001Mhm. >> Call the meeting to order. Everyone will stand. We'll recite the Pledge of Allegiance, have a moment of silence. To the mission statement. 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. Clinton Central School Corporation will provide an educational setting that promotes rigor, relevance, and relationships to develop our students' full potential in a safe and stimulating environment. First order of business is revisions. I do have some revisions this evening. Um, in your packets, there are three names added to the personnel report, listed donations to approve, and then also under new business item F. Consideration of approval for elementary ELA curriculum. I move we accept the revisions. Second. Then moved and seconded to
002accept the revisions. Is there any more discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 5-0. I get a motion to adopt the agenda as our own. I move we adopt the agenda as our own. Second. Moved by Bryce, seconded by Amy to adopt the agenda. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 5-0. Next step are recognitions. Well, we're going to start having these on the football field or something. We got a lot of people. So, thanks for being here, all of you families and kids. Love hearing your voices. I got to play tic-tac-toe on Friday with the kiddos, so it was fun. So, appreciate all you guys are doing. I know little guys, you guys are all in testing right now, right? Everybody taking some
003serious ILEARN. Yeah. Everybody ready for summer break? Yeah. Yeah. So, well, we'll we'll start with the junior senior high school. Mr. Lake, Mr. Beckman. Okay, we'll start off with the junior high. That would be Riley Kohi. Riley, if you want to come on up here. Riley's bigger than you are. He is. I know. That doesn't happen very often for middle school, especially. So, Riley, got a certificate here, we've got a pin. I'd like to congratulate you. I'm going to share some thoughts in just a second, okay? So, stay here, okay? All right. So, Riley, every time every month we always ask the junior high teachers who they recommend. This month, your name was the one that was brought up. Now, there's a lot that goes into this. Apparently, one of the top things that people
004mentioned about you was you've improved so much since last year. With everything with how we are in class, how we act, how we get with our grades. That's a huge deal. Because of that, I decided to go ahead and look into your grades today. Third 9 weeks, you made all A's and B's. That's really good, Riley, so congratulations. When I look at your semester grades, he's on pace to get all A's and B's again. So, awesome deal. But, one thing also I think that I think that also really helps with this, not only are you doing so well in all of your classes, he's an incredible athlete. When I saw you at the wrestling matches for junior high this year, you were outstanding in your division. Practically, at least ones I came to, looked unstoppable.
005Mr. Faulkner, am I right about that? He's got some talent. Yeah. So, that's something that's really cool. Everything that you're involved with here at Clinton Central, you do a good job at. Your teachers also said they really value your personality. You're always trying your best. You're always trying to be positive, and you're just an all-around good kid that people enjoy being around. That says a lot about your character, which I think is really, really cool. One thing I want to add, today when I came and told him that he was chosen, I've never had a student do that. He started jumping up and down in the hallway. It's so great to see somebody be that excited. So, I was so happy to be able to be able to tell you this and to be able
006to present this to you. It's well deserved and very happy for you and very proud of you. Congratulations. Thank you. All right, that's all right. Alex I think that's all you back there. So, our senior high student of the month is Alex Shoemaker. So, Alex is involved in so many things I had to have him email me all the activities he's involved in. So, he's National Honor Society vice president. He's in band, pep band, varsity swimming. He's a track manager, coach for kids mentor. Uh he's in student council, Youth Rise, and he's on the prom committee. And works doing catering for Angry Donkey. And he also volunteers at the community Thanksgiving dinner every year. So, well-rounded young man. Uh when I sent out the email to the the staff about nominating a student of the
007month, Mrs. Prease responded back to me right away. It was within like 5 minutes and said Alex Shoemaker stepped up for the NHS inductions and helped run it when Carly couldn't do it because of her surgery. He also is just worthy of recognition for all his involvement. And he's a senior young man. Want to give you this. Thank you. You need a pen and pencil set. Thanks. But, sorry. And our employee of the month is Mr. Burse. So, Ricky, if you could come up here. So, he's a humble humble guy that he was really bashful hiding in the hallway. He was really bashful when I told him that he was getting the employee of the month and but I noticed as I was talking to you you probably didn't see the students in your classroom
008but they were all smiles and were happy for you. So I think that says a lot right there but So Ricky's one of those teachers who's here early and he stays late. There's been days where he's been here really early like like 6:00 probably. Um He's the backbone of our FFA program and he he wants to you know act like he's not but he is. He's the backbone of that. I I talked to him in my office one day about that and he wanted to to deflect but with livestock judging the the breakfast that the FFA put on, the fundraiser uh the um conventions that you go to, the competitions that you go to and Ricky is also a mentor and a department chair in his department. So Ricky, thank you for all that you
009do. We appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Golden. I want to see the trophy. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. All right. Awesome. Thank you, guys. Mrs. Aker? Mrs. Golden. Okay, Mrs. Golden. We're dividing and conquering. Okay. All right. So each month we've been recognizing students who display a different lifeline and this month in the month of March um our teachers picked our students who were the best problem solvers in their classroom. So we'll recognize all of them tonight. So for early learning, Wayne Young, Yuriah Padilla Flores, Oakley Brown, and Bo Smith. If you hear your name and you're here, you can come on up. For kindergarten, Rhett Stowers, Xander Roberts, Gabriel Herrado, and Camden Williford. Good job, guys. You can stand right here. You're doing great. For first grade, Joey Johnson, Kyla Bujorol, Chance
010Franklin, and Caleb Imbody. Wayne, you can come up here, buddy. She's going to take your picture. Okay, stand right there. Good job. For second grade, Owen Walker, Oliver Pelling, Blake Crouch, and Miguel Ramirez. For third grade, Palmer Rule, Colton Marty, Jordan Williams, and Isla Kuhn. For fourth grade, Savannah Tate, Ari Parsons, Ainsley Johnson, and Braden Richardson. Sasha, come make a new row behind them, please. Good job. For fifth grade, Emmett Faulkner, Audrey Myers, and Aslyn Pitchford. And for sixth grade, Branson Wallace, Raylan Dashner, and Claire Paris. So, great job for doing a great job at problem solving in the month of March. You can take a picture, okay? Make sure you don't hold the side down. She's going to take your She's going to take a picture, I think. Jack, eyes up right here at
011me. 1 2 3 Ainsley, look over here, please. Got it. Good job, guys. Congratulations. Okay, our next one is going to be We had two perfect scores on our I-Ready 3, which is just an amazing accomplishment. Um so, I wanted to bring up Billy Brant and Cohen Coraho. They are here. There you are. I actually didn't see you. I wasn't sure if you were here. These guys deserve uh huge kudos for not only taking a test um that is just such high pressure and high stakes, but literally did not miss a question. Absolutely perfect. So, congratulations. We are so very proud of you. Great job. And then, our staff member of the month, if Mrs. Perkins would come up. I have to get my cheat sheet so I say all the right things. I'm going
012to say all the right things, I hope. Um this month, it is my pleasure to recognize someone who has been a steady and uplifting presence at Clinton Central for many years. This is Mrs. Sarah Perkins. Um she has served our school community as long as I've been here, so at least 8 years. And in that time, I've had the opportunity to watch her just really grow in so many ways. Um she has stepped outside of her comfort zone this year, transitioning um from early kindergarten into supporting other grade levels. And we have her in first grade this year. And she's done that with grace and with confidence. She is a constant source of support, jumping in wherever she's needed, covering meetings and PLCs, uh simply being an extra set of hands at times, subbing when
013we ask her to. And she does it all with a positive attitude and just genuine care for everyone that's around her. More than anything, Sarah brings a light to our building. She's a true ray of sunshine, someone who lifts others up, contributes just a positive culture, um and we just know that Clinton Central is a better place for both staff and students because of her. We've placed her kind of right by the recycling doors, is what we call them, which is where every kid walks in from the bus, so that she is one of the first faces that they see every morning um as she welcomes them into the building. So, this is just very well deserved. This is for you. For a month, don't get too attached. But um we are just very proud
014of you and congratulations. Absolutely. Something unique, your team actually asked to say a few things. So, if the first grade teachers want to come up that were able to be here. Yep. Okay. I'll do my best. This was written for Heather, but she's not here, so I'll take over. Okay, we would like to take a moment to recognize someone who truly makes a difference in our classrooms each and every day. Our classroom aid, Sarah Perkins. Sarah has been an absolute blessing to our grade level. Her years of experience are evident in everything she does. Beyond her knowledge is her patience and genuine love for students that set her apart. She has been an She has an incredible ability to meet students where they are and to help guide them toward success, always with kindness, encouragement,
015and understanding. What makes Sarah especially invaluable is her instincts and intuition. As teachers, we can simply share what a student needs and she knows exactly how to deliver. Whether it's providing extra support, adjusting an approach, or offering just the right words of encouragement, Sarah steps in seamlessly. She makes our lives so much easier and allows us to better meet the needs of all of our students in our classroom. In a primary classroom, the role of a classroom aid is essential. These early years are critical for building foundational skills, confidence, and loving and a love of learning. Classroom aids provide the additional support that allows for small group instruction, individualized attention, and the flexibility to meet diverse needs. They are instrumental in helping us bridge significant learning gaps and often one or more grade levels behind
016and in supporting the kind and kind of academic growth that can make the difference between a student being retained or moving on to success and confidence. They help create an environment where every child feels seen, supported, and capable of success. Simply put, classrooms would not function as effectively without them. Sarah Perkins exemplifies everything a classroom aid should be. We are incredibly fortunate to have her as part of our team and our students and we as teachers are better because of her. Actually, don't run away. I'm going to make you guys do the picture with Oh, wow. I hope that's okay. You got to get another picture. You got to get another picture with us, all right? 1 2 Great job. All right, well, thank you very much for joining us. It is a school night
017and it's nice out, so uh you're certainly welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting, but if you want to head on out, this is now a good time. Uh students, keep getting to bed early, keep getting good breakfasts, and keep doing well on iLearns. Hey, Bo. Bo. Hey, Bo. Bo. You want to stay and hang out? He was trying to fight me. I scared him one day cuz Bring up some front row seats and bounce to move on. We're not afraid. I want the front row. I call it. I mean, I'm not scared. It's weird they sell for more money at sporting events than at NBA board meetings and church. How many you Nine. Come on, Courtney. Don't be scared. Of what? The front row. Oh, I'm I'm doing great, thanks. Well, I
018was doing it back to you to see if you would notice. I love that you did. That was so great. Yep, always. Did you lock them? You're not locking them out, are you? I'm locking them. All right, next is public comment. There is no public comment. No one signed up for today, so we'll move on to the consent agenda. Uh we do have a religions in the consent agenda. We included yeah, we included all the religions. Which you guys approved anyway, so Uh moved by Katie, seconded by Bryce. Uh to accept the consent agenda. Any discussion? Question Do you want to split them? I know it. Sorry. Donation Oh. Yeah. Sorry. Um I had a question on one of them. Yep. Actually, is it Wilson? Yep. She is. Sorry. Vendor, sorry. It's small. Uh 6015
019Inland E L A N Inland It's our credit card statement. Okay. I didn't know what it was cuz it's changed every month. I didn't know if it was a constr- contribution to No, that's our credit card statement. Okay. And I guess you use it for just the general credit card for anything or everything? Mhm, it's hooked to like our Amazon and then um anytime like somebody needs a credit card for something. Okay. The amounts were very varying. Yeah. Yeah, like >> It'll go way down in the summertime. Yeah. Yeah. Almost zero, right? This happened to be a larger one this time of year to pop my eyes. I was fine. Any other discussion? We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of accepting the consent agenda say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstain? Aye. Motion passes
0204-0-2. Who else abstained? Sorry. Katie and Kyle. Okay, thank you. Next would be the finances. Yep, so monthly budget report. Um this would be the end of month March. It's like so late in the month this year or this this month. It was like when I was looking back just thinking back uh this is the March report. Um so anyways, just our um current fund balances with ratios again uh in a really really good spot as far as that balance, our fund balance to the annual um appropriation. Um and then right there at 3 months, we should be right around that 25% mark. Again, January was a three-may three-pay month, so the Ed fund's still a little bit high. Um and then that, you know, has trickled down as you get into two-pay months. We
021don't have another three-pay month until the summer again, so it'll kind of trend low and then it jumps back up again because of Ed fund. Um obviously the the payroll is the most significant piece of that, so um operations trending really good. Debt service um just just on a point of that just in case you if you look at that and you say, "Man, we're over spending that appropriation." Um so that we had three debt service payments um this year because we encumbered uh at the very end of 2025. Um our debt service payments are right there December, January and we don't get our tax money fast enough to turn around the payments um because you get your tax money right there right after Christmas um to try to turn payments around, so we encumbered
022that money. Um so when you look at that, that's that's a difference there, so um everything is looking really good um when it comes to that. Um just again some things kind of keep looking at and keep eyes on. I'll touch on um SEA 1 on the bottom part that impact operations and debt service. Um last month I had my my thought was to not spread that impact this year in 2026 um and to absorb it all into operations. Um continue to look at that more and more, had conversations with people um and and I think right now the thought is that we are going to go ahead and balance that um between our operations and debt service in 2026, that lost credit um that would be part of that SEA 1 with the 10%
023or $300 and so for us it's about $160,000 um lost credits this year and so originally we were going to take that hit in ops, but I think we have the debt service fund cash balance to carry it as we run through our cash projections. So um I'll go into that a little bit more with you guys later, but um I think right now the thought I've got to issue a letter to the DLGF by May 15th um if we want to spread that. And so I'm going to the last piece of that is I'm going to go back and look um and talk to um our county auditor about our average um percentage of our property tax collection rates. You know, so if we're if we're projected to get $5 and man, we only
024normally get half of that every year, well, we might want to be a little more cautious. But if we're typically maybe at 90 or 95% collection rate and then I think we're in good shape good space. So Steve will recommend it is to go ahead and take advantage of it this year because we can always come back and and play it differently in 27 and 28. But we cannot go back and recoup that operations money. We can recoup the debt service money, but we can't recoup the ops money. So So I'm still kind of looking at that piece. That would be the last thing there. So Just some other things just again, we've kind of talked about these obviously several times, but just just different pieces and I just kept them on the slides. Um
025More as a reminder for me, but certainly for everybody else as well. So And then just some things we've completed and some things that are in process right now. So this last month we found a software software subscription as a repetitive service of another software subscription that we've had in place and so we canceled that one. Again, none of these are like the the million dollar savings you're trying to find. This one was 4300, but again, we want to be as efficient as possible with taxpayer dollars. And so you know, whether you're a student, whether you're a staff person, whether you're a taxpayer in this district, we want to make sure we're doing the best we can to funnel as many dollars towards kids and education. So that was just one again, we've tried to
026put some different processes in place this year where depending on where that bill is coming from, that person is literally kind of looking at that one and saying, yes, this is necessary, no, this isn't or oh man, we doubled up or something like that. So that way that's not all in April. She doesn't she doesn't know what everything goes to. You know, and so whether it's been administrators, whether it's been the different department directors, we're taking a look at those things. So. And that's it. All right, on to new business. First step, consideration and approval for technology and engineering and Oh, we didn't sorry. I move we approve the budget report. Second. Moved by Bryce, seconded by Amy to approve the budget report. Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion
027passes 6-0. And we skipped right from the budget report to that other stuff. I just Yeah, forget about it. Now, new business. Yeah, so we talked about all of these except the last the last one and then the revision on Wednesday in our work session. So, I won't dig into it in too much, but the first one would be consideration approval of technology and engineering services and then our virtual chief technology officer services with Five Star. There's a savings here. We looked at that contract and again being as efficient as possible, it cuts out about $3,000 a month for the next 2 years. So, obviously there's a considerable savings and we would recommend your approval. I move we approve the Five Star contract. Second. Moved by Amy, seconded by Katie to approve the Five Star
028contract. Is there any other discussion? I do have a question. We had talked at work session that in doing this that we might need to get Sam some help. Is that something that was sooner rather than later or is that an as needed or re-evaluate? No, this doesn't This piece doesn't affect anything for >> It does not. >> No, it just saves us money that if we need to, okay, then that's money we can look at down the road. But yeah, this changes nothing as far as the services. We weren't The the the $3,000 savings piece was a virtual help desk that we that we'd used one. They've only solved one. >> Yeah, that's all Yeah. So, essentially an unused portion of a a previous contract. >> Got you. Thank you. Yep. Any other discussion?
029Proceed to vote. All those in favor of um approving the Five Star contract, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Next, consideration and approval for student information system vendor. Yeah, so our current vendor is PowerSchool. Our recommendation would be to adopt Harmony as our student information system vendor. I appreciate all the work that's done by our directors and building administrators. We've looked at this several times and had meetings and obviously there's a huge savings here on this one. Again, just being really efficient with dollars. It's about a 50 to 60,000 dollars a year savings on this. I recommend your approval. I move we accept Harmony as a student information system vendor. Second. Moved by Bryce, seconded by Katie, to accept Harmony as our student information system vendor. Any discussion? I did call Josh today.
030Um I don't know if I'm definitely in minority here, but if I am, that's fine. Uh Wednesday at the work session I brought up I've been reading and looking into this. I've got concerns and it's one thing when we always sit back and we say, "We're looking at cost reduction measures." My concern is anytime we look at surveys where we're doing really, really good in technology and staff's very happy with what we're doing, and we're looking at cutting back on technology. More times than not, anytime I see reduction usually means one of two things. Either we're going to stop doing the work or the work's going to get shifted to somebody else. And I'm I'm worried because I don't know enough about what we're approving as to whether or not a reduction like this means
031our teachers are going to have to pick up more work. And I don't know the answer. I'm not saying I'm for this. I'm not saying I'm against it. I'm saying I would really love to maybe some more information that's been shared with the admin. I would love to hear a little bit more to make sure that before I vote on something of this magnitude that affects every teacher and every person in this corporation, I just would feel a little bit more comfortable if we have a little bit more time to digest this. That's just my request. I want to make sure I understand what what we're doing here. So, that's my one request. Sure. Yeah, it doesn't shift any additional work to teachers at all. Yeah, we talked about that, I thought. Yeah, the additional
032work that will shift will go from we subcontract our state reporting and our administration services. We will take that in-house with with our district administrative assistant to take that piece over. As far as services provided to the district, both SIS's provide the exact same services. It is simply you're going from a much larger company to a smaller company. You're you're going to an international company to a to a state level company. I think a lot less overhead when you look at those too. You know, I don't think from a when you when you look at in your guys' packet, you know, there are districts that are seven times our size that use that use Harmony. I mean, there are districts that are smaller than us that use Harmony. So, I think that piece it is
033is critical to remember. Um I I would not recommend you delay. If you delay, we will not switch this year. And so, we are at the the crunch time of I mean, we've been doing this since gosh, probably I don't know, December looking at it, having conversations. You know, because of all our administrators and that are the heavy users of it, our district directors that are the heavy users of it. So, I I think it it more than meets our needs as far as what we do in the district. You know, it I think it makes it easier in a lot of ways because the support level is right there, a phone call away. You know, and there's not additional fees with that. You know, this this first year in 2026-2027, there's a a total
034savings of 42.6. The next year it goes up to 58,000 a year. And that carries out. I think they play nicely together because we'll we'll also use them for our point of sale system in the cafeteria, which is where we do our direct certifications for free and reduced lunch, things that come through SNAP or TANF. And so, we're able to tie that directly into our student system. There's there's the the health piece that goes right in there. And then the state reporting piece is huge because again, Harmony is only an Indiana company. And so, they're all their state reporting is tied only to Indiana. PowerSchool again is international, and so, you're you're constantly trying to figure out how to get it to Indiana. So, I'm not saying there is no SIS that is perfect. There
035are four major players in the K-12 space. There's there's Skyward, Infinite Campus, Harmony, and PowerSchool. None of them are perfect. I think for a small school, and again, you know, this is some a recommendation from Five Star as well. From a budgetary standpoint, from a personnel standpoint, not having to rely on any outside vendors, that was their recommendation, too, to go to Harmony. And so, you know, they've already started helping Sam. I know we we've already sent stuff over, started working on that. What reports do we need? What data do we need? And so, I appreciate all the input from our administrators, our directors, and that. So, it's certainly it's certainly not been like a a 2-week process. Oh, I doubt that. Yeah. And it's also important to understand the difference between a student information
036system and the learning management system as well. So, the learning management system is is one in which the the teachers interact with on the regular. That's Schoology that's going to Google Classroom, right? Our elementary is all Google Classroom, and then at the high school we're like half and half or something. Didn't you say Mr. Beckman came from Harmony school? Is that right? That is correct. Yeah. And he got along well, didn't have any issues over there? I thought it was much easier than PowerSchool, in my opinion. Um The school district I came from is almost identical in size as here. Uh but yeah, so we've used Harmony, or they used Harmony, should say they no longer there. Uh for I think 6 years now. And they switched from PowerSchool. Good. Um In my opinion, the
037best part about it is that their help desk is in this state. So, there was a couple times there were issues, but it was fixed within, you know, an hour or two because there's always somebody there that you can get in touch with pretty quick. I would say that would be the thing that I liked the most about it. It was easier to use, easier to navigate. I thought the setup was much easier to find information you need as a staff member, whether it be for discipline, for grades, for finding out what students need in each of their classes. Ooh, attendance, thank you. All of that the setup was much I thought much easier. Did was it Did you start with this? I came from a Skyward school. Okay. When they presented the came here
038and presented Harmony to us, I thought it was easier for us to pull attendance reports for students and uh that all the different communication pieces that we have now would all be under one company. And so when we send out messages, it would be a lot smoother. We're not using separate entities to do that. Okay. What price would you say that's SIS versus what? LMS, learning management system. Okay. So what is the difference So we're not deciding on that We're not. No, it's just a different So what they're using could work with either one. Absolutely. Yeah. Uh state reporting part you said. Mhm. So currently we contract for that. Yep, we contract that out currently. >> for how we're going to We would We would again bring that in-house too. And that's And you already
039have someone that's Yep. But what would be their job? Our district administrative assistant would take care of all that. AKA Mrs. Pearson. Everywhere on the system there's a log too. You guys have been on three in the last I don't know, 10 years. So this part of it doesn't change anything for teachers. How they take attendance and how they do the grade books. Okay. Got you. Or submitting a discipline record. Any questions? Any other discussion? Well, we've got a motion out there. Any other discussion? All right, let's vote. All those in favor of accepting the Harmony quote for student information system vendor, say I. I. I. Opposed? I. Motion passes 5-1. Next would be consideration and approval for communications platform. Yeah, so again, look, this is more of a consolidating services for our families, also
040for our teachers and staff. Right now, I don't know Mrs. or Mrs. Golden, you guys can probably speak to this more because of the variety of platforms used, whether it's Smore, Dojo, School Messenger, Remind. What else is out there? Class Me, maybe Class Tag. >> Yeah, I mean, and then we have we all obviously have the Vet link in there. We have Sports You in there. We have a lot of these. So, Parent Square would consolidate all of those things into one. It allows everything from a classroom newsletter to school messages for two-hour delays. I don't know, there was a lot of different pieces from from the elementary perspective that you guys liked. If you want to jump in there. At the high school level, it's we don't typically do the newsletter and things like
041that, but I don't know if you guys want to jump in there at all. I just I really liked it from the piece of if this a parent would have the same experience if you would have had multiple kids in multiple grade levels. We've gone to like Smore for our newsletters and mandated that school wide, and that was a huge help. But, Parent Square would be from administrator all the way down to a little Bulldogs teacher all the way up to the athletic director using the same platform. So, you know that it's important when you get a message and you can really customize it a whole lot better than we can now, too. So you're not blasting it out. If for example, if first grade Girl Scouts sign up, I can click on first grade
042and girls and it will just go to those contacts like very quickly. Or now I'm having to comb through and find all my girls and click their names and it takes a a lot longer. So um there's a couple of really neat features that made us excited and at back to school night it wasn't oh well I use Class Dojo and then for my son in this grade level then we use Remind. It's just one thing. So the common commonality I think will be huge for the elementary perspective. Is this something that's going to be used with the athletic department too? Cuz I know they just moved to the sports year and have all the coaches using it. Yeah, I think the nice thing about Parent Square from that angle is there there is an
043app that you can download and so like you can have a one central piece. So if coaches wanted to send messages out to their kids it can go direct through the the app. They go right back. I mean it's it's similar in that remind feature that used to have in text and but you it doesn't show your phone. So again, you don't have to give out your personal phone numbers and so there's from some some safety aspects of it, too, for our staff so they're not just putting their personal phone numbers out to the world, you know what I mean? Um I think that piece is a really a nice feature, too. So. So it's another option but we haven't determined if Yeah, I mean I would like everybody to just go to for all
044communication. I mean obviously we talked about Mike in there because of scheduling and things like that but yeah. I move we approve the communications platform Parent Square. Second. Moved by Katie, seconded by Bryce to approve uh Parent Square as our communications platform. Any more discussion? Proceed to vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Item D, consideration and approval for the building lease for WCCC Wildcat >> Wildcat Creek Career Cooperative. >> Yeah. So, yeah. I wouldn't have had to create in there. That's all right. So, um So, in in on Wednesday, we had the draft lease. You guys now have the final lease in front of you. Again, this is the Wildcat Creek Career Cooperative. Say that five times fast. Um is all four county school districts for CTE programming.
045And so, a huge feature there for for our students to build up attend a lot of different programming, especially with graduation pathways and all the different things credentials value and there's a lot of CTE funding that's tied to those things as well. But, this is a building lease agreement. So, the the the long story is that the cooperative has been trying to find a home for years. I don't know how far the the Marsh building conversations go back, but years. And so, this year we've been in the old Casper I don't know if it's shouldn't call it the old building. The building that says Casper Hall on it. Also says IT Tech on it downtown catty-corner from the courthouse. Um and so, um IT Tech is leaving that. The city-county owns the building in in
046a joint ownership. They have asked us to if we were interested we well, we asked them if we could lease it and they wanted us to just take it over. We didn't want to take it over because the liability of it, just obviously owning another building with with everybody facing budget cuts with SEA 1. And so we we did apply for the ready grant which is through the state. We were tentatively approved for that if there's a matching donation. So the ready grant is 1.2 million dollars. The matching donation is the city county is willing to donate the building. So they are going to donate that. None of the four districts, we didn't want to take the building into our ownership and so CEAF, the Clinton County Education Associ- Clinton County Economic Economic Advancement Economic
047Advancement. Something. I can't remember what it is. Yeah, you guys have it. So but they have agreed to be the third kind of that third party for us all. So the city county is going to donate the building to CEAF which then there is the that's the the match if you will. And then where the four districts will take that over as our co-op with each of us paying a proportional share. And so now we can have a have a home for our CT co-op. So. Final draft is very impressive. Clinton County Economic Advancement Foundation. Some reason I was wanting to throw education in there for some reason. I move that we approve the building lease. Second. Moved by Katie, seconded by Amy to approve the building lease for the Wildcat Creek Career Cooperative. Later
048we'll have a Who can say five times fast competition. Any other discussion? All those in favor, say I. I. I. I. Opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Item E, consideration and approval for paving improvements on campus. Yep. So, on last Friday, we had uh quotes due for paving improvements. Um we had three vendors turn in quotes. E&B Paving, Crenshaw Paving, and Grady Brothers Incorporated. Um you guys have the summaries in front of you. So, the base quotes are I'm sorry, the base uh yeah. So, the summary on it. The base quotes for E&B uh $107,986.32. Uh part three, $154.44. Uh the alternate in there uh was for is an add of $24,686.33. Grady Brothers uh base quotes one and two, $113,600. Uh base quote part three is $115. The alternate was an add of $14,225. And then
049Crenshaw Paving base quotes part one and two, $74,064 even. Base quote part three, $20. Alternate quote was an add of $22,845. So, my recommendation would be to accept base quotes part one and two and also take the alternate. For a total of just shy of $97,000. So, not three. Base quote part three, so that's undercutting if there's any unsuitable soil. Um so, it's just it's just unknown until you go through excavation, but I'm sorry. I guess accept their quote for the whole project, but yeah. But add the alternate. We had We had $100,000 roughly budgeted. Um and so, we're right there. So. I move we accept Crenshaw Paving's base quotes and alternate quotes. Second. Move by Bryce, seconded by Amy, to accept Crenshaw Paving's base quotes, parts 1, 2, and 3, and alternate quote. Any
050other discussion? Ready to vote? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Next we have our revisions. Yeah, so item F, ELA curriculum. Um appreciate all the work that teachers, Ms. Sacred, and Ms. Golden have been doing on this. Um so science of reading and feel free to jump in here, ladies, if I miss speak at any point. So, science of reading has been um something adopted here in Indiana. Um and so um you you got to adopt curriculum that's aligned with the science of reading. Um and it we've also had OG training um for a few years now in place in in our district. And so, um trying to find curriculum that was also aligned with OG um Orton-Gillingham um as as far as um reading. Um and so, looking
051for um a curriculum piece moving forward. And so, this is CKLA uh from Amplify. Um so, this is a 6-year quote. Um there are a couple pieces still in it. So, my recommendation would be for you to approve it up to the $87,052.74. There we're going to still do some additional kind of uh investigating. We want to go look at some um some of our teachers want to go visit a couple schools where they're actually implementing the curriculum just to kind of ask questions a little bit. Hey, do you use do you use the the digital piece? Do you use the actual um paper um student consumables more? Are they both really necessary at specific grade levels and so like for example kindergarten um there is um the student license uh the digital piece um
052that's $30 per student then there's the student like uh paper book uh student consumable set that's $32 per student. So uh we we we we still want to dig into this a little bit and see um you know do we need both at all grade levels do we just need one or the other um you know and kind of where those fall um and so I I would approve I would recommend you guys approve it up to that amount but we we may very well go lower we may stay at that level. So um and then after that again um you know last 2 years ago I guess when the state uh removed textbook rental um from school funding they now allow consumables and so after this would be to get us through um the
05326-27 school year. I don't know at this point if we could fast forward that enough to start charging for consumables but definitely in 27-28 we would start to charge for consumables um again so uh that $30 or $32 piece uh we would look to offset that with uh consumable um charges to parents so. And Mrs. Golden Mrs. Aker feel free to share anything else you want to share on that. Well that was a nice summary for sure. CKLA is core knowledge language arts and basically there's two strands so there's like the skills teaching kids how to read and then the other strand is the knowledge like the background knowledge that we've been learning. Those two have to exist and work together science of reading wise um and so yeah the biggest point is finding something
054that aligns well with OG because our data especially our early data this year has shown us that we're on the right track with phonics and phonemic awareness which OG does for us but we're really missing those other three pillars of literacy the vocabulary the comprehension the fluency and those pieces so we need a curriculum that's aligned to the science of reading, but we also are are balancing that with we want to keep going strongly with OG and in those components. So, um our teachers from we're just looking through the samples, we did a couple of surveys, um and they largely the majority definitely want CKLA. Our kindergarten and first grade teachers are the ones that don't think it aligns quite as well. And also the rigor of of science of reading in general is is
055just upping the ante once again. We've all heard that kindergarten isn't what it used to be type of a thing. Well, it's just taking it it another step farther. Um but, I do think that and we've had a lot of conversations with Mr. Yule about letting them go see it, talk to other schools who are trying to use it alongside OG like we want to do, and then also giving them maybe some time to to rearrange units so that it's not overloading our kids cognitively as they go into kindergarten and first grade. We're able to kind of do what we've been doing scope and sequence wise and add this in when it makes sense. So, um we know for sure kindergarten and first grade we're going to have to take some time to really make
056the the scope and sequence of the year align with this. The other grade levels feel like they can hit the ground running and really have have what they need. Um but, we are working right now to kind of get in touch. We know Kokomo and Lebanon both have CKLA. Um so, I reached out to contacts there to try to get maybe a mini bus to go and see what they have going on and have some conversations with those teachers. Anything you guys would add? Thank you. Yep. So, I have a question about the licensing and I see that you all had a little bit of a conversation about that, but um I would be concerned of copyright um violation. If like I know the teachers will have access for 6 years, but the students only
057have access for 1 year, right? We could be in copyright >> Well, that's the piece that we want to analyze a little further. I mean, so if like we said, you know, if we find out that yeah, um for example, you know, if we go to lab and then they've they've been implementing this for like yeah, we definitely use that student consumable. We'll say, you guys are going to want that. We would we would use that every year. So, we would buy those. So, every student would have their own now. Right. Same thing with the digital. If they're like, "Eh, we don't really use the digital or the consumable. Maybe in fifth grade we use more of the digital content." Then we would have that consumable for the digital piece in fifth grade, for example.
058So, so we don't have the copyright issues because we're going to buy those licenses annually. So, but we're just not including them this year because we don't know which direction we're going to 100% go. Okay. And we want to I I think that provides us some flexibility to build it. You know what I mean? Like after after we go and but also too, like after that first year uh in our own teachers might like, "Yeah, we didn't we didn't really use that thing so much. We used more of this piece." You know what I mean? So, we didn't want to lock us into a full 6 year everything and then find out 2 years into it we never use this piece and we just keep chucking the books in the dumpster or we bought all
059these digital licenses and we don't use them ever. You know what I mean? I just want to make sure that we're since we have access to it that we don't like make copies and continue to use it. >> Yep. Absolutely. Can I get a motion? I move that we accept the quote for the Amplify curriculum up to $87,052.74 with the understanding it may be less. Second. Moved by Bryce, seconded by Katie, to accept the Amplify quote. Any other discussion? I just have a question. So, the licenses will we have to purchase every year? So, on the teacher licenses, no. It's a six-year. So, like for example, go back to kindergarten again. So, that universal teacher license, President's Seasons, that's the six-year license in this quote. The next item, the student licenses, that would be for
060the digital curriculum piece, that would be an annual thing if we need if we wanted to use that. The next >> And if we got into trouble, that's something that we might have to charge for. Yes, 100% yes. I mean, there is no doubt we will have to start charging, you know. So, um this the third line again, that's a six-year piece. And then the fourth line again is a student simple set. And it's that way for each grade level. So, there's there's two teacher things that are six-years, there are two student things that are just one year. So, I assume in like second grade only two of the teachers teach reading, that's why when we get to like sixth grade, there's only one teacher's license. There's only one of them teaching. Is that right?
061In sixth grade, there's one there's one teacher, but in second grade, there should be more than two. I misread that. Well, there's two free and two charged. Are they the same thing? Yeah, I'll look at that. I don't understand the discount but Yeah. 40 free Yes, that does No, there's two categories. That's what you're looking at. Mhm. Two free >> That way for every grade. I see the same teacher. Well, it looks like they're just giving us the the teacher's licenses for free. What we're paying for is a classroom kit that once we buy it, it's ours, it looks like. It doesn't have a It's more in the first year cuz you get the teacher kit in the first year, but then in subsequent years you should That teacher kit's good for 6 years. That
062one might be That's That one might be for then. Yeah. That >> What I'd like to do then is get four in each grade level. For example, this coming year we might only have three sections of kindergarten cuz our numbers are a little lower, but the following year we might be back to four and I don't want to have to go back and ask to just buy one kit. Does that make sense? >> checking the grades two. Yeah, we'll look at second grade. Thank you. Grade six Grade six is that way we Sixth grade's that way on purpose. My question is this 87,000. >> Yep. How much of that I mean how much of that is for this year and how much is it for So, we'll have a bill for this every year, but
063it won't be 87,000 every year? Correct. So, the teacher's license was 18,791 dollars for the first the student licenses. So, if we just do the same thing next year first year price and then it should be significant. Yeah, because again, go back to kindergarten. So, that first line $4200, that's a that's a one-time price only. The kid that is just teacher packs. And then the third line, the universal kits, the 11,200, that's a one one-time only. The only pieces that are reoccurring are the consumables, whether it's the digital or the print. piece. So, the ones that say like kindergarten, they say 80 and 80. I mean, they're giving them I mean It's This is the challenge when you when you get in with the the textbook companies, even go back 20 years ago, it's way
064trickier cuz they're like, "Well, I'm buying five and we're giving you two." And you know, and like, "Can you just tell me the price? I need 50 bucks or whatever it might be." So. We just did our best to project student numbers for next year at this point. >> So, like on the Dizzel curriculum again, piece on kindergarten they're not charging us for those 80. This is, you know, I mean, this first year, but if you wanted to buy them the next year, then you got to buy them outright, so. I did not add that to my number. I just did the consumable sets. But, we're going to be charging Parents will be paying. Right. A portion of that. >> Yes, that's $30. Yeah. Okay, yep. So, Bryce looking at second grade there because there's
065only two. Can I ask you to amend your motion, please? To go up a little higher in case we need to. So, there's only >> two additional. Okay. Does that teacher one matter cuz there's only two also? That's the part I'm worried about. It would be the two teachers and that's 4,900. So, if that doubled, there'd be another 5,000. So, if you just called it, let's say 95,000 to be safe. Excuse me. Instead of the 87,052. I modified my motion uh to now accept the ELA curriculum of Amplify approve up to 90,000. 95. 95,000 >> Please. dollars >> Thank you. with the understanding that it could be less. Yes. Do we want to? Second. Moved by Bryce, seconded by Katie to amend the original motion. Change $87,000 and change to $95,000. Any more discussion? Can
066I ask that you just have this brought back to us once we do finalize it, please? Yep. Yep. We got a quote here and we're going above the quote. So, we can just you can go and get things purchased. Yep. Just bring it back and let's make sure we're all on the same page, please. We will cuz we'll do school business before the year is out anyway. So. Mike decides in fifth grade that only two teachers teach it, we won't have to order two. Exactly. That way we can just all Yeah, absolutely. all on the same page. Yep, we will. Proceed to vote on Let me vote on the amendment. Amendment. Amended motion. The amended motion. Proceed to vote on the amended motion. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 6-0.
067Should be it. Items from superintendent? Yeah, couple things. First of all, uh thank you, Mr. Beckman and Mrs. Golden. A couple weeks ago was Assistant Principals' Week and so I appreciate all the work you guys do each and every day for our students and I I assume your respective principals uh would absolutely pull their hair out if you weren't around every day. Uh so, thank you very much to you two um for the work that you guys do. Um had kindergarten round up 2 weeks ago? Yeah. So, um certainly excited about uh getting new kiddos next year and so certainly want to share that um as we start, I always have room for more and we would we'll take them all. Um maybe not all, maybe not like a million, but like we could certainly
068take a lot more. So, certainly if you talk to friends or neighbors and their students are looking for a school district, we would love to have them come be Bulldogs. On Friday, there's a mock crash. I sent an email out about that last week to all um parents, staff. And so, it'll be in the extended new parking lot here on Friday. They'll I think block that off Thursday or Wednesday I think they're going to start Start setting up. Okay. So, but there will be a lot of law enforcement, first responders, fire trucks, ambulances. They're going to land a Lifeline helicopter. And so, there is no panic. There is that it is planned. It's neat. We did it at a couple schools I've been at over the years. And so, it is pretty cool to see.
069Sometimes students do have different reactions to it based on their experiences in life. And so, certainly want to encourage parents to have conversations at home with their kiddos about, you know, just it's distracted driving, drinking and driving, and just all those things. But just safety. One of our law enforcement officers in a district where I used to work, he always said, "We we turn 16-year-olds loose to drive 2,000-lb missiles." And we don't think about that. And so, um I hope this program Friday, you know, is very impactful for our kiddos. The big thanks. I mean, there's a ton of volunteers that go into putting things like this together. We don't pay a dime for it. I don't know what a Lifeline helicopter flight costs if you had to pay for it for for real. So,
070but just all the the folks that donate their time and all the resources and everything from record trucks to there's a car been sitting in the parking lot, and you know, and so, just all these different things. But all the law enforcement people that donate their time, the county coroner, just just a lot of folks in there. So, really appreciate that. Testing season up upon us. So, big thanks to our staff Um and our students. But, our staff is doing a lot. Small group walking through the elementary school, walking through the middle school, high school. Just teachers pulling a couple kids at a time doing small group testing. Trying to give our kids the best chance for success that we can possibly give them. So, certainly thank you to those two all of them. But,
071also wanted to share and I'll have these for you guys to look at. But, Mrs. Kryling and her creative writing class and then partnered with Mr. Wightman and they were here Was that last month? Last month. And so, that was that was neat. Mrs. Kryling, a veteran teacher, recognizing Mr. Wightman, a young teacher. Just They've they've been working together, but they put out two books. Mrs. Kryling her students wrote the the short stories and then Mr. Wightman and his class they did the the design and and illustrations for it. Yeah, and so, pretty cool. So, I have those if you guys want to take a look at them. But, but authentic, you know, learning. There are extra copies you can get on Amazon. There you go. I'll keep these and make them buy them on
072Amazon. But, now. But, and then sorry, Mrs. Akers, do you have somebody to introduce? And I'm sorry for keeping you throughout the whole meeting cuz I forgot about 20 minutes ago. So, I apologize. Go ahead. >> totally fine. This is Elise Dillon and she is joining us as our first ever, as far as I'm aware, SLPA. So, yeah. She's going to start with us. And Mrs. Adams is so excited to have some help as her case load has grown and grown over the years. So, welcome, Elise. Thank you. Yeah. Well, welcome. Yeah, so, appreciate family's leadership with our speech language pathology. She's a speech language pathologist. But, working with especially a lot of our younger kiddos, right? In their development of just speech and and learning and and reading and and And those things that
073go in Sometimes you get involved in even swallowing, correct? Oh, yes. >> Yeah, so all kinds of things, but so at that as we talk about just student needs, you know, those have just increased over the years. And so welcome. It's certainly I know Tenley is very excited to have some help meeting those kiddos needs and making sure we're doing the best we can. And then you know, I ultimately you know, helps helps these guys in the older grades, right? As we catch them up and and hopefully push them push them past and push them forward, too. So so it's certainly exciting to have you here. So welcome. So thanks for coming. And that's all I have I think tonight. Items from board members? Uh staff survey will close on Wednesday. So they're going to
074send out a final reminder Wednesday morning. Got 76 responses. Um timeline for that is uh it'll take them two to three weeks uh to create the report and then get those back to us. We'll review those, get access to the administrative team to review those as well to create a um kind of feedback loop and and action items. Anyone else have anything? Nope. Motion to adjourn. I move to adjourn. I got two seconds. Moved by Amy, seconded by Katie to adjourn the meeting. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Meeting adjourned. Need a gavel. Thank you all. Appreciate it. >> Mhm.