001e e e States oops talk push green thank you you're welcome all the members of the uh board receive a copy of the consent agenda beforehand anybody have any questions or comments about the consent agenda question inv yes any other questions if not I need a motion I'll make that motion motion by Arlette second second by Steve any further questions or discussion if not all in favor say I I oppose no motion carries give us a minute or two while we sign the books will have to say Mr Taylor I saw in the uh letter of your retirement that you gave to the board you had this lengthy poem I didn't know you had such talents you may go for the I was thinking you may go for I was thinking you may go for
002Port Laurette after you retire carpet there you go oh I probably didn't one more first thing is the Wildcat Spotlight we have Kent Taylor Ryan Ernie Shannon bar however you three want to handle this I know we got all kind of other things going on these the people we our Shannon Ryan and I'll come in abouty learn and we tolight art library and social workers because they instrumental in our school so we T them to put togethers for you and you do have a copy and I have extras if anybody else would like a copy and they put these together to just kind of highlight the programs that they're doing but we're very blessed such dedicated individuals in our school um our in art our Ireland's art teacher is and she came from a fourth
003grade teacher into the art program two years ago and has been doing a phenomenal job and was classroom teacher and move back to the art room and as you see this isn't a comparison of what it's just a highlight using the clay uh she worked with our custodio staff because get really messy uh and they do a great job of helping and working together in that uh famous artist study uh we got seven of those student work on uh I believe Mr we are still going to have our art this year so that's always a big hit for all of our families every student uh we'll get a piece of artwork H up in our building uh we invite our families in so that's going to be a big night for us uh 11 elements
004and principl taught and just 14 different forms of media so it's just not crayons and you know it's watercolors it's paint it's markers it's Clay so Mrs K does a really good job at J here we have art show coming up this spring too so really proud of everything that they're doing for our schools our hallways are filled with art and just such a nice welcoming when you come into our school so I think you'll notice if you're ever in our hallways that they look really nice due to those teachers so um in music um at Ireland we have Miss Christen and she's our Music Teacher um we do performances all year long it brings family events into the school which is really really nice your Miss ber obviously Christmas Veterans Day we got ouram
005program tomorrow out of J national anthem uh we s the boys and girls game so we had 156 students both of them teach recorder so that's always good time song so we've been teaching the kids that they know that they can participate at events so once again music does a phomen um our library uh we're very blessed to have such a strong library and the books that we are producing every year and putting inter and circulating is just it's amazing um the funds that are set aside from the general budget is just very thankful of that because that really bring all those new titles back into our library Outfield and with the news so um we're very blessed with our library the kids have AR in both buildings um so some of these stats are
006kind of I it's like wow like 20 20,000 AR tests are taken um just in the first semester of school like that's of a crazy number so when we pulled that data we were like oh my goodness that's amazing Mrs Peters is our librarian suan Ireland so a lot of time spent in library uh I know they're reading a lot of books uh to our kids and exposing them to different artists Book Fairs both schools hold Book Fairs they try to get more books into our kids' hands uh so they they do a really good job of of exposing our students to different types of books different authors so it's we're very blessed to have two cool thing that they've done the last two years I believe every library card so they bring the library
007in and every kid has a library card which is really cool the online I guess they call it liby withu Library they teach they log in they have their own card they leave they get parents signatures so it's just really I think that's third fourth and fifth that all have a library card so um the work that they put in to make that happen is is phenomenal um in our last group of Staff or our social workers uh their plates are full looks different the same and different in both buildings but they are um we couldn't do our job without them they in all aspects of helping students out and anywhere from jumping in out the building yeah going on home bus a lot of times I know I will take cous who's ever available
008they not meeting with kids are doing lessons we got home visit one of them join us uh and they're just really good that soft kind of that calming you know they're very good with all of our kids and both buildings have comfort dogs uh you know Mrs Krueger sky is there every day she's right up front you walk in and it's a great way for our students you just see a lot of kids kind of gathered around petting Sky U so we both use Comfort dogs and and I think Mr good also has comfor as our social work um one thing that we're just really proud of is she does lunch learns and a six we lunch learn and by fifth grade every single kid has attended a lunch Lear so it doesn't what background
009you have or anything going on in your home life but every kid's getting those tools to use mindfulness lons and things like that so anything else about that a lot of ours spend time down the kindergarten as they're coming in having maybe some preschool background so we spent a lot of time even now second semester still going down doing some lessons with our kindergart students think they both do six we lessons in kindergarten and first grade they talk about your there was a cute little email from a parent just the other day said my K came home and talked about fing mom ready to flip your lid you know what does that mean this is good you Tau us that we're all learning some things so I think we teach them young about their emotions
010and it's okay to have those feelings but this how to go about it it really stick with them and hopefully we see that in their years to come and they do a really good job both both both sides helping our in Community Partners and reaching out when our families need things uh whether it's you know brains or just helping them get connected with people in our community when they need help and uh so I know the two of us I'm sure you do as well rely a lot on that to kind of help our families with that extra care that they they do a great job with that any questions ay I would say we're not that what do you think your I I was to say 6040 not preschool so that is kind of
011a need that we're trying to help that barrier we've had some conversations to try know some of those barriers are only have one is it better to go full day versus half day how do we get them there for full so there are some areas for our family that we were trying to figure out how to overcome to get to get them there at local kids that are three and four year old that are meeting preschool we you guys have in each class you guys are at just in a typical 12050 in a grade level we 140 besides us you know on the recent survey the superintendent search survey and one of the the things that came out in the top challenges was diversity I was just wondering could give maybe your take on maybe
012exactly what that might mean in your areas and maybe went to what you talked about earlier do you have any well yeah it was just diversity by itself and it was the second thing picked as the top challenge in the the school corporation and it came from across all the levels of people taking the survey parents uh support staff kind of threw me it just said diversity I'm trying to get a better handle me I feel like we really do good job of reaching out we we translate everything uh all of our newsletters have the ability to you can click and pick whatever language you speak anything that we send home we get translate she uses the WhatsApp to communicate all of us so that that's kind of a surprise I feel like we really
013in the Prof on have really gotten to our families uh just from kindergarten round us standpoint from a preschool registration standpoint getting them earlier a lot of times it would be summer time right before school starts and we're seeing less and less that because of her efforts and reaching out to a lot of our fames yeah I I don't know that's why that's why I bring it up because I struggle to know exactly what they meant Mrs Kobo do you have any idea say I don't know if you helped any parents with that survey um and you [Music] yes well a lot of people picked it as a strength too so was balanced out but not as it was it was under the the top challenges yeah but I didn't know when you spoke to
014parents that they felt that their needs were not being met or if they were feeling that your the needs had been met because I know like I've spoken to you before you have met and talked to several of the parents that are on my bus and and they appreciated that um Mrs Kobo there was a um tornado warning and she had sent a message out to the parents and just said hey I just want to let you know what these things mean she did that not I mean obviously it was during the evening early morning I I don't remember but the mom said she appreciated that because they've never dealt with something like that before and Bea reached out and did that all on her own and so you're welcome so I know that you
015know you are are utilizing her to you know her I mean to her potential but I still want parents to feel comfortable and know that if we're not meeting their needs what can we do what else can we do always m e yeah and please don't get me wrong I I I think it's a strength too I mean I've been impressed with what you're doing guess I'm just trying to get a better handle on what the target is when people say that and since we were all here I don't mean to pick on you but anything would help yeah that's what I'm trying to get a better handle on I know it's difficult to do because it's after the fact so okay to okay thanks didn't mean to derail us but I guess I did
016okay you have last always girl years app thank you all Lindsay chela wife Mar so T we're to apparently some people are famili [Music] me I want you you you [Applause] not know Mr Taylor this while doing Duty [Music] nether do know see your also remember this moment thank so and in the ComEd to every song every [Applause] St CL [Applause] you guys reti Che your okay back to reality of course you're you're honestly you're welcome to leave if you want you're welcome to stay if you want so whatever whatever your kids want to do probably we understand Mr Taylor thank you for your service very much [Applause] appreciated Scott you don't have anything up your sleeve do you I don't know how you're gonna beat that oh yeah okay yeah okay billing and maintenance
017update Mr St and during that discussion are going to some parking while that is constructed was some concern about park it kind of MiG addk large parking lot elemented sent plans layout parking lot location ad how many spaces is that adding I think so as well I'll make a motion motion by our lit second by Sarah any further questions or discussion if not if not all in favor say I I oppose no motion carries all now this will add two more how many does that give us total at Jes will that be four to four and then once we outgrow these two what would be our next step of growing would it be by the special education next so once the two prek are added the capacity would be entire schooling is well for the
018entire schools per class so 20 be and so that number is just for the two prek additional right yeah but then four classrooms total yeah then if you would have additional ones in the front that you talked about then how much how many more students would would that if four more then that would could I'll make that motion motion by arlet a second second by Judy any further questions or discussion all in favor say I I I oppose no motion carries projects I had submitted my board packet proposal for the upcoming projects that are going to be paid for by new issu at this time consider approving attach Professional Service questions concerns I have a question on the material you presented to the board in December the there were three more line items on there
019for Prim early ageback and cooling it was about 3.7 million I'm curious on this they notes so obviously still part of the bond issue but not within thew and I assume that the estimate was consistent with what you had anticipated in the soft cost estimate up front nothing changed there so it looks like Jas for elementary will be completed it looks like August of 2026 okay motion by Steve second by Sarah any further questions or discussion all in favor say I I oppose no motion carries quite welcome y thank you for a few minutes but okay we understand got a long back thanks for your help okay original all the school corations scoreboards now are LED and they Wireless so when keeping up with that same format re your approval from Neco am 23347 75
020and the reason they we have only Neco is because that is what all the other school boards and school district is it's justco and our wireless controllers will enter change match the other and we have great I'll make that motion a motion by Judy I'll second second by our lit question from Steve is it one scoreboard for the football field and one for the soccer field or two for the soccer field any further questions or discussion all in favor say I I oppose no motion carries you um that's all I have on action items upates anybody thank you Scott next is curriculum update but Tina is not here tin is not here going to do the best I can with a couple items that she had and she may want to go into more detail
021about the the next meeting she might talk more about this but okay we wanted to sh that there have been some changes to I three and um the major change is that students will be able to be tested as you're I read three is it um the idea is that every student should pass that or they could be retained um and but we start remediation even in the spring and then the remediation continues during Sumer and then they're tested at the end of summer school but the new um ruling is that we can test before summer school so potentially it could um allow students not to have to attend summer school and it could increase our chances of helping students pass the test and and decrease retentions so that that's a change she wanted you
022to be aware of and then that she did have one action item and that was asking for for your approval of the summer enrichment courses and those you can see um there's they're listed there there's um um there's a Cheerleading Gymnastics and Dance there's a pre camp at Ireland summer weight training at Jasper Middle School uh Steam summer fund camp and then summer PE so we would ask your approval of those summer enrichment courses I'll make that motion motion byette second by Sarah any questions or discussion all in favor say I I oppose no motion carries you're welcome student support services and transportation Mr bigline step one item we currently have a u no Miss uh incentive for bus drivers that do not miss a route assignment and when we originally uh got that added
023I think that was in 2018 and it was intended for full-time route drivers that means they drive both the am and the PM um in the last couple of years we we have three drivers that actually drive halftime routes so a couple drivers split one drives one drives a pm. and because of the addition of more preschool riters we had to add an additional uh special ed route in the afternoon those those drivers all made it through first semester and did not miss a a time in the seat and so I'm just asking that we extend the no Miss incentive to those time route drivers and we would just cut it in half so for the semester if you didn't miss as a full-time route driver you got $400 bonus I'm requesting that the halftime
024drivers get $200 per semester if they have no misses and that's so beneficial because even though we're we're pretty solid right now especially compared to other school corporations with with drivers we we're lucky to probably have recruited and trained eight additional drivers in the last year um I think they do need to be rewarded um for their royalty and and being able to drive every time so I'm asking simply that the the best driver incentive for no Miss be extended to the halftime driver there three of them and i' also ask that that if you do approve that that it would be retroactive and then they would get paid for the the first semester I'll make the motion as requested second by Steve second by Sarah any further questions or discussion all in favor say
025I iose no motion carries thank you guys other business Mary thank you so you've been working on this current fond since I was looking at your calendar I've come in kind of in the middle you started back in October receiving um information from steel and and kind of gone through the calendar and now we're up to February where um the building Corporation is beginning to meet and we have three resolutions as part of that process and then we've advertised a hearing for the the lease hearing that will take place at the March meeting so tonight we have three different resolutions that we can take those one at a time in your packet there's um exhibit a which is a resolution to determine the need for the project and and this this need you've been talking
026about for for months since back in October and um Mr Steph Noles kind of talked through that that you've been we starting to get bids on those so I think you're aware of that so that would be the first resolution that I would ask your approval of make that motion motion by Judy second second by Steve any further discussion or questions all in favor say I I oppose no thank you motion carries then the next resolution is is part of the the uh bond process is a resolution to a to approve the form of lease and so this is just outlining what kind of lease will will be developed um and that then the lease hearing will occur at the March meeting that would need a motion motion by Sarah second bylet any further questions
027or discussion all in favor say I I I oppose no motion carries thank you and then the the third motion or the third resolution is a resolution uh reapproved the process and they're ready to help you through this process so we we need your approval to um approve them reapproved them because you've worked with the same building Corporation in the past uh no um Bernie wasn't able to be here tonight so um Bernie and and brosman will have to discuss it and and I've told her who's been on the short list and then they will um move in March I'm going to have them back here at 6:30 to add their third member and then they'll officially sign off on the lease and while I have the floor there's something in your folder that needs
028to be signed by you and the secretary about reforming the building Corporation as it to stands now which is Gerald van but he's resigning and am brosmer so now on in March it'll be Bernie and an and they'll choose their third person and I hope to have that person here for that meeting so that's wor further questions or discussion Mo resolution approving building Corporation motion by Steve second by Judy any questions discussion all in favor say I I oppose no motion carries thank you um the next item is the approval of the 2026 2027 countywide calendar and um copy of that is included um my understanding is that these dates are are pretty much parallel to what has been approved in the past there there are um typically I think the way this works is
029that the County Wide group comes up with a couple options and then there's a vote the vote was fairly close but this was the calendar that W out and so um the idea is that as you're aware that for the county to have um a consistent calendar so we would ask your approval of that it's actually already on our on our website oh it is it has been for a couple weeks somebody asked me about it are you sure oh I'm sorry I 25 okay okay good because I was like I don't know where they how useless are we my bad we are useless okay dates okay so I think I heard some it was simultaneous she can take it I'll second okay fair enough got that Monica yes I do okay any further questions
030or discussion all in favor say I I oppose no motion carries all right thank you the next item is the approval of the purchase of secondary teacher computers and there were um we received three bids for those I gave you a little explanation um you can see the three bids and the recommendation is to accept the bid from RTI for $6,6 I'll make that motion motion by Judy second second by Steve questions or discussion all in favor say I I oppose no motion carries thank you the next is the approval of the purchase um for starting blocks for the pool and in this casee we're recommending um the best bid and that is um for a variety of reasons that we outlined the the bid from spear we consider to be the best bid because
031um the consistency with the style and the um their ability to install the product even though it's not the lowest bid we documented why we believe it is the best bid so the recommendation is to accept the bid from spear for $61,800 I just wanted that to be noted that it was not the the uh the um cheapest but considering that spear does install the equip and I'm sure that you know some type of warranty would come with that instead of us purchasing something cheaper so I I I I will U make that I will now my mind thinkk you my mind went blank are you making a motion I am making a motion okay motion by arlet I'll second second by Judy any further questions I'm just curious Mary do you know what the
032the issue with the current starting blocks was I do not think I've been there forever I don't I really don't I think it's just an upgrade but I'm sorry I don't obviously the the spere starting blocks have certain features that are desirable in Collegiate Athletics or whatever so there's Way Beyond it's way beyond my skill level definitely Beyond mine also any other questions discussion all in favor say I I oppose no motion carries the next item came from the um exceptional children's Co-op board meeting that their board approved the Declaration of surplus material from the co-op of a wooden desk so we're asking that you approve that Surplus property make a motion motion barlet second by Sarah questions or discussion all in favor say I I oppose no thank you motion carries um the last
033item is just awareness from the uh city of Jasper uh on the 811 and we don't need any action on this but they've asked that you sign off on it so um we've asked that you sign off and I just want to make you aware and then finally I just want to thank thank you all as a board for your patience with me with the the meeting and this entire month as I get acclim and acclimated and I know you know I make M I make mistakes and I'm sorry um but I I really um appreciate everything the board's doing and the entire greater Jasper Community I just really appreciate this this first month and it's gone really well and I I appreciate everybody very much we're certainly glad to have you and I know
034you've been drinking from fire hose so to speak been great it really has you've been a real trooper so thank you you've kept us very much informed at least I feel that way thank you I work for you so just keep let me know what I can do very good any other business to come before the board if not I ask for a motion to adjourn so moved motion by Steve second by Sarah all in favor I I oppose no meeting adjourned oh yeah Judy got it says red all board but I don't no that was the uh