001coming in at a moment's notice and filling in for almost three months. Uh I know the first week you went right into the fire with a couple hot issues, handled them flawlessly. It's a great relief for me and the board. Just want to recognize you here tonight for the service that you gave to us. Uh I know you have two new twin grandchildren, so I'm sure you'll have uh things to keep you occupied going forward, but just wanted to recognize you and thank you for all you did for us. [Applause] Dr. Laurai, welcome back in the into your seat. It's good to see you there again. Thank you. Okay, first order of business, the consent agenda, which the board received a couple of days ago. So, if anyone has any questions about the consent agenda,
002I'll move to approve. I have a motion by Steve. I'll second. Second by Arlette. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. They give us a minute to sign the books. Wildcat Spotlight. Amanda Gro House, Audrey Nordov. Are you ready? Okay, let's do it. [Laughter] Okay. We started wilder connection. world. So much pretty opport. educ [Applause] questions. Thank you. Students love it. Thank you and staff. Thank you. Building and maintenance update. Mr. Scott evening action items contractor 9 construction. Indiana with a bid of $1,490,000 that was under approved project intended bonds. motion by Sarah, second by Judy. Any further questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I oppose. No. Motion carries. Thank you. And also next It is also related to edition building installation of those controls. Alpha mechanical
003who has serve school district many years with maintenance controls. They have submitted a proposal to install the building management controls, the additional infrastructure required for classroom edition. And we specifically to Alpha Mechanical only for receipt of their proposal because the building management proposals or building management system very specializ Approving mechanical price,00 motion by Steve. I'll second. Second by our elect. Any further discussion or questions? All in favor say I. I. Oppos? No. Motion carries. Thank you. We reached out to seven different contractors and all the contractors have been busy. We did receive a couple of proposals which are very unreasonable. I'm not even consider this fall and not August deadline of August 1st. However, we feel that we can still do that work while session. So at that time I will prop yeah concrete I'm
004afraid if you wait too much longer it's going to continue to fall off and it's going to make matters It's going to be unrepable at this point. We do have a chance of repairing it and making it last long. And that project would be paid out of our operations fund just for the board's information. And you called to confirm that was not an extra digit so happened to be added. Okay. I figured you did. I I figured you did, but you know we make some key happy. So, okay. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Curriculum update. Tina, good evening. First, I would like to ask the board for approval to adding summer school to our high school. These are the same for summer. Motion by Sarah, second. Second by Steve. Any further discussion? All in favor
005say I. I oppose. No. Motion carries. My other item this evening is to seek approval of the 256 high school students. school from last year. The high school has a slight change and then they also add questions. So we sent notice out to any students that we have not taken if there was a verified outbreak. If there was a verified case in a school, any students were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated be required to isolate away from school for 21 days. So they have received notice and with that notice there was information that was encouraging them to seek the health department to get the proper vaccination. So we also put out social media from the health department that talked a little bit about what the symptoms were to look for and what to do against that
006are not fully. I have I can't speak on behalf of the high school. We have a few high school teachers in the room. I think from sidebar there's definitely less concern about the types of issues that would arise between students when they might inadvertently or on purpose take pictures or videos and then they would show up on social media unbeknownst to the student and then it would create all kinds of angst and anxiety and negativity. And I I do think not having them prevents that kind of situation from occurring, which I would think would be quite um a breath of fresh air for kids not to have to be worried all day long that something they are doing or saying is captured against their permission and used in a way that they don't approve. The
007cafeteria is a lot louder. Motion by Judy. Second. Second by Sarah. Any further questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I post oppos. No. Motion carries. Anything else? Tina. Okay. Student support services transportation update. Mr. Glenn Beine. I didn't know if you wanted to introduce him. I know you've been involved with it, but uh Derek Cart, Britney Banners from the JHS wait room upgrade. Thanks for having us. We're excited to show you all the All right, I'll go ahead and get started. Who kind of meeting a lot of different people involved together think just a football thing. This is for all I've been here for a month and a half now. My big goal is to get all it well right now. There's a lot more kids involved especially I think how we had
008this set up as we go through this kind of show. So first off just kind of going through some of this stuff. So our weight room right now we have seven racks. So really seven kids out at a time at a rack. Our plan for kids to work out in all 14aten and Not a whole lot of room for students in class getting stronger faster platforms which are really tough to do things on how close everything is with this our new room. are built into the ground. So again, also currently the way our set up We have racks on the wall right here. We have benches right here. And then we have jammers right here. And on this side, we have glute hand. your lower back and your glutes. Really important for athletes. We have
009four pull down mach as well. Look at the actual racks. You can see racks areust. I very important injured that I've been here right now. There's nowhere for those kids or recovery for those right now. This last picture this side of the pillar which is kind of halfway this would be 15 ft wide of turf by 80 of turf. Again another area to do rehab and recovery. We can also do things, agility, ladders, hurdles, bunch of different machines in there right now. We plan on getting rid of a lot of still that's something our head coaches like to use. We don't want to get rid of all that stuff. So we left room down here about six or seven machines and still more gym hallway better. Last thing we're going to talk about is velocity.
010The one we went with first improve athletic performance. There's a iPad at each rack. hoping to get those racks in there at each rack. You go in the kids, they go in, they plug their name in and their whole workout is right there on that iPad. What it does on top of the rack that you can bar I'm about to get fired from my I love user friendly engage. invest. with actually put this in two months ago. So check it out and just kind of see it in action. I think the biggest thing like every measuring fast right with that of the bar I was saying earlier The kid is supposed to be moving the bar at 1 second and he's moving at 1.5 seconds. Obviously, there's something wrong. technique or the weight on the
011barbet level doesn't exist. as well. There's a boy sideb. Are the students names on the screen? Is there any concern about a student who can't lift a lot of weight and they're just in the class for you to get that elective done and they're trying but they're at the bottom of the leaderboard every class? first period class but also how we will get feedback from the entire class right in there. That feedback right now. Is there any way for the student to access that data or do they just ask you to print out a report of how they've done over the first semester? However, other cool out of season workouts. right now. You mentioned you presented it to the other coaches. What What was the feedback from them? I would take that walked in there
012for us. Do you expect this to reduce injuries in the weight room? Another thing that right now. Certain Do athletes have access to the weight room outside of their like in the evening. They can't get in, can they? No. Okay. So, this would really only be when the coach takes them to the wait room or during school hours. And Steve, that's a liability concern. Yeah, I fully okay with that. I was just wondering also from the equipment standpoint that's some pretty highend stuff. I like it. I think we were due for improvement overdue. First of all, great great job with the presentation and all the work that you have done. The board was actually presented with several pieces of this project within the packet of information that you received um including everything from the perch
013system and the devices for that to the racks to some changes in the flooring. Um and so um we wanted to present those to the board tonight for consideration for approval. Uh just so you know, the funds for this project are being paid for out of some old construction bond funds that we had um were able to bring back into the district. And so, um, that fund right now is sitting in a position that we are able to fully fund the entirety of this project with some of those funds. You say you're 100% confident that it'll help kids fewer injuries in the way. That's reason enough. So, I move to approve. Motion by Steve. I'll second. Second by our late. Any further questions or discussion? So, does this mean we're going to be passing every
014year? I wanted to adding to what the improvements in the weight room, those two should be commended because um starting probably in February, I know they've completed certifications, um they've attended clinics, they went on their own to castle and so forth. And uh that's the kind of leadership we need to go along with the weight room. So we appreciate all their energy and efforts. And I will say from my standpoint speaking about old people who can't understand equipment. Actually I was here when Joe Roller started the weight program back in 1968 and uh about a week or so ago I was with Joe and actually he brought this up on his own. I didn't ask him anything about it, but he mentioned he had gone along with you two on a trip to Castle and
015he gave it his stamp of approval and thought it was great. So, if it's good enough for Joe, it's good enough for me. So, yeah. And he's he, you know, he's not reluctant to share his opinion. That's why I appreciate that about him. It was all good. So, any other questions or discussion? We have to get that equipment in. And just to follow up on B, you mentioned about the certifications. I really appreciate you both both of you going after those certifications and increasing your knowledge in the area. Very important. So, it's much appreciated. I'm excited. I'm sure this I'm sure everyone is excited. So, I can't wait to see it. Thank you. We have a motion in a second. Any further questions? All in favor say I. I. No. Motion carries. Congratulations. Thank you.
016Okay. Now, Mr. B, bus contract ownership transfers. A number of items that I'm seeking approval for this evening. Um, a couple of bus uh transfer of ownership contracts. The first being Kurt Lechner's route 18 being transferred to Pelleers Unlimited. That would be effective at the start of school next year. And then the second one is Mark Kefner transferring ownership to Kathy Kefner effective immediately. Motion by Judy. Second. Second by Sarah. Questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppos? No. Motion carries. Markers. Can I carry on or wait for? You can go ahead. I'm also seeking approval for the park department to use one of our activity buses uh during the summer for camp care. We have done this the last several years. It takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays about 5 to 10
017p.m. So, I'm asking the board for approval to allow the park the use of an activity bus two nights a week. I'll make that motion. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Steve. Questions or further discussion? I assume the city takes liability. Yes. Yes. And all their drivers meet the requirements and so forth. So yeah, they are insured to the city. All in favor say I. I. I. No. Motion carries. And then lastly, um it's not on here, but I think you got the information on it. I am seeking the board's approval for the purchase of a 2025 Bluebird activity bus at a total cost of 131,944. Um this would be A6. This would be our sixth activity bus. We are adding to the to the fleet. Three of our activity buses are going on 10
018years old. I think we have a 2018 and the new the next newest one of the newest buses of 2021 currently. Um they are used extensively. I talked to Mr. Kendall this morning for instance this weekend all five will will be out all weekend and sometimes it's a it's a chess game trying to make sure we can accommodate all the people requesting activity buses and also they tend to go on longer trips overnight trips etc. So they they are heavily used this one kind of fell into our lap. Um it is very difficult they're about they're as rare as a 10 foot pigeon. I mean it's very difficult to even activities Bluebird. We had when we purchased our last bus from them, I just happened to be talking to the sales rep and he said
019we have one in. So that's why I'm doing the request. I think another consideration is that we are we're being told that as as we move forward the cost of purchasing buses and activity buses continue to increase and um some buses yellow buses are adding additional costs that say tariff and so we're able to get this now uh they can um customize it for our fleet and we have the ability to do that. So, we wanted to present this while the while the offer was still good and we know that it will be used extensively. Is there something that differentiates an activity bus from small? Yeah, smaller. They are still uh regarded as buses, but an activity bus is one in which there's 14 passengers plus the driver. That's maximum capacity of 14 14. It
020won't have the the stop on. It doesn't do those type of stops. Is that what you have? And the other part the other part is I should add it doesn't require someone with a CD. So it enables our coaches and other people to be able to drive which also saves money in the long run. Right. This that price is delivered with all the decals. The the rub rails will be painted old gold etc. It'll be ready to roll when we pick it up. rainy day. So, this will be funded out of our rainy day fund. And you'll note that all bus purchases are made out of the rainy day fund. Move to approve. Motion by Steve. Second. Second by Judy. Any further questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. No. Motion carries. Thank
021you guys. Okay. Dr. Lurai. Okay, thank you. Um, it is hard to believe, but it's nearing budget time again. So, the board received a copy of our proposed 2026 tenative budget preparation timeline. Um, as is our tradition, it will be my plan to present the budget to the board at our July board meeting, withholding a public hearing at our August meeting and seeking approval of that budget for 2026 at our September meeting. So, at this time, I'm simply just seeking approval from the board of the proposed timeline. I'll make a motion. Motion by Judy. I'll second. Second by Arlet. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. Post. No. Motion carries. Thank you. Um, the district has fielded a couple of requests from other school teams to use some of our turf playing fields
022for some of their athletic events. If you'll recall earlier in the year, Oakland City University used Alumni Stadium for an event game that they had. Um, and we recently had another request to utilize one of our our turf spring sports. I can't remember it was softball or baseball, but that really got us thinking about, you know, if we're having this request, do we have a mechanism by which we could potentially allow for that purpose? um as well as to potentially allow the athletic department to earn some revenue as a result of that. So, we worked with Mr. Damont and the board received a potential lease agreement that we could use for the athletic department when those types of opportunities might present themsel. We don't necessarily think this is something that would happen all the time
023and this is certainly isn't for Johnny's birthday party. This would be legitimate athletic requests from other schools that have a legitimate use for the field u because of some hardship or maybe they have wet fields and we don't you know um and so u that we suggest that we would charge $1,000 for use. Mr. Kendall did some digging and I outside of just what he found he felt like that was a pretty fair a fair amount. Um the tenant would have to provide liability coverage for um the event using us and naming us as an additional insured. They would also be required to pay a greater Jasper employee to be on site during their event to make sure that we had coverage from our own staff that they could head off any needs. Um and
024we would only again use the lease for entities that sought to use the field for the intended purpose of that field. You know, if it's baseball, it'll be used for baseball. If it's football, it would be used for football. Um, so with that, uh, we did ask Mr. Deamont to prepare a document. We kind of went back and forth once or twice on it, and what you received in your board packet is what we finally landed on. So, at this time, we are seeking the board's approval of that lease form for future use. We don't have anyone making that request today, but we just wanted to be prepared so that if it was uh presented to us as an opportunity and the field was open and available that we could potentially allow it. Need a
025motion. I'll make sure by Judy second. Okay. Go ahead and ask question. So, $1,000 to lease a multi-million dollar facility seems really um I don't know. I'm not real excited about that. Can somebody under this rent the facility and then open it to the public to come view the game? Like can And so then we have the liability of all the public going to that event. The cleanup from the event. I mean, it says that that needs to be back in its original condition, but is the is the posting team going to clean the restrooms and replenish the supplies in the restrooms and and do all of that? The liability coverage of $250,000 concerns me. If somebody falls off bleachers and dies and the the leasing entity, I mean, the insurance will cover it, but
026the leasing be able to cover any difference. So that's a concern of mine. Um to me, I think this should really be more on a case by case basis that's requested to the board because having a blanket agreement that allows us to lease this these facilities of this caliber that just really concerns me. I think that it should be minimal. I definitely want to if a little league team wants to go out and practice on I think that's one thing but to invite the public to host an event there I think is a completely different situation. Um so I have serious concerns about it. The last thing I will say is if we do move forward with it I would like to see what other schools have in terms of an agreement for such a
027for such a lease. Um, I think this covers a lot, but it also has some elements of a residential lease that really don't apply. And so, I would like to see what other documents are out there that may be specific to this type of property. Obviously, we don't have a something to go off of because this is a new thing for us. But, um, that would be my recommendation is to make sure we're covering all of our bases. We can say that I'm concerned about leasing the facility out. I guess if Oak City they wanted to use it to play a game against a compet opposing team and then it's open to the public and they're are they going to have concessions? We reserve the right to actually man and run the concessions piece of
028that. So that's on 3.07. Um, I know Phil did a little digging trying to find examples of leases and he was not successful at that. So, we didn't find anything that satisfied that request and so we did contact him just to try to help us get something on paper. Um, again, I don't think this is something that is going to be the norm. I think it would be the exception, no different than the request from OCU that we had at the beginning of the year to use our facility for one of their events on a Saturday morning. Um, so I completely understand your questions. I don't have the answers to those yet. So, we would have to do a little more research to get to the bottom of some of that. I I think it's
029early to make a vote on this. My opinion, um, I don't think Coach Hart wants to go into the football locker room after an event and locker room messy, you know, has I'm I'm concerned about that part of it, too. So, I would like a little more timebody. And I think we still need to have some kind of damage deposit. I mean $1,000 is is very minimal for and I know you said it wasn't for Johnny's, you know, birthday party, but in the same breath, there's many people that are thinking, hey, this is a lot cheaper than going to, you know, Top Golf or something like that. So, let's go ahead and try to have, you know, something. And, you know, next thing you know, it's it does it gets damaged and, you know, $1,000
030is not going to repair turf or you know any of the facilities that we've just updated. And what if the team shows up with metal cleat and doesn't know that metal arow and it damages it for $1,000 just Well, we've had a motion. If we don't have a second, we can take it under advisement. Sure. Is that what we want to do? Take it under advisement. Very good. Thank you very much. Um, the only other thing that I have uh is just to announce that our May board meeting has been moved as a result of the ISBA regional meeting and that will be on Monday, May 12th at 7 o'clock p.m. here in the community room. And that's all I have to bring to the board. Any board members have any other business to bring
031before the board? Not I'll ask for a motion to adjurnn. I'll make that motion. Motion by Arlette, second by Sarah. Any further questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. Thank you all.