001for call the meeting order and we'll start with a pledge of allegiance iedge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all want to welcome everyone to the school board meeting this evening just remind everyone we are live streaming the event um and um we'll start by um entertaining a motion to accept accept consent agenda items I have a motion by Earl do I have a second second by Pat any discussion all those in favor 70 um next we'll move down to some recognition was F time of the meeting we would like to start this evening with some celebrations for some fall Sports and so we have high school students here that I'd like to recognize and
002um gentlemen when I call your name and I read your list of accomplishments do you mind standing up while I'm reading and then we'll want to get a picture and shake your hand when we're finished okay so first up Kaden would you stand up and I'd like to read some accomplishments for Kaden this year so Kaden young accomplished a remarkable amount in his three years of running at Cross Country at the high school starting with his sophomore year he was selected as an Indiana Allstar his senior year and competed in the midwest meet of Champions he's a hoer Hills champion and a three-time allconference selection kadon is the high school 5K record holder with a time of 1507 and he ran the fifth fastest time in the state of Indiana in 2024 he completed in
003the state finals twice and has been a sectional runner up he's won the ray girkin Invitational twice and the Duke Meer classic twice congrats to Kaden and his historic cross country and now I'd like to celebrate Parker Bales Parker pH stand up Parker Bales finished his junior tennis season with a 21 and3 record at number one singles with two of his losses coming at the hands of players voted to the All State second team Parker had a season full of highlights he was the first jchs boys tennis player to win an individual single section champion since 2000 he was also named all hoer conference all district and all state honorable mention through three seasons Parker has amassed a 61 and9 record for the Panthers congrats to Parker on a fantastic Junior [Applause] Tennessee congratulations and
004if you will go around and Shake everyone's hand to grab a picture conratulations and don't forget to grab some JC cookies we got to celebrate you they're in the hallway thank you to their families to making sure they could attend tonight we really appreciate take a cookie for now and a cookie for later did you hear that JoJo we got cookies not ice cream I think we have a presentation next and next up we have Alan Brenham and he's presenting something very special to our Orchestra Department would you like to come up Mr bham and describe what you have and show us and then we'll have a special presentation I have two kids that have done exceptionally well I that St right here so I know what you're doing because [Music] P so they went
005to college but every kid can't go to college or doesn't want to go to college and what you're doing for the other kids is really nice and I think Trump said the other night we need to get on board with this program so you're already on board so you're ahead of the game thank you this is why I'd like to present the Jenny County Schools there's a little history behind this particularly the top the top is sick of spruce and sick of spruce comes from Alaska and what the company does that harvests the spruce there are no trees cut it's all from down material they take these huge logs and they bind a bunch of them together and they build a house on them and move that house from place to place wherever they are
006harvesting the loggers live on that they replace that about once every five years the top on this guitar came out of one of those that have been in the water for about 50 years what happens under water is the barnacles grow holes in it and lay the RS but these are this is a special type of top they're pretty expensive today but not for me but anyway I'm going to leave that with you just in case something should ever happen to the top we've got this to go back so we got original material that go back in hopefully nothing like that ever happens we'll be really careful won't we Mr Billy yeah say pressure on I don't know if you notice or not but all the trim on this is red white and blue for
007J County and then the headstock has a JC logo on it so and the Allen guitar it's at the bottom okay all my guitars have that a on them somewhere oh I've played your instruments before then do you uh do you keep them at the uh we patch music in Brown County wow I have I've drilled on some of these before wow a biger walnut back and Sid biged Walnut neck trim and oh that is beautiful how long does something like that take to make pardon how long does something like that take to make I really that take keep myself do it six days wow wow and if I send it out to my finisher I'm looking at another eight weeks soaz I don't dedicate myself to six days anymore but the first one I
008ever built took me six days was in class so a lot of the setups were already made can we get a picture of you with Mr Billings and the guitar yeah um before we can I would love to get the picture but I'd love even more to hear it and some more pressure okay well can someone play a little something I can do that and just make sure you sit down because I don't see a St I'll take a chair to the side here wow that's um so we have not met before and this is kind of a surprise to me um this is fantastic um I have been working real close with Kenny Henry who runs our music store here in town um that has been a huge huge support to our program doing
009repairs and things and he is now actually teaching me how to do repairs and all the anything ter apartment violin from scratch putting it back together he's teaching me how to do a applying tools and stuff been a big help um I built my first electric guitar in high school in Jim Clarkson shop class A fewa blades doing it but you know 16 what do you want to do I build a guitar um so like maybe you know one of these days I will uh be able to you know do some craftsmanship like you've done here this this is I really appreciate this um that that fine line between you know an instrument needs to be played and and the kids need to experience good quality stuff but then also don't do that so yeah
010I'll uh I guess I'll Chris in this thing I I don't typically learn People's music and remember it maybe because my brain is too small for all of that uh but was T this morning I I do write my own music uh so we'll person with something in mind I guess [Music] okay person's on here we go [Music] beautiful beautiful thank you so much I want to thank you because he was going to hand that to me tonight and I'm just a rhythm guy I you know the case and the humida has been donated by Pat Sullivan my neighbor yeah because uh when when we finished it up and and uh he had a gig bang and said I don't think we better do that with the kids not with that one I I keep
011stuff cased or I've got special hangers in my office where it stays out of hands unless I I hand it over so's it'll be very tell you oh awesome awesome awesome gentlemen I couldn't ask for a better example of Jennings County and and taking care of our kids thank [Applause] you you're certainly welcome that does oh it's got a pick up too nice very nice soal or something we can yes I just keep sna I well if you ever know I'll get sorry to mess up your deadline Mr BR James got in the way on that deadline didn't he I took up a little bit of your time it's been so we're going to go ahead and move on um through the agenda so first we'll ask if anyone else is present who would like
012to speak on any item on the agenda or any other topic hearing none um we'll move down under old Business program yes this is just inform dist reminder to the community and parents that if they want any input on um science textbook adoption for K through six to contact me or their building principal and we will get them in their hands so they can give their input great do we have a deadline for that next few weeks yes okay perfect um so again we always want um our community members parents especially um to give input into textbook adoption so we are adopting a new science textbook um so if you're interested revie that information um please reach out to again building principles and or car here at the um central office um next will go
013down under property um Sand Creek roofing project yes I'm asking the board to approve the Sand Creek Roofing contract I'm recommending the second lowest bidder that was South Central Roofing at $338,000 due to the fact that the lowest bidder was not deemed responsible due to an incomplete bid package so we'll entertain a motion to approve um that a motion by mayor Lyn do I have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor 70 next we'll move down under new business yes uh Mr Roller and Mrs eving they are here to um present a proposal to allow for a PE waiver um for basic PE course 3 3 542 um given the due um diploma requirements for the incoming freshman class this will give uh greater flexibility for offerings um it's commonly
014used across the state at other High School um we'll ask for an approval of the first February board meeting yeah and with the uh with the new Indiana high school diploma it's all about flexibility and being able to personalize the students and what they need and a big push is opening up time in their Junior and senior years to be able to get out work BAS learning handson opportunities um this flexibility with PE has been available from the doe since 2009 um we have held off on it um a big change with this is that it went from two required credits for PE so a full year to one required credit um for this diploma so we have put together a PE waiver um as Carrie said many other high schools use it would be
015for any IH sa sanction sport that we participate in um marching band and Touch of Class our swing choir program um and all of that is listed there on the form they would need to start from the first practice and finish through the last contest um she'll complete a full season and have their coach sign off on that their coach or their sponsor sign off on that and that would result in a past fail situation so when I say that um they would receive credit but there would not be a great attach that would affect their GPA um so they would still that would check that box for them they would get the credit for that PE course and open up some room in their schedule for other opportunities so so this again is an
016inform item we will vote on it at the next meeting yes okay very good um so next we'll move down under professional staff we have one recommendation this is recommendation for uh Jason B JCS head football coach contract extended through 2627 school year okay a motion motion by Travis do I have a second second second by Pat any discussion all those in favor seven o next we'll move down under support staff again one recommendation another recommendation Trey McAdam JCS Volunteer football coach effective um January 24th 2025 this is for appertain a motion to approve motion by Earl I have a second second by Chelsea any discussion all those in favor next we move down under finances we have some donations yes I'm asking approval for the following donations Mark hes and realy $75 to Brush
017Creek for the donut perfect attendance the following are for the high school Don for the men's volleyball club expert iare $250 812 Driving Academy $250 Layman humel Insurance $100 and Jill Napier $100 next is Ray G wager $100 donating to the high school Panther pantry and Techo foundation for youth $200 donation to cpio Elementary for the registration for the robotics team entertain a motion to accept those donations as read so move have a motion by Pat do I have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor 7 next we'll move down under property we have a resolution yeah res resolution 25-1 is resolution to dispose of surplus items and it's in your packet the the list of details in your packet entertain a motion to approve that resolution resolution as presented
018motion by Travis I have second by Mary Lynn any discussion all those in favor 70 next move down to operations yes this this was an informed last meeting I'm asking for approval of the school bus routing software and that the company's name is transfinder oneyear contract entertain a motion to approve I have a motion by Chelsea do I have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor seven which brings us down the have two brief others one in your packet are pictures of the new furniture in the high school cafeteria that finishes out the project we've been working on and M rer I hear the students were really excited to see those upgrades when they came back this week yes it was very um exciting we we actually found a spot
019in the corner on Tuesday morning to watch the kids come in and they were shocked some ask if it was if it was staying or if we had just rented it and it's here it's yours you can sit in it it was very exciting to see them very a lot of Pride really modernizes the space makes it feel more like a college atmosphere different types of seating very nice and then uh last one just a thank you to you it's actually a school board appreciation month in January and I just want to publicly thank you for all you do you always keep kids first in all your decision making and you're very thoughtful about decisions and you have been such a key leadership part of all the significant improvements we're starting to see across the
020corporation I appreciate you and your thoughtful leadership so thank you hearing nothing else to come before the board we entertain a motion to adjourn motion by Chelsea do I have a second second by Pat all those in favor 70 making attorne what