001[Music] order flag pleas flag the United States of America to the rep for stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all V please vote here Mr Asen here Mr chus Mrs Miller here Mr Pender here Mr P here Mr here Mr Chapman enthusiastically present Mr Caso present in accordance to the terms of the sunshine while adequate notice of this meeting was posted in all school buildings the administration building bur clerk's office Public Library three newspapers and tap into on January 7th 2025 please be advised there is no smoking on school grounds inside or outside at any time please silence all electronic devices pursuant to District policy number 0167 each statement made by by participant shall be lmed to 3 minutes duration and no participant speak for once on the same topic
002thank you Mr superintend report thank you Mr Pao tonight we have a double presentation we have students presenting from South cenfield High School and South cenfield Middle School we like to take time at at our board meetings to highlight some of the amazing happenings in our school so I'm going to ask uh Mr pascolo to come on up to the podium and introduce your students and the teachers will be guiding evening thank you Dr tany and I want to say thank you to the entire board of education for giving us the opportunity to present uh one of the great things that happens annually here at the high school as uh as the high school and kind of like the flagship as I like to think of but little because I'm the principal but uh we
003like to do as much Outreach to the schools as possible read Across America day is a huge day for our senior class so I have Mrs pry our media specialist at the high school who spearheads that entire program with some of our seniors and they'll be pres to you what they'll be doing at the elementary schools this year so Mr bruy me too hi everyone thanks for having us today over 20 years ago current high school English teacher Bonnie diary created the read Across America Day event High School seniors prepared for the day by practicing reading their children's books and creating exciting crafts to do with the students at all elementary schools Tuesday March 4th will be a special day for our school Community as our seniors will create a memorable experience for themselves and
004the elementary students they visit as the coordinator of this event none of this would be possible without the support of the SPs English teachers the elementary school teachers and the administration at all schools we have three groups of seniors here today to show you the books they will be reading and the crafts they will be doing with their Elementary students hi my name is Isabelle Ali and my other group members are Ariel Catalina and Isabelle spia we will be going to a third grade classroom at kenned elementary school on read cross America day we will be reading the book the true story of The Three Little Pigs to the students our students will be making origomi wolves which right here and we will be adding personalized accessories to them so the kids can choose whatever
005they want to accessorize it for example I have like a bow and a baseball bat on here and also I drew out some instructions for them and the main reason why I wanted to do an Oregon wolf for them is because on the outside it's like a big scary wolf and on the inside I wanted them to write something unique about them to kind of show that it's important to not judge a butf its cover which is kind of the whole point of this story so yeah that's pretty much my uh project [Applause] [Music] t hi our name's Leah am and Mar is and we're going to be doing um we are going to be reading to the fourth graders at the elementary school for re America day we'll be reading themer first rest and
006we will be making a Jurassic biome and the or volcano but the reason why um we got to meet this was because for fourth graders it is I thought a way that it would be a little harder to entertain them unless like it's something that would make them make them want to engag yeah were engag with the project and we thought it would be something fun for them to have like a volcano and something our book is about a dinosaur that's one of a kind and in a way we decided to incorporate that into our project by making them have their own little biomes that's also one of the kinds and they will be painting their own volcanoes and they will also be willing to explode and I thought it would be something very creative
007for them so [Applause] um hi our name is and and we will be going to the third grade class in at Roosevelt Elementary School of cross America day and this is our project it's basically the orbit it's called The Orbit Explorer and it will be based off of our book um The Magic School book b in the Sol system um who chose this other craft since it's a bit more intricate for students but it's also engaging and it's something cute for them to take home remember um our book mainly goes about just exploring outer space just having fun with your friends and getting to spend time with your school and enjoying times with the kej so we figured that this would be something cute thank you [Applause] thank you uh board of education for allowing
008us to show you what we're doing throughout the schools uh for R cross Merica day and thanks again to Mrs Brae and our outstanding seniors for coming and uh presenting over tonight so thank you very time on show off come on do we want to make the volcano [Music] yeah where would you like it to explode right here here right here [Music] oh [Music] boy I'm excited right up close I should my eyebrow you know I do this my kitchen sink right the yeah when the garbers suppos to get some CL [Music] let's stand back so everybody out there [Applause] made very [Music] nice that's oh look how cute this is so everybody has [Music] us do we do that remember us youw that nice J [Music] on itle so we PR everything out and
009we made out little templates for great jobes thank you so much Mrs Murray will you join us at the podium Mrs Murray will be presenting a number of her eth grade students to uh read some poems and show us some art for p thank you so much for having us uh to my right hello yeah uh to my right I have our incredibly talented eighth grade students from our visual arts program uh Miss bedar couldn't make it tonight but I do want to definitely uh make a shout out to her because this is her project this is a project that she's created um to celebrate Black History Month um she had the students read poetry from African-American artists uh we have LST and Hughes um Maya Angela and James baldman poems um and then they
010created artwork from those poems so what they visualized from you know the literary Arts into the visual arts so we're so impressed by their talents um Mr Casio created a slideshow for us so we have all of their artwork actually digitally up here so we didn't have to bring any paper with us and um our students are going to read the poems and you guys can uh see the artwork as we go through and as they read um so I have uh I have eight students here seven students here I have kayn Singleton and Kansas newom they're going to be reading dreams and mother to son with uh David yadav I have uh shaie Perkins reading Human family by Maya Angelo and Paradise with Isabella andura uh Payton Gerard and Alexandra zap do you want
011to line up here in the order coming up you guys are ready Dream by l and H hold fast to dreams for dreams die life is a broken wi bird that cannot hold fast to dreams for when dreams go life is a baren filled Frozen with snow Son by L well son I tell you Life For Me ain't been no Crystal St it had a t its TS in it and splinters and Boards torn up and places with no carpet floor there but all but all the time I been a climbing on and reaching lands and turning corners and sometimes going in the dark where there ain't no light so Bo don't you turn back don't you sit down on the steps cuz you'll find its Kinder heart don't you fall now for I still
012going H I still climbing and like for me ain't no Christmas stair [Applause] Human family by Maya Angelou I know the differences in the Human family some of us are serious some thrive on Comedy some declare their lives or lived as true profundity the others claim they really live the real reality the variety of our skin tones can confused be mused light brown and pink and beig and purple tan and blue and white I sailed upon the seven seas and stopped in every land I have seen the wonders of the world not yet one common man I know 10 thousands of women called Jane and Mary Jane but I've never not seen any two who really were the same mirror twins are different although their feature of job and lovers think quite different thoughts while
013lying side by side we love and lose in China we weep on England Moors and laugh and moan in Guinea and thrive on Spanish short we seek success in Finland our born and D in Maine in minor ways we differ and major were the same I note the obvious differences between each sort and type but we are more alike my friends than we are unalike [Applause] let this be my summer time of aome sky and rolling sea and smiling clouds and wind claster and just myself and traced with thee and children play in The Glory of carefree and Youthful day and sunshine shining from the heavens and tears and S fled away let this be my happiness M the Earth sing well let this be my only solace just to know you love me so
014just to know that we'll both wiing far up from this Earthly clim hand in hand through laughing Meadows let this be my [Applause] summertime that's our presentation but they are ready for questions or anything that you wanted to find out about did um each one of you who read did you also um draw or paint or create the uh the image yes that's phenomenal you guys are great really I said Mr pck you know pictures are up there if you see me how how great they were so congratulations to you guys you did a great job with the uh with the artwork and you did an even better job of getting up the podium there and reading your comes thanks [Applause] thank you Dr tany uh we have with us Mr joose out from s
015cloney here to present our P report for the 23 24 school year [Music] um my name is Stout and I am an audit manager with sub company we completed your District's fiscal year 2024 audit and issue two reports first report is the auditor management report and outlines different areas of compliance that the audit these areas include payroll record of the board secretary treasurer federal state grants purchasing fuit service and the Student Activities fund any audit recommendations as a result of our testing will be included in this report your district has no recommendations for this year's audit the second report issued is the annual comprehensive financial report for acfr uh this includes the district's financial statements and our opinion on those statements the district received an unmodified opinion which means financial statements are fairly presented in
016accordance with generally accepted accounting principles one of the most informative schedules in the acfr is exhibit C1 which starts on page 89 of the report the results of operations of the general fund are reflected here along with variances between actual and final budgeted revenues and expenditures reported other informative schedules in the acfr include exhibit j4 on page 13 9 and exhibit j117 on page 152 the j4 shows a comparison of governmental fund rues and expenditures over a 10-year period while the j17 shows 10-year comparison of enrollment operating expenditures and a relative cost per pupil one area of the report that the board may find interesting is in the letter of transmitt prepared by the district superintendent which begins on page one of the ecfr report the dist reported that the high school graduating class of
0172024 witnessed diverse postgraduation pass with 55% attending four-year colleges 27% pursuing 2-year institutions and 18% entering trade schools Union apprenticeships or the workforce I would like to thank the board for the opportunity given to our firm in allowing us to perform the audit for the districts as well as the cooperation and assistance Prov by The District's Personnel during our audit engagement are there any questions thank you very much thanks so much um we now have a presentation by uh Catherine fiper Catherine fiper welcome back again for those of you that don't know Catherine this is our second time here this year and is this your fourth time I think so okay fourth time for pres the board between last year and this year if you don't know Captain already she is the student council executive
018board president after serving as junior class president last year she's very active in clubs Sports and activities in the high school and she's a member of the field hockey team the track team the competitive cheer team and still finds time to be a member of a passion think welcome back okay good afternoon everyone I'm here again for what I think is my last speech at the Board of Education meetings I'm kather fiker and I'm the executive board president here at SPS I'm currently in season for competition cheer we've had a very successful season so far this weekend is our state championship at Brookville Community College and next weekend we have a national competition in Wildwood recently my teammate Taylor Evans and I auditioned and were selected for this year's All State first team moving on
019from me sphs had just finished the seal by literacy testing Club photos were just finished students and parents please check emails from Mr bolo for yearbook updates and ordering information the eighth grade orientation took place for incoming ninth graders this month all students will be scheduling for next year with their guidance counselors during their social studies classes the winter pep rally will take place during the first week of March seniors are preparing for read Across America on March 4th my group is going to be reading The Good Egg to our stud students and have two crafts planned for them to make on March 6th the all district Music Festival will be in the high school's Auditorium March 10th and 11th will be the Honor Society inductions for Spanish Italian French art and National Honor Society
020I will be there representing the Spanish Honor Society as the treasur of the club the Juniors will have ngj GPA testing the week of March 11th through 14th finally the class of 2026 should be on the lookout for information on next year's senior photos now before I go I would like to acknowledge the achievements of students from this past month the debate team won the best team overall award at the January 2025 debate competition at thecat Magnet School a special congratulations to the following students for winning awards for outstanding individual performances at the debate competition Riley blian received the best constructive award Aaron Everett received the best constructive award Aries Chi received the best cross-examiner award and Zoe Cabrera received the best reist award the model un team competed at a prestigious conference at the
021University of Chicago R Pascal earned first place Alvin Duan and lyanna O'Neal earned second place and Riley billian earned third place in April they will compete at a ruers model Congress representing the state of Louisiana congratulations to our senior athletes for their most recent College Signing Day girls basketball Stella Sweeny received her 10,000th point and the team just lost a close game to the second seed in the GMC's the boys basketball is currently in the GMC tournament where's nor the swim team has GMC's coming up wrestling placed third in the GMC tournament and just made sectional finals track and field won both girls and boys division titles and lastly congratulations to Cameron and Molly Van Wick who are both auditioned for All State band and were selected and because this might be my last speech
022I want to thank the board of educ ation and Mr pcola for giving me the opportunity to speak at the meetings and share my viewpoint on student life here at SPS thank you that might be your your last official time speaking at the board you're always welcome to come back thank you Mr C thank you any board member comments on presentations Bill thank you uh yeah great job by the students uh with their student present ation I mean what they're bringing to the elementary schools and the cooperation with the the high school students the elementary students and then the presentations on the Black History Month of poetry and artwork is just um wonderful to see every year and it it's nice to see the the talents of our students um like to congratulate cat on
023another informational report from the activities of the high school and like Dr KY said you're always welcome here on Wednesday nights once and U the great job by um Alex and the business office staff is well it's all the administration involved in the financi the auth of the district to get an audit report with no recommendations is to be committed so thank you and keep it up anybody else Mr Chapman um I want to duplicate what Bill said to Alex great job uh and morat and the whole business office in Dr tany to get no no findings and no recommendations um it's it's the way it is now in South Playfield so it's a lot of pressure every year great for that this is this I don't know how many years in a row this
024is now it's like nine or 10 years in a row with no with no far the first year I got on the board when I think it was 12 that year so uh you know great job thank you I appreciate the job that you guys are doing there um Kat great job again I don't know what you're planning on majoring in in college but I think Communications ought to certainly be a consideration for you time after time you've come up here and you sat there and so eloquently annunciated everything that you needed to say and you did a great job and we're going to miss you um Good Luck in in college and uh congratulations also on being on the all state for accomplishing you very very PR great job anybody else there I just
025want to kind of uh kind of uh said whatever cat wonderful job giving us the update we always enjoy hearing from the students you give us a good perspective um about what's going on in high school we truly appreciate it and te College thank you um Alex congratulations to you morat the T accounting office again on a perfect audit we really appr all your hardwork and and that of your team as well um thank you to the high school students for updating us on what they are going to be doing um read Across America and the little prft they have for the elementary students I think it's really important that our high school students get involved with their younger students um and the Middle School uh the poem the reading of the poems uh students
026did a great job and our artwork was just magnificent so again it just goes to show the talent that we have from our students in this District along with um you know some of the other ones that uh C is telling us about um as far as our um um debate team and the model un and our athletes everybody is doing a wonderful job thank you anybody elsea uh cat amazing job the sky the limit for you um continue to be a rockar in all aspects of your life um for every obstacle every um success everything that you face continue to to knock it out the ballpark every single time um Alex great job to you and the business office for for um clean a report that's what we like to see um just uh
027the presentations that we had uh read Across America today it's amazing for our high schoolers support to our elementary school students um I remember doing read Across America day as a student here and it's truly one of the the the best days when you get to see the the younger students and you're like I was one of them one day um so that's always awesome um to the the middle school students that came here and read uh poems to us and the the literary piece is one thing but also seeing the artistic work next to it is is even more so amazing um because now they're analyzing what it is that they're taking in the information that that they read about and now they're putting it to work they're put they're making the art come
028they're making the the words come to life um through their artwork um and great job to to all of uh the students the the athletes the debate team model un everything it's amazing the report that cat gave that all of our students are are doing amazing work and uh great job to the teachers and everyone supporting them as well anybody else okay cat great job you know where you going to school I don't know yet don't know yet all right all right well I can tell you you know you're going to succeed in anything you do um I know I've heard stories about you you're even a better person than a mentor to the students that are younger to you personally heard from the field locky team so kudos to you thank you okay best
029of luck Miss Murray Miss py great job and the students pres presenting to us thank you for having us having them come to us and presenting it it was it was really appreciative um and Alex we know that morat does everything so stop taking he the brains behind the outfit you're the face apparently job that's okay nice job all right moving on uh agenda uh deletion so we've got under curriculum uh F will be removed uh for further discussion and let's see what else we've got here any public comments on agenda items only seeing none let's go resolution to approve prior board minutes any discussion second okay we V Mr vote Yes Mr esman yes Mrs Miller yes Mr Pender yes Mr pen yes Mr cleberg yes Mr Chapman yes Mr Cassio yes your curriculum
030Student Activities second any discussion V call please Mr both yes Mr ason yes Mr Miller yes Mr Pender yes Mr P yes Mr suberg yes Mr Chapman yes Mr C yes policy second any discussion nothing apologize anything here we go personel we're going to go what we got here A through [Music] e second any discussion discussion yes sir uh I just I just want to um uh wish the best of luck to you know all the uh all the people who ring the the district but specifically to uh coach Viola um she's moving on to heading in different career path and uh she was a great uh great coach and mentor to the girls and the sports that she Co coached uh she's a role model of a coach uh in this in this school
031district and I really appreciate everything she did I wish her all the best anybody else vot Goot Please Mr vote uh yes I'm stain on 12E as I am conflicted with my spouse work in the district Mr as yes Mr Miller yes Mr Pender yes Mr pen yes Mr cleberg yes Mr Chapman yes Mr Cass yes Finance second where are all the way where we got a [Music] through x no discussion call please Mr both yes Mr aspa yes Mr Miller yes Mr Pender yes Mr P yes Mr cleberg yes Mr Chapman yes Mr Casio I obain our enf or any else's yes we have any public comments on any matter seeing none any board member comments yes sir I had a conversation uh last month with one of our 2024 graduates and uh blank
032our we have a young man also this year but both of them made the decision to join Marine Corp so we very good love to see that we're pursuing something that'll help us out help themselves out it's nice to see that we had that opportunity to sh that and we anybody else all right see n uh we will go into executive session uh pertaining to student matter if I understand is that correct and actually be leg we got a few things going on all right action will be taken we'll get back put in figure half hour 45 all [Music] right we open the meeting please Mr both yes yes Mr Espen yes Mr Miller yes Mr Pender yes Mr F Mr cleberg here Mr Casio here all right I got two uh resolutions that we
033have to put on the agenda one is to uh reinstate curriculum and Student Activities F and then I'm going to read another resolution we can just move both as one so this will be ctan Student Activities H whereas The Residency hearing was help this evening in executive session for student IDs 20210 390 and 527 which the parent did not attend despite being apprised of her right to do so and whereas based on the results of the hearing the board finds that the students are not Dil in South planfield and are not entitled to 10 School in the district now via resolve that the board hereby disenroll the above reference students and assesses tuition for the period of students ineligible attendance during the 2425 school year and directs the superintendent to notify the family of the
034decision and their appeal rate those two resolutions so F and then H any motion so moved second any discussion roll call please Mr both yes Mr esman yes Mr Miller yes Mr P yes Mr P yes Mr cleberg yes Mr Casio yes can I get a motion to adjourn we have to don't we have to approve that we just added in the resol no no I just moved it to approve it oh dis approve it yeah Mo second all in favor good night