001Let us rise for the pledge of allegiance 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. [Music] Good evening everyone and welcome to the MSD Pike Township School Board meeting April 24th. Good evening. We will go ahead and get started with our for the good of the cause. Any patriots would like to use three minutes for the good of the cause. You may start by stating your name. All right, moving on to Spotlight on Pike, Miss Sarah Dorsy. Good evening. It's wonderful to see you all again. As always, we have a lot of great things going on in Pike. On Tuesday, Pike High School hosted an Earth Day celebration which featured several student clubs and community
002partners, um, including our partners with Resilient Pike. In addition to providing guests with an opportunity to learn about caring for our planet and enjoy time in nature, it was a wonderful opportunity to interact with the animals from our advanced life science class, fish, and explore our beautiful outdoor lab. So, we want to thank Mr. Ma, Mr. Mr. Polarski, and our Pike High School science department for making the event possible and all of the families and community members who participated and came out to enjoy it. Um, we got some great news as far as data goes today. From May 2023 to 2024, Pike again saw a 7% increase in students scoring a three or higher on AP exams. We saw an increase in the number of students taking the exams and also an increase in the
003number of exams taken. Additionally, our students scored above the state average in nine AP courses and above the global a courses. So, we're extremely proud of them for that. Um, we want to congratulate our undefeated Pike High School boys golf and JV baseball teams. Congratulate our girls tennis team for an outstanding start to their season. They're currently 5 to zero in wins um in their two MT contests. And we also want to congratulate Jay Brown who was nominated for and appears well positioned to be named the Indie Stars track and field athlete of the week. Um, there's still time to vote until noon tomorrow. you can cast several votes, but when I just checked, she had 6,602 votes and the person in second place had 767 votes. But we we got to keep going. Um,
004we also want to congratulate Katherine Dine, who was awarded the NFL Player Association's Professional Athletes Foundation Scholarship Award. The scholarship was awarded to one female and one male student in the city. Eligible students were required to be athletes with a 4.0 0 or higher GPA who demonstrated a dedication to academics, athletics, community service, and school involvement. In addition to this scholarship, Katie and Chase Sherm will also be receiving a prestigious scholarship from the YMCA this weekend. So, we look forward to sharing more about that in the very near future. Um, on Sunday, May 4th, we'll be celebrating our academic top 30 and two outstanding alumni hall of fame inductees. they are coach Ashley Barlo and um Dr. Andy Shern. So, we look forward to sharing more about that. Um and we'll also be celebrating them
005um in the Indie Star in an ad that's scheduled to run on Sunday, May 11th. Last but not least, we'd like to sincerely thank the generous donors listed on this evening's agenda. Brandy Aguilera donated $5 to Lincoln Middle School's sixth grade field trip fund. Alan and Sally Mills and Barnes and Thor Thornberg each donated $3,000 to support our teachers appreciation celebration. Books a million donated an estimated value of $5,000 through their annual summer book drive. Jonathan and Marcy Martin and Tom with Management both donated $500 and we received an anonymous $100 donation to support Pike High School's Keep Hope Alive scholarship. at the Pike Township Education Foundation donated $11,000 to support our teacher appreciation celebration, $80 to fund student activities at Lincoln Middle School, and $148 to support Pike Ignite. So, we are extremely grateful
006for um this generosity and support of our district and students. Right. Thank you, Sarah. Next, we have reports to the board, alumni excellence, Dr. Young. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the board for another opportunity to highlight a Pike alumnist that's doing amazing things in their professional career. This is an opportunity for our current students, future students, as well as the community overall to really see what a PI graduate looks like. I'm really excited that this afternoon or this evening, we have an opportunity to highlight Dr. Justin Sanders. His practices in South Carolina, so he could not be here tonight, but we do have a video. Thank you. [Music] on this. Yes. [Music] See if we can do it this way. I think so. [Music] My name is Justin Sanders, uh, owner, dentist here at
007Sanders Dental Studio. graduated high school in 2012 and from there I went to Tuskegee University in Alabama. Um I received a full ride scholarship and then I ended up going to dental school in 2016 at Howard University College of Dentistry. So I'm a big H.B.CU advocate, two time HB.CU graduate. I've been want to be a dentist since I was in the third grade. At Fishbach Elementary, I had a teacher who wanted us to do um kind of a college fair project where we had to shadow somebody, shadow a profession, and I didn't know what I wanted to be. So, I I just knew I liked going to the dentist. So, Dr. Austin, my dentist in Indianapolis, um he allowed me to shadow him a day, and that day changed my life cuz ever since then,
008I've wanted to be a dentist. My senior year, um a program where I was able to credit hours going to IU School of Dentistry. Just going there 3 days a week for about 2 hours at a time and had to build a portfolio and track my hours, presented and just learn the whole realm of dentistry dentistry and that actually I actually held on to that when I was through undergrad and finally time to apply for dental school. I brought it back out. I said, "Hey, I'm not in it for the money." When I was in third grade, I didn't know the value of a dollar. I still wanted to be this. And um they really enjoyed. I had over two 200 hours of shadowing from high school, which the average person doesn't have that at
009all. Um and they said, "Hey, you're serious about this. I'm not going to stop your dream coming to dentist." When I graduated in 2020, which was a pandemic year, I went to work with a corporate office and then was there for a year and then I was in downtown Charlotte at South End Dentistry. But I always knew my goal was to open my own practice. And so I opened this practice this past August, which is a long journey, but I'm actually at my ribbon cutting celebration in about two weeks. Um, so it was a it took a village to help me get to where I am today. I didn't do it by myself. Um, took a lot of work, but can't say just me doing it, can't take the whole credit for that. Mr. Dobs
010helped me out a lot. I know even in situations where I wasn't ne necessarily a great student. I had great grades, but I was also a class clown, which helped me out in the future, being able to communicate with patients, making them comfortable. So, that was me making people laugh, make them comfortable, having fun. There's always a time and place for everything. So, Mr. D kind of helped mentor me. Um, I got in trouble in class and see me in the hallway, he would take me to his office and coach me up. And that really made a big impact on me. When I left Pike and I went to to skating, um like I wasn't top 25 at Pike, but when I got to the school, it really showed me how good Pike was for
011other students because other um is the same academic level if that makes sense. Um so allowing us to like I told them I want to be a dentist. They give me the opportunity to shadow. I think having those career um fairs and people coming in giving us opportunity to see different things other than what we see on TV or other than what our parents do with my parents are in real estate. So challenging us to find something that we want to do before we get to college. And I think that played a big role on me strengthening my resume and my love and passion for dentistry. [Music] [Applause] Well, we uh as always, we are always appreciative for our alumni to come back to set the example for our future uh students and alumni. So,
012thank you to uh Dr. Sanders on his accomplishment and also shar sharing his example. Another round of applause for Dr. Next, we have winter sports recognition. Oh, sorry. Oh, okay. Yeah. You want to do it now? Okay. Before we get into the winter sports recognition, uh we have a statement by our vice president, Dr. Webster. Thank you, Mr. Anderson. Um, by way of show of hands, how many student athletes were aware of our sports mental health summit? By way of show of hands, you a student athlete, how many of you were aware of our sports mental health summit this past Monday? By way of show of hands, thank you. By way of show of hands, how many parents were aware of our sports mental health summit this past Monday? Thank you. Thank you so much
013for that, Mr. Anderson. Next, we will have our winter sports recognition. Dr. Hunter Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Young, today we are gathered here to recognize and to celebrate the exceptional achievements of our winter sports students. It is my pleasure to introduce the athletic directors who will in turn introduce the remarkable student athletes they have nurtured and supported. Please join me in welcoming Mr. Mr. Blake Arnett, the athletic director of New Augusta North Public Academy, followed by Miss Kendra Champion Malone, athletic director at Pike High School, who will introduce their phenomenal winter sports students, athletes that have represented their schools with pride and passion. Mr. Arnette. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. Thank you for the opportunity to come and recognize our athletes this evening. Um the first
014athlete uh is a seventh grade wrestler. He uh was undefeated this year in his weight class. He uh finished the season as Mick Champion and uh we're very excited to see how he follows up on that uh next year as an eighth grader. Uh please welcome up our 85 lb MC champion, Joseph Tyson. [Applause] Wow. [Applause] The next group we'll recognize this evening is our eighth grade girls basketball team. Uh this year they finished as Mick champions, Mary County champions, and undefeated. They were also undefeated in their fall and summer leagues this past year. um during their season uh school ball season, they won all their games by an average of 38 points per game. They really dominated in in every way. Um with that being said, it won't surprise you guys that they the
015vast majority of them play very high level AAU basketball. They have a very big showcases uh this weekend. and they'll be rep will be represented in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and South Carolina. Um, so they were not able to be here tonight. The the the three remaining who do not play AU basketball are all running track for New Augusta this evening at Bel. So, uh, I will run through their names real fast. Uh Ariel Bacon, Gabrielle Bellamy, Kyla Demings, Malia Evans, Laniah Jackson, Jamaiah Jones, Sevea Mitchell, Malia Moore, Darion Wiltshire, Ryan Winstead, and although um you guys won't get to see them this evening, they will all be uh at Pike next year, so we'll get a get a good look at them. The next group and final group for New Augusta this evening is our eighth
016grade boys basketball team. Um they finished as MC champions this year. Uh had some adversity coming into the season. They lost their two leading scorers from last year off of a really good team. Um a lot of people questioned, you know, how they might fare this year. Uh but they came out, they had a better record this year. Um and they finished their season in the last game of the year defeating a team in Belzer who was going who is trying to accomplish being undefeated for two straight years. So that's how they finished uh their season and claimed the MC championship. They also will all be at uh Pike next year, so we're very happy about that. Um we also are missing quite a few of them to track tonight but there are some here
017to represent. Um first success econ [Applause] Shannon Gant, Ethan Muhammad, Jon Payne, Ernest Shanklin, Bennett Sigman. [Applause] William [Music] [Applause] Turner, Anthony [Applause] Weeden, Jeremiah White, and Kasanova Williams. [Applause] around. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. Thank you very much for this opportunity. This is one of our favorite things to do. Um, congrats to all those middle school athletes. can't wait to have you at Pike High School. Um, this is just an opportunity for us to celebrate our winter athletes. I always say this, but I think a constant reminder is necessary that our kids compete against the best in the state in our conference and in our county day in and day out. So, when we celebrate all count, all conference, all county, all sectional, all regional, they really are
018the best of the best. Um, and when I look at our list of athletes and think about how they are academically as well, I just couldn't be more proud. So, it is a pleasure uh for us to work with you. We see a lot of parents here tonight. It's been a pleasure for us to work with you. Um for those of you who are graduating, we will definitely miss you, but are super excited about your future. Um I'm going to call up our coaches so that they can briefly introduce our athletes and share their accolades. Uh beginning with our girls wrestling coach. And I will say this and some of you, you can come on up, Leslie. Um, some of you may or may not be aware. This is the first ever, the IHSAA just
019sanctioned girls wrestling this year. First ever girls wrestling program at Pike High School led by Leslie Morales Torres, a Pike High School graduate. She's done a great job. All right. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. Um, so this night I have an except exceptional young lady. um that I would like to present to you. Her name is Corana Edwards. Um you can come up, Corana. Um Corana Edwards had an amazing season. Um first season, should I say. She's also a freshman. Um she's a Marian County champion. She's also a MC champion and a sectional champion. Um and this season she went uh 20 20 and one uh for her first season. She had a very great time with her teammates and she was a great asset to the team as
020well. So, wow. [Applause] Take your picture. She mentioned she was a freshman, right? 20 and one first year ever. Next up, I'd like to present to you our aquatics director and head swimming and diving coach to present both the girls and boys swimming and diving team, Mr. Charles Grace. [Applause] Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I get the great honor to dis um to present to you the men's and women's swimming and diving programs here at Pike High School. A few acclimates from our girls team this year, finishing third in a county championship meet and finishing runners up at our sectional meet and also the MC conference this year having wonderful state qualifiers and Angelina Michael in the 50 freestyle and Kamaya King in the 200 and 500 freestyle. In
021addition qualifying two of three relays with our 200 medley relay and our 200 freestyle relay. In addition, beyond their work athletically, academically, having a team GPA of 3.574 is having them honored at the national level from the uh from the National Intercolastic High School Swim Coaches Association as well. So great in and out of the water. So I present to you our lady red devils, Emerson Allen, Aaron [Applause] Mder, Lorie [Applause] Bos, Madison Crane, Molly Gordon, Tamilly [Applause] King, Maggie Manahan, Angelina [Applause] Michael, Marie [Applause] Riley, Georgia Sucheki, and Anna Velasquez. [Applause] Thank you. And now to our gentlemen. Pretty similarly, third at the county championship meet, second at the mix, second intersectional. We had one individual state qualifier this year and Rowan Daisy in the 50 freestyle while also qualifying our 200 and 400
022freestyle relays. Beyond that, we had four school records broken this year. Liam Gity in the 200 freestyle, Rowan Daisy in the 50 freestyle, and the 200 and 400 freestyle relays of Liam Gity, Rowan Daisy, Abe Derlich, and Sam Derlich. This year, just like the girls, our boys work hard out of the water as well. Their team GPA of 3.492 also gathers them a national award from NSA as well. We also have three seniors that qualify for the highest uh Niscoco academic all-American award which is also GP a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or higher and Abe Durlich Leo Hunan and Nathan Conception and now our boys Nathan Conpion Zion Crowder Ryder Daisy Rowan Daisy Ryan Dorsy Abe Derish Sam [Applause] Derish Liam Gity Leo Hunan and Campbell Manahan. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] At the risk of sounding
023cliche, they really are making waves in the pool. Making a splash. Making a splash. But truly, the excitement um coming from the aquatic center is really exciting and contagious right now. And I don't know if he mentioned this, but the majority of those kiddos are coming back next year. Uh next up, we want to celebrate our boys wrestlers. And I don't think I saw a coach. I just want to make sure. So, I am going to introduce them. Uh I can't coach wrestling, nor do you want me to. But we do have three awesome young men to present to you. all conference, all county, and a semi-state qualifier. We've got Emanuel [Applause] Akadijia, Brevin [Applause] Cannon, and Ayomid [Applause] Dada. All right, we got Heat. Heat. [Applause] Next up, boys basketball head coach Jeff Teague.
024[Applause] Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. At this time, I'd like to present. We had three guys that made all county, all state, or all Mick. Um, only two are here, but Damon Howard made those teams, too. But Isaiah Hill um and Jari [Applause] Miller. They're both sophomores, so they'll be coming back. So, we're really excited about next year. All right. in The last but certainly not least program and coach that we want to recognize this evening brought a lot of excitement to our school and community this past winter. It has been a super fun season. Keith Holland's girls basketball. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. At this time, I would like to first thank everyone for your support um this season. It was great
025for our run, but we got unfinished business. Um, again with our team, u, we won sectional, regionals. Uh, we had a lot of awards. I know I only got 2 minutes, but, uh, our girls are winning a lot of awards, so I ain't going to name them all, but, uh, from a team GPA standpoint, uh, we were 3.32 um, as a team this year. Um, and as you already know, we definitely have a lot of girls that are missing. They're u um out of town right now getting ready to showcase um sorry um getting ready to showcase just to the country and so they can get scholarships. A lot of these girls right here that I'm about to name, they're going to be on the road tomorrow getting ready to showcase their skills uh nationally.
026Uh, so I'll go ahead and at this time I would like to present uh Morgan Anderson, Annayia Bishop, Kamari Booker, Alana Devon, our one of our seniors, Nadia Figures, who is undecided for college right now. She does have a couple offers. She'll be making her decision real soon. Um Marley [Applause] Jeffers, another senior, Sophia Lian, she she will be going to Fisk University, H.B.CU. Jayla [Applause] Miller, Jasine Miller, Elissa Nichols, Karan Nicholson, another singer, Simone Rel, who will be at the IU University, Columbus, Sia Smith, Janiah Tyler, Daniah Warren, Shama [Applause] Williams first. And I want to also thank you to our coaches who are here tonight, Dave Barlo and Sabrina Williams. [Music] What's up, money? All right, here we go. [Music] [Applause] Once again, thank you very much. [Music] Yeah, that's it. They gone
027now. Yeah. Well, hey, that's why we take that pose before they die. Yeah. Well, uh, you succeeded at what you were trying to do. No, I got something. I know you do. You feel better now? You a major person. Can I move my seat next time? Yeah. I'll make sure we get that done next time. [Music] Yeah, I want it to be hot. I want her sleep. All right. Congratulations again to all of our our athletes on the good job well done. Next, we'll move on to our action items. Action item A, minutes of the board of education regular meeting, April 10th. I move we accept the minutes as presented. Second. Second. We have a first and a second. We'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Next
028we have human resource report. Dr. Hunter, due to the confidentiality of the human resource report, we won't entertain any questions or comments. Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Young, I ask that you approve the HR report as presented. So move. Second. Have a first and a second. We'll move on to votes. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you, Dr. Hunter. Thank you, sir. Next, we have request approval to apply for the IDOE 2526 K through2 robotics competition grant. Mr. Emman, good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. Seeking approval for action item C, request approval to apply for the Indiana Department of Education 2526 K12 Robotics Competition Grant as presented. So moved. Second. Second. We have a first and a second. Are there any questions or
029comments? All right, we'll move on to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Enman. I'd like to combine action items D, E, and F. Mr. Foster. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Young. I recommend present to you items D, E, and F. They are the claims and allowances, contracts, and donations. I recommend your approval as presented. So move pause one second on the vote. [Music] Oh you can excuse yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. We can continue. We have a first second. Have a first and a second. Are there any questions or comments? Um I just have one comment. I will be abstaining from this vote because one of the contracts involves a company that my wife works for. There you go. Thank you, Mr.
030Hoofer. Any other questions or comments? Okay, we'll move on to vote. All in favor for actions items D, E, and F. Say I. I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Foster. Thank you, Mr. President. Lastly, we have board member comments. Dr. Moore. Thank you, Mr. President, I am just excited tonight to see our student athletes and how they have achieved this year. We've had a great uh sports program this year. We look forward um I think the closest thing we have uh next year is our girls becoming state champs and so we hope that that will be accomplished. Uh, Coach Holland has done an outstanding job and uh, he needs to be commended for that and uh, we're just excited for our student athletes and all that they are doing and it's good
031to hear that some of them are going to be pursuing athletics and a higher education. That's phenomenal. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Moore, Miss Wilson. Uh, yes. Again, I'm excited to be here and all the ones that showed up and it's great to have the enthusiasm that uh Coach Holland brings with his uh girls. Um I experienced it, enjoyed every minute of it on at the edge of my seat. And I hope that next time we won't have to be we'll just blow everybody out because with those new eighth graders that we're bringing, we're going to bring it and it's going to be great. I also want to uh take my hat off to Justin uh Sanders. Um, I watched that baby grow up from Fishbach to New Augusta to Pike. He and my he
032and my daughter um both um graduated together. And it's just great to see, as he said, he was a class clown in the class, out of the clown, out of the class, and at home. But it's great to know that you can be a clown and still be on your own business because that's what Mr. Sanders is doing. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Wilson. Mr. Hoofer. Uh yeah. Um, as has already been said, you know, congratulations to all of the student athletes. Um, I love hearing how amazing they're doing in the classroom as much as on the field and just just so proud of them and the work that they're doing. Um, wanted to um, thank Mr. Birkhart uh, and the musicians had the chance to go to the uh, Pike Jazz Cafe last Tuesday.
033If you missed it, you missed the best jazz club uh, in all of Indianapolis. It was great. Uh, they they it's just amazing how talented our kids are. And unfortunately, I didn't write down the young man's last name, but the final number that they performed was composed by one of the students. And so, it was ju just a lot of fun and really impressive. Um, I also wanted to point out, and I'm going to apologize if I um butcher the names, but Annayiah Delmore and Abby Walker who are heading to the DECA International Career Development Conference down in Florida. I believe that's this weekend if I read everything right. And so, just want to congratulate them and wish them luck um this weekend down there. and um really wanted to uh congratulate Mr. Hec on
034his impromptu technology fixes there. I that was impressive. Thank you, Mr. Hoofer. Dr. Webster, thank you. Um Mr. President, um I got a chance this past Monday to attend the sports mental health summit. And I mean, the information was phenomenal. In fact, board members now have a book by Mr. Flash Gordon. Information was phenomenal. In fact, Dr. Moore, he talked in such a way that uh in another world as a pastor, uh it caused me to look at my staff, my leadership, and how I'm doing. And even going back to do some things as relates uh to the the mental capacity of people in general. Uh what a phenomenal conference uh summit. Where I was disappointed at, very, very, very, very disappointed is that I walked across the campus on my way in and we
035had so many athletes outside uh catching buses, just getting out of um activities that they were doing and just standing on campus ground. And we get inside to the conference, the summit itself, and I counted 20 20 athletes, uh, 16 athletes and probably four or five, uh, parents and probably a good three coaches. And to be quite honest, that's unacceptable. And the reason why it's unacceptable, it's because the board passes and and give their uh approval uh of a of an event such as that and we had caliber folk coming and and and and not to be uh slighted in no kind of way and especially African-American men who a lot of times we own the low pole and the tooling pole on everything and these two men was at the ape of their profession
036and to have the uh such a low turnout, it bothered me. And so I asked Mr. Anderson, "Mr. Anderson, can I say something?" I told him about that and I wanted to take that poll. Uh maybe there was a maybe there was a reason for it. And I asked the parents tonight as you saw and I asked student athletes tonight as you saw how many were aware. So somewhere someone dropped the ball and I hope and pray that even if we do this next year uh the board will come together and perhaps uh decide maybe we can give some time to uh during the day but this needs to be this was a a event that I felt our our gymnasium should have been packed. In fact Mr. Gordon said to me, he said, "A
037district this size," he said, "I expected at least 300 folk." This is Mr. Gordon, one of the presenters. And so, uh, I wanted to make that known, uh, publicly because, uh, to me, it was quite embarrassing as a board member. When I tell you embarrassing, it was embarrassing. And I want us to know that. And I hope next year we can do a better job of promoting and getting others involved. Thank you, Mr. Nams. Thank you, Dr. Rustster, Mrs. Barnes. Uh, first I want to start off with I attended the food insecurity documentary screening and panel discussion with other community leaders, including representatives from Central Indiana Community Foundation and Gleaners Food Bank. Uh, as your school board member, I learned quite a bit about what it means to be food insecure, what causes it, what
038are some things that we can do as citizens to mitigate that. um for our neighbors who are struggling. Um so that's something I'll certainly be sharing with the board later. I know we have efforts in this area with our pantry and other things that we're we're other partnerships that we're kind of looking at. So it it's certainly something to me that is important that we have a better understanding of what it is. Um and I would certainly recommend that documentary again. It's called food insecure just to get a deep dive into what does that really mean. Um following that so this was all last week I also attended as a representative at our district wellness council meeting uh Dr. Shelley Bakra Barkat shared the straight A's in wellness success which are affordable and efficient accessible
039and multispety at home care plus clinical care and then all of the above. Um so I really enjoyed that piece of information from her giving you an update at our schools. Mr. Gruber and his team are working with each school to prepare garden boxes so that the students can begin planting. Um these plants that they are receiving were donated by our neighbor right up the street, Cortiva or maybe it's Corteva. Uh every school in Pike Township has now applied for America's Healthiest Schools and that's through the Alliance of a Healthier Generation. Um, if you recall last year, we we gathered quite a few awards and we didn't even have every school apply last year. So, I'm excited to see um what kind of honors that our schools will receive for our efforts in wellness. Don't
040forget that the fifth grade field day is on May 9th. And there's a visual here for you. Take one of those, pass it down. I invite all my fellow board members to go to the Red Devil dash. No dashing required. You can sauna, you can stroll if you want, but please come out, support our district initiative, and join me at the Red Devil Dash. All right. Thank you, Mrs. Barnes. Miss Kelly. Good evening. Glad to be here. um just want to continue us to encourage we're we have like four weeks of school. So I'm thinking from perspective of yes I'm ready for school to be done but also how much curriculum there still is to cover in that four weeks. And so, um, but wanting to finish strong, encouraging our staff, our students, our community,
041finish strong and prepare for a healthy, safe summer. And I did want to congratulate again our, as has been said, our scholar athletes. Thank thank you to those who have donated to our district and help keep our students um supplied with the things that we need. And then also I'd like to recognize um Dr. Sanders as an extending an outstanding alum coming from Pike. We have grown many many many great alums and looking forward to even as was mentioned this earlier in the meeting getting additional information on the alums that we'll be honoring in May. So let's finish strong. All right. Thank you, Miss Kelly, Dr. Young. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to congratulate our student athletes, coaches, and volunteers for a wonderful winter sports and academic season. Last week we celebrated the arts
042on uh with our uh bianual um evening with the arts. This year we added the culinary arts. It was an great turnout and uh what has already been mentioned, I agree wholeheartedly, our students are very very talented. This past Monday, we also celebrated and had our National Honor Society ceremony. We had 106 sophomores and juniors that were inducted into the National Hall of Fame, uh, National, excuse me, uh, honor society. So, congratulations to all of those students and their families. Thank you to Dr. Justin Sanders. If you're listening, Dr. Sanders, we appreciate you for being a great example of what a Pike graduate looks like. We are so proud of you and u keep doing great work because there are people that are coming behind you that are looking at your success and they want
043to be just like you. Last but not least, um this past matter of fact it was just yesterday um was national administ administrative assistant day and I want to publicly thank all MSD of Pike Township administrative assistants for helping to ensure the success of the district. Obviously, I want to take this time and opportunity to offer a special thanks to none other than Miss Pedford who uh does such a great job supporting me and [Applause] thank you, Dr. Young. Uh in closing, I just want to again uh I'm so proud of our student athletes, but more uh specifically to their grade point average. It's good to hear that not only uh sports but academics is just as important here at Pike Township. Also again another shout out to Lori. Uh what you see up here
044is not because of us. Lori keeps us on track. And so without her and our other administrative assistants, we I thank you all for the work that you do. And since uh we don't have a board meeting next week and May is one of my favorite months of the year cuz it is also a a look at mental health month to recognize mental health and that is something that the board is um is very critical of and that we we hold in high regard high regard. So, we know that superintendent, you lead this great district and to his staff, you know, the board, we thank you very much uh for what you do and we want you to know that we want you to take care of yourselves uh especially mentally and leave it to
045the board. We will make sure that we create a culture and a climate so that you can work conducively and productively and we'll keep that culture going. All right, with that being said, if I get a motion to adjourn the meeting. So move, Mr. President. All right. Second media