001the United States of America and to the republic which stands one nation indivisible and justice. >> Father, thank you for this evening. Thank you for a good back to school night. And I just pray that you will help us through decisions that we have to make tonight to be the best for our students and our community and our teachers. I pray for safe start to our school Thursday. Please just watch over all of our students and staff. In your name we pray. All right, we're going to start with our approval of our agenda that's in front of you. Uh we don't have any additions or changes. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? >> Second. >> All in favor? Opposed? carries. Next, we have the approval of our minutes, and we have several of
002them sent to us. Hope you had a chance to take a look at those. Uh, we have June 25th, our executive session. July 1st, our executive session, July 2nd, executive session, July 8th, our regular meeting. July 9th, our executive session, July 23rd, we had our special session. And then July 29th we had executive session minutes. Uh is there any discussion corrections about those minutes? All right. If not, we'll need a motion to approve the minutes from those meetings. >> All in favor? >> Opposed. All right. Motion carries. Um, next we have our public comments. Um, we have three people signed in, so we'll have five minutes for each of those people to speak. Um, I think Mike will be timing and Mr. Layman to kind of give you if you need an update of how
003long you have left, they will do that for you. Just as a reminder, um, there's no direct question answer time during public comment. Um, it's for us to listen to what's what you have on your mind and no names. um no naming people can be during that group. We are going to go ahead and start and just go down the list. Um Jason, we have um I'd like to recap the recent email um that we sent to the board administration to follow up email that was sent previously into July just to address some of the things that have come up since then. Um there was somewhat discrepancy presented at the week of June board meeting as to whether GPA or student resume matters more for a student graduating entering college specifically regardless of which is
004correct. Like to reiterate there that class rank recognition is not hurting therefore can't continue to be recognized without consequence for any student. Um, we also believe that the administration guidance should have to bear the burden of proof to show the community specifically any applications of left instances where it has hurt the student to write or report their class rank. And even if it does indeed hurt someone that help others, it's ethical to take away that advantage if something earned it. Three pathways were briefly mentioned at the last meeting as a modification from the city of Indiana. Employment, employment, or enlistment. But even if we're asking students to more formally declare they plan uponment or enlistment, these three choices have always successful. There's no reason the formal recognition of these choices by the student means that
005we need to take away class and validator exclusion. Unfortunately, I would like to bring up the communication on this issue has been schoolboard agendas are incomplete and unclear the agenda posted on the outside when there's not and when they're posted online and they are not posted widely, especially on changes of such consequence, we need more frequent and more clear communication on more widely used platforms. Since the last meeting, we have been approached multiple times with people expressing their support for our position on this issue. The public recognizes the importance excellence in areas all areas of achievement. As we have brought up in the past, top athletes earn advantages based on their achievements despite any negative reactions from their competitors. Competition is a natural part of every individual on the school board and employed by the
006school corporation obtained their position through a competitive process of either election or hiring. So obviously there is no problem with competition in academics. All achieves at Central should be celebrated especially academic ones that are the very reason those schools exist. We are once again asking the school board votes to keep the top 10 recognition and validictorian and saludiatoran speeches as part of the Adam Central graduation ceremony while also added the kuma system. You as the acting Adam central school board have an opportunity to set our school apart even while other schools are discontinuing traditional traditional academic recognition. AC can be the school who actually celebrates academic achievement instead of watering it down and making it one more instance where hard work does not pay. We ask again when did it become socially unacceptable to excel
007in academics? When did it become offensive to succeed? When did it become unfair to have the vantage you were willing to put in the hard work, effort it took to give you to listen. Um, next. Good evening. My name is Christie. Almost four years ago, I was aation heartbreaking situation as Smith family. I was frustrated, devastated, and confused about where to start. My own child was assaulted on street brows. My family and I spent hours in meetings with the administration trying to make sense of what happened. We discussed what led up to the assault, how it was handled, and what could have been done moving forward. Despite our efforts, the school's response was frankly inadequate, defensive, negligent, and deeply disappointed. Last month, each of you received folders filled with letters of more than 10 families
008who had similar experiences. I wrote one of those letters. I shared the ways the administration feel my child and my family. I'll be honest, I have hope. I thought maybe with the changes in the leadership over the last few years, things have improved. But today, I could say I only trust one person in the current administration. I'll give you an example. Last year, my daughter and her friend were targeted by another student. This student told her friend, and I quote, "You should go kill yourself. You're better off dead." these several threatening remarks along with others. Once I found out, I told her to speak to the one administrator I still trust. To that person's credit, they handled this situation perfectly. And to my knowledge, that student received a two-day suspension. But it has raised an
009important question to me. Why did that student receive a suspension years ago? My son was fair on the football field or Miss Where's the consistency? Where is the accountability? And it brings me to my next question. Who holds the administration accountable? It was in last month's meeting of the board doesn't issue punishment. It is your role to create policy, refuse a policy, and you act as the jury and cannot handle handle any question punishment. You the board stated, "We hope that the administration is just doing your job." Why is it that the administration was not investigated followed up on or that current policy and procedures are implemented? So when administration failed to execute these policies, where are the checks and balances under current policy 1200 under the school board? It expects all administrators to maintain
010high standards in their working relationships, provide professional leadership in the corporation and community and in the performance of their duties and to under care all the mental and physical safety of students, colleagues, and subordinates. So if it's not the board, is it the superintendent? I'm just curious who is bailing our children right now. Which brings me to the next topic. last month and during the two weeks ago the budget was also raised. I asked this if our students are leaving the district what does this do to our budget and the funding does not affect the amount of funding AC gets would be affected. We take pride in having students come from outside the district to come to AC. I withdrew my child from AC from everything that happened for many reasons like if they discuss
011safety or more accurately the lack of it. If multiple students are withdrawing their children for any reason shouldn't be our top priority two blocks from our school just announced recently that the new online program and AC cannot be trusted with the safety of our own students. I feel like this may be an ideal option for more parents as the online schooling has been increased spending this many years. Today our youngest daughter still remains enrolled in a cycle middle school and honestly my fear for her being given the administration's longstanding pattern in action. We had to put her own sleeping plan in place just to protect her. As I said, I understand the board cannot respond to my questions here tonight or last month. Follow those messages and I also be seeing me next month as
012for a response of whether you said I know names cannot be given but just to know that something is being done would be appreciated by simply saying we looking at policy. I feel like this is not a reasonable response. Two weeks ago, the board mentioned that accountability and consistency needed to be addressed. I feel like why I hear all this back has now been to this point. about validictorian salvatory recognition. We certainly want to see that recognition continue for the sake of the students, school and the community. Being recognized for an achievement is a very human thing. All of us want to be recognized for the good that we do in the world. Anything can be the best wrestler, best basketball player, most points in career. fastest track. Those things I just mentioned above encompass
013a season or one event that someone did well at a scholar to be recognized as a developer or India is an accomplishment that takes four years to do. Certainly in athletics there are athletes that performed well over a period of four years. For instance, in wrestling someone could get better because they become a state or regional champ. Then they get do get the recognition that used to be the field from the public and the school to celebrate in that student's accomplishment. When a wrestler win state, all of us know we feel the effects of that win and how we know that student and how we know that student and helping support him and maybe have a connection to him which makes all the more human when we realize that the connection is much more important
014than just that kid learning to be. The same is true with academics. Most of us can only dream about class. The idea of doing something existing like this for four years and being at the top of the class is something that only happen at least to a very small percentage of high school students. It's very special to be a val and the friends of that student love to gather around them in this case and celebrate with them as they know that that S is also someone who may help them along the way. It's human nature to compete to see who's the best at what is we're doing. We have speech meets use the best at that particular art. We have music competitions. That's band or choir performing group. We have swim meets and these kids
015practice long and hard. Try to be the best when they're at when they're done. They get the trophy, the ribbon certificate and most times their name is in the newspaper, school announcements, social media recognition is very important. Locally the Decator Rotary Club gives a scholarship to the Belmont AC Valley Victorians. Most students in the community want to know who the top students are and want to recognize them and we know that they deserve that recognition. Certainly they should be should start at the school. In fact the school should be leading the charge in getting recognition of the students not shying away from it. They should be encouraging groups such as the rotary club design optimist etc to offer scholarships to the stock top students. About 30 years ago, Bell High School tried to stop giving
016the bow sound award alerts and at a community meeting on the subject, it was pointed out that instead of only recognizing the Border that there should be other other levels of recognition which led to their current level or levels of magnaum and bum recognitions like this help the other top students who couldn't be a dollar trans to be recognized for the level they achieved and this was warmly accepted by the school and the community. We remember hearing right away some of the students who were really glad this new type of recognition was there. But it all started with valictorian and solidator recognition. It is essential that this form of universal form of recognition remains in place here at Adam Central High School and we certainly want this to stay a permanent part of the graduation
017and recognition of students achievements in academics. We are all part of team. The one who gets the best score helps you. The teacher is doing their job and in many cases the smartest students were given opportunities to help the other students in the study that set. So in the end those students that could never be a bow or a s certainly want their friends who were smarter to be recognized. Many times those students who were the ones who helped them get through the tough class with a better grade than they could have done on their own. It's kind of like being an okay wrestler. You got to wrestle the state champ every day in your wrestling room. hardly ever get to wrestle the bar match because he's in your weight class. But maybe because you
018were supporting him, he became a better wrestler. Then he got the recognition as a state champ and we all go to school to gain more knowledge. So hopefully we can do things in the world in a better way to help each other in life. In high school, recognizing students for their achievement is something that paramount in our system. We keep recognizing the other things that we mentioned above and certainly this has been one thing that should keep going. The first thing in school should be academics. Recognition of academic achievements is paramount. Being this first let us know it's community stacking up in the world. The other recognition are important and no one's supposed to be any of that here like athletics or speech and music but they're all extracurricular team academics in front by continuing
019to do that to vow salary commission and the levels of the dunes and everything else will stay in place recognizing our students. We believe this needs to continue to be Adam S's fallacy. Any of our fantastic athletic teams and coaches get to recognize their team and individual efforts each season and no one questions those. This community once a vow self recognition and seeks to stay a school system policy decided by the school board who represents the role of citizens and taxpayers. exceeds policy disc recognition just to finish the sentence here is always is always a part of our graduation procedure that must be recognized as one of the more important things to do with our students and thank you right uh next we're going to move on to our finance board action items first we
020have approval of our payment vouchers in our fund reports. I know you'd had a chance to look at those. Any questions? Anything for Dawn that we need to ask or Don? Did you want to share anything with us? >> The documents. All right. And be a motion to approve the pay vouchers and the funding. Make a motion for the approval of payment. >> All in favor? Opposed? Next, we have several donations and we're going to take those all together. Um, several people to thank here. First, from Tractor Supply, we have two boxes of tire pressure gauges, tire repair kits, tube repair kits. We also have two pallets of veneer wood from Echart's woodworking and scrap metal for welding from Wing Metals. And I believe those are all um going to Mr. Jones's different classes that
021he has. Uh next we have an elementary book donation that they have given. I think it was a $300 value if I have that number right from the Adams County Soil and Water Conservation District. And lastly, we have some school supplies from Edward Jones and the Adams County Sheriff's Department. So, a huge thank you to all those phrases who are helping out our kids in the classroom. Um, any questions, any clarifications on that? All right, we'll need a motion to approve the donations. >> I'll make that motion. >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Okay, motion carries. Next, we have three contracts um in letter C. Our first one is with uh Steeple and on August 27th, we will have an executive session, a representative will be coming as contractors for that uh budgeting help that
022they're going to do us do with us concerning Senate Bill One and what they see as the future for that for us and helping us just kind of examine that closer. So that was the first contract there. Next one is our contract with Mr. Mendoza and that's I believe pretty much the same as it when I look through it as it has been. Um no changes there for officer Mendoza. Uh last we have use of our facilities by uh for a youth youth wrestling tournament. I believe that is in November. I know you've had a chance to look at these, but I don't know if there's any questions or concerns about any of those. I believe that tournament is one that happens has happened in the past. It's a repeat thing. So, if everyone's had
023a chance to look at those contracts, is there a motion to approve the contracts? >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Um, next we have approval of someus and our first one is with B state and this is for uh placements of student teachers. Next we have Meridian Health Services or yeah for mental health services that they would be providing some of our students. Um nothing that I think isn't really new here. Hopefully you had a chance to look at those also motions. [Music] All in favor opposed. Okay. Motion carries. Next we have approval of disposal and this is for um some strategic hubs the Bluetooth hubs and I it's just because we had system upgrade from my understanding and we need to get rid of those since those is there a motion
024to dispose of the hubs that motion >> all in favor >> opposed motion carries all All right. Next, our policy board action items. Our first one is our approved child nutrition program for procurement plan from our cafeteria. I I don't know. Jessica, did you have anything you wanted to say about that? I don't know that there's anything that needs to be added, but if you wanted to, I wanted you have a chance. >> Yeah, absolutely. Um, there was nothing new by the government. is obviously updating me. All right. Hopefully you all had a chance to look through that, but it did look very familiar from other years. Is there a motion to approve? All in favor? Opposed? All right. Motion carries. All right. Next we have uh several first reading of 24 different policies that
025have some of them small updates which we will be discussing but we are um I'm asking if there's approval to forgo the reading of these of each policy allowed every word of those. So is there a motion for us to forgo that first reading? >> I'd like All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. So now we are going to go through the policy review of these different ones and uh discuss changes on those and Mr. Layman, you're going to help us through that. Great. Well, at least you said you would. Okay. Um, usually we don't have quite this many at one time, but the uh package that came out with updates in April that we're now working on uh had 58 policy ch policies that were changed, which I was a superintendent for many years.
026I've never seen that many in one. So, we're doing about half of them now. on. Get ready. Come back in September. We'll do seconds on these and a whole batch of first readings in September. So, uh the first one is uh 5500. It's student conduct and and this one is stepping out into the new world. Um the policy is under student conduct, but the change is about artificial intelligence. That is a term that I think we have all become aware of. And what we are trying to do in the policy is bring that into um hopefully what would be obvious that if you use artificial intelligence to create your homework and you submit that as yours, that's not an okay thing. Um but quite frankly right now there isn't anything written about that. So um
027the the changes here try to because I don't know how any of you feel about artificial intelligence but there are benefits to it and the policy specifically states that using it for some research using it to crunch some data those sort of things but it sets it up where students have to ask their teachers, can we use this to do this? And at the same time saying that you may not submit your work even though it was created by AI. So, um, and I will I will lump together, um, three other policies. It'll maybe save us a little time. But because of this, a little further down the list, you see 7540.03 and 7540.04. Those are are the acceptable use policies that you've all seen. It puts in the acceptable use policy in using a
028computer. It addresses AI. And then is actually the policy that talks about artificial intelligence. And that in of itself is relatively short. So I will just read that. This is a brand new policy. It's entitled artificial intelligence. and it states, "The school board recognizes the positive impact that artificial intelligence technology may have on the school corporation's educational program and operations. The superintendent is authorized to support the use of AI technology when its use is consistent with the corporation's missions, goals, and operational integrity. Any use of AI technology in the corporation's educational program or operations must be in accordance with state and federal law as well of the policies I just mentioned. Violation of this policy may result in disciplinary consequences. students may be disciplined um and as usual up until suspension, possibly expulsion um and
029um up to and including suspensions or termination of employment or staff. Uh the administration will refer any illegal acts to law enforcement because there are some laws against improperly using some of those things. So that's the actual artificial intelligent policy and then it impacts all those others. I know that was a lot and there won't be that much for me to say about all of these. So rest assured uh you won't have to go through that much. But the board I guess the big question is is this a world we need to step into? Are we ready to step into it? And again this is just first reading. We just need to hear thoughts and comments from the board and um adjust as needed to bring back for second read. >> I think we have
030to address it because it's out there, you know, have to have some kind of guidelines or else it's free and then there's there is no accountability the student does something they're not supposed to do. you know the teacher might say you can't use AI but if they would back and say well doesn't say that anywhere else I think we have to have it somewhere but it is also useful like you said there are uses for it that are very positive and I think part of that policy if I remember correctly even when it states you know about students citing when they use the AI you know what AI they use just like they were using a source so I think that That's helpful. Maybe are um teachers like utilizing AI currently so are in some
031of the classes or you know what I mean like are they teaching responsible use of it utilizing it in their classroom? >> Well, we will definitely address more in some of the computer courses like digital citizenship of things and slowly integrated into classrooms as we become more comfortable with ourselves and didn't have any policy. Any more questions or I'll carry on? I mean, the only thing I'd say is even my husband at work like they were getting changed on air and have music. So I definitely think it is helpful and so it you know doesn't exist or not allow it policies on how we didn't use it because we don't want to shield the kids from something that they work need to know that >> and I want to emphasize this is not about saying
032that it can't be used at all because it it can be a great tool. Okay, I'll jump back up to 56N. This is on um student uh expulsions and suspensions. And the only change, the reason this is on the list is because they made some grammar updates and they had to change some policy references in this policy. But as I was reading through it, I found a couple of things that are not in our current policy that are in the Neola piece. Um one is um a student also may be expelled when the students legal settlement is not within the corporation's attendance area. So in other words, someone who is accepted as a transfer student, it's it's saying that they they too could be expelled from school. That sentence is missing in our current policy.
033I have no idea if that was just an error or a something got deleted that shouldn't have been deleted. I I've worked in these policies enough to know that that can easily happen, but we we really should have that sentence in there. And then um down at the bottom of the policy there is a reference to if a student is expelled they have due process and there's an expulsion hearing and they have all the people in and our administrators I'm sure have been part of those meetings and there's a whole setup of due process. One of the things the board can do is if somebody goes through that whole process and doesn't like being expelled, they can appeal to the board. I I can tell you I've not been in a school district where boards
034did that because of the whole due process that takes place prior to that. Um, our current policy says that you will as a board. I don't know if you knew that, but it currently says that you will. Now, that doesn't mean that someone couldn't take legal channels and fight the expulsion. That's certainly an option to do. But because of all the due process that takes place going through the system, I don't know that that's a necessary piece. But again, that's up to the board. Um, it's first reading and I just need to know how or what to do in changing that if I do. I think both of those things need to be talked about. You need to have the opportunity to put in policy that yes, you can install any student and again it's
035not an official vote tonight. any uh anything that comes up, let me know. Moving along. 6250. This one will be short. The state changed the date they count students and now it's the same date that the federal government counts students. So, this is kind of one of those I guess if you have a question, it's too bad because we don't get to decide that. It's just what it is. And um 8420, I don't think there'll be push back on this, but we have a policy about being prepared for emergencies. We do all these drills today and and our local law enforcement do drills and practice in buildings and things like that. So, we have the policy. What we're adding to the policy is that if somebody is doing a live drill like our police force
036or whatever, I think most of you are aware they have guns that shoot bean bags or those kind of things. What the policy now says is if they're going to do that, you can't have students in the building. I think that makes perfectly good sense and uh I would entertain questions if you have them, but I'm saying you don't want students around when they are doing that. Any questions on that? See, some of them are pretty good, but I still have a whole stack here. Okay, the next one on the list is 5111. And for those of you that were at our July meeting, we did 5111. Well, there's another change for 5111. And this time there's one change in this. Now, this policy is like eight pages long. There's one change and it changes
037the word student to outofstate student. That's the only change in the policy this time around. Sorry, there we go. The statement is was students whose parents do not have legal settlement within the corporation, but who present evidence that they will move into the corporation within a short period of time may enroll in the schools of the corporation as tuition students. That has been changed to outofstate students may do that instead of just any student. That's the only change this time around for 511. Any questions on that? Okay, I think the next one will generate some questions. If you look at the board documents, there's a whole group that start with a zero and those are how the board operates. And one thing that boards can do because we have this kind of work to do
038that takes a lot of time. It's a mechanism where you can move through other parts of the agenda quicker. It's called a consent agenda. And what the policy states is that lost it. Anyway, yeah, what it says is all those things we did at the beginning, the minutes, the bills, personnel, all the hirings, um the technical corrections, which you've heard me talk about in the past. It only takes one. Those can all be laid out on the agenda and you can walk through all of them and then do one motion. That's what a consent agenda is because you've seen it when the board's going through a whole bunch of these things. Okay, is somebody going to make a motion? Well, yeah, it's my turn to make a motion and then somebody seconds it then we
039wait for somebody else. If you do the consent agenda, then you move through all that quicker and then we have more time to spend on that. So, this is something new for this board. I'll be willing to answer questions. Um, and that's coming. We got We got a long way to go. So, just the one I guess the one thing to point out is that we can or necessarily know what to ask because I've read >> we can pull out a board member can pull out any item um from the agenda. >> Yes. >> To be voted on separately. >> Yes. Or >> anything that's in that consent agenda. and somebody has a little concern or they just don't understand something in it, you pull that one out, you do the consent agenda, and then
040you go back to that one item and do a motion on. Good question. I did go to South Adams. Um, and they do that. So, it does look like it makes it a lot nicer just having one motion to, you know, do the minutes and the all the other things, the finance board action, those types of things. Any other questions? >> We can still talk about those items. It's just that it's one motion. Yes. >> Yeah. It doesn't mean that you won't stop at those items and have the conversation, but you can just keep moving through this and approve it all. Um, next, uh, in that same section of policy, it's on executive sessions. When a board has an executive session, it is very specific what they can talk about. Um, like now hiring a
041superintendent and dealing with all that, but they have now added and and this I guess I would say this is just an indication of the world we live in. The board can now at the executive session talk about terrorist threats and not have to do that in a public meeting which obviously is a good thing. You know, it's just like our safety policies can be talked about in an executive session because you wouldn't want to tell the whole world about your safety plan. Any any questions about that wonderful topic? Okay, moving on. We're going to do three of them at the same time. Some of you going 1216, 3216, and 4216. Some of you are going, "Huh, but there's something similar about those." They are. These policies have been referred to as dress and grooming.
042They're not changing any of the policies, but the word grooming has picked up a very negative connotation to it. So, they are taking the word grooming out and putting it in appearance. So, I'm guessing you're all going to probably be okay with that. All right. Um timely it's on the employment of the superintendent. Um and we have been talking about this one and what does this look like? Because this is a really difficult one in a small school. who can work under who who can, you know, we have husband and wife that work here at school and and how can you best make that statement and have a policy that still protects everybody? Um so that's what we've been focused on mostly in this area is they call it the fraternization what what is allowed
043and for me I think it's if you are a supervisor over somebody that's a no no okay you can't hang out with your boss all right date have a relation relationship that just doesn't work. Um, now obviously we have people that work under Mrs. Ish and then we have people that work under Mrs. McCulla. We have people that don't work under them and so that's probably going to be okay. Some people oversee four or five employees. Some people oversee a whole bunch. The challenge becomes your superintendent oversees everybody. Um and so just trying to lay that out as as we should and it's it's definitely a sensitive topic. Um, and it still has to have provision for husband and wife. That's why I think the big thing is if you're a supervisor, you you just
044need to be really cautious with that. So, would any board member like to weigh in that topic? >> Yeah. Um, when we are looking at the options that were to be could be considered from Miola, um, the first one I think kind of confusing here just because we are talking about the superintendent, but it puts in there corporation employees may date develop friendships and relationships with other employees both inside and outside the workplace as long as their relationships do not have a negative impact on their work or the work of others. So this one seems to be talking about corporation employees and I I don't know to me it seems appropriate to not include that. I mean that can be with in a employee situation but I we're talking about superintendent position and I think
045that think that we're not headed in that direction for the person that's in that position. >> I would misreading that. I I think that's a good point because it it does have a bit of confusion to it because this is the superintendent employment policy and that is a reference to corporation employees. I I don't I would agree. I don't think it fits in here. Any other comments or questions on that one? Okay. 2131. There is a policy that basically just lists things that we expect students to be able to do and for whatever reason they thought they should add some uh under communication and collaboration there's been a whole list of things there we are adding they should be able to give and receive constructive feedback. I think that's a good thing. They can apply
046empathetic listening skills to enhance their understanding of what the other person is saying. Sounds like a good thing. Can work as part of a team. Uh can exchange information and intentions in a way that it's clear and understood by the intended audience. And then they made about 60 grammar changes in this problem. But it is simply if you go to it sometime it just lists things we like students to be able to do when they leave Adam Central. So don't know that there's a lot of conversation on that one but we'll pause for comments. They have technology issue. Yeah, I think I've had way too many policies open. It's about like our 2220. We look at this one a lot because this policy is on curriculum and so anytime the curriculum changes a policy has
047to be updated. They've made a bunch of change again to personal finance and that course that they've been moving it around different areas and locations. Uh it's just the most recent update on a course in personal finance responsibility in high school for all students is expected to graduate in 2028 or after. So that's the most recent um it's part of the new Indiana diploma. So that's the only change in 2221 comments 2370.02 02. Some of you may be familiar um with what was called the flex program. Um these changes all they do they take out provisions that have expired. So in other words there was language that may be related through students who graduated prior to 2022 or something like that. Those pieces have expired so they took them out. 24 11 always like when
048we're doing what they decide to make a policy. This is about guidance and counseling. And now it been added, if the student is not progressing toward fulfillment of the graduation plan, the school counselor shall provide counseling services to advise the student of possible credit recovery options. In other words, how do you change that F to a passing grade? Um, and services to help make progress toward graduation. If the student is not progressing toward fulfillment of the graduation plan due to failing to meet a post-secary readiness competency, which is all part of these new employments, the school school counselor shall meet with the teacher assigned to the student and talk about ways to help. They will also meet with the parents. I'm guessing they do that, don't they? Um but it's just nice to be able
049to say yes that is what we do in terms of helping students questions there. 2421 is on career and technical education. Those are usually hands-on courses, but there are now virtual ways to take those courses with simulators and that the state is now saying you can have a course where the kids actually take a career in tech course virtually. I'm not sure we're looking to do a lot of that, but the state has approved it, so we need to have that in there. is the policy on student assessment and this is up Mrs. Mclla's area is all about the I read and what to do when a student doesn't pass. Um you'll remember we just had an update here a little bit ago where they were allowed to now test more times in the summer.
050This outlines other options of how they can be brought up to speed. And I watched this summer as kids came and and uh many more of them successfully passed that test. Regardless of what you think about state assessments, um many more of those kids were able to get over the bar. So again, I don't know there's a lot of questions about that. It's just part of what we need to do because the wallet's changed. 3120. Several years ago, they said you have to hold a public hearing on the teacher contract after you get it negotiated. But initially that had to be a separate meeting. The state has shown a little wisdom and said, you know, you could do that public hearing when you're having another one of your board meetings. So now that's okay. I'm
051sure you're all in favor of that. One last meeting. 3142. This is not maybe very fun. This is about the cancellation of teacher contracts. This doesn't change any of the law, but they used to just list probationary teacher, professional teacher, and established teacher. Well, now they added the definitions of what those teachers what makes you one of those teachers. So again, don't know if there's much to discuss about that one. And the last two in first reading, one is on medication. You can rest assured Donna has seen this and she's all on board. So you can be on board. At 6151 is about bad checks and uncollectible debts. And I have met with Dawn and she's all on board. So you can be all on board because those are the people that know what happens
052in those worlds. So hopefully not too quick but hopefully quick enough. That's our first readings and now I will just go on. We've listed the next two as second reading because these have to do with a recognition because we they were tabled which means we need to bring them back tonight. That doesn't mean there needs to be action on them tonight. It can be tabled again but since it was tabled it needs to come forward again. So, if you have questions or want to have further conversation about either of those, you can do that tonight. >> Well, I think that they're 5430 5451. There's faster strength in student recation. I We've had a lot of discussion about them and you've heard some people about them. Um, and just to kind of kind of go back
053and I know we talked about this a lot, but you know, when I when we talked about like what other schools are doing, not that it matters what other schools are doing, we can do whatever we want, but I guess I'm kind of I think I might just be a little bit confused or just not quite understanding because I I see like, you know, we've got some schools that are doing the the Pumalad system and then they're also putting the ranking on the transcript. And I might have misunderstood, but I kind of thought that when we were talking about this originally, it was said like we we were trying to keep that that class rank off the transcript. Maybe I misunderstood that along the way. And I'm just kind of wondering like why some of
054the schools around here still have that on there. And again, maybe that was just a misunderstanding at the time when we were talking about it. So if you could just maybe help me out with that. I don't know if anybody else wondered that or not from some of the information we had. >> Yeah. So we've compiled of some schools um around here and we can certainly go in more depth and get information from our schools um directly from them. Um as you probably look to when you look on schools websites sometimes it can be difficult to see exactly what's happening just from a website. So we've had conversations with some schools. We'd be happy to look into more area schools. Um, a couple of things are done quite differently from school to school for various
055reasons. Different schools have different needs and different way of doing things. So, you'll see some do just the latte system. They've got three levels of recognition and that's the way they do recognition um and don't put any weight or any ranking on their transcripts. Some schools will do the latte system. They will have the rank on transcripts. It's something the students can see, but it wouldn't be something that's recognized um publicly like the graduation or the pass award. So like public recognition would be on the kumi system. The students can still see the ranking on their transcripts. Some schools do the kumi system still have balance out. Some schools do a top 10 with balance out. When we look at waiting, some schools don't do any weight. Some schools have a buses of 4.33. Some
056schools have A plus a four just like an A. Um they give an A+ on the like transcript, but it doesn't bump up that weight. Some schools will wait AP classes at one, some at.5. Um some not at all. Some will do dual credit at 1.5 or not at all. Um some do all dual credit, some do priority dual credit. It's just the variance is pretty amazing. Um, it's something that we could certainly compile a list for schools that you'd like if you want to see what different combinations and options are. Um, but because the variance is so much, I would want to take more time though to make sure we're accurate in all of that information. Um, we wanted to so I want a little more time with that one. But you're right, the
057variance is all >> when we were were originally talking about it and maybe we've kind of gone away from that, but were were saying here originally we'd just like to sh you were saying we'd just like to ship that. >> So yes, the original proposal is to go to the kumlady system. Um and when we worked with teachers and guidance in setting those levels looking at the sumakum lane um being high enough where it would recognize a small portion of the students when we looked at that students it would have been somewhere between the last few graduating classes zero and seven like you there's a lot of variance from cohort to cohort. Um some of them would have you know not had any people make it to that similarity level the largest was seven. um
058and then on down. So you couldn't say a direct number, right? It's whoever choosed that and then just leave it at that and that's the pro. So that was the original proposal. Um but of course there's multiple ways of doing things. I guess I think I I've asked you guys this before, but is it to make sure that everybody hears it too? Like so is there is it going to cause a problem if we do a hybrid? So like let's say we we do the new levels we still recognize like a valine solidator overall. Does that cause issues like do you see that causing some issues? >> I I mean I can let Megan or counselor speak as well. I think that um these issues that you see maybe are more behind the scenes and
059individual and so I don't know that I want to speak to each one but as far as like the stress level that it can cause students um the the weight that it has in decision making the competition level the um the pressure it puts on on classrooms things like that I think there is still going to have um those things we're trying to avoid um just in that reducing of that stress. The difference would be if you're living in a suma kumate, I know the number, right? I know the number. So my number wherever we would put it, say we put it at 4.5, I know when I get there, I've got the highest honor. And I'd be one of I'm the only one of five. I don't know how many my classmates would get
060there, too. But I'm not always maybe as concerned about what my classmates are taking. Are they getting different things? Those are things we don't even think about as kids get older. Um, as far as if you don't take a weighted class and I get an A+, it's 4.33. If I'm going for that 4.5 and A+ in regular class just drops my GPA, right? If I just take a study law, it doesn't honestly because it doesn't affect it at all. I'm not having to weigh out the calculation of the effect on my GPA as heavily because I'm only going for 4.5 and I know it. I'm not trying to beat somebody. So I think that that stress reducing would be different. Um but that's just I mean that would be one of the differences >> who
061decides I mean you know AP classes are weighted. I remember right honors classes aren't who decides what gets weighted how much it gets weighed in. I mean seems like to me the last several years whoever the tournament is is the person having had take the most AB class. a kid might lose it just because he couldn't fit another AB class or an IEP class was canceled because there wasn't enough kids sign up so they lost their dollar portion not because they fulfilling badly just because they had one less AP class in the other >> I'm not sure how that was um for as long I can remember our AP classes have been lied at one right so if I got a 4.33 A plus in a regular class I get an A+ in AP class
062it's a 5.33 um who made that decision originally I'm not sure and the proposal We had recommended also waiting our priority dual credit. So that would be the dual credit that's part of the Indiana college 430 um which would be getting our students their freshman year of college done um at the lumps like al together um also at 0.5 just because the rigor of these priority dual credit um is also very high right so if I am in comm 114 I am taking a course that I would be taking my freshman year of college um and not getting any weight for it at all um compared the that was part of it too is re looking at that waiting system as well to decide what should and should not be weighted in the above level
063it's common to weight AP classes um at a higher rank just because they're internationally the curriculum is provided um the investment across the country where dual credit can vary from institution to institution and so that way colleges safety and high school depend on again a lot of factors like the university accreditation public school that I just feel like now if you're a kid and if that's what you're worried about you wouldn't take an honors class at AC because if a regular English class you get an A+ and you got a A in honors you just lost the class right >> and that can be some of the challenge that we can sometimes try to overcome when making a prerequisite Right. So, if you want to take AP, your junior level in English, so maybe you
064can make a prerequis [Music] for sure, >> right? We try to do it, but there's Yeah, we try, but there's always workers. Can you speak briefly? I mean, I'm going into great detail, but just like the um seven seals, like there are three like avenues, but there's seven seals available and what um like the um requirements are for those like face learning like different things like that. Can you speak briefly to that? Yeah, there um is the the base credits that are the same for those are are you out different categories um but they kind of center around that um and then there are seven or six different seal options that student can earn in in tandem multiple combinations they can earn up to three seals recognized by the state so there are a huge
065variety of combinations that kids can earn Um the enrollment seal will focus on those who are collegebound and no minimum admission requirements such as foreign language, advanced math um economics where that standard wage rate is different. Um the employment seal focuses on career and technical education um content graders, industry recognized certification and then workbased learning components. um the public service um skill or kind of that enrichment feel like they know very often again focuses on community service. Um there's a new course that they've recognized as well as mentorships or also some CTE courses in the public service such as criminal justice um things like that. And so those are components and then again mentorship hours um with um a figure of either a military ref or police officer, firefighters, things like that. And then each
066of those seals have an honor plus option which you take those options and then add to it. The enrollment seal focuses on the Indiana College Board for 30. Um the employment seal honors plus focuses on a federally recognized apprenticeship program or up to 650 hours of work-based learning experiences. Um more advanced career and technical um certificates, maybe associate degrees and then pathways and then um I don't quite remember what the military or um public service um steel is off the top of my head um but I believe it is just more and there are other things too if you don't have access to that we'd have to figure out those other things >> but again multiple fields Sorry, I don't have any kids. My oldest is one and eight, so I haven't had to deal
067with this yet. But like, so when they have apprenticeships and all that, how does that go into their school? Is that all just a past sale, you did a good job or you didn't or are they graded on their activities? Yeah, work learning um is heavily standardized by the state with um component features and standards that have to be met. Um right now with the new dip formal requirements, there's not 100% clear guidance on on every issue of work based learning of how it can be earned and where um but right now our current um students and older sophomore on up. Um you know there's different categories of work based learning um and how they're using it too. Are they using for their bucket two pillars? Are they using it as a le credit? Um
068it has to do with person that the number of hours earned in classroom. Um touch points are all um standardized and that like we have to have plans that are outlined and upload through the state system. Um but a lot of it is connected to that career technical education courses. um students can earn that fedally recognized apprenticeship program and precision machining program down at South Adams one that we have available within our area 18 co-op so students can can earn that recognition there um but they can earn work-based learning hours um during the school day night can also be compiled with hours uh but they have made changes how summer hours can be earned a number of different places um that job components that students can earn all different um jobs from different places work
069at McDonald's and machine shop categories. Um it's a very complex and very individualized thing. Um again depending on what cohort you are um how you are filling your bucket for you. Um and then again there's that other layer. >> I want to Yeah. No, I want to applaud each of you and the entire staff and college base that you have according to what you're trying to do that's best for not just one or two students. not the highest deal, but I don't care if it's the student that's 101 in their class. You still want them to succeed just like we do any other. So, with that being said, I'm going to ask some very general dumb questions so I understand. I'm going have to dumb it down for me to to get there. I graduated
070with one diploma and one college degree. That that's all I had to do. I didn't have to worry about anything else. So, so quickly for me, when when you talk about the weighted averages, whether it's an AP course or a dual credit course, do we Adam Central, does Adam Central set what that weighted average is for those? >> Okay, so my next question, and you're going to look at me and think I'm absolutely crazy. So, what would happen if the AP class and the dual credit class both accepted through whatever college they may be going to? Correct. What if those were weighted? exactly the same takes the pressure off any students about choosing whether they take an AP class or a dual class and it student can choose according to which education path they're taking
071in which college they're going to >> there's some discussion we've had lots of discussion with teachers and some of our focus groups on those weight system because again long as I can remember before I came on to guidance with the AP has had just a way that again researching what other schools are doing things across the country um like NATC which is psychology counseling association um just talking about generality as a whole again that AC is held in a higher standard because again it's so um standardized across across the country international um and then looking at our dual credit um we have eighth grade students that have earned dual credit in introduction to engineering no standard rigor of that course is the same as um our pre-calculus math course um college level courses but they
072know differently should they be recognized differently um and many of our teachers um and and parents from our public schools do feel that priority right now should be held in higher um regard because of the standard students have a lot credit. A lot of those are more like completion once you're in the fourth if you complete the paperwork and get signed up versus and the transferable transferability of um a lot of them from that CTER outside of the um associate degree as maybe um like you know Purdue engineering is not going to introd engineering design level. sugar of course and we've also had discussions with you know A+ and weight training in that same regard as a plus and you know advanced biology classes and um talking to some past students um that are staff
073members now that when they were in high school didn't have any talking about their ranks in their days and how you know their concerns with and how they were level. >> So don't hate me for the next question. >> I I like I like to discuss important that people learn and understand details behind >> all of our requirements and some of the decisions that we make. So when you talk about not waiting in the same are we putting and and going back to we don't feel like it's fair to put pressure on kids. >> I mean life puts pressure on kids. Um there's no way around it. Um whether you teach it at home, whether we teach in the classroom, whether they get on the job training, whether they get them in college, it it
074doesn't matter. But my question is when you talk about the way we wait them um are are we putting the pressure on the kids as a food system? I mean I feel like we're putting it on them. >> So the way hopefully the idea behind it would be um to relieve some of that pressure because if I would be taking in um let's just say let's say something like um English 11. So, I could choose to take English 11, um, just regular English 11 my junior year, or I could take our AP English course. Um, the idea would be if I would get a B+ in the AP course, um, which would obviously hurt my GPA, but that would be equal to the A+ in the regular course. So, the idea behind reading it is
075hopefully to relieve a little bit of that pressure. So students who are used to getting A's and A classes will know this is a really challenging course because I'm getting prepared for a really challenging test. My grades may not be quite where they always would be normally. But it's okay because we recommend the harder and that up a little bit. So the idea behind it is it should hopefully relieve some of that pressure, not necessarily increase it. >> You're going to hate me. >> No, keep going. Let's see. >> That's everybody gets a trophy. I mean, what's to say that kid doesn't takes the AP English doesn't fail a test in regular English in the 11th grade and ends up getting B+ in regular English. I guess I for me I guess I don't see
076the difference. We're we're separating the kid. We're we're trying to compare apples to one. I I guess this is the way I'm understanding it. So, please continue to educate me in doing it. If the AP class is the same accreditation as a dual credit class, then it takes away the avenue of trying to figure out how much each one's for you. >> So some go ahead. >> Okay. I'm sorry. No, go ahead. >> Let me finish because if I don't, I'll forget it. That's my problem. I'm trying to write down things as fast as I can so I don't forget it. So, I guess my question is I'm going back to if if if an AP class is weighted the same as a dual credit and those students that want to pick whatever college they
077want to go to, whatever thing they want to do, they know what those classes are going to be if they're going somewhere where they're going. Most kids are making those decisions typically before they graduate. I mean, we announced where they're going to graduate they're going to do. So, a lot of those things are already being made. So those students are talking about all of those things well before we get to the graduation um so if if we're putting those pressure on those kids and their school system to say you have to pick this or that because this one's weighted more than what that one's weighted but yet either one of them can get you into college. Either one of them can get you a degree but yet if someone's striving to be the one or
078two in the class and doing it we're automatically keeping them from taking those classes. That's I guess that's what I'm trying to understand because we're we're keeping them from saying I'd love to take that class but dog if I do that I'm not going to be the best or solid or third in my class fifth in my class whatever that may be. And I think that's our concern is we want people to make choices based on what they want to take, not necessarily about how it's going to hit their GPA and their ranking, which is where we maybe even circle back to having that system. Um, would allow more choice because even a 4.5 doesn't mean you take every AP class that we offer and you get an A+ in all of them. It it
079allows for some more flexibility in that. So that's what we're trying to avoid. We want to I agree with you. We want to offer choice to our students where they can make those decisions um not just based on DPA waiting or anything else. Um >> but we're setting that for any right by waiting the >> I mean if one's worth one, one's worth a half. >> Yeah. >> Maybe chime in on Ben's comments. But Ben, I appreciate you trying to help these folks figure it out. But like I'm not going to try to help figure it out. I as far as like how to educate the kids. I'll leave that up to you. But I mean at some level I think we're lowering the standard a little bit. Like there are kids that want to
080be number one. There are kids that want to be great. There are kids that push and strive for that. Like but then I get it. You're trying to recognize accomplishment at every level. like and accomplishment is at every level. I mean, you know, the kid that is ranked 30th in his class may be thrilled with that and be a construction worker like me, right? Like I mean, whatever. So, uh, >> they're all important, >> right? That's what I'm saying. like so so I get the part about the uh accomplishment at every level and we want to recognize that but I don't I don't see it parallel and like taking that that kumla that uh you know validictorian and saludiatoran out of the mix like how serious are we about the hybrid type scenarios here? Are
081we are we looking at that? Are we are we wanting to improve that or are we trying to go straight with a good line? Um, so I think to just to make sure like 100% celebrating student recognition will always be my goal and a very high level of excellence. Um, you know, I have had the tool um in the pursuit of excellence. There is no finish line outside of my office ever since I become like I never think we're going to I never think, you know, I always think we can do better. So I would not want this to seem all that expensive expected. Um the the Kumadi system set a very high bar a very high bar. So if you think about a regular A+ is a 4.33 right now we are saying a
0824.5 is going to give you the sum of that means you've got to take AP classes right you've got to take something to bump that up. Um getting straight A+es and regular classes wouldn't hit that. It's it is a very high bar. So I don't want to just mislead people to think like, oh, we're going to recognize aiding people at different levels. We are trying to set bars that are attainable, right? Attainable possible, thus the like not stress, but just we know where we're at. Like this is what I'm trying to do. I'm not in competition necessarily. Not just competition on anything like working hard or you know like for class for class. I don't have to match you, right? Class for class, I don't have to match you. So, I just want to clear
083that up. Truly, I can say there is no one who values I shouldn't say no one. I value excellence very highly. So, um and I'm happy to talk about that more too. But then secondly, can we talk about more options? Um certainly, certainly we can. And this is a discussion, this is a conversation. Um I also excellence also really value transparency. Um, which is why like really from the beginning have tried very hard to involve be transparent. Um, so if we're we would always want to do that. I don't want anyone to feel like it's not transparent. It's not discussion. Happily go back give us a list of questions. Um, we started a document trying to keep everything in one place but it was getting a little messy I think for all of us. Adding
084to that document whatever we need um because we would want to have a good transparent conversation too. So whatever you would ask us to find or do, we want to keep that conversation going when we get to a point where we all where you would all feel comfortable. And I did one thing said before I want, you know, I want the best kids and all that, but like I said, the last several years, I think it goes back to the kid that had the best. They only spent the last several years on a valid Victorian. Oh, this kid got one more AP class. This kid got this one. This kid didn't take honors and this kid did. It's been this I feel like it's been more of the scheduling on who actually speak for any
085of that, but I think my struggle just trying to figure out what would be best for is just I know kids that would be motivated by the right and I know kids that would be motivated by this as well. So I think that's the hardest struggle where I see going back and forth because some kids won't be motivated as much possibly by the commodity system as they would rank but then vice versa, you know. So I guess that's just trouble going back and forth with what is the best or how we do it. Well, as you can see her mother stole multiple ways of doing it, right? And and no school out to her kids. Um, so it it's not that there aren't multiple ways of doing things that we can look at. It's just
086from our experience that we've seen so far and talking with teachers and staff members and guiding members, this seems like the best path forward, but certainly not saying the only path forward. I I guess that's kind of where I land on too. Pardon the bad analogy, but like this is somewhat like politics. Like come back with something that fits the bill, you know, fits more kids. Um is more, you know, uh structured to to do what you want it to do. I guess I'll rely on you guys to figure that out and bring it back. But that's my opinion. I don't know that I would support just approving as is uh you know with any other considerations. I'll say that I I would probably be in that same boat in the same boat. And again,
087I I don't I don't want you to feel like I think that we're doing any bad for students because I trust thousand% what our administration does in teaching our kids um and raise helping raise our kids in this. There's not a doubt in my mind. We do a good job. I'm probably I hate to throw something away that we've been doing just to say it's better. show me it's better. I guess how do I and maybe you are filming me and I'm just too dumb to understand it and doing it. But but again, I guess I just I I would hate to I would hate to see a kid that's that's striving to be number one in whatever it is they do, curricular or extracurricular um not be recognized for that. I guess that's my
088that's my only hold of this is still that system of of being able to to recognize those top peak performers of champions of that's where I have to get right with the bill in my mind I guess is that change is never change is not always bad um it just probably have to be coasted more to help maybe understand it better >> and I think it's a tradition that we're just we are used you know and and that's our mindset of many of us how it would be and what we would be expecting graduation you know and I think that's I think that's too I mean I think tradition is why a lot of people want to send their kids to have some um honestly I think that's has a lot to do with so
089I don't want to cut anyone off who wants to say anymore about this topic So, does anybody have any else? I I think you know it's listed here second reading. We tabled it before. I guess I wonder from all of you. I mean, is there a motion to table this? That's kind of the feeling I'm getting, but >> I think table one more time is the maybe the right decision. Um, >> that's the motion. I'll second it. >> I'll make that motion, I guess. >> I'll second it. >> There you go. All right. All in favor? >> Okay. Maybe we'll just take this and we will revisit it. And all of us, I think, have a responsibility here because they are doing a lot of work >> and leg work here. If we have questions,
090we need to get we need to get them to, you know, Katie and Megan, so that they can get information for us that helps us determine what we want to do moving forward and and what we would be comfortable with. So, I think our responsibility is to make sure that we're communicating well with them and not just, you know, letting this go, but it's a decision that I I know something needs to be made as a decision so can go forward with things as well. So, we need to I'm going to be on top of that. If you have questions and if you want me to compile them and put them all together, I can do that, too. So, you want to get them to me, that's fine. If you want to go direct, that's
091fine, too. And it sounds like you'll continue to put that information one document. >> I think that that document today that you sent was good to have all in one place because I was having problems places though. Okay. Thank you, >> K. Is there timelines or things that are associated with this that >> two meetings ago that >> no stuff we're oblivious to >> we're proposing this change with who we are current freshman right um so they don't even have their first grade because we're at a semester grade until the end of the first semester so and they're all in their classes right now. Um, honestly, you just don't want to go too hard online because like I say, every single class make a difference. Um, but I think that I feel comfortable until then
092because then they'll all the decision will be made before any of them get grades at least. All right. Okay. We are going to move on to D, the approval of the handbooks. This one should be easy. We had a classified handbook and a transportation handbook and there were no changes. So hopefully you remember reading over this before or you refreshed your memory because there weren't any changes. So um is there a motion to approve the hands? >> I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Opposed. All right. Motion carries. Um next we have approval of our overnight and outstate trips. We have some athletic ones. We'll take these all together, but I'm going to list them all. Uh we have a JV varsity volleyball game uh Parkway High School on August 26th.
093We have a middle school volleyball game um September 4th at Parkway. Cross country team at Teroot um high school and that's October 4th and 5th. We have JB varsity boys basketball at Parkway. Um January 3rd high school wrestling state finals to be determined February 19th through 22nd, 2026. We've got JV softball at Crest View High School May 11th. And then after athletics, they're moving on to our FFA. A few of those as well. Three of those. FFA, the National um dairy judging, Harrisburg Harrisburg Fairgrounds, Pennsylvania. In September 12th through 16th, we have the FFA state soils contest at Plington University. October 16th through 18th. We have the FFA National Convention at Indianapolis October 29th through November 1st. Any questions or clarifications on any of those? Okay. If not, we'll need a motion to approve the
094overnight and the out of state. All in favor? Uh, next we have personnel board action items. Uh, we are going to go A through D on these. Um, unless anyone has any and wants to speak up. Now, we're going to do all these with one motion. So, um, you can stop me if you need to or want to. We have the approval of the status quo contracts. That is just the teacher contract until we have the other one uh at a later date. We have approval of termination of Mr. Rick Tibo maintenance and grounds. We have approval of these resignations for these three individuals. Mrs. Nipple Stra was in fifth grade. Mr. Matt Liry, middle school high school science. Miss Zoe Wolf, middle school cheer coach. We have approvals to hire of several people. We
095have Miss Taylor Street in kindergarten, Mrs. Liz Davis in fifth grade, Miss Taylor Thomas, elementary special needs care professional, Miss Camry T and part-time latch coordinator, Mr. Richard Bailey, high school biology teacher. Miss Kathy McCullum, special ed education aid. Miss Jasmine Munis, special ed aid. Miss Ellie Fger, bus aid, and Miss Gabby Landis, middle school cross country coach. So that's a lot of people there. Any any questions, concerns? Before there's a motion. >> All right. All in favor? >> Opposed? Okay. Motion carries. And for those uh who left us those resignations, we do want to thank them for serving at Adam Central and wish them the best of their whatever they're moving on to. >> Oh, sorry, Liz. Welcome. We're glad to have you in fifth grade. All right. Uh, next we have our approval
096of our coaches roster, which would have some of those additions in there. Any concerns, questions on All right. Is there a motion to approve the coaches roster? >> Okay. All in favor? [Music] All right. We're going to move on to our administrative reports. Uh we have we will start with elev they work so hard to make sure it's often not seen. So I want to thank you that the leadership team that summer and I think Katie and Megan's conversation tonight just goes to show how much conversation happens on the back side of decision that the problem. So um thanks to everyone who work I want to thank our community um because tonight after school night um we I talked with many teachers but came over and most classrooms had one or zero community members families
097that did not show up. And so, thank you to the community for showing up. The teacher for our staff who came in to set up the room, have all of the students would feel welcome um coming in tonight. It was great to see their kids come back. Some were shy and timid and others were racing down the hall to get to to meet their new teacher. the fear of losers in the fourth grade would say, but they were accomplishing it. You know, we've all been that in that position. Um, but the teachers said it just the little things on the elementary side, getting our kindergarters from that end to the other end, that mile journey that it feels like to them, you know, having people in place. So, all those decisions that have been made,
098thanks to everyone who put all that together because truly does take a village to make this work. Um, as we go into the 25 26 year, we're going to continue looking at reading and how students learn so that our students are getting that strong foundational education so that they are prepared for college as they get older and we've given them their best foot forward. So, our work in those discussions will continue especially. So, thank you to the community staff and I can't wait to get on Thursday and this building will then be so looking forward to that. It's the most wonderful time of the year. Um I do love that getting everybody in the new energy um of a brand new a brand new year. So really just looking um maybe I'll start with what
099this week is going to look like. Well, last week at registration um the best way I can get a count is by talking to Gibbs after pictures just to see how many pictures did we take because that'll give you a good idea of how many kids we had and 525 um which is a pretty amazing number of registration when you look at high school and middle schoolers and their families um who come in, get into the building, get their schedules, get their pictures, and are ready to come back to school. So we just appreciate everyone's participation there. Um teachers started to come back were back at school yesterday and today we're working together to get ready. Um tomorrow we're looking forward to our first um waiver day which is where teachers are going to be
100in training all day long. Um it is we're bringing somebody into our training which we really appreciate. Having that day with some um outside experts so that we can all learn and grow together is what continually helps us grow and then help be able to serve our students and our community better. So, we're excited for that tomorrow. And then the best day of all, Thursday, um when we have our students back, we are looking forward to that. Everybody's ready to get in the building back to school night with a little taste of it with our sixth graders. Um but we are just really looking forward to that. Um we've not been to the 400 wings recently. It is amazing. They did the job. Um we did an awesome job of that. The classrooms look amazing.
101The space is beautiful. And so that's been the for this school year, too. Um, but lots of people to thank that we're here today. Um, so I do appreciate all the support and once again if anyone ever needs anything, has any questions, want to talk things through. Um, I'm always happy to meet and talk. So, um, shoot me an email, um, call the school, we'll set something up and I'd love to see you. >> Okay. Thank you. Um yeah, this summer was extremely short and very fast to go and first few days are always hectic, but we we we survived them. I want to give a shout out to to my crews, my maintenance guys, my custodians, my part-time summer help. They're the ones that make it happen, right? He's the one that put out
102fires. So, um on the construction side of things. Both the 400 wing and HBAC on the elementary side are pretty much wrapping up. Uh we're waiting on some furniture and some room numbers and stuff like that. 400 and elementary. We're waiting on a few diffusers and some control work, but it's for the most part done. Everything's working. Uh the tool we're finally making some progress. We got the gutters done last week. They turned out good. The painting is finally done. Um, right now they're grouting the tile in the pool. Getting that all ready so we can start filling. Um, dancer started this week and epoxy flooring in the locker room. So, we'll get that done when we move out to the pool. Um, that's when we finally start filling the pool, starting up all the
103pool equipment. So, we're still looking at an October finished date. So, back on schedule and getting that one done. >> Great. Okay. Uh, Mr. Layman. >> Yeah. Uh, a few things. Um, first of all, um, I I want to thank the board. Um, I don't know how many of you really realize what happened at the very first meeting of this meeting. They approved the minutes for seven meetings um since the end of June and u they are busy doing uh their tasks and I I apprec appreciate them doing that. Um I I typically make some comments and there have been past comments. Um I I don't know that I need to say any more about Kumla's setup. Okay. I discussion is great. I don't need to weigh into that uh at this point. Um and
104I do want to in in response to the Smiths from last month, but also from some current statements this month, I would just raise my hand and say I am that accountability person. You know when you said who's that person? That's me. And as I've said before, I can't share the details, but I can sit here tonight and tell you that people have been held accountable over the course of the last several months in what I've had to do and work through. So, it does fall right here. All right. That's that's the person who does it. Um, with that being said, we've talked started conversation about budget and how it's not looking very good because of the things the state is doing. They're playing shell games with the education fund. They tell you they giving
105you more money, but they put more things into the education fund that you have to pay for, and that usually doesn't end up being more money. We all know Senate Bill one operations is changing that and that could be substantial. There is a third fund called debt service where you pay your mortgage. Um and that one we do control. And I I know I know we've been here a long time but I too was a teacher and I can't resist a whiteboard and a pen. Um, and I was math, so I love grass. This is what we received from you in debt service this year. That's what we're receiving now just because of the way it is built out and it's it's actually build out way past this but we just want to look at
106these three. What that means is we will get less revenue. Well, this is the piece we get a control. we're already going to get less about every place else. So the question becomes not asking for any more money. Okay, they've already taken away a bunch of money. We we just would like to keep having what we have so far. So what that looks like is the school would essentially borrow money for one year. So this year we would borrow money and pay it this year and this year we'd borrow money to pay it. And you know some people get nervous about the large numbers in schools. It's about $720,000. Again, not we don't want that additional money. We're just saying we don't want to lose that money because you know what? We could buy buses.
107We could do an HBAC. That money would be well spent. I can assure you of that. So, I bring this up to the board tonight. We have met Don and I with financial people and we're meeting more and more of them and no decisions tonight. All right. But if we're going to go down this road, we have to have public hearings, okay? Because it's all transparent. We talked about transparency, but we have to post that we're going to have a hearing. So, my question tonight from the board, and I would like this to be a motion, do you give Dawn and I permission to at least set up the hearings so we can have more conversation. That doesn't mean we'll do any of this. That's the whole point of having the hearing. And again, not
108asking for more. We just twothirds of our funds are getting hit hard. We can control this one and still do really valuable things for Adam Center. So I um I would entertain questions if you have any at all. And I know we don't even know what all this looks like. People say, "Well, what exactly would we buy?" Well, I bet you Todd could fill that list uh in in a heartbeat. So, we don't even have that. And we don't even have to decide that. This is the best part. We don't have to decide that up front. We can simply write this that we will spend it on buses and equipment and facilities and renovations, which then we have the flexibility to fix a roof or whatever that looks like. Um, and even though these would
109be individual, we would do the public input for all three of them. And then I asked him today, I said, "But what if we get here and we don't want to do it?" Not a problem. You just don't do anything. You don't feel you can. So, this is a lot to think about. This is going to be a two or three month process tonight. It's just are you comfortable enough in thinking about this to say, well, let's let's at least put our toe in the water and and see what come. So, that's my math lesson for the day. I would entertain questions if you have some. I'll let you speak up and and and maybe for those that have done coming on maybe not familiarized with what that is, this was talk that we were
110having prior to tonight um in so knowing that in that 2026 time period that we could look at restructuring that so it's we probably have forgotten about it though with some other things happening around the school system. So um I don't know that I have questions about it. I'll wait and make sure no one else has any questions. >> If there are, I'm going to make a motion. >> I don't have questions. I think with all the unknowns, it's good to see a backup plan. >> What our possibilities are >> Yeah. And that's that's tonight is just simply giving us permission to have those hearings and allow us to explore it in detail. I'm sorry. Did I Did I say it? Oh, then I will. Yes, I do make the motion. >> I'll second. Okay.
111Don and I will go to work. Do you want anything else? I'll do anything else. >> All right. Um, just so that an update as far as public update, uh, we are working on a contract. Actually, our school attorney Audrey is working on possible contract with one of our superintendent candidates point in time. That's all we can say. Um there's a lot of legalities here, you know, and and then we will have to post the contract and then there just a lot of steps that have to be followed, but we do have someone that that is working with just to give you that update. Um and I just hope that we have a great start to the school year. Everybody, please keep our kids and our staff in your prayers so that uh we can
112kick this school year off and have a good one. That's all I had to say. Anybody else? Can I just confirm one thing because it's on our website like this, but for middle school high school still is the same, right? Because the pool for now, but possibly we can look at once all of that stuff. >> Yeah, for now we're just keeping it the same. There's still construction. We can have conversations later. >> Okay. Yeah, the September board meeting is a board visitation day, an all day meeting and so our board meeting will be after school at 3:15 and that's on September 9th. I just see one question thing. Yeah, maybe you said that and I know it'll be different each year, but like flash difference. How many students were 4.0 and under and nine?
113>> So that is information we can put on the doc. Um it takes a minute for us to do it because you got to go through you can't understand what I have, >> right? So we would just need to be able to go into um permanent files to gather this information. Um, we can definitely work on that though, so we could just see where it would hit. Maybe if it would have been different. Um, so let's work on that. We'll get it. What was your question? >> I just wondered how many kids um were below were at a 40 or higher but weren't in the top but were were not in the top >> because that would cover that if we do. >> Yeah. Yeah. I bet there's some things >> or hybrid. I mean,
114we still have, but then if there were five that weren't, they still >> Yeah. Let's get some numbers from the past few years and see what we're looking at. >> All right. Is there a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> Motion. All in favor? Okay. Motion carries. Thanks everyone for coming