001Please stand with me and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I welcome everyone back and hope everyone had a nice spring break, those of you who were able to enjoy it and got in before the storm, I guess, blows through here this evening. Uh just a few opening comments as we get going here. This is a meeting of the school board in public for the purpose of conducting the school corporation's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is time for public participation on agenda and non-agenda items as outlined in item number two. The mission of Goshen Community Schools is to
002inspire innovation, empower potential, and enriching our world. And our vision, Goshen Community Schools, Elkhart County school district of choice. Item 1.4 is approval of the agenda. Do we have any revisions to the agenda? Yes, Mr. President, we have one revision. One addition, actually, and that is approving an official agreement for naming rights to healthcare pathway. Okay. And that is later in the agenda. We'll make that last so that moves I just put that at the end of the agenda. Makes it number 6.5 All right, so with that, I will ask for an amendment to the agenda to add item 6.5, which is approval of naming rights for our healthcare pathway. Can I have a motion and a second for that? I move for the or for the addition of item 6.5, naming rights for the
003Goshen Community Schools healthcare pathway. Yeah, good. So, moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Goodman. Board members, any conversation about that amendment? Okay. All right, so hearing none, so I will we have motion and a second, so I'll ask for approval of the amended agenda. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. The agenda is approved as amended with a vote of six to zero. Up next is item 1.5, which is approval of the minutes from our March 23rd, 2026 regular school board meeting and our April 2nd, 2026 public meeting regarding superintendent contract. Board members, we've had a chance to review those minutes. Are there any questions, any things that we need to revise of those? Seeing heads shake. So, with that, the minutes are approved as
004presented. We will now move on to item two, which is couple of comment tonight and we will begin with Ms. Kimber Beachy, please. Thank you. I have electronically submitted a structural conflict analysis and the transcript of these remarks to the district's administrative and board leadership tonight. I am formally requesting that both documents be included in the general substance of these minutes to ensure a complete and accurate record. Regarding the superintendent contract, I urge the board to reject this contract. When the board votes, it's not just voting on a compensation package, it's voting on a philosophy. To approve this contract is to choose a trickle-up model where the financial stability of essential support staff is sacrificed to subsidize executive expansion. The provision linking the superintendent's compensation to a select pool of administrators creates a compounding disparity.
005Furthermore, by excluding administrators who receive no raises from that calculation, the district institutionalizes a raise that can only move upward, decoupled from the reality of the foundational workforce, many of whom have lost significant purchasing power these last few years and struggle to make ends meet. As detailed in my April 2nd formal objection, the data shows a 34% divergence in purchasing power between leadership and the foundational workforce since 2020. I ask the board to move towards a model of compensation with shared stability, where the people who form the foundation of our students' daily lives are treated as a priority, not as a buffer for administrative compensation. Furthermore, tying these guaranteed financial outlays to an effective rating determined in a closed-door executive session, functionally serves as an administrative blank check. High-integrity governance requires that automatic taxpayer expenditures
006be based on measurable public-facing outcomes, not an insular mechanism that bypasses community oversight. The board has a fiduciary responsibility to taxpayers to ensure that public funds are managed with objective oversight. To approve a contract that institutionalizes a growing financial divide between leadership and the operational foundation directly serving students and that also bypasses public metrics is a breach of that duty. I've provided a physical copy of the structural conflict analysis I submitted today for each of you to review before tonight's vote. Thank you. And next we have Ms. Susan Lawson. Hi everybody. So, I'm Susan Lawson. And I'm running for representative for district 49 against Joanna King. There's three of us Democrats that are running and hallelujah. I am running because I want to hold local and state officials accountable. I want to keep voting school
007board members in the community's hands and not become partisan. I think that's really important. Thank you very much for your time. All right. And with that, that will conclude our public comment this evening. Moving on, we will go to item three, which is our superintendent's reports. Mr. Weiss. Yes, thank you, Mr. President. First up with Dr. Bob Evans going to give you an update on our financial commitments. Before you is the quarter one cash flow, where we stand. First one is the education fund. These are just our four major funds. The education fund, you'll see that about 90% of it is expended, a little less than 90% towards personnel costs and benefits. Overall, right now, when you're looking at the money that's been expended, it's well within parameters. For the first quarter, you'd expect to
008be 25% or less and we're at 23.36%, so the education fund is right where it needs to be. The operating referendum, we get the money for that in June and in December. And so, this just expenditures that we're looking at. Uh it was budgeted slightly less than than what we're getting. Currently, we've expended 26.28% of that. A large large percentage of what we have budget for the for the operating referendum goes to paraprofessionals in the summer. So, you'll see that those that the percentage amount of money expended towards classified employees in the summer will go way down, so that 26% doesn't really concern me too much right now. When we get into November, if it's still 20 if it's still 78% that I'd be concerned. Um going into the fourth quarter, that is. Uh debt
009service, we pay that in June and in December, so there really are no expenditures there. And the last one would be the operations fund. We're at expended 22.58%, so we're well within parameters there. About 40% of that fund is expended on personnel. I guess what keeps you up at night? Anything? Nothing. Okay, good. Uh future, you never know what's going to happen in the future, but we're doing just fine right now. I know probably everyone has their tax bills now, so we're all either happy or frustrated again, so we'll see how that impacts us. Yes. I project that we'll be PR AV probably will balance out this year in next year, when we'll be a little more concerned. Any other questions for Dr. Evans? Next up, we have our student achievement commitments and we have
010a couple of things to report to the board. And I think first third quarter review, school specific. I don't know if we start with Hobby. Yep. So, we wanted to bring after the third grading period, kind of like we did after the first quarter and then at semester and we'll have a comprehensive report at the end of the year once we have all of our data, but here's kind of where we are after three quarters of the year. We we wanted to make sure to highlight, you know, our core values, students first, whole child, this craft and mindset of, you know, getting better a little bit better every every day and every year. We went what we said we were going to do and everything is centered around our working teams. And so, we have
011some data to share regarding some of the ABC that you've heard all year. So there's not a lot on the C part because we don't have assessment data quite yet. But starting with our attendance data, our goal for this year was you know 1% better data would be to have a 62% of our kids here 94% of the time or more. Which would be a significant jump from a couple years ago and happy to share that as of March 20th and again this is credit to our our teams and teachers and big part to the work of Mr. Sheets in getting out and you know helping really supporting the schools. This is a significant jump in our attendance and and we know that the more that our kids are here the more that we can
012serve them and and help them to improve. So we're excited to share that. This is only after the third quarter. And so happy to share that and we'll see what it is at the end of the year but our work hasn't stopped with that. So that's a big celebration and thank you to our teams at the schools. So This next slide shows our behavior data. We can discuss that. So Harvey didn't tell everybody kind of where it's you know we don't want to jinx ourselves but what is our improvement on 94% or better attendance for the students at this time? So we if you look back here so 23-24 that school year we had less than 50% of our kids who were here 94% of the time or better. And 94% of the time is
013what the state is using for exemplary attendance. Some people measure the 90% but being here essentially missing 10 days or less if they're here enrolled for 180 days. And so you know we had we saw a big jump last year and again you know paying really close attention to attendance and the work of a lot of people. And I mean it's it would be 13% better if if the school would have ended March 20th. We anticipate it may go down a little bit because it's you know it happens right? Illnesses and what what not. This this doesn't discriminate between >> 74%? 74 yeah. This again this is excuse unexcused. It's this counts for kids when kids are here or when they're not. And so 13% improvement on that would be significant and it's just a
014matter of time when achievement you know gets to move like that. So Did you track the same numbers the previous two years or like at the same time last year? >> have this and that would be you know it would take a little bit longer than just the superintendent but we have this and I can show you the graphs from kindergarten and I mean kindergarten used to be probably in the 50% of kiddos here or not here and then 12th grade was about you know like 60-40 or worse a couple years ago and it was a little bit better. And I can have that I can print it and send it your way. I was just curious like with the 74% last year was it 69%? What what was the overall attendance? >> year overall
015was 61% but I mean At this time like in other words >> do we do see I did not do it third quarter through third quarter. I see what you're asking now. I can get that for you for sure. Cuz that would show that if we actually improved or did it drop from 74 to 61 in Yeah I I have that. I I can get that to you in no time. Yeah. That that data is telling us really good things right? 74% So more kids at the 94% or better from two years ago. And record keeping has gotten better too. So there's you know but yeah it's I mean it's it's great. It's great work. And also >> Thanks. It's good to point out that you know what an absent means has changed too. Yeah.
016Really and this is going to sound bad. It it doesn't matter to me. Kids are here or or they're not. I mean we understand illnesses and we don't want them to be here if they're sick because of you know what that could cost but we're tracking you know we can help students when they're here. It's really hard to help our students achieve and grow when they're not. And so if we can gain 13% year after year pretty pretty soon we're going to be at 90% and people are going to ask what are you doing in Goshen? So that that would be cool. I just want to like I was really excited about that earlier when we were talking about it so I thought you might as well. Before we go to not that yours is
017going to be not quite as >> [laughter] >> Thanks Joe. Sorry Lori. It was a good save. Yeah that's yes. Well it's just it is exciting all of the behind the scenes work of our principals our teachers our families working with us to improve this data and I would say attendance we've had several years of doing just some really great things to to improve attendance. And I would say for behavior that work is also happening maybe not quite as long but we are seeing our our principals our families we're all working together to make sure that our schools are safe and orderly. And you can see that our goal for this year is 88.6% of our percentage of our students have two or fewer behavior office referrals. To date we have 92% of our student
018body with with two or fewer behavior office referrals. And I want you to really think about what that means. Because that means that what we're doing is working. We're engaging our students and and they're behaving at high levels. And sometimes those behavior office referrals are just really small things like just a little bit of a warning of like you know hey like we need to make an improvement here. So this is exciting data and we continue to think about how we're assessing behavior in our district and we'll continue to update you on what we're doing to be proactive with behavior and support our students and families. I would say the issue for me to in addition to this number of kids that have had two or fewer referrals is that we look at frequent flyers
019and what we're how we're supporting those kids that are really struggling. I think we're doing a fantastic job. The principals and teachers have really come together to work in teams to support kids and work with the parents and families. >> And so this data doesn't really even show all that great work as well. That's right. That's right. And so we have um this is comparing last year to this year after the three checkpoints. Um what this does not include for the 25-26 administration on either of the two slides that you'll see is that this year we took advantage of the second opportunity for each of the checkpoints one and two. And so we had over a thousand or close to a thousand students participate in the second administration of the checkpoint. So as a formative
020assessment we could take checkpoint one sometime in the fall and then every student and and teachers and teams decide on what students were afforded the opportunity because it's really not for everybody to take it a second time. And that does not include and we had um hundreds of students who went from approaching to proficient after taking it a second time on the checkpoints and so that's not reflected in there. So when you look at the top of the screen wanted to highlight our goal in ELA I learned for this year is to get you know to that 33% and and again things are going in the right direction when kids are here and the behaviors are down more more time in classrooms in the seats more opportunities to learn. So this will be one of
021those lagging indicators. A lot of great things are happening. This will start to move as well. And so as you see without including that second opportunity which again probably a two or a three percent increase on the proficient and above each a little bit better than last year which is which is the goal. Any questions on the ELA portion of things? We won't have I learned until sometime probably May-June and so once we do the end of year report we'll have all of that and our our big data point that we wanted to present to the board at the end will be both passing both ELA and math. And so here's the other half of the equation. Yeah and this is just similar data and math but the same explanation that Harvey gave about those
022second opportunity tests. That's not that data is not in here. So we anticipate that we will make our goal that 1% better with when the students take I learned and that data comes back. Based on what we're seeing with that second chance opportunity. Unfortunately it's not represented here. And that checkpoint one is cuz that's that's not checkpoint one right? Sorry. >> was like after three checkpoints for 20 or 25 compared to three checkpoints. Yeah that's checkpoint one should not be there. It should just be checkpoints. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's all we have. Thank you. Any other questions? >> [clears throat] >> I have a question about the office visits 2%. I I really enjoy the attendance uh slide where you have uh break it down by grade. Kind of gives you a better picture or
023or where you know kids are attending or not attending. Do you have a similar information or could you show us a slide? I I think we could get that. I think we could do that. Yes. >> Cuz you know sometimes we'll make assumptions of what are the problem kids. Right. You know but or what school or whatever, but you know breaking out by by grade can give us a good idea. Yep. We can do that. Okay. Well, that concludes our student achievement commitment updates. >> One one more. Oh, do one more. We have uh Oh, yes, we do. We have Dr. Blaha here, principal at Goshen Intermediate School, and we are uh excited um that we will be um pursuing uh next generation school improvement grants. Um and uh Dr. Blaha, I don't know if
024you wanted to share anything. I know that you don't, so I'm kind of putting you on the spot. So, tell us all about it. Come on down. Come on up so we can hear you out. Oh, yes, we are so excited about the um school improvement grant. So, this grant um is from the DOE, and as they state in their literature, it's meant to be transformational for schools. So, you know, we're looking at differentiated learning. How can we support um our students who um maybe need a little extra love and support with behaviors, with academics. Um so, we will be applying for this grant. We've already started the process of working with staff, getting their ideas of what they would like to see if we were to be awarded this grant because, right, it's not
025a done deal yet. Um but we've already solicited ideas from the the staff, and their ideas have been phenomenal um what they've listed. It goes way beyond materials, interventions. They're looking at how can we do college and career pathways at fifth and sixth grade. They're looking at how can we do like civics type stuff with our students and prepare them for the junior high and the even the high school. Um cuz our long-term goal is how do we make them um great citizens when they leave Goshen schools. How can we contribute to that? So, we've started getting ideas from staff. We have a meeting set up with our partners, Skybound. Right, I got that right. Um this week, and their job is to basically take our ideas, work with us, put it into an organized
026fashion, into an application. So, they'll help us with the application process, and eventually we will submit it and keep our fingers crossed that we get the grant. So, it's a very exciting process, and the staff is super excited about it. Yeah. Thank you. It's it's a highly competitive grant. Um and if awarded, I think we could receive up to $3 million uh over a four uh year period of time. So, highly highly competitive. Uh we are excited, like she said, to partner with Skybound, which is a preferred partner from the uh Department of Education. They successfully awarded two grants last year. And so, um like she says, they're they're here to support, you know, it will be our plan, our ideas. They'll just help us look good on paper and execute. So. That is it.
027Now we're done. Thank you, Holly. That's a good way to end it. Thank you. Great leadership going on and great things at the intermediate school, so we look forward to that. Um next up is our people commitment, and we're uh going to turn it over. I guess Lori, you're going to start off with the first Mhm. an item. Oh, operations. >> Operations. Operations commitments. And let's go with summer school with Dr. McGrew. Sure. Not near as Not as exciting as the data you saw earlier. Uh just an update on summer school. The state has decided that in their infinite wisdom, the Department of Ed that uh each student in grades two and three will be worth $160 for each student enrolled, which, I'll be honest with you, doesn't cover our costs. Shocking. Um and then
028at the high school, they'll be they'll be reimbursed by course, $135 um per student enrolled, which might actually cover our costs there if we have students that take more than one course. Um so, this is new. This is a new way for the for the um Department of Ed to award this the summer school grant. It's a grant that keeps shrinking each year. Um so, we will continue to to work within those within those parameters to to do the best we can for our students and give them the opportunity that they need to um be successful, whether it be credit recovery or intervention. Then moving on, uh you know, Daniel Longcourt and uh one of his high ability students came to us last fall to talk about uh possible disc golf course at the intermediate
029school. Um and one of the thing he had a temporary course kind of mapped out, and he had mentioned at that time that one of the things they do is they actually put temporary um goals. Goals, thank you. Goals. I don't think they're Yes, temporary uh I I know what they're called. Baskets. Thank you. Temporary baskets out there. Um to for people to try it out, give feedback. And so, that will actually be happening this weekend on the 18th, and I'll double-check the night. 18th and 19th of this month or of this of this this coming weekend. Um Daniel has and his class have reached out through Parent Square to some of the local um disc golf groups um such as the Goshen College team um to come out and try it. They're not wanting
030just to overwhelm it, but uh they're just going to tweak it. Hopefully this will be the layout that they they want, and then um they'll come to us with a proposal once that's once it's done uh to possibly make it more permanent. And that concludes operations. Thanks, Dr. McGrew. Uh next are people commitments, and uh this gets really exciting, but let's let's start out with Lori with her family engagement. Yeah, so we have um Dr. Helen Alone and Dr. Emily Cheng coming from the Institute for Educational Leadership. They are the researchers that are tied to the family engagement grant that we were awarded. And so, they are collecting data from our district as well as four other districts in Indiana. And they will eventually culminate all of the the data after five years and publish
031that data and um all those promising practices around family engagement. So, they will be here conducting focus groups. They'll interview administrators, parents, um staff members, teachers, um and collect that data, um which is exciting. It's an exciting opportunity, um but mostly just to always show off and showcase our district in general. Um and so, they will be able to pass on the great things that we're doing um in collaboration with the IDOE, the Indiana Department of Education. And that's this Thursday. Thank you, Lori. Next up, we have a very exciting presentation that's going to take place. So, I'm going to turn it over to John Everingham. Uh please come up and take over the show, John. Thank you. He is our CTE director Thank you. I'm here to uh tonight to introduce a few people
032to you. Um and then also just give you a very quick um update on half-day CTE programming. Things could not be going better in the CTE world and things that uh I have been involved all um involved with. We just heard a little bit about the ABC data, and I I just added this to my little presentation, but um I up up until about three weeks ago, I was bragging all year long to whoever would listen that I could tell them exactly how many discipline problems I had to deal with this school year. Zero. Zero discipline problems up to three weeks ago. And I caught a couple boys walking over to the gas station when they were supposed to be going over to the school. So, that's the extent of the behavior issues that I've
033had to deal with in our half-day CTE program. I think that says something about uh what we're doing, who's involved in in what we're doing, um the outcomes that students want to be at school. They want to be there. They're engaged in in their work and their activities. Uh we deal with very few behavior problems over there. We got great kids. We really do. Uh the second thing is enrollment. Um as you guys know, we have 11 half-day CTE programs, 272 students. That's an incredible number from one year ago, two years ago. Um but as we see some of these applications come in uh for our now 12 half-day CTE programs, uh we are anticipating an increase of 100 students in our 12 half-day CTE programs. So, next year we'll have aviation will be our
034our next half-day CTE program. So, I think those two things, I was just thinking, quick updates. Uh things could not be going better. Uh we continue to focus on the outcomes. That's uh dual credits, industry-recognized certification, uh partnerships like uh like we'll be talking about just a little later tonight, uh uh advisory committees, and kind of growing our reach in terms of what we're doing. I've given so many tours. One of the favorite parts of my job is to uh give tours of our facilities and brag about our kids and kind of show off what we have, and it's only going to get better. We are just in the very beginning stages. So, um anyway, just a quick That's just a quick update on uh uh CTE, but we certainly want to thank Central Office
035and you guys uh with the school board. It just wouldn't be possible without your support. So, thank you. So, three things that I think uh uh uh make any half-day CTE program successful. Uh the curriculum, the outcomes I talked about, um uh dual credits, certifications, right? Um strong partnerships with with community organizations. Uh but the other one, number three, was the person leading the program, like the person teaching. Program is so so important. And I think you guys probably know that. But I'd like to introduce from Legacy Nursing Academy, Becky Holtz. Uh she is unbelievably awesome. She's leading the way in our health science education program, and I would like her I asked her today, so I didn't like tell her three weeks ago she'd be speaking tonight, but maybe just say a few words
036about your program. Hi, I'm Becky. I'm a registered nurse. I was hired two weeks before school last year to launch the CNA program here. And I had 20 students. All 20 got their certification. All 20 were hired by Greencroft. This year I have 32 students, all certified and all working with their license in the community somewhere. Next year we have 56, I think, enrolled. Or so we have to at hire another full-time nursing instructor for CNA alone, and I have 24 coming back to me for a capstone year. So, I just I have colleagues who work in other area schools, and their CTE program is nothing like this. I have zero complaints. The leadership, um the school, the partners, I mean, it all is coming together beautifully and to support all of these students. It
037is so successful because of all of that. How many kids do we have signed up for next year for you? 56, not including the 24 coming back. Yeah, and you know all the kids again this year get the CNA? All of them. 100 I'm batting 100. Yep. >> [laughter] >> Yep. Two years in a row, right? Yep. Thank you. I have heard of a few places throughout my career in CTE brag about a pass rate of 40, 50, and 60%. And so for us to be at 100% two years consecutively is really really amazing and awesome. And so we're super proud of Becky and her students. Um but like I said, this is just the beginning. We're doing this in all of our different programs. So it's really cool, but um so Thank you, Becky.
038Okay, uh along with the partnership, the strong partnership of Legacy Nursing Academy, we also have been working on another partnership, which is Greencroft, and I'd like to ask Greencroft representatives to come up at this time. But tonight I'd like to recognize Greencroft, uh their representatives, and formally announce a $150,000 sponsorship agreement between Greencroft and Goshen Community Schools. This is big news, you know, for us. So, uh we certainly are thankful for the support and the commitment that uh Greencroft is showing Goshen High School students, our health science education program. Uh tonight joining us uh from Greencroft is Todd Yoder, president of Greencroft Community Foundations, Jim Henning, board chairman of Greencroft Community Foundations, Brian Cook, Greencroft Goshen Healthcare Administrator, Terry Bender, Director of Nursing. We also have two that have been uh along with this uh
039in meetings uh that couldn't make it tonight is Hugh Davis, the CEO, and Kim Harden, uh who is our is Greencroft's Vice President. So, uh special thanks from me to Greencroft. I don't know if you'd like to say anything. Well, holding a very large fake check here. Well, it's not that big. Uh just wanted to make a statement quickly. At Greencroft Communities, we believe in the power of purpose-driven work and the importance of investing in those called to care for others. As the nation continues to face a significant nursing shortage, we feel a strong responsibility to support and grow a local nursing workforce that uplifts our entire region. From Goshen to Elkhart County and across northern Indiana, we are honored to champion the sacred calling share the profound rewards that come with a nursing career.
040Our partnership with Goshen Community Schools reflects this commitment. We're excited to help Goshen High School students take their first steps into the world of nursing and experience first-hand the difference they can make in the lives of older adults. We are thrilled to have been invited into this space and are loving what's happening. And if you have the chance to visit Greencroft and and speak to these students who are now working for us, uh they are engaged and they are uh loved and they are working with our residents in ways that is visible to anybody around to see what their uh what their effect what their impact is with our residents. So, we're glad to be in this space. Thank you very much. >> [applause] >> I get the big check? Yes, you do. So, I
041don't Thank you very much. You're welcome. We like to get a nice picture, too. Yes. And I think Terry's going to take our picture, so if you don't mind. Thank you here. Bring the big check. >> You got to bring the big check. Yeah, thank you. Back middle of the talking. John, you're right in front, right? Put your name in the ground this year. Thank you. Appreciate it. You got to bring that back. Get another picture of the school board. Thanks. Thank you. I mean, I'll say as you guys are leaving, and Greencroft has been a wonderful partner in this community for decades upon decades, and we're excited to be able to partner with you guys in the future here as we go forward. And I want to say thank you very much for supporting
042us and believing in us. Uh cuz that's what public schools are about is the community working together to better the community. So, thank you so very much. Okay, we do have one more small one. It's the night of big It's the night of big check. >> Oh, it's a big check. It's a big check. Um Dr. Metcalfe, this is yours. >> On on March 28th, um Greencroft I was going to say Greencroft. Martin's um had their grand re-opening over at the um store on Bashor. Bashor. Um and one of the things they reached out to us for is they've always been a great partner to us. So, they wanted to donate some money to our one of our pathways. We've chosen our supply chain logistics pathway because, to be honest with you, when you think
043about a supermarket what it what it does from from um uh produce coming from the field, processed, transported, delivered, shelves stocked, um that is what supply chain logistics and supply chains are about. And so, we can't think of a better um pathway to uh give to uh put their $2,500 for than our supply chain logistics pathway. So, if we can get a picture with Brad and Jim. >> [clears throat] >> Put this on our social media. I love social media. Okay, if you can have one one on each end. There you Just need to get it there. There we go. Okay, thank you. It's level. I know it's perfect. It's good. >> [laughter] >> More level than I Social media changes things. Take our pictures. The other one was heavy. That was a little That
044was a big sum there. Well, I will say um to wrap that up, we need partners, business community partners, people in the community. What makes Goshen High School and Goshen Community Schools special is the community we serve and the kids that we serve. But um different than a school just out in the middle of nowhere, uh we are here in the Goshen We are Goshen. So, uh the Goshen community, particularly the business community, has been very supportive in many different ways. We hope that continues. And we're still always looking for new partners for each one of our pathways to have business partners that are willing to support us. So, uh hopefully we'll have more of those to come. Um and we do have something on the agenda to rename uh our our uh healthcare health
045science pathway. Uh so, we will get to that later. Okay, moving on to quickly to um to celebrations. We have quite a bit to celebrate. First off, we want to congratulate our our high school boys basketball team on their incredible um season, but also the list of post-season honors. Um these students were named to different levels of of um academic achievement and such as Academic All-State was Levi Swartley. Academic All-State honorable mention was Nathan Corbin and Evan Timmons. Team Academic All-State just one of 29 teams in the state to earn this honor, which is which is very, you know, really says a lot about not only our our kids, but our coaching. Um, all conference, Braxton Klein and Levi Swatski. And all conference honorable mention, uh, Carter Mark. So, congratulations to those boys on that
046great season. We also had chess club. We had a number of our chess clubs compete at the state competition. Goshen High School finished 10th uh, in the 12th grade and under division. Goshen Intermediate School placed 16th in a very in a very in a competitive sixth grade and under field. And then West Goshen finished 19th in the third grade and under division. Um, Chamberlain and and some of the additional GIS and GHS teams, um, they gained some valuable experience. If you've never been to a chess tournament to see or to watch, it is a very intere- it's very interesting. And so, um, I know this was a great experience for those those kids. Um, so we want to thank their parents for allowing them to take part in this. And then last, um, but not
047least, the music department had their New York City trip where more than 150 Red Hawks uh, musicians performed at the World Strides Heritage Festival in New York. And their performance stood out, earning first place finishes along with multiple gold ratings. So, uh, you know, that is that is one of the we do it every other year and it's one of the things I know the kids look forward to. We also had some individual honors going to uh, Judah Ennis, uh, Nija uh, Kamala Kaufman, uh, something like that. And then Nathan Schneider for their outstanding solo performances. So, um, just a always a great great um, we always when we come whenever we compete in our music with our in our music department, we always have a great standing. So, uh, congratulations again. Thank you, Doc-
048Dr. McKibben. I think that concludes unless I missed something on the people commitments. Okay, team. All right. Uh, that concludes our report then on our people commitments. Well, wonderful. It's always great to see our students representing us well and uh, it's just it's amazing the the the variety ways that they do great things for us. So. All right. Uh, moving on our agenda, we are now to item four, which is board committee reports. So, board members, I will look to each of you. Anything you would like to report on the committees you currently sit on? updates. We met 2 weeks ago. Uh, but I forwarded uh, minutes and agenda and I'll do the same thing for the next meeting. That's for the foundation. Foundation. Yeah. Okay. Other updates? All right. Redevelopment meets tomorrow, so I'll
049have an update after uh, our meeting later in the month. Okay. All right. So, with that then, moving along here, we'll go to item five, which is our consent agenda items. 5.1, approval of accounts payable dated April 13th, 2026 and payrolls dated March 20th, 2026 and April 3rd, 2026. 5.2, gifts and donations. 5.3, out of state field trip, TSA Flight Path Lab to Sandusky, Ohio. And 5.4, personnel. Uh, anything to highlight or questions on the consent agenda items? Okay. Hearing none, the consent agenda items are approved as presented. Moving on to item our item six, which is our action items. And we will begin with item 6.1, uh, approval of superintendent contract. And that is my item tonight. So, um, just to give a little backstory here. So, so Mr. DeBoice is currently finishing I
050guess technically your third year with us here. So, uh, started as our interim uh, for 6 months and then was established with a 2 and 1/2 year contract. Um, so, uh, the way our contracts currently work is uh, they technically do roll over year over year. Uh, but we as a board uh, had some discussions and felt uh, a new contract was warranted. Uh, I think you've heard a lot about of the successes that we've seen tonight. Um, and a lot of that is uh, thanks to the leadership that he's brought to this district. Um, so, we as a board felt it was uh, important to recognize that and um, make known that Goshen is the place to be. Uh, so just a few highlights of the contract. Um, so it was uh, posted on
051our website as well as in the Goshen News. Um, we held a public hearing on this on Thursday, April the 2nd. Um, but details of the contract is uh, it is a new 3-year contract that will go into effect July 1st, 2026 and will conclude on June 30th, 2029. Um, it has the ability to have 1-year extensions, um, each and every year. Um, the base salary uh, will be $185,000 a year, uh, putting Goshen um, where we deserve to be, um, at the top uh, for the size of school that we have. Um, but there are many schools that are right about there. So, we felt that was important to establish that. Uh, obviously, um, vacation days are included in that. Um, contribution of 14% to a retirement fund. Um, vehicle allowance, technology allowance. Um,
052so much of the same, but um, we felt it was important to recognize where we are at. Um, and I think this uh, establishes where we want to go on the forward. So, with that, uh, I will ask for a motion and a second for item 6.1, allowing for discussion and and voting on the item. I'll move for the passage of item 6.1, approval of superintendent contract. I'll second. Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Goodman. So, board members, obviously we've had this uh, in front of us for a while as we've reviewed it and put the details together. Questions or comments here on the proposed new contract for Mr. DeBoice? I think just personally I'd like to say that um, I I know that even with the comment I was made earlier that there's
053this maybe a separation between the subjective and objective analysis of things, but the importance of good leadership for a district, I don't think can be underestimated. It is something that's incredibly valuable. It can either cost a district massive amount of money and results for students if you have bad leadership, or it can be very efficient and move a district from good to great. Uh, I've been reading a book titled that what what keeps some companies from moving from good to great and why do other ones do it? And a lot of it comes down to both the people and the leadership that is in place, the ideas, the mentality going into it. And I think we've seen a change of mentality over the last 3 years that has been very good for the district. Do
054we have a long way to go? Yeah, absolutely. But, uh, the results we see tonight I think demonstrate that we have justified change. And even in the idea of being efficient, getting a return on investment, the accomplishments for our students as we invest money as a community and a district into everything that happens at Goshen Community Schools, we've seen that we've been able to become more efficient and yet offer more things. And those are all valuable. Not every person who would come in here would expand as the way we have and yet maintain the efficiency and return for the taxpayers. And I really appreciate that. And one thing I want to comment on because I'm glad you said it. Um, is we heard a comment earlier um, that was comparing a number that I don't
055think is a apples to apples comparison. It was a contract for a first time superintendent um, versus a much more experienced superintendent here. And even the last contract that we had in place uh, with an experienced one was far greater than what we had of that new superintendent. So, you have to look at the long-term history of our district. You can't just cherry-pick certain numbers to come up with percent increases uh, because there are different times and different people in those roles. So, um, but obviously, Mr. DeBoice came to us with 10 years of previous superintendent experience. We've now added three more to that. So, I think we have a a well- tenured individual that knows how to lead districts well. Um, so. Other comments from board members? Okay. All right. So, with that, we
056have a motion and a second on the floor for item 6.1. All in favor, please raise your hand and say I. I. Opposed? Passes 6-0. Thank you for the confidence. I appreciate the board and all the work that you've done. But most importantly for me, I appreciate the staff, teachers, principals that are out there working extremely hard, putting their uh, life energy into the work that they do for the kids in our community. And um, I hope we can continue to get better, just incrementally 1% better over time. Uh, and just time will be on our side. Uh, and because each one of those percentage points means something great for kids are happening. And that's that's what it boils down to at the end of the day. It's all about the kids. It's all about
057the work that we do. So, uh again, I appreciate the board for the the work that you do always anyway, uh but most importantly, the staff and the leadership in the buildings and the work that they do uh supporting the kids and the families that are in the community and all the taxpayers that support the district as well. So, Thank you, sir. All right. Um moving on is item 6.2, approval of the Goshen High School principal. It's to you, sir. Yes. This is a fun time for me. We've had an opportunity to uh do some significant uh evaluations and digging through uh applications uh for folks for this position and uh kind of went through a process. Teachers were involved, uh administrators were involved, and uh kind of kept getting narrowed down and narrowed down
058and narrowed down, and the one standing at the end of the day with most impressive uh interview process and outcomes we think for the for the district uh is Lexa Magnuson. And so, uh Lexa, if you want to stand up, maybe say something to the board. Uh we're so thankful uh for Lexa and her leadership. She's been uh a huge uh kind of contributing uh leader at the high school amongst the leaders that are already there. Uh she has kind of set the tone uh since our principal left. She's been kind of the uh if not the united leader, she has been the leader stepped up and has done a lot of great stuff. And um I know um you just know certain people that have the kind of uh temperament and the leadership ability
059and logical thinking and understanding of processes and people, and uh Lexa kind of rose to the top, and so she's our candidate, and we're looking forward to many years of great leadership from Lexa at the high school, and so, go ahead and you know, kind of talk to the board for a minute and tell them something about yourself. Uh maybe some of the people that were here that >> Yes. Thank you. If you notice earlier, there was some laughing and giggling going on, and that was my 1-year-old daughter and my husband, um who's a wonderful father and has been really supportive in all of this, but they are out playing somewhere maybe in the yard uh or outside. Um but yeah, my husband is Uriel Macias. He works in the district also, and then um
060my daughter is at the daycare every single day with us, so we all come in together as a family. Um sometimes we can even walk if we want to. Uh a little bit about me, when I first started my pre-service teaching, one of my first placements was actually here at Goshen High School, whether people know that or not. I absolutely loved the way that the teachers here taught and the way that they talked about education and the way that they talked about their students can't be compared to any other district that I had placement with. And from then on, I I thought, I want to be a part of that, too. That's something that I want to be a part of. And so, it's been an absolute privilege to continue along this role um as
061assistant principal and now to be here standing in front of you as a proposed candidate for principal. Um you know, I love Goshen Community Schools. Uh I'm unequivocally loyal to everything that we offer our students. Uh I think everything that we stand for, everything that our kids are, our teachers are, um is can't be compared to anywhere else. Um standing here in this position, a couple of commitments that I have to you guys, um our goal is to continue to increase student achievement and focus on uh designing and um preparing students with highly preferred pathways, uh things that families, um our community members, uh are all going to be able to um continue to support our students in as they become colleagues someday and neighbors in within our own community. Um and I also am
062committed to continuing to build strong relationships and partnerships um along with both our community members, uh our community partners, and um our students and parents, too. Uh so, all that to say, um I really believe that sustainable improvement uh happens through consistency, collaboration. Um I think for our families, our students, and our teachers, it's through transparency, um and a consistent messaging, uh and um continued progress that's aligned with our district vision. So, yeah. Lexa is a winner. She wins everywhere she's at. She's been an athlete, uh very successful athlete, uh also a coach at the college level, and she's coached for us as well. She's just a winner, and we're really excited to have her lead our high school. Any questions with the board? Well, what I'll say is we will open it up for
063a motion in a second, then we can we can ask questions. We No, you're No, you're fine. I I want to make sure we don't get ourselves ever in trouble. That's what I'm here for. >> I just wanted you to hear from me. No, I I asked wonderful. We appreciate that. That's important for us. I made sure to mention I was proposed. >> [laughter] >> I respect the process. So, I will ask for a motion in a second for item 6.2, and then we can ask some questions if we have any, um or we can move forward voting. So, I move for the passage of item 6.2, approval of Goshen High School principal. I'll second. Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Garber. Questions, board members? Well, I I'll say it's going to be great
064to to have you in that role. Uh you're very familiar with with the building, which I think is important. Um know the inner workings of it, so uh we're excited for future for you. We're excited for where we can go. We can continue to rise higher. That is our goal. We are winners. We are in this together, so you have our support. Thank you. I appreciate that. And thank you for your for your trust. Anything else from other board members? Okay. Well, we have a motion and a second on the floor for item 6.2, which is approval of Goshen High School principal. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say I. I. Opposed? It passes 6-0. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> All right. Moving on to item 6.3 is approval of Once Literacy. Yes,
065sir. So, at the beginning of the year, we started a pilot with Once Literacy in two of our buildings. Uh we have two instructors, two paraprofessionals, actually EL paraprofessionals who have become highly trained in helping our kids to learn to read as a Tier 3 intervention program. Uh we have had great success with that, and I have a couple of testimonials that um I highlight very quickly, um principal at Parkside, Julia, and principal at Chamberlain, where the pilot took place, Scott Williams. Um just nothing but great things to say about Once. And so, what we would like to do is to expand it as a Tier 3 opportunity uh at all six of our elementaries. Um the principals are excited. Um and and I think that the best thing that I can do uh to
066promote this is to say that um both Parkside and Chamberlain um are hoping that we can continue to increase this beyond just a Tier 3 and hopefully support more kids with it because they're seeing great success with kids that would not be as advanced readers without that as they are now. Uh this this we targeted really challenging students, uh particularly English learners who would have a hard time with language and reading, and we're seeing great growth in the way that the instruction happens every day, 15 minutes one-on-one. Um and another key component of this is the training, the coaching that the instructors receive every week from Once. Uh they see themselves on video, and and it's just fascinating to see. Um I have video of that. I have some data to share with that as
067well that I'm happy to do that. Um I did not want to put it on here because there's some, you know, identifiable information from the kids, and I didn't want to do that, but if you're interested in seeing the progress of uh 5-year-old going from uh knowing uh letters and sounds to now reading some text and answering questions is pretty impressive to see. So, uh we're hoping to be able to improve increase this to every one of our schools. Okay. Thank you, sir. So, with that, I will ask for a motion and a second for item 6.3 for uh discussion and voting. I move for the approval of item 6.3, the approval of Once Literacy. I'll second. Moved by Mr. Goodman, seconded by Mr. Garber. Questions, board members? Comments? Is this throughout the year, or
068is it just a section of the school year that they're doing it? It is um so, we had 21 students at Parkside and 20 students at Chamberlain that receive instruction 15 minutes every day. Uh if the students are here, they're receiving that instruction. Um something that makes it important is that this is the instructor's only job. Right. >> So, they spend all day helping our kids to read 15 minutes at a time. With were you able to I mean, I know data sometimes is not that specific, but were you able to look throughout the checkpoints with the scores we looked at earlier and see, hey, these three three checkpoints, there was dramatic improvement? >> that is a good question. Uh this is at kindergarten and first grade, so the the students would not have taken
069the checkpoints, but we use our Acadience data uh data for which is our dyslexia screener beginning and middle of the year. And what we're seeing is that our kids who are in the ones program are you know closing the gap faster than kids who are not and moving percentile ranks is how you know dyslexia is determined so student may have started at the first one percentile like lowest possible and they would have jumped like 12 or 15 percentile points uh where others would would have jumped five or six percentile points so um That's great. It looks like it's about 20 students on average per school is what we're anticipating again. >> Yeah and that's because of the the the timing of it so one instructor that becomes their day and we want to make sure
070that we have a 30-minute period of time every day so that they can receive the coaching once a week there's some prep it's pretty well scripted uh but there is some prep getting folders organized to see the next kids and there's a motivational component to that and so out of the 15 minutes they the instructor spends um it's actually pretty phenomenal and she was awarded by Yondr nationwide uh she spends about 12 minutes of that and that's going to get the student in back and use 12 minutes instruction daily uh and Chamberlain wasn't too bad they're about 10 so it's really just it they love what they do this is I compare this to SOI like the instructors absolutely love what they do because it's life-changing. That's great. Other questions comments? It says the wallet
071was only good until 5/7 is it still good? Yeah. We are we are good and it's actually um because if we're able to increase to six they lowers the cost for training because uh instead of dividing a training visit into two schools now it's into six it doesn't cost any more it actually reduced the cost per building as you can see uh I want to say two to $3,000 per building so Okay. Other questions? Okay. All right uh so we have a motion and a second on the floor for item 6.3. All those in favor please raise your hand and say I. I. I. Opposed same sign passes 6-0. Thank you. Thank you. All right um moving on to item 6.4 approval of Yondr bags Dr. Metcalfe. Yes I'm sure I'm sure there's a lot
072of people out there waiting to hear exactly how we're going to help students with the no cell phones at all during the day um over the past couple meetings I've talked to you about um you know it's easy to say don't bring your phone to school but what happens if it shows up there what happens if kids start sneaking how do we how do we give them a tool at least to um a tool and an expectation for how to how to do that and so after bringing you have seen some of the um different containers that are out there after talking to the high school principals looking at not only the quality of the of the of the bag for for the students that will then they can carry they'll be carrying their own
073phone all all all day long they just will not have access to it um so um looking at that but also then looking at the support they give with when it comes to planning helping to create helping to create policy um uh they've done this across the nation they've done it in one of our neighboring schools that'll also be instituting this next year um we feel that uh the Yondr bag was probably the the the best option for us to provide the high school teachers and students with a tool to to make it through the the new the new the implications of the new law and so I'm bringing this as as a proposal that hopefully for approval tonight uh we are getting an early adopters discount and so I'll let you guys do that
074and then we can ask questions. All right. Uh so with that I'll take a motion and a second for item 6.4. I'll move for the passage of item 6.4 approval of Yondr bags. Second. Moved by Mr. Glick seconded by Mr. Goodman. Um so right now these are just for high school students we're not looking we don't feel there's a need to go lower right now correct? >> We we have them for the junior high also okay we will whether we whether we implement it next year at the junior high or wait um either way each year um as students come in they get a new bag that lasts them four years so those bags will be will be used um but we did in case you know in case when in case the junior high
075decided um for example I know um we talked about when we put vape detectors in the high school the junior high wasn't quite ready to do that um after talking to Jan uh Ms. Dr. Baker I don't want to be too familiar but um Dr. Baker uh that is something we're that is something we're looking at now so uh so yeah so we're looking at that so while they might not they might not implement it right away it might be something they will they'll be continuing to look at um along the way but having the having the bags is well You said one thing I want to ask a question you said students would have these for four years or is this going to be like curriculum where Yes. They you know they'll get it
076first day of school and and we were we are going to be proposing that we charge we charge a fee to the parents to cover the cost of the bag so while there is an upfront cost the the idea the idea is that um as as if somebody loses it if somebody needs it destroys it something happens to it um they'll have to have a replacement but they'll have to purchase a replacement bag but yes it would be um and we've actually talked kind of at the high school when we were talking about this is when do you do this do you give it to them before the first day of school like when when people are coming in to um maybe get their schedules and things like that and so but no matter what
077happens we've got to start talking and publicizing and letting our students know the expectations for next year while they're still here this year um and so doing this puts us in a position that um we know what we're going to be doing um and how we're going to be doing it. And then obviously with this we'll have policy updates and then there'll probably also be disciplinary actions as well depending on Yeah that'll that'll all Yondr is that's one of the things they will help us uh work out what has worked in other places what has not worked depending upon what our students and what our our our staff and faculty feel um is appropriate um for those for those pieces um the state is pretty clear uh the law is pretty clear about it um
078so how do we handle that um will be what what the high school will be probably working on for the next you know the next month or so um we'd love to be able to bring the policy back in in June uh but it would also need hand like handbook updates things like that but it all starts with the first step. Because it is ultimately the honor system because the students have to physically lock it They do. So just because they have it doesn't mean it's locked so But the nice thing about the Yondr bag was is it's easy to tell if it's unlocked um some of the other bag some of the other containers that we looked at you could probably fake that pretty easily um some of the things when we talked to
079other we've looked at other districts we have Fort Wayne for example um we've also looked at you know if if a student is their phone um is not in the bag um they have a progressive kind of discipline piece well first thing that happens is they lose the phone it gets put in an office in a Faraday in a Faraday uh case just because so you know it doesn't go off all day and bother people in the office and and then they have to they are allowed to pick it up at the end of the day the next one uh on in their case if it happens again parents they don't get the phone back until the parent picks it up um and then hopefully by then the parents are also helping to put us
080put a little pressure on the students to just put it in the bag just leave it in the bag um we anticipate a lot of people and then I think um Yondr would even say during the first couple during the first month or so you're going to we'll have a lot of people pushing the envelope and trying to figure out ways around it but we we want to get our we want to get our processes in in place and be consistent um and so that means we need to have all this stuff done before the end of the school year. Are you anticip- anticipating kids having two or three phones? Yeah. Yeah I think we'll I think we'll always we'll have some kids that'll have a burner or a fake phone or they'll put a
081fake phone in or um but then you know we'll walk we'll walk through our discipline process phone you know depending on what it whether it be phones confiscated you pick it up at the end parents contacted um you know we the legislature put this in place but didn't give us a lot of they did not give us a lot of tools to enforce it um and so how do we how do we do that and so talking to the high school principals assistant principals the honor system would might cause um our teachers to be put in positions where we don't want our teachers fighting this bat these battles with kids about their cell phones uh the expectation is it's in the bag it's it's in airplane mode it's in the bag if it's not here's
082the here's the process that will happen. It's the state law that's the law that's what we have to do we just have to figure how do we get them I loved Allen's uses the idea that it's a tool to help the kids handle that phone the right way and it's also a tool for the administration teachers to handle the so it's not a battle point but if they to your point if they're going to you know for some reason decide they're going to get up and start video taping in the hallway something going on or you know getting messages in the classroom with the other phone that's where the discipline cuz the expectation is so clear that you're not allowed to have it and we've gone this level to get these bags to help you
083use that tool if you're not going to use it that's insubordination and we have to deal with it you don't leave us any choice really we don't we wish we didn't have to but you know the kid would put us in that position at that time um so I don't know I I think Dr. McCaskill looked at this 50 million different ways and really done a great job leading the kind of the discussions with the schools and just happy he's on our team to take care of this stuff Do we have a plan to communicate with the parents before the school is over? Yeah that's one of the that's one of the things we're cuz what we want to do is we'll want to first of all start and and Yondr has communicate they have
084you know we have a we have a customer service it's a customer No it's like a customer service we have we have one of their staff assigned to us that will come and they'll train they'll actually come and train our staff but they'll they'll actually help us craft the messaging to parents um and the first messaging will probably start out as hey there's a new state law here's here's what the state law is going to require here's how we're going here's what we're going to do to help you to help you and what you can do to help us um you know follow this law um and then we'll go into probably some other messaging from there but uh we anticipate them helping us every step along the way I had two questions I guess
085um in the education package uh the one being 23,000 one being 43,000 one being 9,000 I know you mentioned that person assigned to us to help us with those but what are those yearly fees is that a one-time fee? >> yeah that's a yeah the Yondr education package um that is a one-time fee that is the one-time fee that comes with you know uh all the all the templates all the policy pieces that the people there um um one is for the and they actually and they and they quoted us once once for the junior high one for the high school And then I guess in reference to policy and stuff so if that is outside excuse me of [clears throat] Neola would Neola say that they don't warranty those policies and if it's based
086on state law is Neola going to have a policy that we wouldn't have to pay the additional fees for? Well the state law I think says that I I I think I believe if I currently remember it it says that it is um that the students can either are not supposed to have the phones and they can either you can either ban them from the school or they can they have to be contained in something and so um um one of the things we've talked we've talking with Yondr about um and those that 43,000 that includes that that's also the the cost of the bag is in there that's not just their their uh that's not just their their fee for helping us that is the that also includes the cost of the bag I
087Got it. their their initial quote was much cleaner but this is their this is their official how it how how we would pay it but um if you look at that the I see so everything above is at zero. Yes. Because of that. Yes. >> [snorts] >> It's like 2550 [clears throat] is all inclusive. Yes. Correct. It comes with their support the bag the magnets um to help for unlocking and all those things for the for the junior high and the high school at our junior high and high school level And then what about the annual membership I know it says zero now is that an ongoing fee as well or No it it it is it is not something that it's it's a it's a choice and I think part of that choice at
088the end of at the end of when talking to them at the end of these progresses is um how has your school responded how have your students and parents do you still need help with a reset do you need help doing those things once it once we get it up and running our goal would be that we would we would not have to have to do that I guess my last question is um under the terms and conditions it says that there's no warranty on any of the products I find that kind of interesting because if you're getting that many bags the likelihood that they're all 100% perfect is pretty small I mean That is actually a very good question I did not catch that piece of it um Yeah it says it does not
089include a warranty replacement or product upgrades At least that's the way it's written. I think there's a what 10 or 15% We do get a we do get a um I think we get a like a 15% buffer um or a 10% buffer I should say of of bags so we do have some extra ones that are that are covered within there um I would think to be honest with you I would think that if we were to approach Yondr um they would probably work with us because this is one of those things that um states across the United States are are looking at Indiana has has adopted this so they're looking to be as um customer friendly as possible all right in order to get the to get the the business of these because
090there are competing there are competing bags that are maybe a little cheaper um but the the they don't have the the time and the experience that they haven't been around as long and they don't have the experience of with with their customer success um representatives so um I think that this that they would probably work with us if if we had some bags that didn't work I mean I think that's only now if we gave it to a kid and they come back the next day and it's torn to pieces they probably aren't going to say it's not a I think part of that is because some students might try to get into this and they're not going to warranty a a bag that is damaged in that way and stuff but I would anticipate
091them working with and I can follow up with that Additional questions on item 6.4. I'd say the other thing I would add it also includes smart watches have to be Yes that's true it's not just cell phone it's any wireless communication device such as uh smart watches technically they would say your airpods um those would have to go in there should be going in there also um so It's everything. It's everything. So you might have to get a pay phone. >> [laughter] >> Used to be in the gym lobby. All right. Anything else we're ready to vote? All right so we have a motion and a second on the floor for item 6.4. All those in favor please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. Aye. Same sign I guess that passes 6-0. All right
092and our last action item tonight is 6.5 approval of naming rights for health care pathway Mr. Boyce. Yes it's um so it's going to be called Green Croft Academy of Health Sciences uh that's part of I think they were perfectly content not having their name on it we kind of pushed that uh so if you see an agreement and then talking to our attorneys like they said now you better get an agreement uh rather than just you know name it that without cuz it just makes it really clear so this agreement you see is what our attorneys helped us craft uh and working with Green Croft and what they're comfortable with and what we're comfortable with so it's just a lot of protections you know if you you can get out of it any time
093back and forth uh they can do the same thing they don't have to continue they're giving us roughly $30,000 a year for 5 years and that's how we get the money for the program so uh we'd like to do this in a lot of our uh the one we didn't mention this as much but we have all of our kids are going there doing rounds and learning about nursing and about health care and uh they're looking at a lot of maybe some of our construction kids to go over there and work with them so there's a lot of different ways that they're supporting uh the school and so we we would like to call it the Green Croft Academy of Health Sciences and that's what the document's there for and which has been reviewed by
094your attorneys. All right. Thank you sir. So with that I will ask for a motion and a second for item 6.5 approval of naming rights. Move for the passage of item 6.5 approval of naming rights for the health care pathway. I'll second. Moved by Mr. Glick seconded by Mr. Goodman. Um kind of like I said I'd be having great partners is is key to the continued success uh of a lot of things we want to do so that's appreciative of of their willingness to step up and and be part of the solution here uh I was trying to think how long Green Croft has been in our community is it 60 70 year I mean Roger you have It's got to be around 60. Around really 60 so yeah so it's a very well established
095organization in our community um and it's it's wonderful they're willing to partner with us Other comments questions? All right. Hearing none, we have a motion and a second on the 4.86.5. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. Opposed? That passes 6-0. All right. That concludes our action items tonight and we will then go to item seven, which is discussion items, and 7.1 general obligation bond, Dr. Evans. Thank you. It's our my understanding that the board would like to move forward with the soccer stadium and to that effect, uh we would engage with Barton Coe Vilama to give us some price estimates and then do a GO bond probably in August. Uh we go through the series of first hearing and the second hearing and then close on it time to
096get the proceeds this year. Any questions? Uh I I would say um we've done that the work that we've done as a committee and looked at the campus as a whole and how we want to uh support some of the work. So, uh the potentially uh we would like to come up with uh these kind of shovel-ready projects that are done. Uh the work that uh Bob is talking about is uh putting all the engineering and uh start to get uh submit things to get uh the municipalities uh support uh to get to get so we can have a green light ready to go and then so if the bond goes through and the board uh votes on it, we're ready to go. So, uh at that time, we would then reimburse ourselves for those
097engineering and architectural work. So, that's coming next time. Uh we're going to have that proposal for you. Here Here's the scope of the work that Barton Coe Vilama is going to do to get those kind of I don't know the term Shovel-ready, pad-ready, sound good? Um so, we we could just if if we have the funding available on the general obligation bond and we don't have other issues, we would just go ahead with that piece of the retrofit or remodeling of this campus. Uh the first one uh our team and I think we've had some feedback from others. We we feel like our soccer field needs uh it will instantly allow us opportunities to have a C team uh for the boys and the girls and we have a lot of kids interested in soccer.
098And then also, they play their tournament on turf, not on grass. We have this really great grass field, but we can't practice on it. We can only play our games on it. And now they have to play their tournament on turf, so uh it kind of tightens turn from hey, we like playing on grass to hey, you know what? We better be playing on turf because it's different than grass, so uh I'm not a soccer player, so but that's what I've been been told, so um any questions from the board? We just wanted to bring it up and say, hey, this is kind of our plan and we're going to be bringing that to you at that time. Doing this with GO bonds still allows us to do our 2% investment. Yeah, it will. As
099the even as we look at that, I look at that as part of that 2% investment. We have a stadium, it's just not It's part of the 2%. Okay. >> It's part of that 2%, not in addition to. Got it. Yeah. Um and we would say like if we do the remodel to the front of the high school here, that's part of that 2%. Uh we we retool, we make a boulevard out front so it feels like a campus here. That's part of the 2% too. We just build it into those GO bonds right here. In addition to that, Bob has a whole list of roofs that we're going to be working on and uh carpeting wall coverings and things in the buildings uh that are needed in furniture. We have uh always have HVAC
100and roofs. You can just count on them every year. Get caught up Bob has done a great job leading the team on that. Any other questions? No, I think that's a strategy we've kind of discussed and that's important to put it out there that that's where we want to keep going to continue having uh best-in-class facilities. We've done well at investing other places and this is kind of the next in line, so So, we just want to spring it on you and say, hey, here's some architectural drawings and engineering drawings that we want to get ahead of. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves. We want to you understand it's part of that project. So, we'll see this at our uh next meeting in April. On the agenda for action. Yep. Okay. All right.
101Ask questions if you have them. Okay. All right, so with that, we'll take us to item eight, which is our closing items and anything from the administration tonight? Yeah, we want to make an announcement. We're looking at Arts and Letters curriculum and so for anybody in the community and the board members, uh what other curriculum we looking at, Lori? Um Savvas and Arts and Letters, yes. We'll have them here. Uh anybody, board members and/or people in the community want to give it a look? Uh we've been having people work on it all year and testing some of them out and so uh we have some opinions. We also have to weigh what the state's doing with what they're going to approve and not approve and so we may end up not adopting it. We may
102adopt something, we may not. So, we're not required to, but we just want to make sure everybody knew it was available. Uh [clears throat] it's an announcement, so next announcement was we we are contemplating canceling the uh April 27th board meeting uh on the heels of that last conversation. >> [laughter] >> So, uh other than that, we probably don't have any items, so we're just we were we've been meeting keep saying, oh, something's going to come up, but we'd like to hold off on canceling that till we get a little closer to that date. Uh so but we're probably looking at by the end of this week uh letting you know if it's off. Assume it's on 27th here at 6:00 p.m. unless we notify you that we have canceled that board meeting. Okay. Okay.
103And then if we do cancel, the next board meeting is May 11th at 6:00 p.m. here in this room. Okay. All right. And item 8.2 uh board items, anything board members you want to bring up that was not on the agenda tonight? All at once, all right. Okay. So, with that, I'll look for a motion and a second for adjournment. Motion for adjournment. Second. Good. We're going to click. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. We are adjourned. Thank you all very much. Enjoy the evening.