001I didn't think that. >> All right. Um, okay. First thing tonight, I'd like to get a motion uh for the approval of the amended agenda supplied. >> So, move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Okay. All in favor of the approval of the amended agenda, say I. >> I. I. >> I. opposed. All right, motion carries. Okay. Uh, patron comments. We have quite a few people here in attendance tonight. I do not have anybody written down that wishes to speak about anything. Um, so with that being said, we'll move forward. Um, the Oracle update. I'd like to invite Miss White forward to discuss the livestock judging team for the national competition. Right. Good evening to you all. As we last meeting came and talked about us before going to his garbage, we're here with the
002uh update. So, here next to us, we have our teacher, Miss White, and then we brought Kayla Myers on to help coach us. So, he's brought us quite a far way here in this short time. he uh helped with the connections here on this trip. So on the way out there, we stopped at four different farms and two different universities. Uh first night of Thursday, we stopped at Humbles to look at goats. Got up the next morning and went to Eller Brocks to look at some sheep. Traveled to Ames, Iowa to Iowa State University, and he had a six class workout of uh three species uh cattle, sheep, and goat or cattle, sheep, and swine, excuse me. And so that allowed us to see quite a few stock that day. traveled then south to seen
003two cattle places, a 100 head of effort at Boyards and then four classes at um JS. So that was pretty incredible of that day. We stayed the night there and then headed to University of Nebraska Lincoln where they put on a seven class workout there the day before the contest. So we seen just around 19 head or 19 classes of livestock on the way out there. So, uh, it was a great learning experience and glad you guys supported us on the way out there. >> So, at the contest, Clayton placed 13th individually. I personally placed 27th. Aubrey placed 78th and Maddie placed 124th. Um, overall as a team, we were um, eighth and then we were eighth high team in sheep and sheep and in divisions and then we were eighth high team in cattle.
004And with the the eighth high team, we were the highest represented out of Indiana out of six. So we went out there and held our own. And when you got to look back at those, some of those other teams make power teams through their state. So they'll take their top five individuals out of their state contest and form a team where we at Indiana does not do that. So we all have to stay loyal to our schools or for chapters. >> Okay. So this past weekend, um, we attended the Boiler Makers. So, it's a contest that's put on by the Purdue livestock judging team. Um, me personally, I was 12th individual, sixth in goats, ninth in sheep, 11th in reasons. As a team, we were eighth goat team, seventh sheep team, sixth team in reasons,
00513th in cattle, and finished, 19th overall or ninth overall, sorry. Um, this contest had like a lot of out of state kids, and then as like an Indiana team, we were third. Um and then after this we will continue on to who speak Congress in December and we will go to the rest of the meeting or rest of the competitions in 2026. >> Is there any questions? >> So how was the experience? >> Oh it was uh very cool. got to see as we said a lot of stock a lot of high quality livestock on the way out and then just the networking through the former prefer coach Matt plays which coach Caleb uh that connection there was really um something that we'll take with us the rest of our life at least I will
006>> what year are each of you in school >> I'm a senior >> me and Aubrey are sophomores I'm a freshman >> have you been out to a show like this before or a competition like this before >> uh not of this caliber first time qualified to go this high. >> Okay. >> How's it make you feel to go against some of those other states that do what they call power team? You know, when you know, it's not that we, you know, we wouldn't consider you a power team, but like that it seems like a tough hill to climb, doesn't it? >> Yeah. And some of those power teams were seniors last year, but they're allowed to compete until January 1st as a team. So, some of these kids are beating us are freshman in
007college, so and they've had junior college coaching. So, I mean, we're we're holding our own in that respect. >> Yeah. Good job. It's really amazing. >> 13th overall as an individual. I mean, I know we talked a little bit, but that's no shame by itself at all. I mean, that is actually you're in the top. And same goes with the group of you, right? Eight overall if I remember right. >> Yeah. >> And again, like you said, probably everybody above you were power core classes and teams, right? So, um, at least for me, you made me proud. I am awful glad that we were able to help you guys get to where you're at and experience that. I know that your supporters, because I've talked to some of those, too. And they're very excited for
008you guys, too, for not what you did this, but for some of you young ones coming up, right, that what you're going to carry on and help the FFA grow. Yeah, I would like to thank Miss White and Caleb as well for stepping in there and helping out. Um, I'm sure they're more than thankful for that. So, but I would thank you as well. >> Congratulations. >> Great job. [Applause] that I want these from. >> You guys like them? [Music] >> Okay. >> Oh god, I hate to take the biggest one, but I will. >> Thanks. >> Yeah, of course. You are so cute. >> We should get this with the administrator report. >> Yeah. >> All right. Well, congratulations again. Um, all right. The recognition for DCHS students and staff, Mr. Long, would you
009please come up? Let's start off with staff first. So, the we'd like to recognize these staff members for an outstanding job so far this even this uh this year. Um, so we'll just get right going here. First off, I'd like to have Mr. Nick Gasbar come on up. Mr. Gaspar has shown an exceptional commitment to his students, not only in the classroom, but also in the ways he supports them through challenges outside of school. His eager to step in, help students who may be struggling, ensuring they know they are not alone and that their education remains a priority. His willingness to provide opportunities for students to learn no matter the obstacles reflects his deep care for their success. Perhaps most importantly, Mr. Gaspar approaches his work with tremendous patience, modeling the very qualities we hope
010to see in our students. Understanding, resilience, and compassion. Congratulations, [Applause] Miss Jody. >> Miss Reny consistently demonstrates what it meant to put students first. She's flexible in her approach, meeting students where they are and adjusting to their needs so they can thrive. Her focus is always on what is best for her students. Whether it's in the classroom and planning or her daily interactions, the dedication and student centered mindset have made a meaningful difference in the lives of those she teaches. Congratulations, [Applause] Mr. K. Yes. Mr. Dennis's dedication to the band program has left a lasting impact on both our school and our community. Through his leadership, he he has continued to strong traditions of our band while also creating new opportunities for students to grow. While he is deeply committed to teaching music, Mr. Dennison
011goes beyond the notes on the page. He teaches students life skills, discipline, teamwork, and perseverance that will serve them well long after they leave the band room. His influence reaches far beyond performances. It shapes the lives and characters of the young people he leads. Thank you, Mr. Jess. Congratulations. [Applause] And then Miss Leslie Picking. Miss Pickering is known for her willingness to step in and help with anything, always putting students and the school community first. One of her most impactful contributions has been the development of the senior capstone program. This program not only holds students accountable but also pushes them to reach their highest potential before stepping into the real world. Through this work, she has given our seniors both a challenge and an opportunity to grow in meaningful ways. Equally important is her dedication
012to building strong connections between the school and community businesses. These partnerships have created opportunities for our students that extend their learning beyond the classroom and prepare them for future success. Congratulations. Thank you. [Applause] And then Miss Haiten Young. As a first year teacher, Miss Young has truly hit the ground running. She has not only stepped into her role with confidence and enthusiasm, but has already made a remarkable impact on her students. Through her energy and passion, she has brought out a genuine love for the culinary arts classroom or her classes. Students are engaged, motivated, and excited to learn thanks to the welcoming and inspiring environment she has created in her classroom. Congratulations. [Applause] >> For the students, we're going to turn it over to our student services department. >> Before we do that, can we
013do a picture for all the staff that were just recognized with the board? Oh, I am sorry. Yeah, I kne down. You kick me in the [Music] >> One more. Thank you. Congratulations. >> So today was let yourself be seen wear bright colors and I haven't been home yet. So our first student is senior Alex Hajes. We're really proud to announce that Alex is our senior student of the month. Alex is ranked number one in the senior class at Delh High Community High School. Throughout his years here, Alex has embraced our science department, almost taking every science class that we have at DCHS. He's currently a guest student at Purdue University where he's expanding his knowledge and in his free time reads about chemistry, which he plans to major in next year and be a
014proud boil maker. With aspirations of becoming a professor or a researcher, Alex is sure to leave a lasting impact wherever his journey takes him. His dedication and achievements make him a remarkable representative of our school corporation. For these reasons, Alex is our senior. [Applause] Okay, so for our junior student of the month, we have Sandy Mate. Soy, join me, please. So, she's one of my little cherups, I say. A junior who is quiet yet powerful presence among her classmates. Though she may not always seek the spotlight, Sy's character, kindness, and strong sense of humor make her someone that everyone enjoys to be around. Serendy is an honor student who consistently demonstrates dedication, excellence, and all. She is a strong advocate for herself and her peers during leadership through both her actions and her voice. Outside
015of the classroom, Cerny shines the member of cheer and entertainers choir and also you didn't know she has a band called out of mind which was even featured at old sellers sent and I got to hear her that night. Since her freshman year, Sergy has truly come out of her shell growing into a confident talent talented and inspiring member of DCHS. [Applause] So the reason we keep switching back and forth is we split the class so I get the even years. She gets the odd years. So for the class of 2028, Nick Swindle. We are excited to recognize Nick Nicholas Wendle, ranked 13th in his cohort for his outstanding work ethic, advocacy, and kindness within our school corporation. In preparation for his senior year already so that he can take calculus, Nick has enrolled in
016two math classes, demonstrating his commitment to academic excellency. With aspirations of becoming a neurosurgeon, he is laying a strong foundation for his future. Nick is also known for his advocacy in creating a positive environment for himself and his peers. His dedication is evident not just in his academic achievement, but also through his active participation in various clubs. As he continues his journey through high school, it is clear that Nick is posed to emerge as one of our strong leaders in the class of 2028. That is the [Applause] >> freshman student of the month. I don't see her here. Okay. All right. Lydia is a freshman who is bright, creative, and kindhearted. And she brings positivity wherever she goes. As an AA straight A honor student, Lydia loves learning and helping her classmates understand challenging materials,
017proving that leadership can come through patience and compassion. Lydia's interests and talents are as wide ranging as her curiosity. She's an artist, a writer, a singer, and an active member of her church group. In middle school, she participated in um NJHS and then spellable, academic, full, choir, art, and continued to explore and expand her knowledge on many topics that make her think. Known for her warm smile and thoughtful nature, Lydia believes in spreading kindness and listening to others without judgment. Whether she's tutoring a peer, sharing a laugh, or often smiling in Hawaii, Lydia makes ECHS a brighter, more welcoming place for everyone around her. [Applause] All students who just were acknowledged, if you want to come up for a picture. One way the other. Can you see >> one more? Thank you. I know that.
018>> Yes, I will. >> All right. Well, um congratulations again to um all the faculty uh and students. Um, but at this time we are going to continue the regular meeting, but I will give those parents and students that time to exit. If you would like to before the meeting, you're welcome to stay. Um, but this is your time to sneak out if you would like. Okay. Okay. >> All right. Um Okay. Now, with that, um before we get too far into the meeting, uh we do have Junior Kennedy Brown here. She's filling in for our senior class representatives tonight. So, we'd like to welcome her to our panel. So, welcome. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, moving forward to number five. Uh, getting into some business here. I'd like to get a motion
019for the approval of the 2026 budget A, B, and C, which A being the resolution to adopt the 2026 to 2028 capital projects plan. Uh B, the resolution to adopt the 2026 to 2036 bus replacement plan. And C, the resolution for appropriations and tax rates for the 2026 budget, which have all previously been discussed. >> I move that we approve the uh 2026 budget items A, B, and C. Second. >> Okay. Any discussion or comments on those? Um like I said, they've all been presented previously and nothing has changed. Okay, hearing none. All in favor of number five, approval of the 2026 budget A, B, and C as presented, say I. >> I. >> Opposed? >> Motion carries. >> Okay, moving forward to consent items. We have quite a few here, but I'd like to
020get a motion for number six, consent items um A through CC, including A, which is the minutes September of September 8th, 2025 meeting, the minutes of the September 2nd and September 8th, uh 2025 public hearing, the monthly and payroll claims as presented, approval of the monthly financial report as submitted by the treasurer. Uh we have a couple uh resignations, retirements, recommendations. Um also several uh fundraisers uh and facility usages there. So I'd like to get a motion to approve consent items 6A through CC as presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Uh any discussion, questions, comments? All right. Hearing none. All in favor of 6A through CC consent items as presented say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. >> Okay. Uh number seven, school presentation. I'd like to invite Mr. Long back up. Uh
021this is for the DCS Oracle Outlook outlet. So to kind of give a little background of this um there are new diploma requirements for freshman kiddos. It requires some work-based learning. Um just a quick overview because we don't have enough time this whole a week to go through the new requirements. But just kind of to give you some background on this. Um so work-based learning will be part of the different seals that come up um here starting with our freshman class um that involve work-based learning. So to do an um enrollment which mean towards college they have to do at least well not have to but to get an honors plus seal which is what we strive for all our kiddos to get they have to do 75 hours of work-based learning. um students that
022are going into the employment field, so they call that the employment honors plus co are looking at 650 hours um before they graduate. So um we're kind of ahead of the curve because this is uh Miss Stephanie Miller's brainchild here. Um and so what this is a school-based business uh would meet the above requirements for students for graduation. So this would be something looking forward that we could do within our school building to get our kiddos in work-based learning um experience. So, at this time, I'd like to Miss Stephanie Miller, come on up. Uh, she is the teacher of management fundamentals as well as Lily Garrison. You here? Yeah. Come on up. Uh, Eliza Hughes, Cat Stacy, and Brett Huffman. >> Hello. um first year teaching. So when hearing the new requirements, I was trying
023to find a way to be able to incorporate more of the business aspect so that way they can get some of their business work hours in through the school day. Um went with Oracle Outlet where we've got some goals that they will kind of go over what some of those are that we are striving for within class. Um and like I said, just kind of starting off. So, it's a like I said, it's a baby that we're kind of trying to figure out which direction we're going to go. Um, but we are definitely getting started. We've got a few weeks into it and um I'll let them kind of take over from here. >> What works better for you? >> You can. >> Okay. Hi everyone. Thank you for having us tonight. We're obviously in
024the management fundamentals class and this is our Oracle outlet. I'm Lily. >> I'm Brett. I'm Cat. I'm Eliza. >> And uh this is our class. Um in the middle there, that's our uh business little table there where we sell stuff that's got stuff to sell on front in front and on back. >> Um our outlet, we provide supplies available for students to support their school school supply needs and spirit accessories during the school day. um managing business. As a class, we are learning about the principles of managing a business and what it takes to learn about owning a business and stuff like that. >> Um we're trying to raise school spirit and get kids involved and active. So, we like to sell things that go with like dress up things that um the school picks.
025And for future growth, we want to be able to raise enough money within this business to be able to recycle it back into the program for future years. So, our goal since we started is we've gotten a lot more exposure through like posters or announcements or just word of mouth and we able to get more just like customers or whatever through the um student staff. >> Expansion. We want to grow in product options. We want to have multiple options on what we're going to sell and yeah >> and teamwork. Uh we want to maybe in the near future work with our classes like culinary to maybe like sell like a a big batch of something with along with our um our tables. Um, the Oracle outlet obviously has a bunch of unique advantages, but some
026of the main ones is that it's project based learning. It's student centered and it's hands-on. So, instead of just sitting down in a class and typing on our computers all day or writing on a piece of paper, we get to like get up and actually like interact with things. We get to choose what we do. We make all the decisions. Miss Miller just sits there and tries to guide us. And then our growth, our short-term and long-term goals really just want to get more student involvement and increase school spirit just throughout like both the middle school and the high school. And then our long term is we want to set a foundation for the future classes to be able to continue on our school. >> Thank you. Thank you. What's your number one selling item?
027>> Well, we have some things in here. >> I would say our number one is we sell glow sticks. I think it's five for a dollar. We have school supplies. There's a bunch on our car. Looks like he's got >> So, what's been your biggest challenge so far? You're just two weeks into it or >> about three weeks. >> Three weeks. So, what's been as far as you guys as management team? >> What's been your biggest challenge so far that you see will be your biggest challenge? >> Um, I think it's like figuring out things that we think will sell if we don't have something that will flop. So, it's kind of been something that we've had to learn. >> Yeah. And also like getting the word out that we're doing it cuz not many
028people like really know what we have and what we're doing. >> How long do you operate? >> We operate um every Thursday during lunch A and B lunch. >> I think word's going to travel soon enough. So it might take a couple weeks, but people will start realizing that you're there every Thursday. So >> cool. All right. Thank you. [Applause] >> All right. Thank you for that presentation. That's nice. Uh I look forward to hearing what the new top selling item is at this end of the semester. I think it'll be something different. So, all right. Uh Mr. Dale uh with the athletics report. [Music] Um, one of the big ones from the last month, um, I put in the report was we saved about $1,000 on scoreboard controllers. Um, NECA wanted to charge us
029an inordinate amount of money to change basically a watch battery. So did my research, figured out what that was, and we had all the parts shipped to us, and then I just did it in house, and that was that saved us a ton because we had to do all the controllers at the same time because they were all purchased at the same time. Um, so that was a big one. Um, there's some IHSA updates that I have relayed with our our counseling department. We're looking at some policy possible changes. Um, they've loosened some of the rules for seniors as they're outgoing, obviously, if they're ready to graduate, starting their second semester. um they have loosened it up so they don't have to be a full-time student to be able to participate. You can have a
030reduced schedule, which I think for most of us, hey, if you've done all the things you're supposed to do and you want to go work for a bit and then come back to practice, then I don't think that's probably a problem, but we were going to go through that process of looking at those and seeing if that's something we wanted to to go down that road. Um I did put in here to recognize one of them's here tonight. Kendy's here tonight, but her and Abby Brown and Kiara who have both been in here a bunch and then Keegan and Elliot, the four of them have kind of been like a marketing team for me. They come in once or twice a week in my office through home room. We sit there and talk about different
031ideas. And I think a big reason why our student section has increased is because the four of them are coming up with these different things that the kids seem to be grabbing on to. So, I want to make sure and recognize what they've been doing over the last couple months. Um, and then we have kind of an exciting and I've been working on I've been trying to get this since I came back. Um, Coach Pulver has put together a um, a parent board that then can kind of operate as a youth basketball board to be able to go and create something that these younger kids have at least a chance to come and play some basketball and just get exposed to it. Um, so right now the the plans that I've seen they're they're planning
032on doing like four camp dates right around Thanksgiving. So kind of before and after Thanksgiving, two weeks and two weeks. And then when we come back Christmas faith, they'll have four four dates where they'll play games either against some of the other schools or inter murally. Um, but they're still working on that because obviously that takes some time to get the other schools in line. But um, I think it's a big step forward for just giving the elementary kids a place to to go and something we can support. So there and then um Dr. Moore and I have been working a lot on some of these potential facilities updates. We just spent a long day together looking at some different options for different projects and I know we have at least one on the middle
033agenda tonight that we'll talk about. So I won't take up much more time. I'll be back. Thanks. All right. Uh looking for the technology report. Uh Mr. So, I'm going to use a little bit of a security blanket here with the presentation to walk through some of this stuff with you. Um, first I want to thank my team, Drew and Colby. They work hard, they're flexible, they're innovative, and they embody the spirit of lifelong learning. Um, for example, I can't list everything that they do, but Kobe recently rewrote the code for our tech and maintenance tickets to provide an email to the submitter that the tickets been resolved. Um, so that's kind of a nice little feature that's in there. Now, Drew has a great job with device repair. Uh, and he had a great
034idea today for um kind of a flash sale of chargers to students who don't have them because we kind of have extras right now just because we do. We've collected them over the years. >> Uh, Toshiba printers, we replaced them all in June. Um, so there was some training and education needed when we started the new school year for staff members, but I think that we've got our workflows figured out and things are going pretty smooth with that. Same with the teacher laptops. When we went down from desktop and Chromebook just to one laptop with a docking station, there was some training required there too and and some small hiccups, but we kind of got through it and I think we're we're doing pretty good now. Uh October is cyber security month. Um probably didn't
035know that, but uh we have new uh CrowdStrike endpoint monitoring on all of our Windows machine corp wide. We just got that done within the last three weeks. Finished up with that uh admin training through No Before. This is another software that the state provides. Um it's just some general cyber security training. We've assigned that to the admin team and corp office staff. Uh we are doing some monitoring of all of our staff right now and we'll be doing some other training based on kind of the results of that monitoring. Okay. AI and education. Um I'm part of a Wabash Valley uh ed center tech leaders group. Um we are doing an AI and education book study. We're collaboratively putting together a resource for educators that's going to help them embed ethical and safe use
036of AI into the curriculum. So, that's kind of a project that we're going to be working on throughout this year and then hopefully we'll be able to share it with our respective staffs um later on, probably next next fall. Uh I'm attending a conference on 1031 specifically about best practice and AI policy and planning for districts. Dr. Moore and I have worked together to identify title 4 grant funding that can be used to purchase some enterprise level AI software um with training. There is a small group of teachers and I right now vetting three potential software choices. Magic school, KIGO and school AI. All of them include safeguards and guide rails for the appropriate use of AI in education. Um so there there will definitely be some learning curve involved with that. Um, but we're
037looking to have this available to teachers by the end of the month and hopefully some training for different buildings uh in November or early December depending on when you guys get on schedule. Uh, Skyward cumulative um Skyward has not announced yet the end of life date for they do it on state-by-state basis. They haven't said what it's going to be for Indiana yet, but it's coming up soon. about half of Indiana schools have already switched to cumulative. SMS is the old version. Uh if we commit to a 2028 date now, that gives us some flexibility in order to pick which date we want, which just based on all of the things that happen in the summer. Uh the week of July 4th is really ideal. Um so that we can get it done, we can
038go live before the beginning of school starts, but after all the state reporting stuff is done. uh -ate 2026. E-Rate is federal money that can be used on certain networking type things. Essentially, um my projects that I have planned for this year are UPS, which are just the big battery backups. Not super exciting. Uh but they go bad every now and then, so you have to replace them. And then cat, the big one is Cat 6 cabling project. Ideally, what I'd like to have are five new Cat 6 cables run to every room from a network closet to every room because one of them is used for the uh phone for IP phones. One is used for the access point, one is used for um potentially for a new speaker, and then uh we would
039have two extras that we wouldn't have to attach to a patch panel, but they would just be there in the ceiling in case we need them for damage to a line or if there were future proofing against other IP devices in the future, other types of things that we're going to want to put in classrooms. So, the cost of running each new line is essentially just the cost of the cable itself. You don't have to pay for extra. So, I figure we might as well just put some extras in there. That's kind of my big project. [Music] Um, with that being said, then if we were to look at a PA system refresh, we would have the cables in each room in order to put IP speakers in there. So, a lot of our uh
040the PA system right now has original analog cabling from when the buildings were built. Uh there's also the company that we use to service the software. They have a monopoly on that service in Indiana. So, we end up paying whatever they charge us, which is not ideal. Um so, we want to use the new cabling to upgrade to IP speakers. Uh I'm still investigating different softwares, but we want one that has no annual license, a better uh user interface for an easier user experience and the ability to integrate with other systems um like door access and alert systems and cameras. We don't have to do all that once. Uh, a lot of these softwares, it's modular where you can do a little bit at a time, but it would be nice if they had that
041capability so that we had all those things on one user interface and it was all really nice and easy to use. Uh, PA patchwork. With that being said, that's more of a medium to short-term project. you know, maybe we could get something started by next summer, but we're worried about some of these areas and buildings that don't have any PA access at all right now. So, science hallway, locker rooms, auxiliary gym, we want to get that stuff patched like now. Uh, gym audio refresh. You guys might have more questions about this later on, too. But um last spring in order to get the sound system to work for graduation, we had to call Brand in to kind of do an emergency um temporary fix. Some of that equipment is also original and it's been patched
042together over the years with a couple different projects. Uh Chip said it's not really loud enough for some events. So the I sought out bids from five different companies and Scott Twel from Ava, he did the DCES uh gym sound last fall and we've been happy with those results. He was also the lowest bid. So to me it kind of seemed like a no-brainer. Um and we're happy the work with the work he did. The speakers come with a 5-year warranty. So if you got more questions about that specifically later on, I'm happy to answer them. uh camera project. The old cameras, mostly Sony's, um are not in spec with what our software wants them to be. And so, it's putting unnecessary demand on the server that runs the software. So, what Spot has recommended
043is that we replace all of the old cameras with Spot cameras, which they send us the cameras for free. I have them. They're sitting in my office. Uh we're we just need some help getting them installed. Um currently because that server is getting overwhelmed every now and then it shuts itself down. We have an alert set up so we know that when it happens right away we can go and we can reset it. But any downtime before we physically reset it uh we don't have any data on those cameras. So you know that's a problem. So this would help us fix that. This would be in across all buildings including Camden and it would help increase uh security and visibility. The state made changes to the database that we use for special ed. Um we
044now it's now power school and so that's come with some problems but we've been working with Susan Evans of the consortium to get all data exports working the way that they need to. Uh we also recently looked at our uh workflow for how do we get the data from P school back into Skyward so that we can use it inhouse. So we've trained our I've trained our high school and middle school to on the proper way to do that data entry. I still need to schedule time to do that with the elementary teachers. State reporting Kobe did a lot of hard work on state reporting for this cycle, but the October cycle's completed and it was just submitted last Friday. the numbers are are generally pretty positive. It looks like we're not losing students at
045the rate that we were the last couple two years. So, and in fact, we were exactly flat with where we were from February. Uh, I added some storage to the Skyward server because it's been acting kind of funky lately and it's improved its stability. Apple school manager. Uh we used to we don't have a whole lot of Apple products around here, but there are still some old iPads and some people have Macs. Uh and the way that it used to be was they would put personal Apple accounts on those devices. So if they left the corporation, it was tied to their phone number and we had to factory reset it in order to recover that device. So, we're working on setting up Apple School Manager and getting it to integrate with the Google Admin Console
046that we already use to make it just easier to manage those devices. And that's all I've got. Sorry, I know it's a lot. >> All right. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Busy times in technology. Um, let's move forward to Dr. more with her superintendence report. >> Well, first I want to start by just acknowledging we've made it through the first nine weeks. I can't believe it. Nine weeks have already passed and I just want to thank our team. And by team I mean our teachers. I want to thank our administrators and our directors and of course the corporate office staff who support me day in day out and also the board. Thank you. Our families and our students. So, as you can see just with the information, we haven't even gone over
047everything tonight. There's a lot going on here at Deli and I feel a lot of positive things. Um, I feel like we're moving forward in a in a great direction, but I know I can't do this alone. And so, I just want to thank everyone and I appreciate you uh for all the hard work during these first nine weeks. Excited for uh the rest of our school year. So, thank you. And then I'm going to move into just talking about a few things. Um, assessment and data. Uh, we did have PSATs at the high school. Um, I learned checkpoints are going well. That's new uh for the state this year. Uh typically we probably remember spring assessments but now uh the state has moved to ongoing assessments where we get that feedback immediately um and
048can respond to our students. Also we are doing a great job at all levels I would say with uh data analysis making sure we're looking at strengths and areas for improvement um for all of our students and using that information to guide instruction safety and security. Um we are looking at refining the bullying report system and also looking into some new uh products such as say something anonymous reporting. Um so Mrs. Kirkwood and I are attending a meeting tomorrow, I believe, on that uh reporting system that will be sharing information with families also and also collaborating with Josh Long at the high school with our he's our school uh safety specialist and looking to upgrade our our panic button and looking to have something more uh user friendly and potentially an app that could be
049on our phone and um would be available to all staff um at any time to report any type of emergency. So, we're looking into options for that. Uh, continuing with um meeting with it's been great to meet with teachers across all levels. I've been in the buildings recently to discuss the changes for the teacher appreciation grant and appreciate that feedback from our staff which has also led to uh pursuing a formal mentoring program. That's something I'm working on right now. Um, and we'll be gathering input from administration. um but want to make sure that we're supporting teachers with that teacher appreciation grant. Also, strategic planning. Uh the survey was sent out, had great participation um not only from adults but students as well. Um and moving into the next phase of strategic planning, scheduling focus
050groups, having community listening sessions. I invite everyone to attend them. Also continuing to meet with our students with the student uh superintendent student advisory council. And our first meeting was fantastic. We have another meeting here at the end of the month. Facilities and capital projects. We're going to work on a master facility planned and also continue the development of some bond projects with again looking at, you know, safety, security, and just overall improving our facilities. And excited about this week, we have e-learning and we have conferences. So excited to welcome our families into our school buildings. We're excited to meet with you and talk about the great things happening with your kids. Um, and then of course you have a nice break, fall break, uh, the following week. And then we do have a wonderful
051event planned. Just want to make sure everyone's aware of that for Veterans Day, our program on November 11th where the community is invited. Um, so we're excited to welcome the community into our school building as well. And that will be held at the high school. And then, as Joe already acknowledged, our enrollment is fantastic. I'm very proud that, you know, people want to be here and I think they they see the great things happening here at Deli. So very proud superintendent. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Okay. Uh several reports there. Um moving forward to new business now. We've got quite a bit of new business here. So, uh let's go ahead and get started. Um I'd like to get a motion uh to discuss uh 9 A, B, and C. 9A being the resolution
052to open a bank account and appoint authorated sign authorized signers. Also 9B, additional appropriation resolution. This is for debt service. And then 9 C, the resolution to designate digital payment depository. So I'd like to get a motion to discuss 9 A through C. So move >> second to do it. >> All right, Dr. Moore. >> So the first item uh discusses authorizing several individuals for the bank account that would be holding the funds for the 2025 bond. um that would be myself, the treasur, and the administrative assistant. And then looking at B, this is in regard to the 2024 bond. Um and so this would be um additional appropriations um for a 2-year repayment. And then C, this is related to a PayPal account that would be utilized to deposit funds in and that is
053AB and C. >> Any questions or comments? >> Okay, hearing none. All in favor of 9 A, B, and C under new business as presented say I. I >> oppose. >> All right. Motion carries. Okay. Now, I'd like to get a motion to discuss 9D, which is uh to appoint technical review a technical review committee. This is for the 2025 2026 design build project preliminary timeline. Uh as well as 9E, which would be design criteria consultant agreement. I'd like to get a motion for 9D and E. >> So move. >> Second. Dr. Moore. >> So, this is a process that many school districts use um in order to uh work through the design build process. This is a twostep process for a school corporation to secure the services of a design builder. Um step one
054would be request for qualifications um with legal advertisements and then step two would be request for proposals and we would be my recommendation is that we are utilizing the Rollins group. >> Any questions or comments? >> You've worked with them before? >> I have. Yes. At a previous school district. Yes. >> Okay. >> I find them to be very responsive. um they do a great job and follow legal requirements that are needed to work through this process. >> Okay, great. >> Okay. All in favor of 9D and E as presented say I >> I opposed. >> All right. Motion carries. All right. 9F. I'd like to get a motion to discuss the sale of uh two international buses, bus number four and bus number 14 on the public surplus. So move >> second. >> Dr.
055Moore. >> Well, as part of our bus replacement plan, as we are purchasing new buses, we want to make sure that we are um you know, moving the inventory that now is is old and being replaced. And so that is what I um and also Mrs. Stiggers is asking for is to make sure that we are advertising these buses to be sold. >> Any questions? >> Do we know the years and miles on those buses? >> I do not. >> State requires you to get rid of them at a certain age or you have to pay or you have to inspect them a lot more oft. So do with our bus replacement plan that that we have advertised, these are the buses that are slated to be removed next. So I can't tell you the
056specific mileage, but we are following the recommendation from the state. >> Do we take cameras off the old buses and use them again? >> Not typically because they're outdated and we want to put in new equipment. And with the new buses that we purchase, they come installed with new cameras. Um so we want to utilize that updated um technology. Any other questions or comments? Okay. Uh, all in favor of new business F, the sale of the two international buses, bus number four and bus number 14, uh, on the public surplus, say I. >> I. Opposed. Okay. Motion carries. All right. Uh, new business 9G. I'd like to get a motion uh to discuss Ability Allies, uh, a spend of $17,940. Also 9H for Ker Media, which Paul Newsletter for $13,575. Um, I'd like to get
057a motion for 9G and H as presented. >> So move second, Dr. Mo. >> So item G, Ability Allies. Um, these are for services related to a matter related to special education that is confidential in nature. And with H Ker Media, this is the fall newsletter that was distributed to our local community and beyond. Um, sharing the great things happening here at Deli. >> Any questions or comments? Um just for the record, Tinder media that includes postage everything for those for that amount. >> That is absolutely correct. So production and for postage >> over 12,000 or so 12 plus. Is that right? >> I'm thinking of all the postal codes that I think that that could be close. Yes. I don't have the exact number on that, but we included not only our local community
058but beyond as well. >> 12,000 plus >> approximately. Yes. Yep. When we have another newsletter go out besides the fall newsletter. >> So my goal would be winter and spring three times a year. >> The winter edition I don't know that we will expand as far as we did here with the fall. Um probably more focused on our local community, but the spring then we would want to expand and that would be a great time that sometimes uh families are looking for a different choice. >> Anyone else? All right. Uh, all in favor of number nine, new business, uh, letters G and H as presented, say I. >> Opposed? All right. Motion carries. >> Okay. Uh, number nine, new business. We've got a couple tech things here I'd like to group together. Um I would
059like to get a motion to discuss uh letter I for skyward SMS to um cumulative migration. Uh also 9J the gym ref refresh for PA system 9K for PA patchwork and 9L for camera installation of 87 cameras. So move >> second Dr. more >> and I'm going to turn it over to Joe. >> Um, so I've kind of discussed some of this already. Skyward, uh, they have not released the Indiana end of life date, but it's coming soon. So, we've got to migrate. And, um, the migration services are the $8,52. And the annual, uh, computing services, that is for Skyward to host the data in the cloud. and they've told us that when we migrate to cumulative, we have to switch to that system rather than having it housed here. >> And Joe, would it
060be fair to say that we were we've been talking about this because we need to get on their calendar to secure the dates for this >> Yeah. >> migration. >> Yeah. It's already too late to do 2026. If we want to do 2027, we probably at their mercy for whatever dates that they have available. So 2028 gives us time not only to move our data um but then also to choose the date that we want to go live. >> How far back does the data migration go? >> Um I mean do we skyward? >> Do we keep the data for how many years back? >> Yeah, >> that's a good question. I don't know yet. >> Okay. >> I'm guessing you'll tell me once you start the actual like there's a whole team that walks
061you through all the steps and the migration, >> right? which is why it cost $8,000 because it's kind of a lot of work. >> So the computing services $3,000 for a three-year contract is that 3,000 total or 3,000 per year just 3,000 each year just for clarification. >> And Joe, in comparison to what we currently pay, what is that like? >> Uh well, we we don't Are you talking about the 3,000 per year, >> right? Well, we don't pay for that, but we pay for other costs like um having the actual server here and managing it here, which you know, it takes time because we got to do all the updates ourselves. >> Any questions? >> Excellent. um gym refresh. Uh the PA system like I talked about it's a lot of the cabling and
062speakers are original to the gym and there have been multiple projects. There's what three different generations of speakers in that joint right now. >> Yes. >> And everything has just been added on and like patched together over time. So this project would tear everything out and put all new stuff in. Um, and we have worked with Skype Scott Twel from uh, ABLA before. Like I said, he did the elementary gym. Um, and he did a good job. I talked with Jay who knows more about speeches than I do. Happy with the uh, the system there at the elementary school. So, uh, it was also the lowest bid. So, I thought that that to me seemed like a no-brainer. Will these be today's wireless speakers so they can be placed uh to provide more clarity of
063that? >> They're going to be wired. There's going to be an auxiliary cord so you can plug in. You can also do Bluetooth. So have both options. >> Did you already share with us the cost? Any other questions on that project? >> Okay. Uh the PA patchwork, like I said, there's some areas of the building, science wing, uh locker rooms, and the auxiliary gym that don't get any PA announcements at all right now. So, for a security, you know, reason, that's a problem. So, we want to get that done. and Scott Twole from Apple also came in with the lowest bid on that as well. Um, so he's somebody that we trust and so that was my recommendation for that one as well. >> Yeah. >> Uh, the camera installation project, um, Integrity is who
064we're recommending for that. They came in with lowest good and it's somebody that we work with right now. Uh they help us with networking stuff. I've got a pretty good relationship with Bill Tabler and Rich Barker. Um so I know that they're going to come in. They're going to do a good job with that. They're also the ones that help us manage their camera software like on the back end of the configuration. So if it's not done right, they're the ones that are going to have to deal with problems that that it brings. So I know that they're going to do it right. >> All right. Any other questions on uh JK or L? >> Mr. President, just for the record, would you state off the cost of each? >> Let's see. So, the uh
065the Skyward the migration is8 $8,52. That's for the installation and it's $3,000 per year with a three-year contract. Let me pull each one of these up here. the gym PA system. >> It's $20,130 for the equipment and $77,000 for the install. Does not include the lift that we would have to rent, which would be about $1,000. >> So, it's not 75,000 that's on here. >> No, those are all the benefits. >> That's all the different quotes. >> Just total cost of scope work. He he included all the all of the bids. >> So all of the bids are >> you have you have the line items from each >> when you when you have total cost of scope of work you think of what we're going with with the project not everything added together. >>
066Joe, can you be clear which company we're moving forward with or you're recommending that we move forward with please? >> Babish provides the equipment and ABLA provides the the install. >> Okay. So $28,13047 is the total for that PA refresh. >> Okay. >> But Kirk, you definitely pointed out how high some of these quotes are. >> Right. Right. That's one just for the public to understand brand. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So several there. That was the one thing I noticed about a lot of the quotes is none of them were real close to each other, which was kind of odd, but um why the state likes us to have three bids when it it's above a certain amount. >> The uh camera install um you're going with Integrity Network Solutions, which sound like sounds like
067they're the ones monitoring a lot of the things we have with that. Anyways, is that correct? Uh $8,917.50 50 cents uh to install um those 87 cameras and then that was it. >> Anything else? >> The PA patchwork. I'm sorry. >> Oh, did I skip that? >> Ava, I believe it was around 4,000. I don't remember the exact >> $299 Quinnland and Fabish with that one. >> Yes. >> Good job compiling all the quotes. >> Yeah, thanks for the work. >> Okay. Uh under new business, uh all in favor of 9 I, J, K, and L as presented say I. I opposed. Right. Motion carries. Moving forward, I'd like to get a motion. We've got a couple maintenance things here. I'd like to get a motion to discuss 9M uh from Benchmark the DC HSwing
068roof drain repair for $7,25944. 9 benchmark, that's DCHS boiler number one and number two repairs, $29,410. And then 900 which is for Lee Company DCSC indoor outdoor bleachers repair for $17,980. >> So move second. >> Okay. Um Oh, do you want you want P in there with that agreement? >> Yes. >> Okay. Sorry. And I'd like to also get a motion for P, which is the for elevated. That's the DCHS standard maintenance agreement and standard repair agreement um as presented. >> So move on amended >> second. Okay. Uh Dr. Mort, >> I'm going to turn over to Chris. >> So the roof drains we had the drains were leaking in classrooms and some good we have to have trash cans in there. Um the threads were corroded on the piping when they connect to the
069drain to the ceiling. So they had to redo that all the way back because they switched to the EC. And there's if you look at the invoice, there's it's already done, but there's a lot of hours. 63 hours. It took a lot of time. Maybe it'll rain and we'll get to testing. Okay. >> Did you have info on the boilers? >> Uh, it's exact same thing we did with boilers three and four. Um, they're already back together up and running. These two are to apart right now. So, we just need that approved so we can get them back together and get our 10 year life expectancy out of them. >> And what was the situation with the bleachers? So, the bleachers, most of them are just piggly things. Um, you know, tightening up some bolts
070and stuff from uh crossarss. Um, some skirt boards need replaced, some grease. The worst ones are the football. It needs four new end caps, one new walk plank, and couple wheels. Um, but the really bad one is the main gym at the high school. So, I believe they said there's parts are not available for those bleachers anymore. So, they need to tear apart a section to get parts from it and then rebuild that section. >> And this was based on an inspection report. >> Yes. And they're currently not in compliance with the way they are right now. Do you have a timeline for when they will fix them prior to being do they have to be fixed prior to this season? I guess >> no, this has to be done year during the year like
071this year with the inspection. Um I asked them a month ago if how if they could do or how far out they would be and they said like a month out. So >> we have to be working on like resolving the issue, >> right? Do they have a timeline on how long it takes? I am only asking because obviously we're coming into the season of utilizing the gym. >> I thought they said they could have everything done in a week. >> Okay. >> A lot of times they get out once they get out they can't move. We had that happen with them bleachers because they walk back and if you get out sink it won't do. I know that one year there was part we couldn't use for a while till they got repairs. That's
072probably that is I would assume. >> Okay. >> You think things last longer than 12 years? I think we did that when I first came on board. >> Yeah. >> Anyway, >> thank you. >> And then, uh, Chris, can you fill us in on the elevated agreements? So, that's for the inspections on our lists at the elementary school, high school, and maintenance agreement so that they can fix anything that's wrong with them. Um, I just brought them in last year because our lifts hadn't been inspected since 22. Luckily, I got them in. I literally got the inspection done two weeks before the state inspector came in and I had the report. So, >> So, is this just a one-year agreement? Is this multi-year? >> It's It's just an agreement for them to come once a
073yearly to do the inspections, >> but that cost yearly. >> Yes. >> So, it's a multi-year. >> Yes. Even though there's supposed to be end date on multi-year though maximum of so many years. >> So I know they're coming it's semiannual as well. >> Yeah. >> Um >> I thought that they did a thing where what could be more than so many years. It it can't be everlasting is what I'm saying. And I I was just trying to see if it there was an end date on it and I didn't see it, but that don't be anything. >> My wife will tell you that. >> Yeah, we do have to provide them with notice if we want to get out of this agreement. >> Yeah. >> As long as parties want to engage in it
074is what the >> 110 a month and we designate. Okay. That might be what we really need to make sure we do. Okay. So, sounds like on that one, we just have to make sure that we notify if we're want to get out of that. >> Any other questions for Chris? All right. Thanks, Chris. All right. Um, now hearing all the information from uh 9 M N O N and P. All in favor of new business MN O and P as presented say I >> oppose. >> All right, motion carries. All right. Uh next uh here for discussion is uh I'd like to get a motion to discuss 9Q. This is the locker room renovation as well as 9R the deli hitting facility. >> So moved. >> Second chip. >> You're welcome. >> Um I'll
075start off obviously within the order we're in. So, the locker renovation, we've been working on this for a little bit. Um, I kind of reached out to my professional network. I got ended up with five recommendations for people to work with for different reasons. Um, one of them elected to not bid at all. Didn't even come on site. They're more of a custom fit. Um, so the smaller scale we were doing really wasn't in their business model. Um, another one does specifically football lockers that are more open air, so for more of a multi-use room. They elected, they actually came on site and looked at it and decided it was really like that you're not going to be as happy with ours as you would others. So, they elected to not bid. The three bids
076we did get. One is a factory direct price, no installation, no demo. So, there's a lot of work um and a lot of expertise that then we either got a subcontract out or do ourselves. Um they were the lowest price, but again, there's a lot of issues that are going to come up with coming up as a factory direct locker. Um, the two we the two we have that I feel like fit everything we need um were from Lee Company at Bradford. Um, the the Bradford guy actually used to work for Lee Company doing the exact same thing. So, they're they're identical bids pretty much. Um, we're getting more locker space um in the Varsity Boys area that really needs replaced badly. It's adding a lot of supervision aspects because we're going to be able
077to drop the site length down so you can actually see to the back of the locker room from the front. Um there are u we're increasing capacity. So we'll go from 218 on the boy or 134 on the boy side to 218. Um and then the girl side is a wash. It's 116 to 110. Um so we're keeping our we're keeping our capacity on the girl side increasing on the boy side and that's mainly because of the different styling. We're going from a really tall football style locker that you can't see to the back of the locker room in and we're dropping those down to double stacked so that you can see past them. Um so that's where the capacity increased. Um pricing wise again Bradford came in at 112410. Um they do have some
078features as well that we didn't put didn't include. Um uh so it does I think it's going to help with some of the irrating football pads and things like that that that at this time of year are a problem. Um and so they end up being about $43,000 cheaper than the lead. Um his lead time right now is he said about 9 to 12 weeks. So we'd be looking at Christmas break or a little after install demo time. So that's that's my recommendation for that one. Um then the second item, the hidden facility. This is a topic that has came up feel like every year since I've been here. Um so we've had regularly um travel teams, club teams, wreck teams asking to come in and use our facilities. And obviously we have policies that
079say, "Yeah, we we love people from our community using our facilities. We want to be able to support our wreck teams. We want to be able to support um the youth stuff that we try to do." Uh but then we have this other piece that now is growing which is the travel industry where a lot of these teams are looking for space they're wanting to pay for it and we've always kind of turned them away because they're not our kids. Um if they weren't all of our kids then we would we wouldn't take them. Um and they keep saying hey we'll pay we'll pay we'll pay we'll pay. Um and so baseball program and softball program we started talking about it and they're like you know there's a good chunk of money here that really
080can help us maintain these spaces. It's a piece of revenue that we haven't explored before, maybe it's worth talking about. And so we've went through and um Coach Long did a bunch of research for me. We went through and we've worked through several pieces of this. Um we've talked with Dr. Moore several times. We went through all the neol policies that that that apply to this. We've talked to the attorney. Um and we've kind of Frankenstein some things that we like from some of the agencies or some of the other organizations around us that are already doing this. Um, and I think it's a chance to kind of pilot something that one, we're going to get kids in this, we're going to get kids in our facilities that are not our kids. Um, they're going
081to be here with their friends of kids that are our kids. Um, they're going to see, hey, they got some pretty cool stuff there. Um, so it is a recruiting tool. And then two, um, it is a great way for us to get some of that revenue where when a pitching machine goes out, we have money set aside that these teams that have been putting it in, um, have got it set up. So that's the the kind of the policy. Some of the things that we have on there. Um our current plan is to set a sub account within the athletics account that these rental fees would go into. So they'd be set aside for when we need to change out a batting cage or things like that. If we get to a decent chunk
082of money and we can go do a big project at one of the baseball or softball facilities, it go straight to those two programs. Um we got to have somebody on site that's one of ours. So, one of our board group coaches or one of our staff members um would have to be here with somebody who's not us. Obviously, if it's one of our coaches that's doing it with their travel team, that's different. They'd be fine. But, um if it's somebody else, we would need them. Um and then I know there was a um a question about keypad situations. We put a thing on here about this was this was us working through the problems. How do we So, say a coach wants to come in 10 minutes early. they're the first one that's scheduled
083to be there on a Sunday and just get set up. How do we get them in the building if our person is not here yet so that they can just get set up? Um, and our thought was to do something like a uh like an openhouse lock like a realer would use that we can change the code ourselves when no one's running it. We just take it and there's nothing out there. But for those times where we have, hey, I want to come in at, you know, I'm practicing on the first one at 9:00. I want to come in at 8:45 and set up. Okay, we can set that out there and that our person is here at night. So, that's kind of the rundown of that. >> One thing I'd like and I've been
084actually kind of harping on this anyway, there's no cameras out there and we need to get camera security out there now. If we're going to have other people even coming in, there really should in today's world. There should be cameras and there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to get them out there. which would go into the point of either your swipe cards that you right the same thing right that's what we're talking about >> and so I think that's one thing we really need to make sure that we have not only outside but inside cameras um in that facility we do on everything else and that we really should have there but I applaud you for looking at how to generate revenue >> we can consult public tech on that. >> You can
085do it. >> Okay. >> We can do maybe some old quite the issue access to that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Right now there is resol take off the church lot. Take one that one building right next to it. it would work out agree. >> Okay. Any other questions for the locker room renovation or the hitting facility usage? >> Just one question. Is that renovation include showers at all or is that just lockers? >> No. Um that is so that'll take out that'll that'll demo all of girls PE, all those blue ones, the really old ones. Yeah. >> Those will all be demoed and gone. Um the original islands that are there will then be repurposed. They'll be I forget how tall they are. I can look at the quote. Um I want to say they're five
086foot tall. >> Sure. >> Um four foot. So they'll be four foot on those islands. So it'll end up being about five foot tall. They're double stacked. So you'll have a two foot tall locker double stacked on those. And then the when you walk in the right side, the side that the bathroom's on. That row of lockers will be demoed out and then replaced with double stacked two foot tallers. Um and then on the boy side when you walk in the hallway that goes back to the showers, those will all be ripped out and replaced with double stacks. And then all of the um the old football lockers will go from 90 I think it's four to 72 um six five foot tallers that are wider and then we'll have three is it six feet
087two 3 feet or six feet of the double stack where you can see in the back on each peninsula. Does that mean in the football side that the equipment will no longer fit in those lockers? >> No, they would. In fact, it will. >> Yeah. And what it'll do, so it'll change the it's it's the new style is you have each one of those will have a foot locker that's it's basically two by two x two um that locks. Then above you'll have open space that you can put wherever you want and you'll have another space that's lockable. And then the top will have a pad rack. So those will not be scattered all over the place. You'll actually have a place to put one. So, all of our equipment will have a place that
088it can be placed. >> Yeah. And then they'll have two spaces to lock their own stuff. >> I think it said in there you're redoing stalls as well. Is that >> Yes. The boys bathroom stalls are they were well past needing redone. Um so those and then all the benches in both locker rooms would be replaced. >> Thanks. >> We'd have new wood benches in all those. It's exciting. >> Are those varsity lockers original? >> I don't think so. I think there's probably I think that's probably the second version. I would knowing where they were. I think they were manufactured in like the 80s or 90s. >> I would bet it was round two. >> They were there when I played that. >> That was a long time ago. on yourself. >> Anything else for
089Chip? >> All right. Thanks. >> All right. All in favor of lost my place here. New business Q and R as presented say I. >> I. I. >> Opposed. All right. Question carries. All right. New business 9s. So, I'd like to get a motion to discuss theou between the DCHS and IvyTech for high school based dual credit for the 2025 2026 school year. >> Second, Dr. Moore. >> This is our annual agreement with them to provide, you know, opportunities for our students to earn dual credit um for various courses. >> You have a great relationship with them. Any questions, comments? Same. Same. >> Okay. All in favor of 9S, theou between DCHS and IvyTech for high school-based dual credit classes for the 2025 2026 school year, say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> All right.
090Motion carries. Okay. Um, got a couple here. 9 T. I'd like to get a motion to discuss the DCMS instruction of human sexuality. 9U the Smeakans Education Solutions for $11,934. And 9V, the Indiana Testing, this is Drug and Alcohol Student Testing Services Agreement. So >> second, >> Dr. Mark. So the first item T, the instruction on human sexuality is in response to legislation that was passed and all schools were asked through Senate Enrolled Act 442 to update um some requirements uh on instruction of human sexuality um and sexually transmitted infections. And so we're following the requirements that the state has put in place and updated our instruction which is now being asked to be approved by all school boards at every school district and also posted on our district websites. So I'm asking for your
091approval and for us to post this instruction any questions on that? Okay. for the Smeckkins Education Solutions. This would be um professional development on writing instruction for our elementary staff and this would be paid through a grant. This is something I've worked with Mr. Hawk on to address needs that he's identified at the elementary level. Any questions on that? Okay, next is an agreement for drug and alcohol student testing. This is we already have a policy in place for student drug testing. We also have families that consent to this as part of the registration process. Um and as part of our current policy in place, um it outlines the specifics of which students and the frequency. Um the plan would be is to utilize this company. Um they um assist with the randomness. Um and
092also um I should share that our role as school employees would be to be there to supervise during the testing not to administer the testing. So this is an agreement to work with an outside company. I know that other school districts have have used this company um and have found it to be um a a good partnership. And this would be for students uh specifically who are engaging with extracurricular um co-curricular athletics. Um those would be the students who would be subject to the testing. >> Will driving students also be in their even though they may not be in ECA stuff? >> That is part of our policy. That's a good question. >> And so my goal would be I know that this would be something that our families would want to be aware of.
093So I would um put out um some communication to our school community to ensure that they're aware that this would begin my plan would be second semester. >> And this is something Mr. Long and I have spoken about um and and we have looked into together um to ensure that you know we feel that this is going to be consistent and fair for our our students. >> So it's the the ITI to come on-site fee schedule. That is correct. They're going to administer it and do all that. >> That's correct. >> And it's just high school. >> So, um, according to our policy, um, we have students in grade 6 through 12. >> We don't really know exactly what the cost will be because of the randomness, right? Do we have a total cost budgeted
094for this to be able to do this on an annual basis? >> We do have funds that are available. Um it's you know it's it's hard to predict. We this is something that hasn't been really fully implemented right um for quite some time. Um so I think that's something that we'll have to monitor closely and I'm happy to provide reports to you as well once we get this rolling in the second semester. >> Thank you. >> That's a good question. So do you do they do do they recommend so many students per month per quarter? >> So our our policy states on and off throughout the school year. So there isn't a set time but however the company does you know advise once we enter into that agreement then we will sit down and finalize
095those details of the frequency >> right Stephanie when we used to have that one come on off start years ago back in carous time frame >> that uh it was about a third or 25 I forget how that was maybe it's quarters 25% they thought that they would throw into that of our student population they figured there would be about 10% of our students that would never do that because they don't drive. They don't participate in ECTA or ECA stuff. So >> yeah, >> but that was a high and that did not include high at that time. >> And this does mirror even what our neighboring school district Carol does. So this is nothing that's unique to Deline. >> Glad to come back. >> It's not the catch. >> I agree. >> It's a deterrent.
096Mhm. >> Well, I think the other benefit is is they do the random search. We do not. So, it takes away the the fingerpointing of someone being pinpointed because they don't know who these kids are. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All in favor of 9T DCMS instruction on human sexuality, 9U Smeckkins Education Solutions for $11,934. And 9V the Indiana Testing for Drug and Alcohol Student Testing Services Agreement. Say I >> opposed. >> All right. Motion carries. All right. 9W. I would like to get a motion to discuss the performance evaluation system for director personnel. >> Second. >> Dr. >> um we feel very strongly that every employee um should receive an evaluation for each school year. And so what you will see here is evaluations that are for our directors who do not have specific evaluations
097related to their area. So that's what I'm asking you to approve. Any questions or comments? Okay. All in favor of 9W, the performance evaluation system for director personnel, say I. >> I. >> Opposed. All right. Motion carries. Uh 9X. I'd like to get a motion to discuss uh or to amend all Nola anti-harassment policies naming Dr. Moore, superintendent, as compliance officer uh and title N coordinator. >> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Moore. our current policies. Um, some do state individuals who are no longer employed here. Um, and through the recommendation of our legal counsel, this is the recommendation. >> Any questions? Is that your recommendation? >> Happy to do it. >> Thank you. >> All right. All in favor of number nine, new business, letter X, to amend all the old anti-harassment policies, naming
098Dr. Dr. Pamela Moore, superintendent as compliance officer and title N coordinator. Say I >> I >> opposed. All right, motion carries. All right, we're going to try to round out um almost round out new business. I'd like to get a motion to discuss uh 9 Y the high building handbook 9 Z uh the strategic and continuous improvement plans for the DCES DCMS and DCHS as well as 9A the classified handbook for October 2025. >> So move second tomorrow. So, first the high ability handbook. This is a document that we have available on our website for families, staff, and students to review. Um that discusses the different levels that we have in our high ability program that's in place. Um I work closely with Mr. Hawk on this. He is uh the per the administrator who
099oversees high ability. So, we have worked together to update it. Next for our school improvement plans, each school improvement plan was uh developed or updated by um principles who took the lead on that uh collaborating with other staff uh within their buildings. Uh this is something I've met with each of them about. Um and this uh plan asking for your approval for each of our school buildings. Um and DCES does include Camden as well. And then for the classified handbook, um, this handbook, um, I worked closely with Michelle on, uh, to review, um, and, uh, is updated to reflect this school year. >> Any questions or comments? >> All right. All in favor of 9Y, the high ability handbook, 9Z, strategic and continuous improvement plans for DCES, DCMS, and DCHS, as well as 9A, the
100classified handbook for October 2025. Say I >> I >> opposed. Okay, motion carries. All right. 9B. I'd like to get a motion. uh to discuss the first reading of Neiola policies and we have several here. Um Dr. Moore will go through these once we get a motion. This is the first reading. Um this is just to hear about them. >> Second, >> Dr. Moore, >> just want to make sure that the public is aware that each policy that I'm going through, the board has access to all of the revisions um that are proposed. We do work with Miola a company um to assist us with updating our policies. So I will be giving a summary of each one as you review the changes that are being um asked for your approval. So policy 5540.01 investigations
101by DCS clarify staff responsibilities when DCS initiates an investigation on school grounds. It ensures full cooperation while protecting student rights. Policy 5540.02, schools and governmental agencies, establishes procedures for communication and coordination between the district and outside government agencies. Policy 7430, safety updates workplace and student safety procedures to align with current OSHA and state safety guidelines. Policy 8405, environmental health and safety. Expands expectations for air quality and vehicle idling to promote a healthy environment. Policy 8451, parasitic infestation. This is with headlights. Um, it just gives me language to reflect the current health guidance and reduce student exclusion time. Policy 8400, school safety. This is a technical revision. Clarifies documentation and reporting requirements under Indiana school safety law. Those were all related to student welfare and safety. Any questions on those? Again, I know you've had them
102for a while and you've had a chance to review them. So, personnel, volunteers, and background checks. I tried to group them together by um by topic. So, first is policy 8120 volunteers. It's revise clarify screening, supervision, and orientation procedures for volunteers. Policy 8121, personal background check. um requirements for contractors who potentially could work with students. Any questions about personnel, volunteers, background checks, policies? Next is student conduct, discipline, and privacy. Policy 5517, anti-harassment, and policy 551701, bullying aligns definitions and reporting with current Indiana code. Policy 56005611, discipline and due process, streamlines the policies for suspension, expulsion, and due process protections, including those for students with disabilities. Policy 5571, excuse me, 5771, search and seizure, updates procedures to reflect recent legal standards. Policy 8330, student records, aligns data privacy and parental rights with Furpa and state recordkeeping
103standards. Policy 2416, student privacy and parental access. Expands requirements for parental review of instructional materials. And policy 2461, recording of IEP case conferences, clarifies procedures for audio, video recording during special education meetings. Any questions about student conduct, discipline, or privacy policies? Curriculum and instruction policy 2221 mandatory curriculum just updates required state courses and content areas. Policy 2410 audio video recordings of meetings rules for recording educational or board meetings. Policy 2414 reproductive health and family planning aligns health instruction with new parental consent and apt out requirements. Policy 2623, student assessment, reflects changes in state testing and local assessment options. Policy 5200, attendance, updates attendance definitions to comply with the July 2025 rule changes. Policy 5223, release time for religious instruction. Clarifies documentation and supervision of release time programs. Any questions about curriculum and instruction policies? Finance
104and Operations Policy 6111, Internal Controls, reinforces our procedures for financial accountability and fraud prevention. Policy 6116, time and effort reporting. Updates documentation for federally funded positions. Policy 6151, bad checks and uncollectible debt. It clarifies how uncollectible accounts are written off. Policy 7300 and policy 7310 property disposition defines procedures for selling or disposing of real and surplus property. Policy 7455 accounting system for capital assets aligns with current accounting standards. Policy 6230 budget hearing ensures compliance with state budget presentation requirements. Any questions about policies for finance and operations, facilities, food service and transportation? Policy 8500 foods food service program and policy 8510 wellness updates nutritional standards and wellness goals. Policy 8540 vending machines. This is rescended eliminated due to overlap with food service and wellness policies. Policy 8640, transportation for field trips, replaced by updated administrative guidelines.
105That was rescended. Any questions about facilities, food service, and transportation, visitors and community relations policy 9150, school visitors clarifies visitor identification, check-in, and supervision procedures. Policy 9160, public attendance at school events, updates expectations for conduct at school events. Any questions about visitors and community relations, employment and compensation policy 3220.02, supplemental payments for teachers, reflects updates related to differentiated pay and new state guidance on stipens and some other I would call them miscellaneous policies. 7440.01 electronic monitoring and recording stands the parameters for security cameras and electronic monitoring to ensure transparency and privacy compliance. and policy 5540.01 and policy 5540.02 establishes two entirely policies focused on inter agency cooperation and DCS investigations. Any questions on those policies and that would be all the policies. Thank you. Come back for the second. >> Okay. Um so once again
106no vote on BB. Um just basically the first reading of these updated the old policies. >> Yes. >> No. Go ahead. >> Um basically these are either just revised some of them re resended. Um so standard protocol that we got through. >> Did you have anything else on >> Well, that is true. Um, >> so there's a new it's a new state we approved in our last set of policies that we could do a first reading and approval of Neola policies with technical corrections. So I I would ask that you would approve policy 6230, policy 7310, policy 8400, and policy 5611 so I don't have to read them next month. >> So we can we'll make a we can make a second motion for that. Uh I did not see CC there. Um, so I'd
107like to get a motion to approve uh first reading and approval of the Neo Neola policies with the technical corrections under CC including policy 6230, 7310, 8400 and 5611 as we have presented already. >> So move second. >> All in favor of 9C as presented? >> I I >> opposed. All right. Well, thank you for catching that. That one blended right in with the little line of everything there. So, all right. Um, okay. Moving forward. Um, Dr. Moore, we have a donation. Thank you. >> Yes. And first just want to, you know, acknowledge John Richtor. He's a bus driver for 38 years and passed. and you know that just so sad for our community but what a wonderful man. I you know I didn't know him but I heard so many wonderful things about him
108and as part of you know his memorial he his family asked to have uh coats um you know donated uh to to benefit children and those coats were donated to Camden um and you know our elementary school. So just so wonderful um what a wonderful way um you know to um give tribute to a man who gave 38 years you know to us here at Deli. So thank you. >> Okay. Uh definite big thank you for that. Um all right. Uh future dates. Uh we have a couple here. Um fall break right around the corner. uh starts this weekend, October 20th through the 24th. Uh so hopefully everybody that anybody that is leaving town uh stays safe. Um also November 10th, that is a regular board meeting here in the uh DCMS Abby and Libby
109Memorial Library at 6:30 p.m. Uh we do have two other dates that aren't on here as several people know um or may know. Um we've been working with negotiations with the teachers union to work on a uh contract. Uh we do have two meetings coming up as our public meetings. Uh on October 27th, one is to discuss the tenative agreement and November 3rd would be accepting the ratification of that. So those are two public dates that um that aren't on this agenda, but they are out there. So you should see those advertised. Uh okay. Um, board comments. Um, I'll start with Stephanie. >> All right. >> That's my K move. You know that, right? >> Yeah. Like to go first. All the unique ideas start with me. Um, well, I I just would say uh,
110you know, good luck to the athletic teams going into sectionals, I think, in in probably two weeks. I know those brackets came out for a lot of the teams. So, good luck to them. safe travels for fall break for those heading out of town. Uh I still think my favorite part of it the A group comes and tells us about their uh their success. So congratulations again. It's really been uh I know I've learned a lot I will say about what you all do and I think it's inspiring. I love that we've been able to focus on it from a social media perspective. I think it showcases something different. I know I have a child in my own home who thinks she is going to get into act judging now and thinks she should add
111that to her schedule. Um, so I just think it's really great and I appreciate you guys coming back to meetings and and sticking it out this time that we could tell you uh again how proud we are. So I think that's great. Um, and then also I guess the end in the donations, what a great tribute. I think it's special that somebody stuck around here for 38 years. I think we see more and more of that here. Uh, and I'm excited that we can call it out uh, for these meetings and see how people are giving back. So, thank you. And thank you, Miss Miller, for bringing your class in, too. I think those are good to hear about. They're the highlights of the meeting for me, >> Mr. Smith. >> Uh, I also want
112to congratulate the FFA and really you guys made Deli proud. Thank you for your hard work, the dedication that went into that. It's obvious you guys spent hours and hours preparing and and getting ready for that event. And for the coaches and the folks that stepped in and really helped prepare them along the way. It's it's big, but it's really neat to see Deli again on that stage. Um so thank you for your dedication. Um I also want to recognize John Recctor and his family. You John was a tremendous guy. Uh so it doesn't surprise me really that he did something for the schools as part of his memorial. But, um, that's that's really a neat thing and we appreciate them. Um, nine weeks down, so far so good. It's been a great school year
113thus far. Hate to say that out loud. Um, but really some really great stuff going on, it's really encouraging from the community perspective to hear the good things going on in the school corporation. And again, as much as it pains me to suggest that we've had nothing but compliments, I have had nothing but compliments this year. And and that's unique. Uh but it's a testimony to uh really the dedic dedication of our staff, uh our teachers, our administrators, the support people, um our new superintendent, um you know, and so I just want to say thank you for that and congratulations on really getting off to a great start and I'm really excited to see where the rest of the school year takes us. >> All right, Mr. the sports cup. >> Again, I I got
114to mention about uh John and his legacy and what he's did and you know Stephanie, you're right, you know, with the coach and stuff that everything's passed and what what he they just continue to give right and so uh we we thank the Ritter family for their years of service and their loss. um the other uh donations that we've gotten to in the past and stuff and I know we've got support for the the uh livestock team. I just again want to thank those people on that. Probably the most thing I want to say about the the livestock judging team. Thank you. I'll take these anytime. I just want to uh the staff uh the month, the students of the month. Uh it is always great to see that. I thank you for pushing that
115on through and our admin on doing it. It is great to be able to to recognize those those staff whether they're teacher, whether custodian, they all need to be recognized. Some of the bus drivers, you're our first class and our last class of the day. And so they they do that way. Uh Mrs. Miller, thank you again for uh the class and everything and what they do and how they're doing that. Um I think it's one thing to be able to build pride internally going outward and are just things that we need and um this is Dr. Thank you very much for taking a a shot at us >> and that um to be able to like Gil said um there's always going to be a little chat there. There's no doubt about that. But
116just the the positivity of of everything, the complaints from other school corporations, I love it. I don't care. It's live, but I'll take it. you can come back and say, but uh it is though that we are doing great things um you know for all students. That's the thing for all students. So I'm going to leave it with that. Mike, I know you got a few things. >> Yeah. Right. I want to get back to the FFA winning national going into national if it was a sports team that's on par winning a state championship. >> They have a sign for you as you're coming in and out of Del. So I think you're worthy to sign or something like that at least a board for a while. I'd like to congratulate again all the students
117and staff that we recognize tonight. Students of the month and see our faculty recognized that we think they aren't recognized enough sometimes for all the work. Hidden underneath our consent items was uh a change or revised improvement per job description for our office help across the way and you're just much appreciated. You know everything you do across the way over there. I think you're not everyone knows they know what goes on over here at the schools a lot. They just don't know what you do over there in the administrative office. So good job ladies. You know, it's welld deserved. >> Joe, I appreciate the technology report tonight. I know you you made it look easy, but you had some time invested in that. That's what you do good. So, we're glad to have you. Thank
118you very much. So, I was happy to see our ADM numbers stay stay steady. That's that's really good for us. We can improve on that. Well, you know, thanks Dr. more for all the summary on the older report so we don't have to get down into the minutia. That's really enjoy. Yeah. And I hope everyone has an enjoyable fall break. >> All right, Mr. Stresser. All right. Uh, as usual, I will echo my board members comments and but also, you know, acknowledge the FFA judging team and and all the people that assisted with it as well. So, it shines a bright light on our school. I appreciate that. Um, I'd also like to acknowledge that we spent a lot of money tonight. Okay. Um, but we did it in a way that we're improving a
119lot of our facilities and some of it's much needed. So, I appreciate Dr. Moore, you and your staff and all that's going on to do those improvements. That's it for me. >> All right. Uh, Kenzie Brown, you get you do get an option here to give your comments tonight. Uh, so this is your chance. >> Um, thank you for having me. It was a really cool experience. I've never been to one of these, so it's really interesting to see, I think, actually what goes on really behind the scenes and what you guys talk about. Um, and yeah, I'll probably come to another one. 10 out of 10. Good job, you guys. >> Do you do you feel you got thrown under the bus on Neola policy night? Um, so I will say that I did
120not exactly catch all of that. Um, I figured some of that was a little out of my depth. So not really above my pay grade. So, but you sounded very confident and I appreciate that you you very well spoken. So, >> okay. >> All right. Uh, I'll I can round out the comments here. Uh, one other thing we did kind of I don't want to say hid under consent items, but we have two retirements. Uh, Brian and Amy Ton. >> Uh, Brian 20 years, Amy 28 in English and seven in the library. So, um, those are I mean, and as long as they've been around, I didn't have them. So, I kind of feel like I missed out for somebody that's, you know, been here that long. Um, so personally don't know a lot about
121him, but I did meet Amy a couple years ago at one of the u like a like a hiring event and she was she was great to work with. So um big thank you to um those type of people that when they do they do leave they left a lasting impression here. Um, also just congratulations to all those kids, teachers, everyone that is getting recognized. Even the ones we didn't maybe talk about tonight, whether you know was cross country runner that won, you know, a race or things like that, those we hear about those all the time and it doesn't get old recognizing them. So, we need to at least know that there's kids out there that aren't being talked about, but they are. Uh, so just keep just know that. Um obviously once again
122fall break pretty excited about that. I hope everybody's got some kind of plans. Um and then uh I just need one more motion and that is for adjournment. >> So move >> second. >> All in favor? >> I All right. Meeting >> for being here. Of course. Fun experience. Yeah.