001good evening everybody welcome to the january 24th 2022 regular business meeting of borah school of trustees held in public with a start time of six o'clock if you may all rise we're gonna ask mr angel to lead us into pledge allegiance this evening thank you thank you mr angel let me mention as we get started that we have mr hoffman joining us remotely through the the phone up here so we'll try to include him in when when needed a starter meeting off with uh patrons ready uh registered to comment on educational issues oh here it is dr terrell we have two um members to comment here i i i the names are familiar from the past do i need to read the guidelines should i go through the guidelines to see me okay we'll continue
002reading that um as we've done in the past it's uh beneficial to everybody to hear the guidelines that we have set up for for comment just so we don't have any issues um the board will hear patrons legal residents of center township or winfield township wishing to comment on educational issues at the regular business meeting of the school board trustees held in public patrons must sign this sign up sheet provided in the back of the board room prior to start a meeting when their names are called called to address the board they will please move to the podium in front of the room state their names and addresses and the topic at which they will be addressing if patrons have prepared written statements on topic they may present them at this time a time limit
003of three minutes is allowed for each speaker we've asked mr angel to be our clockman he'll generally give you a 30 second warning and at three minutes he'll ask you um we'll cut you off at three minutes uh portion of the meeting during which participation of the public is invited shall be limited to 20 minutes unless extended by a vote of the board let me scroll down uh speakers are to refrain from speaking on personnel issues and student issues this is important one to uh uh we need to be very disciplined and not crossing the line of speaking on personnel issues as we receive comment so that wraps that up and our first speaker this evening brent holding please come forward good evening uh brent holding 2576 west 127th and crown point uh i wanted
004to comment on the state of the mask mandates and everything going on with that um again without i want to make sure i'm not blaming any person or persons in particular i'm just kind of a general disappointment with how things are structured um i think for people keeping a close eye on the dashboard of the past few weeks we've noticed that things are getting updated well after the fact you know things from two weeks ago are getting updated numbers are not being uh updated on a day-to-day basis and i think it's due to the nature of the way the numbers are being counted that uh you know whether again deliberately or just through the nature of it they aren't being reported in a timely manner um it's very open to uh you know manipulation or
005just you know untimely data and i'd like to suggest a different metric for you know when to institute the mass mandate something tied to the late county numbers the local numbers rather than specifically you know numbers that are being reported that's a fallible metric whereas the county you know the board of health numbers are are much more solid and reliable so that's all i had to say thank you thank you now sarah miller good evening hi sarah miller 6224 west 136th avenue in cedar lake um i just want to know what the the end goal is it's coveted policy i'm sorry i just wanted to know what your guys's end goal is i was happy with the updated policy it's a good first step but the end goal should really be that we we do
006away with mass and give parents the choice for their kids because we know we knew from the beginning that cloth masks weren't doing the job and it was just i feel like you guys are just kind of appeasing the other side who's a little more fearful and wants everyone to wear a mask because we know the kids are the least susceptible and we really shouldn't even be tracking based on infection numbers we should be looking at the danger and not putting the burden on the children and i know now the government wants to give tax funded n95 mass which are not going to fit the kids and that's definitely not something i'm going to be willing to put on my child so i just hope that you guys progress from here and not go backwards
007and listen to real data and not just fear and pandering to useless protocols so that would be all i ask thank you just in case um anybody missed our deadline or opportunity to sign up on the clipboard this evening is there did anybody miss that opportunity mr screen okay we just want to make sure with the slow start um yeah let me dr charles if i could so for our public just want to remind those who are listening or watching uh it's our practices that our board does not interact with questions that come up during the public comment time but i would like to make a couple of comments just based off of things that i heard tonight one is regarding the data and how that is recorded i want to ensure everyone out there
008we are not trying to skew this information one way or the other rather to keep our schools below two percent so students don't have to wear a mask or above two percent where students have to wear a mask and what i would like to do tonight is ask mr akiwa who works with our nurses daily continually throughout the day just to give everyone just a brief update on what that process looks like and what are some of the challenges that come about with how that data changes and how it comes in so mr akiwa sure thank you dr terrell my powers on thank you dr carol um i first want to go ahead and congratulate our nurses for a great job that they're doing out there in the buildings they have quite a bit to
009deal with on a regular basis and they just they're just a phenomenal staff that includes our subs that you know fill in for our folks when they're when they're not in but in essence um the buildings report to to us in a spreadsheet those that have reported being positive and those that have been their close contacts when they receive this data we're assigning that particular case to the date of last exposure in the school when when that particular positive was exposing students in the school or others in the school okay and it's difficult because that data may come to us from a parent or or staff member saying i wasn't feeling well several days ago i stayed home i waited to see if i was feeling better i got tested it took days for me
010to get the test i tested positive and then that reaches all the way back to when that first symptom was or when they were last in the building exposing somebody so i don't know that anybody's really doing anything intentionally to delay the data it's just how how this information comes to us and we work just as hard as possible to get that up and accurate for the school community to see we're not holding on to anything or or you know keeping it in our pocket to wait to share it at the right time i mean when it comes to us we we put it up we we do have some challenges where um our largest building crown point high school might be uh hit with many cases all at once and that takes you know
011maybe the next day for them to finish that to get to us so there might be a lag if they happen to have a bunch of reports on a given day but all of our other buildings do an incredible job of getting that to us it's just depending on the particulars of the case when it's reported to us when that person got their results back and when they were feeling that first symptom that directs us to which particular date to assign it to on the um on the chart now help me if i've confused anybody right there but hopefully i did a decent job and brooke and i work with this all the time did i do okay there okay super okay i don't know if that was acceptable that's perfect so the other thing
012i would just remind our public that if you do have questions you can go to our website to the covet information we are updating faqs there as we need to based off of different things that come in and also continuing to monitor not only our own data but the county and state data and information that is released as well so we appreciate everyone's patience with this we realize that we're coming up on the two-year anniversary of slowing the curve and we continue to do what we can to keep our schools open appreciate our parents and how they report and when they report just so that we can have the best information and data that we can so appreciate it thank you dr terrell when mr key was speaking there's one thing that was brought to
013my attention and you cleared up for me last week and i think it's important to mention this is that there's a there's a perception that data is delayed because nurses are so overwhelmed that they can't report it and i'm there there may be the way that you explain it to me and it made me feel better about the process sure there could be an exception but it's not an exception that's taking days and generally speaking the elementaries it's just the data coming to them with a lag not them able not them being able to turn it over timely and i think that i heard enough of it to concern me that they were so overwhelmed that they couldn't get it over here to central office quick enough and there may be a case or two
014that happened but generally being that is not that is not the case yeah if i may please comment our larger buildings are the ones that are feeling that you know the elementary schools are just due to the size of the the numbers of people in the building it's a they may not get as many reports any given day but when we came off a break the high school was really getting quite a few um and mondays are kind of a big day you know because people are waiting after the weekend to see if how they're feeling and then they go get tested right before monday so monday seemed to be very very busy for us in general but yeah i just again thank you to our nurses for all of the hard work they are
015doing out there in addition to running their clinics and handling their students with needs that do need some medical care and support during the day and just those fluid things that happen i mean it's just an amazing job so thank you nursing crew thank you good um item three consent agenda dr terrell so for your consideration this evening uh we have 3.01 uh minutes from the meetings that are listed there 3.02 the uniform conflict of interest disclosure statements 3.03 our personnel agenda 3.04 the voucher registered checks as displayed and listed in your report uh we've heard the consent agenda has presented do we have uh motion to approve no move moved by mr angel and second by mr smith any questions or comments on the consent agenda not all those in favor signify by saying
016aye aye aye mosh carries 5-0 mr hoffman did a was it i remotely sorry mr smith i saw you trying to hit your trigger there at the last second uh before we move forward to do sorry i think i did and i apologize uh to revisit but i think one other question that i had i think artie you might be able to explain this but um all the information that comes to us about cova to the schools then is reported to the county correct that's correct our nurses do a wonderful job of placing all of that positive data and post contacted in what is called the portal um yes that's correct as fast as they can they can do it you know if they have a really busy day they're they're reporting that information all
017the way into the nights like six seven o'clock sometimes that they've got a very busy day they're staying there working over so all our positive cases will be reflected on the dashboard for the county yeah i don't know if there's any sort of delay all i can speak to is that our our folks here are are putting that into the system in a rapid timely manner um i'm not i'm not sure how things work over there on their dashboard thank you [Music] information items super superintendent discussion groups mr smith anything happened in cedar lake no i'm following the sorry i'm following the meetings and the minutes and um no nothing they're just getting their facade grants and their tif district discussions and addressing that but nothing that would have the impact on crown point schools
018mr hoffman are you able to hear me anything going on in crown point that we maybe it may be of interest for the as school winfield actually had a reorganization meeting elect their new officers and they they've done a couple of things on their longer range agenda that they're looking at so maybe maybe have something further from winfield thank you and then we were skillman did share with the superintendent and this year down the board that we had some beams going up at the new site for tap so it was exciting to see cool drone coverage how about moving forward to 4.02 director of elementary education mr ramirez thank you mr president and board members i would just like to take this opportunity to thank our building administration they have really exhibited the upmost of
019leadership flexibility strong communication throughout our school year and they continue to do so as recently as today i think that their really commitment to seeing all of our students grow is exemplified every day so i just really want to thank them i also want to thank our assistant principals at the elementary level this being the first year that we have assistant principals and they have just taken on such hands-on roles within the building engaging with our families making relationships with students and staff and their partnership with principals has really been very impactful so i'm a very grateful that we have assistant principals starting this year in our elementaries and look forward to the work that they will continue to do thank you mr mirza uh i also mentioned i have a couple children in school
020they attend lake street and i just want to share some some positive news that we all know that the remote learning is difficult to challenge we've had a year of it last year that you know some could argue was you know even more than difficult and challenging um but the communication that we've seen received as a family this year and you know i don't know where this pipes down from it could be the individual teachers it could be the building leaders it could be yourself being involved but the communication this year and the way it's come to us has been very helpful so if you didn't know that i'd like to share it with you as a as a parent and um and if you do i want to thank you it's been been very
021helpful thank you for that feedback i'm sure that the principals and the teachers will be very appreciative to hear that as they are always committed to strong partnerships with families and want to make sure that two-way communication so thanks for sharing that thanks director of secondary education mr g fermi thank you mr president board members use my time to just kind of point out some points of pride of things that going on in secondary education we'll start with the crown point high school quiz bowl team won the indiana association school principal's quiz bowl area tournament beating andre in high school in the final on saturday and they'll move on to the state championship now so we are wishing coach smith and all his quiz bowlers good luck as they move forward and hopefully they'll be
022up here getting an accommodation for a state championship for us um also i want to point out i don't know if you guys were aware but during the college football playoff championship a couple of our teachers had a really unique opportunity and i'm going to rely on this ramirez for the elementary teacher but our secondary teacher jeremy walker was one well one out of 18 teachers across indiana that were invited to participate on a whole weekend of events so they went down there and they were actually on the field on the game day i think mr walker was carrying the michigan flag i being from michigan as i didn't have anything to do with that but just happened to be that way so they just participated in a whole bunch of things throughout the whole
023week and they just came back so excited and i think mr walker um and of course they represented us well down there but mr walker was really excited that he finished his first 5k walk run as one of the events so that was he's a great person and it's great recognition for him and our elementary teacher yeah thank you for bringing this up mr g and fermi jennifer pollitt from timothy ball who was our local elementary teacher of the year was also recognized during this event which was really a great event it was a weekend long everything from formal dinners to opportunities to network with professional development concerts different types of celebrations so they were really well recognized and so very deserving so thank you for bringing that up and and congratulations to both mr
024walker and ms paulett thank you thank you it's only 6 20. so i have a few other things to point out so um i did want to point out that over the weekend crown point high school had its turnabout dance over 800 students enjoyed the annual dance put on by our dance coaches and our dance parents who always do an amazing job and it was great to see we had a great event free of incidents so everything was nice and safe and we got you know weather being always a little worried about that turnabout but everyone got through it let's just uh catch the middle schools real quick here colonel wheeler's robotics team won a tournament over the weekend and now i've qualified for the state uh tournament so that's good we have a middle
025school robotics team advancing and let's just go back to the dance team taft dance team keeping their tradition of excellence with coach annie vassar three out of four first places in their tournament over the weekend so they had an extra weekend as well so those are just some things recently happening that maybe just keep you up to date with thank you mr g for me and uh 4.04 director of exceptional education ms pascus good evening mr warney members of the board a couple of department updates and what can be an impossible task even in the summer here in the middle of the year we were able to add an additional speech language pathologist and a behavior specialist through some of our covid grant money that was allotted to special education through our part b grants
026so we're really excited to add them to our team in addition tomorrow night kicks off our exceptional learners high school basketball season so tomorrow night at 6 00 pm they play the lowell red devils at the high school so come out and catch a game if you can thank you chief academic officer mr hartman yeah first of all with today's school cancellation that occurred late we had probably 50 students at child care that were already at the sites um and uh it becomes one of those things that uh um trying to to uh to take care of the the children from six o'clock to 6 30 in a way that uh just uh um just provides for them they went out of their way today to be able to provide the child care services for
027us for our children with the with the unplanned and being able to manage each of our sites and have staffing available there uh was really very well done uh kendra daves who is a secretary in our office coordinates that our site leaders kathy kish kathy morrow and carol carolyn lawson just do did a fantastic job to make sure that students were cared for and provided the e-learning atmosphere for their uh for their learning throughout the day so i think my first comment would be they just they did a just a fantastic job of covering and making sure the kids the children were cared for um the other thing i wanted to comment on is you know uh teachers in their student learning and to continue to develop our our staff to be able to meet
028student needs uh is ongoing i mean i've been here for a number of years and it has it's never stopped as we hone and we polish our skills even now as we approach february march and the rest of the year there are things that are happening to help us meet the needs of our meet the needs of our children and those kinds of things are trying to to help our teachers to think about universally what kinds of strategies work for can work for any child not not just this child but any child we're going through a process that we are working with uh with our staff they're working with uh mr g and fermi mrs ramirez and mrs pasquez and others building principles to really try to polish the skills of our of our teachers
029to meet uh to meet the needs of our students and then along with that to be able to uh to have the coaching and the resources that are necessary for us to do this is just exceptional i would thank you dr terrell for the opportunities that we have to be able to really polish the skills of our staff this is uh been a an exciting year i believe for for us with that taking taking place and just wanted to just say thank you but just know that the skills of teachers continue just to get polished each and every each and every year and it's really great to see uh the commitment that we have from our staff for that to occur so thank you mr hartman chief chief chief human resource officer mr akiwa thank
030you mr president board members um first i would like to um while we're thanking individuals beyond beyond the nurses um i think it needs to be stated that all of the staff members in our buildings have done an outstanding job fluidly daily covering for absences due to covid with staff members to make sure that the school day just maintains its momentum it's not optimal anywhere right now but we have got some impressive folks out there in our buildings every day dealing with inconvenience uh due to staff you know staff absence and they're incredibly creative in how they're getting you know courses covered and getting that curriculum delivered so just thank you to all of our our teachers support staff and any of those folks in the building for for keeping the the school machine running
031despite all the things we're dealing with and that goes beyond the school building this includes the transportation department where we've got folks in that office that are trained and and licensed to drive buses that are jumping on buses to cover routes as well um custodial staff and food service staff so just thank you crown point community school corporation employees for going the extra mile during these tough times just proud to be a part of of this this organization because of that as far as hr right now i think the last time i commented we were rolling up into the next school year and we're getting very close to arriving at what we feel to be our necessary staffing additions for next year based on numbers okay um so and we're also taking a look at
032every free space that we have in all of our buildings uh because we're running out of space um but um that being said you know we're gonna make sure that we're properly staffed and ready to go for uh for the fall and we'd like to go ahead and get some postings and interviews going as soon as we can to get some of those positions solidified so we're ready to ready to roll uh come august um and thanks to our administrators and all of our staffs involved in making those those decisions based on most based on numbers in our building thank you mr cuba mr reece anything from the business office i have no report this evening thank you and ms allen director of communications thank you good evening next to each of your computers i
033placed a copy of the upcoming we rcp publication it's an advanced copy so residents should expect to see those in their mailboxes the second week of february thank you [Laughter] yeah so y'all didn't know what we were laughing at he's got the mr hoffman's dog's got a comical cartoonish bark i would say superintendent of schools dr terrell i'd like to give you just a brief update on our construction project so we had 12 truckloads of steel delivered to taft and they actually have structures up out there now you can begin to see the academic wing taking shape it's real exciting to see that going in footers have been poured around the edge of the building now you can see the outline of what's going to take place there at the high school we have begun
034demolition within the building and southeast corner of the building and just today mr reece and i were able to meet with the mayor and his team and our permits will be coming through on that so we'll begin seeing work going on on the outside of the high school as well also then plans have been submitted to the city for timothy ball and we will be meeting with both macarthur staff and timothy ball staff tomorrow and then wednesday to roll out the final plans of what that's going to look like for them working with cedar lake as well i've got a meeting schedule here coming up with the officials there to continue to move forward with that and at the same time then working through all the additional projects that we're taking on including the rest
035of the elementary schools that haven't been touched yet and then also wheeler as well making sure that we bring it up to where it is similar in both size and function and capacity with what is going to be at the new taft middle school so the projects are coming along great i want to thank skillman and dion their work there to make sure that with the supply issues that we're facing around the country with construction products they've been very proactive to be able to make sure that we're on target with where we need to be the weather has been relatively cooperative thus far minus the snow that we had this morning and last night but otherwise they're moving right along so appreciate their efforts there as well also the other thing that i'd like to
036bring forward to you mention meeting with the mayor and his team today it's just the increased partnership with the city of crown point and being able to continue to develop relationships there and looking at some opportunities i think can really be beneficial for both our school corporation and but also the city of crown point and just again trying to extend uh what we can do to really help each other and assist each other and then also the same thing with cedar lake and opportunities that are coming there and then with the town of winfield as we continue to move forward so i feel like we're moving in a really good direction as far as our partnerships there and serving our communities thank you dr cheryl item five we have other business the board of school
037trustees um you know opportunity to have a little bit of discussion if if needed or ask any questions do we have anything this evening we like to do popular after today's snow can either mr key or yourself dr darrell explain just our procedure for calling off school or making a decision knowing that sometimes we might get it right sometimes maybe not but it's all based on timing and how the actual school day plans out yeah i'd be more than happy to thank you so one of the things i will tell you when it comes to snow it's a lot more of a moving target than it is if it's cold temperatures so anticipating very cold temperatures on wednesday morning we'll be able to make that call if we're going to do something probably tomorrow afternoon
038just because when they predict wind chills and cold temperatures that's pretty much setting snow in stone as far as snow goes it's a you never know i mean they could say we're going to get six inches and we get a dusting or we're gonna get a dusting and we get six inches the challenge that comes with that is when you're looking at a district as large as ours and covering as much ground as we cover our director of transportation is out driving roads early in the morning takes an hour a little over an hour to do the entire boundary of the district from one end to the other to try and get an idea of what's going on with that and thus increasing the challenge there with that though then is the communication that takes
039place with both myself but then also with the city with other departments and looking at what's going on there communicating with other districts in the immediate area to see what they're seeing as well understanding that we still have unique challenges here just simply because we have rural uh to city that we have to work through so because we start our route so early we have to make some kind of call typically by five is what we're looking at there are times where we have to make that just a little bit later and that really puts us in a bind this morning was particularly a challenge as you get out there and we were able to get in get our secondary students into our buildings without incident which we were very pleased with as we are
040out there driving all the different roads now that you put buses out there now obviously they're covering a lot more than what we can cover with just our director of transportation or myself helping out and driving roads as well so then we get a better look at what is actually happening today presented us a situation where we felt like you know what we were able to get our secondary students in without incident we were really concerned that there could be an incident for the elementaries so that's why the call was made understanding that that puts a lot of people in a bind not taking that lightly but ultimately the safety of our kids trumps that and that's that's the reason why the call was made today i can tell you that it wasn't made without
041um considerable consideration uh with what the ramifications would be but again like i said we just truly felt like it was something that we needed to do based off of the conditions that we were experiencing at that time any other business of the board or i think it's something i just want to throw out there today to the group is uh it did come up during the patron comments is i think we eventually do have to have that discussion of what the end game is with our covet policies um and talk about when when are we done when is enough enough um i'm not looking to hash that out right now but that's a that's a very legitimate concern that a lot of people in the community have so we've always relied on metrics and
042you know making making decisions based on numbers and data and we have to continue to do that um but i think we need to start kind of considering when when are we when is this over um you know how is it going to be the buildings remain masculine for a certain amount of time uh is it going to be a positivity rate what which which data are we going to use to make that decision so that's just something that i would toss out there uh i'd like to make it known that you know my my personal opinion right now is although i voted for the current policy that's in place and supported that as a way to keep kids out of masks i want it to be known that i am for the removal of
043masks under all circumstances at this point based on based on what the virus is doing and the situation the community is in i think a lot of us have gone from knowing an occasional person that's had cobia last year to now everyone we know has had it essentially um and so i think i think it warrants a conversation as to how that affects us in our buildings i think taking this opportunity to have conversations like this is healthy and helpful and i'm sure there's opinions playing around right now in all directions i'm not i'm not personally pressed at this moment to even consider you know to me it's like hey we're just finally getting in a little bit of routine i appreciate those that want to push it a little bit i respect those that
044are still questioning why we're not in mess all the time continue to kind of be in the middle road myself but at this very moment i'm thinking myself that we had a decision at a november board meeting about a plan that's being executed right now to me in my mind i feel like we're still on the first lap you know we're just getting started to this in this plan and hoping to see this plan work it you know continue to work itself out successfully um just that a little you know i we've had these conversations one-on-one in the past and uh like i said i don't think it's a always a bad idea to to have them open up with each other and i don't think either one of us have really changed our thought
045process along the way and i i wanted to take a second too to mention i've had we've had the emails come through on both sides as always i did have the opportunity to have a few phone calls with those questioning why we're not in mass all time phone calls with those thanking us for the current situation i've tried to remain remain as consistent as i can be you know i i take those phone calls that you guys you know right now as the point person for us anyone could have the phone calls but generally i'll respond to the emails first um and i think they're helpful every time i've hung up with someone whether i've whether we've disagreed the entire conversation or agree the entire entire time it has been helpful in this situation i
046feel like to me to talk it out you know and i bring that up because there are a few people that i offered you know the response to the email so you could you know please feel free to give me a call they reached out over the last couple weeks i was pulled away with um take care of some family business and uh wasn't able to respond they were gracious to say okay when you're when you're able to get back to us and i've not done yet yet that yeah so any yet so anybody who is listening uh i'll be available again or any of the board members are always available to have that phone call i just happen to be the the point person who you know might hit that hit that first email
047out or offer the number before anybody else but um you know scott i i just want to you know kind of take that chance their opportunity here to you know throw those thoughts back and forth like you did i think it's helpful when you we get that out there um i mean anyone else want to contribute to the contribute to any covert conversation or policies mr smith i'll join in let me let me correct myself too not not policies but plans because there's a big difference between uh we we've all kind of thrown that word around i i just did it myself but there's a big difference between a point in this discussion about that yes um for the same reasons i support the mask optional which is a parent choice to put a mask
048on their child as they believe it's in their best interest to do so i would equally support a parent who thinks it's best for their child to wear a mask and to me logically one goes with the other it just makes sense i think parents have the right to parent their children and do what they think is right for their children so at this point in time i haven't given much thought to what you raised mr mavjack but at this point in time i'm very comfortable with the current policy and moving forward for those stated reasons well this is getting interesting though um yes i agree with everything you said but under our current policy there is a trigger that does not allow the parents to make that decision so that's that's the part of
049the policy that i am um proposing that we uh possibly move on sooner rather than later we can circle circle back to that if necessary i wanted to bring up dr terrell and brian we were involved with the launch with the the city shoot late fall and uh mr smith has been mentioning that some towns around the state put banners up for their high school athletes and we just happened to notice notice them pop up around the square and don't really know where the root of that was but i think it's really neat something that we think gives a nice spirit to our community honors the athletes so right we don't necessarily know where that came from maybe a mom's club or somebody helped out but uh was the football moms club okay the basketball
050and basketball football for basketball or it was football i'm not aware they did it for basketball they're the uh some basketball players basketball players yeah i'm not sure on that one football moms because what was brought up in that one meeting i had some moms reach out so excellent that is very noticeable um other business that i want to mention we've uh i mentioned the last couple meetings don't want to forget don't want to let this four hour potential retreat uh drift off in the summer time where we don't as much we love hanging out with each other right we don't need to do that on a nice june night so we let's get this thing let's get this retreat on the books uh for some time february or march so we uh i know
051mr hoffman may have a topic or two we've thrown a couple around but uh we need to get that to dr terrell so he can invite the proper people to give us the any conversation opportunity we may need or data explained to us in deeper that maybe we've already seen it so we don't want to forget about that did we narrow it down to a certain week i remember us talking about it but i don't remember i do not think we have i think it's been just open and we need to well let's huddle up maybe before everybody leaves and not that out now at this point being the last week of january we probably are looking late february early march right so um yeah i'm sure we have a there's going to be a
052board meeting the later week of february maybe we could just start looking to a calendar for the first week of march is that before we get into the spring break time and yeah yeah the sooner we plant it the better yep good anything else any other business mr hoffman is there anything you'd like to add to other business this evening i have nothing okay if nothing else let's move forward to um more statements of appreciation we'll start with mr smith thank you david um tonight you know i leave the sports stuff there's a lot going on i'll leave it to the sports guys so hopefully you clean that up i know you will um so i want to go off point a little bit but um and just this is not typical ordinary but i
053want to recognize um david lawson's grandfather this week and i want to recognize him i know how close he was you know you were to him and what he meant in your life and i think i'm pronouncing it right ralph gargano and so i had an opportunity to go over and just visit with the family and you know i could see the impact that he had on your family in your life and you know i just want to take a moment to recognize him because uh i think this is your seventh year on the board your fifth as board president um or maybe longer dave if i misspoke but close all right but i think beyond this just even beyond the board and the school corporation where we receive your guidance and your benefit and
054your time you give to your community all the time personally and to see that you know to have the experience where i got to meet you know hear stories about your grandfather and kind of person he was it obviously came from him and he imparted so much of that into your life that we collectively as a community receive that benefit for so i just want to say you know i want to recognize him and the sacrifices and the time they took to put that into you and want to let you know that you know you're for your family you're in our thoughts and prayers so so that's much appreciated thank you nothing for me tonight mr hoffman you hear us okay mr hoffman here is okay i thought i might have just heard a click
055a second ago i thought i might have heard something there um would you like to add anything to would you like to add anything for board statement appreciation recognition okay thank you thank you uh mr angel um i only hit one of them but then mr smith's comment about i want to make sure i included everything that i know that's going on first of all to scott reed our assistant girls basketball coach is retiring of coaching after 40 years so congratulations to coach reed and all the lives he influenced with his coaching knowledge and with our girls basketball program to our wrestling team who won the state wrestling championship um what school is that at mr reese brownsburg and beat brownsburg in the title by two points correct so congratulations to all our wrestlers as
056they're continuing to be uh nationally ranked i think they were 11 but moved up to nine if i heard last ten okay um and then to our girls gymnastic team who now is competing right now as the number one ranked team which most of you might know or not know around this area it's valpo or chesterton and valpo girls are always right there and we're always maybe third fiddle while maybe the shoe is turned and now we're on top of them for at least right now so congratulations to those ladies as well so that's all i have tonight thank you mr angel all i would add to the wrestling is that i i didn't it was out there i should have known but the wrestling team went to illinois as number one indiana team on
057friday to wrestle the number one illinois team at mount carmel and it came out victorious i think 31 to 29 but um the atmosphere if you a couple pictures were shared with me the atmosphere looked unbelievable and the experiences that these kids are getting and [Music] how well you guys all remember it but when jesse mendez was here and we were honoring him for his state championship last year i remember the confidence that he had and the respect with the respect that he spoke with uh to us um for inviting them here and uh um and they're they're doing great things and i hopefully they can continue with the with what and uh not this week and when do the individual states take place they start sectionals on saturday sectionals are saturdays so i'm getting
058the card a little bit ahead of the horse but uh after that yes i hope we'll have plenty of athletes down there in indianapolis to go for a state title just to add on that mount carmel gymnasium that's one of your oldest gymnasiums in the state of illinois it's the old balcony style where you can sit up top it looked amazing so it's it made it for the videos and everything i've seen are just incredible because it's one half the size of our gym they might be accurate maybe even a third so it's close and makes that especially when you see wrestling up close like that and just makes it more special so um caleb that was all i had my my last thoughts was just we we've heard it on the board bef we've
059heard it at these meetings before and it's going to continue to just remind myself and everybody that it the conversations that go back and forth on covet policies and they um they're they're draining they're difficult they're necessary um you know they're important and um it's always need to remember to respect everyone else's opinion i think it's just that it's not not for me to say that to anybody i'm i'm nobody to say that but um you know i i think it's you know hope hope that as a community we can continue to respect one another um anything else before we look for a motion of german a motion to adjourn so moved moved by mr angel and seconded by mr smith all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed that motion carries 5-0
060thank you