001Okay. I'd like to call to order u the special school board meeting for the Leaport Community School Corporation. Um if you could all stand with me for the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge algiance 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. All right, roll call, please. Mr. Arnold, Mr. King, here. Miss Batty, present. Miss Farley, present. I am present. Vice President Jackson here. and President Seabourg is absent. So 6 to one we have a quorum. Awesome. Thank you. Um public comment, we do not have any public comment tonight. So we'll move right on to our personnel recommendations. I'll hand it over to Dr. Wood. Sure. So we have a few uh recommendations in the
002docket for this evening. I would like to draw your attention to two um because we have two individuals that are being approved tonight that are present. And so I'd like to do a quick introduction. Um so starting with Dr. Dr. Aaron Oie. Um Dr. Aaron Oni is being approved tonight for the assistant superintendent of operations position. Um so we are really excited to welcome Dr. Oie um into this position. Um he has more than 20 years of experience in K through2 education um and administration and he brings strong leadership in strategic planning, budget management and datadriven decision-making. He's joining us most recently from Hebrin High School where he has served as principal since 2018 and his values of innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth align closely with our district's mission. So, we are very excited to
003have him here. Um, he is here with his family. So, um, if you want to introduce your family and Sure. Uh, so this is my wife Carrie. Hi. Laya, Mason, Micah. Micah is a firefighter at Valvarezo. Mason is going into his sixth grade year middle school and then Laya's gonna be a senior at Buffalo High School. Welcome. Amazing. Thank you. Very happy to have you. And the other individual we have with us this evening is Natalie Wat. Um so Natalie is being recommended this evening for the assistant principal position at Handley Elementary School. Um so Natalie is a lifelong Leaport resident and a Leaport High School graduate. most recently served as assistant principal in the Plymouth Community School Corporation. Um she was with our district previously and most recently at the Kesling campus in an
004administrative role there. Um she brings valuable administrative experience and a strong foundation and instructional leadership as she returns to serve her home community. So we're very excited to recommend Natalie for that position this evening as well. Awesome. Welcome Natalie. Welcome back. Yes. Okay. Um, so we just need a motion to approve those. So, sign up. Awesome. Um, all those in favor? I post. Awesome. Motion passes. Welcome to Leaport. We congratulate you. Yeah. And welcome back. Um, next item is 3.01. We have uh per Indiana code just one special personnel recommendation. Um, I just need a motion for that. Some moved. Second. Awesome. All those in favor? Opposed? All right. That passes as well. All right. Um, next is 4.01, consideration of for the recommendation to approve the Leaport online school handbook. Dr. Tonagle. Yes, thank
005you. In May, we uh presented to the board updates throughout the corporation for our handbooks for the schools, our athletic handbooks. We did not include the Leaport online school handbook at that time. We were still working on some things. So, um asking that the board approve the 2526 support online school handbook. Uh really there aren't any substantive uh changes for next year. They're mostly procedural um administrative names, dates, um grammatical, those sorts of things. So, um nothing worth reporting on. Um we are changing uh some of the structure for Leaport online school. So, we've been working with um Amy Koser who's our new director of student services and she's working on the staff for Leaport Online School. So, um, they are now involved in this process and we're kind of passing the baton off to
006the new staff and so we would ask the board approve the handbook for next school year. Awesome. Any questions, comments? All right, just need a motion. So, move. Second. Great. Um, all those in favor? Opposed? Awesome. Motion carries. Thank you. Yes. Um, board comment. Don't be looking at me. No board comment tonight. I'll just say welcome again to our new members of the corporation and welcome back again. We're very happy to have you and um we're just really looking forward to working with you. So, thanks for being here and great to meet your family as well. Yes, nice to meet you. Um okay, so our next meeting is going to be July 14th at 6:00 p.m. That's a standard board meeting. Um and I just need a motion to adjurnn. So move. Second. All those
007in favor? I opposed.