001Let's all stand and say the pledge to the flag. I aliance 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. Thank you. We'll call the meeting in order. Is there any comments from the patrians? Oh, I thought you raised your hand. Okay. If not, you've all been presented with the consent agenda. So, I'll entertain a motion to pass the consent agenda. I'll make that motion. Have a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Okay. the superintendence report. Okay. Page 10 of your board packet, you have a written report. There's really not much in the written report. It's just about uh facility updates. Things are continuing to move
002on. Rosedale ceiling grids are going up, light panels are being installed, controls are being installed, electrical upgrades are being installed. Uh we were out there yesterday and actually the preschool side is getting close to being ready to go, which is interesting. Um, let's see. At at the high school, the old tile floor is out. The concrete infill in the cafeteria has been poured. Patio at the media center have been poured. Southside yard has been addressed. Uh, fence and tile work are actually taking place now. And around this campus, you can see the fences been pulled up and they're gone. Uh, they were doing floor prep at the high school today with their machines, doing leveling, all that. They'll start to lay tile floor down. shortly. Um once the fence work is done here, all that
003moves to Rosedale. But the at our uh construction update meeting yesterday, the only group that seems to be running a little bit behind at Rosedale is the electricians. And so Sycamore has their folks working now 10-hour days plus three weekends trying to get caught up. So they're just a hair behind, but it shouldn't impact overall completion. It's just they got to they got to pull some wire. they got to get it done. Uh so that's what's going on with facility updates. Uh see in your board packet a couple of construction invoices dated uh June 30th. One of them is 1,673,00057. The other is 75,373.91. Uh corporation the board calendar you see it there for for your review. upcoming things. August, hard to believe we're already starting to talk about the beginning of the school year.
004August 4th is first teacher day. August 5th will be second teacher day. August 6th, uh, first student day. August 13th for the board. That's a board hearing for us for collective bargaining. That's the SEA 490 390 bargaining hearing and the regular board meeting that night. Uh, September, looking ahead, that's our budget hearing. September 10th is the budget hearing, the regular board meeting. October 8th is our budget approval and regular board meeting. Uh just so you know, as we start looking at final, um we have Marvin coming July 21st to do our first dive into our budget for the next year. It'll be a working session that Mr. Dicky and I will will go through trying to sort through all of the impact of Senate Bill 1, House Enroll Act 1001, which as of this point,
005nobody really seems to know what's going on with any of that. On the 24th of June, I attended the uh ISBO APS uh budget and finance seminar and and nobody seems to have any direction for us whatsoever at this point. The thing that we continued to hear from the legislators, from all of the analysts who presented, um, was that schools can expect to be asked to do more with fewer resources. That's that is the continued beating of the drum that we get. So, that's something that we are trying to take seriously. We've obviously made some some personnel moves already throughout the summer to try to save off some issues. I'm hoping that whenever we get our our final electrical and HVAC updates at Rosedale that that will then help on the operation side by bringing
006overall utility costs down. We've seen some improvement to our electrical bills already at the high school. Is that correct? Yes. And that's basically because we've got better control systems, we've got better um lighting systems, and all those things are helping to drive our operational cost down, which is a good thing. So, we'll continue to keep you updated through our weekly memos and our our meetings about finance matters. Um, but there's there are a lot of moving parts with that. Uh again, for those of you that are part of the bargaining team, I will be sending you this document that I received yesterday, which is from the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board, Herb, if you're familiar with them. And it talks about the impact of the legislation on contracts. And so there are some changes that
007we're going to have to do there to meet the the contract, the state statutes. We've got some additional language now about increasing some payments for people who have literacy endorsement. Um they get some additional salary evaluation based eligibility for um for raises and things like that are part of that. And then of course um yeah the academic needs side of that is going to be interesting as well. Up to 10% of your contract can be part of that. So, it's it there's a lot there are a lot of moving parts that'll be new. Um, that's why we will not really jump into bargaining heavily until October. I think I sent those dates to you, but I'll share those again with you as we get closer. So, that's what I have in terms of our current
008report. Um, if you have any questions, I'd certainly entertain them. You may have any questions. If not, old business. None. New business. slinty. So, you have in your board packet, you have several items and and under new business, I will tell you under new business, items A through G are primarily housekeeping to make sure that the state board of accounts um smiles at us the next time that they visit. So, there are are lots of things about our operations and how we manage money and where it goes. That's what these are about. They're common. um nothing nothing that anybody was upset with. It's just these are things we need to do to make them happy. So the first one is the placement of interest earned into operations fund. This is something we've been doing for
009years. That recommendation is on page 17. Just says we would like to continue to place any interest earned into our first financial banking account to the operations fund. That requires board approval. Okay. I need a motion in to approve. I'll make that a motion. Have a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. All in favor say I. I. Okay. The next item is a a continuation of compensation rates. You see on page 18, uh, substitute teacher pay, substitute teacher half pay, half day pay, long-term substitute homebound, hourly rate, lunch detention supervisor, supervisor, and after school detention supervisor. Again, these are things that the state board of accounts wants the board to approve on an annual basis. So, they are there in front of you. Uh I know at some point we may have to
010address substitute teacher pay. Um we're currently at $70 a day. That's relatively low for the area, but that can be addressed later. We just have to show that the board we have at least acknowledged that we are going to pay these people. And this is where we're starting. Have we been having trouble finding substitutes? Yes, we we have we have changed our requirements for substitutes and hoping that we could add more to our list. And when we dropped our requirements, we added about three names to the list. And out of those three names that we added to the list, only one of them actually would show up and work. So yes, we are constantly fighting to try to find some substitutes. I know that out of our out of our recent reductions, we had a
011handful of those folks that were reduced that said we want to be placed on the sub list. So that actually helps us. So yes, it is a challenge. And I will tell you it's a challenge everywhere. And I will tell you that in a prior district, we cranked it up to over $100 a day and still couldn't get people to come in. There are just a handful of people that legitimately want to do the work and usually it's it's folks that have kids in the system or they're local and they can pick and choose what they do and when they do it. On an on an average week, how many people do we have in lunch detention supervision? Mr. Carzy, um it varies. Um on an average week, I mean I didn't real I mean
012I had a couple lunch detentions. Imagine that. Yeah, imagine that. But I mean, it was always just I went in a room and I sat and Yeah. the office lady checked on me or whatever. I didn't realize that we paid for somebody to Yes. come and watch. Not come and watch. Teachers are teachers are are volunteering their time. Not volunteering. They're getting paid a small stipen to to sign up and do that. Yeah. Okay. So, that's how much are being covered right now. Okay. Just cur Just curious how why the 1650 was I didn't know. Yeah. Okay. Yep. All right. Any other questions? I had a quick question about the interest. I know that we're going back to it. You guys shop that interest or know what rate you're getting on those deposit accounts that
013you're moving over? I just know right now it's a really competitive environment to get deposits and there's local banks that are probably paying over 4% right now just to get deposits in the environment we're in. Rates are going to start ticking down. We're tied to the Fed rate so we're over 5% right now. Okay. We we're making more than uh we would on CD rates usually. There's no other questions. I'll entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Okay. The next item is a recommendation to approve the IRS mileage rate. Uh several years ago, as board policy, we approved moving to the IRS rate, but we now since it's it's bumping up uh as of July 10 to 70 cents a mile requires board
014approval. Okay. Then I'll entertain a motion and increase the IRS mileage rate. I'll make that motion. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Okay. The next item you have is the non-certified handbook updates. This is a a refresh of a handbook that was approximately what 10 years old whenever that refresh started. So the language is updated to reflect current practices, current legislation, current procedures. Um, and it is here for you to to review and approve tonight. Again, this covers all the non-ertified personnel listed there starting on page 22. Timeline. Is there any new? There's a lot of new uh Yeah. So, I'm scrolling through. I would have you look at page 37. You just these are just u updates on dates. and some duties of your treasure, deputy treasur. Uh the corp page 38,
015the corporation technology assistant was not in the old handbook. That is a position that has been filled and in place for quite some time. Again, page 38, health aids were added to that language. teaching assistant language. That's just an update to language to current practice. Food service personnel. Page 39, update to current language practice. Um the chart on page 40 been updated to reflect current practices and approved things that had happened over the last 10 years. Salary, wages, all of those have been updated. Page 42 is procedural regarding employees who miss clocking in and how they have to go about contacting their supervisor, making the the necessary changes. Page 44 is just updated language regarding insuranceances, health and life insurance, long-term disability. Page 46 talks about the 403b plan for non-certified personnel. Again, page 50
016is just updating leave of absences. How many days are available to people? Same thing on page 53. Uh page 53 has some some language in red as you can see highlighted in red. Uh this is not something that was in a prior handbook, but we need to get a better grip on um non-ertified personnel who are taking leave time. So we're adding language that says they have to report that directly to their supervisor. Um so in other words, if they're going to miss something, they got to let somebody know right away. We can't have an oh by the way, you know, we've been here for two hours. Where you been? Oh, well I was sick and I was down feeling better. So, it's about reporting. Again, page 55, clarification about um vacation days for those
017who have them. And uh retirement, how we pay for the $30 a day for the non-used vacation days. Page 59, um, language about parental leave for, uh, for the birth of a child. That's consistent with new legislation. some clarification on page 63 about what our non-certified personnel will do whenever we have inclement weather. Obviously, whenever we have e-learning days, uh you know, the teaching assistants, they don't have kids to wrangle. So, what do we do with them? Clarifies that they can do some training online to meet some of those hours. Um as well as, you know, how do we how do we manage treasurers and those folks? Obviously, if the county closes the roads, we can't dock them for that. But if if they don't close the roads, are we able to work from home?
018Are we able to do those kinds of things? We got clarifying language for all of those pieces there. Clarification on page 64 regarding working hours for all of the non-certified positions. Just to make sure that those were clear. Page 65, dress code and safety. Uh it's it's more about safety with our non-certified personnel. Make sure they're wearing proper footwear uh so they don't have flip-flops and drop a desk on themselves, that kind of thing. Page 67 has a a clear chain of command. So if people have a question about who is my supervisor, how do I report issues, it's spelled out very clearly at that point. Same thing with page 69. seemed like a lot of good changes. I honestly hadn't thought about what TAS did on e-learning days. Obviously, the teachers were still teaching,
019but hadn't even thought about that. Thank you for going through that. Grant and Angie, since they run primarily the the non-certified personnel side, they were the ones that took on that task. Well, it doesn't hurt to review that anyway. Yeah. Correct. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to approve the non-certified handbook changes. I'll make a motion. I'll second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. I Okay. The next item on the agenda is a uh continuation of the partnership with the Park County Sheriff's Department for School Resource Officers. And page 70 of your board packet details what we have been currently doing. This is just a continuation. So, Park County Sheriff's Department helps schedule the SRO's for us. SRO's get $225 per day for their coverage. Uh if they cover school event after hours, we
020give them $30 per hour. And this just helps the state board of accounts know that we have approved that partnership. Okay, I'll entertain a motion and for the schedule of the resource officers. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Okay. The next item is payment schedule for the school resource officers page 71. Again, we're not changing the amount they're being paid, just changing the fact that instead of being paid once a month, they'll be paid with our payroll process. Just makes it easier for the payroll people just to do it with the regular payroll every two weeks. Every two weeks. Correct. Okay. I need a motion. I'll make a motion. I'll second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Okay. The next item, I almost
021said next item up for bid, not the prices right, is the substitute teacher list. These are the substitute teachers who are consistent in uh showing up and doing things for us and again to make the state board of accounts smile during our next audit and the board is approving their list. But we're not restricted to this. No, we can add to it and if we need to add, we'll just bring to the board to add to the list as we go. But this is not saying these are the only people. These are the people who have to this point been consistent and we anticipate them being consistent again. Okay. You need a motion to approve the list. I'll make that motion. Second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Okay. Your the next item
022is uh WRCTE equipment purchase. the WRCT um they found a little bit of additional Perkins funds that they had left over and decided that those that would be used to purchase equipment for Southwest Parks um big big equipment program. So uh this is coming before you truly it is a Wr. But because the equipment is going to be housed here, we feel like the board needs to approve it and acknowledge that yes, we're spending money on large pieces of equipment that will be housed here. Okay. I need a motion in to approve the equipment purchase and the procedure of housing. I'll make that a motion. Do I have a I'll second. I'll second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Okay. The next item, page 76 of your board packet begins the Southwest Park
023responsible use policy. This is an annual policy that must be approved by the board so that it uh helps us to qualify for our rate funding. just shows that everybody will be responsible in their use of technology and if they are not we can limit their access and take away their access completely if necessary. Okay, I need a motion in for the Southwest Park responsible use policy. I'll make that motion. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Okay. Okay, the next item that you have is one that we had discussed briefly because it was new as of yesterday. Uh performance services during our construction update meeting talked about the fact that like you have with any remodeling pro program, as soon as you
024open up a wall, you find something else that really needs to be taken care of before you put it all back together. or whenever you're making improvements, something doesn't quite fit right, look right, needs to be addressed to make it to make it right. So, you have here the additional scope improvement list. These are things that the folks with performance services and the contractors have all said, you know, this really needs to be done to make this right. Uh, you can see that we have broken it down by by the building. Um, you already, I'm sure, read through this. The total cost of making all of these things, right, would be $135,252. And I believe that we could take interest earned off of our U construction account to pay for those those additional items. So,
025I would like you to look at those and and again, if you have discussion, if you have questions, I'll do my best to to answer them. But I believe this is going to to make things right. So, mold remediation and skimming exterior walls of Rosedale, replacing wire, mold, raceway and outlets at five classrooms at Rosedale, removing the walk-off mat and then fill vestibule floor for additional u vinyl tile at Riverton. Wax all the new vinyl tile floor in the cafeteria. I know I looked at that one and I thought, really, our people can't do it. But if our people run that first wax on it and they chew something up, it kills the warranty on it. Whereas if their people do the first wax on it and they find a loose tile and it chews
026something up, they got to fix it. So, okay, fine. I'm I can live with that. Paint the exterior of Rosedale. And that that's that lower section of wall where they've been taking out all of those vents from the old units. They're going to patch those up and they don't want it to look bad. This is something that they had not put into their original scope quote. Um, and that's part of the removing the 15 hoods and louvers and infill at Rosedale as well. Replacement of concrete patio at the media center that had to be done because whenever they got outside and started working around there, they found the concrete was completely destroyed to begin with. All of those drains were also fully impacted. So, we had to do a bunch of work on drains and
027then add the new concrete back. Um, install new drains at the med med media center. We had to do that. Water damage masonry. Yes, we had to do that. Uh, fan powered variable air volume box, the VAB boxes. Uh, motors at Riverton. Yes. And all of the troubleshooting that went to the HVAC terminals that were not part of the scope of work at Riverton. So, in other words, all of the HVAC then has been inspected. There were some some boxes that needed some additional things done to them. sycamore found the electricals and all the stuff for it. But, you know, this this is the building on on that work. I think it's important that we do these things to make the whole thing complete. And again, we've got interest money that we earned on that
028construction account. $135,000 is not much of that money. I think we had about what, half a million dollars in interest money. Yeah. So, 135 to make it all right. I I would recommend that we move that direction. So, where is the line between something that they just didn't anticipate that should have been in their original bid and wasn't and additional like we had a deal in Rosedale where there was a load bearing wall they were going to go through. They didn't know it was loadbearing and they ate the cost of that. Correct. So, where's the line? that and some of these things here like painting painting the exterior Rosedale because they removed those louvers that seems like that should have been anticipated and so why wasn't it in their original bit? I have no idea.
029So So I guess my main question is what I don't know what what's the difference between something they didn't anticipate that is their problem and something that's now additional scope. Yeah, I think a lot of it comes down to something that they just didn't they didn't know would happen. They didn't know that it was going to be such an issue. You know, there How many times do you even in your own home remodeling, you think, "Oh, this will be a quick fix. All I got to do is replace this outlet." You pull the outlet cover off and you realize, "Wait, I got wire I got wiring issues now." You know, it's one of those kinds of deals. So I don't have a good answer for that other than to say I know that there are
030additional things that do pop up in these kind of renovations and that's why we have been b we have benefited by having additional interest earned off of those construction accounts well I know before on some of those models that we'd had on other schools but we had a project manager and and they pretty well had anticipated that and there was more or less a slush fund you might to cover a bunch of it so that it didn't increase cost but whenever we bid the project I mean that was included right so right and we do have a project manager assigned to us who looks through all of these things and he sees things as they go but there's not any additional money built into their side of it to cover the actual cost of doing
031this And that's fine. I know things come up. I just I just want to make sure somebody's doing their due diligence and making sure that if it's something that they should have anticipated and they didn't that's on them on the floor. I mean that's the one that sticks out to me the most. But then you know you could have desired to do it yourself. Yeah. because you had personnel to do it. But at that price tag, we had a line. Yeah. And if there are things that you want to approve and that you want to examine further, articulate it and I can I can go back out. No, I think your rationale is right on that. I mean, we're putting the floor and we're paying for that. Yeah. But still, I think the project manager
032needs to be jiggled just a little bit. We're getting kind of picky here. We want to be picky, but just keeping going. Yeah. Okay. If there's no other questions, I'll entertain a motion in to approve the additional scope improvement list. I'll make it a motion. Have a motion to have a second. I'll second. Any other questions? All in favor say I. I. Boy, I'm hot. You got water right there in front of you. Drink it. Oh, here a little. Can't wait to dehydrate while you're Yeah. I start coughing. Are we ready to move on to personnel? Yes. Okay. First personnel item is the appointment of corporation test coordinator. In your board packet on page 82, you see a letter in which I recommend that Abby Clayorn be appointed corporation test coordinator. Just as a way
033of recalling, Lori Dicki had resigned the corporation test coordinator duties back in the spring and upon receiving her notice, I extended the opportunity for role to current administrators. Mrs. Klehorn did express an interest in the position. I believe she has all the skills and the abilities related to doing the position and it's a district-wide position. Mrs. Clayhorn just completed her superintendent internship program with me. She's just about to finish up all of the classes for EDS, right? Yes. So, very soon she will have district level credentials in her pocket as it is. Um and so I recommend that we appoint her as the corporation test coordinator and additionally I recommend that Mrs. Clay Horn be granted a stipen of $5,000 for performing the duties because they will extend beyond her typical day as Rosedale principal.
034And that uh stipend is consistent with what we were paying Mrs. Dicki as an outside consultant to do those kinds of duties. Okay. There any questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion and approve Abby as a task coordinator. I'll make that motion. All second. Any questions? Say I. I I. Okay. Next item is recommendation to employ Jessica Jones, health assistant at Rosedale Elementary. Jessica has been teaching assistant working with a student at Rosedale. We'll move over to the health office. There any questions on that? If not, I'll entertain a mo motion for Jess Jones to help assist. I'll make that motion. I'll second it. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Next item is recommendation to employ Kenzie Hopson as a teaching assistant at Rosedale Elementary. Kenzie had received a reduction notice just a
035few weeks ago until this opportunity came open. So, she expressed interest and Mrs. Clay Horn is recommending her. I recommend that we bring her back uh off of that RIFF list and as a teaching assistant and so she would not lose any compensation. She wouldn't have to start over because we're returning her from the Rift list. Okay. I make a motion then to approve Kinsey Hobson teaching assistant in Rosdale. Thank you. Oh, I'll make a motion. I'll second it. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. And that's all the personnel. All right. Is there any other comments from the patrons? I want to share something. I don't know if you this school is aware or this board is aware. Um I Hamilton Center and uh since school has been out we've had um five
036children minors not all go to Southwest Park School some go to North Central Park but AI technology is being used for really bad things. I don't know if you're seeing it already at the schools before school got out but kids are using AI technology. They're taking pictures and or videos that are completely innocent using that technology, making it not innocent, horrible, very graphic to the point that charges could be filed against one or both of the children in the video. Um, so it's happening. There are, like I said, there are five kids right now that we are a part of. So, need to be aware. Yeah, I think it's nationally too. Yes. Not only that, but other people too. It's just going now. It gets really scary when you know you're looking at you know
037distributation of you know child pornography things like that. You know this could change somebody's life for the rest of their life. And it's not true. It did not happen. None of this is real. Somebody took an you two innocent videos and mashed them together using this technology. Yeah. But now they're even matching voices. Oh yeah. And they only need 30 seconds to to match the voice. Absolutely. And they can say anything. Yes. One clip of voices. It is really scary. So if you didn't know, you need to know. Is this type of thing ever addressed with the students in school in any any particular setting class? They're social. Yeah. I mean there's there's etiquette kind of things that take place in class in terms of social media and whatnot too, but the the cell phone
038issue in general, what is what we're seeing a trend and honestly needs to be a trend is, you know, more law enforcement involvement in those and then obviously the parent involvement, you know, as well. But, you know, the the responsibility that that comes with these extends well beyond the walls of our school. But yeah, we do to try to to do uh to play some education in the mix too as far as social media etiquette and whatnot. Yeah, I just didn't know what what kind of role we play. So, it's in the mix. Absolutely. I figured it was coming. Yeah. I know nationally it's been happening a lot. You see it on the news, but you know, we're usually a little bit late to the game, but I figured it was coming. It's here, unfortunately.
039Anybody else have anything? Yes. Um I am Sierra Early and I was the um high school JAG specialist at Riverton and unfortunately due to budget cuts, JAG was dismantled at a state level. Um we did receive um 100% that we are able to move forward with budgets um that were remaining in the funds for the 2025 2026 school year. Um and we can move forward with those. We received that um 100% Tuesday morning. Um that being said, it would be something that um Southwest would have to like Southwest Park School Corporation would have to say, "Hey, um we're going to pull this person in as an employee and they have benefits, but all of that would be then build with anou to those funds. So essentially the corporation was any money, but we would still
040be able to house the um program at Riverton Park. Um just a couple things that the Jack program has done. Um we did work with um the Indiana State Police. We brought them in and had them go over social media adequate um like stuff that you need to be aware of. Uh we did stuff like that, like sites that you need to avoid. um and ways that they can be safe and like who to talk to if they ever get in a situation. Um and then we had um like our career fair which I think we housed like 30. Yeah. It was close to 40. We had uh close to 40 um vendor businesses come. Those range from trade schools to um we actually had a French funeral home came and talked to a couple
041of our students and um they were pretty excited about that. We had military, financial, businesses. Um just a bunch of people came and talked to that. Uh we always have guest speakers come in and talk. Um we did a um tour of the RMC building. Um and then just a couple big things that helped the students. Um JAG is considered a pathway at Riverton. It was put into place. Um Mrs. Cox did the paperwork and so starting 2025 school year um JAG would have been a pathway for our students and then with the new graduation seals um enrollment, enlistment, employment um JAG is able to check mark all of those off. Um, we do college applications. We do resumes in classes. They do fake resumes with um let like letters of recommendation. Um, with the
042career fair, we send out thank you cards to all the businesses. Um, so they pretty much have their hands on a lot of stuff that would help them. On the roster for next year, just for the high school program, there were um eight around 82 students that were on my roster for next year. So, I just think it's something that I want the board to look into um and if they have any questions. So, you're saying that I know it got pushed to the side or whatever, but Vincens is willing to so it would actually pay for it would actually not go through Vincens's. Um, so Vincens was going to hopefully save the program, but they couldn't because they obviously had budget cuts also. Um, so they weren't allowed to pay like they couldn't pick
043up the program. So work one and the WHIB board that's in Terote, they are working with the state on how to do that. But since JAG is not considered a budget line, then I couldn't be employed through work one because that would be the easy route was just be employed through work one. They do it and I just continue here and nothing's changed. But since there's not a budget line for that, the state said that it would have to go this way. Um I do know that North Putinham School um has looked into it and has already approved it and they're trying to figure out how they can just pick up the program themselves. Um Cloverdale did pick up the program themselves. They were able to do that. But as far as surrounding counties, Riverton
044Park would be the only one that would have the Jack program if it were to continue on. I know. I was pretty disappointed when I heard that the state was cutting funding for this because this Jack really seemed like the the type of thing that everybody says schools need. You know, there's so much focus on math and English and science. We're missing those soft skills and in real life things like this and then the state cut it and then I think it was kind of we didn't figure that the state was going to cut it. were like, "Okay, we've been moved to the Department of Education. There's so many people that are pushing for it and it will be fine." Well, the Department of Education had so many severe cuts that they said if we
045dismantle drag, can we, you know, pretty much have the money that they came with and they said yes. So, then we got dismantled unfortunately. But yes, it's like the soft skills and all the things that they learn in the classroom are I mean all the of the other classes are very very important but what they learn and that skill set that they learn in that class is so would it just be for like 2020 or 25 26 or they look into the future 26 27. So right now they have 100% approval for 2025 2026 and then they have additional funds that are coming in for 2026 2027 and then we would be back to where it could be put back under department of workforce development along with the allotted money that went with them originally
046and then so starting 2728 it would be back where it was and everything would function normally. Any other questions? Thanks for that. Thank you. I want to share too that we were approved for um the residency grant through commission of higher ed um for the 2526 school year. So Rosedale will again host two resident teachers in our building with the partnership with Indiana State University. So we'll have one in third grade and one in kindergarten. Anything else? If not, any other items to come before the board? No additional items. Any correspondence? No. Okay. review the claims. Page 180 of your board packet, you see the claims. I had sent those out to you also for review earlier. Fairly short list of claims this go. There any questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve
047the claims as presented. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. That was I should ask maybe it's just it's too much. Yeah. Do we have all the teachers hired or we're still lacking one? So I believe we're we're short one currently. Mr. Kzie, have you hired social studies? No, we're doing we're still doing interviews for social studies and English. Yes. Dana was immensely wrapped up. Anything else? If not, I'll entertain a motion to man. Okay. Mot motion carries. How do you