001Good evening and welcome to our May board meeting. We're going to begin with our pledge and our prayer. >> I pledge allegiance 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. >> Father God, we thank you for this day. We thank you for this beautiful week you've given us so far. I pray that you will just help our the end of our school year to go well, um our children to be safe at school, community members, staff members. I pray that you will please help us to make good decisions tonight for all of the stakeholders in our community and our students. In your name we pray. Amen. All right. First of all, we have an approval
002of our agenda. There are no additions or corrections, so is there a motion to approve the agenda? >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? All right, motion carries. Um next is the approval of our April 14th regular meeting minutes. Is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Um any discussion or corrections? Anything in there that you saw that needs to be addressed? Okay, all in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Uh next we have our public comments and I did not check it. Okay, thank you. All right, we'll just skip [snorts] right past that then. All right, we'll begin our the portion of our agenda that's our consent agenda now. Um first is our payment vouchers
003and fund reports that we have received. Um there were a couple of big ones that Don, you know, pointed out to us in an email. Um like a our last Wagon payment on the pool locker room. That was a very large one. Um our tag payout for our teachers was on the the vouchers. Um the pay the payroll system that we use. Um that was on their voice. Um I think there might have been something else that you had mentioned to us, too, but um other than that, I feel like if I don't know if anyone else um had any other questions about anything on the the vouchers. Or Mr. McClain, anything you want to >> have anything to add other than those the one you were forgetting as you were trying to remember there
004was fertilizer. >> Okay. >> Fertilizer bill. >> All right. >> Get that down so we can mow. >> Okay. All right. Um next then unless there's any discussion or other questions for Don on that. Okay. We're going to move on to donation. Um we did have one donation for some elementary books in this was in honor of Remington Everest. So, we'd like to thank the the donor for those books for the library. Um next we have our overnight and out of state trips. We have three of those that we need to approve tonight. Um the first one is the FFA State Dairy Contest Elkhart County Fairgrounds on June 11th and 12th. Next we have our State FFA Convention in Noblesville June 14th through 18th. And then we have a high school uh Malzac Wrestling Camp
005in Wisconsin Dells June 21st through 25th. And I know that I saw Jeff, but maybe he had to take off to an event. Um any questions or concerns about the forms that you saw for those? Okay. Next we had um summer trips. We had a whole I think two-page list of different events happening this summer with all of our our students um largely I believe athletics and so any questions or clarifications on those or anyone want to mention anything about any of those events? >> Depending on um our guest boys basketball Well, that I mean, is that pending like depending on >> That would be pending and uh there would be potentially uh I know one of the things they were working on that's not on here was a potential trip to Bluffton University, which
006is in Ohio. Um if that uh if that would come to fruition, my guess is that would probably be after the next board meeting, but uh that would be the only thing. Most of the stuff that they're They were definitely You know, actually I apologize, that is on there. When that says uh high school boys basketball at the Bluffton Shootout on June 5th, I'm believing that is Bluffton, Ohio, which probably did not get caught. I'm guessing when they put that on there, they were probably thinking Bluffton, Indiana. So, if we could maybe make that slight adjustment just to recognize that would be a Bluffton, Ohio. Um and there are some other things on there that are potentials depending on how that process goes. But, that would be the only one that would potentially be out
007of state. They are not >> And no Delphos >> since uh 2002 that we have made Delphos trip. >> Wrestling's going now. >> Wrestling's going to stay. >> Wrestling will take our spot. They think they dug in They go a couple years ago. I feel like this is the second time. >> been in Wisconsin in a while. >> Okay. But, have been before? >> Yeah. >> Okay, I was thinking at least one time that they that they had done that. So, yeah, but they'll take our spot on 80 90 and up the tour this year. >> All right, well, that was quite a long list of our kids are going to [clears throat] be busy and our coaches this summer for sure. Uh next we had four camps that submitted um their forms that went
008out to students. Uh that the first one there is the volleyball camp for kindergarten through fifth grade. Next is our girls and boys tennis camp kindergarten through fifth grade, girls basketball camp grades one through six, and then our football camp grade one through eight. Any questions on any of the summer camp forms? >> I just appreciate that the coaches are keeping the prices >> Mhm. >> where they are. I mean they >> Yeah, they're well >> It's been what, 13 years since I coached and to have 25 bucks still per camp I think it's great, so >> And I appreciate that they're all pretty well attended from what I've I've seen, so so that's great. Yeah, keep the interest there. All right. Um our next section is some resignations that we have. Um first one
009listed here is um Miss Destiny Hurley. She is a kindergarten aide. Next is Miss Rachel Baumgardner, an elementary special education assistant. Next we have Miss Madison Derou, elementary behavior intervention instructor instructor. Uh Miss Sarah Gerber, middle school high school special education assistant. Uh Mr. Mr. Connor Fister, middle school social studies teacher. Uh Mrs. Aurora Doster, middle school cheer coach. And Mr. Casey Adams, varsity boys basketball coach. Um I would like to give a chance if anyone would like to say anything. I don't know Mrs. McAuliffe you have anything you would like to add there. >> I just want to thank Destiny, Rachel, and Madison for the work they've done in our elementary. They've made huge impact on students and um they're a light to have on our staff. So just well in her next adventure.
010>> Thank you. Um I know Mrs. Gerber has been here for quite some time as an aide. Um >> Yeah, we definitely appreciate her service. She has been with the same individual student for I think when we talked the other day about 10 years. Uh that student is graduating. So, she has decided that's a good time for her to transition as well um just for a variety of reasons and uh but we thank her for that and uh Mrs. Doster for serving as our middle school cheer coach. Definitely want to thank her for that as well. Uh getting those girls out there and and working with them and uh uh mentioned Connor just briefly. I think uh uh it's probably somewhat out there publicly at this point, but Mr. Fister probably as we speak is
011in the process of being approved as the new elementary assistant principal down at South Adams. Uh if you read his resignation letter real closely, that was uh uh pending his resignation pending approval by their board this evening. So, if something should go awry, which we certainly don't think it would. I did talk to uh uh Michelle down at South Adams today and give her one last opportunity to maybe back out on him jokingly. Great opportunity for him, but we will we will miss him and uh certainly want to give uh Coach Adams a a shout-out uh for his uh service this year as our boys basketball coach. Uh kind of walked into a tough spot there when he was hired just a few days literally a few days before the season started and um and
012uh just appreciate all his time, but uh you were able to read his letter there. He's just got a few various things going on that uh make this the right decision for him at the time and I'll talk just a bit about that position a little more later on in my comments as far as trying to fill that position, but thank you. >> Yeah, we want to thank all of these individuals. Um some of them very much long time here and uh we will miss them helping our students out and and guiding them along. So, big thank you and wishing them the best in their next endeavors. Uh recommendations, we do have two of those tonight. Um Ms. Lexi Kyle for elementary special education paraprofessional, and Ms. Mrs. Haley Sowers for assistant athletic director this
013spring. And if anyone else has anything they want to add here at this point because we're here at the end of the consent agenda or need to go back to anything. Okay. All right, then is there a motion to um accept the portion of the the consent agenda here? >> I'll make that motion to approve. >> I'll second that. >> Okay, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay, motion carries. Next, we're going to move on to our board action items, and there's a lot of these that we will most of them will be taking individually from here on out. Um the first is our approval of our lunch price increase for uh the next school year. It's not a huge one. It looks like it was 10 cents, but I don't know, Jessica, if you had
014anything you'd like to add or add to that for us. >> So, again, it's not a huge. It's only 10 cents. We will still be the lowest lunch prices in our county. We are 5 to 10 cents cheaper than North Adams, and then for North Adams, part of them are CEP, which is where they're free, but their high school lunch is $2.90. We're going to be at $2. 50. So, we're 40 cents difference. Um surrounding schools are all higher than us. And then the national average for Sorry, the state average for Indiana is actually $4.61. So, some schools in Indianapolis and other bigger, but even like closer to home are $4.61, 60 cents for their students. So, we are so thankful that we can still keep our lunch prices, I feel like very affordable and
015reasonable. You can't go anywhere and get a meal for $2.50 for a student or an adult. So, yeah. It's a little bit and I'm sorry. I hate to do that, but in order to base our scratch cooking and continue to get healthy fruits and vegetables that are not always free through the government, it's just a little bit that will help. It will help us. >> Now, we appreciate you trying to make them healthy, but yet appetizing for the students. And thanks for working really hard on that because I know when you're feeding a lot of people, it's not always easy. Not always easy to make them happy. So. >> We still struggle, but we're getting there. We're feeding more kids every day, so we're working on it. >> All right, thank you. All right, is
016there a motion to approve the lunch price increase? >> Make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Is there any further discussion or questions for Jessica at this point? Okay, all in favor? I and I. Opposed? Okay, motion carries. Uh next we have approval of contracts. And our first one is Mr. Mark Mish, um who is going to be our high school principal starting July 1st. That'll be his contract. Um I don't know. Mr. McLair, would you like to say anything? >> You know, I would. Make just a comment or two. So, we are uh very excited uh this evening as we uh move into kind of a new era as we look at our leadership for our high school and uh certainly uh just a position in education that not only at Adams Central, but
017across the state, across the country, uh just an extremely important position just with relationships with kids, uh the new graduation requirements, just all the things go into. This is kind of the last stop before our kids go out and become adults. So, uh very, very important position that we're filling here. We all know that we were blessed with Mrs. Ish. And I think we're also going to be blessed won't make the joke that I've been hearing a little bit the Ish to Mish sort [laughter] of a thing, but but but I have but we did just a kind of a review. I think we had Debbie, don't let me misspeak, 12 or 13 applicants. Our initial round of interviews, we interviewed six candidates and right from the start there it was just clear that Mr.
018Mish will be able to bring some things to the table that would make us very excited to have him here at Adams Central. He was a high school teacher for many years, math, I think maybe 9, 10 years at Norwell, followed that as eight or nine years, I think as the principal there at Norwell, and then has been in Fort Wayne community in a variety of roles for the last six, seven years. I know he's excited to get back into a little bit of a smaller community after the experiences he's been able to have in a little bit bigger district. And one of the things that I always try to do when people put together resumes, you obviously list references and I think he might have had five references and I think I did talk
019to all those, but I think I made seven or eight calls to other people not on his list, but that would clearly know him that I just had prior connections with and just every single person I talked to said great things, but I what I would really say they all highlighted was just his ability to form relationships with with kids, relationships with staff, and just a positive influence that he would be on our district. So, I'm very excited to recommend him tonight to be our high school principal. Excited to work with him in that role and I think he'll be a great part of our team here at Adams Central. So, saying all that, Mr. Mish, would you like to make a comment or two before they make an official vote on this? And I
020will That was probably the time maybe to address the Willie cart here. Maybe that just needs to be your explanation. >> So uh so yeah, I'm a little uh not necessarily under weather, but uh I tore my calf muscle last night about 6:00. Uh I was supervising a uh girls soccer game and jumped up out of a chair. Felt my calf go. So So that's why hence the uh the scooter and I'm not moving as well as I normally do. So uh but like Aaron said, I'm I'm super excited for the opportunity to come uh to work here and be the principal here at Adam Central. Um Living in Wells County, being a part of Norwell for almost 20 years, you know, Adam Central is one of those schools where it's like, "Wow, that's Adam
021Central, you know." Debbie asked me why why Adam Central. I almost put it's Adam Central so but um just the community. I'm I miss uh being a part of the community, the community being involved. So I'm super excited about that. Um so and I'd be remiss if I didn't introduce my wife my wife Jamie uh is here with me tonight. So um she's an instructional coach up in uh in Fort Wayne community. So uh but I'm just I'm super excited. I'm ready to go. I I said last night I was in the Fort Wayne Ortho walk-in clinic. I said, "I'm going tomorrow." I'm going tomorrow, didn't I? And uh so I'm excited about being here tomorrow all day too even though I don't get around as well as I thought I was going to. So
022um but yeah, thank you for this opportunity and and like Aaron said, you know, relationships is key and that's going to be uh right out of the gate what we got to get going cuz I'm going to teach the build trust with me so we can uh keep moving this place forward. So but thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um any other questions from the board or anything anyone wants to add? All right, is there an approval? >> I have a motion to approve uh Mr. Smith as our new high school principal. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? Motion carries. WELCOME. >> [applause] >> THANK YOU. >> [laughter] >> WELL, WITH THAT APPROVAL WE'RE GOING TO move right to the next one. We have >>
023Yeah, so jump into the next one. I am making a recommendation. So Mr. Mish's contract will be a 220-day contract starting that July 1st, which is just the the general day when most admin contracts will will begin. So rather than trying to extend the contract to 230 days or try to do it June 1. One of the advantages to making this hire this evening is that he's going to get a chance to hit the ground running here like you mentioned. He'll be in the building tomorrow meeting some people, but certainly once he wraps up his school year and as we kind of wrap things up here, I know in June we're planning to have him in several days to work with Katie a little bit and then also just for his his own advantage to
024be able to kind of start getting some things scheduled working with people. So when we get to July and August when things start to pick back up quite a bit in this anticipation of the start of the school year he's ready to go. So I'm going to make the recommendation that we approve him for 10 additional days of work during the month of June just at his normal what his daily rate would be there on his contract. So up to 10 days whether he use all those 10 days or not, I guess is he might, but if he doesn't it would be just whatever days that he he works. But the approval to do that to be ready to go next year is my recommendation. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve the additional
02510 days to at the daily rate for Mr. Mish? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? Okay. Motion carries. All right, next we have our area 18 agreement. That's our CTE. I know Mr. McClar has knows a lot more about this than we all do, but that's Adams Wells, Blackford, Jay. I'm sorry, all the Adams Wells County Schools, Blackford and Jay. Would you like to speak to that? What >> Yeah, so really what that is and I was kind of working through this process myself. So, again, Area 18, that's a variety of our CTE courses that students from other districts can come to our school for. We have our kids leaving to go other places. For for the most part, here our kids go to North Adams
026and South Adams and same thing coming in here occasionally. Bluffton, they have the ability to go anywhere, but obviously travel times and locations can dictate that a little bit. But all the schools work together. As a superintendent, I sit on the Area 18 board along with the superintendents of the other seven districts, eight of us in total. And there is a Area 18 director, Eric Muncy is the name of our director there. So, it's a little bit like I sum to as the same way I report to you guys as the board of Adams Central, he kind of reports to us as the board of Area 18. And one of the things that had and I think it was 2010 was the last year that there had been any sort of updates just to the
027to the MOU, the just the agreement between all the schools. Any just things like, okay, if you decide you're going to leave Area 18, what do you have to do? And and if there is excess supplies, if a program ceases to exist, what do you do with the equipment that was part of that program? So, just all those things that would go into that. So, it was a pretty lengthy document that you would have had in your board packet. There was just a very short summary at the end of that. Probably as we were there in the meeting, the thing we spent the most time talking about was just the wording in the amount of people that had to be present on certain votes. If there was a school that was going to leave, school
028come in, we were debating back and forth. Had to be 75% of the people that are there, 2/3 of the people there. And just making sure some of that wording was correct. So, as far as our day-to-day operations, there was nothing of any sort of significance, at least that I believe was significant in changing how anything would operate. It's just essentially each individual school board has to approve that. Myself and Heather, and I think Jason is the secretary required to sign that. We'll then give that, take that to the Area 18 board, which would then allow that board to officially vote and make that official. So, a lot of paperwork, a lot of votes, a lot of signatures. Uh but that's essentially just updating that agreement that was last done in 2010. >> Thank you.
029Um were there any questions on that as you read through that? Anything, clarifications from anyone? Okay, is there a motion to approve the agreement for Area 18? >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second it. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Opposed? Okay, motion carries then. Moving to our next item, we have the the IU School of Social Work agreement. This is a master program, and this MOU is just so that we can have some people attend here. >> Yeah, I would describe this, and I'll maybe look at Mary in a second, but essentially this is anytime we would have a student teacher in the building. Each individual college, university would have a document that you have to sign that kind of outlines the specifics of that agreement, things the schools expected to do,
030things we can expect the university to do. This is very similar other than a student teaching experience. It's involved some hours for those individuals that may be working on their masters in social work. So, it's a fairly lengthy document again that just again outlines the things that we'll do, things they'll do, expectations. We would have the right at any time, Mrs. McCauley, if it were an elementary in person wanting to focus on the elementary end. Now, Mr. Mish, if it happened to be somebody working in more of the high school end, we'd certainly have an opportunity to speak with that individual before we permitted them to be there. But, this is just the agreement that they've asked us to officially approve. So, Mary, anything to add to that? >> Not really. Um Sarah Rymer and
031Megan Ross Espinoza one of that would be oversight for the student. It's just a nice way for them to um honor their profession and grow their profession as well as getting additional supports for our students through uh a young or a veteran or a older, either way. But, through someone who wants to um further their education and support our students all at the same time. >> Okay. All right. Um is there a motion to approve the MOU for the social work agreement? >> I'll make motion. >> Okay. All right. Any other discussion or questions about that? All right. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Um moving on to approval to purchase. Um we do have some information about some new devices and I think [clears throat] Mr. Snyder, you may be
032going to give us a little bit of insight to to what that is for those next two items. >> Yeah, this is a um this is the annual device we >> [clears throat] >> Of course, with your approval, but um we work K-12 iPad. Um and I talked with Mrs. Ish about 6 weeks ago, 4 weeks ago, about a new device that Apple has rolled out that is a new more affordable MacBook. Um she met with her lead teachers and um we think this is a good thing. So, um our proposal to you is we're going to start fresh in high school, 9 10 11 12, with Apple devices. And um see how it goes. >> Okay. >> We've been We've been iPad for maybe 6 years now in high school. Prior to that, we
033had a 10-year run of all MacBooks. So, we're kind of going back to the way we have done things in the past. >> And that has a lot to do with them now making something more affordable for our schools again. >> Correct. Yeah. >> Because the iPad was what we were using. >> Yeah. >> What was the device, Greg, that they discontinued 5 or 6 years ago because the cost of the new device now is about the same as what we were paying prior? What What was that name of that one? >> Yeah, it was It was called a MacBook Air, but it was an 11-in Air. A little smaller device. More affordable cost. And And Apple just decided not to make them anymore. And now they're kind of going back to a more affordable
034for the education part. You can get them as a consumer, too, but they're they're giving us a pretty good deal as a as a K-12 entity. So. >> Question. Are they going to be multi-color, or they just going to be silver? It's a big deal. I I looked it up, and there's like really pretty colors. >> [laughter] >> And do we get to keep them? >> At the risk of sounding like a misogynist, I'll just admit in front of the >> [laughter] >> whole wide world here that Mr. Snyder and I did not have any We talked about this a lot. The color combinations did not come up. So, honestly, I don't know. >> [laughter] >> What's that? >> I said you have not seen the commercial? >> Yeah, that's right. >> They'll probably just
035be silver. They'll come with a case, too. We have a clamshell cover. Um So, the student, with your approval, will get a device and a shell, a protective protective cover, so. >> One thing I might add to our initial plan because we had had some debate what was the best way to roll these out. Would we just start with seniors? Would we maybe start with seniors and the incoming freshman? And then you roll the seniors back. Just after talking with Mr. Snyder, it just makes sense that we just do kind of the whole high school in one fell swoop here. That will result in our iPad buyback. We will recoup quite a few dollars. The seniors, as always, will have the opportunity to buy their iPads. I suppose we'll figure out a way maybe to
036make that option available to others as well. The obviously a 4-year-old device with a senior would be a little more or a little less expensive than a device that a freshman is using. I know one of the things that Greg would normally do when we make those available, they would kind of try to He's got a We have a buyback program that he works with where they will buy those back automatically and kind of comparing what that would what kind of money we'd get back from those versus if you just went on a secondary market like eBay to buy one, I think normally the goal is to try to give students and families, if they're buying it, a little bit better deal than they would be able to go out and just purchase somewhere on
037their own. And also maybe a little better deal for us than we get if we just allow the buyback. So we'll work with that. And one of the things we'll talk about here after that is a warranty. That's kind of a separate topic here that we can talk about in a second, but that is our recommendation. We will most likely and then talking with Dawn here, and I will let her chime in if there's anything else to add. Those are some dollars that we'll pay for those out of our education fund. May eventually be a time as the year rolls along that we may have to do an additional appropriation from operations and education for that or for for other things that come at the end of the year, just depending on things that play
038out between now and October, November, uh so to speak, but uh that is our recommendation. Um I think um one of the things we've heard, especially for kids uh making the transition to to college, even just speaking on a personal level, uh the first thing my kids did after graduating was get rid of their iPad and buy a MacBook uh before they went off to school. And again, iPads, I think, have been done as well, but I think the agreement is that uh those MacBooks will be a little student-friendly and maybe a little better prep for for future. >> So, will seniors next year be able to buy their I or their MacBook at the end of the year, even though they've only been in use for 1 year? >> That has been discussed. Um
039the plan will be to roll that class back to the incoming freshman. >> So, they have the opportunity as a junior then to buy the iPads before you sell them back if if they want that option. >> I think we'll probably and I don't want to speak out of turn, but my thought is we'd probably give everyone a chance to buy it back. Next year's seniors, it may be a little bit more expensive for them to buy it, but maybe give them an option to do that. >> Okay. >> Yeah, so this year everybody right now, all kids 9 through 12 have an iPad. We will give most likely, we'll have to figure out exactly how it's going to play, but give them an opportunity to buy those, and then the rest of them will
040just go to the buyback program. We had the discussion for this since our seniors this year are only going to have them for 1 year. Normally, they they would obviously be on a 4-year rotation. That one group, so technically, I guess it'd be this year's seventh graders who will be eighth graders next year, will have an iPad still as an eighth grader next year, freshman the following year, fall of '27, they will receive a a 1-year-old hand-me-down, which we again hope is essentially very new. So, we'll have that one group of seniors next year where that 100 or so laptops will be on a 5-year rotation. So, I think again what he's saying is probably what we would do is potentially still give them the opportunity to buy that, but it would be quite a
041bit more expensive just because they're not going to be buying a 4-year-old device. Um, and then at that point they'd maybe have to decide if they want to go out and get a little bigger one or a little more powerful one for what they might be using it for, but I would think we'd probably try to find some way to allow them to do that, but where it was cost-effective for the school and also for them as well. >> Obviously, now we're going to see how this plays out as far as for the high school switching back, but do you see it being something that we would possibly move down, like move away from iPads completely, or is this something that maybe the MacBooks are the the new whatever it's called now would be just
042a high school thing once they get to high school? >> Um, yeah, you know, >> [clears throat] >> that would that would probably be a good idea. Talk through the the teaching staff in the middle school. >> Yeah. >> I'm I'm not opposed to any of this. >> Mhm. >> Um, if we have the funds to do that, >> Mhm. >> if it works for middle school device, I I I should I'm probably not the one to >> Yeah, I wasn't sure like your thoughts on, you know, you see a lot more of what happens when the kids come in with the problems and and you know, I just didn't know what you thought, like I guess we'll wait and see how it works for high school and and then see what we >> Yeah,
043the middle school is probably probably the hardest stuff to provide. >> I have a feeling. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. >> Hard to believe, huh? >> [laughter] >> All right, well, thanks for all your work on that, Greg. >> Yeah. >> Um, so we're going to take the the new devices um, separately here that Greg just explained to us um, replacing those iPads and I 9 through [clears throat] 12. Is Is a motion to approve um, the new device purchase? >> I'll make a motion. >> Any other further discussion discussion or questions on that? All right. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? Okay, motion carries. Next we have the cases and warranty discussion that I know I've spoken a little with Mr. McNeal. >> So this goes I think a little bit to what Heather
044was kind of just asking about regarding middle school. I mean you have two things kind of that you're looking at. You're looking at you know how are these devices being used in the classroom by your students, teachers. So what a what a MacBook for a middle school student be worthwhile as compared to an iPad. I think that's kind of what Greg's referring to there. That's a little more of a teacher decision recommendation is this is getting them out and and doing that. But so if you look at the cost of the warranty program, it's about when you take the cost of the case out, maybe around 110, 120 bucks a kid for either a three year it gets a little more expensive for the four year. So just purely mathematically speaking if we buy 400
045of those and the insurance is about 125 bucks, math says multiply it by four and you could in four year span you could destroy 100 of those computers and basically Greg correct me if I'm wrong, they take it in, they hand it to Greg. They say hey I dropped it, he sends it in, they say it's ruined and they replace it is what happens. So that's very slick, very easy, but that's also an awful lot of I would assume that we wouldn't have that many and Greg and I have still been debating a little bit with each other just and I think it's kind of probably six of one, half dozen of the other what you go with. If you don't purchase it and essentially just self insure, part of the issue you run into
046a little bit and this again you don't want your principals to necessarily have to be trying to figure out is so how did this thing get broken? If it's just truly an accident, we we chose not to do insurance. So we're going to we're going to take care of that whether that's needing to be totally replaced or whether we send that in and it's $125 to fix a cracked screen or, you know, two kids are playing catch with it out in the hallway like it's a football between classes and they drop [clears throat] it. Uh, well that's a little bit of horseplay that no different than if we have uh, somebody that is walking down the hallway they just literally accidentally trip and fall into a trophy case. We're not going to probably expect them
047to pay to fix the glass. It was just an accident. Where if I shove somebody into a trophy case and it breaks the glass and I might be a little bit uh, liable to pay for that. So we don't want to totally create that. So really what we're asking tonight is to go ahead and also approve the cost of that warranty and then sometime over the next month once Greg looks into actually making those purchases, we'll make a final decision uh, um, what we're going to do. I know when we were originally had MacBooks way back when and Greg again feel free to jump in if I'm not saying this correctly. They had plastic cases. They were white. Uh, few of us around might remember those and if those got dropped they were probably going
048to break. Where if I were to drop mine or you were to drop yours with a metal case right now, there's a pretty good chance especially if it had a case a a protective case on it that it's going to survive that and I know at some point when we were still doing MacBooks they went from the plastic to the metal and I think fair to say Greg you guys saw a lot less issues with damage with those metal cases. And that is what the new ones will have. Uh, so we think we could maybe get away with that but again tonight I'm asking that you go ahead and approve that warranty. Um, so if that's the decision we make we want to go that way uh, that that's what we could do and otherwise
049and I would probably to some extent give you a report back in June what the final decision was um, in doing that. So, I don't know if you guys have thoughts on that or questions on that or Greg, if there be anything else to add that I left out. >> Now, I guess from where we were with the old 11-in aluminum cases, we didn't have a clamshell cover, so if if they would drop, they had a lot of them have this neoprene sleeve that you throw into it and then it would slide out and it would curl the edges, you know, bend them a little bit, but they they were they were tanks. They hardly We never had hardly any trouble with them. Um I feel really good about this new MacBook with with the
050example cover they sent us. Um the nice rubber corners, so that that's part of the insurance. If if you get with the insurance, you have to get a case. So, we still get the case and not the insurance, but they will they will give us insurance, but we have to get a case to them. So, that that's kind of the deal with it. >> And then there's the 3-year option and the 4-year option that didn't have a huge cost difference if I remember >> Not a huge difference, no. >> Other questions come to mind, Board, of about the the cases and the warranty? All right, is there a motion to approve the cases and the warranty should we go in that direction? >> I do have one question. So, what do we currently do with
051the computers like that the high schoolers have now? There is a warranty or there isn't? What What happens if they >> Yeah, the iPads that we have now, we do have this exact warranty on the iPads. >> Okay. >> It's actually quite a bit more than it would be for the MacBooks. >> Okay. >> Of course, you know, the reason is because the cases for the iPads are way more expensive than the cases for the MacBooks. So. >> Okay. >> We've done this for the last 2 years with this company. >> Okay. >> They're coming out with Well, they give us a proposal for the MacBooks, too. >> Okay. As a parent of kids that have them, you'd think I would know, but I didn't. Do you know off the top of your head the
052price for a case without the insurance? Cuz like the case comes with the insurance is what I'm looking >> Yeah. >> It comes with the insurance. It's a great question. I think it was maybe $140 for the insurance. I think maybe $40 for the case. So. >> So it's about 40 bucks or so for a case. >> One little thing I might just add to that. One of the Dawn and Melissa and Arnita were down at the IASBO conference last week and I know one of the big topics that's fair to say Dawn a little bit of a hot topic is just student fees. What you can charge, what you can't charge, should you charge, should you not charge, what are your neighbors going to charge? All those kind of questions. I can also tell
053you those are in the answer to all those are is kind of not really sure. Everybody's trying to figure it out. Is that kind of fair to say, Dawn? >> There's a very simple uh-huh flowchart as far as can you or can you not. And anything tied to curriculum you cannot. And so technology is our curriculum. Um it's tied to it, so we cannot charge for that. Um there is a question and I don't know off the top of my head about insurance. I don't think we can charge the family for insurance, but we can charge the family for the repairs. Um so, that's a question that I I will push back um to the DOE and see if we can't get any answer on that to help subsidize any way we can. >> And
054again, even part of that, you can probably make an argument is a device, the curriculum, or a way to access the curriculum, which I think are some of the questions that our schools are probably asking. So, I'm intending over the course of the next month or so to work with some of the area superintendents just to kind of get some little more knowledge about that. I'm sure Don, as she said, will reach out to some people, and that maybe some of these costs may have a potential to be recouped a little bit. Um we'll see how that plays out, but >> Any other questions? Is it device specific? So, like, if they do the buyback, if we would let people do the buyback, would they have would their computer be covered even if they leave?
055Or like, if we have to buy another one to replace that, does the warranty move to the new one that's at the school? >> It does not. It If If, for example, we do a 3-year buyback on the senior class, >> Uh-huh. >> and they buy it, um the warranty that we purchased does not go with the student when they leave the school. >> Okay. >> to be a school device. >> Okay. >> Um >> So, it would just be the new one we replace would be covered kind of >> Yeah, yeah, yes, it would be covered. >> All right. >> Which, to be very honest, as you asked that question, is now making me think as well. When you start looking at if those kids are going to buy those, that might make that
056warranty even a little bit less valuable. I don't think we'd necessarily explored that aspect of it um from a standpoint that you do you purchase a even if it's a 3-year warranty for a junior, and they buy it after 2 years, and you've essentially paid for a 3-year warranty that was only really a warranty for 2 years. So, that's even making me think a little bit more that again, we'll have some final discussion that maybe we'll neglect to do that. Um So, >> So, a lot to think about. >> [laughter] >> You know, as we're sitting here discussing, Greg, would there would there be any reason we would just from your standpoint be able to get those have to make this decision on that tonight or could we make the decision on the warranty at
057the June meeting? Would that be an issue to wait to have the approval to do that and then we can maybe give just a little better recommendation. >> Um Great question. I would like the iPads or the MacBooks ordered. That's been approved. Insurance and cases, they're I've already talked with the vendor. There's no issue on supply chain issues. So, that would be fine. That should be fine. >> Well, you have approved the new devices. Why don't Right now, I'm seeing it maybe dying on the table for lack of a motion and I'll just say that'll be okay. If that's all right and then I think maybe the June meeting we'll come back with a little harder recommendation to say yes, we are going to recommend that we do or do not do that. Because I
058that that question Shelly just asked, I think it was one we hadn't necessarily tied that [clears throat] discussion into it. You know, again, if we were going to not allow seniors the opportunity to buy them at the end of the year next year, then it might make sense cuz it would be the same device passed on, but if they do buy it, then it's definitely a waste of money on that group and it might be one of the things we did discuss was maybe we don't purchase the insurance for like the juniors and seniors, but maybe we do on the freshman sophomores. That was something we had talked about. Um So, we'll we'll work on that a little bit and come back with a little harder recommendation if that's all right. >> Okay. All right.
059So, do we need a motion to do that? I'm trying to remember back. Yeah, table anything in a while. Let's say we just >> table it. >> Just table it for the next meeting. As long as ladies over here tell me it's okay. >> [laughter] >> That lady at the end over there, too. >> I think it just right now dies on the table for lack of a motion. >> we'll just All right, we'll just table it. Okay. We're going to switch gears just a little bit here and move on to transportation. Um I know Mr. Weber's here and he's probably going to answer some questions for us and do a little explanation um about the possibility we have of purchasing a special needs bus and a general bus and then possibly looking for a
060minivan to to replace one of ours. So um I'm just going to go ahead and and let you have the floor, Dan. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, looking for mission that we have on the buses and stuff. We haven't bought any in the last 3 years to buy buses. We have the last couple of years pushed it back because of finances I guess and stuff. We're getting to the point of We have 17-year-old buses now. Even [clears throat] if we order now, by the time we get them we're going to be running some 18-year-old buses. We're pushing the age of our buses quite a bit and stuff. So I'd like to get back on path with the replacement plan we had that we pushed back for replacement a couple of years now. So which would be
061one yeah, general purpose bus and one special needs bus. >> Okay. And I know you sent us the quotes and the different >> state bid for those and stuff. That is plugging in what we'd want. Um I did not send the dealer to say to check for sure, can you build this bus? And then also did not post our trade-ins to see what they would use for trade-in values against that and stuff. So those dollar figures would probably actually come down if we decide to trade in. When you look at that bid, there are I'm not sure what and there's hundreds options on that thing. Probably two 300 options maybe at least 200 you can choose from. You pick it out what you want by menu and stuff and they price it. But still you
062have to send it to the dealer to make sure that they can build it as stacked that they don't come back and say, "Oh, you know, we would have messed up. There's conflict with this option and this option you picked. You can't get those two." You have to something like that. So, I'm saying what we did is not a bus bid yet, but it was it was a dollar figures off of the bus bid. So, we're asking for the permission to go ahead and, you know, contact the dealer and say, "Yes, we are in the process of buying these two buses. Here's what we're looking at trade-ins, you know, they'll come up with the trade-ins and stuff." >> And am I remembering correctly that this is already part of our capital projects fund? >> Yes,
063it's already in there. >> It is in there and it these um are set to come from our geo bond that we did last year. >> Okay. >> So, it would not be hitting the operations account or any others. It's just the geo bond. >> Okay. >> Yeah, so for the buses I guess we just need your permission at this point to go ahead and process on those. And that agreement was exact uh months back, you know, the next board meeting. >> Okay. And would we possibly not trade in and keep those buses as back up? >> like As I mentioned trade-ins on the special needs buses especially, we were at the point this year at one point we were really close to having to add another bus in our fleet. So, I probably won't
064on that special needs bus. I probably will not trade that bus. And wait another year or so and see how things are with our special needs numbers. We were really close to adding another brand new route to have to add in there. >> Okay. >> Now that the Genesis I think we're in pretty good shape to probably not trade that bus still. >> Okay. All right. Um for the buses then um for Dan to be able to go forward on that, is there a motion um for him to go forward with looking into that the bids for the buses. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Okay, any further questions or discussions about that for Dan? All right, all in favor? Opposed? Okay, motion carries. And now we'll move on to the minivan.
065>> We got We got two minivans we use for various purposes. They have to use uh we got to do the here to transport our students home sometimes, something like that. We use it every day. One of those is uh it's a 2015 is the older one we're looking at maybe replacing. Uh it's got just under 200,000 mi. The stuff is still running we got for anybody that's ever used it. So, now the minivan is a different situation. If you want me to get prices and come back, we would have to be pricing out a brand new one. Uh Aaron and I talked earlier about the option that we could what if there's something out there a year or two old with 10 or 15,000 mi on it that would serve our purposes. Yeah, that's
066fine, but I can't wait a month to come back with a price on that because it would be gone. So, uh question we talked somewhat if we could set a dollar limit say, "Okay, we'll get three quotes, you know, three like with comparable quotes and you know, Aaron and I can look at it and say uh you know, yes, let's go with this one." Or if we want to order new, I mean, we can do that, too. Um and that way I can bring the prices back, but we might also save some money if we find something, you know, something a year or two old that's our purpose. >> So, like in what we were saying was priced brand new >> That's possible for a brand >> but we would set we'd say that would
067be like maybe the top of what we're talking about. >> Yes. Yeah, that's fairly basic van um but you know, 20,000 or something like that. If you said, "Okay, go you know, I don't know. If you want me to tell me to look for what else is out there that we can get, you know, up to that limit or something and still get our three, you know, comparable quotes and stuff. So, you know, we're you know >> Yeah. >> We can process that way. >> So, we're approving the You want us to approve the purchase of the van. >> At a max at a max limit of 51,249, but also knowing that if he happens to see one pop up at Kelly that's 2 years old, 15,000 miles, and it's $31,000 instead of $51,000 if
068you got that, it's probably gone before the end of the day. Yeah, but he can get >> if he finds it >> Yeah. He can't wait to get wait to come back in June and say, "Hey, we found a good deal." So, really giving him the approval at a max price, but for him to consider options that may be available locally right now uh for the best deal in his in Dan's determination as he looks at doing that. >> Perfect. I think that makes sense. I I don't know. Do you guys have further questions about the possible purchase of the van? It sounds like we've this red one has almost met its >> Yeah, I know. >> I'm pretty good at trading. I'm not sure if we want to trade that because I might keep
069that around just as a as a spare one to run about because I'm going to be doing this anyway. Like it's $500 to save yourself >> Yeah, you know. >> Yeah. >> So, for that, I'll keep this as a backup for the others. It's just being the point to send that somewhere for a week or something and and it's going over the weekends and everything else. Uh this way I can sleep at night and not have to worry about having to get the thing fixed. >> Would this also be in the same fund area, correct? >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Any other questions? Okay. Is there a motion to um give Dan permission for purchasing the minivan up to we're looking at that max 51,249, correct? >> Make a motion. >> I'll
070second it. >> Okay, any other further discussion or questions? All right, all in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? >> [clears throat] >> Okay. Motion carries. Next we have um we have a need for a little bit of a renovation to happen in our middle school high school office and I'm going to let Mr. McLear um talk about that for just a second here. We have a couple of options. >> Yeah, so this is again as we add a middle school principal into the mix uh need for an additional office in there and I know that has been something that the board's kind of looked at and just a variety of things over the years have been required how we're going to use that space kind of back there in the back. Um had just a
071little debate if we were going to take the existing storage room which if you walk in the main doors right as you come in the the main office to the right where the conference room is there's a storage room there that is about the same size as Officer Mendoza's uh office which is on the on the other side um and if we were going to do that then we still would have needed a storage area so we're still going to put some walls up back in that corner just to wall off a storage area uh over here would have involved cutting out some of the drywall uh putting in a new door window potentially. Uh so at the end of the day just to make the decision it was probably best just to wall off
072that back corner turn it into an office. My belief is that is where our assistant principal uh will end up uh with the middle school principal being in the current uh system principal office and uh Mr. Mish will move into um Mrs. Ish's office when she vacates that here in a few weeks. So um essentially if you look down through there and again we got a couple of you here that can speak a lot more intelligently about some of these things than I can but essentially uh just involves putting up two walls to frame it off uh door uh existing carpet and everything. Uh uh they may have to move some fire sprinklers around just to get them in the exact right spot, but that's uh pretty pretty simple little job that'll that'll happen pretty
073quick sometime sometime this summer. So, that's uh that's a recommendation for that. >> And that's the cheaper of the two possibilities, correct? >> Yeah. Yeah, the other would have involved doing both. Uh we still would have had these even whether it was an office or uh I don't know if it was if we were going to use it as storage, but even if you were going to do it, you probably would have went ahead and just made it office accessible with sprinklers, etc. Uh so, it was a little cheaper just to do it that way and this made sense cuz it gives a little bit better view of the office area and then uh to go from there. And that that has been to some extent I don't I don't think it'd be fair to
074call it wasted space, but to some extent it really is a little bit of wasted space that's just been kind of in that back area for for quite a while. I mean, it gets used and fills filled up with things, but uh it's a pretty pretty good spot for it and it'll be a nice nice sized office. >> So, then we will it says the lights and HVAC system will Who will take care of that then? Is that something we will do ourselves then? >> Um yeah, so that is something Yeah, Jason and uh Todd will will take care of that, whatever that is involved. Yeah. And I think maybe there was one light they were going to have to move. I can't say for sure what they were going to have to do the
075HVAC, but as far as the light, maybe just moving one from one panel over to the next or something like that. >> All right, is there a motion um to approve middle school high school office renovation? >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Any other further questions um discussion about the renovation? Is that going from GO bond, too? >> Yes, they can. Yes. >> [clears throat] >> It's going to be a quick fix. >> We'll address some other things. Jeff, we'll address some other things on that here momentarily. >> They can. And they can get it all in this summer. >> Yeah, yeah, I think so. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Are they displaced for the summer or can they be in their offices? >> I think they'll be able to be in
076there. I again That's two or three day job, maybe. Wouldn't say you couldn't Yeah, wouldn't take long. >> Yeah, yeah. That's going to be >> Communication. Thank you very much. >> Yeah, I don't think that'll My guess is they maybe will try to do it July when not as many people are in there anyway or late June or something, but >> Okay. Okay. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? >> All right. >> Motion carries. Um next we have for the elementary gym a need for some wall padding put up on the walls and I know that you saw a couple of quotes. Um I don't know we've all been Most of us have been in the elementary gym four gym some point in our lives. And there's no padding, so >> Yeah, I was
077just actually smiling cuz I have with the exception of Mr. Gerber, I think all of us uh probably went through that including all of you and many of you sitting around this elementary gym with concrete padded walls and I'm quite honestly a little surprised and that's no judgment of anybody prior to me, any year board, any prior board. I'm not quite sure how we maybe have gone this long and not put some padding up in there. Um when you look at our main gym, there's padding on the end walls and same thing down in the in the sack and and things like that, so um this has kind of been brought to our attention this would probably be a good thing to do and so I'm making the recommendation talking with Todd you saw two
078there. He's recommending we go with Sharps. It's a little less expensive and he said there's maybe a chance that we might have to add another panel or two on what they had here but he so that should come in under. He's been pretty pleased with with Sharps service and quality of product so again this is something believe they would be able to get done over the summer prior to um that school year. So make it a little safer in there for elementary kids and anybody else that uses that. I know cheerleaders occasionally use that gym to practice and a lot of a lot of moving and running and jumping and sliding in there that the likelihood of having a crash with the wall is logically somewhat significant so I think that'd be a good move
079for us. So that's my recommendation. >> All right. Is there a motion to move forward with the elementary gym wall padding? >> And this is pretty much all the walls like that they're like all >> Yeah, all the way around. Now I'm trying to think in there we is it a climbing wall like there's the I guess let me get my direct the east wall I think it's already kind of >> wall and the north wall >> [cough] >> but [clears throat] they have padding that covers when it's not in use. >> Yeah. Yeah. So it'll be to finish everywhere else. >> All right, sorry. >> It's okay. >> No, it's all right. Is there a motion to move forward with the elementary gym wall padding? >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >>
080Anything else that anyone wants to get clarified or questions on that? If not all in favor? >> I. >> Opposed? Okay, motion carries. >> If I could hop in real quick, Heather. So, on those two two additional purchases and I probably could have done these in my administrator or superintendent reported a minute but since we're on the topic of of purchasing two things that we still have on a radar for this summer that that I have already mentioned to you I think in a in a board meeting in past. We've got our ERVs down there in which are basically the machinery that the quality of air the air flow make sure that's up to speed. We've still got those on the agenda that probably are going to need to be replaced. The quote came in
081a little higher than Todd thought. He had a couple different quotes a little higher than he thought so he's still trying to figure that out. The one that was quite a bit lower it's also tied to the control panel which even if we go to the different company for the RVs cable maybe is just has to do the control panel so there's a variety of things we're still trying to get that figured out. So that's a that's going to be probably other than the the buses the ERVs will be our most expensive ticket item I guess you could say right now which again are kind of designated to be paid for out of the geo bond. Some of these other things the the renovation the the wall padding etc. relatively small expenses in comparison. The
082other thing we still have just a little bit on the radar is kind of updating our security camera system but just not to the point yet where we can kind of make a recommendation on that. So those are two things again as we look at these geo bonds those will get used up pretty quickly. Fortunately we are in pretty good shape in our operations right now fund that some of these other smaller ticket items should be okay with that but we'll potentially have a little bit more of an update on the ERVs and the cameras at the June board meeting so just thought I'd throw that in tonight to remind you that that'll still be coming at some point. >> Okay. Thank you. All right, I think we're ready to move on to our administrator
083reports. Um Mrs. McCollum >> Elementary >> Yeah, month is a wild month. There's a lot going on. Um we finished our ILEARN assessments. Those results will not come back until next fall. They're studying norms for the new assessments, so we won't get that data for a little while yet, but um our students worked hard and then we're thankful for all of the um work that got done to accomplish the administration of the test itself. It takes a little bit. We're currently in the second round of IREAD. Students who didn't pass the first time will have a second opportunity. Then we'll run summer school for a set of students and then a third window is open, so they have plenty of opportunities to try that test. Um we are watching some legislation legislation about mathematics and
084requirements for the elementary um scheduling and what what goes into that block of instruction, so we're watching that closely. Otherwise, it's a lot of culminating activities in the classroom trying to remain in business mode as much as possible because um with ball practices and events in the evening, we have some tired and um excited children coming in in the morning, so uh I do want to thank um our kindergarten staff. I don't know how many of you got to um experience the first uh annual Kindy 500 where the students raced in their little uh home created box cars and things. It was adorable and a very nice night for families and staff and students to spend together. Um Mrs. King has lots of programs going on. Finished the Indian history program. We have a kindergarten
085program coming up and also fifth grade graduation. Um preschool graduation sneaks in there one night as well, and um field trips, projects, um yeah, a lot going on and we're grateful for all the work that goes into making sure that those things are done and the students enjoy that that work so much and especially showing it off to the community. So, thanks for that support as well. Okay, thank you. Um middle school high school reports. >> Mr. Bish, I forgot to tell you we did talk. >> [laughter] >> Goodnight. On behalf of Mrs. Ish, I would think I would just say ditto to what uh Mrs. McCalla said. The one thing I would remind you of, um I'm assuming you probably already have it on your radar on your calendar, June 7th is graduation and
086I'm going to make the assumption that they are in contact with you via Have you guys gotten information, arrival times, etc.? I'm assuming that you will get that. So, yeah. Um uh other than that, just finishing up uh spring sports. We're getting close to sectionals and uh hopefully beyond for some of our teams and uh um just the AP testing continues and and all those things along with baccalaureate and uh just the the various things going on here at the end of the year. So, um some additional things for me I I mentioned earlier as we begin our boys basketball search. Um we do now have a middle school social studies opening um that we will probably, hopefully, be able to tie to that uh position. Uh that is kind of a uh what I
087will quickly say on that is uh we're going to hopefully hire a great basketball coach and a great sixth grade social studies teacher. I think the perfect goal would be that's the same person. We're certainly not going to hire a poor social studies teacher at the uh benefit of getting a good basketball coach and we're not going to get a uh poor basketball coach at the as a result of getting a good uh sixth grade teacher. I think the goal is to get both and if we're not able to do that, and consider those uh positions independently, but uh um that'll be one of the things that that we may even kind of do some interviews or both on the same evening. We'll try to get a little creative with that. Again, that's not again,
088we're going to hire a great basketball coach, hire a great sixth grade social studies teacher. If that's the same person, then that would probably be a benefit for us if it works out like that. Another thing that I've been working with Dan on just a little bit, the Boys & Girls Club and also with Mary, the Boys & Girls Club in Decatur would like to try to get something in place potentially to be able to draw more Adams Central students to their club. I've been working with John Kintz just a little bit and possible funding for that. Essentially, we're I think if we end up being able to do something that would result in us hopefully being able to provide a bus and a driver. They would help with the expense of that. I'm going
089to work out with Mrs. McCallum just kind of the logistics of making that happen. One of the things we want to make sure of is that that's not becoming a kind of a carpool service for for kids that might come to us in Decatur, but kids that are taking great advantage of that Boys & Girls Club. I've had an opportunity to be up there and meet with with Heath Mosier and John Kintz and certainly great opportunities for kids and they're trying to do great things there with their club. So, appreciate those guys for that. Our middle school principal search, we are hitting that full swing tomorrow night with our first full night of interviews tomorrow night and then hoping to do a final round of interviews sometime next week. I think Mrs. Frank and Mrs.
090Gerber have volunteered to to represent the board on the second round of that. We're kind of running at the same kind of the same way as we are that did the high school as far as a first and a second round and the teams are are similar other than our first team tomorrow evening will be made up more of a of middle school teachers in comparison to the high school teachers obviously in the first round. So, uh one thing to to maybe put on your radar, I've talked with Mrs. Frank about this a little bit, and she'll probably put out some date options. So, for our middle school principal, our June board meeting is on the 9th. If we end up before that able to identify our basketball coach candidate and our middle school principal
091candidate, uh we're looking at the potential of possibly calling a special board meeting simply for the uh ability to approve those two positions. If those individual candidates were approved by June 1st or June 2nd, it would really even that just that one extra week would really give them an advantage uh in getting started on summer activities. I think the goal would probably be for our middle school principal similar to what we did with with Mr. Mish. We might try to get them a few days in in June to to really hit the ground running. Uh again, we're not going to rush the process on either of those, but right now I think the potential timeline uh would maybe be with that. So, we've looked at uh uh and won't try to take a straw poll
092tonight, but either May 28th or May 29th, June 1 or June 2, uh possibly even a morning meeting uh before everybody gets off to work, and I know some of you have different schedules and have to leave pretty early. So, I think uh here sometime later on in the week once we kind of see where we're at on some of these things, and we'll make sure we get this advertised in time. And I'll have Heather read to make sure we can have the majority of the of the members here. I certainly don't want to not one of those things even though I think uh by law and legal requirements we'd have to have at least four here, but I think we'd want to have more than that for positions uh uh as significant as these
093are. So, I'll work with her to try to potentially identify a date um with that. Um we also um Mr. Sollner uh the last time he was here had talked about, I think, on May 21st uh is the date we are set up to um have a Make sure I'm telling you that right date here. Yeah, I'm sure that's right. May 21st, we're having a media release for the the fundraising aspect and just some of the information on the Veterans Memorial and the jet. Mr. Camp Collier, I think is is working with Mr. Solder and kind of help lead some of the fundraising aspects of that. And we'll kind of continue to to work with them. I know Audrey, I don't know if you have any update on anything with that. I mean, eventually again,
094we'll have some sort of a contract. again, Audrey correct me if I'm wrong, but we will have something where pretty much we're going to our the task of this board, as you've heard, will be to essentially probably agree in some form or fashion to lease the land to the town of Monroe. They'll technically own the jet, but they're allowing them to put that memorial and jet on our property here at the school. So, so there'll be some information on May 21st about that. And June 7th is graduation, so we are getting right down to it here at the end of the year. And I think that's all I specifically had on my radar to put in front of you. >> Do we still have a bus that goes to Boys & Girls Club? >> We
095do not. >> We used to though, right? >> Yes, we did. And so, what happened and Dan again, if I say this wrong, correct me. So, I think and I think it was was it Mr. Richie a year ago had a town route that didn't take quite as long. And he was able to get back here like 3:30, 3:45, roughly in there. And then he would then make a run to Decatur. This year, we've had some changes with that route and it just did not really work out this year to be able to provide that. So, that's why we're looking at potentially trying to go back to that. And I know also just as we looked at logistics, talking with Mrs. McColl, there was just a little caused a little bit of issues when you
096had the kids that would had to hang out here for they would walk out of class at 10:00 till 3:00. They didn't get on a a Boys & Girls Club bus till 3:30, gave them plenty of time to get all wound up before they got on the boys and girls club bus, which Mr. Richie would tell you could be a little bit of a challenge sometimes. And just then we just then we were monitoring them here, which I think the goal would be, and again, this is where working with Dan and working with John, uh as far as the funding of that, and then can we do we have an available bus, and also would there be a driver that we could could have that would be able to make that trip, and um and
097that's kind of where that would be. But you are correct, we did used to have that. >> Anyone else have anything they want to add tonight? I would say we had teacher appreciation week last week, and thank you to our entire staff, not just teachers, everyone here who makes a difference every day. Um especially this time of year can be challenging, this last month. So, you are appreciated, and whatever capacity you're working here, we appreciate it. >> [snorts] >> Um all right, any other comments, questions, anything from the board? All right, is there a motion to adjourn? >> I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Our next meeting, Tuesday, June 9th, 7:00. >> Thank you, seniors.