001I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Heavenly Father, we're we come to do uh the school's business. Dear Lord, we just ask that you would help us guide us to make the right decisions. We give you all the praise and glory and thanks Lord for a very successful school year, a safe school year. Lord, we just ask that uh we come back next year that uh you'll watch over us again. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. All right, call the meeting to order at 6:31 p.m. Okay, we're going to start this off with two uh special presentations. The first one um the board created an award a few years back. We
002do not give it every year. This is this one's saved up for it's somebody really special. Um we laughed when we did this the first time. It it it's not, you know, BJ Yoho really was one of the first people to really as a student really um take his service to the community a step further and really go above and beyond um and help the people of the community. Um because unlike a lot of schools are based around a town. Um you know our we feel our school is the hub of our community and so we really want to show our appreciation to students who really take it above and beyond and work hard not just for the school but for the community as well. So, uh, we created a an award in BJ Yoho's
003name. Not not in memory. He's still getting some people like, "What? You didn't hear it." Now, I'm like, "No, no, no, no. It's not in memory of BJ. It's just Oh, yeah. No, I'm just clarifying that in case somebody watching didn't." Um, so anyway, um, I got word, like I said, we don't do this every year because it takes a special person, um, to kind of, um, live up to this award. Um, I got word this year that they thought that there is somebody in our community who really, um, went above and beyond for um, the school and the community. And, um, so we're going to present the award this year. BJ, would you like to come up and eat? See, here's proof to everybody online. I think you're looking for honor. We had a
004little Sorry, we had the the date's a little weird because we had a mix up last last meeting that got clarified. So, I've been here twice now. It's worth two trips, though, right? worth it. You're lucky I know where you guys are. Well, thank you for having me. Uh it's an honor to be here. Um this this award goes to a young man who has done a lot of great work in our community, not just in school, but out of school as well. Uh he's worked hard with his food drive to help those in need get get a meal that they might not get anywhere anywhere else. And me being at Riley Hospital, I've seen that through a lot. And so it means a lot to me and I know it means a lot to
005the people who who need this extra help. So Hayden Inman, can you come up? I present to you the community service award. [Applause] Great job. Thank you BJ for coming back. Thank you BJ. Go for it. Uh, next we would like to recognize Miss Lori Van Deender on her retirement. Um, if you want to I know you probably don't want to, but uh, Lori's here with us. So, we just want to recognize her. Yeah, we won't force her. Um, 26 years of service to Eastern Green and the students. Uh, always the consmate professional. Professional. Just did the job the right way. uh was an outstanding teacher leader. Um I can speak to that. She was one of the teachers that I would turn to often when I was the building principal over there. If I
006had an idea or if I wanted to, you know, just try something new. It was always um I knew I would get an honest answer, uh but a thoughtful answer. And I don't and and uh with somebody I trusted and and enjoyed working with. Um she's taught andor assisted teaching thousands of EG students how to write and write well. Um uh so we we can't thank her enough for uh the time that she gave to our school and our students. Um we wish her the best in retirement and uh some some new grandb babies to enjoy as well. So Lori, thank you for all you've done for EG and our students and uh we congratulate you on your retirement and thank you [Applause] as uh they've done in the past you know we will you
007will get a photo at the high school there already up okay and uh we also something they started recently uh we have rocking chairs that we present to each of them and that is outside in the hall and um you you can take that with you when when you leave today. So, thank you for all you did. We appreciate it. [Applause] We're going to need two rocking chairs. They've got two. So, you're good. Get some babies to rock. And you got those twins so you can sit on the front porch. And there you go. You don't even have to fight over the baby. We do. We do a lot of holding babies and sitting and looking at each other. Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful. Okay. Um, now on to the good stuff. It is recommended that the
008agenda for the June 9th, 2025 meeting be approved as presented with additions, corrections, or deletions as recommended by the board. And we are deleting 695383. Have a good evening. I don't Do we have anybody here for participation? I don't think we do. And the the deletion of the Neola just we have several new policies and I've not had a chance to go through every single one of them at this point. Um just with some added work trying to fill some positions. I just kind of got through them all. Okay. We will have that in July. All right. First read. Do I have a motion for that? Dennis second. All those four 7. Okay. It's recommended that the minutes from the May 12th, 2025 meeting be approved as presented. I have a motion and a second
009chair. All those four 70. Okay. Is recommended that the claims number 20 246 through 20371 371 be approved as presented. Do we have any comments on the claims? Okay. Do I have a motion? All those four or sorry second. All those four 70. Okay. Now do I need to start this? Yeah. Okay. Okay. The next item on the agenda is the board to hold an additional appropriation hearing on the proposed bond proceeds. Go on to the next thing. Okay. Do I have a motion and second to adopt to hold an additional appropriation hearing for the general obligation bond of 2025? Do I have a motion? Dennis second. Sharon all those four 70. discussion. Uh just that is the we we discussed this in the last board meeting. We talked about the bond um and how
010those uh proceeds would be used to assist in the expansion of our early learning center and remodel some of our existing building. At this time, there will be an opportunity for the public to make comments about the additional appropriations of the bond proceeds. The notice of this additional appropriation hearing was published as legally required. We will now open the public hearing. We ask that you state your name, your address, limit your comments to the proposed additional approp appropriation of the bond proceeds. Keep any comments to three minutes and avoid being repetitive if possible. Is anyone interested in speaking? Great. Thank you all for participating in the hearing. We will now close the hearing and reopen the regular meeting. Um, could I have a motion second to adopt the additional appropriation resolution for the general obligation
011bond project of 2025? Do I have a motion, Natalie? Have a second. Kim, all those four um 70 and we legally have to do that add to our appropriations because in our budget proposed budget we did not have that appropriate. We can add to that but that's what the reason for that is. Okay. Now could I have a motion and second to adopt the final bond resolution of the general obligation bond of 2025? Do I have a motion Dennis? Second Kim all those four 70 and a lot of that are legal steps we have to take for legal counsel with any bond issuance. Yep. Go for it. All right. All right, we'll move on with the rest of our agenda here. Um, I seek a motion to approve a one-year renewal of the food service
012contract with Chartwells. Um, I I can I believe Chartwells does a great job for us. Um, I've been at a couple other schools and the amount of food that our students get is second to none and the choices they get at all levels. Uh, they're good for us to work with. They they work as a team. So, I would encourage Are they the ones doing the summer? They are. Yeah, they're doing the summer meal program as well. Okay, any discussion? I too agree that they do a good job for us. I have a motion. Sharon, second, Dennis. All those four. Okay. Um, next I have a request for the 2026 prom venue. Um, I seek a motion to approve the venue for the 2026 prom to be held at the historic Indiana Limestone building in
013Bedford, Indiana. Uh, the prom will be on April 25th, 2026. And the cost to rent that venue is $3,000. And now the kids raise that money, correct? They do. Yes. And do do you recall what the venue cost this past year? Just out of curiosity. I think it was a little bit more than that. Like $5,000. Oh, wow. Okay. I'll make that motion. Yeah, I'll make that motion. I'll make the motion. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Kim, Mike, all those four now. Will they have someone like limestone carving? I don't know. I don't know. Um, next, uh, I seek a motion to approve, uh, high school principal Eric Kirkindall to attend the IPLI, which stands for the Indiana, excuse me, principal leadership institute. It's a two-year professional development training. Um, I can speak to this. I actually
014went through that as a principal here at Eastern Green Schools and, uh, was very beneficial. You spend approximately the first year is selfreflection. Is it still set up that way? And year two is professional development and cultural growth for your staff. Uh you and your staff and I believe it used to be a staff member would partner up with you. Um the uh just a small cost to the school and then a little bit of the time that uh Mr. Kirkindle would be off campus. But but I think this is a great program. Unfortunately, the funding for this is in jeopardy after his cohort. It was one of the the uh items cut out of the state budget. I was gonna say that when I tried to go through it, you got did I get
015I went to one meeting and then funding was cut. They the his cohort they already had the funding approved, but for future years it is in jeopardy at this point, but that's a little bit about the program. All right. Any discussion? I'm just glad it's in place for this cohort. Okay. I have a motion by Mike. Second by Dennis. He He's got to wear an IU shirt, too. I'm not going there. It's actually at Indiana State, but yes. Oh, you might get me in blue, but not red. Oh, sorry. Yes, I agree. It's a great thing. Run, don't walk. Um, now we have some personnel items. Um, I seek a motion to approve the resignation of Dustin George as elementary principal effective at the end of his current contract, which is June 30th. Um, I
016just want to thank Dustin for the year I've spent with him. Um, I thought he did a great job for us and we wish him best of luck. He's moving closer to home. Um, so we can't fault him for that, but we hate to see him go. We do. The grass is probably dead over there, just to let you know. You can stop this right now. Do I have a motion, Dennis? Second, Heather. All those four. You're free. Wait a minute. I didn't vote yet. Oh, you didn't? I'm sorry. Okay, I'll vote you. You can vote whatever you want. I think I vote no. That's fine. I did for Sharon. So, um, next we have another resignation, a motion to approve. Excuse me. A motion to approve the resignation of Megan Burch as the early
017learning center lead teacher effective at the end of the current school year. Have a motion chair second Natalie. All those four seven and we wish Megan best of luck. I believe she got a full-time teaching position at one of the private schools. I'm not sure exactly. Springville. Okay. So, we wish her the best of luck. Uh, next, uh, a motion to approve the resignation of Lindseay Dye as learning ELC teacher effective at the end of the school year. Have a motion. Second, Natalie for seven. We're all a little hesitant to let people go. Yeah, we wish Lindsay the best as well. Um, we have an additional resignation, a motion to approve the resignation of Keren Helms as central office secretary and transportation secretary. Um, that was effective May 14th, 2025. I want to just say,
018I don't know if she's watching or not, but to Carrie, a huge thank you for all the years of very dedicated work she has put into our school. I I would like to echo that. Carrie was here for for 25 years. uh she kind of worked her way up. I believe she started as either a teaching assistant or inschool suspension supervisor. Um served as the middle school secretary, worked alongside her for nine years. Uh she was an intricral part of the program that was started there. Uh eventually got the opportunity to move to the corporation secretary where she did those duties as well as transportation and she did a great job at all of those. Always a smiling face. um was always great with family. Somebody could come in a little hot under their collar
019and she had the knack to get them to calm down and uh uh she'll be greatly missed. You have a motion, Dennis. Second, Natalie. All those four seven. Okay. Now we have a a renewal here. I seek a motion to approve the renewal of a one-year teaching contract for Ronald Strazinski as a high school math teacher for the 25 26 school year. I will explain he is a retired teacher and as part of our contract uh they're on a one-year contract. So that needs to be renewed each year. So that's the reason that that is on here. Do you have a motion? Dennis second Heather. All those four seven. Okay. I got a motion to approve the hiring of Tori Steins as an elementary fourth grade teacher for the 2526 school year. And Tori is
020here with us. Uh yeah, your first position, correct? That's what I thought. So we're we're excited to have her bring donuts. I I don't think she knew to bring donuts. I probably So they never do. One of these days. We're going to have to think. Well, I mean, no offense, that kind of comes down on the principles for not letting them know. That's me. That was me. Yeah, she uh brought a lot of energy in the interview process and we're excited to have her potentially join our team. We'll see. Hold on. Don't we get Okay, you have a motion, Dennis. Second the motion. Second, Kim. All those four. Welcome to Eastern Green. Well, you're now a Thunderbird. We're glad to have you. And just in case you decide to bring donuts in the future, Square
021Donuts and Crescent Donuts are both closed on Mondays. I found that out today. I was 8 years old when I found that out. I'm like, why? That's a fair lady. That's probably only why the reason why you didn't bring it home. And I think Magic Morning. That's what I'm thinking, too. I'm like, people need it the most. We'll take homemade. Um um now I seek a motion to approve the hiring of Josie Link as an elementary kindergarten teacher for the 2526 school year. Josie brings some experience at the kindergarten level. Um so we uh she'd be a great addition to our staff. Do I have a motion? Second, Dennis. All those four. All right. Now, we have a middle school uh teaching position here. A motion to approve the hiring of Jaylen Yoho as a
022middle school fifth grade teacher for the 2526 school year. Jaylen also brings a little bit of experience to the table and we're excited to have her join our team. And they get no donuts. We've got two principles that are kind of one's leaving though, so we can't do anything. Guess I'll just take all the brunt make up for it. Don't worry. Okay. Do I have a motion? Dennis second. Kim. All those four. So, no. Welcome to Eastern Green. [Applause] Uh, the next uh motion I have is motion to approve Amber Roupert as the high school student support specialist for the 2526 school year. If you remember, we had an anonymous donation at the last board meeting of $55,000 that will pay this position. That's the salary and benefits. So, the actual salary will be dependent
023upon what benefits are taken and reduced from there. But this is a one-year position with the potential for it to grow into uh two additional years depending. Okay. Motion Dennis second chair. All those four 70. Uh, next I seek a motion to approve Macy Bulls as the high school dance program coach for the 2526 uh season. Uh, Macy is a recently hired teacher uh that will be teaching at the high school level. So, it's always great when we get one of our uh certified staff members to step up and sponsor one of our extracurricular activities. So, we are excited to have Macy on board. You weren't going to do it, Eric. You don't want me [Laughter] Mike? Second by Dennis. All those four 70. Okay. Next, we have a couple coaching uh additional coaching opport
024motions here. Motion to approve the following as assistant coaches for soccer for the 2526 season. Andy Drummond and Joey Collins. Both will be a paid assistant. Uh we have one uh paid stipen as an assistant coach for soccer. So we will split that in half between these two individuals. All right. Do I have a motion? Heather second Dennis. All those four 70. I got a question. Yeah. Can we go back get a dancing demonstration from him to see you be the assistant? Oh, I'm not being I just want to see I just want to see. Uh, next, uh, I seek a motion to approve Riley Keith as the high school junior varsity volleyball coach for the 2526 season. Have a motion. Second chair. All those four. Next, I seek a motion to approve Kesha Blaze
025as the boys and girls high school cross country assistant coach for the season. I believe she had that same position this past season as well. Hey, do I have a motion to do this? Second. Sharon, hold those four 70. I'm sure Eric's going to mention, but her daughter did compete in the the state uh state finals of track 16th. 14th 14th. Um, and anytime that you get to compete in the last the last meet or the last game is is something to I mean it's remarkable. So, congratulations to her. Her school record again. She did. So, you know, kudos to her. And I'm sure you're probably going to mention that. I probably stole your thunder there. Sorry. That's all right. Um, next I seek a motion to approve Emily Hash as the elementary office secretary
026effective May 19th, 2025. Motion Dennis. Second, Natalie. All those four 70. I have a number of donations here. I seek approval for the following. $1,000 uh donation to Eastern Green High School National Honor Society to the Eastern Green High School Student Activities Fund. A $100 donation from David and Lisa Williams to the Eastern Green Middle School student activities for the end of the year middle school cookout. A $100 Mount Pleasant Church of Christ to the Hunter Roberts Nancy Hacker Fund in memory of Roger Hacker. a $100 donation from Ronda Crow to the Hunter Roberts Nancy Hacker Fund in memory of Roger Hacker and a $500 uh donation from Indiana Extension of Homemakers Association to the Eastern Green Negative Lunch accounts. As always, we very much appreciate all these donations. Absolutely. Do I have a motion?
027Yes. Second, Natalie. All those four Okay, we do have a a couple of late items. Um the first is a resignation. Um I seek a motion to approve the resignation of Jessica Weezner as a physical therapist effective June 5th, 2025. That was a a basically a part-time position. She worked here at different times as a physical therapist. So we will try to replace that as a part-time position as well. All right. Do I have a motion? Sharon second and all those four. Next, I seek a motion to approve the donation, disposal, recycling of old recycling of old equipment that is in storage and is no longer serviceable. Um, this is more a formality. We have a board policy that if it's worth $1,000 or more that I formally have to get board approval. I don't
028think the whole lot's worth $100, but it's just a lot of old tables with broken legs and that we've just saved for parts and stuff and we're we're exploring using the space that that it's in for another use. So, I just need that motion. Right. Do you have a motion? Mike second. Dennis close for everybody wants to get rid of the jump. I was saying you know if you fell away you'll need something. Well, that's that's true. That is true. Unfortunately. Um, are you offering to store it at your house? I have enough of those as soon as I throw away all these. Uh, the final late item that I have is a motion to approve Brady Anderson as the girls golf coach for the fall 2025 season. Uh, Brady did serve as our boys
029golf coach and uh, no problems. Had a good season. Uh, did a good job with the kids. So, that's our motion. All right. Motion a second. Heather four seven discussion items. We'll start with uh Dustin. Do you have anything that you want to share? Sure. You showed up. So yeah. And he doesn't have a purple shirt on. So no, I don't. He's got red and black on still. It's Louisville though. College World Series going. Uh I just want to say thank you all um for for the trust that you put in me the last handful of years, the support that you've given and um you know allowing me to be a part of the this great community. Um I've built a handful of relationships with with community and teachers and most importantly students here that
030I will carry with me for a very long time. This is a really special place that's deeply rooted in connection, relationships, and community. And and I appreciate that. Um the job that I'm taking is um is my home uh where I went kindergarten through 8th grade and taught for the first five years of my career as well. Um and it is my community itself. So I'm excited to do that. It's the only job that I think I would have um walked away from. But I just wanted to say thank you um all of you and uh Mr. Lewis has been wonderful to work for the last year and uh I appreciate you all. Thank you. Thank you. You'll still always be a Thunderbird. I I I will. You're right. Thank you. Thunderbird. Always a Thunderbird.
031Is Is Jackson in your contingency plan? Like is he part of that since he was principal for a day last year? He knows a lot. So the the next one up, he's got a list of things. It would probably be pretty cheap. I'm just saying it would be really cheap and um you know, it's not many rules, so that that's good, too. You can popular with the students. Um well, we had a great end of the year. I just have a couple of um thank you. Thank you to everyone who donated to our middle school cookout. It's become a tradition. And we had another phenomenal cookout this year. Um, all the students really enjoyed it. We had way We still have cookies. If you want cookies, take cookies on your way out, please. Um, I
032also want to thank all the parents that came to our awards day um, and supported their students. It was very nice to see all their faces. I want to thank Mr. Lewis for putting together the kids at Hope. Um, and thank Rick Miller for coming out and doing that training for all of us. It was great. It's never um I know that Mr. Lewis did not want to tell staff that they had to stay on that day. Um, they were supposed to be leaving, but everyone was a really good sport and I think paid attention and we learned a lot those couple of days. So, I really appreciated that. Um, I want to thank Dustin for um all for, you know, helping me this year and taking care of me, being someone that I could
033talk to if I needed to talk or vent or anything. So, I appreciate you. I wish you best of luck. Um, do I get your parking spot now? You can have that. Oh, okay. Thanks. Um, I was telling some people the other day that I got in trouble like the first day of school. He was like, "That's where I parked." Sorry. I didn't know that there were names. So, um, Sandy knows. Yeah. Sandy was like, "This is my spot." Dustin was like, "I have this spot." And I suppose I guess you can park here in the lower lot. In the lower lot on the back side. So, I moved up. So, whoever replaces Dustin, they get that crappy. Anyway, we might need those. We might need you guys to do that. get your own seniors,
034too. Yeah. Um I also wanted to thank all of our teachers and kind of give you an update on our iLearn um scores for the end of the year. Everyone in our building improved um in both math and language arts, which is phenomenal. Um I think that the teachers really did a great job of using the checkpoints along the way to help. We have data boards to keep the kids informed about where they were along the way and they pushed them and kept pushing them. Um they went back and remediated and did whatever they needed to do. And so um like I said, we had um an increase in evath and language arts. I do want to give a special shout out to um ELA 7th grade had an increase by 11.9% from the previous
035year which is huge considering they also had a switch in instructors in January. So um that really goes to show how well um the staff worked together to help bring them along, but also kudos to those kiddos that worked really hard throughout the year. So I'm very um happy and impressed. Um, I couldn't have asked for a better first year as a principal. So, um, that's it. Thank you. We're glad you're coming up back for year two. Uh, good evening. Uh, first off, like to congratulate Liliana Blae uh for her her state run uh for 14th. Um, that's a it's a long race and uh I I would be I'd still be running it right now. A fast race. Yeah. 1,600. 16,600. That's a mile. Yeah. What's her What was her time? Oh, 5347. Jeez.
036Yeah. So, she was cranking. That's close to the four. I can't do that on my on my four-wheeler. I hear you. Uh, she's actually going to continue her running career in college, I believe, at ISU. No, USI. USI. Excuse me. USI. Got my letters mixed up. Uh uh want to congratulate Dustin. Uh it's been a pleasure to work with you. Uh wish you nothing but the best of luck and uh don't be a stranger. So um also I want to thank Lorie Van Deander. Uh she uh the the highest compliment that I can I can give her is that she made me a better administrator. So, um, she acted in the same way she acted with Doug as being a sounding board and being being someone who give a an honest perspective. Uh, she did
037that with me as well. And, um, it only made me grow. So, I really do appreciate her. Um, and uh, I knew when she came came to me and said, "Hey, I'm having twin grandchildren." I was like, "Oh, you're you're leaving." I could just tell I knew right away like her focus shifted right then and there. So I and I don't blame her one bit. So I do wish her a very happy retirement. And then also want to uh give give my regards and my thanks to Carrie Helms. Uh when I came in as a new principal, uh she was the first smiling face uh that I saw when I came in to do all my paperwork. and uh I pretty sure she was a smiling face every day I saw her. So I really
038do appreciate uh all that she brought uh brought to the corporation. So um transitioning now, I kind of want to go over just a little bit of um where the high school stands uh in regards to uh some of our accomplishments that we've uh we've achieved this this year. Uh so I want to start with community service first. Uh we have logged over 1,075 hours of community service um through 48 volunteers. Uh we had a total of 14 national award awardees uh through the u it's a uh through the United Nations Association. It's a volunteer um portion of the United Nations that uh sponsors uh volunteerism in in different high school and different high schools. And we had 11 merit uh award winners uh with 30 hours of service u and we had three uh
039honor uh award winners with 60 hours of service. Um, so our kids were doing a lot of uh a lot of volunteerism and uh really do appreciate um all their efforts because you see it throughout the community. Uh the next thing I kind of want to talk a little bit about is attendance. Um over the past two years, we have actually seen a massive improvement in our attendance. We have actually uh decreased chronic absences by 15% over the last two years. And we've also uh improved model attendee attendance um by 20% in the last two years. The reason why I'm telling you this is that the new accountability model that you're probably going to hear about in months to come uh scores attendance for uh for the high school uh very highly. It's like 15th
040of what our score is. And so, uh, we've actually done a really good job of, uh, making sure that our kids are showing up and being present. And, uh, um, one of the things I would like to kind of bring attention to, our model attendees have an average GPA of 3.8, uh, 3.18 and, um, are generally one to one and a half credits ahead of everybody else. Um, and so you're probably wondering what a model attendee is. That is a student who has 10 or fewer absences. Um, certified, unexcused, excused, it doesn't matter. It's all counted as as the same. How's the how's the um being excused for finals? How's that how program working? Well, I'm getting there. I'm getting there. Um, so I I do believe that that actually has uh benefited and helped
041with the model attendee um because they have to have um less than four, excuse me, six absences for the entire year um in order to participate and we had quite a few participate this year. So I do believe I've I can attribute at least some of that growth to that. Um the other part I attribute that to is to Mr. Howard. Um he is constantly meeting with students and encouraging them to to show up and and uh do what they can to to be there, be present, and be ready to to not only score well on uh exams and stuff, but just just be be accountable every day. Um you already know about our SAT scores. Our reading uh went up uh 20%. um uh our our English scores went up 20%, our math scores
042went up uh 5% um this past year. Um and u of course that is going to be something that we're going to be judged on uh with this new accountability model. Another thing that we're going to be uh judged on is I learn biology, which is something that really hasn't played a a large part in our scores as but it apparently is growing in its um in its importance. Over the past two years, we've increased 27% um in our scores and our proficiency rating. So really, I have to attribute that to Mr. Andy Hutcherson. He is my biology teacher. He does a fantastic job and has really done a great uh a great a great work there. Um overall, our past freshman that uh came in, we had 105 of them. I believe there were
043a lot of them. Uh 91 91.5% are on track. We only had uh two, excuse me, nine uh not on track. Um two of them were midyear transfers. Uh the other another two were uh expelled and were doing online work. Um so we've actually had really good uh numbers with our freshmen really moving them uh into that sophomore status. Um credit recovery. Uh we have recovered 154 credits this year. Um so these are all these are classes that students have failed that uh that they've been able to recover uh to get back on track. Um, Britney McN Britney Nally does a tremendous job. Uh, she is my online uh, credit recovery uh, coordinator and she does she does a great a great job. And then last but not least, um, a lot of our programs
044are tied to dual credit through IvyTech. Uh, this year we were able to log 1,164 credit hours through IvyTech with an average GPA of a 3.27. Wow. Um so, um our kids are doing tremendous work in the classroom, outside of the classroom. Um our teachers are doing a tremendous job moving kids uh up to where they need to be and getting them prepared for um the real world. So, thank you. Nice work. Um, thank you to to each of our principles for for the reports there. And um, I just have a few things here. I just want to echo the end of the year. We it was great at the end of the year. Uh, some of the highlights. We had kindergarten graduation. We had celebrations across the elementary and middle school campus. Uh, just
045celebrating a successful year. And of course, we had graduation of the class of 2025. We want to wish them all the best in all they do. Um, they should be proud of the legacy they leave behind and we can't wait to see what they do next. Um, and as we always say, they always have a home here as Thunderbirds. Um, Allison mentioned Kids at Hope training. We did have a successful training. Um, the entire elementary and middle school staff minus our third grade teachers um, attended. They were uh, teaching I read boot camp. So, we excuse them for that. and they will actually be trained this summer um at some point. But I certainly want to thank all of our staff uh that participated. It was on May 19th. That was the last official teacher
046day. Um those of you not directly involved with the school, there's a lot that gets done that last day. Um packing things up. So it was they they gave up some valuable time but they were very attentive and uh I believe the we did a a survey and the results have been very positive that they enjoyed the training. Also appreciate everyone um that gave up their time both on the 19th and the 20th uh that are trainers now that can assist when we we get new staff members that we need to train. Um just a quick reminder, Kids at Hope is basically um this is a really short overview, but it's built on the belief that all children are capable of success with no exceptions. You know, we used to have the at risk model.
047We would talk about students that are at risk. And of course, we have students that come from different circumstances, but instead of uh saying that kids's at risk, you know, they're they're at hope. And we we have hope, belief, and potential for each and every one of our our students. and where that success is might be different for each student, but they all can achieve a level of success. That's going to be an underlying theme um and initiative that we are incorporating within our school culture which is already very positive and a lot it's going to be an easy thing to add in because we already do those things. Um I want to thank Jacob uh Faster. Um he's our five-star on-site technician. Um his last week is this week here at Eastern Green. Uh
048he uh got a promotion through FiveStar and uh so he is moving to more of a local place for FiveStar to do quit promoting. Yeah, he uh he does he does a great job for us. Stop doing better. Yeah, he he uh you know that's what we stand for out there. you know, I just put on here he he's excellent at his job with a quiet confidence. He just puts his head down and just does the job. And I mean, you could ask the dumbest question in the world. That to him is like you really can't do that. And he never makes you feel like you're ignorant about it or anything. An amazing quality. It really is the world. Right. As the resident nerd in the room, I will say Jacob's very good at what
049he does. And it's it'll be very sad to see him go. And we are getting an experienced person in that has done a similar work at a similar school. So, we're we're hopeful that that person can hit the ground running and create some of the same relationships that that Jacob was able to create. So, um I just finally want to a couple other things. I want to thank some of our all of our summer workers. Um, shout out to all of our personnel working uh on both campuses. Our custodial crew is deep cleaning. Maintenance is working to address as many issues as they can over the summer months here. Uh, transportation is performing maintenance and checks on all the buses as well as cleaning them out. Um, you know, it's everybody's busy around here, so
050it's it truly is a team effort and um they're all pitching in to do a great job and I appreciate all of that. Uh, Eric mentioned the accountability model. If you'll remember that, we've um they've gone through several steps to update the uh graduation pathways and the requirements and so forth. They're basically doing the same process with the accountability model that's going to include really K to 12 pieces to that. Uh I should know the exact legislation, but there was recently a law passed that requires them to come up with a new way to give an A throughF grading, and this is what they're doing. um it'll be posted. They'll open it up to public, you know, comments. There will probably be some tweaks to it. Many of the items that he mentioned uh are
051most likely going to be in there. So, that's a little bit about that. Um 1498. Yeah, 1498 was okay. Thank you. Um the uh we will probably uh well, not probably. We'll have uh formal some formal data uh information from iLearn, I read. he gave a lot of the uh SAT and um we'll also have some AP we should get some AP scores back about maybe right before we we have the usually it's about July in early July. So um we'll share some of that you know without getting in the weeds too much but at least let you know where our students are at and some of the work that the stu that the teachers put in. I also want to thank Dustin wish him the best of luck and I just want to give
052one more thank you to to Carrie and Helms. um uh she was pretty important to me as a a building level principal, especially a new guy coming in and uh would not have had the success we had at the middle school without her being involved there and I think we could say the same here at central office when she shifted here. Um so I appreciate everything she did. So that's all I have. Sharon, um I always see summers as they're pretty bittersweet. there's that relief that okay, I'm going to finish up everything and we're gonna move on, but it's having to say goodbyes, but also getting to say the hellos. So, delighted to have the the newbies come on um and just work through the transition of starting the new year. But, but there is
053some bittersweetness to it all. I just um sometimes you see things on Facebook and think, "Oh my goodness, what's going on?" But I saw the Facebook reactions to Dustin coming home and they're so excited to have you there and just a testament to your your work that you've done there before and the friendships you've made there. So again, don't forget you are a Thunderbird, too, but you can wear purple if you need to. be a farmer if you have to be to say our mascot's cooler. Right. Um I did have one thing just to share with the audience and the folks that um there's a really cool program going on this summer in July. Uh it's a oneweek training at IvyTech for semiconductor. It's a summer session to learn and to to just test the
054waters. If you're looking at a career change, no one in here, but in the audience, you're looking at learning more about the new business and some um a oneweek session. It's free. Lunch is provided. It's a good way for adults. And there's also a student session too, a week in July. So, it's at IvyTech the main campus and uh they're partnering with some of the work we do to to make sure that goes off. So if anybody's interested training again, I'm sorry. What was the training again? I'm sorry. It's called semic is a semiconductor summer session. So it's kind of like an introductory one week of just kind of learning all the pieces and parts about working in that field. So if you're an adult looking for new new job and um looking into some
055kind of new field, that's one thing. If you're a student and you're just interested in thinking about do I want to do something like that, they give you that basics for technicians or even maybe I want to be electrical engineer in that field at some point. It give you a good test of that. So the adult one is on July 14th for one week and then the student one is July 21st for one week and it's free like I said. So and I'm I'm pretty sure they still have openings there. Thank you all for a great year and have a good summer. I know that they're not really off so but try to take a little bit of a break too. Is that it? That's it. You done? That's done. I don't really have much
056to say. I see a lot of everybody almost uh all of our students uh this is like the only place in the community for them to play and we are here at ball games almost every night. So um it's great that we have a community area where kids can come and have a safe place to play since we don't have any local parks or anything like that. But and I like the idea that we're having our food program too. Yeah. Enjoy the hustle and bustle of those games. I know you these days they won't be there. I'm just telling you today at my at my keyboard I'm like I remember I remember and I'm like that was after three shots of espresso and like three coffees and I'm like but no I try to enjoy
057it. You are going to miss this. I know but I'm exhausted too. So and that's fair. Uh just want to thank Doug for coming in, you know, over the year and really doing a good job and just looking forward to what uh what next year I'll bring. Mike like to see if Sandy has anything to say. I don't I've been waiting for years to hear that. Thank you. Wow. Talk about set up. That bus is pretty big. Just put that that ball right on the tea right there. Well, I I don't know how to follow that up. So, I will follow that up by adjourning the meeting at 7:22. I thought it was good. Do I have a motion? Please. Second, Sharon. Apollo 4.