001Hey, welcome to our June board meeting. We're going to go ahead and get started with our pledge and prayer algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Father, thank you for this night. Thank you for bringing us all here safely. I pray that you will just guide us and direct us and help us with decisions that we have to make for our school. And please help everyone return home safely in your name. Amen. All right. Um first item here is we have approval of our agenda. Um and under policy board action items, uh letter uh C has been taken off of the agenda. That's the approval of the reading reading plan. And then we
002added D to the approval to forego the reading of the policies allowed. And we have two policies for review that have been added. Um policy 5430 and 5451. And I believe those are the only changes that we have to the agenda for tonight. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? I'll make a motion to approve. All in favor? Opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Um, next we have the approval of the minutes. Uh, the regular session and the executive session minutes that you've all had a chance to review that have been emailed to you. Is there a motion to approve the minutes? Motion. I'll second. Um, was there any discussion or any additions or changes to the minutes? that anyone had. Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Um, next we have our public comment section.
003And I saw that Zach and London have asked to speak tonight. Um, so we do have aotted five minutes for public comment. So, I'm London Smith and before February 20th, I never really thought about mental health. Not in a serious way at least. I thought it was just something people talked about, something you hear about in passing, something that happens to other people. But not me. I never thought I'd be someone to sit with that kind of pain until now. On February 20th, my entire world shifted. I suffered a severe concussion. An injury that didn't just shake my body, but shook my entire reality. But the injury wasn't the harm's fault. The what hurt the most was the betrayal. See, it wasn't just one person and found me that day. Not two, not three. It
004was an entire administration. People I trusted. People who were supposed to protect me. Before, I believed they were supposed to keep me safe. But when I needed them the most, they weren't there. They turned their backs and look the other way. And while I may look fine on the outside, I'm not. I learned how to smile through the storm, how to say, "I'm okay." when I'm really not, because that's what society expects, right? That's what people want to hear, that you're fine. And after a while, saying I'm okay, becomes less of a comfort and more of a prison. You start to feel like you don't even have the right to not be okay. I know it might sound cliche, but this is real. is my truth and I don't want anyone anyone to ever go
005through what I went through. The pain, the confusion, the loneliness and the feeling of being disposable. And to the boy who hit me, I think back to the day and I wonder was $20 really the price you bought me. Was my safety, my peace of mind, my life just worth 20 bucks to you? And that's the moment I realized how cheap some people can make a human life feel. But I also realized something else. This is why I fight. This is why I speak. Because silence is what they count on and all of silent. I may have been hurt, but I'm not broken. I may have been betrayed, but I'm not done. Because no one deserves to be left in the dark wondering that they matter. I matter, and so does everyone else who's ever
006been told to just move on. I'm standing here today not to share my story, but to say you are not alone, and you never want to be home again. Thank you. You know, I really didn't expect my daughter to sleep. Uh she come home after a therapy session, came to our bedroom 11:00 at night like a teenage girl does, right? Come to your room. Hey, last second I talk to you. You know, we made time for it. She reads this. There is nothing that I could probably say that could truly comes come from her. Like, I'm about to tear up. I cried last night when she read this. Like I'm shaking. I love Adam Central. Loved it to death. We're not here to rip it down. You know, we have never made an attempt to
007rip it down. I got to stick to script because I don't want to go too overboard. Okay. Thank you, Linda. uh what happened to her should never happen to any student. But what followed was the lack of urgency, the lack of reporting, and the silence was just as damaging. Let me be clear. We love Adam Central. I'll say it again on record. Love Adam Central. I want to make that a statement because I'm going to walk out of here saying, "Okay, good. Moving forward, changes are not optional. They are not. This school needs reform and it needs it now. First major thing, mandatory SRO involvement. Any moment an assault or battery or physical contact happens, boom, that should be the first person on site. Second, real training for the staff how to respond to trauma
008and when to involve law enforcement. I know I don't do certain jobs because I'm not credited to do it. We have a gentleman in this building that can take care of that issue. And the third part, clear written protocol and a public org chart. You know how confusing it is to see who's riding the ship, who's steering the ship, who reports to who, who is accountable for what. At this point, I'm throwing darts. I have no clue who to talk to. And obviously, I don't know if you guys do. I don't know. But my family has stayed quiet. We have respectfully went through the course of actions, every channel that we're supposed to do properly. But yet, you stayed quiet. You guys stayed quiet. Leadership had time. You had space to act. Nothing happened. Nothing.
009Did one person go check on my daughter and do a post threat analysis or assessment? Did anybody do that to the person that hit my daughter? That's protocol. Both of them. You need to seek them. Find them. Find out what's going on. What caused this to happen? Is she okay? Did she sit next to the board to the end of the school year? Mhm. What grade is she suffering? That class. Check the dates. Look at it. That's the class. Never moved it. Still a threat. Need to wrap it up. I appreciate your time. I'm going to go back to uh coaching. Have a great night. Thanks, Zach, for coming and thanks for sharing with us what you're going through. Um, I know that every person up here does care and does does want to know
010about the situation and we do want to make things better and um, I know Mr. Layman is now has been involved and been brought up to speed on things as well and we will do our best to come to a resolution better. All right. Uh we are going to move on to our recognition portion um of tonight and we have a couple of things for elementary that Mrs. McCall and Sherwood like to share with us. We do. I if you want to come on up here. Um I would like to recognize to you Mr. Inau. I just completed second grade. Uh we are very proud of him because not only did he get a perfect score on a very challging test. It is a third grade I read test. We take it in second grade
011preliminary to see how our students are doing and Ike scored a perfect score on a third grade test as a second grader. So would like to present you with this. Well done. We are very proud. [Applause] We also had another student, Rory Snider. Um and um Tim and Carly are Ike's parents. We'd like to honor them as well. Congratulations and well done. Um, but Rory Snyder is a second grader also who scored a perfect score on our IE test. So, we're very proud of both of them. So, well done. Does this mean they don't have to take it in third grade? Correct. If they pass in second, they are done. They don't have to take that test again. Too bad it didn't mean you never had to take it again, right? They scored perfect in
012third grade or second grade. There will be no test. Yeah. Well, that's great. I mean, that's that's awesome. awesome accomplishment. Congratulations. All right. Um, next we have our STEM. Um, so the Department of Education um has a STEM certification for grades K through 12. And recently Adam Central Middle School High School has been rewarded with a DOE STEM certification. Um, I've got my leadership team here, Kevin Dyn and Matt Liry. Um, they helped lead our uh teachers who were um part of this process. We had um Mr. Mike Jones, Mrs. Ingred Cole Higen, Mr. John Johnson, Tim Littlebrand, Mr. Ryan Heisburg, Mrs. Beverly Conkling, Mr. Sam Beer, Mr. Joe Miller, Mr. Jackson Rickenberger. Um they spent well over a year collecting and spinning artifacts um that show that we are committed to principles of STEM
013education, not just science, technology, engineering, and math, but the hands-on learning, project based and problem based learning, community connections, um and then crosscurricular collaboration between groups of people. Um so we collected all that data, submitted it to the state and this all came to a head in May when the state um representatives from the DOE came and visited us tooured the building looked at went and visited classrooms of our STEM team members and got to talk to students and see student projects, see the kids in action. um they heard from about 30 minute presentation from the leadership team and students who again presented information on our artifacts and what we've been doing the past two years and actually probably more than like the past decade or more with a lot of our other um items
014that we've done. Um so right now we're one of 16 schools that got certified this year. There was five others that reertified. Um and that puts us at one of 111 in the state of Indiana to be certified and we're one of the few in northeast Indiana to have STEM certification. Um so that's pretty cool recognition for our community. Um this helps with um our graduation um progress with the new GPS standards, work based learning and project based learning are going to become um very impactful. So we're already online for that. So this is just one more um way to identify Adam Central as a school of choice in the area and as a school committed to um progressing the education of their students. So, I just want to congratulate and thank the leadership team
015and the the STEM certification team. Um, I just got to shepherd them. They did all the work. Um, they had all the ideas and put the leg work in um through the morning meetings and getting all the stuff done. So, we just want to thank them and congratulate them and all of our teachers and students on the hard work they do. Thank you. You guys have any questions or No, I think it's awesome. Thank you guys for working extra. Mrs. Cole Hagen's here, too. Is anybody else waiting? Like, okay. I I didn't think you probably saw her over there. Thanks, Ingred. I didn't see you. Um, no, that's great. It sounds like a a great accomplishment and a good goal that's been met. So, thank you so much. All right. Um, next we have the
016Anatomage team, if I'm saying that correctly, Mr. Dyn. Um, unfortunately, the four students weren't able to make it, so I'll keep this brief. Um May 29th and May 30th we took four students all juniors from Adam Central out to Vegas to compete in the anatomy tournament. Um February we competed at St. Francis. Um we scored in the top 5% of 2400 schools. So we were one of 84 schools invited out to Las Vegas and they finished 33rd overall. Um we unfortunately got knocked out of the tournament Friday. Um but they fought back in the losers bracket and got first place. Um so we finished 33rd overall. They um were awesome. I mean, it was amazing to see and I hope to get them here so they can talk about their experience sometime. Um but that
017wouldn't have happened without the support that we got from the school board allowing us to send them from Don taking care of me financially and everything. Uh Lily even told me how to fly because I got to learn how to fly to Vegas for the first time. Um 13-hour drive was not an option is what I was told. So um it was a fantastic experience with the students. And thank you again for your support. Hopefully we get to go back next year when they're seniors. Thank you and congratulations to the kids. [Applause] All right. Okay. We're going to go ahead and move on um to the finance board action items. Um first on there is the approval of our payment vouchers and our fund reports. And I know Don was gonna just have a little
018statement about that for us, an update. Um, due to some personal reasons, I was unable to complete those. I just found the 50 cents that I was off. Yes, 50 cents. Um, so I will be having those reports. I'll send those out to you tomorrow. Okay. So, at least you can see them. Okay. Great. Thanks, Okay, next we have our approval of purchases. Um, first we have our window film and from talking to Mr. Mallister, this is 400 wing, correct? Okay. And anything you want to add about that is it's just making sure that the whole school is unified with the security coverage. Um, and that's the same I know you're doing the blinds the blinds and shading the same thing so that we're all protocol with all that. Um there were some like a
019couple of um windows that we didn't get covered with film and lighter shader too that we had to add but this is a happy. Yeah. Um so just continue to work to update the security of the building and stay inside of our state response protocol. Okay. And at this point then we would be all up to date then, right? I think so. Okay. All right. Thank you for your pool area until the pool. Okay. All right. Sounds good. Okay. Um, for the approval of purchase for the the window film and the blinds and the shades, we need a motion for that. I'll make a motion. Second. Um, any other questions or discussion about that? Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Um, next we have approval of contracts. The first one is for Mr.
020Brent Layman to be our interim superintendent. So, is there a motion to approve the contract? Make the motion to approve the contract. I'll second. And is there are there any questions or discussion about that? Okay. All in favor? I I opposed. Okay. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Lman, for being here and all the work you've done so far. You're welcome. All right. Um, next we have turf tank on our list and um, Todd, I know there were some questions that had come up before about that. Would you like to share some information about it a little bit? Yeah, I can. And I'm asking Jeff to kind of help me out here cuz um, I'm not a very good salesman sometimes, but uh, this come to my attention a couple years ago actually. Um, actually one
021of my scrubber salesman had an autonomous scrubber. he was wanting to sell us for the hallways and he said they make them now for football fields and I kind of blew it off. Didn't think much about it and um well a couple years went by and you started seeing them more and more and I checked into them a little bit more and some schools around here started going this way. So I looked looked at it and um the last few years we've added more and more and more to the football field. You know we have the yard signs, the hash marks, the numbers. It's just getting to be more and more work for my crew, which is hard to keep a good grounds crew anymore. And um so we had this guy come down and
022demo it. I unfortunately was not here for the demo, but it wasn't 5 minutes. So after the demo, I started getting phone calls from my guys and pictures sent to me and all this how neat a job it did. And um it it's impressive. Um it can do our field in what 20 minutes. uh the football field, which it takes my guys, two guys roughly a day, maybe even two days to do it, depending on the weather. Um I actually got it during the football season last year. Somebody sent me a picture from um I forget what school it was, and and I don't know how to pronounce it, up by Mville. And they have a kind of a crappy field, but their lines were perfect. And um I talked to him and sure enough
023they they have one. Um so like I say I I I don't know what all information you got. It's a lot of information. You don't actually buy it. You rent it basically for 3 years. The the um contracts for um we can try it for three years. If we don't like it, we we drop it. It's 11,000 bucks a year. Um that does not include the paint. They give us, I think, $2,000 worth of paint to start, but we still had to buy the paint. Um, and I brought up the invoice for last year's paint, and it was about six grand for what we use now. And this, um, I forget what he said, Jeff. I know it cuts it in half, the paint usage at least, maybe even more. There'll be significant savings, but
024as as Todd talks about football, the biggest thing is not only will it be used for football, but also for baseball and softball. So, it's going to line every outdoor field that we have. And as of right now, the conversations over the last couple of years, I don't think turf is an option. We're not going to go that way for any of our fields. And this is where I do yield back to Todd because that is his labor. His grounds crew are the ones that are out there and they do a great job. But after watching that robot, there is no question that I mean that more or less takes the place of another man while we're in the fall and the spring seasons. So I did a quick they got a on their website
025they have a calculator that you can um run your what you do and it it tells you how much you would save and it it's on their website so I'm sure it's a little weighted on their side. But for football I figured we line three football fields for four months. So that's 48 times a year that we have to line a football field. Um that takes my men hour. This is the pound. This is their figure, not mine. That's 384 man hours on the football fields for three of them for a season. The turf tank will have a total of eight hours. That's the man powers to the machine itself. That you'll have to refill it three times on the football field. So that's counting the setup time and the two times to fill it,
026three times to fill it. That I know that seems unbelievable, but um while this thing's doing its thing on the football field, my guys can be mowing and be cleaning the concession stand and be doing numerous other things. You do have to kind of babysit it. Like I said, when it runs out of paint, it sends you a text says it's out of pain. Um So it takes a lunch break. We clock out for that half hour. But um it here here the paint it was on their calculations it would save us 97 gallons of paint a year. Um we go through roughly right now it's a lot. We go through 42 5gallon pales a year. So, like I said, it's um to me it's kind of a no-brainer, especially with my labor situation right
027now. Um for the $11,000 a year, um don't have to pay it, no health benefits or anything like that. And I'm really excited about it. I hope we can maybe get it approved and try it this year. Like I said, it's just for three years. If it don't work, um we'll go back to the old way. We'll keep our old sprayer and everything. The old paint, we can use that for touch-up work, whatever. Um, this year's paint, I I've ordered it, but we have not received it. So, I can still cancel that order. We do have some paint left over that we'll we'll we'll use up on other things. But, like I said, I'm I'm excited about it. Hope you guys let us try. They come down and program their service. Um, that's the thing.
028You want to make sure it's programmed, right? Yeah. They they do everything for us and they're they're out of Indie, so it's not like, you know, they're far away and we have any issues. It's got a fairly decent warranty. Um the one I would recommend going with is the mid-range one. Um the only difference is the lowest price one only does football. It will not do any other fields. And then the higher price one, um we can always go to that if we want to, but it does parking lots and everything. And I don't think we need that at this time. That's all I got. I don't know if Jeff has anything he wants to add. Like I said, Jeff was at the demo. I was not. So, yeah. As good as our grounds crew
029is over the years, you know, I've watched Steve Stoie, I watched TBO, they they put their heart and soul into everything that they do facilitywise, but when you watch that robot, it draws a strike. It doesn't deviate more than one centimeter. And I know that's hard to believe, but when we watched the practice football play, that thing was just shaking back and forth. I mean that that line was as straight as straight can be. So it it will look impressive underneath the lights on a Friday night. I will guarantee you that it does the numbers and it will do a logo in the center of the field also. I I have a question only if it ever gets to this point. I don't know that it ever will, but we talk about turf and things
030like that and how awesome a turf field looks because it's got logos that are permanently on there, endzones that are painted up and things like that. In the event that we ever changed our mind and started doing something in our end zones as far as graphics and paint and things like that, if it got to that point, um, is is this thing capable of doing that as well? I believe so. Okay. I'm not saying we have to. So, this might sound like a dumb question, but so we we rent this, but we we have to cover the cost if there's something that goes wrong with it. The first year we don't. Okay. But after that, Yeah. Yes. Okay. So, for years two and three, we're basically you break it, you fix it, take care. Yeah.
031And the unit itself's not that big, so it's not And like I said, they've been great to work with so far. he he was even going to be here and uh um I'm sure they'll work with us, but they got a lot of them out there and they have very few cuz that was one of my questions. Bouncing across the field as much as it does, right? Is it going to last at least as they have zero issues? And it uses paint on the diamonds? Yep. It'll do baseball, softball, it'll do lacrosse, soccer, it'll do it all. So, is that like will we have to do that less often? No, you still probably the paint depends on it. There's so many variables. It depends on the weather, how much you mow the grass, you know,
032stuff like that. So, baseball and softball, we don't do near as much. We probably paint that once a week. So, Rick, you got anything to add to this? I think it's an awesome piece of equipment. it uh it can do not not only can it do like the numbers and everything else, but like if we would have somebody that would sponsor it, we could put their sponsor logo on the side of the field, you know. Um so it's other ways it can be, you know, and even on baseball and softball. Todd, does the 11,000 come out of your budget or who's paying for that? I don't know if that's been discussed yet. Everything that seems to come out of my budget. Like I said, it's cheaper than hiring another employee. That's the way I kind
033of Yeah, I I I think I get the labor savings. I just want to know where we're coming up with the 11 grand. And I can I can answer that. It would technically be Todd's budget, but it's the operations fund. Okay. Um where facilities and everything comes out of there's the two you got the education fund pays for our teachers and you have the operations fund would come out of that fund. The particular line item um that's why we have a dawn. I can add to that uh after the demo I started asking around because one I want to know what local schools would be using this that that are already in play. All of these schools are already using this and they have been using it. So it's right on our back uh back
034door. So I was kind of surprised. I didn't even know that but there were already a lot of schools that have been using it for the last two years. So this is not something that's new to our area. So this wasn't something budgeted. I mean are we It was not but so as a board then um if we feel like we need more information on this we can table it or if we feel like you're okay with it do we need a motion to table or a motion to move forward with that? I may have one. What What What's the time frame that we have to have this thing here to get it set up to get it trained? Well, we we started painting football fields this week. So, yeah, it's time. That's why we
035kind of rushed it, right? And I need to let my paint salesman know. The another thing I've got to say too that the paint that this machine uses is the same paint that we already use other than it's a different formula, but it come with this company too. I just have to stop the order that's coming and change it to this stuff. So time is kind of a concern. What's the savings in paint? Wouldn't use half of what we normally use. I would say I I don't want to guarantee nothing. There's a definite savings. I would say at least half. No waste. So if if we if we say yes, when we say yes, if we say yes, how when do we get it? How long does it take to get here? How long does
036it take to set up? How long does it take to train someone to use it? I guess my I guess my question is is we have to make that decision today or can it be a decision that we make in a month and still have it in time for football season? Um ne in July we'll have the main field payment ready to go by going on. So I I'm not rushing you. Don't take it that way. But um it's just a matter of weeks of getting it up here and programmed. And he you he programmed it with his phone. Okay. Um Mike might know it works on the same system as your you know planters and sprayers and all that GPS. Yes. I steer mine with my phone. So yeah. Well, can you do this,
037Mike? I don't want to pull the guidance off your tractor and put it on there. So you said 384 million hours approximately. Yeah, approximately. I'm not going to say it's going to be with the paint with that kind of math and the $3,000 in paint. I mean, it's a it's a wash. Yeah, it's a you know, it's a it's more than a wash. I mean, it's a gain. Yeah, their calculations. It's supposedly will save us $55,000 in three years. I take that with a grain of salt. I mean, that was their calculations. He's a salesman. Sales. 90% of that's labor. Like I said, three years is up. If we find out it's just a not working, we can go back to normal or something may change and who knows in three years we might have
038to or something. Heather, I'll make a motion to approve it. Okay. Also go. Okay. Is there any further discussion from the board of the boarding? Anyone have anything else that throw in there? I will just ask the one time fee. That's one time for the three years or one time. Yeah. 1700 part and that's all three fields like they'll implement all and he actually said I don't want to guarantee this but he did say that he possibly could wave that would be fantastic question yeah the word he used was negotiable things were negotiable so well when you call him say we're ready to negotiate you go the board said we could do it if all right there's been a motion and a second all in favor I opposed. Okay, I'll invite all you guys to
039personally use this. There we go. Let us know. Thank you. Thanks, Todd, for all the information and Jeff as well. Got a sidekick out there now, Rick. I just want to know what you name it. I'll let Rick do that. All right. Um, our last approval of contract is Grand Canyon University. And I believe this is for student teacher possibilities in the future. Um, is there a motion to approve this contract? Motion to second. Okay. Anyone have any questions or clarifications on that contract that you've read over? Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Um, next we have approval of a donation. This was for middle school wrestling. Um, an anonymous donor who we obviously want to thank because it looks like they gave us or if we approve it, they gave us $2,000 towards
040the middle school wrestling program. So, that's pretty awesome. Um, is there a motion to approve accepting the donation? Motion. Okay. All in favor? I opposed. Yeah, motion carries. Um, next we have approval ofUS and our first one is with West Ed and um, Mrs. She might have I don't know if you have anything you would like to share on that. So, this is a research study um that one of our middle school math teachers would like to participate in. It's a study that's going to um change the order of how some things are taught in sixth grade and just see how scores go. It's not hurting anybody. is just kind of seeing if there's a different order um that could be taught that would do better. Um and having that research on the outside just
041does a lot of the um research behind it and they just get the information. So that's what this would be for and this is if I'm remembering correctly this is a new one. We've we've done this right. Okay, that's right. Okay. Thank you. All right. Is there a motion to approve theou with West Ed? Is that okay? Okay. So, like nothing actually. Sorry. I just have a sixth grader coming in. I'm just curious to learn a little bit more just because an app is obviously important. So it still is like the big idea is doing everything. It's just a different So it will just take um the order that things are taught and change it for some of the students. Um but everyone will be taught everything just to see if the order makes a
042difference. And so um teachers are changing things often to try to improve, right? Okay. So, this would be one of those things that would be nice to try just to see if it makes a difference in the future. Um, the advantage of this is that you've got a research team behind you using not only our students but other students to just give a little more information on is very best order um to teach these math concepts at this level. Everybody gets everything. Okay. Okay. Any other discussion or questions? Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. I do have a question. It wouldn't won't change my feelings on it. When do we get the data back from them that whether or not this is working? Like a year. Yeah. But then at least we'll let us
043know and we'll be able to implement those changes um based on research. And according to this, if it doesn't work the first year, we're we can we're out of we can be out of this, right? Yeah. Okay. Good. All right. Our nextou is with Adams Memorial. Um this is our mental health services contract and I I know you all received that. And is there a motion to approve the motion? Second. Okay. Is are there any questions about that contract? All right. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Um, next we have approval of our textbook recommendations. Uh, we have a couple of those here. We will take them together. Our first one is human anatomy and physiology. I don't know if anyone wants to speak to that at all. This would be Mr. Larry's text, but
044let him talk about it. Yeah. But we do also recognize Mr. Larry is um able to teach this as a dual credit class here at Adam Central. So to have anatomy and physiology as dual credit is a is great for our students. Um but yeah, Mr. Anything great to say about that textbook? Um the textbook is a pretty standard anatomy and physiology textbook. What is amazing about it though is the partner program that comes with it is actually the same program that Kevin uses for his anatomics. So when the students are taking the class, especially some of the students I have who overlap with the anatom team, they will be practicing through that program. So that not only benefits the students because they're able to look at the human body kind not actually slice it
045apart but kind of dissect each part of it look at the nervous system look at the integimementaryary system and then they get practice with that in preparation for both my exams and this I will tell you coming from a parent of a student that took anatomy and physiology in college I'm assuming that taking it in high school will be a lot more user friendly. Yeah, it most likely will be more. All right, our next one is our big ideas for K through five. Um, actually, this was a this is just an update to what we currently have. As our teachers looked at it, I think we're going to hold off on that for a year just because um they wanted a little more time to dig into it and really make sure it's worth the
046cost. So, we'll we'll we will be the current programming that we have for Big Ideas. There weren't a lot of differences other than the online component. They want to make sure it's worth the change. So, okay, we're going to hold off with big ideas. Okay. All right. So, so we will just be approving the human anatomy and physiology textbook that's recommended. Um, is there a motion to do so? Motion second. All right. Any other questions or discussion on that? Okay. All in favor? I opposed. Okay. Motion carries. We need to table the big ideas thing at all since it's on the agenda or does it just not matter? Can we just forget it? Perfect. All right. Next, we have um approval of resolution. This is a perf resolution. Um and I think Mr. layman, if
047you would like to speak to that, I'll um have you do that. I can speak to that. Um some of our staff, their retirement is in what the state calls PERF, a public employees retirement fund. And the school has to have a have a resolution that states these categories of employees are in Perf. and you've had that for several years with the advent of the adjunct teacher which is new um the last two years maybe those are not teacher retirement staff they are PEF staff members because they're not a certified teacher. So consequently, that category needs to be added to our resolution just because the law says those have to be added. So it that's a lot to simply say we need to put one more group on our perf resolution. Okay. Thank you. All
048right. I know you've had a chance to take a look at that. And is there a motion to approve the resolution second. Any further questions or discussion about that? Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Uh next we have approval to forgo the reading of the following policies allowed. Is there a motion to approve that? I'll go in the reading of that. I'll make a motion. All in favor? I opposed. Okay. Motion carries. Um, next we have our policy review. So, these two policies, I believe, are they are in the works. They're they're not quite ready for that final. That's why we're having a first reading of them. Um, policy 55 5430 has to do with class rank. 5451 has to do with student recognition. And I know we have heard before um from
049guidance and and administration about reasons for these changes and and benefits to that for our students. Um, as far as changes and things that are going to be in there, Mrs. position. Would you like to just kind of go over that and then maybe at the next meeting if it's ready, we will actually read that so people know what those changes will be for I believe 2029 and moving forward. So those policies are really just dealing with looking at the body system for the class of 2029 on. So this would be our incoming freshmen. Um we're looking at making that change um primarily with these student graduation requirements. There are multiple seals the students can get. Um there's a total of seven um six seals and then the regular diploma. So we've got lots of
050options for students which is great. Um we just wanted to have policies that support students making the best choice for them um in their chosen career path, not necessarily in competition with each other. Um, so we're trying to set up a more collaborative um, way that people can choose between these seals um, without necessarily worrying about where they belong in the classroom. So we look at that summary and then recognition um, for students and those would be set. We worked with teachers throughout this process to decide um, how we would make courses. We looked at our past some of our past student cohort datas to decide where we would put those benchmarks for the sumo magnet to make sure that we did barrier recognition. Um and we were trying to we talked to our high
051school staff quite a bit throughout this process as well as so all this is just getting adding that in for 2029 on while still maintaining the class rating system for our current now seniors, juniors and sophomores. or do you have any any follow-up questions here about how that does that need approved tonight or can we see it in writing? No, we we will have Yeah, I I' I'd just prefer to read it before we vote on it because right now it's it's in some note form. You know, we have some of this information we were given, but it's just not quite in policy point yet. And I would add all policies you will be brought as a first reading to kind of sort through and weigh all the pieces and then it's brought back as
052a second reading. That's when action would be taken either perfect for or against. Anyone have any questions? I think the supplements got long overdue and just just so you know just to clarify then because I'm I'm sure we went over this but so that basically takes away like naming someone at the top correct like a a valictorian saludiatoran those are not named then correct correct okay yeah so like the graduation one they just had we would have students stand at vious levels recognition. Um, and then we'll work with we've got some time so we didn't quite work out all of these details, right? We're going to work with the various recognitions within there like for speakers. Different schools do it different ways for speakers at graduation um instead of doing validatoran but we've got some
053options. So this is how much I understand education. I'm going to ask a little dumb question. Why do we not want to see who the top two kids in the class are with the auditorian saludiatoran like we've done for hundreds of years? So someone's feelings are going to get hurt. Is that why? Yeah. Well, no. Because I mean the advantage is that then students um there may be a little more competition and course selection based on class rank than we're always aware of, right? And so, for example, for the new diploma track, let's say we want to get an enrollment seal plus, that means I've got to get the college 430, which is my freshman year college done, right? Um because it's that one of the highest graduation requirements. Well, those courses may not be
054weighted that you need to take as high as maybe different AP courses could be weighted. Um, and so then there's that question, well, should I take this course to be um, you know, maybe part of the college 430 could be an AP course. The higher waiting would boost my class rank or would maybe want to take a different course. They could fulfill something somewhere else. Um that would be like one example. So it's just allowing kids to select courses to meet a set criteria 4.5% of them um impact they're going to be instead of necessarily trying to beat someone else. Our kids are really close in their class right. We go up to three decimal points. I've had three boys graduate from here and two of them are really competitive and yeah, I would get
055so upset at the youngest one because well, I like to take loan. I like to do that, but if I don't take an AP class, so and so is going to go around me and I'm going to drop in my class ranking and who cares? But, you know, they they look at that and I just think there's a lot of kids that take classes that they have no interest in, but they're worth more and rather than actually get them on the career path that they want to choose. So that's what I'm feel like you explained to us too at one point or maybe Mrs. Workinger explained to us college applications are going am I right? They ask you because I haven't been through the process yet. They ask you how your your school does this
056like if you do the kumlad if you do the or the pass rank. Correct. So, and colleges vary widely what kind of what they're going to ask for from schools. We'll be able to answer. They'll ask if we wait grades or not. They'll ask they'll have different questions for us which we can answer. But, um, in general, colleges are concerned about GPA more than class rank because you're going to have classes here, right? But when you graduate out of 100, you're going to have schools where you're validictorian over a thousand. and colleges know that there's a difference in that ranking system. Um there's differences in GPA, you know, like that means different things in different schools as well. Um so I think colleges have lots of processes in place to be able to confident. Well,
057I get it. I guess I'm just old school. So I'm going to take some convincing that this is an idea. We talked about this back in my pedig. I was just like you. I was all against it. But then after seeing my three boys for three years, I thought, you know what, that makes a lot of sense. Well, what keeps the kid from competing to try to get the best of the the best in this class? Where does that I feel like you've lost that commodity system will be able to recognize more students with that GPA range. More ribbons is what I hear. Students can still take courses to compete to that level. Um, they can still have that internal motivation to reach that level, but we're able to recognize more students um at that
058level. We have a lot of kids that do really well. They really push themselves academically. You know, we had 17 students in the class of 2025 that um achieved Indian College 430. Um and so we have our students that are pushing themselves to that level. And so this system would just allow students um more flexibility for courses, taking courses that matter most to them in their post high school plans while still being able to recognize them for their high. um you know there's many schools in the area that are new to that kum system um again colleges are looking at that resume those courses that they're selecting more so than that GPA in that class rank um and also when you mark that we don't rank um students it also allows our students um to
059kind of take that off the table and so then that way colleges are just looking at these other points of that ranking system um so it could open more opportunities and more doors within scholarship, other programs because again that rank is just off the table for and I can assure you we're still setting high standards. So like our student right now is a 4.5 and so we looked at past data just to see um we had a class um that would have had seven people that would have met that. We had a class that would have had zero. Um so it does vary too as you probably all know year by year as far as grade point averages who even gets our validator. Sometimes it matters who the people are in your class, right? Um
060and how well they're doing. So there will be that variance there, but it's a pretty high bar. I mean, some some years maybe nobody will make it. I don't know. It's pretty high. Depends. Some years you might have quite a few, but most classes we're hitting that two to three um to get sumo, which is just about kind of where you have your val. Is there any other questions or discussion on that clarifications? because we'll be revisiting that then next month and we'll we'll get closer and if there's more questions I'm sure that that we can get those questions answered and clarified and and find out about that. Okay. Uh we're going to move on to our personnel board action items and uh next we have approval of resignations and we have nine of those.
061So, I'm going to going to go ahead and read through those and we will take all of those together. First, we have Miss Rachel Fer, uh, fifth grade teacher. Next, we have Miss Megan Bloom, elementary special ed pair professional. Uh, next is Mrs. Robera Rue, elementary special ed aid. Miss Sarah Lighter, middle school high school special education teacher. Miss Heather Farmers, middle school, high school special needs assistant. Mrs. Jessica Henning, lunch supervisor. Then we move on to some coaching positions. Miss Ava Hershey, middle school girls basketball coach. Mr. Matt Zimmerman, softball coach. And Mr. Jason Black, assistant softball coach. Um, we want to absolutely thank all of these people for their time, their service to Adam Central, their dedication to working with our students. Um, and I I don't want to miss anything. If anyone
062wanted to speak, you're welcome to um at these different levels. So, I I would like to thank our ladies. Um, this was a great teacher for our fifth grade team and our special ed. They work so hard and they are so with our students. So, I just want to thank all of them for the work that they have done for us students. And I'm happy to say that Sarah Lighter is going to open a lot. So, she's still going to be at the central um quite a bit. So, we're glad to still keep her in our building um a lot of the time. And I want to um thank Heather Farmer. She was moved and was driving an hour each way to continue to be um of service to our kiddos. So, I just really
063appreciate her finishing the year with us. I know that was sacrifice to her personally. And of course then Jessica Penning. We loved having her in the cafeteria. She did such a great job with our students. Um we just appreciate all the work that she did. From an athletic standpoint, I would just point out all three of those coaches there. Um I cannot say enough good about they all cultivated relationships with our kids that I would wholeheartedly support 100%. And when you see that happen, um because a couple of those coaches there, they really because of their schedules, that's why they're going to have to make a change, but they really didn't want to go. And I just want to make sure that they get that recognition that they deserve. Thank you. All right. Then we
064will need an approve motion to approve the nine resignations. Second. Okay. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Good luck to those individuals and and all that they're moving on to. Uh next we have our approval to hire. Again, we have nine of those. Um so we have Mrs. Michaela Lighter uh for grade four. Um Miss Klaya Bright, grade one. Mrs. Jennifer Busy, kindergarten. Um, Miss Gabriella Marble, kindergarten. And then we moved on onto some coaching positions. Mr. Ryan Landis, varsity wrestling coach. Mr. Eric Myers, assistant high school wrestling coach. Mrs. Brandy Grover, eighth grade volleyball coach. Miss Jamie Meyers, assistant cross country coach. And Mr. Matt Schwarz, volunteer cross country coach. Uh, and no, I'll go with elementary first. Okay, we are super excited to have these ladies joining us. Um, just to clarify,
065uh, Jenny Busy was an adjunct and so she has graduated from college, so she will be on a certified license. Gabby Marvel and Michaela Lighter filled in for us in the last semester of school last year on a temporary contract. So, um, Gabby has, um, Michaela B will be then with her approval be on a a typical certified contract and Kalia um just graduated and will be joining us in first grade. So with your approval they are already anxiously looking forward some summer training um so they're they're looking forward to joining the Jet team and Jeff did you have anything you wanted to add coaching positions uh for Mr. Ryan Landis for varsity wrestling head coach. Um it was a unanimous decision by the committee. I just want to make sure I point that out
066publicly and to bring in Eric Myers on as his assistant for getting over 30 years of head coaching experience with those two. Um so I would say the back of us are going to be in good hands. Uh Brandy coming along to be able to help in the eighth grade as a godsend. We need somebody to help at the middle school level and uh Jamie Meyers has been been willing to help with that assistant cross country position with our new coach Chris Terry. We've heard nothing but good about here this summer and along with Matt Schwarz who's also helped in the past uh with cross country both at the middle school and high school level. So cross country is going to be in a good position for us. Okay. Thank you. All right. Is there
067a motion to approve these nine new hires? Quick motion. Second. Okay. All in favor? I opposed. Okay. Motion carries. We welcome um all of these and congratulations to those. We look forward to having them work with our students. Um next is the approval of our coaches roster. Um, you should have that in front of you. First, we need to do the fall 2526 coaches roster. We'll do that and then we'll move on to the next one. Thank you. I have to play. Thank you for reminding me. I'll try not to make too much. Okay. Okay. Fall coaches roster. Is there a motion to approve that? I'll make the motion. I'll second. All right. All in favor? Opposed? Okay. Abstain. I motion carries. Um, next we have the winner 2526 coaches roster. Anyone had a chance
068to look at that? Is there a motion to approve that one? Second. Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Abstain. I motion carries. Okay. We've made it to our administrator reports. So, Mrs. McCall, we'll start with you. Okay. So, um along the lines of STEM certification, I would like to let the board know that the Adam Central Elementary School received honorable mention, which means we didn't uh certification. Uh we missed it by one point. And so we will be going back in and looking at um the work that our teacher or our STEM teachers have done. Um that includes STEM and one representative from all of our grade levels. Um so we'll be going back in and looking at that and seeing how we can shore that up so that we can reapply for that certification coming
069up. Um and then along the academic lines here, we will be submitting our reading plan for next year. A lot of our reading plan is going to focus on the K3 area and actually teaching students the art of reading. Um so we are including a lot of things like Wharton Gillingham. Our teachers will all be trained in Morton Gillingham which um we have used a lot of our um title one funding to help train our teachers. It is a little bit costly of training. Um, but they are trained in instructional practices. They're trained in theory. And so this year we will be following that sequence very carefully in our K12 areas. And in third grade, we'll be um beginning some of that training there that we haven't done in the past just to make sure
070that we close any gaps for student readers. Um, as we look into the research, we're really finding that that ability to decode and read has to first um in the way that we do that. So, we're changing some of our practices and really shoring that up. It's exciting work. We just had a student uh retest who has had training from um March till now under this new more much more intense phonics. His score went up 44 points um in the testing. So, that is a large a large game. So, we're really excited about that. So, our reading plan is a lot of the explanations um of how we will get students to that. We will also be writing individual reading plans for our students who do not pass the test to make sure that we
071have a solid plan in place for them and nothing falls through the cracks this coming year. Um I want to just let you know of a couple internal transfers that we have. Jamie Miller will be going from fourth to fifth grade at her request to try at a new grade level. Tia Green has also requested to move from um special ed care professional. She will be working closely with our preschool staff just as a classroom aid in that position. Um and then I have some people I need to give a a great shout out to. We've had summer school for since school let out. Right after Memorial Day, we started a 12-day summer school. We have 23 students in attendance in second through third grade. Um they will again take the IE test um here
072starting tomorrow. Um uh but I want to thank Leanne Schwarz, Brandy Aholder, and Jenny Busy for teaching those classes. They pulled together a nice strong program um for the summer as well as thanking Sarah Rhymer and Abby Drew for helping supporting the testing. So they've gone a little bit above and beyond extend their year to make sure these students are getting additional instruction. So we have a lot of great work continuing here. And then we will have a jump start program coming August for students uh to get them back rolling before the school year starts for some of our more um atrisisk students. Thank you. Um, I want to thank our staff and um, our students for a strong end of 2025 um, school year here. It was crazy busy. Um, I think that we
073were all feeling that, but everybody just did a great job of really finishing strong and so I want to um, just thank them all for that. I also want to celebrate our graduates. um graduation just a couple weeks ago and just appreciate everyone in the community who came and want to say congratulate our graduates on a great 14 years. We're going to miss them and we wish them the best um as they go on out into whatever's next for them. Um we also have a reading plan for the middle school. High school doesn't um need to have what the middle school does. Um just to let you know our focus is really on looking at um partly just using our data um just to make sure that kids are reading better and every single improvement
074score. So we were doing the I learn checkpoints we piloted last year um so we were able to learn a lot through that pilot of how to use the data, how to um best test the students and so we'll be doing that as well everyone. Um it's required this year but we're really learning and those checkpoints. We are switching from I Ready, which is supplemental material that we used to um actually connects to the checkpoints. So once our students take the checkpoint and we'll sign individual work for the students based on their needs. Um so we're looking forward to trying that out this year. And then also even next week, my English teachers are coming back in and we're going to start using some of the IO resources that they provide of the literacy at
075the middle school level to start preparing um just some different kinds of instruction especially vocabulary instruction for the teachers. So we'll start working on that next week. Um we have a teacher meeting on Monday. So um Mr. McAllister and I have been working on lots of the middle school high school protocols, policies, processes. um took everything to the teacher. We refined things, have everything organized so that we're ready for the start of the year. So, it's kind of nice to be all ready for the start of the year here on June 10th or whatever it is. But it was great to meet with our lead teachers and do that yesterday and then I'm going to let Mr. Mafala finish up with our um athletics. Finish up. Well, maybe not finish up. I'm done. I'm not.
076you know, it's a good thing because uh we have for the first time we have a doubles team that's going to be playing in the state tournament here this Friday and Saturday. So, I'm really excited to go watch that. So, we've been very blessed. Even though the sectional baseball didn't go or regional baseball didn't go quite as what we wanted, still a great show. those kids overachieve. Um they they did not expect to be there um in the beginning, but they come together in the middle of the season and made made a great job of it. So yeah, I'm excited for Coach Foster and his kids as well. So it's been a good spring. And we have one jumper going on too, right? Drew. Yeah, he'll play Thursday. Yeah, he qualified as an individual. Yeah.
077As such. Okay. All right. Uh, moving on, Todd. Okay. Um, the normal day-to-day stuff. The cleaning crews are off to a good start. They're uh actually keeping up with the floor people and they're going to be in the construction areas pretty soon. So, they're going to work themselves out of the job. Um, Jason's got the inside guys busy doing a lot preventive maintenance stuff, light bulbs, stuff like that. Um, we didn't really take on much in-house this year since all the construction and Rick's trying to keep the outside looking good. Um, so that part's going good. The construction side, I finally have some new things to talk about. Last time was kind of stagnant, but the 400 um is basically done. Um, Doug can understand this that we're down to the final punch list stuff
078and signing certificates. box that stuff takes forever, but um we are moving furniture in there now. They let us they opened it up to us today. It is open if anybody wants to walk through it. Um the display cases showed up today. That was a big hold up. They are here and they will be installed this week. Landscaping's done. Um turned out good. The job trailer is unhooked and supposed to be out here this week. And then the asphalt is scheduled for uh the last week of June. um tenative on the weather. Uh the pool um we're finally making some headway. Uh like I said last time, the blasting's all done. We had a a little bit of a deal with the paint, the block filler. The architect spec three different uh manufacturers. Um the
079architect wanted to use one kind, the painter wanted to use another kind. There's a little bit of back and forth, but um I was assured by the painter today and Wan that the the second choice was fine. Wagan's used it before. So, um I signed off on that today so we can finally get rolling on that. The scaffolding has to come down the 23rd. Um that's a hard date and um if we would have went any longer on the paint thing, um the scaffolding would have had to stay and uh that's costing us a lot per week to rent. So, um, we're back on schedule as far as that goes. So, that was a big relief on my side. Um, the plumbing rough in is basically all done. The mechanical room's done. Um, the chemical
080room is all laid up. I don't know if you guys seen that. Um, the blocks all laid in. They're pouring the uh ceiling um Friday or Monday. Um, the sidewalks are all laid out today, too. A little bit of sidewalks. We have them back that was tore up. Uh, so finally the pool is the pool's not back on schedule like we wanted, but it's is close. I think we'll be fine. The third project, the elementary, um, the demo is complete. I don't know if any of you have been down there. Mary about had a heart attack, I think, but um, it's a mess. Um, they got all the ceilings down, the lights are down, all the duck works tore out. So, uh, they're well underway. Um, today they got the new units hung all but
081one. They're starting to run the main pipes down through the hallways. That'll be the big thing. Once that done, it'll come back together quick. Um, the electricians are there getting all the power running, the little volage guys there. There's a lot going on. Um, that's about it. Um, I need to get Brent take him through everything. He hasn't shown him everything. We haven't got a chance to get together yet, but maybe tomorrow we'll get that. I would need to get out of meetings. That's okay. That's all I got. Thanks, guys. Thank you, Todd. All right, Mr. Layman, it's your turn. Gee, thanks. Uh, I I only have one thing tonight. Um, when you But let me let me say thanks for trusting me. Um I consider it an honor u to be asked to come
082and um we've uh jumped right in uh to a couple of different things but when I arrived I was aware that there was a presentation at a board meeting in April and um whenever people present uh at some time in the future we need to have a response to those concerns and I I want to take a little time tonight and respond respond to the concerns raised on April the 8th and um let you know what the school has done. Uh on the evening of April 8th, a concern was expressed at the schoolboard meeting. The concern expressed was on the use of some of the techniques the special education department uses to calm students who have become physical with staff or fellow students. These techniques are called seclusion and restraint. The concern was heard that
083evening and the administration immediately took steps to begin looking into the concerns shared at the meeting. It was first determined this review would be best served if completed by someone outside the district. Consultants were asked to come and review the use of these tools. Was the use of these tools appropriate and were they being utilized correctly? The consultants worked diligently and shared the knowledge they gained with the school board. I am pleased tonight to be able to share with you the use of these tools was appropriate for the situation that was raised and the staff involved have implemented these tools with fidelity in this situation and in previous situations. During this review, it was highlighted that many people outside the school district do not understand these tools. I would also add there are many staff
084members in the building that are not directly with related to special ed that don't understand these tools. And this is not uncommon with this particular topic. In light of that, let me take a moment to give the basic understanding of seclusion and restraint. The proper understanding of these terms is foundational to understanding the question that was raised on April 8th and into the future use of these tools. The law requires us to have procedures in place to use when there is an imminent risk of injury to a student, other students, school employees or visitors to the school. These are to be used as a last resort. That simply means these are not to be the first attempts to calm down the situation. So what is seclusion? Seclusion is placing a student alone in a room
085or an area from which the student physically is pres pre prevented from leaving. They they can't get out of that room. They are in this seclusion until they self-regulate. In other words, calm down. But understand they are supervised while they're in that room. In incidents where the level of risk is elevated and injury could result from moving a student to the seclusion room, then restraint can be used. So what is restraint? That's physical contact between the employee and a student. The student is certainly an unwilling participant and a manual hold to restrict freedom of movement of a part of the student or all of the students body is used. Please note these holds are scripted and staff are trained in the use of those techniques. The simple statement is they are physically held properly until
086they self-regulate. As I conclude these comments, I am very aware the need to use these tools is real, but that does not limit our heartache when a situation arises that warrants their use. These situations involve students we care for deeply. These situations involve staff members who pour their hearts into working with these students every day. These situations involve the parents who love their children and anguish over their desire for them to be successful. When the need for these tools arises, teachers and administrators must act. But I assure you, their hearts ache for the children. I will end with this. The review did support the actions of the staff and that they were appropriate. Now, that does not mean we do not grow from this. The administration is currently reviewing all of our procedures and the
087use of these tools. Any adjustments they find that might help make the situation or the implementation better and they feel it will enhance. We will implement those changes as we move forward. That's all I have. Thank you, Miss Wayne, and thank you for addressing that. I know that that's been on the minds of all of the board, and we're we're we're glad to have that clarification made. Uh board members, any other things that we need to address tonight? Okay. just want to say good luck to those athletes that that are moving on in their their sports and congratulations to those that have had success and and we hope the best for them. All right, we need a motion to adjourn the meeting. Move that motion. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Our next
088board meeting Tuesday, July 8th, 7 o'clock right here. Thank you all for coming tonight. I chose