001little tripod for our town board meetings. It's like 20 bucks. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> We're going to pray if you'd like to join us. Dearly, Father, we thank you for the chance to be here tonight. We ask that you please guide us here. Please bless this community and bless all the students, all the teachers, all the parents involved, everyone in Jesus name. >> First thing we have is a public hearing testimony on the teachers compensation for the 256 contract. >> Are there any comments on the teacher compensation and this year? If there are no comments, then we'll move on. We're going to make one change and that's under classified. We're
002adding the hiring of a second. We're going to open it back up for public comment on the agenda. There's no public comment and we'll move on. I need an approval of the August meeting minutes and claims. >> Do I have a second? All those in favor of our motion to hire a certified teacher for an elementary resource teacher. Do I have a second? >> All those in favor? I have a motion to hire as a data analyst for the school going over our scores. All those in favor [Music] we have two reser >> all those in favor. >> I need a motion to approve the termination of Brian Clark as athletic director. >> Do I have a second? We're going to move on to facility requests. We have a request to hold a craft show
003here and 23rd. >> They ask us to do that. Um do you want to say who's asked to have the craft show just >> Yeah, church on this one. The craft show um they uh do it every year. They've got about 30 vendors coming this year. >> Do the girls request. This is just our local Girl Scouts. They want to use the classroom once a week Wednesday. >> We were contacted by a 13year team, two former students that are married and have kids and they're from the Marushi Maruchi. Is that prospects. And so they are they both came in >> Sunday 126 and car show September 112. I have a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> We'll move on to the administrator report. >> Okay. Um, Mr. W, you want to We have
004some exciting news this week. You want to introduce some folks? And >> I'd be happy to see. >> Um, I like to welcome Parker Nas to the meeting. Parker, you want to come up here? as if he's not. Parker is a fifth grader and we began to use for one of our assessments to collect data study island this year. Parker's in fifth grade. Uh Parker took about two and a half, three weeks to completely finish every fifth grade math. [Applause] Truly remarkable achievement. And he's since moved on to sixth grade math and But seriously, wonderful job. Congratulations. >> There you go. Being the first one done, we wanted to make a huge splash um in terms of his he's learned all of his fifth grade math standards already. It's September, start of September. And so
005we wanted to make an impact with the other kids as well to motivate them to go. He's done such a great job. Works hard there. And so you want to show people what you got there. >> Fantastic. I want to give you a little bit update in terms of where we're at. A couple different facets of school enrollment wise. Um we had we ran the numbers this this week and one of the things that we're excited about with all the things we've been going through is our our numbers have stayed consistent. They're down a little bit from last year. Our high school is up a little bit. Our our K5 K to 6 is down students. Our numbers have taken families at Union have stayed with us through this time. Like we talked about before,
006something that's drawn us together, not something that has separated in terms of legally. Um, I just got back from a conference in Indianapolis today and the number of superintendents across the state that are concerned about us is off the charts. Um, because they realize that they very well could be us very soon. Um, and again talking to Christie earlier, one of one of the major concerns is um how this just remind people of how this was done. If this is how they're going to run politics in Indiana, then then we're in trouble. This was put in between the second and third reading not not not allowing any sort of public input and ramroded down um down our throats and this is something that that was surprised to all of us and um it was not
007something that done legally. We've had two rounds of court dates so far. Uh the first one was actually in court. The second one was not. It was just a petition from the governor from from Katie Jenner and we've won both rounds. The first round I find it interesting that uh the judge and and even the other attorneys um you know were very concerned about how the legislation was written. There are processes that people that that the legislature can send m municipalities and schools through if they're if they're struggling, but we're not the smallest. We don't have the worst results. Um but they we feel strongly that they want our kids and they want funding for our kids. If you remember a few years back there was a big push across the state that the money
008followed the kids 15 years ago um it used to be that when we got money for union kids now every student that's enrolled no matter what school they go to um by count date start of the year and also February again by another count date uh you get funding for wherever they are educated so money is following the kids and so union in their wisdom um has got a niche on the market with the online version. And so we have a lot of kids coming to Union from across the state. They're all Indiana kids and they're all across the state. They they come here. We get funding for those kids because we are educating them um if not in person and online. And and so that there's a problem with the funding when when monies
009don't go back to normal communities. It's coming to us because we're we're there's a larger constituency that wants to do the online all the way across the state and does it so well. We partner so well with them that it's um that it's just exploded. It's just grown. One of the things that has happened for the public and also for everyone that's here that just understand um a lot of different stories that I've heard over the last 24 hours about about INDLS and union's partnership. well, they're they're pulling away from you or they're they're um uh you know, you you turned them away. None of that is true. We we love our partnership with INDLS is going very well. Uh but we did we did feel that we um agreeing with INDLS that we wanted
010them we wanted to lower our numbers and partner and allows to partner with another school and that's Beach Grove. And so their numbers have have increased greatly, but it also spreads out the spreads out some of the liability when it comes to that number of students. And so our partnership with IMDbs is as strong as ever, something that we want to continue and with our families. Um, last year at graduation, we had 1300 seniors graduate. We filled Hankle Fieldhouse with with the number of students that we had we had graduated. There were 704 students that showed up that day. And all of Hankle Fieldhouse was full. And what a great celebration that was. And it's because of our board and and Liz from IBS and work with stride that's allowing all that to happen. Um
011facilities wise here at school. Uh we did just pave the the old tennis court out there and so we are talking about how best ways to use that and I believe it come the idea of putting up pickle ball courts. And so um bring that into our community and make that a community that for our community, but also we think down the road it could be something that's a that's a school sport as well. And so that is the next thing to Let's get a picture.