001e e School trust or Board of Trustees meeting for the Crown Point School Corporation today's date is May 20th I'd like to call this meeting to order at 6 PM if you could all please rise and I'll lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance in a moment of silence immediately after aliance 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 thank you all right the first item on the agenda tonight is the board of school of Trustees resolution of accommodation award 2.01 Taff Middle School academic Super Bowl team for being named state champions in the social studies category in class one at the Indiana academic Super Bowl competition item 2.02 Colonel wheeler and Taff Middle School
002dance team for being named state champions in the junior high triaa Jazz and Junior High triaa Palm at the state competition item 2.03 Crownpoint High School Science Olympiad team for winning first place overall at the regional Science Olympiad tournament item 2.04 the 2023 and 2024 business Professionals of America team for earning first second and third place in students various individual words at the 2024 business Professionals of America State leadership conference in second fifth and sixth place for students individual Awards at the national leadership conference item 2.05 2023 and 2024 Crownpoint High School academic Super Bowl team for winning first place in the English Math Science and interdisciplinary categories in class one at the Indiana Regional academic Super Bowl competition item 2.06 2023 2024 Crownpoint High School Latin club for winning first place in the Helen
003wimler Spirit contest the digital scrapbook contest the Dennis M bartlo publicity contest and the local Publications contest and placing first place in the cerin advanced and intermediate divisions and third in the cerin novice division at the Indiana a junior classical League State Convention and finally item 2.07 F I'm sorry 2.07 2024 2025 teacher of the year employee of the year and administrator of the Year award board presentations and all others um who were up for those as finalists in those positions today so may I have a motion so move show a motion by Miss Basin and second to my Mr uh second by Mr bastter uh all those in favor say I I and I excuse me and nay the motion will carry three nothing Mr Vasser will present uh the items for the half
004Middle School academic super B team if we could have them come in and stand in front this will be a small group tonight compared to the other groups I can see goe Mr vasor this is our Taff Middle School academic Super Bowl team who were state champions in the social studies category in class won at the Indiana academic Super Bowl competition so first we have our coaches Jamie [Applause] Le and second coach is Karen snady before we uh give the certificates to the students coaches do you have anything to like to say about your team quite an accomplishment um I mean I've been doing this only two years but I go back the we've never made it this high so I'm really proud of these three gentlemen they did an amazing job I they really
005guided themselves give them the tools and the ones that stud I know they just have for social studies congratulations coaches so we have if I mispronounce your name don't don't hold it against me is it dejan josephi so I was I had the vows [Applause] right Mason jusco [Applause] and sha Morris congratulations parents grandparents want to take any photos now's your opportunity you guys [Applause] next we have the middle school dance teams this is our combined Colonel wheeler and Taff Middle School dance team who were state champions in junior high class triaa both Jazz and AAA pal quite an accomplishment um let's introduce our coaches first and receive their certificates we have Tamar [Applause] bets and Kelly McCarthy and my favor dancer of all time Annie [Applause] basser coaches before we uh present to our
006athletes here do you have anything you want to say about your team I just want to say thank you it was my additionally just scho history the that you guys were able to get state champions in both routines um that's never been done at the middle school level before so that's a really you all should be incredibly proud of the work that you put in this season [Applause] awesome okay let's get to the individual wordss this is Briley [Applause] Bowman Julia basil [Applause] Lily [Applause] Baja Hadley [Applause] mccre Hayden Babcock [Applause] Sabrina [Applause] white Jessica Walden Ellen [Applause] RoR Lily Petty [Applause] Claire [Applause] Peterson Kenley [Applause] Morado and Isley Kik once again congratulations uh moms and dads anybody else want to take pictures now as your big opportunity can we make little front you
007guys know how to do it yeah [Applause] congratulations all right next we have the Crown Point High School Science Olympiad team come all the way down good all right next combination is for the crown High School uh Science Olympiad team for winning first place overall at the regional Science Olympiad tournament uh what a what a great honor that is I'd like to read the resol resolution of commodation the Crown Point Board of school of Trustees is honored to commend the 2023 and 2024 Crownpoint High School Science Olympiad team for meritorious achievement be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trustees for the Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2023 24 Prim Point High School Science Olympiad team for winning first place overall at the regional competition the board
008of school of Trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity on this 20th day of May 2024 um I'd like to First recognize coach Tim clo Tim congratulations uh would you like to speak about your team a little bit so concert here you know all of us were able to make it here so you know for those wble of course you also part of for those students who here able to achieve wonderful first place here at comp and set here sucess support our midle scho teams a and able to have here for future success both both Regal tournaments and state tournament coach how does this performance compar to years in the past so this is actually our first first place at this is actually numerous
009fantastic I'll call the names if you want come for if you're here I we'll have toide Tyson Abraham Xander Abraham mateline Bronson along Nick Collier jce Edwards Ashley Johnson simra KH [Applause] Annabelle kson Maya lisma I'm just hearing coach concert concert concert concert Sarah lightel Ariel Moore uh Bernardino Pere right [Applause] Max [Applause] P Ben spaser Gabby Stabler Alie sces all right well I think that come to the end of the line there but congratulations again coach team well done thank you for representing thank you for all your [Applause] go [Applause] give okay bring the business profal look Shar kind of people there well uh next we're going to recognize the 2023 2024 business Professionals of America team for earning first second and third place in students various individual awards at the 2024 business Professionals
010of America State leadership conference in second fifth and sixth place for students individual wordss at the national leadership conference I'd like to read the uh the team solution accommodation first Crownpoint Board of school of Trustees is honored to commend the Crownpoint high school team for 2023 2024 business Professionals of America team for mandatory situ be it hereby resolved that the board of school of Trustees for the Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2324 business Professionals of American team for earning first second and third place and students various individual awards at the 2024 business professionals ofer leadership cere I'm sorry conference and second fifth and sixth place for students individual awards at the national leadership conference the Board of scho Trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to
011its minutes to be preserved for public Prosperity this congratulations coach you want to come over and join me for a minute had pleasure my children well great job do with business your team can you uh explain the process how we got here and how these Awards and this process works to to win the uh the leadership conference and just the whole ceremony how this all goes down [Music] Gent invol so students typically pick those events based on what kind ofs they gain in theom ORS of [Music] theom [Music] te individual here of our group and we start theal level and compete with schools within our region there's 10 different schools in our region and then once we qualify comption in March where 1300 other students from the state are competing for DPA and then qualif
012to go to Nationals we just got backing days in Chicago 6500 students from all over the country China Puerto Rico and Canada and these are all highly skilled highly professional individuals and they could walk into any boardroom and represent Crown Point Community School Corporation Ian look how great they look um they're highly professional and I'm so proud of them they work so hard when you get involved in BPA as in any other academic team when you're competing with students from all over State the country you know it's like taking an extra class or an extra two classes so it takes a great deal of commitment and confidence in yourself and you learn so much more about yourself and so I could be more proud of these guys they are just so good and so they're
013going to be our are our leaders our Business Leaders of the future so let's just give them a [Applause] hand you have a little bit of passion don't you you like it it's awesome fantastic one question how long have you been doing this well I brought BP to the high school years ago they call mear because my last is and BL tan and red like I'm all abouta if you my pict so my passion I lovea and so my job is to recruit these guys and let their job and just have a great time I know one thing I'm not wear three ever again all right let's get to the accommodations and individuals Jake Balman TR [Applause] tillage Mason [Applause] Rini Ari barar Aiden uh Cor thank you penot [Applause] mle Parker [Applause] Nicks [Applause]
014deanon Cesar [Applause] quit and Miss Mary back you know I'll hold if you take the pictures okay all right take some pictures we [Applause] congratulations all right next can we please bring in the academic Super Bowl team for all right welcome so I'll first read our resolution of commendation the Crownpoint School Board of Trustees is honored to commend the 2023 2024 Crownpoint High School academic Super Bowl team for meritorious achievement be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trust for the cmpo Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2023 2024 cromo High School academic Super Bowl team for winning first place in the English Math Science and interdisciplinary categories in class one at the Indiana Regional academic Super Bowl competition the board of school public trustees the board of school trustees
015publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity so coach can I have you come on up and I'm gonna give you the podium here um these are just the hardest working and most intelligent kids in the school it's not like an a athletic event where they get to run around for a little bit after school it's just constant brain power they they're in the hardest classes in the school they're in a lot of AP classes and then they do more studying for academic Super Bowl and it's just I'm so proud of like how much work that they actually put in they learn a lot of college level material in high school independently like the coaches help them out a little bit but this is most of
016it is just on them to just learn that college level material all by themselves there and to do that at such a high level to represent Crown Point is is it's an amazing student they got amazing parent support amazing just yeah amazing work ethics and the brains is amazing so we start sometimes a little before Christmas break um and then we continue it all throughout the spring we do we do like a little fine tune competition and then we have like our DAC competition that they they also won that for like four years in a row um and then and then we had the area competition it was the first team we had to have like five state qualifiers for each each of the sub okay Isaac Foster Bella lamparski Maya LMA Sarah lito Eva
017opatas Vanessa oolina Santino Pape Max [Music] P he was just up here for BPA but Caesar kit orderer brother miles kit Billy Roman Kaylin [Applause] Ward Miss Missing Gabriella staer [Applause] works for [Applause] our next award will be for the Crownpoint High School Latin Club come on in Latin club all right so our resolution of commendation the Crownpoint Board of school trustees is honored to commend the 2023 2024 Crownpoint High School Latin club for meritorious achievement be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trustees for the Crownpoint Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2023 2024 Crownpoint High School Latin club for winning first place in the Helen Wampler Spirit contest the digital scrapbook contest the Dennis M bartlo publicity contest and the local Publications contest and for placing first in
018the ceran advanced and intermediate divisions and third in the ceran novice division at the Indiana junior classical League State Convention the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to it its minutes to be preserved for public posterity so we have coaches Ryan ker Angie more time ter scavage and Mr Jeremy Walker coaches do you want to come on up and say aou yeah this was our this was our first three-day convention it's always been a two-day convention so that was an adventure and I have to give props to Hayden Smith who was the state first vice president who planned all of that 3day in this brand new format so great job Hayden that that was a big Kudos all the way up we had 21 students go and of those
01921 uh they brought home 134 top five placing things in either academic testing graphic arts or creative arts where they do things like Latin oratory English oratory acting out a passage in Latin some really cool stuff if you ever get a chance to come with us we'd love to have you and I think you'd really enjoy the experience they are fantastic kids to work with they work really hard and with my whole team here there are three of us who teach Latin at the high school they do a great job you'll notice there's not a lot of us here tonight it's the City band concert and if you don't know this about Latin students they're very musical band choir orchestra so we don't have a lot here getting their rewards but there are a lot
020of us and uh we're just happy to be here and to do a great job year after year with these young people wow I think I just got called out for being old uh you've been in years of work like uh this is my 29th year teaching at Crown Point High School and bringing teams to the state [Applause] competition hello I'm Angela teras scavage and uh I've been teaching at Crownpoint high school for five years and have only had the pleasure and the honor of being involved with the Latin program for the last three um this is a tremendous group of kids they work really hard I just want to shout out our caman teams a little bit because when everyone else is busy you know working in the weight room and practicing their Sports
021uh these folks show up every single Friday night for an hour and a half and study topics in uh language ancient history and mythology and culture and uh it shows in performance so thank you for sharing your wonderful spuds [Applause] so like I said a lot of them are at the All City band concert today so zophia barck is not here Gabriel Blake Nick CER Ashley grindy Sean AMA Sammy EPA but then we have here tonight Analise [Applause] jaob not present Kaye Maynard Asher M mcvi and here in the room Gibson [Applause] merly also not present Colton Neil cambri and nimir but here in the room with us Logan poly also in the room Hayden [Applause] Smith would like to point out that K not only earned a state scholarship but we recently found out
022she's also getting a national scholarship and she'll be studying in Italy next year at Sapien University with hopes that someday she'll be teaching Latin and Classics either at the high school or the Collegiate level Joe Stewart isn't here also absent as Lincoln Vickers but here at the end of the line last but not least Jackson [Applause] rck and our final people who weren't present Gabrielle Wagner Luke Wald Schmid Jack Watson and Emy [Applause] Wilson for thank [Applause] you all right and last but not least we have all of our um teacher of the year for elementary secondary and our employee of the year and I'd like to First Call up all of our finalist so if our finalist could join us up front please all right so resolution of commendation the Crownpoint Board of school
023trustees is honored to commend each of these individuals as exemplary teachers and employees of the Crownpoint school corporation be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trustees for the cromo Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to each of these individuals for the 2023 and 2024 finalists the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public poster this 20th day of May 2024 so our I'll call um these folks up first I see some of them may not be here Mary Lux Amy [Applause] Merl Grace [Applause] kellet Jessica Markle Tara [Applause] ble Carolyn [Applause] winland Stacy stanfor Abby Rous [Applause] Bob [Applause] Burks Scott Kesler so these were all of our finalists we have a um I'll start first with our secondary
024education so if I could have our director of secondary education come on up and I'll let Miss Sabrina Ramirez it is quite an honor to get to present this award to Ryan jzac who is our secondary teacher of the year and I really want to congratulate all of our nominees and of course our selected teachers of the Year employees of the year and um administrators of the Year during the interviews which we have the pleasure of getting to be part of the passion the commitment the care for students and the collegiality that all of our educators and our staff have really is beyond um what anybody could ever want they are truly passionate about the work that they do and about seeing students be successful and working with other teachers to do what is best
025for kids and that commitment really shines in all of their responses and in their presence here today Ryan has had a tremendous impact on the culture and the experiences both at Wheeler middle school and at TA middle school and is a true advocate for inclusion to see the opportunities that he has helped create for our students for parents and for our staff to really learn um how we can not only meet the needs of students but see our students for all that they are the assets that they bring and for the weaknesses that they each um possess so I really want to thank Ryan for all of the contributions he has made and will continue to make so that our students are afforded numerous opportunities both within our schools as well as in the community
026so I thank you Ryan congrat and I all of our Educators and all of our staff who are here with us tonight I'm going to also see a Tracy cyber who is the principal over at um T Middle School would like to say some words and she's making her way over so thank you Tracy I think you know Sabrina said it very well everything that Ryan has done um if you've ever changed jobs or changed locations you know it's hard to do at the end of the year we asked Ryan to do that in the middle of the year to not only change classrooms but change schools groups of kids and he thrived in that he Dove right in um we've never had applied skills at Taff before and he started all kinds of new
027initiatives this year um and is just been an amazing part of our Taff family and we are so excited to have him there [Applause] all right and for our elementary teacher of the year I would like to call up our director of Elementary education Mr Nick chck thank you first off congratulations to all of our finalists and nominees uh sitting in these interviews was uh such an enjoyable thing to do it was a great way to start a couple couple mornings that week when we did these interviews um but Mrs Ramirez said it really well about everything that all of our finalists bring to the table um I'm excited to congratulate Mrs Teresa Zant who is our elementary teacher of the year for Crownpoint Community Schools um Mrs Zar really blew the panel away in
028her interview all the finalist did but um just some things that really kind of stuck out about Mrs zart um from reading through her responses and then listening to her interview and also her her recommendation from her principal was just the the import of the creating an environment where all students can thrive in her classroom um she serves on the inclusion leadership team for MacArthur um she talked about and Miss bucko kind of talked about in her recommendation how Mrs Z contributes in so many ways around the school um an impact in her classroom but also outside the four walls of her classroom um and just really a model of the talent and dedication that we have uh in crowno Community Schools I'm going to kick it to miss buck real quick U I'm sure
029she would love to add a few things about Mrs Z first of all congratulations to all of our candidates um Teresa um there are no words Nick did a great job of um sharing everything about you and I don't know that anybody can fully share everything about Teresa she is so deserving of this award she has five and it's very evident because I've never seen a more calm person um no matter what's going on in her classroom what you throw at her she just remains calm and she's so positive and she's like I've got this no problem Maran we we'll do whatever it takes and that truly is her attitude is whatever it takes to help our kids succeed but I think truly the the biggest attribute or trait of Teresa in my opinion is
030her love and for our students and it's just amazing The Compassion she shows she invites former students back if she knows their struggling just to she gives her her own time her prep period to have lunch if it's their lunch period She has lunch with her own students uh it's their birthday and she brings them a balloon for every student and it's just truly amazing the love that she has for students and she's just a great example for all the rest of us so congratulations Teresa [Applause] okay good evening thank you um for giving me the honor of introducing the employee of the year but before I do that raise your hand if you are an exceptional education teacher or employee up here so I just want to say five or six years ago I'm
031not sure we would have seen half of the nominees um from the exceptional education department so kudos to everyone and I'm extra proud of those of you in exceptional Ed so it's an honor to be here with you all tonight uh I want to express my gratitude to Jennifer Eaton our employee of the year um Jen I hope you don't mind I will call you Jen because I feel like we're on that kind of first name basis now um Jen has been working with our most intense students at Crownpoint high school for the last five years um her compassion patience and commitment to create an environment where every student is valued is unmatched um she jumps in She's Not Afraid she helps um the most challenging students um she has stepped up to the plate
032when we needed her most and took a position as a longterm sub when a teacher had to away and I don't know what we would have done without you um this year we're incredibly fortunate to have you as part of the exceptional Education team and at Crow Point High School so thank you so [Applause] much and I will turn it over to Dr Terell for our next one if the rest of you can just have a seat for just a minute while we finish up with the other employees of the year think thank you and hang on if you would until we get done with the last two a words that we have for this evening at this time it is my uh privilege to be able to recognize our administrator of the year we
033started this a few years ago uh and it's been a highlight of um the year for us as we look at our administrators and all the great things that are happening in our bu across our district to be able to recognize this person tonight I would like to introduce all of you to our director of Transportation Marty Freeman and ask Marty if you would come forward [Applause] please at this time I'm gonna ask Mr AWA if he would come and say a few words about Marty but Marty with this recognition goes and Center uh words really can't uh fully Describe the impact that Marty has had on on our school corporation um if you can imagine redistricting growing School Corporation um this guy has done so much to just do the job that you know
034is his job description what sets Marty apart is it is very very common not uncommon it is very common for me between 4 and 5:30 in the morning to get a text from Marty telling me it's a great day to be a bulog uh he'll text me and say thank you so much for bringing me on board I love my job um you know you you would think job means work you know job means oh I got to get up i' got to get into the office I got to drive to school like the roads at 3:00 a.m. 4 a.m. to see if it's safe for our buses to this guy does it and he just feels like it's a gift that he's able to do this Marty we cannot thank you enough for this
035kind of commitment and probably something that you'll never truly fully feel and I can't either because I'm not part of the crew over there at the transportation department but he has developed a sense of belonging a sense of worth a sense of pride a sense of family a sense of healthy culture uh in our transportation department to a level that that we seen in many many years or possibly ever at all uh he's grown our staff thankfully right because we need them right Marty um anybody wants get please see Marty outside application if you'd like to drive a bus but anyway uh Mr Freeman uh I am so proud happy and thankful to work alongside of you at Crown Point Community School Corporation thank you for everything that you've brought to our school community and
036uh from my heart and many others congratulations I can tell you while Mr uh Aiwa is thrilled to get those early morning texts those four o'clock texts that come in my wife's like what does Marty want now so Marty congratulations I'd like to recognize Marty's family is here you guys good way thank you guys for being here Marty's wife Jen actually spent like at the beginning of school year Sundays walking neighborhoods and talking to people like hey how about this bus stop with this work here and so just so you know like so many of our administrators when it's when we go in it's it's a it's a whole family thing so before I present this award I'd like to read the uh resolution of accommodation the Crown Point Board of school trustees is honored
037to commend Marty Freeman as an exemplary administrator be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trustees for the Crown Point Community SCH Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to Marty Freeman for being named the 2024 2324 administrator of the year the school board trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity dated this 20th day of May 2024 [Applause] our last uh accomodation this evening is award that we do not give uh annually uh several years ago we started the Mike carahan Spirit of a bulldog award and this award is given annually possibly depending on the situations for that school year uh this Bulldog Spirit of a bulldog award is for exemplary display of Pride determination perseverance kindness reliability humility and selflessness and for those
038of you who know pamone you know that this is absolutely true of pam pam I'm G to ask you to come forward at this time she hates this she absolutely hates [Applause] this which makes me enjoy this even that much more and we were able to even sneak your husband here this evening to help you at this time I'm going to ask uh mat Reese our chief finance officer if he would come and say a few words regarding p uh Pam congratulations and thank you Pam is retiring after 23 years of service to the Crown Point Community School Corporation Pam epitomizes the last two phrases you heard in that humility and selflessness Pam will always be in the background this is absolute torture for her to be in front of the crowd tonight and and
039be on the telecast um so we want to thank you Pam one thing about Pam other than making sure that all of the students are fed who want lunches and get breakfast in our Corporation is that Pam um does a great job and what's more important to me financially having the balances available to us to reimburse us for the services that the school corporation provides to our food service department Bank payroll and benefits but also utilities uh for her F food service equipment um Pam has returned over do back to the School cor millions of dollars back to the school corporation in her 23 years which supports everything that we do here and you can't thank her enough for that and for being the spirit of the bulldog and as with Marty this is a
040family thing again and the story that I have for Pam was last summer we were doing we have an admin family activity at the end of our retreat in July with our administrators asked them to bring their families back have some burgers and food and just fellowship at time and this past year we got there and got it all set up and as I came found out that Pam's husband who was here with us this evening got there early and was using his yard blower to blow off all the tables get rid of the dust and we got all the tables set up and here comes the thunder and lightning and we had to call it and he came back again the next night and did it all again and again it's just an example
041of how our families are committed to being a part of this as well so Pam if you haven't spent enough time up here we're going to have just a little bit longer while I read the resolution of commodation the Crown Point Board of school trustees is honored to commend Pam Maloney for Meritus achievement be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trustees for Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to Pam Maloney food service director as the re of the Mike carahan Spirit of a bulldog award for exemplary display of Pride determination perseverance kindness reliability humility and selflessness the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its Min to be preserved for public posterity dated this 20th day of May 2024 [Applause] easy thanks for
042com for okay we'll move on with the uh the agenda uh item 3.01 patrons registered to comment there are no patrons uh that have signed up to comment so we'll move on to uh the consent agenda Dr Terell thank you for your consideration this evening we have 4.01 the regular business meeting minutes have 422 and also uh the May 13th executive session minutes 4.02 the uniform conflict of interest disclosure statements 4.03 the Personnel agenda and 4.04 the voucher registered checks as listed you've heard of recommendations made by DR Terrell related to the consent agenda 4.01 regular business meeting minutes and May 13 2024 executive session minutes 4.02 uniform conflict of interest disclosure statements 4.03 the Personal Agenda and 4.04 voucher register check numbers 17277 to 172 393 checks number 10 14447 to1 04457 check numbers
04391019 and vouchers number 29386 to 294 262 may I have a motion so move second show a motion moved by Miss Basin and seconded uh by Mr Vasser all those in favor signal by saying I I I and uh we'll carry the vote three Z we'll move along to action item 5.01 Mr Hardman evening the first one is theability Grant this is an annual non Grant from this year the amount is 76396 as you look at the threeyear trend of this the significant difference in this is that we are going to use these funds to hire a halim interventionist to supportability program which will help build our capacity to deliver services to our students uh with the grant you are required to allocate a specific amount towards testing materials that 222 that you see in
044that area uh is uh part of what we spend for high ability screening and testing to be able to identify the students and service them in C Comm schools uh this evening we're seeking your approval to apply for and receive these funds from the Indiana Department of Education you've heard of recommendations of Mr Hardman to approve and appli and reive Grant funds from the Indian Department of Education High ability Grant in the amount of $763 196 may have a motion I'll make a motion second show a motion uh made by Mr Vasser and hold on one second and seconded by Miss Basin are there any questions or comments yes Mr Harman uh on your breakdown of of the the funds are split up my assumption is based upon the wages for the employee that's going
045to be doing this so to be a first year teacher no what this is that those uh that allocation of 56,000 or almost 57,000 is for part of ail teacher that we have in the school corporation so this grant pays for that and then in addition to that we're hiring the half intervention actually two people that are part of this not a compens one thank you any other questions I do have one quick question Mr Harbin as far as um the student identification testing materials and scoring I see like an overall decrease in that expense is that just becoming a more affordable option or more streamlined as far as how that's from State st23 you had 6375 of the grant towards identification this year decrease as you can see by almost $4,000 which allows you
046to alloc perfect thank you anything further ready to vote all those in favor sign signal by saying I I I we'll show the vote carries three Z we'll move to uh action item 5.02 I think back to you Mr Hardman yeah thank you very much uh this uh Grant was a grant that was was submitted based on the initiative of one of our teachers Kelly chier a few years ago she also submitted a grant for leadership this is a followup to that and tonight we're seeking uh your approval to apply for and receive the funding from the idoe level of leadership Grant Kelly participated in that and she has just had a a desire to develop her leadership skills atown point point high school and we're really excited to uh be able to support her
047by having this grant these Grant funds for her so tonight we're seing your approval to apply for and rece fing $ 4,272 20 for the level of leadership cohort which he participated this year you've heard of recommendations of Mr Hardman to apply for and receive funding from the indn Department of Education level up leadership Grant on behalf of uh the Crownpoint High School teacher Kelly chavalier participation and level up leadership cohort one in the amount of $ 42722 may I have a motion so move second show motion made by Miss Basin and second by Mr Vasser are there any questions or comments is is the teacher here tonight okay any other questions all right let's put it to a vote all those in favor signal by saying I I I will show the vote carries
048three Z on to action thank you Mr Hardman on to action item 5.03 Mr cacino thank you Mr Smith and board members for your consideration this evening uh is a resource adoption for elementary stem uh the resources listed will support the stem and computer science standards in grades K through five at our elementary schools for our brand new Elementary stem specials opportunity uh the recommendation from Administration is that the school board approved the textbook of resource adoption for use beginning in 2024 2025 you've heard a recommendation of Mr Kina to approve the textbook resource adoption for use beginning in 2020 I'm sorry 2024 and 2025 for stem and computer science standards in grades K through five may I have a motion motion second show a motion made by Mr Vasser seconded by Miss bason are
049there any questions or comments I only have one Mr kacina this is all this is all new based upon the new program is that correct yes okay thank you let's uh if there's no other questions make a vote uh all those uh in favor signal by saying I I I and we'll show the vote carries three Z you move to action item 5.04 Mrs Ramirez thank you Mr President and board members I am here today to bring to light the recommendation for an outof country field trip to Greece by Crownpoint high school students that would take place in March through the beginning of April of 2026 this will allow students participating in media to learn storytelling techniques be able to use words images and graphic art to develop those skills through the leadership and sponsorship
050of this um trip which will be led by Lisa Kean who is here with us today and I am recommending on behalf of the administration that the school board approved the outof country field trip to Greece by Crownpoint high school students in March through beginning of April 2026 wonderful you heard the recommendations of Miss Mrs Ramirez to uh approve uh the out of country field trip to Greece by Crown Point High School students March 25th 26 to April 45th 2026 may I have a motion some I'll second in just a second may I ask a question um 2026 so a year and three quarters away is there a reason why we're approving this so early um so that they can start to um fund raise they can start to pay off the amount towards their
051trip so when we get these in we typically bring them as soon as we're able to oftentimes it's a year in advance sometimes a year and a half this one is the longest out which just shows the great planning and the um preparation that this team is going to or this teacher and students are um preparing for okay thank you let's second that then all right thank you Mr Vasser we'll show a motion made by Miss Bas and a second by Mr Vasser are there any other questions or comments no I just want to thank you for continuing to give these opportunities to our students it's really nice we've had a number of these on the agenda um in the last few months and that's really awesome for our students to have that opportunity so
052thank you for spearheading that and and leading our students um overseas yeah and I would just Echo that this is a fantastic opportunity so thank you for all you're doing how many how many students do we anticipate maybe going do we have any idea at this point exced asies what a wonderful opportunity so thank you again we appreciate it we ready to vote all right uh all those uh in favor signal by saying I I I uh we'll show the vote carries three Z we are back to you Mrs Ramirez for action item 5.05 thank you Mr President tonight I would like to bring forward the request for adoption of the textbook to support the healthcare specialist CNA course at Crown Point High School as well as the resource for schoolwide adoption at the middle
053school to support one school one book and these would be used starting in 2024 2025 so it is the administration's recommendation that the school board approve these resources for adoption to begin next school year in 2425 thank you you've heard a recommendation of the administration to approve the resources for adoption for use beginning of 20 24 and 2025 may I have a motion I'll second in just a second so uh Mrs Ramirez this you said this is uh one book one school is one school one book yes for the Middle School um how does that actually work then at the middle school um there is a team of teachers and Educators who are on the one school one book committee they reviewed 11 books in total they look for books that align with um different
054categories that we have identified in terms of um type of text that it is the type of characters and or story that is told engagement of students um making sure that it is appropriate for middle school students and then this novel will be read throughout the school year with accompanying activities that the students will participate in to really support a love of learning and a love of reading and it's six through eight six through eight okay thank you you're welcome second that thank you I'll show the motion it's moved to the floor by Miss Bas and second by Mr Vasser are there any other questions or comments um no just a quick comment for those who don't have students in middle school and they do the same thing in elementary school with the one um
055school one book it actually is a really great opportunity the elementary is wonderful for families to read the book all together which has been great and the middle school has been been really nice just to even watch my um seventh graders kind of go through that and have um the camaraderie that comes with doing that throughout the whole school so I appreciate you guys putting that together so that our our kids can have that cohesive um experience where they they're all reading and um discussing a little bit of the same thing thank you for your support wonderful um ready to vote all right uh all those in favor signal by saying I I I we'll show the vote carries three zero thank you uh action item 5.06 Mrs pascus good evening um tonight I ask
056for your approval of our contract with Milestone therapy l to provide Physical Therapy evaluations and physical therapy as a related Service as required by state and federal special education law for the 2024 25 school year thank you Mrs pascus will show the you heard the recommendations of the administration uh for the school board to approve the contract of Milestone Therapy LLC to provide IEP required Physical Therapy evaluations and services for the 20 24 and 2 school year may I have a motion I make a motion second shall a motion made by Mr Vasser and seconded by Miss bason are there any questions or comments Mrs pascus always just ask us is this uh Milestone therapy a company that we're familiar with yes this is our sixth year uh we currently have about 43 students with
057physical therapy on their IEPs and then we're always completing evaluations with them as the school year goes on thank than you any other questions or comments all right uh all those in favor signal by saying I I I show the vote carries three- Z thank you Mr M moving on to action item 5.07 Mr ke thank you Mr Smith board members uh tonight we bring to you for the second time uh four isba policies uh that would be isba uh 6100 which is internal controls isba a 8615 idling of school buses and other idling vehicles on school property isba 1310 electronic participation by board members in board meetings nisba 8500 visitors to school buildings uh as you know last month we had our first reading uh of these four policies tonight we are making the
058recommendation that we wave the second reading and approve these four policies thank you Mr Kea you heard the recommendations of the administrations to approve isba 6100 internal controls isba policy 8615 iding idling of school buses and other idling vehicles on school property isba policy number 1310 electronic participation by board members and board meetings isba 8500 visitors to school board I'm sorry to scho school buildings and we've uh received a recommendation to wave the second reading may I have a motion I move to V on those four policies and second thank you I'll second that motion are there any uh comments or questions from Mr yes uh Mr a on the idling of school buses and other idling vehicles on school property um so as a veteran of bus Duty I I understand that um so
059we have buses on one part of the building we have a parent line in another part of the building um how do we monitor this or how do we enforce this we've got signs posted and we just really hope that individuals are you know doing their best to realize that they need to to you know once they get in the spot where they're going to sit they go ahead and power down their vehicles to minimize any fumes that's that are coming in and out of the buildings yeah I I only ask that because you know signs are just for law-abiding citizens right um so I I understand that um the police would have no jurisdiction on this this is our local school board policy um it's we've had it this is just a it's been
060around for a long time updating language yeah for to to you know become current uh as we transition from theola to isba that is correct thank you I'll second that I think it's already on the floor motion myself so any other questions or comments all right all those in favor signal by saying I I the vote carries three Z thank you Mr ke we go on to action item 5.08 Mr Reese thank you Mr Smith members of the board tonight we bring before you the 2024 2025 School Meal prices recommendation you'll notice that there's no increase for elementary middle or high school lunches uh at our buildings however Trinity and St Mary's have a 10cent increase breakfast is staying also the same in our elementary middle and high schools we're able to do this even
061though uh the federal guidelines would like us to raise our prices uh we do we can keep our prices the same uh for our building simply because our balances are sufficient enough uh to still provide the guidelines for the food that the federal government would like us to require so with that we make a recommendation for the uh meal prices as presented thank you Mr ree you've heard the recommendations of the administration to approve the meal prices for the 202 24 and 2025 school year that are within the federal guidelines may I have a motion I'll make the motion second show a motion made by Mr basser and second by Miss bason there any questions or comments I I just think it's amazing yeah that throughout our whole school district the prices don't go up
062so Matt I don't know if you're the person to thank or Pam's the person to think on that but that that just amazes me in this in this economy that the price doesn't rise that's the real reason why Pam showed up that's a victory in of itself for sure no I was going to say the same thing just that with inflation as high as it is that's incredible so kudos to all those that uh have been able to make that happen for our absolutely I ask you just remember that when we need might to potentially in the future need to bring a price increase remember how good we've had it for so long we tend to have short memories Mr re all right any other questions or comments all right all those in favor signal
063by saying I I I show the vote carries three Z moving on to action item 5.09 Food Service urement plan approval for 2024 2025 back to you Mr Reese thank you those same federal guidelines that uh work with our pricing of our food also uh require us to have a procurement plan as described by the federal government the Indian Department of Education child and food nutrition is nice enough uh to provide us with a template which is what you have in front of you that template we then insert our board policy language into that template so you can be assured that the policy matches the template that the Indiana doe has as required of us so with that we're asking excuse me asking for your approval for the 2024 2025 Food Service procurement plan refer
064to recommendations of the administration to approve the 2024 and 2025 Food Service procurement plan may have a motion second second show a motion made by Miss Bas a second by Mr basser are there any questions or comments no questions or comments we'll vote all those in favor signal by saying I I show the vote carries three Z on to action item five uh 5.10 districtwide asphalt paving projects Mr ree thank you as we move towards the end of our construction projects now the next step is to go back in and fix some of the paving that's been done around to our parking lots uh so with that we received bids last week uh for paving at a number of buildings the total bids came in at 1,21 2017,2018 Services uh School Corporation and SC both
065have extensive experience with Site Services uh in the past so with that we're recommending approve of the contracts for districtwide asphalt paving projects uh for asphalt to Site Services thank you Mr ree uh you've heard a recommendation of the administration to approve the contracts for the districtwide asphalt paving projects as follows asphalt to Site Services in the amount of 1,271 127 may I have a motion your turn so second will show that uh motion made by Miss Bas and the seconded by Mr Vasser are there any questions or comments how long does the asphalt typically last in a school's parking lot I'm G to turn that one over to Mr just typically I mean oh really wow never would have guessed that that's great again I just want to reiterate reiterate this is the lowest
066bid process and um Site Services had the lowest bid correct thank you any other questions or comments okay uh uh with no other questions or comments we'll put to a vote all those in favor signal by saying I I I we'll show the vote carries three Z all right we moving on to the agenda item six uh 6.01 superintendent discussion groups Mr vaser will start with you out in Cedar Lake if you have anything uh Cedar Lake we did not meet uh this month because of was election day so we will be a meeting the first Tuesday in June wonderful so nothing to report okay I know Mr Angel's not present tonight he handles Winfield so we'll catch up with him next week and I have nothing to report for Crown Point so move on
067to uh item 6.02 director grants assessments Mr Hardman thank you very much I am I learn I read AP sat you don't know what those are those are the most recent assessments that we have administered in point schools uh I just wanted to just take you through think about it from the student standpoint for just as they engage in that testing uh preparation that goes into that taking place the the pressure the stress that might feel as they come into that testing those testing times um then you start thinking about the teachers and their administration of the testing and there's pressure on teachers to administer that well so that that students have the best opportunity to to do their best on that and then you look at uh the uh the support staff that are
068working with students groups or supporting them as as Proctors and then you have the administrators who are overseeing that at the building level so that we don't have irregularity reports and the training that goes into that then you come up to the level here with directors uh and secretaries that are working to to really make sure that this is a a solid uh Administration season uh report to you uh very little U kind of irregularities that were subed to that weren't a to be that weren't able to be uh to be worked out and so just from an Administration standpoint the number of people the students families that are engaged in this really uh just a big thank you to everybody that makes that occur um results for I learn will be coming out this
069Friday they will be coming home students for English language arts and math as well as social studies of grade five uh science Testing uh they're re uh they're resetting the cut so the science test at grades four six and for biology they're going to be coming out later on in the summer and we'll be giving those to parents probably in the fall we do have what's called a resore window that's coming up you'll be messaging if you have children in the elementary middle school messaging will be coming out Wednesday and it's a resore window that by by law we have to offer and the open-ended items that means those items that students actually write responses now those can be reviewed by parents and if we think that there's an error in the scoring be submitted
070to the state for a resore and it's seen that additional points should be given more points will be given and in the same way less points are needed the score could actually be lower so that twoo is coming up and we'll complete that by the end of next week uh for summer school we're getting geared up for that as soon as we have school year graduation happens and that following Monday we're in summer school so we have a number of students that have enrolled and for credits for uh support for interventions all of that will be taking place and we're thankful for the parents that helped support that as well as the staff that you approve tonight for our summer school program so thank you very much Mr Hardman how many students estimate I'm not
071going to hold you to uh attend summer school in our in our district I'm going to somewhere around couple thousand that many because the school has thank you and then the only other question I have is are you gonna be able to sleep this week with these test results coming out Friday it used to be they came out the day before Thanksgiving and are there any other questions or comments good all right thank you Mr Hardman all right moving on to uh item 6.03 director of Elementary education Mr cacina thank you Mr Smith and board members uh tonight I want to thank um there's too many people to name but I want to thank uh the 84 um Elementary School teachers two of them are right here and 14 exceptional education teachers who um over
072the course of the last month we've had 12 halfday meetings uh with our curriculum specialists uh for Math and Ela Joe bisc and Amy mallister to create our new uh District curriculum apps for grades K through five in math and Ela uh during those meetings like I said we had one teacher from each grade level from each building um attend those to work alongside administrators and curriculum Specialists to build uh those Curriculum maps it was a wonderful collaborative process um and lots of lots of input from teachers and input from every every school building ACR the district elementary wise so that was great uh we're really excited as this is going to help us align things to our new Indiana academic standards uh ahead of the I learn checkpoint change next year also uh we
073believe this is going to help strengthen our collaboration and consistency across the district and uh will help us really to make data driven decisions moving forward for both uh how we support students and how we um tweak our curriculum and develop our curriculum um this is my first month of May not being at the building level uh and it's really strange um but I want to just take a minute to thank our teachers and staff members and administrators um for all they're doing to really serve our kids and our community in really meaningful ways there's so many events happening every day um from kidy 500s to field days to DARE graduations and so much more and it's just so evident um how much our teachers care to make these lasting memories for our kids um
074and I just appreciate all the hard work that everyone's doing to get us get us to the end of the year so thank you thank you Mr K any questions all good all right move on to item 6.04 director of secondary education Mrs rire thank you Mr Smith and board members I don't think I can really paint the picture of all that is happening right now um throughout the secondary world but I will highlight a couple things and it really just goes to show the commitment that our administrator our teachers our staff have to providing opportunities that leave really lasting memories for our students and so i' would like to start by just congratulating our middle schools and Crownpoint high school for their excellence in Indiana State Music Association and their competitions that they have
075been part of they are truly talented we had the first career fair at Crownpoint high school and Lynn Aly and the cphs admin team and counseling team were um integral and making that a successful opportunity for our students to connect with future career opportunities we had the performance of Lion King on the third over at Taft and that was a great um really demonstration of passion and talent for our middle school students which was wonderful to get to see I was excited to get a text on the morning of the 11th of May Russ was out at the car show that Dan White and Pat Maggie help organize and so it's so cool that our students who are into um Automotive really get to Showcase some of their vehicles as well as the community so
076again I think it just really shows that we are an integral part of the community and that our community wants to be part of us so I think that that is always um an exciting event and they had a great day for that our middle schools last week had another parent welcome for our incoming sixth graders and I think that that really goes to show how invested we are in making sure that the transition from elementary to middle school is a success and their commitment to welcoming our families and our students and giving them kind of the lay of the land for what to expect we had a wonderful military celebration at Crownpoint High School which is always um not only heartfelt but I think just very moving to see the commitment that our students
077have developed through the leadership of their parents and through the support of the school system to um represent our country we also had several of our actually own staff who have students who are going into the military so I am just very grateful to um those fine students for serving our country we're of course looking forward to gradu ation coming up in June and to um celebrating all of our graduates this year and I just really want to take the opportunity to thank all of the Educators um our employees and our administrators who were here with us today being nominated and even those who were not able to be with us today um they are truly an inspiration as Nick mentioned you know when we sit in these interviews it's like a great time for
078us as administrators to just hear about the love and the passion that these Educators and staff continue to demonstrate and um I feel very blessed to be able to be part of the secondary team and part of the greater good of Crownpoint Community School Corporation so thank you mrz you could you could feel as the individuals were talking today you could the passion that they have and their voices and how excited they are we're we're very blessed um how many students are we anticipate graduating how many handshakes do we have to have this year as board members I think that we're doing some uh fist bumps this year so we're going to be kind of cool and Rocket in 2425 that right Dr ter not doing fist bumps handshake or fist bump we'll see about
079that I'm guessing handshake will win out um I would imagine I think that we have slightly over 650 is okay yeah EXC I know we're effective so it's gon to be great what a great day for them so thank you thank you uh we go to item 6.05 director of exceptional education Mr good evening board members um last Wednesday we held our third annual unified game day at the high school we had 375 athletes which was made up of students from our applied skills program with a peer body um and competed in various trk and field and um obstacle course events um I want to thank the high school for the use of the facilities um the high school pet Fan Food Service uh Rachel dlap our PT assistant and Kelly us my assistant who
080really spearheaded the planning of this year's event um I want to thank our central office staff that worked events Mr Jan fery Mr Hardman Mrs ramire Mr China Mrs mallister Mr bisc and Mrs Duval thank uh two of our School nurses Tiffany Bowman and Kelly McCarthy our Master of Ceremonies Mike molaski and our DJ Stephanie penley who's one of our speech pathologists um thanks to our buildings and ground staff who uh the night before and morning of moved some very vital student equipment in order for them to participate um several community volunteers um skilman sent some people we had one of the ground Point ambassadors from this year that volunteered and then thank you to Mr Smith for stopping those awesome day was awesome Mrs pascus I just want to say having an opportunity to
081go out there and I was out there last year too to watch it and every year it just improves and gets better and better if you haven't had a chance to go out there and watch the unified games I said this last year and I'll say it again I recommend you go watch a unified games if you want to see a community work together and come together that's the place to be it's really impressive so and just like we saw with the volunteers from the community I think you're going to see more and more of that just because it's such a great event so well done and thank you for putting that on thank you I have a vision like food CHS I have a vision how many how many students this year how many
082students this year 375 that's amazing thank you go to item 6.06 Chief human resource officer Mr Aiwa thank you Mr Smith and board members um first I would like to just thank uh our leadership team and and all of our schools the events that they're mentioning there is so much happening right now but beneath all of that um they are still taking care of business uh we have been interviewing um and screening applicants for the positions as we begin to staff for next year and I just cannot thank all of our leaders uh for getting so much done while uh tending to to all these you know great things happening in their buildings we've got some wonderful candidates teed up uh to join us next year uh so it's been a very successful uh to
083this point a hiring season here for the Crown Point Community School Corporation and finally um I'd like to thank this moment that happened tonight with the teacher of the year employee of the year administrator of the year um really cannot be done without the help and coordination of Diana green who's in the the back of the room over there so thank you Diana for all of your help um and you know our our entire you know cabinet and administrative staff I mean everybody's been been talking talking about it but it is absolutely truthful number one to read the commentary of the community members who are nominating our folks to become finalists it's it just blows you away to to hear all the great things and how much appre appreciation and love there is in our
084community and then to go sit in these interviews uh for those few minutes when they're in there being able to talk about what they do every day for children and all of our students and families um no kidding you need some kleenex in there uh you need tissue paper and and that's that is the absolute truth so um thank you to everybody who contribute to contributed to tonight's celebration all of our finalists and our winners um we are certainly fortunate here in Crown Point Community School Corporation thank you well said Mr Aila any questions follow all right we'll go move on to uh item 6.07 Chief Financial Officer Mr ree thank you I've got just a couple items one I'd like to thank uh there's 125 new users of our financial and accounting software and
085Personnel software in the district um to to tell you how important it is for those people to be flexible um we've been on the same system for over 40 years and uh we're moving into a webbased module which we're very excited about we bring we we believe it's going to bring about efficiencies as we get further into it but obviously as you get into a huge change like this we have a few Road bump speed bumps along the way uh so I want to thank everybody for being flexible but everybody's trained we've been through two payrolls now on the new system uh this docket tonight was uh for the most part prepared in the new system I think went went very well um I'm sure my staff will not completely agree with me right now
086but I think it'll be better as we get through it um we have had some hiccups which we're trying to address as quickly as possible uh and they've been great about trying to uh as Mr Aiwa says keep their knees bent and be flexible as we React to what we need to um I I can't remember what it was happened to me earlier tonight Mr New Frontier for me to give comments on in this section of the meeting you remember we can come back to I apologize but I'm done for the uh any questions from Mr all right move to item 08 director of communications Mrs Allen I'm sorry Brooke I just remembered thank you if you would please uh say a little prayer with Mr molaski so we can stop the rain and he
087can get some Lawns cut around the district I'm sure he'd be appreciative of that thank you or grab your Mower and we're all going to start meeting at different spots in the evening and that'll be our team building exercises absolutely this is Alan thank you good evening even um every year in the month of May I like take a few moments to just add up the numbers for our Communications Department um still the smallest Department in the district but we're doing okay so our social media reach this year was roughly 1.6 million individuals um we had more than 800,000 views of our newsletters online our earned media was roughly $200,000 we don't pay for this that's what we earn it's a dollar amount that's attributed to the positive news coverage that we receive took roughly
08820,000 photos this year 20% of which have been in the month of May still more may to go and then um we captured roughly 3,000 minutes of video so lots of work but a big thank you goes out to rut Johnson our digital media specialist who's on my team and Mary hurt who has joined us here parttime part Communications secretary part HR secretary thank you to both of them thank you m any questions thank you move on to item 6.0 6.09 superintendent of schools Dr Terell so literally the first one on my list tonight was Diana green and her help with everything that happened and already uh rightly recognize that and we appreciate Diana and all the work she does behind the scene um I think if nothing else you can take away from this
089evening and the accommodations we had and brought forward to you is we're a well-rounded Corporation I know you hear a lot about Athletics or you hear a lot about different things um I saw something that was posted just recently it talked about our robotics program and how it's one of the largest in the nation and including uh the world even so we the things that we can offer our our students here and our community um is really second to none with that though and with all the activities that you're hearing about for the end of the year want to thank the volunteers our parents that come in community members who come in to our school corporation and our buildings uh throughout the month of May uh those numbers are staggering and and we couldn't do
090all of this and provide such great opportunities for our students without them and lastly just want to really take the opportunity to once again thank Nick China and his work for our stem program what an exciting opportunity for elementary students to be able to experience that as one of their regular weekly rotations now that every student will be involved in a stem class uh each and every week at the elementary level is just a great thing for our Corporation and for our students so thank thank you for that as well and for your board for your support in that area good abolutely all right move to item 7.01 other business of the board anybody have anything tonight yeah I had an opportunity to speak with Mr Angel Today U we we talked about Mr Smith
091you've requested information from board members about things that they would like to discuss on policies and um I'd like to get that set up soon it seems like we just keep kicking the can down the road I'm not a can kicker and um I'd like to get that set up where we can have an honest discussion about things that open an honest discussion about things so hopefully we can have that set up very very soon thank you Mr Vester are we able to have Retreats on something like that for discussion in general about policies or does anybody have any inclination on that we could not it would not qualify for an executive session so it would have to be a public meeting um if there was we could look into the possibility of a retreat
092where we had somebody come and train the board on the creation of policies possibly um some areas we need to look into with that okay oh could we also just have a work session which is open to the public that's you never Retreat work sessions done right in this room uh if we got with Mr Angel when he comes back is that something you'd discuss and figure out a solution and a way to get this moving forward he gave me his word I promise this will be done soon we uh I have is that it Mr basser that's it okay um I have a couple comments just I think are appropriate in this in this area you know I I I heard the U comments of the administration and a lot of the statements and
093I I think it's important for parents and students and teachers and all the people that that are employed here all the wonderful people that you know we really strive as a school corporation to excel you know we we started when Dr Terell came on a couple years ago about average is not good enough for Crown Point and we really try to hold a high bar we don't get it always right it's not always perfect but there's no reason we shouldn't be great at everything we do and so that's a I know I used to say that in open board meetings as as to the administration I still feel that way and we have seen huge Improvement and I think one of the biggest areas we've seen that Improvement as a board member since I've sat
094this is my seventh eighth year I guess it is but is in the culture and I think we sense that tonight between the administration the teachers down to the employees U to the different department heads down to the uh you know we we function as a body as a family and I I feel that now and it sure makes my job as a board member much easier and I think it makes the board members jobs easier so I want to say thank you we're coming to an end of the year thank you to everybody in our school corporation who has served and loves so well loves loves students and just gives her time goes above and beyond and I hope that you see that from the top down that's the goal the objective so um
095I just think it's important to say that and reiterate that I know Dr Terell you just talked about that a little bit and uh it's it is a good day to be a bulldog we heard that earlier today so just want to say thank you thank you to all those this year and for a wonderful school year so that was it for me anybody else yes we can that was my recognition appreciation on the other business of the board um so we'll move to item eight board statements of appreciation and recognition 8.01 Mr Vasser ladies first uh so a couple of things first and foremost tonight was great to recognize all of our finalists and our award winners for um teacher of the year employee of the year but I think um we'd be remiss
096if we didn't recognize that for all of the folks who are up here being recognized we have thou thousands right um of folks in the background who are doing wonderful things with our students who are doing wonderful things in our schools that make everything run smoothly across the board um there is no time like May to be a teacher um there besides the millions of things on the calendar um you know the kids focus and attention really goes down Hill um sharply as the weather gets nicer so um just a formal thank you and appreciation to all of our teachers who were not recognized this evening um we see you you're amazing and we're very grateful to have each and every one of you um especially my children's teachers for putting up with them because
097I'm about to get them back for the summer and um and realize just how much I appreciate having them so um I wanted to say thank you uh for that also for our board retreat that we had last week um for those of you who don't know our our cabinet members work all day and then they stay here until nine o'clock at night to make sure that we have a robust understanding of what we've done in the last year where they're going with um each of their individual sections um and it's it's eye opening and amazing and getting to be now um having attended that for a second year not only to see the passion that comes out of each of our cabinet members and to know that we have the right people in the
098right seats who care about Crown Point who care about our kids but to see what they've done and accomplished in that year you know last year we were just new coming in so you just kind of think okay this is your update this is where you're at on everything but to see each of those teammate team members be able to say hey here's where we've gotten and here's where we're trying to go and I couldn't be here without this person who paved the way for me um is really outstanding so kudos to um a the team for their hard work day in and day out be to the team and their families for staying until 9:00 at night to make sure that they could provide that update to us it's greatly appreciated um and to
099Dr Terrell for the culture that he's created here um with his team very much appreciated thank you Miss Mr vesser I had the opportunity a week and a half ago to attend a ceremony for their High School our high school students who are going into the military and uh it was a tremendous um program that was put on by Mr marconic I was happy to be part of that although a very small part of that uh military is very important uh to me on a personal level um my my dad taught me long ago you stop and say thank you to someone who served and I've never failed to do that uh in my life uh became very personal for us as my brother-in-law served six tours in um Afghanistan and Iraq and it's forever
100affected him in a very negative way and uh to see our boys from Crown Point now that are going forth to serve in different branches of the government I just uh ask God's blessing upon them as they go forth and I'm so appreciative of them for their service to our country in advance so blessings to them also Mr basor thank you I've already made my statements tonight so I'll pass um I have nothing el else to say but again just thank you and thank you all for being in attendance tonight with that I think we'll go to item number N9 look for a motion to adjourn all right we show that Miss Bas moves toj and Mr vasor second all in favor by saying I I I and we show vote carries three Z thank
101you