001[clears throat] >> That's it. He's down the street. Okay. Got the park through the back. >> [laughter] >> Some of these kids I know how to say these names. Garrett Alexis Alexis Goudeyart One of those ways. I just did it wrong twice. I don't know. I'll do my best. Goudeyart I'll do my best. That's correct. Yeah. >> [clears throat] [snorts] >> Last year's >> [snorts] >> test Is that his name? Mhm. If we could all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I I pledge allegiance 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. Providing today's students opportunities to become tomorrow's leaders. We have one uh public public comment. Sherry Tucker Yes, please. It doesn't look like
002it's on. >> [snorts] >> Um I just want to speak on um the recommendation that you were given this evening. Um I'm Michael Everette Tucker. When we first became part of the Central Noble family, is that's what it is, a family. I truly believe that. I thought we'd be here longer than 4 years. When the referendum didn't pass, we started hearing many roles and responsibilities getting thrown out. Things like transportation director, athletic director, but nothing seemed to be mentioned regarding principal. The past 23 years, I've watched this man put his blood, sweat, and tears into schools and into the hearts of children. He would do anything for kids in their best interests. He was willing to leave two buildings if that was what was best for the kids, but that was never offered. So, we're
003leaving Central Noble for a new family, and I'm only sorry that you couldn't see and appreciate him for what he is and who he is while you had a chance. Thank you. Special presentation, senior Central Noble Junior Senior High Student Services. Yes. It's all of us. Uh, so today tonight we're going to review the new Indiana new accountability model and what it means um for our students, our staff, and the school. Um, the model includes new metrics and expectations, but the core message that you'll probably see throughout tonight is that every student matters and that growth is now um measured all along the way. So, we've had about 60 days uh to learn the new matrix, um see some changes already made to the matrix, and then hit the ground running because the new accountability
004system went into effect for this graduating class to some degree. So, we put some plans in place to meet it this year and then more plans to meet it in the um coming the years to come. The [clears throat] system of this is shifts focus from just being beyond proficiency alone, so beyond just a test score, and places greater emphasis on things like growth, progress, and then how we're preparing students for after school. Lauren, Ashley, and I will all be presenting tonight because it's really taken all of us including Austin and Jim Cain, the junior high guidance counselor, to just get through the information that we needed for this year, to make a plan for this year, and then figure out how we're going to move forward. So, we'll each talk about a portion of
005it tonight, and then we'll be happy to answer any questions that you have. Um for review, those are the new diploma seals. So, the current class of 2028 and then below would be working towards these [clears throat] graduation requirements. The class of '26 and '27 are on old graduation requirements with 440, academic honors, and technical honors. Um so, this is We've had [cough and clears throat] this information for a while. You'll hear seals talked about instead of diploma types. There's some additional credits required that were not required in the past like computing foundations, personal finance, a communications focused course, and then different work-based learning information. And just as a general sort of piece of information, the work-based learning term should be considered like an umbrella and not a specific class. There's a lot of things
006that fit under that umbrella. So, it's not one course, it's a lot of different things. So, if you see that term, it encompasses a variety of things. So, what the the DOE has stated is that every student matters. And we know that, but every student is going to get a score, and based on that score, um it's going to be put together um to create your letter grade. So, our student scores are first um based on academic mastery. So, that's their ILEARN score, their math and language arts. Um and then they can get success indicators. So, you'll hear us talk a lot about success indicators, and that's what um you know, moves their score across the table, and we'll show you that. Um so, here is the final. So, every school K um it's their
007but they're grouped into grade levels. So, we have a K-3 um grade, a 4-8 grade, and then a a 9-10 and 11-12. And so, then every grade level will get a grade, and then that will create your overall um school grade. So, for instance, on the left-hand side, you'll see your initial grading scale. That's for the grade we get this year. Um and then at the bottom, you can see where it says, "To ensure that rigor continues, if 25% of schools earn an A, the grading scale for everyone will increase by 2. 2.5 points." Um and then this can occur twice before the the scale reaches the final grade of 90 to 100. Okay. Okay, so um the K-3 model, again, um for it really starts in in grade three is where they will get
008their first score. Um and again, it starts with the academic mastery. So, kids will get a score based on that, their ELA and their math scores. And then they can get um the success indicators. However, they can only get success indicators if they pass IREAD. So, we move to the next chart. So, you can see this is what each kid's chart can look like. So, on ILEARN, if they were at approaching proficiency, they start out with a 65%. Um if they pass I read, they get that bump, um that success indicator bump, and then they can um earn another success indicator bump, which would be uh attendance. So, we need if students have a 94 attendance rate, they can get that additional bump as well. So, if they're at or above proficiency, they start out
009at a 75 in third grade. And then you get the next bump. The concern would be when you see that in pink, if we have a student who is below proficiency, they're starting that student at a zero. So, the only points that that score that student then can earn is passing I read and then one additional indicator. If they pass I read. If they pass I read. If not, then they're they would stay at a zero. And then same for elementary to um fourth through sixth grade, um but you can see in fifth grade, so they start with their they're at their English and language arts math proficiency score. And then there's other opportunities for our fourth through sixth graders to get those success indicators. Um so, in fifth grade, they can um if they're
010proficient in so on the social studies I learn test in fourth grade and um sixth grade is the science I learn test. Um there's the if they have a one year of academic progress, they get a success indicator. So, the the box on the right is each success indicator. And then they have a different chart. Oh, I'll go back to that. But, um again for that is where they would start, and then each success indicator is how students move across that. Um and then one additional in seventh and eighth, if you go back. Yep, so in 7th and 8th um we all students have to create a graduation plan in 7th grade. So, Mrs. Cain, we found out about this, I think it was finalized March 4th. So, Mrs. Cain has done a really good
011job of getting all of our 7th graders to complete a graduation plan and parents have to sign off on that. Um so, as of this afternoon, we only had seven students left that we had to sign off, so we're putting some things in place the rest of this week to get that done. Um but again, they can be our 8th grade students take um high school couple high school classes, um and so that will bump them over for their first success indicator. >> [snorts] >> Um these are the measures for grades 9 and 10. Nine we were confused about when it started because it lumped nine and 10 together, but really the academic mastery for those is measured after grade 10. So, what we have is ninth grade you have to be on track to
012graduate, in 10th grade you have to have those credits that are outlined there. And if not, they're saying that you have not reached academic mastery for grades nine and 10. Um one thing to note when you see our summer school numbers this summer, they're significantly larger than they have been in the past because usually our credit recovery summer school is for 12th graders and maybe 11th graders who are on track. We have shifted gears this year and this will be for any ninth or 10th grader who is not on track to meet the the academic mastery. So, we'll have a much larger number um in summer school taking these courses. And then again, the second box is the um success indicators that they can earn additional points for or additional score for um on on
013their overall score. So, things like college and career coursework, um CTE coursework, and Laura's done a really good job of making sure that our students have access to those courses and have a path built for those. Proficiency on the I-Learn biology test, which we had those results back and our students did really well. It won't be a growth indicator for every student, but a large number of students meeting the benchmark set by the state on the PSAT, regular school attendance, which again is the 94% attendance rate, and then additional measures for our English language learners. This is the 10th grade. So, this would actually be ninth and 10th, but again they're measured after 10th. This is the 10th grade accountability model. You can see there with the success indicators those students can earn three additional,
014but if we have a student who is struggling to earn credits down there in the pink, it's much like the I-Learn. They started at zero. And the highest that student can get is a 65 or a 65. That's why it's so critical that students who are behind on credits have an opportunity to make those up. Even at expectation, you're seeing that they're starting at a 65 there, and then they can move on. And then above expectation would be what you see there at in the green. So, that's where our ninth and 10th graders that's where their grades will come their grade will come from as a part of our measures. I have a possible question regarding the overall. So, the ninth and 10th, what's considered mastery? Just the fact just completion of the credits? Number,
015and then they they specifically have to have like at the end of freshman year two in a language arts, two in a math, and then two in either a foreign language, social studies, or science, and then double that for sophomore year. So, four language arts, four math. So, it's just completion of the credits, not based on grades or Right. Okay. Thank you. Um but in what what this model has done and that's one of the nice things about our size is like we can talk about individual students. There's not hundreds and hundreds that we're trying to get a grasp on. We just had a student transfer in 30 days ago, a sophomore coming in with two credits. So, we have some work to do in summer school um because that student's going to, you know,
016start at a zero there. So, Um the 11th and 12th grade is a little bit different because they do group in this one more. So, 10% of the overall grade will come from the graduation rate. And 10% of the overall grade will come from um SAT scores. So, instead of looking at a student's individual SAT score, um the SAT scores will be averaged together and there's this really kind of weird calculation they do with that um to figure out where we fall as a school with SAT scores. Um so, that is 10 and 10 and then 80% would then be the individual student score. Um so, the baseline for them would be their diploma type. Um if they're working towards an honors plus seal, they start at the highest level um for our current seniors
017and then our current juniors, um they're on the old diploma requirements. So, there's two charts to look at with that. They're additional success indicators. So, work-based learning and that's the term it can come from a variety of things. There is a way for us to track work-based learning through courses. Um they call that simulated work-based learning. There's a way for us to track uh hours in the summer as long as the student and the parent and the employer is submitting all the information. Even though they're not earning a grade or credit, we can also count those hours. Um credentials of value, so think like impact their earning certifications and things. Um college and career course work, they did remove CTE from this list, so career tech ed doesn't count unless it's a dual credit. Um
018the ILEARN test in government can count, attendance. If they haven't taken the biology ECA, that could count for them. If they do take the ACT or the CLT on their own and we don't give that test here, but if they take it, we can also use that. Um and then the WIDA test as well. So the charts So for the graduating seniors and next year's seniors, if they are earning academic or technical honors, they start at 75 points. Um and then with two indicators, they get up to 100. If they're starting at a general diploma, they start with 25 um and then you can get up to 75. And then if they are earning um the enrollment plus or the employment plus, so that's the bottom row of the seals, they automatically get 100. Um
019so they don't need any success indicators with those two seals. If you were going to compare those to the old diplomas, that's similar to academic and technical honors. If they're at the top level of an honors seal, I'm sorry, enlistment plus seal, they start with 95. And then the honors seal, so that top row, they start at 75. And then if they're not earning a seal, which our goal is that everyone earns a seal, that's what we're working everyone towards, so it's honestly not really presented as an option not to work towards that seal. At this point, they would start at 50. And that's really the crux of the information that we have um that we've been working from Um what that what it's done for us is they were already working off of an
020individual plan of study especially for grades 9 through 12 Laura's kind of taking that individual graduation plan and expanded that to include some of the new measures that align with the new measures um but again it's the whole idea is that it's about we're not just tracking if the student takes the class finishes the class and graduates there's all these other factors that are going into it not just for the accountability measure but also that's how they're measuring success for graduate so that's kind of what we're doing it's going to be a strong partnership because like with the work based learning hours right now Laura's got students turning in documentation well I did this then and someone signed off on it and I did this and then all those kind of things you know the
021record keeping we're still not sure about number um has been working really hard on his end because a lot of this that they're counting this year they're counting it but we don't yet know where that information is going to be input so like in our student management system PowerSchool the seventh grade graduation plan there is no place for us to indicate that they have a graduation plan so those are all things that the technology world is also catching up with you know with these measures and and we will figure that out as we go this year we are getting a letter grade even though it's supposedly not going to count but we started when we found out about this to put everything we could in place so that we could see what that look like
022but for instance the government I learn our government is one semester long the government I learn is given in the spring so half of our students already had government and finished it in December and they never took the government I learn so they were troopers and came in and did it for us today, but they've already been out of it for a semester. Not to mention our government teacher is out um with a severe medical, you know, leave. And so, he wasn't here even, you know, prepare them. So, he's, you know, messaging me saying, "Please tell people our kids know government and we just had nothing to do." So, um some of the things this year that we'll be, you know, getting a grade on, we just want to see how we were, see what
023it looked like so that we can put things in place, but but the following year um then we'll be more prepared for what's coming. So. I want to thank uh all the administrators um Matt Nepper as well. We've had several meetings. This is certainly been uh the state has known about it for a couple years. They've been working on it, but they really just released it. Um and it's been >> [clears throat] >> again, I I don't necessarily think it's a bad system. It's probably one of the better systems we have cuz every kid counts. Um we used to not get credit for uh any students who were who grew more than a year and now even if they were low proficient, they would get credit for that kind of stuff. The one that I
024think uh we didn't talk about tonight, uh Laura talked about the graduation rate. I do want to just remind everybody the graduation rate is always 1 year in arrears. So, this year's score for this year's seniors and points on that 10% will be based on the graduates of 2025. Um and I think that's the case with the SATs too, correct? I'm not sure about that. >> Graduation rate for sure. Graduation rate for sure. So, just remember that when you see the advertise advertise graduation rate in October, that'll be the one that's used um for the following year. So, you're really getting 10% of your grade is on kids you no longer have anymore. Any other questions? So, SATs are offered here for all students, is that correct? It's It's [snorts] mandatory. Um so, every school
025has to give the SAT. >> [snorts] >> It's different than when I was in school, so I wasn't sure you know, if that's going to be required, do we offer it here, so. And then, what were you saying about the CTE? It was scratched off, doesn't count. For 11th and 12th grade, any career tech ed classes, so like uh like agriculture classes, business, that was initially considered a success indicator, but it's not. It is for freshmen and sophomores, but not for juniors and seniors. So, how does that affect like Impact Institute students, or Those are still dual credit, so dual credit still is a success indicator, so that shouldn't have a huge impact on that. And quite a few of our ag classes are also dual credit. Okay. >> They just took out the blanket
026any CTE course Okay. >> as a success indicator, and they indicated basically only the ones with dual credit. I thought we were like losing a whole lot of students that were already planning to go for that, right? Correct. I'm sorry, Jeremy, what did you say? I'm just I'm just saying the same thing. Our ag classes are dual credit. >> [snorts] >> Any other questions? Thank you. Now, we can move on to consent items. There are several things here, so bear with me. Approval of minutes from the April 20th regular session board meeting, April 27th public work session, and April 27th special session board meeting. Approval of the April 10th and April 24th payroll and claims from April 21st through May 18th. Personnel, acceptance of resignation of Jason Brown, custodian, Mariah O'Brien, third grade teacher, Brad
027Taggart, CN Primary Principal, Nathan Spellman, band director recommendation to hire and bear with me on the names here. Garrett Gurrs sub bus driver, Alexis Thuleyard part-time child care worker. And then Jason abstains from Jason Sheff abstains from the following vote. Oh, that's a separate session. I'm sorry. So, let's vote on the items above. Uh may I have a motion? I'll move. I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Passes 5-0. Moving on to the next one. Jason Sheff abstains from the following vote. Acceptance of resignation of Jason Sheff, board member. May I have a motion? I'll move. Second? I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Passes 4-0. Uh we'll move on to action items. Uh Barry would you like to discuss recommendation to approve the 2027-2028 school calendar? I would. So, uh go over
028some brief highlights with the teachers uh association and some administrative people put together the 2027-2028 calendar. Here are some highlights. The first teacher day is August 9th. First student day is August 11th. We have built back in the first Tuesday 2-hour delays in September, October, November, December, and March. We did not do them in January and February simply because we lose so much school already in those days. Um we have uh fall break is the week of October 18th. Thanksgiving break is still 3 days. Christmas break is still 2 weeks uh beginning on December 20th and running through the January 3rd return date. So, our break is April 3rd. We have three uh built-in snow days. Those are built-in on January 17th, February 21st, and March 6th. The 17th and the 21st are President's Day
029and MLK Day. The teachers association is in agreement that if we have snow days prior to two two weeks or longer prior to those days, we could use them for snow days so we don't have to have so many e-learning days in a row. I can clarify that if you want. The last student day is May the 26th. Last teacher day is May the 30th, which is the Tuesday after Memorial Day. And graduation is June 9th, Friday. And that is the major points of the calendar. >> [snorts] >> Questions or concerns? Recommendation to approve the 2027-2028 school calendar. May I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Passes 5-0. Recommendation to approve the 2026-2027 regular session board dates. May I have a motion? I'll move. >> [snorts] >> I'll
030second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Passes 5-0. Um Jamie, do you want to read these off and then you want to touch base? We can just cover all four items. Um so the next four action items are regarding ISBE policies. Um the first is going to be the second reading of the 17 releases that we did the first reading of on April 20th. Um item number four is a new spring release of six additional policies. One of those is a required policy that covers the wireless devices. Um and then items five and six are going to be the suspend rules so that we can get a second reading of that wireless device policy only. The other five would be approved um for a second reading in June. Um and that will just uh be done
031to allow time to work on handbooks, get those finished up for approval at the June meeting, um and work on discipline policies. Uh Barry, do you have anything to add to that? I I just I think I spoke to you folks before on the cell phone policy. The uh complaint is uh lockers not accessible during the day. We'll We'll build some discipline policies in with uh the high school folks primarily to talk about how we're going to do that. But literally, kids are going to have to leave them out of sight and can't be using them during the school day. Um and that's it's now Indiana code, so there really ain't a choice. We have to We have to follow that. And as I told you, I I think our kids will be I think
032our kids will actually be uh many ways easier to monitor that than sometimes where folks want to get a hold of their kids at 2:30 in the afternoon. They're going to have to leave them out of sight. They're going to have to leave them after school's out. Okay. Anything else? Uh recommendation to approve second reading of ISBA policy updates. May I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second? >> I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Passes 5-0. Recommendation to approve first reading of ISBA policy updates. May I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second? >> Second. Is that Brian? Yeah. Yep. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Passes 5-0. Recommendation to suspend the rules to allow for a second reading of ISBA policy 4307 wireless devices prohibition. May I have
033a motion? I'll make a motion. Brian second. Jared? All in favor? I. I. Opposed? Passes 5-0. Recommendation to approve second reading of ISBE policy 4307, wireless devices for permission. May I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second. >> Ryan. All in favor? I. >> I. Opposed? Passes 5-0. Uh Mr. Manion has some discussion on the recommendation to approve Parkview Sports Medicine athletic training contract. Yeah, so as many people here might know, this has been a long drawn-out process. We we lost our provider in OBS in September, October. I'm right here in football season. Uh Cody got moved over to Carol. It's right in his backyard, next to them. Um but we were limbo there for a long time with no trainer, and I know that was a pain for a lot of people, including
034myself. Uh Parkview did a really good job for us um as far as getting us people when they could, especially for our big basketball games and uh Larry Mehlman did all of our wrestling for us. So, we had a lot of people help us out, but they were finally able to get us a trainer uh or get a trainer available for us through the approval of this contract, and I think they're going to be a great partner moving forward. They've already done a lot of good things for us not being an official partner. Um They just I think it's going to be very beneficial for everybody program-wise and for school-wise. So, I'm just excited about it. Thank you. May I have a motion on the recommendation to approve Parkview Sports Medicine athletic training contract? I'll
035make a motion. Second. >> Ryan. All in favor? I. Opposed? Passes 5-0. Recommendation to approve special education cooperative joint services agreement, Barry. Yes, this is something you folks do every year. It's literally to keep us in the co-op. Basically says that we'll follow their rules as as well and we'll work with them to meet student needs and they'll work with us to meet our student needs. It's something you do, it's a standard procedure. We do it every year, so I'm going to ask for your approval right now. May I have a motion on the recommendation to approve special education cooperative joint services agreement? >> I'll move. Second? I'll second. Brian and all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Recommendation to approve obsolating library books, may have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second? Second. All in favor?
036Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Passes 5-0. Recommendation to approve overnight and or out of state field trip for FFA horse judging team to attend state contest in Indianapolis August 5th through 6th. May I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second. Brian's first, Jared's second. All in favor? Opposed? Passes 5-0. Moving on to superintendent comments. We have a fair amount of stuff tonight that we have to go over, but we'll try to do it quickly. Uh Kim, is there anything with our regarding finances at this point or do you want to wait? Um finances are on track, our appropriations are evening out. I have a lot to talk about here in just a few minutes, so that's all I'll say for now. And consolidation updates? Do you want me to talk about early learning [snorts] center
037now? Okay. So, Central Noble has reached out to an architecture firm to assist us with the renovations to do the work to be able to make the moves for the Central Noble Early Learning Center rooms. Um we are working to establish kind of a timeline for that work. And as a reminder, all of the renovations that we do for these daycare early learning center rooms will be paid for from a grant specifically designated for early learning. We'll keep you in the loop on that as we learn more. Um Mr. Tiger, see you on Friday. What's going on there? Uh just a quick update on our Cougar Nature Academy. Dr. Wyatt has given Jody and I the green light to kind of pursue that. So, Jody, jump in here, too, if you have anything, but uh
038we've been gathering information, interest from parents of incoming kindergarten students. We have about 20 that said, "Yep, I want to be a part of it." We held a parent meeting last week, and at that time we had 14 uh commit by signing, "Yep, I want my child to do the outdoor learning program." So, I think we're in a good spot to make that happen for next year. Our our big goal is to try to draw some outside uh people from outside Central Noble walls. We haven't seen that yet, but it's also really hard to get the word out without, you know, knocking on doorsteps in other districts. We don't quite want to do that, but at the same time, spread the word that we have openings in that program, and I think it's going to
039be great. Uh also, just trying to hold down the fort for the next 6 days. How many days? Uh who's counting? Field day is next Wednesday. That'll be kind of the highlight of it all, and uh as we wind down the year, it's Thanks. And I I do actually rather really love that we're doing this, but glad you were here. I'm glad I got the chance to work with you. You really Thank you. Um at the elementary, they're they're in grade new to the field day. That's a big deal. Um I did also um want to talk about uh the the uh summer. Jamie, you want to talk about summer kickoff? 29th? When do you want to do that? That's fine. So, on on uh May 29th is the summer kickoff down down in the
040town square. Uh although, who knows where it's going to be now with the Do we know that yet? I assume it's on the square. I don't know where at. We'll find out when we go to set up. So, that's on the 29th uh in the evening. Some of us will be there. doing our praises. Uh I talked to uh CM Elementary staff today about some internal moves that can be made to get get things ready for the consolidation. They seem to be uh uh up to that. Uh Central Elementary School will be hosting the summer school. Uh it is for rising pre rising first graders to rising sixth graders. Uh our enrollment count for summer school is 48. Uh that's not very high for us. I think I think Shawn's numbers are going to be
041higher uh for what what she's doing for her summer school. So, uh we'll continue to monitor that. It's looking like three sections right now. A section of uh one and two, another section of three and four, another section of five and six. And I think those will be housed well you know, definitely housed in the elementary. Um base uh Austin, anything for athletics? No, biggest thing was just uh the contract. So, I'm glad it's over with and our spring seasons are about done. Softball sectionals next week. Baseball sectionals coming up. I think uh practice Thursday. So, we're all within a week basically of being done. Spring sports crazy. Okay. And Aleah's not here. We have anything for her? Oh, Aleah. Sorry, Aleah. I I'm excited. You know what, Aleah? I can't see you. You're down
042there. Hi. Just a lot of moving prices and station as we get for summer and the summer trips. We have some employment shifts going on. I just want to continuously say how grateful I am for the drivers that we do have that consistently show up and and get our kids to and from school safely. Thank you for all your work on that. That has not been very easy. I want to kind of skip around here. I'm going to go with I'm going to go with Kim and then I just don't want to forget to come back to Jason's retirement. Kim, what do you what do you have for business? Okay. So, Central did have a food service annual review earlier this school year. And so a document titled school nutrition programs review results -6055 has
043been shared in the board drive and is on our website for anyone to view. Central Noble did have nine findings in this annual review. One that resulted in a financial transfer that needed to be made into the non-profit school lunch fund for unallowable costs from our food service management companies invoices. So, Central Noble had to do the initial transfer, but we can ask our food service management company to reimburse us for that those unallowable costs. All corrective action plans have been submitted to the state. Most of these findings were a result of the need for continued or updated training. And I do want to stress that all findings were based on behind-the-scenes paperwork and policies, not the day-to-day kitchen operations, which were actually commended by the state for the food service staff being friendly and
044helpful, the kitchen being clean and organized, and the amount of food options offered to students. They spoke very highly of those things. I do view audits as a chance for Central Noble to improve. So, we are not taking our findings lightly and we will continue to improve there. Some of these Some of the next things I want to talk about are just kind of starting a conversation publicly with you all about some changes that are coming up. Um you may recall that we've kind of touched on this before, but I do want to talk a little bit about a fees update. So, the state is now allowing public schools to implement some fees back to parents as long as the fees are supplemental to curriculum, not curricular materials themselves, and deemed reasonable. So, whenever we
045are talking supplemental, think things like a class that would have consumables like your family consumer science classes that were you're maybe making a having a food lab, or potentially items that students are making at school but then taking home with them. So, that would not be the property of the school. Our textbooks and things like that we keep here, that's our property. Supplemental um consumable fees could be um assessed for things that children would take home. So, Central Noble is exploring this option, and we hope to have some sort of a a proposal around for the board at our June board date, and this change is meant to help offset the difference between what the state funds per pupil for curricular materials um versus what we actually spend. Um student debt update. So, we did
046not send any student debt to collections last school year as we received extremely generous donations to cover nearly $15,000 in student debt. As of today, Central Noble does have uh $7,315 in outstanding tech repair fees and $19,707.42 in unpaid student meal debt. If you add those together, that equals about 1.5 paras or 1.5 bus drivers. Um so, that's not a a light fee for our you know, that's a lot for us to cover. So, covering this debt has become increasingly challenging for Central Noble, especially with the budget constraints that we are now facing. So, we are exploring a program called TRECS, or it's a tax refund exchange and compliance system. A lot of public schools in the state of Indiana use TRECS. Um this is a program that takes debts owed from an individual state
047tax return. There would be a learning curve for our families with this program, but we would push information out as much as possible. So, again, this is something we're exploring. It's not set in stone, but I wanted to at least speak to you all publicly about that. >> [snorts] >> Um and then I just wanted to give a solar project update. Um as of last Thursday, all physical work is complete for the solar project on the elementary building. So, the monitoring system should be up and operational in 2 to 3 weeks, and we can really start monitoring um what all this solar is doing for us. I think that would be great for us to push out into our community. Um I have some photos that I would love to share with you guys of
048the project itself. Um and then we can just start really seeing how that's um helping us operationally. That's all for me. That's a lot, Kim. I know. I'm sorry, Bear. It's okay. Thank you. Uh any questions for Kim on any of that stuff? No. Uh Jamie, we'll do grants, so we'll come back to the resolution things. Okay. What? I thought you said you were coming back to me. No, we'll do grants, and we'll come back to the resolutions. Got you. Um before I talk about grants, uh Parent Square is something that we wanted to talk to you about. We're in the final steps um of looking at the financials of moving to that program. Um but Parent Square is something that had come up in our strategic plan when we worked through that um and
049looking for different options to help uh kind of streamline communication across the district. Um it would be it's a program that would replace final forms with athletics. Um and it also opens up that two-way communication between parents and coaches, which is something that's very much desired through athletics. Um and it also would replace our current school messenger alert and mass messaging system, as well as our current website, making it more modern and most importantly, it would become mobile friendly, which is something that is definitely needed. Everybody works off of their phone now. As I said, we are in a final review of that, but it's very likely that we'll be switching over to Parent Square and we'll keep everybody posted on that. As for grants, we are full swing in the season of grants. Preliminary
050allocations for Title 1, high ability, all of that are starting to come out, and our pre-application for all of the title grants is now open, so I will be working through that, and that gets us everything for our Title 1, Title 2 for professional development, so it's just really really busy. That's it there. Any questions for Jamie? I have a quick question. So, for the Parent Square, when you make those decisions, are we including like coaches or, you know, like Austin? I don't know how that all affects them directly in that communication? >> Yeah, I believe Austin has talked to coaches, and I think that the two-way communication was the biggest thing, and just ease of use. Um, and on the district side then, it came up in our strategic plan often. Just we have
051teachers that use Remind, Class Dojo, Seesaw, even communicating through Canvas, and it was all different ways. This is something that would bring everything together. Perfect. Thank you. I we would not have done that without Austin. He was involved. I'm not sure, but I think he might have been in a driver's course or something. He was. I didn't want to hang him up to dry. So, he's really happy. A couple things on Jason's resignation. I feel like we need to bring that up. First of all, I want to thank Jason for his work on the Apple School Board. I It's a thankless job and I appreciate it, even in just my 6 months here. 6 months here it's already been quite a lot of work, so I appreciate that. And Jason, you don't have to listen
052to any of this cuz it don't matter, but everybody else does. So, I'm going to just go right from support policy. Jason said his resignation as we we received and passed on to the board. You all knew that. Within 72 hours then you need to meet to decide the process to address the vacancy. And you have 30 days to address the vacancy from we count from tomorrow, I think. Did we did we not? >> Yeah. Um Uh and Jason, don't forget you need to provide a copy of your resignation letter to the county clerk. Okay. Okay. Um [snorts] and then you have to fill the vacancy within 30 days, which I think by our math was June 17th. Um and then you have a couple things you need to keep in mind. You can I
053have here in front of me uh the application for which you guys haven't seen. I'll >> [laughter] >> pass it down. Nothing special about it. It's just something they have to fill out probably. Uh meets the meets what we want. Uh and then you need to decide if you want to interview people. Um you do need to do that in a public meeting. So, um and you have 30 days and our next public our next board meeting falls within the 30 days, but that would mean you would literally have to have the public interviews right before the board meeting basically. So, if you want to set an interview you can if you want to set a date to interview and then chance what you can uh which I think probably be my recommendation would be
054to set a day of June 8th or June 10th or something to I don't even know what those days are but that week of June 8th. Um and if we get applicants, fine. If we don't, then you have to decide what your next steps will be how you would go about filling that. But you have 30 days. The other thing uh Tyler brought up which I think is actually accurate. Um the closing for the No, if everybody was on the board and you were just running and you all you were doing was re-running, you have to have done that paperwork by June 19th of 18. >> 18 was what we said. June 18. So, we're literally right up against both of those. Um, we don't have to do anything with that. It doesn't really mean
055anything. You could appoint somebody who has no intention of of running. But, if you want somebody that's running, they also have to do paperwork by June. 18. I would just like to publicly say that my resignation has zero to do with the financial stability or closing of the Flint Cultural Center, period. It is all because of my work life. I am working out of state next 4 and 1/2, possibly longer, years. And I don't feel that I can be in Michigan and serve the people of Albion Township fairly. So, this is say that out loud and public. That's what was in my resignation letter. Um, it's been a privilege to serve. It It was very sort of kind of thankless at times and kind of painful at times, but I think that's the duty of
056every patriot is to be a civic servant. And that's what I was trying to be. Russell, do I'll hold it. All right. >> [laughter] >> I'm not very technology friendly. >> [clears throat] >> Is that all you have, Barry? That is all I have other than I think I think you folks do need to determine the procedures you're going to go through. I don't know whether I mean, you have to discuss it at a public meeting, but I don't know whether that means you have to have a plan worked out or you just have to discuss it. And by discuss, [clears throat] do you mean By discuss, I mean, I think one thing you probably ought to think about is if you're going to if you want to do public interviews. Um, if you're just
057going to if you're just going to let people apply and then vote at the meeting, you can do that. You can absolutely do that. Okay. If you think you want to have a public meeting and you want to do interviews, if you think you're going to get three or four people and you want to pick the best one, you can do that, too. >> [clears throat] >> But we have 72 hours to figure that out, right? Yes. Okay. Okay. Anything else? Yeah. Real quick, I know about a month ago you mentioned our admin contracts. I know we've got some restructuring and abilities with with like closing in the year. Where are we at with like the the like across the board we continue to ask people to do more with less and I understand that
058we can't maybe not pay them more, but like if as you start to discuss them with them and the things that they need in order to continue to feel secure while they do and comfortable, make sure we start addressing that sooner than later because we've got a lot of other things. I don't want those to fall I did that role here. I know what that can be like. We can put them on the back burner sometimes with admin. Um make sure that we start those conversations now so they're secure. Our hiring season is upon us and people are finding ways to take their district. We'd like to keep those people in place and just keep stability and support there. Yeah, I I have some plans, but I have not not put plans to paper with
059actual details yet. I do have some ideas. Uh I'm trying to share some of those with admin to make sure that we're not forgetting what I'm forgetting. You know what I mean? I know what they're talking about, but I want to make sure that I'm organized enough to present that to you publicly. Thank you for calling me to forget that, though. Anything else? Meeting is adjourned at 5:48. Thank you. Mr. Jason Miller, you are served. Thank you. When did you come into office? My elected term? Yeah, just is coming election. >> Okay. Yeah. Okay. Will be in here in June. I will not. Okay. Sean. You got a second? Summer school is expected to be bigger because you're going to Okay. How does summer school Is it mandatory? Is it Yeah. Um we have contacted
060the individuals that will not be Summer school is not a And what that would be is what course to recommend and why. We have to do Yeah. Yes. Let's go. students to go. starting this year already in credit Sure. Um This is We had You said a lot of >> [laughter] >> just had to go. The last couple of years they're attending and You know, why it opened again for We have to find That's really something else. Last thing you said I don't Sorry. Have we gotten Have we gotten any emails Okay. They are attending summer school at this time. So Um at first I said it was only going to be summer school but did we offer summer school last year? Yes. I mean, we had less than 20. Probably 20, but it was
061just our 11th and 12th graders. >> No. No, bars So, this is different than Barry Summer School that you were talking about. This is just uh Monday through Friday, 8:00 to noon. We have teachers who will supervise them. So, they support it through the program that's online curriculum. >> [laughter] >> They can take almost any class that's offered under the Apex curriculum. Everything and anything from language arts to math, social studies to health, driver's education. Thank you, Carol. I appreciate your patience. Jamie, I am going to scoot out of here. I am going to scoot out of here for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I left my stuff in the locker. Yeah, all my stuff.