001thank you um let's all rise to the Pledge of Allegiance that the United States thank you all right let's go let's call the meeting to order thank you all for being here I feel like you've been gone for a long time but it's only been a month hiding to start a new school year um so are there any modifications to the agenda no and do we have anyone from the audience who wishes to speak apparently speaking tonight oh I didn't know if you were picking up the little piece of paper we just came oh okay yes if you want to speak yes okay and if there's anyone else who wants to speak if you'll just fill out the paper for us it helps us do it the same way everything all right Claire from the
002PTO we just wanted to say uh thank you for all your great work last school year and I think we've done a great accomplishment in a sense that we uh brought all the attention to the importance of referendum and also the awareness of local support the clarification and Confirmation local support through the PTO concert so at me of parents and teachers are trying really hard to take momentum and this momentum go so we just like to let you know that we are really ready to support another New Years and definitely uh uh we are supporting the Supreme Family Tracy uh we just uh read this article that she kind of like indicated that she's running for next May uh referendum so I think that is so we want to really want to know that that's
003what everyone is crucial to go next May election and also is any specific plan that you can be aware of and take it yes absolutely um thank you a person and foremost for the support and continued support um the Democrat did make it an error in the newspaper um the board has to officially approve on a rate um uh to put something on that ballot so up until that board approval vote we will be seeking support in informing the community and our parents and our staff um and getting some input on what that rate should be so I just want everybody to know that the board does have to officially and then we can officially say it will be on the ballot in May of 2010 um we will be our leadership team is meeting
004um in the next two weeks and that's that's the first bullet item on the list is um to start talking about where we at our app financially and how we're going to start to get to community meetings and um how we get people parents to come in and be a part of so and there are State deadlines that we do that on so it's all very regimented about you must do this by this date you must do this by this date which is why we we don't do it now we will do it as it's prescribed so it isn't that we're delaying on this um there's a calendar that you have to learn all right anyone else from the audience all right let's go into presentations we have one tonight from Chartwells and I know
005we have our Chartwells Representatives here for food service so I will turn the floor over to you great thank you absolutely so thank you very much so thank you uh my name is director for children's K-12 um Don Heimer is your food service director he's your onset food service director on the Paula Waterman who's the SFA food service director um so you know it was great I was very appreciative of of our superintendent Tracy for asking us to come and kind of give an overview of food service I think that a lot of times school boards don't really understand what we do except that you feed children right and we have a lot of quirky quirky rules and people don't understand it sometimes they think it's just us being you know difficult and so what
006I have always found is that it's really good to just be transparent and kind of help educate the board especially as transitions happen just to really understand that you know you're on the national school lunch program what does that mean what what is the meaning of all of these acronyms how is it Finance how does the finances work um because it works very differently in your school Food Service fund versus the rest of your funds and for budgeting purpose so on and so forth so we're going to give a basically a foundation you know an overview of food service we're going to talk about our achievements this year uh and then kind of what what's next what's to come so who's Charlotte's right I think that's a big thing people don't really understand um you
007know what our role is and kind of who we are so um we've we're now at 40 districts when I made this PowerPoint probably a month or two ago we were at 38 now we're at 40. so we serve 40 districts in the state um when I started 50 I've been with the company 15 years all in Indiana I started out as an assistant director and then a food service director and so on and so forth when I started we only had two Partnerships in the state of Indiana and now we're at 40. so um it's been it's been quite a ride over the last 15 years and I've kind of been a part of that so uh the good thing for me is that I kind of understand the role of a food service
008director working and I have a lot of relationships with the Indiana Department of Ed so you know that's kind of my role is to support the directors and support the clients through you know lots of the requirements regulations so on and so forth so what do we do what do we do for Brown County um so we basically made sure we prepare Easter breakfast we served lunch we run an hour of our program we've also done an apology grade things for uh you know catering services for the district as well um we prepare cooked Foods on site many of our meals are made from scratch so that's really big on is is training and developing of the associates we recruit we hire we train and as well as making sure that every meal that is
009served is compliant that's the big thing so that Brown County can be reimbursed for those needs so this is Brown County by the Numbers uh so as you see here uh for this year so this is for the 22-23 school year prior year um so the team served 110 968 breakfasts 179 that almost 180 000 lunches um as far as additional Revenue that would be your a la carte and your catering at uh almost 105 104 682 um we've also uh received almost fifteen thousand dollars in Grants from no kid I'm hungry to support your breakfast program and then lastly I was looking at the numbers just because a lot of times boards like to understand the participation and where that is so we took over in 1920 school year so in looking at your
010numbers from 1819 school year old way to this year you've had an overall without covet right so let's not look at covid you have a three percent increase in overall lunch participation which I think is pretty impressive since you have an open campus at the high school and you've had a declining enrollment so overall if you look at 18 19 verses this year we're still running at a three percent increase so what is the national school lunch program well it is a federally funded program by the USDA um that all public schools participate you know in this so does everybody understand I'm going to ask this question every month the Brown County Schools have to send a claim to the Department of Education to be a reimbursed for all the meals served in that month
011and so for breakfast and lunch would you say on average you're your your reimbursements about 80 000 so with that said that that money is supposed to cover the cost of your food the cost of your labor indirect costs um equipment upgrades so on and so forth uh and so a lot of that you know and then you have to make sure the meal is compliant we have to make sure that we give a variety right we want to give all these kids the fresh fruits and vegetables all these different things um so it's it is a it's a tough job that's all I have to say falling down are a great team they do they do a lot to these kids um any questions on the requirements so one of the new things that
012you'll see that's been in the news a lot is that so back in 2012 they kind of did an adjustment to the meal pattern compliance of the national school lunch program and they've done it in targets so this year that everybody's getting ready to go to the second set of calorie and sodium and uh I think it's sodium and sugar targets which is obviously quite a challenge and a lot of people are you know lobbying for and I think that's one of the things that people don't understand about the national school lunch program and the food service directors is that they have to work in a lot of unknown um and so you know are we doing it are we not doing it did the government figure it out yet are they lobbying oh just
013kidding we're going back fourth and so what what happens is it makes it really hard for manufacturers so from a supply chain standpoint that too goes up and down um and so that's the I would say over the last couple years that's probably been the biggest challenge as far as the national school lunch program um is concerned so financials this is I think a lot of people are very interested in that so when we when we bid this account um we put a 29 000 investment and so that was we were going to invest 29 000 that was to upgrade smallware signage um any equipment needs so on and so forth um and this is inclusive of yep transition costs safety equipment marketing signage all that good stuff so your when we basically when we
014build a performer you know a financial kind of portfolio of what we think the government can do we put the guarantee of financial return of 25 000 and I think 25 105. so right now your current return for just this school year was 72 719 okay so a lot of times you had at our last board meeting had actually questioned about the renewal and the fees the management and admin fee I think a lot of people were looking you know just kind of trying to understand that so all the money and all the profits that that come to the Food Service fund all of that goes back to Brown County schools that does not come to us so we're paid basically the way our contract works it's a fee contract so that means that we
015Bill everything so we own the we own the labor but we and we pay for the food but then we Bill all those expenses back to School preparation with our admin management fee what's really great about it is so you can see here that the projected total year fees right is almost sixty thousand dollars okay a lot of school boards will say man without ourselves and save that money but if you look at this you get rebates back so you are required like so it's a law that USDA has mandated that all school districts receive all those volume like volume purchases those rebates back to the school district directly so with our buying power you've received over 127 000 in rebates just for this year so what does that show you shows you that we
016pay for itself and you get more of the profit on that so sometimes people get very confused with that and I just like to bring that up so that people can understand really there's no risk for the district if anything you're you're gaining from that any questions yes ma'am can you explain how that that looks like we have a large profit but in the same breath we have a challenge of unpaid lunches and we're not allowed to use that money to pay for unpaid lunches correct so the government so that's one of the requirements so they kind of they kind of handcuff you a little bit so what they say is that you know it's up to the board to create policy it's your job and so if you make the policy that your charge
017policy is hey you know no charging about a cart right but they each kid gets meal regardless what happens is that debt keeps incurring on the student's account the government days that's fine you can do that but you have to have a debt policy meaning that at some point your operations funds have to pay back the Food Service fund for that debt they will not allow the Food Service fund to soak up that debt whereas I think many many moons ago right probably you know back past 2012 and Beyond nobody really paid attention to that they've really started moving that when they realized that these lunch twice you know all these large steps are so it's it is quite challenging to your point is that you know you're trying to balance pain pain them you
018know feeding the kids but also making sure that you know you can still be sustainable and keep kids does that answer your question yeah what what the board to understand that we need to pay down correct students they won't allow them right so and one thing too is that a lot of people understand is that the food service fund has to be sustainable on its own so for example which your Don could say like you know she submits you know her budget numbers and obviously tax dollars everything come and they have their budget money right but in our world that's not how this works we have to serve meals in order to get that money back so that we can sustain what we have so it's way different so with that being said you know
019they put this regulation in so you have money in your fund but they say I'm sorry you can only put that money back into the program so whether it's through upgrade of equipment or you know salary or whatever that may be basically it's resupply and it's just sure number two uh government rules course changes in any business a lot of this stuff local has to do with upper level compartments yeah the other thing that I do want to come come in on and compliment on is I really appreciate the November meal that we participated I don't get to the Thanksgiving today well thank you appreciate it thanks though any other questions before I move on okay so achievements um so I'm going to turn it over to Don um one of the this is regarding
020the grant that he just received by Don Heimer chair Wells uh Vineyard at Brown County for starting my fifth year I've been retrousal for 15 years a while back we applied for a grant through the hungry Foundation the Indiana chapter and we were able to get almost fifteen thousand dollars and it was all spent towards uh uh upgrading and having fun breakfast program which we started we call it because it's breakfast in the classroom which operates in the elementary schools and then in the high school and Junior High it's basically the sit around and go or help yourself kind of situation we're able to get these two ideas that we rolled out in Trent's building and we've increased our meal counts daily at breakfast by maybe almost 100 a day which the kids just didn't
021I want to come down to the cafeteria it was too far to walk he was out of the way they couldn't see the rest of their friends and they migrated out to the front of the house we got them right when I got off the bus and the front door I remember skyrocketed so it's gone very well so they're really happy with that so we continue to see an increase you know year over year on our numbers uh probably when we started here and I think Siobhan punched the numbers it's about 13 breakfast participation so if you look at where we were when we first start but again before we started versus where he is I mean I I was pretty pretty impressive um especially I think that your community is a different type of
022community as opposed to other you know school districts and breakfast is usually if you're kind of in that middle in between affluent but not for the high poverty breakfast is usually it's a hard It's A Hard Sell right because a lot of kids are trying to eat it they just skip it all together um and so it was really impressive to see the numbers that Don you know was pushing out and that the kids were really reactive to it so that that's good I mean at the end of the day want food in kids stomachs and let's be honest at the high school level they're either not awake or food AIDS breakfast isn't cool right so you know and those are free lunches right for breakfast free breakfast uh no income apartments that's right we'll
023charge on that so we rolled that out through the two back-to-back covered years obviously everything was free so we kind of maintained that we went into the last school year and came out at the elementary level uh free for all the kids and we do deliver to those rooms regarded the dog is horrible for the secondary schools for breakfast I got to be accepted so we just turn it all into Universal food breakfast for the whole school district and then we started all the way around so so we're gonna keep it that way so which means it's free for every student regardless you know the bay students reduced and you know obviously pretty uh so they all get to eat so we've seen a good gradual increase and it continues to grow so so we're
024going to keep it going that way uh that is the key to running that type of program uh is participation is key so the higher the participation that's why it's good to keep it in the classroom because the studies show when it's in the you know for example at the elementary level you're running you know 75 participation because it's there the kids don't take it versus if you make them come down and then obviously as he said you know at the high school level you just have to make it very easily just easy and accessible you don't need to put it in the classroom but you definitely need to just make it there for them so they can just grab it and leave it on the run so right um you know one of the
025questions that we were always asking is how do you communicate um so we have different platforms we have you know surveys that you know Don's going to plan to roll out for middle school and high school um we try to do that every couple of years um and then as well as Elementary's you know we'll send usually send a survey home just more with the parents to send an email and as the parents go out to the elementary level but at the middle school high school we really like to um hear what they have to say um because you know sometimes it's sometimes it's you know if you're just being silly but then there are other times it's very insightful you learn a lot actually from what the kids are telling you um social media
026so we have um you know we have different platforms for social media we have an Instagram page we have you know Twitter and uh Facebook and all of that good stuff but I you feel like nutress life that's an app it's a free app that I don't think a lot of parents know as well as support members you can basically look at the menu on your phone um they can see pictures of the food they can look at all the allergens and nutritional info I know from a nurse a nurse that they do enjoy that because they're trying to dose a child that's a diabetic they have all that information [Music] uh and then we have uh nudge which is our platform for associates so it's a way kind of like a it's kind of
027like a LinkedIn but for the for like the food service Chartwells people and it's not just here in Brown County but Across the Nation and they can kind of post things about what's going on in their kitchen and kind of share best practices so the associates seem to enjoy that as well it actually rolled out right before coven and I gotta tell you like we didn't realize how lucky we were to have the platform because it kept all the associates engaged and they really when they realized like they're not the only one that's you know pushing out wheels and you know working their butts off and you know and then they it kind of helped build them around piano so improve food quality so these are some of the stations um that we've rolled out
028grilled tomatoes so Deli um extra extras or fruit and vegetable bar that's in both Elementary and the secondary platform create um that's kind of a build your own kind of bowl a lot of comfort like you know Comfort favorites um BB is a deli station so Deli is also another concept of a deli station tomato is our pizza um pizza and specialty pizzas as well as strombolis and calzones different things like that so um just to kind of give you some insight into some of the different concepts that we have so our people so as you can see here on the pictures this is um picture like team shots from each building um one of my favorite I was telling them done was the one up here at the top right um that is the
029team from the um from the high school uh some of the kids I think did like a big thank you this was our school lunch hero day in May um and so it happens every May and um did you get the kids was it did you ask for the kids to fill out the the banner and stuff I don't set the set the message out yeah everybody responded real well every single everybody loves a good lunch lady so I'm sure do you guys all remember any of your lunch lady from school you do yeah there you go yeah and I think that's you know there's something to be said there you know sometimes we don't know what these kids are going through and just the kind face that feeds them every day and just gotta
030give them some love right even if it's just with mashed potatoes and gravy a little extra gravy I mean that goes a long way for a kid and I think that's the big thing for our team is to understand that you know that we need to you know we're the people that bring the fun right uh and just bring the bring the love so to speak so I think the kids I think Don and Paula and the girls I think everybody does a wonderful foreign so what's next um so uh you know we're gonna keep working on the culinary service enhancements um so we're we're building our own uh you know working more on trying to incorporate more build your own Concepts at the at the high school level I think the kids seem to
031like that um breakfast protein options eggs burrito bars so when you can see the breakfast menu um student choice I think that um so student choice is a platform which we thought that kids get to vote on different concepts um and so we can do it as big and Grand for like a whole week or we can do it just for that day kind of like a love it or lose it type of concept uh and we did seem to really like that they get engaged with that um as well as John's going to continue to focus on breakfast I think that's we still we still have a lot that we can still do with the kiddos and then um and exploring just different survey models for each cafeteria for that one of our big
032platforms that we're rolling out next year in the fall it'll be in October is called Global eats so this is where we have um basically each kid gets to explore a different country so the first four countries will be Mexico China India and um and so the kids kind of you know it's kind of like a passport through that and kids get to learn about different things so we'll be doing some nutritional education on that yes hand I know yes good Chinese food there but there's sesame oil and a lot of Chinese Thai even other traditions and stuff so I presumed you taking that out so we have dietitians and Regional dietitians and Regional chefs that work on these Concepts and to your point allergens you know are rampant throughout all school districts so we
033make it a point to make sure that all of our recipes are as peanut free you know Trina and all of you know all of that and then if there was something there it would be identified so that students know but we also have to take all of these fun fan favorites kind of you know thinking about Italy and pasta so you know if you're looking at something like sesame oil you know how does that factor into the fats and the calorie makeup and so on and that's kind of the part of our whole concept is still being able to bring these fun Concepts but at a compliant level well on the other day Sesame flour you're just amazed to see what yeah you really don't think just and other and it turns out loud
034my daughter has a gluten allergy so I'm constantly reading labels and to your point it's fascinating what's in our food yeah no thank you Discovery kitchen so this is another this is our nutrition education platform um so we have a monthly basically we have a yearly calendar every month there's a new different type of Concepts um and so next year uh for the 23-24 school year um Don's made a commitment we're going to bring one of our dietitians down to kind of help support Don and once a month we're going to try to roll out um you know so for example like uh December with spices right so we want to educate so we'll put it on the menu but we'll also kind of do a table to kind of educate kids maybe like in
035elementary where they can come up and they can see all the different types of spices you know kids don't realize like hey this is what mustard is you know they just think it's French is out of a bottle right maybe like oh it's a spice it's where is it grown and um and so you can look at all these different spices and educate them on that um and so this this is our platform for that so you know the goal is um every month every other month that we're we're running these programs in the elementary as well and then lastly thank you we've appreciated the partnership um obviously this is the on-site team so these are all the kitchen managers in every building and Don and Paula you know I think the world of the
036team I think they do an amazing job they're they're here for the right reason right which is just it's the future kids and make sure that they the kids enjoy the meals while they're here thank you sure great um oh yeah all right we're gonna move on yeah so I just thought it might be nice to share with you guys a little bit about the sixth grade academy that's coming to the middle school so obviously just finished my first year at the middle school our second year with sixth graders in the building with us and talking with the team it was just a matter of conversation around what can we do better what how can we bring in our fifth graders and make sixth grade a little more productive where what can we do to
037decrease some stress some anxiety that the students are coming in with and how do we what could we set up so that the sixth graders not the same as and that they do get a different experience and that it is a little it feels a little more um of that Elementary feel to it and not just toss them to the Middle School so we we sat around we started talking about what we wanted this to look like and we said you know we had this when we had the intermediate school and how great that was to kind of help transition to the middle school so we started looking at schedules intermediate and what can we do how can we lay this out for our students coming to us this year in 23-24 . so this
038would be the class of 2030 this is what we call them now we've met with them right at the end of the school year and made sure that they realized that we hope that they are the class of 2030 as well um that they actually uh exit in 2030 so we're looking at three schools 129 students and making them realize that this is the first time that they're coming together like yes we can have our strong Elementary roots and that's perfectly fine I'm all for being very supportive of your Elementary's but really coming together is one and building those new friendships and building those new opportunities but we gotta we need to provide them the opportunity to do it and we just feel that tossing them into the middle school where they're in a class
039for 45 minutes and then a passing period in the class for 45 minutes and they don't have an opportunity to really get to know each other um that's on us so we can do better so we this is going to be the team um myself and the students who score is in the office this Hayward special ed will she'll be special ed sixth grade and then the bottom row will be the sixth grade academy team so if you look across there it's a pretty fantastic team for sixth graders that come into super excited for them they got to meet them um when they came and visited the Middle School uh uh the first four were already with us at the middle school last year and they're just transitioning maybe into a new grade Mrs Sawyer
040is the newest addition to us in the sixth grade academy coming from Van Buren what is this going to look like and this is what we can uh kicked around and how we wanted to just slow school down in allow time to kind of absorb so we have our fourth course we have math science social studies Ela well we have students coming to us that are used to 90 minutes of math that are used to 90 minutes of ela and so we wanted to be able to build a schedule that kind of keeps that intact so the sixth grade will not operate when the city bell schedule they will run a completely separate schedule and the other two grades in the building when they do uh transition from class to class seventh and eighth grade
041will be in class so they'll be in the hallway by themselves with just their sixth grade academy teachers so uh 90 minutes 90 minutes of ela and then 45 minutes of science and social studies and then we'll go into an elective rotation so instead of having three periods a day so you're rotating so quickly through your rotations they will go one rotation at a time for nine weeks so it'll be a built-in rotation through music computer science Health PE and art and by doing so what that will do we will start our day with a small homeroom time we're kind of calling it our check into next time for our sixth grade just allowing them the opportunity to have a few minutes with their teachers before the day starts just to make sure we're good
042we don't need anything that we don't need to go talk to somebody and then we'll get our day rolling and we'll go kind of look at a class go through a schedule and then we wanted to be able to end our day the same way we started our day so we will end every day with a home in a little bit longer time this is where we will do things you know this will be our kind of our SRT time so our second step lesson our social emotional Learning lesson we are be able lessons our career connected learning things study halls working on projects working on clubs all passion projects the sixth grade academy the teachers have already started meeting they have another meeting coming up they are taking full ownership of this and what
043they want to do with the kids and how they're building it to make it special you know they're talking about everything from that first day of school you know they want to go down and get their kids in the gym they don't even want their kids coming up in the hallway they they want to take them to class first and then they will take them out into do their locker so if they don't have to stress about doing the lockers so all of those sayings and what we what we did is we talked to students both during sixth grade and then we talked to fifth graders and you're going to talk to them about what they were most nervous about coming to the middle school and then we started devising the plan like how do
044we just eliminate all of this so blockers were the biggest inside right there we'll just go to class and we'll do lockers at some point during the day let's go ignore that you don't have to try to get your locker and then get to class because you're going to be tardy you just won't do it okay right so just giving them the flexibility to create this Academy and have fun with it so what will it look like so this is what kind of follow a schedule so CM this stands for Chris Miller so we'll follow his class during the day so all students will start out in that Home Room from 8 20 to 30 that's the traffic time just to make sure everybody's on the right track same page so don't be in science
045from 8 30 to 9 15 then they will go down uh to pick up their social studies and then they'll go to math at 10 to 11 28 then we at the middle school we eat lunch all together so we eat by grade so they will eat with their friends right maybe folks that they don't have in a class with or whatever so they're getting to that that mix right or trying to build them up for seventh and eighth grade but not doesn't have to all happen on day one and then they will go into their Ela block and then all of them will be an elective at the same time so with their elective they will not go to their elective with their home it's a completely mix Ed population so you know my
046friend may not be in my English class but they might be in my elective rotation so we're trying is slowing things down and trying to give them that exposure without forcing it all at once and then so after elected they all come back and we will end today 2 15 to 3 o'clock with Homeland again so like I said before the second step time fashion projects and that sort of thing so that's kind of what the schedule will look like um if you're familiar with the middle school what we really wanted to make sure of is that you were not scared or depressed in middle school and this year we were we were set up as Apartments which is typically uh secondary schools are set up um and we start talking and they're like well
047but I'd really like to be with my grade level person because we share the same students and we can you know if something's happening and I can talk to them in the hallway so we've kind of rearranged everybody um out in front of the office now so like one two three four five six seven that's all and through it's been 8th grade and then seven eight nine it's gonna be uh seventh grade and then the sixth grade academy will be this hallway of 11 12 14 15 16. so kind of the new library hallway that whole week so they will have that dedicated Hall to themselves um so when they flow between buses we're super close to each other if they didn't have to cost it's all right there they're not living across yeah so
048their lockers will be starting kind of in outside around nine and then in that Science Academy but the thought is is they probably will not go to the locker maybe in the morning to put their stuff away honestly there's not much the kids are grabbing their own blockers like most of this they have their Chromebook and they're good to go so um so your adventure awaits that's what we told them when they got here uh we worked again today on Camp we'll be going out to Camp again this year uh so sixth grade will be going up for two days seventh grade will be going up two days eighth grade we're going out to wrap up so that will be the first full week of school you will be at candidates so I'm super excited
049to get that information out we had another meeting today on it we're almost finalized and then we'll push all of that out to our parents um super quick overview just wanted you to know kind of what was going on in that building up on the hill so that's what we've been working on questions are they also mostly doing one grade yeah so we're um other than electives right some of our elected teachers are more multiple grades you know science is on social studies among English is one math as well all of our course one grade so they're all parade the teachers that are now doing the 90-minute classes is that something that experience with teaching the classes so I did blog in high school with new teachers yeah you're all Elementary are used to teaching
050nothing they're the ones that have been missing yes [Music] okay because of secondary education crisis art more of us that gets his kids on the electives um again you're going to have elected teachers who are already using computers um is there I think we went to a general music class for sixth grade is that right so is not land required it's it has been taught by tuition acquired teacher it looks like this year it'll be the top maybe about band teacher so for that class it's more of just exposure to music and kind of building interest and kind of seeing they have a passionate yeah I love it thank you [Music] samples thank you so much we need snacks of everything yeah it's okay if you want to go also just so yeah if you
051wish to leave bye bye okay all right moving on thank you for all our presenters tonight um we have no discussion it's number five number six is approval of the public session minutes from June 15 2023 is there a motion to approve that's not good a second any discussion all those in favor let's do roll call Amy debate I'm trying to figure out if I was here for that um no I was alive okay uh Vicky yes and uh yes right um next I actually needed needed items we have a recommendation to amend the effective date of the Brown County High School extracurricular uh Treasurer Morgan young to June 2nd 2023 is there a motion to approve um any discussion this was just so we had uh go to provide training okay uh any other
052discussions yes all right number two is recommendation to approve the maternity notice for Courtney Fowler beginning approximately August 28 2023 ending October 16 2023 it's their motion to approve that's something second last second is there any discussion let's do woke up Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes Doug yes all right number three is recommendation to approve the Brown County High School 2023-2024 student handbook is there a motion to approve absolutely which of you is the motion and with together okay um is there any discussion about this the board has any specific questions I think um Mr Aspen's here if anybody has any specific questions regarding changes um well Emily told us it was something about backpacks yes I just wanted the backpacks um is we feel like not just scale we've done some
053research too and talking to other conference schools as well as far as their policies uh at the other high schools across the the conference and things like that they can move to not allowing backpacks you know in the hallways in the classroom it's just a safer situation [Music] so students will be expected if they have a backpack or bed to put it in the locker and then take only what they need to class correct any other comments or discussion on the handbook I thought I said it will link two other minor changes I think um all right let's do one call Amy yes Carol yes thank you yes yes yes all right number four is recommendation to approve the Brown County Schools 2023 2024 Transportation driver handbook is there a motion to approve absolutely a
054second any discussion this is just um cleaning up technical things and um adding Indiana code the may have not been in there prior again Dennis is here to help answer any questions if anybody has a question about it thank you Dennis for cleaning it out yeah and I'm watching Doug giggle down here and I don't know why I was trying to think of a question for Dennis all right does this have to be cleaned up every year when rules change at the legislature if there's um okay so Neola gives us some recommendations on these as well yeah I don't know when's the last time our handbook Transportation handbook is updated it's been a while like officially it's not something that we've done every year so they definitely need it right all right that's all I
055have anybody else all right let's do roll call Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes Steph Yes well thank you Dennis for taking care of that number five is recommendation to approve Sue Thompson and Amanda Smith to work at Brown County Middle School 2324 registration on August 2nd from 11 A.M 7 p.m and August 3rd from 8 A.M to 2 p.m and being paid at a rate of ten dollars per hour so recommendation to approve this a second any discussion thanks to them yeah yeah it's a fun time though I students come in and they're excited they want to check out their lockers unless you welcome Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes yes yes all right number six is more policies it is recommendation to approve the first reading at the Yola policy volume
05635 number two from po0141 and a whole bunch on page two on page three through po9111 is there a recommendation to approve the first reading one second any discussion all right let's uh do roll call Amy yes Carol yes Vicki Jim Stephanie yes Steph Yes all right number eight is our consent agenda with uh Personnel common in July lots of comings and goings and it starts with separations and appointments and transfers are done um and that is on page three and Page four it's our recommendation to approve those consent agenda items to move your second any discussion could we do we have one of those appointments in the audience um hi uh my name is Elise Cannon I also Rose Cannon but my mom uh teaching overseas per year I didn't work in the last
057few years [Music] looking forward to it welcome congratulations excited to have you thank you all right any other discussion um well I welcome to all these uh great new students including Paul Lewis who was also um a student that I knew very well so I'm glad when our kids come back and want to teach with us and I think that's great and teaching the students all right and let's do roll call and yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes Scott yes all right and we finished up here with superintendent support yeah I just have a couple bakers that would they uh the entire team at Chartwells they do an absolutely feels really really proud to work with them I often forget that they aren't from County employees except Paula um and you have to be
058reminded a couple times with their Chartwells in bathroom County so um I just hope everybody knows how great of a job that they do for us and how much they care for our kids best decision it's gonna um I want to say Gavin thanks for your presentation on the sixth grade academy um I'm excited to see that unfold and um gosh just to even hear you say 90 minutes 90 minutes of um Ela is it's gonna be a really really good thing so excited to see everything come together with that um I want to thank John Elmore and his entire crew for their showing of Annie Jr I was unable to be there because I was out of town but I heard it was a really really great turnout um people had a great time
059it was incredible huge so yeah I want to thank him and the kids and everybody that helped make that a success um and then today I was reminded I got to review all of the kids and people manufacturing that is working over the summer and to see what their paychecks are it just happened to glance over those today so it just reminded me how much of an incredible opportunity that is that kids working all summer long and earning a paycheck and then um by choice by choice yes um I and I just I I just want to thank the entire team at Eagle manufacturing um just for being there and being excited to help provide that opportunity for kids not a lot of schools get to offer that so um just really really proud of
060them and then just a few reminders we have our career Resource Center graduation it's tomorrow at 6 PM I would love for everybody to join us at we'll be at the ESC so excited for that event um our elementary buildings officially open up Monday July 24th and then new families can come and enroll and register at any time from eight to four and then our middle school high school registration specifically is August 2nd from 11 to 7 and then August 3rd from 8 to 2. and then kids come on it's nine so gearing up to that we did bring some extra magnets and put them on the table so if anybody here would like a magnet or take a magnet to a front or let them know that you can come to any of the
061buildings and and have some of those um and then one last plug I think we're going to finalize our names for the second cohort of our ambassador program um and look forward to getting those details out and the first meeting late August so we'll finalize those details and I'm still accepting a few more people so if you know anybody that would be interested in that please send them my way so I'm excited about that all right uh does support have anything and there are board updates I came to see Amy I did I was the auditory was full it was just really great to see in the kitchen and now is the time where we had power outages and really really bad storms and nervous it wasn't going to go on um and it was
062July 1st the weekend which also was a really tough date so just super proud of everybody so thanks to everybody she said yeah yeah I was out too I remember calling Emily going is the high school on because I don't know because the playhouse had yeah and so I was glad that we got to do our steps all right uh claims uh is there a motion to approve the claims and any discussion let's roll call Amy yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes yes all right is there a motion to adjourn all right all those in favor say aye [Applause]