001but everything else I'm for what do I do and and I don't have the legal answer on that so I'm going to refrain from answering that I would think my recommendation for tonight is maybe abstain from 3.02 in a vote if you feel comfortable with that I do I want to give my support to what I want to give support okay and I would just until I can get a direct answer so that we are meeting our legal uh requirement I would think that that wouldn't affect anything okay so in other words when we come to the vote Tim Vassar yay for 3.01 3.03 and I'm going to abstain from 3.02 if that meets your uh I I guess so but if we could look into that I think that would be if I might
002suggest let's just do them each individually then rather than oh okay we'll do that then we'll break them down because we can do that that's a lot of breakdown well no there's only three items 3.01 because everything would fall under 3.02 and 3.03 we're not talking about breaking down the individual items out of the 100 300 whatever it is and the Personnel report what I'm what I'm suggesting is is then you vote 3.01 then you vote 3.02 then you vote vote 3.03 and that way because you can always move an item off this this way it stays under consent agenda but each individual item becomes separate and yet you vote yay or a and then or abstain and Scott can get the information gathered and then I'll make sure I get that information before next
003month's meeting well and there's something I have to live with you know it is um once again I don't think um obviously there's separate items there I mean if I not knowing where it's coming from it's hard for me to throw out like the like if you the if you vote no you vote no for it I don't know how strong of the feeling or the item it's refraining to so pretty strong on field okay um how about we do this how about um I'll restructure and then we're going to go through each and that's okay I mean we're gonna break them down each individually so what I'm gonna do though so I'm just going to work I understand I understand that part okay I get it I mean I understand the difference but I'm
004talking about just specifically on the Personnel agenda we don't we don't have hours to break down one bite like Todd just said 300 names on that correct um that's all I'm referring to so that's an all or nothing prep is Proposition that's all I get okay that's all we get that that is correct on those so uh all I would recommend in the future is that when there's an issue like that so-called behind the scenes listed under 300 and some items that uh maybe if I could somehow we could always pull an item if there's conversation beforehand that's strongly uh issues are felt that way and I'd be glad to have those conversations and pull one of those items if we're in that situation where there's strong beliefs or feelings behind those specific cases and
005then also once again with us being five there's always the majority vote obviously towards those individual issues I understand that okay totally I'm just reiterating for those at home we've had those we've had discussions had exchange and I just strongly feel a few things on there should not be on there okay I I think it's I think it's I think it's bad I think it's bad there's a few I put that in an email to you you saw the email Mr angel the email sent earlier in the week with the questions I didn't see anything that was from my recollection of the email that was that alarming that I thought was We're Not Gonna I'm not going to bring up any okay thing in particular here but um all right I think some things are
006happening that should not be happening okay if I may suggest why don't we vote and then have this be a discussion point at the end of the meeting sure okay so we're going to break down the consent agenda in three separate items 3.01 the executive session minutes from 626 and the regular business meeting minutes 6 26 23. May I have a motion second so motion by Miss Basin second by Mr Smith for item 3.01 any questions or discussions all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries five zero item 3.02 Personnel agenda for uh tonight's attached document may have a motion second motion by Miss Basin second by Mr babjak question or discussion all those in favor please signify by saying I I those opposed abstain 4-0 with an abstain
007from Mr Vassar for the record item 3.03 voucher register checks 169 108 to 169 301 checks 104 194 to 104 213 and also checks nine zero zero nine six zero to nine zero zero nine six six and also journal entries 1449 to 1451 may have a motion for item 3.03 second motion by Miss Basin second by Mr Smith question or discussion all those in favor of 3.03 please signify by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries five zero action items 4.01 the 2023-2024 student handbook revisions and editions Mrs Ramirez thank you Mr President and board members the cpcsc administration would like to approve handbooks for the 23-24 school year most of the adjustments are directory Corrections and or updates to names contacts and basic information the recommendation at this time is to approve to waive
008the reading of the handbooks and approve handbooks with the suggested additions as shared as soon as I can get back up my board docs we will move forward here give me a second here oh we're good sorry about that uh you've heard the recommendation of the administration to approve uh the handbooks also with the waiting of the reading and also with the additional suggestion additions and adjustments may have a motion for item 4.01 yes that would move to approve the handbook the handbooks and the recommendation and waive the formal reading of each handbook listed under item four action item 4.01 motion by Mr Smith second by Mr babjac question or discussion two two questions uh you may ask directly to Mrs Ramirez or do I need to Mr to Dr Terrell I'm sorry there is
009an addition to the elementary handbook it was highlighted in what we received about adding an emergency drills language to the handbook was that something that already wasn't in the handbook like fire drills and things this was in the handbook instead of listing individual types of drills such as fire tornado we combined everything into emergency drill so it was just semantics oh okay instead of individualizing giving a collective name which would cover all of our emergencies okay because I thought it would be strange if it wasn't right it wasn't there it's just and then secondly with the with the recent occurrences in Collegiate Sports and and articles even about high school sports is there anything in the high school handbook athletic athletically speaking about hazing I read through that again today I could not find anything
010in there did I possibly miss it I'd to have that question beforehand would have been helpful to have the opportunity I just read it this afternoon yeah I I can't answer that question we can get information together and bring it back to you you know it may be in there I just I couldn't find it we'll make sure we get some follow-up on that all those in favor of 4.01 may have them or I'm sorry uh all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries five zero 4.02 textbook and resource adoption Mrs Ramirez thank you Mr s courses and the standards to which those courses align as well as middle schools reinforcement of reading instruction that provides a community of readers in both of our middle schools the recommendation from
011the administration is for the school board to approve the textbook and resources as listed for use beginning in 23-24. you've heard the recommendation of the administration for approval of the textbook and or resource adoption for the use beginning in 2000 the school year 2023-2024 may have a motion so moved motion by Mr Smith second by Miss Basin questions or discussion all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye motion those opposed motion carries five zero 4.0 through three food and milk award purchase Cooperative Mr Reese thank you Mr President members of the board annually bring before you the food and milk bids for the upcoming school year presented to you tonight is the same bid that was used from school to food purchasing cooperative since the 2019-2020 the milk bid it's a Dairy Farmers
012of America are formerly Dean Foods and the food bid to HPS group purchasing organization with that recommend approval the bid Awards to DFA and HPS GFS for the year 23-24. you've heard the recommendation you've heard the recommendation of the administration for approval of the bid Awards to DFA formerly Dean's Foods company and HPS GPS GFS for the year 2023-2024 may have a motion motion so moved by Mr Vassar seconded by Mr babjac question or discussion all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries 5-0 4.04 Colonel wheeler concession and building Park locker room bid package Mr Reese board it's part of our agreement with the native local agreement with the city of Crown Point we've agreed to construct a joint concession building on the first level locker room for the
013Bulldog park on the second building vid was conducted back in April and with that we received bids tonight we now approve those bids and get rid of the construction contracts for the filing with that we recommend approval of General Teresa Larson Davidson amount of 865 000 for masonry to golf in the amount of 191 to 300 191 300 the roofing across Roofing in the amount of 135 792 the glass and glazing blasting blazing to Lazaro companies the amount of 28 300 flooring the Douglas Floor Covering and the amount of 132 736 for painting this dance painting and the amount of 23 600. for plumbing the Bloomfield corporate the amount of 255 500 the mechanical also the Bluefield Court the amount of 159 800. we're electrical to Continental Electric in the amount of 213 650 that's
014utilities demolition Ed his son's Excavating the amount of 248 500 and stairs railing ramps to Upright Iron Works in the amount of 73 000. you've heard the recommendation of the administration for approval of the contracts just mentioned by Mr Reese I have a motion summer second motion by Mr babject motion by Mr babject second by Miss Basin questions or discussion Dr Terrell the administration for their work with the city of course thank you I'm going to abstain from this not because I think I have to but only because of being on the Redevelopment commission to be safe it just makes sense but I I fully support the work done here I think it's great thanks any other questions all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries 4-0 with an
015abstain from Mr Smith thank you everyone regarding those items today moving on to 5.01 superintendents discussion groups um we can start with whoever would like to start regarding our Redevelopment commissions I'll start if you'd like me to Mr Angel um we did not have a Redevelopment meeting in Cedar Lake last month because that was for the Independence Day we do have one coming up next week though uh there's been some discussion about Redevelopment O'Brien had asked me about the legislator on that excuse me so I did send uh but by Dr Terrell's recommendation of email to Terry and never received a reply so which is kind of unusual for him but I never received a reply so I went back and and studied uh to the to the premise of do we get a vote
016on Tiff issues in the future and what it says house enrolled Act 1005 the governing body of each school corporation which would be us affected by a program passive resolution approving the program before the program may go into effect so we would need to any tissue tip issues in Cedar Lake Crown Point or Winfield we would need to send our approval before it can go into effect does that help Brian when you asked me before it does and thank you Tim and if you would uh let's discuss that after the hearing again today or the meeting okay share that and I'll forward it on to city council okay thank you yeah Scott did that help for Winfield at all yes yes they even met or sent an invitation my way but I will keep that
017and fill them in on that next time I'm there okay anything else under super superintendent's discussion groups this evening well good okay item 5.02 and we have our new assignments now so I'm glad Ms Green helped me with this agenda so I made sure I knew exactly how to address everyone 5.02 director of Grants and assessments Mr Hardman and if I may before we start this portion of the meeting what I've asked are directors to do this evening is to give us an overview of the recently released iLearn scores kind of give us a very high view of our students their performance and kind of walk through that so tonight as we go from Mr Hardeman all the way through that's what they're going to be addressing in their portion of the meeting one last
018thing if you have questions let's wait until the end because some of those questions may end up being true not only in elementary but in secondary and even with our exceptional ed students as well so if you can just hang on to those questions and then at the end we'll have a q a time and and bring those back around all right let's start very good uh Mr President members of the board I'd like to just frame this first of all from a district looking at it from a state perspective as well as a comparable school that we look at pair ourselves from the state perspective Crown Point schools in passing both language arts and math we were in the top 15 percent of the districts in in the state of Indiana they're approximately 292
019districts public school districts in the state when we look at the language arts again we were at 50 the top 15 percent of the of the school districts in the state mathematics we were at in the top 11 percent okay okay now why that is important is because the schools that we compare ourselves are within those top 15 and 11 so when we look at this and we think about 292 schools and we're looking at this group okay one of the things that we've I know we've noted in the in our performance when we look at it overall and all math language arts and uh English and math overall we were in the bottom quartile when we when we are compared to our comparable schools and that is something that we've we want to strive
020to to improve as we move forward with Mr takina and Mrs Ramirez Mrs paskis they will dive in into some of the areas as far as the elementary secondary and exceptional education areas that we have we've seen some positive also challenges and some things that we're working on so I will turn it over to Mr Chicken let me just do this officially 5.03 or 5.03 director of Elementary education Mr chiquina thank you Mr President and members of the board um before I jump into the Elementary overview I just would like to say that working in Crown Point schools as a teacher and administrator for the last 12 years or so I'm really grateful and excited for this opportunity to serve our schools and our community in this new role as we look at or Elementary
021data from the most recent iLearn assessment in grades three through five both our Ela and math performance far exceeded the state average when we look at math combining grades three through five we're right at the top 20 of those 292 public school districts in Indiana an Ela a little bit lower for when you combine grades three through five right right around the top 30 of those total Public Schools you know iLearn is measured in four categories so there's below proficiency approaching at and above proficiency and when we look at our data at the elementary level we have a relatively small percentage of students in that below category which shows us that we have a lot we have a large percentage of students in that approaching category who are really kind of knocking on the door
022of passing so they might not be at that proficient cut score but we are moving students from that below category to the approaching category in both reading and math um you know I learned data really only provides part of the story in elementary school and and middle school too um but I at the elementary level only students in grades three through five are taking iLearn all of our students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade are taking what's called an nwea assessment and this is a standardized assessment we give at the beginning middle and end of the year it's given by I think close to 10 000 schools and districts internationally and Nationwide and when we when we look at our nwea student growth comparing this past year 2223 to the previous year 21-22 we're seeing
023significant growth in both reading and math looking at how our students are comparing to similar students Nationwide and also themselves from previous years so our growth on that assessment in both reading and math is is really improving significantly and that's that's a really important indicator because we believe strongly that all kids can grow and need to grow also with nwea another indicator that will look that we look at is performance and in most of our grade levels for reading and math at the Elementary grades our students outperformed the previous year's cohort uh in that grade level at the end of the year so another way to phrase that is at a given grade level for instance I'm just throwing this out there kindergarten our kindergartners at the end of 2023 had higher average scores at
024the end of the year compared to that cohort or The Kindergartners from the year before so not only are students growing at a faster rate but we're performing at a higher level as well as measured by nwea you know having data is one thing and we have a lot of it uh but what's really important is that we use our data in meaningful ways to make decisions about instruction and intervention so I'd just like to review a few areas of emphasis for this year um one we're working on updating some of our data processes to really emphasize some procedures at the student level in the classroom and school levels these include the way teachers and students interact with their data and set goals also how our school teams collaborate about data to make decisions about
025instruction for kind of large group like tier one instruction happening in every classroom but also making decisions at the individual student level we're analyzing which specific State Standards we might be underperforming in so we're able to make some adjustments uh from those that item analysis of the state standards mtss is another really large area of focus Force this year that stands for multi-tiered systems of support so we we have students who may need some additional instruction or support in the area of reading or math or behavior so this year we're implementing some new intervention programs and some progress monitoring programs to ensure that students are receiving an intervention that is really targeted to a specific skill Gap so if a student has a weakness in phonemic Awareness for example the intervention they're receiving is targeted
026to address that skill Gap um you know finally we're we're moving into year two of our comprehensive language arts curriculum ckla which is based in the science of reading and this past year was an implementation year teachers worked extremely hard the research tells us that in an implementation year of a brand new curriculum you could you could see some slower growth however ckla sequences really deep rich content knowledge with foundational skills and it's designed to build cumulatively ear upon year after year upon itself so the future is looking bright for our reading and reading performance and growth at the elementary level um you know in closing for elementary I just want to mention that you know behind all these scores are our kids and our teachers and our community and it can be tough to
027measure a child's hard work or strength or a teacher's impact based on a couple tests however it is an important indicator and we are really committed to having high expectations and continuing to push our students to grow to their greatest potential and that growth is the key because we can always get better so that's it thank you thank you Mr shakina 5.04 director of secondary education Mrs Ramirez thank you president and board members I need to paint a picture of what our iLearn results look like as well as just a quick overview of our nwea relative to conditional growth and the percent of students who are meeting their growth goals I'll kind of group this by combining Ela and math then math Ela and then into nwea so that you have a summary of where
028we are looking in comparison to the state for middle schools relative to Proficiency in both Ela and math combined we are higher than the state's average proficiency rate and we show an increased rate from the state anywhere from 5 to 13.2 percent our math Proficiency in 2223 is significantly higher than the state's math proficiency rate so when we look at hours we are anywhere from 15 to 18 percent higher in math specifically at the middles another interesting and important part in looking at our proficiency and how it has increased from 21 to 22. relative to math in comparison to the state is to show that while the state grew at a slower Pace than we did we are of course then outpacing the state anywhere from five percent to nine percent in comparison to what
029the state scored in 2122 as an overall proficiency for math versus what the state scored for this year again we do appear to have achieved higher proficiency than the state as we look at our English language arts our sixth seventh and eighth grade proficiency percentages were all above the state proficiency percent with seventh and eighth grade outperforming the state's Ela proficiency by more than 10 percent so these are some areas that we really will be able to celebrate and to be able to recognize as areas of accomplishment however it would not um you know be I think completely transparent to not say that there are areas for us to grow in and so as we look at growth with nwea which is really a great tool because we get benchmarking tools and data throughout the
030school year this is data that is actionable for our teachers and as Mr chiquina mentioned there is a process now that we have familiarity with nwea that will be able to start goal setting with individual students and really that's what we want to focus on is helping each student meet their goals which then we will hope will translate into proficiency on I learn so when we look at nwea and conditional growth are reading conditional growth was almost typical average conditional growth would be 50 um we are not quite there yet but this will be a heavy Focus for us at the middle schools to be able to support our students and their individual growth trajectory math on the other hand is showing high growth and so we can see that this is reflected both through
031the growth in NWA than correlating into higher proficiency on the iLearn as we know we have had CPM at the middle schools for approximately five years when we started with sixth grade and this comprehensive curricula is resulting in high proficiency for our students as I mentioned we really do want to focus on the individual student and by using nwea the students earn at the beginning of the year what is called a writ score the Writ score then gives them a projection for where they should be at the end of the year what would be attainable growth for that student when we have our growth goal meetings we'll be able to help monitor that we really want to help students be empowered and to understand what their data means oftentimes we may hear from students that
032they took a test they don't know what it means well we really want them to invest in themselves much like we are investing in them so that they can be proud of themselves for the growth they are making as well as to better understand the interventions and or extension they may be receiving because of their data when we look at the growth of our students at the middle schools and how many of them met their individualized growth goal for ELA we see students ranging from 40 to 50 percent of them meeting their growth goal and in math we see anywhere from 79 to 82 percent of them meeting their individualized growth goal so this again will help us start to set appropriate goals with students and we really want to move that trajectory of ela
033as well as then maintain and continue to enhance the growth in mathematics the nice thing that we can do with nwea and that is really why it's so important for us is there is what is called an Indiana linking study it allows us to take NWA scores and correlate that to probability of proficiency on the iLearn assessment so if we can monitor this throughout the year and really help both the student the teachers the staff the administrators to make this a practice we can intervene at a sooner I'd say time frame as well as have a better understanding of where our students are headed and what supports they will need as Mr chiquina mentioned mtss will be of the utmost important to make sure that we are at tier one meeting needs with the teachers
034in the classroom of the students that they have and then making sure we're aligning our interventions and identifying interventions when we don't have one currently to meet the needs of students I will be very transparent in saying we have work to do and I think that the positive is that we've got the right formula we've got the right teachers who are very dedicated staff and administrators we've got wonderful families who are very supportive of their children so now what we will be doing in terms of our action steps is our Middle School administrators have met to start the process of analyzing data they'll then take that data and they will take it back to their buildings and meet with their instructional instructional leadership team their Department chairs they'll meet with their professional learning community so
035that we have kind of this cycle of everybody being looped into the data so that everybody owns it we will then be able to have individual meetings with teachers as needed individual PLC meetings is needed to celebrate to perhaps help teachers learn from one another another great thing that we have because of our mtss specialist our Ela and math Specialists that we have that serve our district um in the secondary space will be District PLC meetings which we will have throughout the school year where we want to be transparent with data we want to share data amongst the two schools we want to again support alignment and make sure that our students are having a common curricular experience much like at the elementary we'll also be looking at the standards longitudinally so that we can
036see if we are struggling in an area year after year in terms of a standard how are these standards being addressed in our curricula what supplements do we need to include in our curricula as we are editing our Buzz courses and or kind of just evaluating our curriculum another component of this will be the work of the school Improvement team is making sure that this data is not only analyzed but also interpreted by the school Improvement team so that we can set goals that are based on conditional growth from nwea as well as percent of students passing or I should say meeting their growth goal so we've got lots of work to do the good thing is that we have the right people in place and we are accomplishing so much good work already that
037I have no doubt that we will be able to with this data and an increased focus on it be able to make Trends in the right direction thank you director of exceptional education Mrs pascus and students tested higher with higher proficiency rates than the state average in all areas so we are pleased with those results our science scores increased math slightly decreased and this is third through eighth grade English and language arts and social studies declined slightly but looking at everything and looking at growth our area of focus is really going to be English language arts we have a group of kind of what we used to call Bubble students in fifth sixth seventh grade that are approaching proficiency and they didn't show the growth we would expect on nwea so we'd really like to
038take that group of students and see what else we might be able to offer them intervention wise um the department will also be digging into our individual student scores and identifying what are the standards that need the most attention um I've started polling individual student results and looking at them by disability area amount of time spent in gen Ed what intervention their resource teacher uses just to get a sense and see if we can find any patterns or trends um results will be reviewed with our exceptional Ed teachers and staff and we'll continue to collaborate with our general education counterparts to address any identified gaps in our current intervention programs or strategies we use we'll work with our teachers on reviewing how to write the IEP goals so that we're targeting the needs and as
039well as the specially designed instruction which are the um kind of tactics they use to teach students that receive special ed that's all I have I did want to give a quick para update I know it's off testing can I throw it in now doctor okay last week on Monday no Tuesday Wednesday we had open interviews for a paraprofessionals so we had 20 applicants over two days and we're hoping to hire about 15 of those so it was a success so let me jump in here if I may and before we open it up for questions um I think one of the things that I hope you heard as we went through this was the reference to nwea and the importance with that is NWA gives us that three different assessments throughout the year so
040we can see where students begin where they are in the middle and then again at the end of this near the end of the school year that can really help us measure our growth one of the challenges that we Face here and I've had this discussion with you multiple times is the state continues to change the assessment so right now it's iLearn that is going to be changed yet again and will become yet another assessment that will take three to four years before we can have realistic usable data that we know is appropriate and um can be repeated and there's many other challenges that go with that as far as the standards and now they're they're kind of pulling those back a little bit and giving us power standards if you will out of all
041of these other standards the key to all of this is we need to be able to tell our story regardless of what's happening at the state level and that's what we're going to do we're going to use NWA as a big part of that but then also there's always local assessments that we use as well both formal and informal within the classrooms and as we go through this one of the things that the goals that we have as cabinet that we've been discussing with our administrators is to really use that data to drive the instruction within the classrooms to use data daily to impact each and every student within the classroom as we continue to grow in that area we'll continue to see a greater impact even with our students on student achievement academically as
042well so with that um questions that you may have and and let me preface this was saying I know that this information you're hearing it tonight for the first time and at the same time we want to make sure that we're giving you accurate information some of it we may have right away if not we're going to just simply say that we'll gather it and get back to you and that's not trying to put that off or not answer your question but we truly want to make sure that we are addressing and giving you the information that you are asking for and that you need any questions for any of the directors at this time uh thank you all for sharing that information with us I have one question of clarification first of all thank
043thank all four of you for this this data been asking for data for a long time so thank you for that and I look forward to receiving even or I don't want to speak for everybody I look forward to receiving more data Nikki had said something uh in grades three to five math and and I didn't catch what you said you said in math we are the top 20 in ela top 30 is that 20 or top 20 corporations yeah so in in mathematics when you combine grades three through five right we're the top 20 percent no 20 out of okay thank you and then in ela I think we're 31 right around top 30. okay thanks you're welcome my only question is is there or do we track I know we discussed when we
044had expansion of the buildings um that actual a lot of Crown Point growth and student population are transfers in the students that may transfer in that fourth grade fifth grade middle school so they're coming from a different School District into Crown Point is there any way to track uh the different measures between a student who maybe starts and kindergarten versus the student population that goes into middle schools or students that are with us for 162 days so that we can then remove any type of transfer and state will be coming out with similar data uh Federal accountability so we do try to to take a look at that and just to clear just to clarify you said 162 days that's the the mark where yeah if you look at a 90 percent attendance rate so
045nine days per semester 18 180 days yeah minus 18 162 days so they have to be with us enroll they have to be enrolled for 162 days right thank you the other thing I just reminded Tim you mentioned you've been asking for this data this was just released within the last couple of weeks and was embargoed and this is the first opportunity we've had to share the information thank you thank you all again appreciate it okay item 5.06 Chief Financial Officer Mr Reese thank you Mr Angel uh just a quick update Mr Vassar you had mentioned house and roll back 1005. that's a housing residential Tiff bill it only pertains to residential tips right which is a new uh part what that bill actually did was delete the school board approval for those that were
046had the ability to do it before they've essentially removed our all the guardrails off residential tips which now would allow them or before we would not have even been allowed to have any but with that it completely removes your approval Authority that was in there that's the last section the last subsection of that bill eliminated school board approval of any residential tips leaving it fully in the power of the hands of the local Redevelopment commission I have that also and notes from Mr costarison with isbo and it's a bulletin points regarding that bill it's states that it removes the school board authority so it does not pertain to any other Tiff topic it's only residential tips where prior if those residential to us were able to be held in those Redevelopment Commission then the school
047board had the ability to approve or deny it that is no longer the case and now residential tips can happen pretty much anywhere and you lost your authority to do anything about it that's all the information I have tonight Matt was there any change to the commercial Tiff aspect of it or is that still how it always has been what we do not have a say in that yeah no no change so no change in that uh for any of that all right thank you commissions uh item 5.07 director of communication Mrs Allen for ambassador program application is open through August 11th um we seem to have very good feedback from that program last year so it's exciting we'll be bringing that back and then we're adding another program this year where Dr Terrell will
048head out to some of our community groups to speak so if you know anyone that has a local group in our community you know rotary Kiwanis you know et cetera we didn't get to do state of the schools this year because of construction and everything's so busy with Taft so we're going to take state of the schools on the road and go visit the people thank you 5.08 superintendent of schools Dr Terrell thank you Brooke before we go away from your portion of this can you remind us of some key dates and times for opening of Taft that the Board needs to be aware of to put on their schedules so the formal ribbon cutting is August 4th and that is a RSVP kind of event just so we can maintain a reasonable number of
049people for our team that afternoon we'll be hosting tours for our staff specifically throughout the district we know a lot of teachers in other buildings are excited to see the construction and the progress so we'll bring them in September we will have a community night where anyone in our community can take a tour at Taft we're going to wait until the school year has started and let things kind of settle nice and I think that's September 21st from 4 to 6 p.m it will be in our parent newsletters throughout the next couple of months as well thank you Brooke again for that go ahead Dr Terrell so another thing that going along those lines as we have additional buildings that come complete their construction process versus Timothy ball McArthur as those get to that point
050once they're completed at that point in time I know we've had former teachers we've had community members that aren't associated with the schools currently indicate that they'd really love that opportunity to be able to tour the buildings being there so we will keep that in mind and as those come off the construction process and to where they're completed we'll continue to do that as well um just a couple other things want to draw a special attention tonight to our administrative team here in the district today we just completed our third session in our summer Leadership series which has been a great opportunity for us to get together as administrative team really work on some leadership skill development but the bigger piece of it is really that relationship piece and being able to come together whether
051you're an elementary teacher or principal you're at the secondary level you're one of our Support Services directors to be able to work together and really form the teamwork there so I appreciate our administrators being willing to do that participate openly we've got some really talented and creative comical comedians that we could I guess we could say including Mr Hardman himself um so we appreciate them though in the work that they have done there one other thing I just want to kind of put on your radar for the August meeting if you would make sure to bring your calendars with you I'd like to work on scheduling a date for our fall Retreat want to get that on the books I know that's something we've talked about for the last couple of years and fall just
052seems to get really busy but I think it's important we do so want to really work on a few key things with that establishing board goals and we'll have some areas outlined that we'd like for the board to come to agreement on some goals that we can look at that are measurable and and kind of help drive and then as we establish those really use those moving forward with agendas moving forward with initiatives throughout our district to really hang our hat on as we move forward with that as well thank you Dr Terrell item 6.01 other business of the board anyone have anything uh they'd like to discuss that wasn't on the agenda tonight yes Dr Terrell June knowledge do we have any uh contracts with Crown Point Counseling yes we do okay um I'm
053asking that in regard to a recent article on newspaper yes um just giving you a heads up in case you didn't read that we're aware of it and we feel like the services that are being provided to our schools and our students at this time are such that um without going into things that I shouldn't um I feel like we're going to be able to still utilize the services needed for our kids any other items other school business make sure we get um there's events obviously with the ribbon cutting are we rsvping Diana to you Brook for that one so hopefully everybody can make that one obviously a big Endeavor here in their school community so uh with that I'll move on to item 7.01 board statements of appreciation recognition and we'll start at the
054end with Mr Vassar if you have any this evening I'd like to thank the custodial staffs and all their buildings I know this is uh this is a rush for them to get everything completed you know their their work is never really noticed until it's shoddy and then it gets noticed I don't think that's the case in Crown Point and I just want to do uh tell them how much they are appreciated and what they do they work long hours to get buildings ready for lots of people and keep them that way so thanks to them thank you Mr Asher Miss Mason anything this evening um yeah I just wanted to recognize and I'm not even sure who it is in particular who posts on behalf of each of our schools but I've really enjoyed
055I follow them all on Facebook all of our buildings and I've gotten to see a lot of things posted over the summer to where I wonder if these buildings ever even stop like I don't think that folks are really leaving for the summer so I've seen wonderful posts all summer long I know Eisenhower is posting by grade level I've seen MacArthur has had specials on various staff that they've posted our new principal at Timothy ball Mr Eckert has posted he did a little video so I very much appreciate that it seems like while I think folks should definitely have some summer time to relax I think everyone has continued to push forward and work hard to get everything ready for our students so kudos to whoever exactly is in charge of those things they are
056not going unnoticed and they definitely kind of bring together a really good Community feel so I've enjoyed keeping up with that thank you thank you uh Mr babjak um I'd just like to say thank you to Brooke for all the work that you're you're doing with the communications especially the newsletter that just came out um I I've had a lot of people comment on it I myself actually sat down and read the entire thing which I'll have to admit it's kind of rare so it's very it's just it's very well laid out and so much better than anything we've had as far as communication in the form of a newsletter in years past so thank you for that Mr Smith I was going to Echo Mr babjack's comments so that we RCP magazine and how
057well done that is so well done broke to you and your team and that's it for tonight I would just like to thank those that were involved in the original agreement with bulldog park now that we've added on now with the concession building and our storage unit being added there was individuals that no longer serve in their certain areas that were very vital in that including former board members here and then also mayor Iran and also councilman Bob Clemens so just want to make sure that as we move forward with that rest of that to get that project completed that those individuals were noted as far as uh very important I would include Mr warney's name in that as far as being the board president at the time that agreement was put in place so
058that is all I have so if nothing else 8.01 I will look for a motion to adjourn motion by Mr babjek second by miss bazen all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries 5-0 thank you