001Mr. >> Rose for the pledge of >> allegiance. I aliance 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. Good evening everyone and welcome to the July 24th man time flies. Uh school board meeting. We'll first start off with our for the good of the cause. If any patrons would like to use this platform, you have three minutes. You can start off by stating your name for the good of the cause. All right, we'll move on to spotlight on Pike. >> Sorry. And I've only seen the board meetings online during co time. What is for the good of the cause? >> For the good of the cause, if any patrons of the community that can use
002this platform to talk about anything for the good of the cause, you have three minutes and you have to start by stating your name. >> And good of the cause, just any topic related to the schools, any issues or things like that. Is that what that means? >> Well, there are certain issues that we won't entertain like HR issues. We won't entertain um student trouble issues that pertain to a certain student. We have to talk about the names and stuff like that. There's channels for that. But as far as like good news um things that for the good of the cause, those are acceptable. >> Okay. Um I and I don't know if when is the appropriate time or maybe it's in the future. I just kind of wanted to to discuss Pike High School's
003like school hours or start times. >> Okay. So uh what we can do is we'll get you uh after the meeting uh we'll get you in contact with the people that u that you'll need to talk to and then if you don't like your answer from there then you can approach us then we can go from there explain how that works. >> Okay. All right. So no one for the good of the cause now we'll move on to spotlight on Pike and Sarah Dorsy. >> Good evening. It's wonderful to see you all. Um as always we've had a lot going on here in Pike. Of course, they're getting ready to start the 2025 2026 school year next Thursday, which is amazing. We've already had our first round of schedule pickup and meet the teacher evenings
004and we have several coming up next week as well. Um, the YMCA hosted their back to school fest and it was absolutely amazing. We want to sincerely thank the Orthoindi YMCA, our friends at One Fellowship Church, and all of the amazing volunteers and organizations that took part in providing so many wonderful services for our community. Um, there were physicals, there were immunizations, there were the Lions Club was there doing eye screenings. I understand it was their first time there. And there's just a plethora of wonderful community resources available as well as a DJ, a bounce house, and just a lot of fun. And it was very well attended. Um, we also had the opportunity to host a booth at the Indiana Black Expo summer celebration again this year. Uh, it's always fun to visit with
005the people who come up to our booth and share their Pike connection. A lot of times those are Pike proud alumni um that specifically look for us and a lot of times they're Pike parents um that are very proud of their Pike alumni. This year we had the opportunity um during the time I was there to meet a gentleman whose five children all were graduates of Pike and he was extremely proud um and said how much he loved Pike. While Dr. Young was there, Jay Brown um who as you know was extremely successful in track and field this year and her mother came up to the booth to take a picture with him and just indicate how much they appreciated the support that they received from Pike. Um and we want to thank everyone who
006volunteered and also um just a special shout out to Mr. Dan Bordoner because he always does such a phenomenal job setting up the booth for us. It really did look great. Um and we had a lot of reasons as always to be Pike proud. Also this summer, several of our current and actually incoming Pike High School girls and boys basketball players had really successful summers with their AA au teams racking up multiple college offers. So that was exciting to see and we look forward to sharing some of those in the near future. Mr. Eric Parr, who teaches earth and space science at Pike High School, was the only educator in Indiana, selected to spend the week working with scientists aboard an EPA research vessel and bring what he learned about the Great Lakes back to
007his classroom. Um, and last but never least, we want to thank the donors listed on this evening's agenda for their incredible generosity and ongoing support. The Pike Township Education Foundation donated $5,500 worth of supplies to our Pike High School Robo Devils. The Pike Township Education Foundation donated a book vending machine to Central Elementary School and that value was $7,795. There is a very, very cool story behind that donation and I'm going to try to get permission to share that in the near future. Orthoindi YMCA donated 55 backpacks filled with school supplies at an estimated value of $900. and the Indianapolis Colts donated uniforms, books, and toiletry items with an estimated value of $25,000 to College Park Elementary School. So, we're extremely grateful. >> All right. Thank you to our communications officer. Reports to the board.
008We have no reports to the board. So, we'll move on to our action items. Action item eight, minutes of the board of education, regular meeting, July 10th, 2025. I move we accept the revised version of the July 10th regular meeting board minutes as presented. >> I second. >> We have a first and a second. We'll go on to vote to accept the revised version of the July 10th, 2025 meeting minutes. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Now we'll move on to to vote on uh the the revised minutes. Are there any comments or questions? >> Point of order. We voted on that, Mr. President. >> We're on action item. >> I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry. On to B. Board of Education policies recommendation recommended for approval. Dr. Bishop. >> Good
009evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I seek your approval of action item B, approval of board of education policies as presented. I make a motion that we accept the board. Oh my gosh. Board policies presented as approve. As presented. There we go. Second. >> It's going around. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? >> Questions. Mr. President. >> Sir. >> Dr. Bishop, how do you feel about the bullying piece? >> Um, good. There is new legislation that we're bringing forward. We have already been in communication with our legal council to update our um processes, forms to make sure everyone is on the same page. Um we actually talked about that today at our district safety meeting. So we feel we are prepared to take on
010and make sure we're adhering to legislation. But I I will say to you that our timeline was very similar to what they have made it. Um, so that we felt like we were a step ahead in that regards. >> Thank you, Dr. Bishop. >> You're welcome, sir. >> Any more? >> Um, my comment would just be thank you to you and to the, um, folks on the board who are on the policy committee um, getting to watch your interaction and thank you to the technology folks who set that up. Um, it is definitely going to reduce the emails that I have to send with questions about policy. It was so great to hear that conversation and get to watch that. So, thank you. >> Thank you, >> Mr. President. I have another one for Dr.
011Bishop. >> Yes, sir. >> Dr. Bishop, uh, how do you feel about the safety standards? I've read them. How do you feel about it? >> I think we're in a good place. Um, as it relates to the safety standards, once again, I think one of the, uh, opportunities that Dr. Young afforded us today is, um, spending a full day today from 8:30 to 3 with our district safety specialist. The last several years we have worked to make sure that every school has a safety specialist whether in basic safety or advanced safety and all of our schools are well represented. Um at the high school they actually have more than one. So we are working really hard to stay on top of all of this information but also empowering our folks to be prepared. Um, the
012one thing I will say is that we're also working to make sure that when these policies come across that there we're very transparent and making sure that everyone who needs to have the information gets the information in a timely manner. Um, that's a that's a that's a a really important one for me. Not that it hasn't been, but there's so much legislation that you're bringing across um, Dr. more that we want to make sure that everyone understands all of the changes and how it affects everyone within a policy and state legislation. >> Thank you, Dr. Bishop. >> Yes, sir. >> Any more questions or comments? >> All right, we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? >> Motion carries. Thank you very much, Dr. Bishop. >> Next, we'll
013move on to the human resource report. Due to the confidentiality, we won't entertain any questions or comments. Dr. Hunter. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Young, I ask that you approve the HR report as presented. >> I make a motion that we approve report as presented. >> We have a first and a second. We'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion carries. Thank you, Dr. >> Thank you, sir. Next we have approval of me memorandum of understanding between the MSD of Pike Township and Marian University. Dr. Gatewood. >> Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board and Dr. Young. I am seeking approval for theou between MSD of Pike and Maran University as presented. >> I make a motion that we
014accept the memorandum of understanding between MSD of Pike and Marian University as presented. >> Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. Any oppose? >> Motion carries. Thank you, Dr. Gaywood. >> Next, we have anotherou approval to apply for the Jean Hos Foundation grant. Mr. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I'm seeking approval for action item E, approval to apply for the Gene Hos Foundation grant as presented. >> I recommend that we approve the um memorandum of understanding to apply for the Gene Hos grant as presented. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? >> Point of clarification. I believe Mr. Huffer
015meant to make a motion. >> I mean a motion. I apologize. Yes. Are there any questions or comments? >> Okay, we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. >> Any oppose? >> Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Emit. >> Thank you, sir. >> I'd like to combine actions items F, G, and H. Claims and allowance, contracts, and donations. Miss Gray. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I present to you action items F, G, and H, which include 11 contracts and four donations. There is one correction to action item F in the description area of the claims and allowances. The letter L was mistakenly added to the end of that dollar amount due to a typo. So, I request approval of the item as presented with the removal of
016the L as well as as items G and H. >> We accept with necessary corrections, Mr. President. We have first. >> Second. >> Have a second. Are there any questions or comments on actions items with the corrections FG and H? >> If not, we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Craig. >> Lastly, we have board member items. Dr. Moore. >> Uh, it's been a great Thank you for the card, Miss Dorsy. Uh, I know that represents our superintendent and his office. Uh, I hope everybody has had a great summer. We're getting ready to go back into a good a great school year with some uh tough legislative issues to to to contend with. Uh, I look at the HR report. I want
017to commend Dr. Hunter for making sure those staff positions are full. Uh, we appreciate that because we don't ever want to go into a school year without uh as much staff as we can have in place to to meet the needs of our children. And so I wish that all of you will have a great year and take care of your mental health uh while you're working because uh we're going to need each other along the way. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Moore. Mrs. Wilson, >> um just glad to be back. Um, as you all know, I went out of town to Vegas and walked the strip at 112 degrees. Thank God they had casinos where I could jump in and out of those. Um, not >> the strip. >> That's what they call
018it. And, um, casinos had air conditioning. So, um, my sister and my brother-in-law went with us and so we had a had a really good time. Um, so I took care of my mental um, health and so now I'm ready to tackle the new year that we're about to approach. Even with the legislature, I still think Pike has probably one of the phenomenal schools here in the city and we're ready. We got a great board and we're ready to tackle anybody that comes our way. So look forward to it. >> Thank you, Miss Wilson. Mr. Hoofer. >> All right. Good thing those casinos have that air conditioning. Yes. Um well, you know, school year isn't quite started yet and the, you know, things are already starting to happen. As was mentioned, the YMCA back to
019school fest was phenomenal. It was so great being here. So great getting to see so many folks from the community. Um just just a a really great time. So I really do want to thank the YMCA and all the folks that were mentioned that was involved that made it a uh a huge success. Also had a great time. Got to go to Gian Middle School for their back to school night. um looking forward to seeing that cafeteria floor done soon. But other than that um it was a great time. The school was hopping everybody in there and um just seeming to have a real good time. I kept having people stop me ask me how they get into lockers. I'm like it's been 30 plus years since I've gotten into a locker. I have no
020idea. So uh but I can point you in the right direction. Um and do want to just welcome back all the teachers, all the students, everybody. Um and I guess do throw out, you know, stuff about legislation has already been mentioned. what this last year what's done is done but as we look at you know in the work session that we just had and look at the numbers and and see scores and and know absolutely how scores improve as Dr. Young pointed out that, you know, early intervention is so important. Um, just plead to our legislators and our community as you go out and vote and you consider who you're voting for, putting dollars towards what actually works instead of subsidizing the top 1% in our state would sure be a novel concept and we'd
021appreciate it. >> Thank you, Mr. Hoofer. Dr. Webster, >> I have not. >> All right, Mrs. Barnes. Uh first I'd like to thank all the families and students who stopped by our booth at the family fest. Um we had a listening lounge. It's our first hopefully of many this school year just to give you a chance to tell us what's on your mind. Let us know what's on your heart so we can uh govern better. So I wanted to share our sticky dot poll results. We have four questions al together. two for students and two for adults. So, our first student question was, "What do you hope for this school year?" And the number one answer from the students who came by was to have fun. To have fun. That was their uh what they're
022looking hoping for this school year. The second question we asked them was, "What helps you learn best at school?" And the number one answer for that one, games or fun lessons. So P kids want to have fun. Then we go to the two adult questions that we asked. The first one was, what should schools focus on to truly serve our community? And by far the number one answer for that one was improving student learning and achievement, which is great because that's what we're here for. We help we work with uh Dr. Young to make that a reality. And then the second and final question that we asked adults, what matters most to you in your child's education? And the difference between first and second was two little dots. So the number one answer was safe
023and welcoming environments. And so hats off to you, Dr. Young for even identifying that before we went into our referendum because we purposely are seeking to fix that to make that something that's a priority for us too. And then the second answer losing by two dots. Second place is life skills and whole child development. So uh those two were really really close considering all the respondents. It was in the hundreds. You'll have to ask Mr. Huffer for the exact number. He's the numbers person. But um I just look forward to to meeting back uh again with the community and we'll probably roll these questions out again here soon with more sticky dots and more posters thanks to Dr. Bishop. Um, and we have those in three different languages on every poster to try to be
024as inclusive as we possibly can so we can really hear from everybody, not just a certain group of people. So, I thank you for that and I apologize for going a little long on my comments uh this evening. >> Fine. Thank you, Mrs. Barnes. Miss Kelly, >> again, let me add my welcome back as we are in the thick of the beginning of 2025 2026 school year. Again, as was already stated by uh Dr. more if hope you were able to rest, recover, rejuvenate, and get all of the mental wellness that you were. Not that you not that that's all you're going to get, but so that you're ready to start and then continue to practice what you've been practicing to maintain mental health and well-being. Um I was able to attend two of well
025the um PPA the Pike Preparatory Academy and Pike High School's um meet the the back to school evenings where students were getting schedules and orientations and talking about how those buildings work. when I got to PPA, the number of students out of the percent of students that are coming there, the families and students that made it was a very nice crowd. And so, and um our director there was giving families information to help their students be successful. So, if you're there and you follow the plan that was laid out, you should have no trouble being successful. Um and then I went left there and I went over to the high school and saw how we're getting our students enrolled in high school. Again, all the clubs and activities that they have an opportunity to be
026a part of were rep of them were represented. The counselors and social workers were there getting your schedules and you got to see and have time to explore that building and find where your classes were. That's important. So, as freshman and then I was also informed that there were quite a few freshman families that made it out for that early morning um meeting for the initial uh beginning of their children's high school career. So, I think hats off to those families that not that everyone doesn't prioritize, but some put a little bit more emphasis on being there and we appreciate that. learning all that you can learn about what your student what it's going to take for your student to be successful. Half the battle is showing up. So with attendance attendance laws changing because
027the research and data show being present in school improves your outcomes. So missing school you're going to have gaps and you're going to have lags. But if you're present, you are going to be able to increase your outcomes and your own personal success. So students, if you're watching, if you're listening, learn and and hearing what we're saying, be present in school. Take ownership of your learning because it's your learning. I did get an opportunity to speak with a student who didn't like some of the courses that were being presented like as choices and I said well out of what there is you've got to make a decision. I said your mom can't decide your counselor can't decide because you've got to go sit in the class every day. So outside of your core classes the
028electives they're up to you. You've got to make that choice. And so I really like that even the way that parent was empowering that student to take ownership of their learning. So students, you're you're in the driver's seat, especially in high school of where you're going. Not that you don't have to listen to anybody, but you are in the driver's seat and we want you to take ownership of your learning and have a great school year. >> Thank you, Miss Kelly. Dr. Young, >> Mr. President, thank you. I'd like to recognize the Orthoindy again for hosting their annual back to school event here on Pike's campus which allowed access for Pike families. Uh I would like to thank Dr. Hunter for coordinating the Indiana Black Expo uh event. Our booth was very well attended I
029believe for was it three days. We had Pike employees that over three days period of time we man that booth every single moment that the that the event was going on. I did have an opportunity to sit in and I believe Dr. Bishop may have mentioned this. The uh safety training today. It was an all day event. We had cabinet members, assistant principles, principles at the event. They went through different scenarios. They had time to work. They discussed new laws. Again, all in event to help ensure that we are safe when we return to school. I also want to recognize Dr. Nunley. We had an awesome elevate ed, which is our summer training that's provided for our educators. It was a great event and it was well attended. So, thank you to all those uh
030individuals and and organizations. >> Thank you, Dr. Young. Um, welcome back to our staff and welcome to our new staff. Um, I think we have maybe one more meeting, but I have some news on the survey. Uh, we have target dates. We're looking to start on August 14th and 15th. And I will always stress because I know uh the district hasn't had a board initiative in a while. So, we want you to feel completely comfortable with taking the survey. Uh, you don't have to worry about anything. This is a board initiative. So, please feel free help us help you. This is what the board needs to help us see what the climate is. Also, um before Steve and I uh went to the went to the multischool district school board uh meeting in Lawrence, um
031I had a chance to sneak into the coaches awards uh ceremony. So, congratulations to all the recipients there. And also, as I was leaving, we went over to the meeting. Uh, we learned a lot. Uh, charter schools are back at it again. And so, uh, just stay v vigilant and also continue to educate the community on what that means to us. But we've got some new weapons that we've talked about. So, I'm I'm looking forward to see how that's going to come into futation. With that being said, if we get a motion to adjourn the meeting. >> So, move, Mr. President. >> Second.