001thank you call the meetings we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and achieve the Republic for which his fans one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all welcome everybody to the school board meeting this evening just as a reminder we are live streaming the event so the green light is on we are live so thanks for joining us live streaming as well so we'll start with consent agenda items on entertain a motion to accept those consent agenda items have Emotion by girl do I have a second and a second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor next we'll go down to community non-agenda items we'd like to ask if there's anyone present who would like to speak to any
002item that is on the agenda or not on the agenda okay hearing none will go down to new business programs so we have curriculum materials list yes I am asking for approval for the curriculum materials list this used to be the textbook rental um cost list but we are not charging for textbooks anymore the only reason we would use any of these fees is if there was a lost or damaged book so we're just asking for approval for the curriculum again okay do I have a lotion for that list have a motion by Travis do I have a second by Pat any discussion all those in favor next the stem integration Grant yes asking for approval where you receive the stem 2023-24 Sim integration Grant um for a little over sixty nine thousand dollars this
003will help us purchase curriculum refills and supplies for all schools as well as continue PD especially for to help us in our stem certification process at all thing if I have a motion to accept that integration Grant appreciate that discussion pad a motion by pad do I have a second second I won't go on second my Cheryl Pat any discussion okay bye Maryland any discussion any additional Edition does anyone else want to thank Carrie for the hard work on that hearing no additional discussion um we'll have a vote all those in favor 7-0 next we'll go down to professional staff recommendations Lisa I have the following recommendations that I'd like to make please for employment and that would be to hire Stacy Campbell as the Northburn Elementary sped teacher Adam capes as a Jennings County
004High School sped teacher and also and we're asking that Adam be hired as the JC Jennings County Middle School head football coach Carissa Copley as the Jennings County School of speech language pathologist Casey Downey as a transfer to be allowed from North Vernon Elementary to Sand Creek Elementary as a teacher Stevie filmings to transfer from North Vernon as a Norfolk Elementary says sped teacher to the high school as a family and consumer science teacher Andrew crewman as a Jennings remediation instructor and he understands that this is a one-year contract on Borowski for a transfer for Cody Robbins from Brush Creek to Hayton Elementary and lastly we're asking the Tiffany Thurston be hired and allowed to be transferred from Hayden to become the new Janice County Schools English language High ability elementary teacher I have a
005motion to accept those recommendations as read motion by Travis do I have a second a second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor 7-0 and if you don't mind me interjecting we have several of those individuals with us yeah I kind of warned them but the school board loves to be able to hold on so if you if you don't mind Tiffany would you they know your other half a week [Music] that Chris of course is those [Music] elementary instructor okay your job is all the way around Tiffany we have a new SMS [Music] previously not just kidding and talking about now is joining the team and we are so excited so if you'll start right over here and then lastly So Adam can't even begins with the high school and um [Music] I'll
006let you do that questions [Laughter] um and you definitely have to introduce your better this is Abby she teaches now thank you all for coming we foreign very nice again yes congratulations to all of you welcome to the team if there's ever anything that we can do to um help as you during your onboarding process please reject ings take good care of you all that but we appreciate you joining next we'll go down under support staff and we have recommendations yes we're recommending to hire police Allison Baker as a Jennings County Middle School custodian um last meeting you had approved Brad Barber as the Jennings County Middle School head soccer coach and we are changing that title to Jenny's coming Middle School volunteer head soccer coach because he has chosen to return his stipend back
007to the we're asked asking that Levi Byrne be hired as a Jennings County High School strength and conditioning coach we're asking Stacy Hall be hired as a Jennings County Schools full-time floating bus driver harsh or asking if she could be hired as the middle school chair coach McKenna Hooten as a middle school impact parapro Emily Inman as a middle school cheer coach Autumn McKean as a parapro at Sand Creek under a 29 hour capacity she also serves as a bus driver for us um Brittany Likens Mortensen we're asking that she be hired as the Middle School assistant soccer coach Rebecca sahaki will um is being asked to serve as the Middle School attendance secretary Rebecca sahaki is also choosing to ask if she can volunteer as the assistant cross-country coach at the high school and
008lastly we're asking that Carmen Warren be hired as the Middle School assistant volleyball coach do I have a motion to accept those recommendations as read a motion by path do I have a second by Travis any discussion all those in favor 7A anybody hear from that group I wasn't on my game um next on the agenda is a pay scale change yes I'm asking to change the 23-24 pay scale for it where we have taken a position out because the coverage can still be handled and basically divvying that up so be a two dollar increase to the I have a motion to accept that um I have a motion by Maryland do I have a second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor next we'll go down under Finance hello have two donations I'm
009asking approval to accept Gilbert and Lucinda Smith in memory of Mindy Jester 500 James Kenny high school music department and German American Bank six thousand dollars to the genes County High School promotion to accept those donations Earl do I have a second second by path any discussion all those in favor I guess we'll go down under operations for for the transportation asking for approval of the transportation handbook we had some minimal changes redlined and yellow in there for you with for clarity and names and positions so asking for approval for that I have a motion to accept the transportation handbook have a motion by Cheryl do I have a second second by Pat any discussion all those in favor 7-0 next jchs girls basketball asking for approval of a charitable game fundraiser this would be
010a pilot program Christy sigler's put a lot of work into preparing a very organized presentation on what she'd like to do to innovatively raise funds for the girls basketball program she wants to have the muscata Duck Derby which is a rubber ducky race down the muscata tech River so asking for approval for the fundraiser she's here this evening if you have any questions about the packet she's happy that to help us out and answer so asking for approval okay do we have a motion to approve this fundraising event I have a motion by Travis do I have a second second iPad any discussion or questions you have to at least show your shirt I will show my shirt and I will show that so we're going to see just a few this is our official
011[Laughter] hopefully we can get 4 000 adoptions so that's our goal wow and it could be a really fun of it have you had any adoptions yet no we were waiting on this our ticket should be in tomorrow [Music] on the river so at all at all it's a long story you tested them I hope you went and found them we spent four hours on the river last Friday so the result of that is we're changing the launch point because it's too long too long Hopefully the rain house laughs very good so I have a motion and I have a second so hearing no other discussion all those in favor favor seven of next school safety update I just have an inform I've been bringing this once a month to keep you updated on improvements
012to school safety uh today I get to announce a really big culminating part of what we've been working on for a long time and I have to thank the true partnership that has developed in the county to support our kids and safety next year through the support of the city police and through support of the sheriff's department and the county we were able to have five full-time sros in our buildings in addition to that we'll have some floating hourly officer positions in and out as well so we will have coverage of our building with law enforcement and I just have to give kudos to the entire Jennings County team both from the law enforcement and the City and County Council side that made that happen and huge thank you to Philip Marsh for bringing that
013together and helping us work through budget and make that dream a reality so just a quick inform one to let you know that big step very exciting very exciting um next we go down to relations right across Sheltering agreement and biannually we have an agreement with the Red Cross for um if there's a declared emergency needs that they could access our building so asking for us to approve that agreement again okay do I have a motion for that agreement so I have a motion by Maryland do I have a second second by Earl any discussion all those in favor it's also under relations this is this is just an inform that we will be working to bring back for approval next time this agreement for sros with Sheriff's Department with the expanded staff which brings
014us down to other nothing for other except for we are excited to have our new staff on board we still have some open positions if anyone's interested in working for Jennings County Schools they can go on our website or contact Lisa we love group we're on board if we have nothing else to bring before the board I will entertain a motion to adjourn motion by Chelsea second by Mary Lynn what was in favor stabbing them [Music]