001okay good evening welcome to the february 28th 2022 regular biz meeting of boris school trustees held in public with the start time of six o'clock this evening if you may all rise we're going to ask mr angel to lead us in the pledge allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you mr angel i do mr hoffman how you doing this evening i know you're joining us uh via zoom all right great it's fun to acknowledge that you're with us this evening item two on the agenda tonight we have the border school trustees resolution of accommodation awards 2.1 is the crown point high school girls basketball team for outstanding accomplishments
002over the last four years four sectional titles three regional titles a semi-state title and a state title that will go through the individual names when we have the opportunity to bring them forward 2.2 we have the crown point high school wrestling team for being named state champions at the 2022 ihsa wrestling state finals and having three state champion individuals and three state runner-ups we'll also go through them individually by name when we have a chance to bring them forward do we have a motion to approve the recommendations this evening excuse me resolution combination awards this evening moved by mr angel and the second bible fab check all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed at motion carries 5-0 and now we can present the accommodations um let's see we have uh coach loric
003girls will be first but would you like would you bring the boys over to to this side and let them come in for the girls yeah i think we're going to have room in here for maybe go against the wall for now until the girls finish up if it's too crowded we'll just ask that the coaches stay back but we should be fine and mr angel is going to be presenting the accommodation to the girls basketball team coming forward so holy cow all right well this is well worth it what a big group this is great all right tonight's accommodation before i get to the accommodation once again the crown point high school girls basketball team is being recognized tonight for outstanding accomplishments over the last four years four sectional titles three regional titles one
004semi-state title and one state title if i'm not mistaken also undefeated at home correct um what was the dueling record over that time coach 28-0 as well so i knew there's some added things and as much as i followed it i knew i'd miss a couple so but congratulations ladies staff and everything because that deserves a round of applause so i will read the accommodation award the resolution of accommodation the crown point board of school trustees is honored to commend the 2021-2022 crown point high school girls basketball team for meritorious achievement we are hereby resolved at the board of school trustees the crown point community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations for the 2021-2022 crown point high school girls basketball team for outstanding accomplishments over the last four years four sectional titles three regional
005titles one semi-state title and one state title the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity this 28th day of february 2022. i would just like to state before i get into these and read these from a perspective as a parent school board member and that just what an outstanding job and the fact that you are just looked up to in the community as being wonderful young ladies in every which way shape or form so that's the acknowledgement that your parents should be very proud of i'm sure your coaching staff is as well and to be winners on the court and show all that those other attributes the fact is that you're really good young ladies is just an outstanding uh tribute
006to the city of crown point so thank you and congratulations [Applause] we will want to get a picture so i'll read them and then if you just go back to where you're at and then um we'll we'll take it from there lily stoddard jessica caruthers [Applause] mariana maldonado nikki geodermas [Applause] olivia santiago emily phillips [Applause] zoe wells it's hard because i recognize him in basketball uniforms and then like all dressed up like kind of like kusu abby foster brooklyn smith [Applause] ava zielkowski christian fraley ellie rawls [Applause] uh ray [Applause] caitlyn jager [Applause] camden gleam [Applause] uh just make sure to miss any players because it looks like we got all coaches next couple managers okay all right uh we'll get to them trust me i know you're in here the snack's good uh coach
007chris seymour [Applause] coach scott reed [Applause] i'd be remiss at this point not to mention coach reed is retiring after how many years coach 40 years so congratulations to coach green [Applause] uh amanda stillman [Applause] ashley parrish [Applause] taylor tindall [Applause] ernie sanford brendan ward paige sanborn [Applause] ken kelly benson [Applause] maddie manax [Applause] jamie pierce [Applause] dan merrill [Applause] okay so uh with that congratulations uh where's mr martinez mr marcin got a couple points to add sure i just i think everybody knows about the excellence that our girls are showing on the basketball court but uh what's important to us is kind of what you said mr angel about what good people they are and how well they've represented our school not this year but in previous years as well great people they are
008and i want to thank coach cyber uh and his staff and what for the job that they do and the time they spend with our girls day in and day out uh practices and games in the off season it's a 12 month a year deal now and our girls and our coaching staff just do a great job of putting in the effort it takes to be successful but again regardless of david won and lost games and what the result is on the court all of them are good students and just represent us in such a positive way we can't [Applause] these girls they've been on the [Applause] while we're getting the picture are there parents out in the audience if you're here for the girls basketball team anyone i know we've got a wife and
009a daughter over here for a girls basketball team all right thank you very much girls if some of you can go on that side we want you to kind of hang out while we acknowledge the wrestling team as well so just go over there ask mr marshall nick to get out of the way [Music] all right well i don't i don't know dr terrell i'm pretty sure it's a safe bet we've never had so many state champions in this room at the same time before it might need i don't i don't even think we need a fact check on that one so pretty impressive um as mr angel said uh before even getting into the commendation what an amazing group of young men young ladies and that's you know somewhat why we asked you guys
010to stay and stay in the room for uh for for the boys to go as well um you know many many times throughout the season things are taking place in the community and you get in conversations about what an unbelievable run the girls basketball team is having and the next thing you know someone's talking about well have you paid attention to what the boys wrestlers are doing and um for for one school corporation to have such success that you know all of you have given in a short run is pretty amazing and the thing is or possibly the scary thing is i i think you guys have had such an impact on the youth behind you that i would not be surprised to see this continue um you're talking about eight-year-old boys that maybe thought
011they were going to play basketball now they want to wrestle you know and i'm no no kidding you know it's uh it's contagious so that is something that's an impact on our community with your your um you know your your behaviors and the respect that you have and and everything else that uh will just it'll last for a very long time so thank you for for that um excellent so as we said uh the the crown point high school wrestling teams being named state for being named state champions at the 2022 ihsa wrestling state finals and three states in champion individuals three runner-ups that uh now i'm going to get back to the team but i'm going to go through read to read the accommodation to you guys i'll have to paraphrase a little bit
012but resolution accommodation crown point board of school trustees is honored to commend the 21-22 crown point high school wrestling team for notorious achievement we hereby resolve the board of school trustees for the crown point community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2122 crown point high school wrestling team for the prestigious honor of being named state champions at the 2022 ihsa team wrestling state finals and uh something that i i also don't know is that well understood by everybody but actually kind of state champs in a couple varieties correct the dual state champions and then the and then uh um was that a pretty clear record they changed the point system over the years but uh this team set a state record for points achieved at state we broke um we broke the
013state record it was early in the tournament but we were one so there was like last year's record which i don't even think we were in the semis yet we broke that record and then people kept talking about another record and so someone's like it's 161 i'm like what we're we're at like 160 dollars and we started the finals so we were on the way to breaking a few no that was pretty amazing and also i don't uh i'm not very active at all or look at social media often but i will say that the favorite tweet i've seen in the last couple months was anyone anywhere and uh it's pretty hard to support somebody to be that bold except when they've accomplished what you guys have accomplished i mean i had i would say
014tell stories about all of your achievements all night but i you know i was so in my mid-40s sitting on a couch on a friday afternoon and you know next thing you know a group text message starts with six guys all scattered around the state that we went to high school with saying hey you following this uh found the match in illinois when you guys were at mount carmel and uh you know going one one match at a time just seeing how this is going to shake out it was just a really neat run and uh you know we can't say enough about it but um let's go through we have uh our individual state champions who had jesse mendez was he's practicing this evening right he's not able to be here he was at
015138 i'll find his i'm not going in order of what's here so i might have to flip through him um how about logan frazier at 126. [Applause] and we had sammy going 152. [Applause] congratulations all right and individual state runner-ups uh gavin andreas 106. and orlando cruz 182. thank you congratulations okay so those were our state champions and our state runner-ups and then let's go through the order of the rest of the team we have nature novacic evan cruz [Applause] jesse jesse mendez who we know is not here nick tina as soon as i said it nick tatini cody goodwin anthony white will clark paul clark liam begley [Applause] coach lorick and uh coach hawkins [Applause] vincessa coach tessa okay well we know we have some other other coaches and uh we've seen that as
016well that all the all the the um the help their coaching staff and um i always think that we can't thank the parents enough for all the time that they put into things as well and uh you know i'm sure they're all as proud as can be so congratulations guys uh um how about dr terrell would you like to say anthony about the wrestling team from what yeah parents do we have parents out here raise your hands parents thank you for your support bill do you have anything you want to add with this group um that's what we really appreciate so tremendous guys with important next year we've got scores back i didn't have one more thing i want to share dr terrell showed it to me and we we need to read a couple
017of emails that have just come across we had one that was directed to administrator here he said hey i want to give you some cp people a shout out i had the pleasure of working as a floor worker at the ihsa rest state wrestling finals last weekend i worked the wrestling in quotes wrestling entry area where all wrestlers and coaches were sent to their mats to compete i had a lot of contact with all the competitors and coaches over the two-day tournament i just want you to know as an administrator that your cpu wrestling coaches and athletes showed great sportsmanship throughout the entire tournament obviously the team is a juggernaut demolishing this demolishing the state scoring record sometimes those in quotes again powerhouse teams are arrogant and diva-ish and expect everyone else to bow to
018them i saw none of that from crown point even though they were the dominant team there your coaches were a pleasure to work with they are polite humble and fun to be around the same could be said of your kids as a worker and a long time coach i appreciated their positive behavior they definitely represented crown point well by the way the coaches that i had the most contact were with coach lorich hawkins and sassa all great representatives of cp have a great day brother we had another one that was sent dr cho wasn't there a third there's two on the second page here yep here's one uh oh i said just a quick note of congratulations on the dominant performance of your wrestling program this past weekend really impressive wrestling and coaching but maybe
019even more impressive was the way your kids conducted themselves it was great to see and applaud your leadership this is this is from the director of athletics at penn that's pretty special to hear from somebody you know of that to statute to reach out to tell you guys how how great you were as competitors um and then jesse received one directed towards him for while at the state finals this individual's family was sitting next to the mendez family on several occasions jesse came up and dressed members of his family and my family all mentioned how much respect he showed to his family following his championship match i was blown away by his acknowledging the entire crowd not just cp after winning his four state championship in his post-match speed speech he once again acknowledged all
020wrestling fans it has been a pleasure to witness this young man's exceptional high school career so guys best of luck to you next year and all the seniors um you're going to do great in everything you choose to do in life so congratulations uh hey miss barsnack anything yeah again i just want to congratulate all of our wrestlers coach hawkins coach lord what a great job our young men did the whole season and throughout the state tournament and it certainly died in indianapolis and one of the things that i really love about our wrestlers is that i can count on you know they're good they're good people they're good kids they're good students and uh just like what we would expect all of our student leaders to be in school uh our wrestlers exemplify that
021so uh more than anything just like mr warren said and dr carroll and mr gorilla that's what i'm most proud of i witnessed what you guys did downstate but again the way you conducted yourselves and you had humility you had honor and you just did everything that we wanted prom point athlete to do and for that i'm very grateful for for making us all look good and representing not only our school but our community and all the people that came before you as well as the younger people who come after you uh you set the example and uh i want to just congratulate coach lauren for the job that he did as well as coach hawkins and uh one of the things about coach lark that you may not know but during the school day
022uh brandon works with some of our most average students who's got some significant physical disabilities and he does such a great job with those students and then he moves on to coach wrestling after school and uh i just feel like there's as far as a faculty member who deserves a state championship i don't know if there's anyone more deserving than brandon for the work he's done over the years day in and day out with an after this population that he does and with great compassion and making those families feel good about being in school so coach lord coach hawkins great job and uh coach seibert all uh exemplified our leaders as coaches i also want to give a shout out to tracy and annie and jen for being you know behind the scenes doing all
023that they do for those programs because it's not easy to be a wife of a coach with all the things that they have to deal with over the course of the year not only that but their professionals all work in our school system uh of course tracy is a principal of taft and he's an assistant principal for us and jen also works at the high school with uh some of our students who need additional help so again just a feel-good moment for everybody i can go on and on talking about how great i i feel about all this so thank you for everything that everybody does we appreciate you and certainly i do so thank you very much [Applause] any before while you guys are getting together for your picture uh one thing i want
024to say about both groups wow your state trophies and everything that girls you've brought in over the last four years wrestlers what you've done i think the bigger thing here is they're great kids like you've heard and i could go on like russ just said with stories but i'm going to tell you early on in the year my wife and i are sitting there on a saturday watching our wrestling team wrestle jesse's not here tonight but one of the wrestlers came off and did not perform as well as they thought they should have that day and may or may not have thrown their head gear and jesse went to them and said pick it up and don't let it happen again and spot him on the button said we're better and that's that's the kind
025of thing they are girls play on the varsity plays on a friday night right before our boys varsity team plays so lily again one of our best athletes representing the girl team is sitting on the side of the bleachers right there where there's a stairs come up you didn't even know i saw you do this and she was finishing her stuff or whatever her mom brought her in her tupperware dish and she had just set it down and this little guy comes running up the bleachers and he has this pretzel and cheese in that plastic thing you know that every elementary kid is just dying to eat and he comes running up and he starts to trip over the step lily catches the pretzel and cheese and then helps him get up and like and
026then just like encourages them as he goes up and i'm like you know what here's two of our best performing athletes doing great things for our community that's our kids and that's repeated over and over and over again and we're not done gymnastics is still going and they'll be here hopefully at our uh next meeting and as we go forward as well so thank you guys appreciate it let's get some pictures and you guys can get out of here and have a great evening your things here tracy that was the pressure thank you well that was certainly one of the longer combinations that we we've had but uh well deserved so we appreciate them all coming this evening their participation here this this evening was great item three patrons comments uh we do not have
027any this evening move to item 4 to consent agenda dr terrell your consideration this evening we have thank you dr charles for the recommendation uh as presented we have a motion to approve second moved by mr smith and second by mr angel any questions or comments for dr turtle on the consent agenda if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed emotion carries 5-0 the action items we have 5.1 amendments to the standard agreements between cromwell city school corporation gibraltar and skillman for multiple projects dr terrell thank you so tonight we're bringing to you amendments both for gibraltar and also skillman as you guys know we were very successful in our bond sale and raised additional dollars which therefore allows us to do additional projects and because of the additional projects there
028were additional costs that go with the architectural work that goes with it and obviously the construction work that goes with that as well i've heard a recommendation to approve the amendments to accurately reflect the changes in the scope of the 21 excuse me 2021 projects as attached we have a motion to approve a second let's move by was it sorry bet mr baby moved by mr babjack seconded by mr angel any questions or comments for dr terrell i do know that i want to also thank dion for being present this evening dance here like look if we uh have any questions i would assume he'd be happy to answer them as well sorry if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed that motion carries 5-0 and it's that dm but excuse
029me mr casares thank you for joining us this evening in case there are any questions there 5.2 is the lightspeed amplification sound system purchase uh let's go into mr hardman thank you mr morgan uh first of all i'd like to thank mr uh mr gill who's back in the back running our our sound and our system uh for accomplishing the task of getting these uh next three items on uh the agenda uh for your approval tonight uh this is uh a for the light speed uh amplification system that goes within our classroom uh this was actually approved by you in uh by the school board on april 26 2021 it was under a qpa contract that is no longer being uh honored for light speed so therefore there's a new qpa contract by pe ppm
030as you can see in the analysis of this uh the the actual cost now for these uh uh 425 additional light speed amplification systems uh will be 23 less on this new contract which is uh uh which is good and uh seeking your approval tonight to to purchase these the original contract that we had we did purchase the light speed amplification for winfield elementary school and then it was after that as we were trying to purchase these additional ones for the rest of the corporation we had to make the transition to a different qpa because the first one was not being honored so this will this these 425 amplification sound systems will fulfill what we need throughout the district in every classroom every space that we have for our children for our students for our
031teachers seeking your approval tonight to to purchase 425 light speed amplification sound systems thank you mr hartman your recommendation to approve the purchase of 425 light speed application sound systems with the flex mic and media connector from light speed technologies incorporated a cost of 555 thousand 75 dollars in a pe ppm i'm not sure qpa contract we have a motion to approve no move this motion by mr angel on second by mr smith any questions or comments from mr hartman mr hartman or mr gill is there like a life span on these they're like like 20 years 10 years i think they're rated about 15 years okay thank you any other questions if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed that motion carries five zero and uh 5.3 is the clear
032touch interactive panels mr hartman um in addition to the amplification systems uh we are seeking your approval this evening to purchase 425 clear touch 86 inch interactive panels with document cameras webcams and the mounting carts for installation uh currently we did purchase 50 of those for winfield as they were going through the renovation this now will be to complete the uh the ability to have a interactive panel in all of our classrooms uh for uh for the upcoming school year i would like to to again thank mr gill thank his staff thanks sabrina uh for the training that they've been able to provide to all of our our staff at winfield we're learning a lot and we'll be planning actually on friday to roll out 425 of screens like that that are touchscreen bigger than
033that in our classrooms for teachers to use students to use and interact with so we're excited about this this purchase so this evening seeking your approval to purchase 425 clear touch 86 inch interact panels document cameras webcams and adjustable mount cards thank you mr hardman for the recommendation to purchase the 425 clear touch 86-inch interactive panels motion to approve second move by mr smith and second by mr angel questions or comments for mr gill mr hartman i think uh so mr hartman you said that winfield has had 50. yes uh when did they start using them they started they were installed uh before the holidays and then we've done for uh professional development uh in january and they actually are in the classrooms now being used by our teachers so we've had a nice i
034mean it might be short but an opportunity to test them out test them out yes absolutely yeah and uh i just like mr angel's question uh the life lifespan on these mr gill gilland and then what type of features just something simple that maybe we wouldn't understand or anybody that might be listening that um you know like kind of the quote-unquote cool features that we'll be able to you know be used with these uh is there potential you know remote learning opportunities with them or oh yeah with webcams you can do zoom sessions on it one of the big ones is for the students they can cast their chromebook to the panel got it so as mr gill said a student can actually cast their chromebook to the panel and it even ties into the
035sound piece as well thank you i would just like to say knowing how technology changes to get 10 years out of something and 15 out of something else that's really good for i mean yes it's a substantial amount of money but for 10 and 15 years knowing how things change every one or two years outstanding you have to research and give us the right stuff for our students and teachers i would just add that this is as great of a device for the lower elementary kids as it is for our high school most advanced kids and how so the the stands that they're on it can literally lower it all the way down to where it's resting almost on the floor so our smallest learners can go up and interact with it and then it'll
036it's just it's amazing the different things it can do so we thought we could do a day-long pd on it for our teachers or just give it to like three third graders for about 10 minutes and let them figure it out yeah and it's amazing to watch how they go through it so it's gonna be great yes um before we vote guys i'm gonna reread this recommendation because i cut it off short but it wouldn't be appropriate to not read the full thing with the dollar amount there so we are voting to approve the purchase of 425 clear touch 86 inch interactive panels document cameras webcams adjustable mount carts and installation from tri electronics at a cost of two million six hundred twenty two thousand dollars nine hundred six two million six hundred twenty two
037thousand nine hundred forty seven dollars do we met uh motion two i'm sorry we already motioned and approved we're gonna vote all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed a motion carry tom you were there an eye on that correct yes okay thank you that motion carried five zero uh 5.4 district access points mr hartman thank you again mr warning we are at a point where we're refreshing our access points throughout the school district to make sure that we have the highest level of wi-fi connectivity and performance for the students and staff therefore again this is connected to winfield we did this for winfield and you approved the uh the access points and they were aruba access points which is a probably a gold standard at this point in time so when the
038bid went out two of the bids came in that were meraki that's what we had currently replaced uh one came in as aruba and that's the one that we're recommending tonight that you approve a purchase of 757 aruba access points mounts licenses and installation from moss uh for 674 127.97 for the recommendation as mr hartman just prevented presented to approve the purchase of 770 57 aruba access points mouse license installation from moss at 674 cents do we have a motion 127.97 approve this move by mr babjack and second by mr angel any further questions for mr hartman or we'll include mr gilligan if not all those in favor signify by saying aye hi opposed the motion carries 5-0 and 5.5 approval to apply for and receive grant funding from the crompton community foundation for lake
039street uh sensory path mr thank you mr warning seeking your approval tonight uh to apply for and receive the grant funding from the crown point foundation uh 750 dollars for what's called a sensory path uh this is a path that is uh touches all the senses um smell uh touch let me get all five of them um sight sound you know although i think i left one out right there something to taste maybe that's what maybe it's not so much taste because i couldn't see it uh but this is uh this is a location in the building where the uh the children can go for uh uh for just a break a little bit of focus time get away from uh from the classroom or in some cases where a student might need to be
040get away from the classroom for a moment as far as to get focused and refocused uh back on the in the classroom and then return so the the foundation has uh provided um has already sent a check for 750 the cost of this is actually at 1 uh we have these in different buildings uh i know mentioned uh in the grant macarthur i think that's where they uh lake street went to look at and and and basically purchased one similar to that so this evening seeking uh the your approval to apply for and receive the grant funding from the foundation an amount of 750 hey dollars hartman we've heard the recommendation to approve the apply for the suit accept the grant funding from the company community foundation do we have a motion to approve moved
041by mr babjack in second by mr smith have any questions or comments from mr harper if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries 5-0 and 5.6 approval to apply for and receive grant funding from the lake county master gardeners association grant for lake street elementary thank you uh teacher caitlin wool uh applied for this grant from the lake county master gardeners association amount of 500 and this is really to do work in the courtyard at lake street to give it a kind of an upgrade with some maintenance and some upkeep that will be done by different student clubs volunteers or local landscapers so they're seeking uh the grant funding of 500 from the lake county masters garden association seeking your approval tonight to apply for and receive those funds
042thank you mr hartman you've heard the recommendation to prove to to apply for and accept grant funding from the lake county master gardeners association for a grant of 500 do we have a motion to approve moved by mr angel in second by mr babjack any questions or comments just like to make sure we mentioned thank you to the gardeners association the community foundation for helping other children in the community any others all in favor saying by saying aye aye opposed coach kerry is 5-0 and 5.7 mr hardman 2022 cron point city school corporation summer school program yeah thank you again uh this evening i bring to you the 2022 summer school programming uh it's very comparable to what we've approved in the in the past with courses that will take place kindergarten through grade seven
043or i guess and then students in eighth grade going to the high school we'll be offering a three week program for the elementary students will begin june the 13th and the 30th of uh of june uh they attend 12 days four days a week for that the high school will be starting june the 13th and end july 15th and those are our courses for credit for our students that uh that they take i would point out that uh this year as we submit our programming to the indiana department of education you can receive up to 105 percent of the eligible costs uh in reimbursement from the state based on their budget and what they've appropriated uh two years ago we we did receive 104.45 so it was a good year uh last year when you
044look at it financially it was not such a good year because we received 60 of the the reimbursement and i believe that that that that indicates that more school corporations were providing summer school and if you recall last year there was the learning gap they wanted to accelerate learning because of covid and moving that forward so many more corporations took money or applied or had summer school we don't know what that means for this year normally we get 80 to 85 reimbursement so 104 is really good 60 is really bad um so we're hoping to recover that but we are in a position with esser with which is the federal government grant uh to offset costs uh this year so that we can protect the education fund that we have so seeking your approval of
045the 2022 crown point community school corporation summer school program thank you mr hartman for the recommendation to approve the 2022 cronkite city school corporation summer school program i have a motion to approve so move by mr angel on second by mr babjack any questions or comments how soon do we get a response from the state on what they approved jim uh usually it's about november okay we submit the final reports in september and then we'll get a we'll get information in november you know not all those in favor signify by saying hi a post uh motion carries 5-0 and we have information items start with 6.1 we have superintendents discussion groups normally would lead off with mr mr smith who keeps in touch with cedar lake yes thank you david um cedar lake has been
046just still tabling things from the winter and throughout talking about tiff districts and facade grants i think things will heat up they start coming around springtime and matters pick up so there's really nothing specific to report to our school corporation at this point thank you enough usually about mr hoffman uh maybe anything from the the city or winfield or administer angels to that discussion okay um i'd say a quick opportunity to um tell dr terrell thank you for continuing to grow a relationship with the city as uh um as we've heard over the last year a few months um our relationship i'm just meaning willingness to work together talk together figure out what we could do as school district and city to help one another seems like there's some progress being made from the past
047so thank you i might also let you guys know i will be speaking at the cedar lake chamber of commerce luncheon on the 8th 11 30. so just as a heads up they wanted to get some more information about all the exciting projects that are going on in our district so especially with macarthur and the major remodel we're getting ready to do out there in addition so where's that average dr joe that is going to be at help me out oh all right um moving down the list 6.2 director of elementary education mr ramirez thank you mr president and school board members i just wanted to take this opportunity to kind of bookend the start of the meeting tonight where we're able to see the great accomplishments the talents and the citizenship that our dem
048our students demonstrate at the high school level and wanted to kind of i guess share some accolades from our elementary because it really i think is the starting point for our students and their growth of being strong community members contributing not only to their school but to the larger community as a whole and really to starting to develop their talents with diverse offerings that we have so if you will grant me i'll go as quickly as i can i think as you see on social media on the websites as well for each school they have such great accomplishments talented students and dedicated sponsors and leaders who create great opportunities for our students so i'll start with winfield and i think it's awesome to see that earlier this month um the second grade robocats placed fifth
049out of 48 teams and that was out of 48 teams that included middle school students as well so our second grade team is already really demonstrating some strengths in the area of robotics they also are very philanthropic at winfield and have raised almost ten thousand dollars for the american heart association through the kids heart challenge likewise robotics is a great strong suit of macarthur and they will be competing at the state competition for robotics coming up in the middle of march and macarthur also inducted their first national elementary honor society group of students this year and that group of students raised 1500 for st jude here in crown point earlier this year as part of their service project at lake street we also have another robotics team that is going to state competition this year
050and their na nehs is currently fundraising for leukemia and lymphoma and they are in full swing this continues to really be a heart of philanthropy at lake street and really is a reflection of their school's culture at ike they have really dedicated over the past nine years a lot of time and effort into fundraising for st baldrick's and i was astonished by this number i had to do a double check on this one so this is their ninth year of being the eisenhower bald eagles or st baldrick's and they have raised collectively 204 thousand dollars over nine years for st baldrick so i just think it is again um just an ongoing passion and a true you know uh legacy to the school and to the community tball currently has their student council actively involved
051in raising money and donation of items to the nick foundation which is the northwest indiana cancer kids organization foundation as well as then have also been working with the lake county animal shelter so i think it's really great to get to see the scope of the philanthropy that happens throughout our buildings lastly for t-ball they started their first one school one book program this year in which all of the students the staff this included bus drivers crossing guards were given a book and they read this as a school community and really fostered the idea of school home connection engaging activities and really developed a positive culture in the in the building to promote uh literacy and a passion for reading and let me move on to solon they had some really great celebrations um as
052of recently with our kindergartner and first graders celebrating the 100th day of school and i'm sure on social media you were able to see some of those pictures what i thought was also really fascinating um last tuesday which was february 22nd 2022 so two two two two two maybe i threw in one more too many twos they had their first graders create time capsules that they will open as seniors on march 3rd 2033. so that will be three three three three so they have some a very good foresight to think about when the kids will be seniors and it'll be interesting to see what those time capsules contain lastly jerry ross is hitting the ground running pun intended they have their girls on the run spring season kicking off tomorrow and they also are wrapping
053up their national elementary honor society spread the love which is school supply drive for st jude so just wanted to share with you the great work that is starting at such a young age and that i have no doubt will continue until they graduate from us and then we'll continue as citizens hopefully of crown point thank you for the updates mr mears and director of secondary education mr g fermi thank you mr president board members uh let's talk about what happens when they kind of keep moving up here so yes our athletic teams had a great great run here in early february but let me talk about the what happened that same week that our girls were winning that regional championship and the boys were dominating at the semi state level it started on thursday
054february 10th mr dan white our auto teacher took a team of students to compete in the universal technical institute top tech challenge four states were represented 22 teams and crown point came in first place the team of will hodge and tyler anderson both individuals won a ten thousand dollar scholarship both got tool boxes not one you carry on the side but when you put in the garage for uh you know your your vehicle type of things and hand tools for the high school so mr white has been taking the kids for their uh to that competition for a while now and it's great to see us take first place so then let's move to saturday february 12th if you travel to crown point high school on saturday february 12th let me tell you what you
055might have encountered first you could have started anywhere across the building where isma competition was going on where our band students brought home 135 medals and qualified for 26 out of 27 events for the state isma competition could move down the hallway to the world language department and seeing our latin team competing we had four teams competing against uh 19 teams from eight schools we took two first places a second place and a fourth place latin team always performing well then you could went to the auditorium where our speech and debate was hosting a regional competition with 10 high schools across northern indiana we fared very well in that we are really starting to pick up momentum in our speech and debate competition team and we're really happy about the progress they're making then if
056you didn't have enough you could have went to the field house took in a vex robotics qualifying competition where we had three teams qualify for state now if you couldn't get a parking spot at the high school you could have went to colonel wheeler where they too were having a middle school vex competition where both middle schools had teams qualify uh state for the state competition so as we were performing very well in the athletic realm we are also doing an awful lot here and it's great that we hosted most of that right here at our high school all at one time we had all those schools from all across the state and uh our kids of course it's a great day to be a bulldog as they like to say and they're they're doing
057well and we're very proud of them and we appreciate all the time our teachers and coaches and administrators put in to host those events and make those opportunities for our kids and our kids always come through because they're great thanks thank you mr g for me uh director of exceptional education ms passas good evening president warner members of the board we are already in full gear planning for next year so one of the steps we're taking before the end of march is that each of our special programs will meet with like fifth grade we'll meet with sixth grade teachers for our special programming it's both sets of administrators both sets of teachers and our coordinators facilitate some conversation on those students strengths and how to best set them up for success next year as they
058transfer to a new building and a new staff we have a couple of exciting events planned for the coming months for the first time ever on wednesday april 27th we will host a transition fair at crown point high school in the evening and that is i think we're up to 37 booths right now it includes adult agencies um banks trades just to all of our students once they hit 14 and older we have to start planning for their transition post school so this will be for their families for the students just showing them what options are out there and then the return of our special olympics game day it's called young champions game day and it will be wednesday may 25th at the high school so i'll share more information with you we would love
059to have you come out that day and see all of our athletes thank you mrs pascus chief academic officer mr hartman on march 2nd if you're not doing anything we have an exciting event going on at crown point high school you can walk the halls and see approximately 700 students taking the s.a.t they will be there for about three hours and you may enjoy that this is the first time that all students from will be taking the s.a.t it is uh uh it is the new state required test uh so you if you are available and want to walk the halls just don't go into a classroom because we don't i can't even stay stay serious on [Laughter] no i think that would be very good if you guys wanted to tailgate out in the
060parking lot before the event please do they'll be testing about 7 30 in the morning so uh maybe it's uh maybe it's a breakfast yeah there you go there you go no seriously they will be testing for the first time uh the new state required s.a.t uh test uh and then uh another thing that's taken place that i think it's uh exciting is about our we have about 112 staff members that are taking together a six-week course on multiple tiers of supports for our students to build our capacity and to understand how to support students whether it's behavioral or academic uh to achieve their their highest potential so they're going through a basically a 35 to 40 hour course with a professor out of the university of washington right now it's going for six weeks
061and that adds time i mean that's five hours four to five hours a week of time preparing they meet uh via zoom on thursdays and it's they're growing their capacity to lead their buildings with these tiers of support within the school which is an exciting thing when we have principals teachers support staff working together for the good of our children so thank you very much i could have kept it going started laughing and uh chief human resource officer mr akiwa thank you mr president board members jim you know you just want to pop popcorn and watch that s.a.t i mean come on you know you like it um a few updates from our area one in particular that's exciting is staffing for the hr department jean lang who was with us for many years as
062an employee here was our data specialist had moved with her family and uh has now moved back and we're lucky to capture her uh to join us in the hr department as an hr secretary so we welcome gene lane back to our uh our fold here in crown point it's really been a wonderful addition and she's now settling in and you know when she settles into my position or in our office in uh hr it's also helping then the transitions that are going on in the business department there were some new uh new members as well so it's nice to see that our central office staff has picked up a talented individual and uh we're really growing as a wonderful team here at central office uh today also marks the end of nominations for teacher
063of the year so i know our community and and families have been nominating folks so we're going to move into stage two of that effort to then have our buildings elect their representative to be considered for teacher of the year so we'll keep you posted as that effort moves forward but we want to thank everybody for their nominations that they may have given on behalf of our great great teachers here and employees here in crown point community school corporation finally a fun activity for me in the month of february we had planned a breakfast for our new teachers to get back together uh in one big room and have sort of a first semester reflection but as you know when we returned from winter break we were already experiencing an uptick in in covid positives
064at the time so we just decided it probably wouldn't be a good idea to put all those folks in one room um but i've been going out to the buildings now meeting with our two or all of our new teachers on their actual school sites for a couple of reasons number one is just to check on them to make sure they're doing okay and it's really nice to hear all the positive comments they have to share so i have to give kudos out to all of our buildings and our leaders and our staff members that made these people feel team welcomed supported they all feel like they have advocates out there right now halfway three quarters of the way through the their first lap here in crown point in all of our buildings they're also
065providing us great feedback to continue to improve our new teacher academy which is when we bring our folks in we have some scheduled activities before the school year starts so they're providing useful information to continue to improve and make that program as strong as possible so i've just had a great time out there i've got a couple more buildings to go but thank you all of our staff members for making our new teachers feel welcomed and loved here in the crown point community school corporation so that's all for tonight for human resource thank you thank you mr akiwa director of communications ms allen thank you good evening keep an eye on your newsletters website social media that we push out in the next couple of weeks we'll be releasing our new video series called super
066things hosted by superintendent dr terrell this is a video series where we go school to school and highlight something great that's happening in each building so up to this point he has played the ukulele with some of our fifth graders visited project leads away at the high school went to timothy ball for their one school one book program and next week we'll be at macarthur so these will roll out one every couple of weeks starting in a couple of weeks also on friday we will launch a school spirit wear store online 24 7 available spirit wear for crown point community on friday what was the phrase again of dr terrell's super things super things and crown points just made me think of the movie super troopers i actually think i may have found my retirement
067gig though playing the ukulele oh bro okay mr key was very talented in the music you know if anybody needs interest maybe we could do that those that don't know oh dr chill holds his own huh oh all right i don't know okay no there may have been some music okay interesting thank you miss allen moved to superintendent of schools dr terrell so just a few things this evening as you know the our general assembly has been in session for the last six weeks or so causing havoc and trying to do the best they can for hoosiers across our state excited to announce today that house bill 1134 which is the probably one of the most impactful bills for schools in a negative way possible in the last many years is dead as i was
068informed tonight by denise jansen our president of our union teacher association and i have regular contact with our representatives through text through phone calls different measures but earlier this year and i want to give credit to mrs jansen who is here with us this evening she emailed me probably two three weeks ago and one of the things that we had talked about when i first got here was that i would support the union as they were going down to the legislators and and different things as they came and she came to me and said you know we really feel like this bill is one of the ones that is really concerning to us uh as a corporation and across the state with our educators and she said would you consider allowing us supporting us to
069go down to the state with some representatives here from crown point schools to go to the state house and spend the day and so we talked a little bit more and worked through that and we were able to provide some release time for our teachers to go down so they didn't have to take personal days or vacation days and they went down and spent three different days with three different groups of people so to go down and actually interact with legislators in the state house and that takes a lot of courage if you've never done that before to go down there one you walk into this unbelievably beautiful building very stately but then to be able to talk with them and they know what they've been talking about and they've got their jargon but to
070just be able to represent our concerns as teachers here thank you for your leadership in that denise and thank you to our teachers i know i've received a couple of notes from them about the opportunity to go and i'm kind of the other way i'm thanking them for being willing to go so it's one thing when i say it but or if you guys say it it's a whole different thing when they hear it from our teachers and see them with teachers from across the state doing it so thank you to that and a good result for that bill um keep our fingers crossed on the others that are still out there that are kind of impactful for us so um i want to recognize tonight's performance of our students you heard you saw the
071kids here you heard from mr g and fermi or mr mrs ramirez there's unbelievable things going on the things that mrs pasquez is talking about coming up with our that doesn't happen without great teachers and without great administrators and leaders in our district and while that's the fruits of what we see and represent our great school corporation i just want to take time to thank our teachers and administrators for all their efforts you know all those i don't know how many thousands of kids were at the high school and the middle school on that saturday but that was a saturday that most of those people were there volunteering their time to help our kids have great experiences not just our kids but kids from around the state and around multiple states as well so thank
072you to them construction program progress continues to take place if you haven't been out by taft you're going to need a truck to get out there at this point in time because of how the roads are and getting back and forth but they've got steel structures up starting to put the roofing on the auxiliary gym walls are going up so it's really moving along fast we expect at the high school they'll be breaking ground here in the next week or so we've worked through that permit process with the state working with the city and a great relationship and things going on there so we have some really good things going on just appreciate the way that in spite of noise in spite of distractions that are going on around us we just continue to push
073forward and our our kids our teachers do amazing things so really appreciate all their efforts thank you dro uh i'm seven this evening got the other business of border school trustees there anything anybody would like to talk about take an opportunity to roundtable discussion anything any any questions i just thought since dion is here dean how are we with supplies in that for all these projects being that there are issues throughout the country with getting things that we need so could you just maybe an overall of are we as as good as we can expect here's what i'll say certain pieces of equipment like mechanical equipment and roofing we're just calling logicals on the schedule so we're making adjustments based on what we know no use people getting chiller 12 weeks 32 i will say
074that now this wednesday the open mids for macarthur next wednesday with open business we have premium meetings giving the contractors an opportunity to come into the building and see existing conditions typically we'll get maybe 15 or 20. both fridays we have the student meetings are approximately 40. so they're hungry right now which means there's going to be a great level of competition and again the schedules are planned the schedules that are currently out there for the contractors bid on include what we're experiencing in the market right now as far as so we're okay the overall message the biggest impact is roofing right now you used to get it like you should get insulation what do you attribute to competition that's a specialty group i mean several contractors that focus on hospital work there haven't been
075many projects so what you'll see is there'll be contractors within macarthur that may go even more aggressive towards the fall because they're very close to each other plus you'll get the contract for and then wheeler is going to be out today so assuming all those well this wednesday and next wednesday as always appreciate your efforts i have one to one to bring up in case someone else is thinking about but the uh something that we need to acknowledge the ground point of the alumni association and um we've had some side conversations over the years i'm an alumni scott you're alumni um i'm sure the organization is trying to put together a alumni dinner early april and they generally send out raffle tickets every year um i talked to whoever mr lee helps run the program
076mr key were you familiar with uh a bit so they had some some issue came up recently and i'm bringing it up because they were they were accused of being a fraudulent group trying to raise money with the tag crown point alumni um my phone call with him seeing this in the past knew thought that it there wasn't it was on the up and up and everything was fine and it is um but they've just um i feel like they've run across many obstacles and um i'm not saying this as if i have an opinion of how it could be done differently but i think that now we have somebody like miss allen on our team um you know that not that you know i just think that a we as a board or dr
077terrell or miss anyone involved whether alumni or not we should try to find some way to help out this organ this group um this alumni association and uh you know so i'm just i'm just bringing it up now so we can hear if anyone has any thoughts or opinions so i've been to the dinner before and contributed for the raffle and i think it was the year mr caravanna was being nominated for one of the awards that they give out right they typically like to honor teacher of hall of fame teacher correct so teacher hall of fame i think it's wonderful and i think it could do nothing but help in using brooke's expertise to with mr lee and i can't think the other individual's name that i've spoken before so but i think it
078would be a great connection to even expand a little further so i mean i'd like to you know volunteer some effort to you know communicate with you so dr terrell just said hey what yeah and and even uh um when i spoke to mr lee i i told him i i said i'll uh i'll speak to dr terrell about you know trying to get a a lunch or a breakfast and maybe we you know see who you'd recommend inviting see who could you know maybe um they're graduates of probably the 70s so it'd probably be very helpful to just have some diversity on their with in their and their efforts and if we could find some people to help so i want to bring that up brian smith and i've had some conversations about some
079other possibilities of ways to try and help that organization as well so getting a meeting together with them be greatly appreciated if nothing else just letting them know that we're thinking about them and you know even it might not happen tomorrow or next month or six months from now that hey there's an opportunity to bring you to he i mean i'm not trying to put words in mr lee's mouth but he just sound a bit stressed and i i really um think that he has always tried his best to do you know what he can with it so uh retreat uh it's a great i we we talked at the last board member about reaching out down state or wherever to find somebody to um help us conduct a retreat and dr terrell had the
080thought that dr lux would be um if he would be willing and if he can it would be great for all of us and i think i've had some conversations with you guys that'd be great that would great he was doing some vacationing mr reese is doing i had a couple vacation main kid event so we want to miss really important for all of us that for mr reese to be there um so dr kelly have some dates so we have some dates in may um fortunately dr lux is spending his best retirement life and good for him but we're looking at may 10th which is a tuesday or may 12th which is a wednesday then the other dates right now we're just trying to look at a two-week window right now the other dates
081would be the following week the 16th which is a monday the 18th which is a wednesday or the 19th which is a thursday so if you guys can look at those it'd be great if we could nail that down this evening so that way we can get on his schedule when he's out of town and traveling is there anything that jumps off that are not good nights scott are you playing golf on wednesdays thursday but if i need to miss i can do it if everybody else works for a date but obviously then the 10th 16th and 18th would be my first three choices yeah my kids will have my baseball practice every one of those nights no doubt so i'll make it work yeah during the week is good you said that's what's good
082for you 10th would be good for me the tuesday 10th tom how's the 10th of may look for you i think i'm good good we have uh should be good at home but i gotta check with my wife on something just to confirm it so put out so if you guys how about this we'll plan on the 10th if i don't hear from you by the end of the day tomorrow or if you guys don't let david know and he get with me either way um that's good just get down and then i can get with dr lux and clear his schedule cabinet members that all work for you guys good good that was good that was that was clear with cleared with mr reese already uh we talked about it i'm gonna get back
083with him he's out of town right now but i'll get back with him too we're looking at from like four or five to nine at night or something like that probably from five to nine is what we were thinking yeah yeah we can still take um dr terrell and i spoke a couple times we didn't really come up with much new but we definitely take thoughts for topics that you want to be considered ahead of time we probably already figured out knocked out two and a half three hours of just oh yeah so easily yeah yeah um oh it's the other point two things i had were that uh scott babjack so put you on the spot that five years ago we had a conversation about how we thought it was important for crown point
084to have a more robust e-learning opportunity or you know quote-unquote snow day situation or something comes up and i think that obviously kovid threw the gas on that to to move forward but um you know it seems like it seems like we've got there and the last couple from my experience at home were fairly successful certainly agree with those to say that the kids need to be in school and none of us up here and none of the administrators think that we'd prefer to have a remote day than not but i just wanted to bring it up and ask you with me that that we do think it's important and it needs to be um the opportunity should be there for those days when necessary um you know i agree that that was something that
085yeah i mean when you look when you look back at how far we've come in five years where the complaint used to be well we've got the technology why aren't we using it uh to now you know do we have to be using it on this day so yeah that's not that's not necessarily a bad thing there's always going to be opinions one way or the other as to you know what the call for the day is but at least the technology's there at least we're not in a situation where we're having to add days to the end of the end of the school year now and uh chew away at the already short summer so no it's a good thing we've come a long way yeah not five years i wasn't trying to put
086you on the spot for any type of opinion but i knew you had the you we thought we've talked and thought about this in the past and it seemed like you know i'll agree with you this you all want our kids in school as much as possible thank you yeah if you don't doubt that spend an e-learning day in the bab jack house and and i could thank mr bab jack for uh wanting me to experience a true e-learning day i did invest i offered to uh allow me to have his uh youngest son i believe okay come and spend the day with me it's not the uh no i can do the math i can do the math it's the attitude that i do and we're kind of rehashing some conversations we've had before
087and the explanations of how this process takes place and um you know i bring it up a little bit because i i think that the value in you're not going to make a call because of hurting or not hurting people's feelings or you're going to do what you think is best but when you have that support to know i think that if you make that call aggressively with the information that you have so much planning can take place now because of the technology we have when you know it eight o'clock or when you give the give the teacher a heads up at 11 in the morning that do a little extra work today be prepared in case we have a remote learning day tomorrow the advantages are enormous so yeah it's kind of just saying
088you know think i want to say thank you for the way that you handled those days um whatever anyone the outcome of the days were where you lived the rows were clean or not i think they were handled well and i hope that that's a um a way that we see communication take place in the future yeah i mean it's a you're we're in a definitely a better situation with the ability to call a day the night before and give people a heads up or give send out an email to the teachers and let them know hey we might be calling it tonight so bring your stuff home and be prepared so those are those are all really good things but as we move the bar and we get better at those things then the
089expectation becomes higher in the community of you know i guess trying to get it right as much as possible and you know i think most people probably just look out their front window on a snow day and see if their road is closed or or you know is it has my road been plowed why aren't we at school but it's obviously not that complicated and a lot of times we make uh calls or you guys make calls based on roads that are you know county roads or what's the likelihood that a major road is going to be um you know snowed over we got we did we did receive some complaints on one day and um where i-65 was actually closed on that day that morning so it's just a you know you ask people
090to be patient and appreciate the big picture and all the all the work um that goes into it it's not just one neighborhood but it's a it's a you know a massive undertaking to call that and a lot of people are involved so yeah my my last item is just to to have the opportunity with you guys all here to explain to you how i've been handling some of the emails coming through to the board email we were in a wave there for a while that whether everybody everybody received an individual individualized response or when we were we had a wave of communication come through we did ask ms allen and we we worked through some templated responses um the last i'd say four or five weeks the way i've been handling it is that
091um individuals who may email frequently enter i'll say call passing information versus asking a question i hope by now they understand we're reading and i have not been responding to all those so if somebody would like that to change just get in touch with me off the side and let me know when there's a question that that comes through dr terrell has helped me with some answers before i even read the email so that i could respond with the proper answers so that those have been uh been taken care of um but maybe more important i want you guys to understand when the responses are sent when we're when we when we receive um and it's not because it may be demanding or in bold letters that i don't respond but i'm not you know
092when when when the when the when the email is coming through with you know capital capital capital and then you know like exclamation exclamation mix and i respect what i'm reading but i'm not responding to those so if anybody reads them and say hey this one needs a response i'm going to take it or whatever just just let me know i'm just getting getting your opinions and make sure that um as the one and kind of the point person for responding on make sure you guys are okay with that and if you disagree let me know now or off on the side or whatever so but in all we are trying to give a response to to all emails so we're still you know not it's not and and i do know that we've certainly
093read them so yeah i mean people might not everybody's not going to like all the answers but we that's this is another process that we've improved on over the years we went from two years ago not really having access to email and checking emails that often and then lucky for us we got our inboxes set up right before covert so whose [Laughter] what else do we have anybody else have anything to discuss review questions anybody no update with the city on uh project over there at bulldog park yeah so we are working through the mou process right now their attorney came up with the first draft and we passed it on to cheryl and she's been working through that and so as you can imagine there's some logistic things that we're working through there the
094other part of it is because we're looking at using permit fees and putting them back into the cities i don't say coffers but using their dollars to really go together as a team on making an addition to a building over there we've got to have some final numbers from our end so we're trying to work through some of that still so then we can come up with a total but we hope to be able to bring that to you guys here probably in the next four four to six maybe four to eight weeks to have that ironed out and good to go so again the fact that they were able to send us the first draft and let us then volley back from what i understand has been a huge improvement in that process as
095well so could you hear this progress thank you anything else um board statements appreciation recognition mr smith yes thank you i just want to take a moment just i'm going to try to go quick um but whoever came up with the concept i know brooks spoke about spirit wearing a spirit story that kind of got glossed over i want to touch on what a great idea so i don't know who gets credit for that but i love that idea and hopefully that works out nice brooke uh second um just want to touch on again we heard a lot about robotics and and stem and things of that nature tonight it seemed like there's a ton of success we knew that was coming so i just want to remind people i think i think i'm going
096to confirm this i think the expansion at the high school is expanding room so that all this young talent we can keep that going up into the high school so hopefully they'll have enough middle schools as well in middle schools and even into the elementary area so they have space designated yeah which which is extremely exciting i mean it's such an important uh a part of education so uh something that hasn't been touched on i think theater has a yes a musical you know i'm the theater guy so anastasia's coming and i believe that is a disney now or owned by disney which always does well so uh david get your kids ready get the girls ready you know anastasia's coming to town so that starts march 11th excited about that and then lastly i
097know dr terrell you touched on the gymnastics uh i know they've performed well so i want to congratulate them and of course uh we want to encourage them and hope they do well and wish them the best as as they continue forward so thank you for the performances yes yes nothing for me tonight that's random i'm actually free myself and uh yep i think we covered a lot early in the meeting so almost an hour and a half congratulations uh dr terrell any final remarks before we look for motion to adjourn i would just say to that hour and a half 35 of it was celebrating kids so yeah outstanding that's awesome yeah good deal yep thank you guys all right thank you everybody a motion to adjourn so moved excited moved by mr angel's
098second by mr fabric i was in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed