001Welcome to our Monday August 15th school board meeting but before we say the Pledge of Allegiance yeah if we could go ahead and rise and um in memory of Allison Gerkin grade two teacher at pifer who passed away over this weekend I'd like for everyone to observe a moment of silence thank you I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States all right thank you for attending our Monday August 15th school board meeting and with that we will go to our agenda approval deletions editions Dr Baraka thank you Mr sues you do have a revised agenda before you there are some updates to the Personnel recommendation under Mrs mooch's Roman numeral 7b1 also some updates under 7D one and two under Mrs castaneda's section thank you motion to approve we have a motion by
002Miss Kelly second second by Dr Malco any discussion hearing none all in favor aye motion passes is there any correspondence this evening nothing to nothing to report on this evening thank you we'll move right into our liaison committee updates Mr Marshall thank you uh nothing to report on personal interview committee Mrs Kelly uh Redevelopment nothing right now but hopefully at our next meeting I might have a little nugget of information uh shareable parks department our Splash Pad opens yay um it was great enjoyed by all um sharville Park still has a lot of things going on the rest of the summer and this fall so check out their programs thank you Dr Malco you Malco yes um Lake Central Education Foundation that DAV walk I'm sorry let me start that again Lake Central Education Foundation
003hero walk is on Saturday November 5th at this point in time we're not sure of the exact time that I'm sure it will be in the morning and that at this point in time the committee is planning for it to be right here on the campus a reminder that the beginning of that walk was in memory of a former student Dana Les um but it really was a great time to pull everybody together so hopefully you'll want to walk with us on that day again that's November 5th Dyer parks department met with them today um and they are really wanting to complete the project that started 10 years ago by the nawalzic family in memory of their son David so that seems to be the focus for the dyer Parks they are hosting on um
004Saturday September I'm going to give to the right date 17th they are hosting a DAV disabled American veteran walk um at the Central Park in Dyer which is north on Calumet across from this Symphony that's the Central Park so again that's on September 17th I'm not sure how proceeds will from that will come towards the dire Parks but they are hosting that there so I'm sharing it with you because many of us like to get out and walk on a Saturday morning and it's a good cause because it is all for veteran uh and Military that's all thank you Dr Medlin nothing to report thanks and I have nothing for St John Redevelopment commission but I do have for Dollars for Scholars a gentleman by Patrick tortorici he is hosting a run for your life
005living dire Zombie Run and there will be zombies on the course uh there is a stroll troll parade at 10 A.M and then at 2 30 is a two mile zombie run and then you can go to the fire department and tour their open house at 12 o'clock so lots of things are being planned and you can go to the dollar store Scholars website and we do have the QR code that you can scan and get yourself and your family signed up for all those proceeds will go to graduating seniors in 2023. so with that we'll move on to our official School Board business topics consent Mrs I have a question I see legislative is off of here for a committee but I don't see the Beach building project on here is a liaison shouldn't
006that be on here aren't you the liaison I am so why would that not be on here no that project's on hold right now but I mean so we'll move to our official School Board business topics consent agenda Dr Morocco thank you again Mr Seuss seek board approval for the minutes from our August first meetings as well as approval of the claims payroll and extracurricular expenditures you received in your packets last week Mr Marshall second second by Dr Medlin any discussion all in favor aye motion passes thank you there are no public comments so we'll move right into our official School Board business topics regular agenda Dr Barraco our first item is to do a special recognition of trainer Chris Hall I have Mrs Novak here this evening to talk to you about Chris and
007his recognition all right good evening Dr varaco Lake Central School Board Chris Hall is the Lake Central High School athletic trainer and he was chosen by his colleagues by his peers as the 2022 professional Excellence Award of the Indiana athletic trainers Association Chris is here all the time he can be found at pretty much every athletic event he goes above and beyond and he does everything very graciously and always with a smile so he is well deserving of this award and it's great to see him recognized by his peers in that Association so we extend our greatest congratulations to Mr Chris Hall [Applause] do you think he's probably at an athletic event Chris uh kept my son taped up and ready to go through many football seasons if you ever need to be taped up
008you want to see yes absolutely thank you thank you thank you my next item is to see approval to attend the collective bargaining seminar at the Ivy Tech facility in Indianapolis this Friday we are about ready to head into formal negotiations with our teaching unit there'll be some information on upcoming board meetings as we follow all those timelines that have been outlined by the ieerb this kicks it off so that we make sure we know any changes that have come about for the current collective bargaining season thank you so moved here paper hi hi motion passes thank you so much and my final e item this evening is to recap the mckinney-vento workshop that we held In This Very Room last Thursday August 4th actually a week ago already now and we did have a
009really nice turnout it was it was nice to have a good turnout from the region because we had some folks from Indianapolis who made a long trip to help us with the the program they were members from the Indiana Department of Education as well as the Indianapolis Consortium that is ahead of the curve on this in terms of dealing with families have been displaced and so the the key during the morning session was that schools need to remove barriers to enrollment and that means not expecting people to have their paperwork tight when they are going through a real rough patch and so if people do not have fixed regular inadequate housing they qualify for being homeless as I've said in in my talking points the confusion for our folks mainly comes around doubling up meaning
010people have a temporary loss of housing they move in with relatives and so they are not planning on being there forever and so they consider it a temporary situation and many times people don't declare that because they have pride and we understand that but there are some opportunities for them to save on lunch costs and have reduced textbook as well if they are willing to share with us where they stand in the end we had 133 out of the 159 people who registered attend they came from 20 different area districts we not only invited Lake County and the program was geared for Lake County but we invited some of the superintendents and their staffs from Porter and LaPorte County as well because they're part of our district one group and they were on my list
011sir so we invited and then some of those folks showed up and it was it was a good day it's going to be interesting moving forward our our facilitator our current fearless leader has retired in June and so uh Dr Danny Lackey is out of the role and Debbie diani from Hammond will take over as facilitator later this month so I will continue to serve as I am our district liaison I will continue to serve on that committee and not only share information with our staff but also with my superintendent peers through our other organization we don't see this type of activity as an annual event but it could be something we do every three or four years it had been you know since the be before the the pandemic that we had done any
012kind of extensive training for our staff so it was timely in that regard I feel any questions you have at this time so Dr Barraco when when you mentioned the um the Consortium from Indianapolis do you know who that is is it you mentioned IU and then well Warren Central is like Merrillville is our hub for Northwest Indiana and Warren Central is their hub and the the fellow who served as our MC is James Taylor he's a Gary native and um he has a lot of experience in this area and as I shared with Ryan and some of our principals after the program the prevalence of people being uprooted in the Indianapolis area are much higher there are a lot more rental properties there so a lot more people get displaced as they don't pay
013rents and so they deal with it a lot more frequently and many of those districts have open borders too so they're transferring people back and forth and so their transportation issue um is severe I mean they're they're very creative with using retirees to drive paying parents mileage using Ubers all sorts of things to get kids to the school that they feel they need to stay in first stability purposes so then if the Hub is Warren Warriors Maryville so there's a group of superintendents from up here for the Maryville group and Warren Central is the group down there by Indy well they're the only other Consortium that we know of that is active meaning they meet monthly and try to do things to educate the schools in their Consortium and so because we've talked to those
014folks before in fact when we started they came up and kind of reminds me of when we tried to get Kiwanis going in the region when people from a different Kiwanis came in and met with us and talked to us how you do this and so they sort of gave us the idea on how to begin and so when it came time for us to do this program we said we should ask them to lend their expertise which they gratefully did oh I have a story to tell you if you remember I told you the story after I was attended the basketball game at Louisiana state and very few people had masks on well let's talk about registering students for School in Louisiana it has taken one of those little boys who used to live
015with me three different days to go to register for school he had all of his paperwork they would not let him register because the line was too long so this young man has missed three days of school and I kept saying no wait a minute I even reached out to the principal you can actually send a child home he goes yeah in Louisiana if they don't have a paperwork we don't register them so I thought I thought that was really interesting in light of what the procedures are in Indiana which is much more student friendly okay thank you we'll move on to our director of human resource Personnel I don't know who's presenting from Mrs mucho caught me off guard but that would be me so Mrs mooch's first item is to seek board approval
016for the Personnel recommendations and the revisions that are at your workstations this evening move to approve motion by Mr Marshall second second by Miss Kelly any discussion hearing none all of them no wait I had a question on page or under two a three and four so there's going to be oh wait this is different than the one that was in the other packet right I thought in the original packet we were sharing um athletic coordinators you're one of those people backed out so corio Dulles is going to do it on our own one of those people backed out okay so Corey or Dallas is going to do it on her own so now it's one athletic coordinator at kaler and now we have Doug DeVries doing traffic duty at the high school got it
017now okay thank you okay all in favor aye any opposed motion passes thank you my second item is to seek board approval for the mentor list the stipend for being a mentor has not changed however the number of mentors changes on an annual basis we still could end up adding people if we have anybody else new come to us during the school year but has been past practice we assign mentors to all teachers new to Lake Central even those who are experienced because we think there are some things unique to the way we conduct business that it helps for new teachers to have somebody to lean on who's not their principal it's important to note that we encourage our new teachers to lean on their principal heavily to lean on their assistant principals or guidance
018counselors people at central office anybody who can answer their questions but for for some things when people just want that unofficial professional friend if you will to talk to this Mentor program has worked out quite well for us and uh we're we're very appreciative that the board continues to pay for it motion to approve we have a motion by Miss Kelly and I will second that any discussion yeah it's off to the mentors yeah I agree great great program to have yes yes I have a question our administrators with put with a mentor like Ryan does he have a mentor um he does not have an official Mentor but he is getting supported by central office yes okay okay very unique a lot of school corporations don't put their money into this so uh kudos
019for doing that do you have and I know we talked before in the past about collecting data collecting information on the effectiveness of the mentor mentee program do you have anything from us we have surveyed teachers we did not survey last spring but we have surveyed teachers and the mentors to see ways that we could make things better and we have adjusted the program from what the original design team came up with um it's interesting that I like to bring up the filming piece because everyone hated when the state had their mentoring program where you videotape teachers in action then you could break down the tape and I still think that could be very effective if it were done in a non-punitive way by the mentor saying here here's some things that you could think
020about as you initiate that lesson or as you transition it does require a lot of work it angered people when the word got out that all those videotapes went somewhere and never got viewed and so some people still have that stuck in their craw but I actually think that was the one part of the old program that really had some Merit now I know that a lot of our student teaching programs and you know our observational programs through universities are already doing this and so they it would be repeat repetitive in that in that way but the the key with our Mentor program is when our mentors do observe their protege that they don't have to be um as I said punitive or even they don't even have to be evaluative other than to offer
021tips and that's really what we're after and I think that we're getting our money's worth because we we have a lot of our newer teachers who are a lot more at ease because they have something they can lean on right right so you didn't collect the surveys last year you said or probably the year before because of covid okay so then you would hopefully have data for us at the end of this year then if everything goes cool then we well we really didn't change much after the first couple times that we adjusted it to be honest I mean we spent a lot of time trying to figure out what are the most important things for our new teachers to have supports with and that's what we continue to do and and kudos to the
022rest of our staff because they don't just leave it to the mentor to do all that support we have people who are in the same grade level team they might be the next door neighbor that could be in the department but don't teach the same subject that at one time did teach that subject the important thing is that our schools need to welcome our new people and help them fit in they need to work at fitting into but we need our people to be welcoming so that we recruit these people and we help them be successful so they want to stay because as we know what the teacher shortage people have choices they can be mobile again for a while they couldn't but now they can so we have to make sure that we're an
023attractive place for people to work do we have a motion um all in favor aye motion any opposed motion passes thank you and Terry's final item this evening is to see board approval to attend uh improving educational outcomes foster children Workshop in Indianapolis on September 8th she is going to do it down and back so she is submitting for mileage and as always we always want people when they leave the county to submit a professional leave request so that they are insured while in travel because sometimes we have people who don't want to fill out the paperwork because they don't want to be reimbursed the mileage I think they always should when it's more than a few miles but nonetheless she is doing it down and back so it's mileage only so moved motion by
024Mr Marshall second by Dr Medlin any discussion all in favor aye any opposed motion passes thank you and we'll move right into our director of primary education Dr Bracy good evening good evening good evening there are no field trip or professional leave request yet but I am seeking approval for the plans for staff evaluations each year school districts are required to submit any valuation plan to the state there are two plans one for certified and one for administrators the plans meet all the requirements set forth by the state of Indiana including performance evaluations evaluators observations and feedback PD plans and instruction the plan for a certified staff was shared with lcta and signed by an lcta discussion rep on Monday August 4th so with your approval and signatures from president Sues and Dr Barako I
025will submit the plans to the state of Indiana's online portal portal later this week and it's due to the state by September 16th and I don't know if you know this but the page numbers are off because of the way I had to print it but when I submit it they'll all be correct it was very very long wasn't it but that's okay that is true so this has to be um updated periodically is that why you every submitting this yes every year is through pretty much in September every year okay all right all right motion to approve we have a motion by Miss Kelly second second by Mr Marshall any other discussion all in favor aye motion passes um working we have I guess revamped the behavior support team it's a district-wide team and
026it's made up of these people listed here our educational diagnosticians social workers counselors and occupational therapists speech pathologists Behavior Support and then Mrs gramada so our first meeting was held back in May I believe with the team and we had talked about some things we need to work on and one thing we did realize is that we needed to celebrate our paraprofessionals because they sometimes don't receive the recognition they deserve and they are really hard workers and we can't do our jobs without them so on last Wednesday well our team had we began planning back in May and then on last Wednesday we held a training for all of the prayer Professionals in the district they were all invited and they were here in this room and we focused on things like areas of Eligibility
027connecting with students we talked about sensory strategies everyone had a different area and so um we had the parents come here and we were so impressed because we had 160 paraprofessionals short for the training yes they weren't even back on the clock yet yes that is so true and so we just wanted to share some pictures with you all this is as they were coming in and Dr Baraka was greeting them there was not in these pictures you can see an empty seat but as you go on you'll see there were no empty seats because they were lined up across the wall in the back it was really awesome and I think they truly felt celebrated so I'm glad we were able to do that for them we poured into them and we made sure
028we reiterated how proud of them we are and how we appreciate them and how we cannot do this job without them so kudos to them for coming in before they were even back on the clock so it was really a beautiful day and it was only two hours but it was a full two hours so that was good so we wanted to share that with you all good job Castaneda I have her professional leaves so for Mrs Castaneda I am seeking your approval for the field trip request you have received in your packets so moved we have a motion by Mr Marshall second by Miss Kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor aye motion passes thank you I am also seeking your approval for the professional leave request you have received in your packets
029also move to proof we have a motion by Mr Marshall we'll second that any discussion all in favor aye motion passes thank you thank you and we'll move right along to our director of student services Mrs gramala my first item is to seek your approval for the professional leave request that was included in the packet motion to approve motion by Miss Kelly second second by Dr Medlin any discussion all in favor all right motion passes thank you um and then to carry on with our professional development theme um so we had the pairs here on Wednesday on Monday and Tuesday we provided um CPI training so CPI is the program we use to de-escalate when behaviors get out of control in the classroom we have two new CPI trainers and they're also coincidentally the forces
030behind our Behavior team and they came to me and said can we please try to do something in the summer I said sure but people don't like to come in in the summer and they proved me wrong we had 75 staff members who came in to participate in training which is a huge help to us because then we're not worrying about Subs people aren't out of the classroom so this particular training staff members have to participate in every two years in order to maintain their their certification in it that's really important so that if a behavior gets out of control we know that they're using the strategies we want them to use and then we can support them in addressing the behavior so we were thrilled with that and thank you to our CPI trainers
031who are Marissa ditch and Kyle Ellis they've really done a fantastic job with the program and we're sort of working on how we're going to make it more specific to each building's needs so I'm meeting with them tomorrow morning and we're going to plan how the rest of the year is going to look so we'll keep you updated on that um and then for my last item I wanted to give you all some information about companion Academy we've made some changes recently and Dr varaco asked me to kind of share this information with you so you all know companion Academy is a residential facility within our boundaries when students go to companion to live they then become residents of Lake Central School Corporation so we are responsible for providing their Educational Services and have been
032since they did away with their own charter school so it's been I can't even tell you how many years as long as I've been around we've sort of been educating those students so that has more often changed throughout the years at our height we've had over 100 students who were residents of compania and then we were educating and that has in the past it's been a mixture of students coming to Lake Central students remaining on campus the program has changed and recently their numbers have decreased significantly so they are currently under 30 students on campus that we are responsible for educating so um right before school started when I found this out we I got together with Mary Ruby who's our administrator who oversees their programming and we talked about how we might address that
033because we had teachers sitting at companion with one or two students in class and we were short teachers here at the high school in some of our other buildings so we needed to make an adjustment so we have condensed our classes previously we had two groups of students and so we would have a group of students who received their education in the morning and a group who attended in the afternoon they only receive a half day because part of their programming is therapeutic there and that's the responsibility of companion so um we have condensed it to all of the students receiving their education in the morning and then we have reassigned those staff members to Lake Central buildings in the afternoon so we had four teachers and two paraprofessionals there and then we had a
034full-time dean of students and we had a school service provider who was there and so one of those teachers filled a full-time open position here at Lake Central High School so we had pulled her out of the building already to come here to Lake Central of the other three two of them will be coming here in the afternoon to teach resource special education resource classes because we're short a teacher here those class sizes had doubled basically what we'd like them to be so that will allow our numbers to decrease in those classes so we can support the students better the other teacher will be going to pifer elementary school we had an unfilled special education teacher position there so she'll just be hopping across the street to help in the from about 11 30 on
035at pifer um and then our Dean and school service provider will be they used to both be full-time at compania they are going to alternate days at Companion now and so when one person one of them is at companion the other one will be here at the high school and then they'll flip back and forth so we do always have a full-time support person at compania um but then they'll they'll be here when they're not working with students over there our Paras were also reassigned so again companion in the morning one will be going to prattsmen and one will be helping it tap so we felt like that made the best use of our resources still allows the students at companion to get what they need um I continue I work with Teresa Jacobs who's
036their educational director at compania and she and I talk frequently so she said they're expecting the number to stay where it is through the first nine weeks and then we'll revisit and see what adjustments we might need to make in the future Becky yes great report thank you you're talking about campagnia updating to get into review for the benefit of everybody who initiates placement of Resident students and when I talk about the process a little bit sure so the majority 30 of students at Campania are placed through either the Department of Corrections or the department of children's services they do have some students who are placed there their parental placements that are paid for through private insurance and then there are there have in the past been some students placed there by other school districts
037if that school district felt like they couldn't meet a student's need they might place them residentially a companion but the majority are through DCS and Department of Corrections good serve a student from another school is placed there it's still the Lake Central responsibility to provide the education yes does the money follow that student there um kind of sort of so the sending School District maintains responsibility for the IEP but then we're replaced we're reporting that we're educating the student okay now when you say all the students will receive their instruction in the morning is at um like 9 to 12 8 to 11. um they are going to start their uh 7 45 to 10 45. okay and then the teachers will get their lunch and travel time prior to reporting to a Lake Central
038Building so they'll all be in a lake central building by 11 30. so would this be the the primary core system the language arts and the um yes so we have a language arts teacher and we have a math teacher there and then we also utilize Plato for electives so the students do have access to Plato to earn additional credits outside what does Teresa Jacobs say about the decrease in students does she have a um you know I really don't get into that with her that's a companion issue um so I've not probed as far as what their reasoning is I do know that last year they came and met with us and talked about some changes at the state level as far as how they're funding and there's a an initiative at the state
039level that I apologize I don't know all the details of but it's called The Family First initiative that really prioritizes getting students back to their home versus remaining in a residential facility long term so I think that's been part of it too when you say the Department of Corrections are you referencing like the juvenile system that Joseph has all right and there the students come from all over the state so they're not just like County students right okay all right thank you any other questions thank you move right along to our director of facilities Mr Ledger thank you Mr Seuss I have two items tonight um just an update on the grammar project um our last board would be I indicated we were all done with all the classroom work for the summer we wanted
040to accomplish and we had some lighting to continue on and we did get all the lighting done in the serving area the uh food prep area as well as the dishwashing area that I work with Debbie Indiana about so that's all finished before school started um now that schools back in session we will continue to do what we can at like the mechanical rooms as well as the mezzanines uh my guys are right there they're working now putting lights up in the mezzanines I will be doing some infrastructure with us and electrical disconnects electrical panels we may pour some pads for some equipment and as equipment comes in if we can do things over breaks we'll utilize that time as well so it's going to be kind of Hit and Miss from now until next
041summer but we hope to get a lot of things done in the back of the house and that continues on right now and then we'll be hitting it hard again next summer any questions on that so what are you going to hit hard next summer oh we have a whole bunch they right we know all our HVAC equipment supposed to arrive between spring break and next may I got it we ordered our I think I mentioned last time we all of our rtus which is the rooftop units we ordered back in May or mid April and they're not due till in May 13 months so yeah we can't we I promise well Ryan's here but I promised John we would not disrupt any instruction have no disruption of HVAC as far as heating and air
042throughout the entire school year so we're kind of playing around the school schedule and we won't have mostly equipment till spring break but we can do a lot of stuff as I said infrastructure wise got it got it thank you um this will be my last update for the summer projects I'm sure you guys are really happy to hear that uh you have the sheet at your stations um uh pretty much the whole list is done with the exception of five items um two of those five items I knew from the get-go we wouldn't be because of the whole supply chain issues uh that would be the uh the the front end of the intercom system at kaler it's not supposed to be here till the end of September he's already got a scheduled to
043put that in when it breaks we're already scheduled for that um the scoreboard which I told you on Good Friday was uh with the microburst blue Donna Taylor and we ordered that at the end of April and it's not supposed to be here till shift till September 9th he did confirm that's still on target last week so that's that's confirmed and then the other three items uh there's some furniture that Grandma wanted for some uh some classrooms there's some stools that's on a cargo ship in the ocean right now and they're saying mid-october uh my data meter which is just basically for some optimization data for us it's it's now pushed back to September 9th and then um our kaler stage curtains they told me last week that now has moved back to September 23rd
044so other than that and the only thing that really affects any students or staff is the kaler scoreboard and I've Canon Tim that you know they're going to have to do it the old-fashioned way for the first couple of games but other than that it's all complete any questions on that yeah it might be the only I heard from an inside source that the Bradford whites were installed with minutes to spare the uh I will that you have a good source on that my Bradley sinks uh again wiping sweat from their brow the Bradley sinks came they they actually came last Tuesday and we we had them there Wednesday and Thursday before school they started at 5 30 and they we took the barricades down at 8 30 before they let kids in in 8
04530. there we go they were in use yes made it at the 11th Hour so good job good job bill so good job so I know I'm sorry no I know bill that you had mentioned the uh the security light that the band is needing was going to happen when the electrician that's what the dad went to the data meter yeah he's coming out with it because that's all right that's in that North Board of the room and everything else over the north boiler yeah that's where that data meter goes all right thank you thank you and we'll move right into our director of Business Services Mr James thank you Mr sues the first time to seek your approval for the donations that were included in your board packet so moved motion by Mr Marshall
046second second by Miss Kelly any discussion hearing no no in favor aye motion passes thank you and in your board packet I just included the timeline for adopting the 2023 budget um next board meeting which is the first meeting of September will be when I give the board our annual budget presentation we will then have a public hearing on the following meeting on the 19th and then scheduled to adopt at the single meeting that we have in October just a reminder is only one meeting in October this year so mark your calendars and that's that um and it's not on the agenda but the board had one point asked about the auction we had in July and since our last meeting we've kind of shored up we have shored up with Mr Niemeyer and this
047this year's auction which was held on July 21st brought in 3155 so that's a little bit lower than maybe we average maybe we average five six seven but there really weren't as many high value there this year so I like mentioned before I expect it to be lower so that money goes into our operation spun and then just helps support on the expenditures in there so any questions all right thank you all right so there are no public comments so we'll move right along to our board comments and consideration a future agenda items we'll start with Mr Marshall thank you um Labor Day is right around the corner it's coming we can't stop that but I wish everybody well and thank you for the efforts extended to get the start of a great school year
048stay safe Mrs Kelly yep just welcome back to everybody and hope you all have a great year Dr Malco I did sorry um yes I have to tell you something I had some Community people reach out to me and they were absolutely totally totally totally amazed at the experience they had at bibbage school with registration and I said oh that is so exciting and not only that but you know how we need to jump start kids and have them pre-experience schools so this parent these parents were able to pre have a pre-visit in the hallways and find out where the classroom was and everything because the teachers were so willing and and comfortable in doing that so you know we have those good things going on and it's important to share those and I also
049wanted to now that Aaron is here tonight I wanted to thank her for that handy dandy card that she put together for our students that includes uh trafficking and uh suicide awareness and um there's others on there too but I just don't remember all of them but it's quite the handy tool Aaron thank you it's very nice so if a student wanted one of those cards how would they go about getting those it's on their ID oh it's on their ID thank you on the back side of their ID okay thank you Dr Medlin no comment thank you my sentiments about starting of school but I do want to say that I had a staff member reach out to me via email saying that she was extremely pleased with starting on a Thursday and a
050Friday and then having the weekend to kind of regroup and come back on Monday and felt very relaxed and good about starting the school year with starting on a Thursday slash I know next year that was just the luck of the calendar so I looked and I said I have to go look at next year's calendar and we do start on a Friday so just uh to those that those calendars they really good things are here coming to that I'm hearing about so thank you for that but as long as you're going to talk about calendar though I will say that we will start the school year as late as we can thereby still ending the semester Before Christmas for our high school students especially who challenge themselves with all sorts of college level curriculum
051and rigor so I know it's a sore topic with some people both ways sure but we do believe it's in the best interest interests of our especially our high school students to get a true break at Christmas thank you sure thank you with that we'll move on to our Board calendar or future activities Dr Argo well I'd encourage everybody to watch the website as you're seeing calendars for all sorts of extracurricular activities pop up there and um I know some people made it out to the football scrimmage even last Friday so thank you for attending that our next meeting is not on a Monday it is on Tuesday because our next is scheduled for Labor Day so it would be Tuesday September 6th and we are going to start back rotating between this room and
052the k-trap room and we have a small crowd such as we have this evening we may meet in the small room if we have recognitions and things that require more seating we'll still be in here but there are times where meetings with a smaller agenda and no controversial topics and a business meeting the board if you will can take place in there just as well and we would schedule some of those beginning in September in those meetings if if the crowd size is expected to be small and Mr suicide one other item I believe that we have our dire Town Council Lake Central School Board liaison in the back row back there Alicia so thanks for coming out tonight Alicia with that do we have a motion to adjourn um second motion by Miss Kelly
053uh second by Mr Marshall all in favor aye