001Good. Still put on that. [Music] So that's [Music] There she is. Yeah. two [Music] other [Music] Okay, rise. I pledge allegiance. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. Seated [Music] call. Are there any additions or deletions to the agenda? There are not hearing that. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> Motion second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> Oppos 7. Um in our board packets, we had the uh minutes of our executive session regular meeting on September 8th. for a motion to accept those minutes. So move and Mrs. Overex going to second that discussion. All those in favor say I. >> I postain passes. Okay. And
002then we had minutes for our public budget hearing on September 24th. Motion to accept those minutes. Mr. Gerber and Mr. G the second. Any discussion? >> All those in favor say I. I opposed. I am going to abstain and Dr. Sherman wants to. So it passes five. Okay. Students of the so high schools first. Good evening everybody. We always start out the evening with recognition of junior high students of the month. And I would call up to the stage with me, Miss Faith Hoover, seventh grade. And Tristan Jones, you're here. Eighth grader. Come up here. Faith Hoover, Mr. Lucy, social studies. Yeah, this these final I told you that he had some things he didn't say. I am nominating Faith Hoover as my student of the month. She has been doing great in my class.
003She is always in a great mood and participating in class. She always asks great questions in class. She has an A, 100%. She was one of my few students. I was able to get a 100% on my last test that I gave the class. Now, that is impressive. I know that she was nervous about it, but she did amazing on that test. Congratulations. [Applause] Hey, who did you bring with you tonight? >> Very nice. Very nice. All right. Tristan Jones, eighth grade. Mr. Bowman, social studies. Eighth grade student of the month is Treston Jones. Treston always comes to class with a cheerful attitude, a smile. He's ready to work. but he's respectful to everyone. Seems to be frank with just about anyone. Trustin is a hard worker. Gets all of his work completed for class.
004He's doing very well in social studies. Trusting is a joy to have in class. I'm glad that I have the opportunity to get going better this year. Congratulations to Trust. Good job. >> Um my dad, my grandpa. >> Very nice. Thanks for being here. You guys sit down. Congratulations J. Let's go to high school. Um, English department has uh selected Evan. Evan, you come up here. And CT classes, engineering, IT and engineering. Kale, come up here. Evan Roberts in English language arts. This is for Mr. Koolie. Mr. Evan has maintained an A and accelerated English n working hard to achieve good grades. Evan always engages in class. He's volunteering for answers and putting forth effort in his assignments. Evan models a positive attitude in the classroom. Evan has done an outstanding job so far this
005school year and he's very deserving of this recognition. Congratulations to Ev. Good job. Who's with you this evening? >> Good. Thank you. >> I want to say something about Kale. He was here last month. Am I right or wrong? No. >> Oh, one too long. I said too long IT engineering Mr. Rogers, right? K's an A+, not an A, an A+ with all his work turned in on time. He reads directions and submits the work accordingly. Kale has good note takingaking skills. He shows a good work ethic. Kale is respectful, tries to do the right thing regardless of peer pressure. Kale gets the material quickly and applies it. Congratulations from Mr. Roberts [Applause] with you this evening. Very nice. Thank you. You guys have a seat. Congratulations for Anderson. Xander, why don't you come up
006here? [Music] Bella Anderson, math department. Mrs. Bailey. Ella is a joy in class, always attentive, thinking ahead and challenge challenging herself in class. Ella's attentiveness has caught errors of teachers, classmates, and her own with inspection of work. Can you scr come to class daily with work complete? When absences occur, she promptly reaches out to me and comes to see me at CAP to find the work she missed. Ella questions errors on her own work and corrects them and learns from them. Ella holds herself to high standards in all classes and maintains high grades along with a full extracurricular schedule. Ella has a positive attitude in the classroom. She's up for a challenge and accepting of her mistakes, correcting them thoroughly. Her determination and positivity along with respect of peers and teachers will carry her far
007in the future. Congratulations to Al. [Applause] Who's with you tonight? >> Hi, Mom and Dad. >> Very nice. Thank you. >> Got tell everybody stay up here. Everybody wants to run. Xander Coffman. Xander social studies far. Mr. Lucy. Okay. Xander has been doing amazing in class this year. He has tried to keep his peers on task when they are working on assignments in class. He is always participating in class and volunteering to answer questions. We recently had a test over the early humans and prehistory and Xander was one of the only ones that received a perfect score. This was even after he was freaking out a little bit about the test but got every single answer correct. He loves history and always tries to add extra to the conversations about different things that he has
008learned about. Congratulations [Applause] tonight. >> Very nice. All right you two. Congratulations. That's seat. Moving on. Kaden know you're here. I saw you. And Meline, you want to come up? Normally I go first, but I'm going to go there's a reason. I'm going to go with Ken this time, right? Kane Bennett, fine art, art department. Mr. Murphy has these fine words to share about Ken. Kane has done an outstanding job in the art room over this semester. In the short nine weeks I've known him, he's demonstrated incredible artistic intuition and dedication to his pieces. He's always willing to experiment and try out new approaches, which is crucial in the art room. I love seeing what he's working on in class or just sketching in his free time. He has more attention to craft and detail
009than most artists. Now, that is a very strong statement. Let alone students that I have seen. Aside from in the art room, he is doing a stellar job in his other classes. He has the mind of creativity, a high level of dedication to his work, and is very deserving of this award. Will hopefully never stop making art. Thank you, Kate, for being a great student and always willing to ask for help and try out new approaches. I only hope he continues practicing his art and never stops creating. Congratulations, Kate. [Applause] >> My mom and dad. Very nice. Thank you. Good job. I don't have to tell you, right? All right. The reason Adeline, you are going at the end um is because you were nominated twice. And I wanted to make that a big deal
010because it is a big deal and two separate departments selected you as their student of the month. You deserve that recognition. From Mrs. Youngman, science. Adeline is excelling in chemistry. She asks questions when she is not sure of the answers and then takes time to help her fellow students who are struggling with a topic. I feel that Adeline puts in 101% effort. She is always willing to do any activity we are doing in class and do it well. She puts in the time to understand the subject, not just find the answer. Adon is always willing to help out in the classroom. She keeps her lab station and lab binder neat and organized. Assignments are done on time and complete. She is also known to help others around her on difficult topics. And that is from
011Mrs. Yman. And this from Mrs. is learn and that is in weightlifting class. Adeline shows up and is ready to put in work each day. She completes all lifts and when finished she will proceed to utilize any remaining time wisely by stretching, lifting or being active. When she has questions about how to properly perform an exercise, she doesn't hesitate to ask and make sure that she is performing to the best of her abilities. Adeline is a joy to have a class and an example for others of what is expected. Congratulations to only for two recognitions and to good job [Applause] with >> my mom. >> Very nice. Thank you for being here. That's it. Congratulations everybody. And everybody showed up from the junior and senior high school tonight. That was awesome. Okay. We have the
012intermediate school. >> Okay. Can I have Audrey, please? Okay. Congratulations, Audrey, on being chosen as our student of the month. You have truly earned this recognition through your responsibility, helpfulness, and positive attitude every single day. You are always willing to lend a hand, work cooperatively with others, and help make our classroom a safe and welcoming place for everyone. Your caring nature and bright personality shine through in everything you do. You take pride in your work, set a great example for your classmates, and consistently show what it means to be a respectful and dependable student. I'm so proud of you and grateful to have you in our fourth grade class. keep being the wonderful, kind, and hardworking person you are. Congratulations, Audrey. [Applause] Congratulations, Zinc, on being chosen as our student of the month. You have
013earned this honor for your kindness, thoughtfulness, and the positive way you treat everyone around you. You're always willing to help others, work cooperatively, cooperatively, and be a great partner and friend. Your respectful attitude and sense of responsibility make you a wonderful role model in our classroom. You consistently make safe and responsible choices show others what it means to do the right thing even when no one is watching. I'm so proud of the example you set every day, keep being the kind, dependable, and hardworking student that you are. Congratulations, Z. [Applause] I'm holding my dad and his >> great. [Music] Okay, we have Winston Ramos. And Winston is a true gem. He's one of the kindest and most compassionate students I have ever had. He works hard at school and perseveres through challenges. He will go
014out of his way to help others. Winston is always willing to lend a helping hand and always without prompting or for a show. Winston has a huge heart. He wants to please and is a leader. He shows so much grit and determination in the classroom. Winston has a great sense of humor and has a contagious smile. Show him that smile. His level of respect is unmatched. Tri County is lucky to have them. [Applause] >> Your mom and dad. All right. Thank you. All right. And we have Dela Gales. Dela is the epitome of fun. She is the ultimate girly girl. She brings a smile and energy that doesn't just brighten our classroom, but our entire school. I still remember her spunk as a new kindergartener. Dela has the perfect amount of sass and sweetness to
015keep you hopping. The Lasa is respectful and kind. She is an amazing friend and goes out of her way to help others in need. She shows others daily that she cares about them. The Lasa shows honesty and has the perfect quick wit. This girl will go far with her cheerful attitude and kind heart. Congratulations. [Applause] Your mom and your sister and you just had a birthday, right? Thank you guys. Good job. >> Okay. Thank you so much for parents, grandparents, and siblings that happily came along. So, it's really nice to celebrate the accomplishments in the classroom. So, um, you're all very welcome to stay for the entire meeting if you'd like, but if you want to leave, now's a great time to [Applause] I want you session. [Laughter] Do we have any visitor comments? >>
016No, >> we did not. Okay. >> Moving on then to our police. [Applause] >> Good evening everyone. Um, since our last board meeting, minus the the normal day in day out, I did have two pretty long in-depth investigations about some possible criminal activity not related. Um, thank goodness after much investigation and talked to a bunch of people, both were uncovered. There were no crimes that were committed. So, that's always that's always a good thing. Things were just blown out of proportion and misinterpreted. uh had a possible incident involving a parent over TCP. Uh nothing nothing was noted there. Everything was fine. Myself and Mr. Cult have been gathering information working with a company called Rapid Technologies. They offer different systems as far as safety and security for schools and other businesses trying to get things
017put together. Um as well as getting with Miss Kelly from it. She had some questions about the different hookups and things that the system that we are entertaining looking at. Did assist a couple times with observing lunches at the high school while having business meetings. Also been working with the Typicanw County Prosecutor's Office and the Typ County High Crimes Unit to get everything put in place. They are actually going to come up here on two separate days in November. Um, one for parents or adults. It's going to be open to the community in the auditorium. And another one, complications for all the kids in junior high and high school. And what that's going to focus on is social media, internet, um, and other pitfalls that we all seem to see going on in our younger
018kids with just the dangers of what's involved with that. I think that's about it. Thank you. Questions for comment on that. That sounds awesome. I would really encourage promote that big time because that is such a big issue and I and uh you know we're have we have a camping body some are students but really promote it for the parents and the community. I I just I commend you but I let's let's make that yeah they were they were great to work with. Actually one of the gentlemen um that works down there now he was a reserve officer at the sheriff's office. I actually trained him and he's now with the prosters also there. He even has electronics detection K9. So he's going to bring Roger the K9 and kind do a demonstration with him.
019They were ecstatic when I reached out to them. They've even made up a flyer. So I got some finalized copy of it yesterday. I haven't Mr. Culp yet or anyone else. As soon as we get that, we can put it out in the newsletter or mailers or on the internet, Facebook, whatever. Just get the information out there and hopefully we can pack our auditorium. And when when is that again? That's November 6th at 6 PM. >> It's coming right up. Okay. Yes, sir. Good. >> Construction report. >> Uh yes. Uh progress on construction. TCP. We're uh somewhat in the home stretch. Second grade. We're working on getting those rooms renovated. So that's the last phase. Um, so once we get those classrooms done, big punch list and some other items we'll have to take care
020of. Um, but TCI has been done. And then the high school, we are in the locker rooms with the exception of the showers and the and the and the toilets yet. They're still putting the showers in. Partitions are in. When I was in last week, it was either Thursday or Friday after school. The painter was ripping his paint off. So, they got ceilings painted. So that's normally a good sign that he's down towards the end there. So uh restrooms or excuse me locker rooms hoping to be near completion here soon. Obviously there's some cleanup and things like that. >> Paul, you have anything to add to the progress of the construction? >> You hit the primary last classrooms open here in the next few weeks. The carpet's coming in. Case works showing up next week.
021um at the high school there, the class at the front door will be replaced. There's temporary class there now. Um but that'll get replaced here in the next few weeks. >> And we are using that front entrance now. So it's it's got everything wired up. Secretaries are using it. People are bringing going through that main entrance now. So um we are going to have to work there's a few things officer Paige and I are working on reumbering the doors for example. We're going to have to redo some of those things. Uh but at the point of we got to get everything done first. So um at the high school instead of going around and renumbering all the doors, we're just going to have one one A and one B. So then that saves us from
022doing everything else. At the intermediate and the primary because they are extensible, we are going to have to do some renumbering of those doors. But we're trying to get everything done first before we start getting into some of that stuff. So, and then also in construction report, um we did have a bid opening on September 30th for the backpack edition and the new maintenance facility. Um and I will turn over to Paul so you can kind of give an update on how those bids came in and where we're at. >> So, overall great competition. Um we had 21 bids over four bid categories, which is awesome. Uh the total amount, I'm sure Patrick shared the letter with you guys, is $1,863,875. That includes the two bays for the maintenance along with the restroom there. All
023site utilities to that maintenance garage and then also the backpack program on the back of the school which is matching the facade that you currently have now. So you'll have base breaks, etc. So it looks like one building and not a separate building I guess just being attached to it. Uh we did go through we scoped all the contractors um you know in the recommendation letter you have Larson Danielson as the general trades circle our mechanical as the plumber um mechanical concepts as uh mechanical group and then ACMS for electrical. Uh these are contractors we've worked with a lot. The past uh three or two of these contractors were working on the first projects with primary and the high school and the other two we've worked with for the past 25 years. Um overall uh
024budget wise I think we're sitting in a good place. Um you know we hope that some of these numbers came in a little bit lower. Uh, as far as the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing scope of work, I guess just ripped the band-aid off here. You know, we're happy with those numbers. General trades will sit a little bit higher um than we expected. Not much higher, but a little bit higher than we expected. But with that being said, we are matching the current facade for the high school with the face brick on it, the EIS. It's not just a metal stud and frame building that we're putting up like we originally had planned. Um, I can kind of open it up for any questions that you guys might have for me. >> That all got bit
025together, right? I mean, there wasn't like a separate like plus bar was this much. And >> and that's a good question. Um, we did Paul had asked me about how we wanted to bid it out. I'm the one that made the decision. So, let's bid it together with the idea that we could get more competitive bids that way. So, um, Nepal and I did speak this morning Yeah. So, as far as putting it together, we tried to package it together. A lot of some people would might have shied away if we had one as an alternate. And the reason I say that is we didn't accept the initial alternate that we put out. So, that's why we kept it together. I did have a conversation with RC on Friday and this morning. They are willing
026to break out the backpack program if that's something that we want to move forward with and just do the backpack program. Um, majority of the costs are going to be from RC being the general trades. I can talk with the mechanical, plumbing, electrical, but I'm sure they'll have no problems. But we can break out of that pricing if that's something that you guys want to consider or talk about down the road. We don't have to do the maintenance building, they're willing to just do the backpack program or if you guys want to just do the maintenance building, we're open to whatever you guys want to do. Obviously, it's your guys decision. It's your money. If that's the route you guys want to choose, then we can move in that direction. Washington Danielson is one of
027the ones that's working on some of our stuff right now, right? Yes. So, they actually had the general trades for the high school package originally. They were low bid. They were the original low bid on the alter bid as well. >> Where they were they worked for you all for Yeah. Right. Right. Where where they um valage And just as a point of reference in your board packet were those bids from February just so you have a little bit of a comparison of you a little bit different as Paul alluded to earlier the scope of the work and and matching the building and those types of things but just more forformational purposes maybe because one of the first things I wanted to know was where did they come in before where are they coming in
028now so that is in your have bids that are good for 60 days. >> Yes, I believe so. >> I had a I have a question because I don't understand all the notations, but um in this with the bids for instance, uh one of them it says combo BC2 and BC3, what what does that mean? So if a if a contractor um if a company has an electrical division and a mechanical division, they can submit a combo bid and in that combo bid, normally they drop the price uh in hopes that they can combine both those and be low for mechanical and electrical. In this case, I it didn't work out in their favor. >> Okay. Thank you. >> No problem. Are there any questions about the what the building would look like, what they
029would include, anything like that? Because we've gone through different iterations of these buildings. So, let me go back. You said you're going to the front of the school. We're putting in new doors, right? That will have the same protective film or whatever the >> That's correct. >> Semi bulletproof kind of. >> Yes. At least it'll hold some stuff up for a while. Like we had people. Yes, that's true. Good. Hopefully that'll never come in play, but I know we have a new business to respect these guys time. I mean, does anyone else have questions about this so they can maybe get on the road? I mean, just respect your guys time. >> You guys have any other comments, Joe? >> No. you you're here to answer any questions you all might have. >> Yeah, the
030backpack program that you had it it didn't extend into the parking lot any kind of stopped on that gated area. >> It stopped basically short of the parking lot right where your sidewalk is right now. So the sidewalk pass in front of us. Okay. >> Okay. And on that note, before these guys leave, do you have any pro questions about the current progress of the the project? When when do you estimate lock rooms would be done? >> Two weeks. I'm hoping we're out of there in two weeks. Um the lockers is what delayed that manufacturer, but uh we're hoping in two weeks. I think the tops just came in um yesterday or today and we're hoping to pull out of there less than two years. >> The shower room areas, those are What's jog my
031memory? What's the time ballpark time frame? We didn't vote did all this stuff barn and backpack. If we did everything and released it now, we'd probably be working out there till roughly June of next year. If we're just doing the backpack program, shortened up quite a bit. um you know the the lead time on the building and given the utilities there with the backpack program it's literally attached to the building there is it won't take us that long that's for sure and you know just an FYI obviously we're finishing up uh at the primary much sooner than we were anticipated so the g the scaleman team is slated up until that original timeline so whether it's this project or a different project, you have us on your team helping you guys get through whatever you
032need to get through. So, um, you know, whether it's working on this or working on a different project. So, we had the two open houses I think coming up in November, early December. Um, everything hopefully pretty well done or yeah, punch list, maybe an odd item here or there, but yeah, we we should be in good shape. I know the panels went up in the gym today, so that'll look a lot better. Um, we're basically finishing up these two classrooms here in the next two weeks and just punch list after that for primary intermediates been done for quite some time and I think our original schedule has come out till January roughly. Um, so we're we're ahead of the game there. Just the high school kind of uh pulled back with the lockers and the
033amount of work and the changes in the valves and waiting for the valves. So, a couple things that uh that happened at the high school that overall uh budget wise, I think we're in great shape. Uh you know, Patrick and I meet every month and discuss the budget, talk about contingency, what's remaining at funds. So, I think we're uh I think you guys are in great shape. >> I think high school you're thinking to be done like end of this month, early next month, >> the original project. >> Yeah. Yeah. I would say uh middle of November at the latest, but uh I think we're in pretty good shape. >> Speaking of budget, in your packet um in one of the folders that's labeled change orders and Joe, I don't mean to put you on
034spot. you saw that or not. Daniel Burns, another one of the architects of work, he sent a thorough list of renovations, change orders, um, including what we requested, um, any value added, errors and emissions, administrative costs. Um, so this is something that I had asked them to put together for us so we could we'd track at both projects. Um, you know, where some of those uh things had been happening as far as change orders are concerned. Um, as Paul alluded to, we work on the uh the budget every month for this project. Um, we do have allowances in each of these areas. So, for example, roofing, general trades, whatever the case may be, but this is through the duration of the project. you could see where where things have happened. Um, you know, we we've
035asked for some things to happen. For example, at the primary, the parking lot got expanded. That was something that we had asked to have happen. Once we started the project, we realized now would be a good time to expand the parking lot. So, um, they were, uh, they were originally going to go back and and just repair what was there, but we asked if they could extend it. So, we've got that added in there. But um you have a junior, senior, high school, uh additions and renovations, change orders, and then you have one for the primary intermediate. Um like I said, I had asked Daniel to put that together so we kind of track where where some of these things were going and but also give you some information on change orders and so forth
036for both projects. So I said, I don't know if you saw, but I did. So then obviously Jim when Paul and I go through every month this is you know he he calculates this puts it in the spreadsheet and it makes it pretty user friendly for me to so we can track say where are we at with these these things. So, just wanted to highlight that, point that out. The service at Jalter and SC that put together for us. Oh, you have anything to add on that? >> N questions for >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> You guys more than welcome to say we under new business, we take action on it and I'll let you guys say you're more than welcome to stay too. I mean rush you out. It's like student. [Music] >>
037Okay. Do we have any board committee reports to share? >> No, I'll hold up on that until after. >> Okay. We have one for >> Yeah. Miss Hall uh she extends her apologies for missing the the board meeting. She had half a voice this morning and throughout the course of the day I think she exhausted. So, uh, she told me today she's feeling okay, but she did not sound very strong in her voice. So, she did send a report. Uh, last Tuesday was grandparents night. Had a great turnout. Thanks to PTO for sponsoring the event. Also, thanks to Mrs. Gina Anderson and Mrs. Williams for running the book fair and to the teachers for their preparation and attendance that night. um at TCP. Looking forward to the opportunity to connect with families next week during
038parent teacher conferences. I want to thank our teachers for the work they've been in preparing for those not only for meeting with our families but in preparing our students for their first asynchronous e-learning or remote learning day of the year. Over the next few weeks, we have volunteers from Alliance coming in to conduct vision screenings and school smiles will be in to meet with students who have an appointment for a dental checkup. I'm very glad we are able to offer these services to our students and want to thank the nurses for their coordination for their coordination efforts on this. >> Thank you, >> Mrs. Pearson. >> Yes, she does. Uh volleyball and cross country seasons have ended. uh student council robotics and spell bowl student spell students have been selected and started meeting this month.
039Uh they've had sixth grade basketball call outs. Um parent teacher conferences are on October 21st. They will all be at the intermediate building. So TCP teachers will be joining us this year. The TCP staff will be in the gym and the teachers from TCI will be in their classrooms and that is from 1:00 to 8:00. Also like to thank the Bulkit Volunteer Fire Department for coming in and teaching students about fire safety prevention. >> Okay, Mr. McCracken. >> Any of Mr. H. All right, Mr. Haskins. >> Um, our first quarter grading period ended last Thursday, the 9th. Um, grades are due tomorrow at noon. Mrs. Kelly will save grades and report cards going out electronically on Wednesday uh the 15th this week. Tomorrow morning our jun our sophomores and juniors will be PSAT testing uh
040in the morning. PSAT is a kind of a predictor that is used for um SAT testing that juniors will be taking after the first year. Sophomores will take PSAT again next year and juniors then take SAT. So, it's just a good way to get kids. More and more colleges are back to looking at SAT scores. And so, it's pretty important. It's pretty important day for our sophomores and juniors. Senior practice is this Thursday uh in the main gym at 9:30. Uh in case of any fog or weather issues, we will uh reschedu for this Friday, the 17th, if something goes wrong. But I don't think that I don't think that's going to be the case. It should be this Thursday. That's always a great day for our seniors and our seniors families. um just to
041come in and get together. Um we just kind of start start the senior year. We're we're already a fourth of the way through it, but it's a good time to get together. Choir concerts for both junior high and high school are this Wednesday in the auditorium at 700 p.m. Um as both other principles alluded to, next Tuesday we have a remote learning day. Our teachers have already put in some hours for parent teacher conferences. So, what we're doing at the high school, our teachers will be available from 1 to 4 in their classrooms. If anybody wants to either uh schedule a conference or just come out to the building, they'll be there. Um this Wednesday during PLC time, some of the teachers are going to spend time maybe uh communicating with parents that they feel
042like might be good even if those parents come to our last parent conferences to still come in uh to meet or those parents that weren't able to be there that first time around uh if they're available Wednesday. So we're going to reach out to parents with some communication about coming coming out to the building. Um fall sports seasons are kind of winding down. Our junior high cross country finished last Saturday. Marching band finished on Saturday as well at Plymouth. Junior high volleyball is right now in the middle of our White County terminal which I expect they won. They finish up tomorrow night at Twin Lakes. Junior high football finishes next Monday at North New at home against North Newton. Volleyball sectionals starts tomorrow night. Our girls play the second match against um North Newton and
043then if they win they play again on Saturday. Cross country sectional is this Saturday at Relair and football sectional we finish up at North Newton this week and then a week from Friday we host Frontier first round of sectional. So all the fall sports are kind of winding down. Um school smiles will be at our building this Wednesday and a big thanks to Mrs. Dyke. I think we have about 11 or 12 kids signed up for um to get looked at which is it's just really neat thing to have be able to offer our school. So thanks Mrs. D for organizing that and get kids signed up. Two weeks ago, um this Wednesday, which would have been the first, uh seniors went to IvyTech. It's always good to get our seniors down to Ivy Tech
044and just tour the campus. They do a really nice job. Our juniors will all be going down in March. Um and then it's always good to take those kids back as seniors as well to see the campus again. Um within the last two weeks, we have we celebrated um it and custodial appreciation days. Big big thanks to all of those members in our in our IT department. Mrs. Kelly spearheads that and leads. Also, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Schultz, and our um custodian staff is led by Mr. Garrett in our building. And thanks Mrs. B, Miss Baxter, Mr. Jeffers, Miss Bington, Mr. Babcock, and Miss Howard for their efforts and keeping the building looking nice throughout the day and evenings. And the last thing I had was a reminder that the end of this month
045is national FFA convention and 10 of our kids will be going to. So uh we wish them well end of October. >> Questions from I I had a question and you you said it but I wanted the students next next year seniors or this year seniors take the SAT at school. Is that what >> I I couldn't remember. I know they do the PSA, but they also do the >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. Sorry. >> Yeah. No, good question. Now, they're free. I mean, they obviously can take it again on their own, but yes, we do it like March, first week of March, I think, is when it's scheduled for >> Okay, questions. Okay, moving on to old business. >> Under old business, we have two action items. Last month, presented a round of
046Neola updates. There are 16 policies uh that were discussed last month. Enter in your board packet. I make the recommendation to approve those policies as presented. Motion to accept policies. Mr. Zusman Dr. Sh. Any discussion hearing? That all those in favor say I. >> Opposed passes up. And the other action item under old business is theouou with local law enforcement agencies. Um we talked about this uh at length last month. Um something that officer Paige has worked on. Uh I was our corporation attorney Mike Conrad has our insurance agency. They've looked at it. Um, basically just getting something down on paper, mutual aid agreement,ou with our local law enforcements just to provide some some clarity and some framework should we need to provide any mutual assistance to other agencies. Officer Paige, anything to add to
047that agreement? >> I don't believe so. >> Okay. I make a recommendation to approve that memorandum of understanding with local law enforcement agencies as present. Okay. Do we have a motion to accept the >> motion? Second motion second discussion. >> I just have a question. Does the effective date change since we're approving it tonight? >> Yeah, I will. >> Okay. I was just I didn't know if that was retroactive or >> I'll do >> I just want to thank all the parties involved in that because it took a bunch said different parties but pulling that all together and good communication to just having a good framework. So thank you you two further discussion. All those in favor of something theou please say I opposed. Motion passes seven. On to new business. >> Yes. Under new
048business we have some personnel recommendations. One is a transfer. Eric Garrett um from the life skills instructional aid at the high school. She she moved to the kitchen. Um she moved to TCP in the kitchen area. And so under employment we have um four employment. Olivia Cox who's a life skill instructional aid replacing Mrs. Garrett, Natasha Howard, custodian at the junior senior high school. And then Kylie Ferris, ACT teacher. Um, she Kylie has been with us um the whole year. However, she's been student teaching for the first 50 days. Her 50 days are now over. So now we are going to hire her to complete the rest of the year. This is a this is a one-year remainder of the year contract. Um, Miss Ferris came in last week, talked to Mrs. Mr. Dreau and
049I uh we talked about the contract um the steps that she needs to take. Once she secures her license, she will transfer over to according to the master teacher contract. Right now, she hasn't graduated yet, but she has completed her student teaching, she will graduate and then be able to get her license. So, we went through all those details. we are going to prorrate her sick and personal days effective basically this week and so she'll get second personal days pror-rated accordingly um throughout the course of the year but we did talk to her about understanding that she she's doing the training leave for Kylie Hickner so she understands that this position is just for the end of the year so wanted to kind of give a little bit of an explanation on that and then
050lastly we have a resignation for Marion as the uh at the tri at the tri county primary. So all those personnel recommendations, I make the the recommendation to approve them as presented. >> Do we have a motion to accept the personnel report here? Second, >> and Dr. Shimorn, you second that. Any discussion? >> So Marcy will be taking the place um or she's resigning and Derek will take her place. Is that right? kind of a domino effect. I know will be taken care of. Yes. >> Further discussion >> hearing that. All those in favor say I. >> Post passes 7. >> Next is the approval of the proof of publication for the 2026 budget. That was discussed at our public hearing on September 24th. It's also been posted on the door uh since 10 days
051before the public hearing. is that notice to taxpayers that is on the DLG website and has been posted accordingly. So I make the recommendation to approve that as presented. >> Okay. Motion to um approve the publication approved. >> Mr. Gerber second. >> Mrs. Overbeck. Any discussion hearing? None. All those favor say I. >> Opposed. Motion passes seven. And then the last or the next action item is the adoption of the capital projects bus replacement and the 2026 budget. Those were discussed at our public hearing on September 24th. Our capital projects and bus replacement plan has been posted on our corporation website which is required and then our 2026 budget is on gateway for access for the public. Make the recommendation to approve capital projects bus replacement in the 2026 budget as presented. >> Do I
052have a motion for the capital projects replacement and budget second? Mr. Zman, any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I oppose. Motion passes. 7. Uh next action item is the approval of the 2526 administrative goals. Um this is um each year we ask our administrators to establish two goals uh for the 2526 school year. Um those goals are then presented to the school board for approval and then we do monitor those those goals throughout the school year. And then normally in July a final report is submitted. um if the administrators are able to achieve their goals or is assignment for those administrators that they will achieve at the end of the year. So those goals are in your board packet and recommendation to approve as presented. >> Okay, we have a motion to
053accept the administrative goals. >> So move this over second Mr. That's been discussion for you on yours and I won't go into details but your goal number one Mr. Cole that's pretty lofty. >> Yeah, I'm about 25% of the way done. I have no doubt that you're going to accomplish it. I got encouraged to do that. So I would do that. >> Any other discussion? >> All those in favor say I. I opposed. Those passes. >> Next action item is the approval of Lexiple. Last month, Officer Page gave us pretty detailed description of Lexiple. Um, and presented it to the board, wanted to bring it back this month. Last month was just kind offormational session on Lexiple. This month I bring it to you for approval. Um, it is the same quote that we presented
054last month. Um, we've been guaranteed that price will never increase. Right. So, just real quick, Lexiple is similar to our NEO policy only it is for law enforcement. So, he will get those updates and keep us in compliance with our procedures and protocols. Officer Dave, anything additional to add? >> No, sir. >> So, I make that recommendation to approve Lexical as presented. I have a motion to ex approve lecture. Mr. Gerber and Mr. Gad second that any discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> Oppos. Motion passes. 7. >> Next action item is a first reading of um our death the tri county death and suicide protocols. Um you may recall uh last year we were able to get a grant called preventing youth suicide initiative grant and we worked through last year
055with teams. Then one of our goals was to formalize some policies and procedures for the corporation. Um these policies and procedures um we've worked on for the better part of last school year. Um this has been presented to um the Tri County Classroom Teachers Organization for the last two months. Uh we've had meaningful discussion on that. But one of the next steps is to present it to the board for approval. Uh this month is just a first reading. And so our guidance counselors have started going through and meeting in the buildings and starting to inform teachers of of what's coming uh over the next year. And this is one of the things that's coming is just some procedures and protocols. Um should an event happen at Tri County, we have a we have an idea
056or a road map of where to go should something happen. And so this is why we're getting this on paper um just just in case we have like said a road map or a guide should something happen. Um it one of the things that I would be remiss not to mention um in talking about should a student death or suicide occur uh we would just encourage everybody be patient as we try to get information out. Um we want to make sure the information is timely but we also want to make sure the information is accurate and we also want to make sure we work with the families before the school starts releasing information. At the end of the day, it's really not our story to tell, but it is our job to take care of
057the students and staff that are in corporation should such an event happen. So, um, unfortunately, we've we're in a cohort with other schools. Unfortunately, some of them have gone through this and we tried to pull out some of their lessons that they learned. And that was probably one of the biggest takeaways is make sure that when you share information that it is accurate. Don't worry about getting it out quick. Make sure you get it out accurately and make sure you get it out with parent permission from that family. Um, there have been times where some families will say, "We'd rather not let the school share it because they're going to share it in their own way." So, long story short, that's what we're trying to cap capture here with this um policies and pro procedures,
058protocols. And so if there's any questions about it, um, now is the time to to ask. If not, we will just bring it up next month for approval. >> Okay, moving on to the backpack edition. >> Uh, we had we're hearing from Paul and Joe about the backpack add edition and bus barn. Um, I guess we're open for discussion or what we want to do with that. I think one of the things that we heard from Paul tonight, um I will maybe encourage we he kind of gave us some new information tonight that he could break it out for us if we had asked. I did tell him today if you could break it out as far as just doing the backpack or just doing the maintenance building. Obviously, he didn't have that information for
059us. So I feel like maybe there's a little bit of information still let yet to be maybe cleaned in order to make the most informed decision. Right now what you have is the number that is for both of them. So um I'm just making a comment more than anything that you know we don't necessarily I don't believe have the right information quite yet to make a decision. But you know we ask him to just you know piece meal those two things out. It may give the board more clarity on what direction to go. >> But these bids are good for 60 days from September 30th. >> From September 30th. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Because I mean costs just keep going up at this point. I don't want to wait too much longer on
060this. >> Need the recommendation for some action here. You got to do something. >> I move to table the discussion till later. Okay. >> A second. Okay. So, any discussion on tableing this action until a further meeting? >> What meeting are we looking at? There's the is it the budget or the >> we do have to have a public hearing for ratification for the master teacher contract and so we were looking at either November 3rd, fourth or fifth and the reason why we're looking at those there's some timelines that has to be met in order to get it on the November board agenda the master teacher contract that is. So there would be another meeting on early November. So, give us approximately two weeks. Um, if you have any questions for Paul or Joe, you
061want to send them to me. Obviously, one of them is what would the cost be if we just did one or just one or the other, you know, if we decided just to go with just the backpack program, what would that cost be and not the bus farm or vice versa? But if there's any questions, we can ask and then maybe reconvene in two weeks. You have to have a public hearing anyway. It would be a public meeting obviously, but we could have other action items on there if we wanted to do it there. >> So, we could have discussion at that early November meeting. >> Sure. Absolutely. >> And then I mean >> then we maybe take action at the November board meeting. >> You can take action that night if you wanted to
062because it would be a public meeting. So, it would be obviously subject to open door law. We'd have to put it on the agenda and post it and publicize it that way. If we did that and we actually needed some more information or something like that, that gives us a cushion. >> Yeah, it does a little bit, but I would Dr. Shimmer's point of, you know, we we were just trying to get more information on this. We've got more information. Unfortunately, probably wasn't the information that we wanted because the bids came in higher than what we had in February. However, the scope of the work changed as well. So, We also have a work session after this meeting tonight. >> We came up with some had some discussion came up with questions, >> right? Get
063those answers before the >> Yeah, that's why I asked about the 60 days. So I want to I think we want to definitely take action one way or the other. Do something to make a decision. >> You're in November for sure. Early November soon. >> Okay. So we have a motion to table this. >> Any further discussion? We have a second. We got the road to >> Yep. Okay. >> Okay. Any further discussion? Okay. All those in favor say I. >> I opposed. >> The motion passes seven up. >> Um abstain. Okay. Okay. Sorry about that. usually just abstain on the sorry about that. >> So [Music] anybody else >> there's two then passes by. >> Okay. >> Two more action items. Next is the Remington Carpenter Township Public Library appointment. That appointment is in
064your board packet. and make the recommendation to approve as presented. >> Okay, we have a motion to accept the appointment of Miss Pat. Great. Dr. Sh >> second. Any further discussion? Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I opposed motion passes. Yeah. Yeah. The the letter the address the lettering. >> Yes. >> Oh, okay. >> I saw that there. Yeah, I did. Okay. >> Our last ax item is the declaration of surplus goods. Mrs. Kelly has interactive boards, 25 of them, and then um I think it's 96 access points. um throughout the course of the project, we've updated our access points and instead of the interactive boards, we have interactive panels now. And so that's why um the interactive boards are at the end of life. Can't find those anymore. Um we don't
065have to have the projectors and the bulbs and those types of things, the panels, and then the access points just got updated through the course of the project. So make the recommendation to declare those as surplus goods as presented. We have a motion to accept the declaration of surplus kits. >> So moved. >> This is over. Second. Mr. Susman. Any discussion? >> Does anyone buy this stuff? >> Yeah, there's a few that >> because it's always like obs. >> Yeah. No, I don't know the interactive boards will go or not, but >> Okay. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. opposed. Motion passes up finance business. >> Uh in your board packet is your financial information, the education operation transfer that is in there as is every month. Just keep in mind
066we cannot exceed 15%. So we have that information in there which is a running total from January through current of what our transfer amount is. So right now we're at 13.1% of a transfer. So, we did not transfer anything this month. Um, this is the second year in a row, Mr. Seard and I, uh, as we work through the budget, uh, in order to ensure that we have enough of an appropriation, we start scaling back a little bit, and then if it gets towards the end of the year in December, we have enough of an appropriation left, then we'll do a transfer at the end. So, I anticipate next couple months, you to see that number go down. Like I said, usually we're right under 15%, this month we're at 13%, but we didn't transfer
067anything from the education to the operations. Um, also in your board packet is the end of month financials. So despite the fact that we did not transfer anything, you can see where our operations fund is um as far as our current balance. And so we do keep an eye on that operations fund as well as our other funds as as well. But we do keep an eye on those. Our educ our referendum. Keep in mind too with our budget that we just approved tonight, we have moved some people out of some of our employees out of the referendum and in education. Um the number one reason we're doing that is because of Senate Rolled Act One. We're trying to build the referendum up just a little bit. So, as the storm approaches from Senate Emerald
068Act One, we have some referendum dollars um kind of built up, for lack of a better term, so we can weather that storm. Um keep in mind in 2028, as the law currently stands, um we're going to be losing $300,000 from local income tax right there off the top. So our local income tax, if you scroll through that fund report, there is a revenue report. So you can see local income tax is part of our revenues. Once again, in 2028, that is going to go away. Um like I said, it's the way the law is written right now with Senate World Act One. Um, probably now is a good time to uh point out that getting ready to go back into legislation or our state leaders are getting ready to go back in and talk.
069U there is some talk about maybe redoing some things with Senate and Rolled Act One. Um I don't know what that means, but they are saying that they may go back and revisit that and and fix some things that they felt like they've got left open in there. So, um, keeping in mind kind of keeping the end inside here, um, as we've had Baker Tilly come in, we know some things are going to happen as it current as SN and enrolled act one currently exists. So, um, just kind of keeping an eye on those financial informations. Also in your board packet is the claim dockets and the payroll for your claims. Uh there is one that I want to point out. Uh that is cooperative school services and I beg you pardon. Let me let
070me find it here. It's on page six. Um cooperative school services in the amount of $47,738. Uh that is semester one or joint service fee. So that is our special education co-op that we're a member of. um that is our first semester fees. That is kind of a two-prong attack of how they figure that out. There's a pup per pupil rate and then there's also once they get your special ed count, they use a special ed count to calculate that. So, there's two ways that they calculate it. Uh what we're trying to do is make it as equitable as possible. KB is the biggest school in the co-op. So by having just a flat fee, everybody's paying the same, but then once it's based on your student count as well, the bigger schools like KB,
071if they have more students involved in special ed, they're going to wind up paying more than try counting it. So we try to make it as equitable as possible when we're determining that. So as you can see, that bill was paid for out of the referendum. So that's how Mr. Shuri and I budgeted it was out of the referendum. next semester is going to get paid out of the education. So when we worked on the 2026 budget, we looked ahead and we were able to we budgeted that out of education once again keeping kind of the end in sight that we want to try to minimize so to speak what's coming out of the referendum knowing what's coming down the road. That's the only one I wanted to highlight. However, if there's any questions on
072the claims, I'd be more than happy to entertain those at this time. question. >> You mentioned a little bit uh then looking at some things in a nonbudget year, the legislature or something like that. And that was one of the things on our legislative um committee that we brought up and said, "Well, you know, you really can't vote this back up. It's next year will be a non budget year." And I got a little push back. And u the committee challenged Terry and said, "Hey, we want them in there." And then there was stuff after that back and forth, but it came through when we had a delegate assembly. put it in there and nothing more. It stresses how there are issues and it's not just small schools. Some of them on that committ one
073was on for community schools which I think now with the little bit of a shrinking at IPS they're I think the largest school corporation in the state and they're getting whacked that you probably see it some of these these things we get from Adam >> and uh Now they're bigger. It's size. It's proportional. But my goodness, we talk about 300,000. They're they're in big big big figures and stuff. So, it's affecting everybody. I think this overall this just might help be helpful. Some pressure coming back on our legislators to take another consideration of this and and if not the next year, then the following budget year. So, we'll to be continued. We'll see what happens. But We have a motion to set the claims documentation and then second. Any further discussion? Any hearing? None. All
074those in favor say I. >> I oppose. Passes. >> Superintendent's report. >> Yeah. A couple things. Um teacher appreciation grant. In the past, um, we would bring the teacher appreciation grant policy to the board usually in September for approval and then teacher appreciation grant would come in. The corporation office would work on distributing those funds to all eligible teachers and it used to be a equal amount for all the teachers that qualifies. Um through legislation the teacher appreciation grant has changed to a competitive grant and only the top 20% I say top only 20% of teachers are now eligible. So it used to be every teacher that was eligible could get a piece of teacher appreciation year. Now they've limited that to 20% of teachers. So for Tri County that is 16 teachers that would
075be eligible um because of the 20%. So, in your report packet was a announcement from the Department of Education on September 12th about the teacher appreciation grant. The Tri County Classroom Teachers Organization and I have been talking about this for several months, more than one, more than two months. Um, we've just been waiting on guidance and now we have it. I wanted to share that with the board. Um as you could see um the requirements um have changed dramatically and essentially we have no local control over the teacher appreciation grant. The legislation is telling you how this will be distributed. However, the one thing that we do have local decision on how do we determine who the 20% are. So right now where we're at with the teacher appreciation grant um we have opted in
076to participate which was the first step. So schools had to either opt in or opt out. We we did opt in. Um the next step then would be a competitive grant that we would have to complete and that's where we haven't made a decision are we going to pursue the grant or not. Um we have shared some information back and forth with the teachers association. Um, last week, last Monday, I sent a letter to the staff explaining these changes as best as I as I understand it. Um, that letter was shared with the CTO before it went out. So, they had a heads up that it was going out. Um, and we've had some good dialogue. Some teachers have reached out with some further some clarifying questions. But um right now we're just kind of
077waiting for some more information from the state as well as trying to piece together if we're going to pursue this. If we are going to pursue it, we have to have a plan of how did we determine where those teachers uh fell in. Um if you look at page three of that document from the Department of Education, they have three tiers. One's a recognition stipen, one's an exemplary stipen, and one's an exemplary plus stipen. So that's where I'm saying that require the criteria gets told to us of how teachers qualify. Our job is to determine how teachers have fulfilled those criteria. So that's where we are at with the conversation right now. So wanted to provide a quick update on the tag policy. Also in your board packet um is information about an open house
078that we are going to host uh for the primary and for the junior senior high school. Uh the open house for the primary is scheduled on Monday, November 17th, 5:30 to 7. And then at the junior senior high school on Monday, December 1st, uh Chris Canary from Jibralter is helping me get this together. Uh, as far as what you have in front of you is just a press release. We haven't sent it out yet. I have one more meeting with Chris actually tomorrow afternoon to finalize some of the details. We're firm on the dates. We're just trying to work on getting that information out, creating a flyer and promoting what we've done at those two buildings. If you're wondering about the intermediate, uh, we are proud of the work that we did at the intermediate,
079but it was probably the most minimal of the three buildings. Um we made a strategic decision that uh we're hoping just to get people to come to two. We thought maybe getting to the intermediate maybe just maybe pushing our luck just a little bit. So people are always welcome to come and we'll take them to any of the three buildings but we are scheduling some open houses um to highlight the work that we've done at those two buildings. Lastly, um have started a conversation um with the teachers association about expanding our preschool program. Um literally we just had our first conversation about it at last month's discussion. Um the goal is, you know, what can we do to get students into presents into preschool? Um, our kindergarten teachers have noticed a very big difference with
080those students who have gone through preschool as opposed to those that haven't. And so, um, you know, having that conversation. So, in your board packet, there is some information from Miss Hall as far as how many students have gone to preschool for the last couple years, as far as how many have gone to preschool, and then how many students we have total. So, um, just wanted to bring the board up to speed on that conversation. and why that information was in your board packet. I'm just trying to have that conversation. Did talk to the teachers about you know it is a strategic decision but we do have to keep an eye on the budget side of it as well. You know what what are the ramifications I keep keep saying and roll act one is
081going to you know you're going to get tired of hearing it but that is the thing that's out there that's looming for us. So trying to figure out how we can make the best decision to serve our community both academically but also fiscally. How can we do that? So that's all I have. >> I have a question on the preschool. So is it kids that go to Tri County preschool or any preschool that they've been going to? Is there a difference there? >> A little bit. Um uh the our local preschool I believe only takes five or six students. So if you take five or six students, divide that into three classrooms. >> I have one that went to a private preschool in our area and I had in county eight others that were in
082our dry county preschool. That gives me nine who went to preschool and I have 20 students. >> Are there there's a waiting list right now for preschool? Uh there have been in the past. I don't think there is this year, but there have been in the past where we've had waiting lists. So this is one year we just we did not have a waiting list. 36 is our number. We tried to do 18 and 18 first and second because we had two sessions, a morning and an afternoon. Um I think it used to be lower than that or we've up said that I think in discussion used to be 36 was our cap and then we >> lower 15. No, I didn't raise it. >> Raised it. >> Do you know um I don't remember
083what the numbers were when it was all day. Um is is that some of the detriment? Um that it's a half day. >> It's a great question and not to get over that, but we do have a survey that we may send out trying to get some information out because that was one of the things we were wondering as well. Well, then my other question is, do you know the kids that weren't in the preschool? >> Were they at home? Were they at a babysitter? Were they or a little bit of >> a little bit of everything. >> We talked about transportation when we had our discussion. We, you know, half day, prek or prek. Some families that just isn't really possible for them. I the families are working, the parents are working and so
084I think that's a variety but again the communication out there what there is to offer for our young children is important discussing that also discussion. Okay. Do we have any more visitor comments on our agenda items this evening? No. Okay. Board member comments. >> Were you going to mention anything about >> I do apologize. Yes. Thanks for the reminder. I sent you an email board an email about the regional uh ISBA regional meetings. Um October 28th is the session that I've kind of highlighted up in Marville. Um, once again, as we get ready to get into a legislative session, uh, this meeting kind of talks about what the goals of the Indiana School Boards Association is for this legislative cycle. So, um, they always have one of the before the legislative cycle opens and then
085one at the end um, which is in the spring. Our tradition, for lack of a better term, is we go north for this first one and then we go to Lafayette for the one in the spring. Obviously, you can go to any sessions. Doesn't matter which session you go to, but that's what we've done in the past. Um, they can give you the the information and email. If you're interested in going, just let me know. It's easier if I just register everybody at once, just get everybody done at one time and then we can we could write up their Mr. Gerber, anything to add? >> I just encourage it. I think it's a good informative thing. Gives some chance for some maybe more dialogue a little bit too. Just traveling and that and meal all
086that stuff. That's one of the bigger ones up there usually. >> Yeah. >> So, >> if you're available, great. If not, that's we'll bring back information as well. >> We're also um board member comments. So we at that point >> um we want to send u kind of mention something and I think may send something out from later in the week though as we look ahead ways for our um facilitated work session or board retreat. We really want feedback from board members and administrators. What topics? What are what are some key topics? We've done this before. This isn't all new, but this is this is your honor session. This isn't one person run or anything like that, but we really want feedback on what are some of the things maybe we really need to discuss
087and maybe they're repeats of things the past or maybe there's a few other things that have come up, but they seems like they they've always been pretty really productive. And uh so I'm I'm going to just really really I guess almost plead with you to give us some thought and then give some feedback back to us here. We'd like to have it probably within the next um two weeks as we talked about having it before right before we go to that spor myself and um Mr. C are going to have a meeting preliminary meeting. and she'll remind me. What am I doing here? I'm send an email out. >> I was thinking you were just just encourage a reminder. >> I'm making myself thinking that's what we talked about. But anyway, um just as a
088reminder though, but we'd like to have that back. Um no later. What's the Monday? Is that the 27th or 28th? >> 27th, >> I think. 28th is Tuesday. >> Yeah. no later than Monday the 27th. We'll put that little message um so that we can have that input to at least start looking at it whenever the three of us meet. And the reason we're trying to plan far enough ahead, let's say there's a certain topic that we're not going to cover everything that everybody puts down, but we're a number of them say, "Hey, this is really important and this stands out and all that." And then we try to find a facilitator that just can assist with that. So for the audience kind of um by law you have in in a facilitated work session
089you have to have a facilitator and we can just have somebody put an agenda in the stopwatch basically keep us on track. We've never done it. Won't weigh back. If there was a particular subject we try we're trying to pay them anyway. Might as well get them in and get their expertise and have them share some things that could really be helpful. And so, uh, that that takes some planning ahead because some of these people anywhere from, um, we've had Dr. Belch, uh, who was a former superintendent. Then he was hired by his alma mo, I think it was his all modern, Indiana State to teach, and he did such a good job in making the dean of the education department. He still lived in the Cington area. So, he decided to run for the
090school board. He used to be superintendent on. Now, that's unique. So, we had a gentleman that was just awesome that had all those wore all those different hats and we've had him in here a couple times. I think wasn't he was he a professor of yours? >> He was at one time. >> Yeah. So, anyway, those are the kind of things that we need to plan ahead for. So, um it's going to and we want the feedback u and that's what we can get out to your two uh um courts that are not here tonight. We want that kind of feedback. Um, here's the things we're seeing. Here's whatever. So, please. Okay. Um, how many seniors do we have here tonight? No. One senior. So, I have a question for you. How's that senior year
091going so far? >> It's stressful. I have too many things. >> So, what's the plan after your senior year? Um, I got accepted into IU Indie and I'm hoping to do their business law program to become a parallegal. >> That is fantastic. That's super. That's super. So, I'm going to make this short and sweet. I talk to seniors every time. Is this your first u public meeting? >> No. Okay. So, you've seen kind of how public meetings are and how we bring things up and how we make a motion. And maybe maybe it's not I7 at all. Okay. I mean, if we're going to approve Mel bids, it's probably going to be a 70 vote. Okay. But some of these other things we may get into discussion. I've been involved with course time in some
092one at least I know was a major one and it was a four to three vote. That's as close as it gets to but we talked about it and we worked things out and that's why we have people of different thoughts and stuff like that. That's what makes up a board. But we work it out. to discuss things and um and in some cases you saw a couple abstain maybe because they weren't at the meeting or what for other reasons. Okay, so you can vote yay nay or abstain but um we work together and I'm just going to encourage you I hope maybe you come back in this area but wherever you go give back, okay? Because there's been places that have given to you and then it's it's really it is a service. It
093really is. So, uh, I'm just going to work and encourage you enjoy the rest of your senior year. Personally, that was my favorite year. And, uh, >> hey, hey, you have another semester. Okay. But, uh, and just give it your all. Finish strong. And, uh, remember, there's a lot of young kids, some of them that you don't even know that are watching you, okay? And you're a role model to them. So, I just I just wish you the best. Thank you. >> Good. Any other board member comments? Nope. Okay. We have a motion to adjourn. Dr. Sher second. Mr. S. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. [Laughter] Just real quick earlier if anybody's interested dynamics hold a demonstration here on October 21st from say h they're the ones that have
094full resistant flaming windows. Um, unfortunately I would be on that day.