001Thank you, Mr. Trout. We'll call this meeting to order and start with roll call. This is great. Mr. Allen here. Mr. Mlen here. Mr. here. Mr. Wall here. Mrs. H here. Mr. Carl here. Mrs. Miller. Thank you, Mrs. Gray. Move on to A5, revision of the agenda. Mr. Trout, do you have any revisions to the agenda? Yes, we have a few uh this evening. Uh Mr. Allen. Uh, under consent agenda item F5, personnel report, we need to remove certified staff recommendation for employment. Laura Rush, math, Huntington North High School. We need to add a certified resignation of Janelle Force, sixth grade teacher at Crestview Middle School, effective 52325. Megan Schuler, special education teacher, essential skills at Crestview, effective date 52325. Um, lastly, for your consideration, we'd like to add the following ECA assignments for summer
002band instruction. They would be Emily Easley, Connor Sme, Victoria Taylor, Gavin Utterbike. Thank you, Mr. Trout. Would anyone like to make a motion reference the changes to the agenda? I make a motion that we uh approve the recommendations of the agenda as presented. Thank you, Mr. Wall. And a second. Second. Thank you, M. Mlullen. Any discussion or conversation before we vote? Hearing none, we'll vote on the changes to the agenda. Motion passes 70. Moving on to core values B1. Core values discussion. This is always an exciting time for our board meetings where we can um celebrate our staff and students and tonight is no exception uh because we have that tonight. And so I'm going to ask we're going to talk about EL programming, our HCCS adult English classes. So we invite you to come
003to the front. When I read your name, if you would please come forward. Elijah Eert, Annette Little, Ian Lindsay, John Petrovich, Ruth Anne Rust, Abby Grub, and Angie Grub. Our EL teachers and English teachers under the leadership of our EL director, Angie Grub, have launched adult English classes that meet on Monday and Wednesday nights at Lincoln Elementary School. These free classes welcome all HCCS eel families and focus on helping parents learn to read, speak, and write in English. The program demonstrates our staff's dedication to going above and beyond their regular duties. Not only are they providing excellent instruction to our EL students during the school day, but they're also strengthening schoolto-ome connections by directly supporting our EL parents in their educational journey. By empowering parents with English language skills, our EL team is creating a
004ripple effect that benefits entire families, strengthens our school community. When parents can come can better communicate and engage with their children's education, success, student success increases significantly. This initiative exemplifies our core values of compassion through service to families, responsibility in meeting community needs, and excellence in educational support that extends beyond the classroom. We are grateful for the dedication of Angie Group and our EEL and English teaching staff who recognize that supporting our families is essential to supporting our students. Great job. Well, well done. So great. Oh, you got your card. Next up, we'd like to recognize our Riley Dance Marathon at Huntington North High School for the 2425 campaign. Tonight I'm pleased to share how our students are living our core values through Riley Dance Marathon at Huntington North High School. So we invite to
005come forward as well Mia Klene, Emma Alford, Maddie Maddie Chandler, Andrew Chopson, Lauren Rust, and adviserss Chelsea Panine and Jackie Canler. If you would please come forward. This year, our students raised $28,383.15 for Riley Hospital for Children, a record-breaking amount in the eight years Huntington North has participated. These funds support palative care and the magic castle cart that brings daily joy to young patients. Under President Ella Newton and Vice President Mia Klein's leadership, students built positive community connections, secured business sponsorships, strengthened corporate corporation relationships, and increased dance marathon attendance. Hima Alfred will lead as president next year. Students fundraised year round through Nelson's chicken sales, spooky bags, Valentine's carnations, car shows, pickle ball tournaments, final exam kits, duct tape a teacher events, apparel sales, and miracle minutes at sporting events. This program exemplifies our core
006values. Compassion through service to sick children, responsibility through a sustained commitment, integrity and fundraising efforts, and excellence in record-breaking results. I don't want to miss this. The success of Riley Dance Marathon demonstrates what our students accomplish when motiv motivated by something greater than themselves. We are so proud of their dedication and positive community impact. Again, let's join me in congratulating our students and their tremendous efforts. Well [Applause] done. That concludes our core values. Righty, we'll move on to C1 items from visitors. This is the time for public comment. This time, the public may address the board. We ask you to sign your name and uh announce your name uh when you step up to speak and ask you to be concise and keep your comments to around five minutes or less. We have one person
007signed up for public comment, Jacqueline Cancer. Chancellor, making sure it's Can you guys hear me? Okay. I am gonna keep this a lot shorter than last time I addressed you all. Prompts and I have goodies for you tonight, too. So, my name is Jackie Canler, and I come to you as one of the people of the state of Indiana and a teacher in the Huntington County Community Schools, Mr. Allen, school board members, um, and administrators. I'm here to actually serve you a notice of maladministration and an affidavit of myself to you. The people have served hundreds of notices to the school board and to the local and state government officers um from November 27 of 2024 through March 3 of 2025 instructing you to provide remedy in order to immediately correct the employee guide handbook
008showing claims each of which were supported by the expressed written constitutional text and the highest law the maxims of law. You were given specific amounts of time to rebut then controvert the law and claims provided by the people in the above mentioned notices and there was no public response sworn by affidavit under penalty of perjury. So ladies and gentlemen, I am here to serve you an affidavit sworn under penalty of perjury that the law I served you was in fact right and as of now you are in maladministration. So, I'm going to serve you an affidavit that I'm swearing under oath of penalty and perjury that I am 100% correct in the law. And I'm just going to read it to you and then I'm going to serve it to you. Aant Jacqueline K. Can
009cancer one of the people as seen in the Indiana Constitution article one section one Republican informed suie jurist do serve you Tim Allen Ryan Wall Aaron Carl Matt Milker Deb Miller Gary Mlullen and Carrie Haim this affidavit in this court of record to make the following CA claims that you provide due care. Please take notice. It is guaranteed right and duty of the people to assemble together to consult for their common good regarding the employee policies found in the employee guide handbook for Huntington County Community Schools. There should be no law restraining any of the people from instructing their government servants, which is you, the school board, to redress of grievances. The people shall not be restrained from exercising their constitutional right to the free interchange of thought and opinion. Please take further notice as
010school board members. You are elected agents, also known as servants, for the HCCSC within the state of Indiana and are bound in good faith to fulfill the duties of office by your oath to uphold the Indiana Constitution. As servants, you are bound to uphold all reserved rights of we the people. Any failure on your part to protect the rights is a breach of trust and denture and your oath of office for which you have sworn. Facts claim one. On October 28, 2024, the HCC board school board this amp presented all members of the school board administrators evidence of the constitutional law that legislature has no power to write statutes that follow that violate the rights of the people. All statutes, codes, policies, and ordinances must be in pursuit to the Constitution. Neither Indiana legislature nor
011any agency such as the Indiana Department of Child Protective Services, DCS entity or school corporation has been granted the authority in the Constitution to remove a child over the objection of either of the parents of such child. Similarly, no authority exists mandating teachers to work as agents with such agencies or entities. This is recorded and witnessed to you by Eddie Ecounselor. claim to on October on November 17, 2024, Afient plus 463 people sent via Jot form a lawful court of record titled notice of danger of maladministration peritt permitting operation of DCS and HCCS to all school board members and school administrators. A response was demanded within 10 days of receipt of this notice and no response was attached. Claim three. On December 7, 2024, Afant sent an email to Mr. John Trout, Mr. Chad Brimberry,
012and Mr. Matt Roth, former school president, confirming the job forms are received. Mr. Trout confirmed they were received. See evidence in the envelope I will be writing. Claim four. On December 23, 2024, Afient handd delivered printed copies of people's notices to Mr. John Trout, Mr. Chunk Brimberry, Mr. Pat Mc Pat Mclofflin and Mr. Matt Roth at the school board office. Mr. John Trout and Cynthia Gray received this delivery. Claim five. On October on January 16, 2025, the Afant plus 40 84 people sent via Jot form a letter titled point of clarity regarding members binding oath to Mr. Tim Allen, new school board president. All members of the school board were CC to Mr. Trout and school administrators. a response for demand by February 10, 2025 and no response was given. Claim six. On February 10,
0132025, Afion attended a school board meeting requested to speak as one of the people and Afion was denied her freedom of speech and the right to redress grievance found in the Indiana Constitution Bill of Rights witnessed by Eddie E. Chancellor. Claim seven. On February 10, 2025, a handd delivered 84 printed copies of each of the people's point of clarity to Mr. Tim Allen. After serving Mr. Allen with the letter, he stated that a meeting would be scheduled to address the letter. Claim eight. On February 11, 2025, Afant sent an email to Mr. Allen requesting a meeting. And on February 14, 2025, Mr. Allen responded and a meeting was set for February 19, 2025. Claim nine. On February 19, 2025, aient met with Mr. Allen. Mr. Allen stated changing the policy handbook pertaining to the mandate
014of teachers reporting to CPS would be a challenge due to two issues. One, a state statute which was overcome by the Constitution of the United States in the state of Indiana and funding. On February 26, 2025, Afant requested to speak to be put on the agenda for the school board meeting on March 10, 2025. Request was denied with which abregated the Aference constitutional rights of free speech and redress of grievance as guaranteed in the Indiana Constitution. Claim 11. On March 2nd, 2025, Afient sent email to Mr. Allen asking clarifying questions of why Afient was denied her freedom to speech at a public board meeting. A response was given. See evidence in the envelope I will provide. April 22, 2025. A had meeting with Dr. Duggets to inform him of a notice of maladministration to be
015sended at the school board meeting to be held on April 28, 2025. A meeting was scheduled for April 24, 2025 with Mr. Trout, Mr. Allen, Mr. Ryan, and school board attorney or school attorney Mr. Riley. Claim 13. On April 24, 2025, Afion attended a meeting with Mr. Trout, Mr. Allen, Mr. Ryan, and Mr. Wy. Aient hand delivered the notice of maladministration to each attendee at the meeting. Afient gave evidence of maladministration and again demanded they provide remedy in order to immediately correct the employee guide. A claim 14 May 2nd, 2025. Aient received an email from Mr. Trout with an attached letter of a response to the meeting held on April 24, 2025. This letter was also sent by certified mail. attachment and envelope provided claim number 15. May 27, 2025, aant sent email to Mr.
016Mr. Trout in response to his letter. Please take notice. The aant swears by affidavit under penalty of perjury that the above claims are true and that you are instructed to provide remedy in order to immediately correct the employee guide and showing claims each of which were supported by the expresswritten constitutional text the highest law and the maxims which are automatically implied in any contract and universally accepted as being true rules and principles of law. You, the servant who has sworn an oath to the Indiana Constitution, were given specific amounts of time to rebut or controvert the law and claims provided in the above mentioned notices. There were no responses given by affidavit, point by point given to any of the people or the aant. Please take final notice that it is my wish, order, and
017demand that you provide remedy by revising the employee policies in the HCCS employee guide to remove any reference reporting child abuse to DCS. If you have failed to respond in writing submitted by affidavit sworn under penalty of perjury and postmarked to the to the address of me within five days upon receipt of this affidavit, the evidence or constitutional authority granted to you um to do so or you agree by TASA equence that all statements herein in the notice shall stand as evidence and truth in the law in all courts of record and you do violate my rights and the rights of the people. All responses not sworn under penalty and perjury are nonresponses and that no court can rehear this matter and I reserve the right to have an arbitrator of my choice. If you
018guys have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them. I don't have any questions. Uh if you'd like to give me those, I will distribute them to the board. Anyone else like to make a public comment during this time? We will move on to D special presentation one is food service topics universal free breakfast and meal prices. Mr. Burgess. Good evening. I'm here tonight to present HCCS food services and meal prices for school year 2026. I believe Cindy has a presentation to put up on the screen for you all to see as well. And then with these changes, I'm also offering more detail and background than normal for everyone's greater understanding. Next slide, please. So here we have our proposed uh prices for meals next year with the breakfast prices first as my
019proposal of student reduced price breakfast at 30 cents a piece. Student full pay breakfast at $160 and adult breakfast uh set at $2. The IDOE recommendation for adult breakfast prices are at $2.38. The proposed lunch prices for student reduced price lunch for all schools would be at 40 cents a lunch. Uh for full pay elementary school lunch prices would be $245. Uh full pay for student prices at uh middle school and high school would be $2.95. Adult lunches at uh all schools would be $3.95. Again, the recommends $3.91. Uh milk would remain at 50 cents a piece. Next slide, please. The increasing cost of food, supplies, and equipment significantly influences meal prices, leading to adjustments in pricing for the upcoming school year. Uh there has only been one student meal price increase since 2017. Uh
020meal prices are also adjusted according to budget needs, ensuring affordability and sustainability uh for students. An increase in meal prices is necessary to maintain food quality and to continue to follow increasingly strict USDA meal pattern guidelines. Um the actual changes to meal prices for school year 2025 2026 are as follows. Uh the obvious one that is a big standout is a return to student paid breakfasts. Uh 10cent increase in full pay student lunches. increase in adult meal prices to get closer to the IDOE recommendations. Next slide, please. Uh, a little bit of background of our department's funding sources. Federal funding plays a major role in supporting school meal programs across the country, ensuring accessibility and nutritional standards. This is the majority of our funding and is directly based on the number of meals sold each
021day. At the end of each month, I report our meal counts to the state and they release funds based on how many meals we have sold. While we typically receive reimbursements for these meals within a month, it has taken up to three months for funds to reach our account at times. State funding also complements federal resources providing additional financial support for local school meal initiatives and programs. This funding is very minimal, only comes once a year and we do not know when we will receive it. Payments for full pay meals, reduced price meals, adult meals, and allocart sales are also a significant revenue source. Obviously, however, the food services department again does not immediately receive these funds when purchases are made. As a point of necessary oversight, at the end of the month, our department
022sends sales reports to the HCCS central finance department. They then move the funds from a holding account into the food services funds. All that explanation is to show that our breakfast and lunch programs are funded, if you will, after the fact. If there ever seems to be any kind of excessive funds in our accounts, it is because we have to stay ahead of our finances for these reasons. Uh, next slide, please. The universal uh uh free breakfast program was initiated in school year 2020 2021 to address child hunger and improve nutrition among students during the pandemic. uh throughout the United States at that time. All meals were fully funded by federal dollars which were at an all-time high. There were also significant supply chain subsidies on top of that that helped keep K12 food service
023programs afloat. The USDA ended funding for this program in June 2022, and these extra supply chain funds are no longer available. Not only did they stop fully funding breakfast for students, but the federal meal reimbursement that we were receiving at the time has significantly decreased across the board since then. As you can see from the graph on the on the board, uh, in 2021, the reimbursement rate for a breakfast for a student who qualified for full pay meals was $246 a breakfast. Over the past three years, it has been 50 cents or less per meal. Uh in other words, that is how much we get per meal per student for breakfast. And those two years where we uh where we got that funding, it was up upwards of almost $2.50 a meal. At the time
024when the USDA stopped funding free breakfast for students, HCCSC food services had a relative surplus of funds from the higher federal reimbursement rates during the pandemic. The decision was made to utilize these funds to continue offering breakfast to students in our schools at no cost as long as those funds were available. This surplus is now depleted and to continue to fund free breakfast will soon be detrimental to the program. Next slide, please. Increasing food and supply price challenges uh challenging schools to maintain the quality of meals provided to students while staying within budget constraints. As the cost of food increases, without increased funding, it becomes impossible to improve the quality of food we serve to children. Regular maintenance and appropriate replacement of kitchen equipment is also essential to ensure efficient meal preparation and to avoid
025unexpected breakdowns. The cost of this has skyrocketed over the past five years, as it has in almost every industry, as I'm sure you are all aware. to give you an example of a typical piece of equipment that we use. A steamer that cost $9,000 in the year 2020 now cost $22,000. Looking to the future of funding, while several groups across the country continue to lobby at the state and federal level for increased funding for school meals and even for universal free meal programs, there does not appear to be any legitimate traction at the federal or local state level to offer this support. In the meantime, it is up to each uh local school corporation's food service department to properly fund these programs. I will say it has been a blessing to be able to offer
026free breakfast for students for the past five years. I hope that this helps kind of paint a picture of how we've been able to do so and gives you a better detail in the thought behind the proposed meal prices. So, I thank you for your consideration. Thank you, Mr. Burgess. I appreciate the efforts that you're making with the on the food service side. I know that it's a challenge and um we know how important it is to make sure kids have something to eat because some kids don't when they're not at school. Absolutely. So, we really appreciate those efforts. Anybody have any questions before we I would entertain a motion uh reference his request. Motion to approve the universal free breakfast and meal prices as presented. Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. Is there anyone second? Thank
027you, M. Mcclullen. any discussion or conversation before we vote. How many students did we uh serve breakfast to the last couple years? Last year uh let's see, we served 304,978 breakfasts for the entire year. For the entire year. So, as far as um with the amount of uh revenue that we did not receive for serving the full pay and reduced price meal students, that means that we basically out of our funds paid for $186,000 of that. And over the last three years, that comes to $572,000 out of food service funds. Cool. Do you know on an average though how many students in the corporation took that took took that? 300,000 over the whole year. Do you know on a daily basis? How many students actually took care of that? Oh, on a daily basis. Um
028I could do the math for you. Just just if you had it, great. If not, that's fine. But but gut feeling good majority of the students took advantage of it. Um it's the participation went up significantly when it became free. Okay. It definitely made a difference, but it wasn't. So compare that to breakfast versus lunch. Then you see a drop then a number of students providing school lunches then yes we do. Do you know on average from a lunch standpoint what that percentage is? Um I would say probably uh kids that participate in the lunch program probably about a 20% less okay participation currently right and then back when 2020 2021 when it was free both breakfast and lunch we saw great participation then correct it was yes absolutely anything further good questions Mr. Thank
029you. We have nothing further then we'll go ahead and vote on your request. Motion passes 70. Move on to D2, food services request for vendor approval. That's me again. Hello again. Uh this is about our awards for vendors for school year 2526. Uh they are all the same as they are this year and have been last year. Uh they're all great vendors that have great reputations and uh great customer service as well. Uh we work with a cooperative called Food to School. Uh they're a purchasing cooperative. They consist of 97 school districts and have a projected annual sales volume of over $69 million next year and serve the needs of over 230,000 students which gives us great buying power uh with their negotiations. The following vendors will be renewed with HCCS for the 2526 school
030year. Uh milk and dairy will be DFA dairy brands uh formerly Dean Shankles. Uh the group purchasing organizations HPS Gordon's food service and commercial foods and chemicals we use smart systems which has been a great company in our uh district not just for pricing but also for their customer service and their help with our equipment. Thank you Mr. Burgess. Thank you. I'll entertain a motion reference this item. motion to recommend approval. Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Can I have a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Wall. Any questions or discussion for Mr. Burgess? Hearing none, we'll vote on the motion. Motion passes 70. Thank you, Mr. Burgess, very much. Thank you. Moving on to D3, EL program for the 2025 2026 school year. We have over the years brought before you uh to present some very very
031talented and skilled teachers, administrators, and coordinators. And tonight is no exception. Um as Angie Grub, our director of EEL and our EEL coordinator for the district is going to be presenting a snapshot for you of our state of our current state of our EL program and a projected growth of our program uh for 2526. So Angie, thank you for being here and sharing with us. Appreciate it. Thank you. Um, tonight I come to you to talk to you about something very dear to my heart, the English learner program. I've been blessed to be in Huntington Schools for a large number of years. Um, but a bigger blessing for me is the opportunity to work with these students and these families. So, I just want to give you a little bit of information about the English
032learner program in case you don't know a whole lot about that. Um, in the fall of 2016, HCCS began servicing English learners with one ELEL teacher of record. And at that time, we had about 10 students. If you would go, sorry. Um, in the fall of 2020, HCCS created the ENL classes at Crestview, Riverview, and Huntington North. Um, there was a dedicated EL teacher of record at each of those schools, and I was blessed to be that teacher here at Crest View. Um, in the fall of 2022, Crest View became the middle school hub due to rising enrollment. Um, all of the English learners and the at the middle school level were brought here to Crest View where I was again blessed to be able to be their teacher. Um, and I actually had the
033opportunity this Sunday to present that first group of students that I was their um, main teacher with diplomas at graduation. So, that was a special event for me. In the fall of 2023, the EL teacher of records split her time um between teaching and coordinating the program. That was me. That was tricky. Um but it was something that I was very driven to do and wanted to do and wanted to do well. And when I took on that additional role of being the coordinator, I wanted to make sure that that program was being serviced the best way that it could. Um I at that time had two amazing elementary um teachers who were servicing students at the elementary level. Myself at Crest View and then a teacher at the high school. In the fall of
0342024 um with the help of two English teachers at Huntington North, two EL specific English classes were started at Huntington North. That has been a huge blessing. It gives us an opportunity to um allow the students to do additional things that they may not get to do because of the service class that they're required to have um that we're required to provide for them. Uh and then my position became a full-time position. I stepped away from the classroom which was difficult at first and it's still difficult at times for me but it allowed the teacher here at Crest View to be fully dedicated to the students and offer them everything they could during the school day and it gave me the opportunity to start working on some things that I really wanted to do for
035the English learner program. If you would go to the next slide please. Um this is just a few of the things that we have done since um I've been able to dedicate more time to being the coordinator. Uh we started an adult English class. Um many parents attend that. We had 23 people sign up to attend. We had 12 attend regularly and uh the people that you saw earlier were great supports for that program. We have EL family nights. Um we used to have four a year. We are up to having one almost every night. And though the attendance at those has doubled uh where we have many families coming and engaging, interacting with each other. Um the kids, we provide information to the parents, the teachers uh take care of planning activities for the
036students to do and it just is a great time and it's a good way for us to connect and pour into those families and help make sure that they're getting everything that they can um as part of our Huntington Schools family. And then we also this year with the help of Annette Little started some extracurricularcurricular exploration experiences. We took the boys and the girls to soccer games. Um the girls had to go to a volleyball game because their soccer game got cancelled, but we took the boys to a soccer game. Um an EL student from the high school actually played on the team and he autographed soccer balls for all the boys. It was a great experience. It was so it was great for him. It was great for the boys. We went to basketball
037games. Brandy Hawkins here at Crest View was amazing. Um, since they'll be future Cougars one day, we brought them all here. We had shirts for them and Brandy had them come out on the floor and they got to do lineups with uh as the kids were announced, the starting five. And so that was a very special opportunity for them. So, this program means a lot to me and I want to continue to do what's best for this program. And so that's what I'm going to talk to you about now. If you would go ahead and go to the next slide. So our growth has continued to increase. As you can see, we had a drop off in 2022 2023. Um but our growth has been steady at the K5 level. Um we are projected to
038have 70 students uh K5 in the fall of 2526 and that's a huge number of students. Each one each one of those students, we are required to offer 120 minutes of service per week. And we currently have two elementary EL teachers to offer that service to the six schools. We have at least one student at every one of our elementary schools that qualify as an English learner. If you would go to the next slide, please. You can see here our projected enrollment for next year. At Flint Springs, we're projected to have 15 students. Lincoln 32, Ron Oak one, Horseman 14, Andrews 2, and Salimony six. So those are our projected numbers. If we were going to service our students, which is always our goal, um the projected number of minutes they need just at Lincoln
039alone, that would require 3,840 minutes of service um for the 2526 school year. And so as you look at all of the different schools, having two teachers to be able to do that is a bit of an impossible task in my opinion. Um we've been making it work, but I don't know that we can make it work for much longer with what those kids deserve. If you would go to the next slide, please. Um this is just a breakdown of on a weekly basis, a monthly basis, but the one that hits me the hardest is the yearly basis. on a yearly basis because of transfer driving that we need to do to get to the different schools. We are losing 91 hours of instructional time. And that's a lot of time for these students who
040are not only um operating in another language and trying to learn English, but just who need that extra additional support. And our teachers in the classrooms, our general education teachers do an amazing job with these students. But it is our job as the English learner program to ensure that they're getting the support that they need additionally in their service minutes. And so um that's a lot of time for us to to lose. If you go to the next slide, please. So I think that we can do better for our students. We are do an amazing job here. I am very proud to lead this program. I um I have great teachers working every day. We have good relationships with the principles, with the school staff, with all of the that are pouring into these kids.
041But I think we can do do better. Um, we are proposing a change in how we service the elementary English learner students who are enrolled in HCCS. Uh, we believe that these changes would be very beneficial if they are implemented for this upcoming school year. It would eliminate the loss of instructional time because we would no longer need to travel between schools. Um, it would shore up the case loads. The state of Indiana suggests that a case load for an English learner teacher is 30 students. And so currently both of my EL elementary teachers would be over their case load numbers. Um it would heighten our family engagement and that's a huge piece for me. Um these families come and they stay. I have a friend who's a director in southern Indiana and she has
042a lot of movement in and out of her programming. And she's like, "How do you deal with this?" And I said, "That just doesn't happen here." And they come and they stay. And in fact, they tell their relatives, "Oh, no, come here. They take good care of us. They love our kids. They help us with other things besides just school." And that's very important to me. Um, the attendance, like I said, at our family nights has doubled since last year. And I I want these families to stay engaged, but I want to do even better for them. If you would go to the next slide. Thank you. So the uh my proposal is is that we create an English learner hub and I am suggesting that that be done at Lincoln Elementary. Um all of
043our schools, all of our elementaryaries are outstanding and they have done amazing jobs with our students, but we already have 32 students who would be enrolled at Lincoln in the fall. Mrs. Jerger and I have worked uh for quite a while on making sure numbers would be within guidelines. Uh we've done research. This isn't something that we just got together one day and said, "Oh, what do you think about this?" It's been something we've been working on for a while. Um so it has been thought through and is something, like I said, that I've really wanted to see happen because I know it's what's best for kids. Um we could increase the support for our students. family engagement would increase. Um we could enroll families easier and and without a lot of hassle to them.
044There would be increased opportunities for professional development. Um increased opportunities for teacher support collaboration. Um the list goes on and on. And Lincoln was um chosen like I said because of the 32 students but also it is a feeder school to Crestview. And the students do then transition to Crestview as middle school students. please. Okay. So, I truly believe a change is needed in order to serve our students in the best way possible. Um, this is something that is dear to my heart. As I said, it's my why. It's been something I've been thinking about and um really really pushing for since I was able to come into this role. And I really hope that making personalization is part of our why as a school board and a district. Thank you, Angie. Thank you. Uh
045so tonight board we are asking permission uh to pursue the option of designating designating uh Lincoln Elementary School as our hub uh for our EL program. You will see later on the consent agenda we're asking for an additional EL teacher. So I just share that with you so that you're aware due to the population and the growing population that we have of our EL students um we would like to add an additional EL teacher. Uh I want to say because Mrs. Jarger is here in our audience she has been exceptional to work with. uh her and Angie have done a masterful job of looking at implementation plan, looking at classroom space, uh office space for our EL staff and uh excited about moving forward with this program and tonight we're just asking for your permission
046uh to have that opportunity. Thank you, Mr. Peters, and thank you, Mrs. Groo. Um I'll entertain a motion reference this item. Motion to approve the 2526 English learners program as presented. Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Wall. Any questions or discussion? Mrs. Gub, we're all running out of room right in our buildings. Um, we definitely have room with our kids districted to us without having to district any of those. It will affect the number of kids I can accept on a transfer. Um, but all the kids who are districted there will still be able to attend there. Yep. Anything else for Mrs. G, Mrs. Jarger? Thanks for looking at the program and coming up with a resolution. I do like it. Thank you. And I did want to mention
047pending board approval. Um, Mrs. Jarger and I will be going out tomorrow to visit every family and let them know that this is this is the direction we're moving if this is approved. I'd just like to say I appreciate your efforts. I know this is a real challenge. Um I also know that the way you were doing it was much more of a challenge. So um let's vote on the motion. As we're voting, I would also like the fact that the community now knows if if they need these services, they have one place to go and don't have to hunt around and you'll be able to support them there, too. Motion passes 70. Mrs. G will be anxious to hear the updates. This should be really something to see. Absolutely. Thank you so much. Thank
048you. Moving on to E E1 students in 2025 kinder camp. Uh tonight board we're asking for your approval uh to allow us to continue our kinder camp program that we have offered um for several years. This will run from July 21st to August the 1st Monday through Friday from 8:00 in the morning till 12 um noon at all of our elementary locations. U they students will receive um breakfast and lunch. Um, want to just do a shout out to our United Way, Sarah Kemp, our executive director, uh, for their funding of this program and also Huntington County Youth Services, uh, for their partnership, uh, in providing materials and supplies for the program. So, just tonight asking for your approval to continue. Thank you, Mr. Peters. Would anyone like to make a motion reference the kinder
049camp program? I make a motion to approve the 2025 kinder camp program as presented. Thank you, Mrs. Heim. Is there a second? Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Any questions or discussion before we vote? Thank you, Mr. Peters, for keeping this thing going. I know that there's a lot of kids that enjoy it. And when it was uh Did we miss it last year, year before, two years ago? Yeah, that was a deal. So, any other have questions, comments? Now, let's vote on the motion. Motion passes 70. Moving on to E2, calendar committee survey. Mr. Trout. Yes. On uh May the 12th um the uh we sent out a parent square um to students in grades 6 through 12, all parents and all staff. And the survey uh remained open for one week. The question was pretty
050simple. Um, would you prefer to have the district implement traditional makeup days that are bu built into the school calendar rather than current practice of implementing virtual synchronous learning days for closures? Uh, we had 1415 responses um to that. So, each email address could only have one response. Um, and um what we received was 51.9% 51.91% of uh the participants answered no to the question and 48.09% answered yes. So in other words, based on that vote, we will um be building three years of calendar starting for the school year after next year based on this information. And I just wanted to share that with you so you were aware um of the results. If you're like my office, you will have a conversation among yourself to say if you thought that that's how it was
051going to come in or not. Um decisive. Decisive. But that's um that's the results of that survey. People been Thank you, Mr. Trout. I'm I'm I'm I'm stunned that it's that close. I I just I I'm I'm surprised. Um so just to be clear, what they've decided is or the no answers are no to changing it to traditional makeup days. That is correct. So our future calendars will look very similar to what they are currently. Okay. So um you know, we've been hearing some discussion in the community about the importance of having makeup days. So that's why before we build any more school calendars beyond next year. Let's see what the community had to say and this is what they have told us. Thank you, Mr. Trouts. Move on to E4 2025 2026 foundational program.
052Mr. Brimberry. Thank you, Mr. Allen. Um wanted to ask for a board action item tonight on really a topic that uh I think Lynn Brown and I spoke of a couple years ago, maybe three. Len and Mr. Trout and I have spent some time talking about um which is intentional programming to make sure we look at the years of transition which would be grades fifth to sixth and grades 8 to nine for us. We are well aware of multiple interventions that occur. Well, what we try to do is have intentionality of programming uh once we understand some of the challenges our kids have of trying to make sure that jump to the next building uh is more and more successful each year. So with tonight's uh board action item, I'm requesting that you approve which
053will be paid for by a school liaison grant in uh combination of our group was Meg Fson, Dr. Diggins, Miss Wapus, uh Mrs. Rachel Jarger, Miss Brown, and consultation with Mr. Trout. But the idea is that for fifth to six, we'd identify um some kids through Mr. Peters and his principles and MTSS process and that we would encourage them for a couple days in late July with some teachers that we would pay through the grant to come in look at uh uh two days um where we encourage them through executive functioning skills, organizational skills, relationship building, uh counselors, nurses, SRO's, teachers, all working together for a small group of kids that maybe we've identified coming from fifth to six. We would do a similar thing once they get to the high school with some programming
054for kids that we know might need some little extra from our staff. And so we look at how we would schedule classes which teachers would have a few of the kids commonality some success classes that might be able to um encourage them. We know and I've spoken to Mr. trout at length in our three years back together or together um that we know there's some interventions that help when they make these transition years. It's primarily do with culture. It's self-esteem building but it's also foundation educational skills. So the programming I'm asking for your approval is step one and that's why it's called foundations program. And again, it won't cost us anything, but it literally is uh it's a pretty progressive idea in terms of what can happen with a small group with intentionality of program
055for a few of the kids who need more and we're going to try that with some fifth to sixth and some eighth and ninth next year. I'll bring you back the results as we will track the data closely. Um, I will tell you our previous uh attempts at successful intentional programming. If you watched graduation, uh you saw the dividends of some intentional programming with some of our staff. Uh Angie was here tonight, CES Academy here tonight. Lots of different pockets and buckets of kids. And so this is another attempt with another group. And I would ask for your um approval tonight for what is the first step called a foundations program which will begin uh late in July. and take effect next school year. Thank you, Mr. Burberry. I'd first like to apologize, Mr. Peters.
056I skipped over your item. I will get back to it. I'm sure Robert's rules will forgive me. I will entertain a motion for the uh foundational program. Make a motion that we uh approve the 25 2025 2026 foundational program as presented. Thank you, Mr. Wall. Is there a second? Thank you, Mr. Mlullen. Any questions or comments before we vote? How many students do you think you're going to try to target this? For sure. Um, right now, at least talking to our group. Um, it's an it is a voluntary program because the kids will be coming in 5th to 6th. I think we will are hoping for around 25 kids for a couple of days that will take place at Crestview. Um, and train some of our teachers as well. Meg Fzen will be instrumental in
057working with um our audiences as well as uh with teachers and so on and the high school will identify somewhere between the 20 to 30 that are transitioning there. We will keep close data um these programs have been successful uh highly successful. So we hope that not only successful but we bring back next summer with a larger version of this. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Anyone else have a question or comment? Let's vote on the motion. Motion passes 70. Moving on to the consent agenda. Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot Mr. Peters. Yeah. Thanks, man. I'm so sorry. No, it's my fault. I'm not trying to dominate. No, no, we we we're not sick of it yet. Um, go ahead, Mr. Mr. Peters. We'll move on to E3, applied skills classroom for 2025 2026. A lot
058of things happening in the elementary. Uh again, as we go back and align ourselves with the mission of our district of every student every day, I'm asking tonight again permission to pursue the moving of our applied skills classroom at Horseman to Salomony Elementary for the 2526 school year. We were having space issues at Horseman. Uh the essential skills program continues to grow in need, requiring the addition of a third classroom section of which you approved last September, and we just finally filled that with a teacher. And so we're really excited about that. But this third section will need the space that is currently apply occupied by our applied skills program. Uh the essential skills students have have the handicapped accessible playground at horse man, the adaptive impact classes through grants. Uh the teachers at horse
059man have been awarded uh the home location of our OTP staff. Um so leaving them there at Horseman makes the most sense and to receive those services. There are 18 applied stu skill students that are self-contained for part of their day. uh then they're out in the regular classroom for the other part of the day. Um these are students are next level support up from resource. Um they have a mild intellectual disability but they are on the diploma track and we're excited about that. Uh the teacher and two pair of professionals would go to salamony to support our applied skills students. Uh Mrs. Kitchen is in the audience tonight. We've met with her uh as well as Mrs. Roy. There is space at uh for this and so um they approve working with them. uh
060would approve this and so just asking tonight your permission uh to continue moving forward with moving the applied skills classroom from horse man to salimony for the 2526 school year. Thank you Mr. Peters. I'll entertain a motion reference to this item. Motion to approve the moving of applied skills classroom for 2526 school year from horse man to salamony elementary. Thank you Mr. Meltchure. Is there a second? Thank you Mr. Mlen. Um I was wanting to ask uh transportation. That's a great question. Uh I've met uh along with Mr. and myself met with Mrs. Fields in transportation. Her and her staff are working out the logistics of routing and what that would look like. Uh obviously there are guidelines that we need to follow there to stay within those guidelines as far as the number of
061minutes that students are on buses. And so obviously adhering to that, but again um with your approval tonight, pursuing that logistics of routing and what that would look like for our students. Thank you, Mr. Peters. Any further questions or discussion? Hearing none, we'll vote on the motion. motion passes 70. Moving on to the consent agenda items 1 through 15. Um for your approval tonight, we have 15 items listed. Uh Mr. Peters, I do like you, so I'm coming back to you here. Um, so you can help us out with this. Why don't I know you want to make uh draw the board's attention to one item specifically in the personnel report? We do. Um, I would like to introduce and obviously pending your approval. Uh, tonight we have with us Lauren Hogue. Uh, she has
062over 19 years of experience. Um, I'm recommending her for our elementary professional development coordinator. Uh, she has a gifted and talent endorsement with her license. Past six years. She's been a fifth grade teacher at Andrews. Uh she's been for the past two years providing professional development at Andrews. Uh last summer, Lauren also presented at the national schools national model schools conference uh on differentiating uh using data. So uh excited to bring Lauren on staff for elementary PD coordinator. So once approved, if Mrs. Hog would like to say something, she could come up. Absolutely, Mr. Trout. I let her know that you might be asking her to do that. Uh and that you might want a too, but I wasn't sure. Yeah, we we want a picture too, Mr. Peters. So, um, you want to talk
063to a little bit, Jay, about number six, the additional 2025 summer school staff? Yes. Due to the increased population of our EL staff, uh, Angie will be doing summer school as well as Annette Little. Yeah. No, just Angie. Uh, Jeannie Poff, we've asked for additional support for Angie and her name was not on the original list uh, when we brought it to you uh, last board meeting. So, we're just asking for Genie Pop uh as she will help and support Angie during our IE summer school. And board, I want to draw your attention to number seven, which was previously mentioned as the new certified position for the English learner teacher that is there, but I'm requesting um your approval of all 15 related items there this evening. Thank you, Mr. Trout. I'll entertain a motion
064reference the consent agenda. Make a motion that we approve the consent agenda as presented. Thank you, Mr. Wall. Is there a second? Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Would anyone like to pull any of the items from the consent agenda and vote it separately? Is there any questions or discussion about any of the agenda items? Thank the four groups that uh donated to the school corporation. Again, as always, Yeah, that's um pretty amazing the amount of support we get from the community. It's really it's impressive and so important. Any other questions or discussion? Let's vote on the consent agenda. Motion passes 70. I was distracted by the squeaky chair. Is that Mr. Is that Mr. setting in? Sorry about that. You weren't going to get away that easy. Uh Mrs. Hogue, I'm not going to make you.
065Is there anything if you'd want to come up to the front that you would like to say? How about a nice round of applause? Um, just thank you to the board for your approval and I'm so honored to be serving our community and our staff and our students in this role. Very excited. Thank you so much. Lauren, we're excited to have you, too. Uh, Mr. Butler, can we get a picture with Jay and myself? Okay. I know that she can't wait. So, Thank you, Mr. Peters. As Mr. Trout gets back here, we will move on to G1, April 2025 financial reports. Thank you, Mr. Allen. So, we will have the April financials up here in just a moment. Um, one of the first things that uh I'll point your attention to in the education fund,
066as I mentioned at the last board meeting, uh, this is the time where they start using our February count versus our October count, uh, to adjust our state basic grant. So, you'll see a little bit of a decline in what we received in the state basic grant um, from March to April and that actually is an adjustment all the way back to the beginning of January. Um, so that number should now stay fluid until uh we receive the October count and then they'll make those adjustments in the fall as well. Um, and if you look at the the graphs, just a reminder that um, you know, we're close to 96 uh% of the budget from the education fund going towards teachers and staff as it relates to salaries and benefits. Um, and that's where we
067want that money to go to help educate our children in the best way possible. Um the revenue that we have received uh for the number of days of the year so far is at 32.88%. Um and the actual dollars that we've received is at 32.92% and we've expended just under that amount, excuse me, at 31.44%. So we are staying well within the budget in the education fund. Uh you will notice um in the expenditures from the education fund an education fund to operations fund transfer as we do not start receiving any of our uh education I'm sorry our operations funding until tax revenues come in in uh May and or June. And so we have to supplement the ed operations fund at times uh with some funding from the education fund to offset those uh
068delays in funding from our property taxes. So you will see that 3.175 million was transferred from the uh education fund to the operations fund until those property taxes uh start to roll in to cover those expenses. If we move to the debt service fund, again, this is a fund that we don't receive any uh funding for until property taxes are uh due in June. Uh so nothing is set up to be expended out out of that account until June as well. So uh you see very little activity in the debt service fund, the operations fund. Uh to address a question that Mr. Wall asked last time, if you look at the interest uh miscellaneous there, it uh the budget order was for $637,500. Um and we've already uh received more than $94,000 over the budget
069order. Um I shared with Mr. wall. Uh at his request that uh the reason for that was that the interest rate that we are now receiving on our balance um at the credit union uh increased and we had to write the budget before that increase came in for uh our interest and therefore we're actually earning more money on our uh dollars in the bank than we had projected based on the previous interest rate. So, that's a good thing um that we're doing well there. Uh you'll see there in the budget month actual the miscellaneous transfers. That's that 3.175 from the education fund to help sustain the operations fund until tax revenues start to come in. Um and again, um we've only received about 20% of the revenue and we've expended uh about 28%. Um, and
070that's why we're needing to make that transfer until taxes uh are applied to that account and we receive those funds. The last uh fund is the rainy day fund. And if you remember at the last meeting, we talked a little bit about um because there was no budget for the rainy day account for 2025, it was in the 2024 budget. Um some of those numbers looked a little a skew. Um and that has uh been finalized now with everything out of the rainy day fund uh for that project and uh we are moving forward with that and you can see the revised fund balance of almost $4 million in rainy day. If you look at the historical comparisons, uh you will notice that at the end of March, um when we talked last month, um
071we were just over $17 million. And now that balance in the operate or the education fund is just under 15 million. Again, that goes back to the transfer of the 3.175 that you can see there uh that we did in April. And if you look at the operations fund historical comparison, um you can see that with that transfer, we're at about $2.5 million. That will sustain us and uh make payments on any current projects that we have as necessary until June tax revenues come in. So those are the financials. If anyone has any questions, I will entertain those at this time. Thank you, Mr. Mclofflin. Is there any questions? Actually, I'll entertain a motion first uh to uh about this reports. Make a motion that we approve the April 2025 financial report as presented. Thank
072you, Mr. Wall. Is there a second? Thank you, Mr. Mlullen. not so much a question, but uh in talking with other governmental entities uh related to some of the outcomes of the legislative session, there's been a long conversation about maybe starting to suck so a little bit more away for rainy day. Um just passing that along. I have not heard from school corporations what they're planning on on, but I do know that some other some other governmental entities in Huntington have been having that conversation because No one's quite sure what's going to shake out from some of the legislation coming out. So, I would just pass that along to the financial Yeah, I I've been uh in conversation also, um just so you know, I'm anticipating uh a meeting sometime this summer with all the
073governmental agencies getting together. quite frankly um the rest of the governmental agencies has the wherewithal and the means of raising the funds that that they're going to lose and we do not as a school district. So, um I appreciate the willingness especi specifically of Mayor Strick um for spearheading this to have happen. Um I don't think what our community understands is that the revenues lost will will basically be made up means for all of their governmental agencies. However, we do not have that availability uh to us. And so, um when I'm when I'm working with Mrs. Smith on budget prep coming up here literally next month, we're going to start this process. Uh down the road, I can paint a much clearer picture for you at that point in time. Um, I do believe that
074there is tremendous amount of unintended consequences from this past legislative session financially. Um, I have learned I I don't hold me to this. I would for the first time since I can remember, I wouldn't be surprised if the budget may be opened during the short session in January. Now, don't hold me to that, but in some couple of my conversations I'm having, I am hearing that that's a a very real possibility at this point in time. Um, we are positioned quite well. Quite frankly, we you all have done an enormous job of planning for this day and the day is probably here um for us. Um, I'm not going to paint a doom and gloom picture with this. As you'll notice that we're not um making any plans like many school districts around us. who
075have been cutting staff, cutting programming, cutting this. Um I'm not convinced yet that um we can't try to weather this storm creatively through the process. Um and so I would just say stay tuned. Um hang in there with us. Um when Mrs. Smith and I go through the budget for 26 with you. Um, I'm sure there's going to be a laundry list of questions from all of you about how to and moving in the future, but hang in there. We'll get this figured out. That's why I'm I know I don't know if you caught it, but in the professional leave, uh, I'm going down to like my yearly trip down to Indianapolis for the SBA IPSS financial seminar. I really am intrigued what's going to come out of that this year. Um, unfortunately Dr. Dbor
076will not be speaking. If you've ever had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Dor speak on financials be a really great year to hear him, but it's going to be interesting uh to hear about that and I'll definitely report back. Uh, I don't think I think it'll be right after our June meeting, but I will report back from that and let you guys know what I hear. So, thank you Mr. Wall and Mr. Trout. Anyone else say anything further on the financials? Let's vote. Also, thank you, Mr. Moffin, for answering my question from last meeting in the email. I did share that with us to the board, but thank you for bringing it up for everyone else to hear. Motion passes 70. Moving on to G2, property and casualty insurance. Mr. Mclofflin. Thank you, Mr. Allen.
077Uh, one of the first things that I was tasked with when I moved into this role, Mr. Trout approached me and said that we needed to do an RFP process for our property and casualty insurance, I believe, at the request of the school board. And so, we have been working on that process. And what I have before you this evening is uh an engagement letter for insurance consulting services to help us through that process. And you have that document uh in board docs as well. And there are seven uh eight steps that they recommend through this process. Um, and if approved tonight, I have uh the assurance of uh the company that they will be able to get this done uh working backward from our renewal date of December 1st uh and meet all the
078deadlines for uh a competitive bid process. So, uh the first thing that they'll do is establish the specs for the bid so that everyone is bidding apples to apples. Uh the second portion of that then is the bid process itself and what that will entail. Um the third part of that is uh assigning the markets to the biders. Uh fourth will be the agent of record letters that they will provide to those companies that are requesting to bid so that when they reach out to vendors of property and casualty insurance uh they have the right to do that on our behalf. The fifth step is to answer any questions from biders after the specs and the uh agent of record letters go out. They will then put all of their recommendations uh or all of
079the bids in a spreadsheet with their recommendation based on what we are seeking for our property and casualty insurance. Uh they will double check uh with the successful bidder that all of the uh outlined items are actually in uh the final document and uh do that not only virtually but with the hard copy that is submitted so that we are getting the coverages outlined in the bid specs. So with your uh approval, we will move forward with that agreement with uh insurance audit out of Indianapolis. Uh they have done work for the district before and they have also done work uh for Huntington County for similar uh purposes for different entities here in the county. Uh and I would recommend that we approve to move forward. Thank you, Mr. Mclofflin. I'll entertain a motion reference
080this item. Make a motion that we approve the consulting agreement uh for the RFP. Thank you, Mr. Wall. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Mrs. Heim. Any questions or discussion? I do have one question. This sounds like quite a process. How long does it take to get them through their deal? So, they didn't give me specifics, but they they did say working from that December 1st uh renewal date of our current uh property and casualty insurance that we would be able to work back from that and start that process. So, so we'll be ready by then. We will certainly be ready by then. Yeah. Will they also be brokering that out to different entities? I'm assuming we'll want Metler to apply, but I also know that there's the insurance property and casualty insurance trust
081out there as well. Will we be trying to solicit bids from them or how will that work? Yeah, so uh there have been a handful of vendors that have either reached out to myself or Mr. Trout uh over the past few months and I think the other benefit of working with a group like uh the insurance audit group um they have those avenues where they can get those things out and notice to other companies to bid. Thank you very much for taking on this herculeanette task. So absolutely thank you Mr. Wall says to me and Mr. Mclofflin thank you Mr. Mclofflin for being politically correct here. Thank you. Um any further discussion? Let's vote on this motion. I do want to take this opportunity while All of you are voting to say thank you to
082Mr. Mclofflin. As you can see, he uh since his start with us in January, he's doing incredible work and I'm asking a lot of him and he's doing it quite well with a with a willing and gracious heart, I might add. And so, but Pat, thank you in all seriousness. You're doing an incredible job. Thank you. Motion passes 70. Moving on to policies H1 policy updates volume 36 number one. Okay. This is for this evening. This is the second reading. I am uh asking for your approval of all the policy updates volume 36 number one. And as you can tell, there are quite a few there that we have been through over the last couple of months. So, I'm seeking your approval. Thank you, Mr. Trout. I'll entertain a motion uh reference this request. Motion
083to approve policies policy updates volume 36 number one is presented. Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. Anybody want to second? Thank you, M. Mrs. Miller. Any questions or discussion before we vote? This is our second reading, so hopefully you all had a chance to look at it. I'm just asking when are you going to get all the ones from the last legislative update start to roll in. Um when you Well, when um Sorry, Cindy. No, I was I was going to jump in. This is a great time. I was going to say this after the next one. Um as of the next two agenda items, we are completely caught up. Um, now we have another um group that just came in that's quite lengthy, but um we are up to we are up to where we should
084be at this point in time. And I must give credit where credit is truly due with this um without the help of Mrs. Gray. Um we wouldn't be sitting here where we're at today. She's been incredible through this entire process. So, and I appreciate all of you. you have been doing a lot of reading on a lot of board policies over the past year and I'm grateful for all of you and how you've taken it seriously. Um the work with our attorneys has been incredible uh through all of this also. So I just want to tell everybody thank you for your efforts. Thank you Mr. Trout, Mr. Wall. Anything further from anyone? Let's vote on this motion. Motion passes on six in favor. One one no. Moving on to item H2, policy updates. Volume 36
085number two and volume 37 number one. First reading. Yes. Um these are first readings um over the next month uh prior to the second reading. If you have any questions or comments um about any of these, please do not hesitate to let me know. I'd be more than happy to sit down and talk with you about any of these or make any adjustments as necessary as our legal counsel would advise us to do. And so I'm just uh this is just the first reading tonight. Mr. Allen. Thank you, Mr. Trout. Any questions for Mr. Trout? This is the first reading. You'll have a chance to have a look at it and bill it'll come up for a vote next time. Hearing nothing, we'll move on to item I at items of discussion by board members.
086Um I'll go ahead and start um the last uh I guess four or five days. Uh the year- end breakfast was fantastic. Um thank you Mr. Trout and congratulations to those that were honored. Um We just have an amazing group of educators in this county that work for this this school corporation and I'm just honored and proud uh to be able to serve on the board that uh supports that. So, um and then the graduation is honestly the best thing we get to do. Um standing there and handing people diplom diplomas um they are not confident when they get to the bottom of that ramp. And uh when they look up at you and they are pretty sure they're not going to make it up that ramp when their name's called and you look at
087them and and it always makes me smile because I see the look on their face. It just it's it's entertaining. I'm sorry. Um and when they see me see me smile, they just rush up there and smile and get that stuff going. It is just the best job we could ever have. Um yeah, thank you guys. And Mr. D, Dr. DS did an amazing job getting that thing going. It was smooth and and congratulations to all the graduates. I would just reiterate the same thing. I've had that conversation. I know I had a conversation with this group about that as well. Um that is the best job as a school board member you do is to be able to handle those diplomas. Um and you're correct. The the look on some of those kids faces
088as they're coming up those it is priceless. Uh, and I may be the only one that could see it at my group, but it's a wonderful time and uh, it's great and I did not mind sharing the stage with some of the other people that came up and handed out diplomas um, because I think those kids really enjoyed that as well. I was really happy for Angela to be able to come up and do that. Um, and it's great. So, kudos to the team. Mr. Trout, uh, Mr. Allen board, I'd like to take a moment and just interject here. I see a uh newest employee uh in the crowd tonight. He's been very patient with us and I want to welcome uh Mel Talbot uh to our Huntington North team in Teched. I see your
089wife is here with you and I just want to acknowledge you here. I saw you here. Uh Tiffany Drummond pointed that out and I just want to make sure. Welcome to Huntington North and thank you for being here tonight. So So if you do you have anything you'd like to say to the board while you're here? You didn't know I was gonna do this to you either. I apologize now for what I just did. I guess I'd like to say when I first graduated from high school years came up. Well, we're thrilled to have you. I'm happy to be here and I work with a lot of equipment. Well, thank you. Yeah. Congratulations. Welcome. Anything else from the board? Then we'll move on to item J1. Motion to adjurnn from anyone. So moved. Thank you,
090Mr. Wall. And a second. Thank you, Mr. Time. Oh, Mrs. Miller, I'm sorry you you are you you fooled me.