001I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. It is 6:00. I'd like I don't know who took the rollers these chairs. I'd like to call this meeting to order on room was set up by different individuals this evening. I'm sorry. You just let me know who that was. I'd like to call this meeting to order. May 19th, 2025, 6 pm for Brown County High School or Brown County School. Um before I call this, I'd like to talk to uh talk to Emily about it. We've had quite a bit of devastation actually the last month. You know, we've had multiple hits in certain areas of the county and um Friday night was I've seen
002stuff I've lived here my whole life and I've seen stuff that I've never seen before. And um I will say this, it was a a proud moment for me even though the devastation that we went through a lot of community come together volunteers, people out of the county. Um, it was neat to see the, you know, there's a lot of negative going on in the world today, but I multiple places that I went by with the fire department myself and and was just really um I I'm proud to be a Brown County. Um, a lot of we had how many families that lost everything. Um, there was moments that we were pushing stuff up in piles with machines and they were sorting it. There's other places that, you know, lost. Last night, this will never
003leave me. I was planting beans in a field and quite a ways away from where this happened. And there's a pair of little underwear, blue underwear in the field. It has no business. But, you know, I mean, it was just I've seen so much in the last two or three days that's just been crazy. It's stuff you see on TV. But, we do have a good community and every one of the places that got hit hard, you know, you go by, you'd see 20, 30 people. You know, differences were put aside this this weekend and people came together. So, and I'm proud of that. And the other thing is me and then we talk, you know, if there's people out there that need help, they need to contact us, you know, as far as families
004go and things like that, we're willing to help and we'll do what we can do to help get through this. So, but it was it's it's bad. And so, I almost got worked up on that. Um, is there any modifications to agenda? There are none. Recognition of visitors and comments from the audience. Um there's no presentations, discussion items. Uh can I get a motion to approve the minutes of May 7th, 2025? Move to approve the minutes for May 7th. Second. Discussion. Vote. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Um action needed items. I have a recommendation to approve a donation of $250 to the Brown County High School Theater Department on behalf of the services bureau of Maro County. Can I get a motion to accept? A second. Second. Any discussion? Vote. Doug.
005Yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Yes. Motion carries. I have the recommendation to approve a donation in the amount of $1,500 from Keith and Julie Dickerson to the Brown County High School boys soccer team to support their team retreat in August of 2025. Do we get a motion to accept? Move to accept the recommendation approve the donation of 1500 from the Dickersons. Second. Any discussion? Thank you. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Jice, yes. Have the recommendation to approve. A donation of the a donation from Kona Ice in Brown County in the amount of $851.37 to the National History Day ECA as part of their give back program. Get a motion to accept. Move to approve the donation for Kona Ice. Second. I'll second any discussion. And once again, thank you. Yeah, I also want to
006express that gratitude and just to let um we we paid for the district for those students for their conference registrations to be able to go this summer. So, the families will have to endure that cost. Any more discussion? Vote. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Yes. Motion carries. Have the recommendation to approve the donation of $570 to the Brown County High School girls tennis team. This donation is awarded from a grant from Matty's fund. This grant is made possible from the Brown County Community Foundation. I get a motion to accept. I make a motion to accept a donation of $570 from Brown County to the Brown County High School Girls Tennis Team. I need a second. Second. Any discussion? Thank you. Vote. Doc, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Janice, yes. Motion carries. I have the
007recommendation to approve the donation of $220 to be split for the Brown County High School girls basketball team and the Brown County High School baseball team for from an awarded grant from Whitney Fresh Memorial Designated Fund. Scrum is also made possible by Bar County Community Foundation. I get a motion to accept. Second. I'll second. Any discussion? And thank you. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Janice, yes. Motion carries. I have the recommendation to approve the out of state field trip for Brown County Middle School seventh grade class to Kentucky Kingdom in Kentucky on May 19th, 2025. I get a motion to accept. Move to accept the out of state trip. Second. I'll second it, Gavin. Any discussion? Yes. We will do a better job at getting that in before the day of the board meeting.
008Okay. Vote. Yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Yes. Motion carries. I have the recommendation to approve a donation in the amount of $1,840 from the Brown County Community Foundation Carol Walker Think 8 Teacher Fund to Brown County Schools for the benefit of Brown County teachers. Can I get a motion to accept? I make the motion to uh accept the donation of the $1840 from the foundation. Carol Walker teacher fund. A second. Second. Any discussion? Walter was a wonderful person who devoted a lot to this school corporation and she still is. Hello. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Janice, yes. Motion carries. I have the recommendation to approve the donation in the amount of $675 to be split evenly to Spernica, Helmsburg, and Mier Elementary from Cedar Hills Homemakers Club of Brown County for student activities. Can
009I get a motion to accept? Move to approve the donation of 675 from Cedar Hills Homemakers. I get a second. Second. Any discussion? Vote. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Judice, yes. Motion carries. The recommendation to approve the donation of the amount of $280 to Hellsburg Elementary for the Meredith Helmer Memorial Fund to be used for teacher expenses as needed. Can I get a motion to accept? So moved. Can I get a second? Second. Any discussion? Thank you. And the previous one, too. Vote. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Jice, yes. Motion carries. Um, I have the recommendation to approve the following donations to the Spa Invention Convention Fund. PTO is donating $25 and the Brown County Community Foundation Sharp Curling Fund is donating $1,260. Can I get a motion to accept? A second. I'll
010second. Any discussion? Really appreciate that. Vote. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Yes. Motion carries. The consent agenda items. We will the separation of Brown County Middle School teacher Elise Cannon effective at the conclusion of the 2425 school year and run through the appointment of elementary school preschool teacher Rea Sugar 1706 per hour full time with benefits 183 days per year effective August 4th 2025 I get a motion to accept move to accept the consent agenda items a second I'll second any discussion I'll have my discussion at the end vote. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Yes. Motion carries. Um, there's no transfers. Superintendent report. Yeah. Thank you. I, um, first and foremost, I want to welcome Josh Boltz to our team. It was kind of buried in the middle of the consent agenda item,
011so I didn't get to read your appointment out loud. Um, but I do want to officially say thank you. is um has gone through quite the uh process to become our new athletic director for the school district and um we're incredibly excited. Just as a reminder, we went through a 21 pan person interview panel for round one and then narrowed that down to um a few for just Gavin, Steve, and myself. And then um I got to meet with the top two final candidates. So, I want to congratulate you and welcome. Josh will be here on campus all day tomorrow um to meet kids and take a tour and do all the paperwork and coaches and staff and everything else we can fit in there. So, um Josh, Steve got you some eagle apparel. I
012would love for you to tell us who you are and Sure. So, first uh thank you to the board and Emily and Steve and Gavin and everybody that was involved in the process. I think um like Emily said, it was a it was a long process, but it was a good process. And the fact that you guys involved so many people, I think it's a good thing. Um so, just super excited to get started. Um, currently the athletic director at Decal High School just north of Fort Wayne, so about three hours away, but excited to get back to to southern Indiana and I'm originally from Southern Indiana. Went to a school very similar to this and this place feels like home. So I'm excited to be here. Excited to get to work. Excited to have
013you. Thank you. Um, so the other just a couple other that that I want to highlight. We just wrapped up our second um TED TEDex event on Saturday at the Brown County Music Center. Um I thought it was absolutely incredible on so many different levels and I just again want to express um deep gratitude, appreciation for all of the staff members that that either volunteered or just came to sit in the audience and support our kids. Um it it was a really really great day. So just really really proud of it. And then uh this is our last full week of school. Um graduation is May 31st. Uh this will be our second year at hosting it at the Brown County Music Center. So um we move from TED to graduation details pretty quickly today.
014Um so just excited about that and that's all I have. It starts at 11 o'clock I believe. So and what time do we suggest to get there? Well, I'll give you all the behind the scene logistics. Well, I'll just let somebody whip it right out. Emily has got those logistics. We're not We're not allowed to ask questions. Remember, ceremony will start probably at 11. I will let the board know when they need to be there. Kudos to you. TEDx was a whole lot of fun on Saturday. Very cool to see all those school district. Reba Sugars is um our new preschool teacher. She'll be at Spernica. She graduated from draft high school last year. She is one of our own, right? This is what we This is the intent of the program. So, she took
015her CT classes with Jane Jones. She's actually subbing with Jenny now for one of our teachers who's out on maternity leave. And so, uh folks, you're you're growing your own and she's amazing. She's amazing. Yeah. She wants to be a my kindergarten teacher one day. So, you're helping her get started. Great. Uh, can I get a motion to accept claims? Okay. Second. Yes. Vicki, yes. Motion carried. Can I get a motion to adjourn the meeting? Absolutely. I'll second. We got a vote on that. All in favor? I please pass down the signs.