001for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Each of the board members received a copy, electronic copy of the consent agenda a few days ago. Does anyone have any questions about the consent agenda? No questions, no discussion. We would need a motion. Motion by Judy. Second. Second by Sarah. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. No. Agenda passes. Just give us a minute or two while we sign the books. Oh man. Blame it on that. Okay, I believe we have a boy scout presentation. Young man, what's what's your name up to the podium? Hello. I am Jackson Holman. Alpha Ireland and I'm currently working on my Eagle Scout project. So as you look across the board, younger kids are not moving around as much and so moving moving around
002is important for health for everyone. And so with my project, I would hopefully like it issues. All right. So to hopefully help draw out a bunch of these kids and their families from their homes, I install shadow boxes along the big walking path by elementary, which could be used artwork or anything else that would fit in one of these. They are they are green and so they match the whole Ireland aesthetic. They're wood and waterproof so we don't have to worry about them falling apart due or anything. Um they're pretty clean to install. We just dig a hole and drop it in after assembly which we just need some screwdrivers. So that should be pretty simple. Um we will have four to six of these depending on how well funding goes. We really want to
003shoot for six so that we have one for each grade level so that kindergarten has one, first grade has one, so it's all nice and even. Um here's some more pictures of the shadow boxes. It does come with a key and so that will be held by the school so they can go and change it as they see. So it's not worried about anyone tampering with them unless they break it. So the post itself is high but that will be lowered by about an over. But the post itself is 17 by 23. So that's the area that you actually put the papers in. So you hold about drawings made by the kids. Assuming that we're lowering two feet, the box itself will be about that. So right about where a lot of people's eyes are
004at, they can see easily as they're walking by. So for six of these, we'll need a little less than 4,000. Um, we've been asking a whole bunch of local businesses and other organizations to help donate to raise funds for that. Um, all the leftover funds will be going to Ireland Elementary. So I won't be keeping any and we're end goal is to have this done by fall break or maybe during fall break since no one will be around to mess with them. So that's about it. So how's the fundraising going? Um, I think I've got about 600, wait 900, I think, is what we've raised so far. We've only actually gotten three things back. We haven't heard from a lot of the places yet, so we'll see. I think it's specify the thing. It says
005that it's wooden, but it didn't specify either way. So if you're not aware, we have a walking path that encompasses the whole campus of walk around and goes all the way east of the ball So these would be scattered throughout that talked about that and she had already work announcements. Danielle, you got another job for the year, right? I'm also processing So Danielle, you in charge of changing things out? Lucky you. Read a portion of the book. Go to the next Jackson, I apologize for any confusion for this evening. Uh, you've done a great job presenting. If you could email me your presentation that you gave tonight and I'll be sure then to share that with the board members and then we'll keep a copy for our record as well. So, if you think about
006it later on tonight, you get on your shoot me an email with your presentation. Okay, can do. All right. Is there any action we need to take? Well, so we would like the board to consider approving Jackson's project for his Eagle Scout uh badge. So, at this time, I'd ask the board to consider that moving forward. I'll make that motion. Motion by Sarah. I'll second. Second by Judy. Any questions? Yeah. Go back and forth all night. Any further questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I oppose. No. Motion carries. Thank you young man and your cohorts for for carrying. We appreciate it. Yeah. My apologies for that. So thank you very much. I appreciate it. Good luck with your fundraising. Thank you. You're more than welcome to stay, but I understand if you if
007you want to go. So it's more than you're quite welcome to leave unless you want to hear Scott Stein. Mr. Scott, you're next on the agenda. Building and maintenance update. Didn't have any action items here tonight. I was just here to see if anyone had questions about projects. Okay. I do have a couple things. Yeah, those are mine. Those are yours. Okay. Okay. work service. Okay. So, that's a good segue then into that portion if that's okay with the board. Um, the board did receive a copy of the updated clerk of the works agreement from the stepmom group that would have been in your board packet that you received on Friday. Um, the agreement covers management of our construction projects across the district and really The only change in the agreement is just an increase
008of the hourly cost from $100 per hour to $106 per hour. And so at this time, we're asking the board to consider approving that moving forward. Um, as you know, we have two agreements with the step. One standard agreement is our facilities oversight. That is separate from any of the added projects like construction projects that we have. And so the agreement that you are considering for tonight is what covers those added projects that are outside of the normal scope of routine maintenance of facilities. Just curious the maintenance maint that you can as well. So like the facilities oversight is a flat rate. So I don't even remember what the annual amount of that is. We can get that to you, but we pay on a monthly basis out of our capital projects fund for that
009agreement. the u the project agreement is paid. It could be paid off the capital projects plan. It just depends on if we are paying for that project from that fund. The majority of what we're paying for the services are out of our bond issues because that's where the bulk of our work has been coming from. So any of the construction, parking lots, buildings, um HVAC, uh a lot of what Scott brings to the table most recently has been related to those bonded projects and that gets paid for out of bond issues that you might have a lot of and I will say we receive invoices with the hourly rate for every project. So it's not just like one big invoice if there was I'm going to make it up. If there were two hours spent
010working on something related to the Jasper High School North Classroom Edition, at the end of the month, we're going to get an invoice that shows Jasper High School classroom edition, two hours at the rate with the total amount we owe. And so what you'll see are a lot of separate invoices, but that's where we get the itemization of what we're paying. We would need a motion. I'll make a motion. Motion by Judy. Second by Sarah. Any further questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. No. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you, Scott. This does require Greg's signature and then Judy also need to sign it. I've marked it with an arrow. Finally [Music] got fixed. We got to work on administration office. trees over there. We just shifted it from So you talking about the
011limbs that are actually on the roof? leaves rain on the south side of the building in the window well design. I don't know why they designed it. Well, that fills up with water then goes into the building on the north side there's that lower level and that drain gets clogged up with leaves and that fills up. So, I've got a plan. I just need that doesn't include chopping down all of the trees. So gutter just gutter guards won't gutter guards on them and the leaves still get in there. Well then then the leaves clog up the gutter guards take those off but then when you take them off the gutters get stopped up. I was up there last week. I cleaned a bunch of it out. We get a bunch of those helicopters too. And
012then on the south side, those big tree roots, well trees, the tree roots building. So they need to go north. Don't play around the roof too much, Scott. All right. Thank you, Scott. Thanks, Scott. Yes. Thank you. You, too. We do have one other project that has been We've been working on this for a period of time with architectural sales of they're the company that provides us with the security cameras and the maintenance of those cameras. Um we've been working with them to create a plan to enhance the security camera system Jasper High School. Um the board did receive the proposed project design layout that park sales provided us last week as well as the proposed cost of the project. Um, at this time I'm willing to entertain any questions, but I am seeking approval
013to move forward with that security camera enhancement. And the total cost of that will be $143,600. Um, the cameras in the high school, we kind of have a hodgepodge of old, semi- new, sort of new, and so what and we have good coverage in some places and not good enough coverage in others. And we need coverage in places that we don't have it. So the design should take care of ensuring that we have enough security camera coverage as well as the technology of those cameras is upgraded so much that it will permit for greater visibility. Um it will allow them to follow students that in question through the building. Um so the technology itself will make utilizing those for the purposes of investigating things that occur within the setting of school uh in a we
014hope a much easier fashion. So I am asking the board to approve that. If approved, we will likely be able to begin that project sometime in September with a completion date hopefully by the end of the semester. Will that integrate fine with Safy? Eventually it will. They don't have an integration of our own camera system yet through their technology. Their science have a camera in them as well. But they know that as they like do their research and development that we could eventually look at intermingling camera systems, door locking systems, but that's not there yet. Yeah, there would be several new and that they're going to try to use as many of the existing like locations for where the cameras are. So, if it's an old outdated camera, they would use an existing hookup and
015and then put the new camera there. Then, there will be some additional cameras added just to cover spaces within the building that need coverage that we don't have. I'll make that motion. Motion by Sarah. I was wondering who was going to do second by Judy. Any other questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I oppose. No. Motion carries. Thank you. Curriculum update. Tina. Yes. So I have two items this evening. Um the first is related to human development and sexuality curriculum that we are requesting board approval for. So um provided the board with a summary of let me back up. Uh, Senate Enrolled Act 442 requires the district to outline curriculum related to human development and sexuality. Um, and it also has additional requirements related to fetal development. Um, uh, demon like a video
016to demonstrate fetal development. Um, those requirements have been outlined u in the document that was prepared for the board prior to tonight. Um, all students, unless families opt their children out of this type of instruction, receive instruction in human development and sexuality in grades five and six. And they're not well, I'll move forward. Grade five curriculum is focused on puberty and development. So, it's not sexuality, but it's it's under that umbrella. Grade six implements an evidence-based abstinence approach to teen pregnancy and STD prevention. Consent is also an important and legislatively required component of the grade six instruction. Um and then finally students who are enrolled in child and adolescent development course at the high school also receive some instruction focused on fetal development throughout adolescence. So the primary grades where all students um receive this
017instruction are five and six grades five and six. Um links to the curricular resources have been provided to the board in that document. Um, so at this time I would ask first if you have any questions and if not I would recommend that the the board approve the curricular plan as presented. Yes. Yes. And it's incredibly important um and and timely. Yeah. So the the videos um in grade five again it's really focused on um on puberty and those physical changes that students are going through at that time. The are separated into groups u by gender to make it just a little bit more comfortable to ask questions and and more targeted for um what they are experiencing and at every level parental consent is required. So that's important to note as well. Sixth grade
018health is is a more robust I would say um focus on that developmental stage but again the curriculum is focused on um consent and then additional uh preventtors of pregnancy and STDs. Um so parents don't sign the kid just goes to study hall. We have to yeah we send out two notices. They do have to um approve their child to participate and if not I assume they go to a study hall. I don't know for certain exactly what they're doing but um they would be removed from the instruction if that were the case. Is it the same that it's been prior years? It's very similar. Um I know Mrs. Wigan and I met a couple weeks ago about the middle school health and the addition of the um fetal development video and the ultrasound video.
019I don't think those were components in the past, but she did some research and found a quality resource that's being utilized by a lot of schools to meet that requirement. I'll make that motion. Motion by Judy. I have a second. Second by Sarah. Any further discussion or questions? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. Thank you. Um I also provided the board um an assessment data summary. Um, and I'm not going to pull it up on the screen since it's just us, but um, I did want to go over the presentation briefly and then again provide answers to any questions that you might have. So, um, this month IDE released the 2025 state assessment data. Um, we'll begin with I learn three through eight. So, as a reminder, other than students with
020the most severe cognitive disabilities, all students are required to participate in the IL iLearn summitive assessments. And these take place in grades three through eight, like I said, math and ELA at every grade level. Um, social studies in grade five and science in grades four and six. In looking at our performance, we see that our schools outperform the state proficiency rates in every single category. and ranking and when ranking districts across the state were in the top 15% of all Indiana schools in each of those categories. Um and and you can see that we were um in ELA we were in the top 8% of schools in the district with um a 55.2% pass rate. In math we were in the top 11% of schools school districts in the state with 58.5% pass rate. Um
0212% of our students passed both ELA and math, 51% social studies, and 55.6% in science. Um, now again, we we talk about this each and every year that only 50% of our students are considered proficient. Um but when you look at that that ranking and you can really see how that reflects across the state uh we feel very good about how our students are performing. Um and we take this data for what it is and that is a single data point. Um additionally with u the data release the state provides um subgroup information. So we can see again that our subgroups are outperforming the state average across the board. Our free and reduced meals, special education, and English learner subgroups all had a significant um were significantly higher than the state. And and like I
022said, we really should be proud of these results. What we don't do is just look at these proficiency rates and say, "Hey, great. That's we did great. We outperform the state. That's all we need. That's not even close to all we need to do with this data. So, um those proficiency data and trends over time can give us some insight to program strengths and potential areas for improvement, but other pieces of data must be taken into consideration. Our building level teams once this data release is available to them and and they can actually see some things earlier through the centralized reporting system um but not those overall proficiency like the finalized percentages. So I in the board report I did provide two um screenshots just to give an example of the type of data that
023our teacher teams can look at. Um so the first was um a screenshot where we can dig into subdomain and standards level data. Um this here teachers can see how grade level groupings performed on the subdomain level. And uh that so the example that I provided was a as a map and I have it way too small. Can't see it now. Was a math example there. But you can see the standards are listed out. A teacher can hover over that standard and read the full standard. So that information is right there in front of them. And then you have this u these check marks and half filled circles and things like that. So the check marks indicate that overall the students um were above proficiency. The half- fil circles represent at and near proficiency. So
024I think that's important to note too that they're grouping at and near proficiency together rather than at and above. Um when we're looking at the subdomain and the standards level data um an X would indicate below proficiency while the asterisk means that there was not enough data for u for the state to report on that specific area. Um so again this is just a sample. our teacher teams, our grade level teams, our content areas. The middle school will dig into this um at their grade level. They'll look specifically at standards and things like that. Um we can also utilize CRS to build and look for trends in longitudinal reports. So what's nice about that is it's following the same group of students. So when we look at proficiency from one year to the next, if
025we look at our third grade ELA proficiency, it's different groups of students. And we know that the trapping that that potentially cause the longitudinal reports look at the same group of students over time. So the example that I shared there um was from this past year's seventh grade group on the ELA assessment. So it shows how they performed beginning in in third grade and throughout time. Again, when you look at this, you have to to keep some things in mind. Um the changed design at between um the fourth and fifth grade year for these students. The standards were revised over this course of time. So again, the longitudinal reports are really nice, but again, you don't take them on their own because the test itself had changed. And so while that we like the trends
026that we see, we always consider it with additional um information. So, like I said, while that this is pretty high level data, it can point us in a direction to dig deeper. Uh, our teacher teams are always going to consider other things such as their diagnostic assessments, their progress monitoring, classroom assessments that they um that they administer, as well as their own classroom experiences and observations over the course of the year in order to frame that data and work together uh with their grade level teams or their building school improvement teams to set their goals for the next year. Um, one other thing that I just wanted to note on that is that um, one area that we really like to see is growth. Uh, again looking at our individual student results and are we
027serving our students well? Are our students improving and growing over the course of the year and uh, that growth data t gives us a better idea of that? Because if you have a student who has began the year multiple grade levels behind, it's unlikely that they're going to be proficient at grade level by the be by the end of that school year. However, if they're meeting their growth goals, that's how you close the gap eventually over time is is through that growth. So, um that gets rel released at a later time and then is also considered in creating that full picture. So that's the I learn data. Um I also provided some SAT school day SAT data. Um the school day SAT is the accountability measure at the high school level and that means that
028every grade 11 student participates um in the school day SAT regardless of their plans after high school. So SAT is a college readiness exam, but it that does not matter if the student intends to move intends to enroll after high school or not. The other thing to keep in mind when it comes to school accountability, only school day SAT data is factored into this. That's a single um administration that we give here at school. If students take a Saturday SAT for um college entrance or scholarship purposes, that does not factor into this. So even though they could take it at another time and score higher, that is not reflected in our data. Um, similar to iLearn, our students outperform the state rates in all of the reported categories. And and I did also want to
029point out we saw really nice improvement in all categories from 24 to 25. But I want you to keep in mind that this year-to-year look is not a comparison of the same students. Again, it's a different group of students. So, we take that with a grain of salt. Um, and while that that's encouraging, we would definitely need to look at other measures of student success before we would just say, "Hot dog, whatever we did this year is working and we're going to double down." That might be the case and great, but we would need more than just that one data point to feel confident in that kind of a statement. Um so changes in the rates from one year to the next are to be expected and but certainly impacted by the group of students
030being assessed. And then the final um piece of assessment data that I provided today is um our AP exam data. So um you can see we had um 629 AP exams given in the spring of 2025 and that was I think 102 more AP exams than the prior year. So that's pretty incredible that we have so many students participating and it some students take multiple AP exams but it's really a high participation. Uh those cover 18 offered AP courses. A score of four or five on an AP exam secures college credit for the students. So that's always the goal is to score a four on the AP exam. Overall 37.5% of the assessments that were taken earned that result. Um and again I think I I we have um I have here the pass rates
031by course um with 18 of them. I'm I'm going to let you look at that but the majority we are right at or above the state u pass rate but not in every area and I think it depends on the the students who are taking the courses and again how seriously they take the AP exam which is impeded by a lot of different factors. Um the relevance of the exam to their postsecary goals in particular. So uh finally with AP exam I did want to point out that we had four courses where 100% of the students um scored a four or five and that was our 2D art, chemistry, physics and Spanish. So that's a lot. That's three different assessments, but I wanted to get through my spiel first and now I would be happy
032to answer any questions that you have regarding that assessment data. Just a comment, not really a question, but computer science and that is a course that a lot of students take. So again, you know, when you have physics, for example, it's a smaller group of students and it is your most advanced science students where computer science is a course that um we have a lot more enrollment in and so it's it's not it's a more diverse group of students taking the AP exam as well and and I say diverse in in just their abilities and things like that. So they're required to do a computer science starting this year's baseline. Absolutely. Absolutely. That's a very important area right now. So I mean that will improve computer science. Me too. But to that point, I guess
033that pass rate was less than 12%. I would have to go back. Yeah, I'd like to think so. And I guess my Yeah, I guess my question is does what you experienced with the class other beyond that do you have a sense that it's better than 12%. I mean you always you always say there's always this is just one example or one test. So what else in that class is going on that gives you confidence that more than 12% are getting proficiency. So the AP exam and I'm not sure that they're even using that AP exam as part of a grade for the overall measurement of the academic progress on the standards that are taught within that course. Um I don't think that they necessarily do because we don't necarily get the results back in
034a timely enough fashion. Um, so there's a course syllabus with content that is addressed with skills that are covered and the teacher is assessing the students throughout the semester. The AP exam is just one measure and the hope is that those students will get a a score of four or five so they can utilize those credits as they move on to a postsecary decision. Um, but as Tina said, some of the courses that we have advanced placement are filled with some of our most um higher aptitude students that are um probably in the top 10% of their class. And then we have other AP courses that we have lots of kids taking them, some that should be and maybe some that just want the opportunity to try to attempt to obtain that. So, um unless
035we weed out students and prerequisites for certain courses, then we will likely have some of those kinds of AP courses that have kids there that are trying to make an attempt at it, but may not find the success on the AP exam that they would hope to achieve. I also think computer science is considered a science class. There's a lot of kids that are not interested in science. They're not teaching biology, chemistry. I think computer science is considered a science class. Is that right? If I'm correct, I I don't think it currently meets a science requirement. Um on the new on the new diploma, they have a computer science course that is not the same course title and definition. Um and that is a standalone course. It doesn't serve as a science credit. It computer
036science to check the box for the new in the past science course and so I think in the past it was an elective course um but again any student like Dr. I said there was no prerequisite for it. So any student who wanted to take on that challenge could and I'll be curious to see the baseline. Yeah. And like you said, Judy, all I mean it computer science really impacts everyone and so to have something that's that's maybe um not as um advanced, not as sophisticated uh would be beneficial to all students. and then also provide that additional foundation for students who want to explore it more deeply. Yes. So the iLearn that's going to change, isn't it? So the design of the iLearn has ch is changing this year. Yes. Um and we opted
037into the pilot year last year. So we've kind of seen we have seen how that's going to play. Um and that is this checkpoints throughear assessment system. So our students will in in those grades those tested grades three through eight will take um three checkpoints throughout the year but those checkpoints are designed to be low stakes. So the scores that they get on the checkpoints do not factor in to the summitive score at the end that is the accountability measure. However, we get the results from the checkpoints back much more quickly. Um the state I really good about how well the state listened to feedback over the course of the pilot year. And so the the theory of the design was that the results would come back quickly. Teachers could make instructional decisions, which is
038what we've been asking for. But through the first after the first checkpoint last year, the data that we got back really did not allow for that. It wasn't specific enough. It wasn't at the standard level. And so I the state I think got that feedback in droves and and for this school year they are providing standard level data. So again you can look at this group of students really did not perform well. We can retach remediate and then you can give a second opportunity if you choose. You don't have to but all of that will indicate how they will perform at the end of the year. So uh it helps it What is nice is the low stakes. It allows kids um some play with the test system too over the course of the year,
039which prior to this redesign, they took a practice test and then they were operational testing. Now they're doing operational testing the same system three times before the summit. So again, I think it it gets them more comfortable with the test. Um it provides teachers additional information, but the scores from the do not factor into that overall accountability score. So it kind of takes the pressure off of the checkpoints but also I think better prepares students for the end of year assessments and that that is only for ELA and math. Science and social studies remain a single test point. So the purpose of those checkpoints too I think Tina you might have mentioned it is to be able to look at the actual standard skills that are being taught with in that period of time to
040determine if the student has mastered that or not. If they have not, they can take that data, pair it with other formative assessment information that they are using in that time period, and they can regroup kids for reteing, re-evaluation to ensure that we're getting mastery of core standards. The state also has provided numerous um supports and um documents that outline um like the blueprint for the assessment. So when certain standards are going to be tested on a checkpoint and that that also became um a point of review for us in looking at sequencing of our ELA curriculum over the course of the year to ensure that um we're going to teach these skills now because they're going to be assessed on it now. So it did it did require a little bit of revision of
041things but u the skills and standards remain the same and those are things that we were instructing on all thank you. Anything else? Okay, Dr. I think you have the rest. Thank you. The board received the proposed funding year 2026 budget summary in your board packet as well as the capital project plan and our budget replacement plan for 2026. Uh the advertised tax rate for the 26 budget is 1.8382. Uh we inflated the advertised tax rate to ensure that we can capture what our maximum levy is going to be in that operations fun. The actual tax rate will be determined by the department of local government finance and will be dependent upon the certified assessed valuation that we will receive for 2026. Any property tax cap information that we will receive from the DGF and
042then again our own assessment of the rate against our budgetary needs as we get those budget orders from the DGF. The final tax rate is always much lower than that advertised rate and An example of that would be last year our advertised tax rate was 1.7125 but our actual rate came in at just a tick above 97 cents. It was 9777. So um I'm asking the board tonight for permission to advertise our proposed 26 budget form three which is a required form that we submit on Indiana Gateway and then to post our capital projects and bus replacement plans on our district website as uploading those into the Indiana Gateway system. We will be holding a public hearing on the budgets on our at our August 18th board meeting and then our budget adoption meeting will
043be our September 22nd board meeting. So, at this time, I'm seeking permission from the board to move forward with advertising for three and then the posting of our capital projects and replacement plans on our website. Motion by Judy I have a second. Second by Sarah. Questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. No. Motion carries. Thank you. The board also received the necessary forms that we would be submitting to seek an additional appropriation of our funding year 2025 education fund. Our current approved appropriations in the education fund for our 1782 notice is sitting at 23,28,500. We track the amount of appropriations that we spend on a monthly basis and at mid year we were sitting at spending about 54.69% of those appropriations. So at this point we're just concerned that we may not have
044an appropriations enough to cover the remainder of our expenditures from this for the budget year. So just a reminder, an appropriation just can be interchanged with permission. Appropriation is what the state does to it gives us that defines the amount that we are permitted to expend and the department of local government finance defines that. Um so outside of our cash balance, we could have $30 million sitting in a fund, but if the state only gave us permission to spend 25 million, we spend that extra $5 million without their permission. And so, um, we're on track to receive, at least at our last estimate, a little over 27 million. And we are needing to seek an additional appropriation to to spend an additional 2 million um, by the end of the year. We likely won't need
045to spend all of that, but we want to make sure we have enough so that when we get to the end of the year, we don't have to spend appropriations out of other and then reimburse those at the beginning of 26. So regardless of cash balance, if we don't have permission to spend, we can't send it. Um there will be some additional expenditures that we will be anticipating as we move through the fall. We just want to cover ourselves to make sure we're protected. So as a part of the process, we will have to hold a public hearing and we are proposing to do that during our August board meeting. Um and then there would be a resolution that the also need to approve as a part of that process. So at this time I'm
046seeking permission to advertise the necessary notice to taxpayers regarding the additional appropriation for our public hearing. No. No. And it's not really a shortfall. It's really just we estimate the amount of permission to spend in our budgeting process and that's an estimate. And then we always get to this point in the year and if we've spent over 50% of that appropriation, we always want to do the additional to make sure that when we get to December, we're not out of permission to spend. So the last thing we want to happen would be we get to the final payroll in December and we're right up against that 23 million 28,500 and we go over to 24 million and then we we don't have enough out of the education fund. So then we have to kind of
047rob Peter to pay Paul and it just it can be done but it's kind of a accounting nightmare for Monica to try to do it then and then we have to reimburse it later. And so if we have enough appropriations then we are ready to move forward but no it doesn't have anything to do with that. I'll make that motion. Motion by Sarah second by Judy. Questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppos? No. Motion carries. Thank you. In other business, as a member of the coalition of continuous improvement school districts, we have gained the flexibility to utilize instructional minutes instead of days in order to provide our staff with an additional professional development day without financial penalty with the state of Indiana. and we are proposing that we amend our 2526 calendar
048to add February 4th, 2026 for this purpose. So during that day, students without attend but all staff would report to work for targeted professional development activities. Um I will tell you we did this for the first time this last school year and every staff member got something. Our nurses got something targeted to them. Our secretaries power school training. Our school elementary schools I think worked on science of reading things. So there was something for everybody and it I the feedback was positive about the opportunity because we took it very seriously and we wanted to make it a meaningful day to support our staff for the things that we're asking them to do to support our students. So, I'm asking the board to amend our 2526 calendar to make February 4th, 2026 a professional development day
049where students would not come to school, but staff would report for PD. I need a motion. I'll make that motion. Motion by G. Second by Sarah. Questions or discussion. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. Thank you very much. And then we'll report back to the board on we have two professional development days that are built into our calendar. One is in September and then this one in February. And we'll report back to the board the activities that our staff are participating in just so you get a sense of the kind of things that they're working on and what the outcomes are. The board also received a proposed policy update pertaining to I'm sorry it's Niola. Yeah, thank you. I was looking at my like wait a minute. You also received an
050policy update. Um that is typical for this time of year. I'm simply asking the board to review those policy recommendations for the next meeting for consideration of approval at that time. Yeah. So, we'll likely get another update from Nola at that point. Um, I did a sideby-side comparison of the policy that that one of our law firms gave us and um what the new state language was that was provided. We have very little to change honestly. We had done some work on that attendance policy last year and I think in some instances we go above and beyond in describing how we manage student attendance. Any other questions about of that. Quite a few quite a few policy. Yeah. Thank goodness there's a whole two months to kind I like how they have it highlighted what
051changed though. So very good. Um the just a few announcements. Our first day of school is approaching rapidly. We are one week away from our first staff day which is next Monday, August 4th. And then our students will return to school on Wednesday, August 6th. I'm excited to bring everybody back and I said it's time for the buses to roll. Um, just as a reminder, our August board meeting has was changed and that will be on Monday, August the 18th, 7 p.m. here in the community room. And then the board will be holding a board work session that will be scheduled for Wednesday, August the 20th. And if our office is in good order, we're probably going to do it over there in the basement. We'll have to pause and wait and Hopefully we can
052do that, but I will certainly inform the board of the location where that will be held. And then of course thesis ISBA fall conference is coming up September 15th and 16th and all board members should already have some of the arrangements on that. Um at least the hotel accommodations and we'll make travel arrangements here as we move through the month of August. That's all I have to bring before the board unless the board has any questions of me. Any other business from any board member? If not, we'll ask for a motion to adjourn. I guess I'll make that motion. Motion by Sarah, second by Judy. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. No. Meeting concludes. Thank you.