001Okay. All the members of the board received a copy of the consent agenda beforehand. Does any member have any questions or anything to discuss about the consent agenda? Motion by Steve. I'll second. Second by Judy. Any further questions? All in further All in favor say I. I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. Hang on with us for a minute. We're going to sign the books and then we'll get on with the agenda. Okay. Wildcat spotlight. Anna Lamers, Anna Maringer. Who else do we have? Thank you. Thank you. Just grab your dad. Sorry. Hello. How are you? Good. Thank you. So, hello everybody. Um, welcome. We are here representing the Jasper FA chapter. I'm Brianna Lombers and that is Hannah Kousse. We are the adviserss. Um, and real quick, we just wanted to give you a little understanding
002of how a education and a programs work. So, um, if you look, they're they're using the power of three now instead of the three circle model, but basically it's a education is made up of three components. You have the workbased learning component. We call supervised agricultural experience, which is real world um like in the job setting experience. Um, then you have classroom instruction, which you can see from the four different pathways that we offer that culminate with an a business capstone. And then you have leadership experience which is our FFA um which our kids are going to tell you about now. Okay. So our chapter is currently made up of 53 members and then our two adviserss. So this is our current leadership team, our 2024 2025 officer team. Um I'm Emma Pope. I'm the
003current president. I'm Brooklyn and I'm the treasurer. I'm the vice president. And then some of our other officers that couldn't make it tonight are Kate Yarbor who is our reporter, Grace Plumper, who is the student adviser, and Kennedy Ambrose who is the secretary. So this little scrapbook that we put together goes by calendar year. So we're going to start off with January. So in January to start off the year, we go to our Superior Aual Stockholders meeting where we serve food. Um there's Superior A members and we get to talk to our community members. And then we hold a chapter meeting monthly. Um so this is kind of to get people in the know for what's happening within the next month. Um and this month we hate pancakes. And then we started our middle school
004chapter um portion of our chapter. So they did a little scavenger hunt. And then moving into one of our busiest months of the year, February. So we started off with our district 10 dance, which is one of the many events that we attend throughout the year, just interacting with different members from our district. And then we attended the Duboce County soil and water annual meeting where our top soils team was recognized for winning the Duboce County Invitational and they received the Ken Mc Williams memorial award. And then they also help serve food and drinks. And then we went to the National Farm Machinery Show, which was a rewards trip for um some of our top flower selling members. And then moving into FFA week, which is the third week in February. One of our first
005events of the week was our truck show. And then those are some of the categories that we had. And then in the middle of the week, we host a second grader field trip. So in these pictures, they're planning marolds. And then there was also a petting zoo segment. And then we have a staff appreciation breakfast where all of our officers and some of the other members of our chapter get together and we cook a nice breakfast for all the staff members. And then we had district 10 dodgeball which is just another fun district event to get to know other people in the district. And then one of the last events for the week was our tractor show. And then some of the categories. Okay. Next we have month March. Okay. Okay, so one of our
006first contests of the year is Environ. This is where members learn about the environment and then take a couple tests according to that. We also have our district 10 leadership convention. This is where members can showcase their public speaking skills or their leadership skills. We also have our St. Patrick's Day celebration food booth. This is where we cook burgers and serve a little bit of food. That's a fundraiser. We also had our March chapter meeting. We did a couple team building activities and had lots of fun. We also had our March middle school meeting. This is where we taught the middle schoolers about our soil CDE contest which is held in the fall. And here we have April. At our April chapter meeting, uh we kind of just filled members in about upcoming events and
007we had a nice cookout and um we took delivery or We received and took delivery of our flowers we do for a sale every year as a fundraiser. We delivered about 800 flowers. And then to the month of May. So May to wrap up the school year we have our district x a olympics um where we compete in various uh competitions all related to a. And then we have our banquet where we recognize um our members on their accomplishments throughout the year and give them some awards. So, these are some of our outstanding members throughout the grades. And then this is um our senior spotlight um where our adviserss recognize the seniors and give them a farewell address. And then moving into June, we have the Indiana Face State Convention which is hosted at Purdue
008and this is four days long. Um some of our members competed in different contests. We did some community service events and then some of our members also got awards and this is just some more state convention. And uh in July some of our members went to the Indiana State Fairgrounds to do some community service work to get ready for the state fair in August. Okay. In August, we did our district 10 state fair experience day. This is where members can talk to our state officers while also meeting some of the people that come to the pavilion. We also had a our strawfest kitty pedal and this is a great way to reach out to members that could be involved in our chapter. We also had our August chapter meeting where we did a scavenger hunt
009and then our middle school meeting. This is where they learned about the CDE coming up in the year and then we have September. In September we um compete in a bunch of we start competing in a bunch of different speeds. So our first one is Livestock which we teams that are on that side of the screen and then our state teams that went. And then we had the agricultural career fair which is um was at the UJC and um our members got to learn about different parts of the A industry. And then we had soils judging. Um we had our district invite or our county invite, our area contest and our state contest. We have a lot of members who compete in this. And then we had our district X kickoff where we got to
010meet our new district officer team and we got to spend time with members of our district. And then we had our September chapter meeting where we learned about crops entomology and forestry and had a color challenge. In October we had members go to sore camp. We had two members be there as coun as campers and then one member goes there as counselors. This is a great way for members to grow their leadership skills overall. Then we had our October middle school meeting. They painted pumpkins. And then our meals in the fields. This is one of our bigger community service activities. This year we deliver 97 meals and delivered them to farmers across Duboce County. We also attended national convention which is a three-day event held in Indianapolis. we where we attended sessions and a couple
011of workshops. At our October chapter meeting, we also painted pumpkins to high schoolers did. And then moving into November, we went to fire camp, which is the same concept as store camp, just for older members. So, we had six um go as campers and then two go as counselors. Um they just got to meet more members across the state and then come and then they went through different sessions and community service events. And then for the November middle school meeting, they decorated some cookies. And then we had our crops area our crops enmology and forestry area contest. And then some of those teams moved on to state contest as well. And then for the November chapter meeting, we had a pollock style dinner. Um all of our members chipped in to do that. And then
012we also played Jeopardy and had Tyler Tinbarge who was a past national and state officer come and tell us a little bit about his FFA experiences. And then we had the chapter meeting LDE which is where some of our members competed in a contest and they were judged on how well they could conduct a meeting for based on parliamentary procedure. And in December at our We had a community service project. We went to the Santa Claus post office and responded to Senate letters that kids from all over the world sent in. And at our chapter meeting, we did a white elephant gift exchange that all the members participated in and had a meal. Some upcoming adventures that Jasper FA chapter and uh the ACT department will be uh participating in is Miss Lmer in June
013will be leading the study abroad to Ireland. Um and then we as a chapter will be going to Indiana FA state convention where we're going to have uh members competing in adcom and some member other members getting recognized on the state level for state awards. And some future goals are to introduce a agriculture class in middle school and then continue crosscurricular experiences with the classes. You guys are very busy. That's impressive. So, you have any favorite activities? What gives you the most joy? For me, I like I really enjoy. Should you focus in certain categories like forestry or agriculture? Pardon my ignorance. I don't know what the categories would be, but it sounds like it's very wide reaching. Is there you kind of focus in one area or is it just you're just in everything?
014We actually have a middle school chapter or it's just more program. We were able to establish. So technically class You know that Ireland trip sounds pretty sweet. What do you what's the expected takeaway from that or what are you trying to accomplish? So the goal is just to expose our kids to local agriculture of it. How many students do you have attending that? Um so there are seven membership numbers increase your leveling remain the same kind of maintain number of years Is your future goal of the middle school introduction trying to bring in more members, get them exposed to it sooner. So what we found a lot of different options in middle school is helping after school in a contest. kind of hard and we were able to explore that. know what kind of How
015about technology and agriculture? How is that is there a focus on that? And how is that going to change agriculture over the next 20 years? Probably dramatically, maybe not. on the techology. I'm talking more about technology out in the field, how different variety of aspects how that will change the how agriculture is conducted or how farming is. Yeah. So I think um introduction to technology here at school and like the increasing demand that uh teachers are um having them expand technologies. Um they are getting more prepared for the future. Um I know Mr. does a really good job of exposing them to some of the technologies that they may see out in agriculture because um the technology that we see in agriculture is like way more advanced than what people could ever think. that can
016drive themselves and all we have to do is just turn them around and get them on another path. Um and then in the FA world they are getting some competition started up. Um but just with all the technology it is very expensive for those competitions to start. So they do offer some classes related to technology at the state level that students can get credit for right Now we're just trying to figure out where we can really So that's with precision egg. And what about strip tail? Have you any of you started to work with any kind of strip till and see the the differences in soils? any of you have you done anything with soils? Not school related. Okay. So, that would be something that would be great for you guys to get into. A
017lot of farmers are getting into the strip till just to see the difference in the soil and um where they go and put chemicals straight into the ground um instead of you know a or anything like that. So, Thank you. I know my farmer appreciated his meal in the farm. So, thank you. Anybody else? Thank you so much. You're more than welcome to stay for meeting, but you're more than welcome to leave, too. You understand? Okay, Mr. Mock, Indiana Diploma Redesign Early Adoption. Yeah, it's up there. I need this. They should check into it because it's actually pretty cool. I do apologize about access That was a problem. Um, so starting about A few years ago, Indiana went with um the Swiss model. They started looking at a redesign for our diplomas. I'm sure you
018guys have heard of those things. And all of that was coming up with this year's class of 2029, the incoming freshman would be the first class that would go through all of those. Now, they did allow a pre-adoption for any students that would be able to do some of those things, but some of the requirements were classes that we did not offer. There were other hiccups there. basically just been kind of on these new career pathways for about seven years. They really had even like the third year graduated with them and then now they're changing again. Um and so we kind of set a plan of what we were going to do for this incoming class of 2029. Um that's where the personal finance class was involved and we had computer science edition of uh
019Miss Ali Hart who's going to teach those classes. Those are all designed kind of for what these new diplomas look like. There's three E that go with this. It is the enrollment, the enlistment, and the employment categories. And each one of them have uh seals that will go with them as well. Um take both hands and expand like take two hands and go. There you go. So you can see the three different diplomas that are there. The idea was that we're better able to gear the education that the student is doing for what their future would involve. If you have someone that's going into employment, do they really need three years of foreign language or would they be better served going into welding type of pathways or uh we saw tons of a opportunities that
020are there? So those students are able to kind of tailor their education high school it's a little bit more useful and pract practical to them. And so, um, with that, we anticipate most of our students are still going to follow along with the same category that we have. We usually have between 60 and 70% of our kids planning on going on to college. Uh, most of those being in a four-year pathway. We don't see much change in what our kids are choosing to do, just the way that they are able to do that. And so they started adding seals to all of these uh three different diplomas and within those seals there are certain character categories and characteristics that you have to achieve within the diploma to receive those seals. Um, and so we felt
021really good about the path we were on. And then with Governor Braun, uh, they decided that they wanted to incentivize some of these SEALs. And the big one is the the, uh, enrollment plus and the employment plus seals. And what happens there is they want to get the workbased learning opportunities involved in the graduation requirements. That's what the plus basically does. there's a little bit of extra coursework, but most of it is a work-based learning experience that's there. Um, and so we were trying to navigate through that, figured we had a little bit of time, but they really put some money behind this. Basically, what happened was um the guidance that we've received is if you receive the uh enrollment plus seal, you are automatically directly admitted to seven uh public universities. So all of
022our kids would basically have the opportunity to attend any of those seven universities if they have the enrollment plus seal. And then along with that in the characteristics and the requirements for plus seal is you either have to have a certificate of value which would be like a CNA certificate, ENT certificate. Those are the ones that our kids usually get that are in there. You could have an AP with distinction award which means that you took classes and had 3.5 average or better in those five classes. Or you could get the Indiana College Core. The Indiana College CP is a set of classes that you would take and you would earn 30 dual credit classes. If you complete the ICC or Indiana College CP, those 30 credits automatically go with you to any state university.
023So there's no question of are they going to take it, not going to take it, any of those type of things. You automatically get those. So when we started looking at this, we're like, what parent would not want their kid to automatically be enrolled in any of those seven public universities and if they get the ICC, they automatically take 30 credits with them. Um, so we really felt that we needed to figure out a plan for our juniors and sophomores to be able to get, excuse me, to be able to get that enrollment plus seal. And so with that, Dr. I had a group called 220 uh youth leadership and they have a bunch of opportunities that are geared towards these seals. Um you want me to continue talking about that or you brief them
024on all that? Well, I did share the document with with them about 220 youth leadership and I can kind of jump in here too if that helps. Sure. So, the ability to early adopt to afford our current freshman, sophomores, and juniors the ability to earn that enrollment seal was of importance to us because we want to afford them the opportunity to earn the ability to have that autoenroll. Um, but oftentimes some of those kids that are in that enrollment pathway, they might be limited on the amount of time that they could dedicate to the work-based learning pieces of that. Plus, we did have some course gaps that we needed to have in place in order to help them be able to attain the course um to complete the course and to have transcripted credit in
025those courses. And so, the 220 youth leadership offers us the ability to give what's called a simulated work-based learning opportunity for kids. It's an online simulation where uh 220 youth leadership becomes the employer. They do the training plan and the kids would work through um modules. Um most of those are kind of in a business pathway at this point, but through those modules they would be able to attain the 75 hours of work-based learning. And then there's curricular pieces within the 220 leadership that include uh the course content and sequencing for computer science. It's for personal finance. Um speech I think was one we were going to add locally then and they also had PCC and the PCC preparing for college and careers. Yeah. So, in a nutshell, um the ability to add this 220
026youth leadership with all of the resources that it would provide us would give our students a pathway to achieving that enrollment plus seal um as an early adopter. So, it's not required for them to graduate, but if we give them the ability to earn it, it could serve them with a credential that gets them into one of seven public universities in Indiana. So, could a student actually graduate high school with an associate degree? Not currently. Okay. Well, with this honors plus seal, no, because it says in there, earn a credential of value that may include, for an example, then it has all the different ones, you know, text certificate. So, Indiana College Corps. Yeah, we do not currently offer an associates degree. We do not have that partnership with any local college or university, but
027the Indiana College Corps would give them, as Mr. Mock had stated, the 30 dual credits that are transferable to those universities in that block. And most of our kids get this. Uh, what happens is, um, our speech used to be a yearong class and now we've got it into a semester that take another English class and pair it with that which helped with the IC because you had to have that communications course that was there. So any student that wanted to take AP letter AP lang was automatically excluded from the ICC because they couldn't fit speech into their schedule and so speech has kind of become that lynch pin that we need to go through which is why I think Dr. IvyTech used to offer it for free and starting to charge for it this
028year because we did have a few kids that would retroactively after graduation go back and take a speech class through IvyTech and get the IC afterwards but this would allow students to do that. I can see a number of kids. Typically what's happened with us with the Indiana College was our kids were very specific in what they were taking their dual credits in. We had a lot of opportunities and so they would miss a class or two off of the IC, but they would have four or five extra classes that were there. Even though they had 36, 37, 38 credits, some of them didn't meet the requirements that were necessary. So by moving speech, it allow us to um allow that to occur. and we're going to incentivize and kind of move kids towards that
029ICC so they get those 30 credits guaranteed. It's just a real savings and a benefit to all of the students. And even if you're thinking, hey, I want to go to Ohio State or Alabama or whatever. That's my goal. I want to be I want to go to Notre Dame. U it's nice to have this and have a fall back to know you're already accepted to any of the seven state universities and those dual credits may very well transfer to out of state entities anyway just not maybe in this fashion any other questions great thank you Tina so there are a couple of requests for approval that we have Mr. presentation here. So the first is to approve the speech as a summer school um beginning this summer. I'll make that motion. Second motion by
030second by Sarah. Any questions or discussion? And it will be I would call it like a blended environment. Some of the work will be done online through a canvas course. Some students will have to come in obviously a speech class. There will be some requirements as well and they're looking at hypothetically right now Wednesday evening and the kids can choose which of those times they can come to give their speeches in the audience majority of the actual construction. So kids who have similar jobs would still be should be able to do it without too much. Just depends on how just depends on how hectic their schedules are. But we understand that because of the nature. Any other questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. Okay. Um the second uh
031request we have coming is to approve the 220 leadership program and curriculum um materials funding and this like Dr. Laura mentioned um would be this would provide the scope and sequence of curricular materials for the new computer science course that's required. on the new diplomas. Um it would provide personal finance that we have discussed a couple of different ways of utilizing and then also that simulated workbased learning experience for students who are interested desire to attain that um plus seal but maybe don't have room in their school day to get the work experience in the traditional way of that. I think that was 37,000 some. That's correct. Yes, there's a tick over 37,000 like 375 I think. I'm going to after they approve it. I'll make that motion. Motion by our second by Steve. Any
032questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppos? No motion carries. So, one other caveat then to add is that um if you've had a chance to take a look at the new budget formula that was approved out of this legislative session, what you will note is that um the the budget formula incentivizes students attainment in these seals. And so if a student earns the college core, it's a particular value of funding for the district per pupil that earns that. If they in um if they earn the employment plus seal, it has another value. And so not only is it good educationwise for the student for their benefit, but it also benefits the district fiscally as a part of the funding formula. as we look at how our courses are funded and that serves
033to provide revenue for all of our our operations and uh education needs. Anything else, Tina? Unless you have other questions. All in favor say I. Those no motion carries. Um I do have one other item this evening. So you have already approved the majority of our summer enrichment programs that are offered. We did have one more teacher reached out ago I think Jeff saying she had an interest in providing one if the board would approve. So we have three additional um art focused summer enrichment opportunities that Andrea here high school teacher but she's targeting other um students not and so those were included in the packet this evening and I'm asking those programs this summer motion by Judy second by Sarah any question or discussion all in favor say I no motion carries thank you
034very much okay building and maintenance update Mr. Thank you. It first improvements for your consideration. This will be started until I haven't gone through logistics with Scott on this, but I'm assum Is this a company you've used before? They have done multiple remodeling jobs orgo. So they're just repairing the damage to the steps and the rails. Yes, it's repairing the concrete that's falling. I'll make a motion. Motion by Judy. Second by Sarah. Any further questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppos? No. Motion carries. Next item of consideration is middle school equipment. to the building to three local motion by Steve. Second, second by Judy. Questions or discussion? All in favor say I. Oppos? No. Motion carries. What's going on with the soccer practice field? I think they're plugging it. Okay. Probably plugging
035and overseating is my guess. Okay. And then I was curious the uh like the varsity soccer field. some bare spots and some patches of weeds in various places. I guess we're aware of that. Yes, we are aware of that. Sometimes those weeds get a little out of control this time of year, but um they know to try to keep them mowed down, but they are also working on that as well. I figured it's not true. I might ask. I'm sure that rain all the rain hasn't helped. Okay, Dr. Laura. Okay. Um we have four items under other business. Uh the board uh we're asking the board to renew our first food service management contract with Sedexo for the 2025 20226 school year. This would be our second renewal with them. Um as noted there in
036the report that was provided, there is a slight increase in both the administration fees and the management fees. Um much of that is just uh attributed to increase in cost of food, the increasing cost of staff. Um and so we did not find that it was out of line and expected and anticipated that there would be some increase. So at this time we're seeking board approval. Have you been pretty satisfied with XO since we switched over to them? I I mean yes. I think if they could if they could be fully staffed 100% of the time that would certainly help. I think um they certainly offer a lot of choice. Um, like any program, I'm sure there are things that our principles might find that they would like to see improved. You know, sometimes if
037they don't receive certain foods and so they have to make a last minute menu change, sometimes that doesn't go over very well with students, but it's just one of those things that can't be avoided. Um, but all in all, their management of our food service program has, in my opinion, um, been a positive move for the district. Mr. Mock, do you see as many students throwing away food as you had in the past? management. So I don't see much more options that way as opposed to fruits and vegetables there are a lot of options I don't see what they want to traditional five on the wait and they can still get that tray on a daily basis. Uh but they do have some self self- select that allows them to self- select things that um
038are more palatable to them and what they like. Will they broaden our menu at all? It seems to be consistently the same. you know, 10 items and they do put the entre on a rotation. Um, we kind of hope for more diversity in terms of um different types of food. I would have to go back and ask them about like their reasonings why. Um, I can't answer that at this point. I say because I know when they brought it to us that they told us there would be much more diversity and just looking at the menu. myself. I just kind of see the same items rotating over and over. And you know, they also know what the kids like. I mean, you could offer all kinds of unique food choices, but I think a lot
039of our kids still migrate toward the same kinds of foods. They like burgers and sandwiches and salads and those kinds of things. So, um, you know, they have programs where they have coffee shops and different things like that, but, um, I don't know that we've been fully staffed enough to really be able to add anything more than what we've had going. And a couple of our schools, that has definitely been a revolving door for them. And staffing has been a a a big concern to the point where the management in the group, they do a lot of production because they have to fill in the gaps. I've heard some feedback from some freshman that are kind of intimidated by the different lines they can go through and so they'll just stick with one because they've
040done that and they don't want to embarrass themselves to go through a different line and not know how it works. Is it right there black and white how it works? There's some there's some more signage that was put that helps with that kind of tell me that's our ladies that are checking out kind of help us multip There's 550. I was surprised that some of them are still at this stage of the school year like intimidated by the other line like just go through it. Takes one brave freshman. Well, and I there was going to be a little bit of a change at the high school with the summer work that's happening in the kitchen. And so there will be some changes in the block walls that are there. And so it'll it'll hopefully make
041it a little bit more clear about where they go to attain what food choices they want. I will say they have two lines that are very similar. They'll rotate through these options and sandwich options. That's probably where you see a lot of similarities. They are a chicken sandwich. I think the chicken sandwich is on there almost every day. Yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. That's what they're like. It's always the chicken sandwich. But when they do have they do have the third line, there are some that are that is the nacho bar like is down the study. That is the goateian. So they rotate a lot of Okay. Do you have a motion? I'll make the motion. Motion by Judy. Second by Sarah. Any other questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Post.
042No. Motion carries. Thank you. Um the board also received the proposed wa wage scales for all hourly employees for the 2025 2026 school year. And at this time I'm seeking approval of those wage scales. Motion by Steve. I'll second. Second by our any questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I post no. Motion carries. Um the board also received proposed salaries for all of the 260day support staff for the 2526 school year and we are also seeking approval of those this time. I'll make that motion. Motion by second. Second by Sarah. Questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I post. No. Motion carries. And then um as a part of the remodel at the middle school, there is a 60-galon soup kettle that we will be removing from the kitchen and we are
043asking the board to declare that surplus so that we can uh liquidate that. I'll make a motion. Motion by Judy. Second. Second by Steve. Questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Post. No. Motion carries. Thank you. And then I just have a few announcements. We have several events coming up in our future. Uh next Monday evening is the region 9 ISBA meeting and that is at six o'clock at the clubhouse. On the 22nd, which is a Thursday, we will have our Jasper Middle School 8th grade achievement night. And um all board members are invited to attend. Uh we usually sit on that west side of the gym. If you are unable to attend that, just let me know and I'll let Mr. Hubster know who will be and will not be attending because
044he likes to recognize the board members who are there. Um our last day of school is the 23rd of May and we also have commencement that evening and that will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the gym. Um as always, our board will just meet in the cafeteria about 6:15 and we'll walk down together. And then our regular June board meeting, which seems like an eternity away from now, uh will be Monday, June the 23rd, and it will be here in the community room at 700 p.m. And then, just as a reminder, our summer central office work hours change during that summer time, and we'll work from 7:30 to 300 PM on those summer days. And that begins um the day after Memorial Day, which is May 27th. Um Unless anyone has any questions, that's all
045I have to bring before the board. Does any board member have any other business? If not, I'll ask for a motion to adjurnn. Motion by Sarah. Second by Steve. All in favor say I. I oppose. No. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Thank you.