001all right welcome to our lake central monday january 3rd meeting we are going to start with an organizational meeting we're going to do the pledge during our regular board meeting so please sit down and thank you so with that we will move into our organization of the board of school trustees for 2022. election of officers madam president madam president yes i'd like to make the nominations for elective officers of president vice president and secretary all at once i've contacted lisa tanzel down at isba this is an acceptable practice so it's a little bit out of the ordinary for the office of president i'd like to nominate cindy soos and vice president jennifer meddlin and secretary nicole kelly we have a nomination do we have a second i will second that motion we have a second
002by mrs kelly are there any other nominations hearing none will have to do individual roll call as uh dr malcow is joining us via live stream mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr madeline aye dr malcolm i'm sorry dr malcolm i'm sorry is it did you say my name i did okay um i am i need to split my so i would be in i don't know if you want me to vote nay for everybody i would support a secretary position president position i would not support the nominees for the vice president and i am a yay so with that all positions do pass so now we'll move on to b reaffirmation of school boards code of ethics has everybody had the opportunity to read through those code of ethics yes does anybody have any
003questions or discussion hearing none we will take a roll call vote that you agree to the school board code of ethics mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr medlin aye dr malcolm hi and i am and i also next we'll move on to our establishment of school board compensation is there any discussion on that move to approve thank you second thank you mr marshall ms kelly aye dr madeline aye dr mayo cow hi and i am and i also our appointment of school attorneys do i have to read that dr barack or just well who our attorney is this is cheryl zick and associates all right do we have any discussion on school board attorneys second we have a motion do we have a motion first motion tripper motion by ms kelly second by mr
004marshall mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr medlin aye dr malcolm hi and i am an eye also appointment of our treasurer move to approve that is the recommendation of dr veraco all right we have a motion to approve kathy ramba and do we have a second second second by dr medlin mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr madeline aye dr milko we'll move on to our liaison appointments so after a discussion everyone will stay in their current committees except for the dyer parks department that should state sherryville parks department shareable parks department has requested that mrs kelly be their liaison which i believe she does have support for that so with all of that with the exception of dyer that should say shareable do we have a motion move to accept the liaison positions
005all right we have a motion second second by mr marshall mr marshall aye ms kelly um excuse me cindy yes hello hello yeah i would like to add the dire parks back to the event we worked very hard to get that on this couple years ago i believe it was explained to me that the dyer parks department has to request a liaison unless i'm wrong he did that's why cindy cindy that's why they that's why the position was added because they didn't request that okay um madam president yes i respectfully would wish that we defer this till we get an official representation from dyer as to the request for a dire parks liaison not that dr malcow is not acceptable but we've seen nothing recently and it's kind of out of order at this point
006it can be deferred to a later date all right are you okay with that dr malcolm absolutely wonderful so with all of the liaison appointments with mrs kelly being with the shareable parks department do we have a motion motion to approve we have a motion by ms kelly second second by dr medlin mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr meddlin aye dr melco aye and i am and i also move on to our conflict of interest policy do we have a motion to adopt the conflict we have a motion by mr marshall second second by mrs kelly mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr medlin aye dr male cove aye and i am an eye also i move to adjourn the organizational meeting we have a motion second second by dr medlin mr marshall aye
007ms kelly aye dr madeline aye dr malcolm oops i and i am and i also so the meeting is officially adjourned which we will go right into our school board meeting so i'm calling our school board meeting to order monday january 3rd if you'll please join us in the pledge of allegiance thank you we will move right into our agenda approval deletions additions dr boraco thank you mrs suez we do have a couple of amendments to the agenda this evening first under roman numeral seven a i have added two in-person learning to begin second semester since we put out a correspondence to families today i want to provide some information to the board as well as uh anybody who's in the audience or listening at home some of the rationale for that decision also under
008roman numeral seven c dr bracey is not here this evening so her cogat update will be at our next scheduled meeting and then under 7 d both one and two mrs castaneda has some additions to those they should be at your workstations thank you do we have a motion motion to approve we have a motion by mrs kelly do we have a second second second by dr meddling any discussion larry will not excuse me well my copy of his protest i'm sorry say that again will my copies yes will the copies be at the front desk for copies yes that will be at the front desk for you so mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr medlin aye dr malcolm hi and i am and i also thank you so we'll move into correspondence do
009we have any correspondence this evening mr marshall uh i respectfully defer to the new uh uh secretary excuse me uh representative kelly thank you mrs kelly is there any correspondence nothing to report this evening thank you with that we'll move into our liaison committees mr marshall do you have anything to report this evening i do not miss kelly nothing this evening dr medlin nothing to report dr malcolm i have nothing to report on either legislative or education foundation and i have nothing to report for dollars for scholars or the st john redevelopment commission so we'll move on to our official school board business topics consent agenda dr baracko thank you again mrs seek board approval for the minutes from our meeting on december 13th and then also board approval for the claims payroll and extracurricular
010expenditures that you received in your packets last week both to approve we have a motion by mr marshall second second by mrs kelly any discussion hearing none mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr medlin aye dr malcolm and i am and i also thank you i don't believe we have any public comment on action items this evening so we'll move right into our official school board business topics regular agenda dr veraco thank you again i do want to review a couple of legislative items as we all know tomorrow begins the general assembly's work in the short session the short session is designed to not cover too many financial items it is expected to be over somewhere around the middle of march and i believe the at the organizational day meeting they confirmed that they do
011intend to be done by the middle of march having said that there are still several educational items um that have been tossed out there for consideration um and so i wanted to review a couple of those with you this evening and i wanted to begin by talking about something i mentioned at our last meeting and that was the civil liability exemption that came through in ic 3430-32-7 last year that indicated if we followed those rules we could be not be subjected to civil penalty if somebody gets really sick or dies from covid in our schools and so i wanted to put that in the packet so that the board would have it in case you get questioned on that um that was effective last february 18th and so they put it into effect as a
012as i said i think at the last meeting to motivate those folks who were doing still virtual to get them back into in-person instruction because there's a it's not just lake central administration that highly values in-person instruction it's also the indiana general assembly i wanted to mention briefly also senate bill 22 which would increase the amount of the state tax deduction from 100 to 500 dollars for education educators who purchase supplies it'd be interesting to see the details on this because some folks who previously don't contribute at certain levels might have the opportunity if they're educators to help our education foundation out so i will not go into details because i don't have them but i will follow this bill closely because it could benefit our organization that supports staff doing student activities in their
013classrooms hb 10 1001 is got a low number so you know it's going to get a lot of emphasis this is the bill that's going to come out of the gate tomorrow and probably up be on a fast track to try to end the public health emergency without jeopardizing federal funds coming to the state of indiana so without getting into details on that we will follow that very closely and then finally something that came across the wire today is senate bill 167 and this is a pretty big catch-all bill i'm going to call it the curriculum and lesson plan transparency bill because there are a lot of pieces in here about asking public schools to put together committees for all sorts of things regarding individual teacher lessons to make sure that they are appropriate or
014acceptable to the local community and then also require posting of a lot of these materials online it appears to be rather cumbersome as i've told the board earlier tonight in our work session to put together committees of all these people i don't know where the time comes from or where you get all the people to do so as i've said many times in the past sometimes it's hard to draw information from your children when they come home from school they don't want to talk about what went on in their classroom but if you're persistent enough you can usually get them to talk about the things they like and the things they didn't like and if our parents make a concerted effort across the state to do that not just at lake central i think it
015would uncover anything that somebody would find offensive or troubling or questioning and at least all the administrators i know will be quick to investigate if somebody says hey i think they're talking about some stuff in the class that doesn't have anything to do with the curriculum so i just want it to be on everybody's radar that's senate bill 167 could be really problematic for us because i don't think there's enough time in a day to accomplish what it looks like they want done and so i just wanted to make sure the board knows that through our leadership organizations of the superintendents and the school boards association and principals association and maybe even rob's business officials are this sort of out of their lane we're going to express our concern with the time required to to
016meet all these things that they have listed of course it's just the first draft so it will change a lot but i have to tell you at first glance it looks problematic so i wanted to talk about that any questions about legislation i mean it hasn't started yet so it's but we will have them and i will continue to bring stuff to you because i think it's important because it impacts the way we do business and as i've said many times we're all struggling to get through the regular school day given the circumstances we're dealing with and springing a whole lot of changes on top of that you know the timing isn't great not that we don't want to get better we always want to continue to move the organization forward but we want to
017be reasonable about it too my second item is just to before you move on uh either dr malcol or yourself in the recent reorganization of legislators did northwest indiana lose any representation in the uh gerrymandering or whatever you want well the election is this the election is going to be this fall so we won't know until i mean the territories changed but we won't know how that plays out until november i appreciate that but propose legislation you know during the election and everything like that are we going to lose any representation if it goes through it has to be voted upon when you say lose representation i'm not sure i know what you mean we all are going to continue to have somebody in the house and somebody in the senate um are could our
018district be uh carved up to where it's not just mr slager maybe i haven't studied those maps okay okay i'll back off on that and and pursue that later all right thank you so you know as we went through the holiday break and we continued to watch the data and we have seen that cases have gone up but having said that as we as an administrative team continue to view the indiana department of health webinars last week's version they called a special one after the cdc made their adjustments to quarantine and isolation periods they didn't bring up the idea of public k-12 schools in indiana needing to transition to e-learning that did not come up in their entire presentation as i've said many times to constituents via email and on phone calls our on ongoing
019focus has been hospitalization because we don't want to see you know hospitals have to choose who to provide care to but when hospitalization or hospital capacity becomes a crisis is really up to the board of health to determine and share with us and then the other piece that we're going to study every day is our staffing levels which we have been providing the board with a list of those case counts that we get from our schools each and every day and so while you know we report to you when they're covet related we are also following flu and other things too because if we don't have staff we don't have staff and fortunately those cases have been good for us up to this point it's important to know that heading into tomorrow it looks like
020we have six or seven staff members who won't be able to be in attendance some of them will be coming back on wednesday some not until later and we can have some new cases as we sit here this evening we we won't know until tomorrow but the current reported cases do not demonstrate significant absences i think that's an important piece for us we can staff our buildings because if you go back to november of 2020 our problem was we couldn't and that's why we went to e-learning for a short period of time so our departments of health do monitor the data they talk about the capacity of hospitals we see reports from them some experts are indicating they think this new variant could be milder which wouldn't you know mean fewer people who actually test
021positive have to be hospitalized or need oxygen or serious care on the other hand many experts and many parents who have mailed emailed me yesterday especially and today have indicated they think it's only a matter of time before the cases create staffing issues for us and hospital crises in terms of available icu beds and other places to care for seriously ill people and that could be true too uh we also have experts on the national level sharing that you know it may not get as bad in this wave given the vaccine availability um and what what you hear from so many of the people is there's a cost to having students stay home too um in terms of anxiety and stress and psychological impacts and we we know from our own experience that many students
022aren't nearly as well engaged while at home and that creates a problem with the amount of content that they master we've said from the beginning our objective is to try to make it as as normal as possible it's not normal and we acknowledge that and we respect people who don't agree with the decision but we're just trying to help people understand you know sort of where we are and as with other decisions that we've made um related to the pandemic thus far we're forced to make far than you know they're not perfect choices um out of really pretty imperfect options and so we ask for people to to trust that it's not for lack of paying attention or listening or talking to state experts to which we come up with something but we know that
023it's not going to please all parties at all times so we're going to continue to pay close attention to local and regional data we will con you know we're willing to transition to e-learning if it's necessary but we're really doing our best and we are really committed to try to limit the amount of time that we spend in a virtual environment we want to spend as many days as we possibly can with in-person instruction and so with that i'd open it up to anything that the board wants to say you've already seen my statement earlier which included some of what i just said but i wanted to share a little bit more for anybody who hadn't seen the statement or wants to know where we're coming from is there any discussion or questions from the
024board hearing none thank you so we'll move on to our director of human personnel resources mrs mucha thank you very much we are recommending that the following personnel be approved we have a motion by mrs kelly second second by mr marshall any discussion from the board hearing none mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr meddlin aye dr malcolm thank you very much we're fortunate tonight here to have some reports from our middle school athletic and representing our middle school is lisa from grimmer and she's going to give us the details for all three of the schools because she's just that lucky good evening i'm lisa from grimmer i'm representing all three of us clark keller and grimmer tonight uh this is the three of us up here clark we'll start with them football those are
025your numbers that we had they had for football and volleyball and cross country i don't think they had much change on their coaching staff it was pretty much the same people cross country the boys conference record was four and two the girls got conference champs for six and the o football they had conference champs with bremer four-and-oh and then volleyball they were six and oh for the seventh grade and four and two for the eighth grade their finances for the fall and then pictures of their fall athletes grimmer those are my numbers this year um i had an 8th grade volleyball coach i had to hire for this year because i forgot what happened to her huh oh our eighth grade coach became a dean that's what happened to her okay sorry about that just
026a lapse our recognition seventh grade volleyball was five and one so it's eighth grade volleyball for conference um boys and girls track were about pretty middle to the road three and three and two and four oh we had macy thompson who broke our school record twice this season once in conference of me and she also had the fourth in all conference my income for the fall and expenses to some upcoming purchases uh we're going to be looking we purchased new volleyball uniforms that was that time to do for this year and then i'm going to be looking at getting boys and girls basketball uniforms updated for next year and i only have my two pictures because i didn't get my cross-country ones yet all right this is kayla's their coaching staff and again there's very
027rarely changes in their numbers over to the right for their teams conference boys five and two it looks like for the season five and one conference girls was four and two in the conference football six and one and if you can read that that's their income and expenses for the year or for the fall i'm sorry and then their team pictures are cross country volleyball and football i'm assuming there we go questions about fall all right i get to do one more hang on all right this one's going to be about our winner basically wrestling and boys basketball same side there are numbers this year for clark and i think jake felton is a newer boys basketball coach for my maybe last year to two years for them uh their highlights conference they were five
028and one for seventh grade boy 8th grade boys is 3-3 and they didn't do so well with wrestling they went to athletic income and fees expenses pictures oh yeah we got cheerleading on with the winter gut winter ones too uh mine went for athletics we pretty much you made the team so my numbers are that's who tried out and they made the team and we did up the numbers this year with boys wrestling that was nice i did have to get a couple new uh coaches this year one for seventh grade was jeff mysek my new one and then some of my old students jack bozell jared lopez and cameron philadel they were my eighth grade coaches recognitions uh conference record for seventh grade was not so well with my small numbers one and five
029eighth grade is four and two they did we had a conference tournament right before christmas break and those eighth graders played so hard they had few numbers that day and they went to the semifinals and lost by like a couple points they fought pretty hard and then just the expenses for the income and the expenses for during wrestling and pictures well i don't think did i label them no i didn't all right this would be kaler's their coaches and their numbers and the conference let's see eighth graders three and three their seventh grade yeah they got first in the conference tournament that's what i was thinking they did and they were five-one-one in the conference wrestling looks like they're 6-0 for the conference in first in conference it looks like and then their income and
030expenses throughout the wrestling and boys basketball and pictures and i do know i talked with their coach their seventh grade coaches their first year that won the conference tournament he was pretty pretty excited about that and then they're wrestling and cheerleaders all right that was winner any questions i've got one sure could you back up the clark boys pictures oh did i go too fast of the team pictures sure the boys basketball no that's oh there it is down there the wrestling wrestling the one boy in the back row i didn't realize it was wrestling is he tall compared to the guys in the back row yes um well he's probably i'm just looking at the guys in the back row of the basketball yeah he's probably about average height for whatever grade level he
031is because the other guys are pretty tall you can tell by the hoop and they're all sitting at that free throw line and the back row the other two they're they're hitting that hoop where he's not quite hitting the hoop it just it just struck my eye thank you okay you're welcome thank you did a great job for all three schools appreciate it and now we have the high school um chris enyard he is um it's not on the screen so you can sit up there thank you good evening edustation you have a packet dr malcolm they have a packet for you that will be at the front desk for you on the first page you have our total numbers in the fall girls we had 125 boys 236 for a total of 361 fall
032athletes of those 361 140 of those were considered scholar athletes which means they had a 366 gpa or higher for all 38.8 percent so while we while their expectations as far as practice and time commitment is there obviously there this is this went up almost a percent from last year so their their excellence in the in the classroom as after all their students first and athletes second is still maintained at a high level on the next page you have our doonlan athletic conference standings for the air girls finished cross country finished fourth golf second soccer was fourth and volleyball tied for fourth on the boys side cross country was fourth football was seventh soccer boys soccer was a three-way tie for first place and tennis was third place in the conference our post-season results girls
033cross country were sectional and regional champions and advanced to the semi-state girls golf were second sectional and qualified for the regional girls soccer lost in the sectional semifinals and girls volleyball also lost in the sectional semifinals boys cross country were sectional champions and advanced to the semi-states football lost in sectionals our boys soccer lost in the sectional championship and our boys tennis locks lost in the sectional semifinals as a team but in tennis when you loses a team if you're the number one individual or number one pairs team doubles team you can advance as an individual after your sectional end so david spriggs was our number one individual he won ended up winning the sectional and then lost in the regional at laporte i mean he he goes down his the career wins record as
034a as a singles player here at lake central and he had a great career on the next page is our get as our income in my seven years at lake central this is the highest fall total as as far as total income especially in gay receipts so our gay receipts were at one hundred and one thousand dollars five hundred or one hundred one thousand five hundred and eighty seven dollars football made up 69 537 of that soccer was at 19 390 and volleyball was at 12 660. advertisement again with kovid we we we pause our advertisement we have one sponsor and patilla and crane who still wants or continues with that we plan on amping this up next year our advertisement is usually between 30 and 40 thousand dollars a year but for the last
035two years we've posited with kovitt and the stress on the on the economy in our area our fault team fundraisers and fees were at eighty six thousand four hundred ninety one dollars and thirty six cents concessions was at twelve thousand four hundred sixty five dollars and we canceled the golf outing again this year in the one year that we did how was it how we raised twenty three thousand dollars and covered half of that sixty dollar uh pay to play fee that we charge here at lake central for a total income in the fall of eighty three dollars 224 thirty six cents our fall expenses game workers and officials was thirty four thousand three hundred ninety three dollars and sixty four cents field equipment and facility maintenance it was 62 682.40 the majority of those
036purchases again last year i think in the fall we had an income of shy of ninety thousand dollars and uh expect we obviously when our expenses or our income falls so to our expenses so this year we had a lot of makeup to do in a lot of the programs to catch up with the equipment and needs of the program so equipment and team gear and fees was at fifty one thousand three hundred and six dollars and sixty seven cents training room and weight room costs were eleven thousand nine hundred and seventy cents uh the corporation transportation fee of thirty dollars is now paid on skyward so it goes directly to the corporation concessions expenses i actually outdid our income at twelve thousand nine hundred forty dollars and sixty two cents um and then miscellaneous
037this is our hospitality room flowers office needs certificates awards plaques and all everything encompasses that was at seventeen thousand eight hundred twenty eight dollars and fourteen cents for a total expenses this fall of one hundred ninety one thousand fifty two dollars and seventeen cents so we always try to whatever we bring in we try to put back right into the program that is our fall seasons in a nutshell are there any questions um yeah we lost you janice can you hear me yes yes okay well mr and you what is almost clean for elderly people getting in games can you understand me first of all okay i think i got you so yeah do do they have an option besides that link in other words can they pay cash electronically so so elderly in the
038community if their senior citizen can get if they live in the school district they can come into athletic office they can get a senior citizen pass for two dollars one-time fee face for the cost of the car and that gets them in every home contest outside of tournaments for the duration of however long they want to come oh really yeah so the the only caveat is that they have to live within the district lines correct right and then and then other elderly people that may be coming in to see their granddaughter their grandson uh what are policies for them we are so our gates are cashless along with crown point chesterton and laporte have all went cashless um so we take credit card card at the gate you can pass we purchase it in advance
039for big events like when we hosted the girls game against crown point when we know we're going to pick up a lot of a lot of fans and a lot of people outside of the district that might not or our opponent that may not have that information we have a cash box there available at select events as well okay all right and then one other question what is the policy for leaving during the middle of a game students no but adults yes correct depends on the event so we have football we don't allow any pass outs during the game coming or going without escort by our by our security the other events were a little more uh lacks in it but we encourage you you keep your body ticket to watch a game um that's
040what you're there to do unless you're just running out to your car to grab something there's really no reason to leave once you've entered the event if you're there to watch it well yeah i think these were parents that had to run home help another another uh son or daughter at home um and they were not allowed to enter back into their own game so i just had a question of that i don't think that's ever been the case okay of not allowing somebody back into an event even if they did leave if it's an adult right okay thank you chris chris i just want to make an observation in general during the girls season there was one of the most competitive games i've been fortunate enough to be at that's where our girls played
041crown point at this point crown point was the number one team in the state our jv game went to overtime we won that game in overtime the varsity game went to overtime unfortunately we lost by three points but it was quality basketball and i encourage anyone or everyone to come out and support lake central athletics yeah our girls basketball team is currently raped number 10 in the state correct they're having a very nice year and that game came down to make a free throw but it was a very competitive game and a fun environment to be a part of unfortunately they only made 3 out of 15 free throws at the end which does not win games for you but in defense of them they're young a lot of freshmen and sophomores so the future's
042before us thank you thank you and and and chris they did well at the um holiday tournament also didn't they over towards manchester united yeah they they went to portage and won that tournament in that tournament right and adding on to what mr marshall said if you weren't attending this at the anchorage boys basketball game that was just a spirit-filled gym uh fortunately lake central have had a very easy victory but it was very nice to see all the young kids and attendants and the adults so we're coming back it looks like thank you thank you all right we'll move on to our direct director of secondary education mrs castaneda thank you and the revised copies of the board packet that you received this evening for my first item i am seeking your approval for
043the professional leave request motion to approve we have a motion by mrs kelly second second by dr meddling any discussion hearing none mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr madeline aye dr malcolm um i do not have the changes that i will obtain all right and i am an eye also so motion passes thank you and for my second item i'm seeing your approval for the revised field trip request that you received this evening move to approve the field trip request we have a motion by dr medlin second second by mrs kelly any discussion hearing none mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr medlin aye dr malcolm i could not understand why there changes they documented this request uh it was a field trip request but is it it is is it a change from
044what was yes oh it was a revision as well so yeah you won't have that in front of you okay all right and i am an eye so the motion passes thank you move on to our director of student services mrs gramala thank you my first item tonight is to just review the information that was in your board packet regarding our annual student count for our students with disabilities you will see i'm not going to go through it page by page but you'll see we had a large increase in what we call our apc funding so those are the additional dollars we receive for students with disabilities overall we only had an increase of 11 students however we did have a per student funding increase in three of the four areas um so we have
045four different groups that we receive they break our students up into so that's great news and thanks to our state legislature for understanding that the dollars we receive don't even come close to what we're spending on students so we appreciate that increase this is our largest overall number of students since 2013 so that was sort of the first year i started tracking this so our total student population of students with disabilities is the highest it's been since then so then the second part of that is just looking at every year the department of ed sort of reviews our special education programming um and looks at two different things for us so our compliance and reporting so that's are we following the rules and are we reporting data how we're supposed to and when we're supposed
046to and then they also look at our outcomes for students so our overall rating was meets requirements which it has been the past several years we did drop from a level one to a level two and there were a couple different reasons for that so with our compliance we every four years were monitored on our transition ieps and those are the ieps we write to help students plan for their time after high school and we had an issue with compliance on those meaning as the department of ed they pull 10 of our ieps and review them they had issues with the goals we were writing for students so we dropped on our rating for that because of that we've already retrained our teachers we did some preemptive training knowing we were going to be monitored
047and then those teachers who whose ieps were pulled have been retrained and we've corrected those ieps so we've addressed that issue we also are being told we had an issue with reporting i've talked with teresa scherzinger about that she doesn't agree that there was an issue with reporting and unfortunately with the turnover at the department of ed i've asked the question four or five times now and i haven't gotten an answer so i'm asking for clarification on what they're saying the issue is and i've not gotten a response so that's a little problematic and i'm seeing that i work with several different grants and different student populations and there seem to be a lot of holes at the department of ed right now so it's very difficult to get responses you know the second part
048of that as far as our results so they look at our outcomes for students with disabilities i don't think it was any surprise to anyone that students with disabilities did not fare well with all the upheaval we've had during the last two school years so we had many of the same problems with our students with disabilities that we've seen with our general ed population i learned scores dropped our iread 3 proficiency is still high but it decreased from what it had in the past and then another large impact we had were our eye sprout eye sprout results which is our assessment we use for our students in preschool we had a large number of preschool students choose e-learning we were told by the department of ed we still had to assess those students so knowing
049what anybody knows about preschool not attending is not going to be as effective as attending so we did see less progress in those students also so definitely some things for us to work on overall we're still like i said in that meets requirements area but we are certainly feeling the effects of two school years of uncertainty and kids in and out of school so that is that information any questions about that okay and so for some happier news we have two schools who have earned the special olympics unified champions banner and those are 43 elementary schools in indiana are in that banner and we have two of them here within lake central we did hit a little bit of a pause on our special olympics activities at the elementary level due to covid so the
050banners were actually earned through the 19 through 21 school year so they instead of an annual banner they kind of combined some years but to earn the banners our schools had to raise money for special olympics so it was a minimum of 250 our schools raised more than that and also participate in inclusive activities throughout the school year so back in the good old days pre-covered we were able to hold our unified game day we haven't been able to do that since however our schools have done individual school activities we just haven't been able to do it on a district scale so this is just one of the many ways that lake central sort of shows how we value the diversity in our student population and also how we continue to strive to be more
051inclusive for all students so i am very happy to introduce from craftsman we'll start with you guys we have janet j.o devin moore and cassie kaufman those are three of our teachers from [Applause] so they organized the activities they did the fundraising and got the students involved and i think this is soon i do i want to take that picture that's granola yes all right i can only see part of the sign oh no you guys just back up just a little bit two steps back there we go perfect let's move your smile thank you [Applause] and congratulations from home [Applause] and can you just hold up here and just there we go perfect thank you ladies congratulations thank you so with that we'll move on to our director of business services mr james thank
052you good evening good evening um the first time was just to give the board an update on our 2021 tax collections um all governmental units in the county received their tax money on december 22nd this year and we had a collection rate of 98.95 percent of the taxes that were levy that is um so in essence 99 so we want to thank our taxpayers uh for paying their taxes and all the homeowners not only us but all the cities and towns and the libraries are dependent on that money in order to operate so that collection rate is right on par with where we have been for ever since i've been here we have a good collection right here in the district so um any questions on that okay and then my next item is just
053to seek your approval for the donations that were in your board packet motion to approve we have a motion by mrs kelly second by dr medlin any discussion hearing none mr marshall aye ms kelly aye dr meddling aye dr malco hi and i am an ielts motion passes thank you very much thank you we'll move on to our public comments we only have one this evening and i just want to remind that person that we we give you three minutes to speak and with that we will have daniel peterson if you could please state your name and address when you get to the microphone please my name is daniel peterson my address is sherwood lake drive in cherryville indiana thank you um reason i'm coming for you tonight i am the commander of the st
054john memorial vfw post 717 i'm also the junior vice commander for district one of the department of indiana veterans of foreign wars here with my comrade timothy howard veteran of the beirut conflict he is a past commander of the vfw here in town he is also passed depart past district commander of district 1 and here in lake county reason i'm here to express gratitude to the biblical student council and the interact club of the lake central high school these students unsolicited by us presented happy veterans day merry christmas and happy holiday cards to the saint john memorial vfw post 717 we distributed these cars to veterans in our communities that cannot leave their homes haven't been able to for some of these individuals have been homebound for many years uh the leftover ones we took
055down to the indiana home for veterans down there by lafayette these cards brought cheer tears expression of gratitude to everyone that received them uh if i can take the liberty of expounding a wee bit on the significance of what these students did and their exemplary exemplify patriotism a lot of these uh veterans that received them are veterans of the war in vietnam they were not welcomed home they did not receive many think expressions of gratitude and they all expressed that finally they get it and it was greatly appreciated so on the behalf of st john memorial post 717 district one department of indiana and the indiana veterans home i'd like to thank your students for this and i hope the school board can help us and continue to recognize the exemplary patriotism these students demonstrated
056thank you [Applause] speechless wow mrs cause i can i add something yes um i don't think that she will find another school corporation as patriotic as lake central throughout all the schools there's a great support for our veterans and then dr bradford that leaves me with your question is the lobby in the high school with the uh the veteran packs i believe she was asking if the veterans wall and the high school has the plaques have made it onto that wall that mr begley previously had started i'll have to look into that i'm not sure thank you all right with that we'll move on to our board comments and considerations of future agenda items we'll start with mr marshall i have no particular comments i'd like to personally thank the gentleman that stopped this evening
057from the vfw i personally had two brothers serve in the vietnam conflict i myself am not a veteran but i respect to the thousandth degree what they do for us thank you gentlemen for coming thank you mrs kelly i'd just like to welcome back our students and staff and best wishes for a successful second semester great thank you dr madeline i i just want to say i know this is a very difficult time for students and for teachers and for administration and we're dealing with you know it's ongoing difficult covid um i don't know it's it's it's been difficult and i just appreciate everything everyone's doing to work together as a team thank you dr malcolm yes um just wish to everybody faculty students staff parents administration bus drivers everybody for a great home twenty
058through thank you and i also just was going to wish everyone a welcome back and uh wish them a successful second semester and a great start to the third quarter and with that we'll move on to our board calendar future activities dr veraco yeah thank you our next meeting is not two weeks from tonight it is on the 18th tuesday the 18th here at 7pm and as i mentioned earlier we'll continue to keep the community and the board posted on how we're doing with our cases and our other data we collect from our regional health people thank you thank you with that do we have a motion for adjournment motion to adjourn a motion for adjournment second second second by dr medlin uh with all in favor