001test clear okay good evening welcome everybody to the may 24th 2021 regular business meeting of the board of school of trustees with a start time six o'clock if it may all rise we're gonna ask mr hoffman to lead us in the pledge of 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 may be seated okay to start this evening we have item two board of school trustees resolution accommodation awards we have 2.01 the 2020 2021 macarthur math bowl team for winning second place in the state in the red class at the elementary math bowl competition i'm going to go ahead and read through the names we have the team ivy
002anderson cody ball landon bishop colin brown madison duffy christian farmer caleb fralick xavier garcia quinn johnson landon we'll get this straight when we actually hand out the award laban lightning good live and good keep uh caden meese piper parsnaut killen ii leah sterick thank you cayenne thank you thank you leah starrick connor wolf and the coaches joe bisek and lauren brinner or briner uh 2.02 we have the crown point high school 2020 2021 academic super bowl team for being named state champions in the fine arts category and third place in the social studies and interdisciplinary categories in class one at the indiana state academic super bowl competition the fine arts team was maya emils and greg abby nemegada and the social studies team was daniel sabinczyk jeremy kwasney an interdisciplinary team jason tong daniel sabinczyk
003abby nemegada maya amos and the coaches jason mcgee and john lombercy item 2.03 we have our 2022 teacher of the year administrator of the year and employee of the year award present presentations to jeremy walker teacher of the year secondary level jennifer teacher of the year elementary level dana toriano employer of the year employee of the year and the teacher of the year finalists were jill wagner from colonel wheeler scott reed taft sarah fritz eisenhower daniel moulder lake street melissa donaldson macarthur katie rice from solan robinson amanda cosiba winfield nicole sekulowski jerry ross jamie edgington learning center and the employee of the year finalist chantel pierce from the administrative service center and mike carnahan mcarthur do you have a motion to approve approved accommodations that's presented moved by mr angel in second by mr babjack
004any questions comments before vote all those in favor signify by saying aye hi opposed motion carries five zero and i will begin presenting the accommodations just quickly before we begin the presentation of the commendations for those of the teachers of the year and employees of the year who are here we ask you that you stick around wait until we get through all of the others we're going to get pictures with them so if you can remain in the audience or go back to the audience seats once your name is called and you're given your certificate or accommodation and then once we get through everybody else then we'll have you guys step out and do the pictures for those awards or accommodations as well all right thank you let's get started thumbs up we're good i
005hope so all right excellent um it's my honor tonight to give the award to the 2020-2021 macarthur math bowl team for winning second place in the state in the red class at the elementary math bowl competition uh with the coaches would you guys like to join me up front uh coaches joe bisek and lauren breiner [Applause] okay [Laughter] all right first we have ivy anderson cody ball [Applause] landon bishop colin brown madison duffy christian farmer [Applause] caleb fralick xavier garcia [Applause] quinn johnson [Applause] landon libengood liebengan caden miese piper park parzignot [Applause] cayenne sachin [Applause] and leah starrick [Applause] so let me actually read the resolution of commendation the crown point school board of trust of school trustees is honored to commend the 2020-2021 douglas macarthur elementary math ball team for notorious achievement be it
006hereby resolve that the school board of trustees for the crown point community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2020 2021 douglas macarthur elementary math bowl team for winning second place in the state in the red class at the elementary math bowl competition the school board of trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minus minutes to be preserved for public posterity dated this 24th day of may 2021 congratulations i'd like to give the coaches an opportunity to say something about your team and have the kids turn around and show the show the audience their t-shirts this is pretty cool up here we got potato god axe pumpkin pie check out those names what is the story behind the t-shirts they get to pick their own nickname uh they design
007the front so whatever they come up with so that we let them collaborate for a little while look at inspiration from online and things like that and they wanted to have a calculator this year and so we have a calculator with fun nicknames on the back okay all right turn around together then we'll squish oh i think so congratulations macarthur thank you parents after we're able to settle down mr smith will read the accommodation for the academic spell bowl team give everybody a minute to get situated all right very good well i have the honor of presenting our academic super bowl team for the crown point high school their their accommodation this evening and uh our coaches uh jason mcgee and john lembercy here today excellent come on in coaches thank you [Applause] congratulations coaches
008on your state championship and third place finish in the social studies and interdisciplinary categories um we'll uh we'll announce the name of the students and um give them their accommodation award and then we'll read the accommodation okay so uh super bowl competition the fine arts team maya melsie is that correct [Applause] anna greg congratulations abi nimagada for the social studies team daniel sabincik congratulations and jeremy kwasney interdisciplinary team jason tong uh other individuals on that uh interdisciplinary team daniel cebenczyk again [Applause] avi nimagada [Applause] and maya and elsie again coach i need the accommodation back i forgot to give it to you i need it back so i can read it let me read the accommodation i appreciate it the crown point board of school of trustees is honored to commend the team for meritorious
009achievement be hereby resolved at the board of school of trustees for the crown point community school corporations wishes to express sincere congratulations to the members of the 2021 crown point high school super bowl team for uh receiving third place in social studies category and at the 2021 indiana academic super bowl state finals and first place for being named state championships in the fine arts categories the board of school of trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders its permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity this 24th day of may 2021. congratulations again guys well done coaches would you like to make a comment or speak about this team um well we certainly like state championships around here so and well fantastic we know that this uh these honors don't come without much hard
010work so thank you for representing crown point school district so well and your team your coaches and your family so well we really appreciate it let's give it up to him [Applause] this is exciting i have the uh i'm gonna pull this down i have the honor of announcing reading accommodations for our you know teacher of the year our administrative year and player of the year and i know that uh with just teacher preacher appreciation week a couple weeks ago and um you know reading the well what we got as board members that you know educator these familiar faces out there just caught a smile to say hello um educator appreciation week and you know as a corporation everything that all of you do in all the different roles that you play is so much
011appreciated so this is quite an honor for the individuals that um have been voted on by their peers this evening to receive this award uh so do we have room all the way back to mr walker that doesn't look like there's too many of you would you be able to fit inside or could could you come on you could guys go in the free you could come up in front of the board members try to space if you'd like well we read through some of it earlier but i'm i'm gonna you know go through it again this evening we have the 2021 and 2022 teacher of the year administrator of the year in play of the year award presentations we're going to begin with mr walker the teacher of the year at the secondary level
012we could go through everybody individually but mr g and fermi would you mind taking an opportunity to say a few words i i will for sure mr merchant couldn't make it so being director of secondary ed and working with mr walker for the last 15 years he's a special educator for sure in the fact that not only does he just motivate kids to do things fantastic things latin club state championships year after year after year but he also motivates adults and gets them through some really tough work and in no way was that ever more abundant than this year when he really led a lot of our secondary folks in jumping into e-learning and blended learning and just being as creative as they could to kind of keep the education going when we were hit
013with a pandemic that nobody was prepared for so beyond everything that mr walker has done for crown point schools over the course of many many many years this year was just one of those years that he really uh picked up his game when we thought how can he do that and he and he did so all the the candidates we had at the secondary level were amazing um it's really really hard to pick but uh mr walker you are more than deserving of this award and honor for sure also this evening we have our teacher of the year at the uh out at the elementary level miss jennifer paulette mr chiquino you're here this evening would you mind sharing a couple words for us please please just got here from my daughter's preschool graduation but
014uh it's my pleasure to talk about jennifer pilot any chance i could but um jen i i've known her for five years um since i got to timothy ball she was a kindergarten teacher our kindergarten team leader and the first day i met her she said nick welcome to t-ball i'm ready for a new challenge please move me to third grade and i did we moved some people around that year and jen rose to the challenge in third grade and uh teaching kindergarten and third grade both i think every grade has its own challenges but those two grade levels come with unique challenges and jennifer is just a fantastic teacher in every way she connects with her kids most importantly great relationships with their students knows what they need on a social emotional level an
015academic level um a great communicator with parents she's willing to drop whatever she's doing to help a teammate or a colleague at timothy ball and just couldn't ask for for a better leader or a better teacher so congratulations jennifer proud to work with you and very proud of this accomplishment for you i want to give mr g and fermi and shakeen an opportunity to say a few words for uh mr walker and i say pilot yes pilot um but now i'll read the i'm going to read the accommodation awards and um while some of you were in the hallway i'll read the award for everybody else that we have this evening and then uh i think we have a couple special moments when we're finished resolution accommodation the crown point board of school trustees is
016honored to commend these individuals this evening as exemplary employees administrators teachers secondary level elementary level we hereby resolve that the board of school trustees for the crown point community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to these individuals for being named the 2021 2022 employees teachers of the year the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity day this this date the 24th day of may 2021 so i will go through this we have dana and please help my if i toriano okay dana i want to give with it what you were acknowledged for obviously um and these are a teacher your finalist joe wagner [Applause] better teacher finalist scott reed at taft and we had sarah fritz from eisenhower [Applause] daniel moulder
017lake street [Applause] melissa melissa donaldson macarthur congratulations [Applause] uh katie rice robinson [Applause] melissa did you get the right uh okay and uh nicole is it cicalewski is nicole here okay thank you flinsley and we have jamie edgington in the learning center and our employer of the year finals for chantel pierce from administrative service center mrs pearson [Applause] and mr carnahan i don't believe he's here yet right oh i'm gonna i want to hand it over to dr terrell i know we're going to want to get some pictures of all the finalists and with also the the winners this evening thank you before we go on i just want to we had others give just a little blurb if you will about the teachers of the year um artie would you mind with our employee
018of the year if you could kind of just give us a little bit of information background on uh that individual i'd love to we're glad that dana is here with us this evening hi dana how are you feeling really good up there right now aren't you you should uh dana toriano is our health coordinator she's uh our leader of all of our nurses i think it goes without saying how important that role has been here in the last just over a year uh we spent countless hours uh planning but then dana was literally the lead person to launch and and make sure that you know safety protocols were followed now keep in mind in addition to leading a nursing staff that is in charge of clinics for day-to-day operations uh for school functions which is
019you know millions of band-aids and cuts and scrapes and all the things that go beyond with schooling so dana um we are so proud of you and so happy for you and so thankful uh for who you are and and what you've given to the crown point community school corporation so um love you all right and and uh thanks so much for all that you do for us [Applause] and then we also missed uh amanda from winfield we appreciate you being here as well so this year we have a couple of additional awards uh we are now going to begin recognizing an administrator of the year um and look at our administrators as well and recognize them for the hard work that they put in and this individual tonight was brought here on um misinformation
020as to her reasoning for being here this evening but our first uh administrator of the year is karen toth karen and our conversations that take place at 3 30 to 4 30 in the morning uh on weather related days but i want to ask artie if he would just talk she was brought here thinking that she was going to give you all in a report on our electric bus which we are getting an electric bus and it's going to be really cool but we don't want to hear about your question yeah i'm gonna pay for this one ladies and gentlemen so but it's worth it it's so worth it um karen wow i know i'm gonna have to say i'm gonna have to say some things right now okay um and i had to write
021them down so i could stay focused um but karen started as a substitute teacher in 1996 with the crown point community school corporation from there guidance secretary in 1998 principal secretary in 2001 and eventually the director of transportation karen told us viewed the operations of this school corporation through unique set of lenses while we can't help but celebrate karen's history as she prepares to retire we're honoring her as administrator of the year for the efforts she has put forth over the past 12 to 14 months a year filled with countless adjustments and changes while still supporting the needs of our homeless sheltered fosters students needing rights to school from a myriad of locations all done with a calm voice professional demeanor when a certain sort of chaos was all around her this year i've had
022the great pleasure of working with karen toth in all of her prior environments and i must say she has been her genuine self through it all congratulations and a heartfelt thank you karen toth our administrator of the year [Laughter] hello oh join us right here [Applause] our last award that we want to give out this year is a new award that may be handed out annually it may be every couple of years just depending on the situations that arise as we go forward with it and this year this this award is going to be called the spirit of a bulldog award and because it is the inaugural award this is going to bear the name of the individual who is receiving this award and we'll give you more of that information uh as we go
023through this this time but this award is going to be the mike carnahan spirit of a bulldog award [Applause] and mike let me i'll read this before i present it to you in the middle and i want you to know that you are a hard individual to convince to get to things like this much like somebody else we all know and love resolution of commendation the crown point board of school trustees is honored to commend mike carnahan for meritorious achievement be it resolved by the board of school trustees for the crown point community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to mike carnahan douglas macarthur head custodian as the first recipient of the mike carnahan spirit of a bulldog award for exemplary display of pride determination perseverance kindness reliability humility and selflessness the board of
024school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity dated this 24th day of may 2021 mike mike surprise huh well i i have to share the story so i've i've had the great fortune of being on the interview committee for all of these wonderful individuals in front of us and i must say that it was such an enjoyable experience listen to everybody's commentary we've got phenomenal educators employees in crown point community school corporation um and just so thank you but mike you know during your interview something was happening um you know katie dowling was on the interview panel with myself along with last year's winner uh for employee of the year um and that was uh sherry toakley and we just felt this thing happening
025while we were talking to you um and words and stories were coming out of you um you know how dare i go back and say you know hired april 11 1975 as a crown point high school custodian appointed july 11 1995 as the head custodian macarthur elementary school safety awards cpi certification carnahan's helpers and you have also been an employee of the year all the exemplary examples of of attributes you know dr terrell uh so eloquent eloquently stated i could tell you that the impact on students and staff that mike has generated transcends generations not to mention your job description the stories you were telling were concrete examples of how you impacted not only those in your building but those in the entire school corporation over years mike um this is this is truly truly
026special um quotes from the interview i wanted to try to be a teacher but in another way i wanted to let them know there was someone who cares i always wanted to make sure teachers know they can depend on me for anything anytime anybody that knows you knows that these statements are absolutely 100 true um do you want to throw anything in here because i i can say that you've advocated for the underdog um you've gone out of your way to make connections with students that maybe don't have the advantages that other have other individuals have and you've made a point to make sure they knew someone was there that cares for them that loves them that they could depend on um we just cannot thank you enough and this particular award it it needs
027your name on it because of all that you've done for the crown point community school corporation so thanks mike thank you and i should mention all of you the teachers of the year employees of the year ministry of the year mike we will have your trophies for you in the year of covid shortages we were not able to get those by tonight so we will have those for you and we'll present those to you at another time as well but before we let you escape from here we need to do a couple of things one is a group photo of all of you and then if we could get a group photo of the actual teachers of the year employee of the year administrator of the year so brooke i'm going to turn it over
028to you for directions and please follow brooks david we have lost the room and we literally have lost them yes just letting everybody settle in we'll get we'll get right back to it here in a second okay back to serious item three is the public hearing uh 3.01 suspend a regular meeting and open for public hearing of emotion do i have a motion to suspend the regular meeting and move to the public hearing second moved by mr hoffman and second by mr angel i was in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed most curious 5-0 and we have patron comments for the public hearing we don't have any this evening unless anybody's come in late but nothing is on the sign up sheet nobody's out there uh 3.03 is the 2021 capital project bonds ms
029dowling thank you mr president um today this is a hearing on the lease that required a 30-day advertisement the school corporation is funding the the 2021 capital projects through lease financing it's as it has done with the past in the past with other construction renovation projects such as crown point high school and the wheeler middle school lease financing is used by school corporations across the state of indiana in order to borrow for renovation and construction the building corporation which mr bates mr geisen and miss katich are members of will purchase all our portion of the existing staff middle school macarthur elementary and real estate on which the new taft middle school is on as well as lake street and essentially the building corporation will purchase those from us and in return we will sell the
030bonds that will be the revenue that we're using for the construction projects also a part of this are making sure also part of this are resolution several resolutions related to this if you remember from last month uh we started the process with reauthorizing the building corporation approving the hearing the lease hearing being advertised etc the next step today uh is resolution 800 which is authorizing execution of the physical lease agreement between the crown point community school corporation and the crown point community holding building corporation resolution 801 is a resolution assigning the construction bids and contracts to the building corporation once they are received resolution 802 is a resolution approving the fourth supplement to the master continuing disclosure undertaking and issuing of bonds uh baker tilly files that for us annually for continuing disclosure to legal
031compliance a piece resolution is approving amended and restated post post-issuance compliance procedures which essentially appoints me as the person responsible for making sure that those are completed and resolution 804 is approving issuance of bond anticipation notes or bans if they're necessary i would tell you as you're aware we are funding the early stages of the project out of out of cash on hand that will be reimbursed once we sell the bonds but for every drill do you want to take this part for every 30 days that we're able to delay issuing the bonds we save 750 000 and capitalize interest so this is you know benefit um to everybody um so mr president that ends my comments i would ask for an approval of resolutions 800-804 move to approve each of those resolutions and waive
032the reading not business available so moved second moved by mr angel in second by mr hoffman i was in favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries 5-0 now we'll resume the regular business meeting we'll resume with item four patrons comments we don't have anybody registered to comment this evening so go to item five we have the consent agenda for dr terrell your consideration this evening we have 5.01 which is the minutes from the different meetings that are listed 5.02 the biomed purchase 5.03 the wheeler middle school robotics club purchase 5.04 the apply for the grant from the challenger center from this challenger center and then also 5.05 our 2021 2022 school year meal prices uh 5.06 is our personnel agenda and then 5.07 the voucher registered checks as listed thank you dr
033carroll for the consent agenda as presented we have a motion to approve no move second as moved by mr hoffman and second by mr smith have any questions or comments for dr terrell consent agenda not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed most carriers 5-0 thank you dr terrell we go to action items this evening we have 6.01 textbook and resource adoption for 2021-22 mr hartman thank you mr warning the next three items that are on the action items kind of are tied together first of all we have adoption of materials and then we're going to look at textbook rental and supply fees for next year and we're going to follow that up with disposal of obsolete materials also 6.001 is looking at textbook and resource adoption in the list that
034is provided to you we have materials for multiple disciplines uh including our core subjects and also our subjects that would not be in the core area that would be in the uh areas of uh band choir and orchestra would be in the areas of info technology as well as project lead the way and also they're varied from high school middle school and the elementary school so this evening seeking your approval to adopt these materials for the crown point community school corporation thank you mr harvey he heard a recommendation to approve the textbook or resource adoption for use beginning in the 2021-2022 school year do we have a motion to approve so moved second moved by mr angel on second by mr babjack do we have any questions or comments from mr hartman if not all
035those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries five zero and again mr harbin at 6.02 we have textbook rental and supply fees for the 2021-22 school year thank you very much mr warning this evening we're going to bring to you textbook rental and supply fees these are middle school is complete so when we take a look at that you'll see that it's complete you get an idea what the tbr is because we are still working on quotes from some of the companies you'll see in the high school part of the tbr there's some things highlighted and we're waiting on uh quotes and we'll bring that to you in in june at your june meeting and the same thing with the with the new adoption of some of the elemental materials which
036you'll see on the previous list you're going to see some blanks right now in that but to move forward in the purchase of materials uh with quoted prices that we have you can see in the elementary that there are uh prices for or quotes for the uh for the resources and materials uh in that area so this evening seeking your approval of what's presented to you and then knowing that there will be additions coming to you at the june board meeting to complete the uh the process as well as our exceptional learners textbook rental and supply fees seeking your approval on what is presented to you this evening thank you mr harbin here excuse me for the recommendation to approve the current textbook rental and supply fees for 2021 2022 elementary middle and high school
037motion to approve move to approval is requested moved by mr hoffman is second by mr angel any questions or comments jim because our people on the live feed don't get to see these numbers can you briefly summarize how these fees compare to prior years actually the at the elementary level uh when we do finish this off i expect it to be very comparable we've been we've maintained around the fee so i think we're going to see very comparable amount there if you look at the uh the middle school component of this and you compare 2021-22 to this this current year we're right at the the amount and at the high school level so difficult to predict because depending on the courses that students take it impacts the their fees and so it's very difficult and
038challenging although we know that resources uh um they do cost more uh as we uh continue we adopt each and every year so uh so we can expect that we probably would see an increase in in course fees at the high school or overall for students thank you you're welcome any other questions or comments from mr hartman if not all those in favor signify by saying opposed emotion carries five zero and we're moving to 6.03 the disposition of obsolete curricular materials mr harmon thank you again with the uh adoption of new materials therefore there's materials to be disposed of uh that were adopted that these are replacing uh and so there is a list of of elementary middle and i believe there might be a few high school items that are on the disposal list
039normally what we'll do with those is we do offer those to students first for to take and then if there is opportunity to donate the materials or we would dispose of those materials uh uh appropriately i also would note that if there are any fees for disposal we have included that as part of the recommendation for you so seeking your approval this evening to dispose of the materials that are in are in the list thank you mr sherman good recommendation to approve to dispose of the curricular materials listed in the most economical manner that best meets the requirements of the ic 5-22-22 and ic 20-26-5-4 and administrative guidelines 7310 which may include sale donation or deeming of deeming it worthless and disposing of it as a normal refuse do a motion to approve second move
040by mr smith and second by mr hoffman any questions or comments for mr hartman not always in favor signify by saying opposed motion carries 5-0 thank you and thank you again mr hartman and um 6.04 the soul robinson generator project ms dowling thank you mr president there is a need for us to be able to install a generator at solen robinson elementary school mississippi worked with gibraltar design for the project specifications uh advertised those went out to bid we were fortunate we received five bidders the low bit on this thank you sorry particular project uh was from sweeney electric and the amount of three hundred and eighty four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and the last at least last five years since i've been here we've had an increase in outages in terms of
041frequency and length of time and so on which is sort of what drove this to begin with to provide them with some normalcy i guess with because it just disrupts the whole day for the students for the school and so that's the reason for this this here before you today so the administration would recommend that the contract be awarded to sweeney electric and the amount of 384 thousand and 750 dollars for the installation of generator service at solen robinson elementary school thank you mr i'll repeat that recommendation to approve the contract to be awarded from sweden electric amount of three four thousand seven or fifty dollars for the installation of a backup generator service for solan robinson elementary school if you have a motion to approve so moved second moved by mr angel and second
042by mr smith any questions or comments from ms dowling do we have generators in any other schools three other buildings these generators inside the building are outside so no additional structural stuff needed just fits outside somewhere okay thank you what's the reason for the additional outages is that just the infrastructure around those schools has the unfortunate situation of being on the same transformer by the fairgrounds okay and there are a ton of power outages in that area there's a long history of that those of you that grew up around like us and those that have a ton of power outages so we've lost food out there you know and when they lose it they can't lose it for longer stretch of time but we lose things in the coolers in the freezers and now in
043this day and age um we're able with a generator like this where really the kids won't miss a beat because we have wi-fi in the buildings we can keep the wi-fi going as well as for safety purposes in the main office the communications won't be lost at all thank you thank you any other questions or comments i was in favor signify by saying aye hi hi opposed motion curious 5-0 thank you miss dolly and mr moleski thank you information items super superintendent discussion groups do we have anything to report this evening from any of our winfield cedar lake the construction project on parish avenue which i don't think really impacts our schools but that might help the flow of trafficking and around the cedar lake area getting in off of 231 other than that there
044are just a lot of applications for you know building improvements and things like that but nothing that impacts the schools that i've been following thank you mr smith anything else from crown point rdc uh mayor indicated that they'll be going into another phase of the improvements on 109th near i-65 uh there'll be another shutdown over there for a period of time um other than that the business pretty much as usual for the crown point rdc winfield has not met in some several months so thank you just to add to that mr warren it looks like june 1st through november 15th is that shut down not that it'll affect my daily traveling another plus to karen told how she's handled even getting buses out to winfield at some point during the day and back and without
045disruptions or kids being late to school or except she's retiring she heard about that construction and said that [Music] scott's going to be applying for the for the position so we can improve traffic in winfield that bus safety rating would go down in a heartbeat how about we move forward to the mr harmon chief academic officer would you like to go absolutely we'll uh let's move over to the director who would like to go first director of elementary education ms ramirez thank you mr president and board members i would just like to take this opportunity as we're closing out the school year to really thank our elementary principals as you saw all of them here tonight they have really continued to show up every day for our teachers and staff for our students and for
046our families and they have been creative dedicated and i think what is really exciting in kind of finishing out these last four days with students and even starting into last week are the opportunities for some kind of normalcy for celebration that i hope that you're seeing either through their social media through their newsletters hearing about as your children maybe are participating they've made everything successful from ilearn administration that when we were thinking about ilearn back in october we thought how in the world will this work and they made it work and i think that's a true testament to everybody pitching in to make sure that kids were in school that teachers were flexible with kids who might have to miss kind of creating schedules recreating schedules it's been exciting to see dare graduations happening kind
047of grade transition celebrations that have occurred and the involvement of families again our principals have gone um i'd say into the technology realm of zooming families in so that they could feel like they were part of these special moments in our children's lives so i just want to thank them and thank our students too for continuing to stay steadfast in being good citizens um there's been lots of fundraising that's been going on and has been highlighted in um newsletters and i just think it really just is a true testament that despite all of the negative that we've stayed positive and have kept our kids learning and growing and working together director of secondary education mr g fermi thank you mr president um i just want to take this time to share with the board an
048interesting dilemma we had at the high school and how the middle schools have helped to solve this diploma we've talked a lot about graduation pathways and how that's changed quite a bit for our high school students one of the things that a student can do now is travel through a cte pathway and graduate that way well one of the things we were running into in order to really be able to get into that pathway and do it legitimately through your four years you have to kind of do an introductory course a preparing for a college and career course well it was really difficult to fit that into our kids schedule so we we brought that problem to our our principals in the middle schools and mrs seibert and mr rodriguez brainstorming with uh the associate
049principal at the high school miss hellcar came up with the idea that really a lot of the standards that are covered in that course are the same things we're doing with our 8th graders in their resource period time so what we are going to be able to do is offer every 8th grader at colonel wheeler and at taft middle school a high school course in preparing for college and career where they will receive a credit all all taking it the first first semester of their eighth grade year a lot of safeguards in there for them to make up things in the second semester in case you know they missed due to things this will not take away from the things that are happening in resource class because you do not have to spend each and
050every day in the cte course we have also worked with eighth grade teachers and we'll be building us a special buzz course which will be address it towards the eighth grade um and it works really well with what we've always done in eighth grade with the crossroads chamber of commerce and their chamber town when we bring in all those employers and people from the community so all these things kind of came together and the collaboration between the middle schools and the high schools will really afford all of our eighth grade students uh going into high school kind of a head start and a good opportunity and that's for every every one of them you know traditionally we've had our high ability kids be able to get a high school credit now every single eighth grader
051will be able to start off with that so it was really a it was really great work between the the buildings and and we think it's going to be a great great opportunity for the 8th grade students moving forward it is a course that's on the books that's why we didn't have to send it through for approval so this is why i want to take this time to share so the board is fully aware of what that opportunity is for 8th graders and i would be amiss if i didn't finish up with if anyone picked up the northwest indiana times this sunday they noticed that the region's best crown point high school was voted once again the best high school in the region which we we all would agree upon i would say so that's
052what i have any questions or concerns that's a repeat correct yes it is thank you thank you thank you mr gene for me chief academic officer mr hardman oh i'm sorry all right we'll do uh director director director of exceptional education mrs pasquez you see she was trying to highlight maybe i'd get out of this yeah good evening mr morning and board of trustees uh tonight you approved the addition of several new positions to our department we have an elementary coordinator andrea avila who is currently a sixth grade resource teacher at wheeler and our secondary coordinator is coming from another district with over 10 years of experience three master's degrees a director's license and then two diagnosticians dominique bowman who's currently a resource teacher at our high school but has served in a similar role
053at another district and then also from another district someone that had worked here previously in another role she's coming back to assist with some of our preschool diagnostics has tons of experience in that area so we're just looking forward for those folks to help our teachers out our principals out with case conferences and just help us as we move forward with our inclusive practice thank you miss passes now i'm ready all right mr hartman is ready director sorry chief academic officer thank you all mr hart very much um i'm gonna uh just comment uh similar to heather um we did uh you approved tonight anne vasser as a blended instructional design specialist she'll join jeremy walker and susan valentine as a as a team this is thanks to you for adding that additional position tomorrow
054we begin interviews for instructional specialists four of them two in the elementary and two at the secondary level so again i want to thank you for that we just on the 19th of may preliminary results came out for ilearn which is the three through eight testing it it is evidence first of all that those students that uh uh achieved the proficient score at or above proficient uh is uh is below what uh it was in 1819 which uh um as we looked at the question was how far below would it be but on on a good good site of that there are four levels of the proficiency there's above proficient there's at proficient and then there's approaching proficient and then you have those that are below proficient when i look at the below proficient number
055it's very similar to what we would have seen in so so when you look at it from a standpoint of approaching at and above it's a matter of we lost time you know we lost time i think we did lose some uh opportunity with the with the distance as we were you know adjusting and making those kinds of adjustments the connections with kids as we know wasn't there so so there's a there's a there is a positive in this that that the students that were approaching at or above doesn't seem like we lost as much ground just from that percentage but when you do see the results that will come out july when they're finalized you will see that the at and the above were were lower than what and i cannot give you a
056comparison as to how that is to other school corporations because these are preliminary and they're not finalized yet and in july we'll be able to compare and see how we compare to other school districts like us and also in the area jim you you say 18 19 isn't that back when we had the one-room schools and we're i look forward to seeing the pie charts bar graphs all the awesome excel spreadsheets in the near future for a year and a half i've done those for mr hardin about chief human resource officer mr akiwa thank you mr president board members we've had a just an aggressive furious hiring season um i mean a number of interviews and and screenings that we've gone through to to onboard uh just a tremendous amount of skill and talent uh
057it's been amazing hats off to all of our administrators for the time they put in i mean we've been here until six seven o'clock at night at certain times interviewing folks and we really do appreciate it and that's just not teachers that's support staff um across the board people have really really put in the time um but i i think as i was writing it all started with a cubs game last night i started to reflect a little bit and then kind of looking over karen paul's comments and mike carney's comments i started to think back like where were we i couldn't even watch a cubs game at this time last year right so let's roll that back a little bit farther like to january february of last year we're on the precipice of a
058change in crown point community school corporation that we couldn't have even begun to appreciate um and to think we've gone through everything we've been through to today right on the end of closing out a school year and i don't want to jinx this but hopefully close it out very successfully i just want to thank you for all you've done to support us as leaders in working with us so closely and having great conversations to to minimize the bump uh that we've experienced here over the last you know 16 months so thank you thank you mr akiva and uh before we get to 7.07 instruments so i don't forget brooke last week you had some information items for us and you apparently you don't have this evening but i just want to acknowledge your work that
059you've been continuing to do as a director of communication and you know thank you for that and also continue to put the pressure on you to keep it rolling because we all appreciate it quite a bit so just want to slip that in there as we're going through our directors to acknowledge what you've done and like we said summer's coming but we're looking forward to keep that communication rolling so thank you on 7.07 we had chief financial officer ms dowling um just so you're aware the first bids packet will be appearing in the newspaper for publication for the first set of bids for site work at taft middle school for the new top middle school so that'll be happening here soon i think we anticipate having the award of that coming to the june school
060board meeting um those are the things that we're funding out of cash that we're using right now for rainy day so that's you know exciting thing it's starting to move and we continue to uh be in close communication with gibraltar skillman the town of winfield everybody there and in between because obviously we're on a schedule and there's a lot of moving parts but everybody's getting it done so it's just exciting to watch it you know move forward at the same time there's still a lot of project development happening for the high school elementary playgrounds technology uh dr terrell and i both are included on those meetings just to keep an eye really it's i'm the one that's like wait a minute how much was that and dr terrell's like would you stop it we need
061to update the technology in these classrooms that's kind of like what our conversations go maybe because our goal katie is to be what the best okay we could debate that later about if you need money for that anyway really your goal isn't to be the best no no it's that i don't need money to be the best oh well hey but it helps it does help uh so those things are moving and you'll see them because of the way we've staggered this the projects the way that they'll come in it'll it'll they're all stair steps so it's almost like the first domino falls and they're just going to start coming and then you're going to be amazed at all the approvals we're asking you for the last thing that i have with regard to food
062service did a wonderful job i know mr warnie mr angel were at the retirement breakfast that we had for staff 409 years i believe of years of service retiring it was a great event but as you approve tonight the meal prices for next school year the usda has extended free breakfast and lunch for students through the end of next school year so that means all of next school year all of our students will be eligible for free breakfast and lunch our food service department has been working tirelessly to keep tirelessly too to keep up with that but also i think they're really happy that we have that opportunity as that's new for us to be able to go community-wide um so if you run across any of them give them a thanks because they've been
063working really hard thank you miss dolly other business of the border school trustees let's just skip right past dr terrell huh i'm all over the map this evening all right i'm sorry we got superintendent schools dr terrell thank you um you know as i reflect back even over this evening what a great board meeting we had at the beginning to be able to spend all that time recognizing so many but in looking at our teacher of the year employee of the year administrator of the year spirit of the bulldog with mike carnahan just really emphasizes even more so why we look at our teacher appreciation week as educator appreciation week i think mike just epitomizes what that is all about in his approach to this you know it's been a challenging year but it's also
064the end of a great year we've had a lot of things that have really continued to move on you know sabrina mentioned that in her comments mark mentioned it you know as we look at all these different things and the additional supports that we're adding for our kids for our teachers for administrators where we are with the progress that is being made in the classrooms it has been a challenging year and nobody would ever question that but anytime anybody asks that i always try to follow up as quickly as i can with but it's been a great year too and a lot of great things have happened throughout our district uh great examples of those that you've seen come before you construction update as katie said we continue to see all these different things that
065are going on the design the input that we're getting from our administrators from our teachers from our central office people has just been second to none and when you talk with gibraltar and what they're doing they're so impressed with our district and how quickly we're able to gather information and keep that moving forward we really appreciate that as well we are still right on schedule for that july ground breaking out on gibson street and for taft and that's what we are really trying to hold skillman's feet to the fire with that and getting through everything we need to with the town of winfield to make sure that that happens last thing just we're already getting into our summer activities just as quickly as the school year ends so summer activities begin from athletics to the
066different camps that are going on to summer school and looking forward to that full array of activities that are taking place but also realizing that there's a lot of challenges that go with this we have many people who are just ready to take a break from it all and after the year the experiences we've been through over the last 12 16 months we can understand that we appreciate that but again we look forward to a full slate of summer activities and providing additional opportunities for our students as well thank you doctoral okay now we have the other business of the board of school trustees just a reminder to everybody i know mr smith won't forget but graduation is next thursday at the high school so um good call didn't want to make sure the rest
067of us all didn't know that so uh six o'clock i believe starting time and we're not going to talk about the rain date because it's going to happen on that day i didn't say that that's all i had anybody else yeah i'd take the opportunity real quick i you know wasn't there myself but i sure did hear um sure did hear enough in the community to know that um the friday night the friday you know the pseudo prom friday under lights whatever that was the activity that was arranged for the the students i from i heard it was a great success so i think you know everyone that was involved in thinking of the concept putting the concept together um deserves to be commended for their efforts to get that done it's a really nice
068for the students to have a bit of normalcy as they end their high school career um anything else if not let's move forward to board statements of appreciation recognition we can start with mr smith yeah thank you just want to compliment all you for for today that was exciting um honoring all those individuals and well done i mean it was really really well done so good job to the team in doing that that was fantastic and uh artie i appreciate your comments and sentiments about sticking together i think for all of us at the end of the year you know i again just want to compliment each of you and the effort and hard work that you've all put in over the last year year and a half or so i mean that the transition
069and change uh is just off the chart that the school corporation seen in 18 months and we couldn't foresee it coming but you have adapted well i mean this whole half of the side of the room i think has a new job description got a new superintendent on top of we had covid and changes so i want to compliment our teachers and our our students and our parents and i i think it's a privilege to be on this board serving but what an honor it is to have the opportunity to live in crown point and it's really a blessing because we do have a community i feel like our all things considered our community pulled together and we're very blessed and fortunate for that where others maybe that's not the case and so i think
070we all we have a lot to be thankful for but certainly want to wish you all some time away and let's hope we get back into some normalcy next year i want to honor the best buddies the schools that raised funds for the best buddies program this last month raised over ten thousand dollars between the five schools what a great program that is and in particular eisenhower itself raised over five thousand dollars that's a lot of money for for a program so well done to all the families the kids and uh that's awesome that our that our school corporation would rally around the best buddies program that way so just want to come in and recognize those schools that did that and then lastly just want to wish i know we're going into sectionals and
071i think regionals and everything else this week so someone wish all those teams that are competing this week the best of luck as they go forward and hopefully have a lot of success thank you mr smith mr babjack uh i would like to recognize taft middle school and uh congratulate the sixth and seventh grade boys um track team on winning a winning conference um it was i think oh god has it been a week i think it was like a week ago uh the event was held at the crown point high school a very well organized event um did take some time it was many hours my first uh conference track meet as a as a parent you did you did and i did not a lot enough time for the event but uh it
072went through one of those you do every it should be mandatory so i just wanted to uh recognize them the coaches and everybody that helped put that event together um everybody did a great job thank you mr baby you have anything new i want to echo mr smith's comments and uh you know was was kind of enjoyable when we had the breakfast for the employees a couple weeks ago to get to visit the schools and talk with people and be reminded how great the people are that work in this school corporation and live in this community so thank you all for that uh just a couple things here um the crown point high school had a special uh ceremony for our graduates that are going into the military and it was a wonderful thing and
073i'm gonna actually uh make sure those names are put in minutes with diana green here but we have jonathan nuzzo for us army national guard logan zelaych for u.s army national guard joshua holbrook for the u.s air force jeremy murphy for the u.s marine corp madison edelman u.s marine corp evelyn colvin for the u.s army sebastian hoshbach for the u.s army west point military academy so congratulations to all those students and for russ and the staff at the high school for putting that on and thank you for serving our country moving forward to those individuals we greatly appreciate it um because i'm such a math geek sometimes after i heard mr aquila mention about all the changes i'm remiss to just think of what's transpired and it is actually last 465 days since us as
074a board decided that we're going to have a different direction with the school corporation and in those 465 days within 30 days of making that change and getting help from mr hartman mr akiwa mr uh g and fermi to make sure we transitioned uh covet head and so we throw three people into probably a position they didn't think we're going to be in on february 12th and by march whatever was 15th or something we were in full pandemic mode so uh everybody else that fit into that as well ms dowling was obviously part of the cabinet and our other two new members were still part of this school corporation and dealing with their own individual aspect of that and to think of where we've now come knock on wood finishing the school year and to
075say that it was a success would be an understatement in my opinion as a now no longer parent of a crown point school but as a citizen representative on the school wow just wow i mean to think of it and our teachers deserve credit i bet they're our union we want to make sure we pass that along to them as well diana greene behind the scenes of all this and in a row we're trying to keep five board members in line and making sure they don't miss meetings and then dealing with that turmoil um thank you diana for making sure we didn't miss any of that or a deadline or whatever might transition so we're grateful to have dr terrell on board and moving us forward hopefully we're going to keep our fingers crossed and
076pray to wherever you need to pray to that starting in august we are in full board regular school mode and getting our students back to where they belong and what they deserve as a regular school year so that's all i have thank you mr radio i'd like to also go to the retirement breakfast not so much the well the event was excellent the food was excellent the coordination of it all um thanking lori for what she you know doesn't put it together and i just thought that as you sit there and while we can't think of how many individuals but we know is about 400 409 years of service what was really neat was to listen to them be spoken about you know as each one of the and we had second grade teachers third
077grade lifelong we had people who were subs in this district in that district and uh but at the end of the day uh just hearing the stories and how proud all those individuals should be to have done what they've done for the community and not just the the school that they're in but the community around them is a pretty impressive um i'd also i had another uh another thought i'd mr angel you said something i wanted to piggyback you but i'm sorry i'm i'm that'd be a first yeah yeah i know it's something's going on sleepers yeah he's little guys too and he's a handful um no but so i guess that'd be it for me thank you to everybody and i hope we look forward to a enjoyable summer like i will say you
078know the the emails have come across every now and then to the board asking for the plan and uh part of me reaching out or mentioning ms allen earlier brooke is just the communication is something we need to continue and continue to to work on um i know what the the last uh my other thought um i think you go back to for me as someone grew up from crown point scott badger was the first time you remember to chant we rcp uh what's your first memory uh the first time i remember it was um 1984 when the girls exactly what i was doing exactly right exactly exactly what i was thinking you know the we rcp chant and my memory goes back to the lady bulldogs winning the state championships and mr kiewa knows
079that all too well um back to back and i remember seeing the videos of it whatever we rcp and i think something as a as a board and cabinet in all of us it means it means a lot to us when you hear that we are cp and we don't want to lose sight of we are cp we need to stay focused we and this past year has proven that we can do that we can stay together as a team a community as buildings and i think it's just really important that we all think it's important that we keep that focus moving forward that we don't get off on islands and that we're going to be always stronger together so that that was my other thought is that we rcp and continue to go down
080that road is uh important to all of us and everyone's doing a great job okay is it for me anybody else uh any other comments before we look for motion to adjourn motion to adjourn still moved moved by mr hoffman is second by mr smith i was in favor sigma five by saying aye aye aye opposed the most curious five zero well you called you