001Allegian to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Any public comment on agenda items? And with none, we will move on to our consensus items. Um, I don't have many comments on this one. We did have an update on retirement, just someone who wanted to move their date forward and I I want that person to know our thoughts are certainly with her. And we do have one out of state and I believe overnight field trip with rifle team going to nationals. Um, both which require you to approve the field trip. Okay. Any questions or comments or a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Motion by Joel. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by
002Darlene. Motion by Joel. Seconded by Darlene to approve the consensus item as presented. All those in favor by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Same sign. Approve. Six to zero. Next up, we have a program update, right? Mrs. program update and maybe none under that. So we are too old business. Okay. So you had another round of board policies which I did not give you new ones. We had a lot of hands. This seems thicker though than last month. Um I'm not going to spend tons of time going through them. So, um, the first group that I'd like us to look at were some of the bylaws that were just consent agenda and executive session. Again, the first one just allows us to make technical corrections of policies without having to go through consensus items. Um,
003and 067.2 just makes a few more allowances for which executive session may be um allowed. And that's basically if you want to consider them kind of in clumps like that, that might be the best way since there's so many. Well, you can do it as a lump or you can if you have any I guess I can say if you have any questions or comments on any of them. There were a couple that we had to I think you had to make some decisions on choices. Let me see which I don't think the bullying one I don't believe that had any choices that you had to make. Um the rescended policies again are just because those have been absorbed by another policy or legislation has changed to remove the requirement for a C. Um, I
004would say we can if you want to vote them on in we can consider sub E1 A through E1C because there's nothing that you have to make any separate determinations for any of those in. Okay. So, if um are there any questions or comments on those or Want to make a motion to approve B1 A through C as presented? I'll make a motion to approve. Motion by WY. Is there a second? A second. Motion by WY, seconded by Dave to approve the policies listed under E1 A through C. All those in favor announce I. I. I oppose. Same sign. Approve six to zero. Okay. In section D, we had a few policies to consider. One was 2131 educational outcomes for students. Um, this had absorbed one of the rescended policies, but also it's just changed
005so much that basically the whole thing was scrapped and rewritten and not sure the whole purpose of it because it's not specific to curriculum. It just gives a bunch of different categories that curriculum can fall under. for example, communication and collaboration, general education, pride and ethics, cooperation, citizenship, arts, um, health, career planning, all the different elements that curricula in a K12 could address. Um, so that one I don't think really had anything that was needing discussion. 2623 student assessment. Again, this one changed to remove some of the old assessments um like IEP and replace them with IED. And a lot of it had to do a lot of the changes had to do with the new requirements around I read with the mandatory retention in third grade if the good cause exemption is not met.
006Um how you appeal that process. Um I did there was a choice in there that the board can either choose to hear appeals on retention for iid or not hear appeals. I suggested not simply for the reason you had not been part of that child's I guess looking at all their data all along and really knowing what was going on. And I would say the building level principal and instructional coaches and classroom teacher or myself and Tiffany would be part of a lot of that deliberation. But that's your choice. So you do need to make a decision on what your choice is in that particular policy as to which preference you have. Yeah, I would agree with what you said that you you folks have firsthand information data to make that decision. We got to
007trust that what other officer opinions are there on I don't want to be involved in that. It's a hard conversation. I'm sure it is for parents and for school. Um, and I'm sure you have conversations leading up to that, too. Right. Exactly. Okay. Um, so I think they all agree that we wouldn't want to participate. Okay. So, when we get to that point, we'll just make sure to note that was the um modification you wanted. Um, other one in that group is 5410. Again, this reflects just the new legislative changes and requirements for high school redesign, graduation requirements, more information about retention and IED um policies, procedures. 5460 again, more about graduation requirements under the high school redesign. Um, see, must not have these in the order I put the in. So, I apologize. A
008lot of it just basically lists what the law is and what options have to be in for those things. It's we just pretty it pretty much goes by what the legislation is. So, I really didn't see anything that was too too much of a challenge there. Um and then the final policy in that section um is policy 2221. Um we added the legislative language about the teaching of human sexuality and what has to happen and what um options have to be presented to parents and notification to parents about that. As well as the new requirements for students to receive um courses on personal financial literacy and computer science before they graduate. A lot of these have to do with curriculum basically and assessment. So are there any questions or comments or a motion to approve?
009That would be the remainder of what's listed, right? Trying to understand what you're saying correctly. Um there is a section I guess I didn't there is a section E. Um, let me see. Let's just do that section because E has some more options. E. Okay. So, questions or comments? So, motion to approve IE section D. I'll make a motion. Motion by Dave. Is there a second? Seconded by Joel. Motion by Dave. Seconded by Joel to approve the policies listed under item I1 D. All the with with the board with the board choosing to not participate in um my gosh. Retention appeals. Thank you. Retention appeals. All those in favor announce by saying I I oppose. Same sign. Approve six to zero. Okay. Then we get to segment E. Um this one is about employment of
010the superintendent and adjunct teachers. Um 1220 um just adds language about when you're hiring a superintendent and choosing the committee to work on that hiring or considering different candidates for the superintendency about um avoiding nepotism and fraternization as much as policy would restrict. We had approved similar policy for all other staff employed a couple months ago when we were looking at that particular language for whether it's teachers, classified staff, I think even support staff and coaches. Um so this just applies to when you're selecting a superintendent. Um, also just talks about the types of um, options that you can look into when you're hiring superintendent, whether you're using a search committee from a university, bringing in people from the community, having teachers on the committee. Um, just gives you the options that you have. Um,
011let's see this one. I think on 3120.02 2. That was the adjunct teacher. Again, we just newly approved this um I think last summer, early fall. Um it just reflects some new hiring legislation about if there were anything that would require a personnel issue to have to go on the new business, um which we've approved for other staff. I also recommended um well you also have to discuss or consider whether you want this item of the hiring of adjunct staff to be discussable um a discussible item with the union um the reason this would be something that is I guess you could say in some places could be contentious because adjunct staff um by definition legislatively are not allowed to be part of the bargaining unit. And so that means when it comes to hiring
012someone who's an adjunct, a district could hire them for far more than what other staff with similar experience or whatever we're going to receive. Or flip of that is they're not in the bargaining unit. Hire them for far less than what someone with similar experience or qualifications may receive. Um, right now we only have one adjunct staff and that person's probably not going to stay on that status very long. It was really a method to be a stop gap between um someone who was on an emergency permit and trying to get their license and things like that um or their program finished. I don't see this being something we do a lot. Um some schools do use it far more I think when they are really struggling with recruitment and things. So, I understand um
013why Indiana State Teachers Association had concerns about this being another option for hiring staff and getting them licensed at least in their local district to teach and be um be employed. I have a I think a fairly transparent relationship with our teachers union na. I don't have any problem talking to them. I don't know that um there's really nothing that make is mandatorily a discussible. It would really just be at this point a notification probably that we were talking about adjunct staff. Um, which I would do anyway. And I don't know that I see myself hiring someone as adjunct if they were going to be in a true teaching situation and not want to have followed what our master contract sort of put forth. Anyway, I just don't think that's I think notification is appropriate.
014Um, so that's it in E. So again, you would need to say whether you do want it to be discussable or negotiable with the union or again we can change it and say not not provide notification. Um letter F talks about legal settlement um equivalent instruction for compulsory attendance purpose compliance purposes for nonacredited schools. Um so 511 again we just had some changes in law about proof of residency. It also talks about accepting transfer students um which this is just legislative. Again this is kind of the open door thing in Indiana right now. 9270 is about our um now offering more of a virtual or hybrid option at our middle and high schools and basically allowing for example a homeschool student if they at least take one class here to participate in our extracurriculars clubs
015whatever as long as they meet all other eligibility requirements with IHSAA for example or whatever to participate um with one course instead of five. Right now, our current policy says they have to be here for at least five classes. Um, so that's not really the homeschooling. Yeah. And I think that's it. So really the only thing that I think you need to make besides if there was for were any other commentary on any of the other policies. It just needs to be the what type of communication with NA we would want to have about adjunct staff is the only thing that needs to be clarified I think in that group. So what's the feeling on that? Do we for each person do you want notification or do we want negotiation financial notification do I have
016state from this probably okay Sorry. Okay. So then for let's see. So we're en thank you. I was like trying to do all of it at once my head the letters aren't there to help. Um is there any more questions or comments or a motion to approve E1 E and F with the change to be notification in the policy regarding adjunct teachers. Make a motion to approve. Okay. Motion by WY. Is there a second? Second. Second by Darlene. Motion by WY. Seconded by Darlene to approve E1E and F. All those in favor announce by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. And one standing. So approve five to zero with one stating. Okay. Next up then we have new business the handbooks that annual thing every year and the next meeting you get to tell us
017what you did. So this is a first reading which means there's no action. Honestly you were pretty lucky this year. There weren't time changes. Yeah. I appreciate it. Tell I appreciate that they highlighted the changes. Yes. Yes. That makes my understanding. Yes. So, elementary there really weren't a ton of changes. Um, we have not had this issue yet here this year, but as part of our um of my involvement in a large cross Indiana superintendent Zoom, it appears that AI eyewear is now an issue in schools. Oh, wow. Where things could just pop up their lens. First read that work. I I had to think what we're talking about. I was thinking some kind of protection. Yeah. Yeah. It's already ended up latigious, believe it or not. Wow. Um, so it would be more of
018a cheating, plagiarism kind of thing. So that's not can't be allowable in the schools in the classroom setting. Um, it's going to kind of just fall under what our other cell devices and internet compatible device policies are. Um they did a little bit of revision for attendance situations and then all the handbooks kind of changed just to mirror each other so they're formatted similarly which was a nice addition but not a ton of changes in the elementary one. Middle school same ai eyeear um not really a lot of changes except in formatting for the middle school. Um in the high school again the addition of AI eyewear there was a small blurb about the Belbont next academy we are still developing its own handbook because there are going to be some things is you know
019when you're talking about virtual school defining even what present and absent and excused and unexcused is takes a lot more um verbiage than what's in there for brickandmortar kids. So, a little bit of blurb in there about it, but a lot of it's going to be in the handbook you'll see next. So, they will have their own handbook. Okay. Some things are going to be see the sure Belmont High School handbook as far as discipline, but a lot of the things about attendance and guidance is going to be different for them. um they had to add now I think we've got what two or three cohorts worth of graduation requirements in this handbook because I think the freshmen are starting on the high school redesign and then there's a couple other things in there for
020a few more classes. So um that's listed in there. Um they did choose to add and ask to add some provocation language in the code of conduct. We've had a couple incidents where students were dared, incited, um, challenged to do some things that were inappropriate. Um, probably especially with students who may be a little more easily led or vulnerable. And so they wanted some language that would allow the student who was deliberately trying to incentivize or provoke someone to do something that they knew was wrong um, to also face some consequences. um some additional language really just clarifying and adding and making it more explicit about driving and parking privileges. Um students are very motivated by driving to school and so trying to use that a little more as an incentive for if you do
021some more of the more severe consequences or repeated um incidents, you might lose your driving privileges for a time. Um, and I didn't catch this the first time around. I had just caught most of us had just discussed that they had lengthened the number of um the the window of time administration had to talk to students who had five or more unexcused absences from 5 days to 10 days which gives again a little more leeway because that can get really difficult especially when you're talking about our 10 week rolling window that we're used to dealing with things in quarters and you kind of deal with it in that segment and now it's just 10 weeks over 10 weeks over 10 weeks. I did catch when I read through the legislation again, they extended that to
022grade 12. So now we're doing that um well first to 12. So that'll be fun times for that one. Um and again after the addition of volleyball, one of the things that Mr. Baker wanted added just to produce just to clarify expectations and because questions have already arisen that if a student is participating in more than one sport concurrently that they have to establish what their primary sport is so that there is going to be a clear pecking order of what practice or event takes precedent and what coach gets to make that choice whether to allow the student to go to the secondary sport or not. Otherwise, we have people stepping on each other's toes. So, it's up to the student athlete to identify that. It's not up to us. But once they identify it,
023then if you have your primary sport has a game or a practice and the coach doesn't want to let you out because it's pre-turning, they don't have to. Um, so that was one of the other requests there. Is that not already in place? Because girls have done that for years. probably was never written in the handbook would be my guess. But um and lots of times it a few of the girls sports were true concurrent, but a lot of times it was maybe a soccer player was a kicker for the football. So there wasn't as much need to track and baseball sometimes would kind of have that issue. But I don't know. I think just more overlapping schools. Moreover overlapping. Yeah. Um, so I would say again there's no action tonight on any of those.
024If you have questions, I'm more than happy to take them now. Otherwise, you can email or call me and I will talk with the administrators if there's anything you want more information about. Again, there wasn't a lot um of changes, but I'll add my two cents. I've seen them all. They pass legal muster. Okay. Thank you. It's just about policy. Just reach out to me, I guess, if you have any any further comment or questions. So, next we have the classified handbook, which is the first reading. Yeah. Um, so again, not a lot of changes in this one. Um, one big change I guess that I wanted to discuss. Um, I'll talk with what the I think that third bullet point was left over from a change made last year. So, we did change a
025couple people in the matrix of what job falls into the classified handbook just because they were misidentified because of the length of their contract. Um, another minor thing um was we had previously allowed six days of bereavement time for grandparents, stepgrandparents, grandparents law. After talking to the different directors, they felt that was too much for a grandparent. And again, we would always take into consideration if this grandparent was the person who actually was the primary caregiver of that person. That's a little bit different situation, but we wanted to change that to three days um bereavement leave, paid bereavement leave for grandparent relationships. Sick bank has been something that is a great thing for the people who really need it and we certainly want to keep it. However, we have had some incidents where it has
026started to become used more often and used for reasons um that maybe we needed to go back and look at is it really being used for things that are serious ongoing illnesses and not stop gap between unpaid leave and using all your leave time. So, one of the ways that we wanted to look at doing that was at after looking at a couple different school systems classified handbooks was look at the sick bank as they do where presently what we do if you are granted sick bank leave, you're given that leave and you're given that leave. You get just more paid sick leave and that's okay. Um, but I think what other school systems have done to try to discourage it being overused is to make it a loan um or a borrowing situation as
027opposed to a you get it and there's nothing that you have to get back. So I think what we have um asked is that if someone needs any sick bank leave up to 30 days of leave, they have to pay back two days of their um contractual leave annually once they are back on active duty, if that makes sense. So, not while they're still on leave, not while they're still in the process of um not being able to work, but once they come back full-time annually, they would have to give back two of the days. If they would leave employment at North Adams, if they would um go to a different job, not and we'll go over these other exceptions. basically then they would have to pay us the monetary PDM rate that they were
028paid at the time of their separation from us. What does not get included there? If there is a death, if someone goes on permanent disability, and I think there was a third item, I don't have it pulled up right now. There was a third reason that basically would make them unable to work. Then there is no repayment. Basically, they leave flush um is how I would describe it. I don't know if Scott has any I haven't been through this one yet. I don't know if I didn't get it or haven't got it. It was in attached, but I'll have to talk some more. I don't understand. Can you What if I'm No, I was just going to ask if you could because it's different than what I'm used to. How does it work? Like if
029I if I get sick, I would call in for a few days, but if I'm off for long term, how does that work? And where does sick think come into? Okay, so this gets confusing and I'm probably going to have to because I'm used to the teacher contract more than the classified contract. So everyone gets paid leave in schools classified staff and this is what who we're talking about and it it's seven days annually and I think for classified staff it can acrue to 90 days. Is that correct? I think for classified 90 days well it's called 90 but in 90 ac so you could have maximum 97 days in any given year as a classified employee if you illness illness okay then you also get three personal days a year that can roll over
030two of them can roll over to your sick days annually It's a little bit different than than teachers what the numbers are. So, you have to use that acred leave or accumulated leave first when you're when you're sick. Um, the sick bank would only come into play after you have used all of your accumulated leave. So, some people use their annual leave annually and so they don't have a lot of accumulated. So they might reach that point sooner than someone who rarely takes off and has some catastrophic illness, injury, whatever. And in our particular sick bank, you can only use it for the employees illness or injury. You cannot use it for family. Now you can use your sick days for family medical leave, but um you can't ask for sick bank for anyone but
031yourself. So that's what triggers what when someone may ask for sick too. Okay. Um again what we have found um with classified staff um as you can see we have a lot of turnover in that in that staff. So there's often not a lot of accumulated leave for very many. Um, so sick bank is getting triggered more and more often and sometimes it's not necessarily falling under what I would have called a long-term illness or injury. It's more of a I may have had the flu, a couple doctor's appointments here and there, and basically I use my seven days and now I'm out of days and maybe I need to have a procedure or maybe I got the flu again and I'm off for four or five and I want to I don't want to
032take unpaid, which I get, but that wasn't the purpose of something. And so, um, I think the other thing we put in there is you need to either be asking for more than five days for sick bank as long and what I mean is you needed to have been off you need to be off for more than five days and that could include you've used your accumulated leave and then you that's fine if you need just a couple days of sick but if you only need five days or less sick bank's not a stop gap for unpaid leave is kind of what we're going for um there and maybe it does still exist there a time when there would have been a committee representation that they actually do determine whether it's worthy of a sick
033bank. Is that still that's still the case. Um, I can tell you it has become more difficult number one with precedent and number two with the legal interpretation and maybe Scott can pipe in here. what is considered a disability has gotten much broader. Um much so it's much harder to make that yes without there's not a lot of things we can say no to. Mhm. And so again, this is you can have it and that's no problem, but it's with the idea that this was a once hopefully a one-time situation and but the intent was, as you're describing, for really extreme, right, type illness. And we've had those, too. And those are that's what we want it for. We don't want it to go away because we've had some really good employees who have just
034had a terrible medical situation happen and they needed supported through that and we loved them when they came back. Loved when they came back and we're glad to be able to do it for them. It's a great perk that not very many businesses have. So I'm glad we have it. Um but it can become a very expensive sure perk too. um if misused. You mentioned that you know they return and then the payback. What if also they would retire? Would that that's the PDM rate? That would be kind of struggle a little bit with that one. I definitely understand the I think that was the third item. If they're retirement retiring because of disability or inability to do the job anymore because of the medical situation, it would be discounted. But I will also say
035it's happened that people wait and have procedures and things done right before they retire and use the system. Which again, I don't I get it. It's not that I get it, but not that I don't get it, but something to consider. Again, this is a first reading. So, think about it. Let me know what you think. We'll vote on it or not next month. Thank you for explaining that that help. Okay. Uh we we move on to transportation handbook. Really not much in there at all. Um, I did take the duly employed language that was also in the classified handbook and put it in the transportation handbook because so many of the folks that are duly employed are bus drivers and so I wanted that language just referenced in both locations. Um, that's really all
036the changes we made. We did not change any best discipline because we really had virtually zero issues this year. Um, and nothing else has really changed in in that realm at this time. Okay. And next we have a a personnel item and assignment. So I referenced one of our previous policies that had changed in legislation a couple years ago where we have to put some um approvals for personnel in new business um if they meet certain criteria. So, we had an individual that's being recommended to be a coach or an assistant coach, um, with one of our fall sports. And so, um, that's why this approval is separate and in the new business. So, this just needs to be a separate vote because you as a board have to be able to, um, we have
037to be able to show that we looked at that situation and that personnel hire individually and that you received whatever information you needed to receive. Okay. Any questions or comments or a motion to approve the personnel assignment? I'll make the motion to give the assignment as presented. Motion by Michelle. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by WY. Motion by Michelle, seconded by WY to approve the personnel as presented. All those in favor announce by saying I. I. Opposed same sign approved six to zero six to zero. Next up is the approval of a resolution to move education funds to operation funds on a monthly basis. So again, for new board members, I tried to explain um when the state several years ago moved from general fund to separating education and operations, they allowed us to
038transfer up to 15% of our ed fund revenue to operations annually to help pay for some of those salaries and benefits that had originally been paid for out of gen general fund, which is now more or less education fund. um we have kept a fairly conservative transfer and have been throttling it back for the last four years. So right now we have been at like 7.9% somewhere between seven and 8% for the last several years. Um as I've talked to you and going to be talking to you more um with this new legislative session, budgets are going to get really really tight and ed fund budget for us right now is my main concern. And so in trying to keep as much revenue as I can in ed fund and working with Chad Black, we
039are going to throttle that back to around a 2% transfer and see how that goes. If it doesn't go well, you'll see this resolution back for review again. But I think we will be okay. Um our operations fund while again property taxes are going to take a hit and therefore our operations fund will take a hit. we are because of our bonding strategies are a lot more agile right now in that particular fund. So, um that's going to come to about a 21,000 transfer a month for 2%. So, we're going to do that just to again try to get ready for the fall and what we might need to do just to keep that fund as healthy as we can. When we do transfers like this, does it affect how future finance availability or approval
040is when it comes back to the school system? Like when the state looks at it, it's like you've utilized this much. Um, and and while we're presenting it obviously as a need, that's why we need to transfer it. But are there a potential that they're going to look at it and say, "Well, if you've had that much to transfer on a monthly basis, then why are you considering yourself to be if that makes sense?" Yeah. I mean, as we say, it changes. I think the significant thing is that it's it's much lower than the 15% with being 2% because they do right now allow up to 15%. So they're recognizing the need to make that transfer, but I think we're showing really due diligence by it being 2%. Could do the 15%. Right. Right. I
041can tell you there's a more districts talking about doing the opposite right now that they have had a really low transfer and they're upping it because their operations fund is getting hit harder. So, we're kind of doing the opposite because our education fund is tighter and we've got a lot more wiggle room in operations. So, um but as Kim said, who knows, right? Depends on the their the weather how they want to interpret it the next legislative session basis. We're beginning to wonder after I've gone to several workshops and things in the last months that things are Well, I'll just have to make this statement. Maybe WY was going to do this. I did go to a a workshop with policy analytics who goes through all the legislation, especially does a lot with the legal
042part, but also the economic part. And with the property tax reform in particular, it was it's just I'm hoping that there's opportunity for legislators to revisit this even the short session upcoming because when you look at the They did not have the time because of how quickly they put that legislation through to really run the numbers as much as they needed to. The amount of impact that's happening to local government entities like schools versus what the taxpayer is going to feel relief from all this for a t for a pro homeowner to have a $350 reduction. That's what I'm hearing around $300 reduction. And that's really only for one to two years and then it starts recovering because the US Constitution determines the gross assessed value. The net assessed value is more contingent upon state
043law, but the gross assessed value is going to keep growing. And so that $350 is going to get eaten up as that goes up. So, it's really a lot of impact for not a lot of gain. So, I don't know. I'm hoping they see these numbers and decide, okay, this didn't come out the way we wanted it to. I'm hoping they don't say we need to give more relief to the taxpayer at the expense of local government. I'm afraid afraid I'm very afraid of that. But so it was eye opening I guess to see all that we're having to go through to look at our budgets and do differently and be concerned and then know well no one's really making a lot of gains from this. So anyway that was my I don't think we
044voted. No you are just fine. Any other questions or comments or a motion to approve the resolution to move funds as Kim noted? Make a motion. Motion by Dave. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Darlene. Motion by Dave. Second by Darlene to approve the resolution to move education funds to operation funds on a monthly basis. All those in favor announce by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Approve. Six to zero. Next up is the approval of the district property insurance for the period of July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. So, I think you have one of these sheets at your um table. I think they gave us a revised one here in just the last day that came in a little bit better. Um, one of the things that I can tell you
045all the districts as we were lobbying this legislative session talked about were just the increase in expenses. And one of the big increases in expenses we've been seeing is property and liability insurance. Um, as you can see over at just that threeyear span, um, huge jumps every year and a lot of that we're told are because of inflation to fix anything, replace anything, maintain anything and just the large increase in the number of high wind events with property damage that are being seen. so much more here in the Midwest. Um, we don't really have a choice in it. We have we have to carry it. Um, I can say, um, we don't at North Adams have a lot of folks who are willing to bid us this because of having a rifle room. Um, it's
046just what it is. It just to them is a even though they're airsoft rifles, to them it's an increased liability. But I think they did give us a little bit of an improvement. So, we're looking at about $26,000 increase on our premiums, annual premiums um for just the property liability. Um little bit of a decrease from last year on workman's comp. So, that's great about $2,000. And then cyber security um staying stagnant. big increase from 23 to 24bit, but because we've been seeing a lot more cyber attacks and after power school was hit and some of those kinds of things and different schools have been hit with their payroll and things like that, it's really nothing that um it's all it's something we have to have to because the likelihood of something happening. So it
047looks like the question the um request is going to be renewal for CM regent for our property liability IP for workman's comp and travelers insurance for cyber security. Okay. Any questions or comments or a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Motion by Joel. Is there a second? Second by Darlene. Motion by Joel, seconded by Darlene to approve the district property insurance for the period of July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. All those in favor by saying I. I. I. Approve. Same sign. Approve six to zero. Next up is the approval of the district public official bonds. So again, for new board members, this is something we do every year around this award meeting for um these four positions. Food service always is in a different six-month category. I think in December is when we
048do the food service bonds. Um but basically what this is, it's um a guarantee that the folks who handle money in this district, larger amounts of money um are going to be protected and that our public and district will be protected from potential fraud um to cover situations where a public official might misappropriate or abuse their position. Fraud, in other words, or embezzlement or whatever the case may be, theft. Um, so our request is to bond Beth Quinn as our district treasurer up to 100,000, Bev Litensteiger up to 100,000 as ECA treasurer for the district, Lorie Bomber at 50,000 as deputy treasurer, and Jolene W at 450,000 as payroll and benefits coordinator. Any questions or comments on that? Or a motion to approve. I'll make a motion to approve. Okay. Motion by WY. Is there
049a second? I'll second. I'm sorry. Was that Dave or Joel? That was me. Okay. I couldn't tell. I'm sorry. Motion by WY, seconded by Joel to approve the district public official bonds as noted. All those in favor announce by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Approved six to zero. Next, we have the approval of the resolution to allow North Adams Food Service to selfcertify micro purchases up to $50,000. So again, I think our original policy had allowed was it 10,000 BEP? I think originally um this is for food service. They just have to do this every year. Yeah, that was the um you're thinking about that was okay. I'm sorry. So this is another one of those annual things, I guess, but they have to just show that you approved every year. So food service
050often has to purchase big big big amounts of food that can be 50,000 or plus whether and so not having to go out and get bids every time you want to place a big food order or supply order is very helpful for them um because they are part of a lot of buying cooperatives which you've approved I think last week too. So, this just lets them up to $50,000 be able to go out and say, "This is who I want to go with. This is the most best balance of quality and efficiency and price without having to get three bids and go through that entire process. Okay, any questions or comments or a motion to approve?" I'll make a motion to approve. That is Dave. Thanks. I'll second it. A motion by D, seconded by
051Joel to approve the resolution to allow North Adams Food Service to self-certify micro purchases up to $50,000. All those in favor announce by saying I. I oppose saying sign. Approve. Six to zero. Next we have board member andor public comments. Just for information for uh our uh Indiana School Board Association, I am a member of the uh nominating committee uh representing our district here. I was in fact I just got the email yesterday. Nice. Just for information. Okay. Congratulations. Yeah. Anything else? Um, for my report, just update on the construction. If you walk through the middle school, elementary Raz hallway, it is demolished. Lots of block coming out of the building, no ceilings, no floor, down to dirt, and several classrooms, but they did it fast and they're moving right along. We are on track
052for the um the things in a hall like the sped wing and the ox gym where they're replacing pipe and things and um Mr. Worling's area in the high school to be done by the end of June. We are still crossing our fingers on that Raz hallway. It will all be about the cabinetry and whether it gets fabricated and being able to be installed in time. But right now, they are on track to meet their deadline of a few days before school starts. So, we have lots of buffer. Principles are making plan fees just in case. But again, I can't say enough about we've worked with lots of different contractors, but Mullen Camp, this is our second time working with them and they have just been really easy to work with and very responsive and
053so very impressed and um glad that they're on our team. Um the milling across campus in the different parking lots is going to start start here any day. Um we all started parking over there. I think we were supposed to get started. haven't quite got there yet, but it will within a few days here. Um, so that'll cause some probably disruption to parking and and traffic flow a little bit at times, but luckily that big pothole out in the middle of North Adams Drive is getting especially you. Well, that's just one of the roads is getting fixed and they keep saying, "Yep, as soon as I get here, that's what they're going to do." Okay, that's why the cones in it just so nobody loses a wheel. You say speed bump something. Um, summer best
054started on June 2nd and had we're in our second week and it's going really well. We have a big in a big enrollment of um, kids in in summer school. I guess I should say summer learning summer best. We still have room. So, if anyone needs daycare in the summer, we have still lots of openings. Um, registration is set to be kicked off. Tiffany, is it July 11th? for wanting to go live with right. We're gonna see just before mid July. Just before mid July. Okay. We're still trying to work on some things, but Belmont Next Intervey went out um and we have had I haven't checked today. I think we're up to close to 13 to 14 um people show interest in it. And again, I was happy if we get 10 takers. So
055that's kind of right now on the trajectory I was hoping for this first 4A. So we'll see how that continues to go. Spring athletics, again want to say congratulations to our girls tennis team who did phenomenally this year. And um also our um boys baseball team really showed a lot of grit and determination and had some good games there at the end of the season that were fun to watch. middle school track sent several kids to state and they did fared very well and all of our spring athletics had a great time and a great showing. I'll have a lot more next month about I can't believe we're already talking about start of school but the months are just flying by and the weeks are just flying by. I'm probably forgetting something. Oh, commencement. Commencement
056went really well and congratulations to all of our graduates. Um they had a really nice program I thought with lots of kids getting able to being able to participate and I love that we have different kids coming up and introducing different speakers or just gives again allows us to see a cross-section of the class which I think is really really cool. So congratulations to the high school on putting together that and all the graduates. Um I think that's all I have right now unless somebody can think of something. Kim, is it too early to know how the cuts for preschool are going to be with from the state vouchers? Not good. I know, but can we tell exactly what it's going to look like or is it just too early? Um, I think the cut
057in the amount. So, again, for a full-time on my way prek voucher student, All right, Lori. to defer you was over $300, wasn't it? 14792, I believe. And for the part 25 hours. And the bigger concern is even if you have someone who meets that, the state has very much capped how many they're giving out. Yeah. and the line and wait to get on a voucher is now it's going to be really hard to get a new voucher. Wow. If you have one and needs renewed, that one is more likely to happen, but trying to get a new voucher is going to be difficult. So, we are going to change the poverty line as well index to the poverty line. So you have to make much less to even qualify. That's unfortunate. And now one
058other requirement that they have added is people who apply must be working not just applying for jobs. They must be employed. They must be employed. which that's sad when you're talking about trying to get kids school ready. Yeah. Um I guess I understand part of their purpose, but again those children still need quality prek. If if there is both parents, do both parents have to be employed? I don't think so. Okay. We have more information coming in more to watch poverty line was the likelihood if you're working you meet that anyway right I think it was 140,000 now is the poverty line so it's it's what 140% of the poverty 140 I'm sorry 140% of what they consider poverty index and it varies by how many people are in your house, but it's still pretty
059wild. Yeah, considering it was 100, but we're going to see that everywhere because they also did this with SNAP and TAN, which is part of what calculates our complexity index for for ADM monies, and there's going to be fewer people eligible for those as well. So, that means fewer reduced less complexity money. Pardon? Title one. Title one funds. Oh yes. And universal. So I guess my statement my my repetitious statement has been we all have experienced cuts in different years in this business. It's the layers of cuts that are happening and it's very difficult to even know what are in some of the layers until some of this legislation has gotten kind of tweaked out. Um, and you have them happening at the federal level and the state level simultaneously. And we still don't know
060exactly what's happening with all the title monies, whether it's title one, title two. They did away with title three and well it got consumed and title two and four are emerging I think and title three kind of sort of is gone. So that won't impact us so much the title three part but for those schools who have a large e population it will be devastating for them. It's going to be interesting times and you're just going to have to be a lot more businessoriented. Maybe on a on a side note, I did talk with Jeremy Gilbert and he said the roundabout is a little bit of ahead of time. So whether that can stay that way or not, finally, give it some time. It's I know it's only been a fiveyear delay. So, well, so
061far so good. I I really pray it's not going on too long into when school starts. To have to reroute all that traffic will be difficult along First Street. But, and I don't know if I've announced this, but they are going to redo the signalization here at the um light to try to make it where there's not as many opportunities for close calls of turning traffic and and through traffic. Um, so that should be happening this summer, hoping hoping in July so that people can get practiced up a little bit before school starts. So you're talking like more of a delay before one when it changes from red to the other. Yeah. You said they're putting speed bumps or two on they're supposed to. The city got a grant to put um raised he called
062them raised crosswalks, but basically that's the thing. It's a speed bump. It would probably be equivalent to what's on first. Yeah. So along a street Monroe extended and then I think Pa potentially where we've had this month. So that I think that's a positive. It just gives people slow down. That's all I have right now. Anything else we will Thank you.