001Let us rise 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. Good evening everyone and welcome to the July 10th Township School Board meeting. First order of business, I would like to recommend a motion obtain attain a motion to amend the agenda to add an item for tonight. Mr. President, I offer motion that we uh amend the agenda as an action item tonight. A second. Have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? No questions or comments. We'll move on to the vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Uh, next we'll go on to our board of
002education calendar. I guess that would be me uh for for the approval. Oh, I'm sorry. For the the 2526 board meeting calendar uh for the board meetings of next school year. I move we adopt the calendar of the school board of education meetings for the 2526 school year. Second. Second. All right. Thank you very much. Next, we'll move on for the good of the cause of order. We did not have discussion of vote. I'm sorry. Are there any questions or comments? None. No. Now vote. Now you can vote. Okay. Now we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Now for the good of the cause. If any patrons would like to take this platform, you have three minutes. You will start by mentioning your
003name to talk about anything for the good of the cause. All right. We'll move on to the spotlight on Pike. Miss Sarah Dorsy. Good evening. It's wonderful to see you all again as always. As always, we've had a lot of great things going on in Pike. Um, approximately 300 people joined us for Pike Grod and NFL player Mike Derrell's first free camp and community funday on June 28th. And I say approximately 300 because that's how many t-shirts they had and there were none left. So, there may have been more people who just didn't get a t-shirt. But, it was an absolutely wonderful event. Um, and Mr. Jerel and his representative have already expressed interest in doing it again next year. And we want to thank everyone who came out and participated. And also just to
004extend a special thank you to Coach Bvard and our Pike High School football family for the leadership role. Like I they were there helping with all of the drills. We had so many Pike coaches and Pike players out there helping our Pike Youth League players and young students from throughout the community with the drill portion of the event and also Mr. Gruber's team. um for just all of the support that they provided because it was a rather large event. There was a dug tank, there were blowups, um there was a DJ. It was great and everyone did a phenomenal job. Um so just thank them for all of their efforts. This week, Pike High School is hosting the AP TIP advanced placement teacher investment program in partnership with Notre Dame. Um it's a summer learning
005opportunity that prepares hundreds of AP teachers from throughout Indiana for their co coursework for the upcoming school year. Um, and we've done that for several years and they keep coming back and they are just so complimentary of our facilities and also our Pike educators. So, we're grateful for the opportunity to be a part of that. On Tuesday, members of our Pike High School athletic council spent the day at the IHSAA student leadership conference and that was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. this Saturday um as I think you all know is our Orthoindie Foundation YMCA back to school fest that's going to be held at the Pike Freshman Center from 10 to noon prior to the event which is just full of great things for the community including um backpacks with school supplies that are
006given away on a first come first- serve basis there will be um representatives from the Marian County Health Department on hand to host a free back-to school vaccination clinic and they'll be at Pike High School from 9:30 to noon. So, a parent guardian must be present, but that is free for all students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Last, but certainly not least, we want to extend our sincere thanks to the donors listed on this evening's agenda. Angela Cyprus, who generously contributed gift cards valued at $120, and Marian Schulty, who donated task box valued at $67 to Lincoln Middle School for their generous donations. Thank you. We'll move on to reports to the board. Dr. Bishop. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. This evening, I bring to you approximately 12 policies
007that the committee has reviewed. These 12 policies consist of nine revisions, two new policies, as well as a technical correction. The new policies are new in format, but in essence, they're splitting a policy where there is a del delineation between DCS and law enforcement. So, that's a note for you all as you're reviewing the policies. If you have any questions before the next meeting, please feel free to contact me and I will provide you with additional information regarding these 12 policies. One final note, the policy committee will be meeting again in the near future as we did receive a July um update regarding the final um laws that in in that affect, excuse me, our work here in Pike Township. So, these policies will continue to be updated based on local, state, and federal guidelines.
008Thank you, Dr. Bishop. We'll move on to our action items. Starting off with minutes to the board of education public hearing regular meeting June 26. I move we accept the minutes from our June 26, 2025 meeting as presented. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? We'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Next, we have approval of the board of education policies. Dr. Bishop. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I seek your approval of action item B, approval of the board of education policies as presented. Make a motion that we approve the board of education policies as presented. Second. Have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? That being said, we'll move
009on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you, Dr. Bishop. Next, we have the human resource report. Due to the confidentiality, we won't entertain any questions or comments of the human resource report. Dr. Hunter. Thank you, sir. 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 the HR report as presented. Second. We have a first and a second. We'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you, Dr. Hunter. Thank you, sir. I would like to combine action items D and E for a vote. Miss Gray. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I present to you action items D and E,
010which include five contracts and two donations, and I request your approval as presented. I move that we accept action items D and E as presented. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? Let me say we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you, Miss Gray. Lastly, I would like to attain a motion to amend our approved CFO, assistant CFO vote from our last board meeting. I make a motion that we was worded again, sorry. Amen. That we amend our U previous CFO and assistant CFO vote. Second. Okay, we have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? All right, we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you very
011much. Now, we'll move on to I would like to make a uh attain a recommendation for approval that we add a one-year interim contract to the assistant CFO and CFO positions. So, move. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? That being said, we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Lastly, we have board member items. Dr. Moore. Thank you so much. Um, happy to be here tonight. It is warm outside today. I was telling uh, Brother Hoofer as we came in today that as I saw Dr. Young putting his jacket on before he came into the building. I said, "I'm going to wait till now till I get in the building and uh got dehydrated from the parking lot uh to
012uh to this particular chair." Uh I hope everybody's having a great summer. I want to thank everyone who um gave condolences, flowers, and cards for the the uh loss of our brother uh our baby brother. Uh, I'm on my way now to North Carolina to uh work with my older brother now who is on life support. So, keep us um in your thoughts. Uh, I don't know about your prayer list. Your prayer list might be crowded. You might not have enough room to put me on there, but uh keep me in your thoughts. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Mort. Miss Wilson. Um, not a whole lot because I'm going on vacation. It's Saturday morning and I'll be gone for a week and I'm taking the advice of my coworker that says we should be taking
013care of our mental health and I'm not going to spend any money. I'm not going to go I'm not going to be gambling, but I'm going to have fun when I go to Vegas. So, so with that being said, I'll pass it on to you. Thank you, Miss Wilson, Mr. Hoofer. All right. Well, I do hope um everyone is enjoying their summer and really taking the time taking advantage of the time to rest. Um I had a chance to come out to Mr. Jerel's football camp and community day uh last Saturday. It was fabulous. It was so wonderful seeing the kids on the field running around and the different booths that were set up um just to um just it was an awesome thing for the community and also had a chance to speak with
014I wish I had her last name just Norz Melissa. uh uh she works for the agency that helped Mr. Jerel put it on and I just wanted to pass on actually I was talking to her with Dr. Young. She had nothing but high praises for Miss Dorsy and Mr. Gruber. Um I do believe the words of the best that I've worked with in the country so far. Uh she travels all around the country doing the doing this kind of stuff. So I wanted to pass that along. Thank you guys for um you always represent Pike well, but thank you because it definitely made an impression and so appreciate that. Um and looking forward to the back to school fest on Saturday. We're going to have a board table there. I'm not going to steal all
015the thunder. I know others are going to talk about it, but um really looking forward to that and getting to uh to w start welcoming the community back to school. Thank you, Mr. Hoover. Dr. Wester. Nothing, Mr. President. Thank you very much, Mrs. Barnes. Mr. Hoofer, thank you for the the love. I'm about to go ahead and dunk it. So, uh I really excited about the back to school fest that's coming up. We'll be there on Saturday. um the board, we're hosting a listening lounge. Um we really want to hear from you from the community. We want to know what's on your mind. We want to know what's important to you. And so we'll be there to hear you. Our materials are translated into Spanish and into Haitian Creole. Uh thank thank you to uh
016Dr. Bishop for helping us get those printed and ready for you. So please stop by, see us, talk to us. We even have a nonverbal way for you to communicate with us at our booth. So, we really just uh we're excited to see you. Thank you, Mrs. Barnes. Miss Kelly. Good evening. Again, excited about the listening lounge opportunity coming up on Saturday morning. And then also wanting to remind everyone to begin to take advantage of not this week but the next week the well coming up starting on looks like the week of the 22nd visiting your child's school prior to school starting meeting the teachers meeting the principles meeting those educators that will be spending time with your children. You have an opportunity opportunity to do that ahead of time. Please take advantage of it.
017Get to know those folks. They want to know you. They want to communicate with you and share in the learning and um all of those processes with your family and um especially if you're going to be new to Pike. We want you to come and meet us, know who we are, who is your child going to be spending time with. Those are important questions. And um looking forward to being able to attend some of those events as well. excited about the opportunities period even that's going to be taking place the whole morning at the freshman center um on Saturday and just looking forward to kicking off a great school year. It's like we blink and it's going to be here. Thank you, Miss Kelly. Dr. Young. Thank you, Mr. President. I would just um like
018to echo something I heard from Mr. Ludy coming in today which was very similar to what we heard on Saturday. He attended a training at Pike High School. Uh and I believe we had close to 300 educators from around the state and he was sharing that they were just going on and on and on about how fortunate um our educators and our students are to have such beautiful facilities. So just wanted to to pass that compliment on. Thank you Dr. Young. Uh lastly, I want to take this time and opportunity to thank the board. Uh over the last couple of weeks, we've had a whirlwind of um of obstacles and we've all came together. So, I'm really proud of the growth and the unity that you've all have shown as I know I've called you
019and text you so many times, but thank you so much for your support uh for me and also and uh support for each other to get what we have to get done. Thank you for that. Uh, also back to school. Uh, as Miss Kelly said, we blink and here we are. We're about to start school again. So, I hope that everyone got what they need to do over the summer so we can get back to doing the exceptional job that you guys do. And lastly, uh, also to let you know, just to give you tabs on the survey, we are starting, we will be starting the appointment dates very, very soon. Um, but I want to thank you all for giving the board an opportunity to take care of you. And that's exactly what this
020survey is. It gives us a chance to take care of you and that's exactly what we are going to do. With that being said, I'd like to get a motion to adjourn the meeting. So move and second. First and second. Meeting. Thank you very much.