001when are you able to go back as soon as you think oh Rich I'm having a hard time hearing we'll get to myself when when are you go able to go back to work do you think that still didn't come through through I don't know I think if you asked about workers correct questions afraid are you going to go back tomorrow unfortunately our household was blessed with three illnesses at the same time and Parker has had allergies which turned into an asthma attack which has turned into pneumonia oh my God I've got to take him into a specialist tomorrow morning but hopefully after that on to work yeah that many illnesses is no no okay we're on the air okay 5 30 I think we're ready to start yeah we're good uh tell you what
002why don't we go ahead it's not on the agenda why don't we start with the Pledge of Allegiance okay got a flag back here I pledge 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 everyone all the board members are in attendance at this special school board meeting on Tuesday the 16th member and president Nikki Wilden is attending virtually because of illness the rest of us are here in person we do have a quorum for the meeting and I'll call the meeting to order well I guess do we have a member of the public here or anybody that would like to speak we want to offer the chance to make public comments before we make a business
003decision Dr Bozeman has picked up the sign up sheet we do not have anybody it's dinner all righty Dr Roberts we can move on to item one a please okay well thank you for being able to accommodate this request is the same resolution we have asked for the last couple of years just a few years ago our legislators in Indiana passed HB 1003 House Bill 1003 which allowed schools to apply for a waiver for a variety of reasons those reasons are included in this particular resolution to improve student performance and outcomes to offer the school flexibility in the administration of educational programs or improve the efficiency of school operations to promote Innovative educational approaches to Student Learning and or to advance the mission or purpose of the school or group of schools our application to
004the state of Indiana which is then we hope is approved by the state board of education has been to offer four full day professional development days within our Corporation the reason for asking for that is it gives us the opportunity to get 2 000 staff members together and align on working on the direction of our strategic plan we have now had a full year of professional development days like that and previously in the 21-22 school year at two of those we were able to get things approved and then ready for the second semester so we have now had six professional development days of which to draw from in terms of advancing our strategic plan and that would be a part of our application when completing the jotform application that the Indiana Department of Education asks
005for they do require the submission of a board signed resolution so the resolution that you have in front of you is one that's authorizing the performance-based accreditation waiver and it gets into citing Indiana code that allows us to submit this application gives the reasons that I indicated indicates that we desire to submit a waiver application to the State Board in accordance with Indiana code indicates the adoption of this resolution is necessary and would indicate if you are so inclined that it states that the governing body desires to authorize the school administration to time we take all appropriate and necessary action to submit a waiver application to the state board and then the last piece of the waiver the governing board authorizes the superintendent and designees to take all appropriate necessary action to submit a waiver
006the waiver application contents must be consistent with Communications between School administration and the governing body president or the governing body president's designee again this wording comes from Indiana code and as indicated our waiver would be about the professional development days not too long ago you approved a calendar that had those professional development days in them and one of the requests for change we made was to move to Thursday prior to Good Friday to take a professional development day from there and instead move it to the total Eclipse day that will be on Monday April the 8th so our calendar right now reflects those days but we annually have to request approval we have asked for multi-years worth of approval the State Board of Education is not willing to do that yet so it is an
007annual request that we make so this is an annual request to you that I'm asking for this resolution to be approved thank you Dr Roberts board members you've heard the superintendent's request before we get to questions and discussion is there a motion I move that we approve the resolution authorizing performance-based accreditation waiver for professional development as presented by Dr Roberts motion by Mr Grimes is there a second from Mr Graham's motion all second Michelle's thank you um Dr Roberts what's the timeline here when when would the application be finished and submitted to the state and we would submit our finished application which you'll get a copy of by June 2nd and then the State Board of Education would either review that in June or July based upon the Department of Education clearing it for them
008and providing it to them again ours has been one that we've done a couple of times I'm not anticipating any any challenges last year they had follow-up questions we provided those and a reminder to this and to anybody who's paying attention the reason the state board has allowed us to do these days so in effect we are going 176 days instead of 180 then four days of professional development whether those are not e-learning days students are home without being required to do any additional um activities or homework or whatever the case might be is because the number of minutes or hours that we go per day is already in excess of the of the minimum number of hours that's required by state statutes so when you take that and the fact that's done every day
009for 176 days in this case it gives us plenty of wiggle room to be allowed those days and so that's we provide the math to the State Board of Education as to how that works out and again I've not had any challenges thus far other questions Dr Roberts would we is it like a hundred Pages or two things yeah the job form is relatively short um it it is a a handful of pages less than five would board members want to review that before it's submitted or would we see it after it's submitted uh it's not required in terms of approval to go to them but I can certainly provide you with a copy that'd be great any other questions or discussion is the board ready for a vote it's been moved and seconded that
010we authorize the Performance Based accreditation waiver as we've been presented by Dr Roberts all those in favor of the motion please say aye oh are you sure do or local thanks Mr McIver thank you I can do that we'll start with Mr Nowlin please do you vote I or nay I Mr Nowlin votes I Mr Schulz do you vote I or nay I understand I Mr Grimes Divo I or nay aye Mr Grimes votes I Mr major do you vote I or nay aye Mr major votes I Mr Bryant do you vote I or nay aye Mr Bryant votes I'm Ms Wilden would you vote I or nay Ms Wilden votes I and the chair votes I the motion passes unanimously thank you for that I will complete the application and make sure you see
011that copy before it's submitted to the state to the Indiana Department of Education which reviews it and then sends it to the State Board of Education that sounds great Dr Roberts is in here the business to come before the board today there's not there being no further business I do declare this meeting adjourned