001liberty and justice for all. Okay, there are no amendments to the agenda. Um on the public participation, don't have anyone signed up. Uh so moving on to item five, comment regarding the terms of the tenative collective bargaining. Only a question. The uh donation of sick days. Can retired te teachers that are retiring, can they donate their sick days back to the bank? >> Yes, >> they can. >> Up to 50 sick days. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And support staff do the same. >> Okay. >> But that isn't the same. >> What's that? >> That's not the same. >> Yeah. the one with the big curly hair. >> What are these numbers here? There's no >> heading to it. Like are these partly that the state of Indiana boys and girls >> what's the 0.15
002>> that's the percent charge for >> right >> okay >> you have to have a girls wrestling team now >> we're working on it So, they're working on it. Uh, they had a a number of girls that were interested. Okay. Um, and I it was kind of fun. I was at the middle school at lunchtime one day and they had they were having signups >> and I think there was almost many girls signed up as there were boys. So, >> really? >> Yeah. It was I was very very happy to see that. So, >> in new state law, girls cannot be on the team, >> right? >> Oh, really? >> Yes. >> That's new this year. >> I I am not sad about that. >> Middle school. It was actually a rule before this year,
003>> but the girls who were already wrestling against the boys were allowed to finish >> that they had started. So, they're all done now. >> When we go to eaten, there's a lot of girls, right? >> I get one, not last year, but the year before, my grandson pulled a girl every time. And girls always win. >> Pound for pound. >> Yeah. Well, the nice thing also is that um if you look I mean this is like you go back like 20 years ago where girls soccer took off and the amount of scholarship opportunities were there and now we're going to see the same thing with girls wrestling because there's a lot of college you know schools that are now starting to add a a female wrestling team. So it's I mean there's going to
004be a lot of opportunities for those girls if they're they so choose. So, I know you probably don't know this, but did they change it in Ohio? Also, >> I >> because most of our meats that like his grandkids, my grandkids, if Matt has one, um, they're in Ohio. Oh, I think every one of them is in Ohio. >> I will take a look tonight and I'll email you. >> Oh, that'd be great. I'm really interested in knowing that. >> Those are mean. >> Mean girls. So, as of this year, we don't have an official girls program, but next year we're looking at it. >> Working on it. >> Okay. >> Yes, sir. >> That's what I was just thinking. Do you have somebody interested in coaching? >> I that I don't know. I can
005I can there again. I can find out. Um like I said, I was just happy to see that that many girls especially at the middle level because they're, you know, worried about self-image, all that stuff. You're like, "No, I'll get I'll mix it up." And I was like, "Yeah, let's go." So, because I think the girls would be a little tougher on each other than the boys are, but So, >> so the FAR number is the salary they get for that. >> And again, tonight's just the uh public hearing, not we're not voting on anything tonight. So there's no other comment. Um we'll move back to public participation. Any comments? >> No, I will just uh and I told I told Matt the other day I I need to apologize to all of you because
006during the interview I said we're going to do things better. I apologize that we kind of had to throw this together was what we came into because uh you know the three of us kind of got told about five hours before we were bargaining uh by our our intern that you know was going to happen today. So I apologize. This will be the last time that you know we're we're doing something like this because as I said we are going to do things better. This was just the situation we got into and you know the deadline was the 15th of November. So it was not the best way to do this. So I just want to tell you guys that I mean it will get better like next year. We've already started talking about going
007in next year already. So, um, you know, like I said, I apologize because I did tell you I was going to do things better and this was not a good show of it with what what we came into. So, sorry about that. >> No problem. Those things happen. >> If there's no other comment, we'll uh adjourn the public meeting at 5:38. >> You did better than you told us.