001I want to point out you're very respectful. Every time I see in the cafeteria when I do lunch duty, I've never seen you cause any issue. You're always kind. You're always nice. You always do what you're supposed to. You set a high example for all students to follow. I think that's one thing that really sets you apart, makes you a great student that we should be proud of. So, CONGRATULATIONS. >> THANK YOU. >> [applause] >> SORRY ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU. All right. I have employee of the month and a student of the month. So, Alex, do you want to come up here? So, Alex Davison is a sophomore. [snorts] Big guy here. Uh Alex is always a friendly student. He's a good student citizen. He's a a student that I like a
002lot of people to look not just look up to you because you're tall, but because you are a a good student and good grades, A's and B's, I I noticed. Plays basketball. I know you're heavily involved in FFA. But, when I sent out an email to the teachers, Mrs. Hadinger responded really quickly. And uh this is what she said about you, okay? I would like to nominate Alex Davison. Alex works so hard in Algebra 2 and always has a smile on his face. He's helpful to other students who come to him with questions about Algebra 2. On Tuesday, I saw him removing the basketball signs from the light poles along the highway after school. Made an impression on her. So, I'm going to give you those comments and this certificate. And this is for you,
003too. Thank you. THANK YOU, ALEX. >> [applause] >> AND OUR TEACHER OF THE MONTH is Logan Whitman. And Mrs. Kylie's going to actually emailed me and said asked if she could nominate a a teacher for employee of the month and I said absolutely. So, when I got her words back, they were so nice and so thoughtful. I was like, Mrs. Kylie, would you like to come and share? So, she's going to tell you that part. I have my cheat sheet. I would like to nominate our digital design and marketing teacher, Logan Whitman, for teacher of the month. In recognition for his outstanding collaboration, generosity, and commitment to students. As a new teacher who is also balancing coaching responsibilities, he has a very full plate, yet he constantly makes time to partner on cross-curricular projects that
004elevate learning for everyone involved. He has supported me on two major initiatives, bringing not only creativity and technical expertise, but also patience, encouragement, and a genuine enthusiasm for helping both colleagues and students succeed. His positive attitude and willingness to jump in whenever needed speak volumes about his character. He's building strong relationships, strengthening our school community, and modeling what teamwork and dedication truly look like. Our students and our staff are fortunate to have him. >> [applause] >> We want I want you to go to Mrs. Kylie. We need a picture. Yeah, I was going to say, do you mind getting in the picture? Thank you. Yeah, thank you, Logan. So, I want to say Alex, I'll get that. He was the first teacher that I hired. And I saw things in him that I thought that
005we need we need more young people like him working with our youth. And for a colleague to notice those same qualities in you, I think is awesome. Very cool. Thank you. Mrs. Aker, you're up. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> Seems like there might be some kids here. There's a [laughter] kid here that made me. Okay. We didn't build this place quite big enough. I don't think. All right, you have my slides ready? >> Oh, yes. I'm ready. All right. I'm I got to have my I'm only going to read this. >> sheet here. Okay, so for the month of February, um we asked teachers to send us their kiddo in their classroom that did a great job with the lifeline of respect. So, this is one of our three major graded lifelines that go in
006their report card. And obviously, um a big part of coming to school is just creating good humans. And so, respect obviously is something that we always compliment when we see it. And so, very excited to be able to celebrate all these kiddos tonight. So, for kinder Hang on. Yeah, you skipped one. Early [clears throat] learning, um Camden Warner, Bodie Simmons, Canaan Williams, and Hadley Davis. And if any of you guys are here, come on up. I think I see one at least. There we go. Hi, sweet girl. You come up and stand by me? All right, we're going to keep going. Andy Dunn, Isabella Dunbar, Kinsey Cole, and Leia Swope. Hi there. How are you? Good. Good. In first grade, Savannah Golden, Ruby Snyder, Parker Howe, and Avery Dunn. Couple more. Second grade, Belle Aker,
007Charlotte Neal, Annabella Davis, and Denver Doolittle. We got even more tonight. I'm excited. Okay. In third grade, Isley Corkwell, Maddox Riley, Blakely Turner, and Audrey Shire. >> [clears throat] >> What about you, guys? You guys keep coming this way. Yeah, I know. We might have to Don't worry, I can organize a picture at the end. It'll be good. All right. Fourth grade, Lucas Butcher, Cadence Kessler, Eliza Yoder, and Ben Abston. Fifth grade is Kylie Carson Rose, and Asa Duke. Asa, you look so nice tonight. And in sixth grade, Hudson King, Branson Combs, and Layla Newton. Mrs. Aker, Branson said he had a speech he wanted to give. >> [laughter] >> He had gotten here early and he was practicing, yeah. I didn't know if he had to one-up his brother [laughter] or what was going
008on here. Okay, so I have student of the month magnets for each of you. These go on your parents' cars. Don't let them tell you it goes on the fridge. It's definitely on the vehicle, all Okay. Nope, I think I did it too bad. There we go. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay, and then for the picture, let's do this. Ruby, why don't you start a line and kind of go in front right here. Savannah, follow. You're good, baby. Good, right in front of them. And then you guys kind of turn See Mrs. Golden right there? She's trying to take a picture of us. You turn your body. You can do this. Okay, here we go. Perfect. Say cheese. Savannah, yours is upside down. Savannah's upside down. That's my kid. Everything's upside >> [laughter] >> That's
009right. Good. Hold on, everyone keep smiling. Hold it. Keep holding it. Your parents are very invested here. Okay, great job. We're so proud of you. Thank you FOR BEING [applause] RESPECTFUL. AND THEN I HAVE STAFF MEMBER. If Mrs. Adkins would come on up and join me. This is Bailey Adkins and she teaches fifth grade. You look so nice tonight, too. Um So, this year Bailey has continued to grow tremendously as an educator. Fifth grade can bring its fair share of challenges and unexpected moments and she handles every day with grace and calm and thoughtfulness. Um and it just really stands out. Your classroom is a place where students feel very supported, expectations are very clear in there, and learning is taken very seriously. The one thing that has impressed us the most this year is
010the way you opened up your classroom to others. Um she welcomed a future educator into her room this year, just growing that person. Um and just her willingness to mentor there obviously reflects practice um and reflects the kind of professional that you are. Uh don't mind my cheat sheet here. I didn't want to forget to highlight she's just a team player. Recently, there was a situation a teacher had sent an email out and something was weird with her projector. I think it was flipped upside down and needed help. And Bailey doesn't even know this teacher super well. She's on the other side of the building. They don't see each other often, but made time to run over there and fix that issue for her. So, she just doesn't hesitate to to help Linda and lend
011a helping hand. And you just quietly step into situations and make them better all over the building. So, over the course of her time here, we've just seen you grow in classroom management, collaboration, um and just the those day-to-day realities that fifth graders sometimes bring to the table that you're not always expecting. So, overall, just a wonderful human being. And this is very well deserved. You're welcome. Congratulations. >> [applause] [applause] >> Oh, you did great. You did great. Okay, and then is I read now? Yeah. Okay, I love that. Thank you. Thanks all for coming. Um so appreciated the students, parents. If you guys want to leave, you're certainly welcome to. If you want to stick around for the whole board meeting, you're also welcome to do that. But, if you would like to leave,
012now would be appropriate. Mrs. Aker, Mrs. Golden, who's up? Mrs. Golden. I'm going to put her on the Still recognizing Clinton Central Elementary. Yes. Yes. Can I stand over here? Is that fine? Yep. Okay, I'm very excited to share this. So, as the testing coordinator of our school, um we have been in testing-palooza kind of all year long, but we are super excited to share our preliminary IREAD results with you all. Um, this is something Mrs. Aker and I did actually the beginning of the year um, to share our final results from last year and some exciting goals and plans that we had for this year and we are over the moon at how this shook out even for people if I tell my husband I said, "I know you have no idea what this
013means, but I am so excited about our IREAD data and we are so excited to share it." So, we have a lot of things to share that we're really excited about. So, we'll start with second grade. So, we have um, last year was the first year that our second graders were required in Indiana to take IREAD. Before that it was a pilot option, which we did do, um, but we wanted to um, step up the game with how we incentivized and um, kind of motivated our second grade team and teachers to do IREAD and be successful on that. So, we were very excited for this data. So, 54% of our second grade students passed IREAD um, this year, which is amazing. They do not have to retest in third grade, which is a huge load
014off of our third grade teachers. So, we are super excited about that. Um, in the second grade test it divides them into three chunks. So, they can either pass, be on track to pass in third grade or at risk to not pass in third grade and we had 19% of our students on track to pass in third. So, huge numbers on top of the 54% that passed. [clears throat] Yeah, so huge wonderful numbers that exceed how the state did by a long shot on those on those data pieces. So, we were very excited. [clears throat] Um, you can score up to a 650 in IREAD. Lowest score is a 200. 650 is the highest. So, we were super excited to see that 18 of our students in second grade scored in the 500 range and
015above. So, that was awesome. We're going to recognize some specific students next month um, as those scores become more official and it's not preliminary data. We're going to recognize some students that have high scores um, upwards of 550. So, we're excited about that and then had some really great success with our special education population. We had a student with an IEP pass, which is a quite the feat when we're talking um, you know, students may have specific learning disability in reading for an IEP identification or um, speech and language, which impacts their reading in a great way. And so, when we see that success in this sped world, we also just want to take time to recognize that. Um, three of our students with IEPs in second grade are on track to pass in third.
016So, some really great sped results overall in second grade, too. In third grade, this is the biggie. [clears throat] So, third grade um, yeah, the any got up to last year when we started to have to have conversations about retention when students don't pass IREAD um, with the new state accountability model that has come out. Students cannot get more points if they don't pass IREAD. So, obviously huge for our third graders. A lot of pressure on our third grade teachers and our third grade team. So, we were very nervous going into this year. Mrs. Unger's going to talk about that a little bit more later, but we um, were we were very nervous overall. I felt the the tension and anxiety from the third grade team and and we shared um, some different, you know,
017thoughts about how we could do the best for our kids this year and we were so so so excited with this data. So, I hope you are, too. So, we had two perfect scores in third grade. So, two students that received scores of 650 and again we'll recognize them officially in um, the board meeting next month, but congrats to Cohen Horho and Billy Brant who received perfect scores. We had six scores in the 600s, which again is a big deal. Um, four additional students on top of the perfect scores were in that um, 600 range, which is awesome. Again, just wanting to highlight our special education population and our multilingual learners' success. So, we have one ML student in third grade who passed. Um, he's our only ML student in third grade. And then six
018of our students with IEPs passed in third grade, which is awesome. Um, showed amazing growth overall. So, average growth of 126 points per student um, from the second to third grade. So, their scores and from second to third over the course of that year. Um, huge gen ed success. We have no students that will have to be retained because of IREAD, which is amazing. Um, so really happy to not have to have any retentions on the docket for those kiddos based on that test. We are very exciting excited about that. Um, we have a huge huge high number in our preliminary passing rate. So, including last year's second graders that passed, our preliminary passing rate is 92.7%, which is amazing. So, again, very much outweighs the state. It we are we are thrilled with our
019results. We haven't received county results because they're still preliminary, um, but very excited to see how we compare to the state of Indiana overall. Um, we have four out of six students. So, six students six third graders didn't pass and four out of those six, they have scores in the 300s in the high 300s, which means they are so close. So, with remediation in the spring, we're hopeful that we'll they'll help they'll pass in that summer window, which could be in as early as May or after summer school remediation. So, very excited to get those kids there. Um, and then as I said, second graders [clears throat] they can be in three bands. The lowest band is at risk and it's a pretty substantial um, score range for that for that red category. So, how
020that works it it kind of makes me a little bit grumpy how the state has it structured, but at risk is very big, on track is very little and then passing is very big. And so, we had 26 students that were at risk to not pass in third grade and 21 of those students passed in third grade. So, again huge kudos to our our third grade team and and some other people who we'll give kudos to in a minute, but great great success overall. And then we also as part of the new state legislature, we have to give IREAD to students up through sixth grade when they don't pass. Um, so the new um, the retention law is new and then also even if students aren't retained, if they have a good cause exemption to
021be promoted, they still have to continue to retake IREAD in fourth, fifth and sixth grade until they pass. Um, so we had great success with our intermediate students as well. So, five out of six of our fifth graders that took the test passed, which is 83%. 100% of our sixth graders that tested passed. Um, and then again huge sped success there with four of our students with IEPs and again many of those with reading minutes and reading goals in their IEPs passing the test. So, that was awesome overall. Courtney, when sorry, Mrs. Golden. When did um, like when was testing when when did all that just give us an idea. >> Yep, so always the first two weeks of March is typically when the state window is for that. So, we use both of those
022weeks. We typically test our third graders the first week of the window and then use that second week of the window to test our second graders and our upper intermediate students. So, our third grade teachers are going to spring break footloose and fancy free. >> did ILEARN checkpoint three today because again we're in testing-palooza always at the elementary, but yes, they were they were overjoyed to hear the updates. So, >> Awesome. Great. Great. Great. Great. Good job. Awesome. Good job. GOOD JOB. SO, >> [applause] >> WE JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MINUTE TO JUST RECOGNIZE UM, every this truly takes a village of all the people. So, our second grade teachers Katie Richards, Amy Stowers, Lane White and Angela Hale obviously putting in a large amount of work. Our third grade teachers are here Christy
023Unger, Elizabeth Parkinson, Megan Dunn and Maggie Henderson. Um, appreciate all they do as the third grade team. We make jokes how obviously you know, everyone's busting the door down to teach third grade with this being double tested and everything else. So, yeah, so we we definitely appreciate all [clears throat] of their hard work and special shout out to Christy. She um, has done the last couple of years a bulldog club um, group of IREAD remediation. So, we sat down together and created a list of students who we really think are those bubble kids and they're they're close and they're you know, they're just needing a little bit extra um, to be poured into and so she's done a great job of leading that. So, that was a huge thank you to her. Um, wanted to
024give a big thank you to Hannah Paris and our instructional assistants. Um, they do a great job of running our intervention groups and remediation for the kids. Hannah Paris has helped me tag team reading plans this year, which is new from the state. Again, anyone who didn't pass um, in second grade has to have a reading plan in third grade if they don't have an IEP. Um, so a lot of extra work, a lot of extra legwork there that she's um, put been a part in and our IAs who run remediation groups all of the time. So, we we definitely couldn't do it without them. Just want to thank Mr. Yole for his support. Um, he has been very great at approving my plans when they involve getting subs for professional days for our teachers
025to be able to test and has always been um, really supportive of my ideas to help us get in that one-on-one and small group testing um, which we've seen work so well from summer school last year to IREAD this year. So, just really appreciate that support um, and trust there. And then thank you to Melissa McIntyre who is our corporation testing coordinator who's helped us um, with scheduling and different things like that and got us what we need as far as testing from the corporation standpoint. Um, Mrs. AH Heidi Webster and our sped teachers. Again, it takes a village. We are all in the office um, and on the side small group testing, one-on-one testing. Um, so it takes a village there to just even logistically get all of the testing done with our students
026with IEPs and ILPs. And then on top of that our gen ed students who we wanted to give that opportunity to. So, we were able to make that happen this year with their help. Um, also as we appreciate our second and third grade teachers, we also want to shout out our early learning teachers, our kindergarten and our first grade teachers because obviously they're building the foundation to those years before they get up into second and third grade when they are tested on IREAD. Um, we have noticed such a huge difference because of us being able to provide consistent OG instruction. Um, so just want to just again give them a shout out for all of the literacy work they've done on the foundational level that has helped those kids get there. Um, and then just
027a huge thank you to parents and family members. We try to keep them very well informed about our testing um, about getting kids to school, getting them here on time, breakfast, good night's sleep, all the things. So, we just really appreciate everything that people did on the home end, too, to help us be successful. So, thank you to ALL OF YOU. MR. LIKE, I KNOW IT'S TESTING-PALOOZA AT THE HIGH SCHOOL middle school, too. Want to give us a brief [clears throat] update real quick just on testing and Yeah. Um, two weeks ago we did the SAT testing. Last week was the PSAT. We took that test. Tomorrow we will begin checkpoint three. Um, and I do want to say that uh, give some shout outs to Mrs. Perry and Mrs. Barnett for working doing interventions
028with our students who either didn't pass or maybe were approaching. Uh, they call it coded in red and yellow and those students they've done a two-week intensive uh, intervention with those students and they've been seeing great progress in that. Um, so I think we're we're well on our our way to improving those math and language arts scores. The success that they're having at the elementary at least I think it will bode well for us in the in the coming years. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, it's it's certainly testing season in the spring and I know I know Mrs. Unger especially loves state testing and she just gets really excited about it and just wishes we could have more. Um, she asked me last year, she's like, "Can we just have more state tests?" Right? Is that what
029that email said? >> [laughter] >> But um but I I do appreciate not only the state's, you know, focus on reading, right, but specifically with with our teachers because as a former middle school high school principal, right, reading is foundational to learning. And so it doesn't really matter what we're teaching if if they can read and comprehend everything and just focus in there. So Um great job by all of you. So, thank you guys. All right. Well then. Yep. Uh next step is public comment. So Mrs. Unger floor's yours. I'm not a public speaker, so You can do hard things. Good evening. My name is Kristy Unger and I'm speaking on behalf of the third grade team. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you tonight about the importance of support staff, particularly instructional aids
030in helping our students succeed. Last year, 52% of our current third graders scored at risk on the IREAD assessment when they were in second grade. When we completed our beginning of the year testing this fall, 47% of our third graders were already scoring in the yellow or red ranges, indicating they were below or approaching benchmark levels. These numbers made it clear from the very beginning that our students would need significant support in order to be successful. Third grade is also a double-tested grade. Our students take multiple assessments, including IREAD, which is a high-stakes test. In Indiana, students are expected to pass IREAD in order to move on to fourth grade unless they qualify for a good cause exemption. Third graders test, on average between all tests minus our classroom test over 40 hours a year
031and over approximately 30 partial and/or whole days. So, if you think about that, that's 6 weeks of school. The pressure and responsibility for both students and teachers are very real. This year, however, we were not given a grade level aid. Knowing the level of need our students had, this was a major concern for our team. We worked hard to provide the best instruction possible, but we also knew we could not meet every need alone. Thankfully, Mrs. Paris sat with our team on numerous occasions, helping us problem-solve and find ways to support our struggling readers. After Christmas, she was able to pull aids from other grade levels to help with IREAD preparation, which made a tremendous difference for our students while at the same time pulling from other students. Um the consistency with OG that we
032have seen was huge this year. When they came into third grade, they already knew the routines, so we didn't have to go back and teach from the very beginning. So, that has been a tremendous plus for us. In addition, Mrs. Golden, our testing coordinator, listened to our concerns about the testing process over and over again. Because of her efforts, some students were able to be tested one-on-one while the rest tested in very small groups. She even arranged for substitute teachers for the four of us so that we could personally administer one-on-one testing to students who needed that level of support. We truly believe that without these extra supports, we would not have seen the passing scores that we did. We understand that budgets are tight and that things may look different moving forward. However, we
033want everyone to understand just how critical instructional aids are to the success of our students, especially at a grade level where the stakes are so high. When a third grader's ability to move on to fourth grade depends on passing IREAD, the extra support provided by our aids is not a luxury, it is a necessity. Our students need that additional instruction, encouragement, and attention in order to succeed. Thank you for your time and thank you for supporting the students and staff. Thanks, KRISTY. THANK YOU. >> [applause] >> CAN YOU SHARE THAT WITH LEVI SO THAT we can have that copy? Sure can. Appreciate it. Next is the consent agenda, which includes personnel package claims and payroll overnight out-of-state travel Nope. No, we've removed that. And facilities rental. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda.
034Second. Moved by Katie, seconded by Gina, to approve the consent agenda. I'll need to abstain on that. Correct. Any other discussion? Ready to vote? All those in favor consent agenda, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? And abstain? Aye. So, motion passes 6-0-1. Mr. Burlingame, do you have one of your new hires here? Do you want to introduce him? Yes, sir. Uh first of all, before I do that, it's just want to give a shout out to our admin team on both levels. It's really nice to hear so many positive things going on at both schools. So, always love to hear all the positive things that are going on in Clinton Central. So, um it is my honor to um announce our new head football coach, Mr. Michael Griffey. Come on up, Michael. >> [applause] >> Um
035just a couple things. Coach Griffey's been with our football program for 8 years. He has invested countless hours um in developing our student athletes. Um his commitment to our players, our community, our school have built a strong foundation for our program. What I'm also excited about um for Michael is like like we talked about, we we have a little bit of stability with our program. He also has a vision for continuing that program forward in a positive way and taking it to the next level. And I have absolutely no doubt that he's going to do that. He's going to provide um a lot of knowledge and hard work when it comes to our strength and conditioning program. Um we spent a lot of time talking about that. And uh I just look forward to all
036the great things that you're going to do for our for our team and our school. And uh congratulations, sir. THANK YOU. AWESOME. >> [applause] >> ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE HIM A TOUR AT LEAST SO HE KIND OF KNOWS HIS way around? Yeah. Probably should, right? Thanks, guys. Awesome. No, I need to get out from behind the tie and behind the whistle. Thank you. Uh next step, finances. Yep. So, in your guys' packet, you have the March um budget report um including fund report, appropriations report, bank report. Um just and a summary on the screen. Um looking at expenditures after a couple months, you'd be right around that 16.67%. Um in education fund, just a touch above it. Um as you remember, January was a free pay month, so [snorts] it's kind of like uh
037if I get an F on my first test, but I get an A on my second test, I don't quite catch up in one, I only get to a C. Um so, um after January with a free pay month, I think we were two or three percentage points above the the expenditure limit or not expenditure limit, but just kind of where you'd be targeted wise. So, kind of edge down there and we'll get closer um back on that on track. So, when you see that, you're like, "Ooh, we're over the overspending in 2 months." Well, you had a free pay month at the beginning of the year. So, um everything else looking really good. Debt service, um just again kind of as a as a point there, you look at that and you say, "Man,
038they should only be at 16.67, you're at 33.92 after 2 months." Again, debt service is a is a little tricky to think about there because you're only getting money twice a year, you're only making payments twice a year, too. So, um everything else looks really good. Um within uh the education fund again, and I'll keep saying it um because we do not uh get those funds anymore. Um and so, that will slowly dwindle. Um and when it's gone, it will be gone forever um unless the state comes back and changes legislation. And I don't foresee that ever happening. So, um there's 274,000 within that um million five up there uh in the education fund. So, uh just in general, and I and I went through this last month, I'll kind of go through it quickly
039again, but just finances is current state of the district. Um they are strong and stable and and certainly um thankful for that. Um what does the future look like? Expenditures continue to rise. Um you know, not only in terms of just salaries, but in terms of fuel. Uh I don't know if anybody's filled their gas tank up in the last few days. Guess what? It went up sky high. Um and and so, we obviously spend a lot of money in fuel running a lot of giant yellow buses. Um and so, but but also we see other things. Um turf, for example, is going up an additional percentage point. So, and revenue changes that have happened, curricular materials, like I mentioned, we used to get that money, we don't now. Um enrollment drives our education fund,
040our enrollment's down this year compared to last, so that that drives that. And then the SEA 1 impact um that I won't rehash for the 4,000th time. Um action steps, reductions are necessary. Um within the education fund, just some some specifics there. Um and a little bit on the operations fund again on the referendum. We did see some good news when it comes to SEA 1 in the operations fund. Um two different things there. Number one, they gave us the We estimate somewhere around 165,000 loss in 2026 um in legislation obviously the state has finished up the short session and they gave schools an option to be able to split the money or split the loss between your operations and debt service. We're not a district that carries a large debt service balance. So, we're
041not going to split that because if we were we don't know what our tax revenue might come in. We might not be able to make debt service payments. Then we'd have to pull from rainy day to make them. That seems more of like a crisis management as opposed to a plan. So, we're we're just going to unfortunately have to eat it in our operations fund. The the other good news though the local income tax which for our district is about 150,000 a year. That was supposed to expire after 27. They've extended that another year. So, now that expires after 2028. So, that does give us a little bit more ramp on that that piece there. Just some action steps things that were current things that are have been done and then things that are in
042process. So, we'll continue to look at every little thing. One of them was a $500 maintenance contract on the lifts that are that were new and have warranties and so obviously we canceled that contract. So, little things like that big things like revising a bus replacement plan that was 330ish 50,000 dollars. So, you know, it's again there's not like a magical just do this one thing. So, um that would be it on the budget report. The other item that would be in your packets would be affidavits number 67 and 68. Those are from the lease bond. Again, those are because of their lease bond anytime we spend out of that account we have to do affidavits. So, they are in your packets. They're an informational item only. You don't need to vote on that but
043you do need to approve the budget report or I would recommend it anyways. So, but certainly happy to answer any questions too. I move we accept the budget report. Second. Gina, was that you? Yes. I Moved by Bryce seconded by Gina to accept the budget report. Is there any further discussion? If not, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of accepting the budget report say I. I. I. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. On to new business. Yep. So, the first item you have under 7A would be a consideration approval for the agreement of the affiliation Ivy Tech. Mrs. Goldman and Mrs. Akers both teach education classes there. And so, the affiliation agreement would basically just have something in writing so that we can as education students need practicum hours placements for internship things like that
044or just even observation hours in classes they can come do those. We'll have that in agreement. And so, it's great opportunity for us one to be able to recruit new teachers but also just be able to like Mrs. Akers mentioned just be able to for our teachers to share with that next generation of teachers. So, it may not never benefit our children directly but it would benefit just children in general too. So, I would recommend you guys approving that and then we will get that in place. Bryce, you probably need to abstain from that. So. I move we approve the agreement affiliation with Ivy Tech. Second. Moved by Gina seconded by Amy to approve the agreement of affiliation with Ivy Tech. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed? Abstain? I. Motion passes 6-0-1.
045Next would be the consideration approval for the technology infrastructure project bid. You you have several things in your agenda electronically. You also have a printed copy of the bid from Rowen IT Solutions based out of Lafayette. So, just the way that works a little bit E-rate is a federally subsidized program. School districts are eligible for it. I certainly am not an expert in E-rate so I don't know what other types of entities are available or qualify for E-rate but for us it's based on ADM and so we get a discount up to a certain dollar threshold. So, the bid from Rowen was for a total of 192,000. We get a 70% discount up to about 140,000. And so, again we pay 30% up to that threshold and then after that we pay full price. But
046the bid is to replace all the wireless network switches Mr. Solomon and also all the access points in the district. So, Appreciate Mr. Solomon's work on this five star consultants from Ad Tech as we work through the E-rate process. E-rate is something that refreshes every five years. And so, this would use our E-rate up but it's also something the wireless network 7 to 10 years would be kind of the life expectancy. Is that correct? So, so would recommend approval. And that would be a summer project. There would be some supplemental labor in there to help Mr. Solomon so he is not doing it all on his own. Certainly appreciate all his efforts every day but this would be a large endeavor for him to do on his own. So, certainly happy to answer questions. I
047move we approve the technology infrastructure project bid. Good. Second. Moved by Bryce seconded by Gina to approve the technology infrastructure bid. Is there any more discussion? Yes. Sorry. On page eight of the bid packet just so you're fully aware the two different payment options. The first one is basically saying whether or not we would our final E-rate approval we would just do it. I will not be checking that box. I would be checking the second one form 474 SPI. Basically saying we're good with this as long as we get our approval from USAC. And then the other I would be checking accepting the total bid because again we're going to pick up the remaining portion that doesn't fall within E-rate. So, Sorry. No. I started to talk about that earlier. Any other discussion? If not,
048proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Next order of business is 7C Yeah. 7C. Oh, that's the revision. >> Yes. So, revision 7C would be consideration of approval for use of a activity bus. So, there is a group of students going to Washington D.C. over spring break. It is not a school sponsored event or trip just due to liability reasons and all those other things that we've talked about last year. But to get transportation to and from the airport the group has requested to use activity bus. A parent who is also a current employee has volunteered to drive them to the airport and then that group would just pay reimburse the district at 49 cents per mile for both trips. So, certainly appreciate Mrs. Lowry
049on her own personal time taking a group of our students to D.C. So, I move we approve the use of the activity bus. Second. Moved by Katie seconded by Amy to approve the use of the activity bus. Any other discussion? Proceed to vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Next up is myriad of policies. Yep. So, as we went through in the work session a lot of policies some due to legislative changes from both the short session but also this past legislative session before that as well. Others are just recommendations changes from Indiana School Board Association attorneys. So, Add did add one as a revision which is policy 3011. That is not something we went over in the work session on Wednesday. So, that one if you would I
050would recommend adopting all of them. That one you would need to waive the first reading or waive the second reading. Sorry. The others you all had a first reading on Wednesday. Has everyone had a chance to look at that policy? 3011? Do we have an existing one that this is replacing? I'm assuming one. Yeah. There is simply just the edit there in the the last paragraph. It is It is current policy other than that. So, the the line that is struck out goes to the very end, and then the sentence following that is a new sentence. That was something I worked today with um Julie Slavens, who's senior counsel for the United School Association on. So. And happy to answer questions about any of the others. Travis, you >> a couple of You made a
051comment on You know, you made a comment on policy 2004. >> want to We want to hash these out or stack these, separate them up, you know. Do we need to waive the first reading first and then do them all together? Uh wait, you'd waive the second reading to adopt that one. >> Yes, waive the second reading. Yeah, but you can just do that in the vote. So, do you want to do that first? If we want to do that first, that's Yeah, you're welcome. perfectly fine. But I think we need to treat, you know, them all 3011 And you can And you can just just vote on it separately if you like and then take the others. Okay. So, if you want to adopt that one singularly, you could just waive the second reading
052it. Yeah. Motion to adopt 3011 as revised. Okay. I move we waive the second reading on policy 3011. And adopt And adopt as revised. Second. Moved by Gina, seconded by Katie to waive the second reading and adopt policy 3011. Any other discussion? Seeing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. >> Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. And Travis, I know you had a couple of policies I just bring to our attention. I think we just need to look at a few of the superintendent versus employees. So, 2004, uh first paragraph, about 2/3 of the way down, and this is in regards to resignation and retirement of the superintendent. The board president does have the authority to accept an employee's resignation. I'm wondering if that needs to be to accept a You
053want to strike out the word employee and just put the superintendent? >> That's what I thought that would be better there because then when you go to 3420, employee resignation, again, first paragraph, 2/3 of the way down, neither the superintendent nor the board president has the authority to accept an employee's resignation. So, one it says we can, one says we can't. So, I just think either we need to delay those two and maybe chat about that to make sure we get those phrasing there right, but they definitely contradict. I would be fine with tabling those two policies and discussing them. Make sure we make sure we get it right rather than doing it. You want to make that motion then, somebody? I would move that of the policies listed, accepting everything except for and 3420.
054Can I get a second? Second. Moved by Travis, seconded [snorts] by Amy to adopt adopt all of the policies listed minus policy 2004 and policy 3420. And we're just tabling those, not Yeah, I I think we'll have to have a second motion to table those two. Okay. Any other discussion? Seeing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. So, we still have those two policies we need a motion for. I move we table policy the draft policies of 2004 and 3420 for further discussion. Second. Moved by Travis, seconded by Amy to table policies 2004 and 3420 for further discussion. Any other discussion on that? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. We have not retired the current policy and replaced it
055with 5541 yet, I believe. >> So, you adopted 5541, we just need to retire 22. Again, it's almost identical policy, it may be word for word, it's just retiring one so we don't have a duplicate policy. I move we retire policy 4322. Second. Moved by Gina, seconded by Katie to retire current policy 4322. Any other discussion? If not, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. We leave. Very good. Items from the superintendent? >> Yep. Just want to thank everybody, our directors, our administrative team, board members, a lot of community, county folks, for coming to our school safety summit last week, certainly appreciate everybody taking time out. Important conversations to have. Had a lot of teachers there as well, and so I'll be sure to thank the
056teachers, administrators. Um SBOA, um State Board of Accounts, we had our ECA audit exit interview just last week. Um so, that's still kind of in the embargo process. They send us um We had that exit interview, they give us kind of their report and then they'll release their their public findings. We'll have those posted on the website when we get them, just like we have um our other State Board of Accounts audit earlier in the year. So, legislative update, obviously the short session has ended with a myriad of all kinds of things going on. Um there wasn't anything super super crazy thrown in at the last minute um sometimes like there is, um but uh we'll be digesting those over the next uh coming weeks and there will certainly be more tweaks and changes that
057we'll have to make to policies and just different things um finance-wise. Um There was there was an entire bill called Education Matters. Uh so, digging into that one to see what was in it um and and what might have been thrown in at the last minute. So, also thanks um to all our staff, our students. Um hope you guys have a great spring break. Uh if anybody wants to go walk with a fire marshal with me next Monday, feel free to come to work. Uh we'll be touring everything. So, uh but hope you all have a great spring break um and hopefully get some warmer weather. That's all I have. Uh items from board members? Congratulations, thank you to the third grade teachers. Great job and and those that are um under the third grade
058teachers that prepared them. So. Great job. Second that. It's [clears throat and snorts] great to see that information, too. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, thanks for sharing. Any others? Motion to adjourn? I move we adjourn. Second. Moved by Amy, seconded by Gina to adjourn the meeting. All those in favor say aye. Aye. >> Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Meeting adjourned. Thank everybody. Thank you all for coming.