001It's it's 7 o'clock. We'll go ahead and uh stand and say the pledge. We'll go ahead and get started to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We'll continue with our uh spotlight school, Greenfield Central Junior. Good evening. We are here to be the spotlight school. You know, after 40 years in the district, I've seen quite a few changes. One of the changes I really never thought I would see though is how few teachers we could find. And so when I had a resignation last year in technology, I thought, uhoh. And so we posted it and we had one candidate from Texas. I'm happy to tell you we hired that gentleman. He is doing a great
002job. He's revitalizing our technology department. but I'm gonna let him tell you about it along with three of his students. Please welcome Mr. Marthan who's going to talk with you a little bit about technology. Hey, good evening. I'm Andrew Marthin. I'm the new tech teacher at the junior high. Um the last 10 years I taught and coached in Houston, Texas. And then this summer I had the opportunity to move up here and I was really excited to teach in Greenfield Central. Um this year working with the high school teachers we have been shifting our class focus on to manufacturing and producing products. This year we acquired a small laser engraver through the foundation in the Makea-Wish program. The laser has been great for our students giving them something to like give them giving them things
003that they can make in class and then take home with them. Um the students can really run that themselves. I don't I teach it once and then they kind of go through it and they teach each other how to use it. Um, and that's a something we use a lot in class right now. As a class, we are planning on acquiring new equipment and just keep going into that manufacturing. Next year, we'll also be offering a level two class for our eighth graders where our students that are seventh graders right now will expand upon that. And then they will also get to build bigger things um more like benches and picnic tables and stuff that we can put around campus. Um tonight with me I have Blake Debris, Aiden John, and Maria or Maria Marisol.
004These three students have been great in my class this year and we have prepared a video for of our production process. So that that's just kind of how quick the process goes. Um, usually the kids will design on paper, then go to Canva, and then once we make it in Canva, we'll do some type of prototype. We got a lot of cardboard this year and so that's great for like small things like that. Each one of my students, they actually have a small keychain and a packet for you guys. You guys can go ahead and go up and get those. The packet just kind of speaks more about our program and kind of where we're trying to lead it. Thank you very much. Spell my last name right. Would any of you guys have any
005questions for myself or any of my students? You may have already mentioned it, but you got that from a wish. What's What is in line for next year? I know you you mentioned more equipment. Maybe I missed it. Maybe another one of those. That's a pretty small laser engraver. Um it will only do like 4 in by 4 in. And then kind of if we have two, it would really streamline stuff cuz when we're using it, it's like the whole class period and it it just takes a long time. Like you saw these keychains literally the video was not sped up. Takes like 30 seconds a piece. But if we're doing something bigger like wood or something that needs more time, we're just like it's the whole class. We're on that thing all day. Foundation
006event this year. I think I'm like know what I'm looking for. There. No further questions. I I want to illustrate what what Mr. Martha is doing. I would love to tell you that was a great part of my plan. It's been a bit serendipitous, but what's going on at our school is paving the way for the new graduation pathways that the kids are going to enter into at the high school. In fact, Blake, who is here today, not only has he benefited from this, but he's also benefited from our media class that Mrs. Holden is teaching because Blake was not that good of a speaker originally. And now Blake Blake is doing a great job and I look forward to him in a TV station someday because he's really found out how to make it
007happen. So, Mr. Marvin, guys, thank you very much. We appreciate you showing our best. We'll move on. Do we have any public comments this evening? We did not have any requests. We'll continue with the routine matters. Can I get a motion to approve the meeting for March 10th, 2025, the executive session for March 10th, and the executive session for March 26, 2025? Make a motion to approve the minutes of the meeting of March 10th, executive session March 10th, executive session on the 26th, and the special session on April 2nd. Second. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. Same. On two claims, Mr. today. Uh yes, in your packet this month are both the regular and payroll claims as well as construction claim. Um as you can see, we are very quickly closing out that
008account um with your construction funds down to a very very small balance of payment. I'm happy to answer any questions that you have um about any of the claims in the docket. Otherwise, ask the board to approve it as presented. You have no comments or questions. Can I get a motion to approve the claim docket as presented? I move we approve the claim dockets as presented. Second. Second. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Say on to old and unfinished business financial matters. Mr. D. Uh yes. Included your packet financial report which has the final uh February and March receipts and expenditures. Actually the January has been updated as well. Um we did have our February ADM count um that we talked about last month. Um it was down a little bit but but not
009very much from the fall. Um we've talked about how that's going to continue to be a concern for us particularly as the legislature works through the new bienium budget. Um we've been talking a lot about operations fund. Um what's coming at us in terms of Senate Bill one is is concerning. We're talking about $3.2 2 million a uh over the next three years and decrease in our revenue. That's going to primarily impact the operations fund. We're going have to find some ways to economize there. Um we're also going to find find some ways to reinforce that revenue. So that's items that we are going to look at. Um the session is scheduled to end on April 29th. Um maybe a little bit earlier, but we really won't know what's going on with final bills until
010then. Senate Bill One has changed three times, including twice in about 24 hours last week. 350 pages. Yes. Yeah. We're we're up north of 350 pages on Senate Bill One. So, it's it's very complicated process right now. Um and there's just a fair amount of legislation, legislative uncertainty. Happy to answer any questions about um the reports. Um, I will try to answer questions about legislation, but like I said, it changes a lot very quickly. Any questions or comments for Mr. D? Thank you. We'll move on to instruction and program report. Got two different components here in the instruction report. I'm actually going to yield to Mr. Cara on the first part to give a few highlights about our last e-learning day from last week. We had a great e-learning day last Tuesday across the district.
011Uh you can see there we rolled out a lot of our new literature and English adoptions uh K8. So that was a great day there. Also we dug a little bit deeper into reveal and envision worked on some STEM work there as well. Uh had Dr. Rasher talking about best practices. Junior high had Amy Ael with TBRI as well as talking about the upcoming iLearn assessment. Then the high school really dug into the new high school diploma and try to get a little proactive with what's going on there. So it's a great day around the district. We appreciate that time. I know those days are um special and so we want you we don't take those for granted. So speaking of that, we will likely make a request for three days. Well, we are going
012to request three days for next year as well. Unfortunately, the weather cooperated with us this year that we weren't asking families to have an overabundance of the e-learning days, but it is helpful for us to provide that professional development really kindergarten through well preschool all the way through our our high school program. So, thank you. The second part in there is really the continuation of the conversations we've been having really with those those three goals. Creating more efficient and effective space for for preschool and our corporation as well as taking a look at our programming from grades four through six. There are some things that we can can tweak to improve performance. And then item three, there are there ways that we can find some operational efficiencies. We started that conversation really well over a
013year ago. We've had a couple studies done. I shared some of that with you last month. You did ask for some further information. So, we did survey our current third grade families. We have approximately right at students. We heard back from 150 of the families on the survey asking them about their preferences for fourth grade in terms of what setting they'd like to see their their children receiving fourth grade instruction. And it was just under 77% of our families that suggested they would like that to happen in the current elementary schools that they're in. Another six and a half% not having a preference and 16% preferring to move on to an intermediate school setting. You would also ask us to have some conversation with our fourth grade teachers. Uh as you've seen, you have seen
014I did meet with our fourth grade teachers. um date right on the 26th. Um we heard had 14 of our general education teachers there in that setting as well as a couple of our special education teachers who teach fourth grade uh provide an opportunity for some questions. But I think most of our teachers after asking a few questions really wanted some time to reflect on that. We did send a survey out to those 16 professionals and all of them provided some feedback for us in terms of their preferences and and you certainly see that we did have a majority of our teachers that preferred the idea of students being fourth grade students being in an intermediate school setting. That last piece you had asked for some feedback from our administrative team. We did meet with
015our elementary and intermediate principles. Actually, Mr. uh Jack and Mr. Marine had those those settings and and you can see just a a list of of some of the the items that they want to make sure that we had had thought of. Really after considering all of that, I just would kind of ask you to reflect on the four bullet points that that I close with. They're really taking a look at educational research. It's really consistent that fourth grade students perform best academically, behaviorally, and attendance. looking at those measures when they are educated in an elementary setting. As we've looked at our facility studies, we do have plenty of of space in our elementary schools to accommodate that. We certainly see proponents of our parents recommending that. And I guess the the last piece there
016though we did have some of our fourth grade teachers, many of whom are here this evening, had shared some some concerns or some obstacles that they had identified. We believe that we can work through those obstacles that were listed. Some of those about whether or not we departmentalize or whether we do things in a self-contained setting. I I think we can make sure that we're as close to to where we are right now, even if that's in an elementary setting. There are some things that that they've referenced that are certainly um change is uncomfortable. Um we always want to have a lot of time to to prepare for that. I just believe that my team and I believe that we are prepared to to meet th those challenges. So, I guess you would be hearing
017from me today knowing that really all the paths that we're looking at for Greenville Central that we've considered over the last 12 to 14 months really have us putting fourth grade students back in an elementary school. We certainly have some things we need to iron out in terms of what steps two and three might be as to what that looks like, but we do believe that next right step for us would be to put our fourth grade students in the elementary settings. So, you would have that recommendation from me this evening. Yeah. Before we uh make a motion, I just wanted to let everyone know that we appreciate your emails and from the teachers and the community and we do look at that. we do read all all of your concerns and comments on that.
018So, I just wanted to let you guys know that we do read read everything that you guys send this way. So, if anybody else has it, yeah, I would just add I'm particularly grateful for the feedback that we got from the teachers uh in response to that that survey that went out was very detailed, went over all of the concerns from the perspective of the experts in that fourth grade classroom. And that really helps us as a board. We're obviously balancing the many things that that Dr. Olen referenced. we're that information is invaluable to us in trying to balance all of those concerns. So, thank you. I guarantee you that me being a teacher in the past, we definitely will consider this of the teachers as we make our decision and we again thanks for
019providing all the reading for me. Um, we will definitely look at all of that decisions. I think Dr. Roland said it best of all the plans there's been lots of ideas thrown around look at those and then before making a decision and solicit the input of everyone that affects the most. So first thing I said is let's ask the third grade parents and then it kind of snowballed from there. I mean, don't as a teacher changing a few grade levels or teaching at a detention center, but it's it's certainly interesting. So, I have my thoughts. I have a three and a half year old and a one-year-old, but then it's good to hear the other perspectives. I taught in eighth grade. I never taught in fourth grade. So, just being able to read those and
020I like that Dr. Olen gives us time. It doesn't just spring it on us before and say, "Here's my idea. Here's their thoughts." We had, I think, almost a week, maybe two weeks to really read it and digest it. So, thank you. Now, moving forward, um, can I get a motion to move the fourth grade to back to the elementary schools? Make a motion to move 2025 fourth grade at Greenfield Central back to the tier one. I got a second. Second. All in favor say I. I'll post I will follow up with that. Obviously I know this is big news to a lot of our teachers. I think just giving them some assurances that right away we will start uh following up with some preferences that our teachers have in terms of location teaching partners
021they would like to be with. Uh we will certainly be taking that into consideration and work hard to give you your first choices on that. All right. Thank you. All right, nothing more. We'll go on to uh construction project updates. Was pretty brief this month on the construction project. Really giving an update on the the Greenfield Central West or what we've commonly called the Frost property improvements. We continue to move forward with bid documents there. I've also given you a little bit of a summary on the Greenfield Central High School gymnasium flooring project. That is words we don't hear very often ahead of schedule right now. Obviously, it was our goal to make sure that we were done well before graduation and uh think we had some photos from Mr. Brook or Mr. Wallbomb earlier
022today that that show that we're definitely where we want to be on that project. And then the last one with the staff daycare facility that we have on Green Meadows Drive. Again, working with the city on that with the permitting process and and design. We believe that we're still on track to have that finalized prior to the end of July so we can meet the needs of of staff. Happy to take any questions about any of those three projects at this time. Any questions, comments? All right. Thanks. We'll move on to uh Lancer and actually on mine. Yeah. Bypass. Yeah, we're just not We won't do that one. All right. On to new business information. Mr. today. Uh yeah, this month we have two donations. The first is the Greenville Central High School received a
023donation of tools from DeWalt for use by the HBAC program. The value of donation is $3,342 and you can see a list of those tools um on the second page of this report. Um the corporation received a donation of four sensory carts, one for each elementary school from Leadership Hancock County. The value of these carts is $1,000. And we also have a commitment from the Boys and Girls Club to donate uh refill refurbishment supplies for these sensory carts moving into the future. Um I ask that the school board approve these grants organizations as presented. The amount of these opportunities is $4,342. You can get a motion approve the grants and donations as presented. I move we approve the grants and donations as presented. Second. All in favor say I. to Hancock Public Library. We actually
024have uh Cody Flood with us this evening as well as Jeannie Roberts. You know, Jeanie is your representative on the board. And then Cody's just going to give some highlights from the annual report from 2024. Yes. Yeah. Appreciate you uh giving me a few minutes to talk about the great things that happened at the library last year and and we're obviously well into 2025 and things are still going well. you have the slides in front of you. That first picture is actually a shot of the library on uh election day in in November. Um and the lines out the door. We'll talk more about that in a little bit, but that's just in the full parking lot. Um for the first time, the library was actually closed on election day. And you can see why
025we made that decision because it was very very busy. Um but but well used that day. Um we'll jump into library funding. Um, I've talked about this the last few years, but our funding mechanism is a little bit different than other libraries, so it's worth revisiting. Um, we get uh income tax uh in in Hancock County, which is different than every other library in the state. Um, so our budget is comprised of local income tax, which previously um was uh county adjusted growth income tax and county economic development income tax. That's now under local income tax. One one big uh pool that we draw from. Um we do get a little bit of license and excise tax and then barely enough to mention but it is there financial institution tax that is where uh our
026primary funding sources are for our budget. Um kind of the history of how that worked. Um, in 1999, uh, a seedited fund for Hancock County and Vernon Township public libraries was established. Um, and so the way that it's calculated is based off of property tax calculations. However, once that calculation is made, the we get the amount from the income tax pools. However, um, we do not take all the money uh from from the seed funds. uh the city uh county and towns received the majority of that and we can't take additional uh above and beyond that. Um and that's the same for both uh the Hancock County Library and the Vernon Township Library. But if anything were to ever happen to those funds, we do have property tax uh backup in place and so we
027would still be funded if something happened to the income tax funds. But that's been a really great way to ensure countywide service uh in the libraries. Yeah, you can go on to the next one. Um, uh, throughout the county, uh, since we've done that in 1999, it's more equitable that way in my opinion, especially in a in a rural county, um, and the eastern parts of the county where, uh, it just makes it more fair in my opinion. But, uh, moving on to the next slide, some more exciting things that that deal more with the schools. for uh the last several years since 2018. Uh we've issued digital only uh access cards to all the students at all four county schools. Um so we've seen over 2700 students that have received the digital cards have
028actually come on into the library to sign up for a physical card which is great to see. And uh those students have checked out over 13,000 items. We do have some new data analytic tools that we're using uh this year. So hopefully next year we'll be able to be even more granular with that and we'll be able to say how many Greenfield Central students have actually come on to be uh library users with the physical materials not just the digital though the teachers here do a great job of making use of uh the electronic resources we provide in the classroom. So we we are very happy to partner with the schools in that regard. Um, just some quick statistics from 2024. Uh, we saw an increase of 9% in new library card signups, just a
029little over 3,000. Uh, for the year, um, I actually prefer the next one even better. Uh, with library card renewals, they were up 68%. Uh, that's pretty common in an election year. We do get a lot of people coming back. That seems to be when they renew their cards. But, uh, over 8,000, that means we're retaining the people. And that's what I'd love to see, you know, happy patrons coming back and continuing to use the library. Our door counts were up 7% um over 490,000 visitors throughout the year. Um our circulation uh remained fairly static. Uh I should have checked out one more item and got us to 969,000. That's on me. Um so I'll take the blame for that, but we did remain at number 12 uh overall in the state for overall circulation,
030which is something I'm really proud of. uh given our uh service population uh to be at number 12 in the state when all the other libraries ahead of us uh serve significantly larger areas is just a testament to how much the community uh values our library. And then summer reading was a great turnout. We had over 3,800 participants um and almost 7 and a half million minutes read uh in the summer. And so we're getting ready to head into next summer reading and we're hoping to surpass even those numbers this year. uh some electronic resources that we do offer. I mentioned the the teachers making use of these. We have Libby and Hoopla which is primarily our ebooks and uh digital audio books. But Hoopla also has um streaming movies and and TV shows as
031well as some graphic novels and comic books and even music that you can stream and listen to. So there's a lot there in Hoopla. Canopy has more independent films. Uh and then we added newspapers.com uh this past year. Uh we we always had local newspapers, but this has uh papers dating back uh quite far uh from several surrounding major newspapers if people are wanting to do local history research or genealogy research and those kind of things. Um and that just uh barely scratches uh the surface of what we offer. We have Brainfuse, which is um one-on-one tutoring, live tutoring and and study tools. We have Mango, which is a language learning software platform. We have Worldbook for kids, and even more than that, but I I'm not going to go over all those. I invite
032you to go to the website and check those out. So, um, lots of good stuff there. Uh, people don't always realize what all you could get access to for free with your library card. Um, Imagination Library is is going very very well. Uh, while we're just the registration arm of that, uh, we don't provide any any funding towards it. That's through the endowment at the community foundation. But uh we currently have over 2600 enrolled and also almost 2,700 have graduated over the life of the program. You can see the breakdown there throughout uh the townships obviously here in Greenfield being the largest uh portion of of kids under the age of five taking advantage of that. So, uh, always happy to be a part of getting that literacy, uh, and books in the kids' hands
033before they even reach school age. So, that's an awesome thing to continue to be a part of. I mentioned the election earlier. You can see there that both of our library locations uh were 45% of all voting in in the county uh was done at one of our two library locations this past year. So very very busy uh those election days, but that's a a service and uh that we're really happy to be able to provide for the community. And um yeah, that's that's all we'll say about that. Uh if you haven't been to the library recently to see our new art installation, I encourage you to stop by and check it out. It's really really cool. Chris Sickles, a local artist with Rednose Studio. Um, he created uh a whole world that is continuing
034to grow and expand and will over the years. Uh, it's where our our fish tank used to be located uh in in the children's area, but his installation actually uh received an award from the Society of Illustrators. Um, and uh it's called Over overunder and beyond and it earned a silver medal. So, they actually took a piece from that collection and it's been on display in New York uh for the last several months. And so, that was really cool. But, um Chris is an amazing artist and he's been a great partner to have. He's done several programs at at the library for people to come and learn how he does his art style and I'm just always blown away by how he creates those things because if I tried to do the same thing, it
035would look nothing like that. Um, some projects we were able to complete in 2024. Uh, not always the most exciting things, but as you know, here at the school, they are necessary. We did replace the chiller and the boilers at the main library, uh, to keep everybody comfortable. Uh, yes, projects. Um, uh, we did also replace our our sorter, uh, which is the picture in the top right there that at the main branch allows us to return materials and it also sorts them out by item type. Ours was about 10 years old, which we learned is about the life of those machines. So, we were able to replace that one. Uh, takes up a little bit less room, so it gave us gave us more uh, workspace there. It's also uh, quieter, more efficient, and
036so that was a nice addition. very smooth uh process to update that. We also resurfaced the parking lot uh at the Sugar Creek location. And then in the top left there, we added new selfch checks this year. Our self checks were also we've had those for uh close to 10 years, if not longer as well. And so we we uh upgraded those. They have a lot of new features uh that people can take advantage of right there at the selfch checkout. So really good to do those things. Um, a few projects that we have on the radar for this year. You can see a shot there of the parking lot at the main branch. Uh, needs some work also. Uh, if you've driven in there and hit one of the potholes, I'm sorry. I don't
037know how you if you didn't, good for you. You're a great driver. You managed to avoid it. So, um, but we will be doing that later this year. You may have noticed uh we we removed some of the trees there along the entry uh to the parking lot. That's in preparation for that. We're going to be expanding that. Uh so there's not quite such a bottleneck there um on the way into the library. And then we will replant uh some trees that are not uh Bradford Paris and an invasive species. So we'll have more more native uh trees there after a while. And then we're also currently undergoing a website redesign. I was just in a meeting on that today. Uh that's going to be really cool once we launch that. That should be out
038by August or September as long as we stay on track there. So, um, excited to unveil that later this year. And then our current board makeup. Um, obviously we have appoint appointments from the four county schools as well as the county commissioners, county council, and and Greenfield Central. So, thank you for uh allowing Jeanie to work with us. She is great. And, uh, we couldn't do it without all of our board members. Uh, Michelle's here tonight also. U, but Libby Manship is our president. Fred Fox uh, is our vice president. Lori Elmore, secretary, and then our four members, Tom Sang, Zack Tr, Michelle Hasty, and Jeannie Roberts. So, they're awesome. We are so thankful for their support. And with that, I have probably taken up enough of your guys' time, but I would be happy
039to answer any questions about the library if you have one. I think we're good. All right. Thank you. Please. [Applause] All right. On to student handbooks. First reading. This is a first reading. And you have a the exhaustive handbooks, but you also have a a cover sheet. We have some people from each tier to talk a little bit about some highlights. Mr. Brook, you want to start? Start with high school. You're going to make me go last. Go last. not for us. Uh yeah, thank you uh for allowing me to share with you tonight. Uh I wouldn't say anything significant added or changed in our handbook. A few um just uh changes just because things change sometimes. A few student conduct uh just clarifications, things we want to make sure were clear to people. Um
040and you can see those there. a dress code thing about blankets and congregating in restrooms and clarified some ISD policy just to make it match in a couple of places. Um, a note on early graduation, we did change some language there. Um, this is a state compliance issue. The rule now on early graduates is they must complete one of the seals. So, we added that in there just so that people have an understanding that that is a requirement. That's not something we made a decision on locally. That is a statewide requirement. Now, um we did add a homeschool provision. We have um had homeschoolers in our building. Uh generally they want to compete or or uh participate some sort of extracurricular. Um we wanted to tighten that up a little bit just so that they
041knew expectations. uh the office of school finance um requires that they be under halfime and so we just um wanted to put some parameters on that so that they knew and also um that um they couldn't enroll with us as homeschoolers just to use um the uh um what's the word I'm thinking of the um career center program. So, um, and then we made a a little clarification on our, um, student activities code of ethics just about, um, the drug and alcohol and tobacco use policy. It was just a little unclear, um, just how it lined up with the random drug testing protocol. So, we just want to clean that up. So, and then you guys have already approved the new athletic code handbook. Um, so that's in there as well. So, I'm happy to
042answer any questions that you have specific to something I mentioned or anything I didn't mention. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Quin. So, at the junior high, uh we've found over the past few years that what we've already developed is working really well when it comes to a lot of things and we're pretty pleased with that. Um the one thing we did make some additions to uh you already looked at the athletic handbook that Mr. Evans spent a lot of work on over the past two years uh to really kind of define a lot of things we expect for our junior high athletes as as student athletes and then also to really a couple things just were added on some clarification points on dress code just to kind of tighten up a couple things
043there. So really didn't change a whole lot uh kind of like the way things are going. We're going to keep moving that way. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Patrick. Oblivia of tier 2. Handbook season. There was a joke made earlier that it must be handbook season because I was here in a shirt and tie ready to go for the meeting. So, it must be correct. I have the GIS and the MIS handbook updates. Um, only six quick things. The first one was just page one is just yearly updates such as dates and information like that. Um update number two is page four and five. That's updates to our page numbers. Number three is a little bit more extensive. That's on page seven and eight. We double checked our exempt categories and what
044counts as an excused absence and non-excused absence. It's the same for the entire district of what we have. We just were updating it, putting it in the right place. Uh, we changed our calendar on page 11 to the new calendar of coming. Page 37, we removed the student assistance program from Bowen Bowen information just to be the most accurate and up up to date. And then the last thing on page 46 this year, we realized that we didn't have any statement about the use of AI or artificial intelligence. So, we borrowed from some of our peers at the high school on what their statement was. We kind of tweaked it, made it our own. Um, and then we just add in an extra line of what to do with academic dishonesty, um, and how that
045plays out in our school building. Questions for me. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bowman. Tier one. Again, as others have stated, we really didn't have too much to change either. Um, we decided this year to combine our handbooks to create kind of one tier one handbook. So, we just added all the school information. um and start times and end times which are on page two. And then on page 46, we added the work habits and personal behaviors from our report card that we realized was missing. And then on page 47, we also added kind of a what can I do to help my child section in regards to our new standard space report card. And that's all we changed. Any questions? Thank you. All right. Thank you, Seni on the back there. Good evening. So,
046the Cougar Cub staff childcare handbook is a newly created document out of what was already in the Cougar Cub preschool handbook. But the changes for the 2526 Cougar Cub family handbook include an increase in program fees on page five, a multiple child discount on page seven, weekly rate change on page seven, a change in late pickup fees for page seven, discipline and behavior on page nine, potty training protocol on page nine and 10. Board policy unpaid meals on page 11 and 12, and then transportation update on page 12. That's it there. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Quaylin. Did you have anything on the athletic side that you wanted to highlight specifically or uh the previous handbook has been approved already, but that is included in the Okay. with the high schools. Yeah. Uh
047within ours. Okay. I think that's all we have. All right. Thanks. Right. On to overnight. Mr. We have a handful of them here for the out of state overnight trips. We have the VEX robotics team traveling or requesting to travel to Dallas. Uh obviously very proud of them. Our state champions there. Love to see them go there. We also have a request from the FCCLA advisor Mrs. Kaish about taking students to Orlando in July. women's soccer coach Laura Man requesting to take the team to a team camp at Butler be an overnight camp in July. Similarly, the boys soccer coach, coach Holden requesting to take the men's soccer team to Anderson in July. And lastly, head uh cheerleading coach Christa Carrey requesting to take the team to the UCA cheerleading summer camp that would be
048at Ball State University also in July. These are trips that have been taken in the past. These groups understand the expectations for overnight and to be out of state field trips. I would recommend approval. Yeah. Can I get a motion to approve these overnight out of state field trips as presented? I move we approve the out of state and overnight trips as presented. Need a second. All in favor say I. I. I. All same. Thank you. On to contract recommendation, resignations, leaves, and retirements. Okay. Move of absence. Tiffany Howard, Crystal Oliver, certified recommendations. Kayla Arguo, hope I got that right. Hi, Diaz Vega, Amanda Hodgej, and Ethan Robin. Certified resignations from Rebecca Rhodess. And on that second page, move there. Also Maggie Walters, certified retirements, Donna Connect Strong. ECA recommendations, David Connor, Aria Cordier, Pete
049Neenovich, and ECA resignations from David Connor, Matt Dickerson, Luke Meredith, and Grace Wifford. Recommend that the board approve those and give us permission to hire as needed for the duration of this year and for next year. And of course, we will bring those names to you at the next regular schedule board meeting. I could get a motion to approve the personnel report as presented. I'll move that we approve the personnel report as presented and authorize hiring. Okay. A second. Second. All in favor say I. I. All post saying we do have a few of them this evening. I'd like to go ahead and introduce to you. Uh let's go and start with the high school. Thank you. Hello everyone. We had a few retirements and resignations at the high school and are thrilled in addition
050to be it being handbook season in the spring, it's also hiring season. Nice to get on the uh hiring cycle uh very early. So, our first introduction is Haley Diaz Vega. Um Haley was Haley Burnside when she was at Greenfield Central. So, a GC grad. Um she's attended Ball State University and Marian University and she's going to teach English and MLL for us. So, welcome Haley. Amanda Hodgej joins us from Franklin Central High School. Um, Amanda has degrees from uh University of Indianapolis and Indiana Wesleyan. Um, she's going to be teaching English 10 and film lit for us next year, but will have a chance to um develop some more electives over time. Um, she teaches a hugely popular uh true crime elective in the English department at Franklin Central. um has a lot of
051extracurricular experience too. So, welcome Amanda. Uh Ethan Robbins is actually going to work in this building um as a teacher at the academy at Greenfield Central. A hugely important job. Um Ethan is currently a special ed teacher at Eastern Hancock and uh brings experience and uh co-eing various classes for credit and uh supporting students in their individual paths. Um Ethan will also be coaching football with coach Nolting. So we're glad to have another member of our staff and uh in addition to his new job, he's also recently engaged. So thank you everybody. Welcome. Mr. Cleveland has uh an announcement as well. After going through a process of a very deep pool uh as always usually with our administrators uh we have found a great one and Miss Kayla Ar get there. Just say it for
052everybody. Arguo. Thank you. I've been back there saying it for um she comes to us from Muny Central. She's been the assistant principal there for three years. Prior to that, she was at Decatur Middle School for about five years as the assistant principal there. and prior to that, she has seven years of teaching as a Spanish teacher as well. So, in our two rounds, she definitely rose to the top of both. I'm very excited to present her to everybody today and to get started with her next school year. Okay. Tier two, new teachers. Teres. Yeah, we're going to push to next month. The coaching. Well, we don't have anything else on the board from the community. Um, important dates. Regular schoolboard meeting Monday, May 12th, 2025. Commencement May 31st. We don't have anything else. Can
053I get a motion to adjurnn this meeting? Got a second. All say thanks everyone for coming.