001Join us. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, each of the board members has received a copy of the consent agenda last Friday. Does anyone have any questions about the consent agenda items? >> To approve. >> Motion by Steve. >> I'll second. >> Second by Arlet. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> Oppos? No. Motion carries. Next up, Wildcat Spotlight, Mr. Kendall, may we ask if you please go to the podium so we can get you recorded. >> Yeah, you're right. >> Phil, one minute. We're going to sign the books. Thanks, Steve. Bernie and whack here. I'm all discombobulated. >> Give us
002a couple minutes. We'll sign the books. >> Do you want me to get them for you, Bernie? Sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. >> Thinking we're going to need a new binder, huh? Okay. Now, Mr. Sorry. >> All right. I gave everybody a copy of the budget there or for our yearly fiscal year. Apologize. I finally realized I was getting old when I looked at the first page and had to like slowly move it away from me to in order to see to read it a little bit. But, uh, that was a wakeup call. Uh, but anyhow, again, I would say that Jasper Athletics had another really strong, successful year from a competitive standpoint. I mean that spring that we ended with was probably one of the more exciting in my five years or four years that
003we've had rolling in with the momentum that we had with out of the six sports 51 sectional titles. We met a final four. We had an individual state champion and we had a team state champion. Uh that was pretty amazing end to last year's run and hopefully we can carry that momentum as we move into 2526. Um, I would say across all 19 varsity sports that are recognized within our conference, uh, we we compete extremely well and in fact all 22 varsity sports that we have here at Jasper High School had an outstanding year. However, to my disgust, I should say, for the first time ever, we didn't finish second overall in the SIAC this past year. Uh we actually ended up finishing third behind Castle who's now won it all five years that we
004have been in this conference. And then the the dreaded Memorial Tigers actually finished second this past year, but they were kind of going to they were kind of going through a generational talent with some of their senior class boys that graduated last year. Um actuality, we were in a points tie with Memorial with one sport left to go. Uh and they edged us out in the end. So, we finished third overall by one position across 19 sports, which is would be the difference from one team finishing third and one team finishing fourth just in in one of those sports. So, we did finish third. Um, if we break it down by gender, the boys finished third overall behind Memorial, who was first, and Castle second. Uh, and the girls finished second overall behind Castle. Uh,
005but I keep saying one day we're going to we're going to win this thing. Uh it actually means quite a bit to me. I and it feels to be hated I guess down there too and would like to win it from that standpoint. Uh the interesting part is even though we did finish third, we were able to capture more conference championships than we did last year, which is really odd. You win more outright but finish less in the standings. Uh we were able to capture five team conference championships out of the 19 sports. Uh they were boys tennis, girls cross country, girls swimming, girls tennis, and baseball. Uh five sports finished second overall, one finished third, and two finished fourth. So if we look at all 19 sports, we finished in the top four in
00613 of the 19 sports, which I will admit it's down a little bit from the prior years, but I think can be attributed to having a really strong conference for the most part from top to bottom. Um, in the 5 years now that we've been in the SIC, there's been a total of 95 conference titles up for grabs. We've won 26 of those. Castle's won 34 of them. Uh, the next closest would be 14, which would be Evansville North, but if you look at it, us and Castle have won 60 of the possible 95 conference titles. And, uh, they were they're probably the other hated team in the conference. You know, sometimes success leads to hatred. Um, we also had 69 allconerence athletic selections in the SIC. I think it could be more, but when
007you're the outsider, you don't tend to get votes to go your way when you sit into those conference meetings down there. outside of the conference in the in the 20 sports that we have here at the school IHSA sports. We took home 12 sectional titles, three regional titles, three semi-state titles, one final four finish, one state runnerup finish, two individual state champions in tennis doubles, and our first ever team state titles that you guys recognized I think at the either June or July board meeting for girls tennis. What I'm also proud of is we brought home our 30th and 31st IHSA state mental attitude awards in Caleb Schneer and Braxton Bromer. I did some research here. I actually didn't rely on Brian to do this. I did it myself. U this ranks the 30 and
00831 ranks only behind Caramel who has 66 and Indianapolis North Central has 32. Uh which are the first and fifth largest schools in the state. So their their numbers should be higher. Uh plus we had a handful of other a individual athletes also compete for state championships across individual sports. Now from a financial perspective that you might be more interested in even though we had some major purchases at both baseball and softball that were not part of the overall project. And throughout the course of the year I sometimes felt like Oprah giving wind screens out to different teams like you get a wind screen and you get a wind screen and all that good stuff. I would say that we did better than expected. Uh coaches and programs still continue to do a great job
009distinguishing wants versus needs when it comes to requesting items for the program. However, and this is where Teresa really didn't want me to talk about this part, uh we are really getting to the point of really needing to reallocate money back to our programs because in reality we are supposed to be a not forprofit. So in essence, our balance sheet at the end of the year should be close to zero now that we were able to build those reserves back up since the pandemic, which seems long time ago at this. It's hard to believe we're closer to 2030 than we were to the pandemic at this point. So for the fiscal year, we had over $1.1 million go in and out of the athletic office when you combine receipts and expenses. On paper, we finished
010ahead or finished in the black by $38,800 during the time of July 1st of 24 to June 30th of 2025. Five of our sports programs finished in the black for the year with boys basketball leading the way, netting a total of $17,40.25. But as I think I mentioned to you before, the numbers for each individual sport sometimes aren't reflective because of the fact we do do the all sports passes. Uh which has been a tremendous success. Um you know last year I we sold on the course of the year we sold $52,979 in all sports passes. Um and these people can go to all events. That's why I said it doesn't register into the gate receipts then for that particular event, you know. So, a lot of our later season sports where people have already,
011you know, managed to get their sports passes, like softball for instance, if you had an all sports pass, you're not the gate receipts don't reflect that. So, it it's not easy to look at each individual sports total bottom line and say, "Oh, that sport lost money or this, you know, you gota you got to figure in those." Okay. But again, it's a great problem to have and one of the many reasons that makes this community great. In comparison to the 2324 school year, we sold $39,561.88. I don't know how we got to 88 in all sports pass, but guess somebody bought theirs online. So, we saw an increase in all sports passes of $13,417.12 more in all sports passes just from one year to the next. If I go back two years, we're up $19,849
012in all sports passes from two years ago. So, I think people are starting to realize what a great deal that pass is. Uh, I will preface it with it. it it's going to end up maybe being my problem, which I'll come to you guys for advice at some point, but the HSA and the SIC are really making a push now to say this is the time where you need to increase your ticket prices. Um, the HSA is actually moving their sectional ticket price from $7 to $8. and our conference some schools with EVSC five schools that struggle financially a little bit sometimes they're making a push to raise all ticket prices from $6 to seven uh I went to the meeting and said how can I justify to the people of our community that we
013raised the ticket price from $6 to $7 when in my worst year here so far we net gained $38,000. So it's going to be coming. I don't know what my answer is going to be. I guess I'll just say it's going to be a better deal for people around here that then buy our all sports pass. Potentially, it makes the all sports pass a better a better option, but something for us to think about. It's going to be coming coming down the road a little bit. The other surprising revenue jump uh that we had was in advertising, and that goes along to a lot of the project upgrades that we did over the last couple years. Uh with the addition of the three digital scoreboards at football, baseball and softball, we were a we were
014able to make passive income from our advertising sponsors. With these upgrades, we were also able to secure more community sponsors. We went from bringing in last year 33,500 from advertising sponsors in 2324 to bringing in $54,250 last year. So, it's an increase of $20,750 from digital advertising alone. And speaking of passive income, because we've built our resources back up, we continue to be able to invest in a CD at Old National Bank that we just rolled over again. Uh the amount in the CD currently stands at $41,57920. So, with all this being said, the athletic department heads into the 2526 school year with a balance of 227,824.73. Four years ago, whenever I started on this job, we came in with a balance of $20,29167. So, we've over four years gained about $27,000. I continue to
015feel extremely confident that the athletic department is in a comfortable place moving forward. Uh but as mentioned before, probably need to start reallocating more money back into our individual programs and addressing, you know, making sure. You would think they'd come to ask me if they needed something, but it's almost going to be I'm going to have to do the opposite and really go to them and say, "What can I do or what can we help you with or give you that you need moving forward?" So, other than that, if anybody's got any questions, anything. >> Are we 3A in all sports? >> Well, football's 4A. That's uh in and 3A in the sports that are a four class system. Football's a six class system. Soccer is a three class system. So in soccer, we're in
016the top class. We're in 3A because there's only three classes. Football, we're in four because there's six classes. But any sport, there's four classes and we are 3A. >> And that's most sports, four classes. >> Uh the majority of the team sports. Yeah. And obviously with your individual sports, they don't have a they don't have a class like your cross country, your wrestling, tennis, stuff like that. >> So I have a question, Phil, and Dr. Could I know this is high school, but if the middle school needs funds, can you allocate funds to them or no? >> I don't know if that's allowed. I don't have that question answer that question to be honest with you. >> We allocate funds for the school that they're generated at. So, high school revenue will support high school
017programs. Middle school revenue will support middle school. I say I know that we have, you know, one at the middle school as well, but I just thought if there were funds that were needed at the middle school for, you know, >> nets for a volleyball or, you know, what have you. >> And I I I think our programs do I know football does a pretty good hand down system like when things shoulder pads or helmets that might be still be able to be used and hand down to the middle school and things like that or >> um you know, I know basketball, girls basketball in the past is purchased shoes or whatever for middle school basketball players and things like that. So, >> the uh new transfer rule, the IHSA, any experience with that one
018way or the other? There's in the metro I think it's a lot bigger than you know if you go to the Indianapolis and Evansville Fort Wayne you know I think Brian I can't I'm not going to quote this number but they were already several hundred transfers ahead this year compared to where they were at last year at this particular point. Uh we had we had one leave uh but we only brought in two kids I think. Um, I was expecting it to be to be more to be honest, but I don't I don't think people around here, you know, we're just we're going to play for our community. You know, it's >> the new rule is you don't need to sit out a year if you transfer for sports. >> No, you can. Everybody gets
019a free one-time transfer at this particular point. Now, if you transfer as a senior, you'll have to sit out a certain percentage of games. They don't allow the senior one-time transfer to be the same as the underassman. Well, the one suggestion I mean I still know a lot of these kids have to do fundraisers. So I think one of if you're looking to dole out money it would be really nice to maybe >> Cam and I were talking about >> and I even asked Dr. Laura how do I go to the coach and just say here here's $2,000 go spend it however you want to spend it. Uh, I I think it has to come to them, come to me and say, "Hey, me go to them and say, "Hey, you guys are allotted. I've
020got $2,000 for your sport here. Tell me what you need. I'll order it. We'll pay for it. But if it's I agree with you, our kids are doing way too many fundraisers, I think, uh, on on certain, you know, some sports some sports have it pretty easy. Let's be honest with that, uh, compared to others, you know. one I think softball one year had like four different fundraisers going on I think at one point. Uh yeah, so I I 100% agree with you. The less that they can go out there and let's be honest, it's really the parents doing the work a lot of times for the fundraising as opposed to it being the kid. >> Okay. Well, I think good problem to have. >> Yeah, I'd rather be here where we're at. But like
021I said, it is going to be an issue. Like the people down in Evansville don't understand when I said how how do you ask your community or explain to your community why you raise ticket prices? Because if it's if they're going to vote it in as a conference rule, I think how do we how do we not do it? You know what I mean? That's and that's going to be the problem I'm going have to try to explain. So >> get a lot of compliments on the facilities. >> Yeah. Even from like Vincen's people. I was shocked. Vinc memorial people coming in and saying, "Wow, what wonderful facilities you have." That's >> never thought I'd hear that. >> Thank you for >> Thank you. >> Okay. Very good. >> Very good. >> Next up, we
022have uh Bernie Vogler and Bob Waddle. And uh, of course, as you all know, the Cabbie O'Neal gym was granted a place on the National Register of Historic Places. And uh, Bernie and Bob have dang near lived at that gym for the last several years. Know Bernie ever since 2009. And Bob does a did a nice job on commandeering the application for the National Register to its toss final stage. So Bernie, take it away. Thank you uh Greg and thanks uh Tracy and all of you board members for allowing us to come. I uh want to start out by saying when I hear Phil's report and that Cabon O'Neal gym being built in 38 and 39, I I bet the people then thought we had lost their minds because I mean that was quite a
023facility in those days and the people of Jasper put up 50,000 bucks to build that and the federal government paid the rest. Uh so that's kind of the starting point. In 201 12 I I think it was two that's this has been going on 13 years. Uh I went to Tracy who had just gotten her job and uh I told her that I had this idea uh that the Cabon O'Neal GM ought to be a national historic building. And I had no idea what I was really talking about. But but uh you know St. Joe's church is one and the Grandma Spocker Goodwaler House is one and and I had things to do with all that stuff and uh so she said, "Well, go ahead." I told her it wouldn't cost the school corporation any
024money and except for a trip for gas the other day. I don't think it has. Uh so I went up to the DNR uh in Indianapolis in July of 2012 and talked to or was it 13? He was 13. Yeah. Uh and talked to uh Holly Tate and uh Paul Debbold up there and told him what I had in mind and they said gyms in Indiana are a dime a dozen. You're wasting your time. And uh and he's right. If you look our immediate area, the only gym I know that's been torn down is Bird's Eye. All the rest of them are here. Every one of them that I can think of. So I didn't leave there with a good thought, but I came back and started fighting the fight and and I the problem
025was is I had to go to all kinds of people for information like Ron Flick and Art and Ardolf and a lot of times I had to wait for a long time and and I was still taking care of the gym and had others duties in my life. So I kept getting pushed back and pushed back and finally I met Bob. Well, I've known Bob all my life, but uh I asked Bob one day if he'd be willing to come in and give me a hand with this, and it it's the best thing I ever did with regard to getting the gym approved. U Bob came in and grabbed the bull by the horns and uh went up to see the people up there in 2019, six years later, and they told him the same
026thing. Good luck. uh uh that this is not going to fly very easily and so we were not easily uh swayed that we wouldn't pursue it. So and we did it without professional help. By that I mean we didn't hire an attorney or a firm to do it. We decided to do it oursel and however we did we did. So uh we no more than got started and then COVID hit in 2020. So at the DNR they took a break up there for two or three years and once again it laid dormant and uh but in the meantime we were building a lot of facts and we had to I wouldn't say concoct a great story we had to come up with facts that you could make a good story and then Bob went after
027Greg our president and uh and talked Greg into writing the narrative for our story and It's quite lengthy and if you ever want to see it, just ask Greg or Bob or myself. It's quite a story. It's about a 65page application. And along the way, we had to change it a few times, but Bob got Greg. We we had Jay Hamlin as our photographer and Phil Beer and and uh Brad Eckerley. Ken Bromer as our surveyors. We had to have surveyors at uh Who's Your Business Machine? We had uh Julia Hurst. She was our stenographer and she actually put the thing together after it was all done and all of this took a lot of time and uh but we pursued it uh like you wouldn't believe it and and had to go up there
028a few times and uh every time we kept building steam and I got the feeling that the people up there were pulling for us. This is the only only the third gym that we know of in Indiana that's got this distinction out of 750 back in the 60s. That's pretty good thing to be able to say. So anyway, u sometime along in uh 2024, I think we had to switch from paper to uh >> to discs. Yeah, we had to switch and that caused another big uproar. And then we made the mistake of calling the gym Kabie O'Neal gym when in fact when it was historical it was the Jasper High School gym. So everything had to be changed and it just went on and on and on. But finally uh in 2000 and well
0292025 uh in uh in the spring uh we got a call that we were going to be accepted as a state historic building and they wanted us to come to Indianapolis to Fort Benjamin Harrison to make our case for the federal uh designation that would have to go through the Department of the Interior. So we went there and I think Tracy was not around at that time. It was in the spring, early spring. And so uh uh I called the mayor uh the mayor of Jasper and he went along and uh and we had a bunch of guys there and uh and uh uh Julia from Who's Your Business Machine came along and we went up there and at the right time we had an outstanding presentation there and Greg did the talking and he
030put on a really nice speech there and I think it put it over the top and uh although we didn't know it at the time. So, we left there knowing we were a state thing and state designation. And so, finally on May 27th, uh Tracy got the letter in early June that we were accepted into the uh National Historic Registry. So, that kind of in a nutshell, that's it. There was a lot of time uh a lot of effort put into it. But all that is what people that are volunteers like Bob and I, that's what we do. By the way, Bob is now uh my assistant or maybe I should say I'm his assistant because he is really doing a lot of things down there. And if you don't know it, uh the friends
031of Cab O'Neal gym, we provide the minor stuff down there, the light bulbs and the we do all that kind of cleaning and all that stuff. And we have about a 10 member group that does it doesn't cost the school corporation anything. And uh there are things that we've had to go to Dr. Lorai for, but uh all in all, it's been a wonderful experience. And we now have not only the best high school gym in southern Indiana or maybe in Indiana. We also have a good old 86 year old building. It's got the prestige of a national historic building. With that comes rights and privileges. And we learned there um we went we went to the uh we went to the state fair. I wanted to ride the Tilta World but Tracy wouldn't let
032me. So dang it. Anyway, we went there and uh uh and received our uh our certificates for our registry. And there we went to a little seminar that indicated that for a building like that, if down the road we need an air conditioning system or or a floor or some facade problem or whatever it might be, there's an application process that could be worth 50% of what it's going to cost. So all in all beside the prestige of that uh uh we have got that uh uh possibility in the future and I think the board would appreciate that if that happens. Uh also we intend to put a bronze plaque down there. Uh don't know what it's going to say yet. Probably Greg and Bob will probably write it that Greg's good at what's important.
033And then we're eventually going to put that up down there. We use uh Phil uh uh Kendall as where do we put where do we put it and Dr. Lori will tell us that too. So all those things are going on. And then one more thing uh you know I'm getting older. I don't know if you realize it or not but uh so my days down there are probably number now. I don't know when it would be but and Bob he's no spring chicken either. Al, although he still shoots par in golf. I cannot believe that, but he does. Anyway, I shoot par in golf, too, but it take me a long time to get to that. So, anyway, uh we do have a succession plan in mind. I can't reveal who it is or
034what it is, but looking to the future, there's a time when we step out. Another younger person is going to step in and we're going to keep that ball rolling as long as it's uh something that's good for the school corporation. So, that kind of sums it up. Uh you have anything to add, Bob? >> That's about it. And uh along the way uh Tracy's always been uh helpful and uh we've had a lot of help from the community and uh and we're pretty good at asking for stuff and uh we always got it. So I again appreciate the opportunity. Greg, would you like to add anything to it? >> Uh other than the fact that of course the building wouldn't even be there. I mean, we go back to 2009 when you were on
035the board and we voted to save it and of course you led the charge and know you had a group of six people and there was a lot of faith put in that group to even having the building be there and you raised a lot of money, got a lot of volunteer help, spent a lot of time in there for a year and a half, that group of six. I know you guys are probably there about six days out of the week and uh you know and then ever since then I know you made a commitment to to manage it, take care of it for five years now 16 years you're still doing it. >> So uh there's a big debt of gratitude and I know Bob has joined that group but six or seven
036years ago. So really appreciate that. The key thing is that it's a it was an asset that was given back to the corporation and it's used nearly every school day by some students. So that and going along with the national historic designation, it's a >> two pretty key things. So we >> well it could have very easily been torn down and uh and you know there are people that didn't want to see us keep it but uh when I heard that there's a shortage of gym space in in Jasper back in 2008. Rick Begley told me that. Then I got to thinking about it and I thought you know you can we still the 40,000 it was going to take to tear that down. We still have that money here somewhere. We didn't tear it
037down. And so, uh, the building's there. By the way, we do have a an endowment that's got about 25,000 bucks in it that was donated to the gym. And, uh, anyway, it brings in cash and we still have people make donations and we have we have money. We we get what we need and if I need help and it's substantial, I ask Tracy, but that's seldom. So, uh, that's pretty much it, I think. >> Are there any restrictions or limitations that can be done in the building? Like, is there anything that would jeopardize that designation that >> that we couldn't do to the building? >> You know, I didn't read I didn't I didn't read the details on that, but I I think you would uh probably want to re really follow closely what the
038details are, but and uh nothing on the outside. By the way, uh uh Steve, on the on that point, uh the people there at Indie on, uh last Thursday, they indicated that the outside is not what inspired them. It's what it what's going on on the inside. So, I think there would be little little use to make any changes in that building. Although, if it would become necessary, we'd have to look at it. >> Yeah. I didn't know like if any repair was needed, do we have to inform somebody or is there any >> I don't think we have to do that. >> Just don't want to lose the designation. >> No. >> Church. >> Yeah. St. Joe's Church just uh you know they got that designation. They just spent a ton of money 14
039million I think to bring it up to snuff and and they did that. So any other questions? It's our pleasure doing what we do and and I'm glad to keep doing it and uh I will as long as I'm capable of doing. I'm a little tired tonight. I don't know if for some reason I couldn't sleep, but uh it's not because I was coming here. There's other things going on, but nonetheless, uh enjoyed coming. Thanks for letting letting us come and uh hope you understand now what happened. Thanks for welcome. [Applause] >> You both are welcome to stay, but if you want to go pull weeds at the cabbage gym, we understand. >> Okay. Uh Dr. L, I think we adjourn the regular meeting now to uh to talk open the public hearing, but we
040will need a motion to adjourn the regular meeting. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Arlette. >> Second by Sarah. All in favor say I. >> I oppose. No. Motion carries. >> Now we are opening a public hearing. And is there anyone here that wants to make a comment about the additional appropriation we need for the budget going forward? >> No one here. >> We also have we have two public hearings. We have one on the 2026 budget and one on the additional appropriation. >> Okay. No comments. >> No comments. >> Okay. >> So, so we are adjourned the regular meeting and we'll we'll adjourn the public hearing and reopen the regular meeting. Public meeting again. >> We need a motion for that. >> No. >> To close it. >> We need a motion
041to close the public hearing. >> Yes. >> We do. >> Okay. >> Motion by Steve. >> Second by Judy. All in favor say I. >> I. I oppose. No. Motion carries. Reopen the public meeting. Dr. Laura, you will talk about the additional appropriation. >> Yes. So, as the board is aware, we are seeking an additional appropriation in our education fund in the amount of $2 million. Uh, per our 20251782 notice, we were given permission to spend 23,28,500 of our cash balance. At the end of July, we've already spent about 62% of those approved appropriations. So, um, we feel like our remaining education fund expenses for the year will likely exceed that original permission to spend and the $2 million just hedges that to ensure that we have enough permission to finish out the calendar year
042in the budget. Um, with no commentary at the public hearing, we are asking the board now to approve a resolution for additional appropriation that you received in your uh, board information that you received on Friday. >> I'll make the motion. >> Motion motion by Judy, second by Sarah. Any discussion or questions? >> All in favor say I. >> I. No. >> Motion carries. There is a a resolution that does require all board members signatures plus an attest by the board secretary. Moving on to the building and maintenance update. I see we don't have any action items, but Scott Snogle is here. Anyone has any questions or Scott, do you have anything to update us on? Thanks for your mapping out everything that you guys for us. >> Any further questions? >> Thank you, Scott, for
043for being here. Appreciate it. Curriculum update. Tina. >> All right. Good evening. Um, last month I shared the majority of our 25 data released and just last week the three scores um were released by the state. So I wanted to provide that information tonight. Um, in the board packet you had a summary of our results. The Indiana pass rate for 2025 was 87.3% and the GJCS pass rate was 92.7%. Um that is down 1.4% from last year. However, um I just when you look at a a a test result like this one where it is not the same cohort of students, it's important I think to uh point out Thank you. that um that's four students. Four students um would have four more students passing would have put us um above that that 94.1% that
044we had last year, which is right on line with the state average. And um with any any of the students who did not pass last year um qualified for a good cause exemption either due to um an IEP, a special education plan that indicated that um the student should not be retained or um an ILP, so an English learner plan for a student who had received less than two years of instruction um in the English language. So again, when you look at our pass rate, we're thrilled, honestly. Um, and even though it it is a slight dip from 2024, um, I I think we're still right on target with the things that we're doing to meet that 95% goal that we continue to strive toward. Um, some other some other things that I wanted to
045point out um that I shared, we we are really really happy when we look at our subgroup data. Um, so our free and reduced lunch um, subgroup, the state of Indiana's pass rate is 76%, ours was 91.6%. Um, and I think sometimes maybe people don't recognize that that we do have a high um rate of of people who are of low socioeconomic status. So, in order to qualify for free and reduced lunch, you have to receive some sort of assistance, whether that's um SNAP or I'm not going to get all the acronyms right, but um I think Jasper Elementary School's rate is I'm not I should have wrote this down. It's significantly higher than I think most people would anticipate. So, again, to see that we are we are almost 20% higher than the state
046average in that subgroup. We're really happy with that. Um, special education is the same. The state rate is 57.1%. 83.9% of our special education students passed the IE3 exam. And for our English learner subgroup, the state's pass rate was 63.6 and ours was 84.4. So again, um, those students, like I said, out of that the 15.6% 6% of our EL students who did not pass, all of those had less than two years of instruction um in in an Indiana school. So, uh that's a big deal. They're learning the language um as well as how to read it. Um and then finally, so the um second grade students also participate in iAre and um we had 80.1% of our second grade students pass, which is really pretty phenomenal in my opinion. Um, this points to, we
047talked about this just this morning, um, real strength in our core instruction, uh, because these are students who have not, um, I mean, all second graders are taking it and the m there there there are targeted interventions happening. Uh, but that 80% pass rate is can definitely be attributed to the strength of our core instruction. Um, so that that's a summary of those I read results. If anyone has questions, I am happy to answer them. >> Alluded to the socioeconomic status, percentage of students who qualify under the federal income guidelines. As a district, about 35.8% of our students meet that federal income guideline. And at Jasper Elementary School, we're sitting at about % of the students there qualify under that income guideline. Thank you that up so quickly. Anybody else? Nope. Student support services and
048transportation update. Mr. Beine. >> Thank you. Indiana code requires an annual review of school bus routes and school bus safety policies on or before se September 1st of each school year. the corporation must review the school bus routes to um improve the safety of students and adults. So we we are here tonight to inform the school board that all routes and policies regarding transportation have been reviewed for safety. Uh in regards to the routes, very minimal change from last year as we ended the school year. Um routes are essentially the same with and we do have one new route driver um route number 12 and um Arlette Arlet's route and uh we'd like to uh say we appreciate all your years of service. We did give her a recognition plaque on our bus drivers meeting
049and we thank you and we hope you'll keep subbing for us. >> I'm not on the sub list. >> I can get you there. I thought about and I like I said I do have my physical but yes it was a pleasure uh being the bus driver for bus 12. Oh I I don't even know how many years I drove. I think it was >> close to double figures. >> Yeah. >> Um it was supposed to be a fillin. Hey, Bernie Bulgar talked me into driving the bus and um it was not supposed to be something that was long term and it turned long term um and it was a pleasure. I won't lie. The first day of school came and I was a little lost. It was it was very bittersweet because I'm so
050used to getting up with my kids and getting on the bus that it was very bittersweet. I received a lot of messages from my parents saying that they miss me and so it was very nice. >> Well, we thank you. We hope you do stay active and and sub and help out when it's uh convenient for you. >> Who's the new driver for your route? >> Jeff man, >> class of 85. >> I remember him. >> I want to see you as the elf on the Polar Express. >> The elf on the Polar Express. Okay. >> Yeah. You need a head elf, don't you? >> We do. I mean, we need all the elves we can get. >> Maybe all board members should be an >> All right, we're already talking about that. We're going
051to It's going to be a good one. It was a good one last year, but it's going to be, >> you know, or dress up as toys or, you know, something like that. We can get all board members. >> I can bring my umbrella hat. I still have it. >> I do, too. >> Well, K's actually Santa Claus there. can't play Santa Claus for that. And he he loved it. Kids loved it. Uh, speaking of subs, we did train two new drivers this summer. So, I think we're about as solid as we we've ever been with subs. I we we have 12 U substitute bus drivers at this point. Some only do extracurriculars, but that that's a pleasure. When I first came into the position, because I I would be the person that would have
052to sub. So that was a little bit of added pressure. I I really don't have that at all anymore. Once again, we began the school year with K through five school bus uh training and our SRO's and some other leaders at the elementary schools took part in that and they they teach you know school bus safety as well as uh expected and appropriate behavior on the buses. And also in the safety realm in September of of each school year, the first Wednesday in September, Greater Jasper serves as the host for the Duboce County Safety Committee. And we're lucky to have Ryan Stewart, who's the uh what's his new title? Senior School Safety Specialist for the state of Indiana. So, he's a leader in the state for school bus, excuse me, uh, school building safety, and
053he's going to be our special guest and he'll entertain any questions that, uh, the committee has has at that time. Uh, basically going to give us the state of the state of safety and in Indiana. So, that's in uh, first week in September. >> Thank you. >> You have many stop arm violations to kick off the year. We had three today. >> Three today. >> Oh yeah. But actually last year we were down a bit. I think we they ended up siding mid50s or 60. Um I will say that they I would use the term entertain every violation. they will make contact um without getting into the weeds that we have to be able to go go to court and win. But even but even if it's a second, they'll try to make contact with
054the with the driver and explain what went on. Those 56 citations don't count u actually reckless driving. That's actually an arrestable offense, which we had a handful of those. >> Video. >> We've always got uh video and we just, matter of fact, would to stay on top of that, we had a tech come down. He came down three days from Indianapolis to to spot check and and check our buses to make sure everything's operational because there's no worse feeling than when you actually have a legitimate violation and then you don't pick it up because of some tech error. But yeah, we it kind of goes, doc, it kind of es and flows. Today was a heavier day. There was three of them and they were kind of spread out and then you might go two
055or three days and don't have any. Again, I always want to point out it it's not the stereotypical high school kid on their cell phone driving around that are the stop alarm violators. It's people my age that appear to be oblivious to life itself. I >> mean, that's the way I view it. Very good. >> I'll end with that one. >> Other business. Dr. Lurai. >> Yeah, I don't know how to talk. >> So, the board received proposed policy changes pertaining to the use of personal communication devices and attendance um and other board policies at our last board meeting. Um, the board has had a month to review those proposed changes and at this time we are seeking approval of those board policies. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Sarah. >> I'll second.
056>> Second by Judy. Any questions or discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> I. Post. No. Motion carries. >> Thank you. And then just a few announcements. On Wednesday of this week at 5:30 p.m., our board will be meeting in executive session to um work with policy analytics and a few other topics that we will be addressing during that time. I did forward an agenda to all of the board members this evening on that. Our fall conference is coming up. We will be attending the ISBA IAPSS fall conference September 15th through the 16th in Indianapolis. And then our September board meeting will be Monday, September 22nd at 700 PM. And that's all I have to bring before the board. >> Any board member have any other business to bring forward? >> No. Otherwise, I'll
057entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion by Judy. Second. >> Second by Steve. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. No. Meeting adjourn. Thank you very much. >> Thank you.