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S-OCS School Board Live Stream

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Source
YouTube / S-OCS School Board
Date
2025-06-13
Location
Owen County, IN
Material
Transcript
Extent
2,065 words · about 12 min
Collected
2026-07-01

Transcript

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001Uh the first is as it pertains to any agenda item and then the last or the second opportunity is to provide comment after we have adjourned. Uh does anybody wish to make any comment tonight on any specific agenda item? Okay. Does anybody wish to make comment after the meeting has adjourned? Okay. All right. All right. Uh next up uh is additions to the agenda. Uh there is one addition to the agenda this evening. Uh board members, you have in front of you a resignation that I would ask that we would add to Roman numeral 7 personnel recommendations. Under letter A, resignations, please add number 11, school social studies teacher. Excuse me. Again, Mr. Matt McGawan, Owen Valley High School social studies teacher. We just received that this morning. Right. Thank you, Superintendent Klein. Right. Uh,

002next on the agenda is the consent agenda. I would ask the board to approve, accept and approve the consent agenda as presented, including your financial reports, your claims, the minutes from the previous meeting, as well as your uh director uh updates and reports. You've heard the request. I have a motion on that request. Move to approve. Second. Got Chad and Mark. And is there any discussion hearing? None. We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes seven to zero. Next, old business. Uh there are no old but no old business items this evening. Okay. Next is new business item number one. Item number one is a request to approve the novels or curriculum materials for Owen Valley Middle School Language Arts Department. I'll defer to Mr. uh Mr. Taylor

003this evening. Uh he led the the work on this uh to to approve the or to seek to seek your approval for these curricular materials. Okay. You've heard the request. I have a motion on that request. Move to approve. Thank you, Dina. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you very much, Chad. Is there any discussion? Okay, hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes seven to zero. Item number two. Uh item number two is a similar request for high school language arts uh department novels and curricular materials. And again, if you have questions, I'll defer to Mr. Taylor for that. You've heard the request. Do I have a motion on that request? Move to approve. Thank you, Mark. Do I have a second? Second. Thank

004you, Jack. And is there any discussion? Okay, hearing done. We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes seven to zero. Next up, item number three. Uh item number three is a request to approve the occupational therapist contract service contract for the 2526 school year. Uh thank you to board member uh Mrs. Stickles for uh catching a typographical error that needed to be updated. Uh it is for occupational therapist. There is a reference to school language pathologist which has been updated in uh the document that would be signed. Uh again, there is no uh uh change in cost or rate from for next year compared to the current year that we just finished. Okay, you've heard the request. Do I have a motion on that request? Thank you, Liz.

005Do I have a second? Second. I got Rick as a second. Is there any discussion? Okay, hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes 7 to zero. Item four. Item four is a request to approve the updates and amendments to our 2526 school handbooks. That would include our prek and preschool handbook, our elementary handbook, the middle school student handbook handbook, as well as the middle school athletic handbook, the high school student handbook, as well as the athletic handbook, and as well as the alternative school handbook. You uh the building principles and administrators had provided you with a summary of changes for each of those on top of the actual document that you've had uh to review in uh your uh Google folder as well. Okay. You've

006heard the request. Do I have a motion on that request? Move to approve. Thank you, Mark. Do I have a second? Thank you, Chad. Is there any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes seven to zero. Okay. Item five, excuse me. Item five is a request to again approve a curricular material for eighth grade preparing for college and careers uh coursework. Uh and again if you have questions I'll defer to Mr. Taylor who did the research on this with the principles and the classroom teachers. You've heard the request. Do I have a motion on that request? Move to approve. Thank you, Dina. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Jack. Is there any discussion? Okay, hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All

007those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes seven to zero. Item six. Item six is a request to approve the course fees and technology fees for uh courses at Owen Valley Middle School and High School for the 2526 school year. Again, I'll remind the board and then uh those in the public audience are watching that uh these are fees that we need to approve so that if they are assessed, we would be able to claim them on our reimbursement for uh textbook reimbursement total cost. You've heard the request. Do I have a motion on that request? Thank you, Rick. Is there a second? Second. Got Jack as a second. Okay. Uh you uh any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes.

008Seven to zero. Item seven. Uh item seven is a request to approve the kid account hosted software agreement which is our visitor management software that we piloted uh successfully at Owen Valley Middle School over the course of the previous school year. Uh we would ask that you approve this so that we can install uh this visitor management software and hardware in each of our buildings uh to monitor entry and exit of patrons throughout the day. All right, you've heard the request. Do I have a motion on that request? Move to approve. Thank you, Jack. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Liz. Okay. Any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes seven to zero. Okay. Item eight, uh, excuse me. Item eight

009is a request to approve a one-time stipen for the transportation director. As you are all aware, uh he has been working uh solo, for lack of a better way to say it, since mid January and has taken on the duties of his own position as well as uh the assistant director's position as we've tried to search and find a successful candidate, but have yet to do so and would like to make sure that we acknowledge the fact that he has u done the work of two individuals for uh since mid January up to this point. All right. Uh, you've heard the request. Is there a motion on that request? Move to approve. We got Rick and Dina as a second. Is there any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor,

010please raise your right hand. Motion passes. Seven to zero. Okay. Item nine. Uh item nine before you is a request to approve the food service management contract for the 20252026 school year. Um I'll read the second paragraph that I provided for the the board so that again folks in the audience or those watching on live stream can uh hear this. But uh the recommendation is based upon a review of proposals from our four food service management companies that were successfully submitted as part of the request for proposals process prescribed by the department of education. Uh this process must be conducted a minimum of every five years. Uh upon independent review by the committee members which there were four of us. Uh Aramark has been determined or was determined to have the highest rubric score ratings

011based on the required components of the rubric. Cost and administrative fees are listed below for reference and then a blank copy of the rubric was provided as well for your own reference. The general administrative fees will uh increase or excuse me will be at 1378 per meal. The management fee will be at 0.05 per meal uh with an equivalency factor of $4.99 per meal and a guaranteed return of at least $40,000 uh as part of Aramark's agreement. Again, it's my recommendation uh also that we would review the request for bid process every two years moving forward in lie of conducting the bid process every five years. that will allow us to have some ability to more frequently review our options uh as we move forward into the future and u the economic uh opportunities or

012challenges that we're potentially going to face. We've heard the request. I have a motion on that request. Thank you, Chad. Do I have a second? Second. I have Rick as a second. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes seven to zero. Next on the agenda is personnel. Uh, under Roman numeral 7 personnel, if it's the pleasure of the board, I would ask you to uh approve the resignations under letter A, terminations under letter B, and leave requests under letter C, as well as employment recommendations under letter D. Or if you'd like to visit one individually, we can do that as well. There any objections to taking them all together? None heard. All right. All right. You've heard the request. Do I have

013a motion on that request? I'll give you I'll give it to you Mark and then Liz is a second beat out badly. Yeah. Yeah. All right. It's been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes seven to zero. Okay. Next on the agenda is board comments. So, please remember to use your microphone as well. Uh we will start down with Mark. Nothing this evening. Thank you. Okay. Chad, here. Dina, no comment. Okay. Rick, no comment. Liz, um just want to thank Matt Gowen for his couple years he did here. thankful that he uh did such a decent job while he was here with us. Thank you, Liz. Jack, no comment. Okay. Uh none from me this evening.

014Uh we will now move on to the administrator comments. Uh and uh hi Carol. Carol. Carol, it's good to see you. Um, Carol, I do need you to uh go and sit at the mic. You gota be kidding me. We can't hear on the on the you on the YouTubes. We can't hear you if you're not by a microphone. So then you have no comment in there. That's a that's you do. Or you or you can get the microphone. We really Yeah, we really can't hear the audience if you're not at the microphone. So And please make sure that you press the button and it's green. It's state. It's state law. Caroline. Okay. I just want to thank you for approving the staff. I also wanted to publicly thank my teachers that are still with

015me and myself. Thank you, Carol. Okay, next up, uh, Chris Samic. Okay, no comment from Chris. Uh, Mr. Taylor, I just want to thank you for approving the curricular materials uh for the middle and high school language arts departments. I know they'll be excited about that and being able to implement those uh next year. and also for approving the revised and up-to-date preparing for college and careers textbook and resources that they'll have. Um, I know that Mrs. Collins will appreciate that as well. Our elementary summer school will conclude tomorrow. So those uh second and third grade students are taking I read three and we're looking forward to getting uh those test results uh after that intense intervention in summer school. Uh high school summer school still has one more week um and students are working

016really hard to earn um credit for math and also language arts. Um, and then also we had over 40 teachers attend uh summer curriculum days with their PLC's from the middle school and high school. Uh, they made some great use of their time uh to collaborate, update their curriculum maps and and meet. And that was um at the uh that was two weeks ago on a on uh Wednesday, Thursday. So, um, I hope all of your summers are off to a great start. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Taylor. Next on the agenda is the superintendent report from Superintendent Klene. Uh, just one item uh for the board to be aware of and then also uh we have received the first rule proposal of the new to a new A2F grades. So, we I will be sending

017those to you as a board to start looking at. If you remember several several years ago now, they suspended giving schools letter grades A to F. Uh the state legislature has now uh come back to that and it is been charged or charged the department of education with uh putting back in place an A tof grading system which will be implemented and we will have grades in uh this time next year for the 2526 school year. So I would I will send that to you as uh so you can begin reviewing it. There is a public comment period right now for individuals to provide uh their own thoughts on it. I have already sent that to all of our certified teaching staff. Uh the principles they have that as well and we will be sending

018it out to all of our parents so that they can start looking at it because there are some uh unique measures uh that they're going to try and grade our schools on once again. uh and it's just an open opportunity for parents any individual for that matter to uh take a look at it and then give their feedback. So there will be round one of uh comment then they will take that and then refine the model that they have and then there'll be a second round of uh comment uh and if I remember correctly they must by the end of the calendar year December oh 26th I think they must have a final rule and final resolution in order to begin collecting that data and then applying the new A to F laws uh next

019spring. So, want the board to be aware of that. Um, was able today, I will update you on some construction progress. Uh, able to watch, uh, the construction crews at the transportation facility put the, uh, concrete mezzanine into the, uh, facility. Uh so that with that being done uh that building should start to be closed up pretty quickly and uh it will pick up a whole lot more uh faster pace to move towards completion. Uh the rain and the weather has not helped us obviously with uh trying to black top and trying to pour some concrete and do some fence work and all those things, but uh and looking at the weather next week, it doesn't look like we're going to get much of a break either. So, but uh we'll be progressing with that

020uh as well. And um that is all I have. Okay. Thank you, Superintendent Klein, for that. Uh at this time, I'd entertain a motion on adjournment. Move to adjournment. Thank you, Rick. Do I have a second on that? Second. Thank you, Chad. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion passes seven to zero. We are now adjourned. Uh at this time, does anybody wish to make public comment? Okay. Uh thank you everybody for this evening. Uh our next meeting is here at central office on July 17th at 7 p.m. Uh and on our YouTube channel. So, and hopefully Carol's here to uh speak again. All right. Thanks everybody.

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