001Please stand 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'd like to welcome everyone to our second meeting here in August and we are have started our second full week of school. All going well so far. Uh so just a few opening remarks. 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's time for public participation for agenda and non-aggenda items. Uh item number two tonight. Our mission is to inspire innovation, high potential, enriching our world. Our vision goss county school district of choice. Item 1.4
002is approval of tonight's agenda. Do we have any revisions to the agenda? >> No additions, Mr. President. >> All right. Agenda is approved as presented. And board members, item 1.5, approval are our minutes from the August 11th, 2025 regular meeting and our August 18th, 2025 executive session. Hope everyone had time to review those. Do we have any revisions to those minutes? Seeing none, they are approved as presented. All right, we will now go on to public comment and we'd ask that you please sign in uh at the back and we will invite Miss Barbassan out, please. Good evening. Actually, my name is Barb Hassen. >> No, it looks Middle Eastern, but it's Irish. Um, as Brad said, my name is and I'm the proud grandmother of a recent graduate class of 2025 and I'm here
003to offer my deepest thanks to po to past and current school board members for championing a diverse school curriculum based upon rigorous and proven standards of excellence. My only daughter and family moved from California in 2011 when my granddaughter was four. Spanish was her first spoken language. Once here, she attended Parkside, the middle school, and Gian High School. She learned with students from many cultures and religious uh beliefs. And one of my favorite pictures of her when she was about six, she's hugging a girl from Yemen and a young boy from Kenya. And they each just have huge smiles on their faces. The choice varied classes was astounding. She took Mandarin. She took dance. She took advanced placement math, advanced placement science, advanced placement English and art. She loved economics and now proudly budgets. She
004was involved musicals which were very cherished memories for her throughout her school career. Excellent teachers, counselors and principles guided her journey. With their guidance and her own discipline and determination, she graduated in the top 10 of her class and she received numerous scholarships. Today, she is starting her second week of college classes. Thanks to each of you and your thoughtful evidencebased decisions, my granddaughter is wellprepared for her continuing academic journey. Thank you. >> Thank you. We appreciate it. >> Nice. >> All right. Uh that will conclude tonight's uh public comment. Uh we will now move on to item three, which are superintendent reports. Mr. voice. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm going to start out and um I would like to pass out I think I have a couple for the audience too, but this is
005draft form um the uh this is our strategic plan uh that we're going on this year. Um it is uh not much different than last year. not to be boring, but to be more of a hedgehog. Uh that we are not doing a lot of new things. We're just doing the things we have with more excellence, I would say. Um so, let me review a couple of those. Uh as we go through our superintendent report, I'll begin each section of the superintendent report by referring to the objectives that we're we're outlining here. So, uh, prior to turning some things over here on our financial commitment, which is we are committed to a well-unded, effective, and efficient financial system that supports best-in-class learning opportunities for our students and maintains appropriate balances in all funds. Um, we
006have three major objectives right now that the board has uh put into play for us uh in the last year and that is Kosha Community Schools will retire long-term debt by 2040. Um 1.2 objective is go manages our budget so that our cash balancers are sufficient requiring no short-term cash flow borrowing. We will budget to maintain a minimum 3 months cash balance in the education fund and a minimum 50% cash balance in our operations operating referendum and debt service funds. Uh and then our third objective under our financial commitment is goan schools will pursue funding to support capital reinvestment needs to average 2% of the total valuation of all properties over the three-year average uh rolling period. And uh Dr. Evans kind of leads these initiatives and appreciates where we're at. But I would say
007last year we were on track in all of those and we intend to stay on track uh at least at this point. If we feel like there's a change, we'll come to you and let you know. So, continuing with that, we have a um a few things uh Dr. Evans would like to share with you guys in regards to our budget schedule. So, and maybe a couple other financial updates as well. So, if you have any >> trying to I thought we had a second one. >> Well, it is the budget season stick right now. We had our budget workshop last week and we tonight will present the budget. Um then next board meeting we'll ask permission to advertise the budget. Following that permission assuming that it's granted I'll post them on the gateway form
008three and the bus replacement plan and the CPF plan. Following week on September 22nd, we'll have a public hearing for the budget and with the CPF plan and bus replacement plan and then the target is to adopt the budget on October. Now that timeline us Dr. Evans. So any questions for any of us regards financial? Okay. Hearing none, we're going to continue on. Our student achievement commitment uh reads as follows. We are committed to having a top performing educational system that prepares our graduates for college, careers, and life. Um kind of leading this whole area up is Dr. Metaf. Uh but we also have Javier Gimenez and Lori Shriner that are working uh leading some of these initiatives at at the district level. So, let me if you will uh go through these. There's two
009of them uh that we're not sure how to word them yet. So, they're labeled 2.5 2.5, but bear with me. Uh you'll see where we're going with this. But 2.1, we will improve by 1% the students achieving 94% attendance rate or higher. uh on track for attendance uh districtwide annual annually until we reach 90% of our or higher of our students on track. So uh we made pretty good gains last year. So we're on track there right now. Hope to be on tracking that this year as well. Uh 2.2 two objective. We will increase the percentage of students on track uh for our office behavioral referrals uh the dis at the district until we reach 90% or fewer on target. Um then we say fewer on that because we want two or fewer office referrals
010to be considered on track. If you're three or more then we consider you off track for the year. Um so 2.3 we will increase the percentage of students in grades three through eight on track on grade level course expectations on both the English language arts and math performance on the iLearn assessment annually until we reach the top 25% of districts in the state. So of course we'll try to go higher after that but we're going to take at least uh we want to improve annually. So oftentimes we talk about 1% better. So that's what that's all about. 2.4 we will increase by 1% the students passing the I read3 assessment annually over the previous year until we reach 90% of all third graders achieving uh as expected. Uh so we're at 78% right now. We're
011going to get better. Now these last two uh we don't know to combine those work those together but Dr. Medcaf's working with the high school. We know we want to do something on our SAT scores and we also want to look at honors diploma with seals and that sort of thing as they graduate. So I'll just read them both and then you get the gist from this garbled uh English language that I used to explain this. So, we will increase the percentage of students in high school reaching expected on track on both course expectations on both English language arts and math performance on the SAT annually until uh we are in the top 25% of the districts. So, we kind of like that. There's a um Dr. Maf, what was the number on SAT? Nine.
012>> Yeah. Yeah. So, we're thinking about a target like that. I know uh some of our high school folks, but we'll come up with a hard target, tell you where we were this year and tell you how we get 1% better for next year. Um the other one was we will increase the number of students achieving college credit certificates, CTS from IvyTech or completing a pathway annually by at least 1% or more of the graduates over the previous cohort of graduates until we reach 80% of all gradu. We got to clean it up. So I apologize but the idea we want to get a baseline this year and then get from last year get 1% better for this year uh which will include a lot of work and things that we're doing at the district
013level. So having said that I'm going to turn it over to uh Dr. Metcap for enrollment update and then Javier is going to give us uh some data on uh I learn and I read. So currently uh we are studying at 5,969 active students in grade program um that is down about 35 kids from spring count last year. However, if you remember study city paper about three years ago four years ago we are almost right about exactly where where they said we'd be. Um they anticipated one more year with us. I think our lowest getting or something like that 2026 27 k they saw us gradual increase that is where we are currently monitor any questions for Dr. Okay, Jav, I'll let you. You got a PowerPoint? >> Yep. So, not a whole lot new
014as far as data are close. The only thing that we were not sure was our results and um we ended up at uh 78.4% in the 2425, which you look at the screen, it's right in the middle there. And so, our goal for next year, you know, keeping the trend of 1% is to get Let's say 80% a little bit more than than 1% but that would be the goal. So what this shows here is a 1% increase what it would mean for different assessments. So second grade is the first time that our kids get to take I read. So after 2025 we have 52% of our second graders already passed I read three. So they don't have to worry about it this year as third graders. Our goal for that will be at least
01554% of second graders. So for third grade again you know getting close to that 80% mark um another 7% 7.7% growth would be amazing but you know we want to get through um these are I learn targets so by grade level if every grade level gets 1% better this is what what it would result and then for a district uh over 24% of the district um something to notice here interesting is like as third graders you see our our scores between third grade and eighth grade improving which is what you would like to see as kids are school number with us. So uh the goal here is to get 1% better and continue to improve at every grade level so that the district shows significant growth. Uh this screen is what you see as our
016main goal for I learn and I because this gets both ELA and so this the percentage pass both Thanks. Any questions for Javier? >> Well, I I would say that that that is something that speaking for elementary what something that we're working on is exactly right. So we're taking students from six buildings going into one. So as we get better in the four buildings, we hope to see a difference that um reading is but so our our goal of making sure that every kid is really what keeps us up at night. Um it's that is our mission if our kids can they're going to excel and we think that is just get more special we put systems in place last year was the first year they did it and there was growth in groups of
017kids so we were happy that it's not growing as like you're right there was a dip there and we've been we have plans this year I'm really excited to see what happens but uh it's just a further enhancing where we were last year so the teams are going to work together. They're going to, you know, the process is pretty simple. Know what we expect kids to know and be able to do on that test and then let's make sure we backwards map that. We work with the teams and the teams focus on that. We give them the tools and they work together and their creativity and effort and working with the kids and uh we really believe our kids can do the work and can can continue to get better. Uh most of these things
018I think you know we we had like passing both was 2.3%. And it doesn't seem like a lot but we went from the 44th percentile in the state to the 50th have to record it might reverse the 55th to the 44th or or 40 >> 45th to the state. >> Yeah. Anyway, we it's like a 10% improvement percentile point. So there's 390 school districts. We you figure out you know how many districts did we pass to get there and just quick math it's you know 30 30 to 40 somewhere in there we passed districts that means some went up faster than us and a lot more we passed so we just want to keep being steady now we don't want to you know the goal isn't to win the whole thing in one year we'd
019like to but you know but then the next year we got to make sure we gain 1% get 1% better too so whatever gains we make we want to hold we want to keep getting better and better and better and Uh I believe our teachers are just going to get better and better and better. Figure out how to work with our kids and our kids year after year with the group teachers that have done this kind of process. We should see the kind of growth and it should be sustainable and not just a blip on the screen for one year something we can sustain. >> One thing I would say kind of question how we make those transitions fourth as they transition building and structure much more seamless learning. It's not large. >> Any other
020questions? We passed a couple months ago the training. I forget what you call what the name was. >> Structure of the intellect. >> Is that started now or does it start later? >> It I well it's all started. They've been trained. They have their materials. I I don't know where they are. >> Teams at the elementary schools are identifying students um and they're encouraged to start as soon as possible. It's you know we're wanting to make data informed decisions. So there are things that we can say hey you know I think to be a good candidate but our beginning of the year assessments are not complete yet and so um we are we are using practice I would say so once this school year is done we should have had most of a school year
021with at least some training in that so maybe we'll see some of the effects and it's for what 600 kids that's the maximum but we may get to 500 kids. That would be K through uh four for this year. So five to 600 in that range. I think that's the max we've paid for so far. But um you're focusing on the ones that need it the most. >> Yes. So if we bump those up, >> a lot of it's the kids we think are going to benefit the most from it. Um and So that's one of our strategies. So yeah, um but then that will take so if it's you're a kindergartener doing that, the first data you would saw up here would have been third grade meeting. So it it'll take a few years
022>> to start impacting. So it should be one of those things and when we look down the road three, four years from now, it should help. But like right now we're counting on uh There's the student, there's the teacher, and there's a curriculum you use. There's like three pieces to the puzzle. And we have amazing teachers doing great work. We got good curriculum. And then if you think about what's the one thing we got to get our kids ready for the learning experience and that's what that program does. It helps us build the learner so they're more able to focus, concentrate, 10, better memory skills, fine motor skills, those things that get in the way, the blocks for them to learn. We're going to take those down and in a systematic way and then hopefully
023they can get to the learning like everybody else. They're in their class and they struggle. So very positive, but we know that's again it's not a one time and we're going to fix all of our problems because the data, you know, but we think that'll be part of the story about how we continue to climb. uh our kids, you know, are are amazing kids and we just got to help them learn the material that's expected to learn on that test to show up as a positive data point. Even though we know great things are happening for all kids in our district, we want to make sure that we also help them pass these tests at a higher rate and it'll happen. Not that we're all test focused, but we're kid focused and we focus on
024the whole child. So, all right. Don't want to take too long on this. uh want to keep moving if that's okay. I'll go to uh three operational excellence. Uh our commitment there is we are committed to innovative operations that enhance the best-in-class performance of our students. Um Dr. Medcap for the most part takes the lead here and um there are three objectives. Scotian schools annually prepares updates to the district's strategic continuous improvement plan with a rhythm and cadence for reporting results, datadriven planning. That's what you're seeing tonight. This conversation we hopefully ABCs, you'll hear a lot of that. That's going to be what you hear. Okay. 3.2. superintendent will work with directors principles to prepare a review of the current board policy and recommend updates to the policy and handbooks to keep it current with
025best practice and recent changes in the law. So, this is the Neola work that we're doing and I really need to change the associate superintendent will work with because Allen's the lead. He's rocking it. But Terry Terry has been in every single meeting when we've talked about every single policy. She's getting pretty good, too. And Allen's done the same thing. I've been uh flighty here and there at times, but those guys have been the stalwarts t taking the lead. And we, by the way, well, I shouldn't steal your thunder, is it? >> That's okay. >> Uh Allan Allen is going to have some first drafts ready to come out soon. We don't know. We have to get stuff back from Neil up before we're able to share the first drafts with you. And we're looking
026at a series of uh would bring it to you as a superintendent report. Here it is. It's in a folder. So you can look at the folders and then that we'll have a discussion like first readings and then a second reading to vote on is our plan and we'll take as long as the board needs to get this right. So >> we can read each policy word by word out loud. >> Uh not planning on >> did any policies that needed to be updated based on the July new laws. So we haven't voted on any >> we those are going to be put that's actually what we're finalizing right now with the is we did went through and did the packet since we started the packet the new uh policies have come out I think
027we're we're done with those now or the first >> I have I have a couple I need to just tweak a little bit um and then I can send >> and then we'll have a second packet actually that came out this fall >> we're still waiting on the state >> policy Yeah. So that works come along very well. So that's all 3.2. 3.3 is just we're trying to as we we're doing these clarity things uh clarity uh charts where we're kind of saying here's what a uh a PC meeting supposed to look like. Here's the things you can Here's what a MTSS meeting should look like. We're trying to get clarity from our office, work with the principles, so we're all one unified district kind of following the same set of expectations there. So that's
028what that third one is. So those are our three major uh objectives that we're working on. Um and we don't have a huge report here uh other than to say 3.1. This is what I gave you tonight and that's what I'm going through right now. So all right, so let's go to 4.0 people commitments. Um, our people commitments. We are committed to hiring and retaining innovative, engaged, highly effective leaders, educators, and staff who serve our students and families with industry best practice and passion for their work. And um, I'll pardon me, but I'll read these. We will improve our level of engaged students districtwide each year uh, to increase hope, engagement, and well-being. And Lori Schwiner's kind of leading that one. Um, but we're we don't have data yet. We don't know how to like
029we think we're going to we think we can know what we're going to do, but we're going to have data for you this year. That's what that goal will be to have some kind of data points that we can point to that indicates engaged students. 4.2. We will improve our level of engaged employees districtwide by 1% percentage point annually. We'll be in the upper quartile of educational institutions by 2030. Uh that's Tracy Noway's work on that one. We're on track this year. We made growth, made improvement. We're going to keep doing that next year. Um 4.3, we will improve our level of engaged parents uh districtwide each year. And Lori is kind of leading that one. And uh working on our data measures for that one as well. >> Data coming in soon. >> Comparison.
030>> Hopefully we can then say so 1% better means here's how we're going to do it. So kind of hopeful on all that stuff. Um having said that, Dr. Metaf, uh first day of school report, >> first day of school went very well. Uh heard great feedback as parents and staff again about our rolling start. They feel that great opportunity to get students working for them connection kind of build that culture for everyone there. Helps a lot of kindergarters because there's nobody building kindergarters. So, they have the whole place themselves. So, there's also a lot of hands on deck that um principles some reports that we've heard principles didn't really feel like this first day of school. They felt like people just stepped in and kept going. So, we're great, very happy with that. Transportation,
031we still had a number of parents who did not register to uh their students for transportation. So, there were some delays and there are have some drivers in and out. We still having delays. Some things we were doing next year we're going to be doing differently. After talking to Mr. Graves, our director of transportation is next year. We are going to just go ahead and route all junior highs. Um and then as parents just verify will they be riding that way. Um it's probably easier we decided it's easier probably to take them off a route than it is to add them to a route. Um but we'll still be parents will have to watch that. Um our transportation software company have been blocked uh about a week before we started and so um they have
032had they they are trying to combine two companies and they have had some issues with some of their services such as the bus app and our transact routing software. So um I got an email from the last week apologizing. So hopefully next year but I think transportation has settled down closer and closer >> you magician >> thank you Dr. If anybody have questions for Alan. Okay. Um I think let's before Jim and we'll let you back clean up on this one. Uh and have Jav Oh, you already did the Oh, no. The perfect diary scores. Let's do that. Let's recognize those students. Yeah. So, we have >> uh second grade students who this year um achieved a perfect score on IV3. So, we have students from Waterford who accomplished that. So, congratulations. >> I take
033credit for one of them. Actually, I shouldn't because >> you think her mom would visit. >> Mom and dad might take umbrage with that. >> So, congratulations to our second graders. Um, now it's a perfect score. It's a big deal. You won't see them on the screen next year because they don't have to take next year. So, our third graders who achieve a 650 score against Congratulations. Well done. >> Awesome. Okay, now we'll we'll turn our sights to uh Tim Picker and high school our high school athletic director and he's going to share some successes on the athletic fields. >> So last spring we had three athletes go to the state track meet. Uh two males and a female. So Aaron Angar who was a senior finished 24th in the discus. Um Daniel Kinson who
034was a junior finished 28th in a long jump and then Christina Pitfoka placed third and as a sophomore she also placed fifth. Uh she's got pretty good hopes to go farther this year hopefully. Um but it's been a a great spring for us it was and it kind of track season kind of was towards the end of that. So that's our athletes in place. didn't have a chance. We did baseball last time, but this group was missed board if you and so we want to make sure we recognize them at at the board meeting. So, >> and we're off and starting to fall. >> Yeah. Questions for Jim. Football team looked pretty good. So, thanks. Um, last thing I want to say before I wrap up, Mr. president is uh as we've gone through the
035uh changes in the uh board policy work on our NEOLA, one of the things that I'm going to be bringing to the board is uh these new Indiana code has changed and we uh are able to and I believe should uh increase the pay for our board members. Right now, your stipen's 2,000 a year and then we're able to increase it uh to 10% of what the stipen is or your stipen would be 10% of what the top teacher uh beginning teacher pay would be. So it could be up to 10% of that beginning teacher pay. So I'm going to bring a recommendation to you guys. We can have discussion at that time and then um it's the mechanism. I know you guys would never do it on your own, but I really feel like
036as superintendent, part of my job is uh to make sure we're doing the right things at the district. And even though you would never ask for that, I'm going to be making that recommendation. So, I'll be bringing that to you next time for approval. Bob, is it >> for a couple decades? >> It was in the 90s. I swear that that's what the stipen was. >> I I think what I've been told was 1989. >> That would make sense >> is when it was put at $2,000. So, it's been >> Yeah, it's time. >> It's been a little while. >> It's time. So, I'm going to be bringing that next time. I've got some language from Tim Shelley, our attorney, and asked him to put together some language. So, uh I just got a few
037more finishing touches and I'll bring it to you as a kind of a discussion next time. Okay. And that concludes my reports. Finally, thank you. Sorry for being >> Thank you. Uh it's great updates. We appreciate it. We like we need to make sure we know what's going on. So, we appreciate it very much. All right. Uh we will now transition to uh board committee reports. So board members obviously sit on various reports. Um our student uh advisor is here this month and I'm not going to put you on the spot, but uh oftentimes we will hear an update uh from yourself about uh the student body. Um here obviously if you're ready to you can do that. If not uh just we'll call on you in future meetings. So just throwing that out there.
038Welcome. We appreciate you being here. Um but other uh >> she's an entrepreneur by the way >> in her entrepreneurship class. >> Excited. >> But other uh updates from board members on the committees they sit on >> music console meets tomorrow night. >> I had an update but it's on my computer which I forgot today. So >> no problem. >> I'll give it next. Okay. All right, meeting twice a month, we'll be able to have more options to get these up. So, thank you all very much. All right, so with that then we are going to go to item five, which are consent agenda items. Start with 5.1, approval of accounts payable dated August 25th, 2025 and payroll dated August 8th, 2025. 5.2526 2 202526 Outdoor Education 5.3 NFSC New Orleans Conference and 5.4 personnel.
039Anything to highlight on the consent agenda items tonight? Nope. Nope. All right. So, with that, uh, consent agenda items are approved as presented. Moving on to item six, action items and 6.1, approval of district marketing. Dr. Mav, >> so at the last meeting we had a discussion about contracting the committee to create a 30 second video kind of marking our our school district. Um there were some questions that it will run four times over four months for a month at a time this fall and spring. Um there were some questions from the board our person also here. So he is working with it. One of the questions was could we run this uh could we run since we own the video? Could we run it on our social media time that it's running on the
040screen? The answer is yes. There were also questions about um streaming services, but also have the information information we will give to you about um how many how many hits to have it had, how many people watched totally, how many people and so I believe you have a packet in your board um update week ago or this last Friday >> in my email to you, >> not this last Friday, but the Friday before. >> Okay. um that had that had kind of an outline about about that. >> He can communicate like nobody's business. Trust me, he's very good. >> Is there anything? >> Not that we missed after the last board meeting. No, I think you covered the gist of it, but there's been a lot of internal discussion back and forth about the direction
041we want to take uh with this commercial and uh kind of where this could lead us to in different avenues. Um the GTV class is actually working on another uh 30 second style video focusing on attendance as well. So um that's another class that we could use. um that also benefits our students. >> So, Andrew has created scripts as creating scripts for these videos. One of the things that he recommended was and we did find out is that we could have two different voiceovers for the same video. So, I believe just >> Yeah. So, the the first script we're thinking about using um it's just going to be kind of a generic uh feel-good script. Uh kind of generic for Goan Community Schools. Um we're thinking about writing that the first two months um that
042this will air and then we also thought that this would be a good opportunity to kind of advertise enrollment. So, I have a script for the second two months. I believe that's February and April. um on the quote for uh the spring of 2026, so the end of the school year kind of advertising enrollment for the 26 27 school year. >> We felt like that was a good way to maximize one investment to dual purposes purposes getting our narrative out there, letting people know what great things are going on first during this fall and then advertising in the spring that hey we are accepting enrollment certain levels. Any questions? >> I think fantastic that we >> I'd say let's let's get a motion. >> Let's get a motion and a second on the floor. We
043can open for discussions, some more questions. So, uh so with that quick presentation, uh can I have a motion in a second to open up the item for discussion and voting? >> So, move second. >> Moved by Mr. Eli, second by Mr. Glick. Go ahead. Questions, please. No, I think it's great that we are doing something to let our community know uh the great great things we do at Ocean Community Schools. I think uh if you're not involved uh through your children, go community schools. Sometimes our community is stuck in the past uh and their beliefs are beliefs are from the past. Uh so I'm I'm so happy that we're doing this. Uh a lot of new members in our community do not speak and they should also know the break community schools uh does
044for our community for our kids for our community right as the as Christian community schools do great things eventually is going to be beneficial for everyone the whole community. So my question is are we also targeting the English speaker >> potentially? There's been some discussion about that um about finding a Hispanic speaking narrator uh to then replace the English version with those videos. Um we've also been doing some internal uh welcome videos to target those uh Ukrainian, Russian, Hispanic speaking families. Other questions from the board? Comments from the board? So, this will start I mean we have we started developing kind of your I guess framework the story boards right now. Do we have a vision that we're working towards? >> Um the only thing we've really finalized is the is the script. Um, I've
045been in contact a little bit with WNDU, um, but we've kind of been waiting to move forward with production, um, until we get approval from you guys. >> Also, can I mention this? I think it is possible, right? Uh, to target um, our audience based on zip code. >> Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, they can do it as broad as we want or as narrow as we want. We could do all I think it's 120,000 impressions in downtown goan if we really wanted to. Um but I think we were thinking about goan some kaziasco some elcart I believe maybe some lrange I forget what the >> discussion was. Yeah yeah >> I think the note that Jim it's out was saying to focus on Elkart County as opposed to doing the surrounding counties. >> Okay. Yeah, that
046that might be right. >> And particularly Goan, we really want >> Yeah, >> we're doing this because we want to keep the kids that live here in Gan in Goan. We want them to come to Gan Community Schools. And so that's a real targeted audiences, the families that are here. And um really we I think it's wrong. I I have an issue when school districts try to steal from each other. I don't think that's good for kids and families. Uh so that's who we that's who we really want to target and how tightly we can do that. I we haven't talked that much about that. Uh but that will be >> Yeah, I believe they can do zip codes. I mean they can narrow it down pretty pretty close. >> Other thoughts, questions from the
047board? >> Okay, we ready to vote? >> We have a motion and a second on the floor for item 6.1. Those in favor please say I >> I opposed. Passes 70. Thank you. Moving on to item uh 6.2 approval of Noy. >> Yeah, thank you. Um in your packet you have a memo and a quote um requesting your approval to move to a new hiring software um called Nimble. This was actually introduced by Dr. Evans um couple months maybe three four months ago he had mentioned it in um superintendent report um since then we have really been looking at it and and took it into consideration um as you know the HR office the goal of that office is always to support the work of our leaders in in their quest to hire the best
048that they can hire and make our onboarding process as quick and e efficient as we can not only for the candidates but also for the leaders. so that they know when people are coming in their buildings, when they got all their paperwork in, when the approvals are done, and everything is ready to go for those candidates. Um, the current system we use has been okay, but it has had some some glitches or just some some nuances to it that sometimes slow the process down. So, we've looked at Nimble and had different presentations and um the last presentation we brought the principles in to look at it and say give us their their thoughts about it. And we would like the board to give us approval tonight to move forward with putting it in place uh
049the current system we use um as our recruit and hiring tool for onboarding candidates and hiring candidates. Um the price ranges is just about the same I believe. I'm looking at Dr. Evans for confirmation for that. >> Price,000 >> because of training $4,000. >> Um Nimble is used by the IDOE. So it's it is their hiring platform. Um, and so once candidates, if they're applying for uh different jobs around the state, once they've uploaded a lot of things, they're automatically uploaded. And so then once they click on one button, it they can apply for different jobs in a variety of places around the state. So that's a bonus. Um, but when we watched it with the principles, like the principles will be able to see exactly where a candidate is in the hiring process and
050can even help to nudge a candidate if something's not turned in on time or something needs to be submitted yet that hasn't been submitted. Um, so it looks a little cleaner. Um, we hope that to be the case. Um, we've played around with it. We've, um, we've done some pros and cons with it. And anytime you switch a hiring system, there's always going to be some bumps along the way, but we we think um it looks smoother. Um and that's our goal is just to make that that process as efficient as we can to get those candidates hired and in the right seats that the leaders want them in quickly. Um and not to be so tedious for the candidates as well, so that they don't give up in the process of getting hired. So,
051so we are asking your approval tonight to move forward with that and in our quest would be that with your approval we have that in place for the hiring season next spring. So, this will set us up to work on it and get everything where we need it to be and be ready for spring recruitment season next in 2026. >> Okay. >> Appreciate that very much. All right. May we have a motion and a second for item 6.2? Move for the passage of item 6.2 approve. >> Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Goodman. Questions on what we just heard on the proposal for Nimble or comments? >> Is this the first time we going to use them or have we used this program before? >> We haven't used Nimble. Um it's there's about three
052companies out there that do a recruit and hiring system. Um, some of them are tied to your student management system. Um, Power School has a recruit and hire, but we don't currently use P school as our student management system. Um, we have recruit and hire, which is actually our platform we have now. And then there's Nimble. So, those are about the three most prevalently used. Um, so it's we haven't currently used them. >> Okay. Just to make sure I understand what we're voting on. Is this a contract or is it just a license for a year? >> It's one-year contract. So, it'll set us up to be ready to go. Um, and then we'll have to renew it yearly, which is what we do currently with our with our system we have now. I I
053noticed there was two years listed for the support, a 2000 and 1,000, but there was only one year. >> That'll be that second year of support, but you'll still have to do the >> you still have to the next. >> We're not really voting on the next year. We're >> okay. >> Just just make sure we hear. So, the annual subscription is 5,000 and it's the first year of implementation is an additional 2,000. So, I just want to make sure that's clear because I heard a couple different numbers there. So, >> total be 7,000 this year. Correct. Other comments, questions. Okay, we have a motion and a second on the floor for item 6.2. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say, "I." >> I oppos. Thank you. All right, that concludes our
054action items tonight. Uh and we will now go to discussion items and 7.1 2026 budget presentation. Dr. bring us home. >> All of you have the budget here in front of you and you're page of that. Um I know that you want to do that privacy of your own homes. But every line of the budget is in there and what we're proposing to be spent in there. As you know, as as school board is responsible to approve the budget each year and so these binders contain everything that uh will set that budget and the budget was built on history of how we've spended monies in the past, what our priorities are going into the future. And so we put that together and we built the budget. The largest portion of the budget is the education
055fund. And these notes, these numbers that I'm going to read to you are found, you can see the in the very back of the binder in the notes is uh is actually this page that I'm reading from. So you can follow along with that or read it later if you want to write yours down. But uh in within the education fund, we have the regular programs and that encompasses 27.8 million worth of staffing and other things that help out support the regular programs within the education special programs within the education fund which would be the exceptional needs students 3.35 million remediation programs which is all ed and summer school is almost 400,000 support services which would be all of the principles and those related costs would be 4,600,000 community service operations which would include coaches
056and extracurricular activities to be 741,000 And then we would transfer from fund to fund from education operations 15% which is 7,478,200. So those are the funds that we get per student. Uh we get we get a certain allocation of fundings for each student that we have. So that's that's controlled by our enrollment. The operating referendum and other funds that are tax related would be separate from that. In the operating referendum, that's 6.7 million. Debt service is paying back our our loans and monies that we borrowed or 13,953,000. Capital referendum, which is some projects we've done in the past, but that are a 20-year payback. We're paying back 6,365,000 of that this year, which is consistent with what we did last year. the operations fund after we have the transfer of the 7.478 million would be
05718,500,000 in the rainy day fund which you've yet to expand and I've never in my tenure anywhere I've ever did the rainy day fund but we always have it there as 1 million just in case something crazy happens this year so we say this every time but these numbers are advertised high because they're we're held to the levy that's generated by our current tax rates because we don't even know what our assessed value is yet. We advertise high to protect when we get to 1782 notice we can reduce that and I'll do that uh in December. So, that would be just a real quick and short explanation of the budget, but you have it all here to look at. And uh my hope is that we can bring it back to you next time and
058ask for permission to advertise the budget. After we advertise it, then we'll have a brief hearing and following board meeting and then I would like to give you the opportunity to vote on the budget. >> Okay. Okay. So, board members, you have your your binder um read up so you can ask Dr. Evans a lot of questions. But in all seriousness, do take some time to, I guess, begin to review this. Um there's tremendous amount of detail in here, uh broken down by, you know, each each different, it's called WBS element we've got set up for our district here. So, um, do we have any initial questions tonight for Dr. Evans or some studying ahead of us? >> Is there any way to get an electronic copy? >> Uh, I do not have an electronic
059copy, but maybe you could ask me specifically for section because they're I put them all together separately. I don't have the whole every page. I try to go through it. It's nice sometimes to be able to search for different types of things versus having to go through every single line. I mean, I'm going to try to read through it, but also it's just the uh like the our software program that we have like the operation fund 2020 26 budget would be what I assume you loaded in control as a budget. >> Not yet. I will once the budget is approved, but I could certainly send you all the spreadsheets of the budget from the operations education. >> They'll just be separate per >> other questions or initial comments from the board. Would you like to
060reference a certain line item to ask? Oh, come on, Bob. Have a little fun. Okay. Well, this is something we will be talking about uh for the next as you see at the schedule here through uh early October. So, um a lot of options here to review, ask questions, get clarification. So, um this is one of our main duties as a board. So please take the time needed to check this uh thoroughly and go from there. So thank you very much Dr. Evans. All right and with that that does this bring us to the the end of our meeting here. So closing items. Uh Mr. Deoce any administrative items tonight? >> No just that today was our title one preschool start day. There's 68 kids I think we've got enrolled in that. Uh that's exciting.
061No transportation this year. Parents are having to take them. But um and then no school Monday due to Labor Day. I wish everyone a safe and happy Labor Day weekend coming up. So and then our next board meeting will be Monday, September 8th. >> And board members, any items to bring up that were not on the agenda tonight? Okay. So with that, I'll look for a motion for adjournment. Please move to >> I got Goodman. Either way, however you want to flip it, they both did it. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. We are adjourned tonight.