001I aliance to the flag of the [clears throat] United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Mr. [clears throat] An additions to the agenda. Uh one one modification on uh item 10 uh visitor comments on agenda items that just listed as visitor comments. So remove the agenda items. >> Okay. >> That's under three. Okay. With that a correction and a motion to approve the agenda. >> Okay. Mrs. Overbeck and Mr. Ger. All those in favor say I. I I [clears throat] passes 60. [snorts] Um in our board packet, we all had the minutes of our regular session meeting from May 11th. I have a motion to accept those minutes. >> So move. >> Get that Mr. G. I'll second.
002>> Mr. Fors is going to second that. So any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Abstensions passes 60. Okay. visitor comments on just the agenda items for right now. Okay, [snorts] moving on to our monthly reports. So, Officer Peach, since our last board meeting, um I attended 53 hours of training, also backward and graduation, uh which was very well put together and had no issue whatsoever there. I'm going to work with the that CRG group that's moving forward with the digital mapping of the schools as well as the grounds. Uh Wednesday, I'll be attending the Reed School of Interview um down in Greenwood. What the Reed School is, it's it's a worldrenowned training class for law enforcement to teach us how to interview and interrogate people. They're actually doing one
003that's specialized for the interviewing of students. um hopefully bring back some some things that would be useful to admin and maybe you know look forward to hosting one of their classes in the future. Outside of that uh that's about anything to work with the admin trying to come up with the best kind of solution for the new wall going back on cell phones. Any questions for officing? None. Technology report. Mrs. Kelly. >> So, I got some general things before we get into the presentation here. Um, I reported last time I was here that according to the IoT cyber security SLCG funds that we get for different programs and we have to do a free cyber security assessment that is being performed by Purdue and IU. Um, so we were accepted. Um, we had applied last
004time. We were accepted and the report begins this month. Have to start filling out our questionnaire and stuff to move forward with that. So that's exciting. Um, Piper is coming on Friday, which we'll do our final walk through before starting all the access control changeovers. Um, they'll be walking through and just kind of out, making sure we've touched everything and we know where everything's going, that kind of thing. Um, and then I've started working on the returning student registration enrollment forms. Um, they've changed the way that they do it. So, it's been, but I think we're making some progress. So, that's good. Um, so then I kind of want to touch on what regarding AI. Um, and I think with the exception of Diane and Lindsay, the team is all here. So, everybody um, but
005basically, yes. So the team consisted of the administrators, myself, Diane and Lindsay, and then the board members that are part of technology group. Um, obviously I've got a new one. You weren't a part you weren't here yet, but we will gladly take you away. So if you want to go ahead and go to the next slide there. Um basically where we started in November 25, we started with a lot of eyes glazed over um because we met and we kind of talked about what is the goal of our group, you know, what are the Neola policies and what are actually in our handbooks currently because some people had already added some things into their handbooks. Um and so that for me I think a lot of people went wow it was more than what they
006were anticipating you know because at that point everybody just knew oh chat claw gemini you know that's AI and then we started talking deeper about what it is. Um so then January we talked about okay before getting into too deep and we know a little bit more about AI what do we want everybody to kind of know. We started working on some goals that we thought like these would be good goals for the younger kids and older kids and training ideas and things like that and all that was actually in preparation for February when we did a full day PD that you know made my eyes glaze over at times um guardrails to green lights which was talking there were like [snorts] eight surveys does that sound right? I think we had eight surveys in
007the end that we ended up doing where we kind of graded ourselves and said, "Okay, where do we fall?" You know, are we ready to go with this? Are we not ready to go? So [clears throat] from that, we filled all those, we filled out like two, I think the day of the training because they were so long and we finished them in March. So then in April based off of all that and I gave you all a nice little print out of our TCI principles of EI education basically those are the guiding principles that host them which is a bigger group in the nation um those are the guiding principles like what is your purpose what kind of compliance do you have what's your knowledge what kind of balance and ethics do you want
008to have everybody and agency and evaluation so based off of those surveys we were able to come up with this document. Now, that's a lot of work for this one infographic, honestly. Um, and we have still just scratched the surface on where we really need to be. Um, but I felt our very first thing that was most important was for us to truly understand like more than just the technology department, but everybody in the group to understand what is AI, you know, what do we need to be looking at, what do we need to be cautious about, those kind of things. So, we've dug really deep into that and then we basically want to turn that into more of I'm sorry, we can go forward two slides there. I apologize. Um because we wanted to
009like dig more into you know what do we really need to train people on stuff like that. So based off of all that then we started talking about we really wanted to survey our students and our staff and get an idea. But then we're like, you know, those K4 through four kids, they're really young. You know, that's really kind of hard to ask them questions. Um, so we did rely a little on AI to help us get some ideas of how to ask questions and things. And I'm not quoting like the full surveys on here, but you can see highlights of things that we did ask. Um, so one of the things in the upper left corner of the question was, does a computer have a brain and does it think like a human on
010its own? And it's really interesting because that one we did have I should preface K through four. What we did is we did like a class survey. So it wasn't like each student answered it. Like Lindsay went in and she said asked the questions and the kids voted yes or no. And then we went with the majority rules for that class. So I should practice it that way. So that's why you can see 12 responses. Um but yeah, so there were a few classes that did say yes that they felt like a computer had a brain and could think on its own like a human. So obviously you know that leads us to go okay there might be some things to talk about but they also on the flip side is a robot alive like
011a dog or plant they all a sudden know. So you can see like there is a little bit of a discrepancy there in what they know. Um now the one on the right is the interesting one because they actually tally the hands of all the students and so came up with you know how do you feel and those were the three options they had. Did you feel excited, scared or confused? And overwhelmingly I feel the kids are confused still at that grade levels about what AI is. So that's kind of good. That tells us we have a lot to teach them still. You know that's something that we'll definitely be able to balance our digital literacy lessons that go into those classrooms around you know how the kids think the computer thinks you know and
012how their emotions are. Again this is not the entire survey. This is just a little bit. So then we did fifth through sixth grade. With fifth and sixth grade, we actually had each fifth and sixth grader answer the questions. And pretty much everything was a yes and no. Um what I do want to highlight is have you ever used AI tools and apps? And 84% of those fifth and sixth graders said yes. So they are using them. Um do you think AI helps you learn faster? And 70% of them said no. which is kind of funny because at the high school that's kind of what you heard is it helps me learn faster. Um so that was interesting. Um another one couple down it says do you feel you need to check if AI answers
013are correct and 46% said yes and 49% said no. So obviously that's something we can take away from this and go that's something we need to work on because definitely you need to be vetting what's coming out of AI. Then one of the other ones that I want to highlight said prefer asking the teacher or AI for help and a resounding number of kids said they prefer to ask their teacher for help versus AI. So thought that was a good thing to highlight that they do still want to talk to their teacher. So then we move on to our high school 7 through 12 students. Again, there was like five things that I kind of wanted to highlight out there for you guys to look at. Um, in the upper left is the where do
014you use AI most often? And for the kids, 40.7% of them said for personal hobbies and fun. So most of them said right now that's where they're mostly using it. Um, to the bottom of that, how often do you interact with the AI chatbot? I was really surprised. Um, 34.8% said never and 39.2% said monthly. I [clears throat] actually expected it to be higher. So I was really surprised by that one myself. Um, in the upper right, how often do you check if the information the AI gives you is actually true? 17.2% said always and 50.5% said sometimes. Again, looking at that one, to me, that says we have something to do with digital literacy lessons with our kids. Um, if they're thinking, I only sometimes have to check it. In the end, you would
015understand why I feel that's very important that you must check it. In the lower right, how important do you think AI skills will be for your future career? This one surprised me. 17.6% of the kids said very important and 57.4% of them said somewhat important. Um I was surprised that that was their answer to myself. And then in the middle most about AI um 27% said environmental data centers and 28.4% said the data privacy. I believe it was the 14.2% 2% was sex abortion which is a big thing that goes on. So then on our next we have some results from the staff survey. Now we did break it up junior senior high school from the elementary um because what you're teaching at high school it it is it's different how you're going to use
016it probably elementary even though there is overlap. Um so some of our questions were definitely a little geared towards high school specific stuff. So that's why we did break them up into two groups. Um but in the upper left you'll see what was your biggest concern regarding student AI use and 14.6% were concerned about plagiarism cheating but 54.2% were concerned about loss of critical thinking. Um so I kind of thought it was interesting. I personally thought plagiarism cheating might have been higher than 14.6%. Um below that what scares you the most about AI? Um and this is what scares staff members the most. you know data accuracy and misinformation was 70.2% and loss of critical thinking also at 85.1%. Now it wasn't really we didn't clarify that question of do you think you're going to
017lose lots of critical thinking or just in general loss of critical thinking. So you can't read that as adults feel that they're going to lose critical thinking from it. Um but that could have been how some of them did read that. Then down the right, some of the things about why excites you most. 26.2% are excited about how it saves them time. 21.4% excited about brainstorming partner. But 9.5% eight people say nothing. They're skeptical of AI and they feel that it is a threat. So I thought it's kind of important to point that out that again there's probably a point where some of our digital literacy lessons need to talk about. Yes, there could be some threat in some ways, but the long-winded answer they gave us, it probably digital literacy lessons can lessen their
018feeling of the threat. Um, and on the next one is our elementary staff. And again, like I said, questions were similar but a little different. You know, a lot in the upper left was asking about what kind of information is it okay to put in a you'll see name. I'm not sure, but on the far left it's PII, your personally identical identifiable information, and it was a resounding no on that. So, it was great. Um, class content, they're kind of, yeah, it should be. Um, intellectual property, they're kind of like maybe and a little no. Photographs, another maybe and no, mostly. Um, public facts and general topics was more to the yes. Student records was a resounding no, which was great to hear. Um, photographs and videos of peers was mostly no, which is good.
019And draft documents with names was mostly no. So they are seeing that it is important to keep that PII out of the AI. So that was good. Um, on the right there, what scares you most about AI? Again, data accuracy in this information was 73.9% of staff and loss of critical thinking again 52.2%. 2% um how often do you use AI is under that um 28.3% use it weekly and 45.7 use it monthly what do you use AI mostly for select all apply the highest ones again you have lesson planning at 43.5% guidance and advice for 19.6% and creativity at 63%. And then on the lower left was your biggest concern for students using AI. Um this one was heavier in the plagiarism and cheating which would have been where I felt most would have
020been before 76.1% but again the resounding one is 84.8% and cost of critical thinking. So obviously we have a lot of data because this is just a highlight of some of the big questions I thought were important to share. There were other questions that we did ask. So where do we go from here? So basically what we're going to look at is more committee for our staff. Obviously that will be always ongoing. Um digging and diving into these principles that we created and how they can apply those principles not only honestly to AI but to all programs that they may want to use in their classroom. Um digital literacy lessons for students. I know um Lindsay had started some already this school year and so you know her and Diane will dig deeper into that
021obviously. Um we want to empower students and staff so they use AI with an ethical mindset. Um focusing on that academic integrity and that they are using it in a proper manner and thinking about data privacy as they use stuff and then building AI level teams in the buildings. So, as opposed to, you know, the group of us, we've been meeting for an hour once a month, and I feel like we did a lot of work given that we packed a lot that one hour with everybody's busy schedules, but now I'd like to be able to break it down into the school buildings and focus on where we can go based off of this into each building and dig deeper. And last, but not least, my why is it important to embed AI? This is
022my favorite. um from my cameras at home and I got an alert that there was a black and white Boston terrier sitting on my porch and if you see underneath that is not a Boston terrier. That was my 13 and 1/2 tall cat Mr. Mister. Um so this is why I was like this is why it's important to always that what AI gives you. He thinks it's very smart but it can be very wrong as well. That's why I understand the guys he's a small dog. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Any questions for Mrs. Kelly? >> The glaz eyes. I get it. [laughter] >> It's not going away. So, we gota >> Yeah. No, I mean it's like all things technology. It's going to continue to evolve, you know, is there going to be good
023and bad? Yeah, but there is with everything technology. And as we've learned more and understand it with a deeper understanding than just, oh, type in a question to Jack GPT or at my picture and put it in the Olympics or something, you know, it's like everything. It just all evolves. There's more to it than just that high level overview. >> Thank [snorts] you, bro. had a good chat with one of our co-ra [clears throat] and he was he enlightened me a little bit in summer [clears throat] jobs you've been doing and uh how heavily they're using AI in aggra business and some things and so u but it's here to stay I mean in whatever industry our industry all kinds of stuff you know >> oh yeah >> it's just in there's pros and cons
024and cons >> thank you construction Yeah, several things. So, uh, please bear with me. Um, last week we started working on some sidewalks here at TCI on the east and south side of the building. Um, there was just some sidewalks that had been in need of some attention and so we we started replacing I think we finished sidewalks today as a matter of fact. Um, so that includes sidewalks also includes some entrances that needed to be addressed. Um, we budgeted that through capital projects. So, that's how we were able to get that done. Um, we are going to be working on the back steps to this building right here. Um, I don't know if you ever stepped off the store right here, but the you can't uh at this point. So, um, it's a evacuation
025route. We just need to get and we already have people on site, so they're going to get these steps fixed for us. And then also at TCI, Mr. had a good idea today on the east side of the building on the south end. Um when we put in those sidewalks, there's just a a drop off. Um it just a very quick drop off there that we're going to add a ramp in there to smooth the transition out a little bit. Once again, we already have people on site, so we're get that done. Um, we had talked before about replacing some of the exterior doors at all three buildings. Um, at Tri County Primary, uh, we're looking at replacing those storefront doors. Um, Mr. Bell has been working on getting those done first. Uh, he's been
026working with the the door manufacturers. The goal remains to get those done by the summer. Um, he's pushing that for a couple reasons. One, we want to have those doors ready for beginning of school, but two, we're working on the access controls. So, we need the doors to come in to work on access controls. Um, our pool doors at the high school, door six, those are going to get replaced. However, those are already on back order. Um, so in the case of priority, we can do those doors during the school year. TCP we want to try to get done before. So, stay tuned on that. Um, on July 6, the week of July 6th, we're going to start replacing carpet in rooms upstairs. Uh, we started a carpet project a couple years ago. Uh, we
027upstairs, we got one half of the hallway done. This year, we're going to do the other half of the hallway uh and get the the high school the upstairs at the high school all the way replaced. We are going to get um two rooms downstairs. We're going to start downstairs this summer on replacing carpet. So, once again, Mr. Bell has worked hard on just getting a cycle or replacement for carpet, but that will start July 6th. Um, and we use capital projects. We budget that in that area. Uh, with the bus barn, uh, it is nearing completion. Um, they're working on interior finishes and some sight concrete and the backpack projects about 90% complete. There is power in there. Lights are on, doors are on. So, uh, our goal is to get done by the
028end of the month, and I think we're on pace to do that. Also in your board packet are four affidavits, uh, related to the construction project. I just want to point out affidavit 127. Um, Ker Media, that's where our newsletters and our new website. Um, we do have a new website that we just got [clears throat] a sneak peek to. I don't mean to tease you, but um this is Kelly's looked at. We're looking at it right now just to make sure that it has the functionality that we want. Um there's just a few things in there. We're going to ask them to revamp it. Um next month we'll have the website updated and some of those newsletters that are going out. We just had one go out highlighting our seniors. So that's how we
029were able to pay for that. And then on affidavit 128, you see the critical response group Officer Paige already talked about earlier. And then we have design graphics. We are looking at putting window graphics in at all three buildings. Um with our new office at the high school uh in the in the winter when it was dark out uh and [clears throat] the office lights are on, you could see right into those those offices that we wanted to do something to. Um that's what started the conversation. And then we started talking about window graphics at all the buildings. So they would be window graphics on the exterior doors. Um this is something that we could see out but people cannot see into. So working on that project as well. So wanted to make sure we
030pointed those out on those pay affidavits. [laughter] I think that's it for construction. >> That is it for construction. >> Any questions for Mr. [clears throat] newsletter looks sharp. >> Yeah, thanks to Mr. Haskins. He did a lot of work in getting those pictures in there. This is Redstone helping me make sure we got all the diplomas right and those types of things. So, yeah, it turned out really nice. Good way to highlight our kids. That's it. Really nice. Okay, on to board committee reports. Anyone have any committees report on? >> Nope. Okay, moving on to principal reports. this home. >> I don't really have a report, but I want to give a tremendous thank to the whole staff at primary school. We had a really great year. So, it was it was nice to
031be able to just enjoy every minute of it and they made that [clears throat] possible. So, big thanks to them. >> Okay, Mrs. Pearson. >> Um, we have received most of our textbooks. So, I wanted to thank Mrs. Snider for her hard work in getting those um sorted out so far. Um and also our custodial and and maintenance staff and our technology staff for making sure that all that harder work is already started. Um Mr. Belt was actually in today. Someone is going to um donate a bench and so we were just discussing where we could move some of the other benches so that that bench could be out front. Um and so I appreciate everybody's efforts and making sure that we're getting things done and ready for the school year already. Um, we have
032reading camp that's happening this week and so our we've had seven students that have been attending and so it'll take I read next week again and then also I would like to thank Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Coen, they are doing the summer foods program and it not only feeds um our reading camp kids but also our Valley Oaks kids that are there during the day and the other kids in the community. So it is um it's very useful and utilized a lot. Um, so it's great to see some of the students come back in the building just to get some some lunch. Um, I would also like to thank Mrs. Mccclure and transportation for um, busing our kids, making sure they can get to and from our reading camp and for allowing food that goes
033home off the bus. Um, hopefully that's not being open to destroying the bus, but I do appreciate that they have that option to take it back to their to their siblings. So, we appreciate that. and just the team at TCI. They're making great strides and I appreciate everybody's willingness to collaborate and help move the building forward. >> Questions, >> Mr. McCracken? >> No, thank you. >> Mr. Haskins, >> um we couple celebrations that happened um at the end of um end of the school year that I wasn't able to talk about at committee board meeting. um some certifications. We uh Mr. Shimmer Horn had 15 kids. Um the gentleman from Chief come in to do certifications for our welding students and the 15 kids Mr. Shimmer Horn had attempt certification. 13 of them were certified.
034So that was a good Some of them there's a couple of them that were going for a higher level. Some of them were underassman. So that's that's a good number. Also too, during finals week, we had our first um this is through our health care department, our healthc care pathway. Um with the guidance of Mrs. Arv, we had 10 kids uh tried to get certification for to be certified clinical medical assistant CCMA. And of those 10 that uh attempted the the exam, eight passed, which is a big deal. I mean that's we look that's above percentages of like it's usually in the 70s when when the percentage of pass rate. So we had and of the 810 we had of the two one um of our students missed it by one question. So those eight
035that were certified now can go out and get jobs right out of high school um taking vitals and and working in in in the medical field whether they're going to college or not. Um so that that's that's a success for both um CT departments, both welding and the medic health careers. Um congratulations to our 52 seniors who graduated uh a week ago Sunday on the 31st. It's a very driven group, not only academically, but just um just dri driven. And I think [clears throat] the thing that impressed me the most every year since I've been here, we have less and less kids that are starting to say, I don't know, I have no idea what what I want to do. And that is a credit to our staff. It's a credit to our counselors. Um
036because obviously, you know, we're getting kids to think about [clears throat] not that things can't change. We all know things that can change can change, but you know, we're bringing in um you know, we're bringing armed forces to talk to kids. We're taking kids to we're getting them out into real world um scenarios, college visits, um plant tours. And I just think as that number continues to go down, that too should be our goal as corporation for kids to leave here at least having an idea of what they think they might want to start out with. [clears throat and laughter] So congratulations to those 52 seniors. We wish them the best. Um a big thanks to our custodial staff for not only senior night celebration, but graduation day, Mr. Derek's crew, um office personnel, Mr.
037Redstone, Mr. Wick, Mrs. Sturk. you know, not only we were we were preparing for senior night and graduation, but we're also hosting baseball sectional the same week. And so, Mrs. Redstone had a lot on her plate of getting money boxes together for four different nights while we're also working on limitations and getting things set up for senior celebration dinner. And so, big big thanks to again the custodial staff, our office personnel. Mr. Shir wears a bunch of different hats this time of year with sound and um getting the fine arts department ready for graduation. So big thanks to Mr. Shir as well. Um I forgot to add I'm sorry back to our celebration of um certifications. A big thanks to uh the Tri County Education Foundation that helps provide financial support for our certifications because
038that's not a cheap thing to have done every year. Mr. Mr. share every year writes a a education foundation grant for certification. Then that's about a 8 to $10,000 uh grant that is that's given each year by the Tri County Education Foundation for certification. So big thanks to them. Um, back to SE graduation. Uh, the seven businesses that helped support and help pay for our seniors meals were Gerber Financial, Fox Insurance, Bank of Wal, Hangman, Realy, Bells, Pizza King, People's Feed Mill, Remington, IG. So, big thanks to those businesses that um every year helps support um the the senior night. And again, you know, that's a big event and it's really neat to get everybody together and to get our senior together to honor them the weekend for the week, the start of the weekend
039before graduation. Um, summer school has started. We got a lot of kids out there doing credit recovery. Miss Moer um is going to be with us till the end of month. She does a great job of keeping kids on track, getting on the phones to parents, to kids to get them out there. So, try to get kids caught up for courses that we don't want kids to fall behind. So, thanks to to Miss Mo for her efforts. Thanks to transportation department for getting kids out there. Um, as you guys know, Miss Hitner will be starting in our workbased coordinator position starting on 71. Our plan is to hit the ground running by meeting with local businesses, especially those ones that were at our first event. We had we plan to meet with some students. um
040during my graduation tours up here the last few weekends I had two local businesses come up talked to me about wanting to do in internships with students. So um as we get out and talk to local businesses I think we're going to have more and more businesses uh excited and interested in in putting uh showing our kids some real world applications in the business world. Um, Camp Cavalier is Friday, uh, August 7th, which is the Friday before we start back to school. That is for new seventh graders. Thanks, Miss Buswell. And a lot of our staff members are going to come out and and just get our kids in the building, have a chance to hit their schedules, have a chance to uh mess with the locker combinations. That's always been a big thing. Um,
041to get see they get one in the building in five minutes. That's very doable. So, looking forward to that. Sit meeting. We uh we have a sit meeting scheduled for Mr. Guy [clears throat] for end of July 7:29. It's a it's a Wednesday. We're going to start talking about u our device policy and how we plan to implement that. Uh and then we we start setting up other things that time that time of year from the beginning of school. Math boot camp is Shack and I have math boot camp on the 28th which is the day before. On a Tuesday the 28th we are bringing Wash Valley in to talk to our teachers about differentiation. That's how we'll spend the morning and then um the afternoon will be spent on looking at I learn data
042and the last thing I had was just we just want to wish in our building just want to wish our students and staff a safe and relaxing summer break. We we look forward to we're already talking Mr. Crack. We're looking forward to seeing kids in in August already. So everybody enjoy your summer. >> Any questions for Mr. graduation went real smooth. >> Yeah, we had a nice we had a nice day. Um, you know, I think a lot of people weren't concerned about the number of students, but I thought our kids did a really nice job and and um it was a great it was a great day. Our senior celebration night was really really nice. Our senior uh program, I thought, you know, we we changed some things so it wasn't quite so long
043and I think that that helped too. So, it was a good week. It was great. >> [clears throat] >> Somebody mentioned something I just asked and I don't even know if this put out or we know but roughly how much do we give out on senior night about I just had this book I'm still working on that about 100 it's about 125,000 is where we're at that doesn't count the kids that got like scholarships from like universities that they're attending but it's about 125,000 >> not counting those >> not counting that's correct >> I was at a graduation my grandson's graduation reception [clears throat] and they're saying man can't believe cows came about 57,000 and I'm thinking I think we're way above that and they were thinking that was really big and I'm thinking I
044didn't say it I thought that's penis compared to that's super that's great thank you questions right let's move on to old business >> under old business last month I talked about the updated school property usage licensing agreement went through a pretty extensively last month. So I make a recommendation to approve that updated um usage and license agreement as presented. >> Yeah. Recommendation is to accept this policy. [clears throat] Mr. Zman second. Mr. Morris. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I opposed extensions passes 60. under new business uh personnel recommendations. First, uh retirement. Um Jackie Haggman has submitted her letter for retirement and it reads, "Please accept this letter as formal notification of my retirement as position as a kindergarten teacher at Tri County Primary School at the end of the
045current academic year. After 51 years of teaching, stepping away brings me bittersweet emotions. I'm looking forward to the next chapter of my life, but it is incredibly difficult to leave the daily joy and magic that these little learners bring to my classroom. I will always look back on my time here and the countless children that I have had the privilege of guiding within these spots to ensure a smooth transition for my students, families, and the school. I'm more than willing to assist in any way possible before next year's school year begins. Please let me know what the administrative steps need to be complete my to to be completed to finalize my retirement process. So um wish Mrs. Hegman a happy and very worthy retirement and then under personnel too it seems like it we're excited
046then to employ possibly two new teachers who are starting their career in T county. first being Kylie Foster. Um we approved Kylie for the end of the year just as a short term but recommendation is for her to move to full-time into fifth grade. And then at your desk you have a proposal or a recommendation for a Terara Pitch Pi T. Is that I know that's not how it's spelled. That's how you say Tara Pitch. As a culinary arts teacher, Mr. Haskins interviewed her late last week. Um she does she's taught culinary arts before at Washington Township um up in northern Indiana and is looking to come to a school that is offering the dual credit and wants to participate in that. So we have the retirement for Mrs. Sang and the employment of Miss
047Foster and Mrs. Pitch. >> Okay. Have a motion to accept the personnel report. >> Mr. Gerber second that any discussion >> just a comment [clears throat] >> welld deserved man I'll tell you why >> there have been too many dick how many years >> 50 here 56 total >> right up there >> started in 76 [snorts] >> she's been telling you right >> Charles down remember >> absolutely the old name downstairs. So yeah, that's u you you two are in rare. >> She's [clears throat] normally here. First time congratul Okay, we have a motion and a second. So all those in favor accept their personnel report say I. >> Opposed extensions passes 60. Next is the student handbook approval for Tri County Primary and Intermediate in your board packet. Those handbooks are one and the
048same. They've highlighted the areas that have been changed or updated. And then the junior senior high school handbooks, same premise that is in your board packet as well, including areas that are highlighted. Um the one that's the most significant addition to the handbook is the cell phone and personal device policy. um that is required by Senate enrolled act 78. So the proposal is at Tri County Primary that the devices um are not allowed. They're prohibited at the primary. So we are asking that any cell phone or wireless device just be left at home if it's a primary age student. for the intermediate and the junior junior high school. Uh we acknowledge the fact that having a cell phone or wireless device. There are some benefits to bringing that. However, according to state law, we are
049going to ask that those devices be turned off during the day and it stored in an inaccessible school approved location. So students won't be able to have their devices in their pockets, hoodies, backpacks or carried with them on their person. Um there are exceptions. Um there are times where devices may be allowed. Uh and those device those exceptions are are pretty clearly laid out. Um one of them is a medical need. Uh so if there's a documented medical condition um with a note by a licensed healthcare provider, um the building administrator will make every reasonable accommodation for a student in that situation. Um, and then we also have situation translation services. Uh, if a student needs a device for translation services or if there's a special school approval, if there's an emergency, if there's other
050things that are required for a device to be used. [snorts] Um, we also have some steps in there, some progressive discipline if the policy is not followed. And so we have that in there as a first offense, second offense, and third offense. Um I'm I'm very optimistic that our students and staff uh will rise to the challenge that this >> [snorts] >> um Senate enrolled X78. Um there are some good things. I I think it will help with focus uh reducing some distractions in the classroom. Um perhaps the biggest one is improving the mental health and the social interaction for our students. Um and I'm optimistic our students will will step up to do this as we've asked. um because this year they've already stepped into following our our updated policies. Uh at the junior
051senior high school, for example, we asked teacher our students to put their devices up in into a carrier at the beginning of the class. Uh and the students were really good at complying with that um as as we asked them to. So, I think this is going to wind up being a net positive for everybody. It's going to be a transition at first uh especially for students and parents if they need to communicate we do ask that they just communicate through the office. Um and we will make sure that the students are able to contact their parents or the parents are able to contact their students. Um so there will be some things that will it will be a new normal but we'll get through it. So but that is in our student handbooks. I
052see a TCPI handbook at the junior senior high school. Um, I just want to make a special mention of the the device policy that all schools in Indiana will be implementing next year. So, if there are no questions, I make the recommended to make recommendation to approve the student handbooks as presented. >> Approve both of them with one. >> Yeah. A motion to approve both the student handbooks. You have a motion. >> Mr. Any further discussion? >> So I take it that you've had discussion with all the admin and legal counsel as well and officer Paige. >> Officer Paige, Mrs. Kelly, legal counsel principal. We've looked at that this several times. Yeah, we boardthed it. um added, subtracted, um some blood, some sweat, and just a few tears. [laughter] Great. Great. >> We work hard
053at for sure. >> Appreciate everybody's effort. [clears throat] >> Any further discussion? >> Okay. Hearing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. Oppos. Motion passes 60. Next is the bus bid. Um, first of all, thanks to um, Mr. Lau and our transportation department, our bus drivers. U, this has been a long process trying to get through bus bids. Um, and so we've asked for uh, route seven and eight for bids to be open. Those are bus routes that Carl Dillings had contracted out for the remainder of next year. But due to his unfortunate passing, we opened it up this year. This is a a one off for seven and eight. We had a meeting in April. Mr. Lau and I did we brought people who are interested in in bidding for seven and
054eight. We explained why this was a fiveyear bid and not our normal four-year. And so we had five different people or industries, corporations, if you will, coming in to to hear about this. And so we did get one bid for route number eight. It is for four and a half years um as opposed to five. The reason being there's a long lead time of getting buses right now. Um the bid was by G&G Busing. Um I've talked to Kevin Goodwin on multiple occasions about his bid. um he's in the audience if there's any specific questions for him. But he's being told that new bus is January through April uh anytime in that window than a new bus. So um that's why he did a 4 and a half year bid hoping that if he can
055get a bus in January uh that he could have he could just pick it up in next year um next school year. about halfway through he could pick picked up and start contracting for route number eight. Um you can see the amounts that he has in there for five years. So from 26 27 through 2030 and 2031 he has the amounts in there and then the driver would be Diane Mccclure um who is currently driving that route for the corporation. She started driving for us last school year and driving that route. So there's some familiarity. So the idea for consideration is the corporation would continue to run route number seven as a corporation owned and then run route number eight for the first half of the school year next year and then in January G&G
056busing would pick up route eight. Um Mrs. McClure would stay on that route for the first half of the year as a corporation driver and then the second half as a contracting driver. [laughter] Um do we do have at your table there um just as anformational purpose uh what the cost uh for the corporation is if we wanted to maintain corporation owned busing. Um I have to thank Mr. Shonenberger and Mr. Leau and my office staff for putting this information together. Um so under the bus cost summary, Miss Mr. Chenbury has done a lot of work. um a new bus. Um if we were to order and this is a just a basic, you know, barebones bus. Um right now the estimated cost is $163,000. Um if we wanted to buy a bus and run
057it as corporation owned, um he's got your annual fuel cost in there based on 15,000 miles per year with a fuel efficiency of 10 miles per gallon with the cost of diesel at 550. So you know how much approximation of fuel cost um the deaf how much that would cost and then what we're calling routine maintenance oil changes filters greasings how much that would cost and keeping in mind that maintenance doesn't include those additional repair costs such as tires any kind of brake work lighting repairs or any other unexpected maintenance needs. Um we have worked really hard at driver recruitment uh and retention. Um we've offered a few things. Um some incentives to get new drivers. We've also increased our corporation driver pay hopefully [clears throat] attracting new drivers. Uh we do pay for the
058cost of drivers to obtain their license. Actually not pay we reimburse. Let me be fair on that. Um there are some technology costs. Um the administrative oversight falls on Mr. Leau. And then the insurance cost if we were to have our own bus. An estimated annual cost for uh insurance. This is per bus is anywhere from $2,000 to $2,500 per bus depending on the the value of the bus, the age of the bus, and those types of things. So, just want to give you as much information as possible with the busing and the bus bids and where we at with that. Um, I feel like the recommendation should be to approve the bid for route number eight as presented uh for 4 and a half years with Diane McLar doing the driving. Um, if there's
059any questions, now would be a good time to entertain that conversation. have any questions? >> Couple things to keep in mind too that I need to add just so you guys have full information. Um we have right now um as we run seven and eight as corporation routes. We have one spare bus that we do have as a backup. It's bus number six. It's the oldest one in the fleet and it's probably the one that is um it needs to be replaced. Um we have it as a spare. If a bus goes down, keep in mind that if a bus goes down, we are most cases not just talking about corporation owned buses, but also contracted routes. There's been times where a contracted route a bus if it goes down, they'll use one of our
060buses. And we're happy to have that relationship. Um, but one of the things that I think the board needs to consider is we need to look at the purchase of either a used or a new bus so we have another spare. Um, keeping in mind that if G&G busing were awarded the bid that would start in January, we would get bus 12 back. So, we would have another spare, but six is um it's not a bus that we can probably run every day and count on it to be that reliable, if that makes any sense. Um so, that's [clears throat] something that we do need to consider is either the purchase of a new bus or a used bus, whichever is most costefficient for us. Also, keeping in mind the trade in value of buses
061right now just isn't very good. And so that's why we've been holding on to some buses. So we do budget for new buses annually. We have a bus replacement plan um that the board looks at every fall. Um that's required that we have to have a bus replacement plan. So we do have money budgeted for a new bus. Um it used to be we had enough budgeted that would have got us two buses, but now we can get one bus as a yellow. Um, so that's just something that I think that the board needs to be aware of as we talk about this whole process. We have one spare, we'll get another spare. Um, it is bus 12, right? And you're driving. >> Yeah. Yeah. So bus 12 then would come back after a semester.
062So we would have I'm going to say two spares, but really just one spare bus number 12. So I forgot to add that earlier. Any other questions or comments? [snorts] Okay. Then do I have a motion to accept PG's bid for route number eight? [clears throat] So Mr. Gerber's going to second that. Any further discussion? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. Extensions. pass the switch over. >> I think congratulations are in order now. >> We need the bus to get here, right? >> All right. So, tomorrow at 8:00, make a phone call. I will [laughter] >> I should comment though. You are driving right now. Route seven. >> Yeah. >> But she will be going to route. Thank you for the clarification. >> She was trained on eight. She
063was doing seven. She will be going to eight. >> Yeah. Thank you very bus number eight. What you got? [laughter] >> You got bus. You got route number eight. >> Yeah. Bus whatever bus you're driving. >> Thank you very much. Thank you for your hard work and your driving effort. The last action item is um the contract for officer Paige. Um his contract runs from January 1st to June 3. So it's time to update his contract. In your report packet is the um updated um handbook including his compensation. but make a recommendation to increase officer pages um pay rate to 74,160 which is a 3% increase from what it was over the previous year. That is in line with what our other support staff got was a 3% increase. However, I'm also going to ask
064the board for some additional compensation in the form of stipens um for event coverage, a cell phone stipen, um public safety stipen and department leadership since he is the leader of his department. And then we also have an area called specialty areas. Um officer Paige um is a trained in a lot of different things. Um I forget how many things that you told me. I don't know whether to shorten you but it's a lot right that he can bring to the the table that um makes his um contribution to the school corporation very diverse and unique and so there are some excitements that would like to pay him over the course of next year. Um the last thing um is a an agreement that I think officer Paige and I have talked about. Um one
065of the things he has talked about is a leadership training u course. It's a LENA course. Um it is a nationally recognized leadership training program that you would like to participate in. Um in your board packet is information about LETA um what it does and what it tries to do. Um since he is in charge of the Tri County Police Department um and he's always looking to grow both personally and professionally. I think that's an agreement that we can make to send him to those uh different classes. It's a it's a oneweek course direct throughout the [clears throat] course of the year. Um, and is there any other comments or any other additional information you would like to inform the board about when it comes to LEA? >> Um, it is nationally recognized as taught
066through the FBI. They offer three different classes. Each class long specializing in different things. Then once you complete all three, you get what they consider called the trilogy award. Um, but it's a lot of it is peerbased. They offer these classes all over the United States. So there's some of them that are going to be halfway close. So it's not like I'm going to have to travel to Quantico, Virginia, where the academy is or California. A lot of them, even ones coming up here in the near future, you know, an hour and a half away in Illinois or down to Caramel. So it's not like there's going to be extensive travel or anything added to that. I just feel especially being in a school setting, not only is it my responsibility to keep everybody safe,
067but also to be indirectly a mentor to the kids as well as even even staff. Um, we all need people to lean on sometimes, and I just want to make sure that I have the proper training and abilities to be able to do that to the best of my ability I can. With that being said, make the recommendation to approve that compensation package and handbook for officer page as presented. >> Do we need to do a separate one for the Lita or just [clears throat] okay have a motion to accept the new contract for officer page? >> So second Mr. Gerber is going to do that. Any discussion? >> I have one question. [clears throat] Why wouldn't we do this? I mean, I just [snorts] think this is a no. Any other discussion? Okay. All
068those in favor say I. >> I posted passes [clears throat] 60. >> Okay. Financial business. >> Here under the financial business, um, every month like to talk about the education operations transfer. This month we transferred $80,89755 to the operations fund. Um that's from the education to the operations. So that's report is in there. Um once again, Mrs. Seard does a nice job of keeping a monthly running program. So the board is always up to date on what that is. Uh the amount transferred to date is 14.9%. So that is in there. Also in your board packet is the end of month financials. Um and you can see this month we paid ECAs. A couple years ago we made a change to our ECAs. Instead of integrating them into the contract we pay them at different
069periods throughout the course of the year. Once a coach or ECA has finished we contract we pay make that payment. So that payment is in here. Um the teacher appreciation grant was also paid since the May board meeting. Um and then there were transfers um from the bank of Wulit um so we can make payroll. And so you see in there our major funds. Uh we do have some financial goals that we've talked about that we're trying to maintain a certain amount a percentage in our rainy day fund and we're also trying to keep a certain amount in our referendum. Um, so in case looking down the road, heaven forbid the referendum doesn't pass again, that we have a one-year operating balance and then our operations fund working on maintaining a certain balance in there
070that are in our board approved goals. And so I make that point just because as you look at those funds and look at our current balances um there's two things that that I do every month and look at it is one um you know what are obviously what are our expenditures and it's hard to predict from month to month what it is because sometimes you may have a three pay month you may have ECA payments something that is not consistent from every single month. So in this month we have some additional payments that may make our expenditures higher than normal. The other thing that I look at is um in our revenue report you know where our revenues coming in and our biggest um is our basic tuition grant. Obviously we get that every month.
071But then we also have local property tax. And you'll notice that in our referendum, our debt service and our operations, local property tax hasn't been collected yet. And so next month, we'll get a draw. And so we get that draw two times a year. So right now, all we have is expenditures coming out. We don't have all of our revenues coming in yet. So if you're looking at it and saying, "Boy, our expenditures seem a lot higher than our revenues." It's always good to remember that we haven't got our property tax draws yet. We'll get those at the end of the month or the beginning of next month. And once again, we get those two times a year. Um, I anticipate this first draw being higher than the second draw because some people pay their
072taxes for the entire year at one sum. So if we get, you know, to anywhere from 56 to 60% of our taxes in this first one, that's that's a pretty good number because once again, people just pay both installments at one time. That's why it's usually a little bit higher than this first draw. Next month would be a good opportunity to to really look to see one, where are we at with our financial goals because we'll be at a sixmonth basis because it'll be at the end of June. we'll be able to really look at finances and circle back to our goals to see where how are we doing on our goals because we'll have a really we'll have a six month breaking point or checkpoint if you will in our financials. The other thing
073that I also look at is where were we at a year from now? Um, if you look at a year from now, our referendum operations in rainy days are all holding their own. And you may notice our education fund is a little bit less than what it was a year from now or a year ago in 2025. That's because with some strategic moves, we've been moving some of our employees back to the education fund to try to support that referendum fund. So, we've been moving them for referendum and paying them out of education. So, I wanted to talk. So, as we hire new teachers or new support staff, we've been looking at paying them out of the education fund and maintaining that balance in the referendum. Once again, that's a goal that we have is
074maintaining that balance in the referendum knowing we have a one-year operating balance should a a renewal not pass. So, kind of a long-winded explanation there on the fund balances and so forth. Moving on to the payroll and the claims docket. The claims docket and the payroll, you have two payrolls in your board packet and you also have your claims docket. I do not have any specific claims to highlight. However, if there's any questions about a claim, I'd be happy to entertain that at this time. Good. Have a motion to accept the claims do >> ladies first. >> Mr. G. Any discussion? Okay. hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I opposed. Extensions. Motion pass 60. Okay. [clears throat] Superintendent report. I just have one thing. In your board packet, you'll see a school
075meal price comparison. Um we are participating with NISAC and our food service. And NISAC also serves other schools. And so we've compiled this data to look at what our our prices are for elementary breakfast and lunch are at and their secondary breakfast um and lunch prices are as in comparison to other school districts within NEISAC. So you can see in in some areas um we're just a little bit lower in some areas we're a little bit higher. Um and so I feel like our numbers where we've got our pricing is at is is pretty solid. um pretty um in in line with other schools that are also in NESAC. Um so this is about the time of the year that we have a conversation on raising lunch and breakfast prices because of our lunch balance
076last year. Uh we are in a position that we do not have to raise lunch prices if we don't want to. Um, we got confirmation through NISAC that we don't have to do anything because at the time that they're looking, we had a positive balance in our school lunch fund. So, I make the recommendation that we don't change our breakfast and lunch prices, mostly because looking at what other schools are, I feel like we're in a pretty good spot. Um, we're we're not the highest. uh we are at the higher end in some um that I feel like right now maintaining our lunch prices for one more year or breakfast and lunch prices that would be for students and staff is probably the wisest way to go. So wanted to give you that context because
077usually in June that we ask for an increase of that but I just looking at these numbers and knowing that we have the flexibility we don't have to do anything. I think right now let's maintain let's maintain where we're at for one more year as far as prices are concerned. Um the breakfast prices $155 and our elementary lunch is 320. Secondary lunch is 330. I think that's a really good price. Um especially now as as students are getting more diverse food and more food. I think it's a really good price to keep things at. So, um, not asking for the board to make any actions or anything like that, but just wanted since it was in your packet, wanted to give you some some context as to what was going on there. So, other than
078that's all I have. >> Okay. This would have to be one of the first years we haven't been forced by the government to raise, right? >> Correct. Y quite a while. >> Y question for >> Okay. Visitor comments. >> Yes. has one. [clears throat] >> Oh, and he's still um [clears throat] the retirement. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um Mr. Jeffrey contacted me um >> later or last week >> and I was um going to submit that to him and then I decided >> after 50 years of being here like I said we met down there with Mr. Downey and Mr. Fox and Don Ericson I don't know many of you remember him Mr. Haskins will unbelievable man. Just mentored me and did a great job. Sometimes I wonder where I look around here
079and there's five of you that I have in the classroom and then of course you back there. [laughter] I'll keep it brief and I know you're going that doesn't happen. But yeah, 56 years of doing this. The reason I wanted to do this instead of submitting it right on the computer, this is an unbelievable community. And when we came here, we knew we wanted to raise a family here. Uh the people that I've met here have embraced me and helped me and always been there for me. So rather than just submit something on a computer, I wanted I wanted this community to know. Um like Kenny Chzn says, don't blink, right? And I've done that with my family. They get a little older. They have children now. We got great grandchildren. Where did 50 years
080go? It was unbelievable ride. And I had the next thing, great parents, great parent support, coaches that that just were amazing. And of course, Joy Tolman, right? I mean, for some of you remember Coach Tolman. Um, I was very blessed and this young lady here is carrying on a great tradition. She does just a ungodly job. But the other thing is not just the community. I wanted every student that I've taught and every student athlete to know that I appreciated them. And whether they knew it or not, they were making me a better person. [clears throat] I mean, I needed help, right? [laughter] But uh towards the end, this group that I had, I wore this shirt. This is what we had. And we talked about don't let obstacles become an issue. Turn them into
081challenges. That's what it says on the back. And it's a cornerstone for success. This group of young people we just talked about the kids. Unbelievable. Coach Haskins's character is unbelievable. They um made me just want to come to practice every day and be a better person. And I would tell him that every day I feel like you're lifting me up. We have a world that's all screwed up right now. And you look at these kids and you go, if they were leading, we would be in great shape. And what Mr. Hast said is definitely a truth. They were inspiring. We talked about that and I coached against this young man too u for quite a bit of time. So that's where I'm going to leave it. but I wouldn't be here today and she followed
082me along. She'll probably cry. But for 56 years I've been coaching and she's right at my side. Now part of that we weren't married yet. >> No, we we were [clears throat] >> but uh couldn't do it without her. Fantastic lady. And uh I just want to say I appreciate all of you. So thank you so much. I'm going to ride off to the sunset. So, you remember the the place down there. So, thank you all for putting up with me. >> Nick, I have a question. [applause] >> So, are you a grandpa still? >> I'm going to get right back in. I had my whole knee replaced. That's the goal. Dr. We play basketball here on Sundays starting I think it was 2018. He's been out [clears throat] here bring some of his other
083studies and he said I'm going to get you back full and I'm going get you back playing again. I'm trying to get coach here to come out. Now I think you asked the wrong person. [laughter] >> No. So what are you 39 or [laughter] you 49? I Jack Benny was always 49. >> Yeah. Right. >> Um Yeah. I'm I'm almost 78 >> and I'm I'm waiting till I can turn 80 and I'll be the youngest in my group. SO [laughter] >> And I made you I'm sorry. [laughter] >> Well, I can do that anytime. >> [laughter] >> Did I disrupt the >> job? This lady is going. >> Okay. Do we have any board member comments? >> Okay. There are seniors here tonight. Okay. [laughter] So a motion to adjurnn. So move second. Any [clears
084throat] discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. Passes 60.