CorpusRecord 23732

July 8, 2025 HCSC School Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Hanover Community School Corporation
Date
2025-07-08
Location
Lake County, IN
Material
Transcript
Extent
672 words · about 4 min
Collected
2026-06-06

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001All right, I'm going to call to order the meeting of July 8th, 2025 for Hanover School Board of Trustees. Can everyone stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Geli here. Verdan here. Pascal here. Kuzma here. Melissa here. Court. Wonderful. And nobody has signed up for comments or discussion relative to the agenda. So approval of the agenda. And like make a motion. Make a motion to approve the agenda. Second. Any comments or discussions? Roll call. Yes. Verdan, yes. Pasco, yes. Kman, yes. Melissa, yes. Board has voted 50. Reports. We have no reports tonight. School board. Any reports? I will say

002I went to serial bank's redevelopment um meeting and um because they always want the liaison to say something. The only thing I spoke about is the referendum. Um which they need to know that polls are going to be open that day because that is a town board meeting day. So they're going to move their meeting. Um they had a few questions and that paper that we had um I kind of I just gave them the information. how much for transportation security. I gave them all that information. Um, a lot of them who are in Hanover Township are um said they'll support. Well, that's good. We'll see how everything goes. [Music] Items. Oh, consent agenda. Oh, I'm sorry. the approval of consent agenda. Anybody make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda. I'll

003second. Any comments or discussions? Roll call. All right. Aielki, yes. For Dan, yes. Has tal tonight underformational, we have several board policies. Board policy, excuse me, board policy 2340 on field and other corporation sponsored trips. This policy has been revised to address separately field trips, extracurricular trips, and transportation on trips and it also addresses supervision and accommodations if it's an overnight trip. Next board policy is revised policy 2370 on educational options. This has been revised to include options for alternatives to classroom instruction such as college courses, military service and a flex program. This also this will be brought back. Are there any questions on this? Revised policy 2411 guidance and counseling. This is revised to include the new requirement by law for completing the FASA and revised notice requirements to advise parents and students regarding

004completion of FASA. question. Revised policy 2421 is revised to include the new law on virtual career and teched courses and the requirements to earn an employment honor seal. A lot of these policies that you're going to see, there's literally 50 policies that'll be coming forward. Um, you just had 10, right, Laura? Yeah. 10 today. All of those are related to all of the new pass legislation. Revised policy 2623 on student assessment. This is revised to incorporate requirements that were added in relation to Senate enrolled act one on reading and reading and retention for students in grades two and three and participation in summer school for reading remediation. uh revised, excuse me, board policy 2700 has been rescended. It's no longer required. That dealt with annual performance report of the school district that had to be

005um advertised. Revised policy 3120 is on the employment of professional staff. This is revised to clarify the two options in the anti- nepotism provision. Option A uh allows us to hire uh relatives with the understanding that they can't be supervised by their spouse. Additional revisions were made to the section on employment of volunteer firefighters. Are there any questions on that? Revised policy 3120.02 on adjunct teachers. This is revised to omit the requirement to discuss the use of adjunct teachers with the exclusive representative of certified employees. That would be hope. That's now optional. Board policy 3120.11. This policy was revised to include the language added to Indiana code 20-29-6-1 which is in relation to excellence and civic engagement disa designation and school meetings regarding where a public meeting regarding the public meeting before we go into

006the contract negotiations. has to happen before the meeting, before we go into negotiations, and after. And that are all the policies for this evening. These will be brought back at the next board meeting. Thank you. Our loan action item tonight, I'd like to request approval of the revised student handbooks for the 2025 2026 school year for the high school, middle school, Red Seeders, Jane Ball, and Lincoln elementary schools. This will require formal board action. I'll make a motion to approve the revised student handbooks for 2025 2026 for all the schools. Go ahead. Go ahead. Any comments or discussions? Call for vote. I'm sorry. Yes. Go. Yes. Pascal. Yes. Yes. Felisa. Yes. 50. Thank you. And we have nobody signed up for comments or discussion on items not on the agenda. Any board of trustes comments

007or questions? No. Anybody want to make a motion to adjurnn? I'll make a motion to everybody in favor say I. I. I. Pressure.

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