >> All right. Good evening and um wanted to uh thank uh Harris Chevrolet for continued support for our teachers throughout the district. Uh one of our spotlights is uh Grace Burus, our school psychologist. So I think this might be one of the first school psychologists that has been recognized through this. So uh just shows the impact that she's had at our building and it's her third year um as a post-graduate uh psychologist. She wanted to become a school teacher psychologist to help students learn more about their brains and help teachers and parents discover uh how their students learn best. And what she um makes Noblesville special is uh the staff makes the district so special. She's grateful for being surrounded by professionals who
014are supportive of one another and committed to the success of their students. And that's Grace Burus. Then we have Ashley Clover. Uh she's in her seventh year, fourth year with us. Yes, I got that right. And um she wanted to become a teacher because uh she's always loved working with kids and helping them to discover and answer uh on their own and wanted to give back to same inspiration and support that her teachers gave her and why she uh loves Noblesville. Uh Noblesville schools is a supportive community where their student students are truly uh known and valued. It's a place filled with endless opportunities to help every child grow into their best selves. And then we have Chrissy Cox. Um Chrissy Cox is a preschool LMP um teacher and if you go in her classroom
015and is ran like a kindergarteners and how many you have 16 next year going to kindergarteners. So they will be well prepared. So uh it's great to have them in our building. And then uh she became a teacher. She wanted to be a role model for a child that like her first grade teacher was for her. And then what makes Noblesville special is a sense of community and the shared belief that all students are our students. So that kind of fits our theme tonight for us as we uh move into our presentation. So congratulations >> so just like Mr. Davis said those three spotlight teachers, they are fabulous and they definitely embrace uh one of the themes we've been working on this year is every hawk is by hawk because it does take a team
016to make sure that everybody is successful. So we love that we have this amazing team that we get to work with. So for our spotlight tonight um we wanted to kind of segue from your visit today. So those of you who were not at school, they were visiting Hazel today and we talked about our focus points for the year and then we shared that one of our focus points for the year is every hawk is my hawk and we were demonstrating our vision for that what it looks like at Hazel through various lenses. Students helping students how our community supports every hawk is my hawk and how teachers support every hawk is my hawk. So for our presentation tonight, uh we want to go a little bit deeper and uh we want to show how
017what we're doing uh is connected to the strategic goals. Uh all of the things that we do are connected to our strategic goals and our vision for uh Noblesville schools, but we wanted to zero in on academic excellence and talk to you a little bit about the fourth grade classrooms that you saw today and kind of how that came to be. So we're calling this kind of a how-to edition of academic excellence. All right, as we continue uh the team theme tonight actually with it. So, uh we need to start by um starting with a great team and kind of going with the um with every Hawk is my Hawk. So, it reflects how we're committed to every student known and supported throughout the building. Um and then kind of just using as it's um
018one team, one goal and we're trying to develop that into our PLC's. And so then once you have your team, you got to start to train the team. And so we've been working um with our guiding the district trainings uh guiding coalition uh two to three years working with those trying to develop leaders within our PLC process. So then they can lead the team and make sure they're staying on the uh right track with it. Then also using the school trainings and the trainings that we've done through the um uh professional learning days. So we um enjoy that the district continues to support those professional learning days and the late starts. We get a lot of value time with the staff and they get a lot of value time together as a team. So we
019will continue to build through that. So the next step in the process, so after you've got your team and you've trained your team, then you need to schedule some time for this team to do their work. So we want to talk to you a little bit about something that we've done differently at Hazel. Uh we mirror this actually after White River. Um we have taken our Wednesdays and we have an extended PLC time for teachers. So, we wanted to kind of explain a little snapshot of what a teacher's week looks like when we talk about PLC's and team collaboration. Every team meets on Monday after school and that's kind of the nuts and bolts things they need to talk about, field trips, um any types of those types of things that the team needs to
020get gather on. And then on Wednesday mornings for the late start mornings, we have PLC time. And we also then after the late start we have extended PLC time where teams meet for 90 minutes. Now this was um like I said the brainchild of White River when they did it and it was uh not an easy task to make this happen and it could not have happened without our entire staff being on board with this. Uh which again goes with our every hawk is my hawk. Um when we have our Wednesdays so teams meet for 90 minutes every other week. So, three teams meet on one Wednesday and then the other three teams meet the following Wednesday. And this gives them a nice chunk of time to sit down to go through our four questions
021uh that we go through as a PLC and really get deep into the work instead of having that quick prep where as soon as you get into the work that all of a sudden you got to go back to class. So, we really feel like this has helped move our collaboration process along. So, we've set time and we've had buyin from specials. So they have an alternate schedule on Wednesday. So while teachers are uh collaborating for an hour and a half, students have specials for an hour and a half, but it's a whole different rotation for that day. They get to dabble in two or three specials during that time. They do something different that they are not doing the rest of the week. We also have teachers that if they're not in the PLC,
022in order to give them a little prep time, we have a mindfulness session and a library session that the students go to. So the teachers have again a little bit of a break. uh hard to kind of explain. I welcome you to come just live it and see it someday. Come out any Wednesday and you'll see it in action. Uh but it is it's really provided a great opportunity for us. So we've set our time and then we needed to set our agenda. What does it look like when we are getting together as a PLC? I wanted to include this snapshot in here and if you want to watch the video feel free. Our guiding coalition and we have one of our members here Ashley was part of that. They acted out what a PLC
023would look like. So they actually took on characters, not necessarily their own persona, but they took on characters and they acted out the stages of a PLC and how to talk about data, how to have those difficult conversations if you're like, oo, I don't really want to look at my data. I don't want to talk about it. Um, and so we did that as a fishbowl exercise where um, so guiding coalition did the acting and then all of the staff, including our instructional assistants, got to see what we do during this time. So it was it was a fun learning experience for them. So we've gone through we've scheduled what we're doing. We've set our expectations and now we're going to talk about what happens during these meetings. So we go through four questions. Um
024basically it's very simple. We say what do we want kids to learn? How will we know if they've learned it? What are we going to do if they did? And what are we going to do if they didn't? So those are guiding questions every time we meet. We don't always get through all four questions, but it is a rotating cycle that we go through. And one of the beauties in us doing this Wednesday schedule is that we can have all stakeholders at the table. So instead of um like the special ed teacher having to share her time trying to meet with different people during prep periods or uh on a late start Wednesday, that special ed teacher joins this group. The multilingual teacher joins this group. The learning specialist is in the group. the instructional
025coach and you can see in this picture we sometimes have members of the learning department. Shelley Bethl's in this picture and I know Aaron Rude has joined us. Uh Jen Townsen has joined us. So we this Wednesday just provides a nice opportunity for us to get a lot of people around the table and have common conversations. So the four questions just to dabble in that a little bit. Like I said, we don't always get to all four questions because it is a cycle. But when we talk about questions one and two, we have some great district resources. The learning department has put together some wonderful things for us and helped give us that that kickoff where we have a district matrix. So we start with that image at the top and we look at what
026do students need to learn and then teachers are actually going day by day and talking as a team on what are we going to teach on Monday what are we going to teach on Tuesday not to the granular level of how they're going to teach it but they all have that common understanding of what is taught on each day um with a little flexibility there are some uh flex days in there where students can uh catch up or maybe the teacher was out with um had a sub and maybe they needed to do a little catch up with that or field trip things like that. So um we start with the district matrix and then we have teachers creating a dayby-day plan and again the beauty of having everybody at the table is when they
027are going through these plans the special ed teacher the ML teacher the learning specialist the instructional coach everybody knows what's being taught in all those classrooms in every grade level. So they're able to provide that scaffolded support. So they can pull up, oh, if I have this classroom and they've got a big vocabulary unit coming up, that ML teacher, that special ed teacher knows right away that they need to scaffold for this lesson. Um, so it's a fantastic experience. The guaranteed viable curriculum for all. This is sort of that that baseline. We talk about what every student is going to be exposed to and every student is expected to learn. Assessments are also another big piece of that. So question two is how do we know if they learned? Putting everybody at the table also
028allows us to give assessments uh in a very common way. So teachers talk about how they're going to give the test, when they're going to give the test uh and what's it going to look like to make sure that when we are comparing data, we're comparing apples to apples. So if we look then at question three and four, these are kind of my favorite parts because I'm kind of a data geek. um when we embrace the vision of all uh every hawk is my hawk, we have teachers looking at data as a whole first. So this has been um a little bit of a shift this year where we're really focusing on the entire grade level data and the breakout groups within that data and then we break it down classroom by classroom. And that
029allows the teams to have conversations on how did my scores compare to your scores? how do they compare to the district or I'm sorry the grade level as a whole. So they do have to be vulnerable and it's taken us a while to get to that trust level to be able to do that. But I'm uh proud to say that our teams they've reached that we are looking at each other's data that we're talking about data. Um and they are reaching that level of hey how did you do so well? I want to know what you did and that is the goal that we've been striving for. So that the way we're looking at it this year has really helped us move forward. Excuse me. >> The image at the bottom uh this is a
030beautiful thing that CKLA will do. So our new language arts if this uh students take the assessment online which we are all doing you can upload the results and teachers can literally look question by question on how they did on the test. So like that image below you might look and see all of the red down in one row and that might tell me that one question almost everybody in my class missed that question. So, I need to go back and look at that question and figure out why. Um, I might then have a conversation with the team. Did everybody else, you know, did everybody else's class miss question number three? And that gives us a very granular level to look at data. And we've had some amazing conversations about the data. So, what you
031saw today in fourth grade, a lot of teams are are looking at at data in this way, but they were using data like this to determine what needs to be done during that intervention time. So today when you were visiting the different classrooms that was an intervention time we call it aim time and um they were doing it based on the data they learned from their PLC. So we love love the process and love that our teachers are really embracing that process. Just a couple other things to highlight with our PLC. So smart goals. Smart goals are not anything new to us. Um we've been doing smart goals ever since we started the PLC process. However, we've added a little um piece to our smart goals. We are having student smart goals. So, when teachers
032look at their data and they get ready for the next unit assessment, they'll set a goal, a smart goal. But this year, we've added team goals. So, we have conversations with the team. What do what does your team need to do to help reach that goal? Uh and sometimes it's, hey, we need to explore more resources. or sometimes it's you know what we need to actually get all of this done on time and get all of this in the spreadsheet. So it could be any number of things but it's a team collaboration on what do you need to do so that we we can reach our goals. And then one of my favorite things is celebrating. We love to celebrate small wins, big wins, and just having fun. Um I think you saw today the
033fourth grade the pictures that were in our brochure. That fourth grade team has a lot of fun. In fact, they're the team that brought a PLC cake one time to our PLC meeting. So, we we like to have fun and we like to celebrate whether it's data or it's simply getting your data in the spreadsheet. Uh sometimes that's a win in itself when people are super busy, but we we celebrate small and big wins. And then we start all over again. So, the cycle never ends. So, we're doing a PLC, a professional learning community, and we're addressing four questions. It never ends. you just keep going with the cycle. So just to kind of bring it back to our vision when we talk about every hawk is my hawk and if we focus in on
034academic excellence what we believe that means is shared responsibility for learning, consistent high expectations, stronger interventions and enrichments, greater instructional alignment and positive learning culture. when we really embrace that all of our hawks are all of our responsibility, we can reach academic excellence. I do have a couple other pages in your your your flip book um just so you can see some connections that we feel are relevant uh with our our vision. And we'll end with this. Uh Mr. Davis and I have started a inside the hawk nest. Uh we do a weekly video message on Facebook. So if you want to learn more about what's happening at Hazel, we invite you to join us on Facebook and you just never know what we might talk about uh and we do it on Mondays. So
035you we try to post uh in the morning uh and just tell something that maybe our parent community might want to know. So again, if every hawk is our hawk, we need to be sharing what's happening at school. So that is our PLC in a nutshell. >> Thank you. I love the extended time. I mean that's that the extended time for the PLC. That's makes a big difference. >> Really really does. Yes. Any anything else? >> I mean I love it. It was it was a joy to be in the classroom today and and visit you know the different teachers, all the different students and and I loved seeing the actual engagement like physical engagement. um that leaps and bounds makes a difference with students and how they learn and when they learn and what
036they learn. So kudos to you guys. Thank you. Hats off. Great job. >> I really like be a little bit biased though. >> I love the part where you said that you can use data to find out what question almost every that's really important. That seems like a simple thing, but using it figuring out how to use a technology in a that's very I would think that would be very very effective. And I like how you said that teachers are willing to be vulnerable because I think that's where you grow. Like if you're willing just to say, "Okay, well, what are your good ideas and how are you being successful and I'm gonna do that, too." Like, we can all work together as a team. So, I love that they're all working together and that
037they're able to be vulnerable and find out the best way to help students. So, good job of bringing everyone together to do that. I love >> So, thank you. We loved our tour today. Thank you. >> How you going to decorate us next month? We love our little decorations that you provided this >> January. Uh >> Oh no. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. >> I love I think Stephanie kind of touched on it too. I love the fact that or the ability that they can go back and look at the test scores and see is there a problematic question? Was there a lack of understanding? Was it worded incorrectly? Or is it just an area that we didn't focus on? Yes. >> So I I love that ability too with the new curriculum.
038>> Yeah. Oh, it's very helpful. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Great job. >> Okay. Uh next up, um every board meeting uh we have a member of cabinet or Dr. Hy present um a portion of our strategic plan, a goal. And this month we have engaging community relations, uh Marne Cook. Hello again. Sorry, I tested this out before the meeting. Okay, sorry. Uh, that's the that's the end of the presentation. So, that's that's the problem. This happened this happened before. I feel like you did this to me on purpose. This happened this is the exact same thing that happened before. It was at the end of the presentation. All right. Well, um I'm just teasing. Andy's great. He's he and I are always on the same team. So, um yes, thank you. I'm here to
039talk about in the give an update on the engaging community relations portion of the strategic plan. Um I was here in May last time to talk about this and at that time I kind of gave a big more comprehensive big picture view of all the things that we're doing in this area. And um I know one of the things um I've been challenged to do this time is to kind of you know do a little bit of a deeper dive and focus on one thing. So, we're going to do that this time. But just as a reminder, um these are the types of things that we're looking for um regarding the strategic plan to make sure that our communities engaged and informed about what's happening in their schools. our families and community members express a
040high level of trust and confidence uh in Noblesville schools that we're the educational educational provider of choice uh that we create and maintain strong community and business connections and support of our objectives and that were a dynamic partner and education leader um in supporting the overall quality of life in Noblesville. So that's kind of big picture what we're looking at. And then within that, we identified several different types of specific strategies. Um, and I'm going to talk about this strategy in particular today. Um, using a wide variety of communication outlets, tools, and events to inform local audiences and support our objectives. Tada. We're going to talk about our dollars and cents initiative. So, uh, this was a dollars and cents was a collaborative effort, um, but that, uh, was really between me and and from
041the communication standpoint, David, uh, and Dan from the, um, finance expertise standpoint, um, with the objective of really making sure that our financial information was really front and center. That's that's been something that's uh been a priority and philosophy of mine for a long time that I always believe that you know when we are out presenting ourselves and talking about ourselves as a district that academics always comes first that is our mission that is what we're all about but that finance um should kind of be a close second to to talking about um in terms of visibility um when we're sharing messaging and things so um so the idea of this was to create a dedicated space I mean obviously all of our financial information has always been available to the community um uh at
042any time, but we wanted to create a dedicated space, a consistent message. We wanted to have some um specific data like annual data that we could share specific to Noblesville schools that would be updated um over time. Um we wanted to also provide an uh some foundational knowledge to the community um you know, an educational component, so to speak. Uh school finance, as you guys know, is very complicated. it's not like um personal finance or business finance. And so um part of the objective of this site was also to help explain that to people and to make it easy to understand. Um one of the things that we're working on um that's going to be added to the site. Um hopefully in the next couple months is some animated videos that um you know take
043take some complex topics and try to u present them in a you know more easy to understand manner in little short bites for people. Um, I also felt strongly about wanting to brand this um, brand the site. Kind of funny story. I literally was in bed trying to fall asleep one night and had like a like a, you know, light bulb moment of like, oh my gosh, I came up with this great idea. We're going to call this dollars and cents. We're going to have a, you know, cents like the dollar ask like the dollar sign. I'm like so super excited. leap out of bed to write it down. And I the next morning start googling it and I was like, "Oh, this is a thing." Like other people have thought of this idea. This
044was not a entirely unique Marne Cook idea. But um but nonetheless, it wasn't uh I didn't see it trademarked. So uh you know, we we decided to um adopt that and hasn't wasn't really used here locally at all. Um, but we wanted to create a brand around this idea and and an identity um for this site to help promote it. Uh, and one of the other pieces I think that's important about it, I like I I don't I use the term halo effect. I don't know if this this is not really a technical marketing term, but it's just a term that makes sense to me that when we um do things like this, even if people don't take advantage of um the fact that we have this, they like that we have it. So they
045like they it helps them feel good about um us sharing information even if they don't actually want the information. And I'm going to talk about that a little bit more when we get into measurement. So you can see the top of the slide just shares a quote from Dr. Hy about kind of the why behind the site. Um and then again some of the specifics that you can find on dollars and cents. um district financial highlights, links to specific financial documents that that um David has provided as kind of key financial documents. Um a educational component, like I said, how school finance works at the federal, state, and local levels. Um how different buckets of money are funded and what specifically that money is spent on at Noblesville schools, how referendums work, answers to some
046frequently asked questions. Um I mean like and and I wanted to be really authentic with the with the frequently asked questions, too, right? I wanted them to sound like actual questions that we get in the community from people. So, for example, one of the questions is, "What is the school district doing to help lower my high property taxes?" That's something that's like real right now for people, right? So, that's that's one of the FAQs on there. And then we you'll also find charts with um again with our actual financial data for each of our different funds. So, we've kind of done a large launch of this from a communications standpoint. um starting really in probably more heavily um in July um as part of our back- to-school communications was kind of when we really kind
047of ramped some of this up. So um these are just examples. These are 15 different examples of different outlets we've used to push out this site and message the community. we our back to school communication guide which is a pretty high visibility tool that really all of our parents look at because it provides some pretty key information that they need as they're preparing to send their kids back um each year. Uh we did a staff announcement at our back to school breakfast where Dr. Hy talked about this in front of all of our uh employees that were gathered there. We've made it a feature area on our website. It's actually on several different areas on our website so that people can find it um through a couple different channels on the website. We've done a
048direct parent message. We've done a direct message to all of our Miller ambassador partners who are our, you know, community leader partners. We have about 200 of those in the community that have gone through our program. So, they got a direct message kind of informing them about this. We've done a press release. It's been shared in our internal and external district newsletters. Uh, we've done a series of social media posts. Uh, we've pitched the story to traditional media for some larger coverage. I'm going to share more about that in a minute. Um, we've done a review about it at the board meeting where Dr. House talked about it a couple times and obviously we're doing this tonight. Uh, we've incorporated it into our finance session for our Miller's ambassadors class. Dr. How talked about it
049at our state of the schools presentation and um, it's also going to be in our connect community print publication mailer. And really, as we've been out and about in the in the community just having meetings with groups and sharing about what's happening at Noblesville schools, this is something that we're always um, sure to include. So I want to talk a little bit about measurement. Um and this data is as of December 1st. Um so uh website analytics we've had approximately 3,500 views on the actual dollars and cents site itself on the website. Um we've had from a social media engagement approximately like over 32,000 views. Um we've had traditional media reporting with um WRTV, WISH TV, uh Hamilton County Reporter, The Current, and the Noblesville Times. Um, just an aside on that, it I I
050was very excited that we had some traditional coverage from RTV and Wish TV to have um those are obviously central Indiana broadcast stations and to have something that we're doing here in Noblesville that's, you know, a little maybe a little bit of a dry topic um be covered on on broadcast for all of central Indiana um I think was a really big win and it shows that we were doing something unique and and um really in intentional and helpful for our community. We did a direct message um to parents. Approximately 12,000 people received that. Um again, our internal and external newsletters hit approximately 17,000. Um and we have a 77% open rate for our um for our community newsletter, which is huge. Uh I mean, an industry average would be much much lower than that,
051maybe like 20%. Um so um you know, we're we're getting a good open rate with that with a lot of people looking at that. And then of course um we will have our community mailer coming out in January and that goes to about 33,000 homes every home every mailbox um in Noblesville. So a couple things that this um you know data tells me and that I want to I guess highlight is that um it's not just exposure to the new tool itself but it's building positive sentiment for the district overall that the tool exists. So that's kind of back to the halo effect that I was talking about. So while only 3,500 people may have gone out and actually explored the tool, a lot more people than that know that the tool exists. And so
052um that you know that's a that's a good thing. Um, one of the things that is a challenge I will just share um, in this area is that while people say that they want financial information, their behavior says otherwise. um in terms of engagement like just and this is again from being in this in my role for 11 years and not not just specific to dollars and cents but um you know it's just a fact that talking about school finances is not as exciting as talking about our high school athletes coming to read to kindergarteners or or our um some of our you know a athletic teams um you know or students winning awards or things those are things that get really high engagement um from our community. Um so You know, I'm actually very
053pleased with this exposure. I think given this topic that this is like been this exceeded my expectations in terms of um how wide a reach we've had, how much engagement and viewership we've had given the subject. And I think again a lot of that is the you know attributed to the fact that we kind of packaged this in one spot and made it easy for people and branded it um and talked about it that way. So anyway, I'm I'm very pleased with that. Um this is just a snapshot of we did have uh the current did a cover story on this again that was that's really nice level of visibility um with a feature um on Dan and David and the and the financial site. And then um this next slide I'm going to actually
054play you um one of the broadcast news stories um that covered it that I thought was was very pleased with how it turned out and some of the stuff it highlighted. Transparency is a big buzz word these days, especially when it comes to how your tax dollars are spent. Tonight, our Hamilton County community reporter Griffin Gonzalez shows us how Noblesville School says it is showing you the money. >> It's one of the hottest topics in Indiana right now, property taxes and how can supporting the books to see where your money is going. I want our community to be proud of the way we're using our resources to serve the children of >> the district created a website called dollars and cents shows how the school uses tax dollars. We'll share the thoughts of parents in
055a minute. But first, let's look at how it works. >> Not only do you see all the financial documents, but also we give you some a little bit of an explanation of what you're looking at to help you understand how it all works together. >> Our number one focus here is is going to be on the the trust and the investments that we make those dollars. >> But how do the taxpayers feel about it? Earlier today, had a chance to sit down with two families who have both had kids go through Nolesville schools and they kind of walked me through how they're feeling about the new world of transparency. >> Anita Rogers and have had two kids go through Neblesville schools. >> Hey, it's Andy Han. I got three in the school district. >> As
056a taxpayer, um I think we do have that right to have that access and I've just been really impressed that Noblesville schools has actually demonstrated that commitment. >> When you pay your property taxes, do you feel like you're getting your money's worth here? >> Yes. The property Even though no one wants to pay increased property taxes, schools are strong. Um they're safe. They care about our students. >> Say there's a small minority of people who just are always going to say that there is runaway spending. But most parents look at the product they're getting from those schools and they say, "I'm happy about this." >> It's an idea you might see elsewhere. >> I believe there are some other area school corporations who have taken a look at our website and and really like the
057idea >> in Noblesville. I'm your Hamilton County reporter Griffin Gonzalez WTV. Well, you can take a look at Nolesville's financial structure. To do so, just visit us at wtv.com. >> That was good. I've never seen that. >> You didn't see that? All right. Well, good. I'm glad I brought it here to have you guys watch it. Um, and so, just lastly, I I mentioned this a couple times already about our Connect newsletter, but I couldn't I couldn't leave the the podium here without a little quick um shout out for some other fun stuff that's coming in January. Um we will have that um our annual publication out here in mid January to all of our residents. And then um I have a very fun video that I'm going to be unveiling um here shortly for
058you that's called the heart of our community and it features um yours truly uh Joe Forgi and in addition to many other um uh familiar faces in the community um just talking about how how Noblesville schools the role that we play is the in the heart of our community that that obviously we're here doing a great job educating kids but that we do a lot more than that and that we're um really foundational to a lot of things that are happening in the city of Noblesville overall. So, that's coming soon. And do you have any other questions or anything else you want to talk about on this subject? >> No, I I think it's great. I think the halo effect is totally true when it comes to this. That's, you know, that's that's fantastic. >>
059No, as I always say, we're we're in a we're in a business of schools and we're in a it's going to be a more of a competitive business and we need to uh face that forward with with good luck and things that we put out you put out and make happen. So, I'm I'm always appreciative of that. And I must say that picture of the kindies is just a fabulous picture. Isn't that great? That is that tells a big story without saying a word. >> Yes. And I did not take that picture. I don't want to take credit for that. I had a I had a partner I had a partner that was working with me on that that took that and it is a great stunning picture. >> That's great. Dollars and cents you
060get all the credit for. >> Well, no, Dan and David and I worked on it together. But thank you. And I'm yeah I'm just excited to make it easier for people to find the information too because it's always been there but it's you know it's important that we package it in a way that makes it easy and accessible >> and the videos will be great. The animated >> Yes. Great idea. >> Yeah. And Joe's got a good point. Um it is more competitive these days and we're fortunate to have you on our side to put us in the forefront and do the right things uh for the right exposure and right reasons. Um and I do have a couple of notes just from your update. one was I'm just I'm excited to see the videos
061you have coming out um for both purposes. >> Um and then a lot of people just don't realize what it is that you do. >> I mean, yes, I get that a lot. >> If they >> I'm not sure anybody other than Dan really 100% realizes what I do. >> Right. Right. So, I mean, you definitely don't get the credit that you deserve because there is a lot out there people don't realize you had everything to do with. So, thank you for all of your hard work and effort. Um and I do have uh one question from your update which is the new football um monument. What is this? >> Yeah, so we had some community members that approached us with a really exciting idea uh that they wanted to create a kind of a
062special touchstone um monument in the stadium that would be something similar to what IU has I guess where you know players can kind of touch it for good luck on their way out to the field. but but really for all for all student athletes and and band members and really any of our students that are um at the stadium. And so they had a really well-developed vision of what they thought that should look like. They brought a plan of how they were going to fund that. That's is um because obviously we don't have any funding identified for that. And so um we've been meeting with them and our facilities team to um see how we can hopefully bring that to life in the next couple of months. see my Friday update on September 26 for
063more background on that. >> I told you about that a while back, but it's it's becom it's becoming reality now finally. So, Marty's been working hard from the original idea to actually move it forward. >> Right. And then do you know one last question as far as the dollars and cents? Um the updated financial information, is that like a live feed or is that something you manually have to do? >> I think that's something David's going to provide us an update. And David, when when will will that be like in early 2026 that you'll be able to provide some of the 2025 information? How will that work? >> There is some static data though. There's some static data that's I think 2024 data that we'll probably need to update to the kind of the complete
0642025 data. Um so David and I will make a note to work on that. Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Morning. >> Thank you. All right. Um next up we have public comment on an agenda topic and we did not have anyone sign up tonight. So we are going to move to consent. Uh by single motion, the board approves and adopts the following items or actions which reflect application of board policy in Indiana code and those are marked consent. Um these items are claims, donations, minutes from our November meeting, out of state and overnight trips and personnel listing. May I have a motion to approve the consent items as listed? >> So move. >> Joe second. Misty, any further discussion? Yes, Joe. >> Yes. You know, as I say every week,
065we have an incredible, caring community that takes care of our schools and and the people of Noblesville. Being the holiday season, we receive $6,235 in donations to be used for students in need during the holiday season. I'm just going to run through this list of generous people help us out uh to make our schools better and make it a better place for our children. Uh I'm not going to give the amounts. I'm just going to give these names. Lisa and Jason Fridge, Jelada, Porter House Contracting, Stacy Stewart, Vincent Barnes, Carolyn and Josh Harvey, Lucy Heinesman, Triricappa, Elite Martial Arts, Heather and Jeffrey Dick Dixon, uh Ronald Garrett, Vicky Garrett, Angie Gingrich, uh Lynette Hosted, Lindseay and Adam Reed, Donna and Larry Smok, uh Vivian Summoner, Kathy Pleer, Laura Henshaw, uh Jan and Stan Sutton, high
066school classmate of mine from 1966 Carroll High School. Uh Rebecca and Kevin Sak Carrie Ecklan, United Methodist Women and Anonymous and Anonymous gave again $6,235 for our children in our Noblesville schools. I'd like to thank them all. >> Wonderful. All right. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Um on to action items. uh personnel. In accordance with Indiana state law, schools are now required to utilize a more comprehensive expanded history background check for employment. May I have a motion to approve the separate personal list as related to additional background check information? Motion >> motion. >> Steph second, Joe. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Uh, next up we have a new, excuse me, a new course at Noblesville High School. Um, may I have a motion to approve the
067Noblesville High School course 3524 introduction to public service effective for the 2627 school year? >> Motion. >> Rat Misty. Um, any further discussion or uh Dr. Rich isn't here. Dr. H, would you like to please? So just very quickly uh board you you've heard us talk for the last year or so um that obviously in Indiana our diploma requirements have shifted and those are going to start coming online over the next few years. Um so we want to make sure that whenever possible we provide um all the pathways and courses that allow students to be eligible for the maximum number of of seals and whatnot. So one of those is the enlistment seal which again I think um Ryan presented on in a pri prior board meeting so I won't rehash that but this is
068a course that we need to have available to students if that's something they're interested in. Without it, they won't be able to actually pursue and earn that seal. So, that's that's the reason for >> So, it's necessary. >> It is. If this is an >> They take that junior senior year or is it is there a >> No, that I am not sure what year this is offered. Um I'll have to get back to you. >> Yeah, no problem. I just >> Yep. I I think military is a good place to go for a lot of students. So, I'm I'm happy we're doing that. >> All right. All right. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Next up, we have administration is requesting the approval to remove the cost of lunch from the Little
069Miller's preschool program for program tuition. Uh starting at in the 26 27 school year. Um as a result, Little Miller's preschool families would have the option to purchase school lunches directly from food services um at an established district lunch price. Um, I think the reason for this is there are a lot of um students that attend that don't um that bring their own lunch from home. So, may I have a motion to approve removing the cost of lunch from the Little Miller's preschool tuition beginning 2627 school year? >> Misty second Joe. All right. Any further discussion? >> I just want to make a comment that I love that they're separating these two fees. um obviously for the reason that you stated because a majority of them I believe bring their own lunch. So to charge,
070you know, to include lunch was a little unfair, but it also helps some families even get a bit of a discount. >> Absolutely. >> Um and in this, you know, day and age with everything being more expensive and then I also like that they are giving them the option to pay for their lunch as the rest of the school district does so that they can get familiar with that process as well. So, right, multiple great reasons. Agree. All right. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. >> All right. Um, next up, we have consulting service agreement. May I have a motion to approve the proposed consulting service agreement between Noblesville Schools and the Winston Terrell Group. May I have a motion? >> Joe, second. >> Second, Brett. Um, Dr. Hy, would you like to
071speak on this? >> Absolutely, I would. So board, um, I shared this with you a few weeks ago, a couple weeks ago to give you some time to review it and ask some questions and we had some conversation. Um, but for the benefit of the public, just a little bit about this. Um, it is it is no secret that next year is a really big year for Noblesville schools and lots of other districts in the state of Indiana. There's a lot of important topics with uh financial changes and and such coming um going on throughout the state. And one of those topics for us will be um the consideration and discussion of our referendum that's expiring. And so as part of that, um just making this recommendation tonight, uh that we consider entering enter entering
072into an agreement and a partnership with Winston Terrell, um where their main focus is on how best to um communicate and and engage in public outreach strategies for school corporations and other public entities um that are seeking to engage their voters in conversation and topics like that. So their their services provided would do exactly that. they would come alongside um our team and others who have an interest in supporting our school district. And again, the the overall goal of their work is to help us engage and educate and reach all of the the uh community members of Noblesville schools. Um you hear me say quite often and Marne Marne I think says this as well. Um we we work so hard. I mean we just heard a huge presentation on how hard we work to
073communicate and reach everyone. But it's hard because we have a lot of community members and taxpayers who don't have built-in connections with us if they don't have children here right now or they don't attend our events. Um, so again, working with a with a consultant like this, they help us develop new strategies, access new tools to try to reach every member of our community, which for things like I mentioned a second ago are so important because we truly want everyone's voice to be heard and everyone to be educated on on these big discussions. So that's kind of a quick um snapshot of what this is and and why I'm recommending that we that we pursue this. >> Any further discussion? >> Um I just wanted to point out which I had previously um in um
074in an effort of transparency. This isn't something that would be required to be brought to us to this evening. Correct. >> That's correct. That's correct. This is um this so this falls falls well below the threshold for a contract that would have to come to board for approval. Um, but again, as as you've already heard tonight through U. Mar's presentation on dollars of cents and some other things that we do. And I would hope you hear every month here, um, we believe just so strongly that everything should be transparent for the for our taxpayers and our voters and our and our community here in Noblesville. And so, um, want our community to know that we're having these conversations, want everything to be open. Um, because at the end of the day, if if the board
075does choose to have the referendum discussion next year, that is truly a community conversation and the community has a right and and should be informed all the way through. Thank you. All right. Anything else? All right. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carried. Thank you. All right. Um, next up, may I have a motion to approve the purchase of 1.77 acres at Zero River Road for $269,500. Um, authorize administration, legal council, and Noblesville High School Building Corporation to take all actions reasonably necessary to conclude this acquisition. Joe second. Missy um Mr. Miller, would you like to >> Yeah, I can give you please >> just a quick Yeah. summary on this board. You know that um that we've had the opportunity to to purchase the property directly south of this building here. Uh
076it's actually come up multiple times over the last few years, but uh finally the seller has been willing to to sell the property. And I think that it was a perfect time for us to to take advantage of that opportunity since you may not be aware, but the actual property line is is probably about 2 feet off the sidewalk out here. So, you may think that we have some grass and buffer, but we we really don't. And uh but what we do have is an easement for two rows of parking in that parking lot. And what that easement does, it's always given us the the right to park there, of course. Uh but it also really suppresses the the value of the property from the market. So, it's really to say that yes, we we
077got it appraised like we legally need to do, and the appraiser showed the value at about $537,000, but the the cost of the easement, if you will, uh they they put it at about a 50% reduction. So for us to to again purchase this property and have this opportunity to redo it and have it for all of our larger events and etc. just to have the the freedom to park wherever back there is uh obviously a good thing for us and should we need to turn around and sell it then we if we wanted to remove that easement we could in essence uh sell it for almost double uh based on that market rate. So again we had the opportunity to to do it and we we wanted to jump on it and so we
078appreciate your support. >> Okay thank you. Any other further discussion? All right. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. >> On to uh transfer of appropriations. May I have a motion to authorize the treasur to make necessary transfer of appropriations with all taxup supported funds by December 31st of 2025? >> Motion. Joe. Second. >> Brett. Any further discussion? >> All right. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Um, next up, last thing we have, um, may I have a motion to approve the list of board meeting dates for the 26 calendar year with meetings commencing at 6:00 pm? This is something that as a group we we looked at, took us a while to get the dates, but we have all the dates, so I think we can move forward for next calendar
079year. May I have a motion, Miss >> Motion? Second by Stephanie. Any f any further discussion? >> All right. All those in favor? I motion carried. Thank you. All right. Uh public comment for a non-aggenda topics and no one signed up. So committee reports. We start with Dr. Hy. >> All right. Thank you board and our two guests in the audience that are left. Thanks for sticking sticking around tonight. Uh just a few quick updates for me. Um I I will tell you whenever Thanksgiving is later in the month, it sure makes December fly right by, right? It's it's a quick quick month and it's been a busy month. Lots of learning, fun celebrations um as we just reflected on a great on a great 2025 in OAL schools. So, as Marty mentioned earlier, I
080just want to reiterate again um to our community and board, we everyone who lives in our in our school district should be on the lookout um because our next connect newsletter will be hitting mailboxes in just a few weeks. We anticipate that will show up sometime in January. So, be be on the lookout for that. Wanted to share a a very exciting um award presentation that we got to do yesterday at Oil High School. you didn't see on social media. Um, Congresswoman Victoria Smart stopped by NHS for a surprise presentation. Um, one of our students, Barry uh, Abbe Jay, sorry, have to think about that pronunciation. A BJ um, he entered and and was selected as a um, an award winner for a for an app that he developed and it was a it's a
081huge deal. I don't I don't think every anyone really realized just what a big deal it was until we were really listening to a what he did and then also what this award means. Um it will be featured at the Capitol building. Um he will have an opportunity to go to Washington DC in months to be to be a part of that. Um we also learned yesterday that the as part of this they will pay for the patent of the app for him. >> Um the list goes on. It was a pretty exciting and he was he was beyond surprised and humbled. and his parents got to be there with us for this and they were just very touched. It was it was really really special. So, we are so proud of Barry and and
082it's interesting we learned that um as he was being walked down to the office because he had no idea what he was coming down there for. As Dr. Moby was walking, maybe he thought he was in trouble. I don't know. But um while Dr. Maui was walking to the office, he was actually telling her because he didn't realize he was coming to talk about this about a new app he's developing for something completely different. So, >> pretty exciting. We couldn't be more proud of him. Um, so huge, huge thing. And then last thing, of course, everybody knows this already, but we're everyone's ready to to relax for a couple weeks. Winter break starts on December 22nd. Um, goes through January 5th, and our students will return to us for a great second half of the
083year on January 6th. >> So, what I'm hearing is you're going to extend an invitation to him to come to our board next month, right? >> I'm sure we will have him here very soon. Like I say, this just happened yesterday. So, it's on the it's on our social media streams. If you didn't see that, go check that out. But we will absolutely be bringing him in to a future meeting hopefully next month. So, >> right. Thank you. All right. ISB Legislative Committee, Joe. >> Yes. The start of the second regular session of the 121st Indiana General Assembly has started and it will wrap up around uh March 14th. The ISBA is tracking 133 bills that through the Senate and 73 through the House, which will all get whittleled down a whole bunch. And your
084school board and and and Dr. How had the opportunity to spend the last hour and a half before we came in the schoolboard meeting with Senator Scott Baldwin and Representative Elena Shaq, which we always appreciate what they do. Uh they listen very intently and and and and take our ideas and try to weave them into what goes on down there. So, we're so appreciative for Senator Baldwin and and Representative Sean Wilder. I'll have much more to report once we get in January and February. >> Okay. All right. Keep going, Joe. Noville parks board parks board parks as I always say the the parks are open, the trails are open. Great place to spend some time to get your mental health in order. That's why I'm so good. I spend a lot of time over there.
085Okay. Uh Seminary Park uh is beautifully decorated right now, but come spring before the Penny Festival. Um we have had we've we've received a transformative gift from the Shehan family of around $360,000 to totally redo the playground over there. and it will be done by the time we get to the PE festival. So, check that out as we move to spring. And the day after the PE festival, you can run the our initial 5k run we're going to have over on the trails uh in Forest Park. Uh Federal Hills Common, we just re we're going to receive we're in the process of $115 million over 10 years. Uh the sponsors known, but I don't think it's public knowledge, so I'll keep that to myself for another week or two here. That's going to provide a
086lot of money for the for the Noblesville parks and our foundation to do some fun things over there. Let's see what's on the next page. Okay. Oh, and I mentioned this earlier. Uh I know I know that the people in the back room missed the the carousel the carousel out at Forest Hill. We all we adults like to ride that thing. Well, it hasn't worked very well because it's I think a 100 years old. The parks department is in the process of buying a new carousel and we'll be looking for donations for everybody from that one that will open in 2027 if we get enough money raised. Okay. Uh and one more thing the parks department is doing I think I think we're out of school January 5th maybe for a work day or something.
087The parks department wanted me to mention that they have programs open that we can put out there programs open for those students that need a place to go January 5th. So >> Oh yeah, >> the parks department is a busy place. >> Thank you. Thank you. Noblesville Redevelopment Commission, Stephanie. >> Um on November 1st, the Redevelopment Commission approved a resolution to amend the Hyde Park allocation area to create two new allocation areas. These two areas are Avanza or Avanza at Hide Park and Village at Hyde Park, which are both located near Hamilton Town Center. TIFF revenues were restated and approved for both developments. Avanza will include 237 duplexes and town homes and will be a build to rent neighborhood while link at Hyde will include 358 apartment homes and luxury amenities. The other order of
088business included a lease agreement with AMB farmhouse at 601 Connor Street. Since the RDC has purchased that building but has not made definite plans yet for the space, they are giving AMB a lease allowing them to stay in the building for $3,000 a month for 12 months. >> Thank you. Noblesville Youth Sports Alliance Misty. All right, not a lot to report this month. Uh was kind of a light agenda, but we are planning to host another CPR session in January, February. That's not decided definitively yet. Um for those involved as a coach or board member for one of our youth sports leagues, um NYSA will cover the skills test while the individual pays for the online portion themselves. Um, we are also asking for all youth sports groups under the NYSA umbrella to submit their
089events to the calendar so that families um can have a a one-stop shop and see all of the events for all the sports leagues. So, if you're looking for something, head to their website. Um, and they are really really really big on providing assistance. Um, this time of the year with having a high school senior, when I hear the word scholarship, I feel like it gets confused. um they they provide scholarships by way of paying registration fees for families that need help. And this year they have paid over $13,400 in youth sports scholarships just in this past year. So the help is there and they're more than happy to provide it. You just have to make the connection. Um, so they've been able to accomplish the goal, which is to help remove barriers for the
090children in our community so that they can play sports because we all know there are so many benefits um for the kids to be involved in sports and other activities. Um, and just so you know, NYSA represents youth sports in our community, such as our wrestling club, rugby, Noblesville girls softball, body and training, which is a cross country and track and field, NYB, which is baseball, the NEFL, which is football, Babe Ruth, which is an older age group for baseball, lacrosse, and so many more. >> Thank you. Thank you. Um, we've added something new to our committee reports. It's cabinet reports. Um so the um the cabinet sends a report to Dr. Hy and that cabinet report is on um a report that we get from him monthly and we can access those sex access
091those cabinet reports and read what the cabinet um the cabinet and their staff is doing for the month. So at this point in our meeting um anybody on the board have any comments about the cabinet reports? >> Of course I do. >> Of Well, you go right ahead. You go right ahead. So, I was excited to see that this was added as an agenda item because I love to have the time to dedicate to you guys for all the work that you put in. But part of me is also concerned that if I don't speak to your report, I don't want you to think it's not important or that I didn't read it because I do. I I promise I read all of them. Um, but I know you all want to get home, too.
092So, >> um, Amy and Aaron, big month for you guys. everything go well with Stephanie on her counts and all that stuff. I'm hoping um thank you. Not that any other month of the year is not busy and hectic for you guys, but I know this is one more thing on your plate. So, thank you for the special ed department for all you guys do. Um Marne, I gave you mine already when you were up. Um Heather's not here, but I do love um the continued partnership with NY or NYPD. we are not there with NPD and the new initiatives that we've got going there. Um and then the adult education program. Um I love the the job that she's doing and her department is doing it reaching and helping members of the community with
093their educational needs even as an adult because learning doesn't stop when you graduate high school or college. So I think we all know that. Andy, congratulations on your new certification as a trainer in digital threat assessment. That's amazing. We already knew you were amazing, too. All of our team members are amazing. But I love that you guys are taking the initiative and continuing your training and your learning. Um, because we are in education, so you know, you walk the walk, right? Um, but we're glad to have you as part of our team. So, thank you for all of you do, all of you guys. Um, thank you. Okay. Does any All right. Um, I just wanted to mention Ryan's not here. Ryan's not here, but I think that um it's the whole team um the
094elevate the collaborative summit for that that you did, Shel. That was that sounded amazing. Sounded great. Um so I just wanted to mention that. And I have to say, David, I love when you give us photos in your report because for visual learners, photos are always good. So, all right. Anyone else have anything? All right. Um, I think all of us would like to wish everyone happy holidays and merry Christmas. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Go ahead. >> Okay. Our little snowman. >> Okay. >> Sure. Show. Did we Did we say what these were from? >> I don't know that we did. >> OH, NO. WELL, I was supposed to I was supposed to start it up by asking Christie if Christy, >> do you want to build >> Oh, yes. I would love Yes. Yes. Because
095I love snow so much. >> Hazel. >> Our hazel. Yes. >> The little Millers. >> Little Millers. >> Okay. To leave them. Okay. We're leaving them up. >> Okay. Our next regular school board meeting is Tuesday, January 20th here at 6 PM. Um, may I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Joe. Second. >> Second. Missy, any further discussion? All right. All those in favor? I motion carried. Uh, we are adjourned. Thank you. >> Oh, I'm sure Craig is ready to