001Good evening. Welcome to Logport Community School Corporation board meeting. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> First item on the agenda this evening is recognition. Mrs. Starky. >> Yeah. We're going to start with our Indiana All State, Mr. Calvin Mackey. Come on up, Calvin. [Applause] Calvin. Uh, I'll just wing this a little bit, but Calvin is a a man of many talents. If you've heard him sing, play in the band, on stage, he's on the alumni uh a student u representative on the alumni association board. He does a little bit of everything at Logosboro High School, right Calvin? >> Yeah. >> And
002he does a great job. So, we're happy to recognize him tonight. So, come on up. >> And we're gonna get our picture taken. >> You tell us. >> Awesome. >> Come on up. >> Thank you. Come on up. Congratulations. Thank you. [Applause] >> Alvin, what's your uh postgraduation? >> Um, I want to go to IU Jacobs School of Music and get my degree in music education and then start teaching somewhere around Indiana. uh uh start in youth ministry and worship arts at a church and then eventually maybe get my ministry degrees and my PhD. >> Other than that, you don't have anything planned out. >> He's an outstanding intern at L. So >> yes, he is interning at L um in a vision. >> He's he's one he's one of our best. >> And now
003I'm going to ask Mr. Isles to recognize, not that I couldn't do it, but I'm gonna let Mr. Isles do it. Recognize the Applebee's teacher of the month from Century Career Center. >> Thank you, Mrs. Starky. Um, Cynthy Fry uh is our Applebee's teacher of the month, Century Career Center. Um, easily recognizable. Um, probably reached the point where we don't talk about how many years we've we've been with us, right? Uh but uh no, Cynthia is our work-based learning coordinator and and I just want to stress um how much work actually goes into work-based learning. Um a lot more than than you might think beyond just the student classroom experience. Um Cynthy is a frontward, you know, facing entity for Century Career Center and honestly, you get out into the business community, a lot of
004people are going to know her and what she does, you know, for us and our students. Um and that's going to be the first thing they think of. they're they're not going to think of, you know, other things that are going on. They're going to think about the interactions they've had. And so she works, you know, a lot of hours, a lot of driving, a lot of meetings in and out. Um, which honestly, like when I was a classroom teacher, I had it pretty math is not fun uh for a lot of people, but I had it kind of easy in the fact that I might have a lot of students, but I was doing the same thing kind of day in day out with my lessons. And Cynthy has to basically do individual lessons.
005when you think about it, for every student she places within a career a career cluster and and that's a lot of back and forth. Um she has 81 different classes if you want to think about it that way. Um and that's not just with the students because sometimes it's just as hard working with with the employers and and making sure we're getting everything we need on their end. It's like 100 plus. So she does a wonderful job and and I'm just going to you know looking forward the emphasis the state's putting on workbased learning. I know the high school presented uh last month and we kind of see things that are changing. There's there's a definite need for what we have here and and we have a real talent. So Cynthia, I'd like to recognize
006you as our Applebee's teacher of the month. [Applause] >> That's the only time I get to stand up here. >> Come on, fellers. >> All right. Two roses between two thorns. Sure. >> I don't know. >> All right. Hold my eyes open. I'm looking. >> They are. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Congratulations. >> All right. Next on our agenda. You guys could and if you ever want to leave, you can leave. >> Not that I'm encouraging you to leave, but >> I mean first year at the high school. >> Really? >> We know we're one year off one way or the other. It's either 65 or 64. >> No, I'm joking. >> Seriously, when was it? like 90 89 or 906 87. >> Oh, this is your This is your 40. >>
007Wow. >> It was my senior year. >> Wow. >> Look at Danny. Just the quietest he's ever been. >> He's like, "Let's go to Let's go get that free Apple." [Music] >> Cynthy. Thanks, Dan. >> All right. Next. So on the agenda is our public first chance for public comments. >> Anybody like to make any comments about anything that's on the agenda this evening? You can come to the podium and state your name and address. No takers. All right. Moving on now to our consent agenda. It includes the minutes of the September 22nd, 2025 regular schoolboard meeting, the minutes of the September 22nd, 2025 executive session, personnel recommendations, donation requests, claims, and the treasures report for August. Do I have a motion to accept as presented? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >>
008Second. >> All right. All those >> too. >> Any uh let's give it to Vicki. >> Okay. >> Bill's going to leave. I don't want to questions later. Uh any further comments or questions? Okay. All those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I. All those or same. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. >> Uh we're now Yeah, I got got to change this here. We're going to move the agenda around a little bit. We're going to move the presentation back one step and do our action items so that Bill can get to a city council meeting. Uh first item on the next is the SCA 390 tent of agreement at Logansport Community School Corporation with the LEA. Mr. Stark, you want to kind of give a >> Yeah, I'll just give an overview of that. on
009September 17th, we reached a tenative agreement with the teachers association um and uh really um the major parts of of that tenative and the teachers ratified it uh last Thursday night and so we're sharing the tenative agreement here tonight and then we will have a meeting on Thursday at 5:30 here to ratify the contract for the board. Um, so the major changes uh within our contract for the tenative agreement is moving the starting salary from $42,250 to 43625 for this school year which will be retroactive back to July 1. Um, and then next year moving the starting salary to $45,000 um, per Indiana statute. So we'll have a little bit of work to do um, paperwork to do because we didn't do that. We were not able to do that financially this year. Um the
010other thing uh coming out of that is a pause on the 403b match program um in order to get that salary rolled up and be able to do what we did. That's that's what we had to do amongst a litany of other things that that we came up with. Um we then from there really there really aren't any major other changes other than um $250 uh will be added to the base salary for teachers who add the uh literacy endorsement um to their license. It has to be added to their license. That's a state requirement by 2027. Um unfunded. >> That goes without saying. >> Yes. Right. um department chairs were added um at the junior high school as we look to bring on um and add some more duties uh kind of similar to
011what we have at the high school. Um we modified um a few we just moved around some monies at on the ECA schedule um for the music and drama programs for our winter fantasy assistant director. Um, we took out really the instrumental pit band uh, stipend because we don't have an instrumental pit band anymore for winter fantasy. Um, added berry tones for our students. Um, increased the um, ECA amount we pay for robotics in grades K through six from 0.02 of a new teacher salary uh, to 0.04. And then um the other thing was all ECA um stipens or index if you will are based on the starting teacher salary. However, that will be paused during this contract and instead of being figured on 43625 will continue to be figured on 42250. Uh I think
012that's pretty much all the language. We did there is one more. I'm sorry. We did move the date in our contract. It says that um if you have a degree change for your contract, the prior date you used to have to notify us by was August 1st. We've moved that back to July 1. Um which should be much more helpful for our our uh HR department and for everybody to kind of get that leg work done prior to and it is a two-year contract. Um we do have language in there just in case something kind of crazy happens with enrollment or something like that. We do have an opener in there should we need to whether we sway 25 kids one way or another. So that's where we're at. We would like to um you
013know Greg Greg and I and then Mike and Bill were a part of our bargaining team. Um once again had a great a great working relationship with the LEA. Um really everybody came to the table and understood what we what we needed to do and and work together. So we're very thankful for that relationship because as you look around and hear what happens in other places, it doesn't happen that way. There are many of them right just starting bargaining right now. So um we're thankful to have it uh behind us and and ready to move forward. >> Okay. Thank you. Questions, comments? >> The only thing I think to clarify would be the the increment went up from what was it $1,375 or what's the exact number? 422 250 to >> oh 1375 >> it
014also is a step so we didn't there's no freeze so it's that increment plus the $1,000 step so it's >> really 2375 >> annually correct >> per year so 2375 and another 2375 next year >> we've had years in the past we've had to freeze that ladder system and and people don't get that thousand increment so that's not >> and that's one of The things we agreed on when we first started bargaining is we all we wanted a two-year contract. We we had been working on getting to 45,000 even before that came out in state statute and um we did not want a compression issue which we just fixed the last time. So anyway, there we have it. >> Yep. Thank you. >> Now moving on to action items. First one is consideration of a
015request to participate in the 2026 Indiana bond bank fuel program. Mr. Correct. Yeah. So that >> I assume that you're doing them. >> Yeah. I I forward those emails to Greg. So good. I know how to have fun, right? No, it's just that time of year. Uh the bond bank is has shared the application window is open uh for public schools here in Indiana to participate. Uh you have a letter in your packet outlines kind of the why part of why we want to participate. But for the public's benefit, it allows us to have a budget that's a little more predictable as it relates to fuel costs and um so we get to have a little more buying power by partnering with other schools through the bond bank. >> And when is that rate determined
016the fuel? >> Not until mid to late December. >> Not until the end of December. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> This just a vote to participate in it. >> Correct. I'll come back to you either in November or December with some paperwork for signature and support. But uh for now it's just an approval for us to participate again for 2026. >> The recommendation to approve us to participate in the 2026 Indiana Bond Bank Fuel Program. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Next is the consideration of resolutions to adopt the 2026 budget. Mr. Correct, >> you have a resolution before you in your packet uh that outlines where we stand
017with the education fund, the debt service fund, and the operations fund. Absent questions, uh this is just our formal process for adopting uh another budget year 2026. Okay, >> questions or comments? It's just that it's a important deal and I wish we had more participation in this process, but it's over a 53 million budget, so something we take very serious. I make a motion to approve. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Next is the consideration of the resolution to adopt the 2026 bus replacement plan. Mr. Correct. >> Again, you have another resolution before you for our buses for the next five years. Uh it's on the website as well. Um again, we just
018have this in place. It's a stat. It's a state requirement to have this plan adopted by the board as part of the budget process for calendar 2026. >> Questions or comments? Do I have a motion to accept the resolution to adopt the 2026 bus replacement plan? >> So move. >> Any uh is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Next is the consideration resolution to adopt the 2026 capital projects plan. Mr. Correct. Similar to the bus plan, this is our capital project plan as prescribed by the state documentwise and contentwise. So, uh in absent questions or comments uh from the board, uh my plan is on the website and for your consideration calendar 2026.
019>> And I've seen the listings, but what we have in our packet is the resolution. It doesn't really list specifics. Is that's >> okay. Say again. >> That's okay to >> Yeah. Last uh last meeting we we did the hearing about that those documents were made available to the public. They remain on the website and will remain on the website uh as we presented them previously. >> Okay. >> I actually had a couple questions from the public which never have happened before and I think I answered them right. But um one was on the turf. There was money in there for turf. Is that just a maintenance or is that actual >> correct? That' be a maintenance. Um >> 2015 was the last was when we put those in. Uh the surface only would be
020this what you're projecting there. Um because the base the foundation is a 30-year solution. So, um, as we come up on a 12-year, uh, is about when you start looking at that from a maintenance standpoint, >> crazy >> to do the top surfacing, which is removal of the pellets and then putting down basically a new rug, if you will. >> And that is the turf like is an artificial pasture turf rather than teacher retirement, >> you know. Those two weren't >> you get they're very similar in a lot of ways >> but uh you and one not together. >> All right. Uh okay. Do I have a motion to accept the resolution to accept the 2026 capital projects plan? >> So move your >> second. All right. All those in favor signify by sign of
021I. I. All those opposed say sign. Motion passes. Next we have the consideration recommendation to adopt the resolution to transfer amounts from the education fund to the operation funds. Mr. Correct. We got another resolution. Uh this one's important for both uh well mainly for the operations fund. You might recall that fund uh several years ago. The state of Indiana created it. Uh moved some categories of cost into that fund from the old general fund. Uh as a result uh and by not providing a revenue stream for that th for those programs in the op fund uh we find ourselves having to transfer dollars again it's state prescribed that was their solution to that issue up to 15%. If we were to go over that, we'd have to document and bring to the board a rational
022reason why and present to the public. But we've not had to do that and uh absent questions from the board or comments, the resolution is there for your consideration. >> Just to note, we're not physically transferring anything. It's just the ability to do that number next year up to the five the 15%. You're not moving money right now. No, we would do that monthly as expenses occur throughout the budget year. >> Correct. >> So, we're good. We'll never have another one unless it's over the 15%. >> That's correct. >> Okay. Motion to approve. >> Yes. A second. >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Next is the request permission to advertise for additional appropriation education operations funds.
023Mr. Correct. >> Yeah. Uh this is again another procedure we go through this time of year. You might recall our calendar uh our calendar year budget for 2025 was approved back in September of 2024. A lot of things have changed since then. The legislature has adopted a new budget which has in additional funds for the school corporations here in Indiana and uh we've certainly had several other things to change in terms of estimated costs and estimated revenues coming in as actual now. So with that, as we try to wind down this school year, uh the need to increase original appropriations, again set back in September of 2024, it's important that we uh adjust those to finish out the year here in calendar as we've taken on some additional costs with the passing of a contract
024at the teacher level uh and then later this week probably. So, uh, in order to spend the money, we have to have it appropriated. >> All right. We have a motion to accept that. >> Accept the advertisement of the appropriation. Yes. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I. >> All those oppos. Motion passes. Next is the consideration recommendation to approve the following policies. I thought of for the time level and for the online people that are watching this, I I'm going to remove the policy number and just tell you what it's in. And so if you have more interest in seeing what these changes to our policies are, there's a there's a copy available here in the administration when
025you come pick it up. So those items are changes to the cons and a lot of times they're small changes. See the change out of the or something like that sometimes surprises you. But anyway, feel free to come and and check that out if you'd like to. Uh the consent agenda we have a policy about executive session employment of a superintendent education outcome for students curriculum development mandatory curriculum field and other corporation sponsored trips field trips educational options flex program guidance and counseling career and technical education program student assessment annual performance report employment of support staff staff and student relations support staff dress and appearance. You guys want to check that out. Uh cancellation of teaching contract, employment of support staff, uh student relations for staff, support staff dress and appearance, determination of legal settlement,
026eligibility for enrollment, health services, use of medication, promotion, placement and retention, graduation requirements, address and appearance, bullying, the school law and law enforcement a agencies, investigation by department of child services and the school and government. agents, schools and government agencies. These are all policies that are be changes and for everyone's notice we get information from Niola who's a national organization that reviews all of our policies and as things change across the country and and there are court cases as to happen they'll make recommendations to us to make the changes. This is our second reading. So we will actually vote on these tonight. Do I have a motion to accept all the policies uh changes as noted? >> Make a motion to accept the policies. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All
027right. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. The motion passes. Okay. We'll now jump back to our friends at the career center for their presentation. We apologize for making you even more nervous audience >> or put you tire make you tired waiting. quite all right. Um short twoour presentation. No, thank you very much u for letting us come in and present. I want to kind of go through what's happening at Century Career Center. Um we'll kind of talk about the data and take a look at some of our programs. Um but we have some very exciting things I think going on this year. Uh so kind of starting things off um our pathways. We still have um 25 pathways at Century Career Center.
028Uh we range everywhere from things like auto service, business, uh agriculture, uh landscaping, uh radio, TV, broadcasting, culinary, um health sciences. There's there's something for just about everyone out of our major career clusters um within the CTE pathways. U comparing us to other career centers, we actually are able to offer quite a few more pathways than most career centers around Indiana um that you'll find. And I think based on our size and our enrollment, that's very impressive with what we're able to do. Um, so I'm I'm very, you know, happy to kind of give that opportunity to those students and and a lot of that is what we're able to do partnering with Loganport High School and having, you know, those students readily available, you know, on our campus as well. Um, looking at the
029numbers, it it's actually pretty challenging to get like uh an exact unique student count. Um we do service um six other school corporations uh including Logansport Community School Corporation. Uh but when we start trying to take a look at how many different students or unique students do we have in the career center each day um it's just they're under 1100 at 1,088. Um but then we start taking a look at what are those students doing. Uh we have a lot of students, for example, coming from the high school that get to just walk right down the ramp and they might they might do auto service in the morning and then later in the afternoon take a business class. So they're kind of exploring their options. They're maybe not set on one pathway right off the
030bat. And so when you start tallying up like how many seats we're filling, um that's where our our numbers start jumping quite a bit. And that's where we have the 1843 seats uh each day within our spaces. uh taking a look at at total enrollments as well. Um this is quite large compared to a lot of other facilities uh where they would just offer like a an AM section and a PM section and and they typically tend to limit their students closer to the 5 to 800 range depending on on where you are. Um looking at like Greater Lafayette Career Academy for example, um their facility was just redone. um they're not able to kind of house as many students or or work through. But uh what we're able to do with Logansport High School,
031kind of mirroring that traditional high school um seven period bell schedule, we can double block our classes or single block our classes depending on the time frame needed for that. So that gives us a lot of flexibility, allows us to work with quite a few students and give our students the opportunity to explore what they really want to do. uh versus sometimes, you know, you wait till your junior senior year and you think, I'm really interested in construction. Um, you know, I've got a family member who works construction and I'm going to work construction and then you jump into your very first class and after about six weeks you think, man, I don't really like construction. um and and you you've already used most of your high school experience and and so we're able to
032provide a lot of opportunities earlier for our students and I think that gives us a big advantage here in Logansport Cass County which is pretty awesome. Um, taking a look, dual credits, um, is a big part of what we do, Century Career Center, and I think this is also a wonderful opportunity for our students. Um, partnering with IvyTech, um, Vincent's University, uh, primarily, and thinking about that, I should have IU Cooko up there with tomorrow's teachers program as well, Indiana University. Uh, but IvyTech and Vincens do facilitate uh, the majority of our dual credits. And last year we had we had students earn over 4,000 dual credits through Century Career Center. Um that's a huge increase over the last several years. Um taking a look at at what we're doing there, we're starting to see
033students earning technical certificates um through IvyTech University. If you're not familiar with a technical certificate, um I would say it's getting closer to the idea of what that IC looks like. um you know with students from high schools earning that Indiana College core. The technical certificate basically says that students have explored a pathway um that's focused on technical skills or or abilities or career options and they've kind of done all of the uh CTE coursework that goes with that just maybe not necessarily like the math or English or science classes you might find in an associates degree. Um, so those technical certificates are a way for students to show employers that they do have a a very specific skill set and additional education beyond your typical high school diploma. Um, so we're looking across our
034programs u construction and health sciences for example uh we are meeting those criteria for those technical certificates and that's something that you're going to see. I'm going to be really excited next year to talk about how many students have have earned that with us and what we're able to do there. But I think that's going to be a good step up for some of our students who are wanting to go straight into the workforce when it comes comparing to other students who maybe graduate and want to enter, but they don't have that same kind of postsecary credit already. Um, and not to leave Vincen's University out, but we also have a very successful program through project excel with them and five of our programs use them for dual credit as well. So, between IvyTech, Vincens's
035and Indiana University, uh, we have students easily depending on where they go, the tuition rate or that that credit hour um, can vary anywhere from $250 to, you know, $400 a credit. Uh but but it's very safe to say with the 4,000 credits that we earned last year, we're we're saving over one and a half million dollars worth of tuition payments towards our students. And I think that's a huge huge deal for Cass County and our population. Um these credits stay with students even if they decide they're not going on to college right out of high school. Maybe they work for five, 10 years and they start kind of thinking, man, you know, if I just kind of went back and and did this one associates or I added a little bit here, I I'd
036be looking at like a three $5 pay jump, you know, in my rate, those credits will be there. And so, we're able to kind of give them that head start. Uh, but I think one thing that that's always kind of unique about the career center is we really are high school, college, and workplace kind of all all wrapped up into one facility. Um but this has been about a 30 three% increase in dual credits over the last three years. Um a big part of that has come from looking at our programs, mapping our pathways out and then working with our post-secary partners to see what options are and see uh what our teachers or instructors are able to credential with. Um, and one thing that that does kind of make that interesting is the fact
037that most of our instructors are not traditional teachers by trade. They've worked in the industry. Um, and they come in with their own certifications and between industry experience and their certifications, they are able to be accredited through those institutions and that's how our students are able to earn credit that way. Um so traditional teachers typically have a master's degree within an area or working on a program towards that. Um and our path looks a little different. Uh but it is still able to provide an opportunity for our students. Uh certifications have also been a really big push. In fact, this has been a priority on my end um since joining the career center. And and I'll admit I'm gonna kind of brag a little bit here, but um we've moved from about 75 certifications a
038year to over 400. And and I think that is is a pretty big step. Um it's a really big step. And it wasn't one step. I mean, it it was several steps over time, but but a lot of a lot of work with Matt and our instructors in taking a look at our programs, taking a look at our pathways, taking a look at what industry needs are and and then also looking at what Commission for Higher Ed is kind of saying, hey, uh these these programs should have certifications in these areas and and what are we doing? U one of the biggest, I think, hurdles with that was funding certification exam costs. uh typically that was something that students had to kind of you know bear or kind of you know take on themselves and
039I think a lot of students when it when it came down to it you I don't have $300 for a welding exam you know I understand that that's that's kind of what I've been working towards but I just don't have it and we wouldn't get it and so we've been able u to kind of see a change from the state level they are providing reimbursements for some exams and certifications not all uh but we're also able to utilize some grant funding to try and help cover those costs for students. And and our goal at the career center is if you're in a program learning this because it's a trade or a skill that you're interested in, I I want you to be able to have that sorry, I should say, we want you to have
040that opportunity um to qualify for that exam and take that assessment. And so we've worked at trying to take the dollars out of the equation. Uh we've also mapped everything out to make sure that we're meeting the opportunities that we can and we're not missing something um that honestly might have just been readily available and and wasn't recognized or pursued. Um quite a variety through there. Um our health sciences for example um adding CPR in for all of our students uh including that with our public safety as well. You know the state recognizes that exam but they don't want to fund it. Um, we feel it's pretty important if you're going to be, you know, like a nurse, a doctor, a police officer, a firefighter, you probably need to have your CPR certification and not
041later when you graduate. You really need it now because we want you buying in to your future career, you know, and what that looks like. Um, and so we're able to utilize, like I mentioned earlier, you know, grant dollars to help offset that. Uh, we added new programs, uh, last year. CCMA, that's the certified clinical medical assistant, fire and rescue, and then also smart manufacturing. Those all came with additional certification opportunities for students. Um, I realize that that looks pretty small up there on the screen, and and I'm happier to share additional certification or spreadsheet with you if you like a good spreadsheet. Uh, but, uh, fire and rescue, for example, has a lot of a lot of certifications that come with it. um things coming from uh NIMS, the national uh incident management system.
042Students uh become qualified in and how to respond to things and and operational awareness with hazardous materials. And then also the fire oneert, which is what most of our students kind of think of when they think of the firefighting class or the fire and rescue. But uh certifications, uh I think continue to be a big push for us. and uh looking at what the state's doing with the credentials of value. Um this is something that you'll probably hear me talk about and I could talk for like two hours uh when it comes to some of that. I will not. Uh but but in the future we'll talk a little bit about what those credentials of value look like, what it means for our students and the new graduation diploma uh that comes with the class
043of 2029. those students aren't graduating until then, but those credentials of value, they they do kind of start now with that freshman group. So, we're balancing our upper classmen and and what credentials they're allowed to use and what qualifies with the the new students incoming as well. Uh, and then everyone loves accountability. Um, career center career center has our own model as well. And, uh, I'm going to I'm going to save you the walking through every indicator. Um what I will kind of direct your attention to is uh the third column from the right um where we see like the red block and and so on. Um we do have standards that that we are not meeting as a career center and uh I talk with Mrs. Starky about this every year. Um we work
044on what we can and and we still work on the things that that are even challenging. Um but some of them honestly I feel are a little outside my control. Um, I'll use one example as uh students academic uh preparedness when it comes to science like they've done the biology ECA typically as a freshman or a sophomore. I do have some freshman sophomores, you know, in the career center. Uh, but a lot of times I'm working with upper classmen. They've already tested. They've already done this. And so when they graduate as a senior, depending on how they scored on that biology exam, that might have been four or three and a half years prior, that's where I get graded. And and so it's very difficult for me to change or affect that. Um and so
045some of these some of these do kind of fall into play like that. Now, there are things we can do integrating academic content. Um geometry within construction, so I can try and help with mathematics, algebra, you know, does tie its way into everything. I was a math teacher myself, so I can make an argument for it. Um, and then English, things like communicating and writing um, in business classes, you know, business level communication and what does that look like? There are things that we can do um, to kind of bring that together. Um, other things that we look at are postprogram placement, um, student credentials earned, student dual credits earned, uh, work-based learning opportunities. uh those those three things right there the post-secary credits the uh work-based learning component and then also the credential are
046are actually considered uh CTE program quality metrics and so you know looking at those we're trying to uh make sure that we are enhancing you know what the career center does and also how our students measure up when it comes to that so I've talked about a lot of exciting things here I'm going to let Matt Lang kind of talk about some kind of more boring and programs. I appreciate your attention to that. Please try and keep your focus. >> I got to tell you, it's this is my third year doing this and I've been begging Bob for three years to let me stand up top. So, finally, so you might want to wait a minute. Uh I'm uh it's very exciting and and uh Bill just handed me a set of keys for what
047I'm going to talk about. And I know you guys uh heard about it a little bit at your last board meeting potentially. Um but it's a property just around the corner. It's called 2520 Stadium Drive. And this is this has been 2 and a half years of work um from John Michael Price, Bill Cup, Mike McCord's been in on it um for to culminate uh today. Literally, it closed today. And for you that don't know a whole lot about this, uh, Bill and John Michael had a had an idea a couple years ago that the city or the RDC, um, the TIFF funds would go into building a or buying a project home that the career center could renovate and then we would figure out what we would do uh, with the property and then
048once it's sold, we would keep the funds uh, the excess funds for the career center. And we looked and we looked and we looked for a property that would fit into this category and uh, we finally found one. this summer. Um, uh, Kyong found it. It was a family friend and, uh, it we toured the property and it just looked like it needed to be, uh, worked through. And the whole idea of, Bill was we were going to find a property on a major thoroughare that we could redo, make Loganport a little bit better, get the kids some opportunity to work in a real life project because one of the uh, one of the key things we hear from people when they they tour the Curtis Center, of course, you get on the eyewing wall
049and all these homes that we did. uh 30 years ago, why don't we still do this? Uh and I I don't think they understand. We try to explain to them that it has nothing to do with our drive. It has to do with bell schedules and a lot of time a lot of times it needs to be invested. Plus, uh Bob and I made a made a pretty serious commitment that we weren't going to burn out our construction trades teacher, whoever that may be, uh with a property like that because there's many things that go into a property besides actually being a teacher. So that we were committed to not doing this. And when he Bill came up with this idea, this gave us an opportunity to stick our feet in or get our feet
050wet without uh without falling into the pond, so to speak. And uh stadium drive is is it. So um we're very proud of this. I know I talked to Kai this morning and after I talked to Bill and we knew was closed and he's ready. Everything's ready to go. He's got the siding ready to go. The the windows, we're doing siding, windows. We're going to do some updating inside, some new flooring, maybe a little bit of work in the bathroom, landscaping, uh a new uh what else will we do? We're going to move a wall, make the property seem a little bit bigger. Um >> move just a small one. Just a small just a small wall. Um so what we wanted to stay committed uh was this was going to be a crosscurricular activity.
051Um, so I put up there the six uh items or the six different uh paths that will be involved in this. And of course, construction traits is number one. Kai's going to carry the lines uh lion share of the project um with with all the all the construction needs. And we try to figure out what we can do beyond that that could bring other students into a learning experience. And and we went to Molly Sta who's our BIS one side of our business program. She actually handles the social media marketing aspect. said, "Here's what we're thinking, Molly. We want you to head a team of other instructors and work this property uh from start all the way through finishing the sale of the property so we could do the marketing um from step A to
052Z or the students could do the marketing." And she was very gracious and jumped in uh with both feet, so to speak, and and uh we just had a meeting last week about this where we're starting to begin the process and understand. So the two people that'll be involved directly with her would be digital photography, taking pictures as the property sets right now and then as we move through the uh the progress through the property all the way to our our hope is that uh we will be able to market and sell the property ourselves potentially the city would uh themselves uh and we could use that those pictures and also radiant TV with the video drone footage which we have at the career center. they could do drones through it uh through the house
053and outside the house trying to make it into what a marketing or a digital marketing would look like in 2025 and the kids have really bought in especially social media marketing kids with the ideas of how they're going to do how it's going to play out how they're going to shoot the frames or how they're going to ask to shoot frames so they would hold the key aspect of that so we we brought those those two in so that brings us to four agriculture of course we've got some landscape design I need a little facelift on the front side, a little drive by appearance. Uh so they'll handle all the replanning. Uh they'll handle all the uh the rework that that would come from curb appeal. And then I was walking through the cur actually
054Mike and I talked about it in the meeting. How would we get signage out front? Because we're going to want some signs to understand not only our partners which are the city of Loganport, Cleo, the RDC, uh McCord's stepped in, all these all these places have given us some sponsorship or some some backing on this. And how we thank those Mike graciously offered McCords and we're thinking we need something a little more. We want to move this prop move this from property to property. This is not a oneoff. This is going to happen hopefully every year. Um, so I'm walking through the hall the other day. I'm like, you're an idiot. We have an engineering department. We have 3D printing in the engineering. Why don't we just build the sign ourselves within the career center,
055add another program. So Tony Maple had one of his students. Uh, I'll actually show them to you. They're actually kind of cool. So we 3D design like the city of Logan Sports logo or well our logo of course. We got to put that out there. What we'll do is add those two assigns. It'll be more si we'll call semi-permanent in the sign. We'll be able to plan it then and then we'll move it, put it in construction trades and when we get a new property, we'll plant it at the new property. And uh so we were be able to involve this student with design and logo cuz you still pull this off off a picture. This has to be designed from step one to to step Z. Okay. Or step five, whatever you want to
056call >> completely one to Z. >> One to Z. >> I'm leaving on that one. too. >> Thanks, Bill. >> Um, but anyway, I thought I'd open up for some questions because I know it's a kind of a weird project. Um, and I know Bill just left, so that doesn't help us out any, but if anybody has any questions on 2520, uh, the the prospective end date or culmination date will be sometime in the spring. We hope to get it done before graduation, but it's taking a little bit of time to get the property in our hands. Uh, probably about a month and a half longer than what we really thought. So, our still our end goal is to get it on the market somewhere in the in early spring. >> Does anybody have any
057questions? Come on, Melt. >> I will say I was at the signing this morning and uh apparently Matt did a great job of getting to lower their price a little bit. Yeah, we talked about that and what and one of the things that we haven't got exactly figured out, but the but the hope is that with the with the profits, you might make this product, you put it back into some kind of scholarships into the the property and and you know, I told the PE the people this morning, you know, that a lot of times these kids when they need to go into the construction business, they need to come with their own tools. So, there could be some way we could take this scholarship and turn it into something where we could help them
058buy their first tools to to get out on the job site. And the family this morning that sold the house, uh, they asked that we would invite them to the ribbon cutting whenever that happened. So, they wanted to kind of keep in touch with what what you guys do with it. So, >> I'll speak to that, Mike. I didn't even That was probably the most important thing of the whole project. And I forget it. Right. Uh, the idea is 40. >> Thanks. Thanks. The idea is 40% of the profit would go to scholarships or grants. We've tried to quit using the scholarship word just as Mike had spoke about is um many of our students especially along the Iwing probably not going to go to college. They're probably going to go into the job field
059or the job market and the one thing that they're lacking is the the money to or monies to buy tools or adequate clothing uh to start. Maybe it's a in the construction industry where they need tools or maybe it's in the welding industry where they're going to need a box full of or a tool box full of a different type of tool. So 40% there. The other 40% which is a really ingenious idea. Um goodness sake I just lost my mind. Uh it's really ingenious idea. Bill came up with it. Well we'll talk about the 20% and then I'll talk about the 40%. 20% is actually going to go back into like a paint fund. So when we rehab a home, uh then we can offer money or the city can offer money to houses
060adjacent to the home where they can be fixed up. Um and this will this will help bring up the value of the neighborhood and both properties in themselves. 40% >> Oh gee whis um yeah the other 40% goodness sakes is for a an apprenticeship. If you know much about the city, the city has a college apprenticeship program for the summer. Um, we decided that it would be a good idea to do a high school apprenticeship. So, the student maybe we could give them to Steinberger or put them in Steinberger for the summer instead of asking Steinberger to not pay them. It would be a we'll call it a trial period with them and the students are the other 40%. So, 40% grants, 40% apprentichip, and 20% into a uh we'll call it a paint fund.
061And all this is handled through the city of Loganport. We we pretty much step back away from all this. We're doing the work. they're they're donating the money back to us or donating the different causes back to us and and it's a it's a pretty cool relationship and it it's been a long time for Bob and I and it almost it makes me so excited about it because not only the opportunity for the kids right now, right, we the seniors and juniors that'll be working on this project, but the opportunity for other kids to enjoy from the reinvestment back uh whether that comes through through the the grant process or potentially the the thought process is the money that is set aside by the RDC or the TIFF funds that could be used again. It's
062set aside for this project so that it'll always have an account fund or an account amount that we can use in the future. So really excited about it. >> That's too easy. >> Well, Bob, you nailed it when you said your part was a lot more exciting. >> I know. I did agree with one statement you made though, Matt. >> Was when you called yourself an idiot. >> That's nice. >> So, it's not like I wasn't listening. >> Well, thank you. At least you're listening to me. >> No, I I think I'll speak for uh uh Bob here when I say this. It's It's pretty cool when you get to go to work and at a place you love you and do something that you understand that kids are going to appreciate. um and you
063can give them a little bit of future work and let's just say they don't have such a clear view of what they're going to do. So it makes me proud that we could stand up here and he undersells what he does in the process of giving kids all the opportunity, right? Whether it be, hey, if I don't want to go to college, I'm going to give you credits in anyway, right? Because Matt Lang at 17 years old probably wasn't thinking about that even though I spent a lot of time in college without finishing. But Matt Lang as a parent understands that when his son, you know, I've saved probably almost to $100,000 on my kids uh getting dual credit. So, it is it's remarkable that a kid can come in, get a certification, get dual
064credits, possibly get an associates degree or a technical diploma and do what they want to do. That that's pretty cool for me. and for us being able to provide that for them and for all you providing that for us. It's pretty remarkable to be in that position. So, I just wanted to say thank you. And I always I always laugh when people get up and say thank you to people that are in front of that may sign their checks. I'm always like, "Wow, they're kissing butt." But it is really it's really a thing. It's a really a thank you, right? Because we don't get to do what we get to do without you guys. and and we hope that we can keep moving towards what we need to do in the future to make not
065all the students uh great but every student great, right? So, we want to be able to to be that transfer for them wherever they want to go. So, I thank you and it'll be three more years since you have to listen to me, Mel. So, we'll be okay. We might both be retired by then. Who knows? >> Yeah. Well, I'm off the board after next year, Matt. So, I think I'm covered. >> Perfect. >> Thank you. But anytime we get the students out of a classroom and actually hands-on doing that type of thing, it's it's a great thing. You know, whether it's building a house or re redoing a house or whatever. I think that's, you know, there are students who just don't want to be sitting in a classroom all the time. And I
066hope I hope the state will recognize things like this that our students are involved in that may not show up on a test score. So well this kind of stuff ripples through the community. We had through this process with Bill and some others like Habitat for Humanity is doing some work in town and they start hearing what's going to happen in here and they're going well you know they had a program and they have some kids electric company in Lafayette helps sponsor some intern kids to do habitat houses in the summer. And I said, 'Well, that might be perfect here. These so the kids that are in the building trades department get have they could someone give them some money in the summer to help build a Habitat for Humanity after they finish your house.
067I mean, so so it's just it's interesting where you get one person hears it and all a sudden they you know, it just kind of like a snowball effect, but um and I know that everybody involved with it so far has been very excited. It's been very hard for the city of Loganport to find anybody that was willing to like flip houses. You know, there's a lot of landlords that buy a house and don't do much to it and they get people to come in and pay them, but they don't really fix them up. So, I think there's a lot of excitement that that this could be something where the kids, you know, it's not so big that they, you know, sometimes we used to in the old days when we used to build houses,
068they wouldn't be able to get it all done in a year. So, it's kind of it lost some of the effect there. And again, I think it needs to, this is something I think will help rejuvenate the department, say, "Oh, this is really cool. We get to to rehab a house or whatever." and the skills that whether they get in the industry or not, the skills they're going to learn here, they'll use for a lifetime. So, it just anyway, everybody in the city level is very very excited about it. So, we'll see what happens. Questions, comments, anybody? All right. Thank you very much. >> Good work, guys. >> Okay, moving back into the agenda. We're going to do the first reading on uh some policy changes. There'll be no vote on Mrs. because this is
069just the first reading, but I'll run through real quickly in case you have interest, those of you are watching us online to come in and find out what what these changes or policies are about. Um, again, I'm going to not list the policy number. You'll have to come in and bug Tammy for that when she comes in. Uh internal control and standards and procedures, time and effort reporting, bad checks and uncollectible debts, budget hearings, disposition of real real property, disposition of surplus property, safety standards, video surveillance, electronic monitoring, uh accounting system for capital assets, volunteers, uh personnel background check, student records, school safety information, environmental health and safety, parasitic infection, Oo, headlights, bed bugs, and more fun things. Uh, food service program, a replacement, uh, wellness, vending machines, transportation for field and other corporation sponsored
070trips, school visitors, and public attendance at school events. So, those are all upcoming. There'll be changes to those policies. Those will be available in the office for anybody wants to come in and to see those. Moving on to department comments. Uh, Mr. Correct, we haven't heard from you for a while. No more resolutions tonight. >> That's it. Resolutions. Just one update for you. Junior high project. Uh with fall break approaching, uh looking forward to getting in there with some kids away from campus for a week and trying to wrap up a couple last minute items for us to to wrap up that project. I know Mr. Storm's excited for that. He's enjoyed their company, but show must go on, right, without those folks. So, uh, anyway, looking forward to wrapping that project up and and
071turning all areas back over to Mr. Storm and his team. So, >> all right. Any questions or comments? All right, moving on. Technology, Mr. Fall. >> Yeah, on fall break, we're going to be also doing two projects update. We're going to be updating the live streaming uh components outside of the press boxes and the high school so that we can get better capacity up there. And then we'll be adding a huddle camera to the baseball field. >> Oh, cool. >> Comments, questions for Mr. Fall? No. >> All right, moving on to curriculum. Mrs. Rosie. >> Um, I actually I have elementary up well, one elementary update and a few from the junior high and high school. Um, elementary, we're just getting ready for parent teacher conferences this Thursday and Friday. Otherwise, no major changes since
072the last time we met. Um for the junior high, um LJHS is adjusting schedules for approximately a third of their students to include a math lab, um for remediation for the second grading period, and that's based on their performance on the first quarter common assessment. Um twothirds of the junior high students qualified for the first quarter incentive, which was last Friday, and that means that they had no suspendable offenses. they're in good standing as far as tardies and absences are concerned and they had C's or higher in all classes. Um the junior high has also completed the first I learn checkpoint for math and language arts and um when they compare the first checkpoint this year to last year they do see growth from in English language arts and in math. So that's great. Um,
073and then elementary grades three to six will do our first checkpoint uh the week of October 27th. So, ours is coming up as well. And then the junior high is also working on um filling up schedules for parent teacher conferences this Thursday and Friday from Loganport High School. Lumport High School is proud to share that Elizabeth Foster, Natalyia Hernandez, and Gold Kitel are all finalists for the 2026 Lily Endowment Scholarship, which is amazing. Um, there are seven finalists and three are Logan Sport kiddos, which is fabulous. Um, this past Sunday, 22 seniors started a new tradition of painting senior parking spots um in the variable parking lot. So seniors were able to submit a design to administration for approval to show their individual individuality, creativity, and school spirit. So that's pretty cool, too. And then
074finally, congratulations to Ava Pay, Adia Pay, Ellison Kitell, Cooper Priogal, Chris Knap, and Calvin Mackey on being selected to the Allstate Honor Choir. Questions and comments. All right. Thank you very much. Moving on to superintendent's comments, Mrs. Starky. >> Yeah. Well, first of all, I'd like to once again thank the members of the LEA bargaining team for all their work and effort. Um, like I said, it was a it's a it's a team effort in Loganport. um has been and as long as I'm here, that's the focus we will continue to do because as I tell them all the time, um we need to make sure we offer the best we can as part of our contract in order to attract the best because that's what our kids deserve. Um so I was going to
075just comment yesterday, Mr. Miller sent shot me a text and said, "Hey, if you're out walking, check out painting the parking spots today." So I went up a couple times. Um they took it really seriously. I mean, parrots had their tents out there cuz it was hot and then they had tents out there. Multiple people painting away and then I went by last night and actually Michael was just there taking some follow-up pictures. They look really nice. Very impressive. And I would imagine then each year like it'll grow, right? So, it it's exciting, I think. And um >> how many we have? You know, >> you said 22. >> 22. We had 16 come in paint um and 22 total that were submitted. So, >> in the main line, >> the variable variable >> variable
076line. Good. >> Y, >> which that's something they've done this year, which it's wonderful. Um, if you ever go up there during dismissal time, like it gave gave me hives and even worse, I don't know what because I go up and help with dismissal every year at the beginning of the year for the first week. Um, moved all of student parking to the variable parking lot. Um, so it's there was some moaning and groaning from the kids and like whatever, but it's It's It's worked out very well. >> Front row access. So, >> yeah. >> Um anyway, and it's hard to believe the end of the grading period was last Friday and we're at parent teacher conferences this week. Um and then we have fall break uh next week. Um and then November f 4th
077is our next professional development day. So that's a full day of PD. Is it fourth break? No, >> the fifth. I'm sorry. February 4th. >> I know. I always Yeah. >> November 5th. February 4th. I'm sorry. Um, but it's our next uh full PD day and so um we will be picking up where we left off with our safety training and then in addition doing some other um uh things focused on literacy especially. So, um the safety training is going very well and on October 27th we will be having a uh parent night to talk about Alice training and have some other um other uh safety things there uh for parents to hear about. So, um we're excited about that. We'll be hosting that in the Kale Auditorium with more information to come on that.
078And um you can't tell these two get excited at all about career and teched. So, um, great job, fellas. So, good work. And, uh, that's all we have. >> All right. Any comments, questions for Mrs. Turkey? All right. Moving on to the next opportunity for public comments. I don't believe we'll have anybody here tonight. Stop me if we do. All right. Moving on to the board member comments. Mrs. Bird. >> Well, good job to you guys. Um, I was impressed last year when I came through and just great things there. Mr. Hess, thanks to those involved with the uh bargaining and um and how things have worked out yet again and that should be enough to get me through my board tenure. So, u I should be I should be cleared and good to go.
079>> What do we get? What do we got? >> Before the next contract comes up. >> Got you here, Bill. What What's going to happen? >> You got another hold this all together. And thanks to the career center folks. >> Good, good job, guys. Bob, I know you have a big handicap to deal with, but you handled it well. We're proud of you. >> Poor Matt Lang. >> I don't dish it out to those who can't dish it right back. So, >> he's a disher. >> I'm not going to tell the cat handicap for workers. Okay. All I can say is just just to piggyback on that is to say uh with the LEA and the and the negotiations like that it it is always it it's been interesting to me for 17 years >>
080a long time >> where where the the uh you know the person that comes in that kind of the uh where the union steward comes in and and and often almost every year talks about how the relationship in our school corporation is so much different than what they run into at other places. Um we have always been a school that has been a big believer in opening our books up and saying here's what we've got. Um and so it's not a you know and there there are schools apparently that do not do that. They you know they keep the money kind of secret or whatever. Um we has all have always done that and then it's always a wonderful situation because I you know you see the teachers as a as a group first we'll
081say you know we want all that money then they realize no we got bus drivers and we got secretaries and we've got cafeteria workers and stuff and then and it's education for them too to go oh I guess we do kind of need those people too don't we yeah we do so it really is kind of a matter that as you go through the process where people kind of understand you know it takes all these people it takes a village to to make our school corporation and that's always to me is kind of a um a nice spot that I think that you know it'd be easy to be what about me, what about me, what about me, but you really do see teachers come out and talk about the support services and support staff
082and how important they are so they can do their jobs. So anyway, so again, thanks to everybody that is involved with that and thanks for the they ratified their part of it, I guess, on last week or >> Thursday last week. So we'll finish our in pretty soon. Um that's all I have. It was now time for board.