001Yeah. Where's Ryan? Yeah, he's count he's late. Mario. Yeah, but I mean where's his seat? Right there. Oh, right on time. Mario, I'd like to make an entrance. You still got two minutes. Yeah, we got you. I was looking at that the opening right there at the end. Okay. How you doing? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I know. I can hear Your clock's the same as mine. Slow. Can you get it? All right. Well, good evening. I'd like to call this meeting order at 6 PM on Monday, April 14th, 2025. Please 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. Well, I'd like to welcome
002everyone back and hope uh those that traveled for spring break enjoyed themselves and uh we are back in the swing of things uh as of today at our schools. Uh just a few opening remarks. This is a meeting of the school board and public for the purpose of conducting school corporation's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is time for public participation for agenda and non-aggenda items as indicated by agenda item number three. Our mission, we promise to inspire innovation, empowering potential, enriching our world, and our vision. Gosh Community Schools, Elcart County's district of choice. Item 1.4 is approval of tonight's agenda. We have any revisions to the agenda? No, sir. All right. Hearing none, the agenda is approved as presented. Item 1.5 is approval of the minutes from our
003March 24th, 2025 regular school board meeting and March 24th, 2025 executive session. Members, do we have any revisions to those minutes? All right, seeing none, they are approved as presented. We'll go on to item number two, uh, recognition student and staff. Miss Shriner. Yeah. So, we I first like to invite Abigail to come on up. Abigail here. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's okay. But Abigail um tonight was to receive the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association academic Allstate honorable mention as well as the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association academic allstate um recognition. And that just means that not only did she excel um in her sport with great um stats, but she also excelled in the classroom. Um and so those students are selected by um GPA, uh also how they might do on the SAT, class
004rank, and those kinds of things. And so she is a very accomplished student athlete. And so we congratulate her tonight. Our next group of students are from our junior high. So, Mr. Patrick, do you want to come on up? And uh from our intermediate school as well. And from our intermediate school as well. Yes, we have six and six or seven or choir from And so we have some students here to represent. So, first we'll call out um Genesis Hernandez. Genesis. Hi, Genesis. Welcome. Congratulations. Um and then you also have Alex Schwego who will be joining you. Alex, come on up. You're a little more prepared. Congratulations. There's your certificate. And these two are representing an ensemble, sixth grade ensemble who earned gold at ISMA. Gold with distinctionship. Okay. Which is about as excellent as
005you can be, right? Is that right? Great. And then we have a seventh grade some graders here. Jasmine, you can you can come on. Yep. and stay up here and then we'll get one picture. Jasmine Hernandez, are you here this even? Grace, come on up. Congratulations. And then Mois can come on up. And the same they earned gold with distinction. They are seventh graders. Um so gold with distinction from for Islam. Congratulations here. And then finally, our Comiata Choir um students, James Dipmars, are you here? Fantastic. And Jaden, come on up. Jaden. Wait, sorry. Get the right. Yeah, James. There you go. You can come on up and get in line. Um, congratulations to all of these students. And we'll get a a lovely picture here. Back over. Thank you. Congratulations students and to the
006parents that support them in all of their endeavors and extracurriculars and to the fabulous instructors. I don't know if you have anything that you would like to say. Well, this is our state assessment for music ensembles at the sixth through grade level. Uh so we had 10 ensembles from the intermediate school in the junior high that participated in the assessment just a couple weeks ago. And um you know getting gold rings is great, but getting that gold distinction level is really uh quite quite rare, quite accomplishment. So, uh, all of our ensembles got gold rating, but we did want to give special, uh, recognition to our sixth grade orchestra, our seventh grade orchestra, and our comata, which is our our our men's choir at the junior high school, uh, for achieving those outstanding scores from
007a panel of three professional uh, music educators. Awesome. We will see you next year. [Applause] Well, we thank each and every one of you for joining us tonight and we congratulate you and your whole groups. Uh this is a great opportunity. If you would like to leave, uh this is your chance. Otherwise, we lock the door. Well, thank you for coming and joining us. All right. So, now we will move on to item three of public comment. Um, and we will please start with, uh, Leon. Is it Bowman? Bowman. Bowman. Sorry, sir. Okay. It could be Bowman. It could be lots of things. Yeah. My name is Leon Bowman and Jane Short, a neighbor, is with me, too. Just uh we we she kind of nudged me to to bring this comment to to the
008board. Neighbors uh were just talking about the Chandler playground. So, I first became interested in the Chandler playground back in the early 90s when as a neighbor I I was watching with my young daughters as they moved a couple of houses from Pearl Avenue, a block south to Douglas to make space for this enlarged Chandler, this brand new school uh the showpiece of the neighborhood. Anyway, from the fall of 92 then on, I was either a parent or or an employee later on at Chandler till my retirement in 2019. So I recall many countless times students would tell me about they were meeting at the park after school and I was like it took me a while to realize that the playground they was the park. They were calling it the park. That's where they
009came to play on the weekends in the evenings. And so the community around Chandler in which I still reside the southside historical neighborhood or neighborhood it doesn't really have any out other outdoor play spaces. This is the play space for that neighborhood. And when Chandler changed from an elementary school to its current use, u we expressed concerns about the playground. We were told then that there were no plans to remove the playground. And now we've seen some changes, some removal of old equipment, which we assume was due to safety concerns, and we value that. Um uh but we do wonder what this what the plans are, what the school board or what the school's plans are for the facility, for the playground. Will the preschool continue to be housed at Chandler? and maybe you don't
010even really know the future. Uh are there plans to replace uh equipment and why do the gates need to be locked after school hours? Is that the case at all the playgrounds? So those are some of the questions that neighbors are feeling a little frustrated with and just wondering about and so I did a quick Google search about what are some creative ways that communities and schools can collaborate on on spaces? Is there a way to share spaces? Um, and it didn't take me but a few minutes to find u a toolkit called unlocking the gates uh implementing shared use agreements. And I know litigation is probably one of your first thoughts. And right, you know, as soon as I opened it up, 2013, the state of Indiana enacted House Enrolled Act 1159, liability for
011use of school facilities. And it kind of goes through some of those concerns. And as long as some signage is up, uh, it's a good neighborhood school cooperative use of space. So, we want kids to be moving uh to play. There's still basketball hoops there. My grandkids like to go play kickball or hit the whiffle ball. It's just a great space to for the community to use. So, that's just our thoughts here as neighbors. Thanks for hearing us out. I have any questions? No, I appreciate you bringing it up. I mean, it's it's been a topic. I can't say we have answers for you today. That's fine. I wasn't expecting immediate answers, but I'm willing to leave this toolkit with you. I think we Go ahead, Bob. Would you like who should get this? Go
012ahead. Thank you. So, we ordered new playground equipment was supposed to be in in March. Of course, it was delayed. So, now it's May coming in. That's wonderful. That's good news. You're right. The playground equipment that was there, there were several pieces that weren't safe. Um, it got a lot of use, a lot of hard play. We That was played on hard. And um so we uh one of the one of the swing sets that was there was also out of current safety codes the taller set that needed to be whereas as of yet we're not sure how we're going to utilize that space. It needs to be green space or place for kids to play or some small ones or we need to put Yeah. We're still trying to figure out how to use
013that. Okay. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, thank you. Did you have any thoughts, James? Dates unlocked. Go ahead. It's a little bit above my pay grade, but I don't see any reason why we couldn't leave it. I mean, there's some notes in this about u when you lock the gates, what and there's some good examples of communities that discovered less less vandalism when the gates were open. I I thought you might talk about the replacement of some of the fencing, right? We were looking at um possibly taking some of the six foot and making it a 4 so it's more accessible just a nicer environment for the community especially and of course no gates that would be required to be. So, all our playgrounds, I believe, have signage that say playground is open outside of school
014hours until dusk. Um, and so, as long as we have those, um, I think all the other schools, um, do all have access to them. I know the only one I'm question maybe is West Ocean's primary playground if that big gate um is, but I don't believe it's locked, but it is shut. Um but uh but our playgrounds are are supposed to be accessible until until dusk. Yeah, we've we've found them locked numerous times and couldn't couldn't get in unless we climbed over the fence. We appreciate you bringing it up and Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Um, let knowle get in my way. I'll show you. Glad all go. As for West Goian, the little gates never locked. One out by the sign. Um, I'm not real fond of having that sliding gate
015open because that's big enough for vehicles and I don't like vehicles on there. So, I can remember at West Ocean when my kids were little, we had the tall swing set. We had the tall uh all metal slide. We had the merrygoround. Okay. did jung jungle gym whatever over asphalt and kids were tough. There was none of this whining about anything. You survived or you didn't. So, um I I'm I'm I'm glad to see that we're replacing good with good stuff. I was on the PTO and we replaced some of that with some stuff from another school that wasn't safe either, but we paid for it to have it moved. Couple things tonight. I see that you have a DC trip you don't talk about and the Cedar Point one. I remember when my son
016went to DC, I was asked to chaperone the the other one and I found out real quick that I really had no responsibility. I was a school board member. They were just appeasing me. So, but I had a good time. I found that it was cheaper to eat at the buffet than it was any place else. So, the the uh and that was over 25 years ago. So, I see the handbooks are coming up. Make sure they're consistent across the board. I mean, from kindergarten to high school, you know, one rule should follow pretty much through with the exception of medication, stuff like that. Self-medication, my opinion. Um, we're about six weeks out from school being done. I would like to see an independent eyes on our buildings. Yes, do have the the principal do
017have the head coast walk around the building with somebody but with fresh eyes and go that's not right. That's not right. West Ocean is turning into a extra building for the the movie The Birds. If you ever you might not be old enough to remember the birds. Um they are pecking holes through the wall again and some of them where they've been patched before and hopefully we can get a better paint job difference because you can tell that it you know where the patch is but it's stuckle over um styrofoam them birds have learned a long time ago it looks like. So please do, you know, let with summer coming. I know it's ending with summer coming. Let's let's get the buildings, you know, let's get a list done what needs to be done. And
018like I said, a fresh set of eyes usually can see things that something you see every day doesn't see. So thank you. Thank you, Glenn. And that will conclude uh this evening's uh public comment. We go to item four, superintendent reports. Mr. Deoce like to start out, Bob has a couple financial reports for the board. Uh and then comment on potential house. Uh the first thing before you is the core one financial report. January through March being a fourth of the year. You should expect to see approximately 25% of the the budgets expended. What you'll see in the first one there is the education fund and 22.83 has been expended. What I you can look through it at your leisure, but one thing I'd like to bring to your attention on the education fund is
019that 80% of the expenditures are on personnel or personnel benefits. So that's right in line with corporate The next fund on on that list is the operating referendum. You'll see that 100% of that those funds um have been on personnel and uh the operating which uh currently goes through the end of the 26 December 2026 would be the final revenue debt service fund which is the next one. Not much action there. The pay and the revenue both occur in June and December. So, we have a budget. That's about it. And the last one just to take a quick overview of is the operations fund. Just a quick look at it, you'll see that um about 59% of the monies uh in the operations fund are going towards personnel. The rest of it uh of most
020of the rest of it is is on things such as electricity, heating. 9% of what's been expended so far have been on projects and improvements, but that's going to that generally starts slow, ramps up the second or third quarter, then slows back [Applause] again. Questions or comments about first quarter? hearing none. Just wanted to also mention that I was contacted by a neighbor at Parkside Elementary and uh it came into that he's willing to sell us uh his home and so I'm just trying to get some feedback from the board. I will tell you the park side is a one of our schools that is landmark like most of them are all of them and uh I guess we're really trying it would be really beneficial if we could expand the parking lot at park
021site especially with the amount of traffic that comes down state 15. So I haven't I told him that I would bring it to the board and if there wasn't any objections I could bring back permission for the board at the next board meeting to for you to give me permission to negotiate with it. But until I had that permission, I would have to I have to say we're done for now. And so that's why we are just bringing it forward. Do you think it's an okay idea to negotiate with them? Uh it would most likely be for the fair market value of the home. Not voting yet. No, you're not voting. This is just would you like me to bring back a resolution that gives me the authority to negotiate with? And even if you
022don't have questions now, I would say if you gave them to myself or to uh we just want to know what the board might be thinking, we're not. Um but maybe maybe the best way to say if you have concerns with that, please tell. Thanks, Bob. Yes. And did the board ever have a picture of the property? Uh no, we could send we can send you a picture of the property. You sent us an aerial which sent it to you for and so the idea is just to tear it down. Uh it would likely be uh this is why we want your board to the board input because it's you know it's a nice house. I I guess I should bring that to mind also is that I put monies in the budget each time
023for such an opportunity. So um while we don't have to spend it, there is money in the budget for it. So part of the negotiations would be see or someone else want to move it. How would that work? This is a pretty nice house. It is. I I think it's it's fine to begin the discussion. It doesn't hurt to have the discussion and and see where we're at. Um I think that's a fair starting point. And then we can add if we have other questions, I'd say let's get them to Mr. Deoce here so that he's at least aware of where our minds are at and if there's any feedback from the public um before we get too far down the path here. I was trying to even have to drive past it. resolution. Thanks
024for your report. Uh student achievement was Dr. Medcaf. So high school in March, the beginning of March uh took their AC SAT. It is a requirement that all high school students take the SAT uh their junior year. Um we have gotten their results back and it is posted on their transcript. What we have not received back yet is the state averages, the state's report saying where how we do compared to others in the state. We're we're waiting on that. But um that was a that was a positive thing. We've all their transcripts are ready to go um with their with their SAT scores on it. And so we'll do some more diving into where we might need to work to prepare our students better for the SAT because in the second then my next report
025is the state is looking to reinstate letter grades. Um they've been we've been without a grading scale since about 2018. um it's been held harmless since then. Uh the high school, one of the things that has been talked about and is looks like it will happen is part of the high schools will be the SAT um SAT scores will f will factor in some into some extent to what the um letter grade for the high school might be. So, um, that's one of the reasons we're paying more attention to the SAT and trying to prepare students and giving the PSAT in 9th grade and I think we one year we've given it in eighth grade and we're still looking at when's it when's it appropriate to start prepping those kids for that that uh so
026we'll continue to watch legislation and see what happens from the department of ed. Um along with that, uh the Head Start received a grant from the Elcart Community Foundation to run summer Head Start for uh families, um of students to to give them pre-K skills. And so Chamberlain was the area that was chosen when looking at the need um here in Gan. And so Chamberlain will have a head start um starting June the I believe it's the 9th and going all the way to July 31st. uh two sessions, a morning session and an afternoon session for for students there. Um and so that will make it a little difficult to make sure we get the rooms all cleaned. It gives us a very short window, but um talking with Mr. Ritter, uh I think we
027have we're we we we can we can get it done, but it's a great opportunity for some of our prek kids. Thank you, Dr. Maf. U back to Bob again on some summer foods. So, this is be a quick but just what we're working on. At the next board meeting, uh I'll bring to you more of a longer report of what what the actual summer plans are. I don't have those with me today. I'll also at the next board meeting bring to you a three-year revenue and expenditure uh history for foods. And uh while there were some concerns that I think we're doing okay, but I'll bring that next next Dr. Evans uh or people commitments. Lori Schneider. So um as you know the effect grant when I talk about the effect grant that's our
028parent engagement grant and one of the requirements of that grant is to give a parent engagement survey. We give it to staff and we give it to parents. And so if you'll remember in the fall we gave it for the first time and I even used some of that data to kind of identify some needs for parent professional development. This is the only year where we give it twice. So we have our baseline data from the fall. We're going to we are actually currently we have pushed that survey back out to parents um and staff members. And so that will be interesting to see if there's any movement at all on that data. Um but then the next two years we will only do it once. Um and so if you're a parent, we need
029you to take it. We want you to take it. We want your feedback. Um it is something to get through. Um so it does take about 15 to 20 minutes. So, be looking for that. It should have been pushed out through parents square. Um, and we we have some other ways that we're pushing out the survey to parents. Um, and our principles are doing a great job of opportunity for let me know if you have any questions about that and especially for parents on board. We'll do should be there for you to take. Any questions for Lori or for any of us actually? reports. All right, thank you all. Uh we will move on next to our board committee reports. Board members, updates on committees you sit on all at once. I never heard back
030from the foundation. Foundation. All right. They were supposed to send you an invite. So my regular school. Yeah, that was sent to your school. So I'll follow up with They did. I somehow missed it. Okay. And there's lots and lots of emails that come through. Yeah, we'll follow from the get. Yeah. So, the Shanklin pool project has been paused. Yeah. So, but I think the city is working with the schools to potentially use our pool this summer. We actually have a meeting this Friday with the parks department. Okay. So, And I know it's it's on hold because of the state funding that we're all dealing with. Other updates wrap here. All right. And we're only what how many weeks till legislation session's over? 17 days. There you go. Wow. We'll know everything in 17 days.
031All right. With that, we will move on then to item six, which is our consent agenda items. Uh 6.1, approval of accounts payable dated April 14th, 2025 and payrolls dated March 21st, 2025 and April 4th, 2025. 6.2, Master affiliate agreement between Indiana University and Goan Community Schools. 6.3 Gifts and donations. 6.4 uh Washington DC overnight field trip. 6.5 Cedar Point out of state field trip 6.6 administrative title changes 6.7 personnel. Anything to highlight Mr. Deo? All right. So with that, the consent agenda items are approved as presented. We will move on to our action items and we will start with item 7.1 approval of dust collector installation. Dr. Evans. So, uh, the CTE program is, uh, of course it's at Chandler, but it's also a part it's at the high school, and we will need
032a dust collector back at the high school. Uh, it was actually cheaper for us just to buy a second dust collector rather than keep moving this around. So, what we've done is we've got three bids on purchasing a dust collector and having it installed right back to where it used to be. Um, and the what we're recommending is the lowest bid from collectors and filters for to purchase and install a dust collector for $84,2660. As it stands right now, both buildings are going to have we have such an uh so many requests for construction trades that we are having introduction principal courses be taught high school eating the dust collector there and then also in the gym at least current. It's a moving target based on scheduling right now but we need the capacity for
033vote because there's so many kids interested. Okay. Um, I'll take a motion and a second to open the item for discussion. I'll move for the approval of item 7.1, the approval of the dust collector installation. I'll second. Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Goodman. questions uh comments on the board on this and I know I'd say long term we're trying to figure out what our plan is long term and we're not quite there yet but this is kind of an intermediary plan. I mean is that fair to say? I mean, as this kind of program continues to grow, right now we're I'll just be honest, we're struggling to find a place. So, construction trades there, construction like that's kind of set. Uh we also have some classroom space over there we need for the
034construction trades program we have with high school. But we also have some placement of where are we going to put um we're doing this carousel where kids are going to get to spend three weeks doing projects and hands-on learning freshman year so they can get a feel for the different pathways. um that needs a space and we also have a space for entrepreneurship and capstone engineering program and so we're going to need some space for 3D printers etc etc that's not set in stone so that might require some additional electric and some things like that but it will be in one of those ei the high school or over there it's a good problem to have it's a good problem to have and we we are doing the investigation of the site plan for this
035whole campus, which should help us determine what and when and how we're going to bring some kind of coherence to this campus. It's a little bit disjointed as we've grown and moved. It's okay, but it's time to put it in order so it feels like where we come on the campus, it makes sense and you can you know where to enter the high school and you're not going, is that the front of the high school or is that the front of high school? and then also where we'll put some of these programs. Uh I think we got some good spaces. We just got to finalize it and put the plan. You you'll hear more about that in the future. Other questions or comments on the dust collector for the high school? Okay, hearing none. Uh
036it's been moved and seconded. All those in favor uh please raise your hand and say I. I. I oppose saying passes 70. Uh item 7.2 approval of warehouse sighting. Dr. Evans. So the east uh facing wall or the one when you read the door that you're looking at uh we're proposing sighting that with uh with steel sighting to keep the rain, the snow, and the birds and the bats from entering the doors. Uh we went out and got three bids. The lowest bid is for best value sighting. Uh we're recommending uh your approval of best value sighting to purchase and install sighting on the warehouse for $78,97749. Okay. Um then I have a motion and a second for item 7.2 for discussion and ultimate voting. I'll move for the passage of item 7.2, to approve
037a warehouse signing. I'll second move by Mr. Glicks, seconded by Mr. Goodman, questions, comments. Can I make a comment? You can't. I have a few. Then just I would say that this is we know when we bring this to the board that this one potentially like this might be an issue. Uh so we wanted to have the board in involvement um in making this decision. So um we we wouldn't be upset if you asked us to go back and do some more research or more time or something of that nature. So just want to throw that out there uh as we brought this one to you. But if not and get it on bit to get this work done over the summer. The longer we wait the less likely would be to be ready for
038the fall. So, I I have some questions that I think I want to make sure we've done our due diligence for a couple things. So, obviously the the building in question was constructed in 1869. Um, and I so doing some research today. Um, it has been designated as a historical structure. So, it means different things depending on its classification. So it is classified a rating of outstanding which by definition means the property has enough historic or architectural significance that is already listed or may be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. So my question is can we even do what's being proposed because of the building's classification? I was not aware that it was historic. Yeah. So, it's not on the national registry, but it's on the states um kind of list
039of and outstanding is the highest you can be without being on the national registry. So, I just I want us to be cautious about maybe what we're proposing with that structure because of of what it is. Now, that that doesn't mean it doesn't need to be done, but I don't want us to maybe go spend money and then the wrong person sees it and says, "Well, you didn't have the authority to do that because of its historical value. So I bring that up as a concern. So well I would say that maybe if the board so desires the motion to be amended that pending uh that is that is permissible by the state do this. Yeah, obviously if it's not permissible by the state, is there a required way to take care of the issue?
040Is that how those historical work? I would say when they have certain designations, there's certain ways they have to be taken care of. You know, you have to you wouldn't be able to potentially cover it. It would have to be remain a brick building, which is a lot of the problem we have today. Um, you know, we'd have to find other ways to seal it up. But, um, you know, I would also be concerned with that type of brick, how brittle and porous it is. Could we even fasten the two by material they're proposing without the brick just crumbling? I mean, I would have that concern as well with even the method that's been proposed. Would it even work? Um, and I don't know if we've really looked at that much. So, so I I
041I think we need to I mean my re we I would say we need to get our attorneys to weigh in on this. Um the we're lucky in that uh work and boy lead attorney Tim Shel is an expert in this area. Exactly. So he is uh on the state restoration committee and chair of that or whatever. So we we can by phone call call him. I would go one step further and if the board we just have to put it off another another weeks and bring it back to you again. It's good for 30 days, right? 30 days from what date? Oh, from back in the quote 227. But would that mean it's out of date already? Yeah. So does that mean these aren't valid quotes? We can we will refresh the quotes too.
042Bring it whole. Yeah, maybe way to do it because if we vote on a quote and then they say, "Well, it went up 25% with a tariff in there." It could be it's not about quote. I think our issue is the building's even though it sounds it says it's outstanding, it's not outstanding. It's a it is outstanding can be classified for different means. I'm not a big fan of even taking doors through there because you're not sure how safe it is and there are bats in there that fly around. So yeah, but the building I I would be I'd be I'd be worried from constructibility that because to to put the two eyes up, they would be tapconing them into the side of the brick and I just walked it up there. I mean it's
043brittle brittle to touch. I I want to be careful that we don't start we open a can of worms here. Once you start, I mean, we may have to do a little bit of trial and error to make sure it's even feasible. I I understand the reasoning behind it. I'm not faulting the reason behind it, but I want to make sure we don't all a sudden go from an 80 some thousand quote to 280 or 300,000 because of well, this happened. Once you open it up, you can't put it back in. I want to be cautious with that. So, do you know what do you what do you do? to do a test. Yeah. On the wall before you do it. I think you you need to do a little few test points to see
044if it's even feasible. So, I mean, I know that's going to delay things, but I I think we need to. So, I I'm okay with that. Tell you about it. Yeah. I mean, I think we know we could bring it back to you. Yeah. Yeah, that might be good. Yeah. cuz I I think we need to do them. I I just don't want to I understand they're logical and I don't fault it, like I said, but I think it's just is we just want to look better. Yeah. So, um so couple options here. So, we can we can approve it as is. We can uh move the table the item and a little research or we can vote it down and they can bring it back. So, um make it unless someone wants to make
045a motion to change it. make the motion to amend it and table it. And we can do that if you want to figure out how long you want to amend it. I mean, I I feel like because the the quote is no longer valid according to this that it you can't really tag a nonvid. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, if you want to make a motion to amend, you can. We can see. But, I mean, that's I mean, I'm not it's up to you. We're not going to take offense if you vote it down. So just if you're worried about that, I I I would say voting it down would be the easiest and they can just reinvestigate and bring it back to us. Any other questions, comments? All right, so we have a motion
046and a second on the table for the approval of the warehouse sighting. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say, "I." All those opposed, same sign. I So it it is defeated. Uh, I think that's my first defeated vote in a unanimous defeat at that. It's good to be humble once in a while. Hey. Yes. Can I back this up because I didn't know notice this when I looked over before, but the quote we just voted on previously was valid until March 15th. Correct. So, is it still valid now? It does. Oh, because the reason I'm asking that is because tariffs are new and I don't know how it affects these things. Is it are we sure that everything that's been put in we will bring it back to you because it would
047not be a valid quote that's in the first part the dust collector quote says it was estimated on February 20th and valid till March 15th. I apologize I missed that. You can't get it for that price then uh we're not going to do it. Your authority is no longer Okay. You know, I don't have the authority. The authority. Got it. Okay. Well, we're having fun here tonight. Um, let's keep it going here with item 7.3 then, approval of soccer bleachers. Quote, Dr. Evans. We are desiring to expand the seating capacity on the soccer field. Um we put out um proposals for everybody to adhere to. They came back and as you can imagine different um different bleachers had different capacities. So we had three people that did respond. Uh one of the respondents uh was
048significantly less seats. Uh we didn't feel it had enough ADA seats. So even though it is the lowest, we didn't feel like it met the specs. So we're we're asking that we spend another $1,300 to for educational furniture. $87,878 for $447 seats with five of those seats being 88 for the Thank you, Dr. Evans. Uh, do we have a motion and a second for item 7.3? Motion 7.3 been moved. Second. I've got moved by Mr. Goodman. We'll say it was second by Mr. Garper. Uh questions. So I bring up Ryan's point. I don't see a date on their quote. Uh but it sounds good for 30 days. So be something to be aware of obviously. Um we had already approved at a previous meeting the concrete pads. We approved the uh dugouts and the press
049box. Okay. So, so concrete's not included in this quote. No, we would have to do that. Okay. So, that hasn't been a brought to us, right? But, uh, within Indiana, uh, it may not,000. It probably would not. I would hope it would not go ahead and do that as far as project. We do that. We do that. Yes. Not all the time, but enough. Yeah. Okay. Other questions about new bleacher or more bleachers? Ready to vote. Good. Okay. Uh we have a motion and a second on the floor. All those in favor, please raise your hand. You say I. I. Oppos. Same sign. passes 70. All right. Uh, next item 7.4 amended and restated memorandum of understanding between Gan Community Schools and the Goan Community Schools Foundation, Inc. Dr. So this before you is the
050amended and restated memorandum of understanding with Goan Community Schools Foundation. Back in March 13, 2023, there was a memorandum of understanding with the ocean schools foundation that they would of all funding for the alumni plaza. Um that was less than successful. Um so go schools used funds that we had uh some bond funds that were re that were issued. We use that to pay for the alumni. This new memorandum of understanding would take any monies that they received prior to June 30th of 24 and that and they would send those to us to help compensate for the cost of the alumni plaza any minus 10% receive. Um any new donors after on starting July 1 of 2014 now would um stay with the community foundation. Uh there's some other items in here about favors about
051how we can share the costs. One of the positives here in my mind is that the director of the community schools foundation, we have been paying uh that salary since the inception of 2021 and that then would go back to the responsibility of the go community schools foundation to pay her salary. Those would be the two of the biggest uh issues from that. The total amount that would be sent to go schools would be $72,513 and that would use that to offset some of the cost. Uh do we have a motion and a second to open up discussion for item 7.4? I'll move for the passage of item 7.4 second move by Mr. Glick, second by Mr. Goodman. Um, so I've read the document a few times and I've read the previous document. So these
052are questions are in no order. So the original agreement had a 5% finer fee. This one has a 10% finer fee. Why the change there? That was the request of the school%. Okay. transaction. Okay. How much have they paid to date? I guess exclusive maybe of the 72. I got it. It's good. Got it. They have paid not including the $72,513. They paid $175,296. So with this will give you if you added that would be $247,89 the alumni closet was sure give me that percent because I that's what I'm I'm trying to get to what% so but the dollar amount that we've spent the total dollar amount is 1 million828,967 I apologize what was the amount they gave already the first number that they've already given to us not including this not including this uh
05313 and 12 175,296 so you mentioned that that the amount that that they were going to give um 72 72,000 but it mentioned prior to that that the administrative fee has already been deducted from the donations questions. Uh, okay. Because it says it we received a 30,000 donation in error which was intended. Okay. So that's why so they reduced that from the 75 it was um or 72 because what it says is that the foundation has 102,000 on hand for the alumni plaza. Right? So they're saying the 30,000 is part of the 175. Right? If you take the 72513 and add the 30,000 to it, that would give you your 102. Okay. So, but the 30,000 is part of that 175 that we had previously. No, they So, they deducted the 30,000 from it and
054are willing to send us 72,000, right? I know, but we've already received 175, right? That's the amount we've received. So, that 30,000 correct is part of the 175. No, no, no. That's that was an additional donation by a gentleman that sent it to us instead of to them. We deposited our account. So, it's a little hard. Okay. Well, that's that's I'll give my opinion on it. No, I've got more. So, go ahead for a little bit. Okay, now I disagreed with this thing right at the beginning. I'll be honest, so I'm coming at this with already a bad take on on what happened, but that they agreed to the original to change the I know it says that the funds would be better used according to them to further students. I feel like we could
055maybe potentially I'd like it if we were directing that due to the fact that we already had an agreement with them and now they're trying to change the terms to benefit them when they actually put us on the boat for a lot of stuff because I remember him standing there saying, "Oh, we'll have no trouble giving you this much money." Um, yeah. So, for them to change the terms after the fact like that, I find completely unacceptable. you have more questions. Well, I have to try again. I've got just comments. Okay. Um I think it's one thing to come back and say, "Well, we want to be done raising money for you." Then I think it's another thing to be audacious to say, "Well, we want 10% instead of 5%." Um, so I think that's
056disappointing. Why don't you give us 100% and then we'll stop bringing it up. the point about the director that was only supposed to ever be a three-year agreement in the first place. And so I almost think we need to go back and look at the original agreement when that was. Why is that included in this? I think that should already be a separate topic. I think tying that into the alumni plaza is I think that's beneficial for us as a school system, but I think it's already a separate topic. Um, yeah. I mean, to me, this thing is just riddled with issues. Um, I'm disappointed there's no one here from the foundation to answer our questions because they're asking for a lot from us tonight. Um, I will admit I'm happy with the product. I
057think everyone's happy with the product. It was a product that was ultimately needed to be done. Um, but as as Ryan has stated, there was also a lot of confidence that they would be able to raise the funds and I along with other people took them for their word that they were going to get that. So now to after two years to say we're not going to try anymore is disappointing. One other question I I have is effective as of July 1st, 2024, all proceeds received from the sale of bricks and pavers for the alumni deposit belong foundation. Why July? Why not now at the date of this? Why are we going back seven, eight, more than that, 10 months? Why are we going back and all of a sudden they've sold a brick to
058somebody who was donating the money for the alumni posit and they're going to keep it? I mean, I would say that that's also unacceptable and all of So, let me throw this in there. So, um, a lot of the things that you all remember and part of were things that I when I wasn't here and kind of came in at the end of this and talking to the foundation, there's a lot of very good people that are trying we're trying to raise money and do a good thing. I think they found it was a lot more difficult than they thought and some big donors apparently backed out that kind of had given them some hope anyway nothing else that they were going to be able to raise some money. Um so what happened during the
059process is I started to engage with with the foundation and u so there's you know basic let's face reality sometimes there's no way they were going to raise that money and they were chasing it and chasing it and volunteers that were helping raise money started fading away fading away and uh because it's it's difficult and they felt bad that they were not able to raise the money. So, at that point, I thought, you know, it it's probably worthwhile to make a shift. So, what you see before you is kind of the I will take credit, blame, whatever for kind of negotiating this deal. Um, one of the big issues for us was in the past that that employee that we have on our books was supposed to be off our books after three years. I
060think it's been how many years now? Four. Uh, so it's time. Uh, the second uh major issue there is uh we really would like to refocus and this is what I had conversation. How can we refocus the work of the foundation? Because, you know, raising money for the for the alumni plaza, that's kind of like that's defunct. That's not working. What could we do going forward? So, uh we looked at uh we need support for our kids to go on field trips. It's hard for us to each school to raise money to send kids on field trips. So, we thought it would be a great role for the for this group to raise money to send kids on our field trips. So, trying to put the old behind us and start fresh and give them
061new purpose so they can raise money. Uh they can use their brick, sell a brick for me so kids can go to field trips. That'd be a better solution. So, I I agree with everything I've heard the board members say today and I don't want to act act like you're like, "Oh, you're not right." You all are right. Um, but what do we do going forward? How do we put this behind us? If we want to have a foundation, we need to have a foundation that's focused on something that's worthwhile for kids. And we think we found that they could be focused on raising money for sending kids on field trips and they can get even more active. So, that's what's reflected there. Um, we also think they really should have that employee on their
062books. We still will have that same employee working for us doing some uh Ellen she she will be do she also leads up our serving our schools which is our liaison with the local churches that pairs up and works with making sure churches are there to support uh different schools. Um one of the things the foundation has really been wanting to do is is they wanted they've been wanting to do signature signature experiences for kids at each grade level. So, how do you do that? For, for example, third grade, a couple of third grades have been going to shed aquarium, which is not something that some of our some of the schools that have been going to would be able to afford on their own or we would be able to afford to do that
063for them. Um, expanding that beyond the two or three schools that have been able to do that to the remaining schools. And then also, you know, the fourth grade does the outdoor education uh camp experience. That's kind of their signature thing. um as they start thinking about how do we re like Jim said how do we how how can we help them refocus to back what the mission of the foundation really is I think the foundate to be I'll and I'll speak out of turn here the alumni foundation I don't believe should have been the the the under the prerogative of the of the of the foundation to begin with with what the foundation's original mission was um I appreciate the fact they wanted to do this and they want they thought they could do
064it and you know there were things that needed to be done. But if you really think back about what the foundation's original uh mission was, it was to provide experiences and grants to to uh benefit the students in our schools. now. Um and um and I think the the the detour into fundraising for the alumni plaza while well-intentioned and I think and I think um I believe we we we truly thought that they would be able to raise a significant maybe if not total a significant amount of that money um has really detracted from what what they should be doing. Um and that's that's my two cents. The foundation just some back history on this foundation start to get the alumni plaza going or that was that the foundation existed way before long before. Yeah.
065Long. So that's this is the the best way going forward that I could find and that you know Allen was involved and Bob is now on the foundation working with them. He's worked on helping craft some of this but uh why it went from 5% to 10% I'm not sure but I do know that they're putting money into an endowment that would then perpetually get money out of the endowment. So I think if I'm not mistaken the 10% goes into the endowment. It's not for any other purpose other than it funds the endowment and then that endowment hopefully someday will send kids on field trips. There's signature experiences at each grade level kind. So uh hopefully it doesn't leave too bad taste in everybody's mouth afterwards uh that we go forward and have something positive
066come out of this. Uh that's been our goal to try to take something that isn't so good maybe is a problem and let's give everybody a way out and path forward. Guys, two other questions. Um one, it says that the funds that they're holding the 102,000 is what was received prior to June 30th, 2024. Again, I'm curious what did they receive after that that they're under obligation to provide So, I mean, if they've again, if they were fundraising for this and they're they're trying to basically say, "We not only want 10% of the previous, but we're not going to give you anything after a year ago." They were under contractual obligation to provide that money. Um, and then it also mentions that uh Go Community Schools is agreeing to uh where was it? to the
067social media section. Which point is that? Some joint marketing. Uh number six, it says Gian Community Schools agrees to provide the foundation with marketing and social media support to help promote the foundation's and its efforts to raise money for the alumni pause of the sale of bricks and papers and in general for any other projects of the foundation. Now, that's pretty broad, but why are we raising money through them for the alumni plaza that they're not going to give us as part of this? ask that last part of you. Why would we agree as a part of this to help them to raise money for our alumni plaza that they're not going to give to us because this terminates it that seems to be completely contradictory. And then the open-ended just whatever they're going to
068do, we're going to promote and it says that we're going to pay for it. I mean, again, I don't like open-ended avenues. It says number six. I I read that different differently that we would help them raise money for the projects of the foundation. Well, but it says in its efforts to raise money for the one deposit, the sale perks and papers and in general any other projects. This is the open end, but this is something that we're terminating with this agreement. I mean, I'm not so Maybe if they're not going to raise any more money, I don't mind maybe just terminating saying, "Hey, you know what? That was a bad move. Okay, everybody's out." But I think they should provide any money that they've raised to this point that people donated for the project
069regardless of where it might go into foundation or into endowments or other things. People donated it for that. Well, and I I I think it they need it shouldn't be 2024. And well, I'm going to add to that unfortunately because some of these gifts could be given over five years. Correct. That was the term. So, I mean, maybe some people have only given two years or three years of their donation. That is correct. I mean, I'm I'm looking at the brochure right here. So, there's still You guys are speaking Bob's language. We're I mean, we got more funds potentially coming in that were pledged for this plaza. I believe in I believe when talking to the foundation, uh, they were they were going to talk to any donors that still had pledges coming to see
070if it was if they would agree if they if they felt it was okay to do it for the the more move it to signature projects rather than that or if somebody still wanted it for the alumni plaza. Are we able to do that ourselves? In other words, if we have funds come in from this and we say, "Hey, instead of we'll take some of the funds over, it's not that I I don't think they should be able to do that, but just because of the terms of the agreement, if we could do it ourselves, I would feel better us doing it and keep the agreement as opposed to this set of terms because it when they were here, they said, you know, we have almost a million dollars already raised um and we're going
071to give this money to But they did give that money to you. So, not no offense to anybody here. I have a hard time saying, "Well, we're just going to give you this open-ended thing out there and hope that you show up with funds to do these other things because then eventually it looks like we might be out." And I believe I I believe Yes, I I believe you're correct with in that in that wording. And I I think it was they had a million dollars pledged, correct? Um, so I don't necessarily know if they had it actually raised, but apparently they did. But did what was the termination agreement on the other one? This one has a termination agreement on it. I don't know. I'd have to go back. I I I had it
072here, but I don't I wasn't really looking at it before. I think uh there was a meeting last October um with the um school foundation and it was a meeting if I could say let's get real here. We're not going to be able to $1.8 million of that's our only focus. We're out of business because we're never going to raise that. We're do good things for kids. So that was kind of the theme of the meeting. Um thought was well if you're going to do good things for kids let's just turn this around and then that's sort of what this agreement came. So, um, from a business standpoint, uh, this doesn't make sense. Um, sorry, but but if your focus is on to do what's right for kids, yeah, this kind of makes sense. That's
073kind of where we That leaves the board with Yeah, I I I And we can you can vote no. we can go back and renegotiate and start working on some other things. Yeah, I I said it a bunch of those meetings, you know. Yeah. And they kept talking about the kids. Well, I'm disappointed today cuz they they knew that the MOU was going to be challenged. I told them you're going to have board members that are not going to like it. And then they're not here to answer their questions. So, put you, you know, you're the one that is speaking basically answering the questions that they should be answering. That's disappointing to me and I don't like it. Yeah. I mean, what what I walked it before I came to the meeting and I went
074to their giant board of all the great donors. One people's name up there with the goal. They should have given $250,000. There was one people that pledged that much. Where's that money? That that's the whole value there. If if you add up everyone that donated on there at their different levels by their scale here, it's over $1.4 million. So I either they've paid us $250,000 and they want to put the rest in their foundation, which if that's the case, own up to it, or that board is nothing but lies of what people pledged to them. I I'm I'm disappointed because I think it's a fantastic space. Um I I I think the people on the foundation are good individuals. I think they have the heart of what we want the school system to be. So
075I I I'm not calling them bad people, but it's like this is not being put in a positive light here at all. Uh I I just don't feel like we're being told the whole story. And I think either this needs to be tabled um and they can come and answer to it or I mean we can vote. I mean I I mean let's keep talking if other people I I've said a lot. I think just beyond being disappointed though the there's value in moving on um knowing what happened and just moving on doing what's right for kids. But I don't think with the terms that are laid out, I don't think those make sense. I think it makes sense to move on, but I think probably renegotiating that, having some more conversation about how they
076can help us move forward with that. Um, I think some version of what you presented makes sense, but the numbers don't make sense to me in the way that they were laid out. the year ending 2024. Well, I I I like to know a lot more wise like why that date what was happening that was significant then that after that we wouldn't make that change. You talked a little bit about the 5% 10% and those things are all negotiable. I just feel like this this first reading of it doesn't um I want to move on but I want to do it in the right way. I don't think those are the right the right terms. So, I'd like to see that renegotiated. I would also like to hear their explanations of what's going on and
077how we can help each other moving forward. We can table it, renegotiate it, maybe bring it back here for the it would be nice for them to be here. And then that's a I don't know this point. I brought I brought it. We brought it and uh this is where we're at. So, under the original October to now it has terms for terminating the grant. So it says that theou will continue indefinitely during the alumni positive fundraising campaign and collection of such donations which is a minimum of five years some of which may be paid installments over time and will terminate at such time that the foundation has remitted all funds to GCS unless terminated earlier is provided herein theou may be terminated by mutual agreement of the parties here too provided however any termination
078theou will not affect the parties rights under the existing donation agreements, which would be they can't cut the funds off a year ago. I mean, they're basically trying to say that the world is not on multiple levels. It's not just them saying, "Hey, we failed to raise the money." It's all the other things that's really inappropriate. Other comments? All right. So, so I am going to uh make a motion to amend that we table this uh to our next meeting. Is there a second to that? Second. All right. So, it's been moved and seconded that we amend it. Let's have some discussion on that first. Um, I mean, I I think that at least gives them the ability to come and speak to us, maybe bring some more facts that we can at least understand.
079Um, I I think that's important because I think there's too many questions, first of all, right now that we have. So, I at least want to give them the benefit of the doubt to respond to them without us just blatantly maybe voting one way or the other. So, that's my reasoning for at least tableabling it. So with a a tabled uou like that, you're basically saying bring thisou back. Correct. Uh I would look at that and it's like I don't want I mean personally I would say I don't want that back. I want them to say hey you know what this is not according to the terms of the original agreement. We want to terminate. We're going to say we can't raise the money, but we need to follow the terms of the termination according
080to the original agreement because the original agreement said here's how you're going to terminate it and we can all agree to terminate it, but everything up to that point has to be done. So, I would be opposed to tableabling it because you're saying to bring it back, whereas if we voted it down, that requires them to renegotiate. Correct. As opposed to a table. Yeah. And that's that's that would be my That's exactly right. I I at least want to give them the benefit of the doubt to at least answer to it. That's my reasoning for it. That may not change my opinion on it, but at least gives them the opportunity. I mean, this does not need to be decided this week, two weeks from now. I mean, it's not like a a make or
081break thing. Um, I mean, we could table it again if we we're still not pleased with their responses or we could vote it down or vote it up. I mean, that's the option we would have. So, so that's my logic of of recommending at least uh tableabling it to the next meeting. So, and I I get your point as well. I I I don't disagree with your point. Other comments on the amendment to table this? Okay. Uh, I am going to do a roll call vote on the the motion to table it. Uh, so it's either a yes or a no. So, Mr. Eli, yes or no to table? Yes. Mr. Garber? Yes. Mr. Glick, no. Mr. Goodman. Table. Say yes. The table. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. table and Mr. Wed. Yes, the table. So,
082we will table this item uh order of 6 to one to our next meeting. We will ask representatives from the foundation to please be here. All right. Uh moving on. Good discussion. Uh 7.5 notification of out of district transfers for 202526 school year. Dr. Med. So each year we we we're we're coming to you to just let you know um that we will be accepting out of district transfers so that the board can take action upon um our recommendation for um who and what grades because the board does have the ability to limit uh the transfers coming in but it has to be uh done in a public public meeting. Um we are looking at this year we've just a few tweaks. Um again we have our we've been accepting transfers but we've been saying
083the board has not yet approved what grade levels we're going to be. So that they're all up in the air until that happens. Uh our window is is March 1st to May 31st um for next year. If any anything that comes after the deadline will then be considered for the second semester and we're adding a deadline on second semester. This year we did not open it up second semester uh of January 9th. Um so uh if they um want to enroll in second semester they have to do so with an application by January the 9th of 2026. Um our criteria which was on the other page that was um is still in force. It it uh you know the law and our criteria really says who we can and cannot will and will not accept
084as transfer students. Um, one thing that was taken off of there this year was that students cannot transfer for athletic reasons. The ISHAA is changing their um, kind of their guidelines for that. And so that's no longer necessarily true. The one piece that I do want to make sure everyone is aware of is that under criteria under the criteria part, the second dark bullet, the first bullet under that is that program and classroom space must be available without o overcrowding students within legal settlement. So, we are, and I'll get to that in a second, we are asking that we um accept transfers in grades kindergarten, 1st, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th. Um, if someone is if someone wants to come to kindergarten here and they request a school um from out of district,
085if that school has room, we would allow that to happen. However, we have the ability to determine that as we have in the past where we've shut off transfers into certain schools and certain programs as they become as they become um uh a little larger than we would like and that kind of goes to the you know that that enrollment um you know can't create a financial hardship for the district and so we we do we do look at that. What we have noticed, what we have noticed though over time and with our data is that students who start with us and stay with us perform much better than students who transfer in in grades 2, three, four, you know, someplace along there. So, we are we're what we're doing is uh we're we're wanting
086to get students at those transition grades. Um you might ask, well, why are we doing first in? Um, we do have some kindergartens that are private kindergartens around the area. Um, CCYC. Um, I know there's one on one of the churches on 15. Um, so there are still people who might want to send their student to kindergarten there, but might also not live in the district and want to send them to school with us in in first grade. So that is why we we've extended that to first grade also. But then we would not accept transfers in grades two, three, and four. We would want students who have been with us for a while as they go through and our goal would be to get them in, keep them um and so students, you know,
087of course, uh students do have to parents do have to sign a release and we do have to have rec records. Um um the last bullet on the criteria says that uh the sign and release records allow the school to request those records um so that we can review academic attendance and disciplinary re uh records. Um, and that transfer uh doesn't happen until we see those records. That's one of the reasons we've cut off the May as the May 31st as the date. So, we have time over the summer to try to get those records or parents to provide those for us. Um students who were in our district in good standing uh just need to reapply and they and even in those grades that are not um listed for new transfers will still be
088allowed to continue um uh and and those students who are on transfers in good standings. Our principles will be getting a list of our transfer students and they will review that list and compare it to the criteria and the and the um and the and the law about students who are suspended more than 10 times, excessive absences, expelled um for one reason or another or have a history of you know um have a history of unexcused tardies or things. And we will be as last year there were 55 students who identified transfers um that were already in our district. And we will continue to um to do that to to do that and let parents know first by first by mail and then I usually give them a call over the summer. So, what we're
089asking is for approval of the transfer um guidelines that are in the memo and before you do you have any questions? Well, we'll go to get a motion in a second. No, you're fine. I'll take a motion in a second to uh 74 7.5. I'll move for the motion passage of I can't even talk now. I'll move for the passage of item 7.5 notification of out of district transfers. Second. Moved by Mr. Glick, seconded by Mr. Goodman. Now you can ask questions of Dr. Beck. I mean this is basically this similar what we did last year. So I this the only difference is the January window and the restriction of grade. But last year we were open to all grades. And like I' I've shared with people, it's important that we really examine who wants
090to come in so that we are making sure we're setting everyone up for success. I think that's the the point of this. So, one thing that I will be bringing to you next at the next meeting, which is kind of an extension of this, is there are like last year we approved special ed programming limits. U Mrs. uh Miss Burgerer is getting me the projected enrollment for those specialized life skills ED programs at the different buildings that have self-contained programs. Uh and we last year we limited those. Uh this year I'll be bringing that back again at the next meeting with the current with the updated projections for next year. Any other comments or questions? Hearing none. There's a motion and a second on the floor. All in favor, please raise your hand and say
091I. I I post say passes 70. Thank you. All right, moving along to item eight, discussion items and 8.1 student handbooks. Okay, it is that time of year. I'll start with the elementary and then I'll let Mr. Shiner Shiner talk to you about the secondary handbooks. Elementary handbooks have very minimal changes. I my memo kind of outlines the changes. Um there was some updated to district personnel and some titles and and after tonight I didn't realize was when we were moving forward with other title changes. So those will be updated again to the current to whatever the people's current titles are. Um things to uh really draw your attention to. Um I aligned just some the titles of the anti it was a anti-harassment coordinator in one officer in another. So I just made that
092consistent. Um, for some reason we had accidents at the very beginning of the of the of our previous handbooks. And so as I as I was reviewing that and looking at that, it makes more sense to be in there when we talk about other other um the health section of the handbook. Um, so that updated breakfast and lunch prices won't be determined again until usually July uh when the federal government tells us what those prices need to be. Um, and then the removal of the bring your own device part. We we now provide we are onetoone so there's no need for someone to bring their own device. some of that language was left in there from when we were previously not a onetoone district. So that's some of those some of the some of that
093some of that language that probably should have been taken kind of gets hidden um or kind of gets overlooked as we as we skim through it. So these are the the updates for the elementary handbook secondary um so just if you look at the memo we have changes to um electronic communication. That's just adding parent square because that's our primary tool for communication. So, that definitely needed to be added. Uh for the high school, academic honors recognition is going is going to be changed from 3.7 to 4.0 for that academic recognition. So, raising that standard attendance, there's a whole section in there. We were maybe a little overly zealous when it came to the new attendance law last year, attendance officer and um expectations for that goal. Um it really some of that language applies
094only to K6 right now. Um and so it really doesn't make sense to have it in the handbook and so that's why that's coming out. Although we do think that um policy could trickle up um and uh but eventually we may have to add that back. Cafeteria breakfast and lunch prices uh like Dr. C said to be determined. Um offensive speech and conduct that was just there was some redundancy there. So that's why that's coming out, but we do have that addressed in another place. As you know, the vape detectors is is just a huge like a strategic tool now that um we want to be more explicit about what that looks like for parents and students in the handbook and the use of those vape detectors. Uh student misconduct andor substantial disobedience. There's just
095some language there. Um that's how we deal with um THC use and that's um spectrum including when we can arrest, when we arrest, and when we can't. Um, and so we wanted to make sure that was uh more accurate. And uh, IDs are now on a student's phone and so they're not wearing them around their necks anymore. And so that might be updated. Um, parking regulations that is tied to drug testing and just a change in policy procedures there. And then finally, um, something that's being omitted for transportation. But other than that, those are the those are for the high school and the junior high short is much the list is much shorter. Um some similar things there, three of the four. And then the fourth one for the junior high, that's the only one
096that would be different from the high school. And that just um is a result of our students needing a little bit more explicit language in there about students using their phones appropriately, not videotaping and not great things with what they videotape. So we had some situations and so there was some language there. There is some language there in the handbook but it we need that to be developed a little bit more a little bit more comprehensive and so they decided that do you have any change or any question? I do I'm curious about the change in the academic honors recognition. Why are we I mean 3.7 has always been a very standard. I mean all a sudden we're gonna I that's a I think that's a sizable change. It is definitely I think um the
097good news is we were having a lot of students achieve that but that's my understanding. So correct me if I'm wrong. So I think the numbers have just really increased over the years and so yes we have increased dual credit offerings. It's the weighted GPA that needs to change. So we It's pretty easy to get a 3.7. I think as as expectations with the new diploma and the seals continue to evolve, we will be looking at this and what and what that recognition looks like. So we can always Okay, I may ask more questions about that one later. Yeah. And you have I mean we have you have time to absorb what we've said tonight um and continue to ask us questions. We can talk a little bit more about it before we bring it
098back next time. Please, if you have questions, please you can either send them to Mr. Deo or to to us and we will we will get get the answers for you. Anything else? Plan would be to bring it to you for a vote next time. Okay. It's not a lot of time. Well, we don't We do actually have time though. It doesn't I mean you Yeah. The nice thing is we don't have to give the printer because it's Yeah, they're electronic. Just electronics. So, we've got time. I I'm actually just a general question about the electronic IDs. Wasn't there always the purpose so that you could see a person's name on their card so you knew who you were speaking to? I mean, wasn't that the logic behind having that? How how how are we
099overcoming that? So, here's what we're finding. We were spending tens of thousands of dollars a year to replace IDs that families were not paying for. So, in requiring that to be worn and then we have a number of families that can't afford the 18 IDs their one child needs, they cannot remember to bring it to school. But almost every student, we can count on one hand how many don't have a phone. So what we're doing is if it's there, they're secure coming in and we know they got through appropriately. Want to be very careful there instead of fighting something that was becoming a losing battle for the district. I did ask the admin team a year ago to consider, do we need to let go this idea that we must wear them, which was I
100had the hardest time with it and I'm the one who said, "What if we let it go? What if I'm fighting something that I can't wear?" Um, and so in doing that, the kids can wear one. They have that option, especially if they don't have a phone. They don't have the, you know, we don't have the phones out during the day. Um, we do assume when they come in, we bed them as they're coming through. It's been going really well. You touched on Go ahead. And I've seen a lot of the kids do both. Yeah. Where where is it and on the phone? When you touch on my my second question though is the no electronic devices. How are we over I mean and I I might have heard that recently that was cracked down
101a little bit more. Yes, I may have focused on that for one. um they have their computers so when they need a pass it's electronic through e-h hall pass they can request that through their teacher or on their computer at any point during class um at lunch they do have their phones they can use a picture of their ID so Wi-Fi isn't an issue there in the lunch line making the lunch line go much faster so remember we have about 1,800 students who go through four lunches it gets pretty congested we're finding that everything is just moving smoother and I think this is just where we all are now. So, I really felt like I had to let go of something that I was stuck on. It's kind of, you know, harping on the same
102kids. We're not having to do that now and and kids are happier. I don't know. It's kind of changed the culture in our building. We're also finding when we have visited other local high schools who say they require them, when you ask the kids or any adult, including the principal of any of the county high schools, they're saying, "Yeah, we require them, but we don't really want to pay for all the ones they lose. They're all in the same spot we're in." But again, let let these things I mean that's why we take this time ahead of the next um so that if you have concerns continue to ask question you think bring it back in May. We can we just we always we've always tried to get it to you early enough so that
103we can as as people um enroll um like we have kindergarten blastoffs later on this this month at the individual schools for kindergarten classes. Um we've not always made it but then we get them out to it. we we we can direct them to it as as quickly as we can. So, it's up it is up and hopefully it will be up on our hopefully our new website here real soon. Just a quick question about the uh agency or the company that was going to look at policies and stuff. Do they look at our handbooks? Handbooks. No policies. In the past, they have had available the ability for us to buy a standard handbook based on our policies. I don't know if they're doing that anymore. We didn't ask him about that, but what I
104would expect you to see after we get through these policies and bring them to you and they're approved that the handbook would start referencing our policy. So, we would say polic, you know, policy number transfer tuition is like I don't know one one I think you see it referenced uh at the bottom of the so they can a parent could look it up kid look it up and also we have all the state Indiana codes that will be in the policies that'll be referenced at the bottom and federal cases of relevance on why the board has selected that policy we can put some of those in the handbooks it just kind of beefs it up a little and you understand why we have that policy. Since it's digital, you can click on it and see
105the whole post. That's the hope. This first year we won't have it because we're not going to have policies done for you to approve, but then next year you'll start seeing those kind of things started to be linked in the core policy and the student handbook. When you approve the student handbooks, unless you change it, that whatever the last approval is, that becomes board policy as well. So technically, student handbooks are board policy. They should be consistent with their other policies policies. Okay, good discussions. Um, moving on closing items. We made it. Uh, 9.1. Uh, Mr. Deceive items. Yes, we have rescheduled the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new softball baseball complex will be held held Saturday, April 19th at 10:00 a.m. Uh with the ball game starting at 11:00 a.m. And uh I would
106say that is my uh wedding anniversary, 39 years. And my wife is always on. So hello Lori. We'll be celebrating big time at the ball game. So looking forward to that event. It's going to be awesome. And then uh our next board meeting is April 28th. Okay. Uh 9.2. Any items from the board tonight? I won't be here uh the next meeting. Correct. Probably the month of May. Yeah. You'll miss the next few. Yeah. So hoping to be back by graduation. Okay. The transplant is the 30th. Good luck to you on that. Thank you. All right. So, with that, I will take a motion for it. Motion moved by Mr. Goodman. Second. Seconded by Mr. Garver. All in favor, please say I. I. We are journ. Thank you all very much who stayed with us.
107And thanks to the board candid conversations. That's it. I did not. But I sent my family to Disney.