001um to move on action of honoring Mr. Barber's career accomplishment within the corporation of naming the basketball court uh after him in honor of his accomplishment. And I understand we may have to have a few tweaks on the policy that you put under review within the agenda. Um, but I would still like to move to put that as a motion to amend that in the new old business. Second. Thank you, Mr. Hempil. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. All right, moving right along. Next item on the agenda, students of the month. Dr. Schaefer. Yes. Uh, thank you, Mrs. Cherry. And we are going to recognize our students of the month this morning or this this evening. And we're going to start with South Elementary this month. So, Mrs. Hollingsworth, if you would
002introduce our student of the month from South Elementary. Thank you. [Music] and and and parents as as your student is recognized, if you want to come to the front to get a better picture angle, please feel free to do so. Look at all of these people who love you. I love this, Avery. All right. South Elementary is proud to introduce Miss Avery Shane as this month's student of the month. Avery is a student in Mrs. White's fourth grade classroom. Avery is lucky to have two homes that love her immensely. She has her mom, stepdad, and two twin younger brothers. And she has a black lab named Frankie and a black cat named Marggo. She also has her dad, stepmom, and a little sister and a little brother. She has two dogs, Murphy and Maverick, and
003two cats, Jill Bean and Waffles. Avery is the oldest in both households, and she is a wonderful caregiver. In her spare time, Avery loves to do arts and crafts. She likes to create holiday themed crafts that she gives to her family members. In the summer, Avery likes to go to art camps. Avery's favorite thing to use is colored pencils to create her designs. She also loves to play school with her siblings. Avery is the teacher and her sister is the student. Math is her favorite subject to teach currently. And when Avery grows up, she wants to be a hair stylist or a teacher. We all see her being a teacher when she grows up. We hope come back to Danville and work for us. Okay. According to Avery, South Elementary is a great place because
004of all of the construction. She loves the new classrooms, the cafeteria, and the hallways. Avery loves how everything is organized and that there are plenty of books in the classrooms to read. Avery also loves her teacher who's here tonight, Mrs. White. She said that Mrs. White is so much fun, lovable, and a big help to Avery in her learning. If Avery could be the principal for the day, she said we would have lots of fun. We would do a lot of arts and crafts and watch one movie. The movie would be Sonic 3. We would also have three trampolines outside and a huge playground to be able to go outside during recess. We talked about uh the issue with trampolines, but she was okay with it. Um, every classroom would have a lot of books
005and we would have a huge library to spend time in. What a fun day. Avery was nominated by your teacher, Mrs. White. Mrs. White had the following to say about Avery. Averyy's new to Danville this year and has acclim acclimated incredibly well. She's reached out to others to play and to sit and talk with at lunch. When she's working in a group, she's definitely a leader, but in such a caring manner. She has younger siblings and knows how to work with those who are struggling as and has such patience and love. Avery comes in with her homework completed, Chromebook charged, and excited to learn. I love the way she's able to express herself in a very mature manner. She is always showing the utmost respect when speaking to an adult. She truly makes my day
006brighter. Miss Moa, our art teacher, said, "Avery is very kind and helpful. She's always ready for a new task and tries her best in everything she does. Her artwork is very creative and she's always willing to try new ideas and techniques. And Mrs. Hunter, our art teacher, said, "Avery is a model student. She's all the things we hope for South Kids to be. Respectful, responsible, reliable, and safe. She's eager to learn and not afraid to ask questions. We love having her in class. Congratulations on Avery on being South Student of the Month. We're very proud of you. Congratulations, Avery. And we're going to hear about our middle school student of the month. And Mrs. Berkkey is going to make that introduction. We don't think she's inviting somebody else in. Okay. All right. It is my
007absolute pleasure to introduce our student of the month, Nathan Sabandi, a standout fifth grade student here at DCMS. If you've ever walked through the halls during passing period, chances are you've been lucky enough to witness one of Nathan's signature greetings. A cheerful good morning or a high five or my favorite, a bear hug. Nathan has a gift for making people, even adults in our building building, feel seen and valued, and that alone makes him stand out in the best way possible. Nathan lives with his mom, Ununice, his stepdad, Ibraham, and his baby brother, Jaden. He beams with pride when he talks about his family, especially Jaden, who he named himself after looking up the meaning of the name. He told me he chose the name 3 months before Jaden was even born, which tells you
008a lot about Nathan. He's thoughtful, intentional, and wise beyond his years. Nathan has been part of the Danville family since fourth grade after moving from Speedway. And when I asked him which school he preferred, he smiled and said, "Danville. It's bigger and more beautiful." He brings that same appreciation and energy into the classroom. His teachers, who are here tonight, Mrs. Smith and Miss Wilson, described him best. Nathan is a joy. From his incredibly creative essays to his brainwisting slideshows, his intelligence is uncontainable. When we get enough money to invest, Nathan will be our broker because he can work the stock market like no other 10-year-old we know. They also shared that while Nathan may be destined for greatness, he still needs his eight hugs a day, and getting one from him is like hugging a
009baby bear cub. His inquisitive mind and sweet demeanor make him an absolute delight in the classroom. Nathan told me his favorite subject is math. He said it comes easily to him and he enjoys solving problems and finding answers. He added that the only thing he doesn't love is having to show all of his work. though I gently warned him as a former math teacher that showing work isn't going away anytime soon. When I asked who his favorite teacher was, he paused and paused and asked, "Can I pick more than one?" And when I said yes, he quickly named Mrs. Smith and Miss Wilson. He told me they're friendly and don't just teach by the book, but teach in a way we understand. And he appreciates that they're not lenient, but they are forgiving and give
010students some wiggle room. Outside of school, Nathan is just as active and connected. He told me he loves going to Sky Zone with his family, specifically for the trampolines and says nothing beats jumping at a friend's house. He described his dream day as a trip to the Disney water park with all of his family because the last time they went, not everyone could make it. His idea of the perfect day doesn't involve screens or things. It's simply quality time with the people that he loves most. And I think that speaks volumes about who he is at his core. His other teachers teachers echoed his thoughtfulness and work ethic. Mrs. Beri, his art teacher, said Nathan consistently holds himself to a high standard and takes great pride in his work. His dedication to improvement is evident
011in his drive and perseverance. Mr. Armstrong, his PE teacher, shared that Nathan engages and works at improving his physical fitness in each of their PE units. He shows care and concern about improving his physical skills. That balance of academic, creative, and physical growth is what we hope to see in all of our students, and Nathan is modeling it beautifully. When I asked Nathan what skill he'd love to instantly master, he answered without hesitation, Spanish. He told me he has friends from many different places and he would love to be able to speak with all of them in their first language. He even started learning it on an app and made it 90 days in a row. And then he laughed and admitted that he's had a hard time starting back up again. Finally, I asked
012who he'd switched places with for a day, and his answer was Ramiro Tempest, a character from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. Romero has powerful friends and can swallow entire universes. But Nathan did explain that he's not saying his friends aren't intelligent. They just aren't as powerful as that. That kind of humor, honesty, and imagination is part of what makes Nathan so endearing and unforgettable. For all these reasons and so many more, we are so proud to recognize Nathan as our student of the month. Congratulations, Nathan, keeping exactly who you are. Congratulations, Nathan. And Dr. Hman will come forward and introduce us to our high school student of the month. This month, we are pleased to share Trey Badger's greatness. Trey is a member of the class of 2028 and he's had a
013great freshman year. Trey's social studies teacher, Mr. Dashiel, nominated him for this honor and had the following to say about. Mr. Dashiel wrote, "Trey Badger is a student that any teacher or student would be lucky to have in class. I nominated Trey for the April student of the month because of his determination to do well despite challenges he may encounter. He has a genuine sense of curiosity for things he learns in class and often has extensive knowledge because of his personal research into things that he finds interesting. Even on the worst days, Trey perseveres and manages his course load while contributing positively to the school and communities atmospheres. Trey is personable and and has often lent a helping hand with a friendly smile to those in class that are struggling even when something might be
014challenging for himself or they aren't necessarily friends outside of the classroom. I wish every class period had a version of Trey because he brings life to an otherwise quiet room of tired teenagers. While he still has much high school ahead of him, he is a student who I know will do great things in and out of school because of his of his incredible compassion and perseverance. Trey is a very personable young man and he has formulated opinions on a wide variety of topics. For example, he indicated that he wished our lanyard policy was a little different. He stated that he fidgets with his lanyard and wish he had a pin or something students could wear to cut down on their wanting to mess with the lanyard. In the future, Trey wants to attend a yettobe
015named college so he can become a teacher. Trey stated that he hopes to become a social studies teacher and he shared that a big reason that he wants to teach social studies is in large part to due to Mr. Dashield. According to Trey, Mr. Dashield makes learning history fun. Throughout his life, Trey has overcome many obstacles such as living with ADHD and the misfortune of breaking both arms at the same time. Trey has always kept a positive attitude and look forward to what happens in the future. Congratulations on being our student of the month. Thank you, Dr. Harmon. Congratulations, Trey. And congratulations to all of our students of the month. We're very proud of you. and uh parents, thank you for raising great children and teachers and administrators, thank you for making the the extra
016time to uh recognize these great young folks. Thank you. All right, the next item on our agenda is student commendations. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Dr. Hammond, could I call upon you to You're welcome. All right. Well, we are so proud and pleased to have our Tech Tribe robotics team with us this evening who Yeah. and we're going to be recognizing them for their fourth place uh team place in the state. Not just in the region, but in the state. And guys, uh G's done a wonderful job. So, when we call you, just come up here. We have a certificate for you. And we're also going to be reading a resolution in place in your honor by the board. So, Addison Dur Moon and uh Coach Wood uh please please come on if I
017Yeah, there you are. I apologize for not bringing [Applause] We're going to give you a speech moment here in just a minute. Thank you, Benjamin Morton. Brian Stevens. Congratulations. Asa Smith, Patrick Irving, [Applause] come on up, Patrick. [Applause] Chris Hot, [Applause] Aiden Woolly, [Applause] Zion Hagamasi, We will sign later. Wyatt [Applause] Hardman. Glad to see there's some young ladies on this team. That's great. Did he get you? Assaihas [Applause] Dallas Richmond. and coach Wood, we want to congratulate you and thanks for all the the work hard time and all the effort you put into it. On behalf of the board of trustees, ladies and gentlemen, we want to congratulate you all and just a a wonderful showing and and a great job at the state competition. So Jason, anything you'd like to add? Um, so
018I I guess I just want to say um with robotics it is a sprint to try to put together an amazing piece of equipment from robotics. Um, these kids did an amazing job working, you know, during the week and giving up their weekend and spring break to try to make things work. And, you know, it really paid off this year. They did an excellent job of getting second place in a local competition and then doing an amazing job at state. One of our better showings uh for robotics. So, can't say enough how much hard work that they put in and uh it paid off this year. So, congratulations everyone of you. Thank you. Record in your honor. Each one has your name on it. Make sure your teammates [Music] are Mrs. Terry uh is going
019to lead the board in reading in the official record the resolution. Okay. Resolution of congratulations by the Danville Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees. Whereas the Danville Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees wishes to recognize the outstanding performance by the students and sponsors of the Danville Robotics Team during the 2024 2025 academic school year. Whereas the Danville Community High School Tech Tribe robotics team placed fourth in the state competition. And whereas it is appropriate and fitting for the Danville Community School Board to recognize and congrat congratulate team sponsor Mr. Jason Wood and Tech Tribe members Benjamin Benjamin Morton, Duel Mood, Addison Durr, Brian Stevens, Asa Smith, Patrick Irving, Chris Hot, Aiden Woolly, Zion Hagamasa, Wyatt Hardwick, Essen, Asaias, NN, Scotty, Dallas, Lily Winchman, and Now therefore, be it resolved by the members of
020the Dambo Community Board of School Trustees that the students and SNA staff of the Dam Community High School Tech Tribe Robotics team are to be congratulated on their respective outstanding performance in the Indiana State Robotics Competition. I need a motion to approve this resolution. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Heel. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Congratulations. I feel like I did. Mrs. England, we'll get you. I think you do. You can't see me. I can't see you. All right. Oh, get up there. Congratulations. It's my understanding. You guys have a lot of courage. One, two, three. Cheese. I didn't know. And now backed by popular demand is our FFA teams, our horse evaluation teams and floor culture teams. Pardon? Same. Yeah, we'll just we'll just bring
021them all in. Mrs. Crosby and is uh Miss Schroer here? Let's see. She is not. Okay. I'll let you I'll let you take So we have a company. So our our home evaluation team and floor culture teams two teams uh also recently competed at state both placing high places in the state. I believe horse evaluation was third and floor culture was first and fourth place team. Is that correct? You guys just keep knocking it out. That's a great job. And again, on behalf of the board of trustees, we want to congratulate you and recognize you here this evening. So, you're going to be receiving a certificate and also we will have a resolution read into the board record on your behalf. So, we're going to get you the uh certificates right now. Okay. and Brenley
022Alexander, Lacy [Applause] Lee, and Callahan Bernhard. Now, we're going to begin with our FFA Flora Culture CDE, Julia [Applause] Chandler. Congratulations. [Applause] Mitchell, Leah [Applause] Smither, Mia [Applause] Clark, Haley [Applause] Smith, and Dakota Grater. [Applause] And coach, I know you have a little something to do with this. You've been here before. Uh, so first for the horse team, um, Miss Brinley and Lacy, who is at the choir concert. Um, a shout out to them. They are eighth graders this year, so they competed on the high school team. Um, their first time ever competing in horse and then placing um, in the top five first day is a huge deal. And so I want to commend all four of them um for being really really high in the reasons portion of the contest. And so what
023that means is these students they evaluate the horses based on confirmation and different classes performance classes and then they have to memorize a set of reasons. And so they have it's 15 to 20 minutes and then they go stand in front of a judge one-on-one and give those reasons which is really really hard. Um a lot of students don't want to do that. I didn't want to do that when I was in FFA. Um I I quit. I was not I was not the I was not the example. I did it one year. I said no more. But these guys have done it. Um and they did a really good job even so that some of the judges commended them that they're speaking at the collegiate level so they could go judge on a collegiate
024team today which is really impressive. Um and then the floor culture team. I may or may not have screamed in my classroom when I read the email. Um because the first place team this it's a big deal to win. Um, this year is really special because I was talking to the Southmont a teacher at the contest and that team, that school has not lost in 28 years. And so we beat them and I was excited and we beat them by like 200 points. So the the first place team will be competing at the national contest this fall. And then the horse team, they have qualified for national contest. We're still figuring that out. So potentially Fort Worth, Texas maybe or Oklahoma City. We're figuring those details out. But we'll have those soon. So, I'm proud
025of all of them. I I know you guys how to get your pictures in. You've done this so many times. So, you guys are all It's all about the leadership. Callahan, get lined up. on the front. Us five in the back. You're in the back. Do you mind? We're good. Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Mr. Cherry is going to read the resolution in the board record. All right. You You can turn Why don't you turn and face the board? Oh, thank you very much for that, Dr. Schaefer. I love that resolution of congratulations by the Danville Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees. Whereas the Danville Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees wishes to recognize the outstanding performance by the students and sponsors of the Danville Community High School FFA chapter meeting teams during the
0262024 2025 academic school year. And whereas the Danville Community High School FFA floor culture team placed first and fourth respectively in the state competition. And whereas the Damble Community High School FFA horse evaluation team placed third in the state competition. And whereas Danville Community High School FFA team members Gracie O'Neal placed fourth overall in flora culture competition and Cal Callahan Barnhart placed fourth overall in horse evaluation in the state competition. And whereas it is appropriate and fitting for the Danville Community School Board to recognize and congratulate sponsors Miss Laura Crosby and Miss Jillian Schroeder along with first place floor culture team members Julia Chandler, Mitchell, Gracie O'Neal, and Leah Smithers. Fourth place floor culture team members, Emma O'Neal, Mia Clark, Haley Smith, and Dakota Grider. and third place horse evaluation team members Lacy Lane, Brinley
027Alexander, Callahan Barnhard, and Macy Lee. Now therefore, be it resolved by the members of the Danville Community Board of School Trustees, the students and staff of the Danville Community High School FFA chapter floor culture and horse evaluation teams are to be congratulated on their outstanding performance in the Indiana State FFA competition. Need a motion to approve this resolution. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Brown. All in favor? I. That passes unanimously. Congratulations, ladies. Congratulations. Okay. All right. We are going to back up um to a previous agenda item and recognize our student of the month from North Elementary now. Yes, Mrs. Perkins. Thank you. So glad so glad to have your student of the month here this evening. [Laughter] We're We're not as scary as we look. I promise you.
028Good evening. I'm happy to introduce North Elementary student of the month, Kla Gangqu, son of Aku Atsu and Kushi Gangqui. Komala is a kind and friendly kindergarter in Mrs. Harvey's class. Every morning at breakfast, he greets me with a big smile and at the end of the day on the way out to buses, he always gives me a great hug. When we talked, Kla was very thoughtful with his answers. He told me his favorite part of the school day is recess where he loves playing on the slides with his friends. In class, Kla has been learning all about animals, and he's really looking forward to the kindergarten field trip to the zoo, which is this week, and he especially wants to see the elephants. Kla's favorite specials is art class because he loves to draw.
029He had such a sweet idea when I asked him how we he could make our school even better, and he said he would make rainbow name bracelets for everyone using colored beads. At home, Kla has two sisters, one older and one younger. They like to play airplanes together. When he plays by himself, he enjoys building with blocks, especially houses. He told me that his favorite thing about his parents is that they are very helpful. Koma is also excited about a big adventure this summer. His family is going to Togo in Africa to visit family and friends. It will take two days to get there, and he's especially excited to visit the beach. When Kla grows up, he wants to be a firefighter and drive the fire truck to help people in emergencies. Our whole team
030agreed that Kla is a great choice for student of the month. Mrs. Mrs. Gully said he is always attentive and patient and Mrs. Stark shared, "Koma is a great role model in art class. He is focused and always follows directions." Mrs. Harvey nominated Kla and had the following to say about him. Kla consistently exemplifies the warrior way both inside and outside the classroom. He is attentive, follows directions, and actively participates in class discussions. Kla has a genuine love of learning that shines through every time he steps into the classroom. He approaches each day with curiosity and and enthusiasm. He is not only a dedicated and hardworking student, but he is also kind, a kind and caring classmate who is always willing to help. His positive attitude, love of learning, and commitment to doing his best
031make him a true role model for his peers. Kla, you are truly deserving of this recognition. Congratulations on being North Elementary Student of the Month. We are all very proud of you. [Applause] Congratulations and dad. Awesome. Thank you for being here. Thank you. All right. The next item on our agenda is community input. We had two people sign up this evening. When you step to the microphone, if you would state your name and your address. The first one on the list I have is Todd Todd Hanny. Thank you, Mrs. Cherry. Uh, thank you board members for your um tough doing your tough thankless job. Uh, what you guys do is not easy. Uh, last time or last week or last month, excuse me, I was here uh, we were discussing uh, naming the court after
032coach Barber. Um, I heard some things about, um, love a coach, hate a coach. Uh, that's not why coaches coach. Uh, they coach to impact young men. Uh, I've reached out to lots of former players that I still are in contact with. And I've heard things such as, uh, if I hadn't gone through Coach Barber's basketball program, I would not be the man I am today. If I did not go through Coach Barber's program, I would have not made it through four years of college sports. Um, I know. Another one is I know his style is becoming decreasingly popular, but it gets you ready for the real world. So that's why coaches coach and coach Barber is in the 99.9 percentile of his peers in the state of Indiana in coaching. 99.9 percentile. So it's
033not about love or hate. It's about recognizing a guy who committed 26 years of his life to Danville in the town of Danville. Um, and was very um, what's the word I'm looking for? I mean, he easily could have jumped ship right anytime. He could have easily gone somewhere else, had success, stayed stayed true to Danville, stayed true to himself. So, I brought a rendering today. I'll if I may approach. This doesn't have to be what it looks like, but this is just an idea. Uh excuse the pixelation as uh my photo off the internet wasn't great. Um but yeah, you might ask yourselves why is one's upside down. Well, you look at KD core, they both face the same way. They have ESPN contract. We don't have an ESPN contract for TV, so it's
034got to be readable from both sides. So, appreciate your consideration. Thank you. Hey, Todd, would you please state your name and address just 1534 Woodside Drive. Thank you. All right. The next person that has signed up to speak is, I believe, Colleen Leaf. Just state your name and address for the record, please. Of course. Thank you. I'm Colleen Leaf. Um I live at 518 Apple Blossom Way here in the beautiful town. And I want to thank you all for listening to Community Input. This is my first school board meeting since I think 98 99. So it's been a while. I appreciate what you guys do. Um, and I'm here tonight to voice my Warrior basketball family's support for the naming of DCHS's new floor coach, Brian Barber, who, as you know, is retiring for 24
035years of dedicated service as our head basketball coach. It seems just a few short years ago that I was driving to Illinois to purchase an old faded barber pole from a closing barber shop and it has hung in our gym behind our barberh shop student section for lots of victories over the last couple decades. Coach Barber's been more than a coach. He's been a mentor and a leader, a sounding board, uh a motivator and a role model for hundreds of student athletes. I know I'm not telling you guys anything you don't already know. I'm very proud to say that my son is one of the young men that grew and flourished under Coach Barber's leadership and his guidance. Coach Barber's impact goes far beyond his wins and championships. He's helped shape the character and confidence
036of young people in our community for over two decades. I did a little research and discovered that over Coach Barber's tenure at the helm, the five other Hendricks County schools have had a total of 19 head coaches. 19. That kind of dedication deserves and demands our respect. Um, he's been the absolute cornerstone of Warrior basketball for as long as I can remember. And that it's almost impossible to find that kind of commitment in today's athletic world. honoring his years of sacrifice and time spent away from his own family and his incredible impact on countless students and athletes. Placing the name of Brian Barber Court on the floor I feel is a fitting and lasting tribute to his legacy and the values he's instilled in our school. I'm sure coach would shy away from this honor
037and would give all the credit to his very capable and talented staff. But as we all know, an organization is only as good as its leaders. Some of the many mantras that coach Barber embraced were the winning tradition continues and tradition never graduates or retires. So in that spirit, I hope you'll consider this as a meaningful way to commemorate his tremendously successful tenure, his over 500 career wins, and thank him for the indelible mark that he leaves in the annals of Indiana high school basketball. Always a warrior. Thank you. Thank you. All right, before we move on the agenda, we're going to take a five minute break, thus allowing anyone who would like to exit the room to do so. You know, I always want you to stay because I love having you, but I
038realize maybe sometimes you have other plans. So, we'll be back in about 5 minutes. Thank you. Not [Music] even my home going on [Music] right now Penny, she's going to take care of us. Thanks, Penny. Yeah, I don't need that. Might need some Penny. I'll take a couple. Thanks, Penny. Appreciate you, Penny. Over like not. Is everybody ready? All right. Thank you for your patience while we took that very short break. The next item on the agenda is approval of the April 14th, 2025 regular school board meeting minutes. I need a motion to approve. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Heel. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, consider approval of financial report. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mr. Cherry. Uh, our financial reports
039here for the month, we had an April fund balance on our property and state tax supported funds of 7,684,68. The education fund had actual expenditures of 1,769,694. Debt service fund had no expenditures for the month of April. and our operations fund had expenditures of $812,571. We transferred $195,000 from the education fund to the operations fund. And this brings the corporation's total transfers for the year to 10.19% of the total education fund revenue and 10.89% of total state tuition support. I would ask for the board's approval of our financial report for the month and happy to answer any questions. All right. Motion to approve financial report as submitted. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Any comments or questions? I have a question for you, Mr. Herbert. That last bullet where
040you just recited the transfers and the percentages, the 10.19%. How does that compare at this time last year? Uh, that's right in line with where we were last year. We were right around that 10 to 11% mark. Uh, I could pull those up and get those for you here. The exact percentages, but we're right there in that same ballpark. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, approval of claims, Mr. Herbert. Uh, thank you, Mrs. Cherry. Uh, these will be our payroll claims here for I'm sorry, these are the claims, the actual claims. Uh, pre-written claims here for the month. uh $140,542.96. We had traditional claims of $847,8223. Uh bringing total claims for the month to $988,365.19. I would ask for the
041board's approval of our claims for the month. And again, happy to answer any questions. Motion to approve claims as presented. So moved. Mr. Bryant. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Himel comments or questions? I've got a question on baseball lights. Is that the new Is that baseball or actual softball? That those would be baseball. Yes. So those would be new lights at baseball. We're upgrading. Okay. Yes. Yeah. The old again the old ones were old. Okay. And so this would be replacing them to the more to the LED to match the rest of our fields that we're going to be having. Uh they're a lot more cost effective as well. Okay. I have a question um on the AP claim vouchers. Um I see that and I think this is where you're writing checks to reimburse
042people. Um do we really put that much of a burden on some of our employees because we have one employee in here that appears that we're reimbursing them just under $10,000 for both hotels and purchases of items. Um it just seems like that's an awful lot of money to ask an employee to put out and then for us to cut them a check to get back to them. No, sure. We we do have a district credit card that they are more than welcome to use. All they have to do is just request it through Jen at the admin office. Uh because I do agree that is it's quite a lot of money to ask a staff member to kind of front themselves. Uh so they do have the option that they can use the district
043credit card so that way they would not have to go through this process. Okay. Thank you. Mhm. Any other comments or questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Approval of payroll claims. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mr. Cherry. Uh our payroll claims here for the month. We have two. We have the April 25th claim of $818,830.39. And we have our May 9th claim of $824,58152 uh for a total claims for the month of 1,643,411.91. Again, I would ask for the board's approval of our payroll claims and more than happy to answer any questions. I need a motion to approve the payroll claims as submitted. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Brown. Comments or questions? All in favor? That passes unanimously. There is no old business on the agenda.
044So, moving on. We're going to address that under the policy review. No, we made a motion and we passed that we were going to put it under old business at the beginning of this meeting. I don't know that we said where we were going to stick it. He did say we said old business, but if we need to move it down to that line item, we could. Yeah, you you can you can do it in either either location. my concern about leaving it in the review. That's a review of the policies, correct? As opposed in no other meeting have we taken action on a policy when it's in the review section as opposed to the update section. And so that's why I made my motion to say let's put it into the old business. Mhm.
045That's correct. And that's what the board approved. Um if you as you work on that um we'll have to understand during old business what want the board members to be very specific on what you're doing during the old business section. And then if you want to address the policy piece there, you can uh or you can address it down under policy. You are correct, Mr. Bryant. We typically put review under uh review and we put changes under updates. So you could uh either address the policy issue under the old business piece as you consider and discuss a motion that may be made. Uh and then or you could do it under policy updates. Let's just knock them both out right here. I think we can do that right here at the at the old business.
046Well, under that policy review, there's more than just the one policy, right? Correct. Well, we can but we have to refer to that policy. We refer to that 7540 policy. And again, the other reason I'm asking for it to be underneath the old business I'm doing is um at our April meeting, you referenced, having read the policy over the weekend, I asked you which policy number that was, and you referenced 7520. When I had heard that this was coming about, I looked for the policy. I couldn't find it um that particular weekend. Matter of fact, I called Mr. Hibel and asked him about it. um after the April 14th board meeting where you would ask me to go home and read the policy, it's there. Um but the dates for the policy in terms of
047its last review um and the adopted date is April 14th, 2025. The last revised date is April 14th, 2025. The last reviewed date is June 14, 2021. Prior revised dates is June or April 14th, 2025. I'm trying to understand how I couldn't find this policy in the policy manual. It's got all the dates of the night that it comes up. I had gone home to look for the policy. We're currently in our second round of review of the board policy manual. I go back to when we were reviewing the first time through back on April 10th of 2023, which is just a couple months into my first term where we reviewed the 7,000 series policies and we reviewed 7510 and we reviewed 7530, but 7520 wasn't in there. That's correct. Why not? Simple answer. The
048board approved the policy back in 2021 and like like you hearing about the the and it the board approved it in 2021. It was in the the board packet approved um but for some reason just not get did not get updated into the actual manual. So like you hearing about the discussion I went back to look for it as well and thought where where is it? So went back went back into the board packets as approved and found it there. So, what we did is we made the final edits as were approved by the board, included in the board packet. We do have an error on the adoption date. The adoption date was actually in 2021. I believe it was June of 2021. Why is it in the June 14th uh board video that I
049watched? I was in the audience at that time as an administrator of the corporation. And if you go back to the June 14th, which is what the document says, June 14th reviewed in 2021. But so June 14th, 20, you were correct. So it's in that video again. Explain again why it took so long for it to get in the manual because I don't believe it was in the manual when I took seat on the board. Is that correct? Yeah. The uh is that correct? I that I'd have to look at the dates. What I what I do know is the board read and considered that policy in April, May, and June of 2021. It was approved in final form. Uh it just uh we just did not get it in over moved over into the
050board policy manual and did not catch that when we caught it was after the discussion uh at or right around the time of the board meeting. That's my point is I'm concerned that since being coming on the board in January 23 that I've been asked to be a part of overseeing a policy manual that is not up to date and that concerns me because again when it started to come about anytime somebody asked me about things my administrative background says well first look look at policies you go look maybe that's part of the reason why the public thought that they could do this is because maybe they looked at policy manual and didn't find anything in there either. That is real concerning. I'm kind of wondering what else hasn't gotten into the policy manual that
051previous boards have approved before I've gotten onto the board. That is my concern, Dr. Schaefer, in terms of wanting to make sure that this doesn't stay under review. It gets an old business. I think it's a little concerning that we have a policy manual that isn't presented to the public. It apparently is not up to date. And all I can do at this point is apologize for that. And that is the only policy I'm aware of is in that condition. Uh we it was approved. So it has been in board docs as approved under the June I think you said the 14th conversation with President Cherry. Um and when I watched that video just before that June 2021 video, there was another discussion about the board voted on making a change to the wellness policy.
052So it had to require a vote. And when I looked at the the wellness policy, it was hard to find that in there as well. Um, again, just real concern that once the board is taking action on something, the inability to get it in there in an efficient period of time is certainly concerning to this board member and we we are working on that. I appreciate your concern. Uh, we have updated that. It is accurate. Uh, the policy is and has been apologize. that did not get put into the board policy manual sooner. But your your points are well taken and thank you. Thank you. And so again, within the whole business now of naming the court, again, you'd ask me to go home and look at the policy. Um I don't believe naming the
053court, which is not a facility, um falls into that. It's not naming it as if someone from the community is bringing it forward for that process that the policy outlines. When I went back and looked at that video from June 14th, 2021, if you look at that way it played out in that and that was the final way one where you approved it as a board with Mr. Helil, Miss Ward and Miss Cherry on the board at the time. Um there was a point in there where President Mason had asked the question in reference, do we want to make changes to the policy because again there's a difference between someone from the community or a business wanting to come forward and name something related to money as opposed to in this situation where you have
054a staff person who has reached a monumental career accomplishment. And I think that is a distinguishing piece that has been missed in that policy. And so if you feel like there's an amendment to the policy that needs to be made or an update to it, I think it's a matter of putting in there somewhere or at the board's discretion related to a staff accomplishment of corporation. I think that is I think it's important for us to have criteria if we're going to move in that direction because what defines accomplishment and so we would need to have very clear criteria to define that because we've had a lot of staff who have done amazing things here. I think of Anna Hopkins, Mrs. Robinson, Mr. Peters a lot of people here and that's why Mr. So that's
055why Denny leathers I think the list can go on and on. So the my fear in changing the policy for a person is that we change a policy for the people and we need to have criteria that would include well that's why I said at the board's discretion to honor a staff member. Right. Okay. But I think that that becomes a can of worms to be honest. Well, I'm not I am in full favor of honoring Brian Barber. I want to make that very clear. But I am not in favor of changing a policy for a person. You change the policy for the people. I think this in this instance, the person is representative of the people of the community. I think that accomplishment I can't disagree with you that there's a lot of other
056people that could be. But again, I think it goes back to watching that conversation the night that the prior board that you were on adopted it. There was an opportunity that President Mason was trying to lead into, but it didn't get there in conversation. Dr. Schaefer even, I think, got to a point in that video in reference to pointing out that you can do this process, but again, there's still that point of the board feels it never got there. And I think that's where that adoption of the policy missed the boat. Right. Well, we had three months of pretty lot of April, May, and June. We talked about on it still missed the boat in reference to what you're bringing up and what we're trying to accomplish. Um, so given that and the fact that
057the absence of the policy being in the manual since I've come on the board as disclosure to the public of what was adopted back in 21, I I think we go ahead and move forward with again naming this particular instance the court after Mr. Barber. I'd like to see the rendition also just his name is is it more about the career accomplishment of the 500 plus career wins somehow associated with that and then we amend the policy so that in reference the staff and if need be we can go back as a board and start to review some of the other staff accomplishments in terms of where we might want to put things within the corporation but I don't think we have to have a letter from somebody in the community or some staff person
058for us as a board or any future board to be able to recognize a career accomplishment. Yeah, I agree. I think it it it's more of at the board's discretion. Um, when it comes to staff, when it comes to staff and and accomplishments like this that we're dealing with, I mean, this is a in my mind's a no-brainer. You got a guy that's going to be in the Indiana High School Basketball Hall of Fame eventually. Uh, we should be the first to honor that. It's really a a great accomplishment to have him there, have have what we've had and putting him on the court's just a no-brainer to me. Why do we have to name the court? Why can't we have like his signature on the court and then you're going you don't even have
059to talk about splitting errors. I certainly splitting errors. It's the same same as but I see what you're saying there too, Christina. But I don't I don't understand why we can't recognize him. I don't understand why his name needs to be on the court. What happens in That's what you do. Well, what happens in 30 years if you have another guy that does the same? Then you wait till the basketball court is being redone and the Dr. Schaefer has a hands-off contract that may allow him to be here in 30 years. Um, so he could certainly then when he decides to recommend that the basketball court gets redone, add as many names to his with the board approach. Should we just add five names to the court? We don't take one off. I'm not an
060athletic. Is our athletic director here? No. Okay. Cuz I was going to ask how long how how many times in general in terms of that court a basketball coach has achieved 500 plus wins in their tenure within a school. And in this instance, as the one patron pointed out, all within Danville, except for maybe the first 30 games of his career in another corporation. So again, I think that's why putting it in there and then if you have that sort of accomplishment, whether it be a girls coach or um if the new girls coach is here as that alumni and she's here those amount of time to achieve those wins at 500 plus wins, then again um you could do you guys talk about a banner. The banner can be an intram thing, but that
061sort of thing on the court is a true honor to someone who has put their time into that sport as a coach. [Music] Um, it's just it seems like the right thing to do. Yeah. So again, I I would make a motion again to put this in here in terms of an actual item is that I make the motion that we amend the policy to state that it is at the board's discretion to name a not a facility but a accomplishment of a staff member in the appropriate area of the corporation based upon their accomplishment at the board's discretion. I make that motion. I'll second that. That's how I would make the motion to amend that policy in figuring out where to put it in there. Dr. Schaefer, if you need my help on that,
062I certainly can provide that. Could you please just restate what you previously stated at the or at the board's discretion? Uh, the board may approve naming a component of a school facility after the accomplishment of a staff member in the appropriate area of the school corporation related to their accomplishment. Now, again, I don't know if you want to add to that or not, my fellow board members. the fact that again maybe there needs to be a review of other accomplishments that maybe previous boards have missed. This one is not getting missed though. I mean it's pretty evident that again you can talk about the things that others have accomplished but this one here seems extremely monumental from my understanding of Indiana athletics in terms of that number of career wins. again not changing schools to
063get there but only twice having done that and the vast majority of them more than that here in Danville I think it's important for us to create the criteria I think there has to be clear criteria because otherwise we're just I mean we could go back years and years and years Rosie Kurlin you know she's been a longtime dedicated school board member um I mean there are so many people and so I feel Like if we don't create the policy with the criteria and just say we want to name the court this and then go back. Start with the criteria. Start with the criteria. We're going to add criteria, but we're starting with the criteria that when a basketball coach achieves 500 plus career wins that validates the ability of the board to go about
064this process as I suggested the amendment. Right. We can amend that other criteria if we want to as we want. We have a motion, right, to make a change to this policy. Um, so we're going to take I second it. Yeah, you did. Are we ready to vote? Yep. Um, I'm not a fan of doing it this way cuz I haven't had a chance to digest the changes that you want to make to a policy and I'm not a fan of that. But we'll go ahead and take a vote on it. So in the motion that Mr. Bryant made, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Nay, that would be three, four, and two against, Miss Penny. Okay. That motion just changes the policy. Now, I'm going to make the motion that Yeah. that we put
065Brian Barber's name on the court. First of all, what we've got to take a look at what is the financial implication on this. He made the motion. I second. Hang on a minute. Now, we go into discussion. And here we are. All right. So, we currently have a motion right to put um Coach Barber's name on the basketball court. So, I I say it's more than just the name. Again, I think it's a matter of the rendition had just his name, but I think it's a matter of saying career 500 plus wins somehow acknowledging why his name is there. So that when people walk in, they see the reason why that name is there. I don't know exactly how that may be. People that maybe are bringing it forth maybe have an idea of what
066to put under his name and reference that 500 plus career wins or maybe the exact number as of the end of the basketball season. Um and maybe the years of that he was coached from this date to this date 500 plus career wins. That's so I think it's more than just the name. I think it's about the career accomplishment as well. If we want to get to the talk about the expense of what this might be, I can guarantee that uh the money can be raised that it won't cost the school an additional dollar if they're not willing to pay for it. If if if I might interject on that point, um the floor and I and Mr. Dr. Herbert helped me with the exact timing of this, but we will be completely changing out
067the floor cuz you can't we typically wax top coated floor each year, but you can't that doesn't take the paint um to do the paint portion is very expensive because you have to take the floor core down. We really can't take our floor down anymore. So, we're going to be replacing that, but it's going to be in about a year. It'll be next summer of 26. Summer 26. That will be great when we're doing the core. So there there's an opportunity there that really wouldn't cost any additional dollars to do that other than what we already have allocated. Good. Yeah. Okay. Any other comments? All right. I'm going to once again reiterate. I do think that we should honor Coach Barber for what I believe, as I made notes last month, is 26 years of
068his service to Indiana basketball and Danville Community School Corporation. But I am not a fan of naming courts or facilities or swimming pools or anything. Um, I do believe that he should be recognized for his service and I respect your opportunity to present that opinion, Mr. Cherry, but I believe that's why it needs to come to action with a board vote. If it actually goes down as a two three vote, I'm fine with that. It goes down as a 3-2, but it comes down to a vote of the board. We're getting ready to take that vote once everyone's had a chance to have their say. Anybody else have anything? Yeah, I do have something to say. I I kind of went back and forth a lot on it. Um I had people reaching out from
069both sides and at the end of the day it seemed like the people that I talked to um I called several past players and um they all openly admit sometimes he's kind of a jerk. Uh very loud and in your face sometimes. But I can't tell you how many of those players told me on the phone if it weren't for him getting them ready like they would have never succeeded in collegiate athlet athletics um and life in general. So that's that's kind of my thoughts. So okay. Anybody else have any comments? All in favor? Any opposed? Nay. So that would be four eyes and one no. Miss Penny, I think Mr. Bryant did Mr. Heel and then Mr. Bryant. All right, moving along to new business. Approval of personnel recommendations. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you, Mr.
070Chair. Uh, I recommend approval of the personnel report. Uh included in the report this evening are recommendations for our head basketball positions uh with Ella Collier uh as teacher and girls basketball coach and Mr. Mark Hartman as the interim boys basketball coach for the 2526 season. All right. Motion to approve the personnel recommendations as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Hempil. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Brown. All in favor? I Oh, sorry. My apologies. Go ahead. Why would you name the one position as an interim position? That was the recommendation um from Mrs. Harvey moving forward. Why? Why? I believe her reasons were uh she is looking at some uh cultural changes to the basketball program and believing that Mr. Artman uh can do that is wanting to just ensure that those cultural changes occur.
071Isn't a head coaching position will position anyway at will employment? It's approved with if that person is a teacher. Uh it is approved annually. Well, it it runs with there is a property right there that runs with the underlying teacher contract. Uh so it's it is it is that will but it's also an ongoing contract that would have to be actively ended otherwise if if it's a teaching position. I just have a concern that uh I think that when we go to hire somebody for a position, we need to know that they have our full support. If there's changes that need to be made, I think that's part of a discussion that may be there. But to give stipulations of that sort, I think is putting our new coach in a kind of a bad
072spot. Um, I think if there's any sort of thing that starts to come within the athletic department in terms of an athletic trend, I think in any department, any leader should be bringing the information in, disseminating within there. But then again, we have all these educators that have this sort of background, whether they be teachers or coaches, but then they need to be able to have know that they have the confidence and support of their leadership to blend that in with their personality and philosophy. So again, it's a little concerning that we've gotten to a point within the corporation after my number of years here that um we're naming things on an intim basis opposed to having the confidence that we've got it. We're going forward. Just my thoughts on that. Sure. Thank you. Any
073other comments or questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, consider approval of high school principal Dr. Schaefer. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I am very pleased to recommend to the board this evening uh Mr. Matt Cloudfelder for the position of principal at Danville Community High School. And uh Mr. Claudefelder is a Danville resident, as I think uh most of us are aware, and currently serves as the associate principal at Ben Davis High School in Wayne Township. Uh Mr. Claude Felder brings with him an abundance of experience as a special education teacher, a high school administrator, uh, and many assistant principal roles, and then currently the associate principal uh, at Ben Davis High School. And I I will, uh, share and hope to not embarrass him, but
074his references have described him as very authentic, uh, having great experiences and a genuinely good person, being fair, respectful, and accountable. And I recommend uh, Mr. Cloudfelder uh, for the position. and uh thank Mrs. or Dr. Walker and our many many uh committees uh members uh for their extensive work to consider the great candidates we had through the process. And I know Mr. Claude Felder is here this evening with with family and tow and we're very pleased to see you and and your your family members in support of you this evening. Welcome. All right. Motion to approve the high school principal as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second, Mr. Bryant. Comments or questions? All in favor? I. That passes unanimously. You're welcome to the team, Mr. Proctor. [Applause] All right. Next item on
075the agenda, consider approval for transportation project bid. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mrs. Cherry. Uh before you this evening, we have the bids that were returned for the transportation project. Uh we had these bids that were opened on April 29th, so about 2 weeks ago. Uh and before you have a listing of all of the biders for each one of the different packages, uh and highlighting there with the low bid for each one of those. Uh happy to report and pleased to report that we had an original budget for this project of 10.6 million in hard cost. Uh that would be the costs that were being bid here during this process. Uh after receiving all of these bids back and still accepting uh several alternates that we feel were important and vital to this transportation project,
076we are still 700,000 below what that budget was intended to be. Uh those alternates include uh and they're listed out there for you so you can see those. Uh but just to highlight um some of those alternates uh included a gravel drive or a paved drive along the east side of the actual bus lot itself. Uh it included a diesel fueling station. Uh it included a higher um efficiency electrical panel uh which is really going to be put in place that in case we were to go to electric buses in the future that this equipment would be able to support that. Uh and that was for a minimal cost that we could do now to get that taken care of. Uh so we wouldn't have to upgrade that equipment later on if we did go
077with electrical buses. Uh a bus wash system. We had talked about that uh previously. We actually had two bids or two alternates for the bus wash system. Uh we decided to go with the less expensive of those two. Uh which would basically just include four hand wands that are kind of tied into the water of the building. Uh, and then an undercarriage, uh, that would just essentially spray the buses as you drive over it. Uh, but that would be the extent of it. It's not the actual full-blown I guess I would I would call it a Mike's car wash that you would think of. Uh, we would not be accepting that. Uh, and then, uh, the site parking lot poles. Uh, these would be 30T poles. The alternate for that would been of 25 ft.
078Uh, the 25 ft poles would have required additional poles. So, the cost actually would have been a little bit higher. Uh so we're going to uh reject that one. Uh so again uh the bids are there before you. Uh positive news that we are looking at about 700,000 less than what we had anticipated uh and had budgeted. Uh so we would just ask for the board's approval of these bids here this evening. And again happy to answer any questions. All right. Motion to approve transportation project bids as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Brown comments or questions? I have a couple questions. Did I just understand you to say that we're putting a Gramble parking lot? No. No, it was Paige parking lot. Yes. Um and then my second
079question is uh how have we been refueling buses to this date in time? So, currently we do have a smaller tank for our fuel uh that we do use for some of our uh smaller vehicles and you know maintenance vehicles. Uh but for the most part, we go down to the Keystone or Co. Alliance and we fill up there. Uh or the buses do have the ability that if they're out and about, they can use a regular filling station uh if they need to. But a majority of our buses are refueled down at Keystone Co. Alliance. And how far down the road is that from the projected new site? About the same distance as it is currently. I mean, we're talking So, why wouldn't we just continue that process and save another just under $700,000
080by not doing the fueling station and the canopy for the fueling station? Uh, it does give us a little bit of I would say more efficiencies as far as the purchasing of the fuel because we can purchase larger quantities so we can get it at a better price. Uh, and it is it's a cheaper way that we could able to do that. Uh it allows for a I would say a safer uh environment for our drivers to fill up. Uh there's been numerous times where our drivers do get back late at night uh when they're on transport or on field trips whether it's for sports or different activities um that they do have uh we've heard some concern about where they do have to fill up. Uh and so this would obviously be putting it
081in the lot. It would be in a secured location behind a gate. So it would also provide them with the safety as well. One one additional point, our propane is currently fueled on our site. So propane will be fueled on site regardless. And it would be nice to have a canopy over that that fueling facility. So is that canopy that's mentioned here for just under $67,000. Is that for both the diesel and the propane or just the propane? That would be just for the pro the propane. Yes. And why wouldn't you? So is the diesel fueling station your proposal there to have a canopy over that area too? Yes, they would both have a canopy over them. And and what is your projections then? You you said that we can buy larger quantities of fuels
082and save money there. What is your projection that that savings is going to this expenditure is going to be recouped in that process? How many how many years I'm not going to put in gallons, but how many years is that going to take for it to pay off? Uh I don't have that number off the top of my head. I could get that number for you. It's not going to be something that we're going to be able to recoup in two or three years. It will be several years before we'd be able to do that. Uh but it does give us the ability to have a little bit more control over the price that we can pay for the fuel. Something to consider there is those savings will be to the operations fund in the
083future. I mean, you'll have a capital investment up front that will allow you potentially to save to your operations fund on fuel purchase in the future. I've had this experience in my past where we were committed to only one company. So therefore, when you go out to do uh bidding for fuel, you're limited. You really can't. Um because if you're dependent on one company to provide all your fuel needs, including the the warehousing of it, the fuel tanks, etc. Whereas, if you own your own filling station, you can bid out to multiple providers to try to get the best cost on on diesel or or perhaps on propane as well. Have you had a problem with negotiating fuel prices down at the co-op down the road? No, I mean we have negotiated those prices with
084them, but it didn't give us the opportunity to go to other places that we can like Dr. Schaefer had mentioned. Why do I mean has there been a problem with that relationship that we needed to No, I would No, there's not been any problem with it. It just gives us more options and more variety. One thing you need to watch if this does go through when you're buying transport loads of fuel is whether you're getting like number one fuel like co-op has this good country mark good fuel or you go to the open market that's 10 cents less. It's not going to be the quality especially in the winter you're going to run into trouble. My question is though on your diesel fueling station for 700,000. What are we what are we getting for 700,000?
085Cuz how big a storage tank are we getting? I'm sure it's an doublewalled tank. Yeah, legal. But what are we getting? That's a lot of money for Is it above ground on in ground? It's above ground. Yeah, it is above ground. It's a vertical tank. Yes. Um I don't have the specs to tell you exactly the gallons that it holds. Um but yes, it is. You holding one load or two? One load's about 8,000 gallon. I want to say it's two, but again, I would have to get the actual specifications to to make sure before I say that for sure. Guys, I'm just a little concerned with with the $700,000 fueling station. I get what you're trying to do that way as far as buying, but the way we're doing it now where we're buying
086it buying fuel about every day on filling up buses, you're hedging your bet pretty good that way, too, cuz you're spreading it out. And what happens if you buy fuel at the wrong time? Sure. You know what I mean? I now you're doing what I'm doing. So, you're right. You're Well, it's the same thing that we're doing with with Keystone or with Coiance. So, you're you're booking fuel. Mhm. Yeah. When you have your own on property tanks, don't you have to worry about if it leaks and down into the ground and then having to mitigate that? And we do, but like Mr. Hel said, these are double uh double insulated, uh they're I would say the the most risk averse that we could do as far as having a tank leak. Uh and obviously with
087it being a brand new tank, and again, there's things that are put in below the tank just in case that were to happen. Hence why we're not putting it in the ground. It is an above ground tank. What kind of warranty? What kind of warranty comes with putting that larger tank in? I would have to get that information for you. That's a big tank. I'm sure you're they're probably going to make a dyke for it that it's sitting in. So, it's also if it would happen to leak, it's got some retention, right? Yes. What's it having that size of tank on our property? Because that tank is going to be what sort of distance from the middle school? It's not an explosive fuel, but it's still a contaminant. And I also know that there's a
088stream, the underground stream that runs underneath the ground that we're sitting on right now, which created some of the cracks downstairs. And you have, even though it's a new tank and a new apron system that Mr. Mr. Hel just described that amount of fuel gets down into that waterway. We've got a really big EPA potential issue on the pan for some future part of the corporation. Um, and then what's it cost to replace that tank once it starts to age to the point that you want to avoid just what I described? Sure. What's the replacement cost for it? Uh, I mean again that the 700 that you see there includes the canopy, so it wouldn't be that much, but it would be several hundred,000. And have you looked at again comparing that to again what
089seems to have been a very workable process to date letting the co-op deal with all the tanks and all that EPA stuff and all the insurance stuff that goes along with it. I'm just kind of wondering I haven't heard a lot of discussion on that piece in reference to it. So, I guess I'm I have some concerns about um this bid being proposed that way with that expenditure in there knowing that again, you're saying it could be some savings down the road. You're not sure exactly how much, but we know we have a process that seems to be pretty safe and workable. Uh if there's an issue with safety when a bus driver is fueling up late down a co-op, have you spoken to them about those safety concerns? Yeah, it's just timing of the
090day. Uh, I mean they it is lit, but we have Well, I mean, I don't live far from there. When I come home from a trip at 1:00 in the morning from somewhere coming from the southside, I go right by it and it lights up that area pretty well. No, sure. Yeah, we we've had and in fairness, we've had those concerns over a number of years and I would say particularly from our female drivers and they're not always bus drivers either because we have a number of people who are driving the white buses um and and having to refuel at that location and that's where a lot of our concerns have come from over time. But over time, have you talked to co-op about do they have cameras down there? you know, have we had
091a conversation with them about our employees concerns of using their facilities? I don't know if we've talked to them directly because I I don't know that those were necessarily controllable things. It's just that they're it's there. And I agree with you. It's not poorly lit. It's just a matter of when you're when you're out there on a cold night at 1:00 a.m. and you're by yourself, there's no one else around. I think that's really the concerns that I've heard in the past. Is there an option for bringing a much smaller size tank on that site to put for a small white bus that wants to fill up at 10:30 after a match and well that's what we have right now I think at the existing facility versus having a and then the buses can still
092go down during the day and the little white buses could fill up in our gated facility at night. I mean, if you had a 250 or 500gallon tank or something on site, I mean, we could explore that option. Um, I think you're still looking at, you know, obviously the cost savings comes in the in the volume that you're purchasing. Uh, so if we were to have a smaller tank like that, I'm not sure really what that cost savings. I don't I don't think that there is any cost savings if we're having to spend 700,000. I was just mostly trying to address the safety. Sure. Sure. I guess what I'm asking is let's I think we should take a different look at the diesel fueling station. I I think that's I I know what it costs
093to put a tank in that holds one transport load and get it done and it's nowhere near that. I I think you're you're I think they got a price too high for what you're getting, Cory. To be honest, just to be straight up with you. Uh, and my my concern is I just don't think we're going to see the savings down the road that because I don't really think we doesn't sound like we've really studied that to know exactly how that pans out spending this amount of money up front. I would also add too if if Keystone knew what you were thinking about doing, they might be they probably get a little more aggressive on on pricing too. Um, then we could avoid this, but I think I I know they would. So that's my
094two cents. Yeah. So I I think that you need to think about if you want to go ahead and push this to the vote or if you want to think about that a little bit differently in reference to addressing the fuel situation. We don't vote on this tonight. Is that due to the timing of this project? Well, yeah. I mean, I I think the way I I think we want to vote on this tonight. Now, if you want to approve it without that alternate, I think that's your other choice. Um, you know, again, we're looking at this there. It's a bid price, so we don't really control that pricing, but understand what you're saying. You feel like it's high, and I I get that. I have felt that on a number of different pieces with
095projects, so understand that. Um, I think we look at long-term savings to the operation fund is what we're looking at and the convenience to our drivers that everything's right there on site. We control all of it. There's a value to that. Uh, again, is it 700,000? I can't say it is or isn't. Um, but I think those are the factors look at try to make that convenient and safe and overseen by our people. Uh, was the intent here. If it's the board's wish to not not approve that piece of it, that's fine. We can certainly do that. But I think if we would approve the rest of the project without that alternate would probably be the the alternative way to go here. Do you need more information, Corey? Is that what you're asking for? I
096feel like you guys have a lot of questions. I do. I just think that's I think that's way too hot. Too much money. I'm I would vote no on the whole thing right now if without pulling that out. You can pull it out. You think that's too high for today's prices? I don't I don't know what time was you priced something like that. And this probably think another year. Okay. So, you're you're pretty close. I'm up to date on pretty on what I probably not as nice as what they're looking at, but what it should be. And for me, I just saying it's a savings, the operations cost. I'm hardressed to understand that savings, understanding that what we talked about earlier before this meeting in reference, the impact of the operations fund. Um, that expense
097of replacing that down the road, the responsibility goes along with the EPA stuff of it. I understand the safety piece, but I think there's other ways to address that with our community police department and the co-op. Um, so again, mine my that's where my concern is is again I think we're spending money to do something that we could be addressing in a different manner that seems to have over a large period of time what it sounds like in terms of a safety concern. Um, some of those safety concerns may have come when you first got here, Dr. Shaver. I don't remember exactly when they put their lighting in down there, but it it does seem to be pretty bright in that area. It could also be a matter of being able to connect with our
098local community police department and allow uh director of transportation, let the police department know that we're going to have uh buses coming through and fueling up late tonight. So, if you have the ability to let your officers know to do some extra swing by through there, we can do that. But again, I just see that I'm not quite as sure I see that as the savings through the operations fund as you're wanting me to understand. So, do we want to approve it and pull out the alternates or and then bring the alternates back to the June meeting with more information and questions answered? Probably just pull that alternate two out. Yeah, pull out just alternate is all I'm asking. Or maybe you guys want it. I'm just that's where I'm at. No, I'm I feel
099like there's What's the I mean, you said that also in the canopy is for the propane area. Um, how much propane are we storing on site right now too at our existing facility? It's I believe it's about a 200 gallon, but I'm not positive again. I I have to get that information for you. Okay. like the difference when propane if you were to have a leak or something it evaporates away as a little different still an explosive item I mean does the co-op sell propane the the skid tank we have is from the co-op okay so they're probably just filling it on site but yeah but can they can they fill a bus propane bus down at the co-op down where they do the diesel stuff we'd have to check I don't know about that
100one yeah I probably filling up with propane at yeah I think typically they delivered to your location and then you fill up from there. I don't know either. I'm just I can we can definitely check. So I guess I would feel comfortable in reference to pulling out the item two and item five to have a better understanding what we could work with co-op to what seems to be have been worked fairly darn well for a number of years and allows us to continue to do business with the local business that um from the local area. Okay. So, we have a motion on the floor to approve it as presented. And Christina made that motion. So, if she would like to amend her motion. You want me to amend it without alternate two? Is that what
101you're looking at? Jim said two and five. I I was two. I'm just two. I'm okay with just two. Two. You live with a canopy. Bring back get more information. I I can live with the canopy. But again, if in talking about if you're going to continue the diesel process down with co-op and there's an opportunity that you get better prices on deal because you're also able to buy propane from. We are buying propane more, but you can do the the the propane stuff there, then you're not necessarily going to need the canopy. If we leave the canopy in and approve it as she's amending it and then you did work things out so that all buses are being fueled now co-op for diesel and propane. Do you have the ability then to Yeah, we
102could if if we get that under Yes. If you approve with 5in and we determine later that we can fuel the propane buses at Keystone, then yes, we can just say we don't want that work done. Okay. We don't have to accept it or I guess we don't have to do that work. All right. So, Mrs. Ward, tell me your motion. Let me go back. And Penny, are you ready? To approve the transportation project bids. Bids as presented without alternate. Does that sound right? Yeah. Okay. And then do we have a second for that? Second. Austin. Second, Mr. Brown. All right. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Thank you everyone. Next item on the agenda. Consider approval of summer school personnel and course courses and cost. Dr. Walker. Thank you. I have
103attached a recommendation for all summer school courses and personnel. Um, our elementary and middle school courses are review classes for students who need additional support. Uh, the state does now require us to offer summer school for second and third graders who do not pass the i3 assessment. The high school classes include supervision and support for students who need credit recovery through our egeneuity software. We will begin all summer school costs. Oh, we sorry. We will submit all summer school costs for state reimbursement and then the district will pay the remaining costs. So tonight I request your approval of the presented summer school personnel courses and estimated costs. All right. I need a motion to approve the summer school personnel courses and costs as submitted. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr.
104Himl. Comments or questions? Questions for the I read three. I mean, we seem to have done really well on that. How many are we looking at for that? You talked about the cancellation of it. That partic those particular ones, even if there's one or two, we can't really cancel, can we? No, we the second and third grade are required. So, we have a group of students right now that is slated third graders to come to summer school. They will have another test, another I read three test that they'll take here towards the end of this school year. Any students that pass that still then don't need to come to summer school. So the final number is still TBD at this point. Right now we have everybody slated who didn't pass the first time around, but
105they've gotten after school and during school remediation. So hopefully a lot of those will pass here at the at the end of the school year. They'll then have to come to summer school. If they don't pass and they'll retake i3 for a third time at the end of summer school. Thank you. Yeah. Any other comments or questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, school board policy review. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, again, as part of the board's ongoing uh process of policy review, the following policies are presented for review. And this month, uh, those are SVPs 2253, Educating Miners on Internet Interaction, 2260, Social Networking, 2262, Latch Key Program, that's non-school district operated. uh 2272 religion in the classroom and 7520 was here by request
106on naming of facilities which we we've previously discussed. Um I did go through the uh policies and they they look to be in good order. I don't see anything significant that stands out. Um I had also just uh had reached out to ISB on a couple policies I'd mentioned here a couple meetings ago. Those policies were in good order. So, um, we we're not recommending any other, uh, changes here at this time. All right. This item is not up for a vote, but if anybody has any questions, I have a question for Dr. were a suggestion that again I could have it wrong, but I would ask that you go back to that June 21 meeting just before the discussion on the naming facility policy, but it seems to me like you guys were discussing
107something on the wellness policy that led to a a vote about the number of people that would look at things and so forth. And um just making sure that that is within that wellness policy that it didn't get missputting in there. Okay, we'll do um I I will tell you, in fact, we've got wellness here. The wellness policy has been updated in 22, 23, and 24 since then. So, I I doubt it, but I'll go back and take a look and just make sure. Thank you. All right. Next item on the agenda, schoolboard policy update. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you. Um again um below uh in this item are uh updates uh for board action on uh the wellness policy which is 2280 and 21105 which is mission vision which is one that we said we
108bring back. We just needed to add the mission statement into it uh which I've done. Um and again Mr. Stem Key and the wellness committee are recommending some minor updates of the wellness policy. Uh those were in there in in the side panel uh for your consideration. Uh so with that I would recommend uh the updates as presented to policies 2280 and 21105. All right. Motion to approve schoolboard policy 2280 and 21105 as presented. So moved. Thank you. Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Hemsel. Comments or questions under the core competencies. The the red is what you're proposing as the change. Uh those those just happened to already be in red font in there. The the only change we're really looking at is just adding the mission statement. And I know that's a little
109bit confusing just because that's how they were in policy. Um so let me just flip that. So the the change we're looking at specifically is is striking out the top word of mission. Uh that's actually the vision statement, everyone every day high standards, high achievement. Um and then adding what's in quotes, mission statement of corporation. We commit to maximize our student success through personalized experiences so they make a difference in any community. Those are the actual changes. Uh for some reason, the core competencies down below were just already in red font. Those have been previously approved. Thank you. Thanks. Was it in August? Pardon me. Was it in 21 when that new mission statement we did that? I Yeah, I think so. Been that long? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's that's the last time the
110policy was revised. So, and the mission statement wasn't in it. He's inserting the mission statement now. What year did we do that? That's what I was trying to think. 2022. So, I think it was our second year. That was part of our first round of goals. It's It's been Yeah, a couple years back. Longer than I guess that brings me to to ask the question, Dr. Schaefer. Some of these policies is like the facilities policy, it's got four dates. This one has a just one date of last revised. There seems to be an inconsistency within our policy manual about when it was adopted, when it was last reviewed, and when it was last updated. Again, there's a difference between a review and an update as we have distinguishing our correct. So, it would seem like
111it'd be nice if you could go through the policy manual and try to get a little consistency in the policy format. top part to make sure the dating is consistent from policy to policy. Yeah, because you have a a last review date and but you may have a last revised date and then you have an adopted date is typically what we would see and it's and again the policy I mean even the time I've been here the policy is through a lot of hands uh in that time. So we can go back and try to have more consistency. But I I think those are the three types of dates we're after. When it was the last reviewed, so we know was it a two years ago or three years ago. We're typically on kind of
112that cycle, two or three year review. And then if we made changes to it, then we'd have a revised date. Well, it seems to me like since I've been on the board, this is our second time through the policy manual. So we started I think at the beginning of 23. We're at the beginning. Mhm. We finished within the year somewhere in the early 24 and then we've started the second round. So again, I would just ask for that be brought to be a little bit more consistent. Does some of that discrepancy have to do with um the board doc software? Are they updating software and adding things or is it just getting all them dates in there? It's not the most easy to work with. I will say that from a userfriendly standpoint. But as
113far as the the nomenclature, that's that's really on us. I think we have control over what we're going to call those those changes or reviews. But I I will say it is not it's not an easy piece of software to work with, particularly in the policy area. And I think that's what's led to a couple of these things not getting updated as quickly as possible because you kind of have the knowhow to go in there and do that and make those changes. And some of those changes aren't made very often. And if we don't make any changes, we don't say like we reviewed it on May. Yeah. He's saying we do. We What I'm saying is we we if we're going to do that to Mr. Bryant's point, we want to do that consistently. When
114was it last review? We don't typically do that. I think Yeah, I think we've missed that some. I think we've tended to put more if we're updating it and then trying to keep the original adoption date. And I think this board policy manual from any dates I've seen was was revised somewhere back in 1995. I think tend to be or maybe actually goes back to 91 on some of them uh on actual original adoption dates. Okay. All right. Any other comments or questions? All in favor? Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, consider approval of surplus obsolete equipment. Mr. Herbert. Thank you, Mr. Cherry. uh before you have several lists just of old obsolete or equipment that we no longer use uh that we just need the board's approval in order to
115be able to dispose of those. So I would ask for the board's approval uh of this and answer happy to answer any questions. Motion to approve surplus obsolete equipment as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Brown. Comments or questions? Question. Is there any more of the the field left? I think for the most part it's been destroyed or taken away. There might be a couple of rules left, but I know they've stripped it all off. If there is a couple rules, would you let me know? I'd like one. Yeah. Thanks. All right. Any other comments or questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, superintendent report. Dr. Schaefer. Thank you, Mr. Cherry. Um just a a couple quick notes. Uh the chillers
116at the high school were connected uh this past week. Uh the first one was uh connected up on Wednesday, the second one on Friday. Uh some work uh through Friday, maybe even over the weekend by the crews to make sure those are both in functional and being through the high school today. Um temperature climate was better. Uh we still can't control the all the movement of that cold air, but at least we're getting cold air into the building now. Um until the air handlers, particularly over the east end of the building, are replaced later this summer, then we'll have a little bit better control over moving that air. But it was it was relatively comfortable throughout most of the building. Um today uh the Turazzo design work at the front entrance has begun this week
117and uh also some of the the concrete flat work is occurring outside the entrance that's underway now around entrance what will be entrance one the main entrance. Um just a reminder the high school will be shut down uh for all practical purposes this summer um with programming and temporary offices uh located here at the middle school and uh the the water is going to be limited. It's going to be turned on and off quite a bit more often than on because we are repiping the domestic uh water lines. The galvanized lines are being repiped this summer. Um and then at South Elementary, uh work on the southwest wing is nearly complete and all the work will be done by the end of summer as they work on the west uh end of the building and
118then through the center of the building and will be uh wrapped up by the start of school with the South Elementary project which would be great to see. It'll be completely done then South Will. South Will. Yes. Uh they'll be done and uh maybe just a little bit later as they're working, they'll work to get the uh the construction trailer, get that moved over. Uh because that crew will be taking over on the transportation facility. Then we're going to be healing in that that lay down area uh there on the east side of South Elementary. We're going to restore that, get the gravel out of there, and put that back to grass. So, um just a couple reminders of year-end things. Uh Thursday, May 22nd is the student last day. Uh Friday the 23rd um
119is a lot of things. It's the end of year staff breakfast at 7:30. Um again, board members, you're welcome to join us if you're able. And uh we have a graduation rehearsal uh later that morning and we have a commencement that evening and I'll be at 7:30 and that will be inside uh in the gym. Um no no place for it out on the football field right now. Uh and then um that's it. All right. Thank you, Dr. Sh. I have a couple observations on the super report. Just wondering, it seems like every superintendent report has included construction update. Kind of wondering why we don't put that into the old business that you're going to give a construction update so it's a little more clear to the public that again it is going to be
120talked about. And then secondly, um why not flesh out the superintendent's report a little bit more with bullets to the public as to know what you plan on talking about so that if there's something particular that catches their eye of interest, there's disclosure without needing to sit all the way through the video to get there or try and find it. Well, um to your to your first point, when we put things under old business, that gives the impression that is a business item that's going to take action on. on it. Typically business items receive action and being that these are reports that's why we don't t typically put them under a business item. Um as far as more details um I mean that's u just typically how I've done the reports. Um if if that's
121of interest to someone I you know um I can put that under some of the information under the public portion of that is just not executive so people can see that. I just think bullet points that you know you're giving a construction update you're going to talk about key dates for the end of the year or something. Again, it gives an person idea a little bit ahead of time what your update. Sure. Sure. Any other comments or questions? All right. Next item on the agenda is announcements with Dr. Schaefer made most of mine. Um the next regular school board meeting is here in the middle school district training room at 6:30 on Monday, June 9th. And also of note, all school offices will be closed for Memorial Day on May 26th. All right, I need
122a motion to adjurnn. So move. Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Helil. We are adjourned. Say all. Yeah. Let's vote. All in favor? I Sorry about that. [Music] Robert's rules.