001looking [Music] >> keeps me honest. I said I really I think uh I think the time's ready here. Would you like to stand up and say the pledge >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Applause] Spotlight presentation. Halls of GC. >> Halls of GC. >> I know. Sometimes I made you will like climb through stuff. So this one will be a whole lot simpler and color. But what I want to introduce you to as they're making their way up front here so you can kind of say hi a bit more. U is program that we started a couple years ago now when Chris Sullivan started for us and started with us of bringing therapy dogs to
002those schools. Um, we've kind of grown the program over the last several years. >> My own echo. I don't like it myself. >> Yeah. Uh, >> we only want to hear yours, too. >> I know. Up there. >> Blame you none there. Uh, but currently we have six therapy dogs. One's >> Has Kai fully gone to retirement? >> He's still a therapy dog. Kai's gone to ameritus status maybe of therapy dogs >> which leaves us five still part of the program. Uh four of the therapy dogs that we have are siblings. Douggee, Logan, Frank, and Aggie. The three that you see here are that are here tonight are all three from the same litter um that one of Chris's dogs had. Even though they look nothing alike and are like the small, medium, and large
003sizes of the litter. Uh but they've spent a lot of time throughout this year. Um all three dogs are 17 months old now. So they started the school year as very much as five-month-old puppies and have grown a lot in this first year. Uh they are currently they've all received their K9 good citizen status as well as their advanced K9 good citizen status. Uh there's one more K9 good citizen tag they can get. U and then they'll be probably at sometime during this school year they'll hit full-fledged therapy dog status once they pass that test. Uh so that should happen sometime throughout the year. Um they are in the buildings in a very regular basis uh and do all kinds of different things at the schools. um pep sessions, prom, you can see Frank made
004it out there for the when channel um channel 13 came to do their uh >> operation football. Uh so and both of them, as you'll see from some of the pictures you'll see later, have been part of like unified champions day. They make their way around to lots of different schools, head around a lot of different things. Um when we surveyed the staff, because they'll spend time in different classes around as well. Um we surveyed like staff members who had in classrooms, they had nothing but positive things to say about the program overall. Um especially about the positive impact they seem to have on students as well as just the overall morale of what goes on in class. Uh emphasizing that positive effect. much more friendly interactions when the dogs are there and how much
005of a positive uplifting mood it kind of creates in what goes on in the class. Students all see the exact same things. I mean, you can see when just in watching kids come down a hallway when they see one of the dogs there, it is just, you know, a face lights up just it's like a continuous almost like conveyor belt of of positive expressions that come at us. Uh, so it just creates much like what you saw when people walked in the room here and they walked in and saw three dogs, they were all like puppies and that kind of spreads around for all of what we do as well. Um, and especially I probably want to emphasize one the bottom one there, you know, that they like that the stress of the school can
006settle down when there's a dog in the room. And if we can create that better atmosphere for them, all the better for that. They spend, like I said, lots of times all around. They're all in training that they receive once a week through custom canines that we have been paying for with a couple grants that Don Hansen wrote for us to help fund that for us. So, it's been an awesome, awesome program that I think has had a tremendous benefit in all the buildings of what they visit and we appreciate all of you letting us continue with this and and work with this. It's been an awful lot of fun for us and for the kids as well. Thank you for that. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> Thanks. [Applause] Do we have any public
007comments this evening? >> There were no requests this evening. We'll move right on to matters of the for consideration uh routine matters. Make a motion to approve the regular meeting June 9th, 2025 in the executive session June 9th, 2025. >> I move that we accept the minutes from the two meetings of June 9th, 2025. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. I post on two claims, Mr. D. >> Uh, yes. Included in your packet this month are the regular payroll and construction claims. Um, happy to answer any questions that you have. You will note on the front page of the construction claims that we are getting awful darn close to closing this out. Ask that the board approve the claims as presented. >> You have any comments or questions for Nick? Can I get
008a motion to approve the claim docket as presented? >> I move we approve the claim dockets as presented. >> Second. Second say I >> I oppose. >> Financial matters. Mr. D. >> Uh in the main financial report I just would like to to talk about the fact that the finances are progressing as expected. I have some more detailed information as we get into item B3 budget 2026. So uh we'll be back with detailed reports for June and July and August. >> Thank you. on to u instructional report >> a number of things in the instructional report and Mr. Marine's going to address most of them starting with Irene. >> Okay. We mentioned I read last month so we're eagerly uh awaiting the final results to come out. Those don't come out till the end of
009this month. So uh hopefully next month we'll be able to share our actual passing rate but we're still eagerly away. So we uh are very close I believe to meeting our our 95% goal. So uh we'll have the final results next month. Uh I learn our students also uh took the learn assessment uh beginning April. So uh those results are uh mostly officially out right now. So we can share some of those. we we were um at or above the state average in most areas except for a few that you've noted that I've noted there. Um and next year we are going to specifically target some uh intervention at the secondary level at at our junior high school. So we're going to partner with the new teacher project next school year to help us identify
010some of those weaknesses and address some of those concerns specifically at the high school. Um, additionally, I learn is changing next year. So, uh, next year will be the first year that we, uh, Greenfield Central are going to participate in the checkpoints, checkpoint assessments. Last year it was an opt-in. So, uh, schools were able to choose to participate in the checkpoints or not. We we chose to not because of all the testing that were that was happening throughout the school year. So, uh, next year every school 3 through eight in Indiana will participate in the checkpoints. So, uh we will uh we have plan of attack for those this this school year. Uh and lastly on that piece uh NWA assessment which we've used for many years now uh we're going to transition away from
011that 3 through eight because of uh the double testing. We're trying to not over test our students. So we're going to use the checkpoints as our formative assessment throughout the school year. We will still use NWA in kindergarten, first second class. Uh in early June, we met with our administrators at the leadership retreat, our annual leadership retreat. Uh we had a great time. We discussed our uh new district priorities, which you should have in your your packet, uh which mirror probably last year's district priorities. So we're uh consistent in our work here again this year. So, um, we had some bonding, some good times together. Look forward planning to, uh, this next school school year. So, it was it was a good another good leadership treat for us. Summer professional development. We've we had a
012first wave of summer PD in the beginning of the summer. Uh, we had uh some professional development with Reveal Math, Whitten Wisdom. We also had our uh new teachers um go through some trustbased relational intervention training which we'll have another one of those coming up after the beginning of the school year. And next week, I believe it's next week, Envision Math. We're having a session on Envision Math as well as uh some other opportunities for our students, I'm sorry, our teachers to uh receive the training that they need so that they can be successful uh this year. and graduation. >> Our last piece there, >> Mr. Carrie, what do you want to say about graduation rate? >> We have some great news from the high school. Uh they've done a lot of great work there
013and we are proud that the preliminary number right now is over 93%. Uh we still have some time. Many of you are aware we have until October to catch some of those October wonders. Uh get them across the finish line. That is our hope. And so that number may go up, but that's the preliminary number right now is over 93% which would be one of the highest we've had in a very long time at the high school. So want to commend Mr. Wbomb and his team all their hard work. Uh that is not an easy task and as we've talked about before they are only making that harder with waivers and caps that they put on those. So a lot of great work going on there. So very proud of that. >> Congrats on that.
014had that one last piece there on >> I'm happy. Yep. So, Jobs for America's graduates is a program we've had in Greenfield Central High School for many years. Had many wonderful JAG teachers at the high school. Our current JAG teacher, Darren Turner, does a terrific job. He's been with the high school for many years. Due to state budget cuts, the um company that oversees JAG is shutting down and so there are going to be very few JAG schools in the state. I believe in our region there are going to be two and so many of those are being shuttered. It is a career pathway for our graduates. And so um you know when working with Dr. Olen and the team, we've decided to keep Mr. turn her on um in a similar role and and
015kind of take JAG the best parts we liked about JAG and form this new program that we are calling LEAP. And so it's going to do a lot of great things for kids. We're hoping to get a local pathway accepted by the state so it'll count for a graduation pathway for those kids. Uh but they're doing a lot of great work to kind of take some of the best elements of JAG and make it work for our kids and add to it as well. So it's it's definitely a unique program that will look different than it has in years past. We hope that by having a little more control over it, a little more say that it uh works even better for our students. So um wish I had all the answers, but we are
016kind of building that plane in the air. Uh the concern we had is that we have a lot of kids who were in JAG last year as juniors who now no longer have JAG as seniors and that was going to be one of their pathways. And so uh it's something that the high school team has been working on this summer. I know we met with Mr. Turner uh earlier in the summer and they continue to work on that. So, we will have a good answer for you at some point in time, but we're excited for this opportunity that we're going to bring uh hopefully to make that even better for our students. So, >> Mr. Car's really undersold the work that's been done here. We were notified very late that we would not be allowed
017to continue as a JAG school and looking out for those students best interest. Mr. Kerry, Mr. Wong Scram who's here and many other teachers have really put a lot of time into this to ensure that none of our kids lose that opportunity. So we we've had a a lot of work go into this and they've done some some yman's work there. Thank you. >> They have. So this is officially where I tap out to Mrs. Actually, if you remember last month, we did present to you based on Senate Enrolled Act 442, the Human Sexuality Curriculum with the requirements that were written into into law. We've made no changes to that from what you saw last month. This being that second reading, we would ask that the board approve the materials to teach human sexuality in
018grades 5 through 12 as presented. >> You have any questions or comments? Can I get a motion to approve the materials used for the tech human sexuality in grades 5 through 12? >> Make a motion to approve the materials used to teach in grades 5 through 12. >> Second. >> All there say I. >> I. All say >> thank you. >> On to budget 2026. So, I'm I'm going to skip around a little bit on this one. Uh really looking at the first attachment, the 2026 budget calendar. Today, you know, 7:14, we're going to talk about our taxing funds and our budget strategy. Um, as we go into August, um, we get budget forms ready for the next board meeting, and that will be the time where we start talking about advertising for our public
019hearings and and stuff like that. The second attachment that's in there is is a cash balance on June 30, which is kind of the kickoff of the fiscal year for the budget. Um, everything that we do really starts with an 18-month process that starts on June 30, July one of the current year and and rolls out over the next calendar year. And you can see, you know, historically where our cash balances have been over time, um, our revenue, our expenditures. You know, the important thing to remember when we start talking about the education fund is we at this point we continue to bring in revenue that ex exceeds our expenditures. that gap is narrow. Something we've been talking about now, you know, particularly particularly the last few months this year. Um, as we think about
020our budget and our funds and the overview and the strategy we're looking at, at the end of the day, the strategy is not going to change. The strategy is going to stay with the idea that we're going to maximize our income. We're going to contain our costs. We're going to continue the process of advertising our budgets higher than than what we will really spend in order to maximize the authority we have to do that. Give us the most flexibility. As we've talked about in the past, the DGF, you know, always let you lower what you're doing from a budget standpoint. They'll never let you increase it from your initial advertisement. So, that's important. Give us this flexibility to react to what comes at us. And as you know, we've had a lot come at us
021in the last six months of the legislative session. Um, from an expenditure standpoint, we're going to continue to try to streamline our expenses. We're going to try to increase the efficiency of our operations fund. We're going to continue to maximize the dollars to the classroom. We have some challenges coming at us, but the goal here in building this budget is to give us that maximum flexibility to address our needs as it's moving forward. We we're in the midst of doing lots of things on on the education fund side to make sure that rights size to make sure that we have the tools that our teachers need to teach kids that are coming to us. On the operational side, you know, we have spent some money on deferred maintenance. Our buildings are are in much better
022shape today than they were seven years ago when when I first got here. And that's a good thing. We we are providing a safe and welcoming environment for our families, for our kids. You know, we've expanded our preschool. We're doing lots of great things there. You know, we're going to probably move into a mode where it's going to be a lot of fixing what breaks. We are going to support our operations fund as as we talked about, you know, with the geo bonds that we took out last year and the potential 2025 lease rental that's coming at us using the authority we have that we approved last year. We're going to use some of those dollars to to accomplish some projects. We're going to use some of those dollars to address some deferred maintenance and
023quarter operations. Remember, you know, back in 2019 when we to switch from multiple funds to really the two big funds, education operations. They became kind of inexraably linked. There's some items that that used to be coming out of the general fund, which is now the education fund. They're now in operations and we transfer some money every year. So everything that everything we can do to make operations work better supports what's happening in the classroom. not just from the the reality that you have to have a classroom that's clean and you have to have a classroom that where the HVAC works. You have to have bathrooms where the toilets flush. You know, obviously that's the the kind of nuts and bolts of the operation fund that make school work. But the other thing is is is
024making sure that we're efficient there so we can transfer as little money as possible. Unfortunately, in this budget, I'm going to ask you to transfer a little bit more than we have the last few years. We're just going to needed to fill a hole that's coming at us from the property tax change. We're not going to realize all of that change in 2026, but it's going to start coming at us in small, you know, drops and dribbs for the next five years. Um, we're going to start talking about our debt service fund in a different way. We'll get into that more as we as we start talking about the lease rental and some of those projects that we want to do. We're really going to talk about um the levy we have today and staying
025within that levy and and tax rates be is going to become something that we really have no control over for the next five years. They've changed the math. The math is no longer our control from a tax rate standpoint. So, we're just going to have to make sure that we're getting the revenue that we can in the most efficient and using it the most efficient way possible because it's going to it's going to get smaller. Um, that doesn't mean there aren't opportunities for us to do great things. We are positioning ourselves with the cash balance we have on hand to continue to pay our teachers well. We this last year we finally became the you know the highest average teacher pay in the county. That was that was something we were trying to accomplish. Beginning
026teacher pay it stands out across the state. having having a son who's just gone through a a interview season as a beginning teacher and as he goes as he was telling me I'm going to go interview at X and well good or bad I went and looked at their contract >> and there was a lot of schools that surprised me schools that I thought would be much higher paying than we are and they aren't you know schools in the in the doughnut counties on the northern you know north side of Indianapolis that you know tend to be the affluent schools that everybody thinks you have have high pay and they do but their starting salary is lower cost. So we're doing good things for our teachers which in turn lets us retain good teachers, train
027good teachers and provide good classroom experiences. So it's going to be a challenge but I think that we're positioned well to accomplish it. Um it's going to look a little bit different as we start advertising. There's going to be some changes. Um, I I'm working with a group called policy analytics to talk about some more specific forecasting of what the changes on the property tax side look like. And if we decide to go down that path, there is an expense to it. But if we decide to go down that path, I should have some more detailed information, some projections on that side as well. Um, there's really no action this evening. I'm happy to answer any questions you have. Like I said, overall we're not changing what we do. We're going to change how we
028do it. >> Fortunately, Nate and I went to a workshop on June 24th that this is just it's going to keep changing over the next four to five years. Uh the representative that leads the House Budget Committee for Education said, "Yeah, we we got this in there, but there's a couple other things." So, it's it's going to keep changing on us, unfortunately. But I think we did that day based on the questions there were some schools that a lot more dire straits than what we are based on these changes but uh that group name talked about policy analytics they they're starting to do a lot of really good work getting all the way down to the parcel level so I'll be curious to hear you know what they have for us and how they can
029help us but they there seems to be a lot of momentum a lot of schools that have worked with them that are pretty high on the work that they've done that can help do some forecasting and analysis so I know we talked about this a little bit last month, but the changes that came out of Senate Enrolled Act One in terms of the way that we will collect taxes from each parcel based on different thing, different credits, for instance, age or whether they've been in the military. It's just hard for us to gauge what that is without somebody spending an inordinate amount of time doing that. So, I do believe it would behoove us to to tap into that expertise. done a really nice job of spending less than we've brought in over the last
030seven, eight years since Mr. Day has been with us tech kept that tax rate very low level. In fact, we've let it drop in tenure quite a bit. This is a game changer for us. We just make sure we have the tools in place to keep us viable financially. >> I think it's important to remember and I think it's important for people to hear this. we could ask for not one single dollar more next year and the tax rate is going to go up because of the change. So, um that's not a that's not a I'm not trying to, you know, bait and switch here, but we we really need to start talking about, you know, what we're spending overall. And and, you know, we've been rightfully so proud of holding our tax rate at
031a at a a level or slightly decreasing way. That's being very positive that there's nothing wrong with what we've done. It just the conversation has changed and so we need to change with the conversation. Tax rates out of our control moving forward. >> Thanks. We'll go on to a construction update. >> I'd like to give you an idea of some of the work that's going on. Not that you wouldn't see that driving down Franklin Street, but you know, from the road, you don't really get a sense of everything that's happening there. So, I believe Mr. Thompson's going to put some pictures up there for our our crowd to see. And of course, you can thumbnail those maybe or small as you would like. But the point being, we're moving quite a bit of dirt there.
032Obviously, setting the stage for the the tennis court complex and the parking lot that'll be there. And of course, we'll have one building there for concessions and storage as well. But that picture, the drone picture that Mr. Thomas really gives you a great idea of the scale of that as it compares to the existing tennis courts and baseball field across the street. So we've had good weather for them to make a lot of progress here within the last couple weeks. We had our first actually that's not true our second construction meeting last Friday with Bernie from Bart Coilma and and the contractors. Really happy with the progress that's being made. The only piece that's really hanging out there right now, the oddity of this property is that it is serviced by both Ninstar and Greenfield
033Power and Light and they're trying to work out uh some sort of agreement that it's only served by one of those groups. So, uh Mike Burrow and and Mayor Titus have been having conversation about that. And unfortunately we unban us we actually designed the project so it sits over the line between what's served by both >> just just kind of dumb luck. We we believe that will be rectified in time but it's one of those things where they need to do the infrastructure for that >> here pretty pretty quickly. But hopefully that gives you an idea of the the work that that is being done there. Um, of course we do still have the agree. Before you leave that on that property there, just a reminder to the board that we purchased that property from
034the Frost family in December of 2018. >> They've had an opportunity to utilize that property for a year beyond the passing of Beway Frost, which was June 25th. Last month, the board had an agreement. We've been working with the executive of of that will Chad Frost letting them know that they can have an additional two months without any compensation. It is their goal to have some sort of auction on that property here in the next two months. Obviously, if they don't hit that that timeline, then they'll pay us backward for those days that that they've utilized that. But there has been a lot of movement over there. I'm optimistic that uh they'll be able to hit that that deadline. But they were very appreciative of the board's willingness to to extend that with a little
035additional grace of two months. I just want you to hear firsthand. Mr. Straw and I did visit over there. We've seen firsthand that things are moving. >> Yeah. Mr. Thompson's moving down the list. Of course, we did buy the property on Green Meadows for our child care program. A lot of progress has been made there. Uh these pictures really show pictures on the exterior as the city worked with us about things we needed to have in place. Uh a lot of asphalt that has been poured, a lot of sidewalks have been poured. Of course, we had to have external doors that are can be used for egress for each of those three rooms that we'll be we'll be utilizing. And then Greg, if you'll go ahead and continue to move down through there for others
036to see. This was taken about a week ago. Most of the flooring is in. We still have some touch-up painting to do. some light fixtures, some cabinet work to be done, but we are still I know that Mrs. Cinci is back there. We are still eager for that openhouse opportunity for our families that will be coming up next week. And Greg, if you'll scroll a little bit more, I think you see that that um yeah, that'll be coming up on Thursday the 24th. But things are really moving along very well. We fully anticipate we'll be ready to to roll for our our youngest learners. Happy to take any questions about that. certainly you're invited to attend that open house opportunity. >> No question about that. >> If not on that, the last thing we'll highlight
037for you would be the the dance studio. Hard to believe that was the scene prep and storage area that sits behind the old auditorium. We were able to pretty quickly transform that. Though you do see some lines there that look like it's for a basketball or volleyball court. that does not have athletic purposes for basketball or volleyball. Our dance team and some of our performing arts groups will utilize that space. They did ask us to line that with some of those so that they know what that spacing would be when they transfer from that room to a regular gymnasium. But just happy that they were able to make that happen here pretty quickly. >> No, that looks good. Just to let you know, I've heard from the community on that dance community that really really
038satisfied and happy that that got done. So, thanks for getting that motion done. >> I've been there center for 25 years now and we really try to take care of all the programs that we have here. The dance team was one of those groups that just bounced around from one area to another. So, for them to have a place that really they can can call their own, not that others won't use the space, it is a place where they can store a lot of their stuff and make it their home. So, Thank you for that. All right, let's go on to um new business business information. >> Yeah. Uh on the grants and donations, I I I have a a grant um but probably more importantly that grant comes um because the USDA has recognized
039our food service department for two initiatives as part of the healthy meals summit that is coming up this fall. Um, I added some information that, you know, as a they identified us as a small or rural SFA lunch trails blazer. Um, and that's there's some details there about increasing the fresh produce available. Um, cutting down on on salt and some of those items and also an innovation and preparation of school meals. Um, this is for schools who plan to prepared three new scratch recipes for school breakfast and lunch. And the recipes that we included or submitted for the award were a chicken broccoli flatbread, ramen noodle bowl, and pizza soup with grilled cheese um that have been popular with the with the kids, but also recognized by the USDA. Um the reason that it shows
040up as a grant or donation is part of this award is they are giving us 5,000 approximately $5,000 worth of value to take three members of our staff out to the healthy uh meal summit. uh in October of 25. So kind of a double a double whammy there. Um in the sense that you know we got a grant donation, but it was because we've done some really great work in our food service program. Um along those lines, I I did talk to Amanda a little bit earlier today, Amanda Stout, and we're on pace to double our summer meal ser >> from last year. >> So we'll have final numbers. We we go through the end of this week, next week. Go through the end of next week, I believe. Um, and so we'll uh we'll
041we'll have those final numbers for you in August. Uh, I just ask that the board approve the grant donation as presented. The amount of this opportunity is approximately $5,000. >> Can I get a motion to approve the grant donation as presented? >> I move that we approve the grant donation as presented. >> Second. Say I >> to health service annual report. >> Yeah. Every year we ask uh Hansen to provide a a summary of our our health service. So if you wouldn't mind providing that report and they have the report that you had had sent. >> We'll see how she does. She's the most spirited one. She requires the most support. >> Okay. So, as Dr. Olen said, I'm here to provide an overview of health services from the school year and highlight the impact
042of our department on student safety um health and learning. Um you have the sheet that shows um all of our visits and I want to talk about that in just a minute. But before I do, I want to acknowledge the staff members that um provide these services to our students. We have Brianna Herps at Eden, Tammy Griggs at Harris, Audrey Atkinson at JD Stevens, Sarah Potter at Weston, Julie Massie at GIS, Pam Parsons at MIS, Nicole Garri at the junior high, Jessica Foreman at the high school, Amy Damon and Chris Sullivan are two of our nurses, and Amanda Mallister is our support specialist. Um so none of our successes would be possible without these dedicated um staff members and their efforts are greatly appreciated. I value each of them tremendously um as the caring, compassionate
043people that they are to continue to serve in the public school setting and I just think it's really important to start with them because they are the heart of our department. Um, when I pulled our numbers for the year, our total clinic visits for the year across the district were 22,69 students and 134 staff members. That's very comparable to last year. There's not a big difference there. Um, we did send 85% of those students back to class. So, 85% of the students that came to the clinic were able to return to the learning environment. Um, we had 20 EMS calls. 15 of those were transported to the hospital. five are where parents declined and that declination I don't want anybody to think that their parent did not want to seek treatment. Some of them chose
044to transport themselves. Um so it's not just that they declined treatment. Um we administered 14,692 medications and 6,865 medical ordered treatments that are treatments ordered to us by a healthcare provider. Um what is interesting to me is our top clinic visits. So stomach aches and headaches have always been at the top of the list. They're very um common complaints, but you can see the top visit for this year was stomach at 3,175, but entering the top three for us now are restroom visits. Um so one of the most significant trends that we've seen in the last couple of years, especially in our tier one clinics, is the increase in toileting challenges. We're seeing more students enter the school setting who are not toilet trained as well as a rise of students experiencing frequent bowel and
045bladder incontinence during the day. The trend has placed a substantial strain on school staff and resources. And I think it's important to note that this isn't just a Greenfield central issue. This is a nationwide issue that is facing districts. Um Dr. Wing, you might be familiar and see this in your clinic. I was at a conference where um a GI specialist actually spoke about this very phenomenon that we're seeing in the districts and um they actually call it Fortnite constipation. We have a lot of kids who are preoccupied with their other um interests and they're not using the toilet. They're not recognizing that need. So that's translating to some some incontinence issues in school. Um so that that just was really interesting to me to have that be our number two visit. Um no pun
046intended for the um clinics for the year. Um, headache stayed in the top um three at 1,693 visits. Um, from a wellness perspective, we continue to um provide immunization clinics when we can. Our resources are now limited due to funding cuts. The Indiana Coalition is no longer able to provide that service to us here in the district. Um, the health department has offered to help us some, um, but their resources are limited too. Um, so they will be here next week during or this week it's this week during centralized registration. Um, but we had to keep it we weren't able to open it up as wide as we normally do because they only have one nurse to send. Um, so we also have wellness challenges for staff um that they seem to enjoy to participate
047in. Um, we offer CPR for staff members who need it. And we also to continue to promote independence and resilience in our students um by teaching them how to cope with minor issues such as chapped lips and bumped elbows and paper cuts. Um it's amazing to us the WOW method. If you're not familiar with it, it's um water, oxygen, and waiting. Um 10 sips of water, 10 deep breaths and 10 minutes of waiting does miracle cures for for kids and we can get them back to to class. Um the other one that's a fan favorite of the students is the foot stomp to cure nose bleeds. And if you're not familiar with it and you have anybody in your family that has nosebleleeds, I recommend you look it up because we can stop most major
048nose bleeds with a foot stomp. So that's a fun fact. Um ongoing challenges that we face um complex health needs of our students. Our students seem to have um an increasing co co- issues, co-alth issues. So they're becoming more complex in their medical needs. Um, and it's difficult for us sometimes to maintain consistent nursing coverage to cover all of the needs. So, it's it's like a constant juggling act to figure out who's going to be who, what, when, where. And I think I have people lined up that can't wait for the daycare to call that a baby needs somebody to come and like check their temperature because they're super excited to maybe be able to help with babies. Um, but like many departments, we experience hiring difficulties. Um but vacancies in our district or in
049our department um the most recent nursing position I had took eight months to fill. Um so keep in mind that you know for eight months of the last school year we were covering a vacancy and it my team does a great job. I mean they would pivot on the moment if we needed to and drop what they were doing and um just cover what we needed to do. nobody went without during the school year and we I truly truly truly appreciate my staff and their to be so flexible. Excuse me. >> Um school health services provides an important role um to keeping students healthy and safe while they're at school and staff members and visitors as well. Um Aggie has played a good role in that. She's been in the clinic when EMS was called
050and she did a great job. um she the the dogs in general really for a lot of kids I think are helping keep them in the classroom maybe a little bit more. Um so I'm happy to entertain any questions you might have about anything I've had to say or anything in the report. >> How many years has this been for you now at Greenfield Central? >> 13's done a fantastic job for us her entire tenure. I knew it had been quite a while continues to help us get better and better and meet the needs of kids and those needs as you referenced seem to be getting a little greater. >> I think some of the I know the incontinence and stuff is that result of just society or is that maybe co and those numbers
051might start going back down now that >> that's a great question and there's a lot of debate and discussion about that. Um, we we'd like to see it trending down soon. >> There are lots of us that would like to see it trending down. >> But it is it's it I mean it and it is not just our kindergarteners. >> It's all ages. >> Yes, it is. >> All ages. >> Thank you. Commencement 2026 recommendation. >> We did receive a recommendation from Mr. Wall who's with us this evening recommending May 30th, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. and the Don Automotive Gym for the setting for the upcoming commencement. This really fits really well within the the calendar that we have. It' be after the Memorial Day weekend. So no uh conflict there. Most of our seniors
052would be done well ahead of that time. So I I would fully recommend that uh that we take that recommendation. >> Take a motion to approve the recommendation for 6 commencement program. >> I move we approve the recommendation for the commencement >> May 25th. >> May 30th. talking about the right. All in favor say I. >> I oppose. Say >> congratulations on your first one. What? Well, >> thank you. >> We did. >> Even though you flipped the gym. >> Yeah. For a loop there. >> Shock to everybody there. >> Stay there next year. >> All right. Board policy recommendation first reading. It's that annual time of year that uh ISBA church church hill on an others have looked at the changes from the general assembly and how those impact the schools. We do have
053a list of I believe it's 17 or 18 recommendations in total. You're seeing six of those this evening for a first reading and then it' be our plan to bring these back to you next month for a second reading and then another set of five or six for for first reading. which you have A100 on non-discrimination and anti-harassment, B100 board authority and philosophy, B150 board organization, B200 on membership, and then on that second page, C175 student attendance, academic engagement and truency prevention, and then the last one, C200 on anti-bullying. Be happy to take any questions you would have or might have about the language that has been recommended. Otherwise, I'll just bring that back to you next month. Any comments, motions? >> Back next month. >> Okay. To personal matters, contract recommendations, resations, leaves, and
054retirements. >> We have a long list for you this evening. I will jump through these recommendations. Leave of absence for Courtney Zeler. Certified recommendations. Sophie Duncan, Abigail Leland, Brad Seir, Christine Ci. Certified resignations, Amanda Wyber, Megan Long. Go to the next page. including Wendy Tristell, Meg Welch, classified resignation, Brian Skyles, ECA recommendation, Zack Allen, David Connor, Ariah Cordier, Trevor Flatter, James Gilly, Frank Guthrie, Brian Heckley, Ken Hal, Kelsey Jones, Pton Knight, Sandre Lacy, Katie Larson, and then on that last page continuing Nate Murray, Ethan Robbins, Leah Springer, and Tony Sanscini. I ask that the board approve the personnel report as presented, providing us the opportunity to hire as needed for the rest of the 202526 school year. And of course, we presume those names to you at the next RA schedule board meeting. Can >>
055I get a motion to approve personal report as presented? >> Make a motion to approve the personnel report as presented as well as grant approval for hiring for the 2526 school year as needed. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> All in favor say I. All same. on to spring 2025 coach reviews recommendations. >> This is just a first reading for you as we look at the recommendations we've received from our athletic directors. Mr. Manning is here this evening. No real surprises on there in terms of what those recommendations would be for next year. Continuation of the staff that we had last year in the spring. Any questions for want to classify raises handbook and review? >> If you wouldn't mind, could I back up just a moment? We have a few people with us in
056the crowd today that we would typically recognize and they they came here this evening. Um I believe we have Christine Suite is is here on the list if you would mind Christine waving your hand there. Christine would be the recommendation for for dean of students there. >> Cleveland has a couple >> Mr. Cleveland as well. >> Yes. >> As Mr. Day said, we have attracted some very good people to the junior highs, filling a couple of my vacancies. Uh so first I'd like to rec recognize Abby Leland. She's coming to us from Crest Middle School, a former colleague of mine where she has been a fifth grade teacher. She's going to be filling in for our split team uh English language arts uh teacher that we have place. So, welcome Abby and her seven years
057of experience. And then to my left, Mr. Brad Seir, uh comes to us from Southern Hancock most recently in 20 years as an educator. Um a great math teacher. He's going to be filling part of our seventh grade math position as well as teaching our our algebra classes at the junior high. So, my two presentations for you this evening. >> Welcome. I think at this >> Well, I've got Let's not >> We'll come back to that one. >> Yeah, we can move on to classified handbook. >> Well, welcome to Greenville >> on to classified hand raises and handbook review. >> Uh thank you. Uh Mr. Mr. Jack and I have been working on uh the classified classified certified painbook uh this spring and and summer, but also raises for numerous classified staff. Um you can
058see our proposals there for raises. Um there's both hourly raises. Um some raises across our bus driver and preschool related arts instructor, school safety officers, as well as our building level administrative support salaries. and a couple of our corporation level food service salaries. I ask that the board approve those raises as presented and that they approve the handbook changes which are detailed there at the bottom of the page. Um though we will be striking the added professional address verbage on page five of the handbook. Comments or questions? Right. Can I get a motion to approve the classified handbook and pay scale as presented? >> I move that we approve the classified handbook and pay scale updates as presented. >> Second. All in favor say I. >> Thank. >> On to administration. >> All right. This
059is one that we've got some people who thought I was going to mention earlier. We do have a recommendation for Weston principal and that would be for Mr. Scott Miller. giving you a little bit of a a summary of Scott's career with this. He's been with Greenfield Central almost three decades and a variety of leadership roles. He's had a lot of successes for us and each of those. So, it's without reservation that I do recommend Scott for that Weston principal as noted. >> All right. Can I get a motion to approve Scott Miller as principal of Weston Elementary School? >> I move to approve Scott Miller as principal of Western Elder School. >> Second. All in favor say I. >> I oppose. Same. Scott. [Applause] >> Thank you. >> Is that short enough, Jason? >>
060We don't have any other comments or questions. Can we move along to important dates? First, second teacher day will be Monday, July 28th and July 29th. First student day, Wednesday the July the 30th. Schoolboard meeting Monday, August the 11th, 2025. Topics for future agenda will be the budget for 2026, public hearing, technology report, school improvement plans. We don't have anything else. Can I get a motion to adjourn this meeting? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. Thanks everyone for coming. [Applause] >> Congratulations. >> Been away from his phone for what? Three hours today. up 30 some messages. So that's what happens. She had >> she was she said she wanted to catch up with me about some interviewing. can stretch.